| Author | Bossu, M., 1720-1792.
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| Uniform Title | Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. English
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| Title | Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana. / By Mr. Bossu, captain in the French Marines. ; translated from the French, by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. ; illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history ; to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North-America, or, a flora Americæ Septentrionalis. ; together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's Travels through Spain and Cumana in South America, referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition.
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| Published | London : Printed for T. Davies, 1771.
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| Description | 2 v. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
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| General Note | Published originally under title: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales, Paris, 1768, and comprising the author's observations during his first two visits to the country, 1751-1757 and 1757-1762.
The systematic catalogue of plants (v. 2, p. [17]-67) also published separately as Flora Americæ Septentrionalis.
"An abstract of the most useful and necessary articles mentioned by Peter Loefling, botanist to His Catholic Majesty, in his travels through Spain, and that part of South America called Cumana, consisting in his life, and in systematical descriptions of the plants of both countries, referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition.": v. 2, p. [69]-422.
Includes index.
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| Cit./Ref. Note | References: Graff Coll. 363; Sabin 6466; Clark, T.D. Old South, 5.
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| Subjects | Botany -- America.
Botany -- Classification.
Botany -- South America.
Botany -- Spain.
Haiti -- Description and travel.
Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley.
Indians of North America -- Southern States.
Louisiana -- Description and travel -- To 1803.
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
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| Other Authors | Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798. tr.
Löfling, Per, 1729-1756. Iter hispanicum.
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| Related Titles | Flora Americæ Septentrionalis.
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| LC Card Number | 01-8753 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 26 J B746
mq46128: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 32571] |
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