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Hispaniola : Caribbean chiefdoms in the age of Columbus / Samuel M. Wilson.
Wilson, Samuel Meredith, 1957-Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
An early work on syphilis : the Diaz de Ysla's treatise on the 'serpentine disease' of Hispaniola Island / Amelia A.B. de Ricon-Ferraz.
Ricon-Ferraz, Amelia A. B. de.Date: 1991- Books
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An inaugural dissertation on absorption : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine ; on the 31st of May, 1800 / by John Baptiste Clement Rousseau, of Hispaniola.
Rousseau, John Baptiste Clement.Date: 1800- Books
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A state of the trade carried on with the French, on the Island of Hispaniola, by the merchants in North America, under colour of flags of truce. Occasioned by some Captures of the said Flags, lately made by His Majesty's Ships, under the Command of Admiral Cotes. By a merchant of London.
Merchant of London.Date: [1760]- Books
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Some observations made upon the wood called lignum nephriticum imported from Hispaniola : shewing its admirable virtues in dissolving the stone in the reins and bladder, helping the strangury and stoppings in the water and easing all pains proceeding from thence, &c. / written by a doctor of physick in the countrey to the president of the Colledge of Physicians in London.
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: 1694- Books
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Some observations made upon the wood called lignum nephriticum, imported from Hispaniola: shewing its admirable virtues in dissolving the stone in the reins and bladder, helping the strangury, and stoppings in the water, and easing all pains proceeding from thence, &c / Written by a doctor of physick. In the countrey [i.e. John Peachie?] to the president of the College of Physicians in London. [Anon].
Peachi, John, active 1683Date: [1694]- Books
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Sailing directions for the island of Jamaica and St. Domingue, or Hispaniola, and the windward passages, to be used with the charts and plans that are published from surveys and observations, Made by Order of Philip Affleck, Esq. Rear Admiral of the White, and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels at Jamaica, &c. &c. In part of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, and part of 1792. By John Leard, and Assistants.
Leard, John, marine surveyor.Date: [1792]- Books
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A loud call for Britain's repentance, or, An awful thundering sermon, Against the wicked people of these sinful nations, wherein is discribed the vices of this present age, from the king to the beggar; with his curious observations on the fearful signs and sights seen in the air, earth and water, for several years past. Also, his remarks on the Turkish wars, and the dreadful earth-quake at Hispaniola, the 3d of June last 1770. Where a whole city with its inhabitants was swallowed up alive, the rocks and mountains sent and sunk in the earth, many hundreds of the inhabitan's dug out of the ruin of their own houses, &c. By the Rev. D. Searchwell, D.D. a pilgrim preacher over many nations.
Searchwell, D.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Description of a plantation, situated at Petit St. Louis, near Port-de-Paix, in the northern part of Hispaniola; with all the buildings, belonging to the same and necessary to carry on the cultivation of such plantation; now offered to be exchanged, by J.B. & L. Samoual, proprietors, for goods, principally East-India, and partly public papers on St. Domingo, properly certified and signed by the public functionaries, and approved by the general in chief, Toussaint. This beautiful plantation, a plan of which is annexed, was surveyed in 1785, by the King's surveyor: and the following explanatory observations are the substance of a procës-verbal, signed by a number of respectable planters, whose property lies contiguous to it. The certificate of it, translated in the English language, together with the French original of it, shall be exhibited to any gentleman who may propose becoming a purchaser.
