The natural history of North-Carolina
Subtitle: With an account of the trade, manners, and customs, of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. Illustrated with copper-plates
By: By John Brickell, M.D.
Contributors: Lawson, John, 1674-1711
Publisher: Printed for the author: London, sold by Charles Corbett, at Addison's Head, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet
Published: 1743
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng; iro; sio
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Woccon language; Description and travel; Indians of North America; Natural history; Tuscarora language; Indian linguistics
Notes: An almost verbal transcript of John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina, which was 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. Cf. North American review, v. 23, p. 288-289.

A reissue of the edition of 1737 with a new title page printed in red and black and with the list of subscribers but without the four-page dedication.

List of subscribers: p. vii-xv.

"Some few words of the Indian language", p. 407, contains numbers, and 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], Pamticoe [a language spoken by the Pamlico Indians, who lived in Virginia], and Woccon languages [as spoken by a Siouan tribe near Piedmont, North Carolina]. This list is a highly truncated form of the glossary in John Lawson's A new voyage to Carolina.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b⁴ A-3E⁴

Engraved head and tail pieces; initials.

In some copies the illustrations are issued as [2] folded leaves of plates, instead of as four individual leaves.

Hanson 5037n.

Church, E.D. Discovery, 928n.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 743/35.

Brown, J.C.  Cat., 1493-1800, III: 728.

ESTC T143840.

John Carter Brown Library copy illustrations are on [2] folded leaves of plates.