BERGERON Pierre. (with) BERGERON Pierre. BONTIER, Pierre. LE VERRIER Jean.

£9,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

Rare first editions of both these important works, one of the first major French editions on the history of maritime exploration; printed separately but designed to be together. Soly reprinted the first work in 1630 so it could be re-issued with the first edition of the second work (ustc records both the 1630 editions under the same reference). ‚ÄúOne of the first studies of the history of navigation to be undertaken in France‚Äù Borba. ‚ÄúAn Americanum of prime importance‚Äù Lande. Bergeron‚Äôs Traicté is a comprehensive history of French exploration with additional accounts of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian and British expeditions. There is much detail on the voyages to New France undertaken by Sieur de Mont, Lescarbot, Poutrincourt, Champlain, Cartier, Alfonce, François Pyrard, Jean Mocquet, Vincent Le Blanc and others. It includes accounts of the attempted Huguenot settlement of Florida by Jean Ribault (particularly the massacre of the French Huguenots by the Spanish in Florida) and French exploration in Brazil. The chapters on Canada give detail on the native tribes (including polygamy), missionary efforts, and territorial claims up to 1627. Bergeron, following in his father‚Äôs footsteps, became a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and then councillor to the king and to the chancellery of the Parliament of Paris. ‚ÄúPierre Bergeron (1580?‚Äì1637?), (was) a French polygraph, eulogist, historian of French colonisation, editor of medieval travel narratives, and rewrite

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