La mission Champlain aux Etats-Unis et Canada. Avril-Mai 1912 (with two original prints by Auguste Lepère)
La mission Champlain aux Etats-Unis et Canada. Avril-Mai 1912 (with two original prints by Auguste Lepère)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1913
- Place of printing
- Paris
- Author
- Hanotaux, Gabirel, Louis Barthou, René Bazin, Etienne Lamy, Etc., (Auguste Lepère)
- Publishers
- Editions France-Amérique
- Keyword
- coleillus voyages travels voyage united states french canada, champlain
- Dust jacket
- False
- Languages
- English
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
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.
