MANESSON-MALLET (Allain).Livre Rare Book
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1683LBW024d2[1683]. 140 x 100 mm.
169115632Paris, chez Amable Auroy, 1691. In-12 de (28)-572-(4) pp., table, veau brun, dos orné à nerfs, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges (reliure de l'époque).
16532969Macerata: : Heirs of Agostino Grisei 1653. FIRST EDITION. . Quarto: . 21.5 x 15.5 cm. 4 8 pp. 9-10 ll. 11-127 1 pp. Collation: π2 A4 B4 ±B1.2 C-Q4 Bound in 17th c. limp sheepskin parchment. With a large woodcut Jesuit device on the title page woodcut initial and a factotum built up from fleurons. There is a neatly written contemporary inscription of a Roman Jesuit library on the title page; some leaves foxed or lightly browned; there is a minor ink stain on two leaves. In all a nice genuine copy with generous margins. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important eyewitness accounts of 17th-century Canada devoted primarily to the Huron Indians but also with accounts of other groups including the Jesuit author’s captivity and mutilation under the Iroquois. He also devotes 25 pages to a 1643 letter written by his Jesuit colleague Isaac Jogues 1607-1646 who was killed by the Mohawks. Bressani 1612-1672 an Italian Jesuit travelled to Canada as a missionary in 1642. After two years in Quebec and with the Algonquins on the St. Lawrence River he set off for the most distant outposts the missions on Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay deep in the interior. He was captured by the Iroquois who cut off his fingers and eventually sold him to the Dutch who helped him reach France. He returned to Canada in 1645 participated in peace talks with the Iroquois and finally reached the Huron missions where he remained until the Iroquois destroyed them in 1649 killing most of the Hurons and missionaries. On his return to Europe in 1650 he wrote the present Italian account. A riveting eyewitness account of Canadian Indians and Jesuits in the 1640s. Alden & Landis 653/15; De Backer & Sommervogel II col. 133; Walter Jesuit relations 43; Church 524; James Ford Bell Lib. B-407; JCB II p. 428; Lande Canadiana 57; McCoy Jesuit relations 82; Sabin 7734; not in Eberstadt; Streeter. Heirs of Agostino Grisei, unknown books
