The Discoveries of John Lederer With Unpublished Letters By and About Lederer to Governor John Winthrop, Jr. and an Essay on the Indians of Lederer's Discoveries

Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Mapped endpapers. 148 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "The book reprinted here is a report of three journeys of exploration made in 1670 from the tidewater settlements of Virginia to the interior. Lederer's account was translated from the Latin by William Talbot, then Secretary of the Province of Maryland, who had the work printed in London after his return from America in 1671. The Latin text has not survived, and few copies of the small quarto volume in English are to be found today. Over forty years have passed since Alvord and Bidgood reprinted it, and the work has never been adequately edited. Both the explorer and his work have deserved better treatment that they have received." ---- from the Preface.…