271

BLEECKER (Ann Eliza). The POSTHUMOUS WORKS of, in Prose
and Verse. To which is added, A COLLECTION of ESSAYS, Prose
and Poetical. By Margaretta V. Faugeres. Portrait, engraved by
Tiebout. 12mo, calf (title mended).
New York, 1793

272 BLENNERHASSETT PAPERS (The). Embodying the Private Journal of Harman Blennerhassett, and the hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Burr, Alston, Comfort Tyler, Devereaux, Dayton, Adair, Miro, Emmett, Theodosia Burr Alston, Mrs. Blennerhassett and others engaged in the attempted Wilkinson and and a Memoir of Blennerhassett. Portraits. 8vo, cloth, uncut.

Burr Revolution

William H. Safford.

By

Cincinnati, 1864

273 BLOCII (Johannis). HISTORIÆ per SATURAM ex NOVI ORBIS SCRIPTORIBUS. Excerpta memorabilia continens, quæ tum in vita communi familiariter disquirentibus, tum omnium ordinum letteratis non minus usui, quam oblectamento esse possint. 12mo, cloth. Rostochi, 1625

274 BLOME (Richard). A DESCRIPTION of the ISLAND of JAMAICA; with the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are related . . . Taken from the Notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, &c. 3 folded maps. Small 8vo, half red morocco, gilt leaves. London, 1672

275

First edition. The "other Territories" comprise Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New England, &c.

BLOME. Another copy, with the 3 maps, to which is added, The
Present State of Tangier to which is added, The Present
State of Algiers, 1676. Small 8vo, calf.
London, 1672-76

276 BLOME. DESCRIPTION of the ISLAND of JAMAICA; with the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are related. Portrait of De Ruyter, by Vaughan, and 3 maps only, that of America missing. 8vo, calf. London, 1678

The last 22 pages are devoted to a description of “ the present state of Algiers in 1678, also a List of the Ships then belonging to that Port."

277 [BLOME.] L'AMERIQUE ANGLOISE, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre dans l'Amerique . . . Traduit de l'Anglois. 7 folded maps. 12mo, calf. Amsterdam, 1688

278 BLUE LAWS (The) of NEW HAVEN COLONY, usually called Blue Laws of Connecticut, Quaker Laws of Plymouth and Massachusetts; Blue Laws of New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina. First Record of Connecticut; Interesting Extracts from Connecticut Records; Cases of Salem Witchcraft; Charges and Banishment of Roger Williams, &c.; and other Interesting and Instructive Antiquities. Compiled by an Antiquarian [Royal R. Hinman]. 12mo, cloth. Hartford, 1838

279

280

BLUNT (Edmund M.). STRANGER'S GUIDE to the CITY of NEW
. . . to which is prefixed an Historical Sketch, &c.
12mo, half morocco.
New York, 1817

YORK
Plates.

BLUNT (Joseph). A HISTORICAL SKETCH of the FORMATION of
the CONFEDERACY, particularly with reference to the Provincial
Limits and the Jurisdiction of the General Government over Indian
Tribes. . . &c. 8vo, sheep.
New York, 1825

281 [BOCCALINI (Trajan).] NEWES FROM PERNASSUS. The Politicall Touchstone taken from Mount Pernassus: whereon the Governments of the greatest Monarchies of the World are touched. 4to, half calf. Printed at Helicon, 1622

Autograph mem. of Winthrop Sargent inserted; also his book-plate.

282 [BOEMUS.] GLI COSTUMI, le leggi et Lusanze di tutte le Genti ; Raccolte, qui insieme da molti illustri Scrittori per Giovanni Boemo Aubano Alemano; E tradotti per Lucio Fauno . . . Aggiontovi di nuovo gli costumi, & l'usanze dell' INDIE OCCIDENTALI, Overo MONDO NUOVO, da P. Gieronimo Giglio. Small 8vo, vellum.

283

284

Venetia, 1660

BOISTHIBAULT (Doublet de). LES VEUX des HURONS et des
ABNAQUIS, a Notre-Dame de Chartres . . . avec les Lettres des
Missionaires Catholiques au Canada, une Introduction et des Notes.
Colored plate. 8vo, boards.
Chartres, 1857

LETTER to THOMAS BRAND

BOLLMAN (Erick).
Practicability and Propriety of a Resumption of Specie Payments.
8vo, half morocco.

on the

New York, 1819

285 BOLTON, JR. (Robert). HISTORY of the COUNTY of WESTCHESTER, from its First Settlement to the Present Time. woodcuts. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth.

Maps and New York, 1848

286

BOMBARDEMENT de VALPARAISO (Documents Officiels), suivi da
Combat du Callao. 8vo, half morocco.

Paris, 1866

Also in this vol., GUERRE de L'ESPAGNE au CHILI, par J. G.
Courcelle-Seneuil.
Paris, 1866

287 BONAPARTE (Lucien). RÉVOLUTION de BRUMAIRE, ou Relation des Principaux evénements des Journées des 18 et 19 Brumaire. 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, uncut. Paris, 1845

288

See pp. 277-292 for the poem L'Amerique.

BOOK of MORMON (The): an ACCOUNT written by the Hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi . . . By Joseph Smith, Junior. 8vo, calf. Very rare. Palmyra, 1830

289 BORDER and BASTILE [in America], by the author of "Guy Liv ingstone" [George Lawrence]. 12mo, cloth. New York, n. d. 290 BONTEKOE (Willem Ysbrantsz). JOURNAEL ofte Gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe vande Oost-Indische Reyse . . Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en gevaerlijcke, saecken hem daer in wedervaren . . . 18 December, 1618 . . . 16 November, 1625. Portrait, etching on title and 8 large etchings.

