3 *OBSERVATIONS on the case of the northern colonies. 8vo. In the British Museum. London. 4 *THE IMPORTANCE of the Sugar Colonies to Great Britain stated. 8vo. Gent.'s Mag. 1731. London. 5 THE NATURAL HISTORY of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama islands, with figures coloured after the life. By Mark Catesby. Folio, 2 vols. 220 plates. London. This important work was commenced in this year, and continued in numbers or parts, to the year 1748, when the appendix, completing the work, was published. A second edition was published in 1754, and a third in 1771. 6 TRATADO dos descobrimentos antigos è modernos feitos até a era de 1550. Com os nomes particulares das pessoas que os fizerao: e em que tempos, e as suas alturas e dos desvairados caminhos por onde a pimienta e especiaria veyo da India as nossas partes: obra certo muy notavel, e copiosa. Composta pelo famoso Antonio Galvao. Folio, pp. 116. Lisboa. The first edition of this work, which was printed in 1563, is among the rarest of rare books, nor is this second edition easily to be met with. Hakluyt's translation, printed in 1601, is also a rare book, but is reprinted in the additions to the edition of his voyages, published by Mr. Evans in 1809. MDCCXXXII. 1 A LETTER FROM SOUTH CAROLINA; giving an account of the soil, air, product, trade, government, laws, religion, people, military strength, &c. of that province; together with the manner and necessary charges of settling a plantation there, and the annual profit it will produce. Written by a Swiss gentleman to his friend at Bern. The second edition. 8vo. pp. 63. First printed in 1710. London. 2 A NEW AND ACCURATE ACCOUNT of the provinces of South Carolina and Georgia: with many curious and useful observations on the trade, navigation, and plantations of Great Britain, compared with her most powerful maritime neighbours in ancient and modern times. London. 8vo. pp. 76. Some copies have the date of 1733. This appears to be the tract referred to by Nichols, (Lit. Anec. 2, p. 19,) as written by Gov. Oglethorpe. 1731. 1732. In the preface mention is made of "Captain Purry, a Swiss gentleman, Description Abregée de l'etat present de la Caroline Meridionale: par In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1732 is a translation of Mr. Purry's 3 A CONFERENCE between His Exc. Jonathan Belcher, esq. cap- London. 4 A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, Some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first printed in English. In six volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning. Illustrated with a great number of maps and cuts, curiously enLondon. graven. Folio, 6 vols. The first four volumes were printed in 1704. Many of the articles in this collection are interesting, and are not to be found elsewhere in the English language. To make the collection complete, the Osborne, or Oxford collection, printed in 1745, should be added to it. The following are the articles contained in the six volumes: VOL. I.-Navarrete's account of China, from the Spanish edition, printed at Madrid in 1676. Baumgarten's travels through Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria From the Latin. Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chili in 1642 and 1643. From the Dutch. Frankfort, 1649. Account of Formosa and Japan. From the Dutch. Capt. John Monck's voyage in 1619 and 1620, to Hudson's Straits, to discover a passage betwixt Greenland and America, to the West Indies. From the Dutch. Frankfort, 1650. Beauplan's description of Ukraine. From the French. Italian voyages to Congo in 1666, 1667, and 1682. From the Italian. VOL. II.-Nieuhoff's voyages and travels into Brasil and the East Indies. 1732. From the Dutch. Capt. John Smith's true travels and adventures into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. First printed in 1630. The Journal of seven sailors who wintered in Greenland, and of seven others who wintered in Spitzbergen. From the Dutch. La Peyrere's accounts of Iceland and Greenland. From the French. James's strange and dangerous voyage for the discovery of a North-west passage. First printed in 1633. Backhoff and Wagener's travels to China. The life of Columbus, written by his son. printed in 1571. Pyramidographia, &c. by John Greaves. From the Dutch. From the Italian. First Borri's account of Cochin China. From the Italian. VOL. III.