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CRESPEL, Emmanuel (ca 1703-1775). Voyage au Nouveau-Monde, et histoire intéressante du naufrage du R.P. Crespel. Avec des notes historiques & géographiques. Amsterdam, 1757.
8o (162 x 95 mm). (Stain in upper corner of title and first gathering.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt.
Third edition, with additional notes by Louis Crespel. "This priest accompanied, in 1728, a punitive expedition against the Fox Indians [in present Wisconsin]. His observations form an important sequel to the earlier relations of Sagard and Le Clerq" (Howes). The first edition was published in Frankfurt, 1742, with a second edition following in 1752. The contents are 8 letters written by Crespel, a Recollect priest, to his brother, dated January-June, 1742, from de Paderborn. The letters form a journal of his experiences in Canada, at Quebec, 1724-26, with an expedition against the Fox Indians, west of Lake Michigan, 1728, at Niagara, Ft. Frontenac, Ft. Frederic on Lake Champlain, and shipwrecked on Anticosti on his return to France, in 1736. Howes C-880; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 1757.
8o (162 x 95 mm). (Stain in upper corner of title and first gathering.) Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt.
Third edition, with additional notes by Louis Crespel. "This priest accompanied, in 1728, a punitive expedition against the Fox Indians [in present Wisconsin]. His observations form an important sequel to the earlier relations of Sagard and Le Clerq" (Howes). The first edition was published in Frankfurt, 1742, with a second edition following in 1752. The contents are 8 letters written by Crespel, a Recollect priest, to his brother, dated January-June, 1742, from de Paderborn. The letters form a journal of his experiences in Canada, at Quebec, 1724-26, with an expedition against the Fox Indians, west of Lake Michigan, 1728, at Niagara, Ft. Frontenac, Ft. Frederic on Lake Champlain, and shipwrecked on Anticosti on his return to France, in 1736. Howes C-880; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 1757.