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228. # AMERICA - GULF OF MEXICO & MISSISSIPPI
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228. # AMERICA - GULF OF MEXICO & MISSISSIPPI
Estimate €5,000 - €7,000
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228. # AMERICA - GULF OF MEXICO & MISSISSIPPI
JOUTEL (HENRI) Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure, & le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi, nommée à present la Riviere de Saint Loüis, qui traverse la Louisiane, FIRST EDITION, folding engraved map, light toning, occasional faint scattered spotting, contemporary speckled calf gilt, red morocco title label, hinges cracked at spine extremities, loss to extremities of spine, corners bumped [Sabin 36760], 12mo (168 x 98mm.), Paris, Estienne Robinot, 1713
THE ONLY EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF LA SALLE'S FINAL EXPEDITION. La Salle's mission was to establish a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi, but he was blown off course from France and landed in Texas. His colony there failed and he was murdered by his companions. The map is based on Joutel's own observations and accurately traces the Mississippi to its source.
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