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Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1423 || 424 1) 425 | 426 430 431 432 84, CHARING Cross ROAD, LONDON, W.C.2. 4} United States—continued. MASSACHUSETTS.—HorsForp (EBEN NorTON) The DISCOVERY of the ANCIENT City of NORUMBEGA. A Communication to the President and Council of the American Geographical Society, at their Special Session in Watertown, November 21, 1889, por- trait, 4 maps and 8 illustrations on 4 plates, 4to., cloth, Boston, 1890 £1/1/- The site of the ancient city of Norumbega was discovered by the location of the site of the Fort on the banks of Charles River. It was occupied for a time by the Bretons some 400 years ago, and as many years earlier still, built and occupied as the seat of extensive fisheries and a settlement by the Northmen. : HUNTOON (DANIEL T. V.) HisTory of the Town of CANTON, Norfolk County, Mass., published by the Town, 3 maps and 20 illustrations, thick 8vo., cloth, Cambridge {Mass.], 1893 12/- : MourtT (G.) RELATION, or JOURNAL of the PLANTATION at PLYMOUTH, with an Introduction and Notes by HENRY MARTYN DEXTER [a reprint of the very rare original edition of 1622], with large folding sketch-map, 4to., half morocco gilt, t.e.g., Boston: Fohn Kimball Wiggin, 1865 £2/15/- Library of New England History, No. 1. One of 250 numbered copies. MATHER (Cotton) The WonpeErRs of the INVISIBLE WORLD : being an Account of the TRYALS of several WITCHES lately Executed in NEW-ENGLAND ; to which is added a FARTHER ACCOUNT of the TRYALS of the NEW-ENGLAND WITCHES, by INCREASE MATHER, portrait, post 8vo., cloth, Library of Old Authors, 1862 6/- MATHER (INCREASE) REMARKABLE PROVIDENCES illustrative of the EARLIER Days of AMERICAN COLONISATION, with Introductory Preface by GEORGE OFFOR, portrait, fcap. 8vo., cloth, Library of Old Authors, 1856 6/- MENCKEN (H. L.) The AMERICAN LANGUAGE: An Inquiry into the DEVELOPMENT of ENGLISH in the UNITED STATES, stout 8vo., buckram, 1922 10/- MICHADUX (F. ANDREW) The NorRTH AMERICAN SYLVA; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered Particularly with respect to their Use in the Arts and their Introduction into Commerce ; to which is added a Description of the most Useful of the European Forest-Trees ; translated, from the French, with Notes, by J. JAy SMITH, illustrated by 156 coloured engravings, 3 vols; NUTTALL (Tuomas) The NorTH AMERICAN SYLVA; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, NOT DESCRIBED in the work of F. ANDREW MicHaux, and containing all the FOREST TREES DISCOVERED in the ROCKY MOvuNTAINS, the TERRITORY of OREGON, down to the SHORES of the PACIFIC, and into the CONFINES of CALIFORNIA, as well as in Various Parts of the United States ; zlustrated by 121 coloured plates, 3 vols in 2 ; together 5 vols, roy. 8vo., uniform original blind stamped morocco, g.e., Philadelphia, 1859 £25/-/- With the important continuation by Nuttall, this work forms a reference book of un- rivalled interest and beauty. MILLER (Joaquin) SonGs of the SUN-LANDS, FIRST EDITION, 8vo., orig. cloth, uncut, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1873 8/- Name and date on half-title. This is the first issue. A large paper edition was issued later in the year and published at Boston. The songs include, ‘“‘ In Yosemite Valley,’’ Dead in the Sierras, ‘‘ In Southern California,” and *‘ In San Francisco.”’ MISSISSIPPI.—INDEPENDENT ORDER of ODDFELLOWS: PROCEEDINGS of the R.W. GRAND LODGE, of the STATE of MISSISSIPPI, at the ANNUAL COMMUNICATION, held in the City of VICKSBURG, July 18-20th, 1853, 222 pages, 8vo., wrappers, Natchez, 1853 8/- : SHEA (JOHN GILMARY) EARLY VOYAGES up and down the MISSISSIPPI, by CAVELIER, ST. COSME, LE SUEUR, GRAVIER, and GUIGNAS, with an Introduction, Notes, and an Index, sm. 4to., half morocco, t.e.g., Albany, 1861 £1/15/- Munsell’s Historical Series of Reprints, No. VIII. Only 100 copies printed, now very scarce. These relations of travels and voyages, are printed either from unedited MSS. or from such obscure sources, as to be accessible here for the first time.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859335_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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