The civil and natural history of Jamaica
Subtitle: 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.
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed for the author; and sold by T. Osborne, and J. Shipton, in Gray's-Inn
Published: 1756
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Natural history
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.