BERNARD, Jean Frédéric, editor. Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi . Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1720.
BERNARD, Jean Frédéric, editor. Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi . Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1720. 12 o (179 x 107 mm). Engraved folding map and fourteen plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut (spine with chips and losses); blue quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, A VERY FINE COPY IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. This work forms volume V of Bernard's Recueil de voiages au nord and is a collection of four relations describing Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia, seemingly to boost the Mississippi Company. This copy contains 1 engraved folding map and 14 plates; other copies are described with 2 folding maps and 13 plates (see Sotheby's London, 13 May 2004, lot 260). The sections are titled: Relation de la Louisiane par un Officier de Marine ; Relation de la Louisiane & du Fleuve Mississipi ; Voiage en un pays plus grand que l'Europe &c. ou troisième Relation du Pere Hennepin (translation of Tonti's Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique septentrionale ); and Voiages de Gosnol, Pringe & Gilbert aux Côtes de la Virginie (a translation from John Brereton's A brief and true relation , London, 1602). The map after de l'Isle depicts Louisiana and the course of the Mississippi river. The map, measuring 365 x 410 mm, is an early reissue of Delisles 1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi , on a smaller scale and without the inset. This version of Delisle's map is not noted by Tooley in The Mapping of America , but appears to be Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps , 175. The plates depict native Americans. This separately issued volume does not contain the Frobisher and Jeremie, which were included in some copies of the complete set (of 5 volumes); a second map of the Atlantic illustrating the Frobisher section is included in these copies. The present is a very fine example, entire unsophisticated and in original condition. Alden & Landis 720/19; Sabin 4936, 69299; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 177.
BERNARD, Jean Frédéric, editor. Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi . Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1720.
BERNARD, Jean Frédéric, editor. Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi . Amsterdam: Jean Frédéric Bernard, 1720. 12 o (179 x 107 mm). Engraved folding map and fourteen plates. Contemporary marbled wrappers, uncut (spine with chips and losses); blue quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, A VERY FINE COPY IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. This work forms volume V of Bernard's Recueil de voiages au nord and is a collection of four relations describing Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia, seemingly to boost the Mississippi Company. This copy contains 1 engraved folding map and 14 plates; other copies are described with 2 folding maps and 13 plates (see Sotheby's London, 13 May 2004, lot 260). The sections are titled: Relation de la Louisiane par un Officier de Marine ; Relation de la Louisiane & du Fleuve Mississipi ; Voiage en un pays plus grand que l'Europe &c. ou troisième Relation du Pere Hennepin (translation of Tonti's Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique septentrionale ); and Voiages de Gosnol, Pringe & Gilbert aux Côtes de la Virginie (a translation from John Brereton's A brief and true relation , London, 1602). The map after de l'Isle depicts Louisiana and the course of the Mississippi river. The map, measuring 365 x 410 mm, is an early reissue of Delisles 1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi , on a smaller scale and without the inset. This version of Delisle's map is not noted by Tooley in The Mapping of America , but appears to be Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps , 175. The plates depict native Americans. This separately issued volume does not contain the Frobisher and Jeremie, which were included in some copies of the complete set (of 5 volumes); a second map of the Atlantic illustrating the Frobisher section is included in these copies. The present is a very fine example, entire unsophisticated and in original condition. Alden & Landis 720/19; Sabin 4936, 69299; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 177.
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