Details - A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America : giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c., woods, soil, weather, &c., trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c., : the Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c., their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. : with remarkable occurrences in the South-Sea and elsewhere

A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America

Title

A new voyage and description of the isthmus of America : giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c., woods, soil, weather, &c., trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c., : the Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c., their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. : with remarkable occurrences in the South-Sea and elsewhere

Title Variants

Alternative: Mr. Wafer's description of the isthmus of America

By

Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705?

Davis, Edward, fl 1683-1702
Savage, John, fl 1680- , engraver

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

London, Printed for James Knapton, 1704

Edition

The second edition. To which are added, the natural history of those parts, by a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Davis's expedition to the gold mines, in 1702. Illustrated with several copper-plates.

Notes

First published: London, 1699.

Plates signed: I. Savage sculp.

Title within double rule border; side-notes.

Errors in paging.

Signatures: A-TU.

"An expedition of a body of English-men to the gold mines of Spanish America, in 1702. With the many strange adventures that befel them in that bold undertaking. By Nathaniel Davis": p. 263-283.

With specimens of the Cuna language on p. 145, 148-150.

Includes indexes.

Publisher's advertisement on p. [16] (1st group) and on final p.

Sabin | 100940

ESTC (RLIN) | T96533