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LOUIS HENNEPIN (1626-1705)
Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer Glaciale. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697. 12º (143 x 75mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 large folding maps and 2 folding plates, with the 5 inserted leaves between quires N and O. (Some waterstaining of lower margins towards end.) Calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine directly lettered in gilt and tooled in blind, gilt-ruled turn ins, earlier blanks preserved, red speckled edges (spine rubbed at head, some light rubbing to joints).
FIRST PUBLICATION of the latter part of Hennepin's travels to what became the United States and Canada. ‘His work forms one of the most important volumes in the early history of North America. He lived for eleven years on this continent and penetrated farther into the then unknown interior than anyone before him. He was the discoverer and explorer of the upper reaches of the Mississippi and the first to describe Niagara Falls’ (Lande). One of the two plates is THE FIRST ENGRAVED VIEW OF THE NIAGARA FALLS, the other shows a bison. Church 762; Lande 423; Sabin 31349; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 83.
Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer Glaciale. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697. 12º (143 x 75mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 large folding maps and 2 folding plates, with the 5 inserted leaves between quires N and O. (Some waterstaining of lower margins towards end.) Calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine directly lettered in gilt and tooled in blind, gilt-ruled turn ins, earlier blanks preserved, red speckled edges (spine rubbed at head, some light rubbing to joints).
FIRST PUBLICATION of the latter part of Hennepin's travels to what became the United States and Canada. ‘His work forms one of the most important volumes in the early history of North America. He lived for eleven years on this continent and penetrated farther into the then unknown interior than anyone before him. He was the discoverer and explorer of the upper reaches of the Mississippi and the first to describe Niagara Falls’ (Lande). One of the two plates is THE FIRST ENGRAVED VIEW OF THE NIAGARA FALLS, the other shows a bison. Church 762; Lande 423; Sabin 31349; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 83.
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