| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Nouveaux voyages dans l'Amâerique Septentrionale: contenant une collection de lettres âecrites sur les lieux, par l'auteur; áa son ami, m. Douin ... ci-devant son camarade dans le Nouveau Monde
| | | | Creator: | BossuM, 1720-1792 | | | | Publication: | Changuion, Amsterdam,1777. | | | | Notes: | Head-piece of dedication is engraved coat of arms. The author's third visit to Louisiana, then a Spanish colony, in 1770-1771. His observations written during his earlier residences in the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762, are given in his "Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales". 1768. | | | | Call #: | F26D B747 Vault | | | | Extent: | xvi, 392 p. front., 3 pl. (1 fold.) 19cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Quapaw Indians | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Cuba -- Description and travel | Haiti -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 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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