Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana.
By: 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.
Contributors: Forster, Johann Reinhold, 1729-1798, tr.; Löfling, Per, 1729-1756.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for T. Davies
Published: 1771
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Early works to 1800.; Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Early works to 1800.; Botany -- Spain.; Botany -- America.; Botany -- South America.; Plants -- Classification.; Louisiana -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Haiti -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Flora Americæ Septentrionalis.
Notes: Graff Coll. 363
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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.