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1128 PINKARD's (Dr. Geo.) Notes on the West Indies, with observations

1806

on Barbadoes, the Coast of Guiana, the Creoles and slaves of the Western Colonies and the Indians of South America. 3 vols, 8vo. bds. 58-calf, neat. 88 6d-half calf. 68 6d 1129 PISONIS (Gul.) De Indiæ utriusque Re Naturali et Medica, woodcuts, 1658.-Georgii Margravii de regionibus et Indigenis Brasilia et Chili ejusdem continentis.-Jac. Bontii Historiæ Naturalis et Medicæ, India Orientalis. Folio, woodcuts, large clean copy, vellum. 10s 6d Amst., 1658 1130 PITMAN (R. B.) On the Practicability of joining the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a ship canal across the Isthmus of America. 8vo, map, calf gilt. 4s 6d

48

1805

1825 1131 PITOU (L. A.) Voyage a Cayenne dans les deux Ameriques et chez les Antropophages. 2 vols, 8vo, half calf. Another FINE COPY, calf gilt. 58 1132 PIZARRO y Orellana, Varones Illustres del nuevo Mundo descubridores, conguistadores y pacificadores del opulento dilato y poderoso Imperio de las Indias occidentales. Folio, new, half calf (stained). £1. 1s Madrid, 1639

} 1133 PLACIDE-JUSTIN, Histoire de l'Ile d'Hayti ecrit sur les documents officiels de Sir James Baskett. 8vo, half calf. 38 6d 1826 1134 PLYMOUTH SETTLEMENT. A Relation or Journal of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantations settled at Plymouth, in New England, by certain English Adventurers, both merchants and others. 4to, blue mor., extra gilt leaves (the first six leaves are supplied from the facsimilies in Dr. Cheever's reprint) very rare. £3 38 1622 1135 POETICAL Picture of America, being observations made during a residence of several years in Virginia. By a Lady. 12mo, cloth. 38 6d

Southey's copy, with his autograph.

1809

1136 POINSETT's Notes on Mexico. 8vo. large map, bds. 48 Phil., 1824 1137 POINSETT. Another Edition. 8vo, map, bds. 48 Lond., 1825 1138 POLITICAL Essays concerning the present state of the British Empire, particularly respecting natural advantages and disadvantages, constitution, agriculture, manufactures, the colonies, and commerce. calf neat. 58

From pp. 226 to 442 relate to America.

4to,

1772

1139 POLITE Traveller. Being a Modern View of the 13 United States of America. 12mo, map, calf. 28

1783

1140 POMPONII MELE de Orbis situ, una cum Commentariis Joach. Vadiani. Folio, curious front, fine clean copy, half calf. 128 Basil, 1522

1141 PONCEAU (Peter S. Du).

Important for the study of American History, see Humboldt's Cosmos, vol. 2.
Discourse on the Early History of Penn-
sylvania, being an annual oration before the American Philosophical
Society. 8vo, half morocco.

38

Philadelphia, 1821
On 20 sheets

1142 POPPLE'S Map of the British Empire in America. COLOURED, royal folio, half-bound. 14s

1143 PORACCHI (Thomaso). L'Isole piu famose del mondo. engraved by Gir. Porro, vellum. 98

1733

Folio, maps, Venezia, 1576

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1144 PORACCHI. Another Copy, folio, FINE COPY, ruled with red lines, old red morocco, gilt leaves. 158. Venet., 1576

It describes Hispaniola, Cuba, and the Island of Santa Croce, or Mondo Novo, Jamaica, Porto Rico, and the great city of Temistitum (Mexico) with very neat copper plate maps. 1145 PORRES. Vita del B. Martino de Porres terziario professo dell'ordine de' predicatori nella provincia di S. Giovanni Battista del Peru. 4to, portrait, half bound. 58

1789

Roma, 1837 1146 PORTLOCK and Dixon's Voyage round the World, but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America. 4to, maps and plates, very neat. 68 1147 POTERAT (Marquis de). Journal d'un Voyage au Cap de Horn, au Chili au Peru, aux Íles Philippines et à la côte de la Nouvelle Espagne. 4to, calf neat. 1148 POWNALL (T., Governor of Massachusetts Bay and South Carolina.) Topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the annexed map of the middle British Colonies, and in North America. Folio, large folding map, half calf gilt. 18s 1776 1149 POWNALL (Thomas). Administration of the Colonies.

