OF Rare Books, Historical Documents, Autograph Letters, etc. I ACKERMANN'S OXFORD. [COMBE (W.)] A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. London, R. Ackermann, 1814. 2 vols., imp. 4to., with portrait of Lord Grenville, 64 FINE COLOURED AQUATÍNT VIEWS OF THE Colleges, CHURCHES, AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND 17 COLOURED PLATES OF UNIVERSITY COSTUME, choice impressions of the plates, half morocco, m.e., £25 2 ALBINE (John de, called De Seres, Archedeacon of Tolosa in Fraunce A NOTABLE DISCOURSE, plainelye and truely discussing, who are the right Ministers of the Catholike Church: written against Calvine and his Disciples. With an Offer made by a Catholike to a learned Protestant wherin shall appere the difference betwixte the open known Church of the Catholikes, from the hid and vnknowen Congregation of the Protestantes. Dvaci, Per Iohannem Bellerum, 1575. Sm. 8vo, mostly in black letter, title slightly soiled, a few early annotations and marks, FINE LARGE COPY, olive morocco, g. e., £30 *Only two copies are recorded in the Bibliographical Society's Short-Title Catalogue, one in the British Museum, the other in the Bodleian. That in the British Museum lacks its title. Apparently there is no copy in America. In addition to its excessive rarity it is one of the earliest books printed at Douai in France. It was answered by Thomas Spark and Robert Crowley. Collation: 8 leaves, ¶¶ 8 leaves (last blank), A to N 2 in eights, A to C in eights, C 8 a blank leaf, not in this copy. [SEE ILLUSTRATION.] 3 ALDINE PRESS. ULPIANI COMMENTARIOLI in Olynthiacas Philippicasque Demosthenis Orationes (Grace), Venetiis apud Aldum, mense Octob., 1503. FIRST ALDINE EDITION, sm. folio, Aldine anchor on title, slight water-stain on first few leaves, and old MS. note on title, large copy, old vellum, back a little broken, £6 10s * A rare and beautiful example of the fine Greek printing of the elder Aldus. 4 AMERICA.-ACOSTA (JOSEPH) THE NATVRALL AND MORALL HISTORIE OF THE EAST AND WEST INDIES, Intreating of the remarkable things of Heaven, of the Elements, Mettalls, Plants and Beasts, which are proper to that Country: Together with the Manners, Ceremonies, Lawes, Governements, and Warres of the Indians, written in Spanish, and translated into English by E. G. (Edward Grimeston). London, V. Sims for E. Blount and W. Aspley, 1604. Sm. 4to., wants two blank leaves (one marked A, and that at the end of table), FINE AND VERY LARGE COPY, original calf, with gold centre ornament on the sides, rebacked, £20 The rare first edition in English. Dedicated by the translator to Sir Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne The Table (sign. a-b in 4s) is wrongly bound up at the end. CALIFORNIA No. 233. SARUM MS. HORE, c. 1420-30. One of the twelve magnificent miniatures (reduced size). A NOTABLE Difcourfe, plainelye and truely difcufsing, who are the right Muters of the Catholike Church: written against CALVINE and his Disciples, By one Mafter Iohn de Albine, called De Seres, ArchcDeacon of Tolofa in Fraunce. With an Offer made by a Catholike to a learned Proteftant, wherin shall appere the difference betwixte the open knowen Church of the Catho likes,from the hid and vnknowen Congregati on of the Prote ffantes. DVACI. Per Iohannem Bellerum. 1575. No. 2. ALBINE. 5 AMERICA. [ADAMS (Samuel)] AN APPEAL TO THE WORLD, OR A VINDICATION OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON from many false and malicious Aspersions_contained in certain Letters and Memorials, written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the American Board of Customs, and others, and by them respectively transmitted to the British Ministry. Published by Order of the Town. Boston, Printed by Edes and Gill: and London, Reprinted for J. Almon, 1770. 8vo., tear in margin of p. 3 mended, FINE LARGE COPY, calf antique, £7 7s A very rare and important work in connection with the Origin and Causes of the Revolutionary War. 6 AMERICA.-An APPLICATION of some GENERAL POLITICAL RULES to the PRESENT STATE OF GREAT-BRITAIN, IRELAND, and AMERICA, in a Letter to Earl Temple. London, J. Álmon, 1766. 8vo., fine copy, with the half-title, old half calf, rebacked, £6 6s * Rare. Refers to the English Navigators Drake and Raleigh, the American Aborigines, the treatment of Ireland, and its menace to Great Britain should it fall into the hands of France or Spain, and the affairs of the English Plantations in America. 7 AMERICA.-CATESBY (M.) NATURAL HISTORY of CAROLINA, FLORIDA, and the BAHAMA ISLANDS, containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants, with their Descriptions in English and French; Observations on the Air, Soil, and Waters, with Remarks upon Agriculture, Grain, Pulse Roots, &c., WITH APPENDIX. 1731-43. FIRST EDITION, 2 vols., roy. folio, with coloured map and 220 finely coloured plates of birds, beasts, fishes, &c. (wanting pl. 53 of Vol. I.), contemporary calf gilt, with gilt emblematic borders to sides, FINE and VERY LARGE COPY, £15 8 AMERICA.-DICKINSON (JOHN) AN ESSAY 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 in Assembly. Philadelphia, Printed and Sold by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, 1774. 8vo., mottled calf, £8 8s * A rare tract in relation to the events which led to the War of Independence, from the press of a notable firm of Philadelphian printers. Contains extract from the Minutes of the Committee, 16-21 July, 1774, list of the deputies of Pennsylvania present at the meeting, their 16 resolves, and Dickinson's able essay upon the treatment of the Americans by Great Britain. 