Title: Tagebuch einer Reise nach den vereinigten Staaten und der Nordwestküste von Amerika. Von Ignatz Hülswitt, ehemaligem Lieutenant der Artillerie
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. f. [1], pp. iv, 379, [1], f. [1] (blank). Calf-backed boards. Red edges. Spine label marked “7406.” Front pastedown with manuscript “Hillschwitts Reise” below crossed no. “9671” and above initial “L” and “7406.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Hülswitt’s rare account of his supposed visit to the northwest coast of America is in fact a close translation of a portion of John Jewitt’s Adventures and Sufferings, first published in 1807. It is unclear how much, if any, of the remainder of Hülswitt’s book represents firsthand observation. Not in J. Sabin, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from its Discovery to the Present Time. 29 vols. New York, 1863–1936. See W. Howes, U.S.iana. (1650-1950). A selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant books relating to the continental portion of the United States. New York, 1963, H 784.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103025" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>