Histoire de la Louisiane, Contenant le Decourverte de ce vaste Pays; sa Description geographique; un Voyage dans les Terres;
Paris: Chez de Bure, 1758.
l'Histoire Naturelle; les Moeurs, Coutumes & Religion des Naturels... folding map of the Gulf of Mexico, 40 engraved plates including the folding plan of New Orleans, lacks large folding map of Louisiana. 3 volumes. 16mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, spines and some edges of covers worn on all volumes, shellac applied to all spines, ex-lib, lacks errata leaf in volume I. Paris: Chez de Bure, 1758. First Edition.
"One fo the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana. Le Page du Pratz lived there for 16 years and his detailed description is one of the main sources of his period." Streeter Sale 127. "Relation, based on a residence from 1718 to 1734, valuable for showing French claims to the southern territory east of the Mississippi and for particulars concerning Indian nations there." Howes L-266. Ex libris from the library of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris with their bookplate on the front and back endpapers of each volume. Clark I: 75. Graff 2462. Field 910. Sabin 40122. Raines p. 73.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First
Language: French
Price: $3,500.00
Item #263129