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Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud' oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy: Avec la carte du pays: Les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages, dediée a Sa Majesté

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Year:
1684
Contributor:
Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Subject:
n-us-la > n------ > n-usm--
Indians of North America > Mississippi River Valley
New France > Discovery and exploration
Louisiana > Description and travel
Mississippi River > Discovery and exploration
Mississippi River Valley > History > To 1803
Imprint 1684.
France > Paris
Extent:
[12], 312, 107 pages, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 17 cm (12mo)

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Notes:
Par le R. P. Loüis Hennepin, missionnaire Recollet & notaire apostolique.
First printed in Paris, 1683.
This issue has the same sheets as the 1683 edition with a new title page.
"Les moeurs des sauvages", p. [1]-107, 3rd count, has separate caption title.
Signatures: ã⁶ (ã6 verso blank) A-2C⁸⁻⁴ (Eiiij missigned Biiij) ²A-²H⁸⁻⁴ (C, Cij missigned B, Bij) ²I⁶ (²I6 verso blank)
Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
"Description de la Loüisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud-oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre de Sa Majesté", p. [1]-312, has separate caption title.
"Carte de la Nouuelle France et de la Louisiane nouuellement decouuerte dediée au roy l'an 1683": folded frontispiece map.

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"Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud' oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy: Avec la carte du pays: Les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages, dediée a Sa Majesté " (1684). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:731647/

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