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[Americana]. LESCARBOT (Marc). History of New France. Contenant les navigations, découvertes, & habitations faites par les François és Indes Occidentales & Nouvelle-France par commission de nos rois très-chrétiens, et les diverses fortunes d'iceux en l'exécution de ces choses depuis cent ans jusqu'à aujourd'hui. En quoi est comprise l'histoire morale, naturele & géographique des provinces cy décrites, avec les tables & figures nécessaires... Troisiesme édition enrichie de plusieurs choses singulières, outre la suite de l'histoire. A Paris, chez Adrian Perier, 1618. In-8, (h = approx. 170 mm.) 55-970 p. [i.e. 926], [1] f. (errata) ; 76 p., 4 pl., 19th c. blond calf, spine with 5 raised bands, brown calf title-piece, richly ornamented caissons, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, inner gilt roulette, marbled edges, inside washed (spine detached, upper board detached; tiny wormholes in the head margins of sections C & D; freckles on the first part (p.1-55), and on the large folding map; some ff. a little browned, pale marginal aureole, more extensive on the last part; marginal smudge on corner f. Cc2, without last 2 blank f.). Rare and important third edition, partly original, and the last revised by the author. "This edition differs from all the preceding [...] there are many additions; it may, therefore, be considered the best" (Sabin). It is illustrated with 4 copper-engraved folding maps: - Figure et description de la terre reconnue et habitée par les François en la Floride et audeça". This is one of the very first maps devoted specifically to the present-day regions of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. It illustrates the French Huguenots' attempts to colonize the region between 1562 and 1565. First published in 1612, it appears unaltered in this 1618 edition. - "Figure of the port of Ganabara in Brisil"; I. Millot excudit. Remarkable detailed map of Guanabara Bay, near present-day Rio de Janeiro. Illustrating Villegagnon's expedition, it highlights the strategic importance and defensive features of this natural port during the colonial period, and in the presence of European caravels. - Figure de la Terre Neuve, grande rivière de Canada, et côtes de l'océan en la Nouvelle France", engraved by Ian Swelinc under the direction of I. Millot and after Lescarbot's drawing. This is the first detailed map of Canada, the most accurate of its time, and precedes Champlain's map by three years (it is here in its second corrected state, the first dating from 1609). - Figure du Port Royal en la Nouvelle France", same engraver after the author. Third map of North America in this work, showing the basin of Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia, with details of its buildings and fortifications. Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570-1641), a lawyer at the Paris Parlement, historian and poet, went to New France, serving with Champlain in 1606 as a member of the founding expedition to Port-Royal. Returning to Europe in 1607, he wrote his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France du Nouveau Monde, first published in 1609. It is the first history of French settlement in Canada. In this, his most complete edition, Lescarbot has added an account of Champlain's voyages from 1608 to 1613 to Québec, the Iroquois river, the Huron country and his expeditions against the Iroquois; to narrate these events, he has used what Champlain told him and what he drew from "Les voyages du sieur de Champlain ..." published in 1613. He has also added an account of Poutrincourt's stay at Port-Royal from 1610 to 1614. The end of the volume contains a collection of odes and poems, "Les muses de la Nouvelle France", preceded by a separate title page with the same address and date, which is not found in all copies. Sign. a-e-i 8, o 4; A-Z 8, Aa-Zz 8, Aaa-Mmm 8; A-D 8, E 6 (of 8; without the last 2 blank f.). Provenance: Vice-Admiral Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (1812-1892), by descent. He is the author of numerous works on the navy, and the son of Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière (1772-1849), also a vice-admiral, who took part in the expedition sent in search of La Pérouse under the command of d'Entrecasteaux; in 1794, he took an active part in the battle of Léogâne (Haiti) and Rochambeau, then general-in-chief of the army of Saint-Domingue, praised his services and obtained his appointment as captain. Traces on the title of an old manuscript bookplate from a monastery and an ex-dono dated 1

