Carver, Jonathan - Voyage Dans Les Parties Intérieures de L'Amérique Septentrionale, Pendant Les Années 1766, 1767 & 1768

Paris, Chez Pissot, 1784. 1st French edition. Leather Bound. pp. xxviii, 451. 12mo. 1/4 leather with red title labels, over speckled boards. Folding map at rear remains remarkably crisp and clean. Woodcut head- and tail pieces. Joints tender, spine and boards partially darkened, tidy ink correction to title page. With Vocabulaires des Langues Chippewaye & Nadoessie. "The book gives a vivid picture of the rich lands and Indian inhabitants of the upper Mississippi River valley. Carver, however, did not live to enjoy any financial reward from it. He died a broken old man and was buried in a potter's field." - Britannica. Sabin 11188. .

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