Author: L'Abbe C-H Laverdiere:
Title: Oeuvres de Champlain, publiees sous le patronage de l'Universite Laval [6 tomes en 3].
Description: Quebec: Geo-E Desbarats, 1870. Seconde edition, complete in 6 volumes (bound in 3). 8vo (27cm by 21cm), [iii], lxxvi, iv (preface), 48pp; iv, viii, 63pp; [iii], xvi, 327pp; [iii], viii, 143pp; viii, 16pp, 328pp; 343pp, 55pp, 8pp, 20pp, 36pp, 30pp. There is a separate continuous pagination running through all six volumes, amounting to 1478pp. 62 plates (some with hand-colouring) in volume 1, 24 maps (mostly folding) in volume 3, 6 plates in volume 4, large folding map in volume 6. Half dark green cruched morocco, gilt titling to the spines. Bindings a little rubbed and scuffed, tears to a couple of the folding maps, occasional scattered neat annotations (mainly affecting the preliminary pages of volumes 4, 5 and 6), lacks the title page to volume 6. Overall, this set is in good condition, with the text in Fench. The collected voyages of the man who founded Quebec City. The contents are as follows: Notice Biographique de Champlain, Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles (1598-1601), des sauvages, ou voyage de Champlain fait en la France Nouvelle (1603), voyages de Champlain Xaintongeois, Capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine (1604-1613), voyages et descouvertes faites en la nouvelle France (1615-1618), les voyages de la nouvelle France occidentalle, dicte Canada, faits par Chaplain (1603-1629), traitte de la marine de la navigation, table du ceste carte, doctrine Chrestienne du R P Ledesme, pieces justificatives, table des matieres.

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