Signed and dated holograph manuscript reports in French by Beaumont de Brivazac concerning French interests in America. Twelve reports written between December 1817 and May 1819, document and analyze the political, diplomatic, and economic affairs of...
Description:
Louis C. Hubert, called Comte de Beaumont de Brivazac, was an espionage agent for Louis XVIII, and submitted secret diplomatic reports to Elie Decazes while living in London. He published a work entitled L'europe et ses colonies en decembre 1819, con...
Subject (Geographic):
England., France., Arctic regions, Northwest Passage, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, America, United States, France, and South America
Subject (Name):
Buchan, Captain., Beaumont de Brivazac, comte de, 1746-1821., and Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856.
Subject (Topic):
Espionage, Spies, Discovery and exploration, British, Politics and government, Foreign relations, Colonies, and History
Extract from a diary of the second mate on a Spanish voyage to explore the northern coast of California
Description:
Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, second mate of the frigate la Princesa, one of two ships (the other, la Favorita)on a voyage headed by Ignacio Arteaga to discover a Northwest passage north of San Francisco in 1779. La Princesa was commanded by Juan Francis de...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Arteaga y Bazán, Ignacio., Bodega y Cuadra, Juan de la, 1743-1794., Pantoja y Arriaga, Juan., Favorita (frigate), and Princesa (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Voyages and travels, and History
11 manuscript letters, most signed, documenting the work of early missionaries in Oregon. Most of the letters from Harvey Clark are addressed to fellow unaffiliated missionary Alvin T. Smith. Clark describes his overland journey to Oregon Territory,...
Description:
Harvey Clark (1807-1858) was a missionary and pioneer in Oregon. Born in Vermont, Clark trained as a stone mason before studying theology at Oberlin College. Clark and his wife Emmeline Caldwell Clark went to Oregon as unaffiliated missionaries in 18...
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon. and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Clark, Emmeline Caldwell., Clark, Harvey, 1807-1858., Littlejohn, P. B., Munger, Asahel., Smith, Alvin Thompson, 1802-1888., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., and Tualatin Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Education, Missions Oregon, Missionaries, Missions, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Pioneers, and Discovery and exploration
Multi-title collection including Histoire de la Nouvelle France : contenant les navigations
Image Count:
4
Alternative Title:
Histoire de la Novvelle France
Description:
BEIN Taylor 245: Bound with: Lescarbot, Marc. Les muses de la Nouvelle France. Paris, 1609. Armorial bookplate of Horace de Landau with shelf-mark 4813. [1] Figure du port de Ganabara au Brisil (10 x 17 cm, on sheet 18 x 20 cm, folded to 18 x 9 cm) b...
Publisher:
Chez Iean Milot
Subject (Geographic):
Nova Scotia, New France, America, Acadia, Florida, and Guanabara Bay (Brazil)
Subject (Name):
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de, 1510-1571?
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, French, and History
Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert, Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien der Portugaloysers in Orienten ..., and Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea
Description:
BEIN Taylor 207: Imperfect: map "Orbis terrarum typus de integro ..." mutilated, with no loss of text; map Exacta & accurate delineatio cùm orarum maritimarum ..." mutilated, with some loss of text. Bookplate: John Jay Paul [1914 in ms.]. All illustra...
Publisher:
By Cornelis Claesz. op't vvater, in't schrijf-boeck, by de oude brugghe
Subject (Geographic):
America
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Voyages and travels, and Discovery and exploration
Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada
Description:
BEIN Z6 14: For other issues of the same year and their variations; cf. Sabin's Dictionary and the Church catalogue, vol. 3, 1907, pp. 976-981, no. 420. The Yale copy has also the following peculiarities: page 272 (1st count) is misnumbered 262; p. 2...
Publisher:
Chez Pierre LeMvr, dans la grand' salle du Palais
Subject (Geographic):
Canada and America
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic):
Huron and French, Indians of North America, Navigation, Wyandot language, Montagnais language, Discovery and exploration, and French
