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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 History : with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information / by G.A. Thompson, esq. ; in five volumes.

Author

Alcedo, Antonio de, 1735-1812

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London : printed for James Carpenter, Old Bond-Street, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, White, Cochrane and Co. and Murray, Fleet-Street ; Oxford : Parker ; Cambridge : Deighton, 1812-1815.

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A new dictionary, Spanish and English and English and Spanish : containing the etymology, the proper and metaphorical signification of words, terms of arts and sciences, names of men, families, places, and of the principal plants in Spain and the West-Indies; together with the Arabick and Moorish words now commonly received in the Spanish tongue, and an explanation of the difficult words, proverbs and phrases, in Don Quixote, and others the most celebrated writers on that language. Correcting the errors, and supplying the defects in other dictionaries, by the addition of above six thousand Spanish, and twelve thousand English words, more than in any work of this kind hitherto extant. Very useful and necessary for the easy reading an understanding the Spanish and English languages / by Peter Pineda.

Author

Pineda, Pedro.

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London : Printed for F. Gyles, 1740.

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[A new survey of the West-Indies: or, The English American his travel by sea and land: containing a journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America : wherein is set forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua; and thence to Xalappa, to Tlaxcalla, the city of Angels, and forward to Mexico: with the description of that great city, as it was in former times, and also at this present. Likewise his journey from Mexico, through the provinces of Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, Truxillo, Comayagua, with his abode XII. years about Guatemala, especiall[y] in the Indian town of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan. As also his strange and wonderful conversion and calling from those remote parts to his native countrey: with his return through the province of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto Bello, Cartagena and Havana, with divers occurents and dangers that did befal in the said journey. Also a new and exact discovery of the Spanish navigation to those parts: and of their dominions, government, religion, forts, castles, ports, havens, commodities, fashions, behavior of Spaniards, priests and friers, black-moors, mulatto's, mestitso's, Indians; and of their feasts and solemnities. With a grammar, or some of few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman / By Thomas Gage.]

Author

Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656.

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[The 4th edition enlarg'd by the author, with an accurate map.]

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[London : printed by Benj. Motte, for Tho. Horne, 1711]

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The American geography; : or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America: containing astronomical geography; geographical definitions, discovery, and general description ... a particular description of Kentucky, the western territory south of Ohio, and Vermont ... with a view of the British, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Dutch dominions, on the continent, and in the West Indies, and of Europe, Asia, and Africa. / By Jedidiah Morse, A.M.

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Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826

Edition

A new ed., rev., cor., and greatly enl. ...

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London, Printed for J. Stockdale, 1794.

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A philosophical and practical essay on the gold and silver mines of Mexico and Peru : Containing the nature of the ore, and the manner of working the mines; the qualities and use of quicksilver; the cleansing and refining these metals: With many useful observations concerning the assay of metals, the manner of conveying them to Europe; and remarks on the gold mines in Hungary, and those of Asia and Africa. Translated from a letter wrote in Spanish, by Father James Hernandez of the Society of Jesus; employed by His Catholic Majesty to write the natural history of the West Indies.

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Hernández, Jaime, Father.

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London : Printed for J. Scott, at the Black-Swan in Pater-noster-Row, MDCCLV. [1755]

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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels: : consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers; beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c in English; Ramusio in Italian; Thevenot, &c in French; De Bry, and Grynaei novus orbis in Latin; the Dutch East-India Company in Dutch: and continued, with others of note, that have publish'd histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, in the English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Dutch tongues; relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, to this present time. With the heads of several of our most considerable sea-commanders; and a great number of excellent maps of all parts of the world, and cuts of most curious things in all the voyages. Also, an appendix, of the remarkable accidents at sea; and several of our considerable engagements: the charters, acts of Parliament, &c. about the East-India trade; and papers relating to the union of the two companies. Throughout the whole all original papers are printed at large; as the Pope's bull, to dispose of the West-Indies to the King of Spain; letters patents for establishing companies of merchants; as the Russia, East-India companies, &c. Letters from one great prince or state to another; shewing their titles, style, &c. To which is prefixed, a history of the peopling of the several parts of the world, and particularly of America; an account of the ancient shipping, and its successive improvements; together with the invention and use of the magnet, and its variation, &c. / By John Harris, A.M. Fellow of the Royal Society. In two volumes..

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Harris, John, 1667?-1719.

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London: : Printed for Thomas Bennet, at the Half-Moon, in St. Paul's Church-yard; John Nicholson, at the King's-Arms, in Little-Britain; and Daniel Midwinter, at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard., MDCCV..

