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[NATIVE AMERICANS]. ADAIR, James (1709-1783). The History of the American Indians; Particularly Those Nations Adjoining the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia… London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. 4to. With folding engraved map (“A Map of the American Indian Nations…”) inserted at front. [xii], [1]-464 pp. Approximately 10 3 / 8 x 8 1 / 8”. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, rebacked in early calf with 2 black gilt morocco lettering labels (spine sunned and worn, binding worn, soiled, front joint starting, hinges cracked, a few gutters overopened, a few short marginal tears to map, gutter facing p. 455 cracked and last signature a bit loose, some foxing in text, previous owner’s signature (John Allen) on title-page). Good. FIRST EDITION. The “best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them” (Howes). The author “is usually considered by modern writers to be the leading authority of his day on the Indians of the Southeast” (Clark). Howes A38. Sabin 155.