Description
with a description of the Whole Course of the Former, and of the Ohio
by J.C. Beltrami
Two volumes
London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke; 1828
xxiii, 472 pp.; 545 pp.
Illus. with engraved frontis, 3 plates
Lacks 2 folding plans and folding map of the Mississippi
Size: 5 3/4 by 8 3/4"
Original embossed cloth
Very good condition (lacks maps), minor wear of binding, some foxing
Text in English
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Giacomo Costantino Beltrami was a naturalist and explorer who left Italy for Europe after a period of political persecution, then journeyed to America where he traveled from Pittsburgh down the Ohio and up the Mississippi to Ft. Anthony; then to Canada, down the Red River, across to the Missouri and down the Mississippi to New Orleans. For a while he had joined up with an expedition led by Major Stephen Long in 1823 but left to travel again on his own after relations with Long soured. Vol. II. is "almost entirely devoted to the author’s travels among the North-western Indians, of whom he gives some novel particulars. The narrations of what he witnessed are tinged with the peculiar glow of the author’s temperament.
Beltrami must have moved in a gigantic world, if he saw external objects through the same media with which he viewed his own person and accomplishments," Field, Indian Bibliography, p. 28.
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1828 PILGRIMAGE in EUROPE & AMERICA MISSISSIPPI OHIO antique 2 VOLS by BELTRAMI
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