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Social life and customs, Description and travel, Indians of North America, Booksellers' catalogs, Wyandot language, Indian linguistics, Glossaries, vocabularies, Algonquian languages, Algonquin languages, Natural history, History, Early works to 1800, Algonquin language, Maps, Pictorial works, English language, Dictionaries, Algonquin, Descriptions et voyages, Ouvrages avant 1800, Histoire, Premières Nations, Indiens d'Amérique, Ouvrages illustrés, TravelPlaces
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1703, To 1763 (New France)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Translation of: Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, first printed The Hague, 1703.
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 the commerce of those countries ..
"A table explaining some terms made use of in both volumes": v. 1, p. 275-280.
"A discourse of the habit, houses, complexion and temperament of the savages of North-America": v.2, p. 1-89.
"A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario, a noted man among the savages": v. 2, p. 90-183.
"An appendix, containing some new voyages to Portugal and Denmark": v. 2 p. 185-286.
"A short dictionary of the most universal language of the savages": v. 2, p. 287-302, includes a brief discussion of the Algonquian and Huron (Wyandot) languages.
The Dialogues have been attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville.
Pagination: vol. 1: [24], 280 p., [13] leaves of plates (2 folded); v. 2: [2], 302, [16] p., [11] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴ B-S⁸ T⁴; v. 2: pi1 2A-2T⁸ 2V⁸ (-2V8)
Errata: v. 1, p. [24], 1st count.
Publisher's advertisements: v. 2, p. [1], 3rd count.
Includes index at end of v. 2.
Lande Coll. 496.
Pilling, J.C. Algonquian, 288.
Greenly, A.H. Lahontan, 347-350.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 703/86.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:39.
ESTC T43043.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.
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