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Philadelphia: Printed For Joseph Crukshank, 1792., 1792. 12mo. pp. xvi, vi, [1]blank, [9]-282. modern library cloth (some foxing, paper embrowned, library perforation stamp & other markings on 1st 2 leaves). Third or Fourth American Edition, after the first of 1784, of "a classic in the history of the exploration of the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi regions." "Carver’s Travels was one of the most popular early books on the Middle West, and has appeared in thirty-two recorded editions and issues. The author was a native of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and with a commission from Major Robert Rogers set out on his travels in 1766." (Bell) "He went west by the route of the Great Lakes, crossed to the Mississippi by the Green-Bay-Fox-Wisconsin route, ascended the great river and entered the St. Peter’s (now the Minnesota). He reached Lake Superior by the Chippewa and St. Croix rivers, and finally returned in the autumn of 1767 to Mackinac." (DAB) The work… Read More

[6]+22+[16]+i-xvi+17-543+[21] pages with frontispiece, 2 folding colored maps, 5 plates (4 of these hand-colored) and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in full leather with five raised spine bands and black label lettered in gilt. (Howes, C215; Field, 251; Sabin, 11184; Vail, 670) Third edition second issue, according to Howes, with the index. Jonathan Carver, early explorer of North America and author of one of the most widely read travel and adventure books in that period. Carver was promoted to lieutenant (1759) and then to captain (1760) while serving in a Massachusetts regiment during the French and Indian War. In 1766 he was sent by Major Robert Rogers on a journey of exploration westward from Rogers base at Fort Michilimackinac (now Mackinac, Mich.). Carver traveled west through the Great Lakes region to the Mississippi River and then up that river to the country of the Sioux Indians. Alone, he spent the winter of 1766 67 at a Sioux village on the Minnesota River. Returning to Fort… Read More

London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; H. Payne, in Pall-Mall; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1781. 8vo. (8 1/8 x 5 inches). Third edition. [x1] [a4] A-Nn4 Oo2. 302 ff. [12] [1]-22 [16] [i]-xvii 18-543 [21]. 604 pp. 8 plates including a mezzotint frontispiece portrait of Carver, 2 hand-colored folding maps, and five folding plates, four of which are hand-colored and include depictions of a tobacco plant and a peace pipe. Frontis, Title, Advertisement, Dedication, Address to the Public, Account of Captain J. Carver, Contents, Introduction, Journal of the Travels, Appendix, Directions for Placing Maps, Index. Half mottled morocco with blind roll-tooling over red and blue marbled-paper boards, spine ruled in gilt in six compartments with red calf lettering-piece in second compartment and gilt foliate printer's device in rest "Third and best edition" of Carver's travels into the American West; containing the first published mention of Oregon. [Sabin] A classic American… Read More

London: Printed for the Author, by William Richardson.Sold by J.Dodsley, J.Robson., 1779., 1779. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., xvi, [16], [17]-543, [1]directions to binder. 2 folding engraved maps & 5 engraved plates. A fine copy in contemporary sprinkled calf (front joint beginning to crack, outer margin of 1 plate shaved, occasional hint of foxing). Second Edition. The popularity enjoyed by Carver's narrative, one of the earliest books on the Middle West, is unrivalled in the literature of early native American travel; thirty-two separate editions of the work are recorded. After the Seven Years' War, in which he served in five campaigns against the French, Carver set out from Boston in 1766 to explore the territory beyond the Mississippi and to find a north-west land passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On his 7,000 mile journey he travelled to Michilimackinac, then via Green Bay-Fox River up the Mississippi to Lake Superior, reaching further north-west than any other recorded traveller… Read More