The America of 1750
Subtitle: Peter Kalm's travels in North America
By: the English version of 1770, revised from the original Swedish and edited by Adolph B. Benson ... with a translation of new material from Kalm's diary notes .
Contributors: Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798; Benson, Adolph B. 1881-1962; Carlborg, Edith Marie Linnéa, 1888-
Publisher: Wilson-Erickson, inc.
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Natural history -- United States; Natural history -- Canada; Scientific expeditions; United States -- Description and travel; Canada -- Description and travel
Notes: Paged continuously

Includes reproductions of the title-pages of the original English, Swedish and Dutch editions

"The present version is the first exclusively American edition ... in English ... and the first one dealing with the part on United States and Canada to appear in this country ... The part on Norway and England has been omitted ... The hitherto untranslated portion ... has been done into English by Miss Edith M.L. Carlborg ... and the present editor. The remainder ... is based on Forster's translation."--p. xv

"A bibliography of Peter Kalm's writings on America": v. 2, p. 770-776