The Life of John Ledyard the American Traveller; comprising selections from his journals and correspondence.

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Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown 1828. 8vo. Orig. full old calf (spine extremities and corner points rubbed). (xii 326 pp.). Slight foxing. First edition published in America prior to the English edition produced in the same year. Beddie 4524. NOTE: Ledyard accompanied Capt. James Cook on his 3rd and final voyage when he was slain in Hawaii. A substantial portion of the text relates to Cook's third voyage and contains materials on Ledyard's narrative found nowhere else.