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The history of Carolina [electronic resource] ; 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 John Lawson, gent. surveyor-general of North Carolina

Author
Lawson, John, 1674-1711
Uniform Title
New voyage to Carolina
Published
London : printed for W. Taylor at the Ship, and J. Baker at the Black Boy, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1714.
Physical Description
6 unnumbered pages, 258 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : map ; 22 cm (4to)
Additional Creators
England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II).
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John Carter Brown Library - Indigenous Collection (Internet Archive)
Note
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 ...", pages 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", pages 239-254, has separate caption title.
"An abstract of the constitution of Carolina", pages 255-258, has separate caption title.
Signatures: A (-A4) B-H I² K-2L (2L4 verso blank)
Bookseller's advertisement: pages [1], 3rd count.
Title printed within double rule border; woodcut initials.
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.
Reviewed/Cited In
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.
English short title catalogue, T133242.
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