THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; Particularly Those Nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: Account of Origin, Language, Manners, Religious & Civil Customs, Laws [etc.] ... by Adair, James - 1775

London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. Complete title as follows: "The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic], East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: Containing An Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Forms of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and other Particulars, sufficient to render it A Complete Indian System. With Observations on former Historians, the Conduct of our Colony Governors, Superintendents, Missionaries, &c. Also An Appendix, containing A Description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi Lands, with their Productions--The Benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--And the way to make all the Colonies more valuable to the Mother Country. By James Adair, Esquire, A Trader with the Indians, and Resident in their Country for Forty Years." 276 mm x 210 mm. Gilt-ruled, contemporary tree-calf, 5 raised bands with gilt in the compartments, gilt-stamped red leather spine label, marbled endpapers, half-title, folding frontispiece map, pp. [x], 464. Lovely red and black shelf label from the Library of Dalton Hall (see photo). An exceptionally clean, very handsome, fresh copy. Sabin 155; Howes A-38: "Best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them.". First Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. Quarto.