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La Nouvelle France, ou La description de la Louisiane. Connuë sous le nom de Misissipi. Nouvellement decouverte par ordre du roy. Avec les mœurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages; & les premieres habitations de nos François ...

Title
  1. La Nouvelle France, ou La description de la Louisiane. Connuë sous le nom de Misissipi. Nouvellement decouverte par ordre du roy. Avec les mœurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages; & les premieres habitations de nos François ... Par le R.P. Louis Hennepin ... Sur l'imprimé à Paris.
Author
  1. Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Published by
  1. [n.p.] 1720.
Format
  1. Book/text

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Description
  1. 3 p.l., 80 [i.e. 90] p.; 16 cm. (12mo.)
Subject
  1. La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687. - [Browse in index]
  2. Louisiana -- Description and travel. - [Browse in index]
  3. Indians of North America -- Reg. areas -- Mississippi River Valley. - [Browse in index]
Call number
  1. *KB 1720 (Hennepin, L. Nouvelle France)
Language
  1. French
Note
  1. Numbers 57-66 repeated in paging.
  2. Comprises "Les mœurs des sauvages" and "Description de la Louisiane," abridgments (in reverse order) of the two parts of "Description de la Louisiane" first published in 1683.
  3. "Undoubtedly printed ... to further the schemes of John Law ... May have been intended for gratuitous distribution among shareholders in the Mississippi company."--Porter, P.A. The works of Father Hennepin. New York, 1910. p. 5.
Author
  1. Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
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