Voyage … la Louisiane, et sur le Continent de l'Am‚rique Septentrionale, fait dans les ann‚es 1794 … 1798; Contenant un Tableau historique de la Louisiane...
Paris. Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire. 1802. 8vo, 19.5cm, The First Edition, viii,382p., engraved folding map, quarter calf backed marbled boards, gilt ruled panel lines, leather label, titles partly faded, some slight foxing on the map, a very good to fine copy.(cgc). Item #40358
Clark II-76. Howes B-238, Sabin 3979, Wagner-Camp 1a, Field 99, Monaghan, French Travellers, 149, Pilling, Algonquian, p.38, Streeter III-1571. Much of the work covers the history of Louisiana, and contains discussions of many Indian tribes, with the vocabularies of the Sioux and Chippewa. Not only does the author list more than one hundred tribes situated between the St. Lawrence and the Gulf of Mexico, he also describes seventeen tribes living along the Mississippi, Arkansas and Red rivers.
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