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Lot 130:
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Histoire de Kentucke, nouvelle colonie a l’ouest de la Virginie. Paris: Buisson, 1785. First French edition of the first book on Kentucky, translated by J.-P. Parraud “with additions.” 8vo (about 8″ x 5″). [4], xvi, 234 pp., half-title, and the engraved folding “Carte de Kentucke,” the first Kentucky map published in France, with legend and cartouche engraved in French. Filson, a surveyor and one of the founders of Cincinnati, here prints the landmark Boone narrative (“Aventures du Colonel Daniel Boon…”) that helped establish Boone’s legend. This item can be shipped in-house. Multiple lot combined shipping may require 3rd Party shipping.
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