Bibliographia catholica americana
Subtitle: a list of works written by Catholic authors,
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781425532079
Subjects: American history; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; Reference; USA; Bibliographies & Indexes; United States - General; History / United States / General; History : United States - General; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes
First sentence: A LEARNED writer on Catholic Literature in the United States in the Metropolitan (Baltimore, 1854, vol. ii. pp. 69, 133, 198) remarks: "When the Pilgrims were yet in Holland, a Peruvian wrote, in Florida, the first of its historical books; Ulloa, the first Spanish Governor of Louisiana, is a well-known name in literature; Lescarbot, on the coast of Maine, composed his Muses de la Nouvelle France . . . ; Jogues, in the office of the Dutch commandant at Albany, wrote in Latin . . . the narrative of his sufferings, which Rome and Austria reprinted at length."