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•Hennepin, Louis, -- 17th cent. -- Bibliography (1)
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1Title:  Voyage a la Louisiane: et sur le continent de L'Amâerique septentrionale, fait dans les annâees 1794 áa 1798 ; contenant un tableau historique de la Louisiane ; des observations sur son climat, ses riches productions, le caractáere et le nom des sauvages ; des remarques importante sur la navigation ; de lâegislation et de gouvernement propres áa cette colonie, etc., etc    
 Creator:  Baudry des Loziáeres, Louis Narcisse, 1761-1841 
 Publication:  Dentu, Paris,1802. 
 Notes:  Added half t.-p.: Voyage a la Louisiane. 
 Call #:  F26J B342 
 Extent:  viii, 382 p., [1] p. of plates : fold. map ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- Description and travel | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803
 
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2Title:  A geographical description of the state of Louisiana: with an account of the character and manners of the inhabitants. Being an accompaniment to the map of Louisiana    
 Creator:  Darby, William, 1775-1854 
 Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
 Publication:  J. Bioren, Printer, Philadelphia,1816. 
 Notes:  In lower right hand corner of map, "Map of part of Louisiana copied from Homann's map published at Nuremberg in 1712." In the Appendix (p. iv) two maps by Homann (i.e. Johann Baptist Homann) are cited. 
 Call #:  F26J D213G 
 Extent:  ix, [11]-270, [14] p., 1 l., [2], xvii p. map. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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3Title:  An epoch in Missouri history: being a facsimile of a brochure printed in Lexington, Kentucky in the year 1796 with a twentieth century view of it    
 Creator:  Delassus Deluziáeres, Pierre Charles de Hault, 1738-1806. 
 Dugan, Frances Lathrop Smith, 1903-
 Bull, Jacqueline, 1911-1987
 Publication:  s.n.], Lexington, Ky,1958. 
 Notes:  Cover title. Caption title of original reads: An official account of the situation, soil, produce, &c of that part of Louisiana, which lies between the mouth of the Missouri and New Madrid, or L'anse a la Grais, and on the west side of the Mississippi. Together with an abstract of the Spanish government, &c. The original is signed on p. 7: Delassus Deluzieres. "Sources consulted": [6] (2d group). 
 Call #:  F26J D339E 
 Extent:  8 p., [6] p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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4Title:  An account of Louisiana, 1803: Being an abstract of documents in the offices of the Departments of State and of the Treasury    
 Creator:  United States President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) 
 Sibley, John, 1757-1837
 Publication:  Directors of the Old South Work, Boston,1902] 
 Notes:  Caption title. A compilation made by direction of President Jefferson from information furnished by Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, La., and others. cf. Jefferson's Writings, ed. by P. L. Ford, v. 10, 1899, p. 338; and S. L. Mitchill's Discourse on ... Jefferson , 1826, p. 27. Transmitted to Congress by Jefferson, November 14, 1803. Contains also "The Louisiana territory." From McMaster's History of the people of the U. S., v. 2, p. 631, and "The Louisiana purchase." From Henry Adams's History of the U. S., II, p. 48. 
 Call #:  E173 O45 v.5 no.105 
 Extent:  28 p. 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana -- Description and travel
 
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5Title:  Vue de la colonie espagnole du Mississippi ; ou, des provinces de Louisiane et Floride Occidentale, en l'anneâe 1802    
 Creator:  Berquin-Duvallon,. 
 Publication:  Brochot páere et ce, an XII, Paris,1804. 
 Call #:  F26J B532 1804 Vault 
 Extent:  xx, 318, 5, [4] p. : 2 folded maps ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | West Florida -- Description and travel
 
