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Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$40,000 - 60,000
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$201,600
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[Americana] [Champlain, Samuel de] Les voyages du sieur de Champlain xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine. Divisez en deux livres. ou, journal tres-fidele des observations faites es descouuertures de la nouuel...

... le France... Paris: Jean Berjon, 1613. First edition. Two parts in one. 4to (217 x 165 mm). (xx), 325, (5); 52 pp. Illustrated with three engraved folding plates, 8 engraved folding maps, 13 in-text engravings, and one woodcut diagram; large folding map "Carte Geographique de la Nouelle Franse Faictte..." in facsimile, linen backed, and bound facing p. 1; double-page map "Malle Barre" in facsimile, bound between pp. 88 and 89; folding map "Isle de sainte Croix" bound facing p. 134; map "Carte geographique de la Nouelle franse en sonaray meridien", second state (1613), linen backed and bound facing pp. 161; map "port fortune" repaired at bottom center; map on p. 9 corrected. Full red levant, stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; by W. Pratt for H. Stevens & Son 1889; bottom corner p. (vii/viii) repaired; two repairs in fore-edge p. 11/12; repairs at bottom p. 29/30; repair at bottom corner p. 109/110; repair top corner pp. 117/118; wormhole repairs bottom corner pp. 129-48; repair at bottom of map facing p. 176; scattered marginalia; scattered minor spotting. Church 360; Burden 160, 161, 166-81; Sabin 11835.

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