(London): Printed for the Author, 1777. First edition. 8vo. 42 (but 40) pp. 19th-century quarter black morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, front board starting, boards and extremities rubbed; all edges trimmed; armorial book-plate of Thomas Dawson Brodie on front paste-down, remnants of removed label and old pencil notations on same; old bookseller's printed description of this copy mounted on front paste-down; pencil annotation on title-page, faint ink stamp on verso of same. Not in Howes, Sabin, Evans, Clark, or Blockson

Very rare first edition of Scotsman James Barclay's account of his travels through the Carolinas and Georgia from 1770-72, containing his detailed observations on slavery and plantation life before the American Revolution.

According to RBH, this is the first copy at auction since the C.G. Littel sale in 1945, where it was then described as "excessively rare and apparently unrecorded. Not mentioned by Sabin, Field, Evans, Rich, or Church, and not indexed as having appeared at public sale in England or in this country."