The Discoveries of John Lederer
With unpublished letters by and about Lederer to Governor John Winthrop, Jr. and an Essay on the Indians of Lederer's Discoveries by Douglas L. Rights and William P. Cumming Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1958.
First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xii, 148 pages. Illustrations. Folding map. Light blue paper covered boards with gilt lettered title on dark blue spine. Map illustrated end papers. Paper lightly worn and light faded on the front cover. Lederer's discoveries was originally published in London 1671. John Lederer had led three explorations onto the interior of lower Virginia in 1670. From the preface, "John Lederer was the first European to explore the Piedmont and the Blue Ridge Mountains and to leave a record of his discoveries. He helped to open the great Indian Trading Path toward the southwest for the fur traders of Virginia; he empressed upon the geographers of Europe a striking if at erroneous conception of the Southeast; and he gave a valuable commentary on the Indian tribes encountered during his travels." Good +. Item #18684
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