CATALOGUE OF 

 RARE BOOKS, HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, Etc. 



1 AINSWORTH (W. H.) THE LANCASHIRE WITCHES. A Romance of Pendle 



Forest, London, G. Routledge, 1854, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 8vo, with 12 

 full-fage plates ly John Gilbert, fine copy, original blue cloth with appropriate design 

 in gold on back and front cover, uncut, SCARCE, 253 



2 ALMANACK WHARTON (George) CALENDARIUM ECCLESIASTICUM : or, a New 



Almanack after the Old Fashion. To which is added Gesta Britannorum, or a 

 briefe Chronologic from 1600 until the present 1657, London, J. Grismond, 1657, 

 sm. 8vo, printed in red and black, FINE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, 

 woodcut diagrams, natural defect in margin of Bi t few headlines and signatures cut 

 in to, few small worm-holes in blank back margins, half calf antique, ^2 as 



THE VERY RARE FIRST OF WHARTON'S ALMANACKS WITH THE INTERESTING CHRONOLOGY FROM 

 1600 TO 1657, which in addition to full details of the Great Civil War and events of the 

 Protectorate, gives the founding of the Settlement of Virginia, events in the West Indies, return 

 of Sir G. Ayscue from reducing the Plantations, Entry of the Fleet into the Gulf of Florida 

 and many curious items of local interest. He published his first almanack under the anagram 

 of George Naworth in 1641, the first under his own name being that of 1645. In 1642 he 

 raised a troop of horse for Charles I., and was created a baronet in 1677. 



3 AFRICAN WILD SPORTS A SERIES OF 18 FINE COLOURED AQUATINTS AFTER 



DRAWINGS BY SAMUEL HOWITT, AND J. H. CLARK, AQUATINTED BY DUBOURG, 



CLARK, AND OTHERS, illustrating Hunting the. Lion (2 plates), Elephant (^ plates'), 

 Rhinoceros, Camelopard or Giraffe, Panther, Leopard, Zebra, Ostrich, Buffalo, 

 Antelope, Porcupine, Hyaena, and Crocodile (2 plates), in Africa, together with a 

 battle between a Great Boar and a Tiger, Published by Edw. Orme, London, 1813, 

 BRILLIANT IMPRESSIONS, engraved surface measures 6| by 8|-;., with wide margins, 



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4 AMERICA A COLLECTION of the STATUTES, relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships 



of War, and Incidental Matters to the 8th George III., London, M. Baskett, 



Printer to the King, 1768, thk. 4to, leaf with Admiralty dcvicee as frontispiece, name 



written on title, fine large copy, old calf, joints a little worn, VERY RARE, 2 as 



Full of most interesting information as to naval and trade affairs from the 3rd of Edward I. to 



the 7th of George III. Relates to Wrecks, Piracy. Thames Watermen, the Plantations in 



North America, Greenland, the Newfoundland Fishery (full of interesting details). Tobacco, 



South Sea Company, Greenwich Hospital, Dover Pilots, Smugglers, Plantation Ships, North 



West Passage (offering a reward o/~j20,000 to (he owner of the vessel discovering the passage), 



lading of rice at Carolina or Georgia, Pressing in the Plantations, Ships or Vessels employed 



upon the Lakes. Great Waters, or Rivers in North America, Bum-boats on the Thames, 



Whale Fins, East India goods and the " Exportation of non-enumerated Goods from the 



British Colonies in America " (they might be landed in Ireland). 



5 AMERICA A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, Travels, Sufferings, and Labour of Love in 



the Work of the Ministry of William Edmnndson, Dublin, G. Fairbrother, 1715, 

 FIRST EDITION, 410, name written on title, fine large copy, original panelled calf, 

 RARE, 2 i os 



Edmundson was born at Little Musgrove in Westmorland in 1627. Served under Cromwell 

 during the Civil Wars. Came under the influence of George Fox in 1653 and became one of 

 the most ardent members of the Society of Friends. Settled in Ireland in that year. Went 

 with G. Fox and other notable Quakers to the West Indies in 1671. Took part in the famous 

 controversy with John Burnyeat and others and the celebrated Roger Williams at Newport 

 and Providence in Rhode Island in 1672, and gives interesting particulars thereof. Full of 

 information of his travels in the West Indies (Islands of Nevis, Jamaica, Antiqua, and 

 Barbadoes), Virginia, Carolina, Maryland, New York, Long Island, Boston, etc. Gives an 

 account of the Indian War of King Philip in 1675, his experiences at Hertford in Connecticut. 

 Also contains an interesting account of his sufferings in Ireland and detailed description of the 

 doings there both before and during the troublous times of the Battle of the Boyne. A most 

 interesting volume. 



