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.
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790
Category
Books
Date
1756
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3232255
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6],viii,503,[1]p., plates : ill., maps ; fol. Old Felbrigg shelfmarks: [in pencil at front] W7 V7. Provenance: no ownership marks. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt fillet border; on six raised bands; gilt tooled spine & board edges; gilt lettered black spine label: Browne's History of Jamaica.
Makers and roles
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790