AMERICA; or an exact Description of the WEST-
INDIES by N. N. 2 parts in I vol. 16mo.

£ s. d.

with the folding Map mounted on linen; dark olive morocco extra, gilt edges London, 1655 5 15 O AMERICAN DOCUMENTS, FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS, folio, a considerable number of official copies and actual originals, of communications between the Home Office and the various officers and governors in the English possessions in America, between 1694 and 1720, with 2 MS. maps; hf. bd. lettered "Plantations"

1694-1722 63 0 0

A most interesting collection, giving all the private and official accounts of the Nova Scotia and Accadia questions, the fishery in Canço bay, and all the disputed claims between the English and French with regard to the frontiers and border settlements in the West Indies. and near the line of the St. Laurence; and including the original commission issued in 1722 to Daniel Pulteney, and signed by George I, "George R" at the beginning and "GR at the end. Towards the middle of the volume (which is chiefly concerned with the years 1718-20, and which was evidently one of a series of books kept in the Colonial Office of the time) we come upon the copy of a letter from Laurence Vanden Bosh to Governor Nicholson of Maryland. It is dated from Sassifrix 19 October 1694, and has a large MS. map of the lower course and the mouths of the Mississippi. This is followed by five long pages of extracts from letters of Governor Nicholson, Governor Blake, and others, concerning a scheme to prevent the French from utilising the Mississippi. Another large map at the end of the book shows "Canço Harbour the eastmost land of Nova Scotia. By Capt. Young.' This was in connexion with the fishery dispute.-We find also ADDISON here, in his capacity of Secretary of State, receiving and answering letters on those questions.

ANGHIERA (Pietro Martire d') Decades.

Decas Prima, First Edition. Oceani Decas.
With Map of the New World.

morocco

Decades I-III, First Edition.

Small folio, morocco

Small folio,

£ s. d.

Sevilla, 1511 Sold.

Alcala, 1515.

22 IO O

Decas Quarta, First Edition. De nvper svb D.
Carolo repertis Insulis, R. Petri Martyris,
Enchiridion . . Small 4to. calf gilt

Basilea, 1521 4 0 0

Extraict ov Recveil des Isles nouuellemēt trouuees en la grand mer Oceane . . Item trois Narrations. . Small 4to. old French blue morocco, gilt edges

Paris, 1532 90 0 0

a larger and finer copy in old russia gilt 1532 96 o o

Decades 1-4 of Peter Martyr in French; followed by

an abridgment of the Second and Third Letters of Cortes.
The morocco copy above described fetched £126
at the Beckford sale.

De Nouo Orbe, or The Historie of the West Indies. . comprised in eight Decades. Written by Peter Martyr. . whereof three, haue been formerly translated into English, by R. Eden, whereunto the other fiue, are newly added by . . M. Lok.. Small 4to. gilt russia

London, 1612 9 90

The first edition of the complete Peter Martyr in
English.

£ s. d.

ANSON (George, Lord) A Voyage round the
World in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV,
compiled from his papers and materials by
Richard Walter, roy. 4to. LARGE PAPER, portrait,
maps, and plates; old red morocco gilt 1767 2
APIANUS (Petrus) Cosmographia nonnullis
locis aucta . sm. 4to. with maps and cuts,
including a folding Map of the World, in heart-
shape; limp vellum
Colon. Agrip. 1574

Cosmographia, siue Descriptio vniuersi Orbis, Petri Apiani & Gemmæ Frisij . . Adiecti sunt alij . . Tractatus ac Libelli . . sm. 4to. with the large and small World-maps, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams having moveable pieces; fine copy in calf, gilt edges

5 0

I 16 0

Antuerpiæ, apud Ioan. Bellerum, 1584 2 10 0 the same, sm. 4to. in the original limp vellum Antuerpiæ ex officina Ioannis Withagii, 1584 2 12 6 ARONA (Juan de) La Inmigracion en el Peru, monografia historico-critica, plates, 1891Paginas Diplomaticas del Peru por Juan de Arona, 1891-2 vols. in 1, sm. 4to. hf. bd.

Lima, 1891 O IO O

ASPLUND (John) The Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in North America to the first of November, 1790, containing an account of the Churches and their Constitutions, Ministers, Members . . small 4to. 70 pp. sd.

Southampton County, Virginia, 1791 2 0 0

Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly.

2

ARROWSMITH (John) The London Atlas of Universal Geography, imp. folio, 68 large plates, coloured; hf. bd.

£ s. d.

1858(-61) 0 18 o

Still one of the most useful works of its kind.

ARTICUL-BRIEF

van de Generale Neder

landtsche Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Com

pagnie small 4to. polished calf gilt

In 's Gravenhage, by Jacobus Scheltus, 1675 o 15 O

AUSTRALIA, THE FIRST MAP OF AUSTRALIA, from Nicolas Vallard's Atlas, 1547, in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, chromolithographed in facsimile from the MS. original, on a sheet of paper 23 inches by 17

Privately issued for Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1856 2

The words "Terra Iaua" occur close to the long
coast which runs from 9 to 55 degrees of South Latitude.
It is known that the name Greater Java was applied by
the early navigators to the coasts of New Guinea and
Australia. The artist who decorated Vallard's map has
ornamented the interior of this land with figures such as
could only have been seen in Lesser Java; but he was
probably misled by the name Iaua.

AVEZAC, Notices des Decouvertes faites dans
l'Océan Atlantique antérieurement aux grandes
Explorations du 15e Siècle; Note sur la pre-
mière expédition de Béthencourt aux Canaries;
2 vols. in 1, large 8vo. sd. 10s; or, bound in
full morocco
BANCROFT (Henry) History of the
Revolution, Vols. I-III, 8vo. calf gilt

2 Ꮕ

Paris, 1845-46 0 15 0

American

1852-54 0 18 o

£ s. d.

BARTHOLOMEO DA LI SONNETTI [ZAM-
BERTO] (ISOLARIO), 4to. gothic letter, with 49
woodcut maps; citron morocco extra, gilt edges, by
C. Smith [sine nota, sed Venetiis, circa 1480] 24 0 0
"One of the rarest volumes of early Italian poetry,"

and at the same time, the earliest special Atlas of the
Mediterranean. The first five pages are occupied by a
metrical introduction. On the sixth a sonnet begins,
which is devoted to the Island of Cerigo, opposite to it is
given a woodcut map; then follow the sonnets on Crete,
Rhodes, etc., in due succession. The maps are simple
outlines, without any names of places. The subject of
the last sonnet is Cyprus, the concluding leaf being the
map of that island.

The present copy accords exactly with the description
given by Brunet. It consists of fifty-six leaves, without
either pagination or signatures. The author gives his
name on the fifth page thus-

"Per aprobar questa opereta fata
per me bartolomeo da li soneti

intendo de monstrar con veri effeti

quanto che londa egiea abia cerchatta

The first three lines are a dedication which contains an elaborate reduction of the sovereign's name to numerals. They run thus

Al Diuo Cinque cento cinque e diece

Tre cinque a do Mil nulla tre e do un cento
Nulla ..

Cinque cento D, cinque V, diece X; tre=3 or Z;
cinque V, a=A, do=ii, i.e. n or N, mil-M, nulla O,
tre Z, e E, do N, un-I, cento=C, nulla=0. The union
of those symbols makes the name DVX ZVAN
MOZENICO, i.e. the Doge who ruled from 1477 to
1485.

BEATTY (Charles) The Journal of a two months' Tour; with a view to promoting Religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pensylvania remarks on the Language and Customs of some particular tribes among the Indians . . 8vo. calf extra, gilt edges, Beckford's copy

1768 2 12 6