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Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America: mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten

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Year:
1709
Contributor:
Lahontan, Louis Armand Lom d'Arce, 1666-1715?
Vischer, Ludwig Friedrich, 1677-1743
Subject:
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Indians of North America > Canada
Indians of North America > Canada > Social life and customs
Natural history > Canada
Algonquian languages > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Wyandot language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Algonquin languages
Indian linguistics > Wyandot language
Canada > Description and travel
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)
Imprint 1709.
Germany > Hamburg
Germany > Leipzig
Extent:
[12], 459, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 14 cm. (12mo)

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Notes:
Aus dem Frantzösischen übersetzet von M. Vischer.
Double page title printed across the center fold.
Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
A translation and abbreviated edition of the author's Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, first printed The Hague, 1703.
Narrative of the first part is in the form of 25 letters.
"Lista der wilden Nationen in Canada mit ihren üblichen Sprachen", p. 287-289, lists the various tribes in Acadia, in the areas of Montreal and Québec City, Hudson's Bay and in the "southerly lands of Canada" and the languages they speak.
"Anhang eines Wörter-Buchs von der Wilden Sprache," p. 433-454, gives an exposition of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages as the most important in Canada, followed by a selection of vocabulary in the Wyandot and Algonquian languages.
Signatures: )( ()(1 recto, )(2 verso blank) a-t¹² u² (u2 verso blank)
Errors in paging: p. 127, 373, 376, 377, and 380 misnumbered 107, 343, 347, 358, and 339.
Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.
Folded map with title "General-Carte von Canada" bound as frontispiece.

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"Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America: mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten " (1709). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:576743/

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