LA DECOUVERTE DU MISSOURI ET L'HISTOIRE DU FORT D'ORLEANS (1673 - 1728)

by Villiers de Terrage, Marc:

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Paris. 1925.. 138pp. plus 2 maps, and ads. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Wraps bit tanned, else a crisp fine copy. From an edition limited to 350 copies, printed on hand-made paper. An important work for the early history of French exploration in the Missouri River valley. "First publication of the two journals of Bourgmond describing his 1714 and 1717 trips to the upper Missouri as far as the Cheyenne River. He later established a fort on the lower Missouri and led expeditions in to Kansas" - Howes. HOWES V105. GRAFF 4489. RADER 3540.

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