The Isle of Pines, or, A late discovery of a fourth island near Terra Australis, Incognita by Henry Cornelius van Sloetten. Wherein is contained. A true relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one man and four women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch ship making a voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole relation (written, and left by the man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his grandchild) is here annexed with the longitude and latitude of the island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. Licensed July 27. 1668

People / Organizations

• Henry Neville (Author)

Imprint

London : printed for Allen Banks and Charles Harper next door to the three Squerrills in Fleet-street, over against St. Dunstans Church, 1668.

Added name

Banks, Allen, bookseller.; Harper, Charles, active 1670-1709, bookseller.

Publication year

1668

ESTC No.

R27644

Grub Street ID

110782

Description

[2], 31, [1] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 4°.

Note

By Henry Neville. Cf. DNB

A fictitious account, incorporating 'A new and further discovery of the Islle [sic] of Pines'. The title page incorporates type material from the edition with [2], 9, [1] p

Signatures: A]4(-A1) B-D]4] E]2.

Uncontrolled note

L copy filmed on UMI "Tract supplement" reel E1 (Harl. 5919[273]): title page only