Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768. by Carver, J - 1779

Coles, 1974 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear. Spine is slightly sunned. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. C/w fold-out map. 544 pp + prelims..

Toronto: Coles Publishing Company. Very Good. 1974. Facsimile. Softcover. 543 pp. Illus. Edgewear, corners rubbed. Fold-out map. A facsimile reprint of the 1778 original. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Inc., 1956. Hardcover. very good. 3rd Edition. 543pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from drawings (including frontispiece and folding maps). Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Small tear to back of spine. very good 1956

First Edition. hardcover. 4 plates. 543pp. + errata. 8vo, rebound in modern 3/4 vellum; (lacks 2 maps, brown stains from foxing in margins, t.p. mounted on modern blank page with most of margin lacking). London: Printed for the Author and Sold by J. Walter, 1778.<br/> <br/> "He (Carver) went west by the route of the Great Lakes, crossed to the Mississippi by the Green Bay-Fox-Wisconsin route, ascended the great river and entered the St. Peter's (now the Minnesota). He reached Lake Superior by the Chippewa and St. Croix rivers and finally returned in the autumn of 1767 to Mackinac, whence in the next spring he made his way back to Boston." DAB III, p. 552. "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. ...his book...stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark." Howes C-215. Streeter Sale III, 1772. Sabin 11184.<br/> <br/>

C. Dilly, 1781. Book. Very Good+. Quarter-Leather. Third edition. 543 pages, with copious index. Portrait at frontis. 2 coloured maps. 5 plates, with 4 of them coloured, including one of The Tobacco Plant. Modern half-leather with paper over boards. Very light foxing in a few places. Archival repairs to maps near spine with length of one and two inches. A very nice copy. In slipcase. .

London: C. Dilly, in the Poultry; H. Payne, in Pall-mall; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1781. Third Edition, Second Issue. Full Leather. Very Good. 22 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. 543pp (22). Bound in full calf with red leather spine label. Housed in a custom made 1/4 leather clam-shell box, embossed with previous owner's name. Illustrated with 7 plates which include two folding color maps and 6 engraved plates including frontispiece, of which 4 are in color. The 3rd and best edition, according to Sabin, with a biography of the author and an index added by John Coakley Lettsom. The spine was split but has been professionally repaired and rebacked preserving much of the original spine. Armorial bookplate (name obscured) on front fixed endpaper and two more modern names on the verso. Scattered foxing including to the edges and back of the maps. Howes C215. ESTC T133716. Sabin 11184. Streeter III, 1772.

London: Printed for the Author: And sold by J. Walter, at Charing-Cross, and S. Crowder, in Pater-noster Row., 1778. first edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large octavo,(22.5 x 13.5 cm) early tree calf, expertly rebacked, title mended, a tear in each map neatly repaired Illustrated with 4 copper plates and two folding maps. [xx] xvi [17] -543 [ i plate placements and errata sheet]. Howes C-215 "Carver penetrated further into the East than any other English explorer before the Revolution...his book stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by MacKenzie and Lewis and Clark."

London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; H. Payne, in Pall-mall; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1781. Third and best edition. Period tree calf boards, rebacked with modern sympathetic speckled calf. An expertly restored, fine copy in custom slipcase.. Illustrated with frontis portrait, two hand-colored folding maps, and five copper plate engravings, including four hand-colored.. Small quarto. 246pp, [index]. Collated and complete. Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. Like his French predecessor -Verendrye- he was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but, aside from exploring some tributaries of the Mississippi, he made no substantial contributions to geographical knowledge; his book, however, stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark. - Howes, U.S. Iana. [Howes C215; Sabin 11184].

London: Printed for the Author, by William Richardson.Sold by J.Dodsley, J.Robson., 1779., 1779. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., xvi, [16], [17]-543, [1]directions to binder. 2 folding engraved maps & 5 engraved plates. A fine copy in contemporary sprinkled calf (front joint beginning to crack, outer margin of 1 plate shaved, occasional hint of foxing). Second Edition. The popularity enjoyed by Carver's narrative, one of the earliest books on the Middle West, is unrivalled in the literature of early native American travel; thirty-two separate editions of the work are recorded. After the Seven Years' War, in which he served in five campaigns against the French, Carver set out from Boston in 1766 to explore the territory beyond the Mississippi and to find a north-west land passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On his 7,000 mile journey he travelled to Michilimackinac, then via Green Bay-Fox River up the Mississippi to Lake Superior, reaching further north-west than any other recorded traveller… Read More