The Fenian Raid on FORT ERIE, with an Account of the Battle of Ridgeway, June, 1866, by Major G. T. Denison, folding map and plans. Toronto, 1866

8° pamphlet of 92 pages, 1.50

[577 Account of the Cruise of the St. George on the North American and West Indian Stations, 1861-2, by N. B. Dennys, chart. 1862 8°, cloth, 1.00

[578 Mainly extracts of the private journal kept during the Cruise: the chief places visited were Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Bermuda, Nova Scotia (Account of Gold-fields there), Cape Breton Island.

A Year in BRAZIL, with Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, NATURAL HISTORY, etc., by H.C.Dent, C.E., two maps and ten plates. 1886 Thick 8°, cloth, 1.50 [579 Records of a survey for a railroad, with 100 pages on Natural History, etc.

Travels in South America during 1801-1804, containing a Description of CARACCAS, and an Account of the Discovery, Conquest, Topography, etc., of the Country, with a view of the Manners and Customs of the Spaniards and the NATIVE INDIANS, by F. Depons, map. 1807

2 vols, 8°, hf. russia, 2.00; calf, gilt, 3.00; another, wanting the map, 1.00 [580 A valuable contribution to the History of the ABORIGINES of South America: includes "Portrait of the Indians before the Arrival of the Europeans, and means employed to civilize them," 64 pages, partly drawn from original documents; also a plan for the expulsion of the Caribs from Surinam, and an account of early searches for El Dorado. Personal Narrative of Travels in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in 1826, with Remarks on the present state of the American Navy, by Lieut. the Hon. F. F. De Roos, R.N., long folding view of Quebec, and many picturesque plates. W. H. Ainsworth, 1827

8°, boards, uncut, 2.00; half calf, 1.50

[581 Flore Pittoresque et Medicale des ANTILLES, ou Histoire Naturelle des Plantes Usuelles des Colonies Françaises, Anglaises, Espagnoles et Portugaises, par M. E. Descourtilz. Six hundred beautifully-coloured plates (with botanical details) after drawings by Theophile Descourtilz. Paris,

1833-29

8 thick vols, 80, half bound, gilt, 20.00 [582 Detail and Conduct of the AMERICAN WAR under Generals Gage, Howe, Burgoyne, and Lord Howe, with a very full and correct State of the Whole of the Evidence before the House of Commons, and the Celebrated FUGITIVE PIECES which are said to have given rise to that Important Enquiry, the whole exhibiting a COMPLETE HISTORY of the AMERICAN Rebellion. 1780

8° (190 pages, closely printed), new panelled calf, [583 gilt, 12.00 Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville, translated by Henry Reeve. 1835 2 vols, 8°, half calf, 2.25; boards, 2.50 [584 Democracy in America, by Alexis De Tocqueville, translated by Henry Reeve; BEST EDITION. 1862

2 vols, 8°, cloth, 5.50

[585 "Democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of the Senators.' Democracy, an American Novel,

The Natural History of the Order Cetacea, and the Oceanic Inhabitants of the ARCTIC REGIONS, by H. W. Dewhurst, 20 plates, chiefly of the different kinds of Whales, and woodcuts. 1834 8°, boards, uncut, 1.25 [586

Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la NUEVA ESPANA, escrita por el Capitan Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Madrid, 1795 4 vols, 12°, calf, 4.00 [587

True History of the Conquest of MEXICO by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the Conquerors, written in 1568, translated by Maurice KEATINGE, plan of Aztec Mexico. 1800 4°, boards, 4.50; another, boards, Stourhead copy, with autograph "Sir Richard Hoare," 6.00; half calf, 3.50; calf gilt, 5.00 [588

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, written by himself, containing a full and true Account of the Discovery and Conquest of MEXICO and NEW SPAIN, translated from the original Spanish by J. I. Lockhart. 1844 2 vols, 80, cloth, 10.00; calf, gilt, gilt edges, beautifully bound by C. LEWIS, 12.00 [589

"A soldier who, for impartiality and veracity, perhaps never had his equal. His account is acknowledged to be the only one on which we can place reliance, and it has been the magazine from which the most eloquent of the Spanish writers on the same subject, as well as those from other Countries, have borrowed their best materials." Six Months in the FEDERAL STATES, by Edward Dicey. 1863

2 vols, sm. 8°, cloth, 2.50

[590

"This, then, is the upshot of the conclusions I formed-that in the interest of humanity, in the interest of America, and in the interest of England, the success of the North is the thing we ought to hope and wish for."

