Description topographique de six cents mille acres de terres dans l'Amérique septentrionale
Subtitle: mises en vente par actions, suivant le plan d'association ci-joint. : Prospectus
Contributors: Chassanis, Pierre
Publisher: Le bureau de la Compagnie est à Paris, rue de la Jussienne, no. 20.
Published: 1792
Place of publication: [Paris]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Compagnie de New York; French
Notes: "This land promotion tract was presumably written by Pierre Chassanis, one of the principles in the company, who in 1792 purchased from William Constable an option on a large tract in upper New York State ... The proposed French colony, known as Castorland, probably never numbered more than 30 families and ultimately failed."--Echeverria & Wilkie.

Colophon, p. 8, 3rd count, reads: De l'imprimerie de Froullé, quai des Augustins.

Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B⁴ (-B4) ²A⁴

Title vignette.

"Association pour la possession & exploitation de six cents mille acres de terre concédées par l'État de New-Yorck ....," p. [1]-8, 3rd count, has separate pagination and signatures.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 792/26.

Brown, J.C.  Bibliotheca Americana, III: 3520.