Date: 1797?]- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book, describing West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths, of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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The English pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, streights, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage, with all the islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. shewing the courses and distances from one place to another; the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents. &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The english pilot. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein; as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the river Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the carribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellawar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances form one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. with many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M.DCC,LXV. [1765]- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water and anchorage, with all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bemudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also a new description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellavar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: M,DCC,LX. [1760]- Books
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The english pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Straits, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage With all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto-Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands Also A New Description of Newsound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Mary Land and Carolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currens, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not published before this edition. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: MDCCXXIX [1729]- Books
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The english pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly Delineating The Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage. With All the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes Bermudoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Carribe and Bahama Islands. Also A New Description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jerzey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, and Carrolina, &c. Shewing The Courses and Distances from one Place to another, the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other things Necessary to be known in Navigation. The whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before publish'd. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: 1706- Books
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The English pilot. The fourth book. Describing the West-India navigation, from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating the sea-coasts, capes, head-lands, rivers, bays, roads, havens, harbours, straits, rocks, sands, shoals, banks, depths of water, and anchorage. With all the islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antegoa, Barmudoes, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbe and Bahama Islands. Also, a new description of Newfound-Land, New-England, New-York, East and West New-Jersey, Dellewar-Bay, Virginia, Mary-Land, and Carolina, &c. Shewing the courses and distances from one place to another, the ebbing and flowing of the sea, the setting of the tides and currents, &c. With many other things necessary to be known in navigation. The whole being very much enlarged and corrected, with the additions of several new charts and descriptions, not before published. By the information of divers able navigators of our own and other nations.
Date: MDCCXVI. [1716]- Books
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A description of the windward passage, and Gulf of Florida, with the course of the British trading-ships to, and from the island of Jamaica. Also An account of the Trade-Winds, and of the variable Winds and Currents on the Coasts thereabouts, at different Seasons of the Year. Illustrated with a chart of the Coast of Florida, and of the Islands of Bahama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the adjacent smaller Islands, Shoals, Rocks, and other remarkable Things in the Course of the Navigation in the West-Indies. Whereby is demonstrated, The Precariousness of those Voyages to the West-India Merchants, and the Impossibility of their Homeward-Bound Ships keeping clear of the Spanish Guarda Costa's The Whole very necessary for the Information of such as never were in those Parts of the World. To which are added, some proposals for the better securing of the British trade and navigation to and from the West-Indies.
Cowley, J. (John).Date: 1739- Digital Images
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Fuchsia magellanica Lam. Onagraceae. Hardy fuchsia. Semi-hardy shrub. Distribution: Mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where they are called 'Chilco' by the indigenous people, the Mapuche. The genus was discovered by Charles Plumier in Hispaniola in 1696/7, and named by him for Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German Professor of Medicine, whose illustrated herbal, De Historia Stirpium (1542) attempted the identification of the plants in the Classical herbals. It also contained the first accounts of maize, Zea mays, and chilli peppers, Capsicum annuum, then recently introduced from Latin America. He was also the first person to publish an account and woodcuts of foxgloves, Digitalis purpurea and D. lutea. The book contains 500 descriptions and woodcuts of medicinal plants, arranged in alphabetical order, and relied heavily on the De Materia Medica (c. AD 70) of Dioscorides. He was a powerful influence on the herbals of Dodoens, and thence to Gerard, L’Escluse and Henry Lyte. A small quarto edition appeared in 1551, and a two volume facsimile of the 1542 edition with commentary and selected translations from the Latin was published by Stanford Press in 1999. The original woodcuts were passed from printer to printer and continued in use for 232 years (Schinz, 1774). