Genuine letters and memoirs, relating to the natural, civil, and commercial history of the Islands of Cape Breton, and Saint John
Subtitle: from the first settlement there, to the taking of Louisburg by the English, in 1758. : In which, among many interesting particulars, the causes and previous events of the present war are explained
By: By an impartial Frenchman. ; Translated from the author's original manuscript
Contributors: Hazard, Thomas G.; Brown University. Library; Thompiton Society
Publisher: Printed for J. Nourse in the Strand.
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Work titles: Lettres et mémoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile, et politique du Cap Breton
Notes: "This book purports to be a series of [24] letters written from Louisbourg in 1752-58, and edited by the author," but was actually written by Pichon in London. See John Clarence Webster's Life of Thomas Pichon. (Sackville, N.B. : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937)

Translated from the manuscript of: Lettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton. A La Haye : Pierre Gosse ; Londres : Jean Nourse, 1760.

Signatures: A-2C⁸

Errata statement, p. xvi.

Echeverria & Wilkie.  French image, 760/7.

Brown, J.C.  Bibliotheca Americana, III: 1274.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Thompiton Society [or Thrupiton Society]: inscription.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 is 21 cm. Bound in contemporary calf.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Thos. G. Hazard: his book: inscription; Brown University: JCB bibliographical records.

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 gift of Mr. Daniel L. Hazard and Mrs. George Hazard Jr.