18. BOSSU (Jean-Bernard). Nouveaux voyages aux... Lot 18

18. BOSSU (Jean-Bernard). Nouveaux voyages aux Indes occidentales containing a relation of the different peoples who inhabit the vicinity of the great St. Louis river, commonly called the Mississippi, their religion, their government, their morals, their wars and their trade. Paris, Le Jay, 1768. 2 volumes in one vol. in-12, xx, 244 p., [2] f., 252 p., [4] f., marbled basane with the arms of Emmanuel-Dieudonné d'Hautefort, spine with ornate nerves (remboitage). First edition of this exploratory account of Louisiana's encounter with the Amerindian peoples by the navigator and explorer Jean-Bernard Bossu (1720-1792). The text is illustrated with four engraved figures after Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724-1780). After twelve years spent criss-crossing the wilds of North America, Bossu leaves us with a large amount of little-known details about the natives. Bound with the arms of Emmanuel Dieudonné d'Hautefort (1700-1777), marquis of Hautefort and Sarcelles, count of Surville and Montignac, viscount of Segur, baron of Thénon, Julhac, La Flotte and Béhéricourt, knight of Malta, knight of Saint-Louis, knight of the king's orders. He had a military career and was then entrusted with an embassy in Vienna. (OHR 1622-1). Binding rubbed, headpieces torn off, occasional large and pronounced foxing, marginal marks and other minor defects. (Chadenat, 3140; Sabin, 6465).