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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Modern history: or, The present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals. Vol. Vth. and last. Containing the present state of Africa and America. The present state of Africa and America, and of the following kingdoms and nations in particular (viz.) Ethiopia, Zanguebar, Caffraria and the Hottentot nations; Congo, Angelo, Guinea, Nigritia or Negroland, Zaara, Biledulgerid, Morrocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and the African Islands, with an abstract of the ancient history of Africa. A desertation on the first peopleing of America. The discovery thereof by Columbus, the present state of ancient history of Mexico, with an account of the French settlement at of Florida; shewing the advantage of an alliance with Spain; a description of the Spanish Islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Porto-Rico. A summary of the state of Spanish America. A description of Brazil or the dominions of portugal in America. A state oif the British plantations, particularly of Virginia, Maryland, New-England, Nova Scotia and Acadie, New-Britain, New-York, and New-Jersey, Pensylvania, Carolina and Georgia, Jamaica Barbadoes, the Caribbee Islands, the Bahama Islands, Bermudas, Newfoundland, and French-America. Illustrated with curious copper-plates of the habits and animals; with maps of the several countries described in this volume, accurately drawn, according to the geographical part of this work, by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: 1739- Books
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A complete atlas, or distinct view of the known world; exhibited in sixty-eight maps: viz. Chart of the World. The World in two Hemispheres. Europe. Great Brit. and Ireland. England and Wales. Scotland. Ireland. France. Spain. Portugal. Netherlands, or Low Countries. United - Provinces, or Holland. Germany in Circles. South-West Part of Germany. South-East Part of Germany. North-East Part of Germany. North-West Part of Germany. Switzerland. Savoy and Piedmont. Italy. Northern Parts of Italy. Naples and Sicily. Scandinavia. Denmark. Sweden. Moscovy. Poland and Lithuania. Hungary and Transilvania. Turkey in Europe. Islands in the Archipelago. Asia. Turkey in Asia. Anatolia, with Syria. Asia Minor. The Holy Land. The Caspian Sea. Persia. The Russian Empire. China. Japon. Mogul Empire. East India Islands. Africa. Nubia and Abissinia. Barbary. Negroland and Upper Guinea. Southern Parts of Africa. African Islands. America. Brazil. Paraguay, with the River Plata. Chili, Terra Magellanica, and Terra del Fuego. Peru and Amazons. Terra Firma. West Indies. Mexico, or New Spain, with California. Luisiana, Florida, and Canada. Carolina. Virginia and Maryland. Pensilvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England. Newfoundland, Newscotland, and Cape Briton. Bermudas and St. Christopher. Cuba and Hispaniola. Jamaica. North Pole. Towns and Harbours. Barbadoes. Antigua. Greenland. In which the latitude and longitude of the Principal Places in different Countries are laid down, according to the Latest Discoveries. By Emanuel Bowen, Geographer to his Majesty.
Bowen, Emanuel, 1693 or 1694-1767.Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]- Books
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Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue ... / [Nicolson].
Nicolson, Religieux Dominicain, -1812.Date: 1776- Books
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Avis aux habitans des colonies, particulièrement a ceux de l'Isle S. Domingue, sur les principales causes des maladies qu'on y éprouve le plus communément, et sur les moyen de les prévenir / Par J.F. Lafosse.
Lafosse, J. F.Date: 1787- Books
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A new history of Jamaica. In thirteen letters from a gentleman to his friend. Containing. I. The Author's Voyage to that Island; with an Account of several curious Particulars which he met with in his Passage. II. A Description of Jamaica; its natural Advantages, Manners of the People, &c. III. Spanish Cruelty on-first Settling there. Expedition of Sir Anthony Shirley, and Col. Jackson, against them. Its Conquest by the English. IV. The Enterprizes of the famous Buccaneers. V. The Life and Actions of Sir Henry Morgan, and his Enterprizes against the Spaniards. VI. Institution of the General Assembly, and other curious Particulars. Vii. Abstract of all the Laws and Statutes in Force in Jamaica. Viii. The first Assiento Contract. Enterprizes of the Rebel Negroes. Dreadful Earth-Quake. French Invasions. Col. Lillingstone's Expedition against Hispaniola. The Scots Settlement at Darien. Gallant Actions and Death of Admiral Bembow, &c. IX. Port-Royal burnt to the Ground. A dreadful Huricane. Of Blackbeard, a famous Pyrate. Character and Importance of the Mosqueto Indians. Formidable Power of the Rebel Negroes. X. The Rebels submit to Terms. Admiral Vernon's Success against Porto-Bello. XI. Of the Government Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, of Jamaica, Customs of the Inhabitants. The Sacrifices, Libations, Exercises, and Diversions of the Negroes, &c. XII. Of the Products of Jamaica; of its Trees, Plants, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Insects, &c. XIII. Its Trade and Commerce. Its Importance to Great Britain. Number of its People. Money it returns to Great Britain. Directions to new Settlers, in Relation to their Healths. In which are briefly interspers'd, the characters of its governors, and lieutenant-governors.
Leslie, Charles, of Jamaica.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
Apuntes para la historia de la medicina de la isla de Santo Domingo / por F.E. Moscoso Puello ; prólogo y notas de Manuel Mañón Arredondo y Vetilio Alfau Durán.
Moscoso Puello, F. E. (Francisco Eujenio)Date: 1983-1985