BOOK
Title:
Journals and letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de La Vérendrye and his sons: with correspondence between the governors of Canada and the French court, touching the search for the western sea
Creators:
La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennessieur de, 1685-1749 | Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946 | LeSueur, William Dawson, 1840-1917
Publication:
The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1927.
Notes:
Series note also on half-title and added title-page. "Five hundred and fifty copies of this volume have been printed ... This copy is no.79." French and English "Printed in England at the Ballantyne press, Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & co. ltd., Colchester, London & Eton." Translated by W.D. Le Sueur. Bibliography: p. xv-xxiii.
Extent:
xxiii, 548 p. : VII fold. maps. ; 25 cm.
PAMPHLET
Title:
Historical address on the early exploration and settlement of the Mississippi Valley
Creator:
Parry, Charles Christopher, 1823-1890
Publication:
Shawver Press, Morrison, Ill, 1984]
Notes:
Reprinted for Karl Yost from the 1873 Davenport, Iowa edition.
Extent:
[6], 36 p. : front. (port.) ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI par le capitaine Jacques Cartier aux îles de Canada, Hochelaga, Saguenay et autres: réimpression figurée de l'édition originale rarissime de MDXLV, avec les variantes des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale
Creators:
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 | Avezac, (Marie Armand Pascal)M. d', 1800-1875
Publication:
Librairie Tross, Paris, 1863.
Notes:
Includes facsimile of original t.p., 1545.
Extent:
xvi, 68 p. ; 20 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
The French voyageurs to Minnesota during the seventeenth century. <An address delivered by Rev. Edward D. Neill, before the annual meeting of the society, January 1, 1850>
Parent:
Minnesota historical society. Collections. v.1
Creator:
Neill, Edward D. (Edward Duffield), 1823-1893
Publication:
Minnesota historical society, St. Paul, 1872.
Extent:
p.[17]-36 ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Early voyages up and down the Mississippi by Cavelier, St. Cosme, Le Sueur, Gravier, and Guignas
Creators:
Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892 | Cavelier, Jean, 1636-1722 | Buisson, Jean Francois de St. Cosme, 1667-1707 | Le Sueur, Pierre Charles, b. 1657 | Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708 | Guignas, Louis Ignace.
Publication:
J. Munsell, Albany, 1861.
Notes:
Five hundred copies reprinted for Joseph McDonough, Albany, N. Y. 1902
Extent:
viii, 191 p. ; 23 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
An account of Monsieur de La Salle's last expedition and discoveries in North America: presented to the French king, and pub. by the Chevalier Tonti, governour of Fort St. Louis, in the province of the Islinois. Made English from the Paris original
Parent:
Collections of the New York Historical Society. New York : The Society, 1814. v.2, p. [217]-341
Creator:
Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704
Publication:
New York Historical Society, New York, 1814.
Notes:
French original published in 1697, under title: Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale ... The authorship of the work was denied by De Tonti. cf. Charlevoix, Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France. t. 2, 1744, p. 260; and Harrisse, Notes pour servir a l'histoire ... de la Nouvelle-France, 1872, p. 169-171.
Extent:
p.[217]-341 p. ; 22 1 /2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The historical writings of the late Orsamus H. Marshall relating to the early history of the West
Creator:
Marshall, O. H. (Orsamus Holmes), 1813-1884
Publication:
Munsell's Sons, Albany, N.Y, 1887.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
xxiv, 500 p. : ill., maps (1 fold.), port. ; 22 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Tercentenary of the landing of De Monts at St. Croix Island [June 25, 1904]
Parent:
Its Collections. 3d ser., v.2
Creator:
Maine Historical Society
Publication:
Portland, 1906.
Call #:
974.1 M28 SER.3, V.2
Extent:
p.74-151 : plates, ports. ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The Saint Lawrence basin and its border-lands: being the story of their discovery, exploration and occupation
Creator:
Dawson, Samuel Edward, 1833-1916
Publication:
Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1905.
Notes:
"Lists of the chief works consulted or referred to in preparing this volume": p. 429-442.
Extent:
xL, 451 p. : front., (fold.) maps, (fold.) plates ; 22 1/2 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
... "Memoir sent in 1693, on the discovery of the Mississippi and the neighboring nations, by M. de La Salle, from the year 1678 to the time of his death, and by the Sieur de Tonty to the year 1691."
Parent:
Illinois state historical library, Springfield. Collections. v.1
Creator:
Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704
Publication:
Illinois state historical library, Springfield, 1903.
