Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 269

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JAY FAMILY COPY (TRAVEL.) Hennepin, Louis. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. 2 folding maps, engraved half-title, 6 plates. [22], 299, [33], 178, [2], 303-355 pages. 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, heavily repaired, and detached from text block; maps and folding plates worn with early repairs and separations at folds, marginal note on Niagara Falls dated 1751 on page 29; several generations of owners' inscriptions on front flyleaf and elsewhere. London: M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. "Bon-wick," et al., 1698

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first english edition. Hennepin's second work on his voyage up the Mississippi. Includes one of the earliest views of Niagara Falls. Church 772 ("Bon-" edition); European Americana 698/95 and 698/99; Field 685; Graff 1862; Howes H416 ("b"); Sabin 31371; Streeter sale I:106. Provenance: Sir Richard Newdigate, 1709 bookplate; E. Crofts of Oxford, 1742; Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1845, son of John Jay) to his daughter Helen Jay Dubois (1815-1889) before 1827; her son Cornelius Jay Dubois (1836-1880), 1854; his brother John Jay DuBois (1846-1898); Curlys Lyon Slocum (1876-1962) of New Haven, CT and Montreal, 1909-1913.