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• North America -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800
• North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Early works to 1800
• North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
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• Kurzgefasste Beschreibung der engländischen und französischen Besitzungen auf dem nordlichen festen Lande von America, zur Erklarung der unter eben diesem Titel herausgegeben Landkarte (Verlegts Peter Schenck, in Amsterdam, 1755), by Jean Palairet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical journal of a voyage to America; addressed to the Duchess of Lesguieres (Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1761), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix and Thomas Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from Canada and the United States (Printed for private circulation, by J.E. Adlard, Bartholomew Close, 1865), by George Tuthill Borrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique Septentrionnale (Chez Pierre-François Giffart, rue Saint-Jacques à Sainte Therese, 1744), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the United States of North America (Printed for R. Phillips, no. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard; sold by T. Hurst and J. Wallis, Paternoster-Row, and by Carpenter and Co., Old Bond-Street, 1799), by François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Benjamin Smith, Edward Jones, John Russell, and Henry Neuman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America (Printed for the author and sold by J. Guthrie, 1793), by P. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada depuis deux ans (Publisher not identified, 1844), by active 1665-1666 Historicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeine geschichte und beschreibung von Neu-Frankreich : worinnen alles dasjenige enthalten ist, was die Entdeckungen und Eroberungen der Franzosen in dem nordlichen America betrifft (Arkstee & Merkus, 1756), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigrant's assistant (Printed by Nahum Mower, 1821), by A. J. Christie and Nahum Mower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage & naufrage du P. Crespel ([publisher not identified], 1757), by Emmanuel Crespel and Louis Crespel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la paix entre les roys de France & d'Espagne (A Paris : Par Iean Richer, MDCVI [1606], 1606), by Pierre-Victor Palma-Cayet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographische und historisch-politische Nachrichten von demjenigen Theil des Nördlichen Amerika, um dessen Gränzen, zwischen den Franzosen und Engländern, gegenwärtig Krieg geführet wird. Nebst einer Beschreibung der dasigen vortheilhaften Handlung und Beschaffenheit des Landes, besonders was Neuland oder Terreneuve, Akadien oder Neuschottland, Neuengland, Pensilvanien, Philadelfia, Carolina, Georgien, u.s.w. betrift ([publisher not identified], 1756), by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• New discovery of a country greater than Europe, situated in America, betwixt New-Mexico and the Frozen-Sea (London : Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698., 1698), by Louis Hennepin, S. Manship, Timothy Goodwin, Henry Bonwicke, Jacob Tonson, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, Robert Cavelier La Salle, and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Present state of Nova Scotia with a brief account of Canada (Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh, sold by T. Cadell, and G. Robinson & Co., London, 1787), by S. Hollingsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiae Canadensis, seu Novae-Franciae libri decem, ad annum vsque Christi MDCLVI (Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy, et Sebast. Mabre-Cramoisy ..., 1664), by François Du Creux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lahontan's North America (Printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Wilkin, S. Birt, T. Ward, E. Wicksteed, and J. Osborn, 1735), by baron de Lahontan, Nicolas Guedeville, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogues de Monsieur le baron de Lahontan et d'un sauvage (Chez la veuve de Boeteman, et se vend a Londres, chez David Mortier ..., 1704), by baron de Lahontan, Nicolas Gueudeville, and Roger Baskes Collection (University of Chicago. Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveaux voyages de mr. le baron de Lahontan (Chez les Freres L'Honoré, 1715), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de Lahontan (Chez les frères L'Honoré, 1704), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some new voyages to North-America (A.C. McClurg, 1905), by baron de Lahontan, Victor Hugo Paltsits, and Reuben Gold Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveaux voyages de Mr le baron de Lahontan (Chez les fréres l'Honoré, 1703), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveaux voyages de mr le baron de Lahontan (Chez les Freres L'Honoré, 1709), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement (Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1738), by Claude Le Beau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveaux voyages de Mr le baron de Lahontan (Chez les fréres l'Honoré, Marchands Libraries, 1703), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Herrn C. Le Beau (Druckts und verlegts Joh. David Jungnicol., 1752), by Claude Le Beau and Wilhelm Ernst Burckhard Rosler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Premier etablissement de la foi dans la Nouvelle France (Chez Thomas Amaulry ..., 1692), by Chrestien Le Clercq, Anastase Douay, and Zénobius Membré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez François L'Honoré, 1728), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez François L'Honoré, 1728), by baron de Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages du baron de La Hontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale (Chez Charles Delo, sur le Singel, 1706), by baron de Lahontan and Nicolas Gueudeville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages chez différentes nations sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale; renfermant des détails curieux sur les mœurs, usages, cérémonies religieuses, le systême militaire, &c. des Cahnuagas, des Indiens des Cinq & Six Nations, Mohawks, Connecedagas, Iroquois, &c. des Indiens Chippeways, & autres sauvages de divers tribus; sur leurs langues, les pays qu'ils habitent, ainsi que sur le commerce des pelleteries & fourrures qui se fait chez ces peuples; avec un état exact des postes situés sur le fleuve S. Laurent, le lac Ontario, &c., &c. (A Paris : Chez Prault l'aîné, imprimeur, Fuchs, Libraire, II. année de l'ére républicaine [1794], 1794), by J. Long and J. B. L. J. Billecocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages chez différentes nations sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale; renfermant des détails curieux sur les mœurs, usages, cérémonies religieuses, le systême militaire, &c. des Cahnuagas, des Indiens des Cinq & Six Nations, Mohawks, Connecedagas, Iroquois, &c. des Indiens Chippeways, & autres sauvages de divers tribus; sur leurs langues, les pays qu'ils habitent, ainsi que sur le commerce des pelleteries & fourrures qui se fait chez ces peuples; avec un état exact des postes situés sur le fleuve S. Laurent, le lac Ontario, &c., &c. (Chez Lebel et Guitel, Libraires, Rue des Prêtres-St.-Germain-l'Auxerrois, no. 27, 1810), by J. Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verhael van t'gheen gheschiet is in de missie van de pp. der Societeyt Jesu by de Hurons een landt van nieuw Vrancrijck op de jaeren 1648 ende 1649 : ghesonden tot r.p. Hieronymus l'Alemant overste van de missien van nieuw Vrancryck (By Cornelis Woons ..., 1651), by Paul Ragueneau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts, & c (London : Printed for J. Debrett, Piccadilly, M. DCC. XCI [1791], 1791), by M. Powys and John Fonblanque (page images at HathiTrust)

