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(KENTUCKY.) Filson, John. Histoire de Kentucke, Nouvelle Colonie a l'Ouest de la Virginie.
(KENTUCKY.) Filson, John. Histoire de Kentucke, Nouvelle Colonie a l'Ouest de la Virginie. Folding map with short tear just touching neatline. 8vo, contemporary calf; recased, original free endpapers laid on to new marbled endpapers, half-title attached with tape, unobtrusive marginal worm holes in lower right corner throughout; bookplate on front pastedown. Paris, 1785
- Notes: first french edition, translated from the 1784 Delaware edition with additions. Featuring important passages on the Shawnees, and a chapter titled "Aventures du Colonel Daniel Boon, contenant la Relation des Guerres de Kentucke." "The first history of Kentucky. It contains the first map of Kentucky and probably the first account of Daniel Boone"--Clark II:27. Church 1212; Field 537; Howes F129; Sabin 24338.
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