Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America...Together with a Concise History of the Genius, Manners, and Customs of the Indians...Westward of the Great River Mississippi
Philadelphia: Key & Simpson, 1796.
Hardcover. Very good. Full title: Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America, for more than Five Thousand Miles, Containing An Account of the great Lakes, and all the Lakes, Islands, and Rivers, Cataracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil and Vegetable Production of the North-West Regions of that vast Continent; with a Description of the Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, and Fishes Peculiar to the Country, Together with a concise History of the Genius, Manners, and Customs of the Indians Inhabiting the Lands that Life Adjacent to the Heads and the Westward of the Great River Mississippi; and an Appendix, Describing the Uncultivated Parts of America that are the Most Proper for Forming Settlements. 8vo, pp xx, ix, [11]-360, 20 (subscriber's list), bound in later 3/4 morocco and marbled boards. Spine and top edge darkened, scuffing to leather, small section torn from title page, affecting a few words. Binding tight, text clean., with just a few spots of foxing. Howes C-215: "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. Like his French predecessor -- Verendrye -- he was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but, aside from exploring some tributaries of the Mississippi, he made no substantial contributions to geographical knowledge; his book, however, stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark." Evans 30169; Field 250.
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