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Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des peres de la Compagnie de Iesus, en la Nouuelle France, es annees 1653. & 1654. Enuoyée au r.p. Nicolas Royon, prouincial de la prouince de France.

Le Mercier, François, 1604-1690, Jesuits. Correspondence from North America · 1655 · A Paris, : chez Sebastien Cramoisy imprimeur ordinaire du roy & de la reyne, et Gabriel Cramoisy. Ruë S. Iacques aux Cicognes. · 2 pictures

A 1655 Paris printing by the Jesuit François Le Mercier, issued by the Cramoisy press, reporting the Jesuit mission to New France for the provincial of France. The pictures are two woodcut printer's ornaments: a frieze of interlaced scrolls and grotesque figures, and a framed panel with a pair of storks above a small town, with the imprint 'A Paris' below. A designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical border work and the framed emblem format typical of seventeenth-century French printing.

Jesuits · Indians of North America · Indian linguistics

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