Field 94-96; Howes B223; Sabin 3870; (Streeter 1088) - Insightful record of the author's extensive travels in the territories of the Creek, Cherokee and Choctaw Indians as far west as the Mississippi River. The author had great interest in the Indians and with white fur traders, and the narrative abounds in descriptions of forest life and the customs and manners of various tribes. Streeter, citing the 1791 Philadelphia edition, calls the work a "classic of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. Bartram's account of the remote frontier, of the plantations, trading posts, and Indian villages at the end of the eighteenth century is unrivaled." Howe says it is "a work of high character well meriting its wide esteem," and Field opines that Bartram "neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge." The plates include depictions of plants and two of a great soft-shelled tortoise; the map shows the coast of Florida from above St. Augustine to Cape Canaveral. First published in Philadelphia in 1791; this Irish edition has the same collation and plates as the first English edition of 1792. The present copy has no frontispiece, and while there is none called for in the list of plates at end, Howes and other sources note its presence. With the bookplates of Otto Oren Fisher and Jeffrey Norton.