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TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY, THE EXTENSIVE TERRITORY OF THE MUSCOGULGES OR CREEK CONFEDERACY, AND THE COUNTRY OF THE CHACTAWS, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOIL AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF THOSE REGIONS; TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS OF THE INDIANS.; Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians
by Bartram, William
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Reprinted for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1792. First British Edition. Leather-bound. Good. Missing Map. This first British edition reprinted for J. Johnston. Full contemporary calf (21 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm.) Recent spine label in burgundy, with gilt lettering and borders. Faintly marbled edges. Marbled endpapers, rear free endpaper being a photographed facsimile. Tooling in gilt and blind to borders of boards. gilt roll to edges of boards. Marbled endpapers Frontis etching of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, or King of the Seminoles, plus 7 numbered copper etchings, one folding. Text clean, pages supple. Only very occasional light spotting. MISSING map, and maybe the first (marbled) front free endpaper. First published in Philadelphia by James and Johnson in 1791.
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- Aardvark Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86205
- Title
- TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY, THE EXTENSIVE TERRITORY OF THE MUSCOGULGES OR CREEK CONFEDERACY, AND THE COUNTRY OF THE CHACTAWS, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOIL AND NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF THOSE REGIONS; TOGETHER WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS OF THE INDIANS.; Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians
- Author
- Bartram, William
- Format/Binding
- Leather-bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reprinted for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1792
- Keywords
- Travel and Exploration. American History, The American South, Creek Indians, Native Americans
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- AMERICANA;
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