EDITION, neat. 3s

58

1150 POWNALL. 8vo. THIRD EDITION, half calf. 38 6d 1151 POWNALL FOURTH EDITION. 8vo, half calf.

8vo. half calf.

4s 6d

3s 6d

Paris, 1815

8vo. SECOND

1765

1766

1768

1152 POWNALL'S (Thos.) Memorial on the present state of affairs between the Old and New World. 1780 1153 POYER (John). History of Barbadoes, from the first discovery of the Island, in the year 1605, to the accession of Lord Seaforth, 1801. 4to, bds. 4s 6d-half calf, 4s 6d-whole bound, 58 6d 1808 1154 POYNTZ'S (Capt. John). Present State of the famous and fertile Island of Tobago to the southward of the Island of Barbadoes, to which is added proposals for encouragement of all those that are minded to settle there. 4to, neat, in brown calf, rare, 12s 1695ANOTHER COPY, half morocco, 98

1155 PRATZ (Le P. du). Histoire de la Louisiane contenant la decouverte de ce vaste pays; deux Voyages dans le Nord du nouveau Mexique. 3 vols. 12mo, maps and plates, calf neat, 88 6d

Paris, 1758 1156 PREFONTAINE (M. de). Maison Rustique a l'usage des habitans de la partie de la France equinoxiale connue sous le nom de Cayenne et Dictionnaire Galibi par M. D. L. S. 8vo, plates, neat, scarce.

98

Paris, 1763

1847

1157 PRESCOTT'S (W. H.) History of the Conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the civilisation of the Incas. 2 vols. 8vo, 2 portraits, cloth. £1. 1s pub. at £1. 12s 1158 PRESCOTT's (W. H.) History of the Conquest of Mexico, with preliminary view of ancient Mexican Civilisation, and life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortes. 3 vols, post, 8vo, cloth. 138 1850 1159 PRESCOTT's (W. H.) History of the Conquest of Peru, with preliminary view of the Civilisation of the Incas. 3 vols, post, 8vo, cloth. 13s 1850 1160 PRESENT State of Great Britain and North America. (By DR. JOHN MITCHELL.) 8vo, neat.

4s

1767

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1161 PRESENT State of Nova Scotia, with a brief account of Canada and the British Islands on the Coast of N. America. 8vo, SECOND EDITION, enlarged, map, calf, gilt. 58

1787 1162 PRESTON'S (T. R.) Three Years' Residence in Canada, from 1837 to 1839, 2 vols. post, 8vo, bds. 4s-half calf, gilt. 58 1840 1163 PRICE'S (Dr. R.) Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the war with America. 8vo, half calf, 18 6d 1771 1164 PRICE (R.) Observations and additional observations on the nature and value of Civil Liberty, Principles of Government, and Justice and Policy of the War with America. 2 vols in one, 12mo, neat, Dublin, 1776-7 Travels in the United States of America,

28

1165 PRIEST (Wm. a Musician).

8vo. plate, new, half calf. 38

1793 to 1797. 1802 1166 PRIEST'S American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West, being an Exhibition of the evidence of an Ancient Civilized People many centuries before the discovery by Colombus. 8vo. plates, FIFTH EDITION, neat. 68 Albany, 1838 1167 PRINCE (Thomas). Chronological History of New England, in the form of Annals. Vol. 1, all printed, 8vo, calf, neat. 78 6d Boston, N. E., 1736 1168 PROCEEDINGS of the Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon Negroes, with observations on their manners and habits. By B. Edwards. 8vo, front by Abr. Raimbach, the friend of Wilkie, very neat. 4s 6d 1796 1169 PROCTOR's (Robert) Narrative of a Journey across the Cordillera of the Andes, and of a Residence in Lima, and other parts of Peru. 8vo, bds. 38-calf, neat. 48

