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An account of the Abipones, an equestrian people of Paraguay

Description:
  • From the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, eighteen years a missionary in that country. In three volumes.
  • Versos of title pages read: London: Printed by C. …
Year:
1822
Contributor:
Dobrizhoffer, Martin, 1717-1791
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852
Subject:
s-py---
Abipon Indians
Abipon Indians > Social life and customs
Abipon language > Grammar
Abipon language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Guarani language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Abipon language
Indian linguistics > Guarani language
Natural history > South America
Paraguay > Description and travel
Imprint 1822.
England > London
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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An account of the Abipones, an equestrian people of Paraguay

Description:
  • From the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, eighteen years a missionary in that country. In three volumes.
  • Versos of title pages read: London: Printed by C. …
Year:
1822
Contributor:
Dobrizhoffer, Martin, 1717-1791
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852
Subject:
s-py---
Abipon Indians
Abipon Indians > Social life and customs
Abipon language > Grammar
Abipon language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Guarani language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Abipon language
Indian linguistics > Guarani language
Natural history > South America
Paraguay > Description and travel
Imprint 1822.
England > London
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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An account of the Abipones, an equestrian people of Paraguay

Description:
  • From the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, eighteen years a missionary in that country. In three volumes.
  • Versos of title pages read: London: Printed by C. …
Year:
1822
Contributor:
Dobrizhoffer, Martin, 1717-1791
Coleridge, Sara Coleridge, 1802-1852
Subject:
s-py---
Abipon Indians
Abipon Indians > Social life and customs
Abipon language > Grammar
Abipon language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Guarani language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Abipon language
Indian linguistics > Guarani language
Natural history > South America
Paraguay > Description and travel
Imprint 1822.
England > London
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Allerneuste Beschreibung der Provintz Carolina in West-Indien: Samt einem Reise-Journal von mehr als Tausend Meilen unter allerhand indianischen Nationen. Auch einer accuraten Land-Carte und andern Kupfer-Stichen. Aus dem englischen übersetzet durch M. Vischer

Description:
  • Virgules replaces by commas in title page transcription.
  • Translation of: A new voyage to Carolina, first printed in serialized form as part of "A new …
Year:
1712
Contributor:
Lawson, John, 1674-1711
Vischer, Ludwig Friedrich, 1677-1743
Subject:
n-us-nc > n-us-sc
Natural history > North Carolina
Natural history > South Carolina
Indians of North America > North Carolina
Indians of North America > South Carolina
Tuscarora language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Woccon language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tuscarora language
Indian linguistics > Woccon language
North Carolina > Description and travel
South Carolina > Description and travel
Imprint 1712.
Germany > Hamburg
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Germany > Leipzig
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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America, oder wie mans zu teutsch nennet die Neuwe Welt, oder West Jndia

Description:
  • Von Herrn Iosepho de Acosta ; in sieben Büchern, eins Theils in lateinischer, vnd eins Theils in hispanischer Sprach, beschrieben. ..
  • Books 1-2 translation of: …
Year:
1605
Contributor:
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600
Subject:
n------ > s------ > cl-----
Indians of Mexico
Indians of South America > Peru
Natural history > Latin America
America > Early accounts to 1600
America > Discovery and exploration
Latin America
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Oberursel
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae nona & postrema pars: Qua de ratione elementorum: De novi orbis natura: de huius incolarum superstitiosis cultibus: deq[ue] forma politicae ac Republ. ipsorum copiosè pertractatur: catalogo regum Mexicanorum omnium, à primo usq[ue] ad vltimum Motec̦umam II. addito: cui etiam ritus eorum coronationis, ac sepulturae annectitur, cum enumeratione bellorum, quae mutuò Indi gesserunt. His accessit designatio illius navigationis, quam 5. naues Hollandicae anno 1598. per Fretum Magellanum in Moluccanas insulas tentarunt: quomodo nimirum oborta tempestate capitaneus Sebalt de Weert à caeteris nauibus dispulsus, postquam plurimis mensibus in freto infinitis aerumnis miserè iactatus fuisset, tandem infectare post biennium An[no] 1600. domum reuersus sit. Addita est tertio nauigatio recens, quam 4. nauium praefectus Olevier à Noort proximè suscepit: qui Freto Magellanico classe transmisso, triennij spatio vniuersum terrae orbem seu globum mira navigationis forte obiuit: annexis illis, quae in itinere isto singularia ac memorabiliora notata sunt

