1751.

In a London catalogue this work is stated to be very rare, from having been suppressed. This is probably a mistake, as the same work is reprinted with the Journal du Voyage. It was printed separately merely for private distribution, and hence its rarity.

9 JOURNAL DU VOYAGE fait par ordre du Roi, à l'Equateur, servant d'introduction historique à la mesure des trois premiers degrés du Meridien. Par M. de la Condamine.

Quarto. pp. 280, plates 5.

Paris.

10. MESURE DES TROIS PREMIERS DEGRÉS du meridien dans l'hemisphere Austral, tirées des observations de MTM de l'academie Royale des sciences, envoyés par le Roi sous l'Equateur. Par M. de la Condamine.

Quarto, pp. 265, plates 3.

Paris.

11 SUPPLEMENT AU JOURNAL HISTORIQUE du voyage à l'Equateur, et au livre de la mesure des trois premiers degrés du Meridien. Pour servir de reponse à quelques objections. Par M. de la Condamine.

Quarto.

Paris.

This supplement was printed in 1752, and a second part of it in 1754: intended principally to answer the objections which had been made by M. Bouguer, in his Justification, 1752.

12 RECUEIL DES MEMOIRES qui ont été publies avec les cartes hydrographiques, que l'on a dressées au dépôt des cartes et plans de la marine, pour le service des vaisseaux du Roi par ordre du ministere, depuis l'année 1737 jusqu'en 1751. Par le Sieur Bellin, ingenieur ordinaire de la marine. (Paris.) Quarto.

MDCCLII.

1 AN ACCOUNT of six years' residence in Hudson's Bay, from 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747. By Joseph Robson, late surveyor and supervisor of the buildings to the Hudson's Bay Company. Containing a variety of facts, observations, and discoveries, tending to shew, &c. London.

8vo. 2 maps and a plan.

The author relates his facts with an air of honesty and seeming regard to truth; and we are credibly assured that his account is as honest and just as it appears to be." M.R. vi. p. 75.

2 THE IMPORTANCE of gaining and preserving the friendship of the Indians of the Six Nations to the British interest consider'd. 8vo. pp. 46.

London.

UNIV. OF

"The author of this pamphlet strongly recommends a confederacy among 1752. the American colonies, like that of the United provinces, for their mutual support, and for contributing towards the expenses of building forts, and cultivating the friendship of the Six Nations; since it is absolutely true, that the preservation of the whole continent depends upon a proper management of those Indians." Gent.'s Mag. xxii. p. 46. This tract was apparently first printed in Philadelphia.

3 THE TRIAL of John Peter Zenger, of New York, printer; who was tried and acquitted for printing and publishing a libel against the government; with the pleadings and arguments on both sides.

8vo. pp. 76.

London.

A very interesting trial, in which the counsel for the defendant was Andrew Hamilton, esq. a barrister of Philadelphia, who, for the able defence he made upon the occasion, was rewarded by order of the common council of New York with the freedom of the city in a splendid gold box. This trial took place in 1735.

4 *AN EPISTLE to Arthur Dobbs, esq. from a clergyman in Ame

rica.

8vo.

Gent.'s Mag. 1752.

London.

5 *LAWS OF NEW YORK, from the year 1691 to 1751 inclusive. Folio.

In the British Museum.

New York.

6 HISTOIRE DU TREMBLEMENT DE terre de Lima et Callao, avec
la description du Perou, &c.
12mo. pp. 445, and 6 plates.

Traduite de l'Anglois.

A translation of No. 6 of 1748.

Paris.

7 VOYAGE HISTORIQUE de l'Amerique meridionale fait par ordre du Roi d'Espagne par Don George Juan et par Don Antoine de Ulloa; ouvrage orné des figures, plans et cartes necessaires. Et qui contient une histoire des Incas du Perou, et les observations astronomiques et physiques, faites pour determiner la figure et la grandeur de la terre. Amsterdam.

Quarto, 2 vols. 48 plates.

The original edition in Spanish was printed in 1748. Some copies of this French translation have the imprint of Paris on the title-page, which has given rise to the idea that an edition was printed in Paris; and La Richarderie even says that the Amsterdam edition is most esteemed. I have now both before me, and I can safely assert that they are one and the same edition. The translator was M. de Mauvillon.

102

Bibliotheca Americana Nova.

1752, 8 ALLGEMEINE Geschichte der Länder und Völker von America. Nebst einer vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens, &c. Quarto, 2 vols. 58 plates.

Halle.

This Universal history of the country and people of America was compiled
or translated, from various authors, by Jo. Fred. Schroeter. The intro-
ductory discourses only were written by Baumgartens. Meusel.
MDCCLIII.

1 *HISTORICAL MEMOIRS relating to the Housatunnuk Indians, or
an account of the methods used for the propagation of the
gospel among the heathenish tribe, under the ministry of John
Sergeant, &c. By Samuel Hopkins.
Boston, N.E.

Quarto.

Allen's Biog. Dict.

2 *REMARKS in support of the new chart of North and South
America. By J. Green.

The same person published at the same time a chart of North and South
America, including the Atlantic. Both are in the British Museum.

3 *A GENUINE LETTER from Mr. John Brainard, missionary from
the Scotch society to the North American Indians. London.
8vo.

4 THE HISTORY of the first discovery and settlement of Virginia.
By Wm. Stith, A.M.
London.

8vo.

