DU CREUX, Franois (1596?-1666). Historiae Canadensis, seu Novae Franciae libri decem, ad Annum usque Christi MDCLVI. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy and Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1664. 4o (234 x 185 mm). Engraved publisher's device on title, folding full-sheet engraved plate of ten Jesuit martyrdoms by Huret, a small fragment only (i.e. top left corner) of the full-sheet engraved map of Nova Francia, 12 engraved plates, mostly of Indian manners, customs, costume and of native fauna. (Folding plate torn across and patched on verso, about 300 mm in length, with small losses filled; wormed through approximately 180 leaves in quires P to Pp; Bbbb3 with paper flaw and a portion of six lines text lost on recto, some dampstaining throughout and worming in gutters, lacks 2 leaves dedication to the Jesuit missionaries of Cape Verde and Senegal [aa2].) Contemporary Parisian citron morocco gilt, covers with broad gilt border around a large central panel sem with alternating crowned initial L and fleur-de-lys, the centers with large gilt-stamped arms of King Louis XIV, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, g.e. (bottom spine compartment wormed and with slight leather renewal, upper board edge of lower cover with small damage, covers slightly rubbed). Bell Jesuit Relations p. 249; JCB III:109; Alden and Landis 664/64; Sabin 21072. A similar but not identical crowned initial L tool appears on two bindings of ca. 1640 for Louis XIII and Anne d'Autriche, reproduced in the Esmerian catalogue (II, 53 and 54) and attributed by Esmerian to the workshop of either loy Levasseur or Luc-Antoine Boyet.