Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(TRAVEL.) Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de. A Voyage to North-America . . . Containing the Geographical Description and Natural History of Canada and Louisiana. 8 maps, 2 plates. [10], 48, 228; [2], 335, [20] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked; minor dampstaining, moderate wear to maps, long tear to leaf I:L6. Dublin, 1766

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Second and best edition in English. Most of the narrative is devoted to French Canada and the French territory along the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. The final 68 pages are devoted to the West Indies. Howes C308 ("b"); Sabin 12143; TPL 191.