HISTOIRE DE LA LOUISIANE..

1758 · Pari

by Le Page du Pratz, Antoin
Pari: Chez de Bure [et al], 1758. Three volumes. xvi,358; 441; 451,[3]pp., plus forty engraved plates, two folding maps, folding plan, and errata. Half title in each volume. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines richly gilt. A fine, fresh set. One of the most useful contemporary authorities on French Louisiana, based on the author's sixteen-year residence there. Jefferson instructed Lewis and Clark to take an edition of the book on their expedition. Le Page du Pratz affords a great deal of useful information on the Natchez and other Mississippi tribes, and his work as a whole has been the basis for many later studies of the period. "...Valuable for (truncated)
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