THREE YEARS TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA FOR MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND MILES, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAKES, AND ALL THE LAKES, ISLANDS, AND RIVERS, CATARACTS, MOUNTAINS, MINERALS, SOIL AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS.
Published by Key & Simpson, 1796
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA
AbeBooks seller since November 2, 1997
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 500.00
Quantity: 1 available
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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 360 pp; Rebound in 19th century 1/2 moroccan leather with marbled covered boards, restored with new higes and new leather repairing 1 inch chip at the top of the spine. Book block is nice and tight. Pages 324 to 354 with edge stain in the tip corner affecting ca 1 inch of the corner, some spotting on the tile page and following few pages, aother stain on pages 126 ad 127 also affecting a few pages before and after, this stain is on about 1/2 the pages but the text is still quite readable, The rest of the book is clean and tight. End pages replaced when book was rebound in the later part of the 1800s. Howes c-215, Graff 622. "Carver penetrated farther into the West than any other English explorer before the Revolution. Like his French predecessor -- Verendrye -- he was seeking a transcontinental waterway, but, aside from exploring some tributaries of the Mississippi, he made no substantial contributions to geographical knowledge; his book, however, stimulated curiosity concerning routes to the Pacific, later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark." previous owner's blind stamp.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THREE YEARS TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA FOR MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND MILES, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT LAKES, AND ALL THE LAKES, ISLANDS, AND RIVERS, CATARACTS, MOUNTAINS, MINERALS, SOIL AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS.
- Author
- Carver, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Key & Simpson
- Publication year
- 1796
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Binding
- Hardcover
GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA
Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
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Large general used & rare bookstore with a well organized stock of over 10,000 mostly hardback books, antiquarian maps & prints, and tribal art. Open Weds-Sat from 12 - 5 or by appointment EST. We offer computerized Search Service and Appraisal services. Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Buying and Selling books since 1978, on line since 1998.
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GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA
862 S. Broadway
Lexington, KY U.S.A. 40504-2646
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Glover's Bookery, ABAA; Bookseller Since 1978, 859-253-0614, bookery@post.com;
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