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<dl><dd>"Les moeurs des sauvages", p. [1]-107, 3rd count, has separate caption title page</dd>
<dd>"Carte de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte dediée au roy l'an 1683": folded frontispiece map is signed N. Guerard</dd>
<dd>This work by Hennepin is the earliest printed account of Louisiana and includes the first description of Niagara Falls</dd>
<dd>Signatures: ã⁶ (ã1 verso blank) A-2C⁸⁻⁴ (E4 missigned B4) ²A-²H⁸⁻⁴ (²C1, ²2C2 missigned ²B1, ²B2) ²I⁶ (²I6 verso blank)</dd>
<dd>Carte de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane nouvellement decouverte dediée au roy l'an 1683": folded frontispiece map is signed N. Guerard</dd>
<dd>Engraved printer's vignette on title page; head and tail pieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Harrisse, H. Nouvelle France</dd>
<dd>Paltsits, V.H. Hennepin</dd>
<dd>Vail, R.W.G. New frontier</dd>
<dd>Streit, R. Bib. missionum</dd>
<dd>Cioranescu, A. 17 s.</dd>
<dd>Arents, G. Tobacco (supplement)</dd>
<dd>Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700</dd>
<dd>European Americana</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Ex museo del Montino: bookplate on front pastedown</dd></dl><br>Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687; Indians of North America; Imprint 1683</div>
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<dl><dd>Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century</dd>
<dd>Guérard, Nicolas, approximately 1648-1719</dd></dl></div>
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