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46 DICKINSON (Capt. Thomas), A Narrative of the Operations for the Recovery of the Public Stores and Treasure sunk in H.M.S. Thetis, at Cape Frio, on the Coast of Brazil, on the 5th Dec. 1830. To which is prefixed a Concise Account of the loss of that ship. London, 1836. 8vo, with frontispiece, map, and 3 plates, cloth, uncut, 12s.

47 DUNN (Henry), Guatimala, or, the Republic of Central America, in 1827-8; being Sketches and Memorandums made during a twelve months' residence. London, 1829. 8vo, with a map, the author's own copy, with his signature, half calf, £1 4s.

48 DURY (Andrew), A New, General, and Universal Atlas. London, A. Dury & R. Sayer, 1761. Oblong 8vo, engraved title and frontispiece, and 45 maps engraved by Kitchin and others (including 4 of America), old calf gilt, £1 1s.

49 DU VAL (P.), Le Monde Terrestre. A Paris, chez l'Auteur, [1660]. Sm. 8vo, 77 maps in colours, including 14 of America, old calf, gilt back, £2 12s.

50 EDWARDS (Bryan), The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.

1801.

3 vols. 8vo, portrait and 21 maps and plates, calf neat, 18s. 51 ESQUIMAUX.-A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice [in verse]. By a Lady. London, 1828. Sm. 8vo, with 40 coloured plates, original boards, 15s.

52 FELTON (Mrs.), American Life. A Narrative of Two Years' City and Country Residence in the United States. London, 1842. 12mo, map, cloth, gilt edges, 6s.

53 FRANZÉN (Frans M.), Columbus eller Americas Upptäckt. Förra delen. [All published.] Stockholm, 1831. 12mo, FIRST EDITION, with 6 engraved plates, half calf, £1 10s. 54 FRENCH (George), The History of Col. Parke's Administration whilst he was Captain-General and Chief Governor of the Leeward Islands; with an Account of the Rebellion in Antegoa; wherein he, with several others were Murther'd on the 7th of December, 1710. London, 1717. 8vo, with portrait by Vertue, original calf, £3 3s.

55 GALLENGA (A.), South America. London, 1881. 8vo, with a folding map, cloth, 10s.

56 GONÇALES DE MENDOZA (Juan), Histoire du Grand Royaume de la Chine. Ensemble un Itineraire du nouveau monde et le descouvrement du nouveau Mexiche

en l'an 1583. Mise en François avec des Additions en marges, par Luc de la Porte, Parisien. A Paris, chez Abel l'Angelier,

1600. Sm. 8vo, limp vellum, £7 10s.

57 GRIFFITH (Rev. Hughes), The Natural History of Barbados. London, Printed for the Author, 1750. Folio, with folding map and 30 plates, old calf, £2 2s.

58 HAKLUYT (Richard), The Principal Navigations, Doyages, Traffiques, and discoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea, or overland, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres. Imprinted at London by George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker. 1599-1600. 3 vols. Black Letter,-A Selection of Curious, Rare, and Early Voyages, and Histories of interesting Discoveries, chiefly published by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, but not included in his celebrated compilation, to which this is intended as a Supplement. London, 1812. 1 vol. Together 4 vols. Folio, a handsome set, uniformly bound in red morocco gilt, inside joints, gilt edges, £105.

A complete and very tall copy (measuring 11 × 71⁄2 inches) of this most valuable collection of old English Voyages in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It contains the original edition of the " Voyage to Cadiz " (inlaid), which was suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth.

59 HALL (Capt. Basil), Forty Etchings, from Sketches made with the Camera Lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh, 1829. Roy. 4to, FIRST EDITION, folding map and 40 etchings, half calf, gilt edges, £1 1s.

60 HAMILTON (A. M.), The Intimate Life of Alexander Hamilton, based chiefly upon original Family Letters and other Documents, many of which have never been published. London, 1910. 8vo, with 27 portraits, plates and facsimiles, cloth, top edges gilt, 8s.

61 HARIOT (Thomas), Narrative of the First English Plantation of Virginia. First printed at London in 1588, now reproduced after De Bry's illustrated edition printed at Frankfort in 1590; the illustrations having been designed in Virginia in 1585 by John White. London, 1893. Sm. 4to, map and 28 plates, wrappers, uncut, 10s. 6d.

62 HEINE (Heinrich), Pictures of Travel. Translated by C. G. Leland. Philadelphia, 1879. Cr. 8vo, portrait, cloth, 6s.

63 HENDERSON (James), A History of the Brazil; comprising its geography, commerce, colonization, aboriginal inhabitants, etc. London, 1821. 4to, FIRST EDITION, with 28 interesting lithographic plates of costume by Hullmandel and others, and 2 maps, a name stamped on title and some pages, half red morocco, £3 10s.

64 HENNEPIN (Louis), Nouvelle Découverte d'un très grand Pays situé dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, et la Mer Glaciale. Avec les avantages, qu'on en peut tirer par l'établissement des Colonies. Utrecht, 1697. 12mo, with engraved title, 2 folding maps, and 2 plates, some margins shaved, but a good sound copy, old calf, £16 16s.

