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 giving 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 ...
By: by L. Hennepin ; to which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not published in the French edition
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: 355
Subjects: History; Discovery; French; Discovery and exploration
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: Errors in paging; pt. 2, nos. 45-48 repeated.

Wing, H1450; Alston 6354.

Gift; John T. Salvendy; 2008; RB283340.

Fisher (B-10 00197) copy 1: Maps and plate at p. 157 wanting. With the autograph of John Barnardiston on t.p.

Fisher (B-10 00197) copy 2.  Pages [301-356] bound in after pt. 1, p. [300].

Fisher (Fleming) copy 3: With the bookplate of Arthur and Elizabeth Holdsworth.