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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
Charlevoix, Pierre Francois Xavier de (1682-1761) A Voyage to North-America: Undertaken by Command of the Present King of France.
Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw & James Potts, 1766.
Second edition, two octavo volumes, I: [pi]1, A4, B-S8, T2; II: [pi]1, A-X8, Aa8, Bb2; illustrated with frontispiece portraits of Native Americans in each volume (plate in vol. II folded at the foot); with eight folding maps in the text; bound in contemporary tan calf, spines tooled and labelled in gilt, joints cracked and weak, front board detached vol. I; contents good, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (2)
Howes C308 (b); Sabin 12143; TPL 191.
The second edition is considered superior to the first with most of the text concerned with French Canada and the territory along the Mississippi and Great Lakes, and a short section on the West Indies at the end.
