47

(History of the affairs of State and War, United Netherlands, 1621 till 1668.)

15.of the

The same, with the Supplement by L. Sylvius (1669-97.) 's Hage, 1669-99. 11 vols. calf. fol. Best edition. 30.

The high importance of this work consists in its vast mass of original documents, instructions, treaties, memoirs of the ambassadors, resolutions of the States-General etc., which are nowhere else to be found together. The relations of the author with the highest functionaries of the State, enabled him to collect them, and it is a fact sufficiently known, that where these did not suffice be even had recourse to corruption and other means in order to get those authentic documents, which make his work one of the richest and most valuable sources existing.

It contains numerous pieces concerning New-Netherland and the other parts of America, for inst. in vol. I: The foundation of the West-India Company; Piet Heyn and the capture of the Spanish Silverfleet; Capture of Olinda. Vol. II: Usselincx and

48 Albany Accounts of the annual festivals of the St. Nicholas Society at Albany (founded 1827), in commemoration of the relations with the Netherlands, as part of New Netherland. 1828-42. 14 Nos. of the Nederl. Staats-courant and Dagblad van 's Gravenhage. D. Veegens, Account of the New York Historical Society. Konst- en Letterbode, 1845. 2 Nos. 8vo. In all 17 pieces in Dutch; bound in 1 vol. bds. 4to. 6.49 Albany Gazette, Tuesday, March 19, 1799. 1 sheet. 4to.

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Interesting specimen of an American News-Paper cont. tidings from Baltimore, New-York,Bassaterre, on the capture of the French frigate Insurgente, on an insurrection in Northampton County (Pennsylvania), etc.

50 Albertinis,Fr., Opusculum de mirabilibus Nouae et Veteris vrbis Romae, editum a Francisco de Albertinis, clerico Florentino. Romae, per Jacobum Mazochium, 1510. cloth. 4to.

30.

On leaf 101, a passage referring to Vespuccius. - Harrisse, Biblioth. Amer. Vetustiss. No. 64 First. edition.

51 Album Amicorum of P. Scriverius, learned Dutch Historian, whose many relations with the learned Europe of the 17th century have made his Album Amicorum the receptacle of the most illustrious names of his century in every region of Science. It contains no less than eighty-two autograph signed inscriptions, mostly Greek and Latin poems, proverbs, maxims, aphorisms, etc. etc., by Dutch, German, French, English, Polish and Russian scholars. Besides five superior drawings by famous Dutch artists. It embraces a period of 38 years, from 1600--1638. Together 356 pp. in the original vellum binding. royal 8°. 350.

To give an idea of the interesting contents of this Album a selection of the names is made, amongst which some deserve a prominent place in an American Collection :

JOSEPHUS SCALIGER, Greek poem aud quotations in
5 Oriental languages, 1601.
HERBERSTAIN, O. H., V. S., and G. S., (Russian
Traveller and family), their devices. 1609.
J. BODECHER BANNING, Dutch poem and Latin
letter of 3 full pages, WRITTEN ON THE RECIF
DE PERNAMBUCO IN BRAZIL, 30 July 1638.
GREEK poem. 17 lines, with Russian signature and arms.
D. HEINSIUS, Latin poem of 56 lines. With subscrip

tion: scripsi Amstelreodami in domo Austriaca." J. C. GEVARTIUS, of Antwerp, Lat. proverbs. 1615. PH. CLUVERIUS, the Geographer, quotations. 1617. W. BEDWELLUS, Anglus Haslingburiensis, inscriptions in Oriental languages. 1612.

P. v. K. (Palamedes v. Keulen, Pseudonym of the

Of the 5 drawings, we mention:

J. VAN DE VELDE, portrait of an old man, bust, with interwoven inscription: IVE. 1628. SPLENDID DRAWING in red and black chalk. Exceedingly well preserved.

J. VAN BOUCHORST, a Haarlem-artist, whose works, engravings and drawings, are of the greatest rarity, 2 beautiful drawings.

P. SAENREDAM, the famous painter, the Marketplace at Haarlem. Very fine drawing in Indiaink and pencil, signed and dated 1629.

52 Alexander (G. W.), Letters on the slavetrade, slavery and emancipation. Lond. 1842. sm.

8vo.

1.53 Allen, Will., distinguished author, Pres. of Dartmouth Coll. 1817, of Bowdoin Coll. 182039. A. L. S. to Silas Durkee of Meredith, dat. Bowd. Coll. July 17, 1824. 1 p. 4o. 1.50

On the course of Lectures in the Medical School of Maine. 54 Allert (L,), Der Dollmetscher in Amerika. Anleitung, die engl. Sprache in kurzer Zeit zu lernen. Leipz. 1848. bds. 8vo. -.80 55 Almanach (Groote Schrijf-) op het jaer 1641. Ghecalculeert door D. Origanus. Amsterd., C. L. van der Plasse. 1641. sd. 8vo.

