(TRAVEL) Carver Jonathan Travels through the Interior Parts

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(TRAVEL.) Carver, Jonathan. Travels through the Interior Parts of North America. 2 hand-colored folding maps, frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved plates (4 of them hand-colored). [4], 22, [24], 543, [21] pages. 8vo, modern calf gilt in period style by Bernard Middleton; moderate foxing, minor wear to maps, border of tobacco plate grazed by binder; bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston on front pastedown. London, 1781

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Third and best edition, with added biography and index. "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution" and "stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark"--Howes C215 (this edition "b"). The book records his travels as far west as modern-day Minnesota and Wisconsin, and also describes his injuries and capture by the French and Indians at Fort William Henry in 1757. Greenly 21 (best collation); Sabin 11184.