The Works of Samuel de Champlain in Six Volumes with a Portfolio of Plates and Maps
Toronto: Champlain Society, 1971.
Hardcover. Near fine. Reprint of the edition published by the Champlain Society between 1922 and 1936. Six text volumes with illustrations, maps, and facsimiles, plus a separate portfolio of maps and plates, uniformly bound in red cloth. Near fine, with minor rubbing to extremities. Due to size/weight shipping cost will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Born into a family of master mariners in 1574, Champlain began exploring North America in 1603 under the guidance of François Gravé Du Pont. From 1604 to 1607 Champlain participated in the exploration and settlement of the first permanent European settlement north of Florida -- Port Royal, Acadia (1605). In 1608, he established the French settlement that is now Quebec City. Champlain was the first European to explore and describe the Great Lakes. He published maps of his journeys and accounts of what he learned from the natives and the French living among the Natives. In 1620, Louis XIII ordered Champlain to cease exploration, return to Quebec, and devote himself to the administration of the country. He established trading companies that sent goods, primarily fur, to France, and oversaw the growth of New France in the St. Lawrence River valley until his death in 1635.
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