America [manuscript] : a translation of L'Amerique, written in 1667 by Sanson d'Abbeville. Translation by Arthur B. Scharff.

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America [manuscript] : a translation of L'Amerique, written in 1667 by Sanson d'Abbeville. Translation by Arthur B. Scharff.

Arthur B. Scharff's translation is of the copy of the Sanson book in the McGregor Library (A 1667 .S357). The entire volume was translated including sections on Spanish America and the Caribbean not found in the 1959 translation of the portions on North America by Pauline Carson Bloch and Robert Martinson (RB E 143 .S243 1959).

205 p.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Scharff, Arthur Bernard

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Retired Washington and Lee French professor Arthur Scharff worked as a volunteer translator for the Special Collections Dept. of the University of Virgnia Library. From the description of Translation of an additional volume of "Encyclopédie; ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers", 1994-1997. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56947142 Retired professor of French at Washington and Lee University. From the description of Inter...

Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667

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