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Auction archive: Lot number 305

BARTRAM, William. - Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.

Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$8,650 - US$11,533
Price realised:
£5,800
ca. US$8,361
Auction archive: Lot number 305

BARTRAM, William. - Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.

Estimate
£6,000 - £8,000
ca. US$8,650 - US$11,533
Price realised:
£5,800
ca. US$8,361
Beschreibung:

Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.
Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791. 8vo (182 x 110 mm). Engraved folding map, 8 engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition : scattered minor foxing; rebacked and recased, light wear to covers. first edition . "The classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. Bartram’s account of the remote frontier, of the plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the eighteenth century is unrivaled" (Streeter Sale). The famous frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco is after Bartram and is engraved by James Trenchard Clark I: 197; Evans 23159; Field 94; Howes B223; Sabin 3870; Siebert Sale 594; Streeter Sale 1088; Vail 849.

Auction archive: Lot number 305
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws.
Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791. 8vo (182 x 110 mm). Engraved folding map, 8 engraved plates (one folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked to style. Condition : scattered minor foxing; rebacked and recased, light wear to covers. first edition . "The classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. Bartram’s account of the remote frontier, of the plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the eighteenth century is unrivaled" (Streeter Sale). The famous frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco is after Bartram and is engraved by James Trenchard Clark I: 197; Evans 23159; Field 94; Howes B223; Sabin 3870; Siebert Sale 594; Streeter Sale 1088; Vail 849.

Auction archive: Lot number 305
Auction:
Datum:
25 Feb 2009
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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