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(i) [ENGEL, Samuel.] Essai sur cette question: quand et comment l'Amérique a-t-elle été peuplée d'hommes at d'animaux, Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1767, 5 volumes, 12° (lacking 2 preliminaries in volume V, library marks, including title perforations, occasional dampstains), contemporary calf (worn). [Sabin 22568: "The author declares the theories of Grotius, De Laet, Hornius, and other writers on the origins of the Americans untenable -- that America was peopled (before the Deluge) by a race superior to the present -- that the Deluge did not extend to America, and that the principle theories of the Deluge are erroneous ... He gives his own theories on all these points, as well as upon many others of equally high interest"] Provenance: E. Dufosse, Paris (blind stamp on titles); JCL
(ii) CREVECOUR, Michel Gullaume St. Jean de. Letters from an American Farmer ... by J. Hector St. John, London: Thomas Davis & Lockyer Davis, 1782, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved maps (both stamped on verso, lacking half title, slight tear to outer margin of title, and small stamp at foot of imprint, other library marks on title verso and at foot of A3, spotting, occasionally heavy), later cloth, ex John Crerar Library. [Cox II, p. 155: "His pictures of American life induced many colonists to emigrate to the New World"; Sabin 17496]
(iii) SMYTH, John Ferdinand Dalziel (1754-1814). A Tour in the United States of America, London: G. Robinson, J. Robinson and J. Sewell, 1784, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (half title lacking in vol. I, vol. II with block broken at N1, M8 detached, U4v and U5r stained at upper margin, final leaves slightly in-stained at outer margin, title perforation and other library marks to both vols.), contemporary sheep (worn). [Cox II, p. 158: "a very important work containing many interesting details concerning Virginia, Maryland, the two Carolinas, Louisiana, Florida, etc."; Sabin 85254] Provenance: JCL
(iv) DAVIS, John. Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, London: by R. Edwards, Bristol, for T. Ostell [and others], 1803, 8°, FIRST EDITION (library marks, including perforation to title, block broken at p. 7, some soiling, staining and browning, particularly to title and preliminaries), old boards (crudely rebacked in buckram), uncut [Cox II, p. 178; Sabin 18851] Provenance: Lyle King, Chicago, July '75 (title inscription); H. D. Chapin, Chicago (bookseller's label); JCL
(v) WILLIAMSON, Hugh. Observations on the climate in different parts of America, New York: T. & J. Swords, 1811, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, 2 woodcut plans (some heavy browning and spotting), blue cloth, ex John Crerar Library [Sabin 104451]
(vi) DRAKE, Daniel. Natural and statistical view or picture of Cincinnati and the Miami country, Cincinnati: by Looker and Wallace, 1815, 12°, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved maps (both browned and with tears along folds, text also browned, title perforation and other stamps), blue library cloth. [Sabin 20822] Provenance: Durrett Collection (UCL label)
With 2 other works by Samuel R. Brown and M. F. Maury. (13)
(ii) CREVECOUR, Michel Gullaume St. Jean de. Letters from an American Farmer ... by J. Hector St. John, London: Thomas Davis & Lockyer Davis, 1782, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved maps (both stamped on verso, lacking half title, slight tear to outer margin of title, and small stamp at foot of imprint, other library marks on title verso and at foot of A3, spotting, occasionally heavy), later cloth, ex John Crerar Library. [Cox II, p. 155: "His pictures of American life induced many colonists to emigrate to the New World"; Sabin 17496]
(iii) SMYTH, John Ferdinand Dalziel (1754-1814). A Tour in the United States of America, London: G. Robinson, J. Robinson and J. Sewell, 1784, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION (half title lacking in vol. I, vol. II with block broken at N1, M8 detached, U4v and U5r stained at upper margin, final leaves slightly in-stained at outer margin, title perforation and other library marks to both vols.), contemporary sheep (worn). [Cox II, p. 158: "a very important work containing many interesting details concerning Virginia, Maryland, the two Carolinas, Louisiana, Florida, etc."; Sabin 85254] Provenance: JCL
(iv) DAVIS, John. Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America, London: by R. Edwards, Bristol, for T. Ostell [and others], 1803, 8°, FIRST EDITION (library marks, including perforation to title, block broken at p. 7, some soiling, staining and browning, particularly to title and preliminaries), old boards (crudely rebacked in buckram), uncut [Cox II, p. 178; Sabin 18851] Provenance: Lyle King, Chicago, July '75 (title inscription); H. D. Chapin, Chicago (bookseller's label); JCL
(v) WILLIAMSON, Hugh. Observations on the climate in different parts of America, New York: T. & J. Swords, 1811, 8° in 4's, FIRST EDITION, 2 woodcut plans (some heavy browning and spotting), blue cloth, ex John Crerar Library [Sabin 104451]
(vi) DRAKE, Daniel. Natural and statistical view or picture of Cincinnati and the Miami country, Cincinnati: by Looker and Wallace, 1815, 12°, FIRST EDITION, 2 folding engraved maps (both browned and with tears along folds, text also browned, title perforation and other stamps), blue library cloth. [Sabin 20822] Provenance: Durrett Collection (UCL label)
With 2 other works by Samuel R. Brown and M. F. Maury. (13)