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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
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 calf, moderate wear, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; minor marginal worming, light wear to maps with slight loss to one neatline, 6-inch closed separation along one fold; bookplate of Grant Barney Schley on front pastedown, later bookplate on front free endpaper. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697
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 (one of them showing the route of the "Meschasipi" River far to the west of the actual Mississippi) and a somewhat surreal image of a bison. 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; Vail 274; Wheat, Transmississippi West I:77 and page 53.
