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Stapled Paper. Etat : Good. Thirteenth. Light wear, overall clean and solid. Small bit of sticker residue to front.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hard cover red cloth bds, small bump and closed tear to spine tip otherwse VG, no dust jacket, gilt titles, lib. no. to base of spine, lib. sticker to front pastedown and barcode to btm of ffep, lib. label to title verso, contents fine and tight, seem unread, pp460 + index pges to rear.…

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 760 pages. 8.27x5.83x1.72 inches. In Stock.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Bon. 1 volume pleine basane fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre de cuir beige, XX et 496 pages, avec une grande carte gravée dépliante (una mapa plegado). Notre exemplaire est incomplet du frontispice et des 3 gravures (el frontispicio y las 3 grabados faltan). Rare édition irlandaise (Edición irlandesa). Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ). …

Leather Bound. First Irish Edition. pp. [10], xiii, 508. 8vo., measuring 5" x 8". An attractive copy rebound in tasteful period-style, quarter, tan-leather over plain gray boards, gilt rules and lettering over maroon spine label; five blind-stamped rules, six compartments. Complete with both copper-engraved plates present, as called for in Sabine; the first depicting "The Falls of St. Anthony", and, the second, illustrating Indigenous weapons of war, and an Indigenous peace pipe. Lacking the map which has been neatly excised. Light edgewear, expected faint occasional foxing, circular mark to the upper-margin of pages 41-45 (entirely unaffecting legibilty of the text), otherwise, text-block remains overwhelmingly bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding. Originally published by Walter & Crowder, 1778., our offering is the Second Edition, and the First Irish Edition of this enormously popular work of travel and exploration, and which would see over thirty separate iterations printed in the ensuing years. Sabine 11184 (pp. 382); Howes C-215. Setting out from present-day Mackinaw City, Michigan in the spring of 1766 with the intention of discovering the long-sought North-West Passage, Carver's work is a most remarkable recounting of the author's expedition deep into the heart of North America, complete with vivid descriptions of the natural landscapes, the rivers and falls, and the myriad natural resources ripe for exploitation with references to rich deposits of metals, furs, and lumber; with a further exposition of the potential "probability of the Interior Parts of North America becoming commercial Colonies", and the "means by which this might be effected", a "Dissertation on the Discovery of the North-West Passage", and "The most certain way of attaining it". Indeed, it has also been posited that it is one of the first works, if not the first, to make reference to the Rocky Mountains. Moreover, it would serve as an indispensable, early, written account, of European contact with the Indigenous inhabitants of North America. Indeed, Carver's book would and does serve as a rich source of a European's observations of the numerous Indigenous groups he would encounter on his travels including vital anthropological accounts of their customs as recorded in: "Manners, Qualifications, of the Indians", "Peculiar Customs of the [Indigenous] women", "The Circumspect and Stoical Disposition of the Men", "The Liberality of the Indians, and their Opinion Respecting Money", "Their Method of Reckoning Time, etc., and the names by which they distinguish the Months", "Their Idea of the Use of Figures", "Of Their Government", "Their Division of Tribes", "The Chiefs of their Bands", "Of their Feasts", "Their Usual Foods", "Their Manner of Dressing and Eating their Victuals", and much, much else. A remarkable travelogue, indeed.…

8vo. Plena piel de época; lomo con nervios, título gofrado; cantos gofrados. Cabeza del lomo rozada.xx, 496 pp; Frontispicio y 3 grabados en cobre fuera texto; un mapa plegado.Edición irlandesa, muy poco común. Comparada con la edición londinense las ilustraciones han sido regrabadas en escala menor y reducidas en número a cinco. Palau erróneamente enumera 6 grabados, el contenido correcto es: (1) CHARLES the III. KING of SPAIN &C. / In the Robes of the New Order of Carlos Tercero. / from the Original Picture of Antonio Velazquez. Frontispiece. Esdall Sculp. 161 x 97 mm. (2) Osa Palmera Myrmecophaga Jubata, Lynn. / The GREAT ANT BEAR - from BUENOS AYRES. P.80 165 x 98 mm. (3) The CRESTED FALCON from the CARRACAS, / alive in 1778, in the Menagerie of Buen Retiro at Madrid. p.84 156 x 97 mm. (4) CATHEDRAL OF BURGOS. / AA. Steeples at the principal Front. B. Tower in the Centre, with eight Pinnacles, & the figure of Santiago. C. Chaplet of the Condestable DD. Archbishops Palace. P.132 Esdall Sculp. 101 x 168 mm. (5) NEW MAP / OF / SPAIN. / Intended for TRAVELS into SPAIN &c. / By JOHN TALBOT DILLON, / Knight & Baron of the Sacred Roman Empire. 295 x 345 mm. Pamplona - Alcalá de Henares - Madrid - Segovia - Burgos - Toledo - Bilbao - Mérida - Sevilla - Málaga - Granada - Córdoba - Cádiz - Alicante - Valencia - Barcelona. Robertson (1975) pp.141 -146 & (1988) pp.129 - 133. Foulché-Delbosc 178 B. Santos Madrazo pp.811 - 812. Farinelli II pp.280 & 344. Palau 73 959. García-Romeral: Viajeros Siglo XVIII 202.…