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Relation historique de l'expédition, contre les Indiens de l'Ohio en MDCCLXIV : commandée par le chevalier Henry Bouquet ... contenant ses transactions avec les Indiens, relativement à la délivrance des prisonniers & aux préliminaires de la paix; avec un récit introductoire de la campagne précédente de l'an 1763; & de la bataille de Bushy-Run : on y a joint des memoires militaires contenant des reflexions sur la guerre avec les sauvages : un méthode de former des établissemens sur la frontiere: quelques détails concernant la contrée des Indiens: avec une liste de nations, combattans, villes, distances, & diverses routes / le tout enrichi de cartes & tailles-douces ; Traduit de l'anglois, par C.G.F. Dumas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC7 Sm683 Eh769d
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, William, 1727-1803.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bouquet's Expedition, 1764.
- Bouquet's Expedition (1764).
- Bushy Run, Battle of, Pa., 1763.
- Indigenous peoples--Warfare.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians--Warfare.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 147 pages, 11 unnumbered pages : 2 plates, 2 folded maps, 2 folded plans ; 23 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- s.ce deur T.i- lafa (3) 1769 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Amsterdam : chez Marc-Michel Rey, MDCCLXIX [1769]
- Notes:
- Signatures: *⁸ A-K⁸ (last leaf is blank).
- The illustrations include the two maps of the original edition of 1765 (in the present edition on different plates), the two plans of that edition, and the two plates engraved by Benjamin West which first appeared in the London edition of 1766.
- The translator has added a brief biographical sketch of Bouquet.
- Title vignette.
- Pages vi and vii misnumbered as p. vii and viii, respectively.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: half-title wanting; final blank leaf wanting.
- Culture Class Collection copy quarter bound in brown marbled leather over marbled boards; five raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; five spine panels gold-tooled with fleurons; brief title stamped in gilt on a maroon leather label in second spine panel; date of imprint stamped in gilt at foot of spine; marbled endpapers; top edge red.
- OCLC:
- 207464376
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