in the North American Colonies and Canada, during the years 1747, 49, 54, '57, '58, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, '65, '70, '72, $79, '82, '84, '87, '88, '91 and '93, signed in numerous places by George II. and George III., and countersigned by Grenville, Pelham, North, Barrington, Townshend, C. J. Fox, W. Pitt, Buller, etc., Sac. XVIII., folio (160)

Sabin, £15 [This remarkable series of original papers, occupying about 500 large folio pages, is of the greatest value in connection with the history of our American Colonies, giving as it does details of the position of the various regiments, rates of pay, names of officers, etc., during a very interesting period. Catalogue.]

1745 Manuscripts. List of Governors, Lieut.-Governors of Plantations, with their Salaries, number of People, etc., 1745Extract dated 18th August, 1777, from a report of Colonel Ogilvie, of the Guards, and Captain Loring, Master of the Lady Gage transport, relating to the battles near Westfield and Amboy, and the taking of Ticonderoga-Copy of the Proclamation for suppressing Rebellion and Sedition in divers parts of the Colonies and Plantations in North America, and other interesting papers relating to the War of Independence, together 7 MSS. (167) Sabin, £3 11S. 1746 Manuscripts. Original Documents and Official Copies, Letters, etc., 1739-1749, relating to the Boundary Question between New Hampshire and the Massachusetts Bay, containing, inter alia, a certificate signed by Governor J. Belcher, with the seal of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay affixed-Declaration of B. Pollard, Notary of Boston, signed by himself and subscribed by J. Winslow, Justice of the Peace for Massachusetts Bay-Copy of the Petition of J. Tomlinson, Agent for New Hampshire, relating to the Boundary and Fort Dunmore-Letter from Theod. Atkinson, dated Portsmouth (New Hampshire), 24 Dec., 1740, relating to the same, etc., an interesting collection of II MSS. (173) Sabin, £6 15s. 1747 Manuscripts. Belcher Case. Letter dated 15 May, 1870, from the Men of New Hampshire, with full list of Autograph Signatures—Manuscript, without Signature, of 7 pages, folio, headed The Case of Governor BelcherLetter from J. Ramage, dated 8 Nov., 1739, relating to the feeling in the House re Governor Belcher, together 8 MSS. (183) Ashworth, £21 1748 Manuscripts. Belcher Case. A True Copy of the Journal of the House of Representatives, New Hampshire, from 23 July, 1740 to 7 Aug., signed and attested by Andrew Wiggin (Speaker), James Jeffrey (Clerk), R. Waldron and Governor Belcher, relating to the expedition against the West Indies, the boundary question, state of the Indians and the French, detailed estimated cost of the expedition, instructions for the Agent of the Colony to apply for a separate Governorship, etc. (184) Sabin, £6 6s.

[The original official copy sent to John Tomlinson, Agent of the Colony, as the best proof of the necessity of New Hampshire requiring a separate Governor and their inability to agree with Belcher. It must have been very galling to Belcher to have been obliged to sign and seal with the grand seal of the Province a document so much against his own interests, containing as it does several passages contrary to his administration and praying Tomlinson to endeavour to have a new Governor appointed.— Catalogue.] 1749 New Jersey. Large folding map of the Province of New Jersey, divided into East and West, commonly called the Jerseys, drawn from the survey made in 1769, by C. Ratzer, and from another large survey of the Northern Parts, by G. Banker, mounted on linen and folded into a case, London, W. Faden, 1777, 8vo. (185) H. Stevens, £1 195. 1750 Bunker's Hill. The Seat of War in New England, by an American Volunteer, with the Marches of the several Corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston, including Boston Harbour, and plan of the town of Boston, with the attack on Bunker's Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown, June 17, 1775, this latter containing also a very interesting coloured little view of the battle itself, London, 1775, 8vo. (192) H. Stevens, £1 25. 1751 New York. Large folding plan of the City of New York and its Environs to Greenwich on the North or Hudson's River, and to Crown Point on the East or Sound River, showing the several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort and Battery, with the true form and course of the Commanding Grounds, with and without the town, survey'd in the winter, 1775, by J. Montresor, with chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, London, n. d. (1776), 8vo. (193) Edwards, £1 9s. 1752 Bunker's Hill. A Sketch of the Action between the British Forces and the American Provincials on the Heights of the Peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775, London, Jeffreys and Faden, 1775, 8vo. (196)

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H. Stevens, £4 8s. 1753 Quebec. A Plan of Quebec, showing the Port and Environs as it was when attack'd by the English, with Description, London, 1759-An Authentic Plan of the River St. Lawrence, from Sillery to the Fall of Montmorenci, with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec under the command of Vice-Admiral Saunders and Major-Genl. Wolfe, down to the 5th Sept., 1759, London, n. d. (1759)—A Correct Plan of the Environs of Quebec and of the Battle fought on the 13th Sept., 1759, with a particular detail of the French Lines, etc., and also of the Encampments, Batteries, etc. of the British Army, etc., important and very large folding view, London, Jefferies, n. d. (1759) (197) Tinkler, £2 2s.

