Description de la Louisiane
Subtitle: nouvellement decouverte au sud'oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy. Avec la carte du pays: les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages
By: Dediée a sa majesté par le R. P. Loüis Hennepin, missionnaire recollet & notaire apostolique
Publisher: Chez Amable Auroy, ruë Saint Saint [sic] Jacques à l'image S. Jerôme, attenant la fontaine S. Severin
Published: 1688
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Discovery and exploration; Indians of North America; History
Notes: First printed, Paris, 1683.

Colophon on p. [12], 1st count, reads: De l'Imprimerie de Laurent Rondet.

"Description de la Loüisiane", p. [1]-312, 2nd count, has separate caption title.

"Les moeurs des sauvages", p. [1]-107, 3rd count, has separate caption title.

Signatures: ã⁶ (ã1 verso blank) A-2A⁸⁻⁴ 2B⁸ 2C⁴ ²A-²H⁸⁻⁴ ²I⁶ (²I6 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Harrisse, H. Nouvelle-France, 160.

Paltsits, V.H. Hennepin, li.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:2737.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, p. 192.

European Americana 688/121.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting folded map.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in later full calf.