FIFTH DAY'S SALE. LOT Another Alphabet. 1270 ABBEVILLE (CLAUDE D') HISTOIRE DE LA MISSION / des Peres Capvcins / en l'Isle de Maragnan et / terres circonuoifines/ov/est traicte des sin-/gularitez admirables & des/ Meurs merueilleuses des Indiens / habitans de ce pais Auec les misiues / et aduis qui ont este enuoyez de nouueau./ Engraved title-page, and 7 prel. leaves including "Tables des Chapitres." 395 folioed leaves and "Table des choses," 35 unnumbered pages. Fine copper-plate portraits, good copy in old calf 8vo. Paris: François Huby, 1614 1271 ABBOT (Hull, A.M. Pastor of the Church in Charlestown) The Duty of God's People to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem; and especially for the Preservation and Continuance of their own Privileges both Civil and Religious, when in Danger at Home or from Abroad. A Sermon on Occasion of the Rebellion in Scotland Rais'd in Favour of a Popish Pretender; With Design to overthrow our present Happy Establishment, And to Introduce Popery and Arbitrary Power into Our Nations, From which, by a Series of Wonders, in the good Providence of God, they have been often delivered, Preached at Charlestown in New-England, Jan. 12, 1745-6, half title, title and pages 5 to 26, fine large copy, scarce 8vo. Boston, Rogers & Fowle, 1746 At the end is a leaf of Proposals by Rogers and Fowle dated 1 Jan. 1745/6 for reprinting by subscription Dr. Watt's Sermons, the 2 vols. of the London edition, in one large Boston volume, on fair white paper, as 42/- Old Tenor, in sheep or 48/- in calf. 1272 Acadia. Remarks on the French Memorials concerning the Limits of Acadia, printed at the Royal Printing-house at Paris, 8vo. London, T. Jefferys, 1756 There is, we believe, no book of about this date and size that can be compared with this for valuable geographical and bibliographical information respecting Canada and Nova Scotia or Acadia. It embraces the whole Territory South of the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, East of Lake Champlain and North Massachusetts, and includes all the disputed tracts and grants of both the English and French Governments. The two valuable maps on the same scale, show clearly what was claimed by each party. A A 1273 ACOSTA (JOSEPH de) Historie Naturael / ende Morael van de We-/sterche Indien :/ Waer inne ghehandelt wordt van de / Merckelijckste dinghen des Hemels, Elementen, / Metalen, Planten ende Ghedierten van dien: als oock de Manieren, Ceremonien, Wetten, Regeeringen/ ende Oorloghen der Indianen./ Ghecomponeert door Iosephum de/ Acosta, der Jesuitscher Orden:/ Ende nu eerstmael uyt den Spaenschen in onser / Nederduytsche tale overgheset: door Ian Huyghen/ van Linschoten, 7 prel. and 369 folioed leaves, followed by 7 leaves of table and one of errata, very fine copy in old vellum 8vo. Tot Enchuysen. By Jacob Lenaertsi, Meyn, 1598 Linschoten the traveller was the translator and editor of this beautiful Dutch edition. On Saturday the 8 of Oct. 1594 the States General granted his request to reproduce this work of Acosta. His long and interesting preface is dated 1 May 1598. The work was printed by Gillis Rooman at Haerlem. This honest Dutch translation becomes very important from the fact that De Bry's German and Latin translations in his Part IX America, are both taken from it instead of the Spanish original, the whole seven books, chapter for chapter, except perhaps the first two books in Latin. Books 3 to 7 Acosta himself did not write in Latin. ADAIR (James) Geschichte der Amerikanischen Indianer; beson- 8vo. Breszlau, 1782 1275 ADAMS (AMOS, A.M. Pastor of the First Church of Roxbury) A Concise, Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils Which attended the Planting and progressive Improvements of New England. With A particular Account of its long and Destructive Wars, Expensive Expeditions, &c. half title, title and 68 pp. very fine copy in Pratt's best brown calf extra gilt edges, uncut 8vo. Boston printed. London reprinted for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1770 1276 ADAMS (JOHN) Correspondence of the late President Adams, originally published in the Boston Patriot, in a Series of Letters, No. 1 to 10, the original 10 numbers uncut, filling 572 pp. very scarce, a few letters gone from page 97. 