Timberlake, Henry

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (who accompanied the three Cherokee Indians to London)... containing... his Travels to and from that Nation... illustrated with an accurate map of their Over-hill Settlement, and a curious secret journal, taken by the Indians out of the pocket of a Frenchman they had killed. London: for the Author, 1765
Paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (202 x 118mm.), viii, 160pp., half-title, folding engraved map, folding plate, red morocco by Wallis, full gilt spine, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, gilt edges

Provenance

Frank T. Siebert, sale Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1999, lot 277

Literature

Clark, Travels in the Old South, 319; Howes T271; Sabin 95836

Catalogue Note

RARE. Timberlake's Memoirs record his adventures among the Overhill Cherokee and travels in Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia after the French and Indian War. In 1762, Timberlake escorted the Cherokee chief Outacity and two of his warriors to London, where they created a sensation.

The map, printed on thick paper, depicts a twenty-mile stretch of the Little Tennessee River, showing Fort Loudon and several Cherokee villages, each identified with the name of its chief and the number of its warriors.