-Ovalle's historical relation of Chili. Abridged from the Spanish. Sir William Monson's naval tracts; in six books. Printed from the original manuscript. Baldous's description of Malabar, Coromandel, and Ceylon. From the Dutch. Printed at Amsterdam in 1672. VOL. IV.-Gemelli Careri's voyage round the world. From the Italian, first printed at Naples in 1699. Shipwreck of a Dutch vessel on the Isle of Quelpaert, and description of Corea. From the French. Sepp and Behme's voyage from Spain to Paraquaria. From the Dutch. Printed at Nuremberg in 1697. A Fragment concerning the discovery of the Islands of Salomon. From the Spanish fragment in Thevenot's collection. Techo's history of the provinces of Paraguay, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Chili, &c. From the Latin. Leodii, 1673. Pelham's preservation of eight men in Greenland. Merin's Journey to the mines in Hungary. Ten Rhyne's account of the Cape of Good Hope. Boland's observations on the Streights of Gibraltar. VOL. V.- Barbot's description of North and South Guinea, and Angola: with a new relation of Guiana, and of the rivers of Amazons and Oronoque. Now first printed (1732.) General observations, and an account of the discovery of America, from Herrera's history of the West Indies. Caribbee islands. With a brief description of the Rolamb's journey to Constantinople, from the Swedish. VOL. VI.-Baron's description of Tonqueen. Gemelli Careri's travels through Europe. Colonel Norwood's voyage to Virginia in 1649. Captain Philip's to Cape Mounseradoe, in Africa, and to Barbadoes. 1732. Everard's three years' suffering on the coast of Assada, near Mada gascar. The Mosqueto Indian and his golden river, being a familiar description of the Mosquito kingdom, in America. Written (in or about the year 1699) by M. W. Lord's discovery of two forreigne sects in the East-Indies. May's wonderful preservation of the ship Terra Nova, homeward bound from Virginia. Skippon's Journey through part of the Low Countries, Germany, Italy, 5 *SOME ACCOUNT of the design of the trustees for Georgia. In the British Museum. London. 6 RELATION DU VOYAGE de la Mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily Quarto. Par Paris. Merely a new title-page and a supplement of sixty-three pages added to the edition of 1716. The supplement consists of Frezier's reply to Father Feuillée's criticisms in the preface to his third volume (1725). 7 LIMA FUNDADA, o conquista del Peru. Poema heroyco, en que se declara toda la historia del descubrimiento y sugecion de sus provincias por D. Franco. Pizarro, Marques de los Atabillos, inclyto y primer governador de este vasto imperio. Y se contiene la serie de los reyes, la historia de los virreyes y arzobispos, que ha tenido, y la memoria de los santos y varones ilustres que la ciudad y reyno han producido, Por el Dr. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo Rocha y Benavides, &c. &c. Small 4to. 2 vols. Lima. A heroic poem in octave verse, celebrating the discovery and conquest of 8 REPRESENTACION al Rey Phelipe V. dirigida al mas seguro Hecha Madrid. This writer proposes that the commerce with America should be carried on 1732. MDCCXXXIII. 1 REASONS for establishing the colony of Georgia, with regard to A second edition, printed in the same year, has the author's name, Benjamin 2 ACCOUNT of the designs of the trustees for establishing the Library of Harvard College. 3 THE CASE OF THE PLANTERS of tobacco in Virginia as represented by themselves; signed by the President of the Council and Speaker of the House of Burgesses. To which is added, a vindication of the said representation. London. 8vo. pp. 64. 4 A REPLY to the vindication of the representation of the case of the planters of tobacco in Virginia. In a letter to Sir I. R. from the merchants of London. 8vo. London. 5 A SHORT ACCOUNT of the hurricane that passed through the English Leeward Charibbee Islands, on Saturday, June 30th, 1733. 8vo. London. 6 A MAP OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE in America, with the French This map, engraved by Toms, appears to have been the largest and finest E |