The Isle of Pines, or, A late discovery of a fourth island in Terra Australis, Incognita. Being a true relation of certain English persons, who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a voyage to the East India, were cast away, and wracked upon the island near to the coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one man and four women, whereof one was a Negro. And now lately anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch ship called the Amsterdam, Cornelius Van Sloetten Captain, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole relation follows, written, and left by the man himself a little before his death, and declared to the Dutch by his grandchild. Licensed June 27. 1668.

People / Organizations

• Henry Neville (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by S[arah]. G[riffin]. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper at the Flower-Deluice near Cripplegate Church, 1668.

Publication year

1668-1668

ESTC No.

R235179

Grub Street ID

106345

Description

[2], 10, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates ; 4⁰

Note

A fictitious account by Henry Neville. Cf. DNB.

With an engraved frontispiece (plate).

Printer's name from Wing CD.

Uncontrolled note

Another edition, with the same short title and imprint, has 9 p