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A voyage to North-America : undertaken by command of the present king of France : containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana : with the customs, manners, trade and religion of the inhabitants, a description of the lakes and rivers, with their navigation and manner of passing the Great Cataracts : also a description and natural history of the islands in the West Indies belonging to the different powers of Europe ... in two volumes / by Father Charlevoix.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761.
- Standardized Title:
- Journal d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amerique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America.
- New France--Discovery and exploration.
- New France.
- Canada--Description and travel.
- Canada.
- Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- West Indies--Description and travel.
- West Indies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lush, Samuel S., fl. 1839 (autograph) (copy 1)
- Hill, John (autograph) (copy 1)
- Conckling, Edward, Cincinnati, fl. 1868 (autograph) (copy 1)
- Lewis, John F., Mrs. (donor) (copy 2)
- Keim, George de Benneville (bookplate) (copy 2)
- Keim, John W., fl. 1813 (autograph) (copy 3)
- Bradley, Hugh, fl. 1806 (autograph) (copy 3)
- Keim, William (autograph) (copy 3)
- Crawford, May Wickersham (donor) (copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, 8 maps, 2 portraits ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Printed by John Exshaw, and James Potts ..., 1766.
- Notes:
- A reprint of "Letters to the dutchess of Lesdiguières," edition of 1763 with the Preliminary discourse and letter I, supplied from "Journal of a voyage to North-America," edition of 1761.
- Original French work has title: Journal d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amerique; and was first published as v. 3 of the author's Histoire et description general de la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1744.
- Vol. I: [10], 48, 228 p. [4] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., 3 maps, port.; Vol. II: [2], 335 [20] p. [6] leaves of plates (5 folded) : ill., 5 maps, port..
- Vol. I: II2 A4 B-S8T2; Vol. II: II2 A-X8 2A8 2B2
- Includes index.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 12143
- Brown, J. C. Cat., 1493-1800 1497.
- OCLC:
- 249668913
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