first edition, 12mo, folding plan of Fort Oswego, [2] [i] - viii, [9] - 94 pp., re-bound in 1/2 blue morocco and marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, some minor scuffing to edges of binding, text very clean and bright, otherwise fine. The jou rnal of the eminent American naturalist John Bartram, kept during his travels from July 3, to August 19, 1743, through Pennsylvania into the Indian country of New York, as far as Oswego and Lake George. Bartram traveled in the company of Lewis Evans , the cartographer, and Conrad Weiser, to hold a conference with the Iroquois. Bartram's journal contains detailed descriptions of both the country traversed and of Indian life. The plan of Fort Oswego also includes a plan of an Iroquois long house. In addition to the journal, the work includes a letter from Peter Kalm to Bartram, describing Niagra. According to Field, "This visit. to the Central Council Fire of the Six nations, is especially interesting, not only as having been made at so e arly a date, but for affording us in this work a plan and view of the Long House, peculiar to the tribes of that Confederacy." A rare and important work. Church 977; Field 92; Howes B-222; Sabin 3868; Siebert Sale 152; Streeter Sale 869; Wroth, Mirr or of the Indian 49, Wroth, Colonial Scene, p. 67.