los parages por donde passa en la America Meridional, con- 1749. Small 8vo. The boundary line between the Spanish and Portuguese possessions in 13 PRIMER SYNODO DIOCESANA, celebrola el Ilmo. Sr. D. Pedro Lima. 14 HISTORIADORES PRIMITIVOS de las Indias occidentales que juntó, traduxo en parte y sacó à luz, ilustrados con eruditas notas y copissos Indices Divididos en tres tomos. Folio, 3 vols. Don Andres Gonzalez Barcia. The following are the contents of this valuable collection. Madrid. Vol. I. 1. La historia del Almirante D. Christoval Colon, que compuso en Castel- 3. Relacion sumaria de la historia natural de las Indias, compuesta y dii- 1749. 6. Comentarios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Adelantado y Gobernader del Rio de la Plata. pp. 72. Vol. II. 7. Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Historia de las Indias. pp. 226, Index, 50. Cronica de la Nueva España. pp. 214, Index, 46. 8. Vol. III. 9. Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de la Provincia del Peru y de 10. Conquista del Peru de Francisco de Xerez. pp. 66. 12. Argentina y Conquista del Rio de la Plata por D. Martin del Barco 13. Viage del mundo por Simon Perez de Torres en 1586, &c. pp. 45. Now first printed. 14. Epitome de la Relacion del viage de algunos Mercaderes de San Malo a Moka, los años 1708, &c. traducido del Frances por D. Manl. de Grova. pp. 3. Don Andres Gonzalez de Barcia Carballido y Zuniga, after having published new editions of Torquemada (1722,) El Peru y Florida del Inca, Herrera, la Araucana, El Origen de los Indios, and the Biblioteca de Pinelo, caused to be printed the authors contained in this collection, and probably some others, as he mentions, in his edition of Pinelo, that Fenandez's Historia del Peru was about being finished in 1731, but of which no copies are known to exist. Most of these authors were printed about that same period, but were not published until 1749, (six years after Barcia's death, which happened in 1743,) when general titles to the 3 volumes were printed, with a table of contents, of which there are two different impres sions; one, the most modern, is printed by Ibarra. In the account of the remaining stock of this work in 1778, two hundred complete sets are mentioned, 21 of which are described as on large paper. Of the separate parts there are as many as 1300 copies of some of them, of others very few, and none of the History of Columbus; all these separate parts were sold as waste paper, upwards of 30 years ago. The large paper copies disappeared about the same time, and perhaps in the same manner, as I have found seven copies of the history of Columbus on this paper, but have never seen a copy of the whole work on large paper. My own copy contains, besides the works already mentioned, the following: "Viage de Jerusalen de D. Fadrique Enriquez de Ribera Marques de Tarifa, y otros Caballeros." Reprinted from the edition of 1606. 15 ANNAES HISTORICOS do Estado do Maranhao, em que se da 1749. noticia do seu descobrimiento e tudo o mais que nelle tem succedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718. Por Bernardo Pereira de Berredo. Folio, pp. 710. Lisboa. His He The author was appointed governor of Maranham in the year 1718. MDCCL. 1 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BARBADOS. In ten books. By the Rev. Mr. Griffith Hughes, A.M. rector of St. Lucy's parish, Folio, pp. 314, 29 plates, and map. There is a very well written article on this work in Vol. 3 of the Monthly Review, (p. 197,) from which it appears that it is of no value whatever to the naturalist. The writer of the review says, that Linnæus, when in London, "was despised, his papers laughed at, and himself, had it not been for the generous friendship of the late Dr. Isaac Lawson, had perished for want." Large paper copies of this work are more common than those on small paper. The plates being engraved from the drawings of Ehret, may still be consulted with advantage. 2 OBSERVATIONS on the importance of the Northern colonies, under proper regulations. 8vo. pp. 36. New York. "By Archibald Keneday, esq. receiver-general of New York." MS. note. 3 TRATADO HISTORICO, POLITICO Y LEGAL de el comercio de las Indias Occidentales, pertenicientes a los Reyes Catholicos, cava. Small 8vo. This work has no date on the title, but the licences, &c. were given in this year. At the end is added the Proyecto de Galeones, etc. first printed in 1720. 1750. 4 PISCIUM SERPENTUM INSECTORUM aliorumque nonnullorum animalium necnon plantarum imagines quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolinæ, Floridæ, et Bahamensium insularum tradidit historiam naturalem, eiusque appendice descripsit. Ediderunt N. F. Eisenberger et G. Lichtensteger. Norimberga. Folio, 64 coloured plates. The plates in this work are copied from the first sixty-four of the second volume of Catesby's Carolina: according to Brunet, the work should contain 109 plates. 5 AUSZUG DER NACHRICHTEN von dem Englischen America, besonders von Carolina und Georgia. Von Emanuel Christian Loeber. 8vo. Jena. Meusel iii. 1. 394. 1 A GENUINE NARRATIVE of the transactions in Nova Scotia 2 *THE IMPORTANCE of settling and fortifying Nova Scotia. By 8vo. "We find very little, if any thing, worth notice in this piece." M. R. 3 OBSERVATIONS on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensylvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annexed, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara. By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish gentleman who travelled there. 8vo. pp. 94, and plan. London. John Bartram was the father of William Bartram, who published his travels in 1791. Both were enthusiastic naturalists. 4 A JOURNAL, or historical account of the life, travels and christian 1751. experiencies, of that ancient faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Chalkley, who departed this life in the island of Tortola, the 4th day of the 9th month, 1741. edition. 8vo. pp. 326. The second London. A testimony of the Friends, at the beginning of this book, is dated Philadelphia, 1749, from which it may be inferred that the first edition was printed there about that time. Chalkley was a Quaker preacher and trader, and spent about forty years of his life in preaching and trading in different parts of North America and the West Indies, but principally in Pennsylvania. He was a man of many virtues. 5 A NARRATIVE of the dangers and distresses which befel Isaac Morris and seven more of the crew belonging to the Wage store ship, which attended commodore Anson, in his voyage to the South Sea; containing an account of their adventures after they were left by Bulkely and Cummings, on an uninhabited part of Patagonia, where they remained about fifteen months, till they were seized by a party of Indians, and carried above 1000 miles into the inland country, with whom they resided upwards of sixteen months: after which they were carried to Buenos Ayres, and ransomed by the governor. 8vo. Lon/on. "This narrative appears to be genuine, and is well and methodically written," &c. M.R. v. p. 156. 6 NOUVEAU VOYAGE FAIT AU PEROU. Par M. l'Abbé Courte de la Blanchardiere. Auquel on a joint une description des anciennes mines d'Espagne traduite de l'Espagnol d'Alonso Carillo Lazo. Paris. 12mo. An English translation was published in 1753. 7 HISTOIRE DE LA JAMAÏQUE, traduite de l'Anglois: par M***, ancien officier de dragons. 12mo. 2 vols., 6 plates. Londres. Translated from A New History, &c. 1740. The translator's name was 8 HISTOIRE DES PYRAMIDES DE QUITO, elevées par les academiciens ruinæ." Lucan. Quarto. pp. 53. Plate. Paris. |