La dernière exploration - Voyage dans un monde qui se meurt
Handsome copy.
Iconography.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Alain Bombard to Albert Torrès.
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Illustrated edition with 6 plates hors texte, including one folding map; French text with an English translation.
Only the introduction is in English, the remainder of the volume being devoted to a sound scholarly publication of the accounts of Cartier’s three voyages.
Repaired tears at head and tail of the spine; spine and boards lightly sunned.
Henry Percival Biggar (1872–1938) was an archivist at the Public Archives of Canada and a leading authority on the history of New France.
Copy from the library of the archivist Charles Bourel de La Roncière (1870–1941), a specialist in maritime and colonial history, with, on the front free endpaper, an autograph inscription by Henry Percival Biggar dated 24 July 1924.