HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY . . . SPAIN, FRANCE, AND GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SUBSEQUENT OCCUPATION, SETTLEMENT, AND EXTENSION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT BY THE UNITED STATES. . . VOLUME I and II. [Vol. 1-One & 2-Two.]

Complete set. Full title: HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI, BY THE THREE GREAT EUROPEAN POWERS, SPAIN, FRANCE, AND GREAT BRITAIN, AND THE SUBSEQUENT OCCUPATION, SETTLEMENT, AND EXTENSION OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT BY THE UNITED STATES UNTIL THE YEAR 1846. BY JOHN W. MONETTE, M.D. . . IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I and VOL. II. (Spine titles: "MONETTE'S VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI. VOL. I. VOL. II.") Both first editions - with 1846 at foot of each title page with matching copyright dates on versos. Hardcovers; both H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. Contemporary full dark brown leather bindings; each spine decorated with four gilt tooled bands delineating five compartments with separate title and volume labels. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers; single old newspaper clipping adhered on to each volume's front pastedown. Text blocks are firm. Still an attractive good+ set. *** VOLUME I: [feps], [ffly], [ffly], [frontis color map], i-xxiii, [1], [b/w map], 1-567, [1], [rfly], [rfly], [reps]. Moisture staining to rubbed boards with worn bumped corners; slender splitting and abrasion at joints causing some pliability to both boards. Tidelines to initial and rear leaves; mostly light foxing; old blue wax pencil doodle on rear free endpaper verso. Features: frontispiece "Map of the French, English & Spanish Possessions in North America in 1745" two-page color map; b/w map "Early French Missions in the remote Western regions of Canada or New France" preceding page 1. *** VOLUME II: [feps], [ffly], [ffly], [ffly], [frontis color map], [title leaf], v-xv, [1], 1-595, [1], [publisher's ad], [1], [rfly], [rfly], [rfly], [reps]. Light staining and rubbing to boards with slight edge scuffing; some splitting to both joints with front board slightly pliable. Old pencil signature on first front flyleaf recto; mostly light foxing with a few stains and soiling. Features: frontispiece "Texas. In 1836." two-page color map; b/w plan "Ground Plan of 'Fort Pitt' and 'Fort Duquesne'" on page 198; b/w plates on pages 223 and 245; b/w plan "General Wayne's Daily Encampment" on page 301; '"Ground Plan of Fort Defiance" on page 309. *** Bibliographical references: Eberstadt No. III-1162; Wright Howes U.S.IANA M-722 (also noting the 1848 second ed.). Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 5 pounds (2.26 kg) and will require additional postage/insurance for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. …