Description:
  • Omnia è Germanico Latinitate donata, & insuper elegantissimis figuris aeneis coornata editaq[ue] sumptibus Theodori de Bry P.M. vidua & binorum filiorum.
  • Constitutes the ninth part, …
Year:
1602
Contributor:
Theodor de Bry (Firm)
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623
Bry, Johann Israel de, -1611
Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-
Heyns, Zacharias, 1566-1638
Acosta, José de, 1540-1600
Potgieter, Barent Jansz, 1574-
Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 1559-1627
Subject:
n------ > s------
Weert, Sebald de
Indians of Mexico
Indians of South America > Peru
Natural history > Latin America
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
Maluku (Indonesia) > Description and travel
Imprint 1602.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit: His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit: His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Imprint 1605.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit: His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1592
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1592.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Americae tertia pars Memorabile[m] provinciae Brasiliae historiam contine[n]s, Germanico primùm sermone scriptam à Ioa[n]ne Stadio Homburgensi Hesso, nunc autem Latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe Po: & Med: addita est narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem provinciam, qua[m] ille initio Gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit: His accessit descriptio morum & ferocitatis incolarum illius regionis, atque colloquium ipsorum idiomate conscriptum

Description:
  • Omnia recens evulgata, & eiconibus in aes incisis ac ad vivum expressis illustrata, ad normam exemplaris praedictorum autorum: studio & diligentia Theodori de Bry Leodiensis, …
Year:
1597
Contributor:
Staden, Hans, approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Clusius, Carolus, 1526-1609
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Léry, Jean de, 1534-1611
Barré, Nicolas, active 1555
Subject:
s-bl---
Staden, Hans > approximately 1525-approximately 1576
Léry, Jean de > 1534-1611
Villegaignon, Nicolas Durand de > 1510-1571?
Indians of South America > Brazil
Natural history > Brazil
Tupi language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Tupi language
Brazil > Description and travel
Brazil > History > 1548-1580
Brazil > History > 1549-1762
Imprint 1597.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Antonii Posseuini Mantuani Societatis Iesu Cultura ingeniorum: Examen ingeniorum Ioannis Huartis expenditur. Nobilium Academiarum Germaniae atq[ue] Poloniae, &c. Accessit hac postrema editione vera narratio fruticis, florum & fructuum nouissimè in Occidentalibus Indijs nascentium Eugenii Petrelli Veneti

Description:
  • Edition statement printed between "Examen ingeniorum Ioannis Huartis expenditur" and "Nobilium Academiarum Germaniae atq[ue] Poloniae, &c." on title page.
  • "Vera narratio frvctis, florvm, et frvctvvm …
Year:
1610
Contributor:
Possevino, Antonio, 1533 or 1534-1611
Petrelli, Eugenio, active 17th century
Subject:
Huarte, Juan > 1529?-1588 > Examen de ingenios
Botany
Natural history
Imprint 1610.
Germany > Cologne
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum: quo mundi opificium id est cœlestis expansi, siderumque tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, vsque ad vltima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, noua hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto ad

Description:
  • Title page v.2: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Iter extaticum II. qui & mundi subterranei prodromus dicitur. Quo geocosmi opificium sive terrestri globi structura, vnà …
Year:
1656
Contributor:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Walch, John Francis.
Subject:
Astronomy
Geology
Natural history > Pre-Linnean works
Imprint 1656.
Imprint 1657.
Italy > Rome
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus: in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio, verbo [Pantamorphon] protei regnum, uniuersae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur, abditorum effectuum causae acri indagine inquisitae demonstrantur, cognitae per artis & naturae conjugium ad humanae vitae necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo & ratione applicantur

Description:
  • Vol.I: [20], 366, [6]; v. II: [10], 507, [9] p.
  • Title of v. 2: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Mundi subterranei tomus II.us In V. …
Year:
1678
Contributor:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Schor, Johann Paul, 1615-1674
Matham, Theodor, approximately 1606-1676
Passe, Crispyn van de, approximately 1591-approximately 1670
Siourtsma, Anthonie Heeres, b. approximately 1629
Subject:
Science
Geology
Natural history
Imprint 1678.
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America: mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten

