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, and dedicated to his Majesty K. William.
By: By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which is added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition.
Contributors: Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700.; Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675.
Publisher: Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687.; Indians of North America -- Early works to 1800.; New France -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.; Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.; Great Lakes -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.; Québec (Québec) -- History.; Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Engraved half-title: A new discovery of a large country in America by Father Lewis Hennepin.
Signatures: A⁸, a⁴, B-T⁸, V⁶, Aa⁶, Bb-Ee⁸, *ee², Ff-Nn⁸, Oo⁴ (last leaf probably blank, wanting) 2 leaves (unsigned) X-Z⁸, Aa².
First English edition. Shea's no. 1, with t.-p. of his no. 2. cf.  Shea, Descr. of Louisiana, 1880, p. 392.
[Part 1] is a translation of the "Nouvelle découverte"; [pt. 2] of "Nouveau voyage", with special t.-p. and pagination; A continuation of the new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; ... By L. Hennepin ... London, Printed in the year, 1698.
Appended to the 2d part: Joliet's account, with half-title "An account of several new discoveries in North-America": 1 l., p. 303-306; "An account of M. la Salle's voyage to the river Mississippi ...": p. 307-317; "A discovery of some new countries and nations in the Northern-America. By Father Marquette", etc., p. 318-355.