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Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situé dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer glaciale : avec les cartes, & les figures necessaires, & de plus l'histoire naturelle & morale, & les avantages, qu'on en peut tirer par l'établissement des colonies, le tout dedie à Sa Majesté britannique, Guillaume III / par le r. p. Louis Hennepin, missionaire recollect & notaire apostolique.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection FC65 H3928 697n
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
Contributor:
Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
New France--Discovery and exploration.
New France.
Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
Mississippi River Valley.
History.
Great Lakes (North America)--Discovery and exploration.
Great Lakes (North America).
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Description and travel.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.).
Penn Provenance:
Dechert, Robert (donor)
Physical Description:
68 unnumbered pages 506 pages, 4 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations, 2 maps. ; cm
Place of Publication:
A Utrecht : Chez Guillaume Broedelet, 1697.
Notes:
Added t.p. engraving.
The plate at p. 44 is the earliest view in print of Niagara Falls.
References: Hennepin, L. New discovery, edited by R.G. Thwaites, v. 1, p. lii-liv.
First preliminary leaf is added, engraved title.
Cited in:
JCB, 1675-1700
Harrisse, Nouvelle France, 175
Sabin, 31349
Church, 762
Streeter Cat., 104
OCLC:
29273343

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