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1. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missis[s]ippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ... : with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missis[s]ippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country ... / By James Adair.

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Creator:
Adair, James, ca. 1709-1783
Date:
1775
Physical Description:
6 p. l., 464 p. front. (fold map) 28 x 22cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases, and method of cure, and other particulars, sufficient to render it a complete Indian system with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, &c. : also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Mississippi lands, with their productions, the benefits of colonising Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians, and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the Mother Country : with a new map of the country referred to in the history / by James Adair, Esquire, a trader with the Indians, and resident in their country for forty years.

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Creator:
Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783
Date:
MDCCLXXV [1775]
Physical Description:
[12], 464 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 28 cm (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Chart of the West Indies and Spanish Dominions in North America / by A. Arrowsmith, hydrographer to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales ; Jones, Smith & Co., sc. Beaufort buildgs., Strand.

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Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
1 map on 4 sheets : outline colored ; 130 x 146 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. S. Augustini pars est terrae Florida [cartographic material] : sub latitudine 30 grad ora vero maritima humilior est, lancinata et insulosa.

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Creator:
Boazio, Baptista
Date:
[1588?]
Physical Description:
1 map ; 40.1 x 54.2 cm., on sheet 41.8 x 56.1cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. An account of the first discovery, and natural history of Florida : with a particular detail of the several expeditions and descents made on that coast / collected from the best authorities by William Roberts ; illustrated by a general map, and some particular plans, together with a geographical description of that country, by T. Jefferys, geographer to His Majesty.

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Creator:
Roberts, William, active 1763
Date:
MDCCLXIII [1763]
Physical Description:
viii, [2], 102 pages, [6] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A description of the English province of Carolana : by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French La Louisiane : as also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi : the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent : together with an account of the commodities of the growth and production of the said province : and a preface containing some considerations of the consequences of the French making settlements there / by Daniel Coxe, Esq.

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Creator:
Coxe, Daniel, 1673-1739
Date:
MDCCXXII [1722]
Physical Description:
[54], 122 pages, ([1] folded leaf of plates) : map ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the maine land of Florida, her next neighbour : out of the four yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one thousand miles east and west, of Don Ferdinando de Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie. Wherin are truly oserued the riches and fertilitie of those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant, and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and dispositions of the inhabitants / Written by a Portugall gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and translated out of Portugese by Richard Hakluyt.

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Date:
1609
Physical Description:
[8], 180 p. ; 18 cm. (4to)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts