| Author | France. Sovereign (1715-1774 : Louis XV)
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| Title | The earliest known Louisiana imprint. A New Orleans broadside of 1764, printed by Denis Braud, first printer of Louisiana, publicizing a message from the King of France to his director general in Louisiana, advising the latter of cession of the colony to the King of Spain and directing him to deliver over Louisiana to the governor general to be named by the Spanish king. Reproduced in facsimile from the only known copy of the broadside in the Biblioteca Parsoniana, New Orleans, to illustrate an address at the meeting of the Southern Historical Association in New Orleans, November the 4th, 1938, by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
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| Published | New Orleans, Priv. print., 1938.
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| Description | 1 p. ℓ., facsim. ([1] p.) [1] p. 43 x 28 cm.
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| General Note | Caption title: Extrait de la lettre du roi. à m. Dabbadie, directeur général, commandant pour Sa Majesté, à la Louisianne.
French text.
"Printed by students of the Chicago School of Printing. Facsimile plate by the Pontiac Engraving & Electrotype Co., of Chicago."
Heartman 167.
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| Subjects | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803 -- Sources.
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| Other Authors | Braud, Denis.
McMurtrie, Douglas C. (Douglas Crawford), 1888-1944.
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| LC Card Number | 39-21919 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: Z 209 L88 M2
mq118908: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 67182] |
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