Item #61108 Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson. Being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. Transcribed from original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. With historical illustrations and an introduction by Gideon D. Scull. Peter Esprit Radisson.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson. Being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. Transcribed from original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. With historical illustrations and an introduction by Gideon D. Scull

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson. Being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. Transcribed from original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. With historical illustrations and an introduction by Gideon D. Scull

Boston: The Prince Society, 1885. Edition limited to 250 copies, small square 4to, pp. vi, [2], 385, [1]; slightly later full green cloth, gilt title on spine, gift plate from the estate of Dr. Otto L Schmidt (president of the Illinois State Historical Society); touch of scuffing to boards and darkening of spine, near fine. "First printing of these famous journals. Radisson and Groseilliers were the first Europeans to see the upper reaches of the Mississippi. They probably got to the Missouri" (Howes). Howes R-6. Item #61108

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