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Auction archive: Lot number 28

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, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Producti...

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,680
Auction archive: Lot number 28

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, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Producti...

Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,680
Beschreibung:

Title: 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, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians Author: Bartram, William Place: London Publisher: J. Johnson Date: 1792 Description: xxiv, 520, [12] pp. Folding copper-engraved map and 8 copper-engraved plates, one of them folding. (8vo) 8¾x5, modern black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco spine label. First English Edition. Insightful record of the author's extensive travels in the territories of the Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians as far west as the Mississippi River. The author had great interest in the Indians and with white fur traders, and the narrative abounds in descriptions of forest life and the customs and manners of various tribes. Streeter, citing the 1791 Philadelphia edition, calls the work a "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." Howes says it is "a work of high character well meriting its wide esteem," and Field opines that Bartram "neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge." The frontispiece is a portrait of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, King of the Siminoles, and the other plates include plants and two of a great soft-shelled tortoise; the map shows the coast of Florida from above St. Augustine to Cape Canaveral. Field 94-96; Howes B223; Sabin 3870. Lot Amendments Condition: Frontispiece mounted, repair to title page, folding map trimmed at upper edge with resulting loss of border rule, repairs on map verso; foxing; very good in a fine modern binding. Item number: 209735

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: 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, Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions; Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians Author: Bartram, William Place: London Publisher: J. Johnson Date: 1792 Description: xxiv, 520, [12] pp. Folding copper-engraved map and 8 copper-engraved plates, one of them folding. (8vo) 8¾x5, modern black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, morocco spine label. First English Edition. Insightful record of the author's extensive travels in the territories of the Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians as far west as the Mississippi River. The author had great interest in the Indians and with white fur traders, and the narrative abounds in descriptions of forest life and the customs and manners of various tribes. Streeter, citing the 1791 Philadelphia edition, calls the work a "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." Howes says it is "a work of high character well meriting its wide esteem," and Field opines that Bartram "neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge." The frontispiece is a portrait of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, King of the Siminoles, and the other plates include plants and two of a great soft-shelled tortoise; the map shows the coast of Florida from above St. Augustine to Cape Canaveral. Field 94-96; Howes B223; Sabin 3870. Lot Amendments Condition: Frontispiece mounted, repair to title page, folding map trimmed at upper edge with resulting loss of border rule, repairs on map verso; foxing; very good in a fine modern binding. Item number: 209735

Auction archive: Lot number 28
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2010
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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