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Edition statement printed between "Done into English" and "In two volumes" on title page.
Translation of: Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron La Hontan, 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. The second edition ..
"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. 3-91.
"A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario, a noted man among the savages": v. 2, p. 92-185.
"An appendix, containing some new voyages to Portugal and Denmark": v. 2 p. 187-288.
"A short dictionary of the most universal language of the savages": v. 2, p. 289-304, includes a brief discussion of the Algonquian and Huron (Wyandot) languages.
The Dialogues have been attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville.
Pagination: v. 1: [24], 280 p., [9] leaves of plates (5 folded); v. 2: 304 p., [10] leaves of plates (1 folded)
Signatures: v. 1: A⁸ a⁴ B-S⁸ T⁴; v. 2: 2A-2T⁸ (2T3 missigned 2T4)
Lande Coll. 502.
Greenly, A.H. Lahontan, 375-376.
Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages, 293-294.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 735/140.
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:537.
ESTC N41857.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary speckled calf.
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