Alcedo, Antonio de:

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THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. CONTAINING AN ENTIRE TRANSLATION OF THE SPANISH WORK...WITH LARGE ADDITIONS AND COMPILATION FROM MODERN VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ... First English translation, after the first Madrid edition of 1786. An important reference work on colonial Spanish America, arranged as an alphabetical gazetteer of places, with a wealth of statistics and data on each, as well as a dictionary of terms peculiar to the Americas in the last volume. Contains descriptions of all the major provinces of Latin America, as well as Spanish outposts in the present-day Southwest and Southeast, including Florida and California. Borrows from most of the reliable contemporary and earlier accounts of travel and exploration. Translated from the Spanish by G.A. Thompson. Sabin quotes Lowndes as stating that this edition, because of its additions, is far superior to the original Spanish version.

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