La Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon.

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

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Description

Histoire de la Louisiane. Paris: De Bure [and others], 1758

First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo (167 x 92mm.), half-titles, 2 engraved folding maps, 40 engraved plates, one folding (plan of New Orleans), errata leaf at end of volume 1, contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt in compartments with morocco labels, [Howes L266; Sabin 40122; Streeter I.127], plate at p.429 vol.2 defaced with ink for the sake of modesty, slight loss to foot of spine vol.1

Catalogue Note

A good copy of this important work. "One of the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana. Le Page du Pratz lived there for 16 years and his detailed description is one of the main sources of this period" (Streeter).