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1726. 8 THE VOYAGES AND TRAVELS of Nathaniel Uring, with new draughts of the Bay of Honduras and the Caribbee Islands.

8vo.

Republished in 1749.

London.

9 RELACION HISTORIAL de las missiones de los Indios, que llaman
Chiquitos, que estan à cargo de los padres de la compañia de
Jesus de la provincia del Paraguay. Escrita por el padre
Juan Patricio Fernandez de la misma compañia. Sacada à
luz por el Padre Geronimo Herran, &c.
Small 4to.

Published in Latin at Vienna in 1733.

Madrid.

10 HISTORIA GENERAL de los hechos de los Castellaños en las islas i tierra firme del mar oceano.

Escrita por Antonio de Herrera, coronista mayor de S. M. de las Indias y su coronista de Castilla.

Folio, 5 vols.

Madrid.

This work was printed between the years 1726 and 1730, the volumes bearing dates of all those years. It is merely a reprint of the original edition of 1601-1615, with the addition of a very copious index, compiled under the direction of Barcia, but without a continuation, as erroneously stated by Meusel. An edition was printed at Antwerp in 1728, with very indifferent and very useless plates, and the text abounding in typographical errors. It was published in French, at Paris, in 1659-71, and in English in 1725--6. For a very judicious criticism of this work of Herrera's, see Irving's Columbus, iv. p. 387.

11 VICTIMA REAL LEGAL, discurso unico juridico-historico-politico, sobre que las vacantes mayores de las Indias occidentales pertenecen à la corona de Castilla, y Leon con pleno y absoluto dominio. Por D. Antonio Joseph Alvarez de Abreu, Madrid.

&c.

Folio.

In consequence of this vindication of the Royal right to the revenues
accruing from vacancies in the churches in America, the author had a
pension of a thousand ducats, and the title of Marquis de la Regalia
bestowed upon him by Philip V.

12 MEMORIAL informativo del consulado de la Ciudad de los
Reyes y la junta general del comercio de las provincias del
Peru, sobre diferentes puntos tocantes al estado de la real
hazienda y del comercio, &c. Por D. Dionysio de Alsedo y
Herrera.
(Lima?)

Folio, pp. 148.

13 JUSTIFICACION de los Assientos de Averia, Almojarifazgos y 1726. alcavalas, en satisfacion de las respuestas de los fiscales del consejo real de las Indias y de la audiencia de Lima, &c.

Folio, pp. 86.

MDCCXXVII.

(Lima?)

1 A DESCRIPTION of the English province of Carolana, &c. (see 1722.) By Daniel Coxe, Esq.

8vo. map, pp. 56, and 122.

Merely a new title to the edition of 1722.

London.

2 INDIAN CONVERTS; or some account of the lives and dying speeches of a considerable number of the christianized Indians of Martha's vineyard, in New-England. By Experience Mayhew, M.A., preacher of the Gospel to the Indians of that island.

8vo. pp. 310.

London.

An account of the lives of thirty Indian ministers, and about eighty Indian
men, women, and youth, worthy of remembrance on account of their piety.
At the end is the following, with a separate title-page:
Some account of those English ministers who have successively presided
over the work of gospelizing the Indians on Martha's vineyard, and the
adjacent islands. By another hand, (the Rev. Thomas Prince.)

3 MISCELLANIA CURIOSA: Containing a collection of curious tra-
vels, voyages, and natural histories of countries, as they have
been delivered in to the Royal Society. Vol. III. The second
edition. Revised and corrected by W. Derham, F.R.S.
8vo. 3 vols.

London.
The two first volumes of this collection contain philosophical papers. The
third volume is devoted to voyages and travels, and contains, among other
things, five letters "from Mr. John Clayton, rector of Crofton, at Wakefield
in Yorkshire, to the Royal Society, May 12, 1688, giving an account of
several observables in Virginia," &c. occupying 75 pages.

4 *PHENOMENA QUÆDAM APOCALYPTICA ad aspectum Novi Orbis configurata, or some few lines towards a description of the New Heaven, as it makes to those who stand upon the New Earth. By Samuel Sewall, A.M., and sometime Fellow of Harvard College, at Cambridge, in New-England. The second edition. Boston.

Quarto, pp. 64.

Mr. Sewall inclines to the opinion that the Indians are descendants of the
Israelites; and he adopts, after the learned Mr. Nicholas Fuller, the name
of Columbing for the continent of America. N. A. R. xi. p. 107.

1727. 5 *THE HISTORY of the five Indian nations depending on the province of New York. By Cadwallader Colden. New York.

This history was written on occasion of a dispute which happened at this time, between the government of New York and some merchants. It was reprinted with the second part, and large additions in 1747.

6 THE ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, passed in the colony of Virginia, from 1662 to 1715. Vol. I. London.

Folio.

This volume contains all the acts down to 1715, and is probably called vol. i. in reference to those that might be subsequently passed and printed. The laws of Virginia were printed in London, without date, probably before 1696, as an act passed in that year is mentioned by Trott as not contained in it.

MDCCXXVIII.

