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.
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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.
- Publication date
- 1743
- Topics
- Natural history, Natural history, Indians of North America, Indians of North America, Tuscarora language, Woccon language, Indian linguistics, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1743
- Publisher
- Dublin : Printed for the author: London, sold by Charles Corbett, at Addison's Head, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet
- Collection
- jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana
- Contributor
- John Carter Brown Library
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 New York State and Ontario], Pamticoe [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]. This list is a highly truncated form of the glossary in John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina
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
Church, E.D. Discovery
Alden, J.E. European Americana
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800
ESTC
John Carter Brown Library copy illustrations are on [2] folded leaves of plates
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 New York State and Ontario], Pamticoe [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]. This list is a highly truncated form of the glossary in John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina
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
Church, E.D. Discovery
Alden, J.E. European Americana
Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800
ESTC
John Carter Brown Library copy illustrations are on [2] folded leaves of plates
Notes
Contains numerous foldouts.
- Addeddate
- 2012-03-12 18:58:37
- Associated-names
- Lawson, John, 1674-1711. New voyage to Carolina
- Call number
- b5722936
- Camera
- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:642432737
- Foldout_seconds
- 539
- Foldoutcount
- 3
- Identifier
- naturalhistoryof02bric
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3rv1n86s
- Jcb_call
- D743 .B849n
- Ocr_converted
- abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.37
- Ocr_module_version
- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL25230677M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL16540119W
- Page-progression
- lr
- Page_number_confidence
- 88
- Page_number_module_version
- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 440
- Physical_description
- xv, [1], 408 p., [5] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., map ; 20 cm. (8vo)
- Ppi
- 500
- References
- Hanson 5037n; Church, E.D. Discovery, 928n; Alden, J.E. European Americana, 743/35; Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III: 728; ESTC T143840
- Republisher_date
- 20120316172339
- Republisher_operator
- associate-xephyr-inkpen@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20120316140848
- Scanner
- scribe1.providence.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- providence
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 729876569
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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