Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other Matters . . . in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada
Language: English
Published by J. Whiston and B. White, London, 1751
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First edition. [2], 94 pages, lacking final blank leaf. Bound in later half leather over marbled boards. Folding frontispiece plan of an Oswego longhouse and map on one sheet with several closed tears and laid down on paper. Embossed historical society stamps on frontispiece. title page, and on pp. 49/50. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown. Intermittent foxing. Still an attractive copy of Bartram's account of his diplomatic mission to the Iroquois. The final 16 pages are devoted to a letter from another important naturalist, Peter Kalm of Sweden, which includes the first English-language scientific description of Niagara Falls. Church 977; Dow, Niagara, pages I:53-63; Field 92 ("we are indulged by many intimate associations with scenes of aboriginal life"); Howes B222 ("b"); Sabin 3868; Streeter sale II:869; TPL 186; Vail 449.
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- Title
- Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other Matters . . . in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada
- Author
- John Bartram; Peter Kalm
- Publisher
- J. Whiston and B. White, London
- Publication year
- 1751
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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