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original documents and drawings made from actual survey by Spanish explorers, which he corrected by astronomical observations. It has not beep elsewhere used, being very little known, although it adds fresh material of considerable importance to American chartography.

A well known amateur and dealer in American rarities makes the following statement:-"This is the largest, most claborate and important map ever got up of South America, but from some cause or other, never sufficiently explained, it was never published. Humboldt somewhere informs us that the plates were destroyed by order of the Spanish Government, and that but very few copies got out. He says, that he himself was fortunate enough to secure a copy for himself and Bonpland in 1799, before their departure on their great American travels, for which he paid 15 Napoleons. Copies are very seldom found in catalogues, or sold by auction."

11735 SOCIETY ATLAS. GENERAL ATLAS published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, compiled from the latest and most authentic sources, with the plans of the Cities, the Star-Maps, and the INDEX, 2 vols. sq. folio, 218 maps, coloured, hf. morocco, 36s

1830-44

An Atlas of the highest excellence, and the best suited for frequent reference. It is complete in every respect; ancient as well as modern geography being thoroughly delineated, and all so clearly and largely executed that it is a gratification rather than a trouble to examine the maps. They are very numerous; in all the important parts, parcel-maps being given along with the general view, so as to avoid any chance of obscurity or confusion. The addition of Star-maps and Plans of Cities is another admirable ingredient to fill up the measure of completeness which characterises the "Society Atlas."

11736 ROYAL ILLUSTRATED ATLAS of modern Geography, with introductory notice by Shaw, roy. folio, 76 coloured map, whole russia neat, £2. 8s Edinburgh, no date

An exellent Atlas, carefully corrected down to about 1861, but there is no date to the book,- -a customary trick with some publishers.

11737 SMITH (Dr. Wm.) Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical, Maps drawn by C. MÜLLER, edited by Smith and Grove, impl. folio, 43 maps, coloured (pub. £6. 6s) hf. morocco, gilt edges, £4. 48

Colombia -see in alphabet.

1874

11738 Paraguay. JOURDAN, Atlas Historico da Guerra do Paraguay
organisado sobre trabalhos da Commissão de Engenheiros, impl.
folio, title-page containing 28 portraits, and 32 leaves containing
16 large maps, with the historical text engraved in the margins,
368
Rio de Janeiro, 1871

The author was engaged in the war as Lieutenant of Engineers,
Peru-see PAZ SOLDAN.
Venezuela-see CODAZZI.

11739 AUDUBON'S (J.) BIRDS OF AMERICA, 4 vols. elephant folio, THE GENUINE ORIGINAL EDITION, consisting of 435 beautifully COLOURED plates, each bird being represented the full size of life, with its prey, and the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs of America, an original subscriber's copy in hf. morocco gilt

Collation: Titles to each volume, 4 leaves: Plates 1 to 435.

1826-38 Plate 254

is erroneously numbered 256, and plate 260 is numbered 240; Nos. 256 and 240 being repeated. AUDUBON'S ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY; or, an Account of the Birds of the United States of America, woodcuts, 5 vols. impl. Edin. 1831-39 8vo. hf. calf gilt

-together 4 vols. elephant folio, and 5 vols. impl. 8vo. £180. 11740 AYETA (FRANCISCO, Custodio de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio de Mexico) ULTIMO RECURSO DE DA PROVINCIA DE SAN JOSEPH DE YUCATAN: destierro de Tinieblas, en que ha estado sepultada sú Inocencia, y confundidos sus Meritos, folio, half calf, EXTREMELY RARE, £8.

[Mexico] no Printer's name, date, or place (cir. 1690) This author's works are EXTREMELY RARE, as in consequence of the bitter feelings excited in the breasts of the Archbishop Palafox and the Viceroy, because of what the former terms their falsehoods and scandal, they were destroyed by the authorities. The book contains a vast amount of information respecting the early Missions in America in general, and amongst the Indians in Spanish America in particular.