1825 1170 PULTENEY's (W.) Letter addressed to two Great Men, on the prospect of Peace, and on the terms to be insisted on in the Negotiation. 8vo, neat. 2s 6d

1760 1171 PURCHAS, his Pilgrimes, containing Peregrinations and Discoveries in the remotest North and East parts of Asia, called Tartaria and Asia, by Englishmen aud others, and Voyages and Discoveries of the North parts of the World, by land and sea, Polar Regions and North West of America, also English Northern Navigation, and Discoveries of Greenland, the North West passage, and other Arctic Regions. Voyages and Travels to and in the New World, called America, and of the Seas and Islands adjacent. Complete in 5 vols. folio, engraved title, maps and curious woodcuts, FINE COPY, in brown calf, gilt leaves. 1625

£31. 10s

1172 PURSH'S (F.) Flora America Septentrionalis; or a Systematic Arrangement and Description of the Plants of North America. 2 vols. 8vo, many plates, bds. 98

1816

1173 PUTNAM'S (G. P.) American Facts, or Notes and Statistics on the United States. Post 8vo, portraits, cloth.

28 6d

1845

1174 PYм's (A. G. of Nantucket) Extraordinary Adventures in the South Seas. Post 8vo, cloth. 28

1838

1175 QUEBEC. Abstract of those parts of the Custom of the Viscounty

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and Provostship of Paris, which were received and practised in the
Province of Quebec, in the time of the French, 1772-Abstract of
the Loix de Police of ditto, 1772-Royal Edicts and Declarations
of ditto, 1772. In 1 vol. folio, neat. 68

1176 QUEBEC. Plan of a Code of Laws for the Province of Quebec,
reported by the Advocate-General (James Marriott). 8vo, PRIVATELY
PRINTED, neat. 68
1774
1177 QUEBEC. Account of the Proceedings of the Inhabitants of the Pro-
vince of Quebec, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that
Province (by Baron Maseres). 8vo, neat. 4s 6d

1775

1178 QUINCY (Josiah, Jun.). Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Jun.,
of Massachusetts. 8vo, bds. 4s 6d
Boston, 1825
1179 MEMORIAL por el Licenciado Don Alonso de Castillo Herrera oydor
mas antiguo de la real audiencia de Quito que la Governava. Fol.
bds. title mended. 5*
No place or date (about 1676).
1180 RAINSFORD's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti. 4to.
plates, leather back, uncut. 58-ANOTHER, half russia. 68 1805
1181 RALEIGH (Gualtherum) Brevis et admiranda Descriptio regni Guiana
auri abundantissimi in America annis 1564, 1595, 1596, nunc Vero
in Latinum Sermonum translata. 4to, very curious plates, fine copy,
calf, neat. £1. 11s 6d
Noriberga, 1599
1182 RALEIGH (Walter) Warachtighe Ende groudige beschryvinghe Van
het groot en Gout-rijck Conigrijck Van Guiana. Oblong Quarto.
Half morocco.
Tot Amsterdam, 1617

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15s

Ar. account of Sir Walter Raleigh and Captain Laurence Keymis's Voyages to Guiana. 1183 RALEIGH (Sir Walter) Judicious and Select Essays and Observations upon the first invention of shipping, the misery of invasive war, the Navy Royall and Sea Service, with his Apologie for his Voyage to Guiana. 12mo, old calf, scarce. 78 6d

1650 1184 RALEIGH's (Sir Walter) Discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana, 1596. Edited with unpublished documents relating to that Country, by Sir Robert Schomburgk. cloth. 10s 6d

8vo, map,

Hakluyt Soc. 1848

1185 RALEIGH. Declaration of the Demeanor and Carriage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knt., as well as in his voyage as in, and sithence his returne. 4to, half calf. 6s