8vo. Boston, Everett & Munroe, 1809-10 These important Letters first published in the "Boston Patriot," from the 19th May, 1809, to the 8th Feb. 1810, contain a full history, from the Adams' point of view, of the Negotiations that terminated in the acknowledgment of American Independence by Great Britain, together with President Adams' defence of his Administration against the charges of Alexander Hamilton. 1277 AGRICOLA. Two Letters from Agricola to Sir William Howe; To which are annexed, By the same Author, Political Observations, 63 pp. with a slip of errata pasted on to blank page 64, uncut 8vo. London: for J. Millidge, 1779 Agricola herein reviews with great severity the conduct of Sir William Howe, during his whole command in America. Nor is he a whit less condemnatory of the conduct and achievements of General Burgoyne. Of Burgoyne he writes, “He is a deep and eloquent military theorist; he plans the subjugation of the rebels; and in his loyal delirium he brandishes the tomahawk and the scalping knife, which alternately glitter in his magnificent periods. But all these heroic visions are annihilated by the convention at Saratoga. As a writer, he may be compared with the picture of the nativity, which was lately to be seen in the exhibition. Its dimensions and figures are extravagantly large; its colours are glaring; but while it was executed by the artist, he had not one idea that corresponded with the scene which he intended to represent. The ass is the leading and prominent object in the group and continually solicits our attention." 1278 AINSWORTH (HENRY) COVNTERPOYSON. Considerations touching the points in difference between the godly Ministers & people of the Church of England, and the Seduced brethren of the Separation. Arguments that the best assemblies of the present Church of England are true visible Churches. That the Preachers in the best assemblies of Engl. are true Ministers of Christ. Mr. Bernard's book intituled The Separatists Schisme. Mr. Crasawes Questions propounded in his Sermon preached at the Crosse. Examined and answered by H. A. fine copy, half calf, SCARCE 4to. [Leyden? Wm. Brewster ?] A° D' 1608 1279 Allen (Heman) STATEMENT [by the defendants] of the cause of Heman Allen v. Hathway and Peirson [with Judge Brayton's Report of the Case of Heman Allen v. Hathway and Peirson, containing all the evidence admitted] 48 pp. privately printed, uncut, scarce 8vo. [Burlington, Vermont, 1822] 1280 ALLEN (JAMES, V.D.M. Pastor of the Church in Brookline) Magistracy an Institution of Christ upon the Throne. A Sermon preached in the Audience of his Excellency William Shirley, the Council and House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, on the Day of Election of Councillors for said Province, 54 pp. fine copy, sewed Boston in New-England: Printed by John Draper for Daniel Gookin, 1744 1281 ALLING (JEREMIAH) A Register of the Weather, or an Account of the several Rains, Snow-Storms, Depth of each Snow, Hail and Thunder; with some Account of the Weather each day, and some other Events worthy of notice, for the last TwentyFive Years, ending March 31, 1810. From observations, taken most of the time in Hamdem, near New-Haven, in Connecticut. Lat. 41. 23 N. Long. 73. 