• Islariò general de todas las islas del mundo (Impr. del Patronato de huérfanos de intendencia é intervención militares, 1918), by Alonso de Santa Cruz, Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, Madrid (Spain). Real Sociedad geogràfica, and Real Sociedad Geográfica (Spain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the United States of North America (Printed for R. Phillips, no. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard; sold by T. Hurst and J. Wallis, Paternoster-Row, and by Carpenter and Co., Old Bond-Street, 1799), by François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Benjamin Smith, Edward Jones, John Russell, and Henry Neuman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America (Printed for the author and sold by J. Guthrie, 1793), by P. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geographische und historisch-politische Nachrichten von demjenigen Theil des Nördlichen Amerika, um dessen Gränzen, zwischen den Franzosen und Engländern, gegenwärtig Krieg geführet wird. Nebst einer Beschreibung der dasigen vortheilhaften Handlung und Beschaffenheit des Landes, besonders was Neuland oder Terreneuve, Akadien oder Neuschottland, Neuengland, Pensilvanien, Philadelfia, Carolina, Georgien, u.s.w. betrift ([publisher not identified], 1756), by Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between His Britannick Majesty and the United States of America (Printed by command of His Excellency the governor; as the act of the Provincial Parliament directs. By William Vondenvelden, printer at the new printing-office, Poor-Street, 1796), by William Vondenvelden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l'Amérique septentrionnale (A Paris : Chez la Veuve Ganeau, Librarie, rue S. Jacques, pres la rue du Platte, aux Armes de Dombes, MDCCXLIV [1744], 1744), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, active 18th century Desbruslins, Guillaume d' Heulland, Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Antoine Humblot, and Marie Ganeau (page images at HathiTrust)

• A model for erecting a bank of credit with a discourse in explanation thereof. Adapted to the use of any trading countrey, where there is a scarcity of moneys: more especially for his Majesties plantations in America. (London : printed by J.A. for Thomas Cockeril at the Three Leggs in the Poultrey, over against the Stocks-Market, 1688) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Traite de neutralité conclu a Londres le 16 Novembre 1686 entre les roys de France et d'Angleterre, touchant les pays des deux roys en Amerique. (De l'imprimerie de F. Léonard, premier imprimeur du roy, de monseigneir & seul pour les finances, 1686), by England and Wales, France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV), and England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traite de neutralité conclu a Londres le 16 Novembre 1686 entre les roys de France et d'Angleterre, touchant les pays des deux roys en Amerique. (De l'imprimerie de F. Léonard, premier imprimeur du roy, de monseigneir & seul pour les finances, 1686), by England and Wales, France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV), and England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) (page images at HathiTrust)

• This indenture: according to the method, and by the order and direction of his Majestie and most honourable Privy Councel, printed and published in the thirty fourth year of his Majesties reign of England &c. that now is (1682.) that all servants at any time as are free and willing to be retained to serve in His Majesties plantations in America, are to be duely examined by any of His Majesties.[sic] Justices of the Peace, ... ([London : s.n., 1683]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• At the court at Whitehall, December the thirteenth, 1682. Present the Kings most excellent Majesty, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury ... [19 others] Mr. Godolphin. Whereas it has been represented to His Majesty, that by reason of the frequent abuses of a lewd sort of people called spirits, in seducing many of His Majesties subjects to go on shipboard, where they have been seized and carried by force to His Majesties plantations in America ... (London, : Printed by the Assigns of John Bill deceas'd: And by Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty., 1682.), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II) and King Charles II of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Life of Peter Williamson (Printed for and sold by the booksellers, 1792), by Peter Williamson and John Gribbel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Verhael van t'gheen gheschiet is in de missie van de pp. der Societeyt Jesu by de Hurons een landt van nieuw Vrancrijck op de jaeren 1648 ende 1649 : ghesonden tot r.p. Hieronymus l'Alemant overste van de missien van nieuw Vrancryck (By Cornelis Woons ..., 1651), by Paul Ragueneau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement (Chez Herman Uytwerf, 1738), by Claude Le Beau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Herrn C. Le Beau (Druckts und verlegts Joh. David Jungnicol., 1752), by Claude Le Beau and Wilhelm Ernst Burckhard Rosler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent (1850 edition), by Richard Hakluyt and John Winter Jones (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (4 volumes; London: Printed for the editor et al., 1795), by William Winterbotham
  • volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies (second edition, 4 volumes; London: Printed for the compiler, 1799), by William Winterbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies (4 volumes; New York: Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien for J. Reid, 1796), by William Winterbotham
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org

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