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. Louis Hennepin, missionnaire recollet & notaire apostolique.
Contributors: Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress); John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez la veuve Sebastien Huré ...
Published: 1683
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Early works to 1800; Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803; Louisiana -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Sabin 31347
Rich, O.  Bib. Americana (1967 ed.), I, p. 104
Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 4065
Thacher, II, p. 22 (Americana)
Signatures: ã⁶ A-2C⁸/⁴ ²A-²H⁸/⁴ I⁶.
"Les moeurs de sauvages" (caption title): 107 p. at end.
Map by Guerard. Cf. Sabin.
LC copy imperfect; lacking the map.