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Rare and modern books

Hanotaux, Gabirel, Louis Barthou, Renè Bazin, Etienne Lamy, Etc., (Auguste Lepëre)

La mission Champlain aux Etats-Unis et Canada. Avril-Mai 1912 (with two original prints by Auguste LepËre)

Editions France-AmÈrique, 1913

495.00 €

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Details

Year of publication
1913
Place of printing
Paris
Author
Hanotaux, Gabirel, Louis Barthou, Renè Bazin, Etienne Lamy, Etc., (Auguste Lepëre)
Publishers
Editions France-AmÈrique
Keyword
coleillus voyages travels voyage united states french canada, champlain
Languages
English

Description

FIRST AND ONLY EDITION (aside from recent junky reprints) OF THIS ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA UNDERTAKEN IN 1912 BY A GROUP OF FRENCH DIGNITARIES TO CELEBRATE CHAMPLAIN'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS. They departed on the ocean liner SS France the day after the Titanic disaster and remained for several weeks. Includes accounts of New York, Mount Vernon, Washington, Columbia and Harvard Universities, Lake Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Niagara Falls, etc. 2 leaves; X, 225 pp plus TWO FULL-PAGE HORS-TEXTE ORIGINAL PRINTS BY AUGUSTE LEPERE, a wood-engraving and an etching. Edition limited to 230 numbered copies printed on fine Rives laid paper. 4to. Attractively bound in marbled boards. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare.