Books and Manuscripts

Warrington and London: William Eyres and T. Lowndes, 1770-71. In three volumes. First edition in English. Translated from the Swedish by John Reinhold Forster. 8vo. xvi, (viii), 400; 352; viii, 310, (14) pp. Eight-page subscriber's list in first volume. Illustrated with four (of six) engraved plates and one large engraved folding map; lacking two plates in first volume. Contemporary full speckled brown calf, stamped in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels, front board of first volume virtually detached, front and rear joints and extremities of each volume rubbed, spine ends variously chipped; red speckled edges; scattered minor spotting to text. Howes K5; Streeter Collection 823; Sabin 36989

Subscriber's copy--from the library of Sir John Mordaunt Cope, Eighth Baronet (1731-79), and with the armorial book-plate of the Cope family on front paste-down in each volume.

"One of the most important and reliable eighteenth-century accounts of American natural history, social organization, and political situation. Kalm gives especially important accounts of the American Swedish settlements." (Streeter Collection)