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DWIGHT, Timothy (1752–1817). Travels; in New-England and New-York. New Haven: By the Author, 1821/22. 4 vols. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. 3 folding maps (map sprung in Vol. I). Original parchment backed drab boards, spines hand-titled, pages uncut (horizontal splits to backstrips of Vol. I and III, ends chipped, library call numbers handwritten on spines). With errata slip tipped in at rear of volume IV. Provenance: ex-library copies from the New Jersey Historical Society gifted by W.A. Whitehead with rubber stamps to title and gift bookplate to pastedowns. Howes D–612; Sabin 21559. CONSIDERED ONE OF THE SEMINAL CLASSICS OF EARLY AMERICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE. “This work, though the humblest in its pretences, is the most important of Dr. Dwight’s writings, and will derive additional from time, whatever may become of his poetry and of his sermons.” Quarterly Review, XXX. I.