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6Title:  Mâemoires historiques sur la Louisiane: contenant ce qui y est arrivâe de plus mâemorable depuis l'annâee 1687. jusqu'áa prâesent; avec l'âetablissement de la colonie franøcoise dans cette province de l'Amâerique Septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes; le climat, la natur & les productions de ce pays; l'origine & la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent; leurs moeurs & leurs coutumes, &c    
 Creator:  Dumont de Montignylieutenant 
 Le Mascrier, Jean Baptiste, 1697-1760
 Publication:  C. J. B. Bauche, Paris,1753. 
 Notes:  Edited by J.B.Le Mascrier. cf. Quâerard, Les supercheries littâeraires dâevoilâees, 1853, t. 5. 
 Call #:  F26DA D893 
 Extent:  2 v. illus. maps. 20cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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7Title:  An account of Louisiana: Being an abstract of documents delivered in, or transmitted to, Mr. Jefferson, President of the United States of America    
 Creator:  United States President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) 
 Sibley, John, 1757-1837
 Publication:  Reprinted for John Hatchard, London,1804. 
 Notes:  Compiled from information furnished by Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, La., and others. cf. Jefferson's Writings, ed. by P. L. Ford, v. 10, 1899, p. 338; and S. L. Mitchill's Discourse on ... Jefferson. New York, 1826, p. 27. The Appendix includes documents numbered I-V, being the same as those numbered II-VI in other editions. The digest of the laws of Louisiana, found in the original edition of the Appendix, is here omitted. Also found in American state papers; miscellaneous, Washington, 1834, v. 1, p. 344-356, 381-384, under title: Description of Louisiana. (Appendix under title: Digest of the laws of Louisiana) 
 Call #:  F42.5 U58 Vault 
 Extent:  1 p. Á., 43 p. fold. tab. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Louisiana -- Politics and government
 
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8Title:  An account of Louisiana: exhibiting a compendious sketch of its political and natural history and topography ; with a copious appendix containing several important documents    
 Creator:  Martin, Fran¹cois-Xavier, 1762-1846 
 Publication:  Franklin & Garrow, Newbern,1804. 
 Notes:  "The greater part of it is extracted from the most valuable work of the kind, written in 1759, by Dupratz"--Prelim. p. 
 Call #:  F26DA L591 
 Extent:  272, cxviii p. ; 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana -- Description and travel | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803 | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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9Title:  Voyage dans les deux Louisianes: et chez les nations sauvages du Missouri, par les âEtats-Unis, l'Ohio et les provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803    
 Creator:  Perrin du Lac, Franðcois Marie, 1766-1824 
 Publication:  Bruyset aãinâe et Buynand, Lyon,An XIII--1805. 
 Notes:  Howes 7901. Monaghan 1175. Sabin 61012. 
 Call #:  F26J P458V 
 Extent:  x, 479 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | Louisiana -- Description and travel | United States -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  Sketches, historical and descriptive, of Louisiana    
 Creator:  Stoddard, Amos, 1762-1813 
 Publication:  Published by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia,1812. 
 Call #:  F26J S867 
 Extent:  viii, 488 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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11Title:  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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12Title:  Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales: contenant une relation des differens peuples qui habitent les environs du grand fleuve Saint-Louis, appellâe vulgairement le Mississipi; leur religion; leur gouvernement; leurs moeurs; leurs guerres & leur commerce    
 Creator:  BossuM, 1720-1792 
 Saint-Aubin, Gabriel Jacques de, 1724-1780
 Publication:  Le Jay, Paris,1768. 
 Notes:  The engr. plates are after designs by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. The author's observations during his first two visits to the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762. 
 Call #:  F26D B746 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. 4 plates. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Indians of North America -- Southern States | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Haiti -- Description and travel
 
