370 [DALRYMPLE (A.)], A Collection of English Songs, with an Appendix of Original Pieces. London, 1796. half morocco, uncut, 10s.

8vo,

371 GILCHRIST (John), A Collection of Ancient and Modern Scottish Ballads, Tales, and Songs; with explanatory notes and observations. Edinburgh, 1815. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut, 9s.

372 GILCHRIST. Scottish Songs, Ancient and Modern. Carefully collated and corrected from the most authentic sources; with brief notices. Edinburgh, 1865. 12mo, portrait of Allan Ramsay, cloth, uncut, 4s. 6d.

373 JACOBITE MINSTRELSY; with Notes illustrative of the text, and containing details in relation to the House of Stuart, from 1640 to 1784. Glasgow, 1828-9. Sm. 8vo, frontispiece and engraved title, half morocco, top edges gilt, £1 1s.

and Prose.

374 JONES (Stephen), Masonic Miscellanies, in Poetry Containing I. The Muse of Masonry, comprising 170 Masonic Songs. II. The Masonic Essayist. III. The Freemason's Vade-Mecum. London, 1797. 12mo, frontispiece, contemporary blue morocco, with masonic emblems in gilt on sides and back, gilt edges, £1 5s.

375 LABERN'S Comic Minstrel; a Collection of Popular Comic Songs. 1861. 2 vols. in 1, 12mo, portraits, and engraved titles, cloth, gilt edges, 6s.

376 LOGAN (W. H.), A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs; with illustrative Notes. Edinburgh, 1869. Cr. 8vo, numerous cuts, cloth, uncut, 6s.

377 NEW VOCAL ENCHANTRESS (The), containing an Elegant Selection of all the Newest Songs lately sung at the Theatres Royal. 1791. 12mo, engraved frontispiece and vignette, tree-calf extra, gilt edges, 16s.

378 PILL (A) to purge State-Melancholy or, a Collection of Excellent New Ballads. London, printed in the Year 1715. Sm. 8vo, clean copy, wrappers, 15s.

379 PLUMPTRE (Rev. James), A Collection of Songs, Moral, Sentimental, Instructive, and Amusing. 1806. 12mo, original boards, uncut, 8s. 6d.

(Continued on page 2 of cover.)

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London.

2 vols.

NOV 6 1922

No. 208.

ELLIS'S

CATALOGUE

of

RARE BOOKS

AND MSS.

containing a series of

Books relating to America, MSS. of Higden's Polychronicon, Peeris's Metrical Chronicle,

and

Trivet's French Chronicle ; The Mystère of 1499 printed for Verard; Turberville's Book of Falconrie and Hunting, 1611, &c., &c.

ON SALE BY

MESSRS. ELLIS

(J. J. HOLDSWORTH and G. SMITH ),

AT

29 New Bond Street,

LONDON, W. 1
ESTABLISHED 1728.

(Continued from back cover.)

310 [WYCLIFFE (John)], The pater noster in Englyshe. [Aii.] The Crede by the olde lawe and by the newe. [A6

verso.] The x comaundemētes of god. [Dv] The VII deadly synnes. The VII vertues. [Dv verso.] The V bodely wittes. [D6] The v goostly wyttes. [D7] The VII werkes of goostly mercy. The VII principall vertues. [D7 verso] The VIII blessynges of our lorde Jesu Christe. [D8] The XVI condicios of charite. [Ei] The V wonders of saynt Augustyn. [Eii] Here ensueth foure nedefull thynges to eche man. [Colophon]:-Imprynted in Fletestrete by me Robert Redman [n.d., about 1530.] Cum priuilegio Regali. Sm. 8vo, Black Letter, blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £38.

This rare tract is one of a series printed by Robert Redman about 1530, the authorship of which is attributed to John Wycliffe. Only three other copies of it are known, there being none in the British Museum, Bodleian or Cambridge University Libraries. The copy in the Dix Collection sold for

£100.

