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detestable Tea sent out by the East India Company, Part of which being just arrived in this Harbour, one page folio, folded and bound in full crushed levant morocco, Boston, Edes and Gill, 1773 (262)

Quaritch, £28 [The famous Boston Tea-party, This broadside was

printed by order of the meeting.- Catalogue.) 5496 Rogers (Major Robert). Journals of, containing an account

of the several excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War, uncut copy, half morocco, gilt top, Printed

for the Author, 1765, 8vo. (266) Edwards, £3 3s. 5497 Sanders (Daniel Clarke). A History of the Indian Wars with

the first Settlers of the United States, particularly in New England. Written in Vermont, finely bound in morocco by F. Bedford, Montpelier, Vermont, Wright and Sibley, 1812, small 12mo. (267)

Maggs, ķu şs: [The excessively rare first edition, suppressed, it is said, on account of the scathing review, by Professor Hough, in

"The Literary and Philosophical Repertory." --Catalogue.] 5498 Sanders (Daniel Clarke). A History of the Indian Wars with

the first Settlers of the United States to the commencement of the late war, together with an appendix, not before added to this history, containing interesting accounts of the battles fought by General Andrew Jackson, with two plates, boards, uncut, in a levant morocco case, Rochester (N. Y.), printed by Edwin Scranton, 1828 (268)

Samson, £ 5 55. 5499 Sanderson (John). Biography of the Signers to the Declar.

ation of Independence, engraved title-pages and a series of engraved portraits of the Signers, with facsimiles of their signatures, 9 vol., half morocco, g. t., uncut, by Alfred Matthews, Philadelphia, Maxwell and Pomeroy, 1823 (269)

Maggs, £3 Ios. 5500 Scot (George). The Model of the Government of the Province

of East-New Jersey in America and Encouragements for such as Designs to be concerned there. Published for information of such as are desirous to be interested in that place, calf gilt, y. e., Edinburgh, printed by John Reid, 1685, small 8vo. (271)

Quaritch, 656 [This copy had the leaf A before the title. It is of the second issue, with the paragraph on page 37 commencing

"Where people find themselves straitned,” etc.--Catalogue.) 5501 Smith (Captain John). A Map of Virginia. With a descrip

tion of the covntrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. Wherevnto is annexed the proceedings of those Colonies, since their first departure from England, etc., with the large folding map mounted on linen, engraved by William Hole, containing a picture of Powhatan holding a council, many leaves (mostly in the first part) mended in the headline, at the foot or in the back, one or two headlines slightly defective where mended, morocco super extra, rough g.e., by Rivière, Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1612, 4to. (274)

Quaritch, £120

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leaf, black letter, calf, red edges, Henrie_Bynneman for Thomas Hacket, 1568, 4to. (294)

E. Ĝ. Allen, 140 [The first translation into English, and perhaps one of the most interesting of the early English books relating to America. It is, in fact, the earliest relating to Canada. The author gives a long account of that country, which be derived from Cartier, whom he calls “James Quartier.”

Catalogue.] 5507 Thomas (Gabriel). An Historical and Geographical Account

of the Province and Country of Pensilvania, and of WestNew-Jersey in America . : : two parts in one volume, folding map, piece cut out of title mended in, first few leaves of text mended at the bottom inner corner, morocco, floriated borders, with doublure of blue morocco, broad gold border, by David, enclosed in a morocco slip case, A. Baldwin, 1698, small 8vo. (295)

Quaritch, 4109 (The first dedication begins with "Friend William Penn, I here present thee with a succinct (yet compleat) Account of the late Improvement, and present State of the Noble Province." . . : In the preface to the reader, the author says, “Nor is there the least question or doubt to be made but this Noble Spot of Earth will thrive exceedingly.”—

Catalogue.] 5508 Thorovvgood (T.) Jevves In America, or Probabilities That

the Americans are of that Race. With the Removall of some contrary reasonings and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian, morocco, g. e., W. H. for Tho. Slater, 1650, 4to. (297)

Essex, £,6 6s. [Mr. Field remarks : “This is the first dissertation in English on that fertile subject of controversy and hypothesis, the origin of the American Indians. In 1652, Thorowgood's treatise was answered by Hamon L'Estrange, in a tract

entitled 'Americans no Jewes, London, 1652."Catalogue.] 5509 Vaughan (Sir William). The Golden Fleece. Divided into

three Parts ... Translated from Cambrioll Cochos, out of the Southernmost Part of the Iland, commonly called Newfoundland, by Orpheus Junior, small hole in page 115, with the folding map of Newfoundland, frequently missing, morocco, g.e., by F. Bedford, Francis Williams, 1626, 4to. (304)

Quaritch, £14 5510 Verardus-Columbus. In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi His

paniar (um) regis Bethicæ & regni Granatæ obsidio victoria aud triumphus, Et de Insulis in mari Indico nuper inuentis, 36 unnumbered leaves, the Letter of Columbus filling the last seven and a half, 6 woodcuts, morocco, g.e., Basle, J. Bergman de Olpe, 1494, 4to. (305)

Quaritch, $50 [Of the seven early Latin editions known of the Cosco translation of this celebrated Letter of Columbus, only two bear an actual date. This edition is doubly interesting by reason of the woodcuts. The Columbus Letter is here appended to a relation by Verardus of the capture of Granada by Ferdinand from the Moors.- Catalogue.]

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