85. [BIDDLE (RICHARD).] A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America, 1827-1828. By An American. 8vo, boards, uncut. RARE. Lond. 1830 86. [BLACKSTONE (CHARLES).] Columbus in Chains. Prize Poem, recited in the Theatre, Oxford. 12mo, paper, pp. 16. SCARCE. Oxford, 1848 87. BLOME (RICHARD). A Geographical Description of the four parts of the World, taken from the Notes and Workes of the famous Geographer, Mons. Sanson, and other eminent Travellers and Authors. Illust. with Maps, etc. Folio, original calf, rebacked. Lond. 1670 SIXTY (60) PAGES ARE DEVOTED TO AMERICA. 88. BOHUN (EDMUND). Diary and Autobiography, with Introductory Memoir, Notes, and Illustrations, by S. W. Rix. ETCHED PLATES. 4to, boards, uncut. Privately Printed at Baccles, by Read Crisp, 1853 Edmund Bohun was Chief Justice of South Carolina in 16981699. He died in Charleston in 1699, a victim of the smallpox epidemic. 89. BOISSARD (JAMES JACOBUS). Bibliotheca sive Thesaurus Virtutis et Gloriæ: in quo continentur illustrium eruditione et doctrina virorum effigies et vitæ, summa diligentia accurate descripta, et nicenturias duas tributæ. (Parts I and II.). TITLE WITHIN AN HISTORIATED BORDER, AND 55 FINE PORTRAITS, SURROUNDED BY SINGULARLY TASTEFUL BORDERS AND ORNAMENTS, ALL BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, ENGRAVED ON COPPER, BY J. T. DE BRY. 4to, old vellum. Francofurti, 1628 This fine series of portraits is interesting for American collectors, as it contains beautiful portraits of Columbus and a long biography of him; also, one of Samuel Purchas. Among others in the collection may be named Dante, Petrarch, Boccacio, Erasmus and Linschotten. 90. BOOK-LOVERS' ALMANAC FOR 1893. Colored illusts., by HENRIOT, including the sale of " Tamerlane," interior views of Sotheby's and the Hôtel Drouot. 12mo, paper, uncut; lacks rear cover. N. Y. 1893 91. BORTHWICK (J. D.). Three Years in California. Fine lithographic plates. 8vo, cloth, uncut. SCARCE. Edinburgh, 1857 92. BOSSU (M.). Nouveaux Voyages dans l'Amérique Septentrionale, contenant une collection de lettres ecrites sur les lieux par l'auteur a son ami, M. Douin, chevalier, etc. 4 fine plates by St. Aubin. 12mo, calf, gilt back. Amsterdam [Paris], 1777 RARE. This account of Bossu's third voyage never having been reprinted, or translated into any other language, is much scarcer than the previously printed accounts of his voyages to Louisiana. THE WORK IS LARGELY DEVOTED TO THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 93. BOSTON. A Record of the Boston Stage. By Wm. W. Clapp, Jr. 12mo, cloth. Bost. 1853 94. BOSTON THEATRE. Pelby (William). Letters on the Tremont Theatre, respectfully addressed to the primitive subscribers, its friends and patrons. 8vo, unbound, pp. 44. RARE. Bost. 1830 95. BOTURINI-BENADUCI LORENZO. Idea de una nueva historia general de la AMERICA SEPTENTRIONAL; Catalogo del Museo Historico-Indiano del Cavallero Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. Engraved fronts. with the portrait of the author. 4to, half calf (fronts., title-page, and last 10 leaves damaged). Madrid, 1746 RARE. The Catalogue of the Museum of Boturini is a most important and curious document. This collection, which was the fruit of eight years of careful and assiduous researches in the monasteries of Mexico, contained several ancient Mexican paintings, numerous manuscripts, very important for the bistory of that country, and dictionaries, grammars and other book written in the different languages of Mexico. The greater portion of this collection of important documents is now lost. 96. BOUCHETTE (JOSEPH). The British Dominions in North America Embellished with views, plans of town, harbors, etc. 4to, cloth. Lond. 1831 Evidently a trial copy, made up for the publisher. The plates, 17 in number, are on India paper, the text ends with p. 189, and at the end is a small portion (12 ll') of the Topographical Dictionary of Lower Canada. The work was regularly published in the following year, 1832. 