“Rare German Edition of Edward Allen Talbot’s Five Years’ Residence in the Canadas Bound in Fine Morocco Leather, 1825”

Vienna. (Vienna). Ben Kaulfuss and Krammer, Buchband beers. (sp.). 1825 8vo., 22.3cm, first German edition, 140p., index, beautifully bound in quarter tan niger morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt tiles along leather spine label, marbled boards, inner matched hinges, a fine copy, rare.(cgc). Item #40773

Not in NAC/Aurora; WorldCat indicates only 1 copy, in Berlin. T.P.L. 2/7138. An abridged German translation of his “Five Years’ Residence in the Canadas” published in London in 1824. Sabin 94230. LC, one copy. Edward Allen Talbot, (1801-1839) was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and emigrated to Canada with his father in 1818. He was an inventor, a militia officer, a schoolmaster, an author, and a journalist. In 1821 he founded the London [Ontario] Sun and later Freeman’s Journal. He sympathized with the rebels of 1837, and in 1838 he left Canada for the United States and died in the poor house at Lockport, New York, in 1839. He is chiefly remembered for Five Years’ Residence in the Canadas… London. 1824, in 2 volumes. It was a success in its day and was printed several times.