Books by Hall Basil

[Edinburgh/London:]: [Cadell & Co.,Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves,], [1829.]. Some foxing.. Oblong engraving. Plate size 145 x 240 mm. Basil Hall (31 December 1788 Ð 11 September 1844) was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Basil Hall was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and in 1802 entered the navy, where he rose to the rank of post-captain in 1817, after seeing active service in several fields . By observing the ethnological as well as... more information

[Edinburgh/London:]: [Cadell & Co.,Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves,], [1829.]. Some foxing.. Oblong engraving. Plate size 145 x 240 mm. Basil Hall (31 December 1788 Ð 11 September 1844) was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Basil Hall was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and in 1802 entered the navy, where he rose to the rank of post-captain in 1817, after seeing active service in several fields . By observing the ethnological as well as... more information

[Edinburgh/London:]: [Cadell & Co.,Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves,], [1829.]. Some foxing.. Oblong engraving. Plate size 145 x 240 mm. Basil Hall (31 December 1788 Ð 11 September 1844) was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Basil Hall was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and in 1802 entered the navy, where he rose to the rank of post-captain in 1817, after seeing active service in several fields . By observing the ethnological as well as... more information

[Edinburgh/London:]: [Cadell & Co.,Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves,], [1829.]. Some foxing.. Oblong engraving. Plate size 145 x 240 mm. Basil Hall (31 December 1788 Ð 11 September 1844) was a British naval officer from Scotland, a traveller, and an author. Basil Hall was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and in 1802 entered the navy, where he rose to the rank of post-captain in 1817, after seeing active service in several fields . By observing the ethnological as well as... more information

Cadell & Co., Edinburgh; Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, and Graves, London. 1830. Large, slim 4to, pp. [6]pp. plus 20 leaves of descriptive text with 20 accompanying plates (40 etchings in all), folding hand-colored map of the eastern U.S. and Canada; original green cloth-backed boards, front hinge almost split, corners and edges worn; otherwise good. Capt. Basil Hall (1788-1844) was a captain in the navy and an author. He witnessed the Battle of Coruna in 1809, accompanied Lord Amherst's e... more information

Edinburgh & London:: Cadell & Co. and Simpkin & Marshall,, 1829.. First edition. 4to. 20 engraved plates, two views to a plate, each with a facing page of letterpress, folding hand-colored map. Howes H-46. Sabin 29720. Clark Old South III, 47 (half of the illustrations relate to the southern part of Hall's tour). Of his narrative, published in 1830, Clark notes "his work contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that came under his observation." Somewhat later ... more information