Bartram, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws... Lot 19

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Bartram, William. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws...

Sale 6308 - Printed and Manuscript Americana

Jan 29, 2025 10:00AM ET

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$700 - 1,000

London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792. First English edition. 8vo. xxiv, 520, (12) pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved folding map, and seven engraved plates (one folding). Full contemporary mottled tan calf, decorated in gilt, front and rear boards detached, spine darkened and very dry, extremities rubbed; all edges trimmed; dampstaining in top edge of leaves at front; scattered soiling and spotting to text; old offsetting pp. 264-265; small chip in top corner Z2-3; light dampstaining in margins of some leaves at rear; scattered short closed tears along edges. From the family library of Americana and autograph collectors Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. Clark, Old South I:197-1; Field 96; Howes B-223; Sabin 3870; ESTC T88527

First English edition of William Bartram's travels through the Southern United States, a work "unequaled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions" (Sabin).

[American Revolution] Burgoyne, (John). A State of the Expedition from Canada, as Laid Before the House of Commons...

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[American Revolution] Burgoyne, John. A State of the Expedition from Canada...First Edition

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[Americana] Howe, Julia Ward, Irving Berlin, John Philip Sousa, Samuel F. Smith, and George F. Root. Display of Signed Patriotic Song Lyrics

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[American Revolution] Mackenzie, Roderick. Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton’s History "Of the Campaigns of 1780, and 1781, in the Southern Provinces of North America"...

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$600 - 900

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[American Revolution] (Knox, William). The Interest of the Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Britain, in the Present Contest with the Colonies, Stated and Considered

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[American Revolution] (Knox, William) The Interest of the Merchants and Manufacturers of Great Britain, in the Present Contest with the Colonies. First Edition

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$800 - 1,200

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[Americana] (Allard, Hugo). Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula

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[American Revolution] (Cockings, George). The American War, a Poem; In Six Books. In Which the Names of the Officers who have Distinguished Themselves, During the War, are Introduced

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$500 - 800

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[American Revolution] (Livingston, Philip). The Other Side of the Question: Or, A Defence of the Liberties of North-America. In Answer to a Late Friendly Address to All Reasonable Americans, on the Subject of our Political Confusions. By a Citizen

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$800 - 1,200

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