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WITH THE FIRST VIEW OF NIAGRARA FALLS
149 ● 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, short closed
separation along one fold; bookplate of Grant Barney Schley on front pastedown, later
bookplate on front free endpaper. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697 [6,000/9,000]
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.
150 ● HENNEPIN, LOUIS. Voyage ou Nouvelle Decouverte d’un tres-grand
Pays, dans L’Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Mer Glaciale. 6 folding
plates, engraved second title, lacking both folding maps. 12mo, contemporary calf, moder-
ate wear; excised stamp and repaired tear on title page, minimal dampstaining,
Amsterdam, 1704 [300/400]
Later edition of Hennepin’s 1697 second book, including a view of Niagara Falls. Appearing
as an appendix with a separate title page is de la Borde’s Voyage . . . des Caraibes, with
Amsterdam imprint pasted down as issued. European Americana 704/80; Sabin 31352.
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