Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de, 1666-1715?
Published / Created:
1703
Call Number:
Egb 683g
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
Nouveaux voyages. English
Description:
"A short dictionary of the most universal language of the savages": v. 2, p. 287-302., Armorial bookplate: Thomas Foley of Great Witley Court in the county of Worcester Esqr., Bookseller's advertisements: vol. 2, p. [1] (3rd count)., Errata: v. 1, p. [24] (1st count)., Includes index at end of volume two., and 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 commerce of those countries ...
Publisher:
Printed for H. Bonwicke ..., T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke ..., and S. Manship ...,
Subject (Geographic):
Canada--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., Canada--History--To 1763 (New France), Denmark--Description and travel--Early works to 1800., and Portugal--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name):
Foley, Thomas--Bookplate.
Subject (Topic):
Algonquian languages--Dictionaries--English., English language--Dictionaries--Algonquian., and Indians of North America--Canada--Early works to 1800.
Americae pars quinta nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis secundae sectionis
Image Count:
1
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration --Spanish --Early works to 1800, America --Early accounts to 1600, Latin America --Description and travel --Early works to 1800, and Latin America --History --To 1600
Subject (Name):
Benzoni, Girolamo, b. 1519. Historia del Mondo Nuovo. Book 2. Latin, Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598, and Chauveton, Urbain, d. ca. 1616
Descriptive letterpress in Dutch and French at foot of most of the plates., Engraved title vignette (coat of arms of Amsterdam)., First edition (in book form) was published about 1770 under title: Afbeeldingen van de wijd vermaarde koopstad Amsterdam, benevens deszelfs voornaamste gebouwen en gezigten (Amsterdam, P. Fouquet jr.)--cf. Muller, Frederik, & co. Oud-Amsterdam [1912], p. 14., and Paged continuously (by signatures).
Beschryving van Louisania : nieuwelijks ontdekt ten Zuid-Westen van Nieuw-Vrankryk, door order van
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Depiction of violent encounter with Native Americans.
Description:
Preceding p. 69
Subject (Geographic):
Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration, New France--Discovery and exploration, and North America--Discovery and exploration
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Alcohol use, Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans, and Indians of North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Album containing 122 engravings by Stukeley, many in proof, assembled by the artist himself. Contents include 85 engravings from Itinerarium Curiosum and 23 from Stonehenge, a Temple Restor’d to the British Druids.
Description:
Plate numbered 106.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain --Antiquities --Early works to 1800 and Wiltshire (England) --Antiquities
Subject (Topic):
Megalithic monuments --England --Wiltshire and Stonehenge (England)--Early works to 1800