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JOSSELYN, John (ca 1608-1704). New-Englands Rarities discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country. London: G. Widdowes, 1672.
First edition of the earliest natural history of New England. This is 'the earliest natural history of New England', much of it forming a description of herbal remedies among the Indians. The 'Description of an Indian Squa' with an accompanying poem, praising black beauty above white, occurs on pp. 99-102. The author had accompanied his father to New England in 1638, and in 1663 paid a second visit, joining his brother in Maine for almost eight and a half years.
Small 8vo (138 x 82mm). One woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations. With initial blank and final advertisement leaf. (Some pale browning, closely trimmed with some headlines shaved.) Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (ends of spine chipped, old description mounted on flyleaf). Provenance: William Augustus White (1843-1927), American collector (pencil inscription dated 1890 on flyleaf); Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (bookplate). Howes J-255; Sabin 36674; Wing J-1093.
First edition of the earliest natural history of New England. This is 'the earliest natural history of New England', much of it forming a description of herbal remedies among the Indians. The 'Description of an Indian Squa' with an accompanying poem, praising black beauty above white, occurs on pp. 99-102. The author had accompanied his father to New England in 1638, and in 1663 paid a second visit, joining his brother in Maine for almost eight and a half years.
Small 8vo (138 x 82mm). One woodcut plate, woodcut illustrations. With initial blank and final advertisement leaf. (Some pale browning, closely trimmed with some headlines shaved.) Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (ends of spine chipped, old description mounted on flyleaf). Provenance: William Augustus White (1843-1927), American collector (pencil inscription dated 1890 on flyleaf); Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow (bookplate). Howes J-255; Sabin 36674; Wing J-1093.