Relation du Voyage Entrepris par feu M. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, pour découvrir dans le golfe du Mexique l embouchure du Fleuve de Missisipy

by Jean Cavelier

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First edition · Signed

First Edition, one of 100 copies printed from a manuscript in the collection of Francis Parkman. 54, 2 pp. Signed by Shea on the final leaf. 8vo. Calf, rubbed. Howes L108; Sabin 11597; Gagnon II 369; Dionne II 1401; Raines, p. 47. Item #334865 This relation supplements Joutel and Tonty in describing the ill-fated expedition of 1685, in which La Salle landed at Matagorda Bay and established his short lived Ft.

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