Journal of a Voyage to North-America. Undertaken by Order of the French King. Containing The Geographical Description and Natural History of that Country, particularly Canada. Together with An Account of the Customs, Characters, Religion, Manners, and Traditions of the Original Inhabitants. In a series of Letters to the Duchess of Lesdiguieres. Translated from the French of P. de Charlevoix

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8vo. 21cm, first edition in English, in two volumes, viii,382 & viii,380, [xxii],pp.with one engraved folding map, bound in quarter dark brown calf,gilt ruled bands, fleurs-de-lis gilt stamped decoration in the panels, crimson crushed morocco labels, marbled boards, without half-titles or ads., else a tall clean set in attractive fine binding.(cgc) Lande 128. Vlach 149. Sabin 12139. Howes C-308.T.P.L. 190 (later edition). Clarke I-60. On Charlevoix's second trip to Canada in 1720, he was commissioned by the French Government to seek a route to the western sea. He journeyed to Lake Superior and descended the Mississippi, visiting the posts of what were then the extremities of the western frontier of New France.This is a translation of Volume Three of Charlevoix's `Histoire',1744, which recounted his two year journey through French North America. He was the only traveller of the first part of the eighteenth century to describe the interior of America. His history of New France was the first general history of Canada to be published. Seller Inventory # 36602

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