Alcedo's Diccionario geográfico-histórico de las Indias Occidentales (Madrid, 1786)

A geographical and historical dictionary of the whole of America, compiled over twenty years by a colonel of the Spanish Guards who says he was born there. Its prologue gives the motive: foreigners had made the history of the Indies their own subject, carrying out of Spain the books its own discoverers had written, until those books could barely be found in Spain at any price. In 1812 a London consortium issued the whole of it in English, with additions.