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Lot 304: BARTRAM, JOHN

Est: $6,000 USD - $8,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 13, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions...in his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the Lake Ontario ... London: Printed for J. Whiston and B. White, 1751

8vo (7 1/4 x 4 `/4 in.; 185 x 110 mm). Engraved folding plan; neat repair to tear in left margin of plan, title-page soiled. Full calf paneled gilt; rebacked original spine laid down, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; traces of bookplate on front free endpaper.

Artist or Maker

Literature

Church 977; Field 92; Howes B222; Wroth, Mirror of the Indian 49; Wroth, Colonial Scene, p. 67; Sabin 3868; Staton and Tremaine 186

Provenance

Gowen Bonawit (bookplate)

Auction Details

Fine Books & Manuscripts

by
Sotheby's
December 13, 2011, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US