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Les Freres L’Honore, Marchand Libraires, The Hague, c.1703
Mid 18th century Dutch papered boards covering the original paper backed spines with original manuscript spine labels. Custom quarter morocco slipcase. with 5 raised bands in six compartments and tooled gilt lettering and design and tooled gilt rules. Titles printed in red and black. , Scarce, A fine handsome example in original 18th century first edition first issue dutch wrapping paper. Plates are clean and crisp with very dark impressions. , 12mo (165 x 108mm), Illustrated with four frontispieces and 21 engraved plates and 3 maps (mostly folding). , Volume : 2 Volumes
The two large folding maps (575 x 415 & 680 x 290mm) of the great lakes are very important in this early large printing format. Further to the map of the great lakes Kershaw states that "this primary map of Canada emphasizes the importance of the river trading routes. . .it is the first map of Canada that was generally available to the public, and was on that defined, at least for the southern and eastern parts of the country the fur-trading routes." (Kershaw 289)
First edition, First (or “Angel”) Issue. Lahontan came to New France in 1683 as captain of a regiment in force against the Iroquois Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, son of a prominent civil engineer in the court of Louis XIV. In the 1680s Lahontan went to Canada with the Bourbon Regiment, where he served as Lord Lieutenant of the French colony at Placentia in Newfoundland. He commanded Fort St. Joseph in 1687 before deciding to return to the East coast the next year. Baron de Lahontan claimed to have traveled to the northern portions of the Mississippi River and to the villages of the Osage Indians on the Missouri River, but it was his journey to the Long River on his trip back that captivated the attention of adventurers who dreamed of finding a passage to the Pacific.
According to Lahontan, during a four-month journey in the winter of 1688-89 his party of three hundred men explored the Long River or, as it is labeled on his map, the "Rivière Morte" or "Rivière Longue." The expedition traveled up the Long River about 800 miles from the Mississippi. At this point Indians told him that he was about 450 miles from a great salt lake that was near some high mountains. Lahontan insisted that the Indians had shown him a map drawn on a deer skin which depicted a large river running to the western sea and he suggests this passage to the Pacific Ocean on his own map.
The account of Lahontan’s journey on the Long River, together with his travels throughout New France from 1683 to 1694, was entitled Nouveaux Voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan, dans l’Am‚rique Septentrionale. This book which included his original map of the Long River was published in The Hague in 1703 in two- and three- volume editions and in London in a two-volume English edition. In 1704 in Amsterdam Lahontan published separately an account of his conversation with an Indian, entitled Dialogues de Monsieur le baron de Lahontan et d’un Sauvage, dans l’Amerique. Lahontan’s works were widely published and very popular in Europe. The Long River appeared on other maps as late as 1785."
-From The University of Virginia Library Special Collections. (Howes L-25). Lande 500; Sabin 38635-38636
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