Originally printed at Williamsburg, Va. in 1747.
5 A VOYAGE TO PERU, performed by the (ship) Conde of St. Malo,
in the years 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748, and 1749. Written by
the chaplain. To which is added, an appendix, containing
the present state of the Spanish affairs in America, in respect
to mines, trade, and discoveries.
London.
12mo.

The Monthly Review (vol. ix. p. 294,) speaks well of this work, and says
of its author, that his "observations and descriptions are sensible, perti-
nent, and entertaining. He seems to have little of the priest, and nothing
of the bigot about him; yet his sentiments are such as become the good
christian, and the gentleman." No mention is made in the work of the
original author, who it appears was the Abbé Court de la Blanchardiere,
and who published the account of his voyage at Paris in 1751.

6 *OBSERVATIONS CRITIQUES Sur les nouvelles decouvertes de
l'amiral de la Fuente, présentées à l'academie royale des
sciences, par M. Robert de Vaugondy.

Paris.

7 *OBJETS À CONSIDERER sur un memoire qu'il avoit appris qu'on 1753. se proposoit de présenter à l'académie contre la relation de l'amiral de Fonte. Par M. Philippe Buache.

12mo.

Paris.

8 NOUVELLES CARTES des decouvertes de l'amiral de Fonte et autres navigateurs Espagnols, Portugais, Anglois, Hollandois, François, et Russes, dans les mers septentrionales, avec leur explication. Par M. de l'Isle.

Quarto, pp. 60, and 4 maps.

Paris.

An abridgment, by Arthur Dobbs, of this memoir, is printed with the Letter from a Russian Sea Officer, 1754.

9 LETTRE D'UN OFFICIER de la marine Russe à un Seigneur de la Cour de Russie, concernant la carte des découvertes, au Nord de la Mer du Sud, et le mémoire qui y sert d'explication. 8vo. Paris.

Translated into English in the following year.

10 *CONSIDERATIONS GEOGRAPHIQUES et physiques sur les nou-
velles découvertes au Nord de la grande Mer, appellée vul-
gairement la Mer du Sud; avec des cartes, qui y sont relatives,
&c. Par M. Philippe Buache.
Quarto.

Paris.

11 *NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS concernant les derniéres connoissances venues de Russie, qui confirment les vuës, indiquées dans les considerations geographiques, &c. sur le voisinage de l'Amerique et de l'Asie, séparées uniquement par un long détroit, et sur la grande Presqu' Ile supposée; présentée à l'academie des sciences. Par Philippe Buache.

12mo.

Paris.

12 VOYAGE fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amerique septentrionale, pour rectifier les cartes des côtes de l'Acadie, de l'Isle Royale, et de l'Isle de Terre Neuve; et pour en fixer les principaux points par des observations astronomiques. Par M. de Chabert. Paris.

Quarto, pp. 288. Maps, &c. 7.

M. Chabert's work is highly spoken of by the commission appointed by
the French Academy of Sciences to examine it, and is recommended as a
model to future navigators. It is divided into two parts, the first con-
taining an account of the author's voyage from Brest to Louisbourg, and
of his four expeditions to the neighbouring coasts and islands; the se-

1753.

cond part contains the astronomical observations at large. It may be important as a scientific work, but can by no means be recommended to those who read for amusement.

13 MEMOIRES HISTORIQUES sur la Louisiane, contenant ce qui y est arrivé de plus memorable depuis l'année 1687 jusqu'à présent; avec l'etablissement de la colonie Françoise dans cette province de l'Amerique Septentrionale, sous la direction de la compagnie des Indes; le climat, la nature, et les productions de ce pays, l'origine et la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent, leurs mœurs et leurs coûtumes, &c. Composés sur les memoires de M. Dumont, par M. L. L. M. Ouvrage enrichi de cartes et de figures.

12mo. 2 vols in 1.

Paris.

The editor of this work was M. l'Abbé Le Mascrier. M. Dumont, an officer in the service of France, was employed twenty-five years in Louisiana. The first part contains the history of its natural productions, and of the manners and customs of the Indians: the second part contains an historical narrative, from the death of La Sale, in 1687, to 1740.

14 COPIA DE LA RELACION, y diario critico nautico de el viage que desde la ciudad de Cadiz à la de Cartagena de Indias, hizo con sus Compañeros el R. P. M. F. Francisco de Soto y Marne, chronista gen de la religion de San Francisco, &c. Sacase à luz a expensas de D. Fran. Ant. Garcia Vicente. 4to. pp. 40 and 8.

Madrid. 15 ARTE NOVISSIMA DE LENGUA MEXICANA que dictó Don Carlos de Tapia Zenteno, &c. cathedratico proprietario de dicha lengua en la real universidad de esta Corte, &c. Quarto.

Mexico.

From the dedication to this work, it appears that this professorship of the
Mexican language was first established in the university of Mexico by
order of the archbishop, D. Manuel Rubio Salinas, not long before the book
was published.

16 RESA TIL NORRA AMERICA pa Kongl. Swenska Vetenskaps
Academiens befallning och publici kestnad förrättad. Peter
Kalm.
Stockholm.

8vo. Vol. 1. wood-cuts.

The original Swedish edition of Kalm's travels, the second volume of which was printed in 1756, and the third in 1761. It was translated into German by Jo. Philippo and Jo. Andrea Murray, and printed at Goettingen in 1754, 1757, and 1764. An English translation was printed in 1770. Meusel.