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Description de la Louisiane : nouvellement decouverte au sud'oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy. Avec la carte du pays: les mœurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages. / Dediée a sa majesté par le r. p. Loüis Hennepin ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley.
- Indians of North America.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Louisiana--Description and travel.
- Louisiana.
- New France--Description and travel.
- New France.
- Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration.
- Mississippi River.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 312, 107 pages, 1 unnumbered page (the last page blank), 1 folded leaf of plates : map ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Les mœurs des sauvages.
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : chez la veuve Sebastien Huré, rue Saint Jacques, à l'image S. Jerome, prés S. Severin, M. DC. LXXXIII [1683]
- Notes:
- Caption title to 2nd part: "Les mœurs des sauvages."
- Map titled: Carte de la Nouvelle France et Louisiane nouvellement decouverte dediée au roy l'an 1683 ... (signed N. Gerard).
- Title vignette (AA=Amable Auroy); decorated, or mortised, initial and border at the beginning of each part.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 3145
- Howes, W. U.S.-iana (2nd ed.) H415
- Greenly, A. "Father Louis Hennepin: his travels and his books." In The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 51 (1957) p. 44-46.
- JCB, 1675-1700, p. 117
- Sabin, [31347]
- Harrisse, Nouvelle France, 150
- Vail, 222
- Streeter Cat., 102
- OCLC:
- 63598413
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