Bossu (Jean Bernard . Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales; contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appelle vulgairement le Mississippi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs; leurs guerres et leur commerce, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Le Jay, 1768, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved plates, marginal toning to endpapers, bookplates of Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart (see note), contemporary sprinkled calf, volume 1 lower corners bumped, a little rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 2) Provenance: Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903; see lot 317). Howes B626; Sabin 6465 (for the second edition, published the same year: 'I find no record of the first edition'). A collection of 21 letters written by Bossu, a French army officer, recounting his life and travels from 1751 to 1762 in Louisiana, travelling as far north as Fort Chartres (now in Illinois) and as far east as the French post at Mobile. The author was imprisoned briefly for his criticism of the governor of New Orleans, and his book banned in France, which may account for the relative scarcity of this first edition.
Bossu (Jean Bernard . Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales; contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appelle vulgairement le Mississippi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs; leurs guerres et leur commerce, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Le Jay, 1768, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved plates, marginal toning to endpapers, bookplates of Sir Michael R. Shaw-Stewart (see note), contemporary sprinkled calf, volume 1 lower corners bumped, a little rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 2) Provenance: Sir Michael Robert Shaw Stewart, 7th Baronet (1826-1903; see lot 317). Howes B626; Sabin 6465 (for the second edition, published the same year: 'I find no record of the first edition'). A collection of 21 letters written by Bossu, a French army officer, recounting his life and travels from 1751 to 1762 in Louisiana, travelling as far north as Fort Chartres (now in Illinois) and as far east as the French post at Mobile. The author was imprisoned briefly for his criticism of the governor of New Orleans, and his book banned in France, which may account for the relative scarcity of this first edition.
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