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No. 403
America & The East
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Foreword.
««/* tt A HE GREATEST EVENT WHICH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD (LEAVING ASIDE THE INCAR NATION AND DEATH OF HIM WHO CREATED IT) IS THE DISCOVERY OF THE INDIES/' so wrote FRANCISCO LOPEZ
DE GO MAR A in the dedication to Charles V. of his " Historia General de las
Indias" and if we include with this the Invention of Printing, the Twentieth
Century can fully endorse Gomara's words.
The Original Printed Records left us by the early discoverers and conquerors of America are of such excessive rarity that some of them are as entirely lost as many of the Ancient Classical Authors; others have only survived to the present, in one or two copies, such as the letters of Columbus, and the Relations of Cortes.
The items in this Catalogue are in Chronological order according to the date of publication, and an Alphabetical Index is given at the end. The reader will therefore be able to see at a glance the wealth of interesting and unusual items that are described; we believe that no other Catalogue of recent times has con tained so many books of such excessive rarity dealing with the Discovery of and Early Travels in America. We may mention such books as Carvajal's Oratio, 1493 (which is the First Official Announcement of the Discovery1 of America); Columbus' Second Letter of 1494; Mela's Cosmographia Salamanca, 1498 (which contains the First Spanish Map of the World); Waldseemuller's Cosmo graphy, 1 507 (in which the suggestion was first made of calling the New World after Americus Vespucius); The Famous Map by Ruysch, 1508 (The First Printed Map showing any part of America); The Ptolemy of 1511 (with the First Printed Map of the North American Continent); Peter Martyr's Opera, 1511 (with the Map of Columbus' discoveries); The Ptolemy of 1513 (containing the famous Map supposed to have been made by Columbus); Peter Martyr's De Orbe Novo, 1516 (which is the First Edition of the Three Decades concerning the New World, and the Earliest Printed Account of Cabot's Discoveries); Enciso's Surna de geographia, 1519 (The First book printed in Spanish relating to America); The Third and Fourth Relations of Cortes (rarer than the Letters of Columbus).
(Continued on page 3 of Cover).
IEATRO AMERICANO
VILLA — SENOR. TEATRO AMERICANO. 1748. See Item No. 157.
No. 403 1921
AMERICA
AND
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Early Geographies
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PART I.
AMERICA.
1493 A.D.
THE FIRST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
[i] CARVAJAL (Bernardinus). Oratio ad Alexandram VII. nomine regirni Hispaniae habita super praestanda solenni obedientia.
Roman Letter, 28 lines to a page.
Small 4to, full morocco, inside double t g. e
(Rome, Ste-phan Plannck, 1493). £175
Hain *4545. Proctor 3715. Harrisse II. PtflLechet 3326.
The Spanish Cardinal and Statesman Bernardin de Carvajal went to Rome about tiie middle of the year 1493 in order to assure the Pope of the submission of the King of fc'paJn which he did with the above «peech (one of tho earliest printed diplomatic speeches) on the 19th of June, 1493. The speech refers to all. the political and social events which had ta-ken place till 1492 under Ferdinand II. and Isabella, specially referring to the Union of tho Spanish Monarchy and the final destruction of the ascendancy of the Moors under JSoabdil through the fall of Granada in 1492.
On page 6 verso, lines 16 and following, we read the following lines referring to the discovery of America which is the first mention of the Discovery of America in print
(with the exception of the Columbus letter of May, 1493).
" Subegit quoque sub eis xps fortunatas insulas, qua-rum fertilitatem mirabilem ease conatat. Ondit et nuper alias incognitas versus. Indos quaei maxime ac plene oib9 inundi preciosis existirnantur, et xpor per regios internuntios brevi pariturae creduntur."
(Translation).— And Christ placed under their rule the Fortunate Islands, the fer tility of which has been ascertained to be wonderful. And he has lately disclosed some other unknown ones towards the Indies which may be considered among the most precious things on earth; and it is believed that they will be gained over to Christ by the emissaries of the Kiivg.
This mention was printed a bare four months after Columbus' return from his first voyage of discovery. He had landed on 4th of March, 1493, at Lisbon.
Harrisse in his " Notes on Columbus " (Cambridge, 1865). p. 136, writing- of the above book, says : " Another (allusion) of a very eo.rly date which may have preceded even Leander de Cosco's very poor Latin translation of the Admiral's letter, einee it is dated June 19th, 1493, is to be found in a small quarto of 8 leaves, dssued without date or name of printer."
The Times Literary Supplement of September 5, 1918, has an article on this raire little volume, and concludes as follows: —
" When dt is recollected that the famous letter of Columbus announcing his discoveries was dated 3 Kal., May, 1493 (really April 29), and that it is certain that a longer time separated the writing and printing of ihat letter than would intervene between the delivery and printing of CarvajaFs oration, it becomes doubtful whether more than a very few days intervened between the publication of the first printed document relating to America, the letter of Columbu", and the oration of Carvajal, in which that discovery was officially announced to the Church and the world."
Only 8 copies are known of this book, nearly all of which aire in Public Libraries.
M596333
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1493 A.D.
THE HONOUR OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD CLAIMED FOR MARTIN BEHAIM.
[2] SCHEDEL (Dr. Hartmann). Liber Chronicarufn.
With i, 800 superb woodcuts by Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff.
Black Letter, 64 long lines to a page, with illuminated initials.
Large folio, calf (rebacked).
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12th July, 1493. £75
(Harrisse No. 13.)
* * * The First Edition of this Famous Chronicle of the Middle Age*, giving a pic torial description of the World. It was published thre<* or four months after Columbus had returned and made known his discovery, but in this Chronicle, MARTIN BEHAIM IS GIVEN THE HONOUR OF BEING THE ACTUAL DISCOVERER, AS A COUNTERCLAIM SET UP IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE NEWS OF COLUMBUS' RETURN.
The description occurs on Leaf CCXC., and is as follows -. —
ANNIS UO POSTER10RIBUS V'T ANNO DNI. 1483' IOHANES SCD'S PORTUGALIE REX ALTISSIMI VIR CORD IS CERT AS GALEAS GIBUS ID V1CTU NECESSARIIS IN- STRUXIT EASQ ULTRA COLUNAS HERCULIS AD MERIDIH VERSUS ETHIOPIA IN- VESTIGATUROS MISIT. PREFECIT AUT HIS PATBONOS DUOS JACOBU CANU PORTUGALENSEM Y MARTINU BOHEMU HOM1NE GERMANU EX NURMBERGA SUPIORIS GERMAN IE DE BONA BOHEMORU FA Ml LI A NATU. HOIEM INQ IN COG- NOSCENDO SITU TERRE PERITISSIMU MARTSQ PACIENTISSIMU. QUIQ PTOLOMEI LOGITUDINES Y LATITUDINES IN OCCIDENTS AD UNGUE EXPERIMETO. LOGEUAQ NAVIGATIONS NOUIT. HIJ DUO BONO DEORTT AUSPICO MARE MERIDIONALE SULTANTES A LITTORE NO LONGE EVAGANTES SUPATO CIRCUIT) EQNOXIALI IN ALTERU ORBEM EXCEPTI SUNT. UBI IP'IS STANTIBUS ORIENTE VERSUS UMBRA AD MERIDIE Y DEXTRA PROICIEBAT. 4PERUERE IGIT SUA INDUSTRIA ALIU ORBEM HACTENUS NOBIS INCOGNITU Y MULTIS ANNIS A NTJLLTS QZ JANUENS1BUS LICET FRUSTRA TEMPTATU. PERACTA AUT HMOI NAVIGATIONS VICEiSIMO SEXTO MENSE REUERSI SUNT PORTUGAIJIA PLURIBU8 OB CALIDISSIMI AERIS PATENTIA MORTUIS.
This passage states that the King of Portugal, Juan II., sent, in 1483, James Canus, a native of Portugal, and Martin Behairn of Nuremberg, with some galleys to Ethiopia; that they went to the Southern Sea, nea/r the coast, and, after crossing the line, reached the New World, where, when they happened to look towards the East, their shadow, at noon, appeared on the right; that in that region they discovered lands, heretofore unknown, which had not been searched a.fter by any people for many years, except the Genoese, and that in vain; finally, that after a navigation of twenty-six months they returned to Portugal ; and in proof of their discovery brought pepper and grana iparadisi.
1493 A.D.
[3] SCHEDEL (Dr. Hartmann). Buch cfer Croniken.
The Nuremberg Chronicle with German text. With 1,800 coloured wood cuts. Black Letter.
Large folio, sixteenth century binding, oak boards covered with stamped pigskin, dated 1594.
'Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 2$rd December, 1493. £52 10s
(Harrisse No. 14.)
The passage relating to Behaiin's discovery of America occurs on leaf CCLXXXV.
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1494 A.D.
COLUMBUS LETTER WITH THE Six WOODCUTS. [4] COLUMBUS (Christopher) and Carolus VERARDUS. Epistola.
(Folio i A title) In laudem Serenissimi Ferdinandi Hispaniarum regis, Bethicae & regni Granatae, obsidio, victoria, & triumphus. ET DE INSULIS IN MARI INDICO NUPER INVENTIS.
Roman Letter. With six fine full-page woodcuts.
4to, vellum gilt.
Basle, Johannes Bergmann de Olpe, 2ist April, 1494.
(SEE ILLUSTRATIONS, PLATES Nos. I. AND II.). £500
Hain *15942. Proctor 7770. Schreiber 5419. Harrisse No. 15.
* * * The first thirty pages in dialogue form is a drama on the siege and capture of Granada from the Moors by Ferdinand. It was written by Verardus and acted at Rome in 1492.
The letter of Columbus begins as follows : " De insulis nuper inventia. Epistala Christoferi Coiom (cui etas nostra multum debet; de insulis in Mari Indico nuper inventis ad quas perquirendas octavo antea mense auspiciig et aere invictissimi Fernandi Hispaniarum Regis missus fuerat) ad magnincum dominum Raphaeleiii Sanxis ejusdem Regis Thesaurar- ium missa quam nobilis ac litteratus vir Aliander de Cosoo ab Hispano ideomate in latinum convertit/' As is well known two copies of the original epistle were written by Columbus in Spanish, one addressed to Luis de Santangel, a secretary to King Ferdinand, and the other to Gabriel (misprinted Raphael) Sanxis, treasurer of Aragon; "both practically identical in ether respects. The Sanxis copy was translated into Latin in Naples 29 April, 1493, by Aliander de Cosco, and this is the version now being described, and which was the only original one known prior to the discovery in recent years of the original Spanish text.
This is the famous " Second Letter of Columbus/' and is the second edition of the Columbus Letter with a colophon and a definite date, but the first edition of Verardus with the Columbus letter containing the account of the Admiral's first voyage.
The woodcuts are as follows : —
(1) On title-page full length portrait of King Ferdinand of Spain, crowned, dressed in full armour holding the Escutcheon of Castile and Leon in his right hand, and that of Granada in his left, and the words " Fernandus. Rex Hyspanie."
(2) Columbus and another European in a boat landing on the shores on the New World offering a goblet to the timid unclothed natives, some of whom are advancing, while others are running away; at top of the woodcut the words " Insula Hyspana." A caravel in the foreground.
(3) A caravel approaching1 the islands of Ferdinand, Isabella, Hispania, S. Salvator and Conception (so inscribed). A kind of bird's eye view map.
(4) A town, and fort in process of construction, by the seaside on Hispania, anxl the won-ds " Insulla Hyspana " (San Domingo)
(5) Single Escutcheon of Castile and Leon.
(6) A, fine full-page woodcut of Columbus' Admiral's ship, showing Columbus' cabin 011 the stern, in full sail, the words above being " Oceanica Classis/'
The reason of these two distinct works bein? issued together is obvious from the title-page. By them is commemorated the memorable year 1492, iii which happened two events of the greatest iirmortance to Spain, viz., the destruction of the Moorish power and the discover?- of the New World.
The letter begins (translation) : —
"Having row accomplished the undertaking upon which I set out, I know that it will be agreeable to you to .be informed of all I have discovered in my voyage. On the 33^d day after 1 left Cadiz I reached the Indian Ocean, where I found many islands peopled bv mmimaraible inhabitants; of all -which I took possession without resistance. The islands abound in the finest variety of trees, so lofty that they eeern to rea-ch the stars. The«e people are of a verv timid disposition, an uncommonly simple, honest people, liberal in bestowing what they possess." Etc. -
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1494 A.D.
THE FIRST PORTUGUESE REFERENCE TO AMERICA.
[5] YALASCUS (Ferdinand) [Orator of the King of Portugal] Oratio ad Irmocentium VIII. de oboedientia habita.
Black Letter, 33 long lines to a full page.
4to, boards.
(Rome, Stepkan Plannck, about 1494). £75
Hain-Copinger 15760. Proctor 3647. Voullieme, Berlin, 3436. Harrisse (Bibliotheca Vetustissima Americana) p. 45. Only one copy in the U.S. of America (according to the Census), viz., in the (library of the late Henry Walters of Baltimore.
" Non desunt alia in ceclesiam nierita : primum quod cepta navigari Ethiopia es-t. Alterum quod in eodem tempore in oceano athlantico 10 insule vix ipsis orbis descriptoribus cognite a oiostris invente sunt et in omnes Lusitanie colonie deducte, in quib. Christiana fides colitur. Ita ut mihi vere Alfonsus rex ad thrist, relig1. colendarn non contentus ma jorum suor. finibus videatur : nisi etiami novas provincias, nova Tegna, novas insulas et quasi novos et incognitos orbes Christi nomini et Rom. ecclesie addiceret."
(English translation) : —
" He (the King) has merited well of the Church in other ways. Firstly, he sent expeditions to Ethiopia: Secondly, at that same tiuie ten islands in the Atlantic Ocean which were hardly even known to Geographers wore found by our countrymen and in all of them Portuguese colonies were founded to promote the Christian faith. It seems to me that King Alfonsus was not satisfied with -promoting the Christian religion i& his own domanicxns. He had to add new iprovinoes, new kingdoms, new islands, and may I say it NEW A1STD UNKNOWN WORLDS to the name of Christ and the Church of Rome/'
Pope Innocent VIII. died in July, 1492, eight months before it was known in Europe that Columbus had discovered the New World, consequently the paragraph in question could not have been in the Oration as first delivered by Valascus, but must have been an interpolation when printed in 1494, which wtas only a few months after Columbus^ return, and when all Europe wa.s excited over his great discovery. At that time the rival claims of Spain and Portugal was causing a great controversy as to whether the honour was due to Columbus or to the Portuguese Navigator Behaim, and both countries were consequently claiming from the Pope the possession of the New World, and which the Poipe eventually divided between Spain and Portugal. It is therefore likely that this paragraph was pur posely inserted into the printed ORATION to claim for Portugal, the discoveries in contra/ distinction to Spain.
PLATE I.
©ceantca
Illustration of the AdmiraFs Ship with Columbus's Cabin on the stern, from
CouiJTBUS LETTTER, Avith the Six Woodcuts. Bnsle, 14-94.
See Item No. i.
PLATE II.
Jnfulienuperin marijiidtcoreperae
Columbus landing on the shores of the New World, from
COLUMBUS LKTTER, with the Six Woodcuts. Basle, 1191.
See Item No. 4.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
14&8 A.D.
THE FIRST SPANISH MAP OF THE WORLD. - ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS REFERRING TO THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED WORLD.
[6] MELA (Pomponius). Cosmcgraphia cum Figuris sive de situ orbis,
[edited by Nunez de la Yerva.]
Roman Letters, 27 lines to a full page.
With a woodcut graduated planisphere extending over two whole pages, and the famous world map and fine woodcut initial letters.
4 to, original calf, gilt back.
Salamanca (Printer of Ant. Nebrissensis), 1498.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. III.). £375
Hain 11021. Proctor 9569. Haebler 5.53. Haebler, Early Printers of Spain, plates XI. and XII. Harrrisse, Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, Additions 8. Sea on the fi'rst page of the preface the passage " Extra istas duas extremas plurima inveniuntur. Nam versus occidena serenissimus Hispaniarum Hex Ferdinandus et Helisabeth terram liabitatam dis- tantem ab occidenti per xlv Qradus invenerunt."
(" IN ADDITION TO THOSE TWO FURTHEST LANDS, MANY MORE HAVE BEEN FOUND. FOR TOWARDS THE WEST, THE KING OF SPAIN FERDINAND AND ELISA BETH HAVE FOUND INHABITED LAND 45 DEGREES AWAY FROM THE WEST.")
The only copies of this scarce book in the U.S. of America are in the Hispanic Society Library and New York Public Library (according to Census).
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1498 A.D.
PLINY A FOOL FOR STATING THAT THERE WERE NOT ANY NEW LANDS TO BE DISCOVERED.
[7] BRANDT (Sebastian). Stultlfera Navis.
Woodcut on title, and 114 large woodcuts (should be 118) caricaturing all classes of people.
Small 4to, original calf y g. e.
Basle , per Johann Bergman de Olpe, 1498. £10 10s
(See Harristso additions No. 6.)
* * * This is of especial interest to an American Collection, as Brandt here repudiates the errors of Pliny and Ptolemy for stating that there -was no land beyond the sea* to the West; in the following passage: —
Prestita cosmographi lustrat documents Stra-bonis
Intactu tota nil sinit orbe quidem. Quid geometer enini tantas in pectore curas Concipis : inoassum cirrmlus ista terit. Plinius erravit : quamvis Fipectabilis auctor :
Errores varios & Ptolomeus habet. Jnvanum siquide multorum corda laborant :
Rebus in incertis quos ita eudor agit. Aiitea que f uerat priscis incognita telius :
Exposita est oculis & manifesta patet. Hesperie occidue rex Ferdinandus in alto Aequore mine gentes Tepperit innumeras. and gives a full page engraving of Pliny as a " Fool."
1500 A.D.
THE HONOUR OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD CLAIMED FOR MARTIN BEHAIM.
[8] SGHEDEL (Dr. Hartmann). Buch der Croniken unnd Ceschichten mit Figuren und Pildnussen von Anbeginn der Welt biss auff dise unsere Zeyt.
Black Letter, double columns, 52 lines and headline. With folding map, full-page woodcut of the Deity, and numerous fine large and small woodcuts in the text (a few stains).
Thick small folio, stamped russia, g. e. (in case).
Augsburg, Johann Schonsperger, 1500. £21
In this Chronicle, MAETIN BEHAIM IS GIVEN THE HONOUR OF BEING TKE ACTUAL DISCOVERER, AS A COUNTER CLAIM SET UP IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE NEWS OF COLUMBUS' RETURN.
In the volume it is stated that the King of Portugal, Juan II., sent, in 1483, James Canus, a native of Portugal, and Martin Behaim of Nuremberg, with some galleys to Ethiopia; that they went to the Southern Sea, near the coast, and, after crossing the line, reached the New Workl, where, when they happened to look towards the East, their shadow, at noon, appeared on the right; that in that region they discovered lands, heretofore un known, which had not been searched after by any people for many years, except the Genoese, and that in vain; finally, that after a navigation of twenty-six months they returned to Portugal; and in proof of their discovery brought pepper and grana paradisi.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1504 A.D.
WITH THE FIRST WORLD MAP UPON WHICH is MENTIONED THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD.
[9] REISCH (Gregory). Margarita Philosophica.
With the large folding World Map, folding plate of Music, curious full- page woodcut engravings, and many smaller ones.
4to, old binding.
Strasburg, Griininger, 1504.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. IV.). £25
(Not noted by Harrisse.)
*** The large World Ma.p first appeared in this edition. On this map mention is made of the newly discovered lands : " His non terr"a sed ma're est in quo mgf. magnitudiuis insulae Ptolemaei fuerunt incognitae." (Here is not land, but sea in which are islands of the greatest size, that were unknown to Ptolemy.)
This is the first World Map upon which mention is made of the discovery of America.
MARGARITA PHILOSOPHICA was the first printed Encyclopaedia— the Author was Confessor to Maximilian the First.
1506 A.D.
[10] BE ROOM AS (Jac. Phil). Supptementum Chronicarum usque in MGCGGCVI.
Woodcut Coat of Arms on title, woodcut border to first page ofi text with large wood engraving. Four full-page wood engravings, and numerous views of cities.
Thick folio, old oak boards covered with leather.
Venice, 1506. £10 10s
(Harrisse 42.)
*** This volume contains a chapter relating to Columbus and his voyages, occupying a page and a half : " De quatuor permaximis. insulis in India extra orbem nuper inventis."
A reference to the invention of printing is made under the year 1458 (verso of page 402). Several of the pictures of citias are authentic views
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1507 A.D.
THE BOOK IN WHICH WAS FIRST SUGGESTED THE NAME OF AMERICA FOR THE NEW FOUND WORLD.
[ii] COSMOGRAPHIAE Introduotio. . . Insuper Quattuor Americi Vespucii Navigationes.
Woodcut diagrams of spheres, and the large folding woodcut map.
Small 4to, morocco , g. e.y by Riviere.
Saint Die, 1507.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. V.). £350
(Harrisse 47.)
* * * This Excessively Rare volume is one of the most important Works for the History of the New World. It is the first book in which America is designated by the name of " Anierici terra, sive America." It is also the first book printed at Saint Di6 in Lorraine.
On verso of A. 5 occurs the passage in question : —
Nunc vcro &C he§ pattes font tatius luftrafce/ 8£ alia quarta pars per America Ve(putium( vt in fe* cjuentibus audietutOinuenta efbqua non video cur quts iure vetet ab America inuentore fagaa's inge nrj viro Amerigen quafi Amend terram/fiue Airae ricam dicendamtcum &C Europa 8c Afia a mulieri* bus foa fortita fint nomin&Eius fitii & gentis mo* res ex bis binis Americi nauigationibus quj fequu £ur Hquide int elligi datun
Translation:— " Now however those parts are more widely investigated, and another quarter has been discovered by Ameiicus Vespucius (as will be heard in the sequel), and I do not see how any one can lawfully forbid that it should be named, after its sagacious and ingenious discoverer, Amerigo (as it were Americo's land), or America."
On the Obverse of B.III. it is said that " the greatest part of the still unknown land lately discovered by Americus Vespucius is inhabitable," and on the obverse of C.I. " the fourth part of the world, which since Americus discovered it, may be called Amerige (as it were the land of Amerious) or America, is in the sixth climate."
WALDESEEMULLER'S COSMOGRAPHIA forms the first rp<art of the book. The second hialf contains an Account of the four Voynares of Aineirigo Vespucci.
"But for this little work the Western Hemisphere might have been called "The Land of the Holy Cross," or " Atlantis," or " He=perides," or " Iberica," or " Columbia," or " New India,," or " The Indies," as it is designated officially irj Spain to this day. The idea of calling the newly discovered world America originated with the compiler of the work before ue, one Martin Waltzmiiller or Waldseemuller, a native of Freiburg, who held a professorship in the gymnasium of St. Die, in Lorraine (and not in Lower Hungary, aa Navarrete supposed). Following the custom of the scho'lairs of those days, he grecized his name into Hylacomylus, under which he is generally known. The popularity of Hylacomy- lus' Cosmographia was such in Central Europe that his proposition was immediately acte<4 upon. As a consequence, we find in Ganltier Ludd's Speculum O'rbis, written in the same year, the credit of havinar discovered the Western Hemisphere ascribed solely to Vespuccius, while an anonymous " Glob us mundi," published by the .same printer in 1509 boldly calls the new World " America," which figures under this name for the first time in maps eight or ten years after Vespuccius had been in his then honoured grave. Well may we say with Humboldt that; " c'est mi homme obscur, qui allait manger du raisin en Lorraine, qui ft invent^ le nora d'Am^rique." "
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1508 A.D.
FIRST PRINTED MAP SHOWING ANY PART OF AMERICA. [12] RUYSCH (Johann). Urciversalior Cogoitt Orfois Tabula.
A LARGE DOUBLE-PAGE MAP OF THE WORLD, measuring 21 by 15$ inches.
Preserved in a buckram case.
Rotnet 1508.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VI.). £75
* ° • This famous Map of the World was issued in the PTOLEMY of 1508, it was also published separately, and is the first printed map showing any part of America.
Johann Jiuysch, a German geographer, had himself visited the Northern part oi Newfoundland on board an English vessel
Tho Map forms an epoch in the development of cartography, for hi addition to its .American features, it is: —
(1) The first printed map of the world on which the discoveries of the Portuguese along the Coasts of Africa are laid down.
(2) First map published in print on -which India is drawn as a triangular peninsula projecting from the south coast of Asia.
(3) First printed map on which the delineation of the interior and eastern parts of Asia is no longer based exclusively on the material collected by Mar in us of Tyre and Ptolemy more than, a millenium previously.
(4) First printed map on which, in conformity with the drawings on the porto- tanos, a tolerably correct direction is given to the Northern Coast of Africa.
(5) First map published in print, which, following a correction made in the portolanos since the 'beginning of tha 14th century, leaves out that excessive projection toward the East, which characterizes Ptolemy's map of the northern part of Scotland.
(6) Greenland is here for the first time drawn without being connected with Europe by a vast polar continent. The legends on the map are . . . of a very high interest and form a more important contribution to the history of geography than many a ibulky volume.
