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Published / Created:: [1801]
Call Number:: 763 801 L722
Image Count:: 46
Resource Type:: text and still image
Alternative Title:: Voyages and adventures of Henry Lanson
Description:: "London published July 4th 1801 by S. Fisher."--Frontispiece.
Publisher:: Printed and sold by S. Fisher, no. 10, St. John's Lane, Clerkenwell and Also sold by T. Hurst, no. 32, Paternoster-row
Subject (Topic):: Adventure stories, Indians of the West Indies, and Chapbooks, English
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The life and adventures of Henry Lanson, the only son of a wealthy planter in the West Indies : who, when on his voyage to England, was put on shore at an uninhabited island, where, on his perambulation up the country, he discovers the ruins of an ancient temple; and near it, the oracle of the sun, a large rude carved idol made of pure brilliant gold of a wonderful construction; which contained an immense and inestimable collection of preciouse Indian curiosoities. The manner of his converting the natives of a neighbouring island, with whom he lived several years before his departure; when he took with him an incredible quantity of riches, from the idol; and at length arrived safe in England

Creator:: Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687
Published / Created:: 1667-71.
Call Number:: WeInd Cxy f654dc
Image Count:: 5
Alternative Title:: Histoire general des Ant-Isles habitées par les François ... / Par le r.p. Jean Baptiste du Tertre ... v. 3-4
Description:: BEIN Latin America West Indies Cxy f654dc: Added t.p., engraved, wanting in v. 2-3.
Publisher:: T. Iolly
Subject (Geographic):: West Indies. and West Indies, French
Subject (Name):: Compagnie des Indes occidentales.
Subject (Topic):: Natural history, Indians of the West Indies, and History
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Histoire general des Antilles habitées par les François ...