on account of the ending of the first line of the imprint. This copy agrees in pagination and arrangement with the Church copy, but differs in that it lacks the unimportant blank leaf at the end of the first part, and has the Chapter number on page 89 of "The Continuation" correctly printed XXIII.

Fine copy. The Niagara plate is known as the earliest view of the falls.

From Mr. Huntington's Library.

190. 162. HENNEPIN (LOUIS). A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, Extending above Four Thousand Miles, between New France and New Mexico . . . . . with a Continuation, Giving an Account of the Attempts of the Sieur De la Salle upon the Mines of St. Barbe, &c. Engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 6 folding plates. 8vo, old panel calf (cracked, maps and plates lightly foxed).

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Lond.: Printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson,/H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698.

The Tonson" issue of the FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Known as such from the ending of the first line of the imprint. The plates in the "Continuation" are superior to those in the "Bon" edition, and all but one have the engraver's name, M. Vander Gucht, these plates are also reversed from those of the "Bon" issue. The maps, however, are the same in both.

From Mr. Huntington's Library.

70. 163. [HICKERINGILL (EDMOND).] Jamaica Viewed:

with All the Ports, Harbours, and their several Soundings, Towns, and Settlements thereunto belonging. Together, With the nature of it's Climate, &c. By E. H. Folding map. Small 8vo, original marbled boards, EDGES ENTIRELY UNCUT ("wth ye mapp" written on title in contemporary hand). Lond. Printed for John Williams, 1661

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FIRST EDITION. Fine copy, in original binding as published, and containing the very scarce folding map.

/500.164. [HIGGINSON (FRANCIS).] New Englands Plantation. or, a Short and True Description of the Commodities and Discommodities of that Countrey. Written by a reuerend Diuine now there resident. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery (last original blank leaf wanting).

Lond. Printed by T. C. and R. C. for Michael Sparke, 1630

THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST ISSUE OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION. Apparently not in Huth or Livingston. Of this book three editions were issued the same year, all of which are to be found in the Lenox Library. The Narrative covers the period from July to September, 1629. The Second Edition had some new matter added. Both the Second and Third Editions have the author's name, "Mr. Higgeson," on the title-page.

The E. D. Church copy, in exceptionally fine, clean state.

400.00 165. HOOKE (WILLIAM). New Englands Sence, of Old

England and Irelands Sorrowes. A Sermon Preached upon a day of generall Humiliation in the Churches of New-England. In the behalfe of Old-England and Irelands Sad condition. Small 4to, full brown crushed levant morocco, gilt, gilt inside border, gilt edges by the Club Bindery.

Lond.: Printed by John Rothwell, 1645

FIRST EDITION, very rare. Fine copy with unusually large margins. Although not printed till 1645, it is now generally believed that this very early New England Fast Sermon was preached on April 14, 1642.

The E. D. Church copy, with the bookplate.

2900. 166. HUBBARD (WILLIAM).

A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first plating thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677. To which is added a Discourse about the Warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. Folding map. Small 4to, original sheep, in fine state of preservation.

Boston: Printed by John Foster, in the year 1677 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, with the errors in pagination, only 10 lines of errata on last page, and License leaf dated "Boston, March 29, 1677." The map of New England is the original Boston "White Hills'' issue, THE FIRST MAP ENGRAVING IN AMERICA, and is a very beautiful, crisp specimen. The "Narrative" itself is an unsually fine, large copy, with wide margins, being 7 9/16 by 5 11/16 inches, its only defects being that it lacks the blank leaf N4 and has very small pieces torn from 2 blank corners. Of the preliminary contributions in verse, the first is believed to be by John Sherman, the other by Benjamin Tompson, one of the earliest native American poets.

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INSERTED WITH THE NARRATIVE" is the almost equally scarce Happiness of a People, by the same author, Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1676. This sermon is of great bibliographical interest, being one of the earliest books printed in Boston, where the first press was installed that year. American books prior to 1676 were printed at Cambridge.

Hubbard was a man distinguished in a period of great bigotry for his moderation and liberal-mindedness. In writing he far surpassed his contemporaries and his "Indian Wars' have always been regarded by historians as authoritative. This copy has an inscription in a contemporary hand, "Ffor the Right Honnorable Sr. Robert Southwell," and a marginal note in a like hand relating to Chief Miantonimoh, signed "William Harris of Patuxet."

