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Lot 172
Sale 503 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sep 13, 2017
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BAUDRY DES LOZIERES, Louis N. (1761-1841)
Voyage a la Louisiane, et sur le Continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale, fait dans les Annees 1794 a 1798. Paris: Dentu, 1802.8vo (200 x 124 mm). Half-title, engraved folding map. (Scant spotting). Calf backed boards, spine gilt (Head of spine with loss, upper cover detached.). FIRST EDITION, "principally occupied with a resume of the history of the country purported to be visited, with scarcely nothing of personal observation...his owrk is pirncipally notable for 'Two Vocabularies of the Savages,' the Naoudoouessis and the Chipouais" (Field 99). Sabin 3979.
