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Title:
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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.
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Date:
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1771
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Publisher:
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London : Printed for T. Davies in Russel-Street, Covent Garden
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Book Collection:
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Haiti
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Language:
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English
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Language:
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Latin
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Call Number:
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b2224700
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Digitizing Sponsor:
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John Carter Brown Library
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Book Contributor:
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John Carter Brown Library
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Identifier:
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travelsthroughth03boss
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Added Date:
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2010-03-26 14:46:26
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Identifier Url:
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http://www.archive.org/details/travelsthroughth03boss
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Image Count:
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428
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PPI:
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400
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Operator:
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xephyr@archive.org
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OCR:
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ABBYY FineReader 8.0
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Camera:
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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Author:
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Bossu, M., 1720-1792
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Author:
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Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798
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Author:
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Löfling, Per, 1729-1756. Iter Hispanicum. Selections
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Author:
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Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778
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Subject:
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Botany
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Subject:
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Indians of North America
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Description:
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Sabin
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Description:
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Edited by Johann Reinhold Forster
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Description:
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Half titles read: Travels through Louisiana
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Description:
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Signatures: v.1: [A] B-2C 2D ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, 2D4 verso blank); v.2: [A]² B-2E ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, F2 verso, F3 verso, G4 verso blank)
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Description:
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Errata (v.1: p.viii)
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Description:
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Includes index
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Description:
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"A catalogue of the known plants, shrubs, trees in North America. Collected from various writers on that subject." (v.2: p.[17]-67), by J.R. Forster; also published separately under title: Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or A catalogue of the plants of North America. London, 1771
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Description:
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"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); L��fling's biography (v.2: p.[71]-87), by Carl von Linné, translated into English by Johann Reinhold Forster, from the Swedish of: Petri Loefling ...Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til Spanska länderna uti Europa och America. Stockholm, 1758; the rest of the text is in Latin, taken from p.112-316 of the same original Stockholm 1758 edition (on p.263, the original page number "199" erroneously given as "189")
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Description:
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Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800
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Description:
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Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South
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Description:
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Monaghan, F. French travellers in the U.S.
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Description:
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Watt, R. Bib. Britannica 1:379c-d
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Description:
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Field, T.W. An essay towards an Indian bib.
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Description:
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Pritzel
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Description:
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John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf
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Description:
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(v.1: viii, 407, [1] p.; Translation, by Johann Reinhold Forster, of: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. Paris, 1768
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