Bartram's Travels

Phila.: James & Johnson, 1791. 1st ed. xxxiv, [2],522pp. plus 8 plates (1 folding) including frontis. and folding map. Contemporary calf, nicely recornered and rebacked with original label preserved. A very good copy in a calf-backed clamshell box.

The rare first edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. For the period, Bartram's work is unrivalled, :... Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world... he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge" -Field.

"Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions."- Sabin

Includes a chapter entitled - "Language and Manners [of the Muscogulges and Cherokees."