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CHARLEVOIX, Pierre François Xavier de. Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres; Giving an Account of a Voyage to Canada. London: R. Goadby, 1763.
8o (192 x 118 mm). Engraved folding map (trimmed and laid down). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Lloyd Morgan (ownership inscription dated 1876); Hume (signature); Frederick Goodman (bookplate).
An English edition of the third volume of Charlevoix's important work Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France, first published in Paris in 1744. These letters translated from the French, were first published in English in 1761. Sabin 12140.
8o (192 x 118 mm). Engraved folding map (trimmed and laid down). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Lloyd Morgan (ownership inscription dated 1876); Hume (signature); Frederick Goodman (bookplate).
An English edition of the third volume of Charlevoix's important work Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle-France, first published in Paris in 1744. These letters translated from the French, were first published in English in 1761. Sabin 12140.