THE Peelent State OF New - England. BEING A NARRATIVE Of the Troubles with the INDIANS IN NEW-ENGLAND, from the first planting To which is added a Difcourfe about the War By W. Hubbard Minister of Ipfwich. And the Lord faid unto Mofes, Write this for a Memorial in a Beok, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the Remembrance of Amalek from under heaven, Exod. 17. 14. LONDON: Printed for Tho. Parkburft at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapfide, near Mercers.Chappel, and at the Bible on London-Bridg. 1677. No. 12. AMERICA: HUBBARD, CALIFORNI II AMERICA.-AQUI COMIENCA VN VOCABULARIO EN LA LENGUA CASTELLANA Y MEXICANA. COMPUESTO POR EL MUY REUERENDO PADRE FRAY ALONSO DE MOLINA: Guardia dl couento d Sant Antonio d Tetzcuco dla orde delos frayles Menores. Imprimio se e la muy grade & insigne y muy leal ciudad de Mexico, en casa de Iua paplos, qtro dias del Mes de Mayo, de 1555. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, woodcut on title, which is in facsimile, also a few words on the last page, slight waterstain in places, BUT A FINE LARGE COPY, blue morocco gilt, inside dentelles, g. e., £105 *No perfect copy known; in fact, the book is of such extraordinary rarity that only some five copies altogether are believed to be extant, of which the present example is the best, being the most perfect. It is also of great interest as the first printed dictionary of the Aztec tongue, and also one of the earliest books printed in America. 12 AMERICA.-HUBBARD (William) (William) THE TRESENT STATE OF NEWENGLAND. Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607 to this present year 1677, but chiefly of the late Troubles in the two last years 1675 and 1676; to which is added a Discourse about the War with the Pequads in the year 1637. By W. Hubbard, Minister of Ipswich. London, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1677. FIRST LONDON EDITION, sm. 4to, WITH THE LARGE FOLDING MAP OF NEW ENGLAND ("WINE HILLS'), corners of the first 61 pages and last 5 leaves repaired, also a small piece of lower blank margin to 13, large copy, red levant morocco, ornamental gold panel on the sides, back richly gilt, inside borders, g. e., by F. Bedford, £72 10s * Extremely rare, with the genuine "Wine Hills map, which in this copy is in very fine state, save that the lower left-hand black border is slightly shaved. It is a most interesting map, with ships, animals, &c. The map, as it appeared in the original Boston edition of the same year, was the first ever executed in America. The work itself has for over two hundred years been regarded as the authority on the early history of New England. Its author went with his father to New England in 1635, and graduated at Harvard in 1642. During the absence of Increase Mather in England in 1688 he was appointed by Sir Edmund Andros to act as President of Harvard. [See Illustration.] ACCOUNT BY AN EYE-WITNESS OF THE REPULSE AT CHARLESTOWN, S.C., 13 AMERICA.-NEW REGULATIONS FOR THE PRUSSIAN INFANTRY, containing an exact detail of the present Field Service. Translated from the German. London, 1757. 4to, with 15 (should be 16) folding copperplates of different exercises, old law calf, £15 * A most interesting volume, containing at the end ten leaves of manuscript giving a full and contemporary account of the unsuccessful Siege of Charlestown, S.C., in 1776, the Battles of Long Island and White Plains, and the taking of Forts Washington and Lee, the march through New Jersey, the defeat of the Hessian Division at Trenton, the Expedition in 1777 up the Chesapeake, ending with the Battle of Brandywine and investment of Philadelphia, written either by Major Morrison or Captain Christopher Darby (to whom Morrison presented the book 19 Jan., 1784), both of the 54th Foot or West Norfolk Regiment, and both eye-witnesses, having been engaged with their regiment in all the operations above named. The first few pages of manuscript contain Örders for a Review to be observed by every Regiment or Corps in Nova Scotia under the command of Major Gen. John Campbell, dated Head Quarters, Halifax, 23 May, 1784. With the armorial bookplate of John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, Governor of Virginia. 