Harrisse, in the " Discovery of North America," gives a very long description of tba map, and gives a reproduction of the " New World " from sa-nm
1510 A.D.
[13] ALBERTINI (Franc, de). Opuscuiutti cfd Mirabilibus Novas & Veteris Urbis Romae,
THE FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original vellum binding.
Rome, 1510. £10 10s
(Harrisse 64.)
* * * Francesco Albertini's book, published only two years after the death of Columbus, mnits any references to him, and only mentions Vespucoius.
After writing of the Antiquities of Rome in a manner which stamps him as the firfet archaeologist of his times, he writes of " DE NOVA UKBE/' and by a slight digression ends the book with a section De laudibus ciuitatum Florentine ci Sauoensis, in which, after enumerating the famous orators, writers, painters and others of Florence, he thus writes of Vespuccius (in translation) : —
In the new world, A Iberians Vespulciuff of Florence, sent by the most Christian King of Portugal, but lastly by the Catholic King of Spain, first discovered new islands and unknown countries, as is graphically set forth in this book, where he describes the stars, and the new islands, aa is also seen in his letter upon the now world, addressed to Lorenzo de Medicis, the younger.
io MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1511 A.D.
WITH THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF ANY PORTION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN
CONTINENT.
[14] PTOLEMAEUS (Claudius). Liber Ceographiae cum tabuiss et universal! figura et cum additione locorum quae a recentioribus reperti sunk
Roman Letter, double columns, 60 lines to a full column. Printed in red and black. With 28 maps on 30 leaves.
Folio. Very fixe tall copy in vellum binding.
Venice, ]ac. Pentius de Leucho, 2Oth March, 1511.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VII.). £105
Harrisse 68. Eames-Sabin No. 66477.
Latin version of Jacobus Angelus, edited with many corrections by Bernardu.s Sylvanus of Eboli, the principles of which a>ro developed in the introduction.
Sylvanus was the first to break with the blind confidence that almost every scholar in the beginning: of the 16th century had in the atlas of the old Alexandrian geographer.
In this edition .... the usual addenda is omitted FOR THE FIRST TIME
WE HERE MEET WITH MAPS HAVING THE LETTERPRESS PRINTED IN RED AND BLACK, and contrary to what generally was and yet is the custom, both sides of the paper are used for the map print; excepting, for the new map of the new world, where the reverse is left blank. The maps are from woodcuts, for which the legends are produced by types fitted into blocks. . .
The greatest importance of this edition to the history of cartography, consists in the cordiform map of the world . . . the first on this projection. THIS IS THE SECOND PRINTED MAP OF THE WORLD, in the delineation of which some attention has been paid to the great geographical discoveries of the preceding years. (This map) " CONTAINS THE FIRST PRINTED DELINEATION OF ANY PORTION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT, under the names of " Regalis Domus "..._. and " Terra Laboratorus." (Labrador.)
It represents the New World in an extremely curious way. Brazil, a large tract, is called Terra. Sanctae Crucis, and the cartographer evinces acquaintance with the results of Columbus' third voyage, and Vespucci's second and third voyages. The continuity is broken by the margin in consequence of the peculiar plan of the map, so that Cuba and Hispaniola appear next above, near their proper places; and far beyond them, at the same degree of latitude as Ireland, an unfinished shore bearing the words " Regalis Domus," indicates the northern continent, while Labrador (Terra La.bora torus) is represented as an island off the coast. THIS IS THE FIRST GRAPHIC RECORD OF THE DISCOVERIES (in 1500) OF CORTE REAL. Greenland (Engronelat) is drawn as a peninsula of north-west Europe. Coming nearer home, it is remarkable that in this book, Scotland is properly drawn for the first time as forming a northern extension of England. It is also remarkable for the manner in which the names are printed on the map, this having been done by types after the woodcut had bepn worked off. This is the first instance in which such a method of operation was ever adopted.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. u
1511 A.D.
WITH THE EXCESSIVELY RARE MAP OF THE DISCOVERIES OF CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS IN AMERICA.
[15] MARTYR (Peter), of • Anghiera. Opera, scilicet legationis baby- lonicae libri tres; Oceani decas; Carmina, Janus, Inachus, Pluto furens, et reliqua poemata, hymni et epigrammata; cura /Elii Ant. Nebrissensis.
WITH THE EXTRAORDINARILY RARE MAP OF THE DISCOVERIES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IN AMERICA.
Folio, Spanish calf, ivith the Arms of the Marquis de Caracena, Governor of the Netherlands and Captain General.
Sevilla, Jacobus Cromberger, 1511.
FIRST EDITION.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. VIII.). £35°
Harrisse 66.
THE " NEWLY DISCOVERED WOULD " COVERS THE ENTiRK MAP. AND ON TUB VERSO, AN EP1STLK ADDRESSED TO CARDINAL XlMENEZ AND . AN EXTRA PAOB OF TEXT. ONLY A FEW COPIES CONTAIN THESU TWO ADDITIONAL LEAVES.
The estimation in which Peter Martyr was held as an historian U shown by the tact that in a period of a hundred years his works were published in Spain, "aly, Ira and England. An Italian by birth, he went in 1487 to the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella lie served in their armies during two campaigns, was oraamed a priest alter wards, and became tutor to their children. He waa at one time an ambassador, and later on a Privy Counsellor. Few men have had a wider range of occupation and experience, bold schoolmaster, ambassador, statesman, priest, historian, and a gossiping man < he touched humanity at nearly every point. He delighted in the society of great .men and was on the most frank and intimate terras with them. To use an expression own, he fed with his learning the studious youth of Spain. He was the contemporary of Columbus and Vespucius, and was the first to publish a popular account of ™e results of their voyages and of the peculiarities of the natives of the INew World. This, the firs of his historical writings, contains only the first decade, which was republished together with the second and third at Alcala, in 1516. Its importance is equalled by rarity.
w e ec , .
Harrisse cites but one copy in U.S. of America. It is deserving, m •^™V**>.** regard of scholars and bibiophiles. As the colophon states it was printed ith the
-reatest care." It contains the chart which is usually wanting, and which is remarkably correct for the period. Nothing equal to it appeared for a Ions time after.
12 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1512 A.D.
[16] EUSEBIU9. Eusebii Caesariensls Episoopi Chfomocn: quod Hieronymus presbyter divine eats ingenio Latimim facers curavit,
Title in red and black within woodcut border, text printed in red and black.
Small 4to, calf.
Paris, Henry Estienne, 1512. £15 15s
* * * A volume of such excessive rarity that Harriase (No. 71) stated he could find only one copy (that in the British Museum) which was imperfect, whilst in his " Addition* " at No. 43 he was only able to quote, as found since, the copy in the Arsenal Library, Paris.
Under the year 1500, we find a notice of the Voyages of Cadamosto, and under the year 1509 a long notice about seven savages from the New World brought to France (from Canada by a Dieppe pilot named Aubert) and mentioning that their country is situated under the same meridian as Prance :
" Septem hoies syluestres ex ea. isula (qua* terra noua dicit) Kothomagu adducti sunt cu cymba vestimetis & armis eoru. Fuliginei sut coloris, grossis labrie, stigmata in facie gerentes ab aure ad mediu mentu, instar liuide venule per maxillas deducta. Crine nigro & grosso vt equa iuba. Barba p toto vita nulla, neq pubes neq xillus in toto corpe pill praeter oapillos & snpcillia. Baltheu gerut in quo est buisula qda ad t€geda vereda, idioma labris format, religio nulla: cymba eoru corticea, qua homo vna manu euehat IB humerog, Arma eoru : arcus lati, chordae ex itestinis aut neruis aialiu, Bagitte : canae saxo, aut osse piscis acuminate. Gibus eoru: carnes toste. Potus: aqua. Panis & vini & pecu- niaru. nollus oino usus. Nudi ic«dut : aut vestiti pellibus aialiu, ursoru, ceruoru, vitulo marine & similiu. Regia eoru paralellus septimi climatifi plus sub occidente q Gallca regio snpra occidentem.
This volume ia also famous for the celebrated statement (under year 1457) whiofc ia so often quoted, claiming Gutenberg as the inventor of printing.
PLATE III.
PLATE [V.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 13
1513 A.D.
WITH THE FAMOUS MAP OF THE WORLD KNOWN AS THE " ADMIRAL'S MAP."
[17] PTOIEMAEUS (Claudius). Ceographia per octo libros partita ad antiquitate suam integre & sine ulla corruptione.
Thick folio. Fine copy in original binding of oak boards covered with leather.
Strassburgt 1513.
(SEE ILLUSTRATIONS, PLATES Nos. IX. AND X.). £225
Harrisse 74. Bames-Sabin 66478.
This Atlas may be regarded as the Opening Chapter of the modern literature of Atlases.
It contains the famous Map of the World known as " THE ADMIRAL'S MAP, .supposed >by some to have been made by CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS and by other* by AMERICVS VESPVCCIUS. This Map first appeared in this edition and is entitled—
" ORBIS TYPUS UNIVERSALIS." Two other Ma-pa of great American interest also appear here for the first time, TIZ: —
"TABULA TERRE NOVA/1
which is ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAPS DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO THK NEW WORLD.
"TABULA MODERN A NORBEGIE ET GOTTIE/' which shows " Engronelandt " and " Engronolad."
In addition to these American, features, this contains: —
(1) The earliest attempts at Colour-printing as applied to Maps, having THK MAP OF LORRAINE printed in red, green, and black, and THE MAP OF ENGLAND printed in brown and black.
(2) The First Map of Switzerland.
(3) 48 Maps finely coloured, of which two, aa aforestatcd are printed in colours. (4) The Map of England in duplicate (on* printed in two colaurg, the other
finely coloured by hand).
THE FIRST OF THESE TWO ENGLISH MAPS IS SUPPOSED TO BE UNIQUE.
Twenty of the Maps are here given for the first time. On five of these new Maps the discoveries of the Spaniards and Portuguese during the preceding century are represented.
Harrisse writes as follows regarding this volume : —
" The merit of this edition of Ptolemy's Geogra-phia is great, for it not only corrects Angelo's translation by means of a Greek manuscript until then unknown, but it contains twenty new maps; among which the reader will notice the first, bearing the title of: ORBIS TYPUS UNIVERSAIilS IUXTA HYDROGRAPHC-RUM TRADITIONEM, and pre senting- on the left of the reader a promotory, with live inscriptions, and two islands (viz: " Isabella and Spagnolla "); and the second map, which is headed: TABULA TERRE NOVE. The latter is very full, considering the times, as it shows a prolongation of the coasi from a certain " Rio de canaor " to a cape " del mar usiano/1 There are not less than sixty name* aJong the coast, "besides the inscription afterwards so frequently reprinted :
HEC TERR ARUM ADIACENTTBUS INSULIS INUENTA EST PER COLUMBUM IANUENSEM EX MANDATO REGIS CASTELLE.
This inscription is on the section which corresponds to what we now call Yucatan, and ia followed by the words TERRA INCOGNITA.
These two maps acquire importance from the following lines, which we extract from the preface on the verso of the second title-page:
CHART A AUTEM MARINA QUAM HYDROGRAPHIAM VOCANT PER ADMIRALEM QUONDAM SEKENISSIMI, POiKTUGAIJE REGIS FERDI/NANTJI CETEROS DENIQUE LUSTRATORES VERISSIM-1S PAGRATIOIBUS LUSTRATA.
This passage has doubtless prompted the opinion that the first of the two map* described had been depicted by Columbus himself.0
14 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1513 A.D.
[18] BERCOMAS (Jac. Phil). Supplementum Chronicarum usque ad MCCCCCX.
Title printed in red within elaborate woodcut border, and with a large woodcut in centre of St. George and the Dragon. Woodcut border to first page of text, and numerous fine woodcuts and initial letters.
Folio, original vellum binding.
*\7enicet 1513. £10 108
(Harrisse 73.)
* * * This Chronicle contains a chapter, commencing on verso of page 329, relating to the discovery of America " De quatuor permaximis insulis in India extra orbern nuper inventis."
The Author, Jacobus Philippi Borgomensis, was born at Solto near Bergamo in 1434, became an Augustinian in 1451, and was subsequently Prior of Imola (1494) and of Forli (1496).
The woodcut on title of St. George and Ike Dragon is signed F.V. (Florio Vavassore).
The opening leaf of text has a beautiful woodcut -border, and the leaf facing is entirely occupied with a large woodcut " The Creation of Adam and Eve."
The book is illustrated with a very large number of woodcut Views of Cities.
1515 A.D.
[19] ALBERTINI (Franc, de). Opusoulum de Mirabiiibus Novae & Veteris Urbis Romae.
Woodcut border to title.
Small 4to, vellum binding.
Rome, 1515. £10 108
(Harrisse No. 79).
* * * On page 103 the Author speaks of " De nova Urbe " and refers to Vespuccius iag follows:—
na in novo mundo Albericus Vespuccius Flo. missus a fidelissimo
Roge Portugal. Postremo uero a Catholico Hyspaniaru Rege primus adiuenit novas insulas & loca incognita: ut in eius libello Graphice apparet in Epistola eius de novo mundo ad Lauren tium Juniorem de medecis/'
(Translation) :
'In the New World, Albericus Vespucci'is of Florence, sent by the most Christian King of Portugail, but lastly by the Catholic Kin? of Spain, first discovered new inlands and unknown countries, as is graphically set forth in this book, where he describes the stars, and the new islands, as is also seen in his letter upon the new world, addressed, to Lorenzo de Medecis, the younger."
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 15
THE FIRST EDITION OF THE THREE DECADES AND THE EARLIEST PRINTED
ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA BY SEBASTIAN CABOT. 1516 A.D.
[20] MARTYR (Peter). De Orbe Nouo Decades.
Accipe non noti praeclara uolumina mundi Oceani: & magnas noscito lector opes. Oceani magnas terras : vasta aequora : linguas hactenus
ignotas : atq aurea saecula nosces : Et gentes nudas expertes f eminis atri : Mortiferi nummi : gemmisque auroque seracem Torrentem zonam: parcat vene- randa vetustas.
Folio. Fine copy in full morocco, g. e., by Riviere.
Alcala, Arnold Guillelmiis, 1516. £250
N0> 8.8--AVXCep-i(>llally fin''< and perfect copy of this Historically
BABll
The edition of the first decade of Peter Martyr, printed at Seville ia 1511 hud been published, as it seems, contrary to his wishes, and contained only th .firs °n^e boofs that ho^eadlt t 1 ° kT' ^ P,°Pe1LeC> X' W^ S& charmed with ^ter Martyrs Decade Stfety tmtil late in1SthS1 ;rhi^ ^ ' cardinala " afte'r s^Pyr' s^ena fronte, and to satiety until late in the night, and are not surprised, therefore, to learn that thi • enlightened Pope instructed Bottrigari, his Ambassador to the Court of Spain to reauest the interesting annalist to continue his Oceanics. It is in consequence of this reoues^ ^ that the second decade was written, December 14th, 15U, and the third in March 1515 Th« present copy « this edition: the earliest that contains the first three decade^
The title page is very interesting, translated it reads:—
the new ^/ UAU,8 °ffFfTlij ArcllWsh°P «* Cosenza, apostolic legate, to the reader, touching
le new world. Accept these exquisite volumes concerning the new world and learn O
reader! of the great treasures of the Ocean. The greatest gratitude Ts .due to th? Slot
"
And the Colophon :•—
called Acala.
16 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1519 A.D.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN SPANISH RELATING TO AMERICA.
[21] ENCISO (M. F*. de)., Siima de geographia q trata de totfas las par- tidas y pravincias del mundo: en especial de las Irtdias y trata largamente del arte del marear: Jimtamente con la esphera en romance: con el regimiento de! Sol y del Norte: nueuamente hecha.
(Verso of the title-page) Preuilegio real. El rey. For quanto por parte de vos el bachiller Martin Fernandez de Enciso, alquazil mayor de castilla del oro, me fue fecha relacio deziendno q vos aueys hecho vn libro de cosmographia. . . . . Fecha en la ciudad de Zaragoza a cinco dias del mes de setiebre derail y quinietos y deziocho anos. Yo el rey. Por mandado del rey. Castaneda.
(Colophon} Fue impressa en la nobilissima y muy leal ciudad de Seuilla por Jacobo Croberger en el ano de la encarnacion de Nuestro Senor. de mil y quinientos y diez y nueve.
Woodcut border to first leaf, the top half of which is occupied with a large wood engraving of a Sphere held by a hand, the title occupies the lower half.
Folio. Fine copy in old Spanish calf with Arms of Marquis of Caracena> Spanish Governor -General of the Netherlands.
Seville, 1519. £150
* * * Harrisse 97.
In English the Title, etc., reads :—
" Compendium of Geography, -which treats of all the parts and regions of the world, and especially of the Indies; also at length of the art of navigation and of the sphere in the Spanish language, together with the regulation of the Sun and North. Newly composed.
. . . Done in the city of Saragossa, Sept. 5th, 1518. By order of the king. Was printed in the very noble and loyal city of Seville, by James Crouberger, a German, A.D. 1519.
"The first book printed in Spanish relating to America; unknown to Kobertsor.. Enciso having- gained a considerable sum in St. Domingo by practicing law, was induced by Ojeda to join him in an expedition of discovery and conquest to the continent of America. After suffering great hardships and hairbreadth escapes, which are related by Herrera, he returned to Spain, and published this work for the instruction of Charles V. The account of America is principally from his own observations."
"We must add that Martin Fernandez de Enciso first came to the New World with Kodrigee de Bastidas, was Alguazil Mayor of the Golden Castil, and the owner of the vessel as well as the planner of the expedition in which Vasco Nunez de Balboa acquired f>o much fame. A great hydrographer and explorer, his work is invaluable for the early pwgraphical history of this continent."
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W 17
THE LETTERS OF FERNANDO CORTES.
Mr. Tiokrtor, in speaking of the adventurers who after Columbus wrote narratives of their discoveries, says: " In the foreground of this picturesque group stands, as the most brilliant of its figures, FernaiMto Cartes Of his works, the most remarkable were, no doubt, five long and detailed reports to the Emperor on the affairs of Mexico, the first of which, printed in 1519, seems to be lost, and the last, belonging probably to 1527, exists only in manuscript."
The FIRST EDITIONS of the Third and Fourth Reports are hereinafter described. Their rarity is such that only one copy of each has ever been offered for sale by Public Auction. They are far rarer than the printed letters of Columbus.
18 MAGGS BROS., 34 £35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1523 A.D.
THE THIRD LETTER.
[22] CORTES' THIRD LETTER. Carta tercera cfe relaclo: embiada por Fernando Cortes capifan y justicia mayor del Yucatan, llamado la Nueua Espana del mar Oceano : al muy alto y potent issimo Cesar y invictissimo senor don Carlos Emperador semper augusto y Rey de Espana nuestro senor, de las cosas sucedidas y muy dignas de admiracion en la conquista y recuperacion de. la muy grande y maravillosa ciudad de Temixtitan : y de las otras provinciaa a ella subjetas que se rebelaron
(Colophon] La prcsente carta d'relacio fue impressa en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad d' Seuilla por Jacobo Cronberger : acabo se a.xxx. dias de marco : a no d'mill y quinietos y xxiij. (1523).
Large woodcut portrait of Charles V. on title.
Folio, Spanish binding oj old stamped calf .
Seville. (1523).
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XL). £750
Harrisse 121. Only t\vo other copies known.
** FIRST EDITION of the Third Letter, giving an .account of affair-, in Mexico from October 30, 1520, to May 15, 1522.
The translation of the title is as follows: —
" Third Epistolary Relation sent by Fernando Cortes. Captain and Chief Justice of Yucatan, called New Spam of the Oceanic Sea, to the most high and mighty Caesar and invincible Lord Don Charles, Ermperor ever august, and King- of Spain our Lord, concerning the things which have happened and are worthy of admiration in the conquest and recovery of the very great and wondrous city of Temixtitan ; and of the other provinces subjected to it which had revolted. In which city iand said provinces the said captain and Spaniards obtained great and signal victories worthy of perpetual remembrance." (There is also an account how he discovered the South Sea, and many other and large provinces, very rich, in gold mines, tpearls and precious stones; and contains also a notice- to tho effect that there are spices).
Seville
" The pres-ent .Epistolary Account was printed in the very noble and loyal city of . by Jacob Cronberger. Finished, March 30th, 1523."
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. ig
THE FIRST EDITION OF NICOLO LIBURNIO'S ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF THE SECOND AND THIRD LETTERS.
1524 A.D.
[23] CORTEZ (F.). La Preclara Narrations di Ferdinando Cortese ^clella nuova Hispagna del Mare Oceano.
Al Sacratissimo et Invictissimo Carlo di Romani Imperatore sempre Augusto Re d'Hispagna, et cio che siegne nellanno del Signore MDXX trasmessa . . . . Voi Candidissimi lettori leggerete con dilettatione et piacere grandissimo la prefata Narratione di Ferdinando Cortese dalla Facodia latina al splendore della lingua volgare per Messer Nicolo Liburnio con fidelta & dili- geza tradotta al commodo, &c.
Fine woodcut border round title.
Small 4to, boards.
Venice, Bernardino de Viano de Lexona-Vercellese, 1524. £31 10s
(Harrisse 129).
*** THE FIRST EDITION of Nicolo Liburnio's Italian translation of Cortes' Second and Third Letters, based on th.e Latin version of Savorgnanus. The woodcut -plan of Mexico (which sometimes is found in this book), and the leaf with Pointer's device are not in this copy. It is stated that only one or two copies with the Plan of Mexico are known to exist.
This Italian version of the second account differs materially f-rom that which was given by Ramusio.
The Title-page in English reads :—
" The famous Relation of Fernando Cortes, concerning New Spain of the Oceanic Sea, transmitted in the year A.D. 1520, to the most Sacred and Invincible Charles, Emperor ever August of the Romans, King of Spain, etc., containing many things worthy of being known, and admired, concerning the remarkable cities of those provinces, customs of the inhabitants, sacrifices of children, and religious persons, and especially of the celebrated city of Temixtitan, and various wonderful things in the same, which will delight th« reader in a wonderful manner; translated from the Spanish into Latin by Dr. Peter Savorgnano of Forli, Secretary to the Rev. Master John de Eevellos, Bishop of Vienna, March, 15°4: Ye most candid readers will peruse with the greatest delight and pleasure the aforesaid narrative of Fernando Cortes, translated faithfully and with diligence from the eloquent Lathi to the splendid vulgar tongue, by Master Thomas Liburnio, for the convenience and satisfaction of honest and appreciative minds."
20 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
THE FOURTH LETTER. 1525 A.D.
[24] CORTES' FOURTH LETTER. La qisarta relaokm que Femamic Cortes gousmador y capital* genera! por su Majestad en la Nueva Espana cFI mar Oceano embio a! rraiy alto y muy potentissimo invictfssimo senor don Carlos Emperador semper augusto y Rey de Espana ntiestro senor: en la qua! estan otras cartas y relaciones que los capitanes Pedro da Ahrarado y Diego Godoy embiaron a! dioho oapltatt Fernando Cortes.
(Colophon)
Fue impressa la presente carta de relacion
en la ymperial ciudad de Toledo por Caspar de Avila,
Acabo se a veynte dias del mes de Octubre,
Ano del nascimiento de iiuestro salua-
dor Jesu Christo de mil y quinien
tos y veynte y cinco
anos . . .
(1525)-
Woodcut of Coat-of-Arms of Charles V. on title.
Folio, Spanish binding of old stamped calf.
Toledo (1525).
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XII.). £850:
Harrifiso 135. Only one other copy knovn.
* * * The First Edition of the Fourth Letter, relating the affairs in Mexico from May 15, 1522, to October 15, 1524.
The last sixteen, pages contain. Alvarado's and Godoy'e reports to Cortes. In English the title and colophon read :—
"The fourth relation which Fernando Cortes, Governor and Ca/ptain-General for His Majesty in New Spain of the Oceanic Sea, sent to the very high and mighty Lord Carlo** Emperor and King of Spain our Lord; in -which are other letters and relations which Captains Peter de Alvarado and Diego Godoy sent to the said Captain Fernando Corte». The present Epistolary Eolation was printed in the Imperial City of Toledo by Gaspm- d«- Arila. Finished October 20th, A.D . 1535.
PLATE V.
NAVIGATIO
exriterantQ.uo fuperbiamodo iuftus omniuceri* for deus copenfat* Et ita mine apud Lifbona ipfam fubfifto/ignoras qd de me fereniffimus ipfe rex dc ineepsefficerecogitet/qui atantis laboribusmeis iam exnunc requiefcere plurimu pcroptarem/hunc nunciu maieftari veftrg plurimu quoep interdu co^ mendans, Amerieus Vefputius in Lifbonsu
RniriLiiiJ,kRSepte bris Anno (uprafef ^g
§
COSMOGRAPHTA. 1507.
The Book in which was first .suggested the name of America for the New World.
See Item Xo. 11.
PLATE VI.
THE " Xi;\v WOULD" FHOJI KUYSCH'S MAI- OF THE WOKI.D, 1o()S (great ly reilueetl).
