LAHONTAN (LOUIS ARMAND, Baron de): Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septenrionale, La Haye, chez les Fréres Honoré, 1703, 8vo, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 26 engraved plates and maps, some folding (ownership inscription on title inked out, one plate holed at lower margin, occasional browning), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt (rubbed at extremities). [Sabin 38635 (variant title); Howes L25] (2) | Christie's

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LAHONTAN (LOUIS ARMAND, Baron de): Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septenrionale, La Haye, chez les Fréres Honoré, 1703, 8vo, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 26 engraved plates and maps, some folding (ownership inscription on title inked out, one plate holed at lower margin, occasional browning), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt (rubbed at extremities). [Sabin 38635 (variant title); Howes L25] (2)

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LAHONTAN (LOUIS ARMAND, Baron de): Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amerique Septenrionale, La Haye, chez les Fréres Honoré, 1703, 8vo, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 26 engraved plates and maps, some folding (ownership inscription on title inked out, one plate holed at lower margin, occasional browning), contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt (rubbed at extremities). [Sabin 38635 (variant title); Howes L25] (2)

Lot Essay

Lahontan's description of Indian life in Canada is one of the best early works on the subject, although 'the story of his discovery of Long River is wholly fictitious' (Sabin).

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