Hutchins, Thomas:

$6,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN HISTORICAL NARRATIVE AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF LOUISIANA AND WEST-FLORIDA, COMPREHENDING THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI WITH ITS PRINCIPAL BRANCHES AND ... One of the most valuable works on Florida and Louisiana in the Revolutionary period. Hutchins was an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian War who later surveyed the country along the Mississippi from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. During the Revolution he joined the American cause and served under Greene in the Carolinas, and later spent several years in West Florida in the area between New Orleans and Pensacola. He made a minute examination of its coast, harbors, lakes, and rivers, all reported in this accurate book.The Streeter copy sold in 1968 to the dealer Ralph Newman for $500, acting for collector Harry Sonnenborn. At the Sonnenborn sale in 1980 MacManus paid $750 for it.

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