KALM (Pieter).
Reis door Noord Amerika, gedaan door den Heer Pieter Kalm, Professor in de Huishoudingskonst op de Hoge School to Aobo, en Medelid der Kolninglyke Zweedsche Maatschappy der Wetenschappen.
KALM (Pieter).
Reis door Noord Amerika, gedaan door den Heer Pieter Kalm, Professor in de Huishoudingskonst op de Hoge School to Aobo, en Medelid der Kolninglyke Zweedsche Maatschappy der Wetenschappen.
A handsome copy of this important account of a voyage through eighteenth century US and Canada by a student of Linnaeus. Kalm was sent to North America in 1747 in order to study and collect botanical specimens. His travels took him to Philadelphia and New Jersey, then to Albany, Lake Champlain and the River Richelieu. He spent a week in Montreal, three in Quebec and made excursions to the Huron village at Lorette and elsewhere, before returning to Europe in 1750.
“Kalm’s observations in his highly regarded [account] … are detailed and reliable, and constitute some of the most important commentaries on eighteenth-century America, particularly its natural history and social organization. His description of the Swedish settlements along the Delaware River is of great importance to the study of the early history of New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania” (Howgego).
This Dutch edition was published in the same year as the first Swedish. The extra title-page includes views of Philadelphia, New York, Mont Real and Quebec. Howes, K5; Howgego, K2; Lande, 483; Sabin, 36988.
