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Lot 115
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 Country of the Chactaws.
Dublin: J. Moore, W. Jones, R. McAllister and J. Rice, 1793. First Dublin edition. Contemporary calf in calf-backed slipcase. 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (20.5 x 12 cm); xxiv, 520, [12] pp.; frontispiece, folding map of East Florida and 7 plates as 6 (two folding, plates one and two combined on a single sheet). Generally clean internally but with minor wear to joints, plates 1 and 2 combined with old misfold and repairs, loss to lower portion of plate 6.
"Extensive travels, in the early years of the Republic, through the southern frontiers and among the Creeks and Cherokees. A work of high character well meriting its wide esteem" (Howes). The map depicts the east coast of Florida. "He wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world. He neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge."- Field. Sabin 3870; Howes B223.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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