‎GILMARY SHEA John Dawson ‎
‎Discovery and exploration of the Mississipi Valley : with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay. With a facsimile of the newly-discovered map of Marquette ‎

‎New York Redfield 1852 in-8 demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs orné de pointillés et caissons de filets dorés [Rel. de l'époque], petites traces d'humidité en début de volume, avec réparations de papier maladroites ‎

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‎lxxx et 268 pp., 8 pp., un fac-similé en guise de frontispice, une carte dépliante.Un seul exemplaire au CCF (BnF). Sabin, 80 002 et 25852. Déjà publié comme quatrième volume de la grande série de French, Historical collection of Louisiana, ce recueil de relations relatives à l'exploration de la vallée du Mississipi se compose de plusieurs textes indépendants ; les titres de départ portent : Relation of the voyages, discoveries and death of F. James Marquette, and the subsequent voyages of F. Claudius Allouez by F. Claudius Dablon. - Narrative of a voyage made to the Ilinois by F. Claude Allouez. - Narrative of the 1st attempt by M. Cavelier de La Salle, to explore the Mississipi, drawn up from the Mss. of F. Zenobius Membré by F. Chretien Leclercq. - Narrative of the voyage to the upper Mississipi by F. Louis Hennepin... - Narrative of the adventures of La Salle's party at Fort Crevecoeur in Ilinois... by F. Zenobius Membré. - Narrative of La Salle's voyage down the Mississipi by F. Zenobius Membré. - Account of La Salle's attempt to rearch the Mississipi by sea... by F. Christian Le Clercq. - Narrative of La Salle's attempt to ascend the Mississipi in 1687 by F. Anastasius Douay. - Récit des voyages et des découvertes du P. Jacques Marquette... en 1673... - Unfinished letter of F. Marquette containing a jal of his last visit to the Ilinois.Ancien Jésuite, John Dawson Gimary Shea (1824-1892) était un spécialiste de l'histoire du catholicisme en Amérique, ainsi que des premières nations amérindiennes ‎

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