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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BOSSU, Jean Bernard (1720 – 1792)

1720 – 1792

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1771 CE

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Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana by Mr. Bossu, ... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. Illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or a Flora Americae Septentrionalis together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's travels through Spain and Cumana in South America referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition. 2 vols.

FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798) BOSSU, Jean Bernard (1720 – 1792)

This work is a series of 21 letters that Bossu wrote to the Marquis de L’Estrade describing his life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in presen…