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BOWERS (B.) An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants 1.00 Inhabitants.00 of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of his Judgements. By Bath Bowers. [New York: William Bradford. 1709.]

Sm. 4to, pp. 23. Calf, gilt edges, by HAYDAY.

Dated at the end, Philadelphia, July 17, 1709, but evidently printed by W. BRADFORD, at Nev York.

BOWNAS (S.) An Account of the Life, Travels, and Christian
Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of Samuel Bownas. The
Second Edition.
London: Luke Hind. 1761.

8vo, pp. viii., 199. Half calf. A remarkably fine copy. SCARCE.
Bownas landed in Maryland, 1702. Soon after he arrived he held a public dispute with
George Keith; also with William Bradford, and suffered imprisonment for his belief. His
account of the Labadies, a community resembling the Shakers, is very amusing.

[BOWYER (W.)] The Origin of Printing. In two Essays; 1. 3. The Substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the Origin of Printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's Account of the Invention of the Art at Harleim, and its Progress to Mentz. With Occasional Remarks; and an Appendix. The Second Edition: with some Improvements. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols. 1776.

8vo, pp. xvi., 300. Half morocco. VERY SCARCE.

BOYER (Lieut.) A Journal of Wayne's Campaign; ... against the North-western Indians; 1794. By Lieutenant Boyer. Cincinnati: William Dodge. 1866.

...

4to, pp. 23. Half purple morocco, gilt top, UNCUT.

BOYNTON (E. C.) History of West Point, and its Military Im- /. portance during the American Revolution: and the Origin and Pro

of af

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gress of the United States Military Academy. By Captain Edward! IT ME C. Boynton, A. M. New York: D. Van Nostrand. 1864.

Imp. 8vo, pp. xviii., (2), 9–408. 7 Maps and 29 Plates. Half purple levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. LARGE PAPER, one hundred copies only printed. SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS, mostly fine INDIA PROOFS, Some BEFORE LETTERS, inserted.

BRACKENRIDGE (H. H.) Modern Chivalry: containing the Ad-
ventures of a Captain, and Teague O'Regan, his Servant. By H. H.
Brackenridge.
Richmond: Jacob Johnson. 1803-7.

VERY SCARCE.

2 vols., 12mo, pp., vi., 210, 178; ix., 175, 163. Half calf. Fine copy. One of the earliest works of humour by an American Author. BRACKENRIDGE. Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1794. By Hugh H. Brackenridge. Philadelphia: John McCulloch. 1795.

A scarce book, in defence of the author and the subject. "It was at first intended to publish this work in three vols., with an appendix to each vol., &c. relinquished, and it was judged best to publish the whole in one vol."

But this plan was
This accounts for the

three paginations; that the second and third begin with page 5 is, perhaps, owing to titlepages, etc., being dropped.

For other works relating to this subejct, see the following No. ; also, Nos. 483, 720, 765, and 1641.

BRACKENRIDGE (H. M.) History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania, commonly called the Whiskey Insurrection. 1794. By H. M. Brackenridge,

...

Pittsburgh: W. S. Haven. 1859.

8vo, pp. 336. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. The only uncut copy we have ever seen. Now scarce, as most of the copies were destroyed by fire.

The author's father defended the insurgents; in this work, the father is defended. See "Hist. Mag.," III, 377.

BRADFORD (A.) An Eulogy in Commemoration of the Sublime Virtues of Gen. George Washington, ... Pronounced in Wiscasset, February 22, 1800. ... By Alden Bradford. Wiscasset: 1800.

8vo, pp. 16. UNCUT.

BRADFORD. History of Massachusetts, From 1764, to July 1775:
when General Washington took Command of the American Army.
By Alden Bradford, ...
Boston: Richardson and Lord. 1822.

8vo, pp. 414. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. PORTRAIT inserted.
BRADFORD. History of Massachusetts, from July, 1775, when
General Washington took Command of the American Army at Cam-
bridge, to the Year 1789, (Inclusive,) When the Federal Government
was established under the Present Constitution. By Alden Brad-
ford ...
Boston: Wells and Sibley. 1825.

8vo, pp. 376. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. the preceding No.

PORTRAIT inserted. Uniform with

BRADFORD. History of Massachusetts, from the Year 1790 to 1820. By Alden Bradford. Boston: The Author. 1829.

8vo, pp. 327. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. PORTRAIT inserted. Uniform with the preceding No.

"The work of a gentleman, with whom New England History has been the study of a life, and who, from the official relation which he long sustained, as Secretary of the Commonwealth, enjoyed peculiar advantages for its prosecution."- N. Am. Rev.

BRADFORD (A. W.) American Antiquities and Researches into the Origin and History of the Red Race. By Alexander W. BradNew York: Wiley and Putnam. 1843.

ford.

8vo, pp. 435. Half crushed red levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. Contains a resumé of the discoveries of American antiquities, with a description of their size, character, and location, and is a very excellent collection of the material facts relating to them. Field.

