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ALAN L. WEINER
JOSSELYN, JOHN. An Account of two Voyages to New-England... The Second Addition, 1675. [With:] New-Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, 1672, both: London: printed for Giles Widdows. 2 vols. in one, small 8vo, 144 x 91 mm. (5 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.), disbound, binding covers present, the upper cover with the original blind-ruled sheep laid down, backstrip defective, New England Rarities lacking fols. G7-H6 (ie., last 8 leaves, consisting of Chronological table, advertisement leaf and printer's device) and misbound between the first and second parts of the Account, ie., between fols. R4 and R5), edges of first and last few leaves browned and a bit frayed, Account with small rust-hole to B3-4 catching a few letters Rarities with two headlines shaved, some minor worming to upper margins, occasional soiling, slight discoloration to edges, a few short marginal tears.
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JOSSELYN, JOHN. An Account of two Voyages to New-England... The Second Addition, 1675. [With:] New-Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, 1672, both: London: printed for Giles Widdows. 2 vols. in one, small 8vo, 144 x 91 mm. (5 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.), disbound, binding covers present, the upper cover with the original blind-ruled sheep laid down, backstrip defective, New England Rarities lacking fols. G7-H6 (ie., last 8 leaves, consisting of Chronological table, advertisement leaf and printer's device) and misbound between the first and second parts of the Account, ie., between fols. R4 and R5), edges of first and last few leaves browned and a bit frayed, Account with small rust-hole to B3-4 catching a few letters Rarities with two headlines shaved, some minor worming to upper margins, occasional soiling, slight discoloration to edges, a few short marginal tears.
Account of two voyages: "Second edition," ie., First Edition, second issue, with the cancelled title, woodcut winged dragon printer's device on [A]1r, license on verso, errata on [A]4v, 3 pp. advertisements at end. Church 627; Howes J-254; Sabin 36673; Streeter sale II:635; Wing J-1092.
Rarities: First Edition, with first leaf blank, 11 woodcut text illustrations, folding woodcut plate of the "Hollow Leav'd Lavender." Church 618; Howes J-255; Sabin 36674; Wing J-1093.
THE TWO EARLIEST WORKS ON THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. Josselyn (1638-75), a gentleman traveler trained as a physician and surgeon, first visited New England in 1638-39, and returned again for a longer stay from 1663 to 1671; he published only these two volumes. As its title implies, the earlier work relates more narrowly to the natural history of the area; it contains the first systematic lists of plants and animals of the region, the first lists of English plants found in New England, and descriptions of Native American medicines and remedies. The Account of Two Voyages "is the more ambitious work: it is a rather strange compound of scientific lore, suggestions for settlers, bits of local history, and much general observation" (DAB). "Josselyn included many medical and surgical observations with his American botanical descriptions, and also provided one of the best contemporary English accounts of New Netherland" (Streeter sale).
Provenance: Neat eighteenth-century annotations (identifying species) to folding woodcut and a few text cuts in the Rarities.
Account of two voyages: "Second edition," ie., First Edition, second issue, with the cancelled title, woodcut winged dragon printer's device on [A]1r, license on verso, errata on [A]4v, 3 pp. advertisements at end. Church 627; Howes J-254; Sabin 36673; Streeter sale II:635; Wing J-1092.
Rarities: First Edition, with first leaf blank, 11 woodcut text illustrations, folding woodcut plate of the "Hollow Leav'd Lavender." Church 618; Howes J-255; Sabin 36674; Wing J-1093.
THE TWO EARLIEST WORKS ON THE FLORA AND FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. Josselyn (1638-75), a gentleman traveler trained as a physician and surgeon, first visited New England in 1638-39, and returned again for a longer stay from 1663 to 1671; he published only these two volumes. As its title implies, the earlier work relates more narrowly to the natural history of the area; it contains the first systematic lists of plants and animals of the region, the first lists of English plants found in New England, and descriptions of Native American medicines and remedies. The Account of Two Voyages "is the more ambitious work: it is a rather strange compound of scientific lore, suggestions for settlers, bits of local history, and much general observation" (DAB). "Josselyn included many medical and surgical observations with his American botanical descriptions, and also provided one of the best contemporary English accounts of New Netherland" (Streeter sale).
Provenance: Neat eighteenth-century annotations (identifying species) to folding woodcut and a few text cuts in the Rarities.