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Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gray paper covered boards with vellum spine. [9]+4-299p. Translation by Melville B Anderson. French and English Text. Deckled edges with majority of the pages uncut. Interior near fine. This copy has suffered a 2" vertical and 1 1/4" vellum loss at head which has caused loss of gilt title only 1679 to 1681 left.Corners frayed. Limited to 224 copies on American hand made paper. Printed by Donnelley and Sons at Lakeside Press
Seller: Samuel Lasenby Bookseller, Corona del Mar, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: slipcase is missing the spine and the top, dust jacket is missing the spine. #1 of 194 copies
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$422.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 23.5cm, the First English Edition, [1],299p., the first edition, limited to 224 copies, title page printed in red and black, original quarter vellum backed grey paper over boards, gilt spine titles, a fine unopened copy, rare (cgc) ~ Howes L-110. (Not in Lande, T.P.L., nor Gagnon). First published, in French, in Margry's Discouvertes, in six volumes. from an anonymous manuscript. This, the first separate edition, gives both French and English texts. It was the official account sent to the Ministry of the Marine; if not by La Salle himself, it was probably inspired by him. Hennepin's plagiarisms from it in his 1797 Novelle decouverte, indicate that he had access to the manuscript. (Howes).
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, 299pp., half vellum, gray paper boards, untrimmed. Ex libris John Thomas Lee, who was President of The Caxton Club in the 1920s. [ see Sowerby 4073 & 4074 for Jefferson's copies of this work ]. "This was first published, in French, in Margry's six-volume DECOUVERTES. . from an anonymous manuscript. This, the first separate edition, gives both French and English texts. It was the official account sent to the Ministry of the Marine; if not by La Salle himself, it was probably inspired by him. { Fr.} Hennepin's plagiarisms from it in his 1797 NOUVELLE DECOUVERTE, indicate that he had access to the manuscript -Howes L110." LaSalle's "domineering character is perhaps too often emphasized and his questing spirit and contribution to humanity are too often forgotten. The narratives of the LaSalle expedition are among the most fascinating of the Midwestern travel tales -full of action and excellent description -- Hubach p.10." [Piehl IX].
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.