Lahontan, Louis Armand, baron de

Voyages ... dans L'Amerique Septentrionale ... L'Intéret des François & des Anglois dans le Commerce qu'ils sont avec ces Nations l'avantage que l'Angleterre peut retirer de ce Païs, étant en Guerre avec la France ... Seconde Edition. Amsterdam: chez François L'Honoré, 1728



3 volumes, 8vo (6 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.; 162 x 95 mm). Titles printed in red and black, 32 engraved plates including frontispiece in first volume and 5 maps; offset from some of the plates, one plate shaved at bottom touching image (2:109), one plate shaved at fore-edge (3:236), occasional light spotting. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, gilt-stamped red morocco title labels; hinges broken, vol. 1 repaired with clear tape, upper cover of vol. 2 detached but present, that of vol. 3 on its way there.

Sir John E. Swinburne, baronet, Capheaton, Northumberland (engraved armorial bookplates) — William Gwynn Mather (library ticket)

Leclerc 824; Gagnon 1922 note; Lande Supplement (1971) 51200; Sabin 38643

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Second edition in French.