GOD'S Protecting Providence Man's Surest Help and Defence in Times of the Greatest Difficulty, evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other Persons, from the Devouring Waves of the Sea, amongst which they suffered Shipwrack, and also from the cruel Devouring Jaws of the Inhumane CANNIBALS OF FLORIDA, faithfully related by one of the Persons concerned therein, Jonathan Dickenson. Phila., rep. Lon., 1700 8°, new half sheep, 16.00

[591

New Light on MORMONISM, by Mrs. Ellen D. Dickenson. N.Y., 1885 P. 80, cloth, .75

[594

Stating that the origin of 'The Book of Mormon' was a romance called The Manuscript Found,' written by the Authoress's great-uncle.

A New Essay (by the Pennsylvania Farmer) on the Constitutional Power of Great Britain over the COLONIES IN AMERICA, with the Resolves of the Committee for the Province of PennsylVANIA, and their Instructions to their Representatives, [by John Dickenson]. Phila., rep. J. Almon, 1774

8°, calf, gilt lines, NEWLY BOUND, 5.00 [595

The History of the BUCANIERS of America, being an Entertaining Narrative of the Exploits, Cruelties and Sufferings of the under-mentioned noted Commanders, by H. W. Dilworth, four horrible copper-plates. 1758

12°, sprinkled calf, (some leaves stained), 4.50 [596 The Captains are Esquemeling, Pierre le Grand, Lolonois, Rocke Brasiliano, Bat the Portuguese, Sharp, Watling, Cook, etc. Contains also a curious Description of the Manners, Customs, An uncommon History of the Buccaneers, quite different from Esquemeling's book. "Published for the Improvement and Entertainment of the ment" could have been effected by the perusal of the doings of these diabolical ruffians? The Inferno of Dante is almost mild compared to the torments inflicted on the Spaniards.

Dress and Ceremonies of the Indians.

British Youth of both Sexes"-what "improve

The Diplomacy of the UNITED STATES, being an Account of the Foreign Relations of the Country, from the First Treaty with France in 1778, to the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. Boston, 1826 8°, half russia, 2.co

[597 Voyage Round the World, but more Particularly to the NORTH-WEST COAST of America, in 1785-8 by Captains Portlock and Dixon, by Capt. George Dixon, large chart of British Columbian and Alaskan coasts and other nautical charts and views, Indian curiosities, portraits (drawn by E. F. Burney) and trading song, natural history plates (in all 22). 1789

*4°, calf, 4.00; cf., poor (4 plates, all nautical, missing), 2.25 [598

Dixon. LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY, the natural history plates COLOURED. 1789 *Roy. 4°, calf, newly rebacked, gilt, 7.50 [599 Voyage autour du Monde [as above], par le Capitaine Dixon, trad. par Lebas. Many folding maps and plates. 1789

2 vols, 8°, half calf, 1.25

[600

"No more wondrous narrative of human passion and romance, no stranger contribution to the literature of physiology, has been published since man first began to seek after the laws that govern the moral and intellectual life of the human race." Morning Post.

An Account of the ABIPONES, an Equestrian People of Paraguay, from the Latin of Martin Dobrizhoffer, Eighteen Years [1749-1766] a Missionary in that Country, [translated by SARA COLERIDGE]. 1822

3 vols, 8°, half calf, gilt, 6.00

[602

"It is the most complete, faithful, and interesting detail of the life, habits, and character of a savage tribe which was ever written** The Abipones were one of the fiercest and most superstitious of all the savage tribes of American Indians." THOMAS W. FIELD.

