America.- Josselyn (John) New Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, second edition, initial and final blank leaves present, folding woodcut plate and woodcut illustrations, small repair to title without loss of text, occasional light browning, modern blind-stamped calf, [Wing J1094; Sabin 36674 for first edition, this edition not cited], 8vo, Printed for C. Widdowes, 1675.*** An excellent copy of a rare work which first appeared in 1672. This second 'Addition' as it is called on the title-page, is only located by USTC at Yale's Beinecke Library and the John Carter Brown Library and seemingly has no auction appearance for over 100 years.Josselyn's work is "the earliest work on the natural history and Indian remedies of New England" (Vail), much of it forming a description of herbal remedies among the Indians. The work also includes a brief chronological history of New England from Columbus's arrival in America, the founding of colonies in Virginia (1606), Massachusets (1628), Connecticut (1636), New-Haven (1638, also the year of a "terrible Earth quake throughout the Country") and such events as "The whole Bible Printed in the Indian Language finished" (1664). Additionally, the 'Description of an Indian Squa' with an accompanying poem, praising black beauty above white, occurs on pp. 99-102.