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LOUIS ARMAND, BARON DE LAHONTAN (1666-1715)
Voyages … dans l’Amerique Septentrionale … séconde edition. Amsterdam: François l’Honoré, 1728. 2 volumes, 12º (166 x
90mm). Titles in red and black, vol. I with engraved frontispiece, 14 plates and maps, 2 folding, vol. II with 9 plates only (of 11), 2 folding. (Some plates browned, the two folding plates in vol. I slightly crumpled and worn, G6 in vol. I with corner torn away.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt (joints splitting). Provenance: Rt. Hon. Lord Tollemache (sold Sotheby’s, 4 June 1965, lot 151, as recorded in pencil note). One of the first comprehensive descriptions of the western part of the continent. Howes L-25; Sabin 38641.
Voyages … dans l’Amerique Septentrionale … séconde edition. Amsterdam: François l’Honoré, 1728. 2 volumes, 12º (166 x
90mm). Titles in red and black, vol. I with engraved frontispiece, 14 plates and maps, 2 folding, vol. II with 9 plates only (of 11), 2 folding. (Some plates browned, the two folding plates in vol. I slightly crumpled and worn, G6 in vol. I with corner torn away.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt (joints splitting). Provenance: Rt. Hon. Lord Tollemache (sold Sotheby’s, 4 June 1965, lot 151, as recorded in pencil note). One of the first comprehensive descriptions of the western part of the continent. Howes L-25; Sabin 38641.
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