BRADFORD (W.) History of Plymouth Plantation. By William Bradford, the Second Governor of the Colony. Now First Printed

from the Original Manuscript.

Deane.

...

Edited, with Notes, by Charles

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1856. 8vo, pp. xix., (1), 477. Half crimson morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Fifty copies only reprinted, from the Massachusetts His. Society's Collections.

[BRADFORD (W.)] Report of the Committee of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, on their Visit to New York, May 20, 1863, at the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Birth-Day of William Bradford, who Introduced the Art of Printing into the Middle Colonies of British America. By Horatio Gates Jones. Philadelphia: 1863. 8vo, green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Engraving of BRADFORD'S TOMB-STONE inserted. The interleaved, large type, and emphacized copy of the Address delivered by MR. WALLACE On the above occasion, bound in after the Report, is the identical copy from which he read at the Cooper Institute.

[BRADFORD.] Some Account of "The Book of Common Prayer," printed A.D., 1710. By William Bradford, under the Auspices of Trinity Church, New York. The First Edition of that Book ever printed on the American Continent.

Privately printed for Horatio Gates Jones. 1870.

Sm. 8vo. A few copies only printed. Accompanied with an autograph letter from JOHN H. HICKCOX, Assistant Librarian of the N. Y. State Library, describing the earliest known example of Bradford's printing in New York, now in that institution.

BRADFORD CLUB. [A Complete Set of the Publications of "THE 93 CLUB," so called, and of the " BRADFORD CLUB."] New York: [v. d.]

11 vols., royal 8vo, balf crimson morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, except Melvin's Journal which is gilt edged.

The Series consists of:

I. A Journal of the Expedition to Quebec, in the Year 1775, under the Command of Colonel
Benedict Arnold. By James Melvin.

New York: 1857. ^~

pp. 30. No. 3, of 102 copies only printed, strictly for PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. Fine unlettered
proof PORTRAIT of ARNOLD inserted.

II. Diary of Washington; from the first day of October, 1789, to the tenth day of March,
1790. From the Original Manuscript, now First Printed.

pp. 89. No. 1, of 110 copies only printed, for PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION.
PORTRAIT of WASHINGTON inserted.

New York: 1858.
Fine unlettered proof

After the publication of this work the BRADFORD CLUB was organized and issued the
following:

I. Papers Concerning the Attack upon Hatfield and Deerfield by a party of Indians from
Canada September 19, 1677. [Edited by F. B. Hough.] New York: 1859.
pp. 82. Map. 110 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 4. India proof PORTRAIT of the EDITOR
inserted.

First Complete
New York: MDCCCLX.

II. The Croakers, by Joseph Rodman Drake and Fitz-Greene Halleck.
Edition.

pp. viii., 191. PORTRAITS of HALLECK and DRAKE in Two states, lettered and unlettered India
proofs. A fine unlettered India proof PORTRAIT of HALLECK, from a different plate inserted.
257 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 3.

III. The Operations of the French Fleet under
in Two Contemporaneous Journals.

Count de Grasse in 1781-2. As described
[Edited by J. G. Shea.] New York: 1864.

pp. 216. India proof PORTRAIT of LORD RODNEY inserted. 165 copies printed. CLUB COPY

No. 2.

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IV. Anthology of New Netherland or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of New
York with Memoirs of their Lives by Henry C. Murphy. New York: 1865.

pp. 209. PORTRAIT in THREE different tints. The leaf of "Additions and Corrections," and the corrected impression of the Facsimile, laid in at the end, are not to be found in all copies. 200 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 4.

...

V. Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida. Translated
by Buckingham Smith.
New York: 1866.

pp. xxviii., 324. PORTRAIT of DE SOTO in FIVE, and the engraving of BRADFORD'S TOMBSTONE, in THREE different states. 203 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 1.

VI. The Northern Invasion of Oct., 1780, a Series of Papers Relating to the Expeditions from Canada under Sir John Johnson and Others against the Frontiers of New York, which were supposed to have Connection with Arnold's Treason. With

an Introduction and Notes by Franklin B. Hough. New York: MDCCCLXVI. pp. 224, Map. PORTRAIT inserted. 155 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 1. VII. The Army Correspondence of Colonel John Laurens in the Years 1777-8, now First Printed from the Original Letters addressed to his Father Henry Laurens President of Congress. With a Memoir by William Gilmore Simms. New York: 1867. pp. 250. PORTRAIT in FOUR different states. Of that opposite the title page TWELVE impressions only were taken. Proof, and India proof PORTRAITS of the EDITOR, and of HENRY LAWRENS inserted. 131 copies printed. CLUB COPY No. 1.

Extra No. Memorial of John Allan. [By Evart A. Duyckinck.]

New York: 1864.

pp. 39. PORTRAIT of MR. ALLAN in THREE different states; bis PHOTOGRAPH, and an AuTOGRAPH note WRITTEN and SIGNED by him; a PHOTOGRAPH of bis RESIDENCE during the time of bis funeral service; and an interesting autograph letter of the late GEORGE LIVERMORE respecting MR. ALLAN inserted. No. 1, of 260 copies printed, ALL FOR PRESENTATION.

