The civil and natural history of Jamaica. [electronic resource] : 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, M.D. 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 Linnæan indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island.
1789
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The civil and natural history of Jamaica. [electronic resource] : 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, M.D. 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 Linnæan indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island.
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Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.
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London : sold by B. White and Son, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street, M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[6],viii,503,[47]p.,plates : map ; 2⁰.
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With a half-title and four additional indexes.
With a list of subscribers.
A reissue of the sheets of the 1756 edition, with a new titlepage.
Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
With a list of subscribers.
A reissue of the sheets of the 1756 edition, with a new titlepage.
Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".
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Goldsmiths', 13843
English Short Title Catalog, T89758.
English Short Title Catalog, T89758.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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