Newfoundland manuscript

Title Variants

Alternative: Natural history of Newfoundland [manuscript]

Alternative: Original holograph manuscript of his [Banks's] natural history of Newfoundland

By

Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1766

Notes

Title from typescript title on folded leaf forming covers for the leaves, all unbound (left edges mounted on paper strips).

Some leaves dated on verso: Chatteaux, or, Croque, June-Oct., 1766.

This notebook forms part of the text of pt. 4 of Lysaght's "Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador," 1971.

In typescript on card laid in: Field notes from his [Banks's] expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador, 1766.

Mounted clipping of catalogue listing laid in.

Housed in portfolio.

Chiefly Latin, with some English.

Subjects

Birds , Early works , Early works to 1800 , Natural history , Newfoundland and Labrador , Pre-Linnean works

Call Number

QH31.B19 L932 1766

Language

Latin