History and General Description of New France

Author: Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761)Year: 1900Publisher: Francis P HarperPlace: New YorkDescription: 6 volumes. xiv-[15]-286+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, folding maps, plates, bibliography and tables. iv-[5]-284+6+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, facsimiles, plates and folding maps. vi-[7]-312+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece and folding maps. viii-[9]-308+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, folding map, facsimiles and plate. xi-[12]-311 pages with frontispiece, maps and facsimiles. x-[11]-256+[directions to binders] pages with frontispiece, plate, maps and charts and index. Small quarto (10 3/4" x 7 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Translated and edited by John Gilmary Shea with a new memoir and bibliography of Noah Farnham Morrison. (Howes C-307) Limited to 750 copies of which this is number 81. Originally published in French in 1744 in three quarto volumes.