Voyage Dans Les Parties Interieures de L'Amerique Septentrionale Pendant les annees 1766, 1767 & 1768

Author: Jonathan Carver (1710-1780)Year: 1784Publisher: Chez PissotPlace: ParisDescription: 451 pages with title page with printer's device, wood cut head and tail pieces and folding map. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in marbled stiff boards with red label to spine in gilt lettering. First French edition based on the third English edition, considered the best textually. Jonathan Carver was a Captain in a Massachusetts Colonial unit, explorer and writer. After his exploration of the  northern Mississippi valley and western Great Lakes Region, he published a widely read account of his expedition, Travels through America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (1778). Initially Carver was unable to find a sponsor for his proposed explorations but in 1766, Robert Rogers contracted Carver to lead an expedition to find a western water route to the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Passage.  There was a great incentive to discover this route. The king and Parliament had promised a vast prize in gold