Description de la Louisiane and Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique

by Louis Hennepin

$58,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary French mottled calf, covers with a central gilt royal supralibros, red speckled edges, neatly rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers. Housed within a dark blue cloth chemise and full morocco box First edition of Hennepin’s first work, giving the earliest printed account of Louisiana and including the first description of Niagara Falls. In 1675, Father Louis Hennepin sailed to New France with a Recollect mission aboard the same ship as

• Binding: Leather

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