Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale divisée en quatre tomes : contenant le voyage du Fort de Nelson, dans la Baye d'Hudson, à l'extrémité de l'Amérique, le premier établissement des Français dans ce vaste païs, la prise dudit Fort de Nelson, la description du Fleuve de saint Laurent, le gouvernement de Quebec, des trois Rivières & de Montreal, depuis 1534 jus qu'à 1701. (First edition of volumes 1 and 2.)
by Bacqueville de la Potherie, Claude-Charles; aka Claude-Charles Le Roy de la Potherie [1663-1736)
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Paris: Jean Luc Nion et François Didot, 1722. 12mo. 8.5 x 16cm. Volumes 1 and 2 of 4, Contemporary calf with wear on edges... 1 cm. hole on frontispiece, tears without loss on a few plates. References: Wright Howes, The Final Edition, no. 23; Howes B23; Field 66; Lande 21; European Americana 722/10; Sabin 2692; TPL 131 (1753 edition); Streeter sale I:120; Rich, I., 31; Boucher VI., 22; Siebert sale 11; Graff 133; Bell B2; OCLC 890840289 (scanned copy only); Jones 413; Leclerc 98; Brunet 28506. .........Deux tomes reliés en un volume. 9 x16 cm. Frontispice-(14)-370-(4); (2)-carte dépliante-356-(7) pages. Plein veau d'époque, dos 5 nerfs, pièce de titre rouge, caissons ornés. . Intérieur manipulé, avec quelques cahiers avec mouillure claire marginale. Un petit trou au centre du frontispice du tome 1. Notre exemplaire contient: Tome 1: 1 frontispice, 11 gravures simples, 4 gravures dépliantes dont deux avec déchirures et manques, 2 cartes. Tome 2: une carte, 3 gravures simples et une dépliante.
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- Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale divisée en quatre tomes : contenant le voyage du Fort de Nelson, dans la Baye d'Hudson, à l'extrémité de l'Amérique, le premier établissement des Français dans ce vaste païs, la prise dudit Fort de Nelson, la description du Fleuve de saint Laurent, le gouvernement de Quebec, des trois Rivières & de Montreal, depuis 1534 jus qu'à 1701. (First edition of volumes 1 and 2.)
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- Bacqueville de la Potherie, Claude-Charles; aka Claude-Charles Le Roy de la Potherie [1663-1736)
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- Paris: Jean Luc Nion et François Didot, 1722
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