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(INDIANS.) Long, John. Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader. Double-page engraved map. 4to, contemporary calf, nicely rebacked

(INDIANS.) Long, John. Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader. Double-page engraved map. 4to, contemporary calf, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip; minor browning to the endpapers, offsetting to the map as usual; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (Earl Fitzwilliam). London, 1791

  • Notes: first edition. Includes the errata leaf and the list of subscribers and contains a vocabulary of the Chippewa language. "The author engaged in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1768, and journeyed as a fur trader among the Indians of Canada for nineteen years. His knowledge of the character, customs, and domestic life of the Indians was therefore the most thorough and intimate"--Field 946; Howes L443; Sabin 41878. nice wide-margined copy.

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