George Collot | Voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale, Paris, 1826, atlas volume, red three-quarter morocco

George Collot

Voyage dans l'Amérique septentrionale, ou description des pays arrosés par le Mississipi, l'Ohio, le Missouri... Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1826 [but printed in 1804]

Atlas volume only (without two text volumes), folio (355 x 270mm.), title and text leaf in French, 36 engravings by Tardieu, comprising 10 folding maps, one double-page map, 14 plans, 8 views, and 3 portraits of native Americans, nineteenth century red three-quarter morocco, spine with raised bands in six compartments, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, some slight dampstaining, creases and a few repairs at folds of plates, slightly rubbed

A VERY RARE WORK WITH SOME OF THE FINEST AND MOST FAMOUS VIEWS OF THE EARLY MIDWEST TOGETHER WITH MAPS AND PORTRAITS.

"This work was printed both in French and English, but not published, at the time of General Collot's death [...] in 1805. More than twenty years afterwards, the whole impression came into the hands of M. Bertrand, an eminent publisher in Paris, who reserved one hundred copies of the English and three hundred of the French edition, and made waste paper of the remainder". Collot undertook the journey "in 1796, at the request of Adet, minister from France to the United States", in order to obtain "a minute detail of the political, commercial and military state of the western part of that continent" (Sabin).

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