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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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86.
LE CLERCQ, CHRESTIEN. Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, qui
contient les Moeurs & la Religion des Sauvages Gaspésiens
Porte-Croix, adorateurs du Soleil, & d'autres Peuples de l'Amérique
Septentrionale, dite le Canada. Paris, Amable Auroy, 1691. First
edition.
12mo; 14 ff, pp. 572, [4]; contemporary full calf, spine gilt; tiny
chip at head of spine; a very good, very clean copy of this scarce
work, and complete with the scarce 4-pp. Table des Chapitres. With
the engraved armorial bookplate of Cardinal de Rohan, Prince de
Rohan-Guéménée, Archbishop of Strassbourg.
Harrisse NNF: 170; Chadenat 3272: "Ouvrage très recherché
et de la plus grande rareté"; Vlach 450; Gagnon I: 2001
(with 4-pp. Table); TPL 110; Lande 517; Sabin 39649; JCB, p. 242;
Pilling, Algonquin, p. 305; Church 717; Field 902 (with 4-pp. Table);
Streeter Sale VI: 3633; Dionne II: 227; European-Americana 691/77
("The 'Table des chapitres'.... is found in only some copies
of this issue"). Le Clercq was a Recollet priest who spent
a great deal of time in what are now Quebec and New Brunswick. This
work is very important as it relates to the efforts of the missionaries
to convert the Indians of the Gaspé peninsula. It discusses
in great detail the natives' customs, dress, family life, and social
intercourse before the impact of the European influx and settlement.
Of great importance also are the examples of the Micmac language.
Given the fact that he spent about twelve years with the Micmacs,
knew their language, had day-to-day contact with them, and was held
in high esteem by them, his Relation is one of the most reliable
guides to Indian life and one of the best-written and most reliable
sources of information relating to the formative years of New France.
The 4-pp. "Table des Chapitres" is present in very few
copies of this first edition (vide Paltsits' "Bibliographical
Description in New Relation of Gaspesia", Champlain Society,
1910). A very scarce issue in very good condition.
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An Important Authority on the Micronesian Islands
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87. LE GOBIEN, CHARLES. Histoire des isles Marianes, nouvellement
converties à la Religion Chrestienne; & de la mort glorieuse
des premiers Missionaires qui y ont prêché la Foy.
Paris, Nicolas Pepie, 1700. First edition.
12mo; pp. [24], 433, [12] (Table, Privilège, Errata); 2 folding
engraved maps; contemporary full calf, spines gilt; lower corners
worn; fine engraved bookplate; a very good copy, complete with half-title.
Palau 134431; Robertson, p. 123; Sommervogel III, 1513: 3. Le Gobien,
a Jesuit priest, was secretary to the French Jesuit missions and
it was he who initiated and edited the 26-volume Lettres édifiantes
et curieuses..... of the early eighteenth-century, that massive
undertaking which brought together the writings and letters of Jesuits
in all of the Society's overseas missions. This work is his account
of the Jesuit mission initiated by Diego Luis de Sanvitores in the
Mariana or Ladrone Islands, that group of Micronesian islands in
the western Pacific which includes Guam. One of the maps shows an
overall view of the Marianas, while the other is a detailed map
of Guam. An excellent work, which was used by James Burney in volume
III of his Chronological History of … the Pacific Ocean as
an important authority.
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88.
LONG, J[OHN] Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter
and Trader, Describing the Manners and Customs of the North American
Indians; with an Account of the Posts situated on the River Saint
Laurence, Lake Ontario, &c. To which is added, A Vocabulary
of The Chippeway Language ... London, Printed for the Author, 1791.
First edition. $3,500
4to; f, pp. x, f (Errata), 295; 1 folding engraved map. Gray boards,
worn; recent tan paper back, printed paper label; uncut, and partially
unopened. Complete with errata leaf and list of subscribers. The
map relates to the area from the Great Lakes to James Bay. A very
clean large-paper copy, with the contemporary signature of J.D.(?)
Tyrwhitt at upper left corner of front pastedown.
Sabin 41878; Howes L445; TPL 597; Str. VI: 3651; Lande 1289; Cox
II, p. 163; Gagnon II: 1242; Graff 2527; JCB 3465. A fascinating
account of the customs, manners and living habits of the Indians
and early Canadian traders. The author resided in North America
for nineteen years. He gives an intimate view of the treatment of
the Indians by the British, as well as a valuable linguistic account
of the various Indian languages.
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89.
[LUCETT, EDWARD]. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849;
with A Glance at California. By a Merchant, Long Resident at Tahiti.
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. Two volumes.
First edition. $3,200
8vo; pp. xii, 351, (1), 32 (Publ. Cat.); pp. xi, 371, (1); 4 coloured
lithographed plates; later speckled calf. A very good set.
Abbey 600; Str. V:2672; Cowan, p. 144; Howes L552; Judd 114; Sabin
73525; Hocken 161; Hill, p.185: "This journal is a rather spirited
one of adventure in almost every island of the Pacific, and an excellent
account of the troubles in Tahiti, and its annexation by the French.
The author visited the Bay of Islands, Auckland, New Zealand, the
Hawaiian Islands, Pitcairn Island, the Philippines, and San Francisco.
The last chapter in volume two gives a very unflattering picture
of San Francisco and Sacramento during the height of the gold rush."
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90.
LUMHOLTZ, CARL. Blandt Menneskeaedere fire aars Reise I Australien.
Copenhagen, O.H. Delbanco et al., 1888. First edition. $350
8vo; 3 ff, pp. x, iv, 495, (1); 13 plates, 4 of which are coloured
lithographs; numerous illustrations included in the pagination;
2 coloured folding maps. Later half-calf and marbled boards. A very
good copy.
Ferguson 11768: "The author spent 4 years...travelling in Queensland
with the object of making collections for the zoological and zootomical
museums of the University of Christiania, and of instituting researches
into the then little known native tribes inhabiting that part of
the continent."
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