[SPANISH & FRENCH EXPLORATION]. A group of 47 works, including:

CONSTANTIN-WEYER, Maurice (1881-1964). The French Adventurer. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1931. Publisher's green cloth. --GAITHER, Frances (1899-1955). The Fatal River: The Life and Death of La Salle. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1931. Publisher's blue cloth. FIRST EDITION. -- MCDERMOTT, John Francis (ed.) (1902-1981). Frenchmen and French Ways in the Mississippi Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1969. Publisher's buff cloth; dust jacket. -- SMITH, Thomas Buckingham (trans.) (1810-1871). Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto. New York: Allerton Book Co., 1904. 2 volumes. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. -- STECK, Francis Borgia (1884-1962). The Jolliet-Marquette Expedition, 1673. Quincy, IL: Franciscan Fathers, 1928. Publisher's buff cloth. -- THIERS, Adolphe (1797-1877). The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law. New York: W.A. Townsend & Company, 1859. Publisher's olive green cloth. -- WRONG, George MacKinnon (1860-1948). The Rise and Fall of New France. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1928. 2 volumes. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- And 36 others. Together, 47 works in 52 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009). Complete list available upon request.

Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen