The world record price for a copy of “Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois” prior to this sale of $1,320,500 was $758,000 set in 2009 by Bloomsbury.

When Samuel de Champlain - the Father of Canada, as the grade-school teachers used to say - had to sell the Cardinal de Richelieu on sticking with the floundering colony of Quebec, he dangled the ...