The civil and natural history of Jamaica : containing. I., An accurate description of that island, its situation, and soil : with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II., An history of the natural productions including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects : with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic / by Patrick Browne ... ; illustrated with forty-nine copper plates, in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from the objects by George Dionysius Ehret ; there are now added complete Linnaean indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island.
Publication details: London : Sold by B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet-street, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]Description: [4], viii, 27, [3], xxxi-xxxiv, 35-503, [49] pages, 49 [i.e. 51] leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 38 cm (fol.)Content type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- History of Jamaica
- QH109.J5 B8
- coll3
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Half-title.
Second edition, cf. BM (NH).
Includes double folded plate of map.
BM (NH) p. 262
ESTC T89758
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Errata at foot of p. 490.
"List of subscribers" on p. [3-4] of second group.
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