Изображения страниц
PDF
EPUB

83 LETTERS written during the late Voyage of Discovery in the Western Arctic Sea. By an Officer of the Expedition. London, 1821. 8vo, with map and three plates, sewed, uncut, 68.

An account of Captain Parry's expedition of 1819–20, to discover the North-West Passage.

84 LINDLEY (Thomas), Narrative of a Voyage to Brasil; terminating in the seizure of a British vessel, and the imprisonment of the author and the ship's crew. With General Sketches of the Country, its natural productions, colonial inhabitants, etc., and a Description of the City and Provinces of St. Salvadore and Porto Seguro. London, 1805. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, old calf gilt, £1 18s.

85 LLOYD (Humphrey), The Historie of Cambria, now called Wales; a part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language above two hundred yeares past [by Caradoc of Lancaruan]: translated into English by H. Lloyd, Corrected, augmented, and continued out of Records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel. Imprinted at London by Rafe Newberie and Henrie Denham, 1584. Sm. 4to, FIRST AND BEST EDITION, Black Letter, woodcut border to title, which is slightly defective and mounted, numerous woodcut portraits, half calf, £9 98.

This valuable history of Wales, which was the first work to attribute the original discovery of America to Madoc ap Owen Gwyneth and his companions in the twelfth century, is dedicated by Powell to Sir Philip Sydney.

86 LOCKE (John), A Collection of several Pieces, never before printed, or not extant in his Works.

[Published by

M. Des Maiseaux.] London, 1720. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with a plate, old panelled calf, £2 15s.

[ocr errors]

This volume includes The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina," Elements of Natural Philosophy,"

[ocr errors]

"Some

Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman," several Letters, etc., etc.

87 LONDON EVENING POST (The). July 31-Aug. 2, 1777. London: Printed for J. Miller. Folio, 58.

Postscript. St. James's, July 30, 1777. Lost this summer, in the enclosures about New York, in North America, The British Army. Whoever can give an account of it to his Majesty's Secretary at War, shall not only receive a large premium, but have the high honour of kissing his Majesty's hand."

88 LOVE (John), Geodosia; or, the Art of Surveying and Measuring of Land made easie. Showing by Plain and Practical Rules how to Survey, Protract, etc. As also, how to lay out New Lands in America or elsewhere: And how to make a Perfect Map of a River's Mouth or Harbour. London, 1720. 8vo, diagrams, old panelled calf, 12s. 6d. 89 [LOZANO (Pedro)], A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake which happen'd at Lima, the Capital of Peru, and the neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746. To which is added, a Description of Callao and Lima before their Destruction, and of the Kingdom of Peru in general, with its Inhabitants. [Translated by Henry Johnson.] London, 1748. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with 9 maps and plates (some of native costume, etc.), fresh copy in contemporary calf gilt, £2 18s.

90 LUSSAN (Raveneau de), Journal du voyage fait a la Mer de Sud avec les Flibustiers de l'Amérique en 1684 et années suivantes. A Paris, chez Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1690. 12mo, old calf gilt, £3 3s.

91 LYON (Capt. G. F.), A Brief Narrative of an unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's" Welcome," in H.M.S. Griper in the year 1824. Murray, 1825. 8vo, with 7 plates and a map, half calf, 15s.

92 LYON. Journal of a Residence and Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the year 1826; with some account of the mines of that country. Murray, 1828. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, boards, cloth back, uncut, £1 1s.

93 [MACKENZIE (A. S.)], A Year in Spain. By a young American. London, 1831. 2 vols. 8vo, woodcuts, half calf, 158.

94 MAGRATH (T. W.), Authentic Letters from Upper Canada, with an Account of Canadian Field Sports. Dublin, 1833. 12mo, frontispiece and 3 etchings by Samuel Lover, cloth, 18s.

95 MASERES (Francis [Attorney-General of Quebec]), A Dissertation on the Use of the Negative Sign in Algebra. To which is added Mr. Machin's Quadrature of the Circle. London: Printed by Samuel Richardson; and sold by Thomas Payne, 1758. 4to, FIRST EDITION, old calf, £1 1s.

96 MARRYAT (Captain), A Remarks on its Institutions. half calf gilt, £1 4s.

Diary in America, with London, 1839. 3 vols. 12mo,

97 MASTERMAN (G. F.), Seven Eventful Years in Paraguay: a narrative of personal experience amongst the Paraguayans. London, 1870. Cr. 8vo, map and frontis

piece, cloth, 12s. 6d.

98 MIERS (John), Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts, respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. London, 1826. 2 vols. 8vo, with numerous maps and lithographic plates, half bound, £2 2s.

99 MOLL (Hermann), Atlas Minor: or a new and curious Set of Sixty two Maps, in which are shewn all the Empires, Kingdoms, Countries, States, in all the known parts of the Earth; with their Bounds, Divisions, Chief Cities and Towns. London, printed for Thos. Bowles (abt. 1732]. Obl. folio, engraved title page, old half calf, £1 14s.

Includes 18 maps of America, and parts thereof.

100 MORISOT (C. B.), Relations véritables et curieuses de l'Isle de Madagascar, et du Bresil. Avec l'Histoire de la dernière Guerre faite au Bresil, entre les Portugais et les Hollandois. Trois relations d'Egypte, et une du Royaume de Perse. A Paris, chez Augustin Courbé, 1651. 4to, with a map of Madagascar and a plan of Le Reciff, fine copy in the original calf, RARE, £15 15s.

