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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 Americae 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 ; vol. I[-II].
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bossu, M., 1720-1792.
- Standardized Title:
- Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Botany.
- Plants.
- Indians of North America.
- Louisiana--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Louisiana.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Early works to 1800.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Early works to 1800.
- Haiti--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Haiti.
- Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Plants--Spain--Classification.
- Plants--America--Classification.
- Plants--South America--Classification.
- Botany--North America.
- North America.
- Botany--South America.
- South America.
- Botany--Iberian Peninsula.
- Europe--Iberian Peninsula.
- America.
- Spain.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Classification.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor) (Dechert Collection copy)
- George L. Harrison Foundation (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Poynder, G. A. (label) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Buckworth, Ever. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Mackenzie (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (v.1: viii, 407 pages, 1 unnumbered page; volumes2: 4 unnumbered pages, 432 pages) ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Half title: Travels through Louisiana
- Fingerprint:
- s.my oft- lein thth (3) 1771 (R) v.I
- ryhe e-e- s,*; tobe (3) 1771 (R) v.II
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent Garden., M DCCLXXI [1771]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Notes:
- Signatures: v.1: [A]⁴ B-2C⁸ 2D⁴ ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, 2D4 verso blank); v.2: [A]² B-2E⁸ ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, F2 verso, F3 verso, G4 verso blank).
- 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.
- Translation, by Johann Reinhold Forster, of: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. Paris, 1768.
- Edited by Johann Reinhold Forster.
- The systematic catalogue of plants (v. 2, p. [17]-67) also published separately as Flora Americae 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 bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Dechert Collection copy with: Forster, Johann Reinhold. Flora Americae septentrionalis, or A catalogue of the plants of North America. London : Sold by B. White ... and by T. Davies ..., 1771. (At end of volume 1) -- Forster, Johann Reinhold. A Catalogue of the Animals of North America. London : Sold by B. White ..., 1771. (At end of volume 2)
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 acquired for the Penn Libraries with support from the George L. Harrison Foundation. The library's bookplate on the front pastedown reads "The Geo. L. Harrison Foundation".
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has spine title: Bossu's Travels.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has label, on front pastedown, which reads "G. A. Poynder, Antiquarian Bookshop, next to general post office, Reading."
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of "Ever. Buckworth" dated 1772, on title page. This could be Sir Everard Buckworth.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of "Mackenzie", on back flyleaf.
- Cited in:
- Graff Coll., 363
- Sabin, 6466
- Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South, 2:5
- Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:1773
- Monaghan, F. French travellers in the U.S., 264
- Watt, R. Bib. Britannica, 1:379c-d
- Field, T.W. An essay towards an Indian bib., 157
- Pritzel, 2979
- Cox II, p. 142
- ESTC, T143882
- Contains:
- Flora Americae Septentrionalis.
- OCLC:
- 1581799
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