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Beschreibung der Landschafft Louisiana : welche, auf befehl des Königs in Frankreich, neulich gegen sudwesten Neu-Frankreichs in America entdecket worden. Nebenst einer Land-Carten, und Bericht von den Sitten und Lebens-Art der Wilden in selbiger Landschafft.

by: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century; Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century. Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amerique septentrionale. German; Weigel, T. D. fmo RIBRL; Westermann, H. fmo RIBRL; Ducal Library (Gotha, Germany). fmo RIBRL

Publication date: 1689

Topics: Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700, Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675, La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687, Indians of North America, Imprint 1689

Publisher: Nürnberg, : In Verlag Andreä Otto

Collection: jcbgerman; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: German

Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription

Translation of the author's: Description de la Louisiane, frist printed in Paris, 1683

"Beschreibung einer sonderbaren Reise etlicher bisher noch unbekannter Länder und Völcker im Mitternächtigen America. Welche im Jahr 1673. Durch P. Marquette S.J. und Herrn Jolliet verrichtet worden. Aus dem Französischen ins Teutsche übersetzet", p. [353]-425, has divisional title page and is a translation of: "Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amerique septentrionale", which appeared in Melchisédech Thevenot's Recueil de voyages, Paris, 1681

Signatures: A-S¹² (A1, P9, S9 versos, S10, S11, and S12 blank)

Title page printed in red and black; woodcut head and tail pieces; initials

Harrisse, H. Nouvelle France

Baginsky, P. German works relating to America

Palmer, P.M. German works on America

Paltsits, V.H. Louis Hennepin

Streit, R. Bib. missionum

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full vellum over boards

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Leipzig, T.D. Weigel: bookplate on front pastedown; H. Westermann, New York: bookplate on front pastedown; Biblioteca Ducalis Gothana 1799: book stamp on verso of title page

Notes

No copyright. No table of contents. Irregular pagination. Cropping of text occurs due to narrow margins, thickness of book.

Accession: 03012

Addeddate: 2014-06-12 14:08:16.095316

Associated-names: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century. Découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amerique septentrionale. German; Weigel, T. D; Westermann, H; Ducal Library (Gotha, Germany)