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[Americana]. LESCARBOT (Marc). History of New France. Contenant les navigations, découvertes, & habitations faites par les François és Indes Occidentales & Nouvelle-France par commission de nos rois très-chrétiens, et les diverses fortunes d'iceux en l'exécution de ces choses depuis cent ans jusqu'à aujourd'hui. En quoi est comprise l'histoire morale, naturele & géographique des provinces cy décrites, avec les tables & figures nécessaires... Troisiesme édition enrichie de plusieurs choses singulières, outre la suite de l'histoire. A Paris, chez Adrian Perier, 1618. In-8, (h = approx. 170 mm.) 55-970 p. [i.e. 926], [1] f. (errata) ; 76 p., 4 pl., 19th c. blond calf, spine with 5 raised bands, brown calf title-piece, richly ornamented caissons, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, inner gilt roulette, marbled edges, inside washed (spine detached, upper board detached; tiny wormholes in the head margins of sections C & D; freckles on the first part (p.1-55), and on the large folding map; some ff. a little browned, pale marginal aureole, more extensive on the last part; marginal smudge on corner f. Cc2, without last 2 blank f.). Rare and important third edition, partly original, and the last revised by the author. "This edition differs from all the preceding [...] there are many additions; it may, therefore, be considered the best" (Sabin). It is illustrated with 4 copper-engraved folding maps: - Figure et description de la terre reconnue et habitée par les François en la Floride et audeça". This is one of the very first maps devoted specifically to the present-day regions of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. It illustrates the French Huguenots' attempts to colonize the region between 1562 and 1565. First published in 1612, it appears unaltered in this 1618 edition. - "Figure of the port of Ganabara in Brisil"; I. Millot excudit. Remarkable detailed map of Guanabara Bay, near present-day Rio de Janeiro. Illustrating Villegagnon's expedition, it highlights the strategic importance and defensive features of this natural port during the colonial period, and in the presence of European caravels. - Figure de la Terre Neuve, grande rivière de Canada, et côtes de l'océan en la Nouvelle France", engraved by Ian Swelinc under the direction of I. Millot and after Lescarbot's drawing. This is the first detailed map of Canada, the most accurate of its time, and precedes Champlain's map by three years (it is here in its second corrected state, the first dating from 1609). - Figure du Port Royal en la Nouvelle France", same engraver after the author. Third map of North America in this work, showing the basin of Port Royal, now Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia, with details of its buildings and fortifications. Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570-1641), a lawyer at the Paris Parlement, historian and poet, went to New France, serving with Champlain in 1606 as a member of the founding expedition to Port-Royal. Returning to Europe in 1607, he wrote his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France du Nouveau Monde, first published in 1609. It is the first history of French settlement in Canada. In this, his most complete edition, Lescarbot has added an account of Champlain's voyages from 1608 to 1613 to Québec, the Iroquois river, the Huron country and his expeditions against the Iroquois; to narrate these events, he has used what Champlain told him and what he drew from "Les voyages du sieur de Champlain ..." published in 1613. He has also added an account of Poutrincourt's stay at Port-Royal from 1610 to 1614. The end of the volume contains a collection of odes and poems, "Les muses de la Nouvelle France", preceded by a separate title page with the same address and date, which is not found in all copies. Sign. a-e-i 8, o 4; A-Z 8, Aa-Zz 8, Aaa-Mmm 8; A-D 8, E 6 (of 8; without the last 2 blank f.). Provenance: Vice-Admiral Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (1812-1892), by descent. He is the author of numerous works on the navy, and the son of Pierre Roch Jurien de La Gravière (1772-1849), also a vice-admiral, who took part in the expedition sent in search of La Pérouse under the command of d'Entrecasteaux; in 1794, he took an active part in the battle of Léogâne (Haiti) and Rochambeau, then general-in-chief of the army of Saint-Domingue, praised his services and obtained his appointment as captain. Traces on the title of an old manuscript bookplate from a monastery and an ex-dono dated 1

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