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13Title:  Journal of a voyage up the River Missouri, performed in eighteen hundred and eleven    
 Creator:  Brackenridge, H. M. (Henry Marie), 1786-1871 
 Publication:  Published by Coale and Maxwell ... ; Pomeroy & Troy, printers, Baltimore,1816. 
 Notes:  Signatures: pip4sp sA-Up6sp sXp4s. Leaf X3 blank. 
 Call #:  F42J B797 
 Extent:  viii, 246 p. ; 18 cm. (12mo) 
 Subjects:  Missouri River -- Description and travel | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Missouri -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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14Title:  A description of Louisiana    
 Creator:  Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent 
 Shea, John Dawson Gilmary, 1824-1892
 Publication:  John G. Shea, New York,1880. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Title-page of edition of 1683 in facsimile. Pages 41*-53*, 1 leaf inserted between p. 40 and [41] Bibliography of Hennepin: p. 382-392. 
 Call #:  F25J H515D 
 Extent:  407 (i.e. 423) p. : map ; 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | Hennepin, Louis, -- 17th cent. -- Bibliography | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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15Title:  Histoire de la Louisiane: contenant la decouverte de ce vaste pays ; sa description geographique ; un voyage dans les terres ; l'histoire naturelle, les moeurs, coutumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines ; deux voyages dans le nord du nouveau Mexique, dont un jusqu'a la mer du Sud    
 Creator:  Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775 
 Publication:  De Bure, l'aine, Paris,1758. 
 Call #:  F26DA L591G Vault 
 Extent:  3 v. : ill., plates, fold. maps ; 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Louisiana | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Louisiana -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Louisiana -- Description and travel
 
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16Title:  The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina: containing a description of the countries that lye on both sides of the River Missisipi: with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, and products. Translated from the French    
 Creator:  Le Page du Pratz, d. 1775 
 Publication:  T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, London,1763. 
 Notes:  French original published in 1758. 
 Call #:  F26DA L591H 
 Extent:  2 v. 2 fold. maps (incl. front.) 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Natural history -- Louisiana | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Louisiana -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Louisiana -- Description and travel
 
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17Title:  Lettres curieuses sur l'Amâerique Septentrionale: Canada    
 Creator:  Marest, Gabriel, 1662-1714 
 Rasles, Sâebastien, 1657-1724
 Du Poisson, Paul, 1692-1729
 Vivier, Louis, 1741-1756
 Picolo, Francesco Maria, 1658-1729
 Margat de Tilly, Jean Baptiste, 1689-1747
 Jesuits
 Publication:  Impr. de J.B. Gros, Paris,1845. 
 Notes:  Eight letters from Jesuit missionaries in America, selected from v. 6-8 of "Lettres âedifiantes et curieuses". Paris, 1780-88. In the present edition the title, place and date of writing, and name of writer have been omitted, and minor changes made at beginning and end of the letters. The first five letters may be found, with English translations, in v. 66-69 of "The Jesuit relations and allied documents", 1896-1901. 
 Call #:  F1030.7 C45 
 Extent:  2 p. leaves, xviii, 264 p. 17 cm. 
 Subjects:  Jesuits -- Missions -- America | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Louisiana -- Description and travel | California, Lower | Haiti -- History -- To 1791
 
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18Title:  Travels through the two Louisianas, and among the savage nations of Missouri: also, in the United States, along the Ohio, and the adjacent provinces, in 1801, 1802, & 1803. With a sketch of the manners, customs, character, and the civil and religious ceremonies of the people of those countries    
 Creator:  Perrin du Lac, (Franðcois Marie)M, 1766-1824 
 Publication:  Printed for Richard Phillips, London,1807. 
 Call #:  Pam. P564 
 Extent:  106, [2] p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
 
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19Title:  Views of Louisiana: together with a Journal of a voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811    
 Creator:  Brackenridge, H. M. (Henry Marie), 1786-1871 
 Publication:  Printed and published by Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Franklin Head Office, Pittsburgh,1814. 
 Call #:  F26J B797V Vault 
 Extent:  304 p. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Louisiana Purchase | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Mississippi River Valley | Missouri River -- Description and travel | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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20Title:  The navigator: or, The traders' useful guide in navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers; containing an ample account of these much admired waters ... a concise description of their towns, villages, harbours, settlements, &c with particular directions how to navigate them, in all stages of the water    
 Creator:  Cramer, Zadok, 1773-1813 
 Publication:  From the Press of Zadok Cramer, Pittsburgh,1806. 
 Call #:  F25J C889 1806 Vault 
 Extent:  2 p. l., [3]-94 p. illus. (maps) 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Ohio River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Description and travel | Louisiana -- Description and travel | Monongahela River -- Description and travel | Allegheny River -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Navigation | Ohio River -- Navigation | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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