A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819
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A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819

Thomas Nuttall, 1821

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A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819
Thomas Nuttall, 1821
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786-1859). A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, During the Year 1819. With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines. Philadelphia: Thos. H. Palmer, 1821.

First edition. "The naturalist records in almost every chapter some incidents of his personal intercourse with the Chichasaw, Cherokee, and Osage Indians, then inhabiting the territory explored" (Sabin). Graff 3055; Howes N-229; Sabin 56348; Streeter sale 1597; Wagner-Camp 19a.

Octavo (218 x 134mm). Engraved folding map after Nuttall by H.S. Tanner (some offsetting) and five aquatint plates by F. Kearny (heavily browned). Contemporary calf (rebacked, old spine laid down, scraped, corners showing). Provenance: William Harrison (armorial bookplate).

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