Johnathan Carver

The third and best edition of Travels through the Interior Parts of North America by Jonathan Carver.

• Jonathan Carver (American).
• Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 … To which is added, Some Account of the Author and a copious Index.
• London: C. Dilly, H. Payne, and J. Phillips, 1781.
• Octavo.
• [24], xvi, 543, [21] pages.
• 2 folding engraved maps, finely colored in outline; engraved portrait of the author, five engraved plates (four colored).
• Modern paneled calf, red morocco label, red morocco backed clamshell box.

Carver penetrated further West than any other pre-Revolutionary explorer in his search for a Northwest Passage, mapping several tributaries of the Mississippi, and making many observations of flora and fauna, and Indigenous tribes, which were to prove useful to later explorers. His frontier experiences in Minnesota and Wisconsin have, according to Vail, “been accepted as one of the earliest and best accounts of pioneer days in this region.” And although Carver's mission proved abortive, his book excited an intense curiosity later satisfied by Mackenzie and Lewis & Clark. This edition includes a biography of the author, the index, and a colored plate of the tobacco plant not present in earlier editions.