Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros

Date:
1935
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/149
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 612: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [354] HIPPISLEY (G.). A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apuré, in South America; which sailed from England in November, 1817, and joined the Patriotic Forces in Venezuela and Caraccas. 8vo. Half morocco. London, 1819. £3 3s An interesting account of the barbarous war between the Spanish Royalists and the Repub- licans in Venezuela, and of the British Brigade, the majority of whom died from disease and exposure. [355] [HODGES (James)]. A Just and Modest Vindication of the Scots Design, for the having Established a Colony at Darien. With a Brief Display, how much it is their Interest, to apply themselves to Trade, and particularly to that which is Foreign. 8vo. Original calf. | (London), 1699. £7 10s Also ascribed to Robert Ferguson. BurRNT BY THE PuBLic HANGMAN. [356 | A Defence of the Scots abdicating Darien: including an Answer to the Defence of the Scots Settlement there. Authore Britanno sed Dunensi. Small 8vo. Half calf. (Edinburgh), Printed in the Year 1700. £4 15s Collation: PP. XIX, 1-60, 145-167. The volume contains accounts of the life of Wm. Paterson, the founder of the Scheme; of how the Company was floated, and of its leading members; the expedition, and of the occurrences at Darien. The introduction is an appeal to Scotchmen not to waste their money in the Scheme. In one place the Author suggests that having once founded the Panama Colony, it was the Scots’ intention to pass “over that Isthmus to the Phillipin Islands, Cali- fornia, China, and to Japan, if they could turn Dutch Men.” The whole work is written in an extraordinary satirical manner, and raised tremendous indignation in Scotland, so much so that the Treasury was required to offer a reward of £6,000 Scots for the arrest of the author, and the book was condemned to be burnt by the public hangman. At the time a certain Walter Herries was supposed to be the author, but Halkett and Laing attribute it to James Hodges, [357 | Another Edition. pp. xii, 50. 12mo. Calf, rebacked. (Edinburgh), 1700. &4 15s [358] HOLSTEIN (General H. L. V. Ducoudray). Memoirs of Simon Bolivar, Presi- dent Liberator of the Republic of Colombia; and of his principal Generals; comprising a secret history of the Revolution, and the events which preceded it, from 1807 to the present time. Portrait of Bolivar and large map. 2 vols. 8vo. Cloth. London, 1830. £3 3s [359] HUDSON (W. H.) and SCLATER (P. L.). Argentine Ornithology. A Descrip- tive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine Republic. With Notes on their Habits. With 20 fine coloured plates of the birds of the Argentine. 2 vols. Large 8vo. Half morocco, uncut, t.e.g. London, 1888-9. £18 18s [360] HUDSON (W. H.). The Naturalist in La Plata. With numerous illustrations. First Epirion. Original cloth. London, 1892. £3 3s Only 1,000 copies of the first and 750 copies of the second edition were issued. [361] Second Edition in the original.cloth. London, 1892. £1 15s [50]
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