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[Americana] Bradbury, John. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; Including a Description of Upper Louisiana, Together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories...

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[Americana] Bradbury, John. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; Including a Description of Upper Louisiana, Together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories...

Liverpool: Printed for the Author, by Smith and Galway, and Published by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London, 1817. First edition. 8vo. xii, (i), 10-364 pp., plus errata slip tipped in at rear. Modern quarter brown speckled calf over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco spine label, stamped in gilt; all edges trimmed; light spotting to title-page, small repairs in gutter of same; scattered light foxing to text; small repair in upper gutter of errata leaf. Clark, Old South II: 137 (1); Graff 383; Howes B-695; Sabin 7207; Streeter III:1779; Wagner-Camp 14:1

First edition of Scottish naturalist John Bradbury's account of his travels through the American west, "one of the most accurate and pleasingly written travel accounts of this period of American history" (Clark). Bradbury travelled to America on behalf of the Botanical Society at Liverpool, and made trips up the Missouri River to the Arikara and Mandan villages, and then travelled south to New Orleans. Along the way he collected valuable specimens of plant life, met the then 84-year-old Daniel Boone, and recorded important information about the natural resources of America's frontier.

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[Americana] Bradbury, John. Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; Including a Description of Upper Louisiana, Together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories...

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