Journal Historique Du Dernier Voyage Que Feu M De La Sale Fit Dans Le Golfe De Mexique Pour Trouver

by Henri Joutel

$12,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Paris: chez Estienne Robinot, 1713. First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxiv, 386; engraved folding map bound in upside down and with a 2-inch tear entering from the stub ; full contemporary calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine, sprinkled edges; rubbed and worn, but sound; a good copy; the map is very clean. Most reliable eye-witness account of La Salle's two-years wanderings in Texas. The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first

• Binding: Leather

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