11741 [BACHE (Lieut. R., U.S)] Notes on Colombia, 1822-23, with an itinerary from Caracas to Bogotá, 8vo. map, hf. morocco, 25s

Philadelphia, 1827 11742 BANCROFT's History of the United States, from the discovery of the American Continent, Vols. I to VII, 8vo. cloth, £2. 168 London and Boston, 1852-72 11743 BARALT (R. M.) y R. DIAZ, Historia Antigua y moderna de Venezuela, desde el descubrimiento hasta 1837, 3 vols. Svo. numerous portraits, calf neat, £2. 10s 11744 BARCIA, HISTORIADORES PRIMITIVOS de las Indias Occidentales, que juntò, traduxò en parte, y sacò a luz, ilustrados con eruditas Notas, y copiosos Indices, D. Andres Gonzalez de Barcia, 3 vols. sm. folio, calf neat, £15. Madrid, 1736-49

Paris, 1841

This valuable collection is very rare, because of the accidental destruction by fire of a great number of copies. Moreover, very few copies have the entire sixteen parts that were published. The present one has all. Amongst the rarest of them are those containing the CARTAS of CORTES and the examen of the Narration of CABEZA DE BACA, in the first volume. 11745 BARLEI Rerum per octennium in BRASILIA et alibi gestarum. narratio, thick 12mo. frontispiece, portrait, map, and plates, vellum, 108

Clivis, 1660

It is almost the only, and is the best, authority upon the events of the period it comprises. A Vocabulary of the Chilene language is given on pp. 474-491.

11746 BARROS ARANA, Compendio de Historia de America, 2 vols. in 1, stout 8vo. 947 pp. hf. bd. 368 Santiago, 1865 11747 BARTLETT'S (J. R.) Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, 2 vols. 8vo. plates and cuts, cloth, 368 New York, 1853 Memoirs of Rhode Island Officers engaged in the service of their country during the great Rebellion of the South, 4to. 35 beautifully engraved portraits and another plute, bds. 248 Providence, 1867

11748

11749 BARTRAM and STORK. Description of East Florida (by Stork), with a Journal kept by John Bartram, botanist for the Floridas, with a journey from St. Augustine up the River of St. John's, 4to. 3 maps, hf. bd. 20s 1769

11750 BEECHEY's Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, in H.M.S. Blossom, 2 vols. 4to. maps and plates, hf. calf neat, 128 6d

11750*

1831

the same, 2 vols. 8vo. maps and plates, cloth, 7s 6d 1831 11751 BECKMANN (Joh.) Litteratur der älteren Reisebeschreibungen, 2 vols. in 4, 8vo. hf. calf, 6s Göttingen, 1807-21 BEHAIM'S Globe-see Ghillany 11752 BELCHER'S (Sir E.) Voyage round the World, performed in H.M.S. Sulphur, 1836-42, 2 vols. 8vo. plates and woodcuts, cloth,

12s

1843

11753 BELLIN, Description géographique des Iles Antilles possedées par les Anglois, sçavoir la Jamaique, la Barbade, Antigue, Montserrat, S. Christophe, Nieves, l'Anguille, et les Vierges, Isles Lucayes, et Bermudes, 4to. numerous maps, and several views in headpieces engraved by Choffard, red morocco extra, gilt edges, with a Ducal Coat of Arms and the initial L on the sides, £5. 58 Paris, 1758

11754 BENZONI (Girolamo) La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, laqual tratta dell' Isole & Mari nuovamente ritrovati, & delle nuove Citta da lui proprio vedute, per acqua & per terra in quattordeci anni, 12mo. First Edition, numerous curious woodcuts which were afterwards copied by De Bry, fine copy in smooth morocco extra, gilt edges, £5. 58 Venetia, 1565 nuovamente ristampata con la giunta d'alcune cose notabile dell' Isole di Canaria, 12mo. with the same woodcuts as in the edition of 1565, veau fauve, gilt edges, £3. 12s

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Venetia, 1572

A work of great intrinsic value, as being the fruit of fourteen years' wanderings in the New World, and as containing illustrations of the life of the natives, engraved from the author's own drawings. The first edition is dedicated to Pope Pius IV, the second to the Senator Scipione Simoneta. The additional matter in the latter is a Breve Discorso on the Canary Islands, of eight pages.

