los parages por donde passa en la America Meridional, con- 1749. forme à los tratados y derechos de cada estado, y las mas seguras y modernas observaciones. Por Don Jorge Juan y Don Ant Small 8vo. Ulloa. Madrid. The boundary line between the Spanish and Portuguese possessions in 13 PRIMER SYNODO DIOCESANA, celebrola el Ilmo. Sr. D. Pedro Lima. 14 HISTORIADORES PRIMITIVOs de las Indias occidentales que juntó, traduxo en parte y sacó à luz, ilustrados con eruditas notas y copissos Indices Don Andres Gonzalez Barcia. Divididos en tres tomos. Folio, 3 vols. The following are the contents of this valuable collection. Madrid. Vol. I. 1. La historia del Almirante D. Christoval Colon, que compuso en Castel- 3. Relacion sumaria de la historia natural de las Indias, compuesta y dii- 1749. 6. Comentarios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Adelantado y Gobernader del Rio de la Plata. pp. 72. Vol. II. 7. Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Historia de las Indias. pp. 226, Index, 50. Cronica de la Nueva España. pp. 214, Index, 46. 8. Vol. III. 9. Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de la Provincia del Peru y de las Guerras y cosas señaladas en ella, acaecidas hasta el vencimiento de Gonçalo Pizarro y de sus sequaces que en ella se rebelaron contra S. M. (Por Augustin de Zarate.) pp. 176. Index pp. 28. 10. Conquista del Peru de Francisco de Xerez. pp. 66. 11. Historia del descubrimiento de el Rio de la Plata y Paraguay (por Hulderico Schmidel.) pp. 40. Translated and abridged by Barcia from the Latin, published in 1599 by Levin Hulsius. This work is cited in Pinelo, p. 661, as being by Gabriel de Cardenas, and printed in 1631, a mistake for 1731, in which year most of these works were printed, although not published until 1749. 12. Argentina y Conquista del Rio de la Plata por D. Martin del Barco Centenera. pp. 124. 13. Viage del mundo por Simon Perez de Torres en 1586, &c. pp. 45. Now first printed. 14. Epitome de la Relacion del viage de algunos Mercaderes de San Malo a Moka, los años 1708, &c. traducido del Frances por D. Manl. de Grova. pp. 3. Don Andres Gonzalez de Barcia Carballido y Zuniga, after having published new editions of Torquemada (1722,) El Peru y Florida del Inca, Herrera, la Araucana, El Origen de los Indios, and the Biblioteca de Pinelo, caused to be printed the authors contained in this collection, and probably some others, as he mentions, in his edition of Pinelo, that Fenandez's Historia del Peru was about being finished in 1731, but of which no copies are known to exist. Most of these authors were printed about that same period, but were not published until 1749, (six years after Barcia's death, which happened in 1743,) when general titles to the 3 volumes were printed, with a table of contents, of which there are two different impressions; one, the most modern, is printed by Ibarra. In the account of the remaining stock of this work in 1778, two hundred complete sets are mentioned, 21 of which are described as on large paper. Of the separate parts there are as many as 1300 copies of some of them, of others very few, and none of the History of Columbus; all these separate parts were sold as waste paper, upwards of 30 years ago. The large paper copies disappeared about the same time, and perhaps in the same manner, as I have found seven copies of the history of Columbus on this paper, but have never seen a copy of the whole work on large paper. My own copy contains, besides the works already mentioned, the following: 15 ANNAES HISTORICOS do Estado do Maranhaō, em que se da 1749. noticia do seu descobrimiento e tudo o mais que nelle tem succedido desde o anno em que foy descuberto até o de 1718. Por Bernardo Pereira de Berredo. Folio, pp. 710. Lisboa. The author was appointed governor of Maranham in the year 1718. His MDCCL. 1 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BARBADOS. In ten books. By the Rev. Mr. Griffith Hughes, A.M. rector of St. Lucy's parish, in the said island, and F.R.S. Folio, pp. 314, 29 plates, and map. There is a very well written article on this work in Vol. 3 of the Monthly Review, (p. 197,) from which it appears that it is of no value whatever to the naturalist. The writer of the review says, that Linnæus, when in London, "was despised, his papers laughed at, and himself, had it not been for the generous friendship of the late Dr. Isaac Lawson, had perished for want." Large paper copies of this work are more common than those on small paper. The plates being engraved from the drawings of Ehret, may still be consulted with advantage. 2 OBSERVATIONS on the importance of the Northern colonies, under proper regulations. 8vo. pp. 36. New York. "By Archibald Keneday, esq. receiver-general of New York." MS. note. 3 TRATADO HISTORICO, POLITICO Y LEGAL de el comercio de las Indias Occidentales, pertenicientes a los Reyes Catholicos, Small 8vo. This work has no date on the title, but the licences, &c. were given in this year. At the end is added the Proyecto de Galeones, etc. first printed in 1720. Н 1750. 4 PISCIUM SERPENTUM INSECTORUM aliorumque nonnullorum animalium necnon plantarum imagines quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolina, Floridæ, et Bahamensium insularum tradidit historiam naturalem, eiusque appendice descripsit. Ediderunt N. F. Eisenberger et G. Lichtensteger. Norimberga. Folio, 64 coloured plates. The plates in this work are copied from the first sixty-four of the second volume of Catesby's Carolina: according to Brunet, the work should contain 109 plates. 5 AUSZUG DER NACHRICHTEN von dem Englischen America, besonders von Carolina und Georgia. Von Emanuel Christian Loeber. 8vo. Jena. Meusel iii. 1. 394. 1 A GENUINE NARRATIVE of the transactions in Nova Scotia 8vo. By London. "We find very little, if any thing, worth notice in this piece." M. R. v. p. 397. 3 OBSERVATIONS on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matters worthy of notice, made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensylvania to Onondago, Oswego, and the lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annexed, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara. By Mr. Peter Kalm, a Swedish gentleman who travelled there. London. 8vo. pp. 94, and plan. John Bartram was the father of William Bartram, who published his travels 4 A JOURNAL, or historical account of the life, travels and christiau 1751. experiencies, of that ancient faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Thomas Chalkley, who departed this life in the island of Tortola, the 4th day of the 9th month, 1741. The second edition. 8vo. pp. 326. London. A testimony of the Friends, at the beginning of this book, is dated Phila- 5 A NARRATIVE of the dangers and distresses which befel Isaac London. "This narrative appears to be genuine, and is well and methodically written," &c. M.R. v. p. 156. 6 NOUVEAU VOYAGE FAIT AU PEROU. Par M. l'Abbé Courte de la Blanchardiere. Auquel on a joint une description des anciennes mines d'Espagne traduite de l'Espagnol d'Alonso Carillo Lazo. Paris. 12mo. An English translation was published in 1753. 7 HISTOIRE DE LA JAMAÏQUE, traduite de l'Anglois : par M ancien officier de dragons. 12mo. 2 vols., 6 plates. Translated from A New History, &c. 1740. Londres. The translator's name was 8 HISTOIRE DES PYRAMIDES DE QUITO, elevées par envoyés sous l'Equateur par ordre du Roi. ruinæ." Lucan. Quarto. pp. 53. Plate. les academiciens "Etiam periêre Paris. |