Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 963
  • 963

Nuttall, Thomas

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Description

  • Journal of Travels into Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the Aborigines. Philadelphia: Thomas H. Palmer, 1821
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (217 x 132mm.), xii, 9-296pp., folding engraved map, 5 aquatint plates, contemporary dark green half calf, full gilt spine, double red labels, dark blue marbled boards, endpapers and edges, a few plates slightly shaved, some leaves browned , some offsetting to map

Provenance

Brinley, book label; Geo. E. Leighton, St Louis, bookplate

Literature

Howes N229; Sabin 56348 

Catalogue Note

Nuttall, formerly a printer in Liverpool, emigrated to America in 1808. He became an experienced botanist having accompanied the Scottish naturalist John Bradbury on his travels in the Missouri Territory (see Exploration and Discovery Part I, 27 March 2014, lot 166). Here he describes his own exploration of an area then little known.