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Catalogue
74
America
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76.
[LE BLANC, JEAN-BERNARD]. Le Patriote Anglois, ou Reflexions
sur les Hostilités que la France reproche à 'Angleterre,
Et sur la Réponse de nos Ministres au dernier Mémoire
de Sa M. T. C. Ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois De John Tell Truth,
par un Avocat du Parlement de Paris. A Geneve, M.DCC.LVI. [1756].
$2,750
Large 12mo (in 4's and 8's); 2 ff (half-title and title), pp. xii,
158, f (Errata); later roan spine over marbled paper-covered boards;
marbled endpapers; overall, a fine large copy of a relatively scarce
work.
Howes L168; Sabin 59090; Echeverria & Wilkie 756/21; Knuttel
18506 (citing Paris in brackets, rather than Geneva); Lande 514;
not in Casey, Gagnon, Streeter, TPL or Vlach. While purporting to
be a translation from the English of "John Tell Truth",
this work is, in fact, the original edition and relates primarily
to America and the war there - letters on Boscawen, Braddock, etc.
A "pseudo-translation" (Echeverria & Wilkie) and an
early example of propaganda, wherein a vitriolic anti-British work
purports to be a translation from a 'right-thinking' British politician.
Interesting and scarce.
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Third, and Best, Edition from the Bibliotheca Colbertina
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77. LESCARBOT, MARC (1590-c.1630). Histoire de la Nouvelle
France. Contenant les navigations, découvertes, & habitations
faites par les François és Indes Occidentales &
Nouvelle-France, par commission de noz Roys Tres-Chrétiens,
& les diverses fortunes d'iceux en l'execution de ses choses,
depuis cent ans jusques à hui. Paris, Adrian Perier, 1618.
Third, and best, edition.
[bound with]:
LESCARBOT, MARC. Les Muses de la Nouvelle France. Paris,
Adrian Perier, 1618. $21,850
8vo; pp. 55, [1], 970 (i.e. 926), f; pp.76; 2 (of 4) folding, engraved
maps; pagination error omits pp. 481-484 and pp. 741-780; recent
full calf, blind-ruled; the 2 maps lacking are those of New France
and Florida; the 2 maps present are of Newfoundland and Brazil (the
latter new to this edition); old waterstain runs along tail of leaves,
not affecting text; overall, a very good copy of a notoriously scarce
book; the second state, with the imprint date of 1618.
Harrisse, "Notes sur la Nouvelle France," 31; Church II:
372; Leclerc (1867), 886; Borba de Moraes II, p. 474; Alden 618/74
& 618/75; Kershaw I: 59 and plate 35. The work, by this Protestant
lawyer and member of de Poutrincourt's expedition to Nova Scotia,
served as an incentive for the French colonization of New France.
Lescarbot portrays the part that the French have always played in
the discoveries of the New World and argues that they should now
follow through by settling Canada. The work had considerable success,
borne out by the several editions and translations that appeared.
The author writes in a lively style, depicting New France as a paradise
and the natives as noble savages; indeed, it had a great influence
on the eighteenth-century "philosophes" and their theories
of "le bon sauvage." "This is the best Lescarbot
edition, the most complete, with the material rearranged, and the
narrative brought up to date, and a new map [of Brazil]." -
(Borba de Moraes) This edition "is the best and only complete
edition of Lescarbot's most important work, containing many more
pages than the others, and bringing the narrative down to the time
it was published. It received the last touches of Lescarbot's hand,
and may therefore be considered the most desirable of them all.
It differs in arrangement from the previous editions, and contains
in addition an account of "the second voyage of Poutrincourt."
The last copy to come up in the rooms in complete condition with
all the maps was the Siebert copy in 1999, which fetched US$74,000.
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78.
LONGCHAMPS, PIERRE de, [l'abbé]. Histoire Impartiale
des Evenemens Militaires et Politiques de la Dernière Guerre,
dans les quatre parties du monde. A Amsterdam, Et à Paris,
Chez la Veuve Duchesne..., 1785. Three volumes. First edition, second
issue? $950
12mo; pp. [4], [3]-564; pp. [2], [3]-531, [1] (blank); f, pp. 618,
[3] (Errata), [1] (blank); contemporary full calf little rubbed,
and spines chipped at extremities; sporadic light foxing and some
age-browning; overall, a very good set.
Vide Gephart 5702 (no collation); Howes L447 and Barbier II:812
(both claiming same collation as the Paris ed.); Echeverria &
Wilkie 785/62; Sabin 41905; Fay, p.21; BNF refers to this imprint
as the "2e tirage". The collation of this issue differs
slightly from the earlier edition, but the errata leaves are bound
in, and the corrections to the text have not been made. While this
work covers repercussions of the American Revolution as seen in
other parts of the world, it is devoted largely to the part that
France played in America during the Revolution, and is one of the
earliest of French accounts pertaining to that war.
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79.
[LOUISIANA]. Documents Relating to the Purchase and Exploration
of Louisiana. I. The Limits and Bounds of Louisiana by Thomas Jefferson.
II. The Exploration of the Red, the Black, and the Washita Rivers
by William Dunbar… Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin &
Company, 1904. First edition. $750
8vo; pp. 45; 189; 76; 2 ports., folding map. Original blue cloth,
printed paper label; engraved bookplate; spare label tipped in;
uncut. One of 550 copies.
Howes L490. Jefferson sent these documents to The American Philosophical
Society in 1817, and they remained in the Society's library until
published in this edition. The Jefferson papers summarize the historical
events leading to the laying down of the boundaries of the Louisiana
Purchase, and include literary references compiled by Jefferson.
The second document is the so-called "Dunbar Journal"
kept by William Dunbar on a voyage of exploration to survey the
new territory. A fine copy of this very interesting publication.
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Border Laws for the Port of Saint John
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80. [LOWER CANADA. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. JAY'S TREATY]. Order
of the Governor in Council, For further regulating the Inland Navigation
from the United States by the Port of St. Johns [sic]. Ordre du
Gouverneur en Conseil, Qui regle plus amplement la Navigation intérieure
des Etats-Unis par le Port de St. Jean ... [Quebec, William Vondenvelden,
1797]. $400
4to; pp.[4]; caption title, English and French on facing pages;
disbound, very clean.
TPL 703; Tremaine 1047 - "Order of the governor-in-council,
dated from Quebec, Aug. 22, 1797, and signed by Herman Witsius Ryland."
The French translation is by "X. Lanaudiere, S. & T.F.".
This order determines the border tarifs which merchant vessels must
pay when they leave St. John to sail to the United States. It is
an order subsequent to the Treaty between the United States and
the British Colonies in Canada, known as Jay's Treaty, or le Traité
de Jay, after the name of the American negotiator, John Jay. The
latter treaty, signed in 1794, opened up the borders between the
two countries. A very good copy and an early example of printed
Canadiana.
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