(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, frontispiece portrait, 6 (of 7) botanical plates. [2], xxxiv, 522 pages. 8vo, unsightly modern 1/4 morocco, worn; dampstained with faint pink tint on top edge, worming to modern endpapers and final leaf, leaf Pp4 torn with minimal loss of text; early signature on title page. Philadelphia, 1791

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first edition of a frontier classic, rather seedy but nearly complete. 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.