The history of Carolina
Subtitle: containing the exact description and natural history of that country: together with the present state thereof. And a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians. Giving a particular account of their customs, manners, &c
By: By John Lawson, gent. surveyor-general of North Carolina
Contributors: Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768; Collinson, Charles Streynsham; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Brown University. Library
Publisher: printed for W. Taylor at the Ship, and J. Baker at the Black Boy, in Pater-Noster-Row
Published: 1714
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Description and travel; Indians of North America; Indian linguistics; Glossaries, vocabularies; Woccon language; Catalogs, Booksellers'; Natural history; Tuscarora language
Work titles: New voyage to Carolina
Notes: First printed in serialized form under title "A new voyage to Carolina" as part of "A new collection of voyages and travels", compiled by John Stevens from 1708-1710, and printed in cumulation in London, 1711 and issued separately in London, 1709.

"A small dictionary of every tongue ...", p. 225-230, contains numbers, general vocabulary and phrases in the English, Tuskeruro [i.e. Tuscarora, a language in the Iroquois family spoken by a tribe in New York State and Ontario], Pamticough [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]

"The second charter granted by King Charles II. to the proprietors of Carolina", p. 239-254, has separate caption title.

"An abstract of the constitution of Carolina", p. 255-258, has separate caption title.

Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) B-H⁴ I² K-2L⁴ (2L4 verso blank)

Bookseller's advertisement: p. [1], 3rd count.

Title printed within double rule border; woodcut initials.

Hanson, 1057n.

Vail, R.W.G. Old Frontier, 319.

Clark, T.D. Old South, I:115.

Pilling, J.C. Proof-sheets of a bib. of the languages of the North Amer. Indians, 2225.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 714/74.

ESTC T133242.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: front two flyleaves, p. [1-2], 3rd count, and rear flyleaf have been backed with Japanese paper.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf; rebacked and boards repaired.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: front flyleaves contain annotations possibly in the hand of Peter Collinson, F.R.S. whose autograph appears at the head of the title page; Charles Streynsham Collinson: armorial bookplate on front pastedown; Brown University: bookstamp on title page.