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BROWNE, Patrick, M.D.

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The civil and natural history of Jamaica.

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Soulsby no. 636

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Printed for the Author

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London

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1756

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viii, 503 pages : 49 plates ; (folio)

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English

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At the end of this copy are inserted the title page, half-title and additional indexes of the 1789 issue.

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000498284

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Browne, Patrick

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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 / Part I-III. by Patrick Browne.

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Soulsby no. 636

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printed for the Author, and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shiption

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London

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1756

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503 s., 49 tav., 2 falsede kort.

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English

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Linné, Carl von

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20230914154947.0

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Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.

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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.

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Soulsby no.:

Soulsby no. 636

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Printed for the Author, and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shiption

Place of publication:

London

Publishing year:

1756

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viii, 503 p. : 49 pls., map ; 38 cm.

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Language(s):

English

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Part II, Book II (pp. 67-374) is entitled Containing, a history of the vegetable productions, classed and distributed nearly according to the Linnean system

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In English with Latin names and descriptions.

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Natural history Jamaica
Slavery European attitudes Jamaica
Slavery West indies
Medicinal plants Jamaica
Health Jamaica
Abolition of Slavery
Flora Jamaica
Fauna Jamaica
Diet Jamaica
Crops Jamaica
Human diseases Jamaica
Maps Jamaica
Slavery Plantations Jamaica

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Linné, Carl von,
1707-1778

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Flora Jamaicensis

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996423002081

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Index pp. 493-503
By permission of the Trustees of The Natural History Museum (London).
Soulsby no. 2087
The author presented his collection of 1200 species of plants of Jamaica to Linnaeus.
NHM GENERAL - Marginal annotations in pencil and ink. The plates are annotated on the blank facing page (ie the reverse side of the preceding plate).
NHM GENERAL - The volume has been rebound.
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Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.

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The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts. Containing, I. An accurate description of that island, its situation and soil ... II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupedes, birdes, fishes, reptiles and insects ... III. An account of the nature of climates in general, and their different effects upon the human body ...

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Soulsby no.:

Soulsby no. 636.

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Printed for the author

Place of publication:

London

Publishing year:

1756

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Physical description:

viii, 503 p. 49 pl., 2 fold. maps. 38 cm.

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Language(s):

English

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Subject:

Natural history Jamaica.
Plants Jamaica
Jamaica Description and travel.

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ocm01802015

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