[Rarebooks] FS: HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, 1775, with Map

[Charles Agvent]

ADAIR, James. THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; PARTICULARLY THOSE 
NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, 
SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA: Containing an Account of their 
Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of 
Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, Their Habits, 
Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and Other 
Particulars, Sufficient to Render It a Complete Indian System. With 
Observations on Former Historians, the Conduct of Our Colony Governors, 
Superintendents, Missionaries, Etc Also an Appendix Containing a 
Description of the Floridas and the Mississippi Lands, with Their 
Productions; the Benefits of Colonizing Georgiana and Civilizing the 
Indians; and the Way to Make All the Colonies More Valuable to the 
Mother Country. With a New Map of the Country Referred to in the 
History. London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First Edition. Quarto 
(8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in contemporary calf rebacked with the original 
spine with a new gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, the 
original label loosely laid in; [xii], 464, [2, ads] pages. Complete 
with half title and the engraved folding map. GRAFF 10; HOWES A-38 
("Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by 
one who traded forty years with them"); SABIN 155 James Adair was a 
frontiersman and fur trader who lived among the Catawba, Chickasaw, and 
Cherokee for forty years, gathering first-hand information about the 
customs of these Indian tribes. He was one of the first white settlers 
to explore the Alleghenies. Bookplates of Lucy Foster and Francis Bayard 
Rives on front pastedown and endpaper, respectively. Contents clean with 
minor toning; some rubbing to joints. Near Fine. (#021559)        $3,500

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