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Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title page.
Originally printed London, 1648 under title: The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, A new survey of the West-India's [sic]
"Upon this worthy work, of his most worthy friend the authour", p. [9-12], 1st count, signed: Thomas Chaloner.
Primarily in English but includes passages in Latin and Spanish.
"Concerning two daily and common drinkes, or potions much used in the India's [sic], called chocolatte, and atolle": p. 106-110.
"Some brief and short rules for the better learning of the Indian tongue called Poconchi, or Pocoman, commonly used about Guatemala and some other parts of Honduras", p. 213-220, is a discussion of the grammar of the Poconchi language and also includes several expressions and phrases in the text.
Signatures: A-U⁶ (A1 recto, A2 verso blank) (U3 missigned V3) chi²
Title framed within double rule border; head and tail pieces; initials.
Engraved frontispiece map entitled "Americae descrip." is leaf A1.
Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 96480.
Streit, R. Bib. missionum, II:1918.
Cundall, F. West Indies, 1978n.
Pilling, J.C. North American Indians, 1364.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996), G113.
Alden, J.E. European Americana, 655/65.
JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, II:448-449.
ESTC R22620.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full calf.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: R. Edgcumbe (?): ms. autograph on title page.
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