Histoire de la Louisiane Contenant la Decouverte de ce vaste pays.

LE PAGE DU PRATZ, Antoine Simon (1695-1775).

Verlag: Paris: Bure, Delaguette and Lambert, 1758.

Beschreibung

3 volumes. 12mo., (6 4/8 x 3 6/8 inches). Half-titles, errata leaf at end of volume I. Folding engraved map in volume one: and "Louisiane. Golfe du Mexique", and a folding plan of "Nouveau Orleans." in volume II., and 39 engraved plates (bound without the large folding "Carte de la Louisiane Colonie Francaise.1757", lightly browned and one or two spots). Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spines decorated in six compartments, morocco lettering pieces in two (rebacked preserving the original spine, corners strengthened, rubbed). Provenance: Contemporary French marginal annotations; armorial bookplate of Nicholas Roosevelt (1767-1854), American inventor, on each front paste-down. First edition of an important account "showing the French claims to the Southern territory now occupied by several states, but claimed also by the English under the name of "Carolana." The author resided in Louisiana fifteen years, and it is from his relation that most of the details of the life of the Natchez and other Mississippi tribes of Indians have been derived. Later historians have availed themselves of his materials. The plates are barbarous; indeeed, the "Monthly Review," XIX. 296, remarks, "they remind one of the cuts in the old 'Hortus Sanitatis.' The author appears to have been a very sensible and a very worthy man, but with very little talent as a writer. His stile is unequal and diffuse, and his work wants method." (Sabin). Nicholas Roosevelt is best remembered as a colleague of Robert Fulton in his steamboat ventures and for building the steamboat "New Orleans" in 1811, the first steamboat on the western rivers, which sailed frim Pittsburg to New Orleans. Clark "Old South" I:75; Field 910; Graff 2462; Howes L-266; Rader 2219; Raines p. 73; Sabin 40122; Streeter sale I:127; Wagner-Camp 2b note and 2e note; "Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West" 158. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001966

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Verlag: Paris: Bure, Delaguette and Lambert, 1758.

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