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1733. 7 HISTOIRE DES DECOUVERTES et conquetes des Portuguais dans le Nouveau Monde; avec des figures en taille-douce. Par le R. P. Joseph François Lafitau, de la Cie de Jesus. Paris. Quarto, 2 vols.

The title of this work is not very appropriate, as it relates almost entirely to the discoveries and conquests made by the Portuguese in Asia and Africa. It is, however, an esteemed and well-written work.

8 DESCRIPCION CHOROGRAPHICA del terreno, rios, arboles, y animales de las dilatadissimas provincias del gran Chaco, Gualamba y de los ritos y costumbres de las innumerables naciones barbaras é infieles que la habitan: con una cabal relacion historica de lo que en ellas han obrado para conquistarlas algunos governadores, y ministros reales y los missioneros Jesuitas para reducirlas à la fé del verdadero Dios. Escrita por el P. Pedro Lozano de la comp de Jesus, chronista de su provincia del Tucuman. Cordova.

Small 4to. pp. 485, map.

An interesting account of a country very little known, even a century after it was printed.

9 LA ARAUCANA. Primera, Segunda, y Tercera Parte. De Don Alonso Ercilla, y Zuñiga.

Folio.

Madrid.

See 1578. This edition was edited by Barcia; who has added to it the fourth and fifth parts by Don Diego de Santistevan Osorio. See 1597.

MDCCXXXIV.

1 AN EXTRACT of the journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, who conducted the first transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia: and of the Rev. Mr. Bolzius, one of their ministers. Giving an account of their voyage to, and happy settlement in that province. Published by the direction of the society for promoting christian knowledge. London.

8vo. pp. 72.

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very curious and interesting little work relating to the establishment of Ebenezer by the Saltzburgers.

2 A SERMON preached at St. George's church, Hanover-square, on Sunday, February 17, 1733, to recommend the charity for establishing the new colony of Georgia. By T. Rundle, LL.D. prebendary of Durham.

London.

3 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY passed in the Charibbee Leeward islands, 1734. from 1690 to 1730.

Folio.

London.

4 GLORIAS DEL SEGUNDO SIGLO de la compañia de Jesus, dibuxadas en las vidas, y elogios de algunos de sus varones ilustres en virtud, letras y zelo de las almas, que han florecido desde el año de 1640, primero del segundo siglo, desde la aprobacion de la religion. Escritas por el P. Joseph Cassani, de la misma Compañia, &c.

Folio, 3 vols.

Madrid.

This work is a continuation of that of Father Nieremburg, Ideas de virtud, &c., 1643, and forms the 7th, 8th, and 9th volumes of the collection of lives of the members of the order of the Jesuits celebrated for their piety or their learning; together with an account of their missions to different parts of the world. The work is dedicated to "the Sovereign August Venerable Sacrament, which was worshipped in the Jesuit's College at Alcala, under the form of twenty-four consecrated wafers, which had been miraculously preserved there, from the year 1595, as white and fresh as when they were first consecrated." In the first volume there is an account of the missions to Canada, and lives of the missionaries sent by the Jesuits to different parts of America.

5 *KURZE NACHRICHT Von dem mittägigen Carolina. Ausgesetzt in Carlstown von vier Schweizern. Aus dem Franzosischen. 8vo.

Leipsig.

Meusel iii. 1. 393.

MDCCXXXV.

1 A NEW VOYAGE to Georgia. By a young gentleman: giving an
account of his travels to South Carolina, and part of North
Carolina. To which is added, a curious account of the
Indians. By an honourable person. And a poem to James
Oglethorpe, esq. on his arrival from Georgia.
8vo. pp. 62.

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London.

2 NEW VOYAGES to North America, &c. (See No. 496.) By the Baron Lahontan, &c. at that time in England. The second edition.

London.

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3 A COLLECTION of all the Acts of Assembly now in force in the

colony of Virginia.

Folio.

London.

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1735. 4 A VOYAGE to Guinea, Brasil, and the West Indies, in his Majesty's ships the Swallow and Weymouth, &c. By John Atkins. 8vo.

London. The author was a surgeon, and somewhat of a philosopher. According to Watts, this voyage was first printed in 1723, the year in which the author returned from it. An edition, with the date of 1737, is called the second on the title-page.

5 A JOURNEY OVER LAND from the Gulf of Honduras to the South Sea, performed by John Cockburn and five other Englishmen. To which is added, a briefe discoverye of some things best worth noteing in the travells of Nicholas Withington, a factor in the East-Indias. London.

8vo.

Republished with a different title in 1740. In the French title of this
work, in the Bibliotheque des Voyages, it is stated to be by Nicholas
Withington; and Pinkerton (Collection of Voyages, vol. 17, p. 208,)
re-translates the title, and perpetuates the error. Similar instances are
innumerable in the former work, and are all repeated, with additions, in
the latter.

6 A SHORT ACCOUNT of the first settlement of the provinces of
Virginia, Maryland, New-York, New-Jersey, and Pensylva-
nia, by the English. To which is annexed, a map of Mary-
land, according to the bounds mentioned in the charter, and
also of the adjacent country, anno 1630.
Quarto, pp. 20, and map.

London.

7 *NEW-ENGLAND'S LAMENTATIONS for the decay of godliness, the danger of Arminian principles, the declining state of their church order, &c. By J. White, M.A.

8vo. ?

Gent.'s Mag. v. p. 391.

London.

8 AUSFÜHRLICHE NACHRICHTEN Von den Salzburgischen Emigranten, die sich in America niedergelassen haben, worinnen die Reisediaria des konigl. Grossbritannischen Commissarii und der beyden Salzburgischen Prediger, wie auch eine Beschreibung von Georgien enthalten. Heraus gegeben von Samuel Urlsperger. Halle.

Quarto.

This journal of the proceedings of the Saltzburgh emigrants, who formed the settlement of Ebenezer in Georgia, was continued from year to year to 1752, forming eighteen parts. Another work on the same subject was commenced in 1754. The early parts of the present work appear to have been reprinted in 1744.

MDCCXXXVI.

1 A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND in the form of
annals: being a summary and exact account of the most ma-
terial transactions and occurrences relating to this country
in the order of time wherein they happened, from the discovery
by Capt. Gosnold in 1602, to the arrival of Gov. Belcher in
1730. With an introduction, containing a brief epitome of
the most remarkable transactions and events abroad, from the
creation: including the connected line of time, the succession
of patriarchs and sovereigns of the most famous kingdoms
and empires, the gradual discoveries of America, and the pro-
gress of the reformation to the discovery of New-England.
By Thomas Prince, M.A.
Poston, N.E.

8vo. Vol. I.

Three numbers of a second volume were printed in 1755. It was the author's
intention to have brought his history down to 1730, but he has only reached
to 1633. He spent much time upon the introductory epitome, which
begins at the creation. Had he confined himself to New-England, and
finished his work, it would have been of incalculable value. Allen.
edition was printed at Boston in 1826.

A new

2 GEORGIA, a poem ; Tomo Chachi, an ode. A copy of verses on
Mr. Oglethorpe's second voyage to Georgia.
Folio.

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London.

3 REPORT of the committee appointed to examine into the proceedings of the people of Georgia, with respect to the province of South-Carolina, and the disputes subsisting between the two colonies. Charles-town.

Quarto, pp. 121.

Printed by Lewis Timothy. There was no printer in the Carolinas before 1730, and this appears to have been one of the earliest productions of the Charleston press in the form of a book.

4 POLITICA INDIANA, &c. (As in the edition of 1648.) Sale en esta tercera impression ilustrada por el Lic. D. Francisco Ramiro Valenzuela, Relator del supreme consejo y Camara de Indias, y electo Oidor honorario de la Real audiencia, y Casa de la contratacion de Cadiz y en dos tomos. Madrid. Folio, 2 vols.

5 COMMENTARIA IN LEGUM INDICAREM recopilationem. (Madrid?) Folio, 4 vols.

Without titles or preliminaries. From two royal orders inserted at pp. 46 and 47, of Vol. iv. we learn that the work was composed by D. Juan del

1736.

1736.

Corral Calvo de la Torre, Oidor in the Audiencia of Santiago de Chile; and that in 1732 he was ordered to send the work to Spain to be printed. In 1735 the first and second volumes had been examined and highly approved by the Council of the Indies, and the author was requested to send the 3d and 4th, and to finish the 5th and 6th, which would complete the work, but it appears that death prevented his completing the 4th volume, which only reaches to the 12th title of the 5th book; the index to this volume being headed thus: "Rerum quæ in hac parte Quarti tomi, (morte auctoris ita relicti) continentur," &c. Apparently the work was left in this state, and never published. The indexes to each volume are also imperfect. This copy was found in sheets among the papers of D. Bernardo Yriarte.

MDCCXXXVII.

1 THE NATURAL HISTORY of North Carolina. With an account of the trades, manners, and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c. By John Brickell, M.D. Nostra nos in urbe peregrinamur.

Cic.

8vo.

Dublin.

Republished with a new title-page in 1743. This work is an almost exact transcript of Lawson's Carolina, (see No. 1 of 1709,) without any acledgment, or even a hint that it is not original. Periods and paragraphs are transposed, parts are occasionally omitted, and words here and there interpolated; but, as a whole, a more daring piece of plagiarism was never executed. N.A.R. xxiii. p. 288.

2 A NEW VOYAGE TO GEORGIA, by a young gentleman, &c. The second edition. London.

8vo. pp. 62.

Merely a new title-page to the edition of 1735.

3 THE REPORT of the Committee of the Commons House of Assembly of the province of South-Carolina, on the state of the papercurrency of the said province.

Quarto, pp. 48.

London.

4 A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE of the surprizing work of God, in the conversion of many hundred souls in New-England.

8vo. ?

London?

5 A GENUINE NARRATIVE of the intended conspiracy of the

negroes at Antigua.

Gent.'s Mag. 1737.

Extracted from an authentic copy of a

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