[Rarebooks] FS: One of the Earliest & Best Depictions of Canada, 1744, with 72 Maps & Botanical Engravings

[Charles Agvent]

CHARLEVOIX, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de. HISTOIRE ET DESCRIPTION GENERALE 
DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, AVEC LE JOURNAL HISTORIQUE D'UN VOYAGE FAIT PAR 
ORDRE DU ROI DANS L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONNALE. Paris: Chez la Veuve 
GANEAU, 1744. First Duodecimo Edition. Six duodecimo (3-3/4" x 6-3/4") 
volumes bound in contemporary speckled calf leather with gilt-decorated 
spines and matching leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, all edges 
red; title pages printed in red and black. Published the same year as 
the quarto edition. Illustrated with 28 folding maps and plans by 
Jacques Nicholas Bellin and 44 folding botanical engravings depicting 96 
varieties of American flora, most of which have medicinal value. The 
first general history of the French discoveries and settlements in North 
America, covering the period 1500 to 1736, and one of the best and one 
of the earliest depictions of Canada and the French settlement in the 
Mississippi Valley through observations. Charlevoix, a Jesuit missionary 
to New France, journeyed by canoe up the St. Lawrence River through the 
Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to New Orleans, with stops at 
missions and fur-trading posts along the way. This journey is described 
in Volumes 5 and 6 titled JOURNAL DU VOYAGE FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROI. CLARK 
I 59: "one of the most valuable, if not the most valuable, early 
accounts of Louisiana"; HOWES C-307: "the principal work of this great 
Jesuit traveller and historian and the pre-eminent authority on the 
French period in the West"; LANDE 126: "one of the best authorities 
concerning various Indian tribes, some of which no longer exist. The 
laborious accuracy with which the work was executed can be estimated by 
the fact that the maps, dated 1743, are marked with the latest 
discoveries, in 1742, in the extreme north of America"; SABIN 12136. 
Text and plates quite clean; owner name in ink at the top of each title 
page with later small red ink ownership stamp of another owner on each 
title page and occasional verso of map or text page. General wear to 
bindings with a few spine labels lacking but all volumes tight and quite 
presentable. Overall Very Good. (#019974)        $4,500

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