Nouveaux Voyages dans L'Amerique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettres écrites sur les lieux, par l'auteur, à son ami, M. Douin… ci-devant son camarade dans le Nouveau Monde.
Amsterdam et à Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne, 1778.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
Nouvelle edition. Frontispiece, 3 plates (1 folding). xvi, 392 pp. Half title present. 1 vols. 8vo. Later half burgundy leather over marbled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Some light foxing, otherwise near fine. Handsome copy. Sabin 6470; Streeter Sale 1520; Howes B627.
Item #264701
Account of the author's third visit to Louisiana, then a Spanish colony, in 1771-1772. According to Sabin, the 1778 edition differs from the 1777 only in the title page. His first book, published in 1768, landed him in prison and explains the fictitious Amsterdam imprint in this work. This title is the least common of Bossu's writings on Louisiana.
