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The travels & sufferings of Father Jean de Brébeuf among the Hurons of Canada / as described by himself ; edited & translated from the French and Latin by Theodore Besterman.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection Folio F1030.7 .B75 1938
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649--Travel--Canada.
- Brébeuf, Jean de.
- Brébeuf, Jean de, Saint, 1593-1649.
- Wyandot Indians.
- Wyandot Indians--Missions.
- Jesuits--Missions.
- Jesuits.
- Missions.
- Travel.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor) (Dechert Collection copy)
- Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles (stamp) (Dechert Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Travels & sufferings of Brébeuf
- Place of Publication:
- London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1938.
- Notes:
- Illustrated engraved title on two leaves.
- Map on lining papers.
- "The present volume contains the whole of the surviving writings of Brébeuf, with two exceptions: a Montagnais translation of Ledesma's Christian doctrine and ... fragments"--P. 196.
- "This book has been printed and published by Christopher Sandford & Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press ... in Bembo type on Arnold's mould-made paper ... The two illustrations and the engraved titling on the title page are the work of Eric Gill. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies"--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-[197]).
- Local Notes:
- Dechert Collection copy is no. 16 of a limited ed. of 300 numbered copies. Cf. colophon.
- Dechert Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Dechert, with his typescript description of this copy laid in.
- Dechert Collection copy has prospectus (1 sheet [2] p. : ill. ; 31 cm.) with stamp of bookseller Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles on p. [1] laid in.
- Dechert Collection copy has portion of shipping invoice for this copy from bookseller Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles laid in.
- Dechert Collection copy: leaves untrimmed at fore- and tail edges.
- Dechert Collection copy: pastedowns and free endpapers dampstained at head and inner margin; many leaves dampstained at head margin.
- Cited in:
- Gill, E. Eric Gill (2nd ed.), 297
- OCLC:
- 3571038
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