(See Illustration.)

2.167. HUBBARD (WILLIAM). The Present State of New-England. Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from *** 1607 to the Present Year 1677. To which is added a Discourse about the War with the Pequods in the year 1637. Folding map. Small 4to, original sheep (rubbed). Lond.: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1677

FINE COPY OF THE EXTREMELY SCARCE LONDON EDITION, with the "Wine Hills" map, and the License leaf dated June

A

NARRATIVE

OF THE TROUBLES WITH THE

INDIANS

In NEW-ENGLAND, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607. to this prefent year 1677. But chiefly of the late Troubles in the two lak years, 1675. and 1676.

To which is added a Difcourfe about the Warre with the

PE QUOD S

In the year 1637.

By W. Hubbard, Minister of Ipfwich.

And the Lord faid unto Aofes, write this for a Memoriall in a Book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the Remembrance of Amalek from under beaven. Exod. 17 14.

wherefore it is faid in the book of the warrs of the Lord, what he did in the red sea, and in the Brooks of Arnon. Numb:21 14

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As cold waters to a thirsty foul, fo is good news from afar Country. Prov. 25.25.

Expreffa Imago, er quafi speculum quoddam vitæ humanæ est hist›ría, quia talia vel fimilia temper poilaut in mundo accidere. Thucyd.

Hiftoria tradit q te fact fiar, et que femper fint futura, donec cadem manet hominum natura idem.

Hiftoriæ cognitio tutiffima inflario, et preparatio eft ad actiones politicas, et illuftris Magiftra ad perferendas fortune vices. Polyb.

27, 1677. The map has several places marked with a printed number, and many of these have been identified with names written in ink by a very early hand. On the first (blank) page is the contemporary signature, "Richard Wiyth, his book, cost 6 pound," and below in the same hand is

"War there is and wars will be

Until the end of days

All never did nor will agre

But still will mischief rais.'

50.00 168. HULSIUS (LEVINUS). Vera historia, Admirandae Cuiusdam navigationis, quam Huldericus Schmidel, ab Anno 1534 usque ad annum 1554 in Americam vel novum Mundum. Vignette title, coat-of-arms, copper-plate portrait and 15 plates; and folding map in two sections bound at end of volume (small portions of 5 margins and margin of one map very neatly restored); and-Brevis & admiranda descriptio Regni Guianae, auri abundantissimi, in America, 1564, 1595, & 1596. Per *** Dn. Gualtherum Raleghe. 6 copper-plates. 2 vols in one, small 4to, full calf, gilt tooled, gilt edges.

Noribergae. Impensis Levini Hulsij, 1599

LATIN EDITIONS OF HULSIUS, PARTS IV. AND V. (ALL SO PUBLISHED) apparently printed with the object of finding a market out of Germany. The Latin editions were abandoned after the issue of these two. The plates for both parts are bound in Part IV, and there is only one copy of the map, which should appear in duplicate.

Part IV. contains an account of the voyage of Ulrich Schmidel of Straubing to Brazil and the Rio de la Plata, in 1534-54; Part V. is an abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's account of Guiana.

350. 169. JAMES (THOMAS). The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. WITH THE VERY RARE ORIGINAL FOLDED MAP, having an inset portrait of the author. Small 4to, full brown pigskin, gilt back and broad side borders, inside dentelles, gilt edges.

Lond. Printed by John Legatt for John Partridge, 1633

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, PARTICULARLY SCARCE WITH THE ORIGINAL MAP, which is often wanting. In the present copy, the title has been renewed on the inner margin; a very small repair has been made in the lower margin, and there are two small rust-holes, one on sig ¶3, and the other on page 85. Wants the 2 blank leaves.

In the Lefferts and the Stevens-Church copies, the final "aduise, occupying the last 10 pages, is signed "X.Z.” In the present copy it bears THE CORRECT NAME OF ITS AUTHOR William Watts, thus agreeing with the title "W. W."

James, a Bristol man of Welsh origin, started in May, 1631, and returned in September, 1632, having met Luke Foxe somewhere in Baffin's Bay. His record is full of hardships and perils, and is said to have supplied Coleridge with some of the material for his "Ancient Mariner." As a good Welshman, James named the region south of Hudson's Bay, New South