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Lahontan, Louis Armand, baron de
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Nouveaux Voyages ... dans l'Amerique Septentrionale qui contiennent une rélation des différens Peuples qui y habitent. [With:] Memoires de L'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la Suite des Voyages. The Hague: chez les fréres l'Honoré, 1703. [With:] Suite du Voyage, de l'Amerique, Ou Dialogues de ... Lahontan et d'un Sauvage. Amsterdam: chez la veuve de Boeteman, 1704
3 volumes in one, 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 155 x 95 mm). Titles printed in red and black, 2 frontispiece plates in first volume, 22 folding plates and 2 maps (1 folding) in vols. 1 & 2, 2 maps and 4 folding plates in the third volume; lacking 2 frontispieces in vol. 2, lightly browned throughout with some occasional light marginal spotting, small clean tear at guard of large folding map (1:137) and in one plate where it enters the image (2:191). Contemporary vellum, ms. title on spine; soiled.
3 volumes in one, 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 155 x 95 mm). Titles printed in red and black, 2 frontispiece plates in first volume, 22 folding plates and 2 maps (1 folding) in vols. 1 & 2, 2 maps and 4 folding plates in the third volume; lacking 2 frontispieces in vol. 2, lightly browned throughout with some occasional light marginal spotting, small clean tear at guard of large folding map (1:137) and in one plate where it enters the image (2:191). Contemporary vellum, ms. title on spine; soiled.
Literature
Alden-Landis 703/87; Graff 2365; Greenly, Michigan 9a and 9b; Sabin 38635, 38636, 38643; Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 86 & 87
Condition
lightly browned throughout with some occasional light marginal spotting, small clean tear at guard of large folding map (1:137) and in one plate where it enters the image (2:191). Contemporary vellum, ms. title on spine; soiled.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
First edition, first issue, with the woodcut angel vignette on each title-page. This was a bestseller and influential work on Indian life. Lahontan, a French soldier serving in Canada, fought the Iroquois, commanded a frontier fort in present-day Michigan, and claimed to have ascended the Mississippi, though a stretch of the imagination — it was probably the Minnesota River.
This set contains the first edition of the Suite du Voyage which consist of dialogues with a North American Indian attacking Christianity. This work has been attributed to a defrocked priest Nicolas Guedeville.