RELATION OF THE DISCOVERIES AND VOYAGES OF CAVALIER DE LA SALLE FROM 1679 TO 1681. The Official Narrative. Tr. by M. B. Anderson

Published by The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1901

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Octavo, 299pp., half vellum, gray paper boards, untrimmed. Ex libris John Thomas Lee, who was President of The Caxton Club in the 1920s. [ see Sowerby 4073 & 4074 for Jefferson's copies of this work ]. "This was first published, in French, in Margry's six-volume DECOUVERTES. . from an anonymous manuscript. This, the first separate edition, gives both French and English texts. It was the official account sent to the Ministry of the Marine; if not by La Salle himself, it was probably inspired by him. { Fr.} Hennepin's plagiarisms from it in his 1797 NOUVELLE DECOUVERTE, indicate that he had access to the manuscript -Howes L110." LaSalle's "domineering character is perhaps too often emphasized and his questing spirit and contribution to humanity are too often forgotten. The narratives of the LaSalle expedition are among the most fascinating of the Midwestern travel tales -full of action and excellent description -- Hubach p.10." [Piehl IX].

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Title
RELATION OF THE DISCOVERIES AND VOYAGES OF CAVALIER DE LA SALLE FROM 1679 TO 1681. The Official Narrative. Tr. by M. B. Anderson
Author
LA SALLE, [Robert] Cavalier de
Publisher
The Caxton Club, Chicago
Publication year
1901
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Fine
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Hardcover
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First Separate.
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.

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