While the map, which has been mounted on linen, is the genuine and original one belonging to the book it has been a little damaged in the folds. There is no evidence in the volume that it originally had a map. John Foster was the first printer in Boston, having set up a press there as early as 1675, by permission of the General Court in an order passed at the May session of 1674. £ s. d. 64 INDIAN MASSACRE. A SERIOUS address, To such of the Inhabitants of PENNSYLVANIA, As have connived at, or do approve of, the late Massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, or the Design of killing those who are now in the Barracks at PHILADELPHIA. Re-printed from the FIRST EDITION . . PHILADELPHIA: Printed by ANDREW STEUART, at the Biblein-Heart, in Second-street, 1764. [Price, two old Pennies.]. Sm. 8vo., 8 pages; a very fine clean copy, as issued, uncut and unopened Philadelphia, 1764 20 0 0 65 LINSCHOTEN. Voyages in English. (Title engraved within a beautiful border by William Rogers :) IOHN HVIGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN. his Difcours of Voyages into y Easte and West Indies. Deuided into Foure Bookes. Printed at London by IOHN WOLFE Sm. folio, with several folding maps, including, besides the 12 English maps, the series of maps and plates by John à Doet from the Dutch edition (comprising in all 54 maps and plates), and a fine proof portrait of Linschoten; a very fine copy in russia extra, the back and sides charmingly decorated with gold tooling, by ROGER PAYNE 1598 105 00 A VERY RARE book when perfect and in sound condition. This is an especially desirable copy. COLLATION:-Engraved title, 1 leaf; signature A, 4 leaves; B-Q in sixes; R 8 leaves; *S 2 leaves; S-Aa in sixes; Bb 4 leaves; Cc 4 leaves; Dd-Pp in sixes; Qq 8 leaves, the last blank. Books II, III, and IV have letterpress titles all dated 1598 and all bearing the translator's name as W. P. (i.e. W. Phillip). The second title occupies leaf *S2; the third, Dd 1; the fourth, Qq 1.-The separate English maps are: 1. Typvs Orbis Terrarvm (inscriptions all in Latin); 2. The description of the Islandes and castle of Mozambique; 3. The trew description of all the coasts of China, etc.; 4. The description or Caerd of the Coastes (of South East Africa, etc.); 5. The true description of St. Helena, East, North and West; 6. The Island of St. Helena; 7. The true Description of the Island of Ascention; 8. A discripsion of Ægipt (and Central and Southern Africa); 9. The description of the Coast of Guinea (i.e. West Africa); 10. (America) The description of the whole coast lying in the South Seas . . 11. (Asia) The description of the coast of Abex. . 12. (Eastern Asia and Polynesia) Insvlæ Molvccæ. 66 MATHER (Cotton). The Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the TRYALS OF Several Witches, Lately Executed in NEW-ENGLAND: And of several remarkable Curiofities therein Occurring. Together with, I. Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. II. A short Narrative of a late outrage committed by a knot of Witches in Swede-Land, very much refembling, and so far explaining, that under which NewEngland has laboured. III. Some Councels directing a due Improvement of the Terrible things lately done by the unufual and amazing Range of Evil-Spirits in New-England. IV. A brief Discourse upon. MATHER, WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, continued: : thole Temptations which are the more ordinary Devices of Satan. £ s. d. Sm. 4to., one or two headlines slightly cut into, but a large copy, with some uncut leaves, in brown levant morocco, gilt edges 1693 18 00 This is the first (and only complete) English edition. The book was originally COLLATION: Half-title, with the Imprimatur on the reverse; title; The Author's 67 SELKIRK. Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon uncut 1817 This is a rare volume and has a peculiar interest from the charges of connivance in massacre which Lord Selkirk made against the North-Western Company of Montreal. THE 68 SMITH'S VIRGINIA. (Engraved title, with portraits of Queen Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I as PRINCE:) THE GENERALL HISTORIE | OF | Virginia, New-England, and the Summer | Isles: With the names of the Adven turers, | Planters, and Governours from their first begin ning An: 1584. to this present 1624. | WITH PROCEEDINGS OF THOSE SEVERALL COLONIES and the Accidents that befell them in all their | Journyes and Discoveries. | Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those | Countreyes, their Commodities, people, | Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. | DIVIDED INTO SIXE BOOKES. Captaine 10HN SMITH Sometymes Governour in Countreyes Admirall of New England. LONDON. Printed by 1. D. and | I. H. for Michael | Sparkes. | 1624 By those 210 0 Sm. folio, FIRST ISSUE, engraved title with portraits, portrait of the Duchess of Richmond engraved by W. PASSE, and the four folding maps (Ould Virginia, Virginia, The Summer Ils, and New England); some leaves a little mended and maps mended in the fold, but nevertheless a fine, UNWASHED, and extraordinarily large copy (115 × 71) inches; russia extra, gilt edges; with the booklabel of Joseph Haslewood; EXTREMELY SCARCE 1624 120 00 A VERITABLE FIRST ISSUE OF THE BOOK; as such excessively rare. This copy is vastly better than most of those which are now purchaseable. The title is of the genuine issue of 1624, having portraits of King James, Queen Anne, and of the bareheaded" Carol vs Princeps." The portrait of the Duchess of Richmond is a genuine original impression of William Passe's plate; and all the maps are in their original state as issued in 1624. It has also the extremely scarce slip of errata. The Matoaka portrait of course does not belong to the book. Copies with all the maps of the first issue are very seldom met with. The following are some of the points which distinguish the maps of the first from those of the later issues: -The map of " Ould 66 Virginia" has not the additions of "Walden's Oake," "Mountaynes 69 USSELINX (Willem). lthförligh Förklaring ofwer Handels Sm. 4to., unbd. Stockholm, 1626 31 10 0 "Full Account of the Trading Agreement granted to the South Company by the King of Sweden." EXCESSIVELY RARE. Mr. Wilberforce Eames of the Lenox Library could only trace five copies, though this may be a sixth. It is either the IRST OR SECOND SWEDISH BOOK RELATING TO AMERICA, and is the original edition translated from Usselinx's Dutch MS. one year before the Dutch edition. "William Usselinx, the most active promoter of the Dutch West India Company, getting tired of the dilatoriness of the Dutch Merchants and Staats-General, carried his project to Gustavus Adolphus. The famous soldier seized eagerly on the idea, and granted Usselinx a charter for a company. This was the foundation of the Swedish settlements on the Delaware, for though the project was not immediately carried through, it led eventually to the expedition and settlement by Peter Minuit. This is Usselinx's explanatory pamphlet on the South Company, pointing out equally to the Swedes, Dutch and Germans the advantages to be gained from the Patent granted by Gustavus Adolphus. An important part is that in which he describes the country on the Deleware, its suitability for a colony, its fertility, etc. This pamphlet was issued but a short time after the granting of the Patent, being dated in the address to the reader on the back of the title 2 July, 1626, while the Patent was signed by Gustavus 14 June 1626, barely three weeks before." 70 VEER (Gerrit de). THE True and perfect Defcription of three Voyages, fo strange and wonderful that the like hath neuer been heard of before . . . Imprinted at London for T. Panier, 1609. 71 Small 4to., several margins cut into, and foremargins waterstained; 1609 10 0 0 calf 82 leaves, with signatures: A 2 leaves, B-X in fours, of which the final leaf is blank. 18 0 0 72 ALABASTER (William). ROXANA TRAGEDIA A plagiarij unguibus vindicata, aucta, & agnita ab Authore GVLIELMO ALABASTRO. LONDINI, Excudebat Gulielmus Jones. 1632. Sm. 8vo., with an engraved title; lound up with another work in contemporary limp vellum 1632 FIRST AND GENUINE EDITION. The play was several times acted with great success at Trinity College, Cambridge. Alabaster was held in great esteem in the seventeenth century. Fuller terms him "a most rare poet as any our age or nation produced"; and Anthony à Wood calls him "the rarest poet that any one age or nation produced." 10 0 0 The engraved title is said to contain, in one of its compartments, the first known illustration of the stage of an English theatre. Bound up with this copy is "Senile Odium Comœdia Autore P. Hausted Cantabrigiæ. . . 1633 which was acted at Queen's College, Cambridge. It contains commendatory Latin verses by Edward King (Milton's Lycidas'). 