36
Histoire de la Nouvelle France par de Charlevoix.
6. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 61, as above.
CHARLEVOIX,
Pierre François Xavier de.
Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal Historique d’un Voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans
l’Amérique Septentrionnale. Par le P. De Charlevoix, de la Compagnie de Jesus. Tome Premier. [-Sixiéme]
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
A
Paris: chez la Veuve
Ganeau,
m dcc xliv
. Avec Approbation & Privilege du Roy. [1744.]
F1030 .C465
6 vol. 12mo. 234, 252, 234, 195, 243 and 220 leaves, titles printed in red and black, folded engraved maps by Dheulland after N. Bellin [i.e. Jacques Nicolas Bellin]; the titles of Volumes V and VI read:
Journal d’un Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi dans l’Amerique Septentrionnale; adressé à madame la Duchesse de Lesdiguiêres .
. .
with imprint; these volumes contain an account of Charlevoix’ travels arranged in 36 letters addressed to the Duchesse, preceded by
Remarques de M. Bellin, Ingenieur de la Marine, sur les Cartes & les Plans, and with a
Liste et Examen des Auteurs que j’ai consultés pour composer cet Ouvrage at the end.
Sabin 12136.
Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 24.
Winsor IV, 358.
Not in Church.
Field 282 (this edition mentioned in the note).
Backer II, col. 1078.
Carayon 1353.
Staton and Tremaine 188, and Faribault 132 cite different issues of the same year.
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, 1682-1761, French Jesuit historian and explorer, was sent to Canada in 1705 as a professor at Quebec, but later returned
to France. In 1720 he visited America under orders from the regent, and travelled along the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi.
His
Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France was originally published in Paris, 1744, in three volumes quarto. A copy of this edition is entered in Jefferson’s dated manuscript catalogue, in addition to the duodecimo edition here described.
In his undated manuscript catalogue the entry was originally for the quarto edition, changed with the pen by Jefferson to the duodecimo edition, and the price
changed from 24. to
18.0.
It is in this work that Charlevoix states that Tonti was not the author of the book ascribed to him [no. 4072]. The passage occurs, in this edition, in Volume III, page 384, 385:
Ce Fort étoit placé presqu’à l’embouchure du Fleuve du côté de l’Est; mais il n’a pas subsisté lontems. Pendant qu’on y travailloit,
le Chevalier de Tonti arriva avec environ vint Canadiens établis chez les Illinois, & M. d’Iberville lui ayant parlé de la
Retion, qui couroit sous son nom, il protesta qu’elle n’étoit point de lui, mais d’un Aventurier Parisien, qui l’avoit composée
sur de mauvais Mémoires, & la lui avoit attribuée, pour lui donner cours, & gagner de l’argent . . .
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Jones’s journal to the Indian nations.
1815 Catalogue, page 124, no. 166, as above,
8vo.
JONES,
David.
A Journal of Two Visits made to some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773. By
the Rev. David Jones, Minister of the Gospel at Freehold, in New-Jersey.
Burlington: Printed and Sold by
Isaac Collins,
m.dcc.lxxiv.
[1744.] [
i.e. “1774”--
Ed.]
First Edition. Sm. 8vo. 47 leaves; no copy of this edition was available for collation.
Sabin 36487.
Evans 13356.
Thomson 657.
This edition not in Field.
Jefferson had another copy of this tract (of which only a very few copies are now known), bound with other pamphlets, see
no. 4048.
David Jones, 1736-1820, clergyman and army chaplain, visited the Shawnees and the Delawares in 1772-1773. The original manuscript of
this Journal is still in existence, and was reprinted in 1865 by the author’s grandson, Horatio Gates Jones, of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania.
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