A Memoir of Jacques Cartier sieur de Limoilou; His voyages to St. Lawrence. A Bibliography and a Facsimile of the Manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. Octavo (248 x 170 mm.), ix, 464 pp., 29 ill., index, bibliography, facsimiles, genealogy (folding), maps (2 folding), cloth with paper label on spine, top edge gilt. Good, binding including spine label and feps soiled, corners and fore edges bumped, internal hinges cracking but binding sound, deckle edge browned, staining close to sewing on several pages but generally internally clean. Item #684
Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) was a French mariner whose explorations of the Canadian coast and the St Lawrence River in 1534, 1535 and 1541-1542 laid the basis for later French claims to the area. He is also credited with naming Canada. Edition limited to 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper, this one of the 300. Includes vocabulary of the natives of Canada.
Price: $275.00