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The West Indies and the Spanish Main / by James Rodway.

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Rodway, James, 1848-1926.

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London :, New York : T. F. Unwin, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1896.

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The Spanish West Indies.

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Fisher, Richard Swainson,

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New York, J. H. Colton; London, Trübner and co., 1861.

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The West Indies and the Spanish Man. By Anthony Trollope, author of "Barchester Towers," "Doctor Thorne," "The Bertrams," etc.

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Edition

Fourth edition

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London : Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1860.

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The West Indies and the Spanish Main. By Anthony Trollope ...

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

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London, Chapman & Hall, 1860.

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The West Indies and the Spanish Main / by Anthony Trollope, author of 'Barchester Towers,' &c.

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Edition

Copyright edition.

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Leipzig : Bernard Tauchnitz, 1860.

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The West Indies and the Spanish Main.

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Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

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New York, Harper & brothers, 1860.

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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 History / with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels and from original and authentic information, by G.A. Thompson.

Author

Alcedo, Antonio de, 1736-1812.

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

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The Spanish West Indies : Cuba and Porto Rico: geographical, political, and industrial / Cuba from the Spanish of Don J. M. de la Torre ; Porto Rico by J. T. O'Neil ; edited by Richard S. Fisher.

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Torre, José María de la.

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New York : [publisher not identified], 1855.

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Gardens of the Caribbees; sketches of a cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main, by Ida M.H. Starr ...

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Starr, Ida May Hill, 1859-

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Boston : L.C. Page & Company, 1907.

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Roraima and British Guiana : with a glance at Bermuda, the West Indies, and the Spanish Main / By J. W. Boddam-Whetham.

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Boddam-Whetham, John Whetham, 1843-

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London : Hurst and Blackett, 1879.

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The Spanish-American war. A collection of documents relative to the squadron operations in the West Indies. Arranged by Rear-Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete. Translated fron the Spanish. Office of naval intelligence.

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Cervera y Topete, Pascual, 1839-1909.

Published

Washington, Gov't printing office, 1899.

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Under the southern cross : a guide to the sanitariums and other charming places in the West Indies and Spanish Main / [William Francis Hutchinson].

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Hutchinson, William F. (William Francis), 1838-1893.

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Providence, R. I. : Ryder & Dearth, 1891.

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The West-India merchant, factor and supercargoes daily assistant : in the disposal of a cargoe of merchandize at Jamaica, Mobille, Saint Augustine, the Musquetto shore, bay of Honduras, the Spanish main, or any other part of the Spanish West-Indies, whether consigned from Great Britain, Ireland, or any of the British colonies in North America ... / by John Wright.

Author

Wright, John, accomptant.

Published

London : Printed for the author and sold by D. Steel, 1765.

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The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal,

Author

Aspinall, Algernon E. [from old catalog]

Edition

[New and rev. ed.]

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Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & company [1914]

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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 History / with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels and from original and authentic information, by G.A. Thompson.

Author

Alcedo, Antonio de, 1736-1812.

Published

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 ; Oxford : Parker ; Cambridge : Deighton, 1814.

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Remarks on a passage from the river Balise, in the bay of Honduras, to Merida: the capital of the province of Jucatan in the Spanish West Indies, by Lieutenant Cook, London, 1769. A facsimile of the original, with perspective by Muriel Haas.

Author

Cook, James, Lieutenant.

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New Orleans, Midameres Press, 1935.

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Statement of A.E. Phillips, late acting United States consul at the port of St. Jago de Cuba : showing the circumstances and events which forced him to abandon his post and seek protection at Jamaica, West Indies, from the violence of a Spanish mob.

Author

Phillips, A. E.

Published

[Washington, D.C.] : [publisher not identified], [1870]

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The history of the buccaneers of America : containing detailed accounts of those bold and daring freebooters : chiefly along the Spanish Main, in the West Indies and in the great South Sea, succeeding the civil wars in England / [by Alexander Oliver Exquemelin].

Author

Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)

Edition

New ed. /

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Catalogue of the valuable and important library of Spanish books relating to Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Mexico, South America, and other parts of the American continent and West Indies collected by the late Domingo & Leonardo Del Monte of Havana, Cuba ... : for sale at auction Wednesday evening, May 8, lots 1-300, Thursday [evening], [May] 9, [lots] 301-600.

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Anderson Galleries, Inc.

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New York : John Anderson, Jr., 1901.

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