THE POST BOY, London, England, March 15, 1717  A very handsome newspaper as it features two ornately engravings in the masthead, plus an ornate & large first letter in the text.
The top of the back cage has much detail on the publishing of a book: "A Journal of a Voyage Performed by Monsieur de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico; to find out the Mouth of the Mississippi River: Contains an Account of the Settlements he endeavored to make on the Coast of the aforesaid Bay; his unfortunate Death; and the Travels of his Companions for the space of 800 Leagues cross that inland country of America, now called Louisiana...till they camped from Canada..." with further details.
This was the famed Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico; there, on 9 April 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River basin for France after giving it the name La Louisiane.
Complete as a single sheet issue, 8 by 14 inches, very nice condition.