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A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico : with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages, of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations ... both parts illustrated with maps, and figures, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William / by L. Hennepin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Standardized Title:
- Nouvelle découverte d'un très grand pays situé dans l'Amérique entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Early works to 1800.
- Indians of North America.
- New France--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.
- New France.
- Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Great Lakes (North America)--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.
- Great Lakes (North America).
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([24], 243, [32], 228 p., [6] folded leaves of plates ) ill., 2 maps ;
- Other Title:
- New discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico
- New voyage into the north-west parts of America.
- New discovery of a large country in America.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for M. Bentley [etc.], 1698.
- Notes:
- Engraved half-title page: A new discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin.
- "... with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c., the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan ... to which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition."
- A new voyage into the north-west parts of America (288 p.), has separate t.p. and pagination.
- Reproduction of original from Huntington Library.
- Sabin no. 31370.
- Cited in:
- RLIN, CTRG95-B56
- OCLC:
- 85790857
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