THE LIFE OF JOHN LEDYARD, THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER; COMPRISING SELECTIONS FROM HIS JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE.

Ledyard was one of the first great American explorers. He accompanied Cook's third expedition as a sailor, and so visited the Pacific, the Northwest Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii, where he was one of the oarsmen in the boat which took Cook ashore for the parley at which he was murdered. After the American Revolution, at the behest of Thomas Jefferson (then U.S. minister in Paris), Ledyard attempted to cross over to America by traversing Russia, only to be arrested and sent back in farther Siberia. He disappeared while exploring up the Nile in 1789. An important source for Cook's voyage and other great explorations, and seldom seen in the original publisher's binding. HOWES S818. SABIN 88991. LADA-MOCARSKI 92. WICKERSHAM 6566. TOURVILLE 4252. FORBES 708. Tall octavo. Original publisher's binding of half brown cloth and paper covered boards, printed paper label. Label rubbed and split, boards rubbed and edgeworn. Front hinge strengthened internally. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown and blindstamp on titlepage, else very clean internally. Very good, in unsophisticated condition. Untrimmed. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.…