JOURNAEL ofte Beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur DIRCK ALBERTSZ RAVEN, nae Spitsberghen in den jare, 1639 . . . ellende op't wrack en sijn blijde verloff inge. Large etching.

Two parts in 1 vol. 4to, morocco antique, gilt over red leaves, by Riviere.

First edition of the most interesting of all Indian voyages.
See HULSIUS.

291 [BORDONE.] ISOLARIO di BENEDETTO BORDONE

et di Nuovo ristampato.
mente ritrovato.

B. A. V., No. 107.

Hoorn, 1646

Ricoretto

Con la gionta del Monte del Oro nova111 woodcut maps. Folio, vellum.

Venetia: Francesco di Leno, n. d.

Minus the map of the world. [2 leaves.]
This edition contains [verso of leaf LXIII.] the "Copia della Lettere del
Prefetto," which was first published in 1534.

292 [BORDONE.] LIBRO di BENedetto BordonE. Nel qual si ragiona de tutte l'Isole del mondo con li lor nomi antichi et moderni, historie, favole, et modi del loro vivere, et in qual parte del mare stanno, et in qual parallelo et climagiacciono. 112 woodcut maps. Folio, vellum. (Title mutilated and crudely repaired.)

[Vinegia: Nicolo d'Aristotile, 1528]

293 [BOSTON MASSACRE.] A SHORT NARRATIVE of the HORRID MASSACRE in BOSTON, perpetrated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIXth Regiment; which with the XIVth Regiment were then Quartered there. With some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. 8vo, half morocco, uncut (pp. 77 and 80 duplicated).

Boston, 1770

294 [BOSTON MASSACRE.] A SHORT NARRATIVE, &C. [Another copy.] 8vo, half morocco. Boston, 1770

In this impression the narrative is continued from p. 38 to 48 by the addition of certain matter which "may be supposed by the unhappy persons, now in custody for trial, as tending to give an undue bias to the minds of the jury." The appendix is also increased to 88 pages.

295 [BOSTON.] ORATIONS delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770, when a number of Citizens were killed by a party of British Troops, quartered among them in a time of Peace. Small 8vo, half calf. Boston: P. Edes, [1785]

These Boston Massacre Orations are by James Lovell, Dr. Joseph Warren, Dr. Benj. Church, Hon. John Hancock, Peter Thacher, Benj. Hichborn, Jonathan W. Austin, William Tudor, Jonathan Mason, Thomas Dawes, Jr., Geo. Richards Minot and Dr. Thos. Welsh, and conclude with the oration on the re-interment of Joseph Warren (who was killed at Bunker Hill), by Perez Morton, and a Poem by James Allen.

From the Crowninshield library.

296 BOSTON SLAVE RIOT and TRIAL of ANTHONY BURNS. Containing the Report of the Faneuil Hall Meeting; the Murder of Batchelder; Theodore Parker's Lesson for the Day; Speeches of Counsel . . . &c. 8vo, half morocco. Boston, 1854

297 BOSTON TEA-PARTY.] PROCEEDINGS of a Special Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, December 16, 1873: being the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor. Fac-simile. 8vo, uncut. Boston, 1874

298 Bossu (M.). NOUVEAUX VOYAGES aux INDES OCCIDENTALES ; contenant une Relation des differens Peuples qui habitent les environs du grand Fleuve Saint-Louis, appellé vulgairement le Mississippi, &c. 2 parts in vol. 12mo, calf. Paris, 1768

299 Bossu. NOUVEAUX VOYAGES aux INDES OCCIDENTALES, contenant une Relation des differens Peuples, &c. 2 vols., 12mo, half Amsterdam, 1769

300

301

302

calf.

BOTERO (Giovanni). vellum.

RELATIONI UNIVERSALI.

3 maps. 4to, Venetia, 1640

See "Della notitia, che i popoli del Mondo Nuovo," pp. 528-588.

BOTURINI BENADUCI (Lorenzo). IDEA de una NUEVA HISTORIA
General de la AMERICA SEPTENTRIONAL: fundada sombre mate-
rial copioso de Figuras, Symbolos, Caractères, y Geroglificos,
Cantares, y Manuscritos de Autores Indios [y Catalogo del
Mueso Historico Indiano]. Frontispiece. 4to, calf. Madrid, 1746

BOUCHER (Jonathan). A VIEW of the CAUSES and CONSE-
QUENCES of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION; in Thirteen Discourses,
preached in North America between 1763 and 1775. 8vo, half
morocco, gilt top, uncut edges.

London, 1797

303 BOUCHER de la RICHARDERIE (G.). BIBLIOTHÈQUE Universelle des VOYAGES. 6 vols., 8vo, calf.

Paris, 1808

304 [BOUDINOT.] A STAR in the WEST; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the long lost Ten Tribes of Israel, preparatory to their return to their Beloved City Jerusalem. By Elias Boudinot. 8vo, calf. Trenton, N. J., 1816

305

Pages 89-107 are devoted to an enquiry into the language of the American Indians.

BOUDINOT. Another Copy. 8vo, calf.

Trenton, 1816

306 BOULTON (D'Arcy). SKETCH of his MAJESTY'S PROVINCE of UPPER CANADA. Colored map. 4to, half morocco, gilt top.

London, 1805

307 [BOUNDARY QUESTION.] The HISTORY of the NEGOTIATIONS in
Reference to the Eastern and Northeastern Boundaries of the
United States. Map. 8vo, half morocco.
New York, 1841

308 BOURGAINVILLE (M. de). HISTORY of a VOYAGE to the MALOUINE (or Falkland) ISLANDS, in 1763-4. . . and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan. Translated from Dom Pernety's His

torical Journal. 2d edition. Maps and plates. 4to, half calf, gilt.

London, 1773