History and General Description of New France

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Author: Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761) Year: 1900 Publisher: Francis P Harper Place: New York Description: 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. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, traveler, and historian, often considered the first historian of New France. He had little interest for "a life of suffering and deprivation for the conversion of Indian souls", but "an eager curiosity concerning life". Between 1705 and 1709, Charlevoix was sent for his period of training in the Society called the regency to the Jesuit College in Quebec in the French colony of Canada, where he taught grammar. Upon complet

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