Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of...
Description:
Louis C. Hubert, called Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac, was an espionage agent for Louis XVIII, and submitted secret diplomatic reports to Elie Decazes while living in London. He published a work entitled L'europe et ses colonies en decembre 1819, con...
Subject (Geographic):
England., France., Arctic regions, Northwest Passage, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, America, United States, France, and South America
Subject (Name):
Buchan, Captain., Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821., and Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Espionage, Spies, Discovery and exploration, British, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Colonies, and History
Multi-title collection including Histoire de la Nouvelle France : contenant les navigations
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Histoire de la Novvelle France
Description:
BEIN Taylor 245: Bound with: Lescarbot, Marc. Les muses de la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1609. Armorial bookplate of Horace de Landau with shelf-mark 4813. [1] Figure du port de Ganabara au Brisil (10 x 17 cm, on sheet 18 x 20 cm, folded to 18 x 9 cm) b...
Publisher:
Chez Iean Milot
Subject (Geographic):
Nova Scotia, New France, America, Acadia, Florida, and Guanabara Bay (Brazil)
Subject (Name):
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, French, and History
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ..., and Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea
Description:
BEIN Taylor 207: Imperfect: map "Orbis terrarum typus de integro ..." mutilated, with no loss of text; map Exacta & accurate delineatio cùm orarum maritimarum ..." mutilated, with some loss of text. Bookplate: John Jay Paul [1914 in ms.]. All illustra...
Publisher:
By Cornelis Claesz. op't vvater, in't schrijf-boeck, by de oude brugghe
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Voyages and travels, and Discovery and exploration
Land grant, manuscript on parchment, originally made to Alonzo Prieto, and awarded after his death to his brother Gonzalo Prieto, following litigation. The grant, valued at 35,000 maravedis annually, was given to defray the costs of preparing land and...
Description:
In Spanish.
Subject (Geographic):
Spain, Jerez de la Frontera., Connecticut, New Haven., Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), and America
Subject (Name):
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558.
Subject (Topic):
Land grants, Land titles, Manuscripts, Medieval, Colonies, History, and Politics and government
Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada
Description:
BEIN Z6 14: For other issues of the same year and their variations; cf. Sabin's Dictionary and the Church catalogue, vol. 3, 1907, pp. 976-981, no. 420. The Yale copy has also the following peculiarities: page 272 (1st count) is misnumbered 262; p. 2...
Publisher:
Chez Pierre LeMvr, dans la grand' salle du Palais
Subject (Geographic):
Canada and America
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Huron and French, Indians of North America, Navigation, Wyandot language, Montagnais language, Discovery and exploration, and French
