344 345 346 347 CASAS (B. de) Regionvm | Indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatarum | accuratissima descriptio, insertis Fi- guris æneis ad vivum fabrefactis, Authore | Bartholomæo de las Casas | Episcopo Hispano | Editio nova Priori longè cor- | rectior. Heidelbergae, Typis Guilielmi Walteri Acad. Typogr. A.S. MDCLXIV. | 4to, pp. (2), 112. Title and seventeen plates engraved by DE BRY. Half green morocco, gilt edges. MR. FURMAN'S copy, with four leaves in his hand-writing describing the work. Some copies have a second title page which is wanting in this. FINE COPY, and RARE in any condition. CASAS. Popery | Truly Display'd in its Bloody Colours: | Or, a Faithful Narrative Of The Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, Committed by the Popish Spanish | Party on the Inhabitants of West-India: Together With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America | by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. | Composed first in Spanish by Bartholemew de las Casas, a Bishop there, and an Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties: afterward Translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-Dutch, French, and now Taught to speak | Modern English. London: Printed for R. Hewson at the Crown in Cornhil, | near the Stocks-Market. 1689. 4to, 4., pp. 80. Half crimson morocco, gilt edges. VERY LARGE and FINE COPY. RARE. CASAS. A Relation of the First | Voyages and Discoveries | Made by the Spaniards in America. | With An Account of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of a- | bove Forty Millions of People. | Together with the Propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further Ruin | of the West Indies. | By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an Eye-witness of their Cruelties. | Illustrated with Cuts. To which is added, | The Art of Travelling, showing how a Man may dispose his Travels to the best Advantage. | London: Printed for Daniel Brown at the Black Swan and Bible | without Temple-Bar, and Andrew Bell at the Cross- Keys and Bible in Cornhil near Stocks Market. | 1699. 8vo, pp. (8), 248, 40. Two folded plates. Polished calf, gilt edges by F. BEDFORD. LARGE and FINE COPY. RARE. A "This edition is not noticed in Mr. Sabin's Dictionary, nor in his Monograph of Las Casas' Works. The work professes to be a translation of the French book entitled "Tyrannies et Cruautez des Espagnols."- Field. CASE (J.) The Angelical Guide: Shewing Men and Women their Lott or Chance, in this Elementary Life. In Four Books. I. Of the Creation of the World. II. The Centre or Circle of the Life of Man or, the Human Egg of Generation. III. The Angelical Guide, or the Lott of Man: shewing all the Chances and 348 349 350 351 Contingencies in this present World. IV. Experimental Knowledge of several Examples; proving the Truth and Certainty of these our Angelical Lotts. By John Case, M.D. London: I. Dawks. 1697. Sm. 8vo, Title, gl., pp. 287. Portrait engraved by VAN HOVE; 8 folded Diagrams. Russia extra, symbolically gilt sides, gilt edges, by ROGER PAYNE, with his curious bill for the work, covering one side of a sheet of paper eleven inches square. The following is an extract. "Binding in the very best Manner in Russia Leather of the true Russia Colour as imported sewed in the very best manner with Silk round every Band no false Bands very neat morocco Joints very neat Boards Boards Strong and not clumsy the Back lined with Russia Leather under the Cover great care hath been taken of the Margins in Refolding and placing them True in Line. Finished in the highest Venetian Taste with Scientific Insignia of small Tools a great deal of Lettering very correct Fine Drawing paper Inside to suit ye original Colour of the Book." "One of the most profound astrological pieces that the world ever saw. The diagrams would probably have puzzled Euclid, though he had studied astrology. A copy of the work is in the British Museum."— Lowndes. We are unable to record the sale of ANY COPY in the United States. ... CASE (W.) Revolutionary Memorials, embracing Poems by the CASE (The) and Claim of the American Loyalists Impartially [London] Printed by Order of their Agents. [1783.] Small 8vo, pp. (2), 38. Half morocco. Very scarce. For other works on this subject, see Nos. 789, 799, 1738, and 2160. CASSIN (J.) Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain Descriptions and Figures of all North American Birds not given by Former American Authors, and a General Synopsis of North American Ornithology. By John Cassin. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1865. 8vo, pp. viii., 298. Half