A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America
Subtitle: giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. woods, soil, weather, &c. trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c : the Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c. their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, etc. : with remarkable occurrences in the South-Sea and elsewhere
By: by Lionel Wafer ; to which are added, the natural history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society ; and Davis's expedition to the gold mines, in 1702 ; illustrated with several copper-plates
Contributors: Davis, Edward, active 1683-1702; Dampier, William, 1652-1715; Knapton, James, d. 1738; Knapton, John, 1696-1770
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed for James and John Knapton ...
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Natural history; Pre-Linnean works; Indians of Central America; Early works to 1800; Description and travel
Notes: Detached from: A collection of voyages / William Dampier. London, 1729.

Includes index.

Sabin 18373

Bound in marbled paper-covered boards; spine leather with gilt tooling, title in gilt on red label; edges stained red.