Item #76836 Voyage to North-America: Undertaken by Command of the Present King. Francois-Xavier CHARLEVOIX.

Voyage to North-America: Undertaken by Command of the Present King

Item #76836

CHARLEVOIX, Francois-Xavier. A Voyage to North-America: Undertaken by Command of the Present King Of France. Containing The Geographical Description And Natural History Of Canada And Louisiana.... Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw and James Potts, 1766. Two volumes. [10],48,228; [2],335,[20]pp., plus eight folding maps. Frontis. portrait in both volumes. Contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked with modern calf, raised bands, gilt leather labels. Joints and spine ends a touch worn. Bookplate of Hon. William Forward on front pastedown of both volumes, previous ownership inscription on titlepage and first pages of text of both volumes. Minor tanning throughout, three small closed marginal tears along folds of first map. Worming in upper margin of last forty-five pages of second volume (including four maps, no text affected). About very good overall. Charlevoix travelled in the Great Lakes region and down the Mississippi in 1720-22, to inspect interior posts and settlements and to gather more information about the westward regions. He had intended to return upriver, but fell ill at Biloxi and returned to France in 1723. Originally published in 1744 as part of Charlevoix's larger work on New France, this journal was published separately in English, in London in 1766. The Dublin edition, which is much rarer, is considered the best by Howes and others because of the accompanying maps and the two striking Indian portraits which appear as frontispieces: "A Delaware Indian with his tomahawk, scalping knife, &c." and "Outacite Chief of the Cherokees." The text contains a short appendix relating to the West Indies, with excellent maps of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Caribbean. HOWES C308. CLARK I:60. FIELD 283. SABIN 12139. GRAFF 651. TPL 191. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 12. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 5 (note). REESE & OSBORN, STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA 52 (ref).

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