Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828

[1] leaf, ii pages, [21] leaves, [21] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, 1 map (col.) ; 33 cm

Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828 / by Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Fourth edition. Edinburgh : Cadell & Co. ; London : Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys & Graves, 1830.

Two etchings on each plate, numbered I-XL, accompanied by leaf with descriptive text.

Map of the United States and Canada shewing Captn. Hall's route through those countries in 1827 and 1828. Engraved on steel by W. H. Lizars.

Rockefeller Library copy bound by Meister and Smethie, Richmond, Virginia.

Rockefeller Library copy inscribed: "Presented to the George Wythe House. Williamsburg Va. by R.B. Dunwoody. Sept.

I. Niagara from below -- II. Niagara from above -- III. Niagara on the American side -- IV. General view of the falls of Niagara -- V. Bridge across the rapids of Niagara -- VI. Bridge across Lake Cayuga -- VII. Buffalo on Lake Erie -- VIII. The river Niagara flowing into Lake Ontario -- IX. Newly-cleared land in America -- X. The village of Rochester -- XI. View from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts -- XII. Western end of the Great Erie Canal -- XIII. Canadian voyageurs of Captain Franklin's canoe -- XIV. Mississagua Indians in Canada XV. The river St. Lawrence below Quebec -- XVI. Village of Peterborough, in Upper Canada -- XVII. Bridge across the Congaree in South Carolina -- XVIII. Frame-work of the bridge across the Congaree -- XIX. Rice fields in South Carolina -- XX. Two slave drivers and a backwoodsman with his rifle -- XXI. Village of Riceborough in the state of Georgia -- XXII. Log-house in the forests of Georgia -- XXIII. Pine barren of the Southern States -- XXIV. American forest on fire -- XXV. Swamp plantation on the banks of the Alatamaha -- XXVI. Embryo town of Columbus, on the Chatahootchie -- XXVII. A family group in the interior of the state of Georgia -- No. XXVIII. Chiefs of the Creek Nation, and a Georgian squatter -- XXIX. The Balize at the mouth of the Mississippi -- XXX. The Mississippi at New Orleans -- XXXI. The Mississippi overflowing its banks -- XXXII. Wooding station on the Mississippi -- XXXIII. Steam-boat on the Mississippi -- XXXIV. An Ohio steam-boat on the Mississippi -- XXXV. Shippingport, on the Ohio, in Kentucky -- XXXVI. Backwoodsmen and steam-boat pilot -- XXXVII. Island of logs on the Missouri -- XXXVIII. Banks on the Missouri falling in -- XXXIX. Prairie at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi -- American stage coach.