New travels to the westward, or, Unknown parts of America [electronic resource] : being a tour of almost fouteeen [sic] months : containing, an account of the country, upwards of two thousand miles west of the Christian parts of North-America : with an account of white Indians, their manners, habits, and many other particulars / by Don Alonso Decalves ; confirmed by three other persons.
1788
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New travels to the westward, or, Unknown parts of America [electronic resource] : being a tour of almost fouteeen [sic] months : containing, an account of the country, upwards of two thousand miles west of the Christian parts of North-America : with an account of white Indians, their manners, habits, and many other particulars / by Don Alonso Decalves ; confirmed by three other persons.
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Decalves, Alonso.
Alternate Title
Unknown parts of America.
New travels to unknown parts of America.
New travels to unknown parts of America.
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Boston : Printed and sold by John W. Folsom ... sold also by Benjamin Larkin, [1788]
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English
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1 online resource ([2], vi, [1], 7-45 [i.e., 7-44], [1] p.)
Note
Fictitious account of an overland trip from New Orleans to the Northwest coast in 1786-7. The account of John Vandelure's captivity among the Indians is, however, based on fact.
Half-title: New travels to unknown parts of America.
Advertised as "just published" in the Boston gazette, May 19, 1788. Evans (entry 30321) mistakenly records this edition a second time with imprint date [1796]
Error in paging: p. 44 misnumbered 45. Odd numbered pages printed on versos in main sequence of pagination.
GEO-105.
Half-title: New travels to unknown parts of America.
Advertised as "just published" in the Boston gazette, May 19, 1788. Evans (entry 30321) mistakenly records this edition a second time with imprint date [1796]
Error in paging: p. 44 misnumbered 45. Odd numbered pages printed on versos in main sequence of pagination.
GEO-105.
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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
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