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Ordered by them to be published in their Boston News-
Letter, morocco, g. e., by F. Bedford, Printed in the year
1708, 8vo. (232)
Edwards, £2 16s.

[This copy wanted the dedication, signed "A. H.," from which the authorship has been attributed to Alexander Holmes, one of the subscribers to the memorial against Governor Dudley. A folding pedigree of the Dudley Family is inserted.-Catalogue.]

5486 New England's Ensigne, it being the Account of Cruelty, the Professor's Pride and the Articles of their Faith, signified in Characters written in blood wickedly begun, barbarously continued and inhumanly finished (so far as they have gone) by the present power of darkness possesst in the Priests and Rulers in New England, with the Dutch also inhabiting the same Land, . . . This being an Account of the sufferings sustained by us in New England (with the Dutch), 1657-8. With a Letter to John Indicot and John Norton Also the several late conditions of a Friend upon Road-Island, etc., morocco, g. e., T. L. for G. Calvert, 1659, 4to. (233) Quaritch, £33

[Contains the scarce leaf of errata. Written by Humphry Norton, John Rous and John Copeland. One Robert Hodgson, arrested for preaching in the streets of New Amsterdam, was brought before a magistrate named Gildersleeve, who sentenced him "to work two yeers at a wheelbarrow with a Negro, or pay or cause to be paid six hundred Gilders." He was not even suffered to speak in his own defence, but chained to the wheelbarrow and ordered to work. Catalogue.]

5487 New Jersey. A Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey at the suit of John Earl of Stair and other Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey; against Benjamin Bond and some other persons of Elizabeth-Town distinguished by the name of the Clinker-Lot Right Men, 3 large folding maps engraved on copper by James Turner, half morocco, t. e. g., by the Club Bindery, Printed by James Parker in New York and a few copies are to be sold by him and Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, 1747, folio (235)

Quaritch, £18 10s. 5488 New York. To all Whom these Presents may concern, 8pp., half green morocco, g. t., uncut, by the Club Bindery, Printed and sold by William Bradford in the City of New York, 1713, folio (236) H. Stevens,

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[A scarce and interesting anonymous piece relating to the objections of the inhabitants to be taxed for the support of the English Government. It threatens chastisement if the revenue is not provided.—Catalogue.]

5489 Palmer (John). An Impartial Account of the State of New England, or the Late Government there Vindicated. In answer to the Declaration which the Faction set forth when they Overturned that Government. With a Relation of the horrible usage they treated the Governour with, and

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5441 Haywood (John). The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, up to the First Settlements therein by White People in the Year 1768, levant morocco extra, g.e., by Stikeman, Nashville, 1823, 8vo. (135) H. Stevens, £13 5s. 5442 Haywood (John). The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, from its Earliest Settlement up to the year 1796, including the Boundaries of the State, morocco, g.e., by Stikeman, Printed for the author by Heiskell and Brown, Knoxville, Tenn., 1823 (136) H. Stevens, £7 155. 5443 Hazard (Ebenezer). Historical Collections, consisting of State papers and other authentic Documents intended as materials for an History of the United States of America, 2 vol., boards, uncut, Philadelphia, T. Dobson for the author, 1792, royal 4to. (137) H. Stevens, £6 5444 Hellier (Thomas). The Vaine Prodigall Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier, born at Whitchurch, near Lyme, in Dorset-shire, who for murdering his Master, Mistress and a Maid, was Executed according to Law at Westover, in Charles City, in the Country of Virginia, neer the Plantation called Hard Labour, where he perpetrated the said murders. He Suffr'd on Munday, the 5th of August, 1678, and was afterwards Hanged up in Chains at Windmill Point on James River, morocco extra, g. e., by Gruel Engelmann, Sam Crouch, 1680, 4to. (138)

Quaritch, £11 5445 Hennepin (Louis). A New Discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles between New France and New Mexico, with a description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, etc., with the engraved frontispiece, 6 plates and 2 large folding maps mounted on linen, morocco extra, g. e., by F. Bedford, Tonson, 1698, 8vo. (139) Edwards, £13 158.

5446 Hennepin (Louis). A New Discovery of a vast country in America, another edition, frontispiece, 6 plates, and 2 folding maps mounted on linen, morocco extra, g.e., by F. Bedford, 1698, 8vo. (140) Edwards, £14

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[This edition is quite distinct from the "Tonson described above. The first line of the imprint ends "H. Bon-". The four plates in the second part are from different coppers to the foregoing "Tonson" edition, as they are reversed and have different letterings, and none of them bear the engraver's name. In the "Tonson" edition they are marked to be placed at page 9, page 33, page 98 and page 161, while in the present "H. Bon" edition they are marked Cont. Pag. 9, Cont. Pag. 33, Cont. Pag. 89, Cont. Pag. 157.—Catalogue.]

5447 Higgeson or Higginson (Francis). New England's Plantation, or a Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Country. Whereunto is added a letter, sent by Mr. Graves, an Enginere out of New England, the second edition enlarged, half russia, T. and R. Cotes for Michael Sparke, 1630, 4to. (142) Quaritch, £46

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H. Stevens, £4 8s. 5453 Indian Wars in New England. A complete set of the five rare folio tracts published in 1675 to 1677, viz.: 1. The Present State of New England with respect to the Indian War, wherein is an account of the true reason thereof, 1675 -2. A Continuation of the State of New England, being a farther account of the Indian Warr, 1676-3. A New and Further Narrative of the State of New England, being a continued account of the Bloudy Indian War from March till August, 1676-4. A True Account of the most considerable occurrences that have hapned in the Warre between the English and the Indians in New England, 1676-5. The Warr in New England visibly ended; King Philip, that barbarous Indian, now beheaded, etc., 1677, together 5 pieces in one volume, morocco extra, by Pratt (159) Quaritch, £125

[A remarkably fine set, uncut, except for the tops being gilt. The tracts having been printed at different times there is a slight difference in the size of the paper, and only a few of the very largest leaves appear to have been trimmed. Small corners of three or four leaves which were curled up or frayed before binding have been neatly mended or strengthened. The present copy had also the rare threeline Errata slip pasted at the foot of page 20 of the "Continuation." This Errata slip does not appear to be generally known to bibliographers.-Catalogue.]

5454 Indians. Articles of Peace between the Most Serene and Mighty Prince Charles II. . . . and Several Indian Kings and Queens, etc. concluded the 29th day of May, 1677, published by his Majesties Command, large copy, almost uncut, few corners mended, morocco extra, g. t., by F. Bedford, John Bill, Christopher Barker, etc., 1677, 4to. (160) Quaritch, £47

5455 James (Thomas). The Strange and dange-rovs voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended Discouery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea . . . with an Appendix concerning Longitude, by Master Henry Gellibrand, folding map (slightly cut into) mounted on linen, morocco, John Legatt for John Partridge, 1633, 4to. (161) H. Stevens, £16

[James, a Bristol man of Welsh origin, started in May, 1631, and returned in September, 1632, having met Luke Foxe somewhere in Baffin's Bay. As a good Welshman, James named the region south of Hudson's Bay New South Wales, while Foxe, who was from Hull, called it New Yorkshire. Catalogue.]

5456 Jefferson (Thomas). Notes on the State of Virginia, written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a Foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him, etc., map

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