Carver, Jonathan: Voyage Dans Les Parties Interieures de L’Amerique Septentrionale Pendant les annees 1766, 1767 & 1768

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Carver, Jonathan : Voyage Dans Les Parties Interieures de L’Amerique Septentrionale Pendant les annees 1766, 1767 & 1768

Pissot, Paris, 1784

Full speckled calf, gilt spine with raised bands. , A fine example of this important work. Text and the map are clean and crisp. Map is beautifully hand colored. , 8vo, Title page with printer’s device, wood cut head and tail pieces.

The first French edition, based on the third English edition, considered the best textually. Text in French. With the important map of the areas West of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior showing the area of the headwaters of the Mississippi, extending North well into Canada and West as far as the Dakotas. Carver went farther West than any explorer of the Northwest before the Revolution, and although he failed in his aim to find the mythical Northwest Passage, he added considerably to geographical knowledge of the area. , Howes C215.

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