Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Chactaws, Containing an Account of the Soil and National Productions of Those Regions Together with Observations of the Manners of the Indians
by Bartram, William
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8vo, modern black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco spine label, illustrated with copper engraved folding map, 8 (including frontispiece) copper engraved plates, xxiv, 520, [12] pp. Frontispiece mounted showing some damage in margins, repair to title page, folding map trimmed at upper edge with resulting loss of border rule, repairs on map verso; foxing and some staining, piece missing in bottom margin of page 176, but not affecting text. Overall the contents are good to very good in fine modern binding. This work was first published in Philadelphia in 1791, and this offering represents the first British edition. Bartram’s book is sought after for collectors of Native American works, with the 1791 edition appearing in the Streeter and Siebert collections. Bartram provides an excellent record of his travels in the territories of the Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaws as far west as the Mississippi River. Field offered high praise for the work citing the important sketches of Indian life and details he provides on the various tribes he visited. “He not only offers us pictures of Indian life, and sketches of the striking peculiarities of the tribes he visited, but he also gives us tables of the names and localities of the numerous towns of the populous nations of Creeks and Cherokees.” Streeter refers to the work as a “classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes.”
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- Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Chactaws, Containing an Account of the Soil and National Productions of Those Regions Together with Observations of the Manners of the Indians
- Author
- Bartram, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J. Johnson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1792
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