Title: Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802 Author: Michaux, F[rancois] A[ndre] Place: London Publisher: Richard Phillips Date: 1805 Description: 96 pp. Large folding map. (8vo) 8x5¼, period full calf with old rebacking. Third Edition in English. The son of the noted French botanist Andre Michaux, Francois Michaux at age fifteen accompanied his father to America in 1785 when the former was commissioned by the French government to study the forest trees of North America. Returning to France in 1790 for the purpose of education, he came back to the U.S. in 1801 a trained botanist, and embarked upon the travels described in the present work. He was later captured by the British and held on Bermuda (resulting in a scientific study of that island), and went to the States once more upon his release. He is perhaps best known for his three-volume North American Sylva. Sabin 48706; Howes M579. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities worn; long tear to map with old tape repair on verso; very good. Item number: 209734
Title: Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802 Author: Michaux, F[rancois] A[ndre] Place: London Publisher: Richard Phillips Date: 1805 Description: 96 pp. Large folding map. (8vo) 8x5¼, period full calf with old rebacking. Third Edition in English. The son of the noted French botanist Andre Michaux, Francois Michaux at age fifteen accompanied his father to America in 1785 when the former was commissioned by the French government to study the forest trees of North America. Returning to France in 1790 for the purpose of education, he came back to the U.S. in 1801 a trained botanist, and embarked upon the travels described in the present work. He was later captured by the British and held on Bermuda (resulting in a scientific study of that island), and went to the States once more upon his release. He is perhaps best known for his three-volume North American Sylva. Sabin 48706; Howes M579. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities worn; long tear to map with old tape repair on verso; very good. Item number: 209734
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