Les Illustrations Canadiennes. Première Serie - 1494-1676
Hardcover, Montreal: Librairie Saint-Joseph, Cadieux & Derome, 1887. Fair with no dust jacket.
Book is in the French language. Originally a softcover, rebound as a hardcover with front and back of original softcover wraps bound in. First few pages beginning to detach, else a sound binding. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Pages tanned, clean. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with overall shelf wear. Paul Dupuy's biographical essays on various colonial New French individuals: Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, le R. P. Jean de Brébeuf, Marie-Madeleine de la Peltrie, Mademoiselle Mance, Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, le Major Lambert Closse, and Mm. J. le Maitre et G. Vignal. 9.25" tall; 247 pages.
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