See Item Xo 12.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. ar
1525 A.D.
[25] SALiCNAC (Barth. de). Itireerarium Term Sanote,
PRINTED IN GOTHIC LETTER, with woodcut Coat-of-Arms of John of Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine, on title; fine full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, and ten smaller woodcuts, also woodcut initial-letters.
Small Svo, old calf. Lyons, 1525. £25
The First Edition of a famous book of Travels.
At folio 5€B is found a reference to " Novitar terre invente " (Tho Newly found land). The translation of the reference is as follows : —
" It is pleasant to see America, India, Africa, in -which curious things aore found, in addition to horrible faces, inhuman customs, obscene rites, rare monsters, and heaps erf gold and silver.
1527 A.D.
[26] LA 8ALLE (Antoine de). La Salade, Ncuveltemeat imprfmoe a
Paris, laquelle fait mention de tous les pays du monde et du pays de la belle Sibille. Avec la figure pour aller au Mont de la dicte Sibille. Et aussi la figure de la mer y de la terre avec plusieurs belles remonstrances.
GOTHIC LETTER. Title in red and black within a wide woodcut border, the reverse of title entirely occupied by a very large woodcut in two compart ments, numerous woodcuts in the text, and three large folding plates: —
(i) World Map. (2) Le Mont de la Sibille. (3) Genealogy of Kings of Aragon.
Woodcut initial-letters throughout. Printer's device at end. The plate " Mont de la Sibille " repaired.
Folio, vellum. Paris, Philippe le Noir (1527). £52 10S
Harrisse 140. (Harrisse could only locate one copy, that in tho St. Genevieve Library, Paris).
*** Its American importance lies in the chapter on Geography. La Salle mention* Greenland on two occasions, and refers to certain rumours about this Northern, land which, caused him to pre-suppose a semi-civilisation in these American lands.
The chapter alluded to contains (verso of leaf xxviii), th* following passage: —
" iNorweghe est une grande region assise dewsoubs tie pol Antarotiqu-e. Aulouii* astrologues ont vne partio de ceste Eegion mise hors des climatz acause des tres &pres et longues froidures qui y sont. En icelle Region sont diuerses mers. La ost la mer congelieV que on diet Maire congellatum. 11 y a une isle nomme'e Islant ou sont les pays nomine Gronellont et Unimarch ou a grant quantity de OUTS qui sont tous blancs."
" LA SALADE " derives its Title, as the Author states in the preface, foecause ia the book are found " plusieurs bonnes herbes." It was written between 1438 and 1447.
The Author gives an account of his visit to the Mountain of the Sibyl and do^i-ibe* the surroundings1 of the Cave of the Sibyl and its curious legend. The narrative is a variaoit of the story of Tannhauser. A German knight and his esquire enter the cave and ar» welcomed by " la royne " and her companions and are prevailed upon by various induce ments to remain, .but they may not leave before eight days are passed. If on tho 9th day they 'wish to stay longer they cannot leave before the 30th day, if not on the 80th, they remain till the 330th, if not gone by then they stay for ever. The knight repents in time and leaves the subterranean abode on the 330th day. Like Tannhauser he cannot -rest until he obtains absolution from the Pope. Absolution refused, he is prevailed upon by hi* ©squire to return to the Mount of Venus, on. the pretext that the Pope fra.s seeking- thei? death.
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1529 A.D.
[27] APIAN (Peter). Cosmographicus . . . Studios© Correctus ac Error! bus Vindicatus per Gem mam Phrysium.
Woodcut of Sphere on title, three revolving diagrams, and many fine Geographical and Astronomical Maps. Printer's mark at end.
Small 4to, fine copy in the original vellum binding.
Antwerp, 1529. £12 12s
(Harrisse 148).
*** This vis the earliest edition of AP1ANUS with, the valuable additions *>t <1EMMA FRISIUS.
GEMMA FKISftUS was the pupil of Apianus, and teacher of the celebrated cosmo- Rrapher Juan de Rojas.
America figures on the woodcut Globe on Folio 2.
1533 A.D.
[28] MARTYR (Peter). De rebus Oceanicis & Orbs Novo decades ires: .... Legationis Babylonicae Libri Tress
Folio (blank margin of title repaired}, half morocco, g. e.
Basle, Joannes Bebelius, 1533. £35
(Harrisse No. 176.)
* * * This contains the first three Decades a.nd the abridgment of the fourth, contair-ing the discoveries of Columbus, Yespucius and Cabot, and new discoveries by Cortes.
1534 A.D.
[29] MARTYR (Peter). Libro Prime Delia Historia cfe L'Sndie osciifcR- tali.
Libro second® tfeile indie occidental}.
Libro ultimo del summario delle Indie occidental!.
The three parts in one volume. Small 4to, original vellum.
Venice, 1534. £6 6s
(Harrisse 190).
* With the large folding map of " Jsola Spagnnuola " and 3 large woodcuts. As usual it has not the " Carta Universalis."
An interesting copy having- many contemporary MS. notes in the margins. (The title and last leaves a little wormed).
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 2$
1537 A.D.
[30] HUTTSCH-CRYNAEUa. Novus Orbis Regionum ao Insuiamra Veteribus Incognitarum una cum Tabula Cosmographica.
Engraved title. Folio, old calf. Basel, Hervagius, 1537. £18
(Harrisse 223).
* * * In, some copies (but not in. this) ia found a World Map.
This important work comprises the following interesting pieces: —
The First three Voyages of Columbus.
Vincente Yanez Pinion's Voyage.
The relation of Vespuccius' third Voyage.
The four Voyages of Vespuccius.
Maximilian Transylvanus — l)e Moluccis Insulin.
Peter Martyr's famous Treatise on America, " De Insulis nn-per reperti.*."
1537 A.D.
[31] BORDONE (B.). I solar so ne! qual sa Ragiorca di tutte le fisote cfe!
con li lor norni Antichi & Moderni, historic, favole, & modi del1 loro vivere, & in qual parte del mare stanno, & in qual parallelo & cfcrna giaciono.
Engraved border to title, three double page Maps, one a World Map, and a very large number of smaller Maps, all engraved on wood.
Folio, original vellum.
Venice, Francesco di Leno (1537). &W 10*
(Harrisse 221).
The text of this edition is augmented: "Con la gionta del Monto del Oro iiovaiuent« ritrovato" this was the news of the entry of Pizarro into Peru.
* * * A very scarce and interesting book. On the " World Map," the American Continent is shown, upon which we read " Terra del laboratore (Labrador) ponete rnodo uouo.M On. Folio VI. there* is a small map upon which is shown " Engronelant," and on the reverse of this leaf there is anoiher small map upon which appear mountains and pictures of houses, and beneath " Terra de Lavoratore " (Labrador), also three islands ASMAIDE and BRASIL. On the recto of Folio X. is a large view of " La gran citta di Temistitan " (Mexico), and the text underneath begins : " Terra di sancto Croce oer Mondo Nouo, f u la piima di tutte que>ste isole, che trovata fusse, etc." On the verso of Folio XI". is a small map, showing on the N.W. JAMAICA. On the verso of Folio XII. is an island marked " SPAGNOLA," and N.E. is the representation of a city, under which is printed " Isabella. " On the recto of Folio XIII., is the map of another island, with a lofty mountain in tht- N., under which is written " Jamaiqua." On the verso of the same folio we have another island, subscribed within the interio-r of the island, Cuba. On Folio XIV. we have another map of a group of the West Indian Islands. On the verso are two maps, the one at the top of the page shows an island designated Guadalupe; underneath other islands are laid down, among others, part of one marked Dominica. The bottom map is marked " Martinina." The- account of these various islands finishes on the recto of Folio XV. All these maps are on the eame ecale, or rather the same size, viz. : 5£ by 3 inches.
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1640A.D.
[32] GUAZZO (Marco). Histon'e &1 tiittl le cose cfegm ds memorie qua! <tei aiwio 1524 sino a questo presente sono oocorso nella Italia, nella Provenza, Tiella Franza, nella Piccardia, nella Inghilterra . . . ed altri luoglii.
Woodcut portrait.
Small 4to, original Italian binding of full morocco, the sides covered with an interlaced design in gold, enclosing the title of the book, the edges gaufres.
Venet. 1540. £25
(Harrisse Additions 124.) This contains the chapter Isola de Oro, which is a history of Francisco Pizzaro in Peru.
WITH REFERENCE TO COLUMBUS AND HIS DISCOVERY OF AMERICA/ 1541 A.D.
[33] GOES (Damianus a). Fktes, Religio, Moresque Aethicpum sub im-
pr&ciosi Joannes (quern vulgo Presbyterum Joanne m vocant) de gentium. Svo, half morocco, gilt back. Paris, 1541. £15 15$
Harrisse. Biblioteca Americana, Vetustissirna, Additions No. 135.
On page 8 is the following: .notice relating: to " Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America " : —
" Quo Rege viuente, Columbus Genuemeis vir nautico artis peritus, ab ipso Rege, cui occidentaliiun India rum nauigationes astendere pollictfbatur, repulsas ac inauditua, cii missusque auxilio auspicioq, Ferdinandi, & Elizabet Regum Castellae, illud iter feliciter t^ntavit, ac prouincias illas amplissimae, & magni emolumenti primus repperit, & qua nauibus r,diri poterant, commonstrauit/'
1541 A.D.
[34] PTOLEMAEUS (Claudius). Ceographieae Enarrationls iibti VUL
Prisca exemplaria a Michaele Villanovo (Serveto) secundo recogniti & locis .innumeris denuo castigati.
With 50 fine double woodcut maps (including America) and numerous ornamental woodcut initials, device on title.
Folio, half vellum.
Vienne (en Dauphine} Gaspard Trechsel for Hugo & Porta at Lyonft 1541. £31 10s
LAUGH COPY OP A VKB* SCAKOZ EDITION OF PTOLEMY'S FIKB MAPS OP THB WORLD, MANY COPIES OF
WHICH WBBH SDPPRZSSBD BECAUSE OF THB EDITORSHIP CP MlCHAKL SfcRVBTUS.
Harriftse 233. " A new edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, with most of the interesting, although often offensive legends to the new maps."
Tho Maps which relate to America are as follows: — (37) Typus Orbis descrip-tione Ptolemaei.
(28) Tabula Terra Nova. The World Map showing the New Islands. Similar to that in the 1513 edition (which is one of the earliest printed maps devoted entirely to the New World) with «s light changes and the addition of inscriptions.
(49) Tabula nova totiue orbit*.
(50) Te-bul» orbia cum description* ventorum.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 25
1542 A.D.
[35] (MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS). BOEMUS (Johannes), Omniimt Gentium Mores Leges, & Ritus, accessit libellus de regionibus septentrionalibus ex Jacobo Zieglero preterea epistola Maximiliani Transylvant ad R. Cardinalem Saltzburgensem de Moluccis Insulis et aliis pluribus mirandis.
With woodcut device on last page and woodcut initials.
8vo, contemporary brown calf ', with fine Plaque, showing a figure of Faith on a monument ard the following words'. " Quoniam in me S-piravit liberabo ium protegam turn quo, etc., Psal. 90," in a panel round the Plaque* Round the figure itself are the following words'. " Spes caritas Fides. In te Domine S-peravi non confundar in Eternum in Justitia tua libera me et eripe me. Psal. 70." The design is signed I. P. The same Plaque is on both sides (joints mended).
Antwerp, Joannis Steelsius, 1542. £25
Hainrisse Additions. 136
***This work was first published in 1520 and frequently reprinted, BL'T IT IS ONLY THE PRESENT EDITION THAT CONTAINS THE EPISTLE OF MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVANUS which describes the famous voyage of Magellan.
Maximilian of Transylvania was Secretary to Charles V., and 'his description is in the form of an Epistle addressed to the Archbishop of Salzburg1.
THE FIRST CATECHISM FOR THE AMERICAN INDIANS. ONE OF THE EARLIEST SPECIMENS OF MEXICAN TYPOGRAPHY, 1544. 1544 A.D.
[36] CORDOVA (Pedro de). Doctrina Christiana pa instruokm y infON ma-do dslos Indies: por manura tfs hystoria. Cpmpuesta por el muy reuerendo padre fray Pedro de Cordoua : de buena memoria : primero f undador dla orden delos Predicadores elas yslas del mar Oceano : y por otros religiosos doctos dla misma orden. La qual doctrina fue vista y examinada yap uada por el muy. R. S. el licecia do Tello de Sadoual Inquisitador. en esta Nueua Espana por su Magestad. La qual fue empressa en Mexico por mandado del muy. R. S. do fray Juan Zumarraga pmer obispo desta ciudad : del con seio de su Magestad. Ano de M. d. xliiii.
(Colophon} .... Impressa en la grande y mas leal ciudad de Mexico: en casa de Juan Cromberger: que sancta gloria aya a cost a del dicho senor obispo. . . . Acabose de imprimir. Ano de M. d. xliiii.
Title within a woodcut border. GOTHIC LETTER.
Small 4to, morocco gilt.
Mexico, 1544.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XIII.). £210
(Harrisse 251, wto could only locate two copies, one in Providence, the other in Mexico).
* * * Of exceptional 'rarity and one of the earliest specimens of Mexican Typography.
The Author, Petrus Cordova, was a Spanish dominican, who in 1510 went as a missionary to the American Indians, and was known as " The Apostle to the Indians." This work was composed by him for teaching the natives the Christian Faith. As it was a school reading book, almost all copies were destroyed through constant use.
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1545 A.D.
[37] APIAN (P.) Cosmographia . . acfditis eiuscfem arguments Sibef- iis ipsius Gemmae FrisH.
Woodcut of a Sphere on title, three revolving diagrams, A LARGE FOLDING WORLD MAP, and many fine geographical and astronomical Maps. Printer's, mark at end.
4to, fine copy in the original vellum binding.
Antwerp, 1545. £14 14s
(Harrisse 262).
* * * The large Map of the World shows North and South America, the Southern $art carrying the word " America " ; and the Northern, which i» only a verr elong-ated prolongation, " BACCALEARUM."
1546 A.D.
[38] BIONDO (M. A.). De Navigatione . . in quo Navigations utilis- aima continetur doctrina cum pixide nouo, & diligenti examine uentorum, el tempestatum. Cum accurantissima descriptione distantiae locorum interni Maris, & Oceani, a Gadibus ad Novum Orbem.
Small 4to, new cloth.
Venice, 1546. £6 6s
(Harrisse 274).
* * * Chapter XXV. is " De navigatione ad Novum Orbem. "
The book has historiated initial letter.1?, and there are several diagrams showing the cardinal points.
1547 A.D.
[40] 0 VI EDO (G. de). Coronica Delas Indias. La Hysteria General de las Indias agora nueuamente impressa corregida y emandada.
Title printed in red and black, with woodcut border, and with large woodcut Coat-of-Arms of the Emperor Charles V. The whole enclosed by woodcut border. ON FOLIO X. IS A VERY LARGE? WOODCUT OF COLUMBUS' COAT-OF-ARMS. Other woodcuts of American interest and of natural history.
Folio, -fine copy bound by Bedford in full crushed levant morocco, g. e.
Salamanca, 1547.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XIV.). £85
(Harriase 278).
*** In this edition is found for the first time the large Cruvt of Arms of Columbus.
The copy is complete with the additional book at end by XEEEvS, " Conquista del Peru ; Verdadera relacion " which is Harrisse No. 277.
Th« Authtor, GONZALO HERNANDEZ DE OVIEDO, lived for a long time in America. He gives here curious notices concerning Religion, Rites, Manners, and Customs, of the natives in America. He explains the virtues of the trees and plants, which were unknown hitherto. He also gives picturesque descriptions of the Lakes, Rivers, and Mountain^.
This volume also contains the earliest treatise on TOBACCO " Libro quinto, Capit ^egundo. De los tabocos o ahumadas que los Indos acostumbran en esta ysla Espanola," and is the first book mentioned in Bragged "Bibliotheca Nicotiana."
Book XX. is devoted to Shipwrecks.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. af
1548 A.D.
[41] PTOLEMY. La Ceografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con
alcuni comenti & aggiunte fatteui da Sebastiano Munstero.
Thick I2mo, old limp boards. Venice, 1548. £16 16&
(Harrisso 285).
* * * The first edition of Ptolemy's Geography in. Italian.
The translation was made by Pietro Andrea Mattioli, a learned, physician of Siena, and the maps were designed and added by Jacobo Gastaldo, who also wrote the dedication, which is dated 'Di Vinetia a due di Otiennaio MDXLV1II.
A whole series of 34 new maps are here found, for the first time, and some of them are of no slight interest to the history of geography. Among these maps are seven of America, via:— Terra Nuova (South America), Nova Hispania (Central America), Terra Nova de Bacalaos, Isola Cuba, Spagnola, Universale nuovo, Carta marina universale.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE. The copy described in the Catalogue of the Library of Congress wants the last named map " Carta marina univexsale."
1552 A.D.
[42] PTOLEMAEUS (Claudius). Ceographiae libri VIII.
Double columns, 50 lines to a full page, with 54 double maps and wood cut figure of Ptolemy on back of title.
Folio, pigskin. Basel, 1552. £2S
Eames-Sabin No. 66488.
This is the fourth edition of Miinster's Ptolemy, with an additional treatise " on the use of maps," and enlarged indexes by Conradus Lyeosthenes. Descriptive text on the reverse of maps, generally within woodcut borders after Hans Holbein, Munster was the first to give maps for the four pairts of the world, and he mentions his sources for these modern maps1. There are two remarkable world-maps (one of which shows America, " seu insula Brasilii, Terra Florida," and in the North the interesting inscription " Per hoc fretum item patet ad Molucas ").
The maps of American interest are as follows:—
No. 1. — Typus Universalis, altered from that in the 1545 edition. No. 46. — Septentriona'es Region.es XVI'II., Nova Tabula. No. 54.— Novae Insulae XXVI., Nova Tabula.
1552 A.D.
[43] MUNSTER (Sebastian). La Cosmographte Uni verse! le.
Illustrated with 14 double woodcut maps, double woodcut views of cities, and some hundreds of other woodcut Views, Figures, etc.
Thick folio, original calf. Basle, 1552. £10 IDs
A Fine Copy, but lacking the title page.
The Maips include: The World Map showing America, with Brazil, Florida, Magellan Straits, and Cuba, also one of North find South America entitled " Des Isles neuvues, lesquelles on appelle isles d'occident & Indie."
Pages 1357 to 1374 give a description of the New World headed :— " DES NOUVET^IiBS ISLES, comment, quand & par qui elles ant estces trouvees," illustrated with 12 curious cuts.
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A COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST EDITIONS. 1552-3 A.D.
[44] LAS CASAS (Bartholome de). Complete Set of hfis Rare American Tracts, namely: —
(I.) Breuissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias: colegida por el Obispo don fray Bartolome de las Casas.
(Colophon} Impressa ... en Seuilla en casa de Sebastian Trugillo .. . . Ano de M. D. Lij.
(II.) Lo que se sigue es un Pedaco dd una carta y relacion que escrivo cierto hombre, etc. (Sevilla: Sebastian Trugillo, 1552.)
(III.) Entre los remedios que don fray Bartolome de las Casas .... referio por mandado del Emperador ... en los avuntamietos q mado hazer su magestad ... en Valladolid . . . para reformacio de las Indias . . . Seuilla: J. Cronberger, 1552.
(IV.) Aqui se cotiene treynta proposiciones muy juridicas . . . al de- recho q la yglesia y los principes christianos tienen o puede tener sobre los in- fieles, etc. Seuilla: Trugillo (1552).
(V.) Aqui se contiene yna disputa . . . entre el obispo don fray Bartholome de la Casas; . . . y el doctor Gines le Sepulveda sobre q el doctor contendia: q las conquistas de las Indias' contra los Indies eran licitas, etc. Seuilla: Trugillo, X dias del mes de Setiembre, 1552.
(VI.) Estes es un tratado q ell obispo de la ciudad Real de Chiapa don iray Bartholome de la Casas . . . compuso por comission del Consejo Real de las Indias. Seuilla: Trugillo, 1552.
(VII.) Aqui se cotiene unos auisos y reglas para los confessores q oyeren en confessiones de los Espanolos que son o han sido en cargo a los Indios de Las Indias. Seuilla: Trugillo, 1552.
(VIII.) Principia queda ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad rnanifestandam et defendendam iusticiam Yndorum. Hispali (Seville) : Trugillo, a.d.
(IX.) Tratado coprobatorio del Imperio soberano y principado uniuersal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leontienen sobre las Indias. Seuilla : Trugillo, 1 553.
4to, russia.
Seville, 1552-3. £105
* * * The Duke of Grafton's Copy, with hi* name and elate 1783 on first title.
EXCESSIVELY RARE. A Complete Set of these original treatises, containing the nine parts as issued. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. With Title Pages nearly all printed in red and black with woodcut borders. Parts 3 and 5 each with the final blank leaf and genuine printed cancel slips of two lines each. The slips appear in but a, few other copies, among which are those in the British Museum, Rothschild, and Lenox Libraries.
Bibliographers have observed no uniform order in arranging- these tracts. The titles are here given as observed by Field and Winsor, but are bound in the following order in -thte copy : Tracts I., II., V., III., IV., VI., VIII., IX., VJI.
NV.
TIIK " NEW WOELD " FROM PTOLEMY, 1511 (greatly reduced). See Item Xo, U.
PLATE VIII.
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Casas (Bartholome de) — continued. The Tracts in English are ad follows : —
(I.) A brief account of the Destruction of the Indies: Collected by the Bishop Don BARTHOLOMEW DE LAS CASAS, Friar of the Order of Saint Dominio.
(II.) Epitome of a letter on the same subject.
(III.) Among the remedies which Friar Don Bartholomew de Las Casas Bishop of the Royal City of CMaipa reported by order of the Emperor, the King, our Lord, in the meetings which his Majesty ordered to be held by the prelates and learned men and grandees of Valladolid, in the year one thousand five hundred and forty two, for the refor mation of the Indies; the eighth in order is the following, wherein twenty reasons are assigned, ,by which it is proved that the Indians should not be given to the Spaniards, neither in commission, nor in fief, nor in vassalage, nor in any other way whatsoever, if His Majesty according to his desire would free them from the tyranny and perdition which they suffer; as from the mouth of the dragons, and that they may not totally consume and kill them, and devastate that world of its «o infinite natural inhabitants, with whom it was, and we saw it, peopled.
(IV.) Here are contained thirty most lawful propositions, in which are summarily and succinctly treated many things appertaining to the right which the church and the Christian princes have, or may have, over the infidels of whatever kind they may be. Chiefly the true and strongest foundation is assigned on which is ba«^ed and supported the title and supreme and universal lordship which the kings of Castile and Leon hold over the world of what we call the West Indies. By the which they are constituted universal lords and emperors in them, over many kings. Other most remarkable things are also pointed out relative to the transaction which nn,<* taken p>lace in that world, and worthy to foe seen and known.
(V.) Here is contained a dispute or controversy between the Bishop Friar Bartholomew de Las Casas, formerly Bishop of the royal city of Chiapa, which is in the Indies, a part of New Spain, and the Doctor Gine=? de Sepulveda, Chronicler to the Emperor our Lord, in which the Doctor contended that the conquests of the Indies against the Indians were lawful, and the Bishop on the contrary defended and affirmed them to have l>een and ^o be impossible to be so, but tyrannical, unjust, and iniquitous. Which question wa» examined and disputed in the presence of many learned theologians and jurists in a meeting which his Majesty ordered to be heldi in the year one thousand five hundred and fifty in the City of Valladolid.
(VI.) This is a treatise, which the Bishop of the Royal City of Chiapa, Friar Don Bartholomew de Las Casas composed by commission of the Royal Council of the Indies concerning the enslaving of the natives.
(VII.) Here are contained some devices and rules for the confessors who have heard the confessions of the Spaniards who have or have had the charge of the Indiana of the Indies of the Ocean Sea.
(VIII.) Certain principles from which we are to proceed in disputation to the mani festation and defence of the jurisdiction of the Indians.
(IX.) Treatise shewing the rights of the Kings of Spain over fehe Indies.
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1553 A.D.
THE FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE AMERICAN MAP.
[45] GOMARA (Francisco Lopez de). Historia General cie Las Indian con todo el descubrimento y cosas notables que nan acaecido dencte que se ganaron ata el ano de 1551.
Printed in Black Letter, double columns. Title in red and black, with the Arms of Spain nearly filling the page, on reverse a list of the historians of the Indies, with ornamental border.
With the two EXCESSIVELY RARE full-page woodcut Maps, one of which contains America, also large woodcut of a Bison (on reverse of folio 1 16, Vol. I.)p and another large woodcut of a Coat of Arms (in the second part).
The Two Parts in one volume. Folio, old Spanish calf, r. e.
Saragossa , A ugustin Millan, 1553.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XV.). £195
* The First Edition and Extremely Rare. With the very rare Maps, which urv> generally lacking.
The First Pa.rt relates to the subjugation of Peru. The second pa<rt gives an account of the Conquest of Mexico.