Description:
  • Aus dem Frantzösischen übersetzet von M. Vischer.
  • Double page title printed across the center fold.
  • Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
  • A translation …
Year:
1709
Contributor:
Lahontan, Louis Armand Lom d'Arce, 1666-1715?
Vischer, Ludwig Friedrich, 1677-1743
Subject:
n-cn---
Indians of North America > Canada
Indians of North America > Canada > Social life and customs
Natural history > Canada
Algonquian languages > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Wyandot language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Algonquin languages
Indian linguistics > Wyandot language
Canada > Description and travel
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)
Imprint 1709.
Germany > Hamburg
Germany > Leipzig
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Des berühmten Herrn Baron de Lahontan neueste Reisen nach Nord-Indien, oder dem mitternächtischen America: mit vielen besondern und bey keinem Scribenten befindlichen Curiositaeten

Description:
  • Double page title printed across the center fold.
  • Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
  • A translation and abbreviated edition of the author's Nouveaux …
Year:
1711
Contributor:
Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, 1666-1715?
Vischer, Ludwig Friedrich, 1677-1743
Subject:
n-cn--- > e-dk--- > e-po--- > e-sp---
Indians of North America > Canada
Indians of North America > Canada > Social life and customs
Natural history > Canada
Algonquian languages > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Wyandot language > Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Indian linguistics > Algonquin languages
Indian linguistics > Wyandot language
Canada > Description and travel
Canada > History > To 1763 (New France)
Spain > Description and travel
Portugal > Description and travel
Denmark > Description and travel
Imprint 1711.
Germany > Hamburg
Germany > Leipzig
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

Die Beschreibung von Carolina, Florida und den Bahamischen Inseln, worinnen von der Luft, dem Boden, dem Wasser, von den Einwohnern, den vierfüssigen Thieren, den Fischen, Pflanzen &c. dieser Länder umständliche und zu verlässige Nachricht mitgetheilet wird

Description:
  • Zu erst, nebst einer neuen und genauen Charte dieser Länder, in englischer und französischer Sprach herausgegeben von Marcus Catesby, der Königlich Londnischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften …
Year:
1755
Contributor:
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
Subject:
n-usu-- > nwbf---
Natural history > Southern States
Natural history > Bahamas
Imprint 1755.
Germany > Nuremberg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis: Tot nut der wetenschappen en den koophandel

Description:
  • Door den Heer Johan Anderson, doctor der beide rechten, en in leven eerste burgermeester der Vrye Keizerlyke Rykstad Hamburg. Verrykt met platen en een nieuwe …
Year:
1750
Contributor:
Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743
Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784
Subject:
e-ie--- > n-gl---
Anderson, Johann > 1674-1743 > Biography
Natural history > Iceland
Natural history > Greenland
Eskimo languages
Indian linguistics > Eskimo languages
Iceland > Description and travel
Greenland > Description and travel
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis: Bevattende zo wel ene bestipte bepaling van de ligging en grote van die eilanden, als een volledige ontvouwing van hunne inwendige gesteltenis, vuurbrakende bergen, heete en warme bronnen enz. een omstandig bericht van de vruchten en kruiden des lands

Description:
  • Door den Heer Johan Anderson, doctor der beide rechten, en in leven eerste burgermeester der Vrye Keizerlyke Ryksstad Hamburg. Verrykt met platen en een nieuwe …
Year:
1756
Contributor:
Anderson, Johann, 1674-1743
Winckler, Johann Dietrich, 1711-1784
Subject:
e-ic--- > n-gl---
Anderson, Johann > 1674-1743 > Biography
Natural history > Iceland
Natural history > Greenland
Eskimo languages
Indian linguistics > Eskimo languages
Iceland > Description and travel
Greenland > Description and travel
Netherlands > Amsterdam
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

Bibliotheca scriptorum historiæ naturali omnium terræ regionum inservientium: Historiæ naturalis Helvetiæ prodromus. Accessit celeberrimi viri Jacobi Le Long, bibliothecarii Oratoriani De scriptoribus historiæ naturalis Galliæ

Description:
  • Collegit Joh. Jacobus Scheuchzer. ..
  • Signatures: )(⁸ (-)(8) A-P⁸ chi1 ()(1 verso, )(7 verso, chi1 verso blank)
  • Errata (p. 241)
  • Includes index.
  • An account of …
Year:
1716
Contributor:
Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733
Le Long, Jacques, 1665-1721
Subject:
Natural history > Bibliography
Switzerland > Zurich
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Bowl of limestone: decoration of sides and base

Year:
1905
Contributor:
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (creator)
Genre:
drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Natural history
Science
Local ID:
3-SIZE QH1 .A19
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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