Lot 61: HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-1705?). Nouveau Voyage d'un Pais plus grande que L'Europe. Utrecht: [E. Voskuyl for] Antoine Schouten, 1698.

HENNEPIN, Louis (1640-1705?). Nouveau Voyage d'un Pais plus grande que L'Europe. Utrecht: [E. Voskuyl for] Antoine Schouten, 1698.

12υo (144 x 85 mm). Title-page printed in red and black. One engraved folding map and 4 engraved folding plates (plates with a few repaired tears, folding map with some repairs on verso affecting tiny areas of text, some light browning). Modern vellum.

FIRST EDITION. This edition of Hennepin's writings is a continuation of his Nouveau voyage of the previous year, and comprises material about La Salle derived from Chrétien Le Clercq's Etablissement de la foy dans la Nouvelle France (Paris, 1691) and the description of the Indians which had first appeared in Hennepin's own Description de la Louisiane (Paris, 1683). One of the plates shows La Salle disembarking in Texas, another shows him being assassinated. Alden & Landis 698/101; Arents Tobacco 432; Church 774n; Harrisse NF 177; Howes H-417; Sabin 31351; Streeter sale I:104; Streit II:2775.