Relations de la Louisiane et du Fleuve Mississipi. Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1720.
Being vol V only of the Recueil de voiages au nord. [4], 408, [1] pp. 2 separate section titles. 14 engraved plates including frontispiece. 2 folding engraved maps. 12mo (159 x 90 mm). Period vellum with gilt-lettered spine label and manuscript. Series title with blank area renewed, title-page with inkstamp and repair to blank area, inkstamps to versos of engravings, final leaf with portion of 5 lines lacking, a little hand-coloring to 2nd map, minor soiling to vellum.

Contains four accounts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia, apparently brought out to boost the Mississippi Company, entitled: "Relation de la Louisiane par un Officier de Marine"; "Relation de la Louisiane & du Fleuve Mississipi"; "Voiage en un païs plus grand que l'Europe &c. ou troisième Relation du Pere Hennepin"; and "Voiages de Gosnol, Pringe & Gilbert aux Côtes de la Virginie." The maps are an early reissue of de l'Isle's depiction of Louisiana and the course of the Mississippi river; and one showing the coast of Virginia. Rare with both maps and all 14 plates, the last several copies at auction have been deficient in one or the other. Cumming Southeast 175 (first map); European Americana 720/19; JCB V:719/20; Sabin 4936, 69299; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 177.
Provenance: inkstamps of Hans-Peter Kosack.
Acquisition: not recorded.