1788.

of the chumber of Agriculture of the Cape," by his nephew M. N. (Nongaret) Retardere mys that “the most interesting part of the work is that which relates to the islands of Portorico, Carasson, Grenada, and the Bermudas, and to New Mexico: about which places it would be difficult to fod such interesting and satisfactory details in any other work." It bears sufficient evidence, in its typographical execution, of having been printed in France.

The Monthly Review, vol. 80, 1789, says “the work is ill written. We should suspect Monsr. N. not to be a native of France. His remarkable anecdotes are neither amusing nor instructive. Compared with the pompous title, this work is one illustration, among many, of the parturient montes."

26 COLLECTION de tous les voyages faits autour du monde par les differentes nations de l'Europe. Redigee par M. Berenger, avec figures.

8vo. 9 vols.

A Lausanne.

The Voyages Interessans (No. 22) sometimes form a 10th volume of this collection.

27 Histoire des DÉCOUVERTES et des voyages faits dans le Nord. Par M. J. R. Forster. Mise en François par M. Broussonet. Avec trois cartes geographiques.

8vo. 2 vols.

Paris.

28 RELACION DEL ULTIMO VIAGE al estrecho de Magallanes de la
Fragata, Santa Maria de la Cabeza en los Años de 1785 y
1786. Extracto de todos los anteriores desde su descubri-
miento impresos y мss. Y noticia de los habitantes, suelo,
clima y producciones del estrecho.

"Magallanes, señor, fué el primer hombre
Que abriendo este camino le dió nombre."

Ercilla Araucana, cant. 1, oct. 8.

Quarto, portrait of Magallanes and maps.

Madrid.

An appendix to this interesting voyage was printed in 1793. 29 COMPENDIO de la historia geografica, natural y civil del Reyno de Chile, escrito en Italiano por el Abate Don Juan Ignacio Molina. Primera parte, que abraza la historia geografica y natural, traducida en Espagnol por Don Domingo Joseph de Arquellada Mendoza, &c.

Small 4to. pp. 418, map.

Madrid.

See No. 45, 1782. The second part of this Spanish translation of Molina was printed in 1795.

30 ESTADO GENERAL de las Misiones que tiene à su cargo la reli- 1788. gion seráfica en las dos Americas é islas Filipinas segun consta de los documentos mas modernos y seguros que se han remitido à este oficio de la comisaria general de Indias.

Folio, pp. 28. Madrid. 31 MEMORIAL AJUSTADO en el pleyto que se sigue por Don Mariano Colon de Larreategui, &c. con Don Colon de Portugal, Duque de Veragua, &c. piedad del Mayorazgo que fundo D. Cristoval Folio.

Jacobo Stuard
Sobre la pro-

Colon, &c.
(Madrid.)

This volume of near 800 pages contains many interesting documents relating to Colon (Columbus), and a genealogical table of his descendants. The date at the end is 1788.

32 NOTICIA DE LOS CAUDALES, frutos y efectos que han entrado en España de la America en el feliz reynado de Carlos III. Por D. Manuel Deo gracias Nifo.

Small 8vo.

Madrid.

This little volume contains an account of the importations monthly from America, from 1759 to 1788. By the resumen at the end, it appears that the amount of money alone, during that period, exclusive of merchandize, precious stones, &c. was 447,571,737 dollars, or about one hundred million sterling.

33 HISTORIA GEOGRAFICA, civil y politica de la isla de S. Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico. Da la à luz Don Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor.

Small 4to.

Madrid.

This work was edited by Valladares, from the papers of Don Iñigo Abbad. 34 ELOGIO D'AMERIGO VESPUCCI che ha riportato il premio dalla

nobile Accademia Etrusca di Cortona nel dì 15 d'Ottobre dell' anno 1788. Con una dissertazione giustificativa di questo celebre navigatore del P. Stanislav Canovai delle sucole pie. Small 4to. pp. 80. Firenze.

A revised edition of this work, with considerable additions, was printed in 1817.

35 FLORA CAROLINIANA, secundum systema vegetabilium perillustris Linnæi digesta; characteres essentiales naturalesve et differentias veras exhibens; cum emendationibus numerosis : descriptionum antea evulgatarum: adumbrationes stirpium plus mille continens: necnon, generibus novis non paucis,

ла

1788.

speciebus plurimis novisq: ornata. Auctore Thomas Walther Agricola.

8vo. pp. 263, plate.

Londini.

36 NOVA GENERA et species plantarum seu prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium maximam partem incognitorum quæ sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783, 1787 digessit Olof Swartz M. D., etc. Holmiæ.

8vo.

37 REISE durch einige der mittlern und südlichen vereinigten nordameri-kanischen Staaten nach Ost Florida und den Bahama-Inseln, unternammen in den jahren 1783 und 1784, von Johann David Schoepf, &c. Erlangen. 8vo. 2 vols.

