(AMERICAN INDIANS) Adair James The History of the American I

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. Folding map. 4to, later 1/2 calf, moderate wear; map laid down on linen, lacking half-title, 1914 dealer description laid down on rear free endpaper. London, 1775

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first edition. "Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them"--Howes A38 ("b"). "Considered by modern writers to be the leading authority of his day on the Indians of the Southeast"--Clark I:28. Adair's personal experience was mostly with the Catawba, Cherokee, Muskogee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw, and he devotes a chapter to each. Another 200-page section is titled "On the Descent of the American Indians from the Jews." Field 11; Graff 10; Sabin 155; Vail 643 ("one of the first to explore the Alleghenies").