Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CANADA.) Vimont, Barthélemy. [Relation de ce qui s'est Passe en la Nouvelle France en l'Annee 1642] bound with, as issued, Jerome Lalemant's Relation de ce qui s'est Passé en la Mission des Hurons. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, front joint starting; lacking title page, both table of contents leaves, and final leaf, faint ink stamp on first leaf, tears on leaves C3 and F1, marginal worming on ten leaves, minor dampstaining. [Paris, 1643]
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First issue of the eleventh Jesuit relation. Vimont reports upon "the founding of Montreal, the capture of Father Jogues by the Iroquois, and the increasing trouble from Iroquois raids," and Lalemant's Huron section notes "increasing hostility of the Iroquois who are obtaining firearms from the Dutch in New Amsterdam"--Bell, Jesuit Relations 20. Church 459; European Americana 643/123; McCoy, Jesuit Relations 44; Sabin 99750. None at auction since the Siebert copy in 2001.