73 ALEYN (Charles). The Battailes of CRESCEY AND POICTIERS, Vnder the Harper, for Thomas Knight . . . 1633. 1633 220 In this second edition the author has entirely recast his poem, which is augmented to 495 stanzas from the 274 which it had comprised when first written by him in 1631. 74 ALLOT (Robert). WITS Theater of the little World... Printed by I. R. for N. L. & are to be fold at the VVest doore of Paules . 1599. 75 Sm. 8vo., one or two wormholes and a little waterstained at the end, and a plain corner of the last leaf frayed, but a good and large copy; in contemporary limp vellum 1599 12 12 0 VERY RARE. This thick little book, a prose "collection of the flowers of COLLATION: A B-Mm Nn. The last leaf comprises, "Faults escaped in the ENGLANDS | Parnafjus | OR | The choyfeft Flowers Sm. 8vo., a few leaves a little waterstained; a fine and exceptionally sound copy in old calf 1600 60 00 VERY RARE. One of the most interesting volumes of the Elizabethan period. There are quotations from all the renowned English Poets of the time, including fifty-five passages from Shakespeare's Poems and twenty-four from his Plays. It is consequently at least, equivalent in intrinsic value to an early Quarto, and ought to be equivalent in money-worth likewise. This will no doubt be its ultimate fate; but at present, as the price shows, it is not considered as of more pecuniary value than some of the later Quartos. 76 ARNOLD'S LONDON CHRONICLE. (Fol. 1, a blank, whiche was done. Sm. folio, black letter, printed in double columns; a few 77 £ 8. d. letters in the inner corner of the last page skilfully restored [1503] 105 00 FIRST EDITION, of extreme rarity. Even in an imperfect state the book is seldom met with, but perfect copies, as here described, are among the rarest things in English literature. Apart from its scarcity the book is of the greatest interest as containing (pp. 75-77) the famous ballad of "The Nutbrown Maid," which was here published for the first time. No early separate edition of it is known to exist. Its authorship is unknown, but probably Douce's suggestion that it was translated from an old German ballad by some Englishman with whom Arnold was acquainted at Antwerp, is correct. The work was first called Arnold's "Chronicle" by Thomas Hearne, but has little claim to that title. It contains a list of mayors and sheriffs, with brief historical notes, 1189-1502, and a collection of charters, municipal regulations, and other documents relating chiefly to London in the 14th and 15th centuries. COLLATION: A, 4 leaves (the first blank); A, 8 leaves; B, 4 leaves; C-E in eights; F-Q in sixes; R, 8 leaves; S-V, in sixes. The first 12 leaves are unnumbered, the remainder marked in the lower margins i-cxviii (xvii is repeated). The typography of the volume has been generally assigned to Jan van Doesborgh, but Mr. Proctor (Jan van Doesborgh, p. 15) gives excellent reasons against that printer's claim. 78 ASCHAM (Roger). THE SCHOLEMASTER Or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to vnderstand, write, and Speake, the Latin tong, but Specially purpofed for the priuate bringing vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houfes, and commodious alfo for all fuch, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by them felues, without à Scholemaster, in Short time, and with fmall paines, recouer à fufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and Speake Latin.. By Roger Aicham.. An. 1571.. AT LONDON. Printed by Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer Alderfgate. Cum Gratia & Priuilegio Regiæ Maieftatis, per Decennium. (Colophon, beneath John Day's large woodcut device:) AT LONDON. Printed by Iohn Daye dwellyng ouer Alderfgate. 1573. Sm. 4to., black letter; brown levant morocco, doublé with russia with rich dentelle tooling, gilt edges, by Zaehnsdorf; from the Osterley Park collection 1571-73 11 11 0 Second Edition. This is one of the copies with the colophon dated 1573. 79 BACON (Francis). (Engraved title:) FRANCISCI DE VERULAMIO. Summi Angliæ CANCELLARIJ Instauratio magna. LONDINI Apud Joannem Billium (On one side of the imprint "Anno" and on the other "1620.") Sm. folio, a very fine and clean copy in contemporary limp vellum 1620 31 10 0 FIRST EDITION. It is "the greatest of all his works, and the central Mr. Hazlitt gives a quite incorrect collation. It should be: T. A-C“, |