A new discovery of a vast country in America
Subtitle: extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; with a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals. Also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians; and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation,iving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan. Both parts illustrated with maps, and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. Willism
By: by L. Hennepin.
Contributors: Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675.; Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700.; Holdsworth, Arthur and Elizabeth (bookplate); Barnardiston, John, d. 1778, (autograph)
Publisher: Printed for M. Bentley, F. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687.; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803.; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Discovery and exploration.; Great Lakes (North America) -- Discovery and exploration.; Canada -- History -- To 1603 -- Discovery; North America -- Discovery and exploration; Louisiana -- Discovery and exploration -- French.
Other titles: Continuation of the new discovery of a vast country in America; Nouveau voyage.
Work titles: Nouvelle decouverte d'un tres grand pays situé dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la mer glaciale.
Notes: Wing, H1450.

RBSC copy 1: Maps and plate at p. 157 wanting.  With the autograph of John Barnardiston on t.p.

RBSC copy 2: With the bookplate of Arthur and Elizabeth Holdsworth.