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Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le Baron de Lahontan dans l"Amerique Septentrionale, qui contiennent une rélation [sic] des différens peuples qui y habitent.
The Hague: chez les fréres [sic] l'Honoré, 1703
Physical Description: 2 v. : ill., maps ; 16 cm. (12mo) Pagination: v. 1: [22], 279, [1] p. [15] leaves of plates (13 folded); v. 2: 220, [16] p., [14] leaves of plates (12 folded)
Call number: E703/ L184n1
Accession number: 08086, 1291, & 1292
Notes: "Petit dictionaire [sic] de la langue des sauvages": v. 2, p. [195]- 220, includes a brief discussion of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages and has divisional title page.
Two issues of this edition are known: this one with a cut of an armillary sphere, or the "angel" device, the other with type ornaments on the title pages.
Vol. 2 has separate title: Memoires de l'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan. Qui contiennent la description d'une grande étenduë de païs e ce continent, l'intérêt des françois & des anglois, leurs commerces, leurs navigations, les moeurs & les coutumes des sauvages &c. Avec un petit dictionaire de la langue du païs. Le tout enrichi de cartes & de figures.
Includes index.
"Explication de quelques termes qui se trouvent dans le premier tome": v. 1, p. 267-279.
Some copies have an insert with caption title: L'autheur au lecteur. A Londres, ce 26. Novembre V. Stile. This contains an apology for the errata with a partial list of corrections. Cf. Sabin.
John Carter Brown Library copy 1, vol. 1 imperfect: folded map bound to face title page closely trimmed and wanting top part; copy 2. v. 1, plate bound to face p. 34 wanting.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2, v. 1 has "L'Autheur au lecteur. A Londres, ce 26. Novembre V. Stile", [12] pages, bound after p. [22], table of contents, and before p. 1; these leaves signed A1-6.
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Languages: Algonquin / Wyandot
Genre: Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: North America