This is a great historical work, indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America after the Conquest. The dedication to Charles V. begins with, these remarkable words : " The greatest event which has happened since the creation of the world (leaving aside the incarnation and death of Him who- created it) is the discovery of the Indies."
It affords us the most authentic views of the primitive condition of the Indian* before tyranny had crushed, or civilization had corrupted them.
GOMARA prefixes a curious address to intending translators, warning them to b& accurate and to measure the full significance of the pregnant Spanish phrases, also to pay special attention to proper names. He further declares that he is writing the book in Latin, so that the translators may take no trouble in that language. His Latin version never appeared.
THE TWO WOODCUT LEAVES, CONTAINING MAPS, ONE OF THE WESTERN AND THE OTHER OF THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE, \SEEM TO HAVE SURVIVED
ONLY IN ONE OR TWO COPIES. The Author in his address, "a los Impresores," by whom he meant future repr inters of his work, begged them to omit nothing which he had taken care to insert in this original edition, maioTmente las tablas de la tierra. It was this warning which induced Bellero in Antwerp to issue a small Traca de la Tierra with his edition of 1554. The difference between Bellero's map and Gomara/s proves that the Spanish. Government had effectually suppressed the latter, and that the Antwerp publisher was obliged to have a new design prepared which is in some respects decidedly inferior to the original in geographical accuracy. (See No. 47.) ;t;
A fine copy, with only one or two slight defects, namely : The top blank margin of title and outer margin of three leaves restored. Some verv slight facsimiling to the extreme bottom of the two maps, and their outer margins extended.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W 31
1554-5 A.D.
THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
[46] GOMARA (Francisco Lopez de). La historia general d® fas Intiras y Nueuo Mundo, con mas la conquista del Peru y de Mexico.
Cronica de la Nueua Espana con la conquista de1 Mexico y otias cosas notables: hechas por el valeroso Hernando Cortes.
Printed in GOTHIC LETTER.
On title page to each volume is a large woodcut Coat of Arms of the Emperor Charles V., text printed in red and black.
The first volume of " Historia'1 contains 32 large engravings on wood, illustrating the Voyages of the Conquistadores and Battles with the American natives.
2 vols., folio, original vellum binding.
Saragassa, 1554-5.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XVI.). £95
*** EXTREMELY RARE. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION.
Francisco I/opez de Goraara was the Secretary of CORTES. He was the oldest of the regular historians of the New World. His early life, spent in the great mart of the American adventurers, seems to have given him an intwe«t in them and a knowledge of their affaire which led him to write their history. The works he produced, besides one or two of less consequence, were, first, his " History of the Indies/' which, after the Spanish fashion, begins with the creation of the world, and ends with the glories of Sipain, though it is chiefly devoted to Columbus and the discovery and conquest of Peru; and, second, hi* " Chronicle of New Spain," which is the History and Life oft Cortes. As the earliest records that were published concerning affairs which already stirred the whole of Christendom, these works had, at once, a great success.
1554 A.D.
{47] GOMARA (Lopez de). Historia de Mexico, con el Descubrimiento de la Nueva Espana, Conquistado por el muy illustre y valeroso Principe Don Fernando Cortes. . . Anadiose de la nuevo descripcion y traca de todas las Indias, con una Tabla Alphabetica de las materias, y hazanas memorables enella contenidas.
Illustrated with folding map of South America. Mexico, and the Southern portion of North America : " Brevis Exactaq. Totius Novi Orbis Eiusq Insularum Descriptio Recens A. Joan Bellero Edita."
Thick small 8vo, full morocco.
Antwerp, Por Juan Bellero, al Salmon, 1554. £12 12s
* * * The interesting Maip appears for the first time in this edition.
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1555 A.D.
THE LAWS OF SPANISH AMERICA.
PRINTED ON VELLUM.
[48] SPANISH LAW. Las Stete Partidas del Sabfo Hey Dem Alonso e* Mono, Nuevamente Glosados por el Licenciado Gregorio Lopez del Consejo Real de Indias.
The Seven Parts and Two Indices complete. The First Title printed in Red and Black, the large Arms of Spain on each title. Adorned with! many hundred Historiated Woodcut Initial Letters.
Bound in 4 vols., thick folio, old Spanish calf.
Salamanca, Andrea de Portonaris, 1555.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XVIL). £458
* * * Printed entirely on thick vellum. Probably the only copy so issued.
* * * This is the great Spanish Code of Law, its preponderant elements were the Canoa law and Roman law. In i'act the general character of the PARTIDAS is that of an encyclopaedia or systematic compendium of these two legal systems. The work is divided into seven general headings, as followa; —
(1.) The Catholic Faith.
(2.) Emperors, Kings.
(3.) Justice.
(4.) Marriage.
(5.) Contracts.
(6.) Will®.
(7.) Criminal Law.
Lopez's edition is still the best for practical purposes, and the one used by the La^» Courts of Spain. FOR AMERICA IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE, for it is the basis of the law of South America, and of the parts of North America which were once ui*der the Rule of Spain, viz., California, Texas, Florida, etc.
Lopez, as stated on the title page, was a member of the Royal Council of the Indies, and in his glosses are some interesting essays and, notes on the New World, as: —
" Indis Maris Oceani an juste bellum moveatur "
(whether it is right to make war on the Indians, of the Oceanic sea).
" Indi traseuntes ad calidas regiones moriutur cet plurimu." (Indians crossing from1 cold to h>>t regions generally die).
The first of the^e extends to 20 full columns, and he writes, that it is in the interest of the Pope and the Catholic Church, the King of Spain and the American Indians them selves that Spain should send Missionaries accompanied with large armed forces to occupy their territories.
The Ancient Law of Spain, the New Testament, Thomas Aquinas, Cardinal Thomas De Vio, and all the Scholastic Philosopher*, are cited to support this contention.
NO COPY IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF THE KINGS OF SPAIN, AT THE ESCURIAL, NOR IN THE ROYAL ARCHIVES AT SIMANCAS.
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1554 A.D*
[49] MEDINA (Pietro da). L'Arte del navegar. Tradotta de lingua Spagnola in volgar Italiano.
Roman Letter, long lines to a full page. With large woodcut on title and many fine woodcut diagrams and large map of the world.
4to, vellum. Venice, 1554. £25
Medina's book was the first to treat of Navigation. This first Italian edition pub lished in the same year as the first French is noteworthy for the full page map, the left half of which is devoted to the New World (Florida, Labrador, Newfoundland, New Spain, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Yucatan, etc.).
1555 A.D.
[50] MEDINA (Pietro da). L'Arte del Navegar. Another Edition.
On title page is a large woodcut of a fleet of ships, numerous woodcuts and diagrams throughout the book, and on Folio 33 a full-page map of the New World.
Small 4to, vellum. Venice, 1555. £25
* * * The full-page map of the New World represents the results of Spanish discovery in 1540. It is interesting as showing the mouth of the Spirito Santo (the Mississippi), and the lands around the Kiver and Gulf of St. Laurence. Newfoundland has not yet become an island, the straits of Belle-isle being still unknown, and only a deep inlet divides it from Labiador. The River Saguenay is shown at, its entry into the St. Laurence, which is <\ remarkable feature in so early a map.
1557 A.D.
[51] OVIEDO Y VALDES. Libre XX. de la Segunda Parte de la General Historia de las Indias, Escripta por el Capitan Goncalo Fernandez de Oviedo y VaJdes.
Large woodcut Arms on title.
Folio, half morocco, gilt. Valladolid, 1557.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XVIIL). £63
* * * EXCESSIVELY BARE. This XXth Book, which was published separately, was intended to form the first part of Volume II., but in consequence of the author's- death no more was issued.
Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Values was born in Madrid about 1478. He was of a noble family, and as a, youth served as Page to the King. He was with the Court at Granada when the King received Columbus on his return in 1493. la 1512 he was appointed Secretary to Gorealus de Cordovo, but soon after determined to travel to the New Lands and joined e expedition of Pedrarias d'Avila. In America he occupied several important offices, and was successively Governor of the Province of Cartagena and of Darien, Inspector of the Gold Mines, and finally was named Chronicler General of the Indies, in 1532.
He resided in America nearly 34 yea>rs, during1 which time he traversed the Atlantic 12 times, chiefly on missions to lay the grievances of the colonies before the Spanish Court. He returned to Spain for the last time in, 1556, and died at Valladolid in 1557.
His intimate personal knowledge of men and events makes his history interesting and of the greatest importance.
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1562 A.D.
[52] FRANCK (Sebastian). Dat Wereltboeck spiegel ende Beettenisse ties gheheelen Aertbcdems van Sebastiaen Franck van Wcerden in vier Boecken te weten in Asiam, Aphricam, Europam ende Americam. pock wat van Nieiigevoncfen Werelden ende Eylanden niet wt Beroso, Joanne de Monte Villa, S Brandono historic, ende dier ghelijche Fabulen; maer wt aengenomene gheloofweerdighe ervarene Werelt-beschryvers, met grooter moeyte tesameri gedragen, in een hantboeck ingelyft.
Title printed in red and black, with large woodcut of " Adam and Eve,'! also printed in red and black.
Folio, old binding of wooden boards covered with contemporary stamps of Justitia, Prudentia, Lucretia, Vanitas, etc.
Holland, 1562. £12 10s
* * * America occupies the last portion of the book and extends to 46 pages. The heading of this .section is: "America dat vierde Bocck deser Geographye, van Nieuwe onbekende Werelden Eylanden ende Aerdtrycken."
The famous "Mirror of the World," the Title-Page in English, reads as follows: —
"Workbook: mirror and likeness of the whole globe, set forth and arranged by Sebastian Franck of Woerden (in Holland), in four books, namely, in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. Also of all the lands, nations, provinces, and islands comprised therein; situation, size, plants, properties, and of the people and inhabitants thereof, names, shapes, mode of life, morals, religion, creeds, ceremonies, laws, government, policy, manners, cus toms, war, industry, fruits, animals, clothing and fashions, properly represented to the eye. Also something about the newly found world and islands, not from such like fables as those of Berosus, John of Monte Villa (Mandeville) and S. Brandon's history, but from accredited, trustworthy, experienced geographers, brought together with great pains from widely diffused books, and embodied and published in a single volume, the like of which in Dutch was never ibefore published.
" Come and behold the work of the Lord, so wonderful among the children of men/'
1562 A.D.
[52a] PTOLEMY. Ceographia Ptotemaei Atexandrlnl olim a Bilibaldc Pirckheimherio translata, et nunc multis codicibus grascis collata, pluribusque IE locis ad pristinam veritatem redacta. A losepho Moletio Mathematico.
New Edition, revised and annotated by Josephus Moletius.
With 64 double-page maps.
4to, half leather.
Venice, 1562. £10104
* * * Of the 64 maps, ten relate to America, as follows :— Sohonladia Nueva. Tierra Nueva.
Orbis Descriptio. Isota Spagnola Nova.
Tierra Nova. IsoLi Cuba Nova.
Brasil Nuova Tavola. Septeritrionalium Partium Nova Tabula.
Nueva Hispania Tabula. Carta Marina Tavola.
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1563 A.D.
[53] ZARATE (Augustin de). Le Historie Dello Scoprimento e Con- quista del Peru . . . nella quali si ha piena & particolar relatione delle cose successe in quelle bande, dal principio sino alia pacificatione delle Pro- vincie, si in quel che tocca allo scoprimento, come al suocesso, delle guerre civili occorse fra gli Spagnuoli & Capitani, che lo conquistarono. Nuovametlte di Lingua Castigliana tradctte dal S. Alfonso Ulloa.
Small 4to, original vellum.
Vinegia, 1563. £12 12s
THE FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN.
* * * Auguste Zarate was sent to Peru in 1543 with Blasco Nufies Vela. He took a very important part in the Civil Wars of that country, where he remained' many years.
" Zarate was a man of rank and education. His history, whether we attend to its matter or composition, is a book of considerable merit/' (Robertson.)
1564 A.D.
•[54] PTOLEMAEUS (C.). La Ceografia, Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da leronimo Ruscelli. Et con nuoue & bellissime figure.
Roman Letter. With 64 maps.
4to, original vellum, g. e. Venice, 1564. £10 10s
The following- 10 Maips 'relate to America : —
Schonladia Nueva Isola Cuba Nova.
Tierira. Nova. Isiola Spagnola Nova.
Brasil Nuova Tavola. Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula.
Nueva Hispania Tabula. Carta Marina Tavola.
Tierra Nueva. Orbis Description
1573 A.D.
SPECIALLY COLOURED PRESENTATION COPY TO COMTE DE LALAING, GOVERNOR OF BELGIUM.
[55] ORTELIUS (Abraham). Theatrum orbis terrarum.
With 70 beautiful contemporary coloured maps and a frontispiece in gold and colours.
Folio, half calf. Antwer-p, 15/3. £35
In this Edition are 17 Maps which apipear here for the first time.
A copy of extraordinary interest, having a special title in gold and colours and tiwo dedicatory leaves with a MS, inscription : " Illustrissimo domino D. Philippe Comiti de Lalain, Hannoniae praefecto ac Praetori sum mo exercitus generalium Statuum Belgii supremo Duci Patriae libertatis propugnatori acerrimo. Johannes Schil geographus dedicabat Anno 1578 " Also two pages of print dedicated to the Comte de Lalaing by Daniel Cellarius Ferimon- lanus, dated Flushing, 1578.
The following maps relate to America: —
1. Typus orbis terrarum. 60. Seiptentrionalium regionum descriptio.
2. Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio. 62. Tartariae sive Magni Chami regni typus
4. Afrioae tabula nova. . . . 1570. 63. Indiae Orientalis, insularumque
5. Ewropae. adjacentium typus.
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1574 A.D.
[56] MARTYR (Peter). De Rebus Ooeanicis et Novo Orbe, decades tres, Eiusdem, De Babylonica legatione, libri III. De Rebus .'Ethiopicis, Indicis, Lusitanicis & Hispanicis, opuscula quedam Historica doctissima, quae hodi& non facile alibi reperiuntur, Damiani A Goes Equitis Lusitani.
8vo, original binding of stamped pigskin.
Cologne, Gervinus Calexius, 1574. £5 5s
*** This Edition contains the Three Becades, and in addition the " 1>B INSULJS PsTUPER INVENTIS ET DE MORIBUS INCOLARUM EAttUNDEM." (About the newly <Ji^- covered Islands, and Customs of their Inhabitants.)
1574 A.D.
[57] APIAN (Peter). Cosmographia ... per Cemmam Fri'sium,
Woodcut of Sphere on title. LARGE FOLDING WOODCUT " CHARTA COS- MOGRAPHICA " showing the Continent of AMERICA, and a number of woodcut diagrams in the text, some with movable discs and pointers.
Small 4to, original vellum.
Antwerp, 1574. £12 12s
* * * One of the) woodcuts with a movable disc also shows America.
1575 A.D.
[58] APIAN (Pedro). La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, corregida \ anadida por Gemma Frisio, Medico y Mathematico. La rnanera de descriuir y situar los Lugares, con el uso del Anillo Astronomico, del rnismo Auctor Gemma Frisio. . . El Sitio y Descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la Cosmographia de Jeronymo Girava Tarragonez.
Illustrated with large Folding Map of the World, showing America. Four plates with movable discs, upon one of which America is mentioned, and numerous astronomical figures.
Small 4to, half leather.
Antwerp, 1575. £10 10s
* In this edition the Chapter relating to America occupies the tvso pages folio 84. followed by the large map of the world. The description of the Indies by Gomara, and Cosmographia of Girava, occupy 23 pp.
PLATE IX.
THE NEW WORLD FROM " THE ADMIRAL'S MAP."
(Greatly Reduced), in PTOLEMY, 1513.
S«e Item No. 17.
PLATE X.
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WITH THE ADDITIONAL FOUR LEAVES.
A WELCOME HOME TO MASTER MARTIN FROBISHER (AFTER HIS NORTH
AMERICAN VOYAGE).
1579 A.D.
[59] CHURCHYARDS (Thomas). A Discourse of the Queenes Majesties Entertainemettt in Suffolk and Norffolk: With a description of many things then presently seene.
Whereunto is adjoyned a commendation of Sir Humfrey Gilbert's ven- trous journey.
In Verse. Woodcut device in centre of title, and woodcut border round.
Small 4to. A REMARKABLY FINE COPY, bound by Lewis in full morocco, gold borders on sides , gilt back> g. e.
London : Imprinted by Henrie Bynnetnan, servante to the Right Honour able Sir Christopher Hatton (1579). £350
*** A FINE AND PERFECT COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY RAKE BOOK, WITH THE FOUR LEAVES OF VERSE AT END, WHICH ALMOST EVERY COPY LACKS, NAMELY :-
" A Welcome home to Master Martin Frobusher, and all those Gentlemen and Souldiers, that have bene with him this last journey, in the Countrey called (Mela incognita) whichc welcome was written since this Eooke was put to the Printing, and joyned to the same Booke, for a true testimony of Churchyardes good will, for the furtherance of Mayster Frobusher s fame."
This is a most important book, both on account of it being an excessively rare Elizabethan volume of Poetry, and also on account of the tour leaves at end welcoming home Frobisher from his Famous Voyage to the Northern Parts of America, when he discovered Frobisher Bay and the Straits which now carry Hudson's name.
" Frobisher sailed from Harwich on 31 May with a fleet of fifteen vessels, in three divi sions, headed by the Aid, Judith, and Thomas Allen, for the ' North-West parts/ and the fancied treasures of Meta Incognita. Taking a new route, he sailed down the Channel and along the Southern coast of England and Ireland, and sighted Cape Clear on 6 June. Hence he sailed north-west until the 20th, when he reached the south of Greenland, where he landed, and named it West England, giving the name Charing Cross to the last Cliff of which he had sight as he sailed past two days later. On> 2 July the fleet sighted the islands oS Meta Incognita, but could not proceed on account of the ice. After losing himself in the ' Mistaken Streight ' (i.e., Hudson's) through no want of being warned by the more experienced Christopher Hall, master of the Aid, Frobisher anchored in the Countess of Warwick's Sound 31 July, where he found Fenton in the Judith, who arrived there ten days before him. Meanwhile Hall in the Thomas Allen was beating up in the open two or three of the other vessels which had lost their bearings in the storms and mist. After wasting nearly two months in finding the rendezvous and repairing damages there, the only results were the acci dental discovery of a new strait by Frobisher, afterwards explored by Hudson, the further discovery of the upper part of Frobisher Bay by Best, and the loading of the soundest vessels with mineral that turned out to be worthless. The fleet sailed for England early in September, and arrived at various ports near the beginning of October.
" One curious fact of geographical interest in this voyage of 1578 remains to be noted. The Emmanuel Buss of Bridgwater, as she came homeward, to the south-east of Friesland ft.c., Green-land), discovered an island in lat. 57.}° north, and sailed along the coast three days, ' the land seeming to be fruitful, full of woods, and a champaign country/ This island has been a source of perplexity to map-makers and navigators down to our day. It was doubtless an island, now submerged, a phenomenon by no means unknown in these regions, if we are to believe Ruysch, in his map of the 1507 Ptolemy/' D.N.B.
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1580 A.D.
[sga] CHAYES (Jerome). Chronographia o reportorio delos tiempos, cl
mas copioso y precisso que hasta ahora ha salido a luz.
Portrait of the Author on title page, two woodcut maps, and a series of wood engravings of the Signs of the Zodiac, Phases of the Moon, etc.
Small 4to, vellum.
Seville, 1580. £4 4s
* * * Page 94 and verso of 95 are on the Xe\v World, and the discoveries of Christopher Columbus " De la Quarta Parte del Muiido, llamada Mundo Nuevo. Titulo nuevo " with n woodcut map showing the New Lands ; and on page 99 reverse is a woodcut map entirely devoted to the New World.
1585 A.D.
[5Qb] BOEMUS (J.). I Costumi. Le Leggi et L'Usanze Di Tutte Le Genti, Divisi in tre Libri ." . . et Tradotti per Lucio Fauno .... Aggiuntovi di nuovo il quarto libro nel qua se narra I Costumi, et L'Usanze Dell' Indie Occidentals, Overo Monde Novo: Da M. Pre. Cieronimo Ciglio.
Small 8vo, original vellum.
Venice, 1585. £3 10s
*** GTiGLIO'S' "De Costumi delle genti del Mondo Nuovo" occupies the last 48pp.
1585 A.D.
[60] FAVOLIUS (Hugo). Theatri Orbis Ten-arum Enchiridion, Minori- bus Tabulis per Philippum Gallaeum Exaratum : et Carmine Heroico, ex Variis Geographis & Poe'tis Collecto.
Small 4to, original vellum.
Antwerp, 1585. £8 10s
* * * This curious! volume written in hexameter verse is adorned with numerous maps engraved on copper, of -which five are large double plates, one being the Map of the World, " Tiipus or bis terra rum," dated 1574, upon which is described America and " Terra Australia nondurn cognitae." At page 4 is a .small map entitled " Amerioae sive novi orbis nova descriptio."
All the mapsi are very finely engraved, and were done by the Celebrated Engraver, Philippe Galle.
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PRINTED AT LIMA, 1594.
WITH ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE INDIANS SIGNED BY THE VICEROY'S SECRETARY.
1594 A.D.
[61] PERU. Ordenancas que el Sencr Marquis de Canete, Visorey de estos Reynos del Peru mando hazer, para el remedio de los excesses, que los eorregidores de Naturales hazen en tratar, y contrater con los Indies, y danos, y agravios que de esto reciven. Con otras cosas enderecades al bien y conser- vacion de los Indies, (at end) For mandado del Virrey. Alvaro Ruyz de Nabamuel.
/pp., folio, original vellum.
Inifiresso en la Ciudad de los Reyes -por Antonio Ricardo de Turin (Lima), 1594. £35
* * * At end axe 4 pp. of Manuscript, "being a series of further Ordinances concerning the Indians. Signed by Alvaro Ruyz, by order of the Viceroy.
This is, we believe, the earliest book printed at Lima. Unknown to Harrisse, " Im- prenta en America/'
1595 A.D.
[6ia] CONZALES DE MENDOZA (Joan). Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos, costumbres del gran Reyno de la China. . . Con un liine- rario del Nuevo Mundo (por Martin Ignacio).
Thick small 8vo, contemporary calf.
Medina del Campo, 1595. £25
* * * Ttiis was the product of three missions. The notes of Martin de Rada, or de Herrada, in the first expedition (along with Pedro Sarmiento) in 1575, and those of Gonzalez de Mendoza on his mission of 1578, enabled the latter to write the Historia. A third journey in 1581, by Martin Ignacio de Loyola, furnished the Itinerario, which includes Mexico and the Philippines.
This Itinerario is very interesting. Fr. Ignacio on his Voyage to China went via the Canaries and St. Domingo, from there he passed to Vera Cruz, across Mexico, between Mexico and Acapulco, and re-embarked from this port for the Philippines and China. Although brief, the account of the Voyage is extremely interesting. He speaks of the Discovery of New Mexico by Ant. d'Espejo.
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THE FIRST SPECIAL ATLAS OF THE NEW WORLD. 1597 A.D.
[62] WYTFLIET (Cornelius). (Descriptions Ptoiemaicae Augmentum.)
THE COMPLETE SET OF NINETEEN MAPS OF AMERICA EACH OCCUPYING TWO PAGES, but without the general title and letterpress description. 4to, old calf. Lonvain, 1597. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XIX.). £42
* * * This is the EARLIEST DISTINCTLY AMERICAN ATLAS. It is as important iii the history of the early cartography of the New World as Ptolemy's Maps are in the *-tudy of the old.
Nordenskiold states that the author has described a part of the globe entirely un known to the ancients, in a manner completely different from the style of the Alexandrian geographer, and that the work does not contain a map or a single line* of Ptolemy.
Map No. 1, " Orbis terrai'um," is a copy of Mercator's map of the world of 1584. The western hemisphere outlines the northern and southern continents. North America is culled " America sive India nova." The unknown, northwest coast is defined and is separated from Asia by " El streto do Anian." A small inland sea, " mar dulce/' is. probably Hudson's bay. " No. Francia " is LabradoT, north of which is " Estotilant/' " Gro&nlant " is an Arctic island with " G roc-la nit " to the west and " Islant " on the east. The outline of the southern continent is less accurate than that of the northern, and it has no general name. Terra del Fuego is represented as part of an indefinite Antarctic region, and is entirely separated from the continent. Maps of special interest and value are: No. 2, "Chica sive Patagonica et Australis terra," which Nordenskiold describes as a "beautiful " map; No. 10, an early map of Cuba; No. 13, "California," represented as a peninsula; No. 17, " Norum- bega et Virginia"; and No. 19, " Estotilandia et Laboratoris terra," which is also a most interesting' maip of the Arctic isla.nd,s. cf Groenlandiae ipar-V " Island iae pairs,'" and " Frislant " appear to have Ibeen much better known than the mainland. The entire map the author's knowledge of the Zeno chart and the discoveries of the 7eno brothers.
Contents : —
No. 1. Utriusque Hemispherii ]3elineatio.