97. BOWEN (EMANUEL). Complete System of Geography, illust. with numerous maps (AMERICAN PORTION, pp. 521-799). FIRST EDN. 2 vols. folio. Lond. 1747 98. BOWLES (THOMAS GIBSON). Maritime Warfare (with many incidental references to America and the War of 1812). 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1877 99. BOLLE (FREDERICK). A Ride across a Continent. A personal narrative of wanderings through NICARAGUA and COSTA RICA. Illusts. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1868 100. BRADLEY (A. G.). The Fight with France for North America. Portraits, maps, etc. Thick uncut. 12mo, cloth, Lond. 1905 101. BRAND (CHARLES). Journal of a voyage to Peru, a passage across the Cordillera of the Andes, and a journey across the Pampas. Plates. 8vo, boards, uncut, broken. Lond. 1828 102. BRAZIL. Maffei (Giovan Pietro). Istorie delle Indie Orientali, tradotte da Francesco Serdonati. 4to, old vellum. Fiorenza: Giunti, 1589 First edition of the Italian translation. IT CONTAINS SOME ACCOUNTS OF THE EARLY PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES, PARTICULARLY IN BRAZIL, 103. BRAZIL. Nieuhof (Johan). Gedenkweerdige Brasiliaense Zee- en Lant reize door de voornaemste Landschappen von West en Oostindien; Zee en Lant-Reize door verscheide Gewesten van Oostindien, Behelzende veele zeltzaame en wonderlijcke voorvallen en geschiedenissen. Fine engraved portrait and front. and numerous fine copper-plate engravings and maps. 2 parts in one vol., folio, old calf. Amsterdam, 1682 104. The author lived nine years (1640–49) in Brazil in the service of the Dutch West India Company. The account of Brazil contains many precious documents, and includes the history of that country from its first discovery by the Portuguese, both civil and ecclesiastical. The second work contains also a small poem of JACOB STEENDAM, THE FIRST POET OF NEW NETHERLAND, "Op de stad Batavia," dated 'Batavia den 24 van Vijnmaand, 1670." RARE. Travels in Brazil. By Henry Koster. Numerous fine plates. 2 vols. 8vo, half morocco, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. 1817 105. Walsh (R.). Notices of Brazil, in 1828-29. Maps and plates. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1830 Tropic Sketches, and other Poems. By A. 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1840 106. Clerk. Relates largely to Brazil. 107. BRAZIL AND THE BRAZILIANS. Portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches. By D. P. Kidder and J. C. Fletcher. Portrait and 150 engravings. 8vo, half bound. Phil. 1857 108. BRICE (ANDREW). The Grand Gazetteer; or, Topographic Dictionary, both general and special, of Europe, Asia, Africa, and AMERICA. Aptly and requisitely interspersed with many thousands of uncommon passages, strange occurrences, critical observations, and proper relations, which most agreeably surprise and delightfully inform. Diligently extracted, and as accurately as possible compiled from the most esteemed Voyagers, Travellers, Geographers, Historians, Critics, etc., extant, Portrait, mounted. 2 vols. folio, half calf. etc. Exeter: Printed by and for the Author, 1759 THIS VERY RARE WORK IS OF DECIDED AMERICAN INTEREST. A glance at any one of the numerous articles relating to this country-VIRGINIA, FLORIDA, NEW YORK, etc.-will show the extraordinary scope of the work. IT IS A VERITABLE ENCYCLOPÆDIA, and contains much more or less valuable information not to be found in the regular histories. 109. BRINLEY CATALOGUE. Sale Catalogues of the American Library of Mr. George Brinley, of Hartford. Complete in 5 parts, PRICED THROUGHOUT IN INK. 8vo, paper, uncut. 110. BRISTED (J.). Histoire des États-Unis d'Amérique 2 vols. 8vo, neatly half bound. Paris, 1832 111. BROMLEY (MRS.). A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World. (North and South America, Mexico, and West Indies.) Litho. plates. 12mo, cloth. Lond. 1861 These letters were addressed by the writer to her father, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. 