FIRST EDITION of the second part of Hennepin's Travels, dedicated to William III, and including the substance of his first book. One of the plates is the first engraved view of the Falls of Niagara.

65 HERNDON (W. L.), and Lardner Gibbon, Explora tion of the Valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department. Washington, 1854. 2 vols. 8vo, with 52 plates, cloth, £1 58.

A volume of maps illustrating this work was afterwards issued separately.

66 HERVEY (Hetta M.), Glimpses of Norseland. Boston, Published for the Author, [1889]. Cr. 8vo, with frontispiece, vignette, and other illustrations, cloth, 9s.

67 [HEWATT (Alexander)], An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. London, Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1779. 2 vols. 8vo, fresh copy in the original calf, £6 68.

68 HUNTER (John D.), Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen with Anecdotes descriptive of their Manners and Customs. To which is added, some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi. London, 1824. 8vo, with portrait, half calf gilt, £1 15s.

69 HUNTER (Wm. S.), Panoramic Guide from Niagara Falls to Quebec. Montreal, 1857. 12mo, with large folding plate containing views, etc., and numerous woodcuts, original wrappers, 18s.

70 HUTCHINSON (Thomas J.), Buenos Ayres and Argentine Gleanings; with extracts from a diary of Salado exploration in 1862 and 1863. London, 1865. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with 3 maps, portrait of General Mitré, and numerous illustrations, cloth, £1 10s.

71 INTELLIGENCER (The). Numb. 79. Oct. 10, Sm. 4to, unbound, 18s.

1664.

On the last two pages occurs an account of the reception of Sir Thomas Modyford as Governor at Jamaica.

72 [IRVING (Washington)], Bracebridge Hall: or, The Humorists. By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Murray, 1822. 2 vols. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half calf, £1 18.

73 JEFFERYS (Thomas), The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America. Giving a particular Account of the Climate, Soil, Minerals, Animals, Vegetables, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, and Languages, together with the Religion, Government, Genius, Character, Manners and Customs of the Indians and other Inhabitants. London, Printed for Thomas Jefferys at CharingCross, 1760. 2 parts in 1 vol. folio, with 18 maps and plans, including Canada, Quebec, Montreal, Louisbourg, New Orleans, etc., old mottled calf, £16 16s.

74 KANE (Dr. E. K.), Arctic Explorations; the Second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. Philadelphia, 1856. 2 vols. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, portrait and illustrations, cloth, 6s. 6d.

75 KEITH (George), The Arguments of the Quakers,. more particularly, George Whitehead, William Penn, Robert Barclay, etc., and my own, against Baptism and the Supper Examined and Refuted. London, 1698. Sm. 4to, sewed, 188.

76 [KNOWLES (Sir Charles)], An Account of the Expedition to Carthagena, [under Admiral Vernon]. London, 1743. 8vo, sewed, 188.

77 KOSTER (Henry), Travels in Brazil. London, 1817. 2 vols. 8vo, map, plan, and 8 plates, half calf, £1 4s.

78 LAET (Joannes de), Notæ ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De Origine Gentium Americanarum : et observationes aliquot ad meliorem indaginem difficillimæ illius Quæstionis. Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1643. Sm. 8vo, old calf gilt, £2 2s.

Willems, 997; Sabin, 38561. This refutation includes the original of Grotius's work, in which he tried to prove that the American aborigines had come originally from Norway, Ethiopia, and China. It contains comparative vocabularies of the Irish, Gaelic, Icelandic, Huron, Souriquois and Mexican languages.

79 LAMBERT (John), Travels through Lower Canada, and the United States of North America, in the years 1806, 1807, and 1808. To which are added, Biographical Notices and Anecdotes of some of the leading Characters in the United States. London, 1810. 3 vols. 8vo, map and 17 plates, some in colours, half calf, £5 5s.

80 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT.

Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amérique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797. Paris, [1799]. 8 vols. 8vo, FIRST EDITION, with 2 folding maps, and several tables, half calf, £2 15s.

The second volume includes the author's excursion into Upper Canada.

81 LAWRENCE (Robert F., Pastor of the Congregational Church in Claremont), The New Hampshire Churches; comprising Histories of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in the State, with Notices of other Denominations : also containing many interesting incidents connected with the first settlement of Towns. Published for the Author, 1856. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth, 178. 6d.

82 LETTERS of Shahcoolen, a Hindu philosopher, residing in Philadelphia; to his friend El Hassan, an inhabitant of Delhi. Boston, Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802.Clarke (John), Letters to a Student in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston, Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, 1796.-Thomson (John), The Letters of Curtius. To which is added a speech delivered by him in Aug. '95, on the British Treaty. To which a short sketch of his life is prefixed. Richmond, Printed by Samuel Pleasants, Junr., 1804. 3 vols. in 1, 12mo, contemporary calf gilt, £3 15s.

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