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10.

(The Great Writing-Almanac... for 1641. Calculated by D. Origanus.) Perfectly clean copy. This very rare Almanac contains an Appendix of 10 pp.: Een gedenckwaerdige bedenckinghe van 't vinden van de Nieuwe Wereld, dat niet langher geleden is als omtrent 150 jaren door Chr. Columbus. (4 memorable account of the discovery of the New World, not longer ago than 150 years by Christ. Columbus.) This Appendix may be had separately for flor. 8.56 Almanach (De naauwkeurige Hollandsche) 1779. Amsterd., A. Meyer. (1778.) plates, bds. 16mo. 4.(The accurate Dutch Almanac.)

Very rare and curious. Besides a Description of the (14) British Colonies in North America, it contains 12 fine engraved satirical plates on the mode of Head-dress of both sexes, for every month in the year, and 2 folding plates representing 12 kinds of hair-dressing of ladies.

57 Almanac Américain, Asiatique et Africain, ou état physique, polit., ecclésiast. et militaire des colonies d'Europe en Asie, en Afrique et en Amérique.

59 Aloe Americana. Specimen of this plant in the Royal Gardens of Cöpenick (near Berlin), the first which bore flowers in Europe, from 25 May till 28 Oct. 1712. In the distance the palace and the old-styled gardens. Fine and curious engrav. by J. G. Wolfgang, Berlin 1713. With Lat., Germ. and French inscription. 2 sheets. Very lg. fol. 8.Together: 112 by 60 centim. Another specimen, „florens in Horto Volcameriano. Norimbergae. 1726." German engrav., With with addr. Nurnberg bey J. G. Puschner. German legend. lg. fol. 69 by 45 centim. 4.-Another specimen, flowering at Leyden. 1757. Dutch engrav. by A. Delfos. lg. fol. Coloured. 63 by 48 centim. With separate explanation in Dutch. Rare.

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61

62

63

64

65

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The same plant, differ. engrav. sm. 4o. Copy on satin. Very curious. Unique. For: The Dutch Mercury, 1757. 4.Another specimen, blossoming in the Imperial Gardens at Schönbrunn, near Vienna, 1760. Dutch engrav. by A. Delfos. 1762. With Latin inscription. lg. fol. 61 by 42 centim.

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Another specimen, flowering at Utrecht (Holland), in 1782. Dutch engrav., with Latin inscription. fol. 43 by 26 centim.

2.

Another specimen, in full bloom, at the villa Westermeer, near Haarlem (Holland) in 1825. Lith. by Engelmann. With Dutch inscription. lg. fol. 1.

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This curious collection, No. 59-65, of plates on the various specimens of the Aloe Americana, which blossemed in Europe, interesting for the many particulars on its growth, etc., if taken together: fl. 20.– 66 Alphen (D. F. van), De Novo Belgio colonia quondam nostratium. Lugd. Bat. 1832. 8vo. 1.75 67 America. The four parts of the World: Europe, Asia, Africa and America, represented by women in caracteristic attire: America as a naked female riding on a fantastical animal, in perspective cannibals, fight of the natives, etc. Set of 4 emblematical plates (1-4), engrav. after M. de Vos, by A. Collaert, with address of C. J. Visscher. (about 1600). Ig. sq. 4o. Mounted. Fine and rare.

108

7.50

Maps of the Rivers Amazon, Huallaga, Ucayalli, from the observations of W. L. Herndon. (1851-2). 3 large maps folded and in 8o. cloth. 1.50 109 American Annual Register, or historical memoirs of the United States, for 1796. Philad., Bioren & Madam, 1797. hf. bd. uncut. 8vo. 288 pp. 6.50

Contains interesting anecdotes, historical, topograph. and other notices, etc.

110 American Archives: consisting of a Collection of Authenthick Records, State Papers, Debates and Letters, and other notices of Publick Affairs; the whole forming a Documentary History of the origin and progress of the North American Colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American Revolution, etc. Published by M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force. Fourth Series, from March 7, 1774, to the Declaration of Independence. Washington, 1837-46. 6 vols. Fifth Series, July 4, 1776 to Sept. 3, 1783. Ibid. 1848-53. 3 vols. - Together 9 vols. in 2 columns, half Russia. fol. 140."This great storehouse of British Colonial and "American history was printed by order of the Uni"ted States Government, only for distribution and It was the intention to divide the "not for sale. "work into Six series, from 1493 to 1789. The nine Volumes described are all that have appeared, and "the further progress of the work is suspensed. The "manuscript of the unpublished series is in the Li"brary of Congress." See: N. Am. Review. XLVI. 475. Complete series as this are very rare, also in

America.

