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Carvers Voyages to the Interior of America 1786

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Title: Voyage dans les Parties Interieures de L'Amerique Septentrionale, Pendant les années 1766, 1767 & 1768.
Author: Carver, Jonathan
Description: 24, xxviii, 451 pp. Folding copper-engraved map. (8vo) 7¾x4¾, contemporary quarter calf with gilt stamped lettering piece on spine, all edges stained red. First French Edition.The first French edition, taken from the third English edition, considered the best textually. The French edition is enhanced by a very handsome printing of the Carver map, showing the area of the headwaters of the Mississippi, extending north well into Canada, and west as far as the Dakotas. Carver went farther west than any explorer of the Northwest before the Revolution, and although his aim was the mythical Northwest Passage, he added considerably to geographical knowledge. He also acted as a catalyst to the later explorations of Mackenzie and Lewis and Clark, and his narrative is in many ways a starting point in the literature of western exploration. The map is the first map to use the name "Oregon," applied to a western lake and river. Howes C215; Field 251; Sabin 11188.
Heading: Place Published: Paris
Publisher: Chez Pissot
Date Published: 1784