"With a pertinacity worthy of a better cause,' this translation is persistently ascribed to Robert Southey: it was the work of SARA COLERIDGE, only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who says "My dear daughter's translation of this book is, in my judgment, unsurpassed for pure mother English."

Oriental Antiquities and General View of the Ottoman Customs, Laws, and Ceremonies, exhibiting many curious Pieces of the East, with various Rites and Mysteries of the ORIENTAL FREEMASONS, from the French of De M. D'Ohsson, Knight of Vasa, Templar, Malta, Rosa Crucian, Constantinopolitan, etc., three plates of Masonic atchievements. Philadelphia, Printed for the Select Committee and Grand Lodge of Enquiry, 1788

10.00

Thick roy. 4°, hf. russia, 7.50; boards, uncut, [604 The plates were engraved in London, in the stippled manner, on thin paper: in the bound copy two of them are mounted. Missionary Adventures in TEXAS AND MEXICO, a Personal Narrative of Six Years' Sojourn by the Abbé Domenech, large map of Texas. 1858 80, cloth, 2.25 [605

Seven Years' Residence in the GREAT DESERTS of North America, by Em. Domenech, Apostolical Missionary, large coloured map, 58 tinted woodcuts (as plates) and 3 plates of Indian music. 2 thick vols, 8°, cloth, 5.00

1860

[606 The travels sketched in the large map are entirely within the present U.S., and cover nearly all the Indian countries. His vocabularies and illustrations of Indian matters are of value.

Voyage Pittoresque dans les Grands Déserts du Nouveau Monde, par l'Abbé Em. Domenech. Tinted woodcuts (as plates), chiefly of Aboriginal remains and Indian types. Paris, 1862 *Thick impl. 8°, half red morocco, gilt edges, 3.50 [607

Devoted to the Indian population of the Northern Continent (past and present), their country, manners, habits, weapons, buildings, remains, etc. Considerations on the Value and Importance of the BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES, by Major Gen. Sir Howard Douglas. 1831 With other pamphlets; 8°, half calf, 1.00 [608 ii Remarks on Colonial Slavery. Kingston, 1831. Six others on Reform, etc.

A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements and Present State of the BRITISH SETTLEMENTS in North America, by William Douglass, M.D. 1760 2 vols, 8°, original calf, 7.50

[609

i General Account of Colonies. ii. Hudson Bay Co.'s Lodges, Fur and Skin Trades. iii Newfoundland Harbours, Cod Fishery. iv Nova Scotia and its vicissitudes of Property. v Grants and United Charter of New England. vi History of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jerseys, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir ginia. vii Natural History, Sectaries, and Paper Currencies. viii Curious Dissertation on the Small Pox and Inoculation.

All the Polemical Works of Lorenzo (Dow), complete, improved by the Author, woodcut portraits of Lorenzo and Peggy Dow. N.Y., 1814 12°, boards, uncut, 1.50

[610

A travelling preacher of Coventry, Conn., whose zeal was equalled only by his eccentricity.

A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining VOYAGES and TRAVELS, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, judiciously selected from the best Writers in the English, French, Spanish, Dutch and other Languages, comprehending an Account of whatever is Curious in the Government, Commerce, Natural History, Customs, Marriages, Funerals and other Ceremonies of most Nations, also an Account of the most remarkable Discoveries, Battles, Shipwrecks, Massacres, etc., by Cavendish Drake, full of maps and quaint copperplates. 1768 *Thick folio, calf, 6.00

[615 Including detailed accounts of the Voyages of Columbus, Drake, Cavendish, Van Noort, Dampier, Woodes Rogers, Ralegh, Wafer, James, Ellis, etc.; also a very long History of the Conquests of Peru, Mexico and Brazil. More than one-half of the 700 closely printed pages relate either to CIRCUMNAVIGATIONS or to AMERICAN and ARCTIC Discoveries.

