Taylor, G.

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

A Voyage to North America, perform'd by G. Taylor, of Sheffield, in the years 1768, and 1769. Nottingham: S. Creswell for the author, 1771
paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (170 x 98mm.), [viii], 248pp., contemporary dark unlettered calf, brown morocco-backed cloth box, occasional soiling, binding worn

Provenance

William Phillipps, 1801, signature; A.P. de Lisle, Garendon Park and Gracedieu Manor, book label

Literature

ESTC T131816 (2 copies in the UK and 10 in the USA); Howes T48; Sabin 94457; Streeter sale, lot 824

Catalogue Note

RARE. A record of the author's extensive travels in North America and "one of the earliest English books advocating prairie settlement" (Howes).

The work records "his setting sail from Philadelphia to New Orleans, in West Florida, up the River Mississipi, to the Illinois, and down from Fort Chartres, over the Ohio River, through the Cherokee, Chicsaw, and Chactaw Indian Settlements, to Pensacola; passing the Gulphs of Mexico, and Florida, to St. Augustine in East Florida, from thence by land to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and to Philadelphia again..." (title).