Search Results: Authors starting with N from Liber Antiquus

Paris: Chez Sebastien Cramoisy, imprimeur ordinaire du Roy, & de la Reyne Regente, et Gabriel Cramoisy, ruë sainct Iacques, aux Cicognes, 1651. SECOND EDITION, WITH A NEW LETTER NOT PRINTED IN THE FIRST EDITION of the same year. "Of greater rarity than the earlier edition."(McCoy). Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary limp vellum (a little rumpled and soiled, with a small split on the spine.) The contents are in very good condition, lightly shaken, with light marginal soiling and a little scattered foxing. A few leaves working loose at the beginning, occ. marginal ink spots (and a single annotation). A genuine, unsophisticated copy. A rare Jesuit relation for 1649-50, written in the aftermath of the utter destruction of the Huron Mission at Sainte Marie at the hands of the Iroquois. The relation, written by the new superior, Fr. Paul Ragueneau, S.J., dated Quebec, September 1, 1650, is supplemented with a letter by Ragueneau's predecessor, Fr. Jérôme Lalemant, S.J, apparently written soon after… Read More