The civil and natural history of Jamaica
Subtitle: in three parts. 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: by Patrick Browne, M.D.
Contributors: Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770
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
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Botany; Medical climatology; Economic conditions; Description and travel; Natural history; Tropical medicine; Early works to 1800
Notes: "Containing, I. An accurate description of that island ... with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions ... native fossils ... III. An account of the nature of climates in general, and their different effects upon the human body."

Plates signed: G.D. Ehret delin.; R. Benning sculp., [etc].

Includes index.

Soulsby 636

Stafleu (2nd) 842

Pritzel (2nd) 1253

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.) 255