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, captain of the Royal Spanish Guards, and member of the Royal Academy of Hstory: with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information. /

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Main Author: Alcedo, Antonio de, 1735-1812.
Corporate Author: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Contributors: Thompson, George Alexander.
Format: Book
Language:English
Spanish
Published: London: : Printed 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., 1812-1815.
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240 1 0 |a Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América.  |l English 
245 1 4 |a The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies. :  |b Containing 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 Hstory: with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information. /  |c By G.A. Thompson, Esq. In five volumes. 
260 |a London: :  |b Printed 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.,  |c 1812-1815. 
300 |a 5 volumes ;  |c 29 cm 
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500 |a Translation of: Diccionario geográfico-historico de las Indias Occidentales o América. Originally published: Madrid, 1786-1789. 
500 |a With half titles. 
500 |a Imprint varies. Volume 3: 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. Volumes 4-5: 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 |a Printers statements from verso of half titles. Volumes 1-3: Harding and Wright, printers, St. John's Square, London; volume 4: Whittingham and Rowland, printers, Goswell Street, London; volume 5: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell Street, London. 
500 |a Volume 1: xl, [3], viii-xx, 574, 2 pages; volume 2: [2], 597, [1], 2 pages; volume 3: [4], 512 pages; volume 4: [2], 636 pages; v. 5: [4], 462, [2], 105, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf. 
500 |a Text printed in two columns. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
510 4 |a Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.),  |c 6031 
510 4 |a Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time,  |c 683 
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": volume 1, pages [xvi]-xix (2nd count). "List of Alcedo's subscribers": volume 1, pages [xiii]-xv (2nd count). "A general table of the British dominions and governments in North America and the West Indies": volume 1, pages xix-xx (2nd count). 
500 |a Folded leaf (volume 5 facing page 272) contains geographical, historical, and statistical table of islands in West Indies. 
500 |a "Errata": volume 5, page [1] (3rd 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." (volume 5, pages [1]-105, 4th count), with separate half-title. 
500 |a Publisher's advertisements in volumes 1, 2, and 5. 
500 |a Supplemented 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 ..." (2 p.l., 5 folded maps. 64 x 53 cm.) published: London, Printed by G. Smeeton, 1816. Maps dated 1814-1817. 
500 |a Call number for LC copy of Atlas is: G1100.A4 1816 fol.  |5 DLC 
500 |a Imperfect copy: "Atlas to Thompson's Alcedo ..." not present.  |5 E8W 
500 |a Contemporary boards of French Curl marbled paper with brown sheepskin corners; rebacked with brown calf; spine tooled blind, divided by false raised bands and single gold lines, titled direct in gold; new textile headbands and plain endpapers.  |5 E8W 
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. 
590 |a HSP set on deposit in the Library Company of Philadelphia. 
651 0 |a America  |v Gazetteers. 
651 0 |a Latin America  |v Gazetteers. 
651 0 |a Central America  |v Gazetteers. 
651 0 |a South America  |v Gazetteers. 
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700 1 |a Thompson, George Alexander. 
710 2 |a Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)  |5 DLC 
752 |a England  |d London. 
752 |a England  |d Oxford. 
752 |a England  |d Cambridge. 
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