Translation, by Johann Reinhold Forster, of: Nouveaux voyages aux Indes Occidentales. Paris, 1768 Edited by Johann Reinhold Forster Half titles read: Travels through Louisiana Signatures: v.1: [A] B-2C 2D ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, 2D4 verso blank); v.2: [A]² B-2E ([A]1 verso, [A]2 verso, F2 verso, F3 verso, G4 verso blank) Errata (v.1: p.viii) Includes index "A catalogue of the known plants, shrubs, trees in North America. Collected from various writers on that subject." (v.2: p.[17]-67), by J.R. Forster; also published separately under title: Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or A catalogue of the plants of North America. London, 1771 "An abstract of the most useful and necessary articles mentioned by Peter Loefling, botanist to His Catholic Majesty, in his Travels through Spain, and that part of South America called Cumana, consisting in his life, and in systematical descriptions of the plants of both countries, referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition." (v.2: p.[69]-422); Löfling's biography (v.2: p.[71]-87), by Carl von Linné, translated into English by Johann Reinhold Forster, from the Swedish of: Petri Loefling ...Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til Spanska länderna uti Europa och America. Stockholm, 1758; the rest of the text is in Latin, taken from p.112-316 of the same original Stockholm 1758 edition (on p.263, the original page number "199" erroneously given as "189") Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800 Sabin Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South Monaghan, F. French travellers in the U.S. Watt, R. Bib. Britannica 1:379c-d Field, T.W. An essay towards an Indian bib. Pritzel John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf