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Faribault, Georges B.

Catalogue d'Ouvrages sur l'Histoire de l'Amerique, et en Particulier sur celle du Canada, de la Louisiane, de l'Acadie, et Autres Lieux, Ci-devant connus sous le nom de Nouvelle-France.

Quebec: Presses de W. Cowan, 1837. 8vo., pp. 207, marbled boards, plain cloth spine, original printed front paper wrap retained. Boards cracking at hinges, covers scuffed and slightly soiled, contents very good. Faribault, 1789-1866, made two collections of Canadian materials for the Legislative Assemby of Lower Canada, only to see them largely destroyed by fire; his bibliography of Canadiana is the first to be produced in Canada. Sabin 23806; TPL 2060. Now very scarce.

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