The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762)

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Lot 36 | The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762)
The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762)Henry Timberlake, 1765TIMBERLAKE, Henry (c.1730-1765). The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, (who accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762). London: W. Nicoll and C. Henderson, 1765. First edition of an important Tennessee book, "one of the few accounts of the French and Indian War in the southern colonies" (Struggle for North America), and "the earliest and one of the most historically significant works relative to the Cherokee Indians" (Allen). At the close of the French and Indian War, the Cherokee Chief Kanagatucko came to the British camp at Fort Robinson and made an overture of peace. Henry Timberlake volunteered to accompany the Cherokee forces back to their settlements at the request of Kanagatucko as proof of the end of hostilities. They traveled by canoe down the Holston and Little Tennessee rivers, stopping at the Cherokee towns of Tomotley, Echota, Citico, and Chilhowee, participating in ceremonies celebrating the peace—with so much pipe smoking that Timberlake became ill. The present work is Timberlake’s memoir of this journey, after which he accompanied several Cherokee leaders to London (see preceding lot). It includes an engraving of "A Curious secret Journal taken by the Indians out of the Pocket of a French Officer they had kill'd," as well as an important map, not issued with some later editions, showing the Little Tennessee River and the Cherokee towns along it. One of the most important extant sources for 18th-century Cherokee life and “a true rarity of Tennessee books and essential for any collection which touches on the French and Indian War” (ibid.). The Struggle for North America 69; Allen, Some Tennessee Rarities 1; Howes T-271 ("b"); Streeter sale 1619; Sabin 95836. Octavo (221 x 134mm). Folding plate, folding map (stub tear to map, also cropped close to border; some spots). Later calf backed boards. Slipcase. Provenance: Gordons of Cairnfield (armorial bookplate) – Charles R. Sanders, Jr. (Halifax County, VA book label).
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