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Title: Voyage de la Louisiane, fait par ordre du roy en l'année mil sept cent vingt: dans lequel sont traitées diverses matières de physique, astronomie, géographie et marine: l'on y a joint les Observations sur la refraction, faites à Marseille: avec des reflexions sur ces observations: Divers voyages faits pour la correction de la carte de la côte de Provence, et des Reflexions sur quelques points du sisteme de M. Newton.
Author: Antoine Francois Laval
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP01918900
CollectionID: CTRG96-B1188
PublicationDate: 17280101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: A scientific expedition under command, successively, of Captains Cassaro and Vallette Laudun. The outward course included Madeira, Martinique, Saint Dominique (Haiti), the south coast of Cuba, Little Cayman Island, Pensacola and Dauphine Island, returning by way of the north coast of Cuba. The anonymous "Journal d'un voyage à la Louisiane, fait en 1720" by Captain Vallette Laudun, relates to the same expedition. Divers voyages faits pour la correction de la côte de Provence has special t.p. dated 1727.
Collation: xxiv, 304, 96, 191, [9] p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded): maps; 26 cm
