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(LOUISIANA.) Bossu, Jean-Bernard. Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale.
(LOUISIANA.) Bossu, Jean-Bernard. Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale. 4 engraved plates, including folding plate lacking corner and tastefully made up in facsimile (see illustration). 8vo, modern mottled calf, gilt-tooled flat spine with morocco lettering piece; coat of beige paint over blank upper portion of half-title, faint inked stamp on title page, scattered stains including one on plate facing page 162, late owner's notes on free endpapers. Amsterdam [i. e., Paris], 1777
- Notes: first edition of Bossu's account of his third visit to Louisiana. "He revisted his old friends, the Arkansas Indians, and on their behalf made a mission to the Caddos and Attakapas"--Streeter sale III:1520. Clark's Travels in the Old South II:5, Howes B627, Monaghan French Travellers 267, Sabin 6470.
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