(TRAVEL) Peter Kalm Travels into North America

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(TRAVEL.) Peter Kalm. Travels into North America. Folding map, 6 plates. 2 volumes. xii, 414; iv, 423, [9] pages. 8vo, contemporary polished gilt calf, one spine label chipped, joints starting; occasional foxing; edges tinted yellow. London, 1772

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Second English edition of an important journal of travels in 1748 and 1749 through Canada and what became the northeastern United States. Kalm was a Swedish botanist sent by Linnaeus; he recounts conversations in Philadelphia with Benjamin Franklin and John Bartram. "Most trustworthy description of Swedish settlements in 18th century Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania"--Howes K5 ("aa"). Pilling 2050d (for its brief Algonquian and Eskimo vocabularies); Sabin 36989.