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12 BOLINGBROKE (Henry), A Voyage to the Demerary, containing a statistical account of the Settlements there, and of those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and other contiguous Rivers of Guyana. London, [1807]. 4to, folding map, calf gilt, £1 10s.

13 BOUCHETTE (Joseph), A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both Provinces with the United States of America. London, printed for the Author, 1815. 8vo, portrait and 17 plates, maps, and plans, original boards, uncut, £3 158.

14 BRAY (Dr. Thomas), The Acts of Dr. Bray's Visitation, Held at Annopolis in Mary-land, May 23, 24, 25, Anno 1700. London, 1700. Folio, FIRST EDITION, a very fine copy, rellum, gilt edges, £52 10s.

This extremely rare original edition of the account of Dr. Bray's Visitation as Commissary for the Bishop of London in Maryland gives the names of 17 rectors of various parishes who attended. Among the resolutions we find requests to the Religious Societies in London (among which were the two great Societies founded by Dr. Bray, the S.P.G. and the S.P.C.K.) to send them workmen to build their churches and parsonages, and parish clerks to sing their psalms.

15 BREREWOOD (Edward, sometime Professour of Astronomy in Gresham Colledg in London), Enquiries touching the diversity of Languages and Religions, through the Chief Parts of the World. London, Printed for Samuel Mearne, 1674. Sm. 8vo, original calf, 158.

On pages 118-119 the author develops a theory that "the People of America are the progeny of the Tartars.”

16 BROCKWELL (Charles), The Natural and Political History of Portugal. To which is added, the History of Brazil, and all other Dominions subject to the Crown of Portugal in Asia, Africa, and America. London, Printed for the Author, 1726. 8vo, with frontispiece, 2 maps, and 2 plates, old panelled calf, £2 158.

17 BUCKINGHAM (J. S.), Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British Provinces in North America, with a plan of National Colonization. London, [1843.] 8vo, map, frontispiece, and 6 plates, cloth, 128.

18 BUDGET. The State of the Nation, with a Preliminary Defence of the Budget. [London], Printed for J. Almon, 1765. Sm. 4to, sewed, 158.

A defence of Grenville's celebrated budget, which among other things imposed duties upon several articles of American

commerce.

19 BULKELEY (John) and John Cummins, A Voyage to the South Seas, in the years 1740-1. Containing a faithful

Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Wager, with the Proceedings and Conduct of the Officers and Crew, and the Hardships they endured, with their safe Arrival to the Brazil, their Reception from the Portuguese, their return to England, etc. London, 1743. 8vo, old calf, £2 10s. 20 BYRON (Hon. John), A Voyage round the World, in H.M.S. The Dolphin. In which is contained a faithful Account of the several Places, People, Plants, Animals, &c., seen on the Voyage: and, among other Particulars, a minute and exact Description of the Streights of Magellan, and of the Gigantic People called Patagonians. London, 1767. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with 3 plates, old mottled calf gilt, £1 10s.

21 BYRON. The Narrative of the great Distresses suffered by himself and his Companions on the Coasts of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago de Chili, also a Relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War, one of Admiral Anson's Squadron. London, 1778. 12mo, old calf, 12s.

22 CAMPBELL (Thomas), Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale. And other Poems. London, 1809. 4to, FIRST EDITION, cloth, 7s. 6d.

23 CAMPBELL.-Gertrude of Wyoming; another edition. London, 1810. 2 vols. in 1, 12mo, original boards, uncut, 6s.

24 CAREW (Bampfylde-Moore), The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, the noted Devonshire Stroler and Dog-Stealer; as related by Himself, during his Passage to the Plantations in America. Containing, a great Variety of remarkable Transactions in a vagrant Course of Life, which he followed for the Space of Thirty Years and upwards. Exon., Printed by the Farleys, for Joseph Drew, Bookseller, opposite Castle-Lane, 1745. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, in the original half binding, VERY RARE, £10 10s.

25 CHAMBERLAYNE (John), Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia or, The Present State of Great Britain: with divers Remarks upon the Ancient State thereof.

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To which is added

a Compleat List of the Queen's Household, etc.
1736. 8vo, portrait of George II, half calf, 10s.

London,

Contains lists of Governors and other Officials, Missionaries and Schoolmasters, in N. America and the West Indies.

26 CHARMILLY (Colonel Venault de), Lettre à M. Bryan Edwards en réfutation de son ouvrage, intitulé Vues Historiques sur la Colonie Française de Saint-Domingue, etc. Londres, Imprimé pour l'Auteur, 1797. 4to, calf, £1 58. 27 CHILD (Mrs.), An Appeal in favour of that class of Americans called Africans. Boston [Mass.], 1833. Cr. 8vo, frontispiece, and a full-page woodcut, cloth, 7s. 6d.

28 CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.-An Account of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge from its commencement, in 1709. Edinburgh, 1774. 4to, sewed, £1 18s.

Chapter II relates to the Proceedings of the Society in America, where they sent missionaries to Long Island, Albany, Virginia, New Hampshire, etc.