1618

1186 RAMSAY (Dr. David) History of the Revolution of South Carolina, from

a British Province to an Independent State.

neat. 78 6d

2 vols. 8vo, maps,
Trenton, 1785

1791

1793

1187 RAMSAY (Dr. David) History of the American Revolution. 2 vols.
Svo, half calf. 68 6d-ANOTHER, whole calf. 78 6d
RAMSAY. ANOTHER EDITION. 2 vols. 8vo, very neat, in half
calf. 78
1188 RAMSAY (Dr. David) History of the United States, from their first
settlement as English Colonies, in 1607, to the year 1808, continued
to the Treaty of Ghent, by Rev. Dr. S. S. Smith, and others. 3
vols. 8vo, bds. 98
Philadelphia, 1818

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1189 RAMUSIO (Giov. Batt.) Navigationi et Viaggi raccolta et da lui dichiarato e illustrato. 3 vols. folio, curious maps and woodcuts, good clean copy, half calf (vol. 1 wants 2 leaves). £2. 28 1613 1190 RANKING (John) Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols. 8vo, maps and ports. bds. 6s

1827 1191 RAYNAL, Histoire de la Revolution de l'Amerique. 12mo, half calf. 2s-bds. 1s 6d 1781

1192 RAYNAL, Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes, with maps and plans, together 5 vols. 4to, plates by Moreau, FINE COPY, whole bound in russia, formerly Bryan Edwards's copy. 188 Geneve, 1780 1193 RAYNAL'S History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. 6 vols. 12mo, half calf (wanting title to the 1st volume), 38 6d 1782 1194 RECCHI (Nard. Ant.) Rerum Medicarum Novæ Hispaniæ Thesaurus sive Plantarum, Animalium mineralium Mexicanorum Historia ex Francisci Hernandez, Novi Orbis Medici Primarii relationibus in ipsa Mexicana Urbe conscriptio, a Terentio, Fabro, et Lynceis Notis illustrata. Thick folio, engraved title and numerous woodcuts, calf, neat. £1. 4s Roma, 1651

1195 RECHERCHES Historiques et Politiques sur les Etats-Unies de l'Amerique, par un Citoyen de Virginie. 4 vols. 8vo, calf neat. 10s 6d Colle, 1788

The author was M. Mazzei, who emigrated to America before the Revolution, and established himself in Virginia, near Monticello, where he planted a vineyard. He was intimate with Jefferson, through whose influence he was sent on a mission to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

1196 RECUEIL de Divers Voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique qui n'ont point esté publiez. 4to, maps and plates, calf, neat.

158 Paris, 1684

The Maps of Jamaica, Barbadoes, Coasts of New England, are curious; the volume relates principally to Barbadoes, Jamaica, Guiana, Customs of the Caribs, &c. 1197 RECUEIL de Voyages au Nord (Greenland, Spitzbergen, Newfoundland, Mississippi, California, Gulph of St. Lawrence, &c.) contenant divers Memoires tres utiles au Commerce et à la Navigation. 3 vols. 12mo, maps and plates, calf. 68 1198 RECUEIL des Loix Constitutives des Colonies Angloises confédérées sous la Denomination d'Etats unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale par Regnier. 12mo, calf, neat. 38

Dedicated to Dr. Franklin.

Amst. 1715

Paris, 1778

1199 RED RIVER COLONY. Mc Donell (Alex.) Narrative of Transactions in the Red River Country, from the commencement of the operations of the Earl of Selkirk. 8vo, map, 1819-Report of the Proceedings connected with the disputes between the Earl of Selkirk and the North-West Company, at the Assises at York, Upper Canada, pp. 478, 1819. In 1 vol. 8vo. half calf. 58

1200 REDI (Francesio) Esperienze intorno a Diverse cose naturali e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall' Indie (East and West L Indies), 4to, plates, vellum. 58 Firenze, 1671

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