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France in America


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Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains, comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps / par le P. Lafitau ... ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en taille-douce ; tome premier[-second].

Lafitau, Joseph-François, 1681-1746.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
A Paris : Chez Saugrain l'aîné ... : Charles Estienne Hochereau ..., 1724.

NOTES
Frontispiece engraving signed: I.B. Scotin.

Vol. 1: [22], 610, [2] p., [21] leaves of plates; v. 2: [12], 490, [40] p., [22] leaves of plates.

Backer-Sommervogel, IV, column 1362

Sabin 38596

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 3995

Thacher, II, p. 26 (Americana)

Includes index.

SUBJECTS
Indians--Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Indians of Central America--Social life and customs.
Indians of South America--Social life and customs.
Iroquois Indians--Social life and customs.

RELATED NAMES
Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
2 v., [43] leaves of plates : ill., map (engravings) ; 26 cm. (4to)

CALL NUMBER
E58 .L16

DIGITAL ID
( Volume 1 ) rbfr 0013 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbfr.0013
( Volume 2 ) rbfr 0014 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbfr.0014

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
(France in America: Selections from the LC Rare Books and Special Collections Division Description)

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