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Painter, b. 1739 - d. 1823

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    • Rare Book: Bartram's Southern Travels
      Feb. 10, 2023

      Rare Book: Bartram's Southern Travels

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      Rare Book: Bartram's Southern Travels published London 1792, by William Bartram (1739-1823) "Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws" printed by J. Johnson, with engraved frontispiece, fold-out map and 7 plates (one folding) contemporary half leather over marbleized boards Provenance: Dr. & Mrs. C.G. Hopper, Jr. Collection

      Charlton Hall
    • Amerika - Nordamerika - - Bartram, William. Reisen durch Nord- u. Süd-Karol
      Jun. 03, 2016

      Amerika - Nordamerika - - Bartram, William. Reisen durch Nord- u. Süd-Karol

      Est: €300 - €450

      Amerika - Nordamerika - - Bartram, William. Reisen durch Nord- u. Süd-Karolina, Georgien, Ost- und West-Florida, das Gebiet der Tscherokesen, Krihks und Tschaktahs, nebst umständlichen Nachrichten von den Einwohnern, dem Boden und den Naturprodukten dieser wenig bekannten großen Länder. Aus dem Englischen. Mit erläuternden Anmerkungen von E.A.W. Zimmermann. Mit 8 (1 gefalteten) gestochenen Tafeln. (Berlin, Voß, 1793.) XXVI, 469 (recte 501) S. 19 x 11,5 cm. Halblederband im Stil der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und reicher Rückenvergoldung. (Magazin von merkwürdigen neuen Reisebeschreibungen, Band 10). - Erste deutsche Ausgabe. - Sabin 3872 - Engelmann 109 und 183 - Pritzel 447. - Die Tafeln überwiegend mit Abbildungen von Pflanzen. - Ohne Haupt- und Reihentitel, Vortitel vorhanden. Dekorativ gebunden.

      Nosbüsch & Stucke GmbH
    • BARTRAM, WILLIAM. 1739-1823. Travels through North
      Dec. 10, 2014

      BARTRAM, WILLIAM. 1739-1823. Travels through North

      Est: -

      BARTRAM, WILLIAM. 1739-1823. Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws.... Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson, 1791.

      Bonhams
    • BARTRAM, WILLIAM. 1739-1823. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James
      Dec. 02, 2010

      BARTRAM, WILLIAM. 1739-1823. Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James

      Est: $5,000 - $7,000

      Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791. [4], xxxiv, [2 blank], 522 pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of "Mico Chlucco, King of the Siminoles," folding map, and 7 plates (1 of which is folding). 8vo (200 x 115 mm). Period sheep, red morocco lettering-piece. Custom slipcase and chemise. Some browning and offsetting, title-page and a plate re-hinged, bound a bit tight, rebacked with original spine laid down. FIRST EDITION, A CLASSIC OF SOUTHERN FRONTIER LITERATURE. "Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions" (Sabin). Written by the naturalist William Bartram, this work details plant and animal life as well as frontier and Indian cultures. Its lyrical style proved influential to writers such as Samuel Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Bartram wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world ... he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge" (Field). Clark I:197; De Renne, p 250; Evans 23159; Field 94; Howes B223; Pilling Iroquoian p 10; Pilling Muskhogean pp 6-7; Sabin 3870; Servies 669; Streeter sale 1088; Vail 849. Acquisition: purchased from William Reese Company, 1992, $5,400.

      Bonhams
    • Bartram, William
      Oct. 05, 2007

      Bartram, William

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confereracy, and the Country of the Choctaws. Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791; London: Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 210 x 133 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mico Chtucco, engraved folding map of the coast of East Florida, 7 engraved plates (one folding); light foxing and browning. Contemporary calf gilt; worn, spine and endleaves renewed.

      Sotheby's
    • BARTRAM, William (1729-1823). Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West
      Jun. 21, 2005

      BARTRAM, William (1729-1823). Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West

      Est: $12,000 - $18,000

      BARTRAM, William (1729-1823). Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791. 8 o (202 x 118 mm). Engraved folding map of the coast of East Florida and 8 plates, one folding. (Some foxing and browning.) Contemporary sheep, gilt-ruled on spine, red morocco lettering piece (some wear to extremities, some slight gnawing to lower corners at center). Provenance: Thomas L. Savage (near-contemporary signature on title). FIRST EDITION of Bartram's classic book on the Southern frontier. William Bartram was the son of the noted botanist John Bartram, and his book details plant and animal life, as well as aspects of various Indian cultures. The pastoral quality of Bartram's prose was a great influence on Coleridge, Wordsworth and Emerson. Unlike his father John Bartram, William Bartram benefited from a rigorous education at the Philadelphia Academy. Unsuccessful at business, he gave up Philadelphia life in 1761 and moved to North Carolina to live with his father's half-brother who owned a trading post at Cape Fear. "When John Bartram was appointed botanist to King George III in 1765, he invited his son to join him on a year-long collecting trip in Florida, which had come under British control in 1763 and then extended as far west as the Mississippi River and as far north as the thirty-first parallel" (ANB). The trip, focused primarily on the St. Johns River, inspired William Bartram to become an explorer-naturalist His later southern travels were carried out without a predetermined goal or set of expectations. His primary purpose was to collect and ship to England new species of plants, but his interests were broad, and he recorded very comprehensive observations of the region and its peoples. His comments on the Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole tribes are particularly valuable. Bartram visited the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida, returning to many of the sites he had visited with his father in 1765 and 1766. He also traveled inland, across present-day Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, eventually reaching as far west as Point Coupee, north of Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River. Along the Gulf Coast he contracted a near-fatal illness that left him severely weakened and partially blind. His book, based on his diaries, was first published in Philadelphia in 1791, making it the first serious work on American natural history published in post-Revolutionary America (see ANB). Numerous editions in a variety of languages followed, including that in French offered as the following lot. Clark Old South 197; Evans 23159; Field 94; Howes B-223; Sabin 3870; Streeter II:1088; Vail 849. A VERY FINE COPY OF A BOOK OFTEN FOUND IN WORN CONDITION.

      Christie's
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