Relation du Voyage Entrepris par feu M. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, pour découvrir dans le golfe du Mexique l embouchure du Fleuve de Missisipy

Cavelier, Jean

Published by De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea [Printed at Albany by J.Munsell], A Manate, 1858

About this Item

First Edition, one of 100 copies printed from a manuscript in the collection of Francis Parkman. 54, [2]pp. Signed by Shea on the final leaf. 8vo. This relation supplements Joutel and Tonty in describing the ill-fated expedition of 1685, in which La Salle landed at Matagorda Bay and established his short lived Ft. St. Louis on the Lavaca River. Only 100 copies were printed from the original Ms. secured by Parkman in 1854. Howes L108; Sabin 11597; Gagnon II 369; Dionne II 1401; Raines, p. 47 54, [2]pp. Signed by Shea on the final leaf. 8vo First Edition, one of 100 copies printed from a manuscript in the collection of Francis Parkman.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Relation du Voyage Entrepris par feu M. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, pour découvrir dans le golfe du Mexique l embouchure du Fleuve de Missisipy
• Publisher: De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea [Printed at Albany by J.Munsell], A Manate
• Publication Date: 1858
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Calf, rubbed
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana