Lot 118: NUTTALL, THOMAS

A Journal of Travels into the Arkansa Territory, during the Year 1819. With Occasional Observations on the Manners of the Aborigines. Philadelphia: Printed and Published by Thos. H. Palmer, 1821 8vo in half-sheets (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 216 x 133 mm). Folding frontispiece map after Nuttall by H. S. Tanner, 5 aquatint plates by F. Kearny; map with some fold separation, text lightly browned, erasure of small ink notation on lower portion of title. Spine renewed with original printed label laid down, mottled boards; some soiling.

American Imprints 6319; Buck, Illinois 124a; Clark, Old South 2:48; Field, Indian Bibliography 1145; Graff 3055; Howes N229; Jones 834; Rader 2494; Sabin 56348; Streeter 3:1597; Wagner-Camp 19a

Acquisition: MacManus Company

First edition. Nuttall was a recognized botanist who had travelled up the Missouri with John Bradbury nearly a decade earlier. The present Journal describes his explorations of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, as well as his encounters with the Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Osage peoples.