Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situé 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'établissement des colonies /
le tout dedie à Sa Majesté britannique Guillaume III par le R.P. Louis Hennepin, missionaire recollect & notaire apostolique.

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Main Author: Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century
Related Names: William III, King of England, 1650-1702, dedicatee.
Broedelet, Willem, active 1692-1719, bookseller.
Language(s): French
Published: A Utrecht : Chez Guillaume Broedelet, marchand libraire, MDCXCVII [1697]
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, > La Salle, Robert Cavelier, / sieur de, > La Salle, Robert Cavelier, / sieur de, / 1643-1687.
Hennepin, Louis, > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century.
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, > La Salle, Robert Cavelier, / sieur de, > La Salle, Robert Cavelier, / sieur de, / 1643-1687 > La Salle, Robert Cavelier, / sieur de, / 1643-1687 / Early works to 1800.
Hennepin, Louis, > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century / Great Lakes (North America) > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century / Great Lakes (North America) / Early works to 1800.
Hennepin, Louis, > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century / New France > Hennepin, Louis, / active 17th century / New France / Early works to 1800.
Travel.
Indians of North America.
Discoveries in geography
Discoveries in geography.
Missionaries
Missionnaires > Missionnaires / Grands Lacs (Amérique du Nord) > Missionnaires / Grands Lacs (Amérique du Nord) / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Missionnaires > Missionnaires / Nouvelle-France > Missionnaires / Nouvelle-France / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Missionaries > Missionaries / Great Lakes (North America) > Missionaries / Great Lakes (North America) / Early works to 1800.
Missionaries > Missionaries / New France > Missionaries / New France / Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America > Indians of North America / Early works to 1800.
Québec > Québec / Québec.
North America > North America / Niagara Falls.
North America > North America / New France.
Mississippi River Valley.
Great Lakes.
America.
Québec (Québec) > Québec (Québec) / 17e siècle > Québec (Québec) / 17e siècle / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.) > Niagara, Chutes du (N.Y. et Ont.) / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Grands Lacs (Amérique du Nord) > Grands Lacs (Amérique du Nord) / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Mississippi, Vallée du > Mississippi, Vallée du / Ouvrages avant 1800.
America > America / Early works to 1800.
Québec (Québec) > Québec (Québec) / 17th century > Québec (Québec) / 17th century / Early works to 1800.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) / Early works to 1800.
Great Lakes (North America) > Great Lakes (North America) / Early works to 1800.
New France > New France / Early works to 1800.
Mississippi River Valley > Mississippi River Valley / Early works to 1800.
Études ethnographiques.
Récits de voyages.
Travel literature.
Ethnographies.
Travel writing.
History.
Early works.
Ethnographies.
Travel writing.
Note: Inserted at chapter 37 is an account of travel down the Mississippi River from the Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico and back. Many scholars have thought that it was appropriated from Zénobius Membré's account of La Salle's journey, recounted in Chrestien Le Clercq's Premier établissement de la foy dans la Nouvelle France. (An alternative argument is in Louant, Armand. Le cas du père Louis Hennepin, récollet, missionnaire de la Louisiane 1626-170.? Ath : Cercle royal d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Ath et de la région et musées athois, [1980].)
Table of contents: preliminary pages [54]-[72] (leaves 3*3 verso-3*12 verso).
"Avis au lecteur": preliminary pages [28]-[53] ((leaves 2*2 verso-3*3 recto).
"Au roy de la Grande Bretagne": preliminary pages [5]-[27] (leaves *3-2*2 recto).
Chapters 1-44 numbered in Roman numerals; from chapter 45 (45-76), Arabic numerals are used.
Decorative initials; tailpieces.
Titles on maps: Carte d'un tres grand pays entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale; Carte d'un tres grand pais nouvellement découvert dans l'Amerique Septentrionale entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer Glaciale.
The plate between pages 44 and 45 (leaves B10 and B11, with enumeration "pag.44") is the earliest view in print of Niagara Falls. Another illustration, depicting a bison and a large bird (possibly intended as a pelican), is on plate between pages 186 and 187 (leaves H9 and H10, with enumeration "pag.187"). The added title page has a landscape image of a river with steep hilly shores, palm trees, and indigenous inhabitants.
Ten pages, each numbered 313*, inserted between pages 312 and 313. "Ces fuellets doivent s'inserer entre N. & O."--1st page 313* (leaf O*1 recto).
Signatures: *-3*¹² A-N¹² O*⁶ ( -O*6) O-X¹² Y² ( -Y2) [Q4 signed Q7].
Added engraved title page, with imprint: a Utrec : Chez Guilliaume Broedelet.
Physical Description: [72], 506 [that is, 516] pages, [5] leaves of plates (4 folded) : 3 illustrations (2 folded), 2 folded maps ; 16 cm. (12mo)
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