Marc Lescarbot’s Nova Francia… of 1609 is an account of French settlements in North America and what we now think of as Nova Scotia and Canada. It predates the more famous first accounts of Champlain’s voyages and discoveries by three years.
Published to encourage settlement in the New World, it appeared in an English translation by Pierre Erondelle in the very same year.
It was a first issue copy of that version which sold for a record $200,000 (£157,480) at Christie’s New York (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) on June 15.