Description de la Louisiane and Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique Louis Hennepin, 1683 and 1697 HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-1704). Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au Sud'Ouest de la Nouvelle France. Paris: Widow of Sebastien Hure, 1683. Van Sinderen copy of the first edition, first issue, of Hennepin's first work, with the earliest printed eye-witness account of Niagara Falls, together with the Ternaux-Compans copy of the first edition of the second part, containing the first printed view of Niagara. In 1675, the Belgian priest Father Louis Hennepin sailed to New France with a Franciscan Recollect mission in the same ship as René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. From Quebec, he carried out missionary work among the Iroquois and then in 1678 joined La Salle as his expedition's chaplain. With La Salle, Hennepin continued by way of Lake Huron, Green Bay, Lake Michigan and the River St. Joseph to the River Illinois and helped establish Fort Crevecoeur. He and two others were captured by the Sioux in 1680 and accompanied them on several hunting expeditions. During one, Hennepin became the first European to encounter the Falls of St. Anthony. Daniel Greysolon Dulhut helped secure his release to the mission of St. Francis Xavier on Green Bay. He returned to France in 1682 and published this book the following year. This work contains the "first account in print of La Salle’s journey to the Illinois country in 1678 and 1679, and the first [eye-witness] description in print of the Falls of Niagara, as well as the first account in print of the Mississippi above its confluence with the Wisconsin River. Jean Delanglez, in his 1941 Hennepin’s Description of Louisiana, a Critical Essay, has demonstrated now that Hennepin did not write the first two-thirds of the Description de la Louisiane but had plagiarized it from the first third of the Abbé Claude Bernous’s manuscript account of the same voyage instead of the other way around as was long thought" (Streeter). This lot also includes the first edition of the second part of Hennepin's account, with the two volumes apparently united by Adrian van Sinderen, who likely acquired the second work from his father-in-law, Alfred T. White. The large folding map, present here, is often absent. I: Alden & Landis 683⁄96; Ayer 127; Howes H-415 ("c"); Sabin 31347; Streeter sale 102; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 62. II: Alden & Landis 697⁄90; Church 762; Field 685; Lande 423; Sabin 31349; Streeter sale 104. 12mo (149 x 89mm). Folding engraved map, woodcut headpieces (some dampstains, including to map). 18th-century stiff vellum. Provenance: Alfred Rosenstand Goiske (Danish collector; 1806-1864; inscription) – Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (1826-1889; book label, sold his sale, American Art Association, 3 February 1889, lot 1129) – Adrian van Sinderen (1887-1963; pencil note). [With:] HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-c.1705). Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer Glaciale. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697. Church 762; Field 685; Howes H-416 ("b"); Sabin 31349; Streeter sale 104. 12mo (154 x 87mm). With the 5 inserted leaves between gatherings N and O. Engraved additional title, 2 folding maps, 2 folding engraved plates (stub tears to both maps, with second map with toning and tearing with some loss at folds; some toning and light spotting). 19th-century calf with gilt-stamped emblem and monogram of Ternaux-Compans (joints split but holding, headbands lost, some abrasions and wear at extremities). Provenance: Henri Ternaux-Compans (1807-1864; supralibros) – Gerald E Hart (1849-1936; his sale, Charles F. Libbie & Co, 15 April 1890, lot 1103) – Alfred T. White (1846-1921; pencil signature). Both works in chemises together in a single custom slipcase.
Description de la Louisiane and Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique Louis Hennepin, 1683 and 1697 HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-1704). Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au Sud'Ouest de la Nouvelle France. Paris: Widow of Sebastien Hure, 1683. Van Sinderen copy of the first edition, first issue, of Hennepin's first work, with the earliest printed eye-witness account of Niagara Falls, together with the Ternaux-Compans copy of the first edition of the second part, containing the first printed view of Niagara. In 1675, the Belgian priest Father Louis Hennepin sailed to New France with a Franciscan Recollect mission in the same ship as René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. From Quebec, he carried out missionary work among the Iroquois and then in 1678 joined La Salle as his expedition's chaplain. With La Salle, Hennepin continued by way of Lake Huron, Green Bay, Lake Michigan and the River St. Joseph to the River Illinois and helped establish Fort Crevecoeur. He and two others were captured by the Sioux in 1680 and accompanied them on several hunting expeditions. During one, Hennepin became the first European to encounter the Falls of St. Anthony. Daniel Greysolon Dulhut helped secure his release to the mission of St. Francis Xavier on Green Bay. He returned to France in 1682 and published this book the following year. This work contains the "first account in print of La Salle’s journey to the Illinois country in 1678 and 1679, and the first [eye-witness] description in print of the Falls of Niagara, as well as the first account in print of the Mississippi above its confluence with the Wisconsin River. Jean Delanglez, in his 1941 Hennepin’s Description of Louisiana, a Critical Essay, has demonstrated now that Hennepin did not write the first two-thirds of the Description de la Louisiane but had plagiarized it from the first third of the Abbé Claude Bernous’s manuscript account of the same voyage instead of the other way around as was long thought" (Streeter). This lot also includes the first edition of the second part of Hennepin's account, with the two volumes apparently united by Adrian van Sinderen, who likely acquired the second work from his father-in-law, Alfred T. White. The large folding map, present here, is often absent. I: Alden & Landis 683⁄96; Ayer 127; Howes H-415 ("c"); Sabin 31347; Streeter sale 102; Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West 62. II: Alden & Landis 697⁄90; Church 762; Field 685; Lande 423; Sabin 31349; Streeter sale 104. 12mo (149 x 89mm). Folding engraved map, woodcut headpieces (some dampstains, including to map). 18th-century stiff vellum. Provenance: Alfred Rosenstand Goiske (Danish collector; 1806-1864; inscription) – Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (1826-1889; book label, sold his sale, American Art Association, 3 February 1889, lot 1129) – Adrian van Sinderen (1887-1963; pencil note). [With:] HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-c.1705). Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situe dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer Glaciale. Utrecht: Guillaume Broedelet, 1697. Church 762; Field 685; Howes H-416 ("b"); Sabin 31349; Streeter sale 104. 12mo (154 x 87mm). With the 5 inserted leaves between gatherings N and O. Engraved additional title, 2 folding maps, 2 folding engraved plates (stub tears to both maps, with second map with toning and tearing with some loss at folds; some toning and light spotting). 19th-century calf with gilt-stamped emblem and monogram of Ternaux-Compans (joints split but holding, headbands lost, some abrasions and wear at extremities). Provenance: Henri Ternaux-Compans (1807-1864; supralibros) – Gerald E Hart (1849-1936; his sale, Charles F. Libbie & Co, 15 April 1890, lot 1103) – Alfred T. White (1846-1921; pencil signature). Both works in chemises together in a single custom slipcase.
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