LESCARBOT, Marc (1570-1642). Nova Francia: Or the Description of that Part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Grané, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into three countries called by the French men La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton . Translated from French into English by Pierre Erondelle. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] George Bishop, 1609.
LESCARBOT, Marc (1570-1642). Nova Francia: Or the Description of that Part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Grané, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into three countries called by the French men La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton . Translated from French into English by Pierre Erondelle. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] George Bishop, 1609. Small 4 o (177 x 131 mm). Engraved folding map: "Figure de la Terre Nevve, Grand Riviere de Canada, et côtes de l'Ocean en la Nouvelle France" (445 x 188 mm) (repaired tear crossing lower border). (First leaf [blank save for a fleuron] in facsimile, a few repairs to title and first two preliminary leaves affecting a few letters.) Dark green morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance : Boies Penrose (both bookplates; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 139). "THE FIRST DETAILED MAP DEVOTED TO CANADA AND BY FAR THE MOST ACCURATE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME" (Burden) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The map, the same as that issued with the French-language edition of the same year, predates Champlain's by three years and accompanies the first published history of the French settlements in America. The map is here in the first issue, with "I. de Sable" written horizontally. Lescarbot was a Protestant lawyer who spent more than a year in America as part of the expedition that founded Port Royal in Nova Scotia, arriving in 1606. The book was published to encourage settlement in the New World. "The map extends up the St. Lawrence River as far as the Indian village Hochelaga , or Montreal as we now know it. The first trading post in Canada, founded in 1600 at Tadousac , is shown at the mouth of the R. de Saguenay and just next to that is the River Lesquemin mistakenly named in reverse. Kebec is shown here for the first time on a printed map in its Micmac form, meaning the narrows of the river... During the second New England voyage Marc Lescarbot was left in charge of the Port Royal colony. The New England coastline on this map closely follows Champlain's manuscript of the area which is dated 1607, and now resides at the Library of Congress" (Burden 157). Alden & Landis 609/68; Borba de Moraes I:406-7; Church 341; Field 916; Harrisse 19; Sabin 40175; STC 15491; Vail Frontier 16.
LESCARBOT, Marc (1570-1642). Nova Francia: Or the Description of that Part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Grané, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into three countries called by the French men La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton . Translated from French into English by Pierre Erondelle. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] George Bishop, 1609.
LESCARBOT, Marc (1570-1642). Nova Francia: Or the Description of that Part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Grané, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into three countries called by the French men La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton . Translated from French into English by Pierre Erondelle. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] George Bishop, 1609. Small 4 o (177 x 131 mm). Engraved folding map: "Figure de la Terre Nevve, Grand Riviere de Canada, et côtes de l'Ocean en la Nouvelle France" (445 x 188 mm) (repaired tear crossing lower border). (First leaf [blank save for a fleuron] in facsimile, a few repairs to title and first two preliminary leaves affecting a few letters.) Dark green morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance : Boies Penrose (both bookplates; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 139). "THE FIRST DETAILED MAP DEVOTED TO CANADA AND BY FAR THE MOST ACCURATE AVAILABLE AT THE TIME" (Burden) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. The map, the same as that issued with the French-language edition of the same year, predates Champlain's by three years and accompanies the first published history of the French settlements in America. The map is here in the first issue, with "I. de Sable" written horizontally. Lescarbot was a Protestant lawyer who spent more than a year in America as part of the expedition that founded Port Royal in Nova Scotia, arriving in 1606. The book was published to encourage settlement in the New World. "The map extends up the St. Lawrence River as far as the Indian village Hochelaga , or Montreal as we now know it. The first trading post in Canada, founded in 1600 at Tadousac , is shown at the mouth of the R. de Saguenay and just next to that is the River Lesquemin mistakenly named in reverse. Kebec is shown here for the first time on a printed map in its Micmac form, meaning the narrows of the river... During the second New England voyage Marc Lescarbot was left in charge of the Port Royal colony. The New England coastline on this map closely follows Champlain's manuscript of the area which is dated 1607, and now resides at the Library of Congress" (Burden 157). Alden & Landis 609/68; Borba de Moraes I:406-7; Church 341; Field 916; Harrisse 19; Sabin 40175; STC 15491; Vail Frontier 16.
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