La Decouverte du Missouri et l'Histoire du Fort d'Orleans (1673-1728)
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1925.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #290 of 350 copies issued. 9.5" x 7.25", 138 pp + publisher's ads, with 2 maps. Original printed wrappers bound into red buckram. Evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown, spine lightly sunned, else fine. Howes V-105: "First publication of the two journals of Bourgmond describing his 1714 and 1717 trips to the upper Missouri as far as the Cheyenne River. He later established a fort on the lower Missouri and led expeditions into Kansas" Rader 3540; Graff 4489.
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