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pp. [viii], 86. Lacking F8, a blank. Later half calf and marbled boards, title a little dusty and slightly shaved at the fore-edge, leaf A7 also shaved along the fore-edge margin with the loss of a few letters at the bottom of the pages, leaf B2 with fore-edge margin repaired with loss of a few letters, leaves B3-6 with the lower margins shaved without loss of text, leaves C3 and D3-6 similarly affected, leaves D7-8 with top edge margin strengthened without loss, a single worm-hole at the lower edge of gatherings C and D, expanding into a single track only affecting a few letters, despite all of which most of the text is clean and in good order, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar and bibliographer.
*WING F2047 ; ESTC R6186 - one of 4 differing imprints in the same year. The settlement of Darien was founded in 1698 on the coast of present-day Panama. It did not last, smitten by malaria and other diseases, lack of supplies, internal dissension, trading difficulties and the constants threat of the Spanish. This pamphlet is a forlorn effort to persuade English interests to become involved and is of especial interest in its descriptions of the indigenous people, their agriculture and the natural history.
Edinburgh.
Date Published: 1699. 8vo.
Stock No. 62617
Price: £800.00