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100 1 $aAlcedo, Antonio de,$d1735-1812.
240 10 $aDiccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América.$lEnglish.
245 14 $aThe geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies. :$bContaining an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, captain of the royal Spanish guards, and member of the royal Academy of history: with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information. /$cby G.A. Thompson, Esq. In five volumes.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for James Carpenter, Old Bond-Street; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; White, Cochrane, and Co. and Murray, Fleet-Street; London; Parker, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge,$c1812-1815.
300 $a5 v. ;$c28 cm.
505 0 $a(From spines) Volume 1: A-CYP -- vol. 2: DAB-MAS -- vol. 3: MAS-OZU -- vol. 4: PAB-TZI -- vol. 5: UBA to ZUY.
500 $aVolumes 1, 2, and 3 printed in 1812; vol. 4 printed in 1814; vol. 5 printed in 1815.
500 $aVolume 3 has imprint: London: Printed for James Carpenter, Old Bond-Street; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; White, Cochrane, and Co. Fleet-Street; and Murray, Albemarle-Street; London; Parker, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge.
500 $aVolumes 4 and 5 have imprint: London, Printed for the author, and published by Carpenter and Son, Old Bond-Street; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; White, Cochrane, and Co. Fleet-Street, and Murray, Albemarle-Street, London; Parker, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge.
500 $aColophons in vols. 1-2 read: Harding and Wright, printers, St. John's Square, London; colophon in vol. 3 reads: Harding and Wright, printers, St. John's Square; colophon in vol. 4 reads: Whittingham and Rowland, printers, Goswell Street; colophon in vol. 5 reads: Whittingham and Rowland, printers, Goswell Street, London.
500 $aTranslation, by George Alexander Thompson, of the author's: Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América, first printed in Madrid, 1786-1789.
500 $aSupplemented by: "Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo; or, Dictionary of America & West Indies; collated with all the most recent authorities, and composed chiefly from scarce and original documents, for that work, by A. Arrowsmith ...", printed in London, by G. Smeeton, 1816.
500 $aGazetter includes information about indigenous peoples and gives names of peoples, places, names of geographical features such as rivers and mountains, and names of plants and animals in their various indigenous languages.
500 $aA list of vocabulary appears in English and its Knisteneaux [i.e. Cree] translation in the entry for "Rocky Mountains" in v. 4, p. 342-345; this vocabulary list does appear in the orginal edition printed in Madrid from 1786-1789.
500 $aList of subscribers: v. 1, p. [xiii]-xv, 2nd count.
500 $a"A general table of the kingdoms and provinces into which Spanish America is divided; and of the viceroyalties, governments, corregimientos, and alcaldias mayores established in them": v. 1, p. [xvi]-xix, 2nd count.
500 $a"A general table of the British dominions and governments in North America and the West Indies": v. 1, p. xix-xx, 2nd count.
500 $a"A general table of the republic of North America, or the United States, and territorial governments": v. 1, p. xx, 2nd count.
500 $a"General appendix to Thompson's Alcedo, or Geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies; forming a vocabulary of provincial and Spanish terms, and a compendious natural history of that hemisphere": v. 5, p. [1]-105, has divisional title page.
500 $aText printed in two parallel columns.
500 $aPagination: v. 1: xl, xx, 574, [2] p.; v. 2: [2], 597, [3] p.; v. 3: [2], 512 p; v. 4: [2], 636 p.; v. 5: [4], 462, [2], 105, [3] p., [1] folded leaf.
500 $aFolded leaf in vol. 5, bound to face p. 272, is a table of islands in the West Indies and statistical data about them.
500 $aSignatures: v. 1: [a]² ([a]2 verso blank) b² ²b² c-e⁴ ²a² ²b-²c⁴ B-4D⁴; v. 2: [A]² (-[A]2) ([A]1 verso blank) B-4G⁴ (4G3 verso blank); v. 3: [A]² (-[A]2) ([A]1 verso blank) B-3T⁴; v. 4: [A]² (-[A]2) ([A]1 verso blank) B-4L⁴ 4M²; v. 5: [A]² ([A]1 verso blank) B-3N⁴ (3N4 verso blank) a-n⁴ (a1 verso blank) o² (o1 verso blank)
500 $aErrata: v. 5, p. [1], 3rd count.
500 $aBookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [1-2], 4th count; v. 2, p. [2-3], 3rd count; v. 5, p. [2-3], 5th count.
500 $aCf. Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, 5159.
510 4 $aSabin$c683.
510 4 $aPalau y Dulcet (2nd ed.),$c6031.
510 4 $aCundall, F. West Indies,$c2133.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: wanting v. 1, p. [i-ii], 1st count, a possible half-title leaf; wanting v. 1, p. [i-vi], 2nd count.
590 $aJohn Carter Brown Library copy half bound in contemporary reddish calf with marbled boards.
650 0 $aCree language$vGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xNorth American languages.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xCree language.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xMexican languages.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xCaribbean languages.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xCentral American languages.
650 4 $aIndian linguistics$xSouth American languages.
650 4 $aCatalogs, Booksellers'$zGreat Britain$y1812.
650 4 $aCatalogs, Booksellers'$zGreat Britain$y1815.
651 0 $aNorth America$vGazetteers.
651 0 $aCaribbean Area$vGazetteers.
651 0 $aCentral America$vGazetteers.
651 0 $aSouth America$vGazetteers.
653 $aImprint 1812.
653 $aImprint 1815.
700 1 $aThompson, George Alexander.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
752 $aEngland$dOxford.
752 $aEngland$dCambridge.
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