| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | 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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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | 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 | Requires cookie* | | 4 | 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* | | 6 | Title: | 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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