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 PRODUCTIONS.

Published by Key & Simpson, 1796

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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 360 pp; Rebound in 19th century 1/2 moroccan leather with marbled covered boards, restored with new higes and new leather repairing 1 inch chip at the top of the spine. Book block is nice and tight. Pages 324 to 354 with edge stain in the tip corner affecting ca 1 inch of the corner, some spotting on the tile page and following few pages, aother stain on pages 126 ad 127 also affecting a few pages before and after, this stain is on about 1/2 the pages but the text is still quite readable, The rest of the book is clean and tight. End pages replaced when book was rebound in the later part of the 1800s. Howes c-215, Graff 622. "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." previous owner's blind stamp.…

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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 PRODUCTIONS.
Author
Carver, Jonathan
Publisher
Key & Simpson
Publication year
1796
Condition
Very Good-
Binding
Hardcover

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