Lahontan, Baron de [Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce]; Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed - New Voyages to North-America / Two VolumesChicago, A. C. McClurg, 1905. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. xciii, 407; vi, 412-797, ads. 8vo. Dark brown cloth spines with gilt lettering, over tan cloth boards. Top edges gilt. Illustrations present as called-for, with one folding map showing a couple of tears at folds. Minor edgewear, charming bookplate to both front pastedowns, ink name, top edges a little dusty, Vol. I: front endpaper split at hinge, text block pulling away but binding sound; contents clean and unmarked. With Algonkin Dictionary at p. 732. Amtmann L-148. Pilling Algonquian p. 295: Lahontan "arrived in Canada probably as a private soldier, in 1683.. Truth and fiction are so blended in his works they have long since ceased to have any authority. - Appleton's Cyclop. of Am Biog. .
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