1 SOME OBSERVATIONS on the Assiento trade, as it has been exercised by the South Sea company; proving the damage which will accrue thereby to the British commerce and plantations in America, and particularly to Jamaica. To which is annexed, a sketch of the advantages of that island to Great Britain, by its annual produce, and by its situation for trade or war. By a person who resided several years at Jamaica. 8vo. pp. 38.

London.

2 A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, in the year 1719. By Captain William Betagh.

8vo. pp. 38.

The author was captain of marines with Shelvocke, (see 1726), and wrote this work in consequence of finding himself roughly treated in Shelvocke's narrative.

3 VOYAGES DU BARON DE LAHONTAN dans l'Amerique septentrionale, &c. (as in No. 7, 1703.) Seconde edition, revuë, corrigée et augmentée.

12mo. 3 vols., plates.

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Amsterdum.

The third, or supplementary volume has the following title:
SUITE DU VOYAGE DE L'AMERIQUE, ou dialogues de Monsieur
le Baron de Lahontan et d'un sauvage de l'Amerique. Con-
tenant une description exacte des moeurs et des coutumes de
ces peuples sauvages. Avec les voyages du même en Portugal,
&c.

Amsterdam.

4 VOYAGE DE LA LOUSIANE fait par ordre du roy en 1720: dans 1728. lequel sont traitées diverses matieres de physique, astronomie, geographie, et marine, &c. Par le P. Laval, de la compagnie de Jesus.

Quarto.

Paris.

This work is principally occupied with mathematical and astronomical details.

MDCCXXIX.

1 THE ENGLISH EMPIRE in America, or a view of the dominions of the crown of England in the West Indies, &c. By Robert Burton. The seventh edition.

12mo.

First printed in 1685.

Dublin.

2 ORIGEN DE LOS INDIOS del Nuevo Mundo é Indias occidentales averiguado con discurso de opiniones por el P. Gregorio Garcia. Segunda impresion enmendada y añadida de algunas opiniones o cosas notables, en mayor prueva de lo que contiene, con tres tablas muy puntuales de los capitulos, de las materias, y autores, que las tratan. Madrid.

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Folio, pp. 336, and Index of 80 pages.

This treatise on the origin of the Americans, first printed in 1607 at Valen-
cia, is a work of vast erudition, but almost totally useless, as it gives
little or no assistance in discovering truth; the foundation of the opinions
which the author maintains are for the most part weak conjectures,
founded on the resemblance between some of the customs and words of

the Americans and those of other nations. Clavigero. This edition was
edited by Barcia, and some copies were printed on large paper.

3 THE HISTORY OF AMERICA in the Turkish language; with four
maps and thirteen plates representing men, animals, and plants.
Quarto.
Constantinople.

Printed in the year of the Hegira 1142. A copy is in the British Museum.

MDCCXXX.

1 AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the incorporated society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. Containing their foundation, proceedings, and the success of their missionaries. in the British colonies, to the year 1728. By David Humphreys, D.D., secretary to the honourable society. London. 8vo. pp. 356.

This society was incorporated in 1701. The whole of this volume relates

to the proceedings of the missionaries in different parts of North America,

1730.

together with the state of religion there: and is illustrated with two maps, one of Carolina, the other of New England, &c. by Herman Moll. 2 HISTOIRE DE L'ISLE ESPAGNOLE, ou de S. Domingue. Ecrite particulierement sur des memoires manuscrit du P. Jean Baptiste le Pers, Jesuite, Missionnaire à Saint Domingue et sur les pieces originales, qui se conservent au depot de la Marine. Par le P. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix,

de la compagnie de Jesus. Quarto, 2 vols.

Paris.

Reprinted at Amsterdam in 1733, in 4 vols. 12mo. According to the judgment of Bayle, this is the best of the works of Charlevoix. The worthy father says, however, that if he had listened to the different critics who passed judgment on his work, he should have been in the case of the man in the fable, who, between his two wives, was left without any hair on his head.

Lisboa.

3 HISTORIA DA AMERICA PORTUGUEZA, desde o anno de mil e
quinhentos de seu descobrimento, até o de mil e setecentos
e vinte e quatro. Composta por Sebastiao da Rocha Pitta.
Folio, pp. 716.
A very rare book.
"The only general history of Brazil; a meagre and in-
accurate work, which has been accounted valuable, merely because there
was no other." Southey, 1810.-"Rocha Pitta, an intelligent and well-
informed Brasilian, compiled a history of Brasil, from the Chronicles of
the Jesuits and other authorities, and some valuable local knowledge of
his own.
This work is extremely copious in the details of its foundation
as a colony, its successive governors, its churches, monasteries, and con-
vents; but, in its natural history, productions, commerce, and, in short,
every point of useful information, is brief, cramped, and deficient; it is
written also in the most bombastic and enthusiastic style: yet the Portu-
guese government in a few years publicly prohibited its being read under
the severest penalties, and it is now only to be met with (carefully se-
cluded) in the cabinets of the curious. Lindley, 1805.

MDCCXXXI.

1 THE IMPORTANCE of the British plantations in America to this kingdom; with the state of their trade, and methods for improving it; as also a description of the several colonies there. 8vo. pp. 114. London.

2 CONSIDERATIONS on the dispute now depending before the Hon. House of Commons, between the British southern and northern plantations in America.

London.

Gent.'s Mag. 1731.

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