The Making of NEW ENGLAND, 1580-1643, by Samuel Adams Drake, many maps and illustrations. 1886

The BOOK OF THE INDIANS of North America, by S. G. Drake, 5th edition, with large Additions and Corrections, engravings and woodcuts. Boston, 1837

Thick 8°, cloth, 4.00

[619

Part of title-page "Biography and History of the Indians of North America, details in the Lives of all the Chiefs and Counsellors; History of their Wars, Massacres, and Depredations: Account of their Antiquities, Manners and Customs, Religion and Laws; Analysis of the Writers on the First Peopling of America."

History of the AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, by J. W. Draper, plans. 1871 3 vols, royal 8°, cloth, 9.00

[620 The Case of Edward Drewe, late Major of the 35th Regiment of Foot, by himself. Exeter, 1782 8°, hf. bound, 2.50 [621

Proceedings of a Court Martial at SAINT LUCIA in
1780 on Major Drewe, for inattention to duty in
that Island. As Captain Drewe, the accused was
presented with the freedom of his native city of
Exeter for his Gallantry at the BATTLE of BUNKER'S
HILL; the celebrated Lieut. Col. SIMCOE says of
him (in a Letter printed in the Appendix to this
Case') "I never heard of more courage and cool-
ness than Drewe displayed on that day.

This copy was presented to the Exeter Library by the
Author.

Dublin Review, Vol XI. Dublin, 1841 8°, cloth, 1.50 [622 Including Articles on the Discovery of America by the North Men, on Van Dieman's Land, on the Cape of Good Hope; also on Lord Houghton's Poems and on Old English Popular Airs. Discourses on various Subjects, by Jacob Duche, Rector of Christ-Church and St. Peter's, in Philadelphia. 1779

[623

2 vols, 8°, cloth, sprinkled edges, 1.00
Our Garrisons in the West, or Sketches in
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, by Francis Duncan,
Lieut. R.A., large map. 1864
P. 8°, cloth, 1.50

[624

Reminiscences of six years' service, chiefly in Canada. Travels through part of the UNITED STATES and CANADA in 1818-9, by J. M. Duncan, several little sketch-maps. Glasgow, 1823 2 vols, sm. 8°, boards, uncut, 2.50; calf, gilt edges, 2.25 [625 The moral condition of the inhabitants, and their literary and religious characteristics, are the chief points noted. The verdict is very favourable, and the author concludes "The vigour of the infantine grasp, which in the cradle has triumphed over such opposition, gives promise of a matured and exalted energy which will hereafter aid in washing away the moral pollutions of the world."

Narrative of Services in the Liberation of CHILI, PERU, and BRAZIL from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, by Thomas, Earl of Dundonald, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet. 1853 2 vols, 8°, cloth, 2.25

[626

Result of some Researches among the British Archives for Information relative to FOUNDERS of NEW ENGLAND, made in 1858-60, by Samuel G. Drake, folding facsimile of the map of New England in Purchas, and portraits of Drake and John Smith. Boston, 1860 Sm. 4°, cloth, 4.00

[623

[632 GREENFIELD HILL, a Poem in Seven Parts, by Timothy Dwight. N. Y., 1794 8°, half calf, 4.50

[633

A descriptive poem, (with notes), extolling the beauties of Greenfield Hill, near Fairfield, Connecticut. Part III commemorates the Burning of Fairfield by the British in 1779; part IV, the Destruction of the PEQUODS.

Travels in NEW-ENGLAND and NEW YORK, by Timothy Dwight, President of Yale, portrait and three folding maps. 1823

vols, 8°, half calf, gilt, 7.00; or boards, uncut, 7.50 [634 "A wish to gratify those who, a hundred years hence, might feel curiosity concerning his native country, made him resolve to prepare a faithful description of its existing state." SOUTHEY.

