Bossu, Jean Bernard:

$2,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

NOUVEAUX VOYAGES DANS L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.... Bossu, an officer in the French army, first came to Louisiana in the 1750s. He travelled mainly in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas, although he ascended the Mississippi as far as the French settlements in Illinois. His first book, not to be confused with this one (as Clark does), covers his first two trips to Louisiana and was issued in 1768. It caused the author a good deal of trouble with the authorities and he was imprisoned briefly; however, the book was a great success and was widely reprinted.The present work, with a slightly different title, is in fact an entirely new book and describes Bossu's third trip to Louisiana, in 1771–72. His previous trouble with the government probably accounts for the false imprint of Amsterdam, and possibly for the rarity of the book in general. Both Rich and Field remark that this is a "much scarcer work" than Bossu's more famous volume, a notion which is born out by our experience.The Streeter copy was bought by collector C.R. Sanders for $50 in 1968.

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