First Edition. 8vo. 280 leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of Mico Chlucco by J. Trenchard after W. Bartram, folded engraved map, 7 engraved plates; separate title page on [3Q
1] for An Account of the Persons, Manners, Customs and Government of the Muscogulges or Creeks, Cherokees, Chactaws, &c. Aborigines
of the Continent of North America. By William Bartram.
Philadelphia: Printed by
James & Johnson,
m. dcc, xci
.
Sabin 3870.
Evans 23159.
Pilling,
Iroquoian Languages, page 10, and
Muskhogean Languages, page 6.
Field 94.
De Renne I, page 230.
Boimare 82.
Jefferson bought a copy of this work from
William Duane, Philadelphia, on December 14, 1805, price $
2.00. A copy of the printed
Proposals for Printing by Subscription Bartram’s Travels is in the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress. The author’s name on the title-page in this Prospectus reads:
By William Bartram, Botanist, of Philadelphia, who was employed from 1773 to 1777, by the celebrated Dr. Fothergill, of London,
to explore the extensive Countries above-mentioned.
The title is followed by the Conditions, and 2 pages of the work, as a specimen of the paper and type. At the end is a list
of respectable characters, with a number of other Gentlemen, who have already become Subscribers to this Work. The respectable
characters number thirteen headed by Thomas Mifflin, Esq., President of the State of Pennsylvania (to whom the book is dedicated).
There is no list of subscribers in the book.
William Bartram, 1739-1823, naturalist and traveller. As stated on his Prospectus, these travels were made at the expense of Dr. John Fothergill.
After the publication of his work in 1791 it was reprinted in London and in Dublin, and was translated into German, Dutch
and French. The book had considerable influence on the literature of the period, and was described by Coleridge in his
Table Talk
as “a work of high merit every way.”
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Histoire de Kentucky de Filson.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 193, as above.
FILSON,
John.
Histoire de Kentucke, Nouvelle Colonie a l’Ouest de la Virginie: contenant, 1
o. La Découverte, l’Acquisition, l’Etablissement, la Description topographique, l’Histoire Naturelle, &c. du Territoire: 2
o. la Relation historique du Colonel Boon, un des premiers Colons, sur les guerres contre les Naturels: 3
o. l’Assemblée des Piankashaws au Poste Saint Vincent: 4
o. un exposé succinct des Nations Indiennes qui habitent dans les limites des Treize États-Unis, de leurs Mœurs & Coutumes,
& des Réflexions sur leur Origine; & autres Pièces: Avec une Carte. Ouvrage pour servir de suite aux Lettres d’un Cultivateur
Américain. Traduit de l’
Anglois, de M. John Filson; par M. Parraud, de l’Académie des Arcades de Rome.
A
Paris: chez
Buisson,
m. dcc. lxxxv
. Avec Approbation et Permission. [1785.]
F454 .F49
First Edition of this translation. 8vo. 127 leaves, folded engraved map of Kentucky by André, the last leaf for the Approbation and the penultimate for the
Certificat donné a l’Auteur, signed by Daniel Boon, Levi Todd and James Harrod, dated
12 Mai, 1784; the
Aventures du Colonel Daniel Boon, contenant la relation des Guerres de Kentcuke [sic] begins on page 57, with captaion title.
Sabin 24338.
Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 91.
Coleman 3239.
Church 1212.
Field 537.
Boimare 76.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price
1.0.
One of the sources for this work was “l’Auteur des
Notes on the state of Virginia
, qui ne veut pas être connu du Public”. The explanatory footnote reads: Notes sur l’Etat de Virginie. In-8
o. Paris, 1785. “Cet Ouvrage, dont l’Auteur n’a fait tirer que quelques exemplaires, pour distribuer à ses amis, contient des
détails int’eressans sur l’histoire naturelle, le climate, la population, les loix, les constitutions, &c. de la Virginie.”
Pages 221 to 224 contain an account of the murder of the Logan family, supposedly by Colonel Cresap, with the speech of Logan,
sent to Lord Dunmore. The translation of this speech differs considerably from that in
Le Pour et le Contre
of Bridel, q.v. no. 4033. The last sentence reads: “qui reste-t-il pour pleurer ta mort? Personne”.
