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A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending Above Four Thousand Miles Between New France and New Mexico, with a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants and Animals: Also The Manners, Customs, and Languages, of the several Native Indians; And the Advantage of Commerce with those different Nations. With a Continuation: Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur De la Salle upon the Mines of St. Barbe, &c. The Taking of Quebec by the English; With the Advantages of a Shorter Cut to China and Japan
by Louis Hennepin (1626-1704)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
2 volumes in one. [xx]+engraved title-page+folding map+355 pages with frontispiece, folding maps and folding plates. [xxvi]+folding map+178 pages with folding plates. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in attractive later red morocco with five raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine, edges in gilt. (Graff 1862; Howes H-416; Lande 423; Pforzheimer 461; Sabin 31371; Streeter J106; Thwaite, 1903 edition, p.xlii; Wing H1450) First English edition.
The "Bon" issue (with the first line of the printers on the title-page ending in "Bon-"). This work includes A Continuation of the New Discovery bound at the end with separate title-page and pagination, but with continuous signatures.
One of the most important 17th-century accounts of the upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions. Louis Hennepin, Rene Robert Cavelier and Sieur de la Salle established Fort Crevecouer in Peoria, Illinois, and explored the upper Mississippi River before being captured by the Sioux. Hennepin reached St. Anthony's Falls (near present-day Minneapolis, Minnesota) on a hunting expedition with the Sioux, which was the farthest a European man had traveled into the Northwest Territory at the time. Hennepin wrote his account of the journey in 1682 after being rescued by French voyager Daniel De Lhut and provides the first eye-witness account and first published views of Niagara falls. Despite Hennepin's plagiarism of Le Clercq's Etablissement de la foy, Hennepin's works still provide "invaluable contributions to the sources of American history; they deserve study" (Thwaite).
Condition: Some minor spotting; maps with some minor soiling and tears (some with repairs) and one backed in linen, slight rubbing to joints and extremities, a few minor scuffs to sides. Provenance: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer with his bookplate, (sold Bloomsbury, 20 November 2009, lot 84). A very good copy.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E0842
- Title
- A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending Above Four Thousand Miles Between New France and New Mexico, with a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants and Animals: Also The Manners, Customs, and Languages, of the several Native Indians; And the Advantage of Commerce with those different Nations. With a Continuation: Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur De la Salle upon the Mines of St. Barbe, &c. The Taking of Quebec by the English; With the Advantages of a Shorter Cut to China and Japan
- Author
- Louis Hennepin (1626-1704)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin and S. Manship
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1698
- Pages
- 2 volumes in one
- Size
- Small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AMERICANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Exploration;
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