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Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale de m. de La Sale / mises au jour par m. le chevalier Tonti, gouverneur du Fort Saint Louis, aux Islinois.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection FC65 T6168 697d
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier.
- Tonti, Henri de, -1704.
- Tonti, Henri de.
- New France--Discovery and exploration.
- New France.
- Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).
- Canada.
- History.
- Canada--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- France -- Paris -- 17th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 333 pages, 21 unnumbered pages : map. ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Au palais J. Guignard, 1697.
- Notes:
- Map wanting. cf. Henri Joutel's Journal historique, 1713, p. 8.
- The authorship of the work was denied by De Tonti, who asserted "qu'elle n'étoit point de lui, mais d'un aventurier parisien, qui l'avoit composée sur de mauvais mémoires, & la lui avoit attribuée, pour lui donner cours". cf. Charlevoix, Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France, t. 2, 1744, p. 260. The compiler, however, probably based his narrative on some of De Tonti's letters. cf. Harrisse, notes pour servir à l'histoire ... de la Nouvelle-France, 1872, p. 169-171 ; and Margry, Relations et mémoires inédits, 1867, p. 1-36.
- Includes index.
- Advertisements: p.[16]-[21] at end.
- Local Notes:
- Like the Streeter copy, ours is the uncancelled first issue.
- Map wanting.
- Cited in:
- Sabin, 96172
- JCB, 1675-1700, p. 346
- Harrisse, Nouvelle France, 174
- Streeter Cat., 105
- OCLC:
- 63598450
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