(TRAVEL) Bartram William Travels through North and South Car

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(TRAVEL.) Bartram, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida. Folding map, 7 (of 8) plates. [2], xxxiv, 522. 8vo, contemporary calf, crudely rebacked with worn original backstrip laid down; lacking frontispiece plate and rear free endpaper, map worn with about 1/2 inch of loss on top edge, foxing; early inked library inscription on front pastedown. Philadelphia, 1791

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first edition of a frontier classic. Recounts Bartram's extensive travels in the south as an accomplished naturalist. Includes substantial commentary on the American Indians he met. "Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions"--Sabin 3870. Clark, Old South I:197; Evans 23159; Harwell, Georgiana 11; Howes B223 ("b"); Vail 849.