2. Chica sive Patagonica et Australia Terra.
3. Chili.
4. Plata American Provincia.
5. Peru.
6. Brazil.
7. Castilla Aurifera.
8. Residuum Continentis cum Adiacenllbus Insulis.
9. Hispaniola.
10. Cuba & Jamaica.
11. Yucatana Regio et Fondura.
12. Hispania Nova.
13. Granata Nova et California.
14. Anian & Quiuira
15. Conibas .Regio.
16. Florida.
17. Virginia.
18. Nova Francia et Canada
19. Estotilandia et La.boTatorU Terra.
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1598 A.D.
[63] JESUIT RELATIONS. Compendia de Alguas Cartas Quo Este
AlUtO de 97. vierao dos Padres da Companhia de Jesu, que residem na India, & carte do grao Mogor, & nos Reinos da China, & Japao, & no Brazil, em que
se contem varias cousas. . . Collegidas por o padre Amador Rebello da mesma companhia.
I2mo, vellum.
Lisbon, 1598. £18 18s
*** Letters from the Portuguese Missionaries in China, Japan, and Brazil. The Letter* fronij Brazil occupy pp. 213 to 240.
DE BRY'S VOYAGES.
1599 A.D.
[6sa] AMERICA. PART VII. Verissima et luncundissrma desoriptio praecipvarum qifarundam Indiae regionum & Insularunrt, quae quidem nullis ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque, iam primum ab Ulrico Fabro Straubin- gensi, multo cum periculo inventae & ab eodem summo diligentia consignatae fuerunt, ex germanico in latinum sermonem con versa autore M. Gotardo Artus Dantiscano. Illustrata vero pulcherrimis imaginibus, & in lucem emissa, studio & opera Theodorici de Bry piae memoriae, relictae viduae & nliorum.
Elaborately engraved title page, and large engraving on page 7.
Folio, half morocco. 1599. £12 10s
1601 A.D.
[6_3b] GUZMAN (Louis de). Historia de las Missicnes que haw hccho los religicsos de la Compania de Jesus, en la India Oriental, y en Jos Reynos de la China y Jap on.
2 vols., folio, -fine copy in full morocco g. e.
Alcala, 1601. £12 12s
* * * A VERY INTERESTING WORK, giving the history not only of the Missions to Japan, China, and India, buii also a long account of the Missions in Brazil. This Brazilian section occupies nearly 40 pp.
1603 A.D.
[64] SAN ROMAN (Antonio). Historia General de la India Oriental
los Descubrimientos y Conquistas que han hecho las armas de Portugal en el Brasil y en partes de Africa y Asia; y de la Dilatacion del Santo Evangelic por aquellas grandes Provincias, desde sus principias hasta 1557.
With engraved title.
Folio, fine copy in full calf gilt, r. e.
copy H ', 1603-
Valladolid, 1603. £18 18s
* * * A very rare and important record chiefly concerning Brazil. The Author was a native of Valencia, and a .priest of the Order of St. Benedict. "' Cet ouvrage est un des plus importants qui aient ete publies sur les conquetes faites par lesi Portugais. II est rare d'en rencontrer un exemplaire complet." Saliva. This "was Salva's copy.
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1604 A.D.
[65] ACOSTA (Joseph de). The Natural! and Mora 1 1 Historie of the East and West Indies. Intreating of the remarkeable things of Heaven, of the Elements, Mettalls, Plants and Beasts which are proper to that Country : Together with the Manners, Ceremonies, Lawes, Governments, and Warres of the Indians.
Written in Spanish by the R. F. Joseph Acosta, and translated into English by E. G.
Small 4to, fine copy in full calf gilt, ni. e.
London, 1604. £14 14s
The very rare First English Edition
*** Acosta coniiposed [part of his work in Peru, and the remainder on his return to Europe. Edwin Orimeston is said to ba the translator.
A most important work, the best evidence being that it has been translated into almost every language in Europe.
The work is replete with details of the Aborigines, before their peculiar customs had Tbeen modified by contact with the whites. Although Acosta was one of the earliest, yet he was one of the most curious and accurate observers of the customs and peculiarities of the Aborigines
i
1605 A.D.
[65 a] GUERREIRO (Fr. Fernam). Relacam annal das cousas que fezeram oa padres da companhia de Jesus nas partes da India Oriental, & no Brazil, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guine, nos annos 1602 & 1603, & do processo da conversam, & christandade daquellas partes, tirada das cartas dos mesmos padres que de la vieram.
Small 4to, original vellum.
Lisbon, 1605. £18 18s
* * * Divided into four Books : —
(1) Japan.
(2) China and Malacca.
(3) India,
(4) Brazil, Angola, and Guinea.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 43
1605 A.D.
[650] SMITH (Sir Thomas). Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Enter tainment in Rushia.
With the tragicall ends of two Emperors, and one Empresse, within one Moneth during his being there: And the miraculous preservation of the now raigning EMPEROR, esteemed dead for 18 yeares.
Small 4to, handsomely bound by Bedford in full crushed levant morocco extra, g. e.
Printed at London for Nathanyell Butter, 1605. £42
* * * A Magnificent Copy, with large margins, of this exceedingly rare book.
The Author, Sir Thomas Smith, was born about 1558, and in June, 1(50 i, he was appointed to be special ambassador to the Czar of Russia.
" When the East India Company was formed in October, 1600, he was elected the first governor, and was so appointed by the charter dated 31st Dec. In 1004 he was appointed one of the receivers for the Duchy of Cornwall, and, in June, to be special ambassador to the Tsar of Russia. His grandfather, Sir Andrew Judd, was one of the founders of the Muscovy Company, and he himself would seem to have been largely interested in the Muscovy tra-de. Sailing from Gravesend on 13th June, he, with his party, arrived at Archangel on 22nd July, and was conducted by way of Kholmogori and Vologhda to Jaroslav, where the Emperor then was-. In the course of the winter he obtained a grant of new privileges for the company, and in the spring went on to Moscow, whence he returned to Archangel and sailed for England on 28th May.
" In 1603 Smith was re-elected governor of the East India Company, and with one break, 1606-7, continued to hold the office till July, 1621, during which time the company's trade was developed and established. In January 1618-19 he was appointed one of the com missioners for the settlement of the differences with the Dutch, which, however, after some years of discussion, remained for the time, unsettled. His connection with the East India Company and the Muscovy Company led him to promote and support voyages for the discovery of the North-West Passage, and his name, as given by William Baffin to Smith's Sound, stands as a memorial to all time of his enlightened and liberal energy. In 1609 he obtained the charter for the Virginia Company, of which he was the treasurer, an office which he held till 1620, when, on being charged with enriching himself at the expense of the company, and on a demand for inquiry, he resigned. The charges against him, which were urged with great virulence, were formally pronounced to be false and slanderous, though Smith was not held to be alto gether free from blame; and the renewed inquiry was still going on, when he died at Sutton- at-Hone in Kent on Sept. 1625. He was buried at Sutton, where, in the church, there is an. elaborate monument to his memory. The charges against him had met with no acceptance from the king; to the last he was consulted on all important matters relating to shipping and to eastern trade, and for several years was one of the chief commissioners of the Navy, as also governor of the French and Somer Islands companies." (D. N. B.)
44 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1608-14 A.D.
[66] DU JARRIC (Pierre). Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Intfes Orientates que autres Pais de la descouuerie des Portu-
gaiS. En Festablissement & progrez de la foy Chrestierme et Catholique : et Principalement de ce que les Religieux des la compagnie de Jesus y ont faict et endure pour la mesme fin. Le tout recueilly des lettres et outres histories qui en ont este escrites cy devant et mis en ordre par le Pierre du Jarric.
3 vols. , 4to, contemporary calf neat.
Bordeaux, 1608-1614. £35
*** A very rare work, the three volumes of v.hich are seldom found together.
Vol. 2, pp. 256 to 360 are devoted to Brazil. The volumes, otherwise, relate chiefly to India, and China.
1610 A.D.
[67] OLIVIER DU KORT. Description du penible voyage fait en tour de I'univers ou Globe Terrestre, par Sr Olivier Du Nort D'Utrecht, General de Quatre Navires . . . pour traversant le Destroict de Magellanes, descouvrir les Costes de Cica, Chili & Peru, & y trafiquer, & puis passant les Molucques, & circomnavigant le Globe du Monde . . . translate du Flamand en Francois.
Engraving on title and 25 in text.
Folio, half calf.
Amsterdam, 1610. £27 10S
1610 A.D.
[68] BRANT'S SHIP OF FOOLS. Aff-ghebeelde Namn Speel-sctatyt,
verciert met meer als hondert schoone Figuren.
With descriptions in Dutch prose and verse.
Copperplate vignette on title, and upwards of 100 very curious and interesting wood engravings.
Small 4to, full dark green morocco, g. c.
Ley den, 1610. £5 5S
With the wood engraving of Pliny as a Fool for staling- that no more new lands wore to found and the referent* in the text concerning the New World.
PLATE XL
so coites capitan i juftida mapos oelpucatara Uamaoo la nueua efpaija oelmaroceano:al mup altoppotenriflimocefariiiuictKTimq fenozoo Carlos emperaoo* Temper augufto y rep oe efpana nueftro/erioj: cofasfuceDioasimup Di^iiaeoeaomiradonenlaconquijla radon DelamurgranoeTmarauillofa duoao oe^emijrtlta otras piouindas a ella fubjetae que fe rebelaron. (Ehla qual duoao ^ of cbae pzouindas el Dicbo capitan y efpanolee configuieron granoee pfe nalaoae pictonas oig»as oe perpetua memozia*tHfTi mcHno ba3erela?» don como ba oefcubierto el mar Del Bur: -j otrae mucbae i graoe0 pzo uindae mup ricae oe minas oe ozo :pp0rlae:p pieoias pzedofte: tienen noricia queap efpeceria.
CORTES' THIRD LETTER, 1523, See Item No. 22.
PLATE XII.
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CORTES' i-'orrrrn LKTTKR. See Item No. 21.
MAGGS BROS., 34 £ 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 45
1612 A.D,
THE FIRST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF HUDSON'S DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AMERICA,
AND THE SECOND PUBLISHED ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE NORTHERN
COASTS OF AUSTRALIA. BY DE QUIROS.
[69] HUDSON (Henry). Desoriptio ao delineatio Ceographica Detec ts onis Freti, sive, Transitus ad Occasum, supra terras Americanas, in Chlnam atq; Japonem duoturi, Recens investigati ab M. Hen rice Hudsono Anglo. Nar
ratio . . super tractum, in quinta Orbis terrarum parte, cui Austrialiae Incognitae nomen est, recens detecto, Per Capitanem Petrum Ferdinandez de Quir.
Woodcut of a Ship on reverse of title, large woodcut of Esquimaux, and 3 large folding maps.
Small 4to. Fine copy in) contemporary Spanish calf , with Arms of Mar quis of Caracena, Spanish Governor-General of the Netherlands.
Amsterdam, Gerard, 1612.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XX.). £150
* * * THE FIRST EDITION of the most remarkable Collection of Voyages of Dis covery of this .period.
The Editor has collected together in this ibook a relation of the three most marvellous discoveries of the previous years in the most unknown parts of the world, viz :
(1) The Discovery of the North West passage to America, by Henry Hudson; including the Hudson River, and Hudson Bay, etc.
(2) The Discovery of the Northern Coasts of Australia, by Fernandez de Quiros.
(3) The voyage of Isaac Massa to Siberia.
For the Discovery of Hudson this is the first news printed concerning1 the voyage. For De Qniros it is the Fir&t Edition in Latin of his report to the King of Spain, wherti he gives particulars of the countries of Terre Australe; and for Isaac Massa it is also the First Edition of his Relation of Siberia.
The volume is accompanied by 3 large Maps, namely :—
(1) Map* of the two Hemispheres, showing the discoveries of Hudson in America, und of De Quiros in Australia, also of Massa in Siberia.
(2) Chart of the discoveries of Hudson in North America, designed by Hudson himself,
(3) Chart of the Northern Coast of Asia.
In this, the FIRST EDITION, at the end of Massa's Treatise, is added a little di*- pprtation on the 'possibility of a passage between Asia and America. This portion is omitted in the Second Edition.
" Una cum descriptione terrae Samoiedarum et Tingoesiorurn, in Tartaria ad Ortum Freti Waygats satae, nuperq. Imperio Muscovita;rum subactae/'
46 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1614 A.D.
[70] COLOMBO (Fernando). Historie del Sig Don Fernando Colombo.
Relatione della Vita, & de' fatti dell' Ammiraglio Don ChristofOfO Colombo suo Padre. Et dello scoprimento, dell' Indie Occidentale, dette Mondo Nuovo, tradotte di lingua Spagnuola nell' Italiana. Con aggiunta di Lettere, & Testa- mento dell' Ammiraglio.
1 2 mo, boards.
Milan, 1614. £3 3s
* * * The Spanish, original is no longer in existence. This Italian Version holds consequently a place of great importance in the literature of American history, "being the only source of information for many years of the life of Columbus.
1615 A.D.
[71] HERNANDEZ (Doctor Francisco). Quatro libros de la naturaleza,
y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan recevidos en el uso dei medccina en la Nueva E span a, y la methodo, y correcion, y preparacion, que para admin- istrallas se requiere . . . aumentados por Francisco Ximenez.
Small 4to, original vellum.
Mexico, en casa de la Viuda de Diego Lo-pez Davalos, 1615. £25
The First Edition translated by XIMEiNEZ into Spanish from the Manuscript of Hernandez, which the latter sent home to the King.
* * * The additions of Ximenez have greatly improved the original MSS. of Her nandez; and the Mexican names appear in it in a more correct form.
Hernandez was the royal physician and a famous Naturalist. Philip II. sent him to Mexico to make observations, and to describe its natural history. He was the first to open up to European Naturalists the treasures of the New WoHd.
1617 A.D.
[7 1 a] STIC LI AN (Thomas). Del Mondo Nuovo (in verse).
Thick small I2mo, original vellum.
Piacenza, 1617. £4 4s
* * * The First Edition of this curious poem on the Ne^V World. On the title is a small Map of America, engraved on copper.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 47
1618 A.D.
[72] RALEIGH (Sir Walter). A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, as well in his Voyage, as in and sithence his Returne; And of the true motiues and inducements which occasioned His Maiestie to Proceed in doing Justice vpon him, as it hath bene done.
Small 4to, original limp vellum. A fine copy of the FIRST EDITION with the blank leaf marked " A " and the Royal Arms on reverse of title.
London, 1618. £10 10s
* * * This is the official statement of the circumstances attending Raleigh's fall and death, issued to appease the public who felt that the sentence pronounced in 1603 was unjust, and that the carrying of it into execution in 1618 was base. This pamphlet deals with Raleigh's last Expedition to America, and gives in full the cause of its failure, etc.
1620 A.D.
[73] PORCACCHI (Thomas). L'lsole Piu Famcse Del Mondo.
Engraved title, and 48 engraved maps, with letterpress descriptions.
LARGE PAPER COPY. Folio, original vellum.
Padua, 1620. £6 6s
* * * The American Maps, each with a long description, included in this volume are : —
Temistitan. Isola, Cuba.
Mexico. Jamaica.
Mondo Nuovo.. Isola de St. Giovanni.
Isola Spagnuola. World Map.
1621 A.D.
PICTORIAL ACCOUNT OF COLUMBUS' s SECOND VOYAGE.
[74] PHILOPONUS (Honorius). Nova Typis transacta Navigatio. Novi Orbis Indiae Occidentalis admodum Buelli Cataloni in Universam American! , sive Novum Orbem.
With engraved title, very large folding plate of Christopher Columbus arriving in the New World and the arrival of the Missionaries, portrait of St. Brandan and of P. Buell, and 17 other full-page plates showing the Cruelties of the Indians, etc.
Folio, half morocco. Munich, 1621.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXL). £105
On© of the most curious and interesting pictorial volumes of Americana, and of high rarity.
* * * Father Buell was sent out by the King of Spain to Christianise the New World. Pope Alexander VI. named him Vicar-General of the Indes Occidentales, of which he is regarded as the first patriarch. He was accompanied by twelve monks, and they embarked with (Christopher Columbus in .1493, upon his) -second voyage. Upon [Bueirs arrival in America, he had many differences with Columbus, and was one of those who spoke most spitefully against him. Buell returned to Spain with the Admiral in order to justify his conduct.
The plates are very interesting and include full length portraits of Columbus and Father Buell, Indian to^tuires, battle scenes, the tobaco plant, Indian King smoking, a naval battle, etc., etc. They were engraved by W. Kilian.
48 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1622 A.D.
[75] HAWKINS (Sir Richard). The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in His Voyage into the South Sea, Anno Domini i 593.
FIRST EDITION. Folio, original calf.
London , Printed by I . D. for John Jaggard, and\ arc to be soldi at his shop at the Hand and Starr e in Fleete-streete, neere the Temple Gate, 1622. £25
* * * Six Richard Hawkins* conception was not only a voyage round the world, arriving at " the islands of Japan, of the Philippines, and Moluccas, the kingdoms of China and East Indies, by the way of the Straits of Magellan and the South Sea," but he designed principally, he tells us, " to make a perfect discovery of all those parts where he should arrive, as well known as unknown, with their Longitudes and latitudes, the lying of theii' coasts, their head-lands, their .ports and bays, their cities!, towns and .peqplings, their manner of government, with the commodities which the countries yielded, and of which they have want and are in necessity.
The account of the early part of the voyage, written by Hawkyns himself, is interesting from the intelligent descriptions of sea life and of the places at which the ships touched. On 5 November they anchored between the Santa Anna Islands, to the North of Cape Frio. There they put the sick on shore, and refreshed them with sea-fowl and such fruits as the islands afforded. Afterwards they watered at Isla Grande, to the, West of Eio Janeiro: and on 18 December shaped their course for the Straits of Magellan At Santa Anna they had emptied out and burnt the victualler; off the mouth of the River Plate the .pinnace deserted and made her way home again. The Dainty thus camo alone to the Straits; passed through, not without danger; and on 19 April, 1594, anchored at the island of Mocha, where fresh provisions were procured. " I have not tasted bettor mutton anywhere/' Hawkins noted. And so on to Valparaiso, where they plundered tho town and ransomed the ships in the bay; thence going north, making a few prizes, they anchored on 18 June in the bay of San Matea. where on tha 19th they were found by two large Spanish ships, well armed and commanded by Don Beltran de Castro, brother-in-law of the viceroy, who had fitted them out expressly to look for and capture or destroy the-<w English pirates.
The crew of the Dainty had been reduced by deaths to about seventy-five; the vSpianiards are said to have 'numbered ten times as many, which is pro'bable enough. Another estimate, making them " thirteen hundred men and boys," may be pronounced a gross exaggeration. The Dainty was stoutly defended, and she might possibly have beaten off her assailants and made good her escape, but for the extreme carelessness with which she had been prepared for action. Hawkyns had left all the supervision as well as tha preparation to the gunner, in whom he had perfect confidence, but who, in the hour of need, proved ignorant and incapable. There were no cartridges, much of the ammunition had been spoiled by damp, few of the guns were clear when they were wanted, and some of them had been loaded with the powder on top of tha shot. Hawkyns' s own account off the .action tells of such gross neglect and mismanagement, as to give rise to a Ptispiciou that, whatever the gunner's faults, Hawkyns was not the " complete seaman " and sikilfnl commander that he would wish his renders to suppose. Of his stubborn courage, however, there is no doubt. The fiorht lasted through three days, till Hawkyns, was carried belovr -ieverely wounded. The ship was then almost knocked to pieces, with fourteen shot under water, seven or eight feet of water in the hold, and the pumps smashed; many of the men killed, many more wounded, and the rest mad drunk. Haiwkyns therefore surrendered or capitulation, Don Beltran solemnly plpdeiiu? himself " that he would give ns our lives with good entreaty, and send us as speedily as he could into o".ir own country." (D. N. B..")
MAGGS BROS., 34 £35, Conduit Street, London, W. 49
1622 A.D.
[76] FLORIDA AND CUBA. Relation de Ic Sucedido en los Caleones y Flota de Tierra Firme.
iopp., folio, wrappers.
(Madrid, 1622.) £105
* * * The Original Spanish Issue of this excessively rare tract.
On the 22nd of August, 1022, the whole fleet o«f Tierra Firme assembled in the Port; of Havanna. On Sunday, the 4th of Septeinber, they weighed anchor and sailed. There were 28 ships with their Admiral, eight galleons, three pinnaces and other attendants upon the fleet. A tempest arose on Monday and continued until Tuesday. Those that were able put back to Havanna. Nine vessels were lost, two ships being wrecked on the Floridia Coast. The tract gives the full (list of the Officers, (Sailors and Passengers who were drowned. This naval disaster was received with such interest in England, that the tract was translated into English, with the following title : —
" A true relation of that which lately happened to the great Spanish Fleet, and <<alleons of Terra Firma in America, with many strange deliveries of captives and souldiers in Ihe tempest and other remarkable accidents, 1623." Of this English Edition only 3 copies are known. The late Mr. G. D. Smith catalogued one of these for $300,00. This Spanish Original iQ even rarer, as we cannot trace the pale of another copy.
THE FAMOUS SERMON TO THE VIRGINIAN COMPANY. 1622 A.D.
[77] DONNE (John, Dean of St. Paul's). A Sermon upon the VIII. verse of the I. Chapter of the Acts, preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, I3th November, 1622.
Small 4to. A very fine copy in full polished calf , g. /'., by Riviere. London, 1622. £35
* * * The First Edition of Donne's famous sermon before the early adventurers in the Virginia Company. It may truly be described as the first missionary sermon printed in the English language.
50 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1622 A.D.
THE FIEST EDITION OF LE MAIRE'S VOYAGE.
[78] HERRERA (Antonio de). Novus OrbiS. Metaphraste C. Barlaeo, Accesserunt & aliorum Indiae Occidentalis Descriptiones, & Navigations nuperae Australis Jacobi le Maire Historia.
Illustrated with 17 Double Maps, COPPERPLATE PORTRAIT OF LE MAIRE, and several woodcuts in the text.
Folio, full calf (title margined}.
Amsterdam, Michael Colin, 1622. £18 18s
* * * The portrait of LE MAI1JE is very rare, and it is not mentioned in Brunet, Graesse, Leclerc, or in the " Nuggets." The last four pages of the second part contain a Vocabulary of the language of the Solomon Isles.
" It is erroneously stated in the " American Nuggets " that Barcia, in the preface to his edition of Herrera, (repudiates the edition by Colin as full of errors. The fact is, that Barcia makes nowhere any remark prejudicial to the above publication of 1622, which certainly contains a faithful translation of the '"'Description," of Herrera, and an equally faithful reproduction of the fourteen authentic maps. Barcia' s remark had reference only to the Amsterdam edition of 1721. The volume is highly valuable as containing the first edition of the genuine Voyage of Le .Maire (also issued in Latin and Dutch in the same year) as distinguished from that which had been, through the Dutch India Company's1 jealousy of Le Maire, published by Blaeu under the name of Cornelius Schouten, who had. commanded one of Le Maire's vessels. It concludes with the Spanish and English voyages to Magellanr's Straits and the description of America given by Ordonez de Cevallos and Bertius."
1622 A.D.
[79] WHITBOURNE (Captain Richard). A Discourse containing a Loving Invitation both Honourable, and profitable to all such as shall be Adventurers, either in person, or purse, for the advancement of his Majesties most hopefull Plantation in the New- Found- Land, lately undertaken. Written by Captaine Richard Whitbourne of Exmouth, in the County of Devon.
FIRST EDITION. 46 pp., small 4to, half calf.
Imprinted at London by Felix Kyngston, 1622. £15 15S
*** This is the "Discourse" alone, which was separately published. It is dedicated to Henry Lord Cary, Viscount Falkland.
Whitbourne gives a general description of Newfoundland, and invites settlers to the country
Whitbourne was a Devonshire man, and served against the Armada in 1588, in a ship of his own. He had already made a voyage to Newfoundland about 1580. He met Sir Humphrey Gilbert at St. John's a few years later, and frequently returned to the same shores afterwards.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 51
1625-26 A.D.
[So] PURGHAS (Samuel). Hakluytus Posthiimus, or Purchase his Pil- grimes.
Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travails by Englishmen, and others: of all the Circum-navigations of the Globe, all Voyages to the Cape, India, China, Japan, the Malay Archipelago, and of Travels by land in Asia, America, and elsewhere.
Wherein Gods Wonders in Nature, and Providence, The Acts, Arts, Varie ties and Vanities of Men, with a world of the Worlds Rarities, are by a world of Eywitnesse Authors, related to the World . . . All examined, abbre viated, illustrated with notes, enlarged with discourses, adorned with pictures and expressed in Mapps. 4 vols. , folio. London, 1625-6.
Plirchas His Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all ages and places discovered from the Creation unto this Present.
Thq Fourth (and best) Edition, much inlarged with Additions, and illus trated with Mappes (engraved title and one map in facsimile, a few leaves of vol. i stained).
Together 5 vols., folio, calf (rebackecT). £25
The contents of the vols. are as follows: —
Vol. I. Voyages and Travels of Ancient Kings, Patriarchs, Apostles and Philosophers; Voyages of Circumnavigation of the Globe; and Voyages along the Coasts of Africa to the East Indies, Japan, China, the Philippine Islands, and the Persian and Arabian Gulfs.
