> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 310](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33265037) of TL-2 Suppl. I > Author links: [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5341743) QID Q5341743 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Bancroft, Edward (1744-1821), British naturalist and chemist, traveller in America, especially active in dyeing and calico printing, father of E.N. Bancroft. **Abbreviated name**: *E. Bancroft* #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography BM 1: 95; DNB 3: 105; Kew 1: 150. ### Publications ##### n.20.152. An essay on the natural history of Guiana **Title** *An essay on the natural history of Guiana*, in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations. In several letters from a gentleman of the medical faculty, during his residence in that country... London (Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt in the Strand) 1769. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essay nat. hist. Guiana*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1769, frontisp., p. \[i\*-vi\*\], \[i\]-iv, \[1\]-402, \[403-406, adv.\]. *Copies*: MO, NY. *German translation*: 1769, p. \[i\]-x, \[xi-xii\], \[1\]-248, *1 pl. Copy*: NY. − *Naturgeschichte von Guiana* in Süd America. Worinn von der natürlichen Beschaffenheit und den vornehmsten Naturproducten des Landes, ingleichen der Religion, Sitten und Gebräuchen verschiedener Stämme der wilden Landes-Einwohner, Nachricht ertheilet wird. In vier Briefen... Frankfurt und Leipzig (bey J. Dobsley und Compagnie) 1769. *Ref*.: Mabberley, D.J., Taxon 30(1): 13-14. 1981 (details on plant names in this essay).