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New voyages to North-America. Containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694. A geographical description of Canada ... with remarks upon their government, and the interest of the English and French in their commerce. Also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages ... with an account of the authors retreat to Portugal and Denmark ... To which is added, a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North America ...

Title: New voyages to North-America. Containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694. A geographical description of Canada ... with remarks upon their government, and the interest of the English and French in their commerce. Also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages ... with an account of the authors retreat to Portugal and Denmark ... To which is added, a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North America ... Written in French by the Baron Lahontan, lord lievtenant of the French colony at Placentia in Newfoundland, now in England. Done in English ... A great part of which never printed in the original.
Author: Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?
Publication: London, Printed for H. Bonwicke; T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke; and S. Manship, 1703.

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2 v. fronts., plates (part fold.) maps (part fold.); 19.5 cm.

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Note

Vol. 2 has title: New voyages to North-America. Giving a full account of the customs, commerce, religion, and strange opinions of the savages of that country. With political remarks upon the courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the present state of commerce of those countries ...

Indexed In (note)

Paltsits

Contents

v. 1. "Some new voyages" ... (letters I-XXV): "Memoirs of North-America"; Table.--v. 2. A discourse of the habit, houses [etc., a continuation of the "Memoirs"]; "A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario": "A appendix, containing ... voyages to Portugal and Denmark"; "A short dictionary ..."(The "conference" and the "appendix" are sometimes attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville).

Call Number

*KC 1703 (La Hontan, L. A. de L. d'A. New voyages to North-America)

LCCN

10013014

OCLC

4998722

Author

Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?

Title

New voyages to North-America. Containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederates of England, from 1683 to 1694. A geographical description of Canada ... with remarks upon their government, and the interest of the English and French in their commerce. Also a dialogue between the author and a general of the savages ... with an account of the authors retreat to Portugal and Denmark ... To which is added, a dictionary of the Algonkine language, which is generally spoke in North America ... Written in French by the Baron Lahontan, lord lievtenant of the French colony at Placentia in Newfoundland, now in England. Done in English ... A great part of which never printed in the original.

Imprint

London, Printed for H. Bonwicke; T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke; and S. Manship, 1703.

Indexed In:

Paltsits, p. lx,lxii.

Local Note

Copy 1: Bancroft Collection.

Copy 1: "Books lately printed, &c.," 1 l. at end of v. 1 wrongly bound at end of v. 2.

Copy 1: Front. to v. 2 wanting; supplied by photostat reproduction.

Copy 2: Stuart.

Copy 2: "The index" wrongly bound at end of v. 1; "Books lately printed, &c.," wrongly bound at end of v. 2.

Copy 2: Frontispiece to v. 2 wanting, supplied by photostat reproduction.

Copy 3: Paltsits, p. lx, lxxxiv.

Copy 3: v. 2, "the second edition," has imprint: London: Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, J. Osborn, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed. 1735.

Copy 3: "Books lately printed, &c.," 1 map, and 1 plate wanting from v. 1.

Copy 3: Ford collection.

Source

No acc. (Lenox). copy 1.

Stuart 5525 (Lenox). Copy 2.

168305-6. Copy 3.

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Added Author

Gueudeville, Nicolas, 1654-1721.

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Research Call Number

*KC 1703 (La Hontan, L. A. de L. d'A. New voyages to North-America) Copy 1

Stuart *KC 1703 (La Hontan, L. A. de L. d'A. New voyages to North-America) Copy 2

*KC 1703 (La Hontan, L. A. de L. d'A. New voyages to North-America) Copy 3

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