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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 Chactaws...
Sale 6308 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2025 10:00AM ET
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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 Chactaws...


London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792. First English edition. 8vo. xxiv, 520, (12) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, and seven engraved plates (one folding). Full contemporary mottled tan calf, decorated in gilt, front and rear boards detached, spine darkened and very dry, extremities rubbed; all edges trimmed; dampstaining in top edge of leaves at front; scattered soiling and spotting to text; old offsetting pp. 264-265; small chip in top corner Z2-3; light dampstaining in margins of some leaves at rear; scattered short closed tears along edges. From the family library of Americana and autograph collectors Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. Clark, Old South I:197-1; Field 96; Howes B-223; Sabin 3870; ESTC T88527

First English edition of William Bartram's travels through the Southern United States, a work "unequaled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions" (Sabin).

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