Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique septentrionale de M. de La Sale
By: mises au jour par M. le chevalier Tonti ...
Contributors: Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Jean Guignard ...
Published: 1697
Place of publication: A Paris au palais
Language: fre
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.; New France -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Thacher, II, p. 13-14 (Americana)
The authorship of the work was denied by Tonti, who asserted "qu'elle n'étoit point de lui, mais d'un aventurier parisien, qui l'avoit composée sur de mauvais mémoires, & la lui avoit attribuée, pour lui donner cours". Cf. Charlevois, Histoire... de la Nouvelle France, t. 2, 1744, p. 260. The compiler, however, probably based his narrative on some of Tonti's letters. Cf. Harrisse, Notes pour servir à l'histoire ... de la Nouvelle-France, 1872, p. 169-171; and Margry, Relations et mémoires inédits, 1867, p. 1-36.
Signatures: pi² A-2E⁸/⁴ 2F⁸ 2G1.
Includes map. Cf. Henri Joutel's Journal historique, 1713, p. 8.
LC copy imperfect: map wanting.