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THEVENOT, Melchisédech (c.1620-1692; editor). Recueil de voyages. Paris: Estienne Michallet, 1681.
8° (170 x 102mm). 2 (of 3) folding maps, one engraved and one woodcut, and one (of 4) engraved plates, 10 engraved illustrations. With title-page to ‘Histoire naturelle de l’Ephemere’ and final errata leaf. (Lacks the map of Abel Tasman’s discoveries and plates of the house-fly [2] and hermit crab, woodcut map of 'La Terre d'Ielmer' with tear along fold and lamination on verso, without the two blanks.) 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, ‘Thevenot’ inscribed on spine (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Samuel Barlow (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF A VERY RARE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES CONTAINING THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. The first part, ‘Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l’Amerique septentrionale,’ is the first publication of Dablon’s account of the 1673 expedition by the French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and the Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette along the course of the Mississippi River. They travelled from north to south as far as the Arkansas River and to within 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico. The accompanying map, engraved by Liebaux and oriented with north to the right, is recognised as the first printed map of the Mississippi and the first to utilise the name Lake Michigan from where the two Europeans set out and returned. Burden believes that the map was probably copied from a manuscript version in the Bilbiothèque nationale de France entitled ‘Carte de la nouvelle decouverte.’ He identifies three states, ‘the first two almost certainly proof, the second containing an erroneous date. Both of these survive in sole examples.’ The example in the present copy is in the second state: mis-dated 1663, with the error corrected in manuscript to 1673, and with the ‘Golfe de Mexique’ inserted. The only other other known example of this rare second state is in the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Burden II, 540; Church 672; Howes T-156; Sabin 95332; Streeter I, 101.
8° (170 x 102mm). 2 (of 3) folding maps, one engraved and one woodcut, and one (of 4) engraved plates, 10 engraved illustrations. With title-page to ‘Histoire naturelle de l’Ephemere’ and final errata leaf. (Lacks the map of Abel Tasman’s discoveries and plates of the house-fly [2] and hermit crab, woodcut map of 'La Terre d'Ielmer' with tear along fold and lamination on verso, without the two blanks.) 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, ‘Thevenot’ inscribed on spine (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Samuel Barlow (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF A VERY RARE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES CONTAINING THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. The first part, ‘Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l’Amerique septentrionale,’ is the first publication of Dablon’s account of the 1673 expedition by the French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and the Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette along the course of the Mississippi River. They travelled from north to south as far as the Arkansas River and to within 435 miles of the Gulf of Mexico. The accompanying map, engraved by Liebaux and oriented with north to the right, is recognised as the first printed map of the Mississippi and the first to utilise the name Lake Michigan from where the two Europeans set out and returned. Burden believes that the map was probably copied from a manuscript version in the Bilbiothèque nationale de France entitled ‘Carte de la nouvelle decouverte.’ He identifies three states, ‘the first two almost certainly proof, the second containing an erroneous date. Both of these survive in sole examples.’ The example in the present copy is in the second state: mis-dated 1663, with the error corrected in manuscript to 1673, and with the ‘Golfe de Mexique’ inserted. The only other other known example of this rare second state is in the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Burden II, 540; Church 672; Howes T-156; Sabin 95332; Streeter I, 101.
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