101 MORSE (Jedidiah), The American Geography; or, a View of the present situation of the United States of America. To which is added an Abridgment of the Geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch Dominions in America and the West Indies. London, 1792. 8vo, 2 large folding maps and a table, original boards, uncut, £3 38. 102 MORSE. The American Gazetteer, exhibiting in alphabetical Order, a much more full and accurate Account than has been given, of the States, Towns, Harbours, etc., on the American Continent, also of the West India Islands. To which are added, Facts and Calculations respecting the Population and Territory of the United States. London, 1798. 8vo, with 7 maps, original calf, £1 10s.

103 MÜGGE (Theodore), Afraja; or, life and love in Norway. [Translated] from the German by Edward Jay Morris. Philadelphia: 1865. 8vo, cloth, 8s. 6d.

104 MURATORI (L. A.), A Relation of the Missions of Paraguay. Now done into English. London: Printed for J. Marmaduke, 1759. Sm. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with a folding map, old half calf, £2 28.

105 MURRAY (C. A.), Travels in North America during the years 1834-36, including a summer residence with the Pawnee Tribe of Indians in the remote Prairies of the Missouri, and a visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands. London, 1839. 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, frontispieces, half calf, £1 10s.

106 MURRAY (Rev. J. H.), Travels in Uruguay, South America; together with an account of the present state of sheep-farming and emigration to that country. London, 1871. Cr. 8vo, map and illustrations, cloth, 18s.

107 NEW ENGLAND.-An engraved Map of the Coast of New England, from Gunnells Ils to Cape James, with a portrait of Captain John Smith, by Passe, and inscriptions in German, measuring 11 by 15 inches. Very rare, £5 58.

108 ORTA (G. dal), e Nicoló Monardes, Dell' Historia dei semplici aromati et altre cose che vengono portate dall' Indie Orientali [ed Occidentali] pertinenti all' vso della Medicina, con alcune breui Annotationi di Carlo Clusio. In Venetia, 1616. Sm. 8vo, with woodcuts of exotic plants, etc., including Tobacco, old vellum, £4 4s.

109 PAGES ([François] de), Travels round the World,

Lon

in the Years 1767-71. Translated from the French.
don, 1791. 3 vols. in 2, 8vo, with pretty aquatint frontispiece,
and folding table, old calf, £3 38.

In the first volume are narrated the author's journeys to New Orleans, and up the Mississippi and Red Rivers, as well as to Mexico and the Philippine Islands.

110 PERFECT ACCOUNT (A), of the Daily Intelligence from the Armies, the Navy at Sea, etc. Nums. 63–65. March 10 to 31, 1652. 3 Nos. Sm. 4to, unbound, £3 3s.

Gives particulars of the surrender of the Barbadoes to Sir George Ayscough, the Eclipse of the Sun on Mar. 29, the Parliament's Proposals for an Union with Scotland, etc.

111 PERFECT ACCOUNT. Numb. 69. April 21 to 28, 1652. Sm. 4to, unbound, 16s.

Mentions the taking of the Barbadoes by Sir George Ayscough.

112 PHILOBIBLION (The). A Monthly Catalogue and Literary Journal. Nos. 1-24. New York, 1861-63. 4to, green morocco, top edges gilt, uncut, £l ls.

2 vols.

4to, por

113 PORTLOCK (Nathaniel), A Voyage Round the World; more particularly to the North-West Coast of America; performed in 1785–8. London, 1789. trait and 19 maps and plates, FINE COPY, russia gilt, £5 10s. 114 [PRUDHOMME (Louis)], Voyage à la Guiane et à Cayenne, fait en 1789 et années suivantes. Par L. M. B. Armateur. A Paris, an VI. [1797]. 8vo, folding map and 3 plates, half russia, £1 15s.

115 PSALTER (The) or Psalms of David, with the Proverbs of Solomon, and Christ's Sermon on the Mount [and the Nicene Creed]. Being an Introduction for Children to the Reading of the Holy Scriptures. Printed at Boston [Mass.], by Peter Edes, for the Booksellers, 1793. 8vo, original boards, leather back, 15s.

116 PSALTERIUM, Hebræum, Græcū, Arabicū et Chaldæum, cũ tribus latinis iterptatōibus et glossis, [cura A. Justiniani.] Impressit miro ingenio, Petrus Paulus Porrus, genuæ in ædibus Nicolai Justiniani Pauli, 1516. Folio, title printed in red and black within a very handsome decorative woodcut border, printer's device at end, the text and commentary printed in 8 parallel columns, small defects on two leaves (A 9-10), but a FINE COPY, half leather, £18 18s.

This Polyglot edition of the Psalms is remarkable as being the first to be printed with each language in its own proper character, and is an excellent specimen of early printing at Genoa. It is also of the greatest value and interest in that it contains the first printed biography of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, inserted in the commentary on the 19th Psalm.

117 PTOLEMÆUS (Claudius), Geographiæ, libri viii., partim à Bilibaldo Pirckheymero translati ac commentario illustrati, partim etiam Græcorum antiquissimorumqz exemplariorum collatione emendati atque in integrum restituti. Basilea, ex officina Henrichi Petri, 1552. Folio, with 54 fine double-page maps, half morocco, £15 15s.

This scarce edition of this famous work contains maps of the British Isles and of America.

B

« ПредыдущаяПродолжить »