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Rare NFLD Book 1852 Voyage A Terre-Neuve By C. J. A. Carpon

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Rare NFLD Book 1852 Voyage A Terre-Neuve By C. J. A. Carpon

“Voyage à Terre‑Neuve, observations et notions curieuses, recueillies par C.-J.-A. Carpon” is a French‑language book first published in 1852 by Constant‑Jean‑Antoine Carpon, a surgeon in the French merchant marine.

Here are the key details and what the book covers, based on what I found:

Basic bibliographic data

  • Author: Constant‑Jean‑Antoine Carpon (often abbreviated C.‑J.‑A. Carpon) 

  • Title: Voyage à Terre‑Neuve. Observations et notions curieuses recueillies… (Voyage to Newfoundland. Curious observations and notions collected…)

  • Original publication date/place: 1852; published in Caen and Paris (Eugène Poisson; Dutot) 

  • Format / size: In‑8 (octavo). In the original: ~240 pages (plus preliminaries, table of contents). 

  • Modern reprints / editions: There are facsimile / print‑on‑demand versions published by BNF / Hachette Livre, retaining the original text with about 264 pages in the modern format.

About the author

  • Carpon was a chirurgien du commerce (surgeon in the merchant/merchant navy trade) who made multiple expeditions or fishing voyages to Newfoundland, particularly during the cod‑fishery seasons.

  • He had substantial experience (about 25 years) in the Newfoundland fishery. 

Contents & themes

This book is less a narrative travelogue and more a collection of observations: social, economic, cultural, and practical. Some themes and topics include:

  • The lives and customs of the permanent settlers on Newfoundland, especially in more remote harbours and along the French Shore.

  • Interaction between French fishery captains and the “gardiens” (local inhabitants who stay through the winter to look after fishing establishments).Traditions of marriage, social customs for people quite isolated from St. John’s, etc. 

  • Also descriptions of the fishing industry: including cod fishing but also apparently (according to rare book seller notes) discussions on whaling and hunting, and life aboard the “terre‑neuves” (Newfoundland fishermen). 

Historical significance & use

  • This work is considered one of the more significant French observer accounts of Newfoundland in the mid‑19th century. It is frequently cited in studies of settlement on the French Shore, of colonial fisheries, of Newfoundland’s social history. 

  • It gives insight into how French fishermen saw and described the Newfoundland environment, its inhabitants (both settler and indigenous, to some extent), and how the interaction between fisheries, climate, isolation, etc., shaped daily life.

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