The natural history of North-Carolina. : With an account of the trade, manners, and customs, of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates

By

Brickell, John, 1710?-1745

Lawson, John, 1674-1711 , New voyage to Carolina.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Dublin, Printed for the author: London, sold by Charles Corbett, at Addison's Head, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet, MDCCXLIII. [1743]

Notes

An almost verbal transcript of John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina, which was first printed in serialized form under title "A new voyage to Carolina" as part of "A new collection of voyages and travels", compiled by John Stevens from 1708-1710, and printed in cumulation in London, 1711 and issued separately in London, 1709. Cf. North American review, v. 23, p. 288-289.

A reissue of the edition of 1737 with a new title page printed in red and black and with the list of subscribers but without the four-page dedication.

List of subscribers: p. vii-xv.

"Some few words of the Indian language", p. 407, contains numbers, and general vocabulary and phrases in the English, Tuskeruro [i.e. Tuscarora, a language in the Iroquois family spoken by a tribe in

Signatures: [a] b A-3E

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

In some copies the illustrations are issued as [2] folded leaves of plates, instead of as four individual leaves.

Hanson | 5037n.

Church, E.D. Discovery, | 928n.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 743/35.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, | III: 728.

ESTC | T143840.

Subjects

Description and travel , Glossaries, vocabularies, etc , Imprint 1743 , Indian linguistics , Indians of North America , Natural history , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tuscarora language , Woccon language

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.59726