Vol. II. Voyages and Relations of Africa, Ethiopia, Palestine, Arabia, Persia, and other pa*rts of Asia.
Vol. III. Voyages to Tartary, China, Russia, North-West America, and the Polaa- Regions.
Vol. IV. Voyages to< America, and the West Indies.
Vol. V. (The Pilgrimage), contains a Theological and Geographical History of Asia, Africa, and America.
" We owe to the zeal and vast erudition of this laborious man, one of the most celebrated collections of voyages which have ever appeared; valuable alike for the abundance of its materials and its importance in the history of its early discoveries, especially those of the English/' — Biographic Universelle.
1627 A.D.
[81] SIMON (P. Fray Pedro). Primera Parte de fas Notiaias historiales de las Conquistas de Tierra Firm®, en las Indias Occidentales.
\ Small folio, original vellum.
Cuenca, Domingo de la Yglesia, 1627. £12 12s
***AN IMPORTANT WORK, containing the history of the Provinces of Cumana and Venezuela. Part I. is all that was published.
$2 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, \V.
1628 A.D.
[82] BRAZIL. TOMAIO DE VARGAS (Thomas). Restauracion de la cilitfad del Salvador, I Baia de Todos-Sanctos, en la provincia del Brasil. Por ias Armas De Don Philippe IV. el Grande Rei Catholico de las Espanas. . . .
Small 4to, original vellum.
Madrid, 1628. £12 12s
1630 A.D.
[83] LEON [PINELO] (Antonio de). Tratado de confirmaciones reales de encomiandas, officios I Casos, en que se requieren para las Indias Occi- dentales.
Engraved title showing emblematic figures of Peru and Nova Hispania.
Small 4to, calf.,
Madrid, 1630. £8 10s
* * * A Very Important Work, composed i'roiu Original Documents.
Antonio de Xaon was born in Peru, he was educated at Lima, and was names! ' Chronicler of the Indies/ Ho wrote many important works which, tor the most part, only exist in manuscript.
1631 A.D.
[84] BRAZIL. Relation de la Jornada que la Armada de su Magested a hecho al socorro del Brasil, y batalla que entre ella, y la de los estados de Olanda se dieron en doze de Septiembre deste ano de 1631 , en diez y ocho grados de altura a la bada del sur de la Equinocial, y paraje de los Abrojos.
4 pages, folio, half morocco.
Seville, 1631. £12 12s
1632 A.D.
[85] DIAZ DEL CASTILLO (Bernal). Hlstoria Verdadera de la Con- quista de la Nueva Espana.
With engraved title. Folio, vellum.
Madrid (1632). £18 18s
* * * The First Edition of this rare Chronicle written by one of the Conquistadores. and containing the two additional leaves numbered Chapter CCXXII. (for CCXII.) " Estv (>apitulo que as e>l ultimo del original . . ." which were added after the completion of the hook.
1632 A.D.
[86] DIAZ DEL CASTILLO (Bernal;. Histofia Verdadera de la Con- qtn'sta de la Nueva Espana.
ANOTHER COPY, a variation of the First Edition, having a printed title; instead of the engraved title, and before the additional two leaves were issued.
Folio, original half calf. Madrid, 1632. £18 18s
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CORDOVA — DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA, 1544.
(Indian Catechism).
One of the First Books p'rintecl in Mexico. See Item No. 30.
PLATE XIV
THK Amis OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. From
OVIKDO Y V ALDKS — CORONTCA DK LAS IXDIAS. 1-")17.
See Item No 40.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 53
1635 A.D.
[87] WOOD (William). New England's Prospect. A true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called New England : discovering the state of that Countrie, both as it stands to our new- come English Planters; and to the old Native Inhabitants. Laying downe that which may both enrich the knowledge of the mind -travel ling Reader, or benefit the future Voyager.
Folding woodcut map " The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1635.°
Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full levant morocco extra, g. c.
Printed at London by Tho. Cotes for John Bellamic, 1635.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXII.). £175
***A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND TALL COPY WITH THE VERY {RARE MAP.
This is one of the most interesting of tho early New England books.
The wonk details the natural features of the country, tell* of the habits and customs of the Indians, etc. An Indian vocabulary is placed at the end and takes precedence of the linguistic labors of Roger Williams, John Elliot, and others. It is possible that the author may ha.ve had the co-operation of both Williams find Elliot, who came to New England in 1631. The map, which is dated in each edition to correspond with its imprint, is more correct and fuller in its details than in the previous issue.
The majority of the few known copies of this- work are in public institution*.
1639 A.D.
[88] WEIGEL (Johannes). Habitus praecipuorum popuforum tarn
Virorum quam Foeminarum, olim singular! Johannis Weigelii Proplastis Norimbergensis arte depicti & excusi, nunc vero debita diligentia denuo recusi
Black Letter and Roman Letter.
With fine figured woodcut title in compartments and magnificent final page and 220 full-page, full-length woodcut costume figures by John Weigei after the original drawings of Jobst Amman.
Folio, crushed crimson morocco extra t g. c., by F. Bedford. Ului, Johann Gocrlin, 1639. (SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XX1IL). £65
This book is excessively rare m a complete state. Copies like the above in which impressions of tho plates are absolutely magnificent are almost unknown. This1 copy ap- peara to be printed on specially thick paper. " Each cut ha« its title at top in Latin (Roman letter), at foot in German (C-Jothic letter), with verses in the latter language. The sories embraces ail grades of society, different nationalities, and both sexes, from the Em peror downwards, illustrating perhaps better than any book, the ccvstume of the period, which was very rich and costly, in the case of the more wealthy people."
The dresses appropriate to festivals, balls, marriages, are. shewn, sometimes with 2 or 3 figures on the page.
Two of these beautiful cuts show the Natives of Brazil.
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1639 A.D.
[88a] PIZARRO (Don Fernando). Varones illustres dej Nuevo Mundo.
Descubridores, conquistadores, y pacificadores del opulento, dilatado, y pode- roso imperio de las Indias Occidentals.
Folio, calf.
Madrid, 1639. £12 12s
* * * This book was written by one of the descendants of Pizarro, who here brings together the lives of Christopher Columbus, de Alonso de Ojeda, Fernand Cortess, Franc. Pizarro, Juan Pizarro, Diego de Almagro, Hern. Pizarro, Gonzalo Pizarro, & Diego Garcia cle Paredes
Under the title of " Discurso legal y politico" Pizarro asks of King Philip IV. lo extend to him the promise made by Charles V. to Don Francisco Pizarro to reward him for his Conquest of Peru by creating him Marquis and giving him twenty thousand vases vis.
1642 A.D.
[89] MEXICO. Relacion de tcdo lo sucedido en estas Provinces de Pa Nueva Espana, desde la formacion de la Armada Real de Barlovento, despacho de flota, y successo della, hasta la salida deste primer Aviso del ano de 1642.
4 pp., folio, boards. 1642. £10 tSs
1643 A.D.
[90] CORDOVA (Diego de). Vida, Virtudes, y milagros del apostol del Peru el venerable pe Fray Francisco Solano de la serafica orden de los menores de la regular observancia, patron de la Ciudad De Lima. . . segunda edk'jcn anadida por el P. Fray Alonso de Mendieta provincial de la Sta Provincia de los 12 Apostoles del Peru, y Procurador General de la Ciudad de los Reyes.
With engraved title, in which is introduced a portrait of SOLANO, also engraved full-length portrait of the same.
Thick small 4to, full calf.
Madrid, 1643. £6
Father SOLANO, born at Montilla, in 1549, entered the Franciscan Onlfcr at the age of 20, went to Peru with the Viceroy Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis- de Canete in 1589. A few days after his arrival at Lima he went to the provinces of Tucuman and of Rio de la Plata for the conversion of the Indians.
His Biographer Diego de Cordova y Salinas, was Chronicler of the Province of P^ru.
1644 A.D.
[goal BRAZIL. Collection of 17 Documents in Portuguese relating to the administration of Antonio Telles da Sylva, Governor General of Brazil, and his difficulties with the Chamber at Bahia. The letters are signed by Antonio Telles da Sylva, and by Manoel Pereira Franco, etc., and certified with ihe signature of the Bishop of Brazil. 1644. £6 6s
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 55
1644 A.D.
[91] COTTON (Rev. John, Teacher of the Church at Boston in New- England). The Keyed of the Kingdom of Heaven, and Power thereof, accord ing to the Word of God. Tending] to reconcile some present differences about Discipline.
The Second time Imprinted.
Published by Tho. Goodwin and Philip Nye.
Small 4to, new boards.
London, 1644. £3 3s
1644-50 A.D.
[91 a] BAHIA in BRAZIL. 1644-1650. Collection of 14 Original Docu ments in Portuguese relating to Antonio Macedo, a Soldier who fought in the Battles for this State, dated 1644-1650, containing the signatures of Antonio Telles da Sylva, and Conde Castello Melhor, and Joao Rodrigues de Vascon- celios e Sousa, Governors of Brazil. £3 3s
1645 A.D.
[92] RIBAS (Rev. Andres Perez de). Historia de los triumphos de nuestra santa fee entre gentes las mas Barbaras, del Nuevo Orbe: conse- guidos por los Soldados de la Milicia de la Compania de Jesus en las Missiones de la Provincia de Nueva-Espana. . . .
Small folio, morocco.
Madrid, Por Alonso dc Paredcs, 1645. £24
* * Eibas was born in Cordova, in Andalucia, in 1576. Becoming n member of the Society of Jesus, he went in 1604 to Mexico, and spent sixteen years in untiring exertion for the conversion of the Indians. This rare work contains many particulars relating to the Indian tribes of Cinaloa, in North Mexico and of California, not to be found elsewhere.
1648 A.D.
[93] BOOTHBY (Richard; Merchant). A briefe Discovery or Descrip tion of the most famous Island of Madagascar or St. Laurence in Asia neare unto East India;
also the Trading from Port to Port all India and Asia over, and the great profit gained thereby.
Small 4to, fine copy in full russia gilt, uncut edges.
London, printed by E. G. for John Hardesty, 1646. £9 9s
A fine and interesting copy of a very rare little book. This copy Las on the blank margins some valuable contemporary manuscript notes referring to statements in the text.
Chapter XV. (p. 62) commences with " The valour of the English Nation against the Savages in Virginia and New England.
1648 A.D.
[93 a] BRAZIL. Autograph Letter in Portuguese Signed by Antonio Teiies da Sylva, Governor General of Brazil, dated 1646 from Bahia in Brazil, in which he complains to the King of Portugal about the irregular proceedings of Paulo Barbosa, Captain Major of Porto Seguro, where he committed terrible crimes. £1 10s
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1648 A.D.
[94] SOLORZANO PEREIRA (D. Jean de). Politica Indiana Sacada en Lengua Castellana de Ics dcs Tomes Del Derecho, I Covierno Municipal de las Indias Occidentales, en Ics quales se trata tcdo So tccante al ctessubri- mien to, description, adquisicion i retention de las Indias.
Thick folio, calf. Madrid, 1648. £12 12a
* * * This is the. first Spanish translation of the " Disqnisitiones de Indiarnin Jure.'J
1649 A.D.
[95] BRAZIL. Relation de la Victoria quo Ics Portugueses de Pemam- buco alcangaron de los de la Compania del Brasil en los Garerapes a 19 de Febrero de 1649.
Traducida del Aleman, Publicada en Viena de Austria.
12 pp., small 4 to, boards. (Madrid^, 1649. £10 10s
1649-55 A.D.
[96] GONZALEZ DA VI LA (Gil). Teatro Eclesiastice de la Prirmtiva Iglesia de las Indias Occidentales, vidas de sus Arzobispos, Obispos y cosas memorables de sus sedes.
With the rare Map of Mechoacan.
2 vols., small folio, vellum binding.
Madrid, Diego Diaz de la Carrera, 1649-55. £24
* * * EXTREMELY HARE. It is a very curious work, containing- an account of the first Church Establishments in Spanish America, and! other important matters relating to its early history, as the introduction of arts and letters, printing, etc. The accounts of thn various races of Indians, their creeds and manners, etc., are also highly valuable. At p. 23 of the first volume, Davila notices the introduction of printing into Mexico in 1522, mentions the first printer, Juan Pa.blos, and states that the first "book printed was the well-known Scala Paradisi of Joannes riimacus.
1650 A.D.
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.
[97] TERRARUM ORBIS DESCRIPTIO.
Coloured drawing of Bacchus astride a cask.
222 pp., small folio, vellum binding. 1650. £10 10s
* * * An interesting- manuscript containing an epitome of (jieography, written in Latin in 1650 at Breda, by some scholar who studied under Prof. Joh. Philemon. The latter part of this Manuscript relates to Africa, and America; the first part with Tartary, Syria, Japan, China, Mongolia, India Orientalis, Jerusalem, Tiirkey, Hohemia, Hungary, etc.
The Author writes of Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, and Cortes, etc.
* * # rp}ri8 Manuscript begins with Spain and ends with America. The manners, and customs of the various countries are detailed. . The last entry gives an account of Magellan's ship Victory, which, after his death, returned from the Moluccas to Spain.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 57
1652 A.D.
[98] HORNIUS (G.). De Originibus Americanis. Libri Quatuor. Hagae Comitis. Sumptibus Adrian! Vlacq. 1652.
Bound with —
BERK ELI US (A.). Cenuina Stcphant Byzantini de Urbilius et Pcpuiis F ragmen ta. Latinam interpretationem & animadversiones adjecit. Accedit Hannonis Carthaginensium Regis Periplus. Graece & Latine. Lugduni in Batavi, Apud Danielem a Gaesbeeck, 1674.
Two works in I volume. Small thick 8vo, vellum. £1 185
* * * The First Work was written by request of Jean de Laet, who had already refuted the opinion of Grotius on the subject.
1652 A.D.
[g8a] BRAZIL. Letter Patent in Portuguese signed by the Conde de Castello Melhor, Joao Roiz de Vasconcellos e Sousa, Governor General of Brazil, dated Bahia 1652, confirming Manoel da Costa in his post as Adjutant of the Sergeant Major in the Province of Bahia. The Seal contains the Arms of the Governor. £1 10s
1654 A.D.
[99] BRAZIL. BARRETO (Francisco;. Relacam Diaria do Sitio, e
Lomada da forte praca do Recife, recuperacao das Capitanias de Itamaraca: Paraiba, Rio grande, Ciara, & Ilha de Fernao de Noronha, por Francisco Barreto Mestre de campo general do Estado do Brasil, & Gouernador de Pernambuco.
31 pp., small 4 to, new boards.
Lisbon, 1654. £5 5s
1655-1656 A.D.
[99a] BRAZIL. Collection Of 6 Letters dated from Bahia in the years
1655 and 1656, each comprising many pages, from the Conde de Athouguia, Governor and Captain General of Brazil, and written to King Joao IV. of Portugal, in which he alludes to the proceedings of the Desembargador Fernando de Maia Furtado. In another one he complains of the barbarous treatment of the Tapuya Indians. He includes the Petition from the poor of Bahia. In another one he objects to the Orders which he has received to make the licentiate, Hieronymo de Burgos, Judge of Orfaos, embark for Rio de Janeiro, and he adds a petition received from this functionary. The other letters refer to his administration in general. £6 6s
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1658 A.D.
[100] PISON (G.) De Indiae Utriusque re Natural! et Medica.
Engraved title page and many hundred woodcuts of plants, birds, fish, and animals.
Thick folio, calf.
Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1658. £3 11 Os
Comprises :—
Pison-Historia naturalis et medica Indiae Occidentalis, libri V.
Marcgravius-Tractatus topographicus et meteor ologic us Brasiliae, cum Eclipsi Soihiri, etc.
Bontius-Historiae naturalis et medica Indiae Orientalis, etc.
1659-1663 A.D.
[looa] BRAZIL. A Series of 15 Letters in Portuguese Signed toy Francisco Barreto de Menezes, Governor General of Bahia, all addressed from Bahia to the King of Portugal, and dated as follows : —
(1) 8th January, 1659.
Representing the great loss which the Royal Treasury had under gone owing to the recent orders that no ships were to leave the country.
(2) 1 9th September, 1659.
Relating to the nomination of Joao Leitao de Fana as Captain, and of the Quarter Master Nicolao Aranha Pacheco. (3 & 4). Ditto. In the same year, and on the same subject.
(5) 3rd May, 1661.
Asking for power to supply the Fort of Bahia with sufficient powder for its defence, seeing that Peace had been broken between the Portuguese Crown and the United Provinces of Holland.
(6) 25th May, 1661.
Asking permission to resign, saying that he had governed that State sufficiently long, and asking the King to name a successor; and to allow him permission to choose the ships in which he can travel in safety.
(7) nth June, 1 66 1.
Asking for power to proceed to Bahia with regard to Salvador Correia de Sa e Benevides.
(8) 1 4th May, 1662.
Concerning economic administration.
(9) 1 4th May, 1662.
With reference to a report which appeared to be unfounded, arid asking that Caspar Malheiros Reymao should be punished because he had not behaved in the manner he ought to have.
(10) 24th May, 1662.
Referring to Doctor Jorge Secco de Macedo, Chancellor of the State of Bahia about the advice received.
(11) I4th May, 1662.
Concerning a form which was necessary to be given to the Cover-' nors, declaring that they would allow boats to come from the Indies to the Ports of Bahia.
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Brazil— continued.
(12) 1 4th May, 1662.
Treating of the barbarous war, and mentioning the Province of Parahiba, etc. With many interesting remarks.
(13) 1 5th May, 1662.
Protesting against injustice that had been done in the cases of Andre Vidal de Negreiros and Francisco de Bryto Freire.
(14) 26th October, 1662.
Regarding his opinions about the wars of the barbarous Indians.
(15) 1 5th February, 1663.
Treating of the Reforms that were to be made in the Capital of Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro.
Original Documents of great importance to the Province of Bahia.
£18 18s
1662 A.D.
[101] CUADALUPE (Andres de), Histcria de la Santa Provincia de los Angeles de la regular Observancia, y orden de nuestro serafko padre San Francisco.
With the fine frontispiece.
Folio. Fine copy in full Spanish calf.
Madrid, For Mateo Fernandez, 1662. £6 10s
* * * The author was Commissary General of the Indies, and the Franciscan Order of which he writes, laboured extensively in America, and ha>s given its name to San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. His first notice of the New World is contained in his account of the letter of Martin de Valencia from Yucatan in 1531.
1663 A.D.
NORTH EAST PASSAGE TO CHINA.
[102] DE VEER (Gerrit). Verhael van de vier eerste Schip-Vaerden Der Hollandtsche en Zeeuwsche Scheppen, Naar Nova Zembla, By Noorden Noorwegen Moscovien ende Tartarien omna de Coninckrijcken Cathay en China,
etc.
Woodcut of Ships on title page, and numerous curious cuts of the Arctic Regions.
52 pp., small 4to, boards.
Amsterdam, 1663. £10 10s
*** This comprises the Voyages of Gerrit de Vere in 1594, 1595, and 1596; and the '* Journal of Henry Hudson " being his last voyage of 1609.
1671 A.D.
[103] [CLODORE (J. de).] Relation de ce qui s'est passe, dans les Isles & Terre-Ferme de 1'Amerique, pendant la derniere Guerre avec 1'Angleterre, & clepuis en execution du Traitte de Breda. AvEC UN JOURNAL du dernier Voyage du Sr de la Barre en la Terre-Ferme, & Isle de Cayenne, accompagne d'une exacte description du Pays, moeurs & naturel des Habitans. Le tout reciieilly des Memoires des principaux Omciers qui ont commande en ces Pays. Par I.C.S.D.V.
2 vols., I2mo, original calf .
Paris, 16/1. £7 10s
* * * This work is very important as a history of the Colonies, and for the war between England and France in the West Indies 1666-1667.
Le sieur Clodore, the supposed author of the book, was Governor of Martinique; he took a very active part in the hostilities.
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1672 A.D.
[104] JOSSELYN (John). New-England's Rarities discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents and Plants of that Country, together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the Natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds and sores, also a perfect description of an Indian Squa, in all her bravery; with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her, lastly a Chrono logical Table of the most remarkable passages in that Country amongst the English.
Illustrated with cuts.
FIRST EDITION. i6mo, handsomely bound by Riviere in full levant morocco extra, g.* e.
London, Printed for G. Widdowes, 1672. £42
* * * Complete with the folded plato, usually missing, the Catalogue of Books 2 pp. ot end, and the final leaf containing a remarkable device of Widdowes, th*e printer. This is the earliest work on the Natural History of New England.
1674 A.D.
[105] LIGON R. . Recueil de Divers Voyages fails en Afrique et en
TAmerique, qui n'ont point este encore publiez. Contenant rOrigine, les Moeurs, les Coutumes et le Commerce des habitans avec les traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, la mer Rouge & le Pretre-Jean. Enrichi de Figures, et des Cartes Geographiques.
4to, original calf. Paris, 1674. && 18s
1676 A.D.
[106] COLUMBUS (Christopher). Historic del Signer D. Fernando Colombo: relatione della vita, e de' fatti dell' Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre: E dello scoprimento, ch'egli fece dell' Indie Occidental!, dette Mondo Nuovo. Nuouamente di lingua Spagnuola tradotte nell' Italian a dal Signor Alfonso Ulloa.
I2mo, original vellum. Venice, 1676. £1 10s
*** A VERY RAKE EDITION. On the title is a little view of Venice.
1680 A.D.
PRINTED IN LIMA.
[107] ARGENTINE. Relacion de lo que los Espanotes y Indies de Buertcs Ay res executaron en defensa de la possession, que los Islas, y tierra nrme de S. Gabriel tiene el Rey : y del desalojamiento del la gente del Brasil, que passo a poblur en dichas Islas por parte de la Corona de Portugal, con orden, e instrucciones de su Principe Regente.
Royal Arms on title.
8 pp., folio, boards.
Impressa en Lima, -por Diego de Lyra, 1680. £10 10s
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— UlSTOIUA CiEXERAL DE LAS IXDIAS, 1553,
See Item No. 45.
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1680 A.D.
[io;a] TOBACCO. DCENAS (Francisco de). Declaration de ta visita
del Tobaco del estanco, por comision del Counsejo a el Senor Doni Aluaro
Queypo de Llano y Valdes.
4 pp., folio, boards. (1680.) £3 3s
*** An interesting dissertation on the History of Tobacco, its Medicinal uses, etc.,
and principally concerning the herb «s found in America.
1680 A.D.
[108] PORTULANO. Maritime Chart of the Western World, showing NewFoundland, South America (Brazilian portion), Africa (from Cape of Good Hope, the Gold Coast to the Mediterranean), Spain, France and England.
Drawn in colours on a large sheet of vellum (size 21 by 12 inches), unbound.
" Feita pot Mel Ferra" about 1680. £25
* * * A very interesting- Chart by a Portuguese Hydrographer, the various parts of the -world are ornamented with flags of the Nations who were in possession. Brazil flies the Flag of Portugal; Cape of Good Hope, that of Holland.
1680 A.D.
[io8a] NORTH AMERICA divided into its PrincipaJI Parts, where are distinguished the Severall States which belong to the English, Spanish and French.
Dedicated to Charles II., and sold by Wm. Berry. C. 1680.
With the boundaries in colour, large map, size 224 by 35 inches. £5 5s
MANUSCRIPT. 1680-82 A.D.
[109] PENNINGTON. A Brief Account of some of My Exercises from My Childhood Left with my Dear Daughter Gulielma Maria Penn. By Mary Pennington. Written by Edward Pennington. 1680.
PENN (William). Counsel and Advice to his Dear Wife and Children.
Worminghurst, 1682.
HANSON (Elizabeth). An Account of the Taking into Captivity by the Indians, Elizabeth Hanson, wife of J. Hanson, of Knpx, in Dover Township in New England, with four children, a servant maid, with their preservation and redemption, etc., taken from her own mouth and put in as good order as the nature of the relation will permit, etc. Taken this Account by Sam1 Bonus in 1728, who came from his journey it being the last in America in ye 9 MO 1728.
A Copy of a Letter from Thorn3 Savage of Clifton to Richard Partridge of London concerning the Rebels, etc., at the fore mention'd place.
Together in one volume, Manuscript, wrritten in a clear hand.
Small 4to, vellum. £25
(Continued over)
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Pennington— <:<? ntinued.
* * * This is probably the manuscript from which was printed " Some Account of Circumstances in the Life of Mary Pennington/' from her Manuscript left for her family.
The first 97 pages give an account of the early life of Mary Pennington, forinerly Mary Springet, the Mother of Gulielma Maria, the wife of William Penn.
Waiting to her Grandson, Mary Pennington gives an account of her first husband S. 'Springet, -and the part he took in the Battle of Edgehill, and an account of his death during the siege of Arundel.
Perm's advice to his wife and children \vas written when he left England for Pennsyl vania in 1682. In this letter he commends them to God, and bids his wife and children live in the love of Truth, to be diligent in meetings of worship and business, and let meetings be kept once a day in the family.
