Exactly taken in Short-hand as they were lately delivered by him at the Meetings of the Christian People, called Quakers, in London. 12mo, full crushed levant. (Title mounted and pp. time-stained.)

RARE. Not in Sabin. London: Printed for Nat. Crouch, 1694

105. KEITH (GEORGE) AND BUDD (THOMAS). An Aecount of the Great Divisions, Amongst the Quakers, in Pennsylvania, &c. Small 4to, full brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by W. Pratt.

London: Printed for, and are to be sold by John Gwillim, 1692

VERY RARE. This is the first English edition of "The Plea of the Innocent, against the false judgment of the Guilty," printed by William Bradford in Philadelphia the same year.

Reference is made to the publishing of "THE RHODE ISLAND SHEET called the Christian Faith" and "the judgment against William Bradford for printing it, tho' he was warranted to print it by the desire of the mo. Meeting of Rhode Island.'' Also references to East and West Jersey.

A fine clean copy.

106. KNOX (MAJ. GEN. HENRY). A Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United States. Small folio, blue crushed levant morocco, gilt border, with corner ornaments, lettering on side.

New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790

107. LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE). Tyrannies et Cruautez des Espagnols perpetrées ès Indes Occidentales, qu'on dit le Nouveau Monde fidelement traduictes par Jaques de Miggrode; pour servir d'exemple & advertissement aux XVII Provinces du Païs Bas. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco, richly gilt sides, gilt over marbled edges, by Cuzin.

Anvers chez François de Ravelenghien, 1579

EXTREMELY FINE COPY. Brunet, p. 1613, calls this First French Edition "Edition Rare et recherchee." The Hoe copy.

108. Conquista dell' Indie Occidentali di Monsignor Fra Bartholomeo Dalle Case. Tradotta in Italiano per opera di Marco Ginammi. Vignette on title. 4to, new wrappers.

Venetia Presso Marco Ginammi, 1645

:

The only Italian Edition of the "Disputa" and the "Principia Quidam, "' of Las Casas' Treatises. With the E. N. Crane bookplate.

DESCRIPTION OF AMERICA 1664

109. LAURENBERG (SEBASTIAN). Dissertation Geographica, continens de America proscis cognita. Small 4to, vellum. Hauniæ, 1664

AN EXTREMELY RARE THESIS ON THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT, and on the Origin of its Inhabitants. Contains many references to Columbus, Vespucius, Acosta, Gomara, Peter Martyr, Las Casas, Benzoni, Hornius, Herrara, Ptolemy, Lescarbot, and others.

110. LECHFORD (THOMAS). Plain Dealing: or, Newes from New-England. A short view of New-Englands present Government, both Ecclesiasticall and Civill, compared with the anciently-received and established Government of England, in some

materiall points; fit for the gravest consideration in these times. Small 4to, boards, calf back, some leaves uncut.

London: Printed by W. E. and I. G. for Nath: Butter, 1642 FIRST EDITION. Extremely rare. This pamphlet was issued two years later as "New England's Advice to Old England." Lechford was a lawyer who lived in Boston from 1638 to 1641. His narrative contains much information of great value respecting the colony and its customs. The curious error on page 20, where he writes of the "eleven or twelve" mandments, has been corrected by scoring out in a contemporary ink the words quoted.

com

This is the Edward Haillstone-E. D. Church copy, with bookplate of each. It has wide margins and measures 71⁄2 by 5% inches.

111. LE CLERCQ (CHRESTIEN). Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, qui contient Les Moeurs & la Religion des Sauvages Gaspesiens Porte-Croix, adorateurs du Soleil, & d'autres Peuples de l'Americque Septentrionale, dite le Canada. 12mo, full old calf. A Paris: chez Amable Auroy, 1691

Important for its information relative to Northeastern Canada and the Province of New Brunswick. It contains a remarkable record of the labors of converting the Gaspé Indians. He not only records the results of his own missionary life among the savages inhabiting the shores of the St. Lawrence, but he has left us an account of their peculiar traits of character, religious rites, and mode of life before these had been modified by contact with civilization.