11756 BENZONIS (H.) Novæ Novi Orbis Historiæ; res ab Hispanis in Indiâ Occidentali gestae, Lat. operâ Calvetonis, 12mo. vellum, fine copy, 218

Geneva, 1578

First edition in Latin; with additional matter beyond the Italian original. A MS. note on fly-leaf describes Chauveton as "hæreticus, mendax, calumniator, et . . . prædicator Calvinista." This is a powerful climax. To Benzoni's work the translator added at the end an account of the disastrous French expedition to Florida.

11757 BERGOMENSIS (Jacobi Philippi) Novissime Hystoriarum omnium repercussiones, que Supplementum Supplementi Cronicarum nuncupantur, . usque in annum 1502, folio, two beautiful woodcut pages representing the Creation, etc. the first two leaves insignificantly wormed and the last leaf mended, bd. £1. Venetiis, Albertinus de Lissona, 1503 The author's last edition, and the first which contains his account of the discoveries of Columbus-one of the earliest, fullest, and most curious

notices of the New World which followed the publication of the Navigator's story. This work is not mentioned by Rich and Ternaux, who pass from the letters of Columbus (1493-4) to the narrative of Vespucci (1504). Mr. Harrisse quotes no copy of it in the Bibl. Amer. Vetust., in which he only describes the edition of 1506, with a mere reference to that of 1503. A description of the latter will only be found in his Addenda, where he cites a copy existing in a New York library.

11758 BETANCUR. Regla y Constituciones de la Sagrada Religion Bethlemitica, fundada en las Indias Occidentales por Pedro de S. Joseph BETANCUR, sm. 4to. vellum, 78 6d

Mexico, 1751 essay in illustration of the Hereford Mappa Mundi, 8vo. photographic facsimiles, hf. bd. 208

11759 BEVAN and PHILLOTT, Medieval Geography, an

1873

11760 (BEVERLEY'S) HISTORY of VIRGINIA, in 4 parts, viz.—History of Virginia in the year 1706; II, The Natural Productions; III, The Native Indians, their Religions, Laws and Customs; IV, The Present State of the Country; in 1 vol. sm. 4to. 15 plates including frontispiece, very fine copy, TOTALLY UNCUT, £10. 10s

1722

"Robert Beverley, d. 1716, a native of Virginia, was clerk of the Council about 1697, when Andros was governor."-Allibone.

11761 BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA, a chronological Catalogue of the most curious books, pamphlets, papers, etc. upon America, from the earliest period, in print and MS. 4to. bds. 188

1789

This work, although a mean performance by the side of Bishop Kennett's (see post KENNETT), must be found on the shelves of bibliography in any good American library.

11762 (BIDDLE'S) Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a review of the history of maritime discovery, illustrated by documents from the Rolls, now first published, 8vo. bds. 15s Philadelphia, 1831 the same, 8vo. cloth, 7s 6d the same, 8vo. hf. calf, 98

London, 1831 1832

11763 11764 11765 BIET (Antoine) Voyage de la France Equinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne entrepris par les François, 1652, sm. 4to. old calf gilt, with the book-plate of the Duchesse de Berry, £2. 128 6ď

Paris, 1664

This scarce volume contains a "Petit Dictionnaire de la Langue des Sauvages Galibis," or the Caribi Language.