Private No. Memorial of John Allan. [By Evart A. Duyckinck.] New York: 1864 pp. 39. The PORTRAIT in THREE different states. UNPUBLISHED; and FIVE COPIES only printed on WHITE PAPER for the Members of the Bradford Club. This copy is No. 1.

An UNRIVALLED SET, and very difficult to obtain, as there are but FIVE COMPLETE SETS, like the present, in existence.

BRADFORD CLUB. [A Complete Set of the Regular Series, 8 vols., together with a set of the Publications of "THE CLUB" So called, 2 vols.] New York: 1857-64.

Forming 10 vols., roy. 8vo, boards and paper, UNCUT; Melvin's Journal excepted, none of which were left uncut.

[BRADSTREET (Mrs. Anne.)] The Tenth Muse | Lately sprung up in America. | Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of VVit and Learning, full of delight. | Wherein especially is contained a com- pleat discourse and description of | The Four | Elements, | Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year. | Together with an Exact Epitomie of the four Monarchies, viz. | The Assyrian, | Persian, Grecian, Roman. | Also a Dialogue between Old England and | New, concerning the late troubles. | With divers other pleasant and serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman in those parts. | Printed at London for Stephen Bowtell at the signe of the Bible in Popes Head-Alley. 1650. | Small 8vo, pp. (14), 207. Red morocco, gilt edges. EXCESSIVELY RARE. unable to trace the sale of more than ONE COPY in this country.

We are

Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia," remarks, "these poems, divers times printed, have afforded a grateful entertainment unto the ingenious, and a monument for her memory be

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yond the stateliest marbles," which is higher praise than we can accord them. Ward, author
of the "Simple Cobler of Agawam," says, "The Authoress was a right Du Bartas girle."
Some extensive selections from this writer are included in Duyckinck's "Cycl.," 1, pp.
47, 52.

BRADSTREET. The Works of Anne Bradstreet, in Prose and 7.20
Verse. Edited by John Harvard Ellis. Charlestown: A. E. Cutter. 1867.

Imp. 8vo, pp. lxxvi., 434. Facsimile, Portrait, and Plate. Half green levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT by BRADSTREET. One Hundred and Fifty copiec printed. The fine full page wood engraving of The BRADSTREET HOUSE is in duplicate; on plain, and on India Paper. Of the last, five impressions only were taken.

BRAINARD (J. G.)
George Washington;
February 22d, 1800.

An Oration Commemorative of ... General 5,80
spoken in the ... City of New London,
By J. G. Brainard, Esq. New London: 1800.
8vo, pp. 14. VERY RARE.

BRENT (J. C.) Biographical Sketches of the most Reverend John
Carroll, first Archbishop of Baltimore, with Select Portions of his
Writings. Edited by John Caroll Brent. Baltimore: J. Murphy. 1843.
12mo, pp. 321. Portrait. Half morocco, gilt top. SIX ILLUSTRATIONS inserted.
Bishop Carroll was sent by Congress, in 1786, with Dr. Franklin and others, on a mission
to Canada.

BRESSANI (F. J.) Relation abrégée de quelques missions des S. :1
pères de la Compagnie de Jésus, dans la Nouvelle-France. Par le
R. P. F.-J. Bressany Traduit de l'Italien et augmenté d'un
avant-propos, de la biographie de l'auteur, et d'un grand nombre
de notes et de gravures, par le R. P. F. Martin.

...

Montreal: des presses de John Lovell. 1852.
8vo, pp. 336. 2 Maps, 33 Engravings. Sheep. Fine Copy. VERY SCARCE.
BRIEF (A) REVIEW of the Rise and Progress, Services and Suffer-
ings, of New England, especially the Province of Massachusetts-
Bay. Humbly submitted to the Consideration of both Houses of
Parliament.
London: J. Buckland. MDCCLXXIV.

8vo, pp. 32. Half morocco. VERY SCARCE.

"A very fair and impartial statement of facts."— M. R.

231 BRIEF (A) and True Narrative of the Hostile Conduct of the Barbarous Natives Towards the Dutch Nation. Translated by E. B. O'Callaghan from the original Dutch Ms.

Albany: J. Munsell. MDCCCLXIII.

8vo, pp. 48. Half orange morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Only 50 copies printed.
"As late as 1655, the Indians of New York were revenging the murderous slaughter of
four hundred of their countrymen at Pavonia, by that sanguinary coward, Governor Kieft.
The petition shows that three hundred of the Dutch colony had been slain, and one hund-
red carried away captives. So audacious had the fierce Indians become, that several of the
Dutch had been killed on the island of Manhattan; and on one occasion sixty-four canoes
loaded with the savages had landed on the shore of the North River, and before daylight,
had filled the streets of New Amsterdam. The first objects upon which the eyes of the
astonished Dutchmen rested in the morning, were the crowds of savages to whose forbear-
ance alone they owed their lives." — Field.

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