Antoine Francois Laval

Voyage de la Louisiane, fait par ordre du roy en l'année mil sept cent vingt: Dans lequel sont traitées diverses matières de physique, astronomie, géo

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Title: Voyage de la Louisiane, fait par ordre du roy en l'année mil sept cent vingt: dans lequel sont traitées diverses matières de physique, astronomie, géographie et marine: l'on y a joint les Observations sur la refraction, faites à Marseille: avec des reflexions sur ces observations: Divers voyages faits pour la correction de la carte de la côte de Provence, et des Reflexions sur quelques points du sisteme de M. Newton. Author: Antoine Francois Laval Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01918900 CollectionID: CTRG96-B1188 PublicationDate: 17280101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: A scientific expedition under command, successively, of Captains Cassaro and Vallette Laudun. The outward course included Madeira, Martinique, Saint Dominique (Haiti), the south coast of Cuba, Little Cayman Island, Pensacola and Dauphine Island, returning by way of the north coast of Cuba. The anonymous "Journal d'un voyage à la Louisiane, fait en 1720" by Captain Vallette Laudun, relates to the same expedition. Divers voyages faits pour la correction de la côte de Provence has special t.p. dated 1727. Collation: xxiv, 304, 96, 191, [9] p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded): maps; 26 cm

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• Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 686
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2018
• Französisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1129g
• ISBN-13: 9780341398745
• ISBN-10: 0341398748
• Artikelnr.: 55790843