11766 BISSELII Argonautica Americana, historia Petri de Victoria ac sociorum, 16mo. engraved title and map of the two Americas, fine copy in old red MOROCCO extra, 20s Monachii, 1647

All the bibliographers (except one) state, after Rich, that this is "a translation of the narrative of Pedro Gouvea de Victoria, to which Bissel has appended a learned geographical commentary." It is nothing of the kind: Bissel read the original Spanish opuscule of the navigator (who turned Jesuit at Lima in 1610), and fancied it was too brief, jejune, and unadorned for the subject. He therefore re-wrote the book, making Victoria deliver a long discourse in high-flown, semi-poetical Latin, enormously amplified with details from his own imagination and reading. It is nevertheless the only form in which we can have access to the story of Gouvea.

11767 [BLOME (Richard)] the Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America, viz. Jamaica, Barbados ... New Jersey, Pensilvania. . . Carolina, Virginia, New England

New York, small 8vo. fine portrait of James II engraved by Van Hove, seven maps by Morden, and a plate of Dials, fine copy in old calf, £2. 28

1687

The earlier editions do not contain all the Maps, notably not that of New England, in which the positions and names of many towns will be found registered which might vainly be sought for in anterior publications. 11768 BOLIVIAN REPUBLIC: Mensajes del Presidente de Bolivia las Cámaras Constitucionales para los años 1832-1838 (without 1836)-Memoria sobre el Estado de la Hacienda de la Republica Boliviana en 1833, por el Ministro de Estado Doctor José de Lara-El Iris de la Paz (periodico) 5 numeros, Agosto y Setiembre, 1838-in all 12 pieces, a 4to. parcel, 15s Paz de Ayacucho, 1832-8

11769 BOSQUEJO ligerisimo de la REVOLUCION de MÉGICO, desde el Grito de Iguala, hasta la Proclamacion Imperial de Iturbide, por un verdadero Americano, 16mo. calf, 158

By a Mexican republican refugee, who, in invokes a fiery curse upon the head of Yturbide. reading.

Philadelphia, 1822 parting from his reader, The book is well worth

11770 BOYER-PEYRELEAU, les Antilles Françaises, particulièrement la Guadeloupe, depuis leur découverte jusqu'à 1823, 3 vols. 8vo. map, half morocco, 10s

Paris, 1823 11771 BOTURINI BENADUCI (Lorenzo) Idea de una nueva Historia General de la AMERICA Septentrional, fundada sobre Figuras, Symbolos, Geroglificos y Manuscritos de Autores Indios, ultimamente descubiertos, con el Museo-Catalogo del Museo historico Indiano de Benaduci-2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to with frontispiece containing portrait, fine copy in vellum, rare, £2. 10s Madrid, Zuñiga, 1746

Written during an eight years' residence in Mexico, and as the result of a considerable acquaintance with the manners and customs of the Indians; ancient manuscripts and pictures preserved in the Monasteries, etc. It contains much important information not before published. The Catalogue occupies 96 pp. separately numbered, at the end of the book, and is not found in all copies. There has been no worthier workman in the field of Mexican Antiquities than Boturini: even Lord Kingsborough's name can scarcely be placed so high. Without the indefatigable and wisely-directed researches of the Hispano-Italian, a great portion of the native contributions to Mexican history would certainly have perished. Yet, instead of loading him with rewards, the Spanish Government robbed him of his MSS. under pretence that his intimacy with the Indians covered disloyalty. His professed intention was to gather the preuves of the Guadalupe Virgin's miraculous history, but it is to be hoped that this was pious hypocrisy in so deserving a student. 11772 BOZMAN, History of Maryland during the first three years after its settlement, with a copious introduction, 8vo. original edition, portrait of the first Earl of Baltimore, calf, 30s Baltimore, 1811 11773 BRACKENRIDGE (H. M.) Views of Louisiana, together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri, 1811, 8vo. bound, 78 6d Pittsburgh, 1814

A work of interest, including many important details concerning the various nations and languages around the Mississippi.

11774 BRADFORD (Alden) History of Massachusetts for two hundred years, 1620-1820, 8vo. portraits, cloth 68

Boston, 1835

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