Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale

by Claude Charles Leroy Bacqueville De La Potherie

$6,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary calf, spines gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers Provenance: Comte François Potocki armorial bookplate Rare first edition of an important illustrated contemporary history of the Indigenous nations in Canada and their relations with the French, including among the earliest printed views in Canada. Claude-Charles Le Roy de la Potherie, also called Bacqueville de la Potherie, arrived in New France in 1698 as comptroller of the

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