LE GRAND VOYAGE DU PAYS DES HURONS, SITUÉ EN L'AMÉRIQUE VERS LA MER DOUCE, ÈS DERNIERS CONFINS DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE, DITE CANADA.... [bound with:] DICTIONAIRE DE LA LANGVE HVRONNE...
1865 · Pari
by Sagard-Theodat, Gabrie
Pari: Librairie Tros, 1865. Two volumes. [8],xxv,206; [207]-268,12,[148]pp. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Some edge wear, else very good. A later reprint, after the very rare original edition of 1632. Sagard was a Recollet missionary who spent 1623-24 in Huronia as a missionary to the Huron nation. His book, based largely on his own experiences and those of his associates, as well as on contemporary letters and documents, is considered to be the main authority for the history of the first Recollet mission in Canada in the 1615-29, and the main source for Indian life and relations with the French which does not stem from the Jesuits. "Sagard and Champlain were the first explorers to give any very definite statements about the Huron Indian country and what they had learned from these Indians about the Great Lakes Country" - Greenly. Most of the work is devoted to the life of the Hurons, and has been called "a brilliant, astonishingly precise fresco." The Huron dictionary also reprinted herein (within volume two) was the first printed Huron vocabulary, a collection of French expressions translated into Huron, to be used as a manual by traders and missionaries. Sagard assembled it from his own work and those of other missionaries, and it remains "the most complete compilation extant dealing with the old Huron language." FIELD 1343. SABIN 74882,74884. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 10 (ref). (Inventory #: WRCAM22444)