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Beschryving van Louisania, Nieuwelijks ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw-Vrankryk, door order van den Koning by HENNEPIN, Louis

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Title: Beschryving van Louisania, Nieuwelijks ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw-Vrankryk, door order van den Koning
Author: HENNEPIN, Louis
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: * Bell, p. 263; Field 168; JCB 1539; Pequot 338; Sabin 31,357; Howes H-415; Alden-Landis 688/120; Streit II.2738; not in Church;
Description: Amsterdam: Jan Ten Hoorn, 1688. * Bell, p. 263; Field 168; JCB 1539; Pequot 338; Sabin 31,357; Howes H-415; Alden-Landis 688/120; Streit II.2738; not in Church; Denys: Sabin 19,616, usually found at the end of Hennepins Louisiana; Alden-Landis 688/75.. First Dutch edition of the first and most important of Hennepins writings (Howes), translated from the 1683 French original, Description de la Louisiane, and here augmented by Denys description of New France, BOTH ILLUSTRATED WITH NEW PLATES. This, Hennepins first published work, is notable for being the earliest printed account of La Salles 1678-9 journey to what is now Illinois, and the first book to use the name Louisiane (although Hennepin claimed to have coined this phrase, it was in fact La Salle who had first named the region). The Description also relates Hennepins travels up the Mississippi River north of Wisconsin, and contains the first published description of Niagara Falls. One of the most important volumes in the early history of North America (Lande).The accompanying map, here entitled Kaart van Nieuw Vrankrijk en van Louisania (sic) reproduces the famous map by Guerard that appeared in the 1683 edition. It locates Fort Creve Coeur, Michilimakinac, etc. Lakes Superior, Huron and Erie appear with their modern names, while the Atlantic Ocean appears as the Canadian Sea.Hennepins Description de la Louisiane was immediately popular, with three French editions published within five years, and numerous translationsnotably, the first was Italian in 1686 (12mo.), followed by this Dutch edition. Two German translations appeared in Nuremberg in 1689 (reprinted 1692) and in Bremen in 1690. Four new plates appear in this edition (and the two in Denys Beschrijving are likely by the same engraver). While the original French editions contained only the map and two platesdepicting Niagara Falls and a bisonthese depict scenes of daily aboriginal life, as well as interactions with the Europeans.The Beschryving van Louisania was issued with a second title, Denys geographical and historical description of the coasts of North America. This work, which had first appeared in Paris in 1672 as Description Geographique, was only rarely sold separately. The country over which M. Denys claimed to exercise jurisdiction under the King of France extended from Cape Canso, at the eastern extremity of Nova Scotia to Cape Rosier, at the mouth of Penobscot Bay. The author includes geographic and anthropological descriptions of the French territory, discusses native attire and customs, the lucrative bakkeljauw (codfish) fishery, and a chapter on the cold, snowy winters. One of the two plates illustrates the Strange history of a Sea- or Merman in Canso harbor (p. 44).

The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Boorstin, Daniel J. [Bush, George H.W.]

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Title: The Americans: The Democratic Experience
Author: Boorstin, Daniel J. [Bush, George H.W.]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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Description: New York: Random House, 1990. Presentation Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Presentation copy of The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin, a Christmas gift from President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to White House Social Secretary, Laurie Firestone.. Octavo, [xiv], 717pp, [3]. Full red morocco, title in gilt on spine, decorative raised bands, presidential seal on cover. Top edge dyed blue. Includes laid-in White House placement card for "The President and Mrs. Bush." Inscribed on a presidential bookplate affixed to front endpaper: "To Laurie Firestone / Merry Christmas 1990 - with love from all the Bushes / George Bush." Laurie Firestone served as Social Secretary to President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush during both the eight-year term as Vice President, and the following four-year term as President. She wrote "An Affair to Remember: State Dinners for Home Entertaining," a memoir of her time at the White House. This copy of The Americans: The Democratic Experience was specially bound in full leather for intimates of the Bush family, including his son Neil Bush, General Colin Powell, former President Jimmy Carter, and others. During their time in the White House, the Bush family had five books rebound as gifts for the holiday season, including: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin, Inaugural Addresses: 1789-1989, and Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus. All were inscribed by President Bush on bookplates from 1989-1992.

The Caravan, Fall, 1934 by [William Everson] Anne Spalding [ed.]; Margaret Miller [illus.]

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Title: The Caravan, Fall, 1934
Author: [William Everson] Anne Spalding [ed.]; Margaret Miller [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fresno, CA: Fresno State College Associated Students, 1934. Very Good. Fresno, CA: Fresno State College Associated Students, 1934. First Edition. Slim quarto (27cm); publisher's brown pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 39pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to wrapper margins, faint contemporary pencil gift inscription to upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Student periodical containing three poems by San Francisco Renaissance poet William Everson, preceding his first separately published work by a year. "The Caravan" usefully provides editorial comments to accompany the contributions, noting that William Everson's "more vagrant verse might be said to dance along the page." (note accompanying "Autumn Song," p. 31).

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