(TRAVEL) Carver Jonathan Travels through the Interior Parts

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(TRAVEL.) Carver, Jonathan. Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America. Folding map, 2 plates. 8vo, later 1/2 calf, minor wear; front joint just starting, map trimmed to the neat line, manuscript binder's ticket tipped to last page; generally clean and bright; 1948 owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Dublin, 1779

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first dublin edition, reprinted from the 1778 first edition. "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 ("aa"). 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. Sabin 11184.