M. Frézier, ingenieur ordinaire du Roy. Ouvrage enrichi de 1716. quantité de planches en taille douce. Quarto, pp. 298, plates 37. Paris. Republished 1732. Reprinted in 1717, in 2 vols. 12mo. at Amsterdam. Madrid. 6 EL COLON; poema de D. Francisco de Moraes Vasconcelos y The foundation of this poem is the Nuevo Mundo of the same author, printed 1 A VOYAGE to the South Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners; their natural history, mines, commodities, traffic with Europe, &c. By Monsieur Frezier, engineer in ordinary to the French king. Illustrated with thirty-seven copper-cuts of the coasts, harbours, cities, plants, and other curiosities; printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. With a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. Quarto. London. The copies with the date of 1735 are this same edition with a new title-page. 2 A DISCOURSE concerning the design'd establishment of a new colony to the south of Carolina, in the most delightful country of the universe. By Sir Robert Montgomery, baronet. London. 8vo. pp. 30, and plan. Sir Robert Montgomery obtained a grant of all the land between the rivers 3 ARTE DE LA LENGUA MEXICANA, y breves platicas de los mys- MDCCXVIII. Mexico. 1 A NEW VOYAGE TO CAROLINA, &c. By John Lawson. London. Quarto. The same as the edition of 1709, with merely a new title-page. 1718. 2 MEMOIRE presenté à son altesse royale M. le Duc d'Orleans, regent du royaume de France: concernant la precieuse plante du Ginseng de Tartarie, découverte en Canada, par le P. Joseph François Lafitau, de la compagnie de Jésus, missionaire des Iroquois du Sault Saint Louis. 12mo. Paris. 3 RELATION de divers voyages faits dans l'Afrique, dans l'Amerique, et aux Indes Occidentales, &c. Par le Sieur Dralsé de Grandpierre. 12mo. Paris. MDCCXIX. 1 MR. JOUTEL'S JOURNAL of his voyage to Mexico: his travels eight hundred leagues through forty nations of Indians in Louisiana to Canada: his account of the great river Missasipi. To which is added a map of that country; with a description of the great water-falls in the river Misouris. Translated from the French publish'd at Paris. London. 8vo. The edition of 1714 with a new title-page. London. 2 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY passed in the province of New-York, from The first collection of the laws of New York was printed there by William 3 RELACION de la sorprecha hecha por los Franceses de la Movila 1719. Mexico. Small 4to. pp. 8. MDCCXX. 1 THE HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND, containing an impartial account London. Reprinted in 1747. Gov. Hutchinson says that this work is little more 1720. than an abridgment of Mather's Magnalia (1702.) Mr. Neal was an eminent dissenting minister in London, and author of the History of the Puritans. 2 AN ACCOUNT of the foundation and establishment of a design now on foot for a settlement on the Golden Islands, to the south of Port Royal, in Carolina. By authority of a royal charter 4to. pp. 8. London. 3 A DESCRIPTION of the Golden Islands, with an account of the undertaking now on foot for making a settlement there: explaining, 1st, the nature of that design in general; 2dly, the measures already taken; and, 3dly, those intended to be taken hereafter. 8vo. pp. 45. London. Relates to the project of Sir Robert Montgomery. (See 1717.) 4 SOME CONSIDERATIONS on the consequences of the French settling colonies on the Mississippi, with respect to the trade and safety of the English plantations in America and the West Indies. From a gentleman in America to his friend in London. 8vo. map. London. Written in consequence of the establishment of the French Missisippi Company. 5 *A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT of the Company of Missis sippi, &c. 8vo. French and English. 6 A COLLECTION of several pieces of Mr. John Locke, never before printed, or not extant in his works. 