the whole is now added, a Linnæan index of the animals and 1771. plants. Folio, 2 vols. 220 coloured plates. London. "Catesby, after having lived in Virginia, from 1712 to 1719, principally engaged in the study of its natural history, returned to England, when he was induced, by Dr. Sherard and others, to undertake another voyage to America, for the express purpose of collecting and describing its natural productions. The fruit of his voyage was this natural history of Carolina. It first appeared in numbers, between 1731 and 1748, with plates, etched by himself from his own drawings, and coloured under his inspection. A second edition was published in 1754, but both that and the present are considered as inferior to the first, in respect to the beauty of the plates. The work contains brief descriptions in French and English, of the different objects mentioned in the title, and found within the regions comprehended in its plan. To the present edition is added an index of the Linnæan names, but it is not so complete as it might have been." 2 A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE round the world, in his Majesty's ship Endeavour, in the years 1768-71, undertaken in pursuit of natural knowledge, at the desire of the Royal Society. Containing all the various occurrences of the voyage, with descriptions of several new discovered countries in the Southern hemisphere, &c. London. Quarto, pp. 133. This appears to be the first printed account of Capt. Cook's first voyage. 3 THE HISTORY OF A VOYAGE to the Malouine (or Falkland) First printed at Berlin, in French, in 1769. The translator has omitted the 4 TRAVELS THROUGH THAT PART OF NORTH AMARICA formerly called Louisiana. By Mr. Bossu, captain of the French marines. Translated from the French, by John Reinhold Forster, F.S.A. 1771. Illustrated with notes, relative chiefly to natural history. To which is added, by the translator, a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or, a Flora America Septentrionalis. Together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's travels through Spain and Cumana, in South America. London. 8vo. 2 vols. The first volume, and sixteen pages of the second, comprise the translation of Bossu's Nouveaux Voyages, (see 1768.) The catalogue of plants which follows occupies fifty pages, and was published with a separate title. The remainder of the second volume, with the exception of a short account of his life, in English, is occupied by Loefling's Latin descriptions of the plants observed by him in Spain and South America. 5 FLORA AMERICA SEPTENTRIONALIS; or, a catalogue of the plants of North America. Containing an enumeration of the known herbs, shrubs, and trees, many of which are but lately discovered. By John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London. 8vo. pp. 50. This Flora is merely the catalogue of plants of the preceding work, with a new title. 6 A CATALOGUE OF THE ANIMALS of North America. Containing an enumeration of the known quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, &c. many of which were never described before; to which are added, short directions for collecting, preserving, and transporting all kinds of natural curiosities. By John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London. 8vo. 7 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. Vol. 1. Philadelphia. A second edition of this volume was printed in 1789. 8 FALKLAND'S ISLAND. A justification of the conduct of the ministry relative to Falkland's Island. In a letter to both Houses of Parliament. 8vo. 9 London. Papers relative to the negotiations with Spain; and the taking of Falkland's Island from the English. Quarto. London. 10 FALKLAND'S ISLAND. Thoughts on the late transactions re- 1771. specting Falkland's Island. London. 8vo. pp. 75. 11 12 13 By Dr. Samuel Johnson. An examination of the declaration and agreement with the court of Spain, relating to the restitution of Falkland's Island. 8vo. London. In a A refutation of a pamphlet called Thoughts on 8vo. London. Two speeches of an honourable gentleman on the late negotiation and convention with Spain. 8vo. These barren islands were made a subject of great importance about this time; the English, French, and Spaniards laying claim to them at the same time. 14 PRÉCIS DE L'ETAT ACTUEL des colonies Angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. Par M. Dominique de Blackford. 12mo. pp. 99. Milan. Part of this work is a compilation from Douglas and Kalm, and the remainder consists of a translation of the Examination of Dr. Franklin, 1767. It is generally found with a translation of Toreen's voyage to Surat, &c. 15 EXAMEN DES RECHERCHES PHILOSOPHIQUES sur l'Amerique et les Americains, et de la defense de cet ouvrage. Berlin. Small 8vo. 2 vols. This rejoinder of Dom Pernetty, in which he exposes the blunders and unfair conduct of De Pauw, is much more ably written than his first work. (See 1769.) 16 DE L'AMERIQUE ET DES AMERICAINS, ou observations curieuses du philosophe La Douceur qui a parcouru cet hemisphére pendant la derniére guerre, en faisant le noble métier de tuer les hommes sans les manger. Small 8vo. pp. 116. Berlin. A lively and humourous defence of the American Indians against the attacks of De Pauw, attributed by Meusel to M. Poivre, but Barbier says that 1771. it is either by M. Bonneville or Dom Pernetty. Now Poivre was never in America; he was employed in the East Indies at the time this discussion was going forward. It appears also that M. Bonneville was only eleven years of age at this time. As it is not probable that Dom Pernetty wrote two works on the subject in the same year, all these conjectures as to the authorship of this work are apparently erroneous. 17 VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, par la frégate du roi la Boudeuse et la flute l'Etoile; en 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Paris. Quarto. The account of M. de Bougainville's voyage: reprinted in three volumes, octavo, in 1772; and translated into English in the same year. 18 LETTRES EDIFIANTES ecrites par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. De l'Amerique Septentrionale. Small 8vo. pp. 152. Bruxelles. A selection from the " Lettres edifiantes et curieuses," commenced in 1715, of 19 NOTICIA BREVE de la expedicion Militar de Sonora y Cinaloa, Folio, pp. 12. Dated Mexico, June 17, 1771. Robertson (note 65, vol. ii.) speaks of this tract, and notes its great rarity. He says it was published in order to satisfy the curiosity of the merchants who had furnished the Viceroy with money for defraying the expense of the expedition. 20 ITINERARIO PARA PARROCos de Indios, en que se tratan las materias mas particulares tocantes à ellos para su buena administracion compuesto por el Dr. Don Alonso de la Peña Montenegro, &c. Nueva edicion purgada de muchisimos hierros. Madrid. Folio. This instruction for the parish priests among the Indians of South America was first printed in 1668. Venezia. 21 DIZIONARIO STORICO-GEOGRAFICO dell' America Meridionale The author was many years employed in South America as a missionary : MDCCLXXII. 1 THE ENTERTAINING HISTORY of King Philip's war, which began in the month of June, 1675. As also of expeditions more lately made against the common enemy, and Indian rebels, in the eastern parts of New England: with some account of the Divine Providence towards Col. Benjamin Church. By Thomas Church, esq., his son. The second edition. 8vo. pp. 199. Newport, R. I. First printed in 1716. Reprinted in 1827. This edition has portraits of Col. Church and of King Philip, engraved by P. Revere, and are probably among the first specimens of engraving done in New England. 2 THE HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR IN NORTH AMERICA and the islands of the West Indies; including the campaigns of 1763 and 1764, against his Majesty's Indian enemies. By Thomas Mante, assistant engineer during the siege of the Havana, and major of a brigade in the campaign of 1764. Quarto, 542 pp. and 18 maps and plans. London. The introduction contains an account of Washington's escape from assassi- 3 A COLLECTION of several commissions and other public instru- London. 4 THE ATLANTIC PILOT. Calculated for the safe conduct of ships in their navigation from the Gulph of Mexico along Cuba and the Martieres, through the new Bahama Channel, to the northern parts of his Majesty's dominions on the continent of America, and from thence to Europe. London. 8vo. 3 charts. 1772. |
