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Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

Author: Francis Parkman
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Price: $15.00
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
Publisher Location: Boston
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: no jacket
Pub Date: 1929
light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, covers stained in places, previous owner's bookplate else clean and unmarked. Blue cloth with paper label, the Centenary Edition. The fifth part of Francis Parkman's extrordinary multi-volume work, France And England in North America, the definitive history of the continent through the fall of Quebec and the English Conquest of Canada which concluded what we call the French And Indian War.From Wikipedia:" Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (May 22, 1622 – November 28, 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698. He established a number of forts on the Great Lakes and engaged in a series of battles against the English and the Iroquois." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.