[Native Americana] Bacqueville de la Potherie (Claude-Charles Le Roy) Histoire de l'Amerique septentrionale...

Paris: Chez Jean-Luc Nion...et Francois Didot, 1722. In four volumes. First edition. 12mo. Complete with the tables at the end of each volume. Illustrated with 28 engraved plates, including engraved title-page in the first volume, folding plates, and three engraved maps. Bound in near-contemporary full mottled calf, lightly worn; gilt spine compartments; morocco spine labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers. With the armorial book-plate of Comte Francois Potocki on the front paste-down of the first volume. Sabin 1692; Howes B-23.

"…De la Potherie's work...is a history of the Indian nations of Canada, being entirely to that subject and the relations of the French with the natives..." (Field, pp.15-16)