Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

JAY FAMILY COPY 269 c   (TRAVEL.) Hennepin, Louis. A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. 2 folding maps,engraved half-title,6 plates.[22],299,[33],178,[2],303-355 pages.2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary calf,worn, heavily repaired, and detached from text block; maps and folding plates worn with early repairs and separations at folds, marginal note on Niagara Falls dated 1751 on page 29; several generations of owners’ inscriptions on front flyleaf and elsewhere. London: M. Bentley, J.Tonson, H.“Bon-wick,” et al., 1698 [1,000/1,500] first english edition . Hennepin’s second work on his voyage up the Mississippi. Includes one of the earliest views of Niagara Falls. Church 772 (“Bon-” edition); European Americana 698/95 and 698/99; Field 685; Graff 1862; Howes H416 (“b”); Sabin 31371; Streeter sale I:106. Provenance: Sir Richard Newdigate, 1709 bookplate; E. Crofts of Oxford, 1742; Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1845, son of John Jay) to his daughter Helen Jay Dubois (1815-1889) before 1827; her son Cornelius Jay Dubois (1836-1880), 1854; his brother John Jay DuBois (1846-1898); Curlys Lyon Slocum (1876-1962) of New Haven, CT and Montreal, 1909-1913.