(B) Miscellaneous.

1754 African Company. The Case of the Royal African Company of Engiand, London, 1730-The Importance of Effectually Supporting the Royal African Company of England Impartially considered, shewing that a free and open trade to Africa and the support and preservation of the British Colonies and Plantations in America depend upon maintaining the forts and settlements, etc. belonging to that Corporation against the encroachments of the French and all other foreign rivals in that trade, second edition with a new and more correct map, uncut, London, 1745-Short View of the Dispute between the Merchants of London, Bristol and Liverpool, and the Advocates of a New Joint Stock Company concerning the Regulation of the African Trade, uncut, London, 1750, and another relating to the same, 4to. and folio (3) Quaritch, £2 6s. 1755 African Company. The Case of the Creditors of the Royal African Company of England, broadsheet of 2 leavesReasons for Settling the Trade to Africa upon the Footing of a Free and Open Trade to all His Majesty's Subjects, and for Entrusting the Care of the Forts and the Protection of the Trade to a New Company with a Suitable Joint-Stock, 2 leaves-Reasons in Support of the Proposals for Preserving, Extending and Protecting the British Trade in South Africa, 2 leaves, and 1 other, about 1750, folio (4)

Kegan, £2 1756 African Company. The Case of the Royal African Company of England and their Creditors, 1748-Seasonable Observations on the Trade to Africa, 1748, and other Tracts, etc. on the same subject (5) Kegan, £2 2s.

1757 Alchemy. Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, engraved titles and copperplates, vellum, Francofurti, 1777, small 4to. (8) Maggs, £1 5s. 1758 Alken (Henry). Illustrations to Popular Songs, 43 coloured plates by Alken, half morocco, T. McLean, 1823, oblong 4to. (364) Hornstein, £5 7s. 6d. 1759 Alken (H.) A Touch at the Fine Arts, 12 coloured plates by Alken, half morocco, T. McLean, 1824, small folio (365) Hornstein, £35s. 1760 Arnold (Matthew). Alaric at Rome, a Prize Poem. Reprint, edited by Wise, one of a few copies printed on vellum, 1840-1893, 8vo. (205) Sotheran, £1 IIS. 1761 Astrology. Registrum Guidonis Bonati de forlivio, gothic letter, with numerous quaint woodcuts and horoscopes, old calf (wanting I leaf), August, Vind, 1491, small 4to. (206) Tinkler, £2 2s. 1762 Astronomy, etc. Elucidatio Fabricæ Ususque Astrolabii a Ioanne Stoflerino in lucem edita, woodcuts and diagrams, Impressum Oppenheym, 1513-Tabulæ Eclypsium Magistri Georgii Peurbachii, woodcuts, Vienna, 1514 (fine copies)Ioannis Stöfler Tabulæ Astronomica (plain margins of

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some leaves repaired), Tubinge, 1514, in one vol., old stamped calf, folio (207) Voynich, £1 5s. 1763 Bacon (Francis). Of the Advancement and Proficience of Learning, or the Partitions of Sciences, portrait and engraved title by Marshall, old stamped and gilt calf, Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1640, 8vo. (208) Ellis, £i 175. 1764 Blagdon (F. W.) History of Ancient and Modern India, from the Earliest Periods of Antiquity, coloured plates, half russia, 1805, oblong folio (215) Parsons, 1 8s. 1765 Boccaccio (G.) Il Philocolo. Roman letter in double columns (wanted a 1, probably a blank leaf), old boards, covered with leather, Venet., Philippo di Piero, 1481, folio (216) Leighton, £1 15s. 1766 Boccaccio (G.) Il Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato, frontispiece and portrait, LARGE PAPER, morocco, with Arms of the family of Bernard in gold on sides, 1825, folio (218)

Leighton, £2 6s. 1767 Bodenham (Jno). Politeuphuia, Wits Commonwealth, newly Corrected and Amended, calf, n. d.-Wits Commonwealth, the Second Part (by F. Meres), calf, 1634, 12mo. (220)

Tinkler, £1 1768 Boothby (Richard). A Breife Discovery or Description of the most Famous Island of Madagascar, or St. Laurence, neare unto East India, half calf, 1646, small 4to. (222)

Tinkler, £2 6s.

