Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Products of those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians.
Philadelphia. Printed by James and Johnson, 1791 & London, Reprinted for J. Johnson... 1792. 8vo, 21.2cm, The First English edition. complete with engraved frontis portrait, "Mico Chlucco the Long Warrier, or King of the Siminoles", and 7 engraved plates (one folding), and 1 engraved folding map, attractively bound in modern restoration style fine binding, in half speckled tan calf, blind and gilt ruled raised bands, crushed crimson morocco label, contemporary style marbled boards, faint library stamp and number on the title page, armorial bookplate of Henry James Grasett ("meliora sequi"); a fine copy. (cgc). Item #40647
Howes B-220. Sabin 3870. Pilling, Iroquoian, p10. de Renne I, p250n. ~ William Bartram was a renowned naturalist and son of John Bartram, the noted botanist. His father's good friend, Peter Collinson, the English naturalist, thought William's sketches and drawings to be "elegant performances" and showed them to Dr. John Fothergill, a botanist and like William, a Quaker, who extended his patronage to the young Bartram. At Fothergill's expense Bartram spent the years 1773-1777 exploring the southeastern part of America; although he was meant to send back to Fothergill drawings, journals, seeds, specimens, etc., many of his writings and gatherings never reached England because of the war, and Bartram finally made his way back to Philadelphia in January of I 778. This work, describing the natives of the region, the plants, seeds, products, and animals, was enormously successful, and was considered "a work of high character well meriting its wide esteem." (Howes).
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