Notes:
Reprinted from French's Historical collections of Louisiana ... New York, 1846-54. v.1 (1846) p.[52]-78. The French text of the Memoir is printed in Pierre Margry's Relations et mémoires inédits, Paris, 1867, p.5-36.
Extent:
p.128-164 ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The long journey to the country of the Hurons
Creators:
Sagard, Gabriel. | Wrong, George McKinnon, 1860-1948 | Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953
Publication:
The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1939.
Notes:
Includes facsimile reproductions of the engraved and printed title-pages of the 1632 edition and of the title-page of his "Histoire du Canada," Paris, 1636. "Five hundred and fifty copies of this volume have been printed ... This copy is no. 79." Text and translation of the original edition, which has title: Le grand voyage dv pays des Hvrons ... Paris, 1632. "Note on Sagard's dictionary, by Percy J. Robinson": p. xlv-xlvii. "Bibliographical descriptions of Sagard's Grand voyage and Histoire du Canada, by Victor Hugo Paltsits": p. xli-xliv.
Extent:
xlvii, 411, xii p. : front., maps, facsims. (incl. music) ; 25 cm.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Groseilliers and Radisson, the first white men in Minnesota, 1655-56, and 1659-60, and their discovery of the upper Mississippi River
Parent:
Minnesota Historical Society. Collections. v.10, pt.2
Creator:
Upham, Warren, 1850-1934
Publication:
Minnesota historical society, St. Paul, 1905.
Notes:
Bibliography: p.568-594.
Call #:
977.6 M66C V.10, PT.2
Extent:
p.[449]-594 : map ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618
Creators:
Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635 | Grant, W. L. (William Lawson), 1872-1935
Publication:
C. Scribner's sons, Republ. Barnes & Noble, New York, 1907 : 1952]
Extent:
xiii, 377 p. : map, plans ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Samuel de Champlain, Father of New France
Creator:
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976
Publication:
Little, Brown and Co, Boston, Mass, [c1972]
Notes:
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Illustrations on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-273) and index.
Extent:
xix, 299 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Découverte et évolution cartographique de Terre Neuve et des pays circonvoisins 1497-1501-1769: essais de géographie historique et documentaire
Creator:
Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910
Publication:
H. Welter, Henry Stevens, Son & Stiles, Paris, London, 1900.
Notes:
"380 exemplaires tirés, à savoir; 10 sur papier Whatman, 10 sur papier du Japon, 40 sur papier de Hollande, 320 sur papier alfa. Exemplaire no 256." Includes index.
Extent:
iv, lxxii, 420 p. : maps. ; 27 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson: Being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684. Transcribed from original manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum
Creator:
Radisson, Pierre Esprit, ca. 1636-1710
Publication:
Burt Franklin, New York, [1967]
Notes:
Reprint of the 1885 edition, which was issued as v. 16 of the Publications of the Prince Society.
Extent:
vi, 385 p. ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
OEuvres de Champlain
Creators:
Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635 | Laverdière, C.-H. (Charles-Honoré), 1826-1873
Publication:
Imprimé au Séminaire par G.-E. Desbarats, Québec, 1870.
Notes:
Includes index. The 1st edition, the printing of which was begun about 1865, was destroyed by fire just as the volumes were ready for publication. Cf. pref.
Extent:
5 v. in 2 : ill. (some col. and folded), maps, plans, port. ; 28 x 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Letters to the dutchess of Lesdiguieres: giving an account of a voyage to Canada, and travels through that vast country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico : undertaken by order of the present king of France
Creator:
Charlevoix, Pierre-Francois-Xavier de, 1682-1761
Publication:
Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by R. Baldwin, London, 1763.
Extent:
xiv, 384 p. : front., map ; 20 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The first English conquest of Canada, with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
Creators:
Kirke, Henry, 1842-1925 | McCabe, Richard E. | McCabe, Robert A. | Bemrose & Sons | Back of Beyond Books
Publication:
Pub. by Bemrose & Sons, London, 1871.
Extent:
xi, 227 pages frontispiece (folded map) 22 cm
BOOK
Title:
The Jesuit relations and allied documents: travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, l610-1791
Creator:
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913
Publication:
Pageant Book Co, New York, 1959.
Notes:
"This edition consists of five hundred sets all numbered," no.50. Vols. 72-73: Index.
Extent:
73 v. in 36. plates, ports., maps, facsims. 23 cm.
