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PAUL RAGUENEAU (1608-1680)
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus aux Hurons, pays de la Nouvelle France és années 1648. & 1649. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1650. 8° (173 x 105mm). Type-ornament title-decoration. Woodcut and type-ornament head- and tailpieces, woodcut initial. Retaining privilege leaf H2. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few slight marks.) Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript (a few light marks, covers bowing causing slight cracking). Provenance: traces of early ownership inscription erased from head of title, causing small hole.
SECOND, ENLARGED EDITION. A RARE JESUIT RELATION DESCRIBING THE HURON MISSIONS IN CANADA. Father Paul Ragueneau was sent to Quebec as a Jesuit missionary in 1636 and then to the Huron Missions in 1637, where he gained a great knowledge of the language. Ragueneau was appointed superior of the Jesuit missions in Canada in 1645, and held a number of other positions in Canada, and wrote the Huron relations of 1645 to 1649 and edited the general relations from 1649 through 1653. Of this period, the years covered by this Relation were notably difficult ones for Jesuits in Huronia, and Ragueneau describes in his report the massacre of many Huron converts and the martyrdom of the Jesuits Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant by the Iroquois. The first edition of the work was published by Cramoisy in 1650, and this second edition, which is reset and enlarged, appeared in the same year; the text remains the same as that of the first edition, with the addition of an extract from a further letter (newly-arrived on a boat from North America, after the first publication of the work) on pp.104-114. RARE: no copy of the first edition of this relation is recorded by ABPC since 1975, and there are only two entries for the second edition during the same period, which are most probably the same copy; the first Lionel Robinson's sale, Sotheby's London, 26 June 1986 to Lake (named buyer) and the second the Frank T. Siebert sale, Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1999, lot 47 ('Acquisition: D. & E. Lake, 1987'). Church 506; JCB II, p. 400; Sabin 67492; Sommervogel VI, cols 1390-1391.
Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des peres de la Compagnie de Jesus aux Hurons, pays de la Nouvelle France és années 1648. & 1649. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy and Gabriel Cramoisy, 1650. 8° (173 x 105mm). Type-ornament title-decoration. Woodcut and type-ornament head- and tailpieces, woodcut initial. Retaining privilege leaf H2. (Variable light spotting and browning, a few slight marks.) Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript (a few light marks, covers bowing causing slight cracking). Provenance: traces of early ownership inscription erased from head of title, causing small hole.
SECOND, ENLARGED EDITION. A RARE JESUIT RELATION DESCRIBING THE HURON MISSIONS IN CANADA. Father Paul Ragueneau was sent to Quebec as a Jesuit missionary in 1636 and then to the Huron Missions in 1637, where he gained a great knowledge of the language. Ragueneau was appointed superior of the Jesuit missions in Canada in 1645, and held a number of other positions in Canada, and wrote the Huron relations of 1645 to 1649 and edited the general relations from 1649 through 1653. Of this period, the years covered by this Relation were notably difficult ones for Jesuits in Huronia, and Ragueneau describes in his report the massacre of many Huron converts and the martyrdom of the Jesuits Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant by the Iroquois. The first edition of the work was published by Cramoisy in 1650, and this second edition, which is reset and enlarged, appeared in the same year; the text remains the same as that of the first edition, with the addition of an extract from a further letter (newly-arrived on a boat from North America, after the first publication of the work) on pp.104-114. RARE: no copy of the first edition of this relation is recorded by ABPC since 1975, and there are only two entries for the second edition during the same period, which are most probably the same copy; the first Lionel Robinson's sale, Sotheby's London, 26 June 1986 to Lake (named buyer) and the second the Frank T. Siebert sale, Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1999, lot 47 ('Acquisition: D. & E. Lake, 1987'). Church 506; JCB II, p. 400; Sabin 67492; Sommervogel VI, cols 1390-1391.
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