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



6 AMERICA [JOHNSON (Edward)] A HISTORY of NEW ENGLAND, from the English 



Planting in the Yeere 1628 untill the Yeere 1652, with the quaint running headline 

 title " Wonder Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England," London, 

 Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1654, FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, 

 blank corner torn off p. 163 and 2 natural flaws in the margins of pp. 31 and 119, 

 REMARKABLY FINE LARGE COPY, several haves having their lower margins uncut, in 

 the original calf, ^85 



EXTREMELY RARE. Interspersed with verses in praise of Higginson, John Eliot, Winthorpe, 

 Dudley, Cotton, Hooker, R. Mather, Hubbard, and many other prominent persons connected 

 with the early history of New England. It is a highly valuable history of the Colony from 

 1628 to 1651 and gives full details of the founding of Salem, Charlestown, Cambridge, 

 Dorchester, Hartford, and other well known towns, etc., together with accounts of the 

 Indians, Pequod War, etc. The author of this book was Captain Edward Johnson of 

 Woburn, Mass. Brooke, its publisher, finding it unsaleable when issuing Gorges' America 

 Painted to the Life four yea^s afterwards, boldly incorporated it with that work. Gorges 

 consequently has been much blamed for the piracy, but the late Mr. Henry Stevens in 1881, 

 discovered an interesting advertisement inserted bv Gorges in the Mercurius Publicus of 13 

 Sept., 1660, disclaiming the authorship of Johnson's work and was thus able for the first time to 

 explain the matter and clear Gorges of the imputation of literary thievery. There is no 

 indication of the author in the work itself and the Preface to the Reader has only the initials 

 T.H. Collation A 2 11., A-Hh in fours. The last 2 leaves contain a list of the books printed 

 for Nath. Brooke, in which the present work in No. 42 and last. 



[See Illustration.] 



DON GABRIEL, INFANTA OF SPAIN'S COPY. 



7 AMERICA OEXMELIN (Alex. O.) HISTOIRE DES AVANTURIERS FLIBUSTIERS QUI SF. 

 . SONT SIGNALEZ DANS LES INDES, conteuant ce qu'ils ont fait de remarquable depuis 



vingt annees. Avec La Vie, les Mceurs et les Coutumes des Boucaniers et des 

 Habitans de S. Dominque et de la Tortue. Une Description exacte de ces lieux, 

 etc., a Paris, chez /. Le Febvre, 1699, 2 vols, 8vo, with large folding map showing 

 part of Florida, the Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico, Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, 

 and other West Indian Islands, 2 folding plates, and 4 plans of " Lac de maracaye," 

 " La Vera Cruz," " Panama " and " Car tagene? fine copy, CONTEMPORARY FRENCH 

 MOTTLED CALF, triple gold fillet on sides, WITH THE ROYAL ARMS OF SPAIN AND 

 FRANCE ANCIENT, WITHIN THE COLLARS OF TWO ORDERS, SURMOUNTED BY A 

 CROWN, as centre ornament, back gilt in compartments, each containing a marguerite 

 surrounded by gold tooling, g.c., a little worn and joints cracked. ^3 33 



NOT ONLY A RARE EARLY WORK ON THE BUCCANEERS, BUT A VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF ROYAL 

 ARMORIAL BINDING. 



FROM THE FAMOUS PENN COLLECTION, LATE AT PENNSYLVANIA CASTLE, PORTLAND, ENG. 



8 AMERICA PENNSYLVANIA, In Chancery, Breviate, John Penn, Thomas Penn, 



and Richard Penn, Esqrs., Plaintiffs, Charles Calvert, Esq., Lord Baltimore, in the 

 Kingdom of Ireland, Defendant. For the Plantiffs. Upon a Bill to compell a 

 Specifick Execution of Articles of Agreement, entred into between the Partys for 

 settling the Boundarys of the Province of Pensilvania, the three Lower Countys, 

 and the Province of Maryland, and for perpetuating Testimony, etc. [? London, 

 1740], large folio, with 2 most interesting maps, one of larger size than the other, 

 illustrating the point at issue, THE EXTREMELY RARE OFFICIAL COPY OF THE CASE, on 

 lib closely prinled pages, on one side only, VERY FINE COPY, original old law calf, 

 l 



PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT VOLUME IN EXISTENCE FOR THE EARLY HISTORY OF PENNSYL- 

 VANIA AND MARYLAND, as all the grants, privileges and titles are recited, containing the 

 written evidence, proved in the cause by the Plantiffs, from Records, Ancient History, etc., 

 from 1584 to date of publication, with the highly interesting depositions of numerous witnesses 

 for both Plantiffs and Defendant. Not the least interesting part of the work are the two 

 invaluable maps, the larger of which is entitled " A Map of parts of the Provinces of Pennsyl- 

 vania and Maryland, with the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, according 

 to tbe most exact Surveys yet made, drawn in the year 1740, bears date Philadelphia, 20 Oct., 

 1740. So EXCESSIVELY RARK THAT TILL THE PRESENT YEAR NO COPY HAS OCCURRED FOR SALE 

 SINCE 1886, NEITHER DID THE CELEBRATED BRITWELL COURT COLLECTION OF AMERICANA 

 CONTAIN ONE, 



