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Bartram, WilliamTravels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy and the Country of the Choctaws. Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1791 8vo (195 x 115 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of “Mico Chulcco the Long Warrior” by J. Trenchard after Bartram, engraved folding map, 7 engraved plates of natural history specimens, one of which folding, early ink marginalia likely in the hand of Lawrence Washington; browning, foxing, and instances of staining, frontispiece creased, one plate with long closed tear and chip in upper margin, folding plate with tear to upper margin. Contemporary tree calf, gilt-lettered label to spine, front free endpaper with ownership inscription of Lawrence Washington; rubbed with some loss, joints weak with upper board nearly detached. In custom slipcase and folding chemise. First edition — Lawrence A. Washington's copy "The rare first edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much material on the southern Indian tribes. For the period, Bartram's work is unrivalled. He travelled several thousand miles through the Southeast in the years just prior to the American Revolution" (Celebration). The present copy bears the signature of Lawrence A. Washington, nephew of George Washington. PROVENANCELawrence Washington (inscription to front free endpaper) REFERENCECelebration of My Country 125; Evans 23159; Federal Hundred 33; Field 94; Howes B223 ("b"); Sabin 3870; Streeter sale 3:1088; Vail, Old Frontier 849