MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 3 



9 AMERICA A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, TRAVELS, AND GOSPEL LABOURS OF A 

 FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, DANIEL STANTON, LATK OF PHILADELPHIA, 

 IN THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. With the Testimony of the Monthly-Meeting 

 of Friends in that City concerning him, Philadelphia, J. Crukshank, 1773, FIRST 

 EDITION, 8vo, name written on title, fine large copy, original calf, 2 2s 



A RARE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT. Full of interesting details of Stanton's travels in Pennsyl- 

 vania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Indies, Connecticut, New York, the Carolinas, 

 and New England. Contains also accounts of the Indian treaties, 175U-58, at Easton in 

 Northampton County, Pennsylvania ; New York government, and of visits to New York, Long 

 Island, Rhode Island, Boston, etc., etc. The name on the title "Benjamin Birkett " must 

 have been a relative of the James Birket of Antiqua, W.I., referred to on p. 34. 



10 AMERICA 1TOLEMEUS (CLAUDIUS) PTOLEMEO. LA GKOGRAFIA. 



Nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano da GIKOLAMO ROSCKLLI, con Espositioni, 

 etc., Aggiuntoni vu pieno discorso di M. Guiseppe Moleto, Jn Venetia, V. Valgrisi, 

 1561. FIRST EDITION OF RUSCELLI'S PTOLEMY, 4to, separate titles to each part 

 with fine printer's device on each, WITH PTOLEMY'S 27 MAPS AND THE 37 NEW ONES, 



CONTAINING THE ADDITIONS OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY TO THE DATE OF PUBLICATION, 



INCLUDING 10 RELATING TO AMERICA, numerous woodcut diagrams, 

 and forge and small woodcut initials of mythological subjects, including Leda and the 

 Swan, many times repeated, trifling fray in outer blank margin of title and next leaf , 

 VERY FINE LARGE COPY, in the original Italian limp vellum, ^5 55 



A RARE AND IMPORTANT EDITION. It is an entirely new translation into Italian with numerous 

 remarks and extensive addenda by Ruscelli. The double-page maps, with descriptive text on 

 reverse, are enlarged copies of Gastaldi'smaps in the edition of 1548, excepting : " Universaie 

 Novo" drawn on a new projection, and called " Orbis descriptio" the map ef Britain, modified 

 from that in the Ptolemy of 1513 ; and the map of Central America (Neuva Hispania), where 

 Yucatan is drawn as a peninsula, and not separated from the main by a strait as in the map of 

 1548. The following 4 maps are added Toscana, nova tabula; THE FAMOUS ZENIMAHOF 

 GREENLAND, ETC., first published at Venice in 1558, PROBABLY THE EARLIEST RECOGNITION OF 

 IT, entitled " Septentrionaliiim partium tabu/a nova " ; Brasil, nova tavola; and Ptolemy's 

 old map of the world, excluded from the edition of 1548. The other maps of American 

 interest are Schonladia Nuova ; Tierra Nova (South America and the IVest Indies) ; Tierra 

 Nueva (a very interesting map, shtnving the whole At /antic Coast of North America, front La 

 l-'lorida and /.a Bremuda to Tierra del I.aborador as known in 1560) ; Isola Cuba Nova ; and 

 Carta Marina Tavola. Two of the maps have been transposed by the binder. 



1 1 AMERICA THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE OF KNOWLEDGE AND PLEASURE, London, 



J. Hinton, 1775, 2 vols, in i, 8vo, WITH KINE FOLDING VIEW OF BOSTON THE 

 CAPITAL OF NEW ENGLAND, LARGE FOLDING MAP OF " THE PRESENT SEAT OF WAR 

 IN NORTH AMERICA," including New Hampshire, Massachussets, Rhode Island and 

 Connectiait, portraits of Edmund Burke, Laurence Sterne, and other eminent men of 

 the day, views of castles, fancy subjects, plates of armorial bearings and natural 

 history subjects, old half binding worn t ^3 IDS 



These two volumes are full of important articles and news respecting the commencement of the 

 American War of Independence, including a copy of the Petition from the General Congress in 

 America to the King, Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham for settling the Troubles in America, 

 Abstract of the Act lately passed for Restraining the Trade and Commerce of the Provinces of 

 Massachusetts-Bay, New Hampshire, and Coloniesof Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence } 

 Review of the present Disputes between Great Britain and the Colonies ; Earl Effingham's 

 Speech on the REJECTION OF THE MEMORIAL FROM THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK ; The 

 Triumph of America: an Ode; ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL; Declaration 

 of the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met in General Congress 

 at Philadelphia ; setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up Arms ; COPY OF A 

 MOST INTERESTING LETTER FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON TO LlEUT.-GEN. GAGE respecting 

 the treatment of prisoners, with Gage's reply ; a calm address to our American Colonies BY 

 JOHN WESLEY, M.A. ; Copy of articles of Confederation, etc., entered into by the Delegates 

 of the Colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc., etc. , in General Congress met at 

 Philadelphia, May 10th, 1775, etc., etc. The first volume also contains a Life of William 

 Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, and an interesting notice of Sheridan's " The Rivals " " acted 

 for the first time at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, Jan. 17, 1775," with list of the 

 performers and their parts. 