8vo. London. This volume contains the "Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina." 7 A JOURNAL or full account of the late expedition to Canada. With an appendix, containing commissions, orders, instructions, letters, memorials, courts-martial, councils of war, &c. relating thereto By Sir Hovenden Walker, Kt. 8vo. pp. 304. London. Some copies of this same edition are without any date on the title-page. 1720. against Canada, which sailed from Boston, N. E. in the summer of 1711; but which proved a complete failure, owing, it was said, to the unskilfulness of the pilots, by which eight ships and nearly a thousand men were lost in the river St. Lawrence. Great blame was attached to Sir Hovenden, and he published this account in his own vindication. See Nichols' Lit. Anec. I. p. 178. 8 RELATIONS de la Louisiane et du Fleuve Mississippi. Ou l'on voit l'etat de ce grand pays et les avantages qu'il peut produire, &c. Amsterdam. 12mo. This volume is dedicated to the celebrated Law; its contents are the same as the fifth volume of Bernard's Collection, 1715. 9 RECUEIL D'ARRESTS et autres pieces pour l'etablissement de la Compagnie d'Occident.-Relation de la Baie de Hudson.Les navigations de Frobisher au detroit qui porte son nom. 12mo. Amsterdam. Part of this volume corresponds to the fifth volume of Bernard's Collection of 1715; but the Recueil d'Arrests, &c. is not contained in that edition. It is a collection of documents relating to the far-famed Company of the West, better known as the Mississippi Company, of which Law was the projector. 10 VOYAGE DE MARSEILLE À LIMA et dans les autres lieux des Indes Occidentales. Avec une exacte description de ce qu'il y a de plus remarquable tant pour la geographie, que pour les mœurs, les coûtumes, le commerce, le gouvernement, et la religion des peuples; avec des notes et des figures en taille douce. Par le Sieur D***. Paris. 12mo. The dedication is signed "Durrett," who says he prepared the work for the press, from the relations of a surgeon of the name of Bachelier. Father Labat, however, says that the work was entirely composed by Durrett, from the relations of Feuille, with the addition of extracts from various other authors, without any acknowledgment. 11 PROYECTO PARA GALEONES y Flotas del Peru y Nueva España y para Navios de Registro, y avisos, que navegaren à ambos Reynos. Cadiz. Folio, pp. 26. MDCCXXI. 1 A DEFENCE of the New England charters. By Jer. Dummer. Pulchrum est Patria benefacere, etiam benedicere haud absurdum est. Sallust. London. 8vo. pp. 60. Dummer was the agent of Massachusetts in England, and a distinguished 1721. scholar. "This very able defence was written some time before; but it was now published in the apprehension that a bill would be brought into the House of Commons at their next session to disfranchise the charter governments." Holmes. Reprinted in 1766. 2 INDIA CHRISTIANA. A discourse delivered unto the commissioners for the propagation of the gospel among the American Indians, &c. By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F. R. S. 12mo. pp. 94. Boston, N. E. 3 THE LAWS OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS in America, relating to the church and the clergy, religion and learning. Collected in one volume. By Nicholas Trott, LL. D., Chief Justice of the province of South Carolina. Folio. London. A scarce and valuable collection, in the preface to which is given an account of all the different collections of colonial laws which had been printed at the time. All those relating to ecclesiastical affairs which had not been printed were transcribed from the copies sent out to the Plantation office, or taken from other authentic sources. 4 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY passed in the island of Barbadoes from 1648 to 1718. Folio. London. 5 THE SEVERAL REPORTS of the Committee of Secrecy to the Honourable House of Commons relating to the South Sea Directors, &c. Folio, pp. 74. London. 6 PROCEEDINGS of the House of Lords in relation to the late Directors of the South Sea Company and others; with the Reports of their Lordships on the said proceedings: to which is added, the conference with the Commons relating to Mr. Aislabie and Mr. Craggs, with their Lordships' proceedings thereupon. London. Folio, pp. 26. MDCCXXII. 1 A DESCRIPTION of the English province of Carolana, by the Spaniards called Florida, and by the French La Louisiane. As also of the great and famous river Meschacebe or Missisipi, the five vast navigable lakes of fresh water, and the parts adjacent. Together with an account of the commodities, of |