De La Borde, R. P. Louis Hennepin,
Voyage ou Nouvelle Découverte d’un très Grand Pays dans l’Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale, Par le R. P. Louis Hennepin
A Amsterdam, Chez Adriaan Braakman, Marchand Librarie pres le Dam. MDCCIV (1704)
Printed in Amsterdam in 1704, with six plates including Niagara Falls, Bison and the building of the Griffen, the first warship built on the Great Lakes. Rebound in full calf. Lacking the Maps.
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Printed in Amsterdam in 1704, with six plates including Niagara Falls, Bison and the building of the Griffen, the first warship built on the Great Lakes. Rebound in full calf. Lacking the Maps.
Printed in Amsterdam in 1704, with six plates including Niagara Falls, Bison and the building of the Griffen, the first warship built on the Great Lakes. Rebound in full calf. Lacking the Maps.
The volume(s) measure about 16.5 cm. by 10.5 cm. by 4 cm.
Each leaf measures about 155 mm. by 93 mm.
- Main description
- Condition
- Biography / Bibliography
Main description
The full title reads:
Voyage ou Nouvelle Découverte d’un très Grand Pays dans l’Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale, Par le R. P. Louis Hennepin, Avex toutes les particularitez de ce Pais, & de celui connusous le nom de Louisiane; les avantages qu’on en peut tirer par l’etablissement des Colonies enrichie de Cartes Geographiques. Augmente de quelques figures en taille douce. Avec un Voyage qui contient une Relation exacte de l’Origine, Moeurs, Coutumes, Religion, Guerres & Voyages des Caraïbes, Sauvages des Isles Antilles de l’amérique, faite par le sieur de La Borde. Tiree de Cabinet de Monsr. Blondel. A Amsterdam, Chez Adriaan Braakman, Marchand Librarie pres le Dam. MDCCIV (1704)
The volume is paginated as follows: (34), 1 – 604, (32)
The volume collates as follows: *12, **6, A – 2C12, 2D6.
With the Frontispiece and 6 plates. Lacking the two maps.
Originally published in 1683 this Re-issue is one of the last published in the Authors lifetime. This edition was shared between the booksellers Pierre Van der Aa of Leiden, and Adrian Braakman of Amsterdam. Notable for the inclusion of Louisiana for the first time and for the fine plates, four that were issued for the first time in this volume, including a fine view of the building of the first warship on the Great Lakes, the Griffen
The plates include;
- Niagara Falls
- Bison
- Building of the Griffen
- Indians alarmed at a Monstrance
- The Buffalo country
- Hennepin’s companions taking goods from a cache.
Condition
Bound in full calf, probably mid 20th Century. The spine in six compartments with five raised bands and gilt stamped titles. The binding in a fine condition overall. Internally, new endpapers. The contents a bit browned with only minimal foxing, but with some stains. The Frontispiece with a small piece missing in the corner. Frontispiece and title page a bit dirty. Plate of Niagara Falls with archival tape repair in the back.
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Biography / Bibliography
Per Wikipedia; Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of the interior of North America.
At the request of Louis XIV, the Récollets sent four missionaries to New France in May 1675, including Hennepin, accompanied by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. In 1676 Hennepin went to the Indian mission at Fort Frontenac, and from there to the Mohawks.
In 1678, Hennepin was ordered by his provincial superior to accompany La Salle on an expedition to explore the western part of New France. Hennepin departed in 1679 with La Salle from Quebec City to construct the 45-ton barque Le Griffon, sail through the Great Lakes, and explore the unknown West.
Hennepin was with La Salle at the construction of Fort Crevecoeur (near present-day Peoria, Illinois) in January 1680. In February, La Salle sent Hennepin and two others as an advance party to search for the fertile basin of the Mississippi River. The party followed the Illinois River to its junction with the Mississippi. Shortly thereafter, Hennepin was captured by a Sioux war party and carried off for a time into what is now the state of Minnesota.
In September 1680, thanks to Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Du Lhut, Hennepin and the others were given canoes and allowed to leave, eventually returning to Quebec. Hennepin returned to France and was never allowed by his order to return to North America. Local historians credit the Franciscan Récollet friar as the first European to step ashore at the site of present-day Hannibal, Missouri.
Two great waterfalls were brought to the world’s attention by Hennepin: Niagara Falls, with the most voluminous flow of any in North America, and the Saint Anthony Falls in what is now Minneapolis, the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River.
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