112. LEDERER (JOHN). The Discoveries of John Lederer, In three several Marches from Virginia, to the West of Carolina, and other parts of the Continent: Begun in March 1669, and ended in September 1670. Collected and Translated out of Latine from his Discourse and Writing, By Sir William Talbot Baronet. With original map in fine state. Small 4to, old green straight-grain morocco, with crest on sides, some lower edges uncut.

London: Printed by J. C. for Samuel Heyrick, 1672 THE ORIGINAL EDITION, PARTICULARLY RARE WITH THE ORIGINAL MAP, AND THE LEAF OF LICENSE, BOTH OF WHICH ARE PRESENT.

The work contains a brief account of the North American Continent, the Manners and Customs of the Indians of Carolina and Virginia, details of the three expeditions, including the penetration to the top of the Apalatoean mountains. The Halsey copy. Name of H. Harman on title.

RARE NEW YORK BRADFORD IMPRINT, 1697

113. LEEDS (DANIEL). News of a Trumpet Sounding in the Wilderness. Or, The Quakers Antient Testimony Revived, Examined and Compared with it self, and also with their New Doctrine. Whereby the Ignorant may learn Wisdom, and the Wise advance in their Understandings. Collected with Diligence, and carefully cited for their Antient and Later Writings, and Recommended to the serious Reading and Consideration of all Enquiring Christians by Daniel Leeds. 12mo, original sheep. In red morocco case. Printed and Sold by William Bradford at the Bible in New York, 1697

FROM THE FIRST PRESS OF NEW YORK AND CONSEQUENTLY OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHICAL INTEREST. Daniel Leeds came from England about 1677 and became one of the most prominent settlers in West New Jersey. He published the first Almanac published in Pennsylvania in 1687 and the first Almanac published in New York in 1694, BOTH PRINTED BY WILLIAM BRADFORD.

RELATION

DERNIERE

DECE QUI S'EST

PASSE' AV VOYAGE

DV SIEVR DE POVTRINCOVRT
en la Nouuelle - France
depuis 20.mois enca.

Par MARC LES CARBOT Aduocas

114. LESCARBOT (MARC). Nova Francia; Or the Description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described in the three late Voyages and Plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into the countries called by the Frenchmen La Cadie, lying to the Southwest of Cape Breton. Translated out of the French into English by P. E(rondelle). Small 4to, half maroon levant morocco, gilt back, burnished gilt edges, by David (wants the original preliminary blank leaf, corner of R4 has been repaired, margin and some of the text of Kk3 restored).

Londini: Impensis Georgii Bishop, 1609

THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. This is a translation of the fourth and sixth books of the first edition of Lescarbot, Paris, 1609, although the author's name is nowhere mentioned in the translation. The translator, Peter Erondelle, or Arundell, was a French schoolmaster in London, who was afterwards a stockholder in the Virginia Company. In his "Epistle" he says: "The whole volume of the Navigations of the French-nation into the West Indies (comprised in three books) was brought to me to be translated by Mr. Richard Hakluyt, a man who for his worthy and profitable labours, is well known to most men of his worth, not onely of this kingdome, but also of forrain parts: and by him this part was selected and chosen from the whole worke, for the particular use of this Nation.''

Copies occur without the date on the title, the work having been reissued with a new title-page bearing the imprint of Andrew Hebb. THIS

DATED EDITION IS CONSIDERABLY THE RARER.

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

AN EXCESSIVELY RARE "LESCARBOT"

115. LESCARBOT (MARC). Relation derniere de ce qui s'est passe' av Voyage dv Sievr de Povtrincovrt en la Nouvelle-France depuis qo mois enca. Device on title. Small 8vo, half red levant morocco, gilt top. A Paris: Chez Iean Millot, 1612

THIS LITTLE WORK OF 39 PAGES IS SO RARE THAT AS LONG AGO AS 1878 SABIN merely cited the work without locating a copy. It is as "Des Sauvages" of Champlain, and MORE IMPORTANT.

