CANADA.
Émile PETITOT (1838-1916), missionary priest in Canada, ethnologist and linguist, left in 1862 to evangelize the Amerindians of the Northwest Territories, study Amerindian languages and map their territory.
- P.S. (twice) with 5-line apostille. Publishing contract signed with Maisonneuve for his work Légendes & traditions des américains hyperboréens. 2 pp. in-4. November 1885 and Sept. 1886.
- L.A.S. to his publisher Maisonneuve. 3 pp. ½ in-8. Mareuil, Sept. 1887. About his contract to publish Légendes indiennes du Canada.
Enclosed are an 18th-century "beaver hunt" engraving and 2 American postcards featuring Indians.
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