Item #100561 An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida. Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements. Thomas Hutchins.
An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida. Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements.
An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida. Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements.
An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida. Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements.

An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida. Comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Printed for the Author, and Sold by Robert Aitken, 1784. Softcover pamphlet with original front wrap (now detached and spotted). Lacks the blank rear wrap. 90,[1] pp. lacks the final two leaves (pp. 91-94), thus an incomplete copy. An excellent cadidate for a rebind, if so desired. Internal text quite clean, with only scattered tanning and foxing. Only the detached front wrapper is heavily spotted/stained. Overall a good copy, with the primary fault being the lacking leaves in rear.

One of the most valuable works on Florida and Louisiana in the Revolutionary period. Hutchins was an officer in the British Army during the French and Indian War who later surveyed the country along the Mississippi from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. During the Revolution Hutchins joined the American cause and served under Greene in the Carolinas, and later spent several years in West Florida in the area between New Orleans and Pensacola. He made a minute examination of its coast, harbors, lakes, and rivers, all reported in this accurate book. In 1781, Congress appointed him the "Geographer of the United States," the only person to ever hold that title. EVANS 18532. SABIN 34056. CLARK I:259. STREETER SALE 1521. SERVIES 608. VAIL 705. HOWES H845, "b." Item #100561

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