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1802. MICHAUX, F[rancois]. A[ndre]. Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802.... London: Richard Phillips, 1805. 96pp. Folding Map. 19th-century 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards, brown morocco spine label, T.e.g. Inner hinges repaired, else very good. HOWES M-579. Graff 2780. Bradford 3461. Clark II:106. Hubach, p.38. Meisel III:365-66. Monaghan 1063. Sabin 48704. Thomson 822. Three editions of Michaux's Travels were published in London in 1805. This edition is heavily abridged. Michaux was commissioned by the French government in 1801 to sell his father's tree plantations in Charleston. His journey lasted from August 1801 until March 1803, during which time he travelled extensively throughout the eastern, central, and southern U.S. Among his stops were Lexington and the horse farms of Kentucky; Nashville and Jonesborough, Tennessee; Morganton, North Carolina; and Chester, Columbia, and finally Charleston, South… Read More

London. Printed for Richard Phillips. 1805. 21cm, iv(5),96,32ppl., large folding map (some light foxing at the edge), nicely rebound in full brown cloth with leather label, very good to fine. (Cgc). Bound with the synopsis of : The Narrative of the Sufferings of Capt. David Woodward, and Four Seamen. London. 1804. Howes M579; Sabin 48706 (doesn't call for map); Thomson, "Biblio of Ohio" 821; Monaghan 1066; Clark11: 108. This travel narrative by the Frenchman who later make his name with his classic "American Silva". "The zest with which Michaux describes some of the wonders of the West in this brief and discursive journal is as pleasant as his intelligent discussion of economical facts, and puritan domesticity in the East. He gave his countrymen a correct and impressive idea of the products and promise of the great West, but more specifically of Ohio and Kentucky" (Thomson). There were three editions in 1805; this one was translated and condensed and appeared in vol.1 of Richard Phillips massive… Read More