9 AMERICA.-DOBSON (JOHN) CHRONOLOGICAL ANNALS OF THE WAR, from its beginning to the Present Time, in two parts. Part I., containing from April 2, 1755, to the End of 1760. Part II., from the Beginning of 1761 to the Signing of the Preliminaries of Peace. With an Introductory Preface to each Part... Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1763. 8vo., fine copy, contemporary calf gilt, £6 *Contains notices of the French taking Fort Logs-town on the Ohio, a fort on the Monongahela; defeat of a French party by Washington; how M. de Villiers obliged Washington to surrender Fort-Necessity; battles near Fort Duquesne, Lake George, Montmorenci and Heights of Abraham (Quebec); naval battle off Louisburg; accounts of Fortresses besieged, taken, relieved, or evacuated, including Beausejour, Gasperan, St. John, Bull Fort, Oswego, Louisburg, Ticonderoga, Niagara, Crown Point, Quebec, Montreal, &c.; expedition against the Cherokee Indians; the capture of St. John's, Newfoundland, by the French, and its recapture, &c. Also accounts of the war in Europe, the East Indies and Africa. IO AMERICA.-COTTON (JOHN) A LETTER OF MR. JOHN COTTONS TEACHER OF THE CHURCH IN BOSTON, IN NEWE-ENGLAND, TO MR. WILLIAMS A PREACHER THERE. Wherein is shewed, That those ought to be received into the Church who are Godly, though they doe not see, nor expressely bewaile all the pollutions in Church-fellowship, Ministery, Worship, Government. Imprimatur, John Bachiler. Printed at London for Benjamin Allen, 1643. Sm. 4to, title within a border of printer's ornaments, FINE LARGE COPY, unbound, preserved in a cloth case, £50 *One of the rarest of the tracts written in the famous controversy between John Cotton of Boston, New England, and Roger Williams, the Founder of Rhode Island, no copy having occurred for sale for nearly 30 years. In this letter Cotton justifies the expulsion of Williams from the Colony of Massachusetts in 1635, and mentions the separation of Williams and his followers from the fellowship of the Church of Plymouth, and of that whereof Master Lathorpe was Pastor." Williams replied to it in his Mr. Cotton's Letter lately printed, examined and answered," London, 1644. [SEE ILLUSTRATION.] II AMERICA.-ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS MAJESTY'S LAND FORCES IN GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, MINORCA, GIBRALTAR AND THE PLANTATIONS, with several necessary Lists and other Matters, 1733. INTERESTING ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, title dated 1733 but continued to 1740, made for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun, who on 17 Feb., 1756, was appointed Captain-General and Governor of Virginia, and on the following 20 March, Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in North America, containing lists of Officers of the various regiments, where they were stationed, rates of pay, &c. 4to., old calf, with the Earl of Loudoun's armorial bookplate, £10 10s *On p. 124 is the entry "Richard Phillips, major general, June, 1739, Regiment of Foot in the Plantations, Governour of Nova Scotia,' on p. 126 Earle of Albemarle, Brigadier, June. 1739, Governour of Virginia," on p. 127 James Oglethorpe, Colonel, 25 Aug., 1737, Regiment of Foot in Georgia, Commander-in-Chief in that Colony." Pp. 59-64 contain the charges for the establishments in the Leeward Islands, Colonel Phillip's regiment (Nova Scotia), Garrisons at Annapolis Royal, Placentia and Canso, 4 companies at New York, 2 companies at Jamaica, 1 company at Bermudas, 1 company in the Island of Providence, and 1 company in South Carolina. 12 AMERICA. [MARTYN (BENJAMIN)] REASONS FOR ESTABLISHING THE COLONY OF GEORGIA, with Regard to the Trade of Great Britain, the Increase of our People, and the Employment and Support it will afford to great Numbers of our own Poor, as well as foreign persecuted Protestants. With some Account of the Country, and the Design of the Trustees. London: Printed for W. Meadows, 1733. 4to., with frontispiece, depicting the laying-out of a plantation, and vignette by J. Pine, and the interesting map showing South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, and the country westwards to the Mississippi, fine copy in the original marbled paper wrapper, lower part of back broken, £10 108 *The earliest tract relating to the founding of the colony of Georgia. There were two issues of it in the same year, of which this is the second and more important, having the 8 pages of postscript containing a list of the trustees for establishing the colony, a letter from James Oglethorpe recounting the foundation of Savannah, and letters from the Governor (Robert Johnson) and Council of South Carolina relating to the new colony, which are not in the first issue. Loosely inserted is an interesting letter from Thomas Sherlock, Bishop of London, dated 28 Dec., 1750, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, asking them to make an order for the payment to the Rev. Jonathan Copp, licenced to perform the Ministerial Office in the Colony of Georgia, of his Majesty's bounty of £20 to defray the charge of his passage to that Colony, with, on the outer fold, a note of the same date and relating to the same matter, signed Jonathan Copp." |