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This sale features some of the rarest Ernest Hemingway items to come to market in recent years, along with rare and important newspapers, a closely-curated selection of works by African-American authors, and some of the finest early printed books to come to market in recent memory. Purchase Catalog
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Lot 612

[JESUITS IN AMERICA]. Trio of Facsimile Reprints of Seventeenth-Century Works by Jesuits in America. [Albany, 1855].

Estimate: $150 - $300
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[JESUITS IN AMERICA]. Trio of Facsimile Reprints of Seventeenth-Century Works by Jesuits in America. [Albany, 1855]. 8vos. One volume with fold-out map and fold-out facsimiles. Both bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco over brick cloth boards, gilt. Titles include: Recit Des Voyages et des Decouvertes du R. Pere Jacques Marquette... ; Copie de Deux Lettres Envoie'es de la Nouvelle France... [bound with] Narre du Voyage Faict pour la Mission des Abnaquiois (2 copies, one with loose ffep.). NINETEENTH-CENTURY FACSIMILE REPRINTS OF THESE THREE WORKS. 

Condition

Spines worn, scuffed, some soiling, wear to boards, hinges starting, fold-out map is torn and tattered, text toned. Good. 

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