2 volumes. Reprinted from the second London issue of 1698, with facsimiles of original title-pages, maps, and illustrations, and the addition of Introduction, Notes, and Index by Reuben Gold Thwaites. lxiv, 353; [8], [357]-711 pp. Illustrated with plates from the originals; 2 folding facsimile maps. 8¼x6, ¾ morocco & marbled boards, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.

Scholarly and readable edition of Hennepin's Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays...dans l'Amerique... (Utrecht, 1697), the second work of the somewhat tarnished Franciscan priest, this being reprinted from the London edition of 1698; Howes notes that "in this second book Hennepin adds, to his actual voyage up the Mississippi, a pretended one down that stream prior to La Salle, an imposture which has consigned him to eternal obloquy." (Field 685; Graff 1862; Howes H416; Sabin 31371).