£ s. d.

MAURO (M.)-See SACROBOSCO.

MEDINA (Pedro de) ARTE DE NAVEGAR.. Small folio, with many diagrams and a full-page map of the New World; vellum, VERY RARE

Valladolid, 1545 20

L'Arte del Navegar. . tradotta
tradotta. . in volgar
Italiano.. Small 4to. with diagrams and map
copied from those in the Spanish edition; olive
morocco extra, gilt edges, by Petit
Vinetia, 1555

MENDES PINTO-See my Bibliotheca Hispana;

Indias.

MERCURIO PERUANO de Historia, Literatura, y Noticias publicas que da a luz la Sociedad Academica de Amantes de Lima. 12 vols. sm. 4to. all published, vellum

5 0 0

Lima, 1791-95 6 10 O

Number 303 in Vol. IX is not in this set.

the same, Vols. I-IX, or nos. 1-312 (wanting nos. 303 and 304), 9 vols. sm. 4to. vellum

1791-93

The above interesting collection of Periodical Writings is of the greatest rarity. Thorpe, in one of his Catalogues, states that a gentleman had assured him he could meet with but one copy in his travels through Spain, for which he was asked upwards of £30.

MEROLLA

DA SORRENTO (Girolamo ) Breve e svccinta Relatione del Viaggio nel regno di Congo, 12mo. frontispiece, map, and many plates; vellum

I 40

Napoli, 1692 I 8 0

£ s. d.

MERCATOR (Gerhard) Drei Karten: Europa, Britische Inseln, Welt-karte, atlas folio, 3 immense maps sectionally reproduced in 41 sheets by photogravure, with 2 pp. of introductory text; in a portfolio Berlin, 1891 3 00

Reproduced by the Berlin Geographical Society from
the engraved originals in the City Library of Breslau.
The Europa and the Britische Inseln, printed at Duis-
burg in 1554 and 1564 respectively, are unique and have
been hitherto unknown. The World-map at Breslau is a
second copy of a famous map hitherto supposed to be
extant only in the single known example in the Paris
Bibliothèque.

Historia Mvndi: or Mercators Atlas. Con-
taining his Cosmographicall Descriptions of
the Fabricke and Figure of the World. Lately
rectified. . by the studious industry of Ivdocvs
Hondy. Englished by W.S. [Wye Saltonstall]
. Thick sm. folio, 181 maps beautifully engraved,
and THE VERY RARE ADDITIONAL MAP OF NEW
ENGLAND; old calf

T. Cotes.. 1635 5 15 0

As the List of Errata explains, the valuable map of
New England, which should have appeared at page 905,
was not ready when the first edition was issued, but was
promised gratis to all purchasers of the volume, when it
should come over from America, where it was being
prepared. Very few copies, however, of either issue of
the book contain it, and it seems to have passed unde-
scribed till very recently.

MINOT (George Richards) Continuation of the
History [by Hutchinson] of the Province of
Massachusetts Bay, from the year 1748 (to
1765), 2 vols. in 1, small 8vo. calf extra, gilt
edges, a pretty copy
Boston, 1798-1803
An American classic, of which no more than these
two volumes appeared.

[MIDDLETON (Sir Henry)] THE LAST EASTINDIAN VOYAGE containing mvch varietie of the State of the seuerall kingdomes where they haue traded; with the Letters of three seuerall Kings to the Kings Maiestie of England, begun by one of the Voyage; since continued out of the faithfull obseruations of them that are come home. . Small 4to. a fine large copy in red morocco extra, gilt edges

£. s. d.

Printed by T. P. for Walter Burre. 1606 10 This anonymous work on the second Voyage performed for the English East India Company (1604-6), is placed under the name of Sir Henry Middleton, who commanded the expedition. It has been reprinted by the Hakluyt Society on account of its great rarity.

