| Book | Save | 1 | Title: | Description de la Louisiane, nouvellement decouverte au sud' oèuest de la Nouvelle France
| | | Creator: | Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent | | | Publication: | A. Auroy, Paris,1688. | | | Notes: | Title vignette (printer's device), head pieces. Engraved map has title: Carte de la Nouuelle France et de la Louisiane...l'an 1683, by N. Guerard. "Les moeurs des sauvages" with caption title and separate paging, forms second part. First edition 1683. Howes H 415. | | | Call #: | F25J H515 Vault | | | Extent: | [12], 312, 107 p. fold. map 17 cm. | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Louisiana -- Description and travel | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River Valley -- History | Imprints, Early French To 1750
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Book | Save | 2 | Title: | Voyage de la Louisiane, fait par ordre du roy en l'annâee mil sept cent vingt: dans lequel sont traitâees diverses matiáeres de physique, astronomie, gâeographie et marine: l'on y a joint les Observations sur la refraction, faitesáa Marseille, avec des reflexions sur ces observations ; divers voyages faits pour la crooection de la carte de la cãote de Provence ; des Reflexions sufr quelques points du sisteme de m. Newton
| | | Creator: | Laval, Antoine Francois, 1664-1728 | | | Publication: | J. Mariette, Paris,1728. | | | 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 áa la Louisiane, feit en 1720" by Captain Vallette Laudun, relates to the same expedition. | | | Call #: | F26J L392V Vault | | | Extent: | xxiv, 304, 96, 191, [9] p. : maps (part fold.) ; 27 cm. | | | Subjects: | Newton, Isaac, -- Sir, -- 1642-1727 | Voyages and travels | Refraction | Louisiana -- Description and travel | West Indies, French -- Description and travel | Provence-Alpes-Cãote d'Azur (France) -- Description and travel | Cuba -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early French To 1750
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