A character of the province of Mary-land
Subtitle: wherein is described in four distinct parts, (viz.) I. The scituation, and plenty of the province. II. The laws, customs, and natural demeanor of the inhabitants. III. The worst and best usage of a Mary-land servant, opened in view. IV. The traffique, and vendable commodities of the countrey. Also a small treatise on the wilde and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Mary-land, their customs, manners, absurdities, & religion. Together with a collection of historical letters
By: By George Alsop..
Contributors: H. W., engraver
Publisher: printed by T[homas]. J[ohnson]. for Peter Dring, at the sign of the Sun in the Poultrey
Published: 1666
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Conestoga Indians; Susquehanna Indians; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Description and travel; History
Other titles: Character of the province of Maryland; Land-skip of the province of Mary Land or the Lord Baltimor's plantation neere Virginia.
Notes: Name of printer supplied by Wing.

"To my friend Mr. George Alsop, on his character of Mary-land", pages [21-22], 1st count, is a poem signed by Will. Barber.

Signatures: A-I⁸ (A5 missigned A4) (A1, I8 verso blank).

Bookseller's advertisements: pages [1-3], 3rd count.

With a frontispiece portrait of the author on pae [2], 1st count, signed: H.W.

Folded map, bound following page [22], 1st count, has title: " A land-skip of the province of Mary Land or the Lord Baltimor's plantation neere Virginia."

Title printed within ornamental woodcut border; head pieces; initials.

Clark, T.D. Travels in the Old South, 29

Baer, E. Seventeenth century Maryland, 60

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 594

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), A2901

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III: page 131

European Americana, 666/2

English short title catalogue, R6606

Purchase; 1846; 0486.