14 W. 84 pp. sewed, uncut, 8vo. New-Haven, Oliver Steele and Co. 1810 scarce 1282 ALVARADO (PEDRO DE) Proceso de Residencia contra Pedro de Alvarado. Ilustrado con Estampas sacadas de los antiguos Codices Mexicanos, y Notas y Noticias biograficas, criticas y arqueologicas, por D. Jose Fernando Ramuez, Lo publica paleografiado del MS. original el Lic. Ignacio el Rayon. (Fragmentos del Proceso de Residencia instruido contra Nuño de Guzman, etc.) Cover, half-title, xxiv and 204 pp. portrait of Alvarado, and 3 coloured plates 8vo. Mexico. Valdes y Redondas, 1847 1283 AMERICA. De l'Amérique et des Américains, ou Observations curieuses du Philosophe La Douceur, qui a parcouru cet Hémisphere pendant la derniere guerre, en faisant le noble métier de tuer des hommes sans les manger, title and 80 pp. fine, clean and uncut, calf extra by Pratt, SCARCE 8vo. A Berlin, Chez Samuel Pitra, 1771 In 1768 De Pauw, a young Dutch priest at the age of 28 published his Recherches Philosophique sur les Americains, vol. I, vol. II, following it the next year. He was a fresh-water traveller, having never seen anything whereof he wrote, but drew on his prejudices and imagination for his facts to prove that the Americans were a miserable set of deteriorations, and that America was Europe made worse. In 1769 Dom. Pernetty replied in his Dissertation with considerable ability and acidity, but he also was an Abbé who had never seen America and wrote with great indiscretion and little knowledge. This brought forth from De Pauw in 1770 his Defence of his first two volumes, which added no new facts, but sopped the whole controversy in bitterness and absurdity. In 1771 Pernetty published his Examen in two volumes as a rejoinder. By this time he had studied the subject pretty well, and successfully refuted many of De Pauw's statements, but the difficulty was that he had had no practical experience in the matter and reasoned only from what he could see from the top of a pile of books. His vision was limited and his experience nothing. Meanwhile the witty anonymous author of this little work, seeing the absurd wooden sword contest of these two PP in historical darkness, having himself been in America and lived among the Savages during part of the seven years' war, put his plain common sense notions in type in these fifteen chapters, casting a pleasant veil of obscurity over the two priestly champions. This book fills 80 pp. counting the title and preface. In some copies there is inserted, as in this one, a leaf after the title called Avertissement au Lecteur, to show that he takes no notice of Pernetty's last work because his and that work were in the press at the same time. He could, he says, have made a book on the subject but did not think it worth the trouble. 1284 AMERICAN (The) and British Chronicle of War and Politics; being an accurate and comprehensive Register of the most memorable occurrences in the last ten years of His Majesty's Reign; in which will be found above Eighteen Hundred interesting Events, during the late War between Great Britain and America, France, Spain, and Holland; from May 10, 1773, to July 16, 1783, in Chronological Order, 120 pp. sewed, fine copy, scarce 8vo. London, for the Author, 1783 1285 AMERICAN TUNES arranged for the Pianoforte. By John Clarkson, junr. Nos. I-IV fol. Edinburgh [1805 ?] Among the old tunes are "Oh dear, I wish I had not come here;" "The Whine; 'Mammy's gone away, and Daddy's dead for ever; ""Row the boat ashore ; "Ricket's Dance;" The Brook; "Fire in the Mountains; Yanky Doodle; ""Spirit of France;" "Tobacco Hill;" "The Corn Planter;" "Sometimes drunk and sometimes sober; Jump up, Joe;' "President Jefferson's Favourite; “Hunt the Squirrel ;” “The Rummage ;" and "Thump the Devil.” 1286 AMERICAN WAR. The detail and conduct of the American War, under Generals Gage, Howe, Burgoyne, and Vice Admiral Lord Howe: with a very full and correct state of the whole of the Evidence, as given before a Committee of the House of Commons and the celebrated Fugitive Pieces, which are said to have given rise to that important enquiry. The whole exhibiting a circumstantial, connected and complete history of the real causes, rise, progress and present state of the American Rebellion. Third edition, fine copy : 8vo. London: Richardson and Urquhart, 1780 1287 AMERICAN WAR. Précis politique sur l'origine de la guerre des Américains et sur la paix qui vient d'être conclue, ou Dialogue. I, entre la Vérité et un Anglois. II, la Liberté et un Américain. III, la