Author: CARVER, Jonathan.
Title: Reize door de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika. Naar den derden druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door J.D. Pasteur.
Description: Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1796.2 volumes in 1. Original boards (rubbed). With medallion portrait on title-page, folding map by G. van Baarsel, 2 engraved plates (1 folding depicting the St. Anthony waterfall in the Mississippi river) and 4 hand-coloured aquatints plates depicting native American Indians. XXVI,248;280,(18) pp.First Dutch edition after the third English edition of 1781: Travels to the interior parts of North America. - One of the earliest books on the Middle West, unrivalled in the literature of early native American travel. Jonathan Carver wanted to find a north-west land passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, he penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. He travelled from Boston in 1766 to Lake Superior to the sources of the river St.Pierre, together 7000 miles. This work contains one of the earliest descriptions of what is now known as Minnesota and Wisconsin. 'An admirable work, full of novel information respecting the interior of North America, and its savage inhabitants' (Sabin).Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 253; Cat. NHSM I, p.270; Sabin 11190; Howes 215; Howgego C63; not in Tiele.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat. U.S.A. detiger
Title: Reize door de binnenlanden van Noord-Amerika. Naar den derden druk uit het Engelsch vertaald door J.D. Pasteur.
Description: Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1796.2 volumes in 1. Original boards (rubbed). With medallion portrait on title-page, folding map by G. van Baarsel, 2 engraved plates (1 folding depicting the St. Anthony waterfall in the Mississippi river) and 4 hand-coloured aquatints plates depicting native American Indians. XXVI,248;280,(18) pp.First Dutch edition after the third English edition of 1781: Travels to the interior parts of North America. - One of the earliest books on the Middle West, unrivalled in the literature of early native American travel. Jonathan Carver wanted to find a north-west land passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean, he penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. He travelled from Boston in 1766 to Lake Superior to the sources of the river St.Pierre, together 7000 miles. This work contains one of the earliest descriptions of what is now known as Minnesota and Wisconsin. 'An admirable work, full of novel information respecting the interior of North America, and its savage inhabitants' (Sabin).Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 253; Cat. NHSM I, p.270; Sabin 11190; Howes 215; Howgego C63; not in Tiele.
Keywords: America Dutch travel Jubileum cat. U.S.A. detiger
Price: EUR 1815.00 = appr. US$ 1972.63 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 293
- Book number: 293