Klinckowström, Axel:

Stockholm, Tryckt i Ecksteinska tryckeriet, 1824. Text vols.: (4) + IX + (1) + 242 + (2) + VIII + (2) + (243) - 496 pp. Additional engraved title-page. Folding table. Atlas. (415 x 547 mm). Lithograped title-page. List of plates. 1 text leaf. 2 maps. 3 plans. 13 plates. The smaller plates and text leaves pasted on to larger sheets. Occasional spotting and soiling, mostly to margins. Text vols. in contemporary half calf. Gilt spine. Atlas volume in 20th. century half calf. Red leather label. Lacking small piece at head and foot. Front joint cracked, but holding. First edition. Klinckowström visited New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Morristown. In his letters he discusses the acquisition of Florida, the Missouri question, slavery, Indian relations, the American Navy, Mississippi steamboat navigation, the latest scientific inventions, immigration and social customs./List of plates and maps: 1. Map of the Northern Section of the United States including Canada &c. 2. Map of the Southern Section of the United States including Florida &c. 3. Plan of Philadelphia. 4. Third street in Philadelphia. 5. Gerards Bank in Philadelphia. 6. Bridge over the Skuykill River 7. Capitolium in Washington, as it looked before and after the rebuilding in 1819. 8. Esquisse of Wards painting in Earles Gallery in Philadelphia. 9. Perkins newly innvented fire-extinguisher with one page printed description. 10. Map of New York and its environs. 11. View of Broadway and the Town Hall in New York. 12. Plan of a common dwelling-house in New York. 13. Plan of the steam-boat Chancellor Liwingstone. 14. Plan of an old fort in Tennesee. 15. Prospect of New York Harbour and Long Island Sound. 16. Hoboken opposite New York. The two maps of the United States are engraved by John Melish and the views are drawn by Klincowström and engraved by Akrell.Sabin 38053. Howes 5749.. .