Sep 17, 2009 - Sale 2186

Sale 2186 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
HENNEPIN, LOUIS. Description de la Louisiane. Lacks map. 12mo, later calf gilt, front joint just starting; small bookseller's sticker on front pastedown, discreet library release stamp on final page. (JCB) Paris: Auroy, 1684

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Reissue of 1683 first edition with new title page reading MDCLXXXIV. "The first description in print of the Falls of Niagara, as well as the first account in print of the Mississippi above its confluence with the Wisconsin River"--Streeter sale I:102. European Americana 684/75; Howes H415; Sabin 31347.