[Rarebooks] FS: Bossu's Travels in Louisiana, 1777, with Plates

[Charles Agvent]

BOSSU, [Jean-Bernard]. NOUVEAU VOYAGES DANS L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, 
Contenant Une collection de Lettres ecrites sue les lieux, par l'Auteur, 
a son ami, M. DOUIN, Chevalier Capitaine ans les troupes du Roi, 
ci-devant son camarade dans le nouveau Monde. Amsterdam [actually 
Paris]: Changuion, 1777. First Edition. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7-3/4") bound 
in contemporary diced calf leather with a lovely gilt decorated spine 
with 5 raised bands and a gilt-lettered morocco label, marbled 
endpapers, and text edges stained red; xvi, 392 pages. Complete with 
half-title page. Illustrated with 4 engraved plates, one folding, after 
G. de St.Aubin. Written in epistolary form with many details about the 
countryside, Indian customs, slavery, etc. Bossu, a French army officer, 
made two trips to Louisiana which he described in his first book, 
NOUVEAUX VOYAGES AUX INDES OCCIDENTALES, published in 1768. This scarcer 
title is an account of his third trip and was published with an 
Amsterdam imprint as he had previously got into trouble with the 
authorities after criticizing the governor of New Orleans. Clark's 
TRAVELS IN THE OLD SOUTH II:5; HOWES B-627; SABIN 6470; STREETER Sale 
1520: "This is the account of Bossu's third voyage to Louisiana country 
made early in 1770. He revisited his old friends, the Arkansas Indians, 
and on their behalf made a mission to the Caddos and Attakapas, and then 
returned to France in 1771. Most of the letters are dated from the 
Arkansas post"; WIKIPEDIA: "Bossu was a keen observer making the 
accounts of his travels an important source for historians and 
ethnologists on New Orleans, the French colony and the Indian tribes in 
Mississippi region during the 18th century." Contents crisp, clean, and 
bright. Tiny chip to leather on the front cover. Fine. (#020361)        
$1,000

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