[Hennepin, Louis; Henri Tonti; et al.]:

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RELATIONS DE LA LOUISIANE, ET DU FLEUVE MISSISSIPI. OU L'ON VOIT L'ETAT DE CE GRAND PAIS & LES AVANTAGES QU'IL PEUT PRODUIRE &c. This volume is rich in interest, being drawn from material which originally appeared in the fifth volume of Jean Bernard's RECUEIL DE VOYAGES AU NORD. It consists of Henri Tonti's DERNIERES DECOUVERTES..., here in the second French edition, one of the most important 17th-century French narratives of the Mississippi Valley; Hennepin's VOYAGE...ENTRE LA MER GLACIALE, a later edition of his second book; RELATION DE LA LOUISIANE OU MISSISSIPPI..., published here for the first time, an anonymous officer's account of a visit of several months in 1717, "an interesting narrative of the Indians, French settlers, natural history and products, and trade, especially with the Indians" (Clark); and a short summary of the voyages of Gosnold and Pringe. These narratives are accompanied by fourteen plates of Indians, based on John White's illustrations in De Bry, which do not appear in the regular set. Also present is the handsome folding map, a reissue on a smaller scale of Delisle's 1718 CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE ET DU COURS DU MISSISSIPI. The second, smaller map shows the coast of Atlantic Canada and New England. This assemblage usually appears in an abbreviated form and with fewer plates.

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