311 YOUNGE (William), Dissertatio Medica inauguralis, de Colica. Edinburgi, apud Balfour et Smellie, 1786. contemporary red morocco gilt, gilt edges, 18s.

8vo,

(J. J. HOLDSWORTH & G. SMITH),

29, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1.

Telephone: MAYFAIR, 3240.

Inland Telegrams: "ELLSCRUT, WESDO, LONDON."
Foreign Telegrams: "ELLSCRUT, LONDON."
Hours of Business: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturdays: 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

AMERICANA

1 ACT for Continuing the Liberty of Exporting Irish Lining Cloth to the British Plantations in America Duty-free; and for the more effectual Discovery of and Prosecuting such as shall unlawfully Export Wooll and Woollen Manufactures from Ireland. Dublin, 1717. Sm. 4to, some wormholes, sewed, 188.

2 AMERICAN MAPS (Five) from the 1548 edition of Mattiolo's Ptolemy. Each measuring 5 × 63 inches. £2 28.

According to Santarem the map of South America was the first in which it was figured as a Continent. The other maps are of Nueva Hispania (Mexico, etc.); Isola Spagnola Nova (Hayti); Isola Cuba Nova; Terra Nova (Labrador, Acadia, Florida, etc.). More details are given than in earlier Ptolemy maps.

3 [ATKINSON (Joseph)], A Match for a Widow or the Frolics of Fancy. A Comic Opera, in Three Acts. London, 1788. 8vo, sewed, 10s.

The author of this rare play was Treasurer of the Ordnance in Ireland, and in it a portion of Yankee Doodle" is sung. The part of Jonathan was the first attempt to introduce a Yankee character on the British stage.

4 BAIRD (Robert), Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849. Blackwood, 1850. 2 vols. 8vo, lithographic frontispieces, cloth, 158.

5 BARKER (Joseph), Life of William Penn, the celebrated Quaker and Founder of Pennsylvania. 8vo, woodcut portrait, original cloth, 4s. 6d.

1847.

Sm.

6 BARTRAM (William), Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. London, 1792. 8vo, portrait of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, folding map, and 7 plates, old calf gilt, £3 10s.

7 BELL (Solomon), Tales of Travels in the North of Europe. Boston, 1831. 12mo, with frontispiece, map and 25 woodcuts, boards, 15s.

4to,

8 BELLIN (Nicholas), Description Géographique des Isles Antilles possédées par les Anglois. Paris, 1758. pretty engraved title and vignette by Choffard, 22 maps and views, fine uncut copy in the original boards, £2 10s.

9 BINGLEY (Rev. Wm.), Biographical Conversations, on the most eminent Voyagers, of different Nations; from Columbus to Cook. London, 1818.-Biographical Conversations, on celebrated Travellers. 1819. Travels in Africa, exhibiting a connected View of the Geography and present State of that Quarter of the Globe. 1819.-Travels in South America. 1820. Travels in North America. 1821. 5 vols. 12mo, vignettes on titles, half calf, gilt backs (one vol. in calf), 168.

10 BISHOP (Matthew), His Life and Adventures, containing an Account of several Actions by Sea, Battles, and Sieges by Land, in which he was present from 1701 to 1711, interspersed with many curious Incidents. London, printed for J. Brindley in New Bond Street, 1744. 8vo, half morocco, top edges gilt, 188.

An amusing piece of autobiography by a sailor; in 1711 he went to New England, and thence to Quebec.

11 [BLANCHARDIÈRE (Courte de la)], A Voyage to Peru; performed by the [Ship] Conde of St. Malo, in the Years 1745-9. To which is added, an Appendix, containing the present state of the Spanish affairs in America in respect to Mines, Trade, and Discoveries. London, 1753.-Spence (J.), A Parallel; in the manner of Plutarch: between a most celebrated Man of Florence; and one, scarce ever heard of, in England. Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758. In 1 vol. 12mo, old calf, £2 10s.