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Nouveaux Voyages de Mr Le Baron de Lahontan dans L'Amerique Septentrionale [and:] Memoires de l'Amerique septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages
Baron Lahontan, 1703
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Nouveaux Voyages de Mr Le Baron de Lahontan dans L'Amerique Septentrionale [and:] Memoires de l'Amerique septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages
Baron Lahontan, 1703
LAHONTAN, Louis Armand-Lon D'arce (1666-1716). Nouveaux Voyages de Mr Le Baron de Lahontan dans L'Amerique Septentrionale [and:] Memoires de l'Amerique septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages. The Hague: chez les Frères l'Honoré, 1703.
Early (pirated?) edition of the first two parts of Lahontan's romantic description of the Great Lakes region and the Hurons, with a famous imaginary map. The author came to North America as a teenager with the French military. His travelogue was extremely popular, narrating his own experiences as well as other Canadian military expeditions in Canada. He writes at length about the Huron, whom he admired and contrasts favorably with the Catholic church. A curious feature of this book is the wholly fabricated account of a journey west of the Mississippi, complete with a map of this imaginary journey. Historian Reuben Gold Thwaites has suggested that it is meant as an intention parody, anticipating Swift.
According to Howes, "the two volumes—Voyages and Memoires—were apparently, in early editions, sold both separately and in sets. This explains the frequent appearance of individual volumes and of sets not uniform and often with different imprints and dates … what constitutions a third volume, but of no historical significance and generally not found with the others, is entered separately." The bibliography is further disordered by a cacophony of early editions and issues, with copies and variants appearing with different numbers of plates and bound up in different orders. The present copy seems to correspond to the edition Sabin and Pilling suggests may be spurious, with newly cut reversed plates. Due to inconsistent plate counts in the standard bibliographies, this is sold not subject to return. Sabin 38638; Pilling 2173; see Howes L-25 (first editions) and Thwaites's "Introduction" to his 1905 edition of Lahontan's text.
Two volumes bound in one, 12mo (162 x 89mm). Titles printed in red and black. Etched frontispiece and 19 etched plates, 3 folding maps (a few plates just shaved, paper flaw in one leaf affecting a few words). Contemporary calf with spine gilt in compartments (joints starting). Provenance: contemporary signature on title page.
Baron Lahontan, 1703
LAHONTAN, Louis Armand-Lon D'arce (1666-1716). Nouveaux Voyages de Mr Le Baron de Lahontan dans L'Amerique Septentrionale [and:] Memoires de l'Amerique septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages. The Hague: chez les Frères l'Honoré, 1703.
Early (pirated?) edition of the first two parts of Lahontan's romantic description of the Great Lakes region and the Hurons, with a famous imaginary map. The author came to North America as a teenager with the French military. His travelogue was extremely popular, narrating his own experiences as well as other Canadian military expeditions in Canada. He writes at length about the Huron, whom he admired and contrasts favorably with the Catholic church. A curious feature of this book is the wholly fabricated account of a journey west of the Mississippi, complete with a map of this imaginary journey. Historian Reuben Gold Thwaites has suggested that it is meant as an intention parody, anticipating Swift.
According to Howes, "the two volumes—Voyages and Memoires—were apparently, in early editions, sold both separately and in sets. This explains the frequent appearance of individual volumes and of sets not uniform and often with different imprints and dates … what constitutions a third volume, but of no historical significance and generally not found with the others, is entered separately." The bibliography is further disordered by a cacophony of early editions and issues, with copies and variants appearing with different numbers of plates and bound up in different orders. The present copy seems to correspond to the edition Sabin and Pilling suggests may be spurious, with newly cut reversed plates. Due to inconsistent plate counts in the standard bibliographies, this is sold not subject to return. Sabin 38638; Pilling 2173; see Howes L-25 (first editions) and Thwaites's "Introduction" to his 1905 edition of Lahontan's text.
Two volumes bound in one, 12mo (162 x 89mm). Titles printed in red and black. Etched frontispiece and 19 etched plates, 3 folding maps (a few plates just shaved, paper flaw in one leaf affecting a few words). Contemporary calf with spine gilt in compartments (joints starting). Provenance: contemporary signature on title page.
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