Ordered by them to be published in their Boston News- [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, 10 [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 detestable Tea sent out by the East India Company, Part [The famous Boston Tea-party. 5496 Rogers (Major Robert). Journals of, containing an account [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, £555. 5499 Sanderson (John). Biography of the Signers to the Declaration 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 10S. 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, £56 [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 description 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 leaf, black letter, calf, red edges, Henrie Bynneman for [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 he 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, £109 [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 [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 Hispaniar [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.] |