(FLORIDA) [Laudonnière René Goulaine de] LHistoire Notable d

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"ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND RAREST BOOKS RELATING TO FLORIDA" (FLORIDA.) [Laudonnière, René Goulaine de]. L'Histoire Notable de la Floride Situee es Indes Occidentales. [8], 123, [1] leaves (numbered on recto only). Small 8vo, 18th-century calf, front cover detached, rear joint split; trimmed to 6.5 inches, some underlining, very light dampstaining on leaves 9 to 27; armorial bookplate on front pastedown. In an attractive leather pull-off case by Riviere & Son, slightly scuffed. Paris, 1586

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first edition. A compilation of 4 French Florida narratives from the 1560s. "One of the earliest and rarest books relating to Florida . . . notable for its account of the French settlement at Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. John's River, and for the account of Ribault's Massacre and the reprisal by Gourgues. The work also contains one of the earliest accounts of the Indians of the Southeast"--Streeter sale II:1170.
The bookplate is from Philip Lord Hardwicke, Baron of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Church 131; European Americana 586/46; JCB I:308; Palau 132992; Sabin 39234. No copies found at auction since 1976.