First Establishment Of The Faith In New FranceNow First Translated, With Notes, By John Gilmary Shea.

Published by New York: John G.Shea, 1881.

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2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 410, [2]; 354, [1 leaf]. large folding map, 11 plates (with 5 portraits incl. frontis.) & 1 text illus. contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., others uncut (light wear, bookplates removed from front paste-downs). First Edition of the English Translation. The French original, Premier Établissement de la Foy dans la Nouvelle France, published in 1691, is quite rare, circulation of the work having been suppressed or restrained on account of the author’s anti-Jesuit attitude. Le Clercq was a Recollet priest who served as a missionary for many years among the Micmac Indians of the Gaspé Peninsula, and invented a system of hieroglyphics to teach them their catechism and prayers. The Recollets were the first permanent missionaries in Canada. The first volume of the present work contains a history of Recollet missionary activity in New France, 1615-29, with a critique of Jesuit activities, while the second includes an account of Tracy’s campaign against the Iroquois, the return of the Recollets, the coming of Frontenac, the defeat of the English in 1690 based on Frontenac’s despatches and de Monseignat’s relation, and a description of the explorations of La Salle, taken from the records of the Recollets, Membré et Douay, the source of Hennepin’s claims. "Supremely important historically for its details on La Salle’s activities in Illinois and for supplying the first printed account of his epochal voyage down the Mississippi." (Howes, of the first edition) TPL 109. Lande 519. Howes L-172. Dionne II 1693. Gagnon I 2002. Pilling, Algonquian, p. 305. Story p. 447.…

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Title
First Establishment Of The Faith In New FranceNow First Translated, With Notes, By John Gilmary Shea.
Author
LE CLERCQ, Chrestien [1641-1700?].
Publisher
New York: John G.Shea, 1881.
Edition
1st Edition
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