The civil and natural history of Jamaica In three parts. 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. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climates in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics. In three dissertations. The whole illustrated with fifty copper-plates: in which the most curious productions are represented of the natural size, and delineated immediately from the objects. By Patrick Browne, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.

Series:

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Jamaica.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6], viii, 503, [1] p., plates)

Other Title:

Civil and natural history of Jamaica.

Civil and natural history of Jamaica

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn, MDCCLVI. [1756]

Notes:

With a half-title, "A catalogue of the authors" and a list of subscribers.

Mixed chainlines.

Catchword p. 3: to.

A variant has pp. 1-12 revised and reset; catchword p. 3: command.

Reproduction of the original from the British Library.

OCLC:

508785990