TAYLOR, G. A Voyage to North America, Perform'd by G. Taylor, of Sheffield [England], In the Years 1768, and 1769...The Author's Manner of trading with the Indians...with his Journey...from New- York, to Quebec...His setting Sail from Philadelphia to New Orleans, in West Florida, up the River Mississippi, to the Illinois, and down from Fort Chartres, over the Ohio River, through the Cherokee, Chicksaw, and Chactaw Indians Settlements...to St. Augustine in East Florida, from thence by Land to Georgia...and to Philadelphia again; with a particular Account of the...Inhabitants in each Settlement...Nottingham: Printed by S. Creswell for the Author 1771. 8vo, modern half tan calf and marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title-page in skillful facsimile, marginal repairs (a blank corner on each) to first contents leaf and last two leaves, last page soiled. | Christie's

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TAYLOR, G. A Voyage to North America, Perform'd by G. Taylor, of Sheffield [England], In the Years 1768, and 1769...The Author's Manner of trading with the Indians...with his Journey...from New- York, to Quebec...His setting Sail from Philadelphia to New Orleans, in West Florida, up the River Mississippi, to the Illinois, and down from Fort Chartres, over the Ohio River, through the Cherokee, Chicksaw, and Chactaw Indians Settlements...to St. Augustine in East Florida, from thence by Land to Georgia...and to Philadelphia again; with a particular Account of the...Inhabitants in each Settlement...Nottingham: Printed by S. Creswell for the Author 1771. 8vo, modern half tan calf and marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title-page in skillful facsimile, marginal repairs (a blank corner on each) to first contents leaf and last two leaves, last page soiled.

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TAYLOR, G. A Voyage to North America, Perform'd by G. Taylor, of Sheffield [England], In the Years 1768, and 1769...The Author's Manner of trading with the Indians...with his Journey...from New- York, to Quebec...His setting Sail from Philadelphia to New Orleans, in West Florida, up the River Mississippi, to the Illinois, and down from Fort Chartres, over the Ohio River, through the Cherokee, Chicksaw, and Chactaw Indians Settlements...to St. Augustine in East Florida, from thence by Land to Georgia...and to Philadelphia again; with a particular Account of the...Inhabitants in each Settlement...Nottingham: Printed by S. Creswell for the Author 1771. 8vo, modern half tan calf and marbled boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, title-page in skillful facsimile, marginal repairs (a blank corner on each) to first contents leaf and last two leaves, last page soiled.

FIRST EDITION. "One of the earliest English books advocating prairie settlement" -- Howes T48 (a "b" rating); Streeter sale II, 824; De Renne, p. 198; Field 1533; Sabin 94457. Rare: no copy having sold at auction, according to ABPC, since the Streeter copy in 1967.