New voyages to North-America : containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... and the various adventures between the French, and the Iroquese confederate

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Translation of Nouveaux voyages Vol. 2 has title and imprint: New voyages to North-America. Giving a full account of the customs, commerce, religion, and strange opinions of the savages of that country. With political remarks upon the courts of Portugal and Denmark, and the present state of commerce of those countries ... London: : Printed for J. Walthoe, R. Wilkin, J. and J. Bonwicke, J. Osborn, S. Birt, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed., 1735 While the title page mentions "twenty-three maps and cuts", the 1735 edition may have been issued with only twenty. The plates Paltsits calls for in v. 1 opposite p. 55, 160, and 184 are, when present, perhaps supplied from the first edition of 1703. Cf. A.H. Greenly's "Lahontan: an essay and bibliography", in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v. 48 (1954), p. 334-389 "A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario, a noted man among the savages": v. 2, p. 92-185; attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville. Cf. Justin Winsor's Narrative and critical history of America, v. 4, p. 257-260 Pilling, J.C. Bibl. Algonquian lang. Pilling, J.C. Bibl. Iroquoian lang. Sabin Paltsits, V.H. Lahontan Greenly, A.H. Lahontan
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