Nouvelle Decouverte Dun Tres Grand Pays

by Louis Hennepin

$17,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

Utrecht: Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire, 1697. First edition of this account of Hennepin's travels in what is now the United States and Canada. Twelvemo 6 x 3 1/2 inches; 153 x 30 mm . 70 , 506 pp. with extra 10 * pages, all numbered 313 . With engraved title-page, two folding maps and two folding plates the first ever view made of Niagara Falls, the other of one of the earliest pictures of an American

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