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(TRAVEL.) Carver, Jonathan.
Travels through the Interior Parts of North
America.
2 hand-colored folding maps, frontispiece portrait, 5 engraved plates (4 of them
hand-colored). [4], 22, [24], 543, [21] pages. 8vo, modern calf gilt in period style by
Bernard Middleton; moderate foxing, minor wear to maps, border of tobacco plate grazed
by binder; bookplate of Kenneth Garth Huston on front pastedown.
London, 1781
[2,000/3,000]
Third and best edition, with added biography and index. “Carver penetrated farther into the
West than any other English explorer before the Revolution” and “stimulated curiosity
concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark”—Howes
C215 (this edition “b”). The book records his travels as far west as modern-day Minnesota
and Wisconsin, and also describes his injuries and capture by the French and Indians at Fort
William Henry in 1757. Greenly 21 (best collation); Sabin 11184.
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(TRAVEL.) Cleveland, Richard.
A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial
Enterprises.
2 volumes. 12mo, publisher’s cloth, moderate wear, original spine labels;
minor foxing; early inked library markings on endpapers only, small later bookplate on
front pastedown.
Cambridge, MA, 1842
[700/1,000]
Cleveland was an American merchant. This work describes his visits to the northwest coast in
1799 to 1801, the California coast including San Diego in 1803, Brazil, Cuba, and
elsewhere. It includes one of the best descriptions of the Battle of San Diego Bay. Borba de Moraes,
pages I:186; Howes C485 (“aa”); Graff 764; Hill 313; Sabin 13665.
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