Politique et le François, 39 pp. fine copy, uncut, stitched, scarce 8vo. A Londres, 1783 1288 AMERICA'S APPEAL to The Impartial World Wherein the Rights of the Americans, as Men, British Subjects and as Colonists; the Equity of the Demand, and of the Manner in which it is made upon them by Great-Britain, are stated and considered. And, The Opposition made by the Colonies to Acts of Parliament, their resorting to Arms in their necessary Defence, against the Military Armaments employed to enforce them, Vindicated. [3 mottos] 72 pp. half calf, scarce 8vo. Hartford: Ebenezer Watson, 1775 1289 ANANIA (GIOVANNI LORENZO d') L'Vniversale Fabrica del Mondo, overo Cosmografia. Di nuouo ornata con le figure delle quattro parti del Mondo in Rame; 28 leaves and 402 pp. 5 maps, fine copy, vellum 4to. In Venetia, Presso il Muschio, 1582 1290 ANDERSON (JAMES S. M.) The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and foreign dependencies of the British Empire. Second Edition, 3 vol. cloth, uncut fcap. 8vo. London: Rivingtons, 1856 Few modern works relating to America evince so much original research as this. The Author produces his authorities for all important statements. They are numerous, and many of them being new to American students have led some of them into undignified scrambles for the honor of reproducing them as "discoveries in Anderson." Meanwhile this excellent work has been too much neglected. 1291 ANDREWS (DAVID, Pastor of the Church in Pepperell) The Sure and Only Foundation, with historical notices. A Centennial Discourse, delivered before the Church of Christ and Second Parish, in Pepperell, Mass. January 29, 1847, 48 pp. 8vo. Boston: A. J. Wright, 1847 A good sample of the local and church or parish history of New England. Though called a sermon, this is really a history of the town and church of Pepperell. 1292 ANECDOTES AMERICAINES, ou Histoire abrégée des principaux evénements arrivés dans le Nouveau Monde, depuis sa découverte jusqu'à l'époque présente. [Par Antoine Hornot] 8vo. Paris, Chez Vincent, 1776 The above title gives no just idea of the character and value of this exceedingly useful and handy book of nearly 800 pages. The whole history of the New Continent is arranged in the form of annals under each year, from 1492 to 1776. There is a good and copious index of 32 pages. The book is a handy compendium of the chronology, geography and biography of America. 1293 ANNUAL REGISTER (The) or, the History of the Present War, from the Commencement of Hostilities, in 1755; and continued During the Campaigns of 1756, 1757, 1758, 1759, 1760, And to the End of the Campaign, 1761. Illustrated with Maps of the Countries that have been the Theatre of the War, and the Heads of the Commanders, that have been employed, &c. title, 4 leaves of contents, and 254 pp in double columns, 7 portraits, 3 American and 4 German Maps of the seats of war, fine copy, old calf, excessively rare 8vo. London: R. & J. Dodsley; & Dublin: Re-printed by John Exshaw 1294 ANSWER (AN) to a Pamphlet call'd, The Conduct of the Ministry Impartially Examined. In which is proved, That neither Imbecility nor Ignorance in the M-r have been the Causes of the present unhappy Situation of this Nation. By the Author of the Four Letters to the People of England [Dr. John Shebbeare] 100 pp. sewed Svo. London: M. Cooper, 1756 Relating to the inefficient conduct of the Ministry in the disputes with France, especially in America, on the Ohio and elsewhere, under Washington, Braddock, &c. For this and later publications, the Doctor was fined and put in the pillory. A change of government brought him a change of sentiment and a pension." 1295 ARENAS (PEDRO de) Vocabulario Manual de las Lenguas Castel lana, y Mexicana, en que se contienen las palabras, preguntas, y respuestas mas communes, y ordinarias que se sullen ofrecer en el trato, y communicacion entre Españoles, é Indios, 6 prel. leaves and 145 pp. vellum, fine clean copy 16mo. La Puebla de los Angeles. Don Pedro de la Rosa, 1793 |