An edition of Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John (1760)

Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John

from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisburg by the English, in 1758. : In which, among many interesting particulars, the causes and previous events of the present war are explained

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An edition of Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John (1760)

Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John

from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisburg by the English, in 1758. : In which, among many interesting particulars, the causes and previous events of the present war are explained

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Printed for J. Nourse in the Strand.
Language
English
Pages
400

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Subjects
Description and travel, History
Places
Louisbourg (N.S.), Cape Breton Island (N.S.), Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
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Cover of: Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John
Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John: from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisburg by the English, in 1758. : In which, among many interesting particulars, the causes and previous events of the present war are explained
1760, Printed for J. Nourse in the Strand.
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"This book purports to be a series of [24] letters written from Louisbourg in 1752-58, and edited by the author," but was actually written by Pichon in London. See John Clarence Webster's Life of Thomas Pichon. (Sackville, N.B. : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937)

Translated from the manuscript of: Lettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton. A La Haye : Pierre Gosse ; Londres : Jean Nourse, 1760.

Signatures: A-2C⁸

Errata statement, p. xvi.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, 760/7.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, III: 1274.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Thompiton Society [or Thrupiton Society]: inscription.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is 21 cm. Bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Thos. G. Hazard: his book: inscription; Brown University: JCB bibliographical records.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 gift of Mr. Daniel L. Hazard and Mrs. George Hazard Jr.

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F1039.C2 P7

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xvi, 400 p. ;
Number of pages
400

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OL26482824M
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genuinelettersme00pich
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01021752

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