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Credit: Sales catalogue 625: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![merica. Folding map, three plates of Indian Music, and 58 coloured lithographs of views in N. America. First Epirion. 2 vols, thick 8vo. Original cloth. London, 1860. £3 3s This work “purports to be a scientific treatise on the Indians in the wilds of North America, their origin, manners, customs, religion, etc., with a physical description of those regions,” and relates more especially to Texas, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Utah. [71] [DOUGLAS (Jchn)]. A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men, on the Prospect of Peace; and on the Terms necessary to be insisted upon in the Negotiation. First Eprrion. 8vo. Sheepskin. London, 1760. &3 3s Concerning the war in Canada and Nova Scotia and the French threat on the Ohio and the possibility of their linking up with the Mississippi behind the English Colonies. Referring to the capture of Quebec and death of Wolfe. [72] DOUGLASS (Wm.). A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North America. With the large and important folding map, coloured. 2 vols. 8vo. Calf. London, 1760. £4 4s Divided into five parts: 1. Relating to the settling of the Colonies, etc. 2. Hudson’s Bay Company and Fur trade. 3. Newfoundland and the cod fisheries. 4. Nova Scotia. 5. The Several Grants of Sagadahock, Province of Main, Massachusetts Bay, and New Plymouth... . commonly called New England. Tue DutcuH Ciarms To New NETHERLAND. [73] DOWNING (Sir George). A Reply ... to the Remarks of the Deputies of the Estates-General, upon his Memorial of December 20, 1664. Old Stile. Small gto.. Morocco, g.e. London, 1665. &190 10s This work relates to the disputes between the English and Dutch West India Companies and to the Dutch claims to their settlement of New Netherland or New York founded by them on unoccupied ground lying between two of the English Colonies and belonging to New England. [74] [DUBOIS-FONTANELLE (J. G.)]. The Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud, a native of Bordeaux, and Captain of a Ship. Translated from the French by Mrs. Griffith. With engraved frontispiece. 8vo. Old calf. London, 1771. &2 15s An interesting account of the shipwreck of the French Brigantine Tigre, Capt. Lacouture, on Dog Island, near Apalachicola on the coast of Florida in 1766, and of the authors travels along the coast and final rescue by a British detachment from Saint-Marc des Appalaches, to which fort he was taken; and of his final twenty-four days’ voyage round to St. Augustin, and so to New York. a . [75] [DUCHE (Jacob)]. Caspipina’s Letters; containing Observations on a variety of Subjects, Literary, Moral, and Religious. Written by a Gentleman who resided some time in Philadelphia. To which is added, the Life and Character of Wm. Penn, Esq., Original Proprietor of Pennsylvania. 2 vols. :12mo. Calf. Bath,, 1777. &1 5s [ 18 |](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3181539x_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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