A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake which happen'd at LIMA, the Capital of Peru, and the neighbouring Port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746, with an Account of every Thing material that passed there to the End of November following, published at Lima by Command of the Viceroy, and translated from the Original Spanish; with a Description of Callao and Lima before their Destruction, and of the Kingdom of PERU in general, with map, 2 folding plans of Callao, plan of Lima, and 5 plates, being "Cuts of the Natives, drawn on the Spot by the Translator." 1748

Thick 8°, bound, 3.50

[635 Chicóra and other Regions of the Conquerors and the Conquered, by Mary H. Eastman, 21 steel plates after Capt. S. Eastman, U.S. Army. Phila., 1854

Impl. 8°, cloth, 4.50

[636 Intended to illustrate the early history of Minnesota and other regions now covered by the Union. The plates mostly depict scenes in Aboriginal life. VENEZUELA, Sketches of Life in a S.A. Republic, with History of the Loan of 1864, by E. B. Eastwick, large map. 1868 8°, cloth, 1.25

[637

Letters from America, Historical and Descriptive, comprising Occurrences from 1769 to 1777 inclusive, by William Eddis, late Surveyor of the Customs, etc.,at Annapolis in Maryland. 1792 Thick 8°, boards, uncut, 4.00; russia, gilt, 3.50 [638

"The best account we have of the rise of Revolu-
tionary principles in MARYLAND. We need hardly
urge the collectors of early American History to
secure this valuable work.' ALLIBONE,
"The former part of these letters will be found to
give a description of the country, government,
trade, manners and customs of the inhabitants;
the latter, the rise and gradual progress of the
civil dissention, in the province of Maryland; the
conclusion represents the difficulties and dangers
to which the author was exposed, from his loyalty
and unshaken attachment to the British constitu-
tion." Author.

The first Three English Books on America, chiefly by Richard Eden, from the Documents of Sebastian Cabot, Peter Martyr and Sebastian Münster, edited by Prof. E. Arber, facsimile title-pages and cuts. 1885 *4°, (456 pages), cloth, 5.00

[639

i of the newe landes und of ye people founde by the messengers of the kynge of portyngale [Antwerp? 1511]. ii A Treatyse of the newe India, with other newe founde landes and Ilandes [London, 1553]. iii The decades of the newe worlde or west India, London, 1555. Also Life and Labours of RICHARD EDEN. Index to the whole, and other valuable contributions by the Editor.

Cannot fail to interest the cultivated reader. One is able therein to look out on the New World as its Discoverers and the first Explorers looked upon it. The future of Mankind lies with the Anglo-Saxon race and of all English books relating to the American portion of that race, the three reprinted in this volume are the very first. Editor.

A Journal of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry, of that Worthy Elder, William Edmundson. Dublin, 1715

FIRST EDITION. Autographs :-" John Steevens Gift to Joseph Storrs, 1714"; "Richard Fry's book left him by his Father Joseph Storrs, 1751 "Hannah Storrs Fry's Book, 1777." Edmundson, Journal, etc. London, 1715 8°, calf, 3.25

[As above].

[641

This zealous Friend visited America in 1671, in 1675-7, and in 1683. "He was in Perils by Sea and Land, and in the wilderness, both by Wild Beasts and Bloody Men, in the time of the INDIAN WARS in America." His experience among the Indians are unusually interesting, and there are many references to King Philip's War.

"In 1672, in Rhode Island, I met one ROGER WILLIAMS, an old Priest and an Enemy to Truth," who challenged the Quakers to a public disputation at Newport; "but the bitter old man could make nothing out."

A History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the WEST INDIES, by Bryan Edwards of Jamaica, 16 plates, including very large general map, separate map of each Island, beautiful frontispiece by Bartolozzi, plate of Red Caribees drawn from life, figure of the Tahiti bread-fruit, portraits of Columbus and his sons, Stothard's "Sable Venus," Negro dance, etc. 1794 *2 vols, 4°, calf, 3.00; boards, uncut, 2.50 [642

The calf copy is the first issue (1793) with the Preface of the 1794 issue added; the plates are rather finer impressions.