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Descrizione della Lvigiana; paese nuouamente scoperto nellʹ America Settentrionale, sotto gla̕uspicij del christianissimo Lvigi XIV. Con la carta geografica del medesimo, costumi, e maniere di viuere di queʹ seluaggi. / Del P. Lvigi Hennepin, Francescano recolleto, e missionario apostolico in questa scoperta. Tr. dal francese ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
- Language:
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley.
- Indians of North America.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Louisiana--Description and travel.
- Louisiana.
- Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration.
- Mississippi River.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 6 preliminary leaves, 396 pages : frontispiece (folded map) ; 14.5 x 8 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bologna : G. Monti, 1686.
- Notes:
- Translated by Casimir Freschot, whose dedicatory letter is dated Bologna, 21 January 1686.
- Map has title: Carta della Nvova Francia e della Lvigiana nuouamente sooperta. Dedicata al rè dal Padre Luigi Hennepin ... 1683.
- A translation of Description de la Louisiane (Paris, 1683). The map accompanying this French ed. and supplied with legends in Italian. This version of the map is not found in all copies.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 31356
- JCB, II, 502
- Paltsits: Hennepin, p. li
- JCB 1675-1700, p. 165
- Sabin, 31356
- Harrisse Nouvelle France, 157
- OCLC:
- 7149839
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