The Universal Traveller: Designed to Introduce Readers at Home to an Acquaintance with the Arts, Customs, and Manners, of the Principal Modern Nations on the Globe. Embracing a View of Their Persons - Character - Employments - Amusements - Religion - Dre…

504 pp. Original full leather, gilt titles, rules, & decorations. A guide designed to familiarize readers with foreign cultures, divided into sections on the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Interestingly, included in the section on Asia are New Holland (now called Australia) and New Zealand (now generally included in the Australia and Oceania region). Reverend Charles Augustus Goodrich (1790–1862) was an American author and Congregational minister, who popularized the motto 'a place for everything and everything in its place'. He is most well known for his history of the United States, which was very popular in the mid-19th century.