14 AMERICA.-HUDSON (Henry) DESCRIPTIO AC DELINEATIO GEOGRAPHICA DETECTIONIS FRETI SIVE, Transitus ad Occasum supra terras Americanas, in Chinam atq.; Iaponem ducturi. Recens investigati ab M. Henrico Hudsono Anglo. Item Exegesis Regi Hispaniae facta, super tractu recens detecto, in quinte Orbis parte, CUI NOMEN, AVSTRALIS INCOGNITA. Cum descriptione Terrarum Samoiedarum, & Tingoesiorum, in Tartaria ad Ortum Freti Waygats sitarum, nuperq; sceptro Moscovitarum adscitarum. Amsterodami, ex officina Hesselii Gerardi, 1613. Sm. 4to, with 4 folding maps (that of Nova Zembla in beautiful facsimile), large folding engraving of a walrus and young (also in facsimile), and 3 woodcuts of a ship, a Samoyede driving reindeer (shaved on outer edge), and a whale, slightly age-discoloured, fine large copy, blue morocco extra, g.e., £120 * ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL AMERICANA. The only other copies that have occurred in the auction rooms within recent years are those formerly in the Huth and Christie Miller Collections. The present copy has two supplementary leaves of text at the end (sign. G 1-2), which do not appear to be in any other known example. They are omitted in the collation of the work both by Brunet and Lowndes, nor are they mentioned in the collation given in the Huth and Christie Miller catalogues. Contains Hudson's third and fourth voyage in 1609 and 1610, and the third published account of the discovery of the Northern Coasts of Australia by F. de Quiros. The maps represent: (1) Hudson's Bay, engraved by Hessel Gerritsz after the original by H. Hudson; (2) Mappemond, the American half showing California as a peninsula; (3) The Northern Part of Russia, Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and Siberia; (4) Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. Though usually called second edition, the text is entirely different from that of 1612. The fourth map, and plate of the Walrus and young, appear here for the first time. Collation: A to G2 in fours, D2 marked B2, with 4 folding maps and a folding plate. The Huth copy, wanting the last 2 leaves, realised £150 at Sotheby's in 1919. 15 AMERICA.-A JOINT LETTER FROM ADMIRAL LESTOCK AND LIEUT.GENERAL ST. CLAIR TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. Dated 21 Oct., 1746. CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, 18 leaves, sm. 4to, original marbled paper wrapper, £5 5s * A valuable and important manuscript, giving a full account of the action with the French Fleet off Hispaniola, 7 Jan., 1740-41, and particulars in great detail of the expedi tion against Cartagena in March and April, 1740-41. 16 AMERICA. THE LATE OCCURRENCES IN NORTH AMERICA, and Policy of Great Britain, considered. London, J. Almon, 1766. 8vo, fine large copy, calf, antique style, £7 10s A rare tract, giving the point of view of the Colonies in the disputes between Great Britain and North America in regard to taxation, &c., which eventually led to the War of Independence. 17 AMERICA.-ORIGINAL OFFICIAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, "An Account of the Charges of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay arisen from the Expedition against Cape Breton." 1 pages, folio, with postscript on a separate half-page, 8vo, £8 8s 1745-46 * A valuable historical document in connection with the taking of Cape Breton in 1745, giving a detailed account of the sums spent in Military and Naval services by the province on that expedition, with the names of the ships employed, and dates of their services. Includes an item of £18,525 for materials sent for, per Mr. Bastide, the engineer to repair Louisbourg," and £13,500 for the support of 1,500 prisoners sent up from Louisbourg to Boston. The total amount expended in New England money was £777,535-9-4, in sterling money £129,589-4-10}. The postscript states, there is no charge made in this account for the pay or subsistence of the Troops since the 24th Sept., 1745, when two American regiments were established here and the Shirley Galley continued in the pay of the Province of the Massachusets longer than the time here charged before she was purchased for his Majesty and taken into his pay." -- |