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JOUTEL, Henri (ca. 1640-1735).
A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. De la Sale to the Gulph of Mexico, to Find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi River.
London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker, 1714.
Comparable: Christie's, 2007 - $15,000.
8vo (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 19.7 x 11.4 cm). Title within a double-ruled border, large folding map of the “County of Louisiana and … River Missisipi in North America”; map browned along folds, long tear near the river Madelina in bottom margin, fold separation in top margin, pagination error from N8 to the end. 20th century half brown morocco over marbled boards, brown endpapers, top edge gilt; extremities rubbed.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with the fine map showing the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, portions of Texas, and the east coast of America. “[T]he map and the account are important documents of the East Texas region” (Streeter sale 1:112). In 1684, La Salle received royal approval for his plan to establish a French colony in newly named Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi. His ship ran off course and in 1685 landed at Matagorda Bay in present-day Texas where the expedition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a colony. Most of the expedition’s supplies spent, La Salle set off with some of his men to seek help at Fort St. Louis des Illinois. Dissension in his party and in the colony resulted in desertion and murder, and finally La Salle’s own assassination in March 1687. Joutel and other surviving members of the expedition travelled north to safety over land and river by way of the Illinois Country to New France in what became Canada. His journal provides some of the earliest written information on the interior, natural history, and ethnography of central North America. Of the three narratives by Joutel, Cavalier and Douay of this fateful voyage, the present account is widely regarded as the best.
PROVENANCE: John R. Jones, bookseller (contemporary label “nearly opposite Eagle Tav. Richmond” on verso of title-page); Chicago Historical Society (perforated library stamp on title-page and p. xi, deaccession ticket on rear pastedown)
REFERENCES: Alden & Landis 714/40; Church 859; Clark, Old South 1:14; Field 808; Graff 2252; Howes J-266; Sabin 36762; Streeter sale 1:112; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 79b.
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JOUTEL, Henri (ca. 1640-1735).
A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. De la Sale to the Gulph of Mexico, to Find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi River.
London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker, 1714.
Comparable: Christie's, 2007 - $15,000.
8vo (7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 19.7 x 11.4 cm). Title within a double-ruled border, large folding map of the “County of Louisiana and … River Missisipi in North America”; map browned along folds, long tear near the river Madelina in bottom margin, fold separation in top margin, pagination error from N8 to the end. 20th century half brown morocco over marbled boards, brown endpapers, top edge gilt; extremities rubbed.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with the fine map showing the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, portions of Texas, and the east coast of America. “[T]he map and the account are important documents of the East Texas region” (Streeter sale 1:112). In 1684, La Salle received royal approval for his plan to establish a French colony in newly named Louisiana, at the mouth of the Mississippi. His ship ran off course and in 1685 landed at Matagorda Bay in present-day Texas where the expedition unsuccessfully attempted to establish a colony. Most of the expedition’s supplies spent, La Salle set off with some of his men to seek help at Fort St. Louis des Illinois. Dissension in his party and in the colony resulted in desertion and murder, and finally La Salle’s own assassination in March 1687. Joutel and other surviving members of the expedition travelled north to safety over land and river by way of the Illinois Country to New France in what became Canada. His journal provides some of the earliest written information on the interior, natural history, and ethnography of central North America. Of the three narratives by Joutel, Cavalier and Douay of this fateful voyage, the present account is widely regarded as the best.
PROVENANCE: John R. Jones, bookseller (contemporary label “nearly opposite Eagle Tav. Richmond” on verso of title-page); Chicago Historical Society (perforated library stamp on title-page and p. xi, deaccession ticket on rear pastedown)
REFERENCES: Alden & Landis 714/40; Church 859; Clark, Old South 1:14; Field 808; Graff 2252; Howes J-266; Sabin 36762; Streeter sale 1:112; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 79b.
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