A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, To find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi [sic] River.

Joutel, Henri

Verlag: A. Bell & B. Lintott, London, 1714

Beschreibung

First English-language edition. London: Printed for A. Bell & B. Lintott, 1714. First English-language edition. Octavo (7 1/2" x 4 1/2", 190mm x 115mm): title within a double-ruled border, large folding map of the "County of Louisiana and . River Missisipi in North America". Bound in late half brown morocco over marbled boards. On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel, author gilt to fourth. Top edge of the text-block gilt. Rubbing to the extremities, and wear to the fore-corners. Text-block a little tanned overall. Tanning and some closed tears to the map. Perforated stamp of the Chicago Historical Society on the lower fore-edge of the title page and to A7 (pp. ix-x). XIXc bookseller ticket of John R. Jones, Richmond (Virginia) to the lower fore-edge of the verso of the title-page (which must have been affixed after the CHS's deaccession). Typed deaccession label of CHS to the rear paste-down. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Englished to "Monsr. de la Sale") canoed down the Mississippi river in 1682, and claimed for France its basin -- La Louisiane, the land of Louis (XIV) -- on the Gulf of Mexico. He returned in 1684, and that is the voyage described in this volume. It did not go well; La Salle landed in Texas, failed to find the Mississippi and was killed by his men, who mutinied. Joutel led the expedition after La Salle's death, and his journal provides perceptive first-hand accounting of their onward journey into Canada. The accompanying map contains "the first accurate delineation" of the Mississippi (Howes). The English translation (first edition: Paris, 1713) surpasses the original for its inclusion of the terms of the grant of Louisiana to Crozat. Alden & Landis 714/40; Church 859; Clark, Old South 1:14; Field 808; Graff 2252; Howes J-266; Sabin 36762; Streeter sale 1:112; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 79b. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6JLR0066

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Titel: A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by ...

Verlag: A. Bell & B. Lintott, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1714

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very good

Auflage: First.