Voiages du R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et son Naufrage en Revenant en France

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Lot 32 | Voiages du R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et son Naufrage en Revenant en France
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Voiages du R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et son Naufrage en Revenant en France

R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, 1742

CRESPEL, R. P. Emmanuel (1703?-1775). Voiages du R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et son Naufrage en Revenant en France. Frankfurt: [for Louis Crespel,] 1742.



First edition, initialed by the author as usual, of a Recollet missionary's letters to his brother and editor documenting his experiences in Canada. The author "accompanied a punitive expedition against the Fox Indians who were interfering with French trade and communications around Lake Michigan. His relation is an important supplement to those of Sagard and Le Clercq on the same region" (Streeter). Sabin 17476; Streeter sale 122.



Octavo (151 x 90mm). (A few leaves just shaved, occasional stains, wormtrack in bottom margin of last third, affecting some type.) Modern blindstamped calf to style by Heritage Bindery. Provenance: faded stamp of a Pontifical College library.

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