Stork, William, and John Bartram

Estimate

2,000 - 2,500 GBP

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Description

An Account of East-Florida, with a Journal, kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas; upon a Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. John's. London: sold by W. Nicoll and G. Woodfall [for the author, 1766]
paper

FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, 2 parts in one volume, 8vo (204 x 114mm.), viii, [iv], xxii, 23-90, [ii (title to Bartram's Journal)], 70pp., polished black morocco, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges

Literature

Clark, Travels in the Old South, 195; Howes S1042; Sabin 92221

Catalogue Note

This issue contains the first edition of Bartram's Journal, accompanied by a reissue of the sheets of the first edition of Stork's Account, which had been published earlier in the same year. Bartram, the first native American botanist, travelled from St. Augustine to Picolata on the St. Johns River, then continued up one side of the river and down the other recording observations on the soil, climate, plants, animals, springs, Indian remains, and much else.