![Item #B5913 THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832. Joseph Bouchette.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1646684952)
![THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913_2.jpg?auto=webp&v=1646684953)
![THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913_3.jpg?auto=webp&v=1646684953)
![THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913_4.jpg?auto=webp&v=1646684954)
![THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913_5.jpg?auto=webp&v=1646684954)
![THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.](https://alexandremaps.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/B5913_6.jpg?auto=webp&v=1646684954)
THE // BRITISH DOMINIONS // IN // NORTH AMERICA; // OR A // TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION // OF THE PROVINCES OF // LOWER AND UPPER CANADA, // NEW BRUNSWICK, NOVA SCOTIA, // THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD, AND CAPE BRETON. // INCLUDING // CONSIDERATIONS ON LAND-GRANTING AND EMIGRATION. // TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED // STATISTICAL TABLES AND TABLES OF DISTANCES, &C. // BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ., // SURVEYOR GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA, LIEUT. COLONEL C.M., VIVE PRESIDENT OF THE LITERARY AND // HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEBEC, AND CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS, LONDON. // Embellished with Views Plans of Towns Harbours &c. // IN TWO VOLUMES. // VOL. I [II.] // LONDON: // PUBLISHED BY // LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, // PATERNOSTER-ROW. //1832.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, c. 1832. Edition: First Edition, second issue. , Binding: Skillfully rebacked preserving contemporary blind panelled, embossed light brown full calf boards; spine raised with five (5) bands; gilt lettered title on red morocco label on two. , Notes: “Joseph Bouchette’s books have played an important part in the geography and topography of Canada. Some them were illustrated by himself and he was also a noted cartographer.” (Spendlove pg. 86)
“This work is a greatly expanded version of Bouchette’s Topographical Description, published by Faden, with some plates and maps, in 1815. Volumes I and II… were first published in 1831 by Colburn and Bently in exactly the same form, except from the different title-page imprints. Longmans reissued the book with their name on the titlepage, and they added a third volume, the Topographical Dictionary, which, as can be seen, was produced as a distinct work, with no volume indication on the title-page. (Abbey Travel)
“Joseph Bouchette was a surveyor general and a militia and naval officer. From 1826 to 1829 Bouchette collected data for the book. Though he was assured of the government’s backing (the assembly had promised to buy 100 copies), as well as of support from his many friends in England, it still took him three years of effort to get three volumes published, this time only in English. The first two were entitled “The British dominions in North America; or a topographical description of the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada”, and the third “A topographical dictionary of the province of Lower Canada”.” (Canadian Biography)
Bouchette’s regional maps and two topographical descriptions of Lower Canada are still considered an essential reference for knowledge of the territory. Bouchette became Surveyor General of Lower Canada, replacing his uncle Samuel Holland. The Township of Bouchette in Quebec was named in his honour, as well as Bouchette Street in Toronto.
, Size: Quarto (287x223mm)., Illustration: Finely hand-coloured example. Illustrations complete with 31 plates, as listed in the lists of plates; these include: Vol I: 1. an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in black and white, and the following hand-coloured plates entitled: 2. "Inscription on the New Monument ... Source of the St. Croix"; 3. "Upper Canada // Brock's Monument // Queenston Heights" (Vignette); 4. "Sketch of By-Town, Ottawa River"; 5. "Union Bridge: By-Town. // , Ottawa River"; 6. "Plan and Elevation of the Union Bridges .... Ottawa River"; 7. "Plan // of // York Harbour"; 8. "Plan // of the Town of // Goderich // Upper Canada"; 9. "Plan // of the Town of // Guelph // Upper Canada"; 10. "Sketch of // Niagara River // between Queenston ..."; 11. "Lower Canada // Monument to Wolfe and Montcalm. // Quebec." (Vignette); 12. "View of the City of Montreal" (folding view); 13. "City // of // Montreal // 1830" (map); 14. "City of Quebec." (view); 15. "City of Quebec" (map); 16. "Falls of Montmorency. // Winter" (view); 17. Forges of St. Maurice (three stacked views); 18. "Village of St. Hyacinthe."; 19. "Isle aux Noix n the River Richelieu"; 20. Fort and Basin of Chambly (view); 21. "Kilborn's Mills, Stanstead. ..."; 22. "Harrowers Distillery & Mill ..."; 23. "Long's Farm on Lake Temiscouata...". Vol II: 24. "View of Halifax..."; 25. Shubenacadie Canal - from Halifax (Plan); 26."Figurative Plan, & Views, of the Island of St. Paul."; 27."New Government House, // Frederickton, N.B."; 28. "The Great Falls on the River St. John, New Brunswick." (view); 29."Barracks, and Market House, Fredericton."; 30. "On the Kenibeckasis near St. John" (view); also in vol II uncoloured: 31. "Projected Plan of Four Townships // Emigrant Settlements // in the British Colonies of North America".
