Author: DESPRÉS, AZARIE COUILLARD
Title: Louis Hébert; Premier Colon Canadien Et Sa Famille
Description: Lille - Paris - Bruges, Société Saint-Augustin, Desclée, de Brouwer & Cie.. 1913. (hardcover) Very good. 152pp. 8vo. Period institutional re-bind; quarter red leather over marbled paper boards; spine with raised bands, five compartments; lettering in title compartment in gilt. Boards rubbed, most notably at edges; chipping at head and heel of spine; leather with a couple small cracks at hinges, boards remain entirely secure. Previous owner's rubber-stamp to rfep. B&W portrait frontispiece of Joseph Édouard Caron. Illustrated with 10 plates (pages 16 / 17, 32 / 33, 40 / 41, 48 / 49, 56 / 57, 88 / 89, 96 / 97, 122 / 123, 128 / 129, 134 / 135); it appears as though a plate may have been removed from p.64 / 65. Textblock clean. Appendices at rear, including a genealogy of the author. Text in French.

Keywords: Biography, Canadian History, French, French-Canadian, History, History - Canada, New France


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