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BARTRAM, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida… London: J. Johnson, 1794. Second English edition.
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BARTRAM, William (1739-1823). Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida… London: J. Johnson, 1794.
8vo (203 x 126 mm). Portrait frontispiece, folding map of the East coast of Florida, 7 copperplates (one folding). (Some spotting, some minor offsetting.) Later navy morocco gilt, marbled edges (some staining to edges).
Second English edition. Only the title-page is new in this second edition, which is “unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions” (Sabin). Contains observations regarding soil and natural productions in the Southeastern region of the United States as well as about the Native American populations that inhabited them during that period. Howes B-223; Sabin 3870.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia