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which are added, some few that have formerly appeared in English, but do now for their excellency and scarcenes deserve to be reprinted. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation from its first beginning to the perfection it is now in, &c. The whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps and cuts, all engraven on copper. In four volumes. London.

Folio, 4 vols.

This collection, generally known by the name of the publisher, Churchill, is to be found under the dates of 1732, 1744, 1752, &c. Two more volumes were published some years afterwards; and Osborne's Collection, printed in 1745, is generally added, to make the set complete. See 1732

and 1745.

4 HISTORIA de la conquista de Mexico por D. Antonio de Solis. Nueva edicion, enriquecida con diversas estampas, y aumentada con la vida del autor que escrivió D. Juan de Goyeneche. Folio. Brusselas.

This edition is recommended by De Bure on account of the plates.

MDCCV.

1 THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF VIRGINIA, in four parts. 1. The history of the first settlement of Virginia, and the government thereof, to the present time. 11. The natural productions and conveniences of the country, suited to trade and improvement. III. The native Indians, their religion, laws and customs, in war and peace. IV. The present state of the country, as to the polity of the government, and the improvements of the land. By a native and inhabitant of the place. London.

8vo. 15 plates.

The frontispiece has " By R. B. gent." which is understood to stand for
R. Beverley, and not Bird, as stated by Meusel. Reprinted in 1722.
Translated into French in 1707.

2 JAMAICA VIEWED, &C. (First printed in 1661.) The third
edition. By Captain Hickeringill.
London.

Small 4to. mар.

This tract is printed with several others by the same author, a very eccentric writer, who, after having been an officer in the army, took orders and became a priest, "when he gave much offence to his brethren by his wild and often scurrilous attacks on the church, in a variety of pamphlets."

Chalmers.

3 *PARTY TYRANNY, or an occasional bill in miniature; as now 1705.

practised in Carolina. Humbly offered to the consideration
of both houses of Parliament.

London.

Small 4to. pp. 30.

Attributed to the celebrated Daniel De Foe.

4 *A PLAIN AND FRIENDLY PERSUASIVE to the inhabitants of Virginia and Maryland for promoting towns and cohabitation. By a Wellwisher to both Governments.

Small 4to. pp. 16.

London.

5 REASONS, by Capt. Le Wright, shewing why her Majesty ought to enter upon her propriety, now on the continent of America. London.

Quarto, pp. 8.

A project for a new settlement at Darien, in which the projector, referring to the failure of the Scots company, says, "we are now addressing to the English, between whom and the Scots we allow no comparison in point of trade."

6 NAVIGANTIUM ATQUE ITINERANTIUM BIBLIOTHECA; ora compleat collection of voyages and travels: consisting of above 400 of the most authentic writers; beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English; Ramusio, in Italian: Thevenot, &c. in French; De Bry and Grynæi Novus Orbis, in Latin; the Dutch East-India company, in Dutch: and continued with others of note that have published histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, in the English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Dutch tongues; relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, to this present time. With the heads of several of our most considerable sea-commanders; and a great number of excellent maps of all parts of the world, and cuts of most curious things in all the voyages. To which is prefixed, a history of the peopling of the several parts of the world, and particularly of America &c. By John Harris, A.M. London.

Folio, 2 vols.

First edition, reprinted in 1744-8, with great alterations and additions. It
appears to have been got up in competition with Churchill's Collection,
but differs entirely from that work, being a history of all the known voyages
and travels, whereas Churchill's is a collection of some particular relations
and histories.

7 TRAITÉ DES FOUGERES de l'Amerique. Par le R. P. Charles
Plumier, Minime de la province de France, et Botaniste du
Roy dans les Isles de l'Amerique.

Paris.

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Plumier's figures consist of little more than outlines, but being as large as nature, and well drawn by himself, produce a fine effect. Many hundred of his drawings remain still unpublished in the library of the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. Copies of many of these were obtained by the Earl of Bute, which afterwards passed into the hands of Sir Joseph Banks. Boerhaave had previously obtained copies of above 500, most of which were published by Burmann, in 1755-60. In 1824 the compiler of this work met with copies of about 500, very well executed, and a Ms. volume of descriptions, which are now in the possession of A. B. Lambert, Esq. Vice President of the Linnæan Society.

8 *THORMODI TORFEI, historia Vinlandiæ antique seu partis Americæ septentrionalis. Hafniæ.

Small 8vo.

A rare book (republished in 1715,) showing that the northern nations had a knowledge of the American continent prior to the discoveries of Columbus.

MDCCVI.

1 A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS from New Hampshire to Caratuck, on the continent of North America, by George Keith, A.M. late Missionary from the Society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, and now rector of Edburton, in Sussex. Quarto, pp. 96. London. This work contains little more than an account of the sermons preached by the author at the different places through which he travelled. George Keith is the same person who some years before defended the Quakers against Increase and Cotton Mather, but afterwards turned against the Quakers himself, and became a Baptist.

2 AN ACCOUNT of the Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts, established by the royal charter of King William III. With their proceedings and success, and hopes of continual progress under the happy reign of Queen Anne. London.

Quarto, pp. 97.

3 HISTOIRE DE LA DECOUVERTE et de la conquète du Perou, traduite de l'Espagnol d'Augustin de Zarate par S. D. C.

12mo. 2 vols.

Paris.

Zarate's history of the discovery and conquest of Peru was first printed in Spanish at Antwerp in 1555, in small octavo, afterwards in 1577 at Seville, in folio, and in Barcia's Historiadores in 1749. It was translated into English by T. Nicholas, and printed in 1581, in small quarto, black letter. "Zarate's history, whether we attend to its matter or composition, is a book of considerable merit, as he had opportunities to be well informed, 1706. and seems to have been inquisitive with respect to the manners and transactions of the Peruvians; great credit is due to his testimony." Robertson.

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MDCCVII.

1 A NEW DESCRIPTION of that fertile and pleasant province of Carolina: with a brief account of its discovery, settling, and the Government thereof to this time. With several remarkable passages of Divine Providence during my time. By John Archdale, late governour of the same.

Quarto, p. 40.

Gov. Archdale introduced the cultivation of rice into Carolina.

London.

2 MEMORIAL of the present deplorable state of New England under

Joseph Dudley, esq.

Quarto.

A copy in the British Museum.

Boston, N. E.

3 A MODEST ENQUIRY into the grounds and occasions of a late

pamphlet, intituled, A Memorial of the present deplorable
state of New England. By a disinterested hand.

Quarto, p. 30.

London.

Contains the foregoing memorial, and the defence of Gov. Dudley. 4* THE HUMBLE SUBMISSION of several kings, princes, generals, &c. to the crown of England, lately presented to Sir Nath. Johnson, the present governor of Carolina under her Majesty Queen Ann. London.

Folio.

In the British Museum.

5 A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South Seas in the ship St. George, in the year 1703 and 1704. With his various adventures, engagements, &c. and a particular and exact description of several islands in the Atlantick Ocean, the Brazilian coast, the passage round Cape Horn, and the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico. Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla, on the west coast of Mexico, to East India. His passing by three unknown islands, and through a new discovered streight near the coast of New Guinea. His arrival at Amboyna. With a large description of that and

1707.

other spice islands; as also of Batavia, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. their rivers, harbours, plants, animals, inhabitants, &c. With divers maps, draughts, figures, plants, and animals. By William Funnell, mate to Captain Dampier.

8vo.

London.

"Funnell arrived in England before Captain Dampier, and seized on the
opportunity to compose a relation of the voyage, a task for which he was
ill qualified, and which he performed with disadvantage to the public.
Funnell's narrative was published in 1707 by Knapton the bookseller, who
being the publisher of three volumes of the voyages of Dampier, drawn up
from his own manuscript journals, should have distinguished the difference,
and not have obtruded Funnel's narrative into the same collection; but he
was tempted by the favourable reception of the former volumes. The
public were thus punished with a fourth volume to Dampier's Voyages,
which contains not a word of Dampier's writing, but much that he dis-
approved. Funnell's narrative must now be allowed to retain its rank as
fourth volume of Dampier's Voyages, as no other authentic account of that
voyage has appeared, or can be expected to appear. The volume, however,
would be better naturalized if it were made to include the following work."

6 *CAPT. DAMPIER'S VINDICATION of his voyage in the ship St.
George; with some small observations for the present on Mr.
Funnell's chimerical relation.
London.

In this vindication, which does not occupy more than a single sheet, Dam-
pier points out several misrepresentations made by Funnell, and accuses
him of having pirated from charts and papers with which he had been
intrusted, but of which, Dampier says, he afterwards rendered a very
slender account, pretending that some of them were lost." Burney.

7 *AN ANSWER TO CAPT. DAMPIER'S Vindication of his voyage to
the South Seas in the ship St. George; with particular ob-
servations on his ungenerous, false, and barbarous usage to
his ship's crew.
By John Welbe, midshipman on board
Capt. Dampier's ship.
London.

Quarto, pp. 8.

8 A VOYAGE TO THE ISLANDS Madeira, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefixed an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent and islands of America, Illustrated with the figures of the things described,

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