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A TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN TERRITORY OF NORTH AMERICA; containing a succinct account of the climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners and customs, with an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned, to which is added The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucky and an essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country by John Filson. To which is added I. The adventures of Col. Daniel Boon . II. The Minutes of the Piankshaw Council . III. An account of the Indian Nations inhabiting within the thirteen United States . Illustrated with correct maps of the Western Territory of North America, of the State of Kentucky, divide d in counties. Map in front of book is 14X16 inches in very good condition. I have seen this map cut out sold separately for more than I'm selling this entire book and its the third edition which is much enlarged with more information and the essay by John Filson.Published by J Debrett, LONDON Clark notes: "An early account of the western country is contained in this little volume, which was produced by a man who left Kentucky without settling his obligations, who seems to have been involved in efforts to organize a French expedition to take the lower Mississippi Valley, and who treated Mary Wollstonecraft shamelessly." James St. Clair, in his The Godwins and the Shelleys details the affair between the author and Mary Wollstonecraft. They met at the home of American poet and diplomat Joel Barlow. "Captain Imlay -as he called himself- was European agent of the Scioto Land Company of Ohio and with Barlow was marketing the attractions of the new world . Aged forty-one when Mary met him in 1793, he was an exotic and mysterious figure. He had fought as an officer in the American War of Independence and was full of stories of his past life, Mary probably knew that he was now advising the French on their plans for an armed seizure of the Mississippi Valley, perhaps as a secret agent of the United States Government. . In his Topographical History . he described in the language of the new philosophy a simple rustic way of life still free from the fetters which priestcraft had forged for the human mind . For several months Mary's affair with Imlay thrived. With the downfall of the Girondin Party, however everything changed. Many of Mary's French friends went to the guillotine . Tom Paine, Helen Maria Williams, and other members of the group were thrown into prison. . As a citizen of the United States, Gilbert Imlay was exempt from the new restrictions. He turned to business . In order that Mary could stay with him in France he registered her name with the American counsel as "Mrs. Imlay . in 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to a daughter whom they named Frances"[pp. 159-60]. In the summer of 1795, Wollstonecraft traveled to the Scandanavian countries on business for Imlay, but upon her return to meet him in London, it was obvious that he did not mean to continue the relationship. Writing a letter to friends with instructions about Fanny, Wollstonecraft attemped suicide. A year later she met William Godwin.This work includes original narratives and the entire work of Filson and Hutchins, as well as notes on Daniel Boone and numerous descriptions of Indians. Second edition, with considerable additions.(as described so well by Second Books in Massachusetts)THIS IS THE FIRST EDITION WHICH INCLUDES FILSON'S DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF KENTUCKY AND ALL ITS GLORY AS WELL. THERE IS AN AMERICAN EDITION BY CAMPBELL IN THIS YEAR AS WELL .THIS BOOK IS BOUND IN ITS ORIGINAL BOARDS AND IS TIGHTLY BOUND, INTERIOR CLEAN AND MAPS AND CHARTS ARE ALL INTACT AS CAN BE SEEN FROM THE PHOTOS I INCLUDE HERE. THIS IS A GREAT COPY INDEED! ITS PRICED FAIRLY TOO !THIS IS EX LIBRIS.WHEN ONE UNFOLDS THE HEAVY COTTON FIBER MAP OF NORTH AMERICA IT IS A SIGHT TO BEHOLD IN ITS CLEAN CRISP DETAILS AND ITS MEANING OF THE UNFOLDING OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL POSSIBILITIES OF OUR NEW REPUBLIC WITH ... read more

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