Title:
Three Years' Travels Throughout the Interior Parts of North America, for More Than Five Thousand Miles, Containing an Account of the Lakes, Islands and Rivers, Cateracts, Mountains, Minerals, Soil and Vegetable, Productions of the North West Regions of that Vast Continent; with a Description of the Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, and Fishes Peculiar to the Country. Together with a Concise History of the Genius, Manners and Customs of the Indians Inhabiting the Lands that Lie Adjacent to the Heads and West of the River Mississippi...
Description:
280 pp. 6¾x3¾, period calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label.
"Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. Like his French predecessor - Verenrye - he was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but, aside from exploring some tributaries of the Mississippi, he made no substantial contributions to geographical knowledge; his book, however, stimulated curiousity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark...." See Howes C215 for Carver's "Travels through the Interior Parts of North America."
Lot Amendments
Condition:
Leather rubbed and with abrasions, corners bumped; lacks front and rear free endpapers, signature of John Putnam on the front pastedown, ink notes on rear pastedown, occasional faint dampstains and foxing, pages darkening, tears and small holes to title page, else good.
