Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America
Subtitle: mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten
Contributors: Vischer, Ludwig Friedrich, 1677-1743
Edition: Auch bey dieser andern Auflage mit seiner Reise nach Portugall, Dennemarck und Spanien, vermehret. Aus dem Frantzösischen übersetzet von M. Vischer.
Publisher: Im Reumannischen Verlag
Published: 1711
Place of publication: Hamburg und Leipzig
Language: ger; alg; iro
Number of pages: 753
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Indians of North America; Wyandot language; Indian linguistics; Glossaries, vocabularies; Algonquian languages; Algonquin languages; Natural history; History
Work titles: Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale
Notes: Double page title printed across the center fold.

Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.

A translation and abbreviated edition of the author's Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, first printed The Hague, 1703.

Narrative of the first part is in the form of 25 letters.

"Lista der wilden Nationen in Canada mit ihren üblichen Sprachen", p. 363-368, lists the various tribes in Acadia, in the areas of Montreal and Québec City, Hudson's Bay and in the "southerly lands of Canada" and the languages they speak.

"Anhang eines Wörter-Buchs von der Wilden Sprache," p. 563-590, gives an exposition of the Huron (Wyandot) and Algonquian languages as the most important in Canada, followed by a selection of vocabulary in the Wyandot and Algonquian languages.

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Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Folded map with title "General-Carte von Canada" bound to face p. 1, 2nd count.

Greenly, A.H.  Lahontan, 365.

Pilling, J.C.  Algonquian languages, 293.

Palmer, P.M. German works on Amer., 349.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 711/115.