Emigration to the Tropical World, for the Melioration of all Classes of People of all Nations

1844 Etzler, John A[dolphus] (1791?-1846?). Emigration to the Tropical World, for the Melioration of all Classes of People of all Nations. Surrey, Eng.: The Concordium. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged. 24 pp. L, MoU-St, PSt

One of Etzler’s pictures of eutopia through technology, in this case to be realized in Venezuela where, he says, he has obtained a grant of land. Here Etzler gives an address in London. Etzler also published a four page Synopsis of Etzler’s Plan of Emigration to Venezuela. Newcastle, Eng.: W.W. Leighton, Printer, 1844; rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 that summarizes the proposal. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 Etzler and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler. The author was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. in 1831.