ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775.
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ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775.
4to (268 x 210 mm). Engraved folding map. (Some minor offsetting of map.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine).
FIRST EDITION of the "best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them" (Howes). Adair lived and traded among several tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Chickasaw. ESTC T86841; Graff 10; Howes A-38; Sabin 155.
Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana
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