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231. NARBOROUGH (SIR JOHN). An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the Vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. Also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitzberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. By Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, and others. With Introduction and Supplement. [Edited by Tancred Robinson.] 2 folding maps and 19 folding and full-page plates. 8vo, contemporary calf (lacking weather table, a few plates slightly torn). Lond. 1694

FIRST EDITION. Fine copy of these very scarce Voyages, with the rare map dedicated to Samuel Pepys, containing his coat of arms.

850.00 232. NEW ENGLAND.

A briefe Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England: and of sundry Accidents therein occurring, from the Year of Our Lord 1607 to this present 1622. Together with the State thereof as it now standeth; the general forme of government intended; and the division of the whole Territorie into Counties, Baronies, etc. 4to, full green levant morocco, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Riviere (lower margins stained).

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Lond. Printed by John Haviland, and are to be sold by William Bladen, 1622.

FINE AND LARGE PERFECT COPY OT THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION, measuring 74 x 5% inches.

One of the earliest and most important of the early books relating to the discovery and colonization in Massachusetts.

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420.00 233. NEW ENGLAND. New Englands First Fruits; in

Respect,

Conversion of some

First of the Conviction of divers

Preparation of sundry

of the Indians.

2. Of the Progresse of Learning, in the Colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets Bay. With divers other speciall Matters concerning that Countrey. Small 4to, full blue crushed morocco, gilt back, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by F. Bedford. Lond.: Printed by R. O. and G. D. for Henry Overton. 1643

FINE COPY OF THE EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION, though wanting the errata leaf and final blank (D3 and 4). This Tract, the FIRST OF THE ELIOT INDIAN TRACTS, describes the EARLIEST ATTEMPTS TO CIVILIZE AND CONVERT THE INDIANS OF NEW ENGLAND. It also contains the FIRST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

The account of the founding of Harvard College is followed by a description of the "Edifice" as "very faire and comely within and without, having in it a spacious Hall large Library with some Bookes to it," etc.

and a

OF SVNDRY ACCIDENTS THEREIN OCCVRRING, FROM the yeere of our Lord M. DC. VII. to this prefent M.D C. XXII.

Together with the ftate thereof as now it ftandeth; the generall forme of gouernment intended; and the diuifion of the whole Territorie into Counties, Baronries, &c.

ONDON,

M. DC. XXII.

NEW ENGLAND'S DISCOVERY.

London, 1622.

(See No. 232.)

475.234. NEW ENGLAND. The Present State of New Eng

land, with Respect to the Indian War. Wherein is an Account of the true Reason thereof (as far as can be judged by Men). Together with most of the Remarkable Passages that have happened from the 20th of June, till the 10th of November, 1675. Folio, full dark green levant morocco, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by Pratt. With the Miller arms.

Lond. Printed for Dorman Newman, 1676

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A fine tall copy of the RARE SECOND EDITION, save that the lower inner margins of each leaf have been most skilfully restored.

In

Pilling states of this issue that of all the copies examined the date 1676' had been changed in ink from "1675.' the present copy the date has been printed in, and notwithstanding the repairs above mentioned, the copy is a very desirable one, measuring 10% x 6% inches.

1100235. NICHOLL (JOHN). An Houre Glasse of Indian

Newes. or, A true and tragicall discourse, shewing the most lamentable miseries, and distressed Calamities indured by 67 Englishmen, which were sent for a supply to the planting in Guiana in the yeare 1605. Small 4to, full crimson morocco, gilt back, inside dentelles, gilt edges, by F. Bedford.

London: Printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1607 THE EXCESSIVELY RARE FIRST EDITION, printed in BLACK LETTER. Lacks the half title, but contains the original blank leaf, F3. The known copies are those in the British Museum, Grenville Library, Huth, Church, John Carter Brown, and the present one.

The author started with a band consisting of 67 Englishmen to establish a colony in Guiana in 1605; was wrecked, rescued by Spaniards, and imprisoned as a spy; and finally reached England in 1607, where he published this sad account of his adventures and the sufferings of his companions.

THIS COPY IS IN REMARKABLY FINE CRISP CONDITION.

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175.236. NODAL (BARTOLOME GARCIA DE AND GONCALO DE). Relacion del viaje que por orden de sv Magd y acverdo del Real Consejo de Indias. Hizieron los Capitanes Bartolome Garcia de Nodal y Goncalo de Nodal hermanos

... al descubrimiento del estrecho nuebo de S. Vincente y reconosimio del de Magellanes. Fine engraved title in compartments, with portraits, in brilliant state, and a very fine impression of the original folding map, both engraved by I. de Courbas. Small 4to, full brown straight-grain morocco, gilt back, covers ornamented with blind and gilt interlaced geometrical lines, broad and rich inside borders, gilt edges, by Lewis. Madrid: Por Fernando Correa de Montenegro, 1621 A SUPERB COPY OF THE EXTREMELY RARE EARLIEST EDITION, WITH THE MAP IN MOST DESIRABLE CONDITION. The map is particularly valuable, as it is supposed to have been suppressed. The work gives an account of the Spanish expedition sent

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out by order of Philip III., immediately after the return of Schouten's expedition, for the exploration of the Magellan Straits. The brothers Nodal sailed from Lisbon Sept. 27, 1618, and did not return until July 9th of the following year. They had with them two Dutch pilots, Jan de Witte, named in the narrative, and Valentine Jansz, who wrote another account of the same voyage. They had both been with Schouten on his voyage. The Strait Le Maire was rechristened S. Vincent, which name it retained for some time on Spanish maps.

As in the Church copy, the present one is without the blank leaf between the end of the narrative and the "Tabla Para Saber," and also lacks the final blank leaf.

237...NOORT (OLIVIER VAN). Nevwe Schiffart Warhafftige vnd eygentliche Beschreibvng der langwirigen sorglichen vnd gefahrlichen Reyse. Engraved title map, and 13 plates (corner margin of one plate torn away and some plate margins reinforced). Small 4to, new boards (margin of A,4 mended, and some time-stains).

Gedruckt zu Franckfurt durch Matthaeum Becket, 1602

This edition is an abridgment from the Dutch, and the translator announces that he gives only an extract in which will be found the principal events. De Bry probably made use of this translation in his Great Voyages, Part IX. The work is written in the form of a journal, and with the exactness of detail that would naturally be looked for in a navigator's log.

THE WORK IS EVIDENTLY ONE OF EXTREME RARITY, as the Church Catalogue mentions but one other copy, that in the John Carter Brown Library, which copy is also the only one mentioned by Sabin.

238. NORTON (JOHN).

Abel being Dead yet speaketh; or, the Life & Death of that deservedly Famous Man of God, Mr. John Cotton, Late Teacher of the Church of Christ, at Boston in New England. By John Norton, Teacher of the same Church. Small 4to, boards, leather back. Lond. Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Lodowick Lloyd, 1658

Extremely scarce. Not in Church. The last five pages contain a catalogue of books printed for L. Lloyd, including several works by New England divines. An edition of this appeared in 1657 with the title "Life and Death of Mr. John Cotton." Autograph of Robert Moore on title.

239. OGILBY (JOHN). Africa, being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, &c. America, being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World, &c. [Both] Collected and Translated from the most Authentick Authors. Each volume with a profusion of fine copper-plates, folding maps, views of American cities, &c. 2 vols. large folio, original calf. Lond. 1670-71

The volume America" is really a plagiarism from Montanus. It has earned for Ogilby the title of the English De Bry. The volume contains many very fine portraits and views.