Hennepin, Louis

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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Description

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America … between New France and New Mexico; With a Description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants, and Animals. Also, the Manners, Customs, and Languages of the Several Native Indians; and the Advantage of Commerce with Those Different Nations … To Which Are Added, Several New Discoveries in North-America, Not Publish’d in the French Edition. London: Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698
paper, ink, leather

Two parts in one volume, 8vo (7 1/8 x 4 in.; 181 x 102 mm). Part I: Engraved frontispiece (A1v), engraved folding map "A Map of a Large Country Newly Discovered in the Northern America Situated between New Mexico and the Frozen Sea together with the Course of the Great River Meschasipi" with mileage scale, 2 engraved folding plates (one of Niagara partially handcolored); repair to long marginal tear on map, mileage scale browned. Part II: Separate title-page, pagination and register, 3 (of 4) engraved folding plates; lacks similarly titled folding map as in Part I and folding plate "The Taking of Quebec by the English." "An Account of Several New Discoveries in North-America" bound after Part II. Severe browning to first few and last few quires, scattered foxing and staining throughout. Nineteenth-century calf paneled gilt, Dutch comb marbled endpapers, spine gilt; joints dry and rubbed, spine head chipped, rehinged.

Literature

Wing H1451; ESTC R24981 (with the "Tonson" imprint); Church 773; Graff 1862; Howes H416; Sabin 31371

Catalogue Note

First English edition. Part I is a translation of Hennepin's Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique (Utrecht, 1697); Part II is a translation of his Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe. Also included at the end is "An Account of Several New Discoveries in North-America" which contains extracts from the works of La Salle, Joliet, and Marquette.