The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo ... with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information / By G.A. Thompson.

  • Alcedo, Antonio de, 1735-1812.
Date:
1812-1815
  • Books

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Also known as

Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América. English

Publication/Creation

London : Printed for James Carpenter ... : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... : White, Cochran, and Co. and Murray ... : Parker, Oxford : And Deighton, Cambridge, 1812-1815.

Physical description

5 volumes : folded tables ; 28 cm (4to)

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Notes

Translation of Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales ó America
Vols.IV-V have t.p. imprint "London: Printed For The Author, And Published By Carpenter And Son [etc.] ... " dated 1814 and 1815 respectively
Vols.III-IV have colophons "Harding and Wright, Printers ... " and "Whittingham and Rowland, Printers ... " respectively.
Copy 1 Vol. 1 Supplier/Donor: A. Burton-Garbett Note: Pagination: [5], viii-xx, 574 p. (The "Translator's Preface." is bound in vol.V instead of vol.I. A list of subscribers to the translation, variously called for in vol.I or V, is present in neither.)
Copy 1 Vol. 2 Supplier/Donor: A. Burton-Garbett Note: Pagination: [2], 597, [1] p
Copy 1 Vol. 3 Supplier/Donor: A. Burton-Garbett Note: Pagination: [2], 512 p
Copy 1 Vol. 4 Supplier/Donor: A. Burton-Garbett Note: Pagination: [2], 636 p
Copy 1 Vol. 5 Supplier/Donor: A. Burton-Garbett Note: Pagination: 6 [i.e. 4], [1], viii-xlii, 462, [2], [1] p

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Wanting the list of subscribers; and the folding tables called for by the Library of Congress record. Binding: recent green half calf.

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  • Vol. 3

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  • Vol. 4

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  • Vol. 5

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