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Paix accordée par l’Empereur de France, aux Iroquois de la Nation Tsonnont8an

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Lot 17 | Paix accordée par l’Empereur de France, aux Iroquois de la Nation Tsonnont8an
Paix accordée par l’Empereur de France, aux Iroquois de la Nation Tsonnont8an

1667

IROQUOIS TREATY – Paix accordée par l’Empereur de France, aux Iroquois de la Nation Tsonnont8an. A Quebec le vingt deuxiéme May 1666 (caption title). [Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, Imprimeur du Roy, 1667.]



The first printed record of one of the earliest European attempts to deal with Native North Americans as sovereign peoples. This document comprises three similar treaties with three branches of the Iroquois, all relating to Louis XIV’s desire to secure the southern boundaries of New France. The earliest such printed treaty in English was a full ten years later, in 1677, between the Iroquois and British, and listed as no. 1 in Du Puy’s bibliography of English-Native treaties. Harrisse lists only one other printing of another French-Native treaty from about this date or earlier. It is with the Seneca, and from the same conference, dated 25 May 1666 (no. 555). The principal negotiator was Alexandre de Prouville, Marquis de Tracy, then the French Viceroy in Canada following a series of military campaigns against the Indians in the summer and fall of 1666. Jesuit fathers François Le Mercier and Marie Chaumonot acted as interpreters (a full account of the debates is given in Thwaites, Jesuit Relations XXVII, pp247-73). There are copies of this one known with an inserted title-page, but this has been deemed a later, probably 19th century, addition (see cataloguing of the copies at JCB and the Beinecke). Alden & Landis 667⁄45; Sabin 96559 (with spurious title); not in Harrisse Nouvelle France.



Quarto (238 x 171mm). 12 pages (toned, marginal dampstain touching a few letters). Modern calf gilt to style.

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