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Rare and interesting first edition of this travelogue to Francophone North America. The work offers a careful historical, political, and cultural analysis of Canada (New France), examining its government, institutions, local literature, clergy, and indigenous populations.

L. de La Brière, L'Autre France. Voyage au Canada, Paris, E. Dentu, 1886.

PP.: (VI), III, (I), II, 149, (III). COMPLETE.

Copy with maps in overall very good condition. Usual and light signs of age.

Half-leather contemporary binding with boards in marbled paper and a spine with the title and author impressed in gold, well preserved. Endpapers in marbled paper.

Rara e interessante prima edizione di questa relazione di viaggio nell'America settentrionale francofona. L'opera offre un'attenta analisi storica, politica e culturale del Canada (la "Nuova Francia"), esplorandone il governo, le istituzioni, la letteratura locale, il clero e le popolazioni indigene.

L. de La Brière, L'Autre France. Voyage au Canada, Paris, E. Dentu, 1886.

PP.: (VI), III, (I), II, 149, (III). COMPLETO.

Esemplare con carte in condizioni complessivamente molto buone. Consueti e lievi segni del tempo.

Legatura in mezza pelle coeva con piatti in carta marmorizzata e dorso con titolo ed autore impressi in oro, ben conservata. Fogli di guardia in carta marmorizzata. 

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First edition of L'Autre France. Voyage au Canada by L. de La Brière, published in 1886 by E. Dentu in Paris; text in French (original language), bound in half-leather with marbled boards, 164 pages, 16 x 11 cm, in very good condition.

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First edition of L'Autre France. Voyage au Canada by L. de La Brière, published in 1886 by E. Dentu in Paris; text in French (original language), bound in half-leather with marbled boards, 164 pages, 16 x 11 cm, in very good condition.

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