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001 RIBR95-B232
003 CStRLIN
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100 1 $aPichon, Thomas,$d1700-1781.
245 10 $aLettres et memoires pour servir à l'histoire naturelle, civile et politique du Cap Breton, :$bdepuis son établissement jusqu' à la reprise de cette isle par les Anglois en 1758.
260 $aA La Haye, :$bChez Pierre Gosse, :$aEt se trouve à Londres, :$bChez Jean Nourse,,$cMDCCLX.. [1760]
300 $a[4], vii-xvi, 327, [1] p. ;$c17 cm. (12mo)
500 $a"This book purports to be a series of [24] letters written from Louisbourg in 1752-58, and edited by the author" but was actually written by Pichon in London. Cf. John Clarence Webster's Life of Thomas Pichon (Sackville, N.B. : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1937)
500 $aAn English edition, "translated from the author's original manuscript," was published in the same year.
500 $aSignatures: pi1 pi2 pi3 a⁴ B-O¹² P⁸ (P8 verso blank)
510 4 $aEcheverria & Wilkie. French image,$c760/8.
510 4 $aBrown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana,$cIII: 1275.
510 4 $aGagnon, P. Essai de bibliographie canadienne,$cI: 685.
510 4 $aDionne, N.E. Inventaire chronologique,$c2: 639.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 1 has the half title leaf (p. [1-2], 1st count) bound after p. xvi. Bound in contemporary calf, with contemporary ms. notes on free endpaper.
590 $aProvenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Anquetil Duperron: inscription.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary calf.
590 $aProvenance of John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Brown University Library: bookstamp and JCB bibliographical records.
651 0 $aCape Breton Island (N.S.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aPrince Edward Island$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aLouisbourg (N.S.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aNova Scotia$xHistory.
653 $aImprint 1760.
700 2 $aAnquetil-Duperron, M.$q(Abraham-Hyacinthe),$d1731-1805.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
710 2 $aBrown University.$bLibrary.$4fmo$5RPJCB.
752 $aNetherlands$dHague.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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955 $lJCB$c1$q03743.$sAcquired before 1870$i06/23/95 C
955 $lJCB$c2$q04968.$sAcquired in 1964$i06/23/95 C
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