29 CLARK (Rev. Hamlet), Letters home from Spain, Algeria, and Brazil, during past entomological rambles. Van Voorst, 1867. 8vo, with 5 coloured plates, cloth, 12s. 6d. 30 [COLERIDGE (Henry Nelson)], Six Months in the West Indies in 1825. London, 1826. Sm. 8vo, with map, half green morocco, 12s.

31 COLES (Abraham), Dies Ira in Thirteen Original Sermons. New York, 1859. 8vo, with photographs of Rubens's "Last Judgment," and Ary Scheffer's "Christus Remunerator," presentation copy from the author, cloth, 12s. 6d. 32 COOKE (Edward), A Voyage to the South Sea, and round the World, etc. (with a Continuation of the Voyage from California, through India, and North about into England). London, 1712. 2 vols. 8vo, with 27 maps and plates, and 3 folding tables, fine copy, calf gilt, £10 10s.

The SECOND ISSUE of the FIRST EDITION of this work, with the addition of a second volume, amplifying the account of the latter part of the voyage. The numbered pages in the first volume are 432, and 11 preliminary leaves.

33 COLUMBIAN CENTINEL (The). 18 various numbers for 1806. Boston, Mass.: published by Benjamin Russell. Folio, £1 10s.

34 [COOPER (James Fenimore)], The Pathfinder: or, the Inland Sea. Philadelphia, 1840. 2 vols. 12mo, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, £2 58.

35 COOPER.-The Water Witch, or the Skimmer of the Seas. London, 1835. Sm. 8vo, engraved frontispiece and vignette, half calf, 6s.

36 CRAFTSMAN (The); or Say's Weekly Journal. numbers, March 26, 1774:

London, Printed by C. Say.

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Sept. 7, 1776; Nov. 5, 1785.

Folio, each two leaves, 10s.

The earliest of the three numbers reports the introduction of the Bill for closing the Port of Boston, N.E.

37 CRANTZ (David), The History of Greenland; including an Account of the Mission carried on by the United Brethren. With an appendix, containing a Sketch of the Mission of the Brethren in Labrador. London, 1820. 2 vols., 8vo, frontispieces, 2 maps and 5 plates, calf gilt, £1 1s.

38 CROESE (Gerard), Historia Quakeriana, sive de vulgò dictis Quakeris, ab ortu illorum usque ad recens natum schisma, libri III. Amstelodami, 1696. Sm. 8vo, calf extra, gilt edges, 188.

Contains particulars of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, etc.

39 DALLAS (R. C.), The History of the Maroons from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone including the Expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish Chasseurs, and the State of the Island of Jamaica for the last ten Years: with a succinct History of the Island previous to that Period. London, 1803. vols. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with frontispieces and 2 maps, old mottled calf, £2 28.

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40 DAVIE (John Constanse), Letters from Paraguay: describing the settlements of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres ; the Presidencies of Rioja Minor, Nombre de Dios, St. Mary and St. John, etc., etc. With the Manners, customs, religious ceremonies, etc., of the inhabitants. London, 1805. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, cloth, £2 2s.

41 DAMPIER (Capt. William), A New Voyage round the World. Describing particularly the Isthmus of America, several Coasts and Islands in the West Indies, etc. London, 1699. Fourth Edition. With 5 maps.-Voyages and Descriptions, Vol. II, viz.: 1. A Supplement of the Voyage Round the World, describing the Countreys of Tonquin, Achin, Malacca, etc. 2. Two Voyages to Campeachy. 3. A Discourse of Trade-Winds, Breezes, Storms, etc. With an Account of Natal in Africk. 1699. FIRST EDITION, 3 folding maps.-A Voyage to New Holland, etc., in the Year 1699. 1703. FIRST EDITION. Folding map and 14 plates. 3 vols. 8vo, original calf (1 vol. half calf), £4 15s.

42 DAY (Thomas), and John Bicknell, The Dying Negro, a Poem. To which is added, a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes. London, 1793. 8vo, engraved frontispiece by Neagle, boards, uncut, 10s.

43 DEARBORN (H. A. S.), A Sketch of the Life of the Apostle Eliot, prefatory to a subscription for erecting a monument to his Memory. Roxbury: Norfolk County Journal Press, over Central Market, 1850. 8vo, frontispiece, and facsimile of the title and a page of Eliot's Indian Bible, original wrappers, 12s. 6d.

The Rev. John Eliot, "the apostle of the Indians" and first translator of the Bible into their tongue, died at Roxbury in 1690.

44 [DEFOE (Daniel)], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an unhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself. The Fifth Edition. London, Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Frontispiece and folding map.-The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, being the Second and Last Part of his Life, and Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels round three Parts of the Globe. The Second Edition. Ibid. 1719. Together 2 vols. 8vo, old calf, rebacked, £7 15s.

45 DIALOGUE (A) between King Richard III. and his Adopted Son Richard IV. Dublin, Printed: London, Reprinted for John Warner, 1744. 8vo, sewed, 16s.

A bitter satire against Richard Lord Altham, who is said to have had his nephew, James Annesley, kidnapped and sent to America, a story used by Sir Walter Scott in Guy Mannering," and by Charles Reade in the Wandering Heir."

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