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Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : avec le Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale / par le P. de Charlevoix ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Canada.
- Indians of North America.
- History.
- Canada.
- Botany--North America.
- Botany.
- North America.
- Indigenous peoples--Origin.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians--Origin.
- Canada--History--To 1763 (New France).
- Florida--History--Hugenot Colony, 1562-1565.
- Florida.
- Louisiana--History--Colonial period.
- Louisiana.
- Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 6 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Chez Nyon fils, libraire ..., 1744.
- Notes:
- Tome 5-6 have title: Journal d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionnale ...
- "Description des plantes principales de l'Amerique Septentrionnale": t. 4, p. 299-376.
- "Liste et examen des auteurs que j'ai consultés pour composer cet ouvrage": t. 6, p. 378-422.
- Woodcuts: devices; initials; head- and tail-pieces.
- With side- and shoulder-notes.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- In this copy the botanical plates are bound in vol. 6 instead of vol. 4, as planned.
- Cited in:
- Tremaine, Toronto Pub. Lib., 188
- Sabin, 12136
- Backer-Sommervogel II, 1077.6
- Field, 282 (note)
- OCLC:
- 9873763
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