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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 COUNTRY OF THE CHACTAWS
by Bartram, William
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Dublin: J. Moore, W. Jones, R. McAllister, and J. Rice, 1793. First Irish Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xxiv, 520 pages, [12] index. In Good minus condition. Bound in half contemporary leather, marbled paper boards. Front board with a mid-20th century rebacking, new front free endpaper. Rear board detached but present. Bookplate to front free endpaper. Japanese tissue repair to fore-edge of leaves X and X2. With frontispiece plus six plates. Lacking folding map of East Florida and plate #6. Page 444, line 16 censored, with ink covering "entirely naked, except a breech-clout" Shelved case 1. ESTC T121441. Sabin 3870. Howes B 223. Pilling 303. Reese, Federal Hundred 33.
This edition follows the Philadelphia 1791 first edition and the first English edition of 1792.
"Extensive travels, in the early years of the Republic, through the southern frontiers and among the Creeks and Cherokees. A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem" - Howes.
"Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions. It is written in the spirit of the old travellers" - Sabin. 1376538. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
This edition follows the Philadelphia 1791 first edition and the first English edition of 1792.
"Extensive travels, in the early years of the Republic, through the southern frontiers and among the Creeks and Cherokees. A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem" - Howes.
"Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions. It is written in the spirit of the old travellers" - Sabin. 1376538. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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- 1376538
- Title
- 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 COUNTRY OF THE CHACTAWS
- Author
- Bartram, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Irish Edition
- Publisher
- J. Moore, W. Jones, R. McAllister, and J. Rice
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- Books about Cartography
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