| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi: oáu l'on voit l'âetat de ce grand Paèis & les avantages, qu'il peut produire &c
| | | | Creator: | Bernard, Jean Frâedâeric, d. 1752 | | | | Publication: | J. F. Bernard, Amsterdam,1720. | | | | Notes: | Map wanting. The same text with additions, is found in v. 5 of Bernard's Recueil de voiages au Nord, Amsterdam, 1715-1738. cf. Leclerc, Bibl. amer., 1878, p. 139-141. Sometimes accoumpanied by Bernard's Recuell d'arrestset autres piáeces pour l'âestablissement de la Compagnie d'Occident. Amsterdam, 1720. cf. Leclerc, p. 261. and Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 16, p. 551. | | | | Call #: | F25DA B522 Vault | | | | Extent: | 408 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., fold. map ; 17 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France) -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803 | Imprints, Early Dutch To 1750
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situâe dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer glaciale: avec les cartes, & les figures necessaires, & de plus l'histoire naturelle & morale, & les avantages, qu'on en peut tirer par l'âetablissement des colonies
| | | | Creator: | Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent | | | | Publication: | Chez Guillaume Broedelet, Marchand Libraire, A Utrecht,1697. | | | | Notes: | Added engraved title page. The folded plate at page 44 is the earliest view in print of Niagara Falls. For a full bibliographical description of the work see Hennepin's "A new discovery," ed. by R.G. Thwaites, Chicago, 1903, v. 1, p. lii-liv. | | | | Call #: | F25J H515N Vault | | | | Extent: | [74], 312, 313* (10 p.), 313-506 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : ill., 2 folded maps ; 16 cm. | | | | Subjects: | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803 | Great Lakes -- Discovery and exploration | Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description | Imprints, Early Dutch To 1750
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