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<dl><dd>Two issues of this edition are known: this one with a cut of an armillary sphere, or the "angel" device, the other with type ornaments on the title pages</dd>
<dd>Vol. 2 has separate title: Memoires de l'Amerique Septentrionale, ou la suite des voyages de Mr. Le Baron de Lahontan. Qui contiennent la description d'une grande étenduë de païs e ce continent, l'intérêt des françois &amp; des anglois, leurs commerces, leurs navigations, les moeurs &amp; les coutumes des sauvages &amp;c. Avec un petit dictionaire de la langue du païs. Le tout enrichi de cartes &amp; de figures</dd>
<dd>Pagination: v. 1: [22], 279, [1] p. [15] leaves of plates (13 folded); v. 2: 220, [16] p., [14] leaves of plates (12 folded)</dd>
<dd>Errors in pagination: v. 2, p. 219 misnumbered 29</dd>
<dd>Signatures: v. 1: *¹² (-*12) A-L¹² M (M8 verso blank); v. 2: A-I¹² K¹°</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>"Explication de quelques termes qui se trouvent dans le premier tome": v. 1, p. 267-279</dd>
<dd>"Petit dictionaire [sic] de la langue des sauvages": v. 2, p. [195]- 220, includes a brief discussion of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages and has divisional title page</dd>
<dd>Title pages printed in red and black</dd>
<dd>Woodcut printer's device on title page; head and tailpieces; initials</dd>
<dd>Two frontispieces at head of vol. 1 are duplicated at head of vol. 2</dd>
<dd>Some copies have an insert with caption title: L'autheur au lecteur. A Londres, ce 26. Novembre V. Stile. This contains an apology for the errata with a partial list of corrections. Cf. Sabin</dd>
<dd>Lande Coll</dd>
<dd>Greenly, A.H. Lahontan</dd>
<dd>Pilling, J. Algonquian languages</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Alden, J.E. European Americana</dd>
<dd>Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary treed calf; copy 2 bound in contemporary speckled calf</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy 1, vol. 1 imperfect: folded map bound to face title page closely trimmed and wanting top part; copy 2. v. 1, plate bound to face p. 34 wanting</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy 2, v. 1 has "L'Autheur au lecteur. A Londres, ce 26. Novembre V. Stile", [12] pages, bound after p. [22], table of contents, and before p. 1; these leaves signed A1-6</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Indians of North America; Indians of North America; Natural history; Algonquian languages; Wyandot language; Indian linguistics; Indian linguistics; Imprint 1703</div>
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Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?</div>
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