History of the American Indians; Particularly those Nations
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ADAIR, James. The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ...Also an Appendix, Containing a Description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] Lands.... London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. 1st ed. 4to. [12],464pp. plus folding map. 1/2-title. Orig. full calf, red morocco spine label. Housed in a custom slipcase. Very good. HOWES A-38, "b." Pilling, Proof-Sheets 18. Clark I:28. Vail 643. Field 11. JCB (3)I:2013. Servies 517. Bell A59. Sabin 155. Graff 10. Cumming & De Vorsey 448. Reese, The Struggle for North America 82. Adair, "one of the most colorful figures in Southern colonial history" (Clark), came to America in 1735. He was heavily involved in trading with the Indians of the Southeast, including the Catawba, Cherokee, and Chickasaw, between 1735 and 1759, and this work contains a chapter on each of these major tribes. Considered by many to be the leading authority of his time on the southeast Indians, he offers detailed descriptions of Indian customs and religion, with many observations on Indian trade and traders. A large portion of the work is devoted to Adair's twenty-three arguments by which he attempts to prove the descent of the Indians from the Lost Tribes of Israel. The map "illustrates a Southeast with the Indians safely tucked away in the interior wilderness, exactly the condition Adair's readers would have approved of" (Cumming & De Vorsey).
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