38 NIC. JOSEPHI JACQUIN selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia in qua ad Linnaenum systema determinatæ descriptæque sistuntur plantæ illæ quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicina continentis parte observavit rariores. Cum approbatione auctoris ad exemplar majoris operis Vindobonæ edita, recusum. Manhemii. 8vo. pp. 363.

MDCCLXXXIX.

1 BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA, or a chronological catalogue of the
most curious and interesting books, &c. upon the subject of
North and South America, from the earliest period to the
present, in print and manuscript; for which research has
been made in the British Museum, and the most celebrated
public and private libraries, reviews, catalogues, &c. With
an introductory discourse on the present state of literature in
those countries.
Debrett,

Quarto, pp. 271.

"This elaborate composition, we are informed, was undertaken in London, preparatory to a new history of America, by a gentleman resident on that continent. As a catalogue, no more can be said than that it is a curiosity, and required much patient labour to form it." M.R. Part of this work is an abridgment of White Kennett's Bib. Am. (1713): the remainder is principally taken from the Monthly Review.

Every author of a special bibliography must necessarily be much indebted 1789. to all those who have gone over the same ground before him, and his qualifications must be poor indeed if he does not improve upon the work of his predecessor.

2 THE HISTORY of the American revolution. By David Ramsay, M.D. of South Carolina.

8vo. 2 vols.

Philadelphia.

Reprinted in London in 1791. See under 1816. History of the United States. This work was translated into Dutch in 1792, into German in 1794. 3 TRAVELS through the interior parts of America. In a series of letters. By an Officer.

8vo. 2 vols. map and 7 plates.

Lane,

Mr. Thomas Anburey, the author of these travels, was an officer under
General Burgoyne, and whose conduct, in his unfortunate campaign, one
object of this publication appears to have been to vindicate. The Monthly
Reviewer says,
"He sometimes diverts us with anecdotes concerning the
speeches or customs or manners of the people, as he passed among them,
which, though droll, or even ridiculous enough, are of that kind to which
something similar may be met with in all countries, as may be easily
imagined by those who have travelled in England.” How different from
the great reviewers of 1832! The Critical Reviewer pronounces "this
work, in its most essential parts, to be an ill-digested plagiarism from
Gen. Burgoyne's Narrative, and from the account of the prosecution of
Colonel Henley." An edition in French was printed at Paris in the
following year.

4 THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY; or a view of the present situation
of the United States of America. Containing the discovery
and general description of America; summary account of the
settlements of North America; general view of the United
States; their boundaries, lakes, bays, rivers, mountains, pro-
ductions, population, government, agriculture, commerce, &c.
Concise account of the war, and of the important events
which have succeeded; biographical sketches of several illus-
trious heroes; particular descriptions of the thirteen United
States, and of Kentucky, the Western Territory, and Vermont.
Of their extent, civil divisions, chief towns, constitutions,
courts of justice, colleges, academies and schools, religion,
islands, Indians, literary and humane societies, &c. Illus-
trated with two sheet maps of the Southern and of the
Northern States, more correct than any that have hitherto

1789.

been published. To which is added, a concise abridgment of the geography of, the British, Spanish, French, and Dutch dominions in America and the West Indies, of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Jedediah Morse. Elizabeth-town.

8vo. pp. 534.

The above is an abridgment of the long title to the first edition of Dr.
Morse's celebrated geography.

5 THE CIVIL AND NATURAL HISTORY OF JAMAICA.

Containing,

1. An accurate description of that island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce and trade. II. An history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. By Dr. Patrick Browne, M.D. Illustrated with 49 copper-plates, in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from the objects, by George Dionysius Ehret. There are now added, complete Linnæan Indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island. Folio.

London.

Originally published in 1756. The present is merely a reprint of the title-
page, and new indexes added.

6 A SHORT ACCOUNT of the Bahama Islands, their climate, pro-
ductions, &c. To which are added, some strictures upon
their relative and political situation, the defects of their pre-
sent government, &c. By a Barrister at Law, late H. M.'s
solicitor-general of those islands, and king's counsel for the
provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Quarto, pp. 44.

No printer,

It was

The author of this pamphlet (John Graves, Esq.) has prefixed to it the
following advertisement. "This is no Catchpenny pamphlet, for not a
copy of it ever has been, nor (we trust) ever will be sold.
written some weeks ago, for the information of the ministry, and was
therefore sent, in manuscript, to the confidential servants of the crown
principally entrusted with the direction of colonial affairs. But as the
grievances of which it treats still remain unredressed and unnoticed, a few
copies are now printed, in order to be submitted to the consideration of
those to whom the people of an oppressed colony may with confidence
look up for protection and relief."