113 American Journals etc. A collection of 25 different numbers of various reviews, journals, etc. published at New-York, Washington, Philadelphia, Utica, Charleston, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Richmond, etc. 1854-56.

4.114 American pirates. Bartholomew the Portuguese, Bock the Brasilian, François Lolonois, and John Morgan from Walles. Set of 4 busts, with represent. of their exploits against the Spaniards in America. Old Dutch engrav. 4o. From: Exquemelin-Amer. pirates. Amst. 1678. 4o. - Rare. 4.

115 American Privateer takes an English paquet, 1777, engrav. by S. Fokke. sm. 4o. 1.

116 Amerika, in alle zyne byzonderheden beschouwd, ter verkrijg. eener naauwkeur. kennis van dat thans zoo gerucht maakend land. Amsterd., P. Meyer, 1780-82. 4 vols. 2 maps. hf. calf. 8vo. 4.50

(America in all its particularities, for an exact knowledge of this now so rumour-making country.) 117 Amerikaan (De), blyspel. Gevolgt naar het Fransch. 2e druk, verand. en verbet. Amsteld. 1756. 80 pp. uncut. 8vo. 1.50 (The American; comedy, translat. from the French. 2d edit. changed and corrected.) 118 L'Amérique délivrée; esquisse d'un poëme sur l'Indépendance de l'Amérique. Amsterd., 1783. 2 vols. sd. uncut. 8vo. 2.--

119

"An epic poem on the revolutionary war with copious historical notes, dedicated to J. Adams." Sabin.

The same. vols. calf gilt, gilt edges. Thick paper. 4.50

120 L'Amérique et l'Europe en 1846, on Congrés de Panama. Par Mr. G. L... Brux., 1826. 8vo. --.60 121 Ames, Fisher, one of the most eloquent Members of Congress, 1789-97. A. L. S. to John Worthington of Springfield, dat. Dedham, Oct. 10, 1796. 2 pp. 4".

122

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On various subjects: "This week will produce the first Dedham news-paper, but our own news will scarcely find matter tho fill it. Like Peter Pindar's razors, it may do to sell."

A. L. S. to the same, dat. April 3, 1799. 21 pp. 4o. 2.50 Money-matters.

ANDERSON.

bably to secure their assistance in the war against the French. The Six Nations receice £ 1000, the Cherokees clothes, two Iroquois 40 Dollars each, a gun and clothing, cet. cet.

125 Ampzing (S.), West-Indische Triumph-Basuyne van wegen de veroveringhe der Spaensche Silvervlote van Nova Hispania... door P. Pz. Heyn en H. Kz. Lonk. Haerlem, 1629. 4to. With titleplate representing the capture of the Silver-fleet and 2 small portr. of Piet Heyn and Lonk. (Asher 116.) (The West-Indian Triumphal Trumpet upon the capture of the Spanish Silver fleet.) Bound up with the Author's: Beschrijvinge en de lof der stad Haerlem .... Mitsgad. P. Scriverii Laure Kranz voor Laurens Koster, (the inventor of printing.) etc. Haerlem, 1628. gilt. plates. 1 vol. calf. 4vo.

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(A fire-side chat in Amsterdam.) These 3 pamphlets (No. 126, 128, 130) written in the form of dialogues, contain most curious details regarding the West-India Comp., and its affairs in Brazil, sometimes in a very invective manner.

131 Amsterdamsche Veerman op Middelburgh. 4.Vlissingen, 1650. 4to. (Asher 267.)

(Amsterdam skipper to Middelburg.)

On the Brazilian affairs of the West-India Comp. 132 Anania (Lor. d'). L'Universale Fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia. Venetia, J. Vidali, 1576. ital. caract. hf. vellum. 4to.

133

9.Universale Fabrica del mondo, overo cosmografia. Venetia, Muschio, 1596. vellum. 4to. Fine 10.

copy.

Contains a large description of America. 134 Anburey (Th.), Voyages dans les parties inférieures de l'Amérique, pendant le cours de la dernière guerre, par un Officier de l'Armée royale. Trad. de l'Angl. (par Le Bas.) Paris, 1790. 2 vols. hf. calf. map. 8vo. 3.50

135 Anderson (Joh.), Beschrijving van Ysland, Groenland en de straat Davis. Uit het Hoogd. door J. D. J. Amsterd. 1750, map and plates. vellum. 4to. 2.50 Description of Iceland, Greenland and the Strait of Davis. Transl. from the German.