BORDONE, continued :— 140 obverse (marked LXXIII): .. Impresse in Vinegia per Nicolo d'Aristotile, Small folio, 84 leaves, with the same maps as in the preceding edition; 1534 The only addition in this edition is the "Lettere del Prefetto," in which there is an account of the conquest of Peru occupying two pages. another edition. ISOLARIO DI BENEDETTO BORDONE. Fol. 84 (marked LXXIIII) obverse: . . In Vinegia ad instantia & spese del Nobile huomo | M. Federico Toresano, M.D.XLVII. Small folio, containing precisely the same matter as the edition of 1534; old calf 1547 This copy,which has the bookplate of Lord Carteret, is bound up with "L'Isole piv famose del Mondo descritte da Thomaso Porcacchi.. Venetia MDLXXVI," which is illustrated with copper-engravings of the islands. BORGIA MAP-see RIBERO. 141 BORRI. COCHIN-CHINA: Containing many admirable Rarities and Singularities of that country. 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American Antiquities and Researches into the origin and history of the Red Race. . 8vo. cloth New York, 1841 159* the same, with the title reprinted, 8vo. cloth 1843 He cited as authorities Higgins and O'Brien; he believed in the necessity of ascribing American civilisation to an Asiatic origin; but his book is a useful one. 160 BRADFORD (William) History of the Plimoth Plantation containing an account of the Voyage of the "Mayflower".. now reproduced in facsimile from the original MS. with an introduction by John A. Doyle, impl. 4to. 533 pp. of facsimile and 17 pp. of letterpress introduction; bds. 1896 This valuable document, preserved till recently in the library of the Bishop of London, has been restored to its proper place in the archives of New England. It was not identified till a few years ago, and was supposed to have been lost except in so far as Nathaniel Morton and some others had printed extracts from it. 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All the 25 parts and the Elenchus; a complete set of the First Edition of the Latin "Grands et Petits Voyages" (with two or three very slight exceptions which have been supplied from other issues, and are all mentioned in the list of contents below), with some Parts of the SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS besides; together 34 parts in 11 vols. folio and small folio; fine impressions of the numerous maps and plates, many being in duplicate; very fine copy in blue morocco extra, gilt edges, by Derome, from the Hamilton Palace library Francofurtii et Oppenheimii, De Bry et Merian, 1590-1634 670 0 0 CONTENTS: GRAND VOYAGES in Latin, the COMPLETE SET of 13 PARTS, many in title-page of the second issue of this Part 3. Genuine first edition, and third Part 4. Two issues: Genuine first edition, with the exception of the the text of the second edition; and Part 6. First edition. Part 7. First and Second editions. Part 8. Two editions: First edition, with the two small maps not always Bry fe." This copy contains the Part 9. First edition; and second four parts were only published once, BRY'S COLLECTION OF VOYAGES, continued:- two states: Part 1. Two editions: the first with the There is probably no other copy so complete as this but the one in the library of the Duke of Devonshire. 173 BRY. ZIEGLER'S ABRIDGMENT. America, Das ist, Erfindung vnd Offenbahrung der Newen Welt. . in dreyssig vornemste Schiffahrten kürtzlich zusammen. . gefasset. . Durch M. Philippum Ziglerum . . mit vielen Newen vnnd nohtwendigen Landtaffeln vnd Kupfferstücken .. in Truck gegeben von Iohan-Theodoro de Bry.. 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