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André Thevet's North America : a sixteenth-century view / an edition-translation, with notes and introduction, by Roger Schlesinger and Arthur P. Stabler.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Oe 08 T4185
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590--Travel--North America.
- Thevet, André.
- America--Discovery and exploration--French.
- America.
- America--Early accounts to 1600.
- North America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- North America.
- Expeditions--history.
- Canadá--Descripción y viajes--Hasta 1763.
- Florida--Descripción y viajes.
- México--Descripción y viajes.
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590.
- Discoveries in geography--French.
- Travel.
- Medical Subjects:
- Expeditions--history.
- Local Subjects:
- Canadá--Descripción y viajes--Hasta 1763.
- Florida--Descripción y viajes.
- México--Descripción y viajes.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Early works.
- Exploration literature.
- Physical Description:
- xli, 292 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston [Ont.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1986.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: Canada
- Pt. 2: Florida
- Pt. 3: Mexico
- Pt. 4: Original French text (Canadian section).
- Notes:
- Collection of selections from Thevet's Les singularitez de la France antarctique and La cosmographie universelle (originally published in French), and a copy of his Grand insulaire (never before published) presented in English and French.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index.
- Contains:
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590. Singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amérique. Selections. English.
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590. Cosmographie universelle. Selections. English.
- Thevet, André, 1502-1590. Grand insulaire. English & French.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thevet, André, 1502-1590. André Thevet's North America.
- ISBN:
- 0773505873
- 9780773505872
- 9780773561298
- 0773561293
- OCLC:
- 13656435
- Online:
- Publisher description
- French equivalent / Équivalent français
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