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A translation of the author's Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, first printed The Hague, 1703.
Title of v. 2: Gedenkschriften van het noordelyk Amerika, of Het vervolg der reizen van den Baron van la Hontan. Vervattende de Beschryving van een groote streek land van dat weerelddeel; het belang der Franschen en der Engelschen in 't zelve; hun koophandel, hun schipvaart, en de zeeden en gewoontens der wilden, &c. Alles met aanteckeningen vermeerdert en opgeheldert. Neevens de zaamenspraaken van den schryver met een wilden, en een woordenboek van de taal dier volkeren. Met kaarten en plaaten verciert. Tweede deel. Vertaalt door Gerard Westerwyk.
"Saamenspraaken van den schryver dezer reizen met Adario een Wilden van aanzien", v. 2, p. 359-523, first appeared in English translation in the author's New voyages to North-America, first printed London, 1703 and then under title "Dialogues ou entretiens entre un sauvage, et le Baron de Lahontan" in the author's Suplément aux voyages du baron de Lahontan, où l'on trouve des dialogues curieux entre l'auteur et un sauvage de bon sens qui a voyagé, first printed in The Hague, 1703.
"Lyst der wilde volkeren van Kanada ...", v. 2, p. 83-93, lists the various tribes in Acadia, in the areas of Montreal and Québec City, Hudson's Bay and in the "southerly lands of Canada" and the languages they speak.
"Woordenboek van de taal der wilden," v. 2, p. 524-552 , gives an exposition of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages as the most important in Canada, followed by a selection of vocabulary in the Wyandot and Algonquian languages.
Pagination: v. 1: [12], 190, 193-281, [3], 281-582 p., [9] leaves of plates (8 folded); v. 2: [4], 5, [3], 5-552 p., [9] folded leaves of plates.
Signatures: v. 1: *⁶ A-R⁸ S⁸ [S3 + chi²] T-2N⁸ 2O²; v. 2: pi² A⁸ [A2 + chi²] B-2L⁸ 2M⁴
Title pages printed in red and black; woodcut printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
Greenly, A.H. Lahontan, 377-378.
Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, 294-295.
Muller, F. Books, maps, plates on America, 866.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 739/166.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf.
John Carter Brown Library copy has ms. notes on front fly leaf of vol. 1 concerning the author's observations on the water level in Lake Michigan, probably made by previous owner J. Ackersdijck, whose signature appears on recto of second rear flyleaf of the same volume.
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