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New voyages to North-America : containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent, their customs, commerce, and way of navigation upon the lakes and rivers, the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another, with the reasons of the miscarriage of the former, and the various adventures between the French and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694 : a geographical description of Canada and a natural history of the country with remarks upon their government and the interest of the English and French in their commerce : also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages giving a full view of the religion and strange opinions of these people : with an account of the author's retreat to Portugal and Denmark, and his remarks on those courts : to which is added, a dictionary of Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North-America : illustrated with twenty-three maps and cuts / writt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection F1030 .L178 1735 v.1-2 v.1 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lahontan, Baron de (Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce), 1666-1715?
- Standardized Title:
- Voyages nouveaux. English. 1735
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Canada.
- Indians of North America.
- Canada.
- Algonquin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Algonquin language.
- Wyandot language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Wyandot language.
- Canada--Description and travel.
- Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).
- History.
- Portugal--Description and travel.
- Portugal.
- Denmark--Description and travel.
- Denmark.
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The second edition, in two volumes, a great part of which were never printed in the original.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Osborn ..., 1735.
- Notes:
- Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴ B-S⁸; v. 2: 2A-2T⁸.
- Vol. 2 has title and imprint: New voyages to North-America : giving a full account of the customs, commerce, religion, and strange opinions of the savages of that country : with political remarks upon the courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the present state of the commerce of those countries. The second edition / written by the Baron Lahontan ... London : Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, J. Osborn, S. Birt, T. Ward, and E. Wickstead, 1735.
- "A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario, a noted man among the savages": v. 2, p. 92-185. This has been attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville. Cf. Winsor, Narrative and critical history of America, v. 4, p. 257-260.
- Local Notes:
- Imperfect: plates at p. 55, l60 and l84 wanting; not issued with them?
- Cited in:
- Sabin 38645 and 38646.
- OCLC:
- 249075910
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