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Title: Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique: suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie franocaise au Scioto, sur quelques colonies canadiennes, et sur les sauvages.Author: C.-F VolneyPublisher: 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.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03587002CollectionID: CTRG01-B1166PublicationDate: 18030101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Two volumes in one, paged continuously. "[E]nrichi de quatre planches gravees, dont deux cartes geographiques et une coupe figuree de la chute de Niagara." Plate I engraved by [Louis Pierre] Baltard; plates II, IV (maps) engraved by E. Collin. "There are two issues ... issue A pp. 525-532 contain 'Vocabulaire ... issue B the 'Vocabulaire' is placed between pp. 524 and 533 but is paged separately 1-8. Some copies ... are on large paper."--Sabin. "Errata." p. [535]; "Avis de relieur." p. [536]. Appendice: Lettre sur les vents de la Suede et de la Norvege -- Sur la Floride et sur le livre de Bernard Romans, intitule A concise natural and moral history of east and ouest [sic] Florida -- Sur l'Histoire de Newhampchire [sic], par Jeremie Belknapp, et sur l'Histoire de Vermont, par Samuel Ouilliams [sic] -- Sur Gallipolis, ou la colonie des Francais au Scioto, en 1789 -- Sur diverses colonies franco-canadiennes -- Observations generales sur les Indiens ou sauvages de l'Amerique-Nord -- Vocabulaire de la langue des Miamis.Collation: 2 v.: ill., maps; 21 cm
