Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West
Item #74077
BARTRAM, William. 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 Choctaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates. Dublin: For J. Moore, W. Jones, R. M'Allister, and J. Rice, 1793. 1st Irish ed. xxiv,520,[12]pp. Frontis., six plates, folding map. Orig. salmon-colored paper-covered boards with black paper spine and corners, housed in custom box, inner cloth chemise. Boards slightly rubbed, spine partially abraded, front board professionally reattached. Internally a very clean, fully untrimmed copy. A remarkable copy thus. HOWES B-223, "aa." Reese, Federal Hundred 33. Sabin 3870.First Irish edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. The plates for this edition are larger and finer than the Philadelphia and London first editions. For the period, Bartram's work is unrivalled. "Most of this book is based on Bartram's excursions in the South, especially in Georgia, northern Florida, and the Carolinas, from 1773 to 1777. ...It is credited with influencing everyone from Coleridge to Thoreau, and Bartram became famous, as her remains today"-Reese. "...Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world...he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge" - Field. "Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions" -Sabin. "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. The map illustrates the east coast of Florida from the St. Johns River to Cape Canaveral.
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