Lescarbot was the friend and companion of Poutrincourt on his voyages, and Histoire de la Nouvelle France" relates the earlier voyages. This relates Poutrincourt's voyage of 1610. He had promised to take Biard the Jesuit along but sailed from Dieppe leaving Biard at Bordeaux. He had with him a priest, La Fleche, who on his arrival devoted himself so earnestly to converting the Indians, that he baptised 21 of them in a single day. The report of the wholesale conversions on this voyage confirmed the Jesuits in their notion of sending Missionaries to the New World and Biard and Masse were sent out in 1611. The story of how it became necessary for the friends of the Jesuits to purchase the interest of two Huguenot merchants-Poutrincourt's partners-before they could leave, and their voyage, is here told.

THIS WORK THUS BECOMES THE FIRST OF THE JESUIT RELATIONS. H. 26. No copy in Lenox and but six copies were located by Mr. De Puy. With the De Puy bookplate.

[SEE ILLUSTRATION]

UNDESCRIBED FIRST ISSUE OF THIS EDITION

116. LESCARBOT (MARC). Histoire de la Novvelle-France. Contenant les navigations, découvertes, & habitations faites par les François és Indes Occidentales & Nouvelle-France, par commission de noz Roys Tres-Chrétiens, & les diverses fortunes d'iceux en l'execution de ces choses, depuis cent ans jusques à hui. Folding maps. Small 8vo, red crushed levant morocco, ribbed and lettered

back, gilt inside borders, gilt on marbled edges (2 maps in facsimile). Paris: Adrian Perier, 1617 EXCESSIVELY RARE. This edition has the same collation as that of 1618, but seems to have eluded most of the recognized bibliographers. Harrisse and Sabin knew the edition by report only, and Justin Winsor says that some authorities had mentioned copies with the 1617 date, but he had not seen them.

This issue, like that of 1618, has the second part, "les Muses," with same imprint, but dated 1618.

117. LIGON (RICHARD). A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes. Large folding map and plates. Small folio, folio, original calf, with the arms of the Earl of Chesterfield in gilt on sides. London: Printed for H. Moseley, 1657

FIRST EDITION. With the Chesterfield bookplate.

EARLY VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY IN ENGLISH

118. [LITCHFIELD (NICHOLAS).] The First Booke of the Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous Nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. Set foorth in the Portingale, and now translated into English, by N[icolas] L[itchfield]. Title within ornamental woodcut border. Small 4to, full olive levant morocco, gilt, gilt edges, by Leighton.

Imprinted at London, by Thomas East, 1582

FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. Printed in Black Letter. Name of E. Williams on margin of title. Sound and clean copy with the leaf numbered 164 at the end containing the Colophon and vignette. The Halsey copy.

119. [LITTLETON (EDWARD).] The Groans of the Plantations, or a True Account of their Grievous and Extreme Sufferings By the Heavy Impositions upon Sugar, and other Hardships. Relating more particularly to the Island of Barbados. 4to, vellum. London: Printed by M. Clark, 1689

A scarce piece relating to local conditions in Barbadoes and the West Indies. Not in Church.

RARE EARLY ENGLISH NAVIGATION

120. LYNTON (ANTHONY). Newes of the Complement of the Art of Navigation. And of the Mightie Empire of Cataia. Together with the Straits of Anian. By A. L. Small 4to, polished calf, gilt, inside borders, gilt edges, by Bedford.

London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, 1609

FIRST EDITION. One of the rarest and quaintest of all the Early English Writings on the art of Navigation and undescribed by all Bibliographers. The Author describes himself in the Dedication as a "Sussex Parson."' Contains many passages of American interest. On page 10 we read "Yea and by Navigation, the huge convexitie of the whole world, within little more than these 30 years last past, hath been by our English nation twice sailed about. One by the worthie Thomas Candish, Esquire, both passing thorow the Straits of Magellan into the South Sea, and so coasting from thence the Western Shore of the New World into California, passed from thence unto the Moluccan Islands and from thence by Java and by the Cape, De bone Esperanza, and returned again alive unto this Realme of England, with riches and renowne. A Voyage never yet before this day performed by any other, of what nation soever, but only by Magellan, the Portugale."