Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico: with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals: also, the manners, customs, and languages, of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations ... both parts illustrated with maps, and figures, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William.
Author: Louis Hennepin
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP01472600
CollectionID: CTRG95-B56
PublicationDate: 16980101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: Engraved half-title page: A new discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin. "... with a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c., the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan ... to which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition." A new voyage into the north-west parts of America (288 p.), has separate t.p. and pagination.
Collation: [24], 243, [32], 228 p., [6] folded leaves of plates: ill., 2 maps; 20 cm