To the children he gives adMce concerning their education, their love and respect for their Mother, and writes : —
" .... as for you that are like to be concern'd in the Government of Pennsyl vania and my part of East Jersey, especially the first .... live therefore on the lines yourselves you would have the people live, then you have Right and Boldness to punish the Transgressors."
1684 A.D.
[no] RODRIQUEZ (Father Manuel). El Maranon y Amazonas. His- toria de Los Descubrimientos, Entradas, y Reduccion de Naciones. Trabajos Malogrados de Algunos, Conquistadores, y Dichosos de Otros, assi Temporales, como Espirituales, en las Dilatadas Montanas y Mayores Rios de la America.
Folio, boards.
Madrid^ en la hnprenta de Antonio Goncalez de Reyes, 1684. £10 10$
* * * Father Hodriquez was a Jesuit and Procurador General of the Indies at Madrid. Nearly the whole of Father Aciina's " Descubrimiento del gran Rio de las Amazones " reprinted in this work. (See paiges 93-149).
At end of the volume is; appended " Compendio Historial e Indice Chironologico Peruano y del Nuevo Eeyno de Granada " (which Pinelo gives as a distinct work).
1685 A.D.
[iioa] BRAZIL. Letter in Portuguese to The King from Francisco de Sa de Menezes, Governor of Para, dated from Belem 1685, giving an account of the discovery of a silver mine. £1 Is
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 63
1684-5 A.D.
[in] ESQUEMELINC (John). Bucamers of America: or, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts of THE WEST INDIES, By the BUCANIERS of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both ENGLISH AND FRENCH. Wherein are contained more especially, The unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c.
Written originally in Dutch, by, John Esquemeling, one of the Bucaniers, who was present at those Tragedies.
The Second Edition, Corrected, and Inlarged with two Additional Rela tions, viz. the one of Captain Cook, and the other of Captain Sharp.
Now faithfully rendred into English. The Four Parts Complete.
Illustrated with maps, portraits of the Buccaneers, and Scenes of their Exploits.
4to, original calf.
London, 1684-5.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXIV.). £68
* * * The first three parts were written in Dutch, by the Buccaneer Esquemeling. The translator's name is not known.
The fourth part was written by the English Buccaneer Basil Ringrose.
The publisher, William Crook, was sued fo>r Libel by Sir Henry Morgan, on account of the description of him as a pirate — in the London Gazette, June 8, 1685, the Publisher mode his public Apology.
" Westminster, June 1. There have been lately Printed and Published two Booiks, one "by Will. Crook, the other by Tho. Malthus, both Intitled The History of the Bucaniers : both which Books contained many False, Scandalous and Malitious Reflections on the Life and Actions of Sir Henry Morgan of Jamaica Kt. The said Sir Henry Morgan hath by Judgment had in the Kingsbench-Court, recovered against the said Libel SOOL. Damages. And on the humble Solicitation and Request of William Crook, hath been pleased to withdraw his Action against the said Crook, and accept of his Submission and Acknowledgement in Print."
1686 A.D.
[112] TREATY OF PEACE. Good Correspondence and Neutrality in America, between King James II. and King Louis XIV. Concluded the y^th Day of November, 1686.
Small 4to, full new polished calf extra, gilt edges , by RIVIERE. London, Thomas Newcomb, 1686. £3 3s
* * * The " Articles " of the Treaty include agreements concerning the FISHERIES, treat ment of PIRATES, Shipping, etc.
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16S7 A.D.
[113] PERU. Valdes (P. Rodrigo de, de la Compania de Jesus). Poema Heroyco Hispano- Latino Panegyrico de la Fundacion, y Grandezas de la muy Noble, y Leal Ciudad de Lima.
Small 4to, full morocco, g. e.
Madrid, Antonio Roman, 1687. £12 12s
* * * A VERY RAKE BOOK, unknown to Antonio. The Father Rodrigo de Valdes was born at Lima in 1609, entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 19, and was employed in Missions to the Indians in the province of Guaruchuri. He was afterwards Professor in the College of San Pablo till the year 1662.
This work affords a remarkable instance of the affinity between the Latin and Spanish language, for although written in Latin it is only necessary to change or add a letter to certain words and the Poem is in Spanish.
WILLIAM PENN'S OWN COPY, PRESENTED TO HIM BY THE TRANSLATOR. 1687 A.D.
[114] PENN (William). (NO CROSS, NO CROWN, TRANSLATED INTO DUTCH) Zonder Kruys Ceen Krcon, door William Penn, Gouverneur en Eygenvar van Pensylvania, en't nederdytsch gebracht door Wm. Sewel.
Thick small 8vo, original calf, ivith (t W. P." in gold on side.
Amsterdam, 1687. £25
William Penn's copy, with his initials on the front cover, and the following long presentation inscription on fly-leaf by Wm. Scwel, the translator: —
" Amico suo Charissimo Guiljelmo Penn hujus Tractatus Author i ipsum hunc libellum Belgico Idiomate a se donatum, sincerissime Amoris specimen quidem exiguum Aiiimo tamen benevolo. — " Guiljelmus Sevelius. Amstelodamo 1687."
1689 A.D.
[115] CLEMENT (P. Claude). Tablas Chronologicas, en que se con- tienen los sucessos eclesiasticos, y seculares d£ Espana, Africa, Indias, Orient- ales y Occident ales, desde su prmcipio, hasta el ano 1642. . . . Ilustradas, y anadidas desde el ano 1642 hasta el presente de 1689 por V. JOSEPH MIGUEL.
Woodcut on title.
Small 4to, vellum. Valencia, 1689. £4 10S
* * * In this Chronological Table, pages 164-261 deal exclusively with events in the New World from the year 1492 to 1688.
1690 A.D.
[116] SEIXAS Y LOVERA (Francisco). Description Ceographtaa, y
Derrotero de la Region Austral Magallanica.
Small 4to, old calf (title\ mounted and repaired}.
Madrid, 1690. £10 10s
* * * The author accompanied Tavernier on his Embassy to the Mogul, and returned to Spain by way of China, and the Straits of Magellan. He gives a good account of former writers and discoverers.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 65
1692 A.D.
[117] WELDE (T.). A Short Story of the Rise, Reign, and) Ruin of the Antfnomians, Familists, and Libertines That infected the CHURCHES OF NEW- ENGLAND : And how they were Confuted by THE ASSEMBLY OF MINISTERS THERE : As also of the MAGISTRATES proceedings in Court Against them. Together with God's strange Remarkable Judgments from Heaven upon some of the Chief Fomenters of these Opinions; and the Lamentable Death of Mrs. Hutchison. Very fit for these Times; here being the same Errors amongst us, ancl Acted by the same Spirit, etc.
Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full -polished calf , g. e.
London, 1692. £18 18s
* * * "A very rare and curious volume. The sweetness of Christian love is manifest in the .sentences in which Mr. Welde gloats over Anne Hutchinson's banishment from Boston, and the massacre of herself and her family by the Indians. He considered that the Almighty had himself interposed to bring this punishment on her, for the gratification of the Saints of Boston."
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CAPTURE OF QUEBEC IN 1692. 1692 A.D.
[i i /a] Q U EB EC. Ebauche d'uii Projet pour Enlever Kebec at Pfaisance avec une Brieve Description de ces dciix Places et le recensemicnt des habitans de Car.ada, comme aussi celuy des Sauvages qui demeurent aux environs des
trois villes Frangoises.
A most interesting Manuscript of the highest Historical Importance, written in French, on 25 pp., folio, original binding. 1692. £31 10$
* * * This Manuscript was evidently made by a French Canadian, most likely at the request of William Blathwayt, Secretary for War, in whose possession it was originally. Tt is endersed by Blathwayt " Pour Quebec et Plaisance," and commences : —
" Pour se rendre Maitre de la Nouvelle France il faut premierement se saisir de Quebec," etc.
»
1692 A.D.
[u;b] SOILS (Antoine de). Histoire de la Gcnquete du Mexique, ou
de la Nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez.
Folding maps and plates.
2 vols., i2mo, original calf. The Hague, 1692. £1 53"
1698 A.D.
[11 8] LAS CASAS (Bartolome, Eveque de Chiapa). Relation Des Voyages et Des Deccuvertes que Les Espagne Is ont fait dans les Indes Occi-
dentales; Avec la Relation curieuse des Voyages du Sieur de Montauban, Capitaine des Filbustiers, en Guinee Tan 1695.
Frontispiece.
I2mo, original calf.
Amsterdam, 1698. £1 5s
66 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1698 A.D.
[119] BRAZIL. Giuseppe (Giovanni de S. Teresa Carmelitano Scalzo). Istoria Delle Guerre del Regno de Brasile. Accadute tra la Corona di Port.o- galle e la Republica di Olando.
2 parts in I vol, engraved title, 2 portraits and 23 large folding maps. Small folio, old red morocco, gilt lines, y. e.
Roma, 1698. £10 103
A well written book by an author thoroughly acquainted with the subject.
FROM THE LIBRARY OF
CHARLES STUART (THE l< OLD PRETENDER.") 1698 A.D.
[120] GIUSEPPE DI S. TERESA. Istoria delle Guerre del Regno del Brasile. Another Copy.
With map and many fine engravings, many folding.
2 parts in I volume, folio, mottled calf , ivith two-line gold fillets on, sides and ornaments at inner angles, and the large Arms on sides of Charles Stuart (the Old Pretender} and of Clementina S obi e ski.
Rome, 1698. £42
From the Library of " The Old Pretender/' afterwards in the Library of Horace Walpole, and carries his book plate.
1698 A.D.
[i2oa] BRAZIL. Letter Patent In Portuguese signed by Arthur de Saae e Menezes, Governor of Rio de Janeiro, dated Rio de Janeiro 1698, and nominating Martin Correa Captain of the Infantry in the garrison of Nau Luzi- tana, for the protection of the new colony of Sacramento do Rio da Prata. The Seal contains the Arms of the Governor. £1 10S
1699 A.D.
[121] HAGKE (Capt. Wm.). A Collection Of Original Voyages. Con taining: I. Capt. Cowley's Voyage round the Globe. II. Capt. Sharp's Journey over the Isthmus of Darien. III. Capt. Wood's Voyage thro' the Streights of Magellan, IV. Mr. Robert's adventures among the Corsairs of the Levant.
Illustrated with several Maps and Draughts.
8vo, calf.
London, 1699. ^ ^s
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 67
1699 A.D.
[122] WAFER (Lionel). A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, Giving an Account of the Author's Abode there, The Form, and Make of the Country, the Coasts, Hills, Rivers, &c., Woods, Soil, Weather, &c. Trees, Fruit, Beasts, Birds, Fish, &c. The Indian Inhabitants, their Features, Complexion, &c. , their Manners, Customs, Employments, Marriages, Feasts, Hunting, Computation, Language, &c. With Remarkable Occurrences in the South Sea, and elsewhere.
Illustrated with a Map and three Copperplates.
Small 8vo, original calf.
London, 1699. £7 15s
1700 A.D.
[123] THE LORD'S PRAYER, In Above a Hundred Languages, Ver sions, and Characters.
70 pp., small 4to, boards (hole in last leaf).
London, 1700. 10S 6d
* * Includes the " Lord's Prayer " in Old Mexican, Virginian, and the Poconchi languages.
1700 A.D.
[124] BRAY (Rev. Thomas). The Acts of Dr. Bray's Visitation held at Annapolis in Maryland, May 23, 24, 25, Anno 1700.
Folio, 17 pp. Bound by Riviere in full polished calf, t. e. g.
London, 1700. £21
* * * Dr. Bray was appointed Commissary of the Bishop of London, in Maryland, and left England for America in December, 1699, arriving in Maryland in March, 1700; he at once set about repairing' the breach made in the settlement of the parochial clergy. It was felt on, all sides that Bray would do better service to the Church in Maryland, by returning home and endeavouring to get the law, which had been twice rejected there, re-enacted with the royal assent. He returned to England and found that the Quakers had raised prejudices- against the establishment of the Church in Maryland. Bray refuted these and the bill was at last approved.
In these " Acts " one section is " Proposals for the Propagation of the Christian Religion, and for the reduction of the Quakers thereunto, in the Province of Pennsylvania/'
1700 A.D.
[125] BRAY (Rev. Thomas). A Memorial representing the Present
State Of Religion, on the Continent of North America.
Folio, 15 pp., full -polished calf, g. e., by Riviere.
London, 1700. £21
* * * With the final leaf " Proposals for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in the- several Provinces on the Continent of North America/'
08 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1703 A.D.
[126] SOLORZANO PEREIRA (Don Juan de). Politico Indiana. Obra
de sumo trabajo, y de igual importancia, y utilidad, no solo para los de; las
Provincias de la Indias, sino de las de Espana.
Folio, original vellum. Amber es, 1703. £6 T03
* * * This is the Spanish translation of the " Disquisitiones de Indiarum Jure."
1704 A.D.
FIRST PICTURE OF NIAGARA FALLS.
[127] HENNEPIN (Father Louis). Voyage ou Nouvelie Decouverte D'uti T res-Grand Pays, Dans L'Amerique, Entre le Nouveau Mexique et la Met* Clad ale.
Avec toutes les particularitez de ce Pais, & de celui connu sous le) nom de LA LOUISIANE; les avantages qu'on en peut tirer par Petablissement des Colonies, enrichie de Cartes Geographiques, augmente de quelques figures en taille-douce.
Avec UN VOYAGE Qui contient une Relation exacte de 1'Origine, Moeurs, Coutumes, Religion, Guerres & Voyages des CARAIBES, Sauva'ges des Isles An tilles de L'Amerique, Faite par le Sieur DE LA BORDE, Tiree du Cabinet de Monsr. Blondel.
Engraved frontispiece, folding maps, and copperplate illustrations.
Thick small 8vo, original calf, rebacked.
Amsterdam, 1704. £9 9s
Hennepin lived for eleven years in North America and penetrated further into the th&n Unknown Interior than anyone before him. He give® an account of the "building of a New Fort on the River of the Illinois named by the Savages Chicago.
1704 A.D.
[128] LAWSON (Rev. Deodat). Christ's Fidelity the only Shield against Satan's Malignity. Asserted in a Sermon Deliver 'd at Salem-Village the 24th of March, 1692. Being Lecture-day there, and a time of Publick Examination, of some Suspected for Witchcraft.
The Second Edition. Small 8vo, full calf, g. e.
Printed at Boston in New-England , and Reprinted in London, 1704.
£5 5s
1705 A.D.
[129] JAMAICA. Hickeringill (Capt.). Jamaica Viewed, with all the Ports, Harbours, and their several Soundings, Towns, and Settlements there unto belonging, together with the nature of its climate, with several other collateral observations and reflections upon the Island.
Portrait. Small 4to, full mottled calf gilt, g. e.
London, 1705, £6 6s
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. <5g
1707 A.D.
[130] JAMAICA. Sloane (Hans). A Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, etc., of the last of those Islands. To which is prefix' d an Introduction, wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Waters, Diseases, Trade, etc., of that Place.
Folding map, and upwards of 270 folding and double-page plates illus trative of the Natural History of Jamaica.
2 vols., thick royal 4to, full russia gilt (joints repaired).
London, 1707. £8 8s
1708 A.D.
[131] DIEREYILLE M. . Relation du Voyage du Port Royal de I'Acadie (HI d0 la Nouvelle France. Dans laquelle on voit un detail des divers mou- vemens de la Mer dans une Trayersee de long cours; la description du pais, les Occupations, les manieres des differentes Nations Sauvages, etc.
Small 8vo, vellum. Rouen, 1708. £4 10s
Most interesting relation. Interspersed with Poetry.
1711 A.D.
[132] BRAZIL. Relaeam de Vitoria que cs Portuguezes alcancarao no Rio de Janeyro contra os Frarscezes, em 19, de Setemforo de 1710.
12 pp., small 4to, new boards.
Lisbon, 1711. £7 10s
1711-17 A.D.
SPECIAL COPY WITH CONTEMPORARY VIEWS INSERTED.
[133] ATLAS GEOGRAPHUS; or A Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern.
5 vols., 4to, original calf.
London, 1711-17. £21
* * * Special Copy, having, in addition to the Maps issued with the Atlas, a large number of contemporary Views of Cities, etc., including the following American ones : —
New York, a City in N. America, inhabited by English and Dutch, subject to the K. of England (5£ x 4£).
View of Town and Castle of St. Augustine and the English Camps before it, June 20, 1740, by Thos. Silver.
Boston, a Town in -,N. America, in N. England, and ye Capital of ye Plantation.
Mexico, a Great City in N. America.
Havanna, a famous Seaport in the Isle of Cuba.
Porto Rico, a City in N. America.
Chagre, a Town in the W. Indies.
Porto Bello, a City and Seaport in N. America.
Cartagena, a famous City in N. America.
70 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1715 A.D.
[134] PARAQUAY. RICO (Padre Juan Joseph Rico Procurador General de la Compania de Jesus). Reparcs, que se han hecho centre la buena con- ducta, y Govierno Civil de los Treinta Pueblos de Indies Guaranios, que estan a Cargo de la Compania de Jesus del Paraguay.
36 pp., small 4to, mottled calf. 1715. £5 5s
A defence of the Jesuits' treatment of the Native Indians in Paraquay.
1715 A.D.
[135] NORTH AMERICA (Map of).
Containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New York, New Jersey, New England, Pensylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina, with an engraving of a view or the Industry of the Beavers in Canada in making dams across rivers, etc., also inset maps of Carolina, Charlestown, Louisiana, etc.
Large and interesting map by H. Moll.
Size 25 by 40 inches. 1715. £2 2s
1716 A.D.
[136] ROGERS (Woodes). Voyage Autour du Monde, commence en 1708 et nni en 1711. Ou Ton a joint quelques Pieces curieuses touchant la Riviere des Amazones et la Guiane.
Large folding maps.
2 vols. , I2mo, calf.
Amsterdam, 1716. 18s
* * * In this book is found an account of the Scotch Sailor named Selkirk and his life oni the Island of Juan Fernandez, which furnished Defoe with the subject of his famous- book Robinson Crusoe.
1717 A.D.
[137] RUMBO SEGURO y unico para Traer las Indias a Espana y para
Espana, y medios ciertos para, que aya en ella brevemente una Armada formid able que guarle en seguiridad sus Costas y las de la, America y para que se mantenga siempre sinningun gravamen de suo Pueblos, ni costo del Real Erario.
70 pp. , folio, boards.
(Madrid, 1717.) £10 10s
* * * Concerning the formation of a Spanish Company of Merchant Adventurers to trade with America and to guard its coast without cost to the State.
1713 A.D.
[138] MAP OF LOUISIANA and! the Course of the Mississippi.
With inset map of the Mouths of the River St. Louis and the Mobile River. Size igi by 25f inches. 1718. £1 10S:
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, VV. 71
1719 A.D.
VIRGINIA. A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the Improved Parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey.
With the boundaries in colours, revised by J. Senex.
Size 19^ by 22 J inches. 1719. 15S
1720 A.D.
[139] NEAL (Daniel). The History of New-England, containing an Im partial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country to the Year of our Lord, 1700.
To which is added The Present State of New-England. With a New and Accurate Map of the Country.
And an Appendix Containing their Present Charter, their Ecclesiastical Discipline, and their Municipal-Laws.
Large Folding Map of New-England.
2 vols. , Svo, calf, gilt back. London, 1720. £3 15s
1720 A.D.
[i39a] BRADFORD (Samuel; Lord Bishop of Carlile). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; On Friday the I9th of February, 1719.
40 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1720. £1 Is
* * * "• I might have farther re-minded you, that some yearsi since, ,some of the chief lof the Clans, of thjase, with! wham we have to do in America, came amongst us, to invite and encourage us to assist them in this work; in which, although the Society has not yet been able to make that progress which it desired, in converting the Heathen, yet it has not failed to make good attempt towards it, and 'tis to be hoped, not without some good success. And it isi an encouragement to hope, that there is some good inclination in those poor natives to embrace the Gospel/'
1721 A.D.
[1390] WADDINGTON (Rev. Edward). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; on Friday the I7th of February, 1720.
40 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1721. £1 Is
***" Whether the American Worldl (for which we are now more immediateily concerned) had these glad Tydings brought to them in those Days, either by the Apostles themselves, or any of their immediate Successors, is a Matter about which we have no certain Guide left to direct us, how to judge.
" As therefore our Civil Acquaintance, by Trade and Commeirce, with the American World, became more intimate and exten.-iva, Providence seemed thereby to call upon us with a very loud and audible Voice, to begin a Spiritual Friendship and Commerce with them too; and to do all we could to make them Sharers with our selves in the Means of Grace here, in order to their being so in the Enjoyment of Glory hereafter."
72 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1722 A.D.
[140] CANADA. BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE (Mr de). His- tcire de I'Amerique Septentrionale.
Enrichie de Figures.
4 vols., post 8vo, original calf. Paris, 1722. £3 10s
" A History of the Indian nations of Canada, being entirely devoted to that subject and the relations of the French with, the natives. Much of his work is written from his own observation, and the remainder seems to have been derived from authentic sources. •"- Field.
1722 A.D.
[141] BEVERLEY (R.). The History of Virginia, in Four Parts. (I.) The History of the First Settlement of Virginia to 1706.
(II.) The natural Productions and Conveniences of the Country suited to Trade and Improvement.
(III.) The Native Indians, their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and Peace.
(IV.) The present State of the Country, as to the Polity of the Govern ment, and the Improvements of the Land, the loth of June 1720.
The Second Edition revis'd and enlarg'd by the AUTHOR.
Frontispiece, and copperplate engravings of the Natives, etc.
Svo, original calf. London, 1722. £9 9s
* * * "Robert Beverley, died 1716, a native of Virginia, was clerk of the Council about 1697, when Andros was governor." — Allibone.
te A work of considerable merit, particularly relative to the numerous Indian tribes." — Pinkerton.
1722-3 A.D.
[142] CARGILASSO DE LA VEGA. Primera Parte de los Commen taries reales de el Origen de los Incas, su idolatria, leies, y govierno, vidas y conquistas.
Historia general del Peru, guerras entre Pizarros y Almagros.
2 vols. in i, folio, calf.
Madrid, 1722-23. £4 105
1724 A.D.
[143] DE SOLIS (Antonio). The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards.
Done into English from the Original Spanish, by Thomas Townsend.
Portrait of Cortes, and other plates.
Folio, original calf (re backed).
London, 1724. £2 10s
PLATE XVII.
•L A S S I E T E
PARTIDAS D E L S A B I O R EY
don Alonfo el nono , nueuamente Glofadas por elLicen-
ciado Gregorio Lopez del Gonfejo Real de
Indias defuMageftad.
Con (LI reportorio muy Copiofb,,
afsi del Tefto como de la Glofa.
Impreflo en Salamanca Por Andrea de Portonaris, ImprcCfor de fu Magellad.
Ano. M. D. L. V. Con priuilegio Imperial.
lEfta tafTado el pliego a cinco marauedis ,
LAS SIETE PARTIDAS— 1555— PRINTED ON VELLUM,* 4 VOLS.
(The foundation of Spanish Law).
See Item No. 48.
PLATE XVIII.
.&da fegunda pane oela general
caydeoela foztale5a y puertooe S>ictoj0omin go^la ifla £fpanola .Cronifta dfuzi&ageflad, 0ue trata Del eflrecbooefl&agallane.
CCu BalladoU'd. if>o: francifco f emafide3 DC Cozdoua
OVIEDO Y YALDES— LIBKO XX. DE LA GEXERAL HISTORIA DE LAS INDIAS, 1557, See Item No. 51.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 73
1724 A.D.
[144] LA BAT (J. B. . Ncuveau Voyage aux Isles de I'Ameriqiie. Con- tenant L'Histoire Naturelle de ce Pays, 1'Origine, les Moeurs, la Religion1 et le Gouvernement des Habitans anciens et modernes, Les Guerres, Commerce et Manufactures qui y sont etablies, avec une Description de toutes ces isles.
Numerous plates of Natural History, maps and plans.
2 vols., 4to, full contemporary calf gilt, gilt leaves. FINE COPY.
La Haye, 1724. £3 3s
1725 A.D.
[i44a] WYNNE (Rev. John, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation o<f the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting on Friday the igth of Feb., 1724.
31 pp., small 4to, new boards.
London, 1725. £1 1s
* * * << \ye have, long had a great Door opened to us, and very inviting- Opportunities, to make some Attempts at least, to propagate the Gospel among Infidels, by our general Commerce in all parts of the World; but more especially by our many Colonies and Settle ments in America."
1726 A.D.
[145] KER (John). The Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland in North Britain, Esq.
With an account of the Rise and Progress of the Ostend Company in the Austrian Netherlands.
With the scarce folding map of Louisiana and the Mississippi.
2 vols., 8vo, calf. London, 1726. £2 2s
John Ker, a Government spy, in the pay both of the Government and the Jacobites, was in 1713, according- to his own testimony, sent 011 a private mission to the Emperor of Austria in connection with a scheme for employing bucaneers to harass the trade of France and Spain.
