Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Very good, spine head crack'd, reglued and holding
Seller: The Book Den, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover, bound in quarter vellum, with grey paper boards. One of 203 copies printed on handmade paper. Mild shelf wear, slight damage/wrinkling to vellum at head of spine (see photos), previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down. Map included at back. Text clean & unmarked. 229 pp.
Seller: O'Gara and Wilson, Ltd. LLC, Chesterton, IN, U.S.A.
. Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage. Caxton Club, 1896, 1896.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: VG/None. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 229 pp, limited print run of 203 copies, "A reprint (page for page and line for line) of the first English translation, London, 1714; with the Map of the original French edition Paris, 1713, in facsimile; and Notes by Melville B. Anderson," light board soiling, lower half of reverse board has minor insect damage, bookplate fep, map in rear pocket, otherwise clean and binding tight
Seller: The Way We Were Bookshop, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.
[Joutel, Henri]. Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage. The Caxton Club, Chicago, 1896.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Subtitle: "A reprint (page for page and line for line) of the first English translation, Londin, 1714; with the map of the original French edition Paris, 1713, in facsimile; and Notes by Melville B. Anderson." 229pp, folding map. One of 203 copies issued, in publisher's original binding of quarter vellum over grey paper boards, gilt spine title, with map in rear pocket. Boards show some light dust soiling and toning, corners rubbed, internally sound and clean. Howes J-266: "Most reliable eye-witness accunt of La Salle's two-years' wanderings in Texas. The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river." Jenkins BTB 114G: "Joutel, an eyewitness, provides the best account of LaSalle in Texas." Graff 2253, Clark Old South I, 14.
Seller: Walkabout Books, ABAA, Curtis, WA, U.S.A.
. Joutel's Journal of La Salle's last Voyage. Caxton Club, Chicago, 1896.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: slipcase is missing the spine and has another small tear, dust jacker is very toned, pages are uncut
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall octavo, 229pp, half vellum, gray paper boards, untrimmed; Ex libris John Thomas Lee, who was President of The Caxton Club in the 1920s; in publisher's slipcase. { see Sowerby 4072 for Jefferson's copy of this title]. A reprint of the first English translation, London 1714; with the Map of the original French edition, Paris, 1713 in facsimile. Joutel was second-in-command of this expedition which failed to find the mouth of the Mississippi. [Finley Collection, 42; BASIC TEXAS BOOKS, no. 114 G]. "Most reliable eye-witness account of La Salle's two-years wanderings in Texas. The map, based on La Salle's Mississippi explorations, was the first accurate delineation of that river --Howes J266." Limited to only 206 copies. The first book published by The Caxton Club [CC,I]. Map in rear pocket.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.