1769 British Poets (The). 100 vol., boards, uncut, Chiswick, C. Whittingham, 1822, 8vo. (383) Spencer, £1 16s. 1770 Carraciolus. Collecta Magistralia per adventum Domini de Formatione Hominis Moralis, gotbie letter in long lines, rubricated initials, new pigskin binding, Nuremberga, F. Creusner, 1479, folio (230) Leighton, £1 3s. 1771 Celsus Mapheus monumentum Compendiosum pro confessionibus Cardinalium, first page within ornamental border, vellum, s. 1., 1478, small 4to. (232) Leighton, £5 5s. 1772 Clement (V.) Constitutiones Clementinæ, gothic letter, double columns, slightly wormed and first leaf mended, else large copy in half boards, with the Schoeffer Shields in red at end, final blank leaf, Moguntino, P. Shoyffer de Geruszhen (235) Leighton, L3 5s. 1773 [Columna (F. de).] Poliphili Hypnerotomachia, editio princeps, woodcuts (that of the Priapus unmutilated), some rudely coloured (wanted 5 leaves at beginning and 1 at end, sold with all faults), half bound, Venet., Aldus, 1499, folio (237) Crisp, £3 12s. 6d. 1774 Dante. La Comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova Espositione di Alessandro Vellutello, numerous woodcuts, vellum, In Vinegia per Francesco Marcolini, 1544, small 4to. (243) Crisp, £1 16s. 1775 De Caus (Solomon). Von Gewaltsamen bewegungen Beschieibung etlicher SO wol nutzlichen als lustigen Machiner, 3 parts, full-page copperplates of Machinery,

etc. The Third Part is devoted to the manufacture of the Organ, and is wrongly dated 1515, vellum, Heydelberg, 1615, folio (244) Head, L1 55. 1776 De cultu vinee domini liber inumere plenus commoditatis, gothic letter, in double columns, with woodcut on title, morocco extra, g. e., by Belz-Niedrée, F. Regnault, 1514, 8vo. (245) Sotheran, £1 2s. 1777 Douglas (Gavin, Bishop of Dunkeld). Poetical Works, with Memoir and Notes by Jno. Small, 4 vol., one of 2 copies printed on vellum, morocco super extra, t. e. g., preserved in extra cases, Edinburgh, 1874, 8vo. (249) Sotheran, £10 15s. 1778 Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie of the most auncient Philospher Euclide of Megara, Faithfully (now first) translated into the English toung by H. Billingsley, Citizen of London, etc., with a very fruitfull preface, made by M. J. Dee, specifying the chief Mathematicall Sciences, etc., first edition, engraved title and portrait, large copy, in the contemporary oak boards, covered with stamped leather (clasps missing and joints of upper cover broken), London, J. Day, 1570, folio (254a) Pickering, £5 1779 Euclidis Geometriæ, ornamental border to first page and woodcut diagrams, old oaken boards (one missing), E. Ratdolt, Augustensis, 1482, folio (255) Leighton, £8 5s. 1780 Fencing. Regole della Scherma, scritte da Francesco Antonio Marcelli, frontispiece (mounted) and copperplates of Fencing, vellum, Roma, 1686, small 4to. (255b) Crisp, £1 7s. 1781 Fitzgerald's Australian Orchids, parts 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, and vol. ii., parts 1 to 5, fine coloured plates, 1882, etc., folio (375) Quaritch, £3 10S. 1782 Hawkesworth (I.) Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, 3 vol., plates, calf, 1773, 4to. (270a) Edwards, £1 1783 Heath (William). The Life of a Soldier, 18 coloured plates by Heath, calf extra, t. e. g., by Zaehnsdorf, W. Sams, 1823, 4to. (367) Sabin, £4 10s. 1784 Heresbachius (Conrad). Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, containing the whole art and trade of Husbandrie, Gardening, Graffing and Planting, newly Englished and increased by Barnabe Googe, black letter, old calf, John Wright, 1586, small 4to. (271) Leighton, £4 12s. 6d. 1785 Hoare (Sir R. C.) History of Modern Wiltshire, 6 vol., plates, half morocco (a portion of vol. i. damp-stained and 2 titles missing, not subject to return), 1822-43, folio (272) Sotheran, £5 5s.

1786 Jacobite. Memoirs of the Lives and Families of the Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie and Balmerino, 1746-A Vindication of the Revd. Mr. Foster's Account of the late Earl of Kilmarnock, 1746-A Review of Mr. Foster's Account of the Behaviour of the Earl of Kilmarnock, 1746-Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, 1746-A Free Examination of a Modern Romance, entitled Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, 1746, all uncut, together 5 tracts, 8vo. (284) W. Brown, £1 5s.