RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DÉCOUVERTES
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas, bound somewhat incongruously with an early edition of French buccaneer Montaubon's 1695 voyage to the Caribbean.
The scarce first London edition of the most famous contemporary account of the Salem Witch Trials.
First edition of this major influence on the US Founders, "probably the best elementary book of the principles of government [...] which has ever been published in any language," according to Thomas Jefferson (1804 letter to Mason Locke Weems).