Volume II. deals with " the easy access the French have to all our Colonies, on the Continent in America, from Canada to Louisiana, by Land and Water, and that without the aid of our! neighbourly Indians it will not be in our power to prevent their Irruptions/'
Great importance seems to be attached to the possibility of the French settling in Louisiana, and that they would be in a position to ruin the trade with Jamaica, and become the masters of the Gulf of Mexico.
1726 A.D.
[146] DEFOE (Daniel). The Four Years' Voyages of Capt. George
Roberts; being a series of Uncommon Events, which befell him in a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the Coast of Guiney, the manner of his being taken by Three Pyrate Ships, the Hardships he endur'd for about 20 days, etc.
Maps and Plates. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, calf.
London, 1726. £2 10S
74 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1728 A.D.
[i46a] REYNOLDS (Rev. Richard, Lord Bishop of Lincoln). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary- le-Bow; On Friday the i6th of February, 1727.
32 pp., small 4to, new boards.
London, 1728. £1 1s
1729 A.D.
[147] GARCIA (Gregorio). Origen de los Indies del Nuevo Mundo, e
Indias Occidentals. . . . Segunda impresion, enmendada, y Anadida cle Algunas Opiniones 6 cosas notables. . . .
Copperplate engraving on title of the Indians, and engraving of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Folio, original vellurn binding.
Madrid, 1729. £7 10s
* * *= Garcia's opinion, 'as opposed to the special theories of other writers, was that the American Indians drew their origin from various races of the old world, including Chinese and Tartars. But all his learning on this subject is of less value than the positive facts concerning1 the native tribes, -which he drew partly from his own experiences in tlio New World, and partly from a MS. work by Juan de Vetanzos (one of the companioaw of Pizarro), and a man sipocially skilled in the native languages), which was in the possession of Garcia, and which hasi never been published. The libro ultimo of Garcia's work contains the native Indian accounts of their origin, and is divided into sections which treat separately of the various distinct tribes of Mexico and Peru.
1732 A.D.
[i47a] BERKELEY (Rev. George, Dean of Londonderry). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary-le- Bow, on; Friday, February 18, 1731.
34 pp., small 4to, new boards.
London, 1732. £1 1S
* * * f{ The Native Indians, who are said to have been formerly many Thousands, within the compass o<f this Colony, do not at present amount to one Thousand, including every Age and vSex."
" The NEGROES in the Government of Pthode Island are about half as many more than the Indians; and both together scarce amount to a seventh Part of the whole Colony."
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 75
1734 A.D.
[148] JOHNSON (Captain Charles). A General History of the Lives
and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers, &c.
To which is added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders of the most Notorious Pyrates.
Interspersed with several diverting Tales, and pleasant Songs, and adorned with the Heads of the Most Remarkable Villains, curiously Engraven.
Illustrated with 26 full-page plates.
A COMPLETE COPY OF THE BEST EDITION.
Folio, original calf. London, 1/34. £24
THE LIVES OF THE PYRATES, include :—
Captain Avery (with large plate).
Captaiii Martel.
Captain Teach, alias Black Beard (with large plate). - Captain Edward England (with laTge plate).
Captain Bartholomew Eoiberts (with large plate). [•" Captain George Lowther (with large plate).
Ca>ptain Edward Low (with large plate).
Captain Henry Morgan (with large plate), and others so famous for their exploits on the American coast.
PAPAL BULLS.
1735 A.D.
[149] PERU. URBAN VIII. (Pope). Bulla de la Santa Cruzada, con
eedida por la Santidad de Urbano VIII, para todos los Fiele_s Christianos, veci- nos, estantes y habitantes en las Provincias del' Peru, Tieira Firme, y SUS PartidOS, sujetas al Rey Felipe V, con grandes indulgencias, para socorro de la guerra contra Inneles como las heregias son trayciones formadas contra la Fe.
Broadside, crudely printed on one side of a single large folio leaf. Wood cut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal below. Madrid, 1/35. £10 10s
1735 A.D.
[150] PERU. URBAN VIM. (Pope). Bulla de Composition sobre los brettes mal havidOS, y adquiridos, de Cuyos Proprios Duenos no Consta. Con- cedida por la Santidad de Urbano Octavo, en favor de los que ayudaren a los gastos de el Rey Don Felipe Quinto, en las guerras contra Inneles, y Hereges, enemigos de nuestra Santa Fe Catholica, en las Provincias del Peru, Tierre Firme.
Broadside, crudely printed on one side only of a single large folio leaf. Woodcut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arm? and woodcut seal below. Madrid, 1/35. £10 10S
76 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
PAPAL BULL. 1735 A.D.
[151] PERU. CLEMENT X. (Pope). Bulla conoedida por la santidad de el Papa Clement X, prorrogada por la santidad del Papa Clemente XI, y mandada publicer por N.M.S.P. Clemente XII, para los Patriarcas, Primados, Arzobispps, Obispos, Clerigos Presbyteros Seculares del Peru, Tierra Firme y sus Partidos, a quien estava prohibido el comer huevos, y cosas de leche en tiempo de Quaresma, lo puidan comer durante la Predicacion de la Bulla de la Santa Cruzada.
Broadside, printed on one side of a large 4to leaf. Woodcut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal below. Madrid, 1735.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, PLATE No. XXV.). £10 10s
By tlii si Bull the Clergy of Peru, to whom it was forbidden to eat eggs and Pood pre pared with milk during Lent, were allowed to eat such during the Crusade against the Indians.
1735 A.D.
[i 5 1 a] BRAZIL. Letter in Portuguese to the King of Portugal signed by Andre de Mello e Castro, Viceroy of Brazil, dated Bahia 1735, narrating the peril of the Colony of Sacramento on account of the Spaniards besieging that place, and the difficulties in sending the help for which the Governor of Sacramento asked.
Together with a memorial of the deposition made by order of His Excellency the Viceroy of that State, which could be used in case of revolt.
Together with copies of two letters of the Relation of the Governor of Sacramento.
A Remarkable Collection of Documents and Letters illustrating the difficulties of the Portuguese in the 18th Century. Extending in all to 1 1 pp., folio. £6 6s
1738 A.D.
[152] KEITH (Sir William, Bart.). The History of the British Plantations
in America. With a Chronological Account of the most remarkable Things* which happen' d to the first Adventurers in their several Discoveries of that New World.
PART I. (all published).
Containing the History of Virginia; with Remarks on the Trade and Commerce of that Colony.
4to, 187 pp., new half calf , g. c.
London, 1738. £7 7s
***With the VERY LARGE FOLDING MAP of America containing interesting view of Fish Curing at Newfoundland; and the smaller folding map of Virginia.
1739 A.D.
[153] MEXICO, TEXAS, etc. LADROU DE GUEVARA (Antonio, Vecino del Nuevo Reyno de Leon). Noticias de los Poblados, y tratos de que se componen el Nueva Reyno de Leon, provincia de Coaguila, Nueva Estrema- dura, y Provincia de las Texas, Nuevas Philipinas, y la causa de sus pocos, 6 ningunos aumentos.
Folio, 32 pp., boards. 1739. £15 15s
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 77
1740 A.D.
[i53a] BENSON (Rev. Martin, Lord Bishop of Glocester). A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; at their Anniversary Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary- le-Bow, On Friday, February 15, 1739-40.
32 pp., small 4to, new boards.
London, 1740. £1 1s
* * * " Besides the general Obligations which we of this Nation are under to pro pagate the Gospel, we are obliged to it particularly with lespect to our Colonies in America, both on account of the great Benefits we receive from them, and the great Opportunities ve have of making- this Kecompence/'
" Besides many Islands, we have a large Continent, extending from North to Souith above 1,600 miles, including our New Settlement in Georgia, on all which Continent Indian Nations are bordering. The harvest is undoubtedly great, and the labourers as certainly are few."
1744 A.D.
[154] MALCOLM E (Rev. Dr.). Letters, Essays, and Other Tracts Illustrating the Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland. Together with many- Curious Discoveries of the Affinity betwixt the Language of the Americans and the ancient Britons to the Greek and Latin, &c. Also Specimens of the Celtic, Welsh, Irish, Saxon and American Languages.
8vo, original calf.
London, 1744. £3 3s
1745 A.D.
[155] VESPUCI US (Amerigo). Vita e letter* di Amerigo Vespucci Cen- tiluomo Florentine Raccolte e illustrate dall' abate Angelo Maria Banditti.
Medallion on title, and folding pedigree plate.
Small 4to, original calf.
Florence, 1745. £1 16s
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.
1746 A.D.
[156] DA.NTINY (Don Marcello). Dialogos Familiares de la Agriculture YneJiana entre un Yrlandes Catholico y un Escoces Protestante donde se en- cuentra la piedra filosophal, y medicina unibersal de el contagio o enfermedad que los Espanoles padecen en su comercio> de las Yndias, etc.
Written in two parts on 622 pp. .
Folio, original calf. 1746. £10 10s
The (first .portion of tlii^ manuscript gi\esi an account of the .suffering's of the
Spaniards during- their comn-ercial intercourse with the Indians The second part \vith
the Exchequer and the revenues from the various sources, such as Tobacco, Minerals,
Wool, etc., etc.
78 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1746 A.D.
[157] VILLA-SENOR Y SANCHEZ (J. A. de). Theatre Americano,
descripcion General de los Reynos, y provincias de la Nueva Espana, y sus jurisdicciones.
Title printed in red and black within woodcut border. In each volume is a full-page engraving representing the King of Spain, standing on a Globe of the New World; kneeling before him is the Author presenting his book, and a native presenting precious jewels.
2 vols., folio, vellum.
Mexico, 174.6.
(SEE ILLUSTRATION, FRONTISPIECE.) £21
* * * One of the most important books printed in Mexico. The Author was Cosnio- grapher for New Spain. By his (position no one -was better able to write the history of the country, and his work is therefore consulted with the greatest confidence.
The part which treats of the position of the Mexican population was written from the official .reports to the Magistrates in the district, and also from personal notices by the Author in the different voyages that he made in this part of the New World.
1746 A.D.
[158] BOTURINI BENADUCI (Lorenzo). Idea de una nu&va historia General de la America Septentrional. Fundada sobre material copioso de figuras, symbolos, caracters, y geroglincos, cantares, y manuseritos de autores Indies, ultimamente descubiertos. Catalogo del Museo Historico Indiano de Benaduci.
Frontispiece.
2 parts in I vol. , small 4to, original calf.
Madrid, 1746. £7 10s
* * * Written during" ant eight years' 'residence in Mexico, and as the -result of a considerable acquaintance with the manners and customs of the Indians; ancient manuscripts and pictures preserved in the Monasteries, etc. It contains much important information not before published. There has been no worthier workman in the field of Mexican Antiquities than, Boturini : even Lord Kiiigsborough's name can scarcely be placed so high. Without the indefatigable and wisely-directed researches of the Hispano-Italian, a great portion of the native contributions to Mexican history would certainly have perished.
1747 A.D.
[159] GOLDEN (Hon. Cadwallader). The History of the Five Indian Nations Of Canada, Which are dependent on the Province of New- York in America, and are the Barrier between the English and French in that Part of the World, &c.
With folding map.
8vo, original calf. London, 1747. £5 5s
***This is the First Complete Edition, containing additions and alterations. It originally appeared in. New York in 1747. It is the First General History of the Iroquois Indians, and was written to thwart the efforts of the French to monopolize the Fur Trade.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 79
1747 A.D.
[160] STITH (William). The History of the First Discovery and Settle ment Of Virginia, being an Essay towards a General History of this Colony.
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original calf.
Williams burg, Printed by William Parks, 1747. £12 12s
*** With the "Appendix to the First Part of the History of Virginia. Williams- burg, 1747."
The very scarce First Edition of the First American Printed History of Virginia. The early Charters in the Appendix are of considerable value and importance.
1748 A.D.
[161] BICKHAM (George). The British Monarchy; or, a New Chrotio- graphical Description of all the Dominions subject to the King of Great Britain. Comprehending the British Isles, The American Colonies, The Electoral States, the African and Indian Settlements. To which are added Alphabets in all the hands made use of iru this book.
Illustrated with suitable Maps and Tables; likewise adorned with head pieces and other embellishments. Folio, full calf.
London, 1748. £4 4s
1749 A.D.
[162] JUAN (Don Jorge) and ULLOA (Antonio de). Dissertation HIs-
tojfca, y geographica sobre el meridiano de Demarcacion entre los Domimps de Espana, y Portugal, y los parages por donde passa en la America Meridional, conforme a los Tratados, y derechos de1 cada Estada, y las mas seguras, y modernas observaciones.
Small 8vo, original vellum.
Madrid, 1749. £2 10S
PAPAL BULL.
1750 A.D.
[163] PERU. URBAN VIII. (Pope). Bulla de Composition sobre los Bierves ntaf HavidOS, y adquiridos, de Cuyos proprios duenos no consta. Con- cedida por la Santidad de Urbano Octova, en favor de los que ayudaren a los gastps de el Rey Fernando Serto, en las guerras contra Inneles, y Hereges, enmigos de nuestra Santa Fe en las Provincias del Peru, Tierra Fimte, y las
Partidos.
Broadside, crudely printed on one side of a single large folio leaf. Wood cut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal^ Arms and woodcut seal below. Madrid, 1750. £10 10s
So MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
PAPAL BULL. 1750 A.D.
[164] PERU. URBAN VIII. (Pope). Bulla de plenissima induJgettcia, concedida por la Santidad de Urbano VIII, en favor, y ayuda de las Animas de los Fieles difuntos, para todas las tierras de Peru, Tierra Firme y sus Partidcs.
Broadside, printed on one side of a large 4to leaf. Woodcut of St. Peter and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal below. 1750.
£10 10s
PAPAL BULL. 1750 A.D.
[165] PERU. URBAN VIII. (Pope). Bulla de la Santa Cruzada, con
cedida por la Santidad de Urbano VIII, para todos los fieles Christianos, vecinos, estantes y habitantes en las provincias del Peru, Tierra Firme, y sus
PartidOS, sujetas al Rey Fernando Sexto con grandes Indulgencias, para socorro de la guerra contre Irineles. Como las heregias son trayciones formados contra la Fe.
Broadside, crudely printed on one side of a single large folio leaf. Wood cut of S. Peter and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal below. Madrid, 1750. £10 10s
PAPAL BULL. 1750 A.D.
[i 66] PERU. INNOCENT XI. Bulla concedida por la santidad de el Papa Innocencio Undecimc, y mandada publicar por N.M.S.P. Benedicto Decimo Quarto, para los Patriarcas, Primacies, Arzobispos, Obispos, Clerigos Presbyteros Seculares del Peru, Tierra Firme, y sus Partidcs, a quien estava prohibido el comer huevos, y cosas de leche en tiempo de Quarelma.
Broadside, printed on one side of! a large 4to leaf. Woodcut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal at foot. 1750. £10 10s
By this Bull the Clergy of Peru, to whom it was forbidden to eat eggs and Food pre pared with milk during Lent, were allowed to eat such during the Crusade against the Indians.
PAPAL BULL. 1750 A.D.
[167] MEXICO AND PHILIPPINES. URBAN VIII. (Pope). fiuila de la Santa Cruzada, concedida por la santidad de Urbano VIII, para todos los Fieles Christianos, vezinos, estantes, y habitantes en las Provincia de Nueva Espana, y Filipinas sujetas al Rey Fernando VI, con grandes indulgencias para socorro de la guerra contra Inneles.
Broadside, printed on one side of a large folio sheet. Woodcut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal at foot. 1750. £10 10S
1750 A.D.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 81
PAPAL BULL.
[168] MEXICO AND PHILIPPINES. URBAN VIII. (Pope) Bulla de
cGmpcsicicn sobre los bienes mal havidos, y adquiridos, de Cuyos proprios duenos no consta. Concedida por la santidad de Urbano VIII, en favor de los que ayudaren a los gastos del Rey Fernando VI, en las guerras contra In- neles, y Hereges, enemigos de nuestra Santa Fe Catholica, en las Provincias de Nueva-Espana, y Filipinas, y sus Partidcs.
Broadside, printed on one side of a single large folio leaf. Woodcut of SS. Peter and Paul and Papal Arms at top, and Cardinal's Arms and woodcut seal below. 1750. £10 10s
1752 A.D.
[169] CHARTS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN COAST.
A Series of 14 finely drawn coloured plans or charts by B. Agaera, aver age size, 17 by 20. July 22nd, 1752. £10 10s
Pianos de los Puertos de : —
Canal y Puerto tie Bristol. Nueva Vera Cm/.
Camarinas en la Costa de Galicia. Gallao de Lima.
Copiapo en Chile. La Concepcion cle Chile.
Bazona. San Francisco de Ysla de Porto Rico
Matanzas em Cuba. Corcubion.
Nueva Descripcion del Rio de la Plata. Acapulco.
Yslas de Bastimentos. Cavello en la costa de Caracas.
MANUSCRIPT.
1753 A.D.
[170] PARAGUAY INDIANS. BARREDA (P. Joseph, de la O de Jesus). Memorial que el P. Provincial del Paraguay, presento al S? Comisano Marques de Valdelirios, en que le Suplica que Suspenda las disposi- ciones de Guerra, contra los Indios de las Misiones.
Manuscript, clearly written on 44 pp., folio, original vellum.
Cordova de Tucuman, 19 de Julio, 1753. £10 10s
* This Memorial is very important for the history of the Missions to Paraguay. Bound up in the same volume are other Manuscript Reports concerning the Jesuits.
1753 A.D.
[171] BRAZIL. Relacam curioza do Sitio do Crao Para, terras de Mato-Grosso bondade do clima, e fertilidade daquellos terras, escrita por hum curiozo experienti daquelle Paez — Primeira parte.
8 pp., sm. 4to, wrappers. 1753. £4 15s
82 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1755 A,D,
[172] GOLDEN (Hon. (".'.. History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada,
which are dependent on the Province of New York, and are the Barrier between Hie English and French in that part of the World; to which are added accounts of the several other Nations of Indians in; North America.
2 vols., I2mo, original calf.
London, 1755. £3 10s
The first general history of the Iroquois Indians. It was written to tluwart the efforts of the French to monopolize the Fur Trade
1756 A.D.
[173] PARAQUAY. CHARLEVOIX (P. Francois Xavier de). Histoire du Paraguay.
Illustrated with folding maps and a " Plan de la Ville de Buenos-Ayres.
Original edition. 3 vols., 4to, original calf.
Paris, 1756. £3 15S
THE FIRST EDITION.
1757 A.D.
[174] CALIFORNIA. Venegas (Miguel) Noticia de la California, y
de su Conquista Temporal, y Espiritual Hasta el Tiempo Presente. Sacada de la Historia Manuscrita, formada en Mexico ano de 1739, por el Padre Miguel Venegas, de la Campania de Jesus; y de otras Noticias, y Relaciones antiguas, y modernas. . . ANADIDA DE ALGUNOS MAPAS PARTICULARES , y uno general de la America Septentrional, Asia Oriental, y Mar del Sur intermedio, formados sobre las Memorias mas recientes, y exactas, que se publican juntamente.
Illustrated with 4 large folding Maps.
3 vols., small 4to, original vellum binding.
Madrid, 1757. £15 15s
THE- FIRST EDITION.
*** The first map is one of California, only; but as that jiaine was used in a more limited sense than at present, the second niiap, which is general, supplies the deficiencies. This isecond map is a very curious one, showing the entire Pacific shores of Asia and America, with records of the latest explorations toy the Spaniards, Russians, and English, especially on the upper Californian shores, and Columbia.
1759 A.D.
[175] NEW ENGLAND. The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massa chusetts Bay in New England. — Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.
Together in I vol., folio, original calf (rebacked).
Boston in New England, 1759. £10 10s
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 83
1760 A. D.
[176] JEFFERYS (T.). The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America.
Giving a particular Account of the
Climate, Manufactures,
Soil, Trade,
Miner alSj Commerce, Animals, and
Vegetables, Languages,
Together with the Religion, Government, Genius, Character, Manners and -Customs of the Indians and other Inhabitants.
Illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places, collected from the best Authorities, and engraved by T. Jefferys, Geographer to his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales.
Two parts in one volume.
Part I. A Description of Canada and Louisiana.
Part II. Part of the Islands of St. Domingo and St. Martin, The Islands of St. Bartholomew, Guadaloupe, Martinico, La Grenade, and The Island and ^Colony of Cayenne.
Folio, original calf.
London, 1760. £16 16s
The Maps and Plans (nearly all of which are folding) include: —
Map of Canada and the North Part of Louisiana.
Plan of the City of Quebec.
Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Montreal
A New Map of Nova Scotia, and Cape Britain.
Plan of the City and Harbour of Louisburg.
Authentic Plan of the Eiver St. Laurence, etc.
North America from the French of Mr. D'Anville.
Plan O'f New Orleans, the Capital of Louisiana
The West Indies.
The Island of Hispaniola.
An Authentic Plan of the Town and Harbour of Cap-Francois.
Guadaloupe one of the Caribbee Islands
Plan of the Town of Basse Terre.
Martinico, one of the Caribbee Islands.
Plan of the Town and Citadel of Fort Royal.
Plan of the Town and Fort of Grenada
The Island and Colony of Cayenne.
Plan of the Town of Gavenne.
84 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.
1760 A. D.
[177] MAPS. A Series of 18 large folding Maps published by Thos.
Jefferys.
Folio volume, old calf. 1760. £5 10s
COMPRISES : —
Map of Canada and North Part of Louisiana
Plan, of City of Quebec.
Plan of Town of Montreal.
New Map of Nova Scotia and Cape Britain.
Plan of City and Harbour of Louisburg.
Authentic Plan of Eiver St. Lawrence, with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec.
North America, from the French of Mr. D'Anville, engraved with the bank Settlements of Virginia and Cou-rse of Ohio
Plan of New Orleans.
We-t Indies 'exhibiting the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Danish Settle*- ments.
Island of Hispaniola (St. Domingo).
Town and Harbour of Cap Francois, etc.
PRINTED IN MEXICO.
1760 A.O.
[178] GARCIA (P. Fr. Bartholome, of San Antonio ini the Province of Texas). Manual para admintstrar los Santos Sacramentos de Pemtenoia,
Euchanstia, Extrema-Uncion, y Matrimonio : Dar Gracias despues de Comulgar, y Ayudar a Bien Morir a los Indios de las Naciones : Pajalates, Orejones, Pacaos, Pacoas, Tilijayas, Alasapas, Pausanes y otras muchas diferentes, que se iiallan en las Missiones del Rio de San Antonio, y Rio Grande, pertenecientes a el Colegio de la Santissima Cruz de la Ciudad de Queretaro, como son : Los Pacuaches, Mescales, Pampopas, Tacames, Chayopines, Venados, Pamaques, y toda la. Juventud de Pihuiques Borrados, Sanipaos, y Manos de Perm.
Small 4to, original vellum.
(Mexico] en la Im-prenta de los Herederos de Dona Maria de Rivera, 1760.
£2T
** EXTREMELY HARE. Not known to Brunet. Salva, or Bra.sseur de Bourbourg. nor i.H the author mentioned by Beristain, and there was no copy in the Andrade collection. Leclerc in his Bibl. Amcr. believed that M. Maisonneuve's copy was the only one in Europe.
The author wa« a missionary a.mong the Apache Indians of the Rio Grande del Nortc.
The book is the Manual for the Communion and Marriage Services. It is printed in double columns, on the one side the Spanish version, and on the other the Apache.
1761 A.D,
[179] CANADA. Charievoix (P. de). Journal of a Voyage to North
America, undertaken by Order of the French King, containing the Geographi cal Description and Natural History of that Country, particularly Canada. In a Series of Letters, translated from the French.
Folding map.
2 vols. , 8vo, full tree calf.
London, 1761. £5 10s
One of the best work* on Canada.
MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 85
1761 A.D.
[i 80] CANADA. Sentiments Relating to the Late Negotiation.
4to, boards, uncut.
London, 1761. £3 153
* * Relating1 to the negotiations between France and England, concerning Canada, etc., with discussions on the mertits and uses of the country gained by England, and what advantages the French should still retain as their rights, etc., etc.
1762 A.D.
[182] OCDEN (James). The British Lion Rotis'cf, or Acts of the British Worthies, a Poem in Nine Books.
FIRST EDITION. Royal 8vo, handsomely bound\ m full crushed levant morocco, t. e. g., other edges entirely uncut.
Manchester, 1762. £10 10s
***Thia poem deals with France disturbing the Peace of British Settlements in America— Character of Amherst and Wolfe— Wolfe marches and embarks for Louisbour^ with. Boscawen — Flleet at Halifax — Siege of Louisbourg-— Townsend sails to serve at Quebec under Walfe— Niagara reduced by Sir William Johnson— Fleet before Quebec— Battle before Quebec — Wolfe and Mon'kton wounded, etc.
1763 A.D.
[183] ENTICK (J.). General History of the late War. Containing its Rise, Progress, and Extent in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and Exhibit ing the State of the Belligerent Powers, Remarks on the Measures which led Great Britain to Victory, Characters of the Statesmen, Description of the Seat of War, etc.
Folding maps, plans, and charts, portraits of Naval and Military Officers, etc.
5 vols.,