Also, two plates at end of vols I and II: at p.498 of vol I and p.296 of vol II tabling Post Towns.
, Volume: Two volumes in one., References: Sabin: 6848; Abbey Travel 622; Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 97-98., Pages: Portrait frontis, xxvi, list and corrections (2), 1-498, (8); xi, list of plates, (i), 1-296, (9), including two (2) engraved tables of post towns. Also with 30 engraved views, maps and plans. , Category: Book Canada Book Plate Books Colour;. A fine hand-coloured example with text and plates clean and crisp.
. Item #B5913
Edition: First Edition, second issue. , Binding: Skillfully rebacked preserving contemporary blind panelled, embossed light brown full calf boards; spine raised with five (5) bands; gilt lettered title on red morocco label on two. , Notes: “Joseph Bouchette’s books have played an important part in the geography and topography of Canada. Some them were illustrated by himself and he was also a noted cartographer.” (Spendlove pg. 86)
“This work is a greatly expanded version of Bouchette’s Topographical Description, published by Faden, with some plates and maps, in 1815. Volumes I and II… were first published in 1831 by Colburn and Bently in exactly the same form, except from the different title-page imprints. Longmans reissued the book with their name on the titlepage, and they added a third volume, the Topographical Dictionary, which, as can be seen, was produced as a distinct work, with no volume indication on the title-page. (Abbey Travel)
“Joseph Bouchette was a surveyor general and a militia and naval officer. From 1826 to 1829 Bouchette collected data for the book. Though he was assured of the government’s backing (the assembly had promised to buy 100 copies), as well as of support from his many friends in England, it still took him three years of effort to get three volumes published, this time only in English. The first two were entitled “The British dominions in North America; or a topographical description of the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada”, and the third “A topographical dictionary of the province of Lower Canada”.” (Canadian Biography)
Bouchette’s regional maps and two topographical descriptions of Lower Canada are still considered an essential reference for knowledge of the territory. Bouchette became Surveyor General of Lower Canada, replacing his uncle Samuel Holland. The Township of Bouchette in Quebec was named in his honour, as well as Bouchette Street in Toronto.
, Size: Quarto (287x223mm)., Illustration: Finely hand-coloured example. Illustrations complete with 31 plates, as listed in the lists of plates; these include: Vol I: 1. an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in black and white, and the following hand-coloured plates entitled: 2. "Inscription on the New Monument ... Source of the St. Croix"; 3. "Upper Canada // Brock's Monument // Queenston Heights" (Vignette); 4. "Sketch of By-Town, Ottawa River"; 5. "Union Bridge: By-Town. // , Ottawa River"; 6. "Plan and Elevation of the Union Bridges .... Ottawa River"; 7. "Plan // of // York Harbour"; 8. "Plan // of the Town of // Goderich // Upper Canada"; 9. "Plan // of the Town of // Guelph // Upper Canada"; 10. "Sketch of // Niagara River // between Queenston ..."; 11. "Lower Canada // Monument to Wolfe and Montcalm. // Quebec." (Vignette); 12. "View of the City of Montreal" (folding view); 13. "City // of // Montreal // 1830" (map); 14. "City of Quebec." (view); 15. "City of Quebec" (map); 16. "Falls of Montmorency. // Winter" (view); 17. Forges of St. Maurice (three stacked views); 18. "Village of St. Hyacinthe."; 19. "Isle aux Noix n the River Richelieu"; 20. Fort and Basin of Chambly (view); 21. "Kilborn's Mills, Stanstead. ..."; 22. "Harrowers Distillery & Mill ..."; 23. "Long's Farm on Lake Temiscouata...". Vol II: 24. "View of Halifax..."; 25. Shubenacadie Canal - from Halifax (Plan); 26."Figurative Plan, & Views, of the Island of St. Paul."; 27."New Government House, // Frederickton, N.B."; 28. "The Great Falls on the River St. John, New Brunswick." (view); 29."Barracks, and Market House, Fredericton."; 30. "On the Kenibeckasis near St. John" (view); also in vol II uncoloured: 31. "Projected Plan of Four Townships // Emigrant Settlements // in the British Colonies of North America".
Also, two plates at end of vols I and II: at p.498 of vol I and p.296 of vol II tabling Post Towns.
, Volume: Two volumes in one., References: Sabin: 6848; Abbey Travel 622; Dictionary of Canadian Biography: 97-98., Pages: Portrait frontis, xxvi, list and corrections (2), 1-498, (8); xi, list of plates, (i), 1-296, (9), including two (2) engraved tables of post towns. Also with 30 engraved views, maps and plans. , Category: Book Canada.
Price: $5,000.00