112. BROOKLYN. Abstract of the title of the LEFFERTS FARM. Compiled by A. S. Wheeler. Oblong 8vo, bound in cloth, pp. 5, with diagrams and family chart. 113. Jan: A Tale of the early history of Brooklyn. By A. L. O. B. 12mo, cloth. 114. BROOKS (JAMES G.). Brooklyn, 1870 Brooklyn, 1883 Anniversary Poem, del'd N. Y. 1826 at New Haven before the Conn. Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa. 8vo, half bound, uncut. 115. BROWN (T. ALLSTON). History of the American Stage. Numerous portraits. 8vo, cloth. N. Y. [1870] 116. BRYANT (W. C.). Poems, by William Cullen Bryant, an American, edited by Washington Irving. First Eng. Edn. 12mo, diamond calf, gilt back and edges. Lond. 1832 117. Poems, collected and arranged by the Author, with Essay, etc., by Geo. Gilfillan. 12mo, cloth. Liverpool, 1850 118. Poetical Works, with Griswold's Memoir. Edited (with Introduction) by F. W. N. Bayley. 16mo, boards, broken at edge. SCARCE EDN. Lond. 1853 119. pp. 40. Hymns. PRIVATELY PRINTED. 12mo, cloth, BEARS PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM MR. BRYANT TO 120. BUCKINGHAM (J. S.). Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British Provinces in North America. Plates. 8vo, cloth. [Lond. 1843] 121. BUNN (ALFRED). Old England and New England. Colored front. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1853 122. BURCHETT (JOSIAH). Complete History of the most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts, etc. Portrait and front. Small folio, old calf, rubbed. RARE. Lond. 1720 References to America, and detailed accounts of the voyages of Columbus and others. 123. BURK (JOHN). The History of Virginia, from its first settlement to the present day (commencement of the Revolution), 3 vols. 8vo, boards, uncut, Petersburg, Va., 1804-1822; The History of Virginia, commenced by John Burk, and continued by Skelton Jones and Louis Hue Girardin, Vol. 4, 8vo, original old calf, Petersburg, 1816. VERY RARE. Some leaves are spotted, and two end leaves appear to be in facsimile (not in Vol. 4). Vols. 1-3 contain autographs of M. C. Perry (Perry's Japan Expedition). The board bindings are broken. 124. BURNEY (JAMES). History of the Buccaneers of America. Maps. 4to, boards, uncut, name on title. Fine copy. Lond. 1816 125. BURNEY (WILLIAM). The British Neptune; or, A History of the Achievements of the Royal Navy, from the earliest periods. Plates. 12mo, calf. Lond. 1807 Much relating to America. 126. BURROUGHS (JOHN). Wake Robin. FIRST EDN. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1871 Letters from the Battle- 127. BURTON (RICHARD F.). fields of Paraguay. FIRST EDN. cloth, uncut, library label on cover. SCARCE. Lond. 1870 128. EDN. Illust. 2 vols. cloth, uncut. Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. FIRST Lond. 1875 129. BURY (VISCOUNT). Exodus of the Western Nations. FIRST EDN. 2 vols. 8vo, half green crushed levant morocco, gilt top, uncut. FINE COPY OF A SCARCE WORK. Lond. 1865. 130. BUTTERFLIES. Grote (A. R.). An Illustrated Essay on the Noctuidae of North America, with "A Colony of Butterflies." COLORED PLATES. Royal 8vo, cloth, unLond. 1882 cut. 131. BYAM (GEORGE). Wanderings in some of the WESTERN REPUBLICS OF AMERICA, with remarks upon the cutting of the great SHIP CANAL THROUGH CENTRAL AMERICA. Illust. 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1850 132. CALIFORNIA. Storia della California, opera postuma, del nob. sig. abate D. FRANCESCO SAVERIO CLAVIGERO. Folding map at end. 2 vols. in 1. 12mo, half bound, gilt back. VERY RARE. Venice, 1789 133. BENNETT (F. D.). Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, 1833-1836, comprising Sketches of Polynesia, CALIFORNIA, etc. 2 plates. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. Lond. 1840 134. Coulter (John). Adventures on the Western Coast of SOUTH AMERICA, and the interior of CALIFORNIA, etc. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut. Lond. 1847 135. Last leaves of American History, comprising histories of the MEXICAN WAR and CALIFORNIA. By Emma Willard. Map. 12mo, cloth. N. Y. 1849 |