Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 190

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NATURAL HISTORY.) Volney, Constantin François. A View of the Soil and Climate of the United States of America. 2 folding maps, 2 folding plates. xxviii, 446 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; moderate foxing; with half-title. Philadelphia, 1804

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first american edition. Includes a 77-page supplement on the American Indians, based in part upon the author's personal experiences at Vincennes, IN and elsewhere. Clark, Old South II:69-4; Field 1611 ("teems with the most interesting particulars"); Howes V141; Monaghan, French Travellers 1472; Sabin 100694.