MYERS & Co., 59, High Holborn, London, W.C. 45 



216 WILKES (John) A LETTER TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF GRAFTON, First 

 Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, London^]. Almon, 1767, FIRST EDITION- 

 8vo, half morocco, t.e.g., RARE, 305 



Contains the celebrated John Wilkes's own account of his arrest and imprisonment in the Tower 

 in 1763. A very interesting copy from the Phelips Library, Montacute House, Somerset. E. 

 Phelips lins written in many of the names of persons left blank in the text and added one or 

 two notes. His autograph is also on title. 



217 YEAR BOOK ANNO xxvi HENRICI vin. Actes made in the session of this 

 present parliament holden upon prorogation at Westm. the in dale of Noveber in 

 the xxvi yere of the reigne of our moste soueraine lorde Kynge Henry the vni., 

 etc. To the honor of God and for the common weale and profit of this realme, 

 London, T. Berthelet, n.d. (1535), folio, blftCfe ICttCC, title within ornamental 

 woodcut border, fine woodcut initials, very fine large copy, unbound, 305 



Among the interesting enactments of this parliament may be mentioned an act relating to 

 " kepers of feries on the water of Seuerne " ; " amendyng of high waies in Sussex " ; " reedi- 

 fiynge of void groundes " in the citie of Norwich and town of Lynne ; " for punishement of 

 welshemen attemptyng any assautes or aff raies upon any thin habitauntes of Heref . , Glouc. , 

 and Shropshire" ; " for takynge awaie certaine exactions taken within the arch^deaconrye of 

 Rychemonde by spirituall men " ; " for makynge of worstedes in the citie of Norwiche, and 

 in the townes of Lynn and Yarmouthe," etc., etc. 



ADDENDA. 



2.8 AMERICA [GRANT (Mrs. Anne)] MEMOIRS OF AN AMERICAN LADY; with 

 Sketches of Manners and Scenery in America, as they existed previous to the 

 Revolution, London, Longmans and others, 1809, 2 vols, sm. 8vo, original marbled 

 calf, gilt back, 2 is 



Full of valuable and interesting reminiscences of the Schuyler family of Albany, N.Y., and their 

 friends Generals Bradstreet, Abercrombie, Lee, etc. Life in Albany, New York, Oswego, 

 etc. , the Defeat at Ticonderoga, and other encounters between the Indians and French about 

 the time of the fall of Quebec, the Mohawk Indians and numerous details of the manners 

 and customs of a very important period of the American Colonial history. 



^19 AMERICAN QUAKERS MEMORIALS CONCERNING DECEASED FRIENDS : being a 

 selection from the Records of the yearly Meeting for Pennsylvania, etc., from 1788 

 to 1819 inclusive, Philadelphia, Solomon W. Conrad, iSti, 8vo, fine copy, original 

 boards, uncut, i6s 



A SCARCE PHILADELPHIAN IMPRINT, full of interesting details of the travels, etc., of prominent 

 Pennsylvanian Friends, among the Delaware Indians, West Indies, Europe, and elsewhere. 



220 BIBLIOGRAPHY -BIBLIOTHECA HEINSIANA, sive Catalogus Librorum Quos 

 magno studio et sumptu, dum viveret, collegit vir illustris Nicolaus Heinsius, Dan. 

 Fil. In duas Partes divisus, Lugd. Bat.,J. de Vivie, n.d. (post 1666), sm. 8vo, title 

 in red and black, original vellum, 2 is 



The very rare and interesting early auction catalogue of the library of the celebrated Dutch 

 scholar Daniel Heinsius, who died in 1666, containing many manuscripts and incunabula of the 

 greatest rarity. Priced in ink throughout in the Dutch currency of the time. 



221 ELZEVIR PRESS E'KAINE DIATHEKE. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM. Ex Regiis 

 aliisque optimis editionibus, hac nova expressum : cui quid accesserit, Praefatio 

 docebit, Lugd. Bntavorum, Ex Officina Elseviriorum, 1641, 12 mo, Elzevir device 

 on title, which ts printed in red and black, very tall copy, original limp vellum, with 



folding flaps on fore edges, age darkened, holes for tie strings, 253 



THE SCARCE GENUINE THIRD ELZEVIAN EDITION, printed in long lines. The counterfeit of the 

 same year had the text divided into two columns, and in the imprint the lines " Lugduni 

 Batavorum Typis Elzevirianis." Measures 13.2 by 7.2 mill. Contains an interesting XVIIth 

 Century armorial bookplate inscribed " Bibl. Martialis Delepi." 



