HENNEPIN LOUIS Nouvelle Decouverte dun Tres Grand Pays situé

Sale 2263 - Lot 155

Price Realized: $ 10,200

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Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000

WITH THE FIRST VIEW OF NIAGRARA FALLS HENNEPIN, LOUIS. Nouvelle Decouverte d'un Tres Grand Pays situé dans l'Amerique. 2 folding maps, 2 folding plates, engraved additional title page. 12mo, contemporary panelled calf, minor wear, front joint split; very minor foxing, minor tears on 3 leaves, just a bit of worming in the inner margin of the last 66 pages; with final blank; early armorial bookplate of the Marquis of Lothian and library bookplate on front pastedown. Utrecht, 1697

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first edition. Hennepin's second book, which recounts his journey up the Mississippi, and adds an account taken from La Salle's journey down the river. Among the plates is the first view of Niagara Falls to appear in print, which according to Dow was "followed by engravers and artists for upwards of one hundred fifty years." Also included are two large folding maps and a somewhat surreal image of a bison. A remarkably well-preserved copy, with all plates intact, clean, and bright. Bell, Jesuit Relations, page 260; Church 762; Dow, Niagara Falls, pages II:854, 925; European Americana 697/90; Graff 1864; Howes H416 ("b"); Lande 422; Sabin 31349; TPL 83; Streeter sale I:104.