Bartram, William:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

VOYAGE DANS LES PARTIES SUD DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.... A reissue of the first French edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much material relating to 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. Sabin calls for four plates plus the frontispiece portrait.

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