Born in Quebec Tale of Louis Jolliet
by Grandbois, Alain
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0919366198
- ISBN 13
- 9780919366190
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Palm Publishers. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. 0919366198 . A Fine Blue Hardcover, gilt titles to the spine. A sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is unclipped Very Good+ and is protected by a clear plastic covering. "Louis Jolliet, explorer, cartographer, kings hydrographer, fur trader, seigneur, organist, teacher (baptized 21 September 1645 in Québec City; died between 4 May and 18 Oct 1700 likely near Île d'Anticosti). The first significant Canadian-born explorer, Louis Jolliet achieved international fame in his lifetime as the first non-Aboriginal person, together with Jacques Marquette, to travel and map the Mississippi River. Jolliet also explored and mapped the Lake Superior regions, the area between the Saguenay River and Hudson Bay, and part of the Labrador coast." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26180
- Title
- Born in Quebec Tale of Louis Jolliet
- Author
- Grandbois, Alain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0919366198
- ISBN 13
- 9780919366190
- Publisher
- Palm Publishers
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- 0919366198, BIOGRAPHY, New France > Explorers, HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian History; Biography;
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