Account of the First Discovery, and Natural History of Florida.
Item #81306
ROBERTS, William. An Account of the First Discovery, and Natural History of Florida. With a Particular Detail of the Several Expeditions and Descents Made on that Coast. London: T. Jeffreys, 1763. 102pp. plus seven folding maps and plates. Quarto. Bound in antique-style 1/4 leather and marbled boards, gilt ruled spine bands. Internally bright and clean. Frontis map of Florida expertly repaired, else near fine. STREETER SALE 1181. CLARK I:296. HOWES R348, "b." CHURCH 1046. SABIN 71926. JONES 174. LITTEL 879. EBERSTADT 163:222. SERVIES 436.One of the first substantive accounts of Florida in English. Jefferys issued the book immediately after Florida became a British possession, by cession from Spain in the Treaty which ended the French and Indian War. The large map, by Jefferys, shows Florida and the South below North Carolina and west to the Mississippi. Other maps and plates are a map of the harbor at Pensacola, a map of the Bay of St. Joseph, a map of the Bay of Espiritu Santo, a plan of the town and harbor of St. Augustine, a view of the town of Pensacola, and a plan of the bay of Mobile. The text offers a long description of Pensacola, an account of the several expeditions to Florida made by the English, French, and Spanish, a brief examination of the region's natural history, and a short description of West Florida. "One of the best eighteenth century descriptions of Florida" - Streeter. A fundamental Florida item, in impressive condition.
Price: $20,000.00