COLLATION: A, 2 leaves; B-K in fours, K2 bears the word Finis. Leaves K3 and K4, which contain the letters of the Eastern Kings, are sometimes missing.

Mr. Grenville, speaking of his copy of this Voyage, says "It is so rare that I have not been able to trace any mention of it; nor have I ever seen another copy of it.'

MILLARES (Agustin) Historia de las Islas Canarias, Tomo I (Antes de la Conquista), 8vo. pp. viii and 458; hf. morocco

0 0

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Las Palmas, 1881 0 6 0 MORDEN (Robert) Geography Rectified; or a description of the World.. sm. 4to. with 64 coloured maps (of which 14 are specially American); old calf London, 1680 MORRELL (Capt. Benjamin) A Narrative of four Voyages to the South Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean.. 1822-31, 8vo. portrait ; cloth bds.

New York, 1832 I 0 0

MORTON (Samuel George) Crania Americana, or a comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations in North and South America; folio, map and 78 plates; hf. morocco gilt, gilt edges

£ s. d.

Philadelphia, 1839 8 8 0

An important anthropological work of permanent value for its facts.

MÜLLER (G. P.) Voyages et Découvertes faites

par les Russes le long des Côtes de la Mer Glaciale . . on y a joint l'Histoire du fleuve Amur. . trad. de l'Allemand par C. G. F. Dumas, 12mo. large folding map of North West America and North East Asia; fine copy in russia extra, gilt edges Amsterdam, 1766 I 6 O MÜNSTER (Sebastian). LA COSMOGRAPHIE UNIVERSELLE. . augmentée, ornée & enrichie par Francois de Belleforest, 2 vols. stout sm. folio, maps and many hundreds of woodcuts, calf

Paris, 1575 4 00

With the signature, on the fly-leaves, of "William Forbes of Tolquhone, 1588,” from whom the Aberdeenshire family of Forbes-Leith is descended.

Many of the woodcuts in this French edition are
new, additional to, or improving upon those in the German
edition of 1550, where they first appeared. On column
1202 of Vol. I there is a chapter on the invention of
printing at Mentz by Gutenberg, which is followed by
another chapter on the discovery of Gunpowder.

NATIONAL ARITHMETICK: or Observations
on the Finances of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, with some hints respecting
Financiering and future taxation. . 8vo. sd.

Boston (1786) 0 18 0

NEW

£ s. d.

ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND
GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. Vols. I—
XXV (excepting Vol. XVI). 24 vols. 8vo.
with portraits of early settlers, facsimiles of signa-
tures, and pedigrees; nineteen vols. in cloth gilt, the
last five in hf. morocco, uncut Boston, 1847-71 12

the same, Vols. I-XI. 8vo. cloth gilt 1847-57 3
NICOLAY, LES QVATRE PREMIERS LIVRES DES
NAVIGATIONS et Peregrinations Orientales, de
N. de Nicolay Dauphinoys, seigneur d'Arfeuille
.. small folio, First Edition; with original
impressions of the 60 fine copperplates of costumes,
each occupying a full page; calf gilt, gilt edges,
with Lord Granville's bookplate

Lyon, Gvillavme Roville, 1568 6 6 o
VERY RARE. The famous designs which appeared
here for the first time were copied and reproduced over
and over again in successive reprints and translations of
the work, and finally attributed to the great painter
Titian. They were really the designs of Nicolay him-
self, engraved upon copper by Louis Danet and another.

The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages
.. Translated out of the French by T. Wash-
ington the younger, small 4to. with 60 fine
woodcuts by an English artist, copied from the
French designs; olive morocco extra, gilt edges
Thomas Dawson, 1585 10
Dedicated by John Stell, the publisher, to Sir Henry
Sidney and his son the famous Sir Philip.

This English edition was not reprinted. It is rare.
NORDENSKIÖLD, Voyage of the Vega round
Asia and Europe, 2 vols. 8vo. maps, portraits,
and cuts; hf. calf

1881

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