SAGARD-THÉODAT, Gabriel (d. c.1650). Histoire du Canada et voyages que les frères mineurs recollets y ont facts pour la conversion des infidelles. Paris: Claude Sonnius, 1636.
SAGARD-THÉODAT, Gabriel (d. c.1650). Histoire du Canada et voyages que les frères mineurs recollets y ont facts pour la conversion des infidelles. Paris: Claude Sonnius, 1636.
The first edition of this very rare first-hand account, an important primary source for the Recollect missionaries in Canada. According to the auction records of ABPC and RBH this is only the third copy to appear at auction in the past 40 years. Recollect friars accompanied Champlain to New France in 1615; they established themselves in Quebec to a greater extent than the Jesuits but were forced out in 1629 after the British captured Quebec City. Father Sagard lived amongst the Hurons in present-day southern Ontario from 1623 to 1624 and here provides rich detail on culture and language. This copy with 3 leaves [4 pp.] inserted after p. 312, being a Huron song in four voices, but without the blank leaf which sometimes follows. Of the eight copies listed by Church, only three have the music leaves present. “The travels and missionary labors of the Recollects among the Indians of Canada, for nine years before the arrival of Father Sagard, form the subject of Book I. The narrative of his Grand Voyage to the Country of the Hurons, which appeared three years before, is extended by additional particulars, from chapters xxii., in the edition of 1632, to xlvi. in Book II ... Book III. is a reproduction of Part II. of the Grand Voyage, with new matter increasing it from 85 to 135 pages. Book IV. contains the history of the Recollect missions to the end of 1629" (Field). Father Sagard published this work after Richelieu declined to reinstate the Recollects in France, giving preference to the Jesuits. Church 435; JCB (1919) II, p. 261; Pilling Iroquoian, p. 148; Sabin 74885 ('extremely rare').
Octavo (168 x 96mm). (Lower right corner of title and lower third of final index leaf restored with facsimile.) Old vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some soiling). Provenance: partially effaced ownership inscription to title.
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SAGARD-THÉODAT, Gabriel (d. c.1650). Histoire du Canada et voyages que les frères mineurs recollets y ont facts pour la conversion des infidelles. Paris: Claude Sonnius, 1636.
The first edition of this very rare first-hand account, an important primary source for the Recollect missionaries in Canada. According to the auction records of ABPC and RBH this is only the third copy to appear at auction in the past 40 years. Recollect friars accompanied Champlain to New France in 1615; they established themselves in Quebec to a greater extent than the Jesuits but were forced out in 1629 after the British captured Quebec City. Father Sagard lived amongst the Hurons in present-day southern Ontario from 1623 to 1624 and here provides rich detail on culture and language. This copy with 3 leaves [4 pp.] inserted after p. 312, being a Huron song in four voices, but without the blank leaf which sometimes follows. Of the eight copies listed by Church, only three have the music leaves present. “The travels and missionary labors of the Recollects among the Indians of Canada, for nine years before the arrival of Father Sagard, form the subject of Book I. The narrative of his Grand Voyage to the Country of the Hurons, which appeared three years before, is extended by additional particulars, from chapters xxii., in the edition of 1632, to xlvi. in Book II ... Book III. is a reproduction of Part II. of the Grand Voyage, with new matter increasing it from 85 to 135 pages. Book IV. contains the history of the Recollect missions to the end of 1629" (Field). Father Sagard published this work after Richelieu declined to reinstate the Recollects in France, giving preference to the Jesuits. Church 435; JCB (1919) II, p. 261; Pilling Iroquoian, p. 148; Sabin 74885 ('extremely rare').
Octavo (168 x 96mm). (Lower right corner of title and lower third of final index leaf restored with facsimile.) Old vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some soiling). Provenance: partially effaced ownership inscription to title.
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