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Les voyages de la Novvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada / faits par le Sr. de Champlain Xainctongeois, capitaine pour le roy en la marine du Ponant, & toutes les descouuertes qu'il a faites en ce païs depuis l'an 1603 iusques en l'an 1629 ...

Accession number
PML 3841
Creator
Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635.
Published
A Paris : Chez Pierre Le Mur ..., 1632.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Errors in paging: pt. I, p. 68 wrongly numbered 98; pt. II, p. 133 is 135; 134 is 136; 136 is 138; 154 is 454; 159 is 163; 209 is 197.
Two issues of the work appeared in 1632; the first contained a passage which gave offence, and in the second the leaves D2 & D3 (p. 27-30, pt. I) were cancelled and others substituted. The present is the second of 1632.
The only completed ed. of Champlain, with the 20 p. in French and Wyandot.
"Doctrine chrestienne, dv R. P. Lesdesme ... Traduicte en langage canadois, autre que celuy des Montagnars ... par le R. P. Breboeuf ..."; "L'oraison dominicale, tradvite en langage des Montagnars de Canada, par le R. P. Massé ...": 20 p. at end.
Description
16, 308, 310, 8, 54, 20 p. : folded map (on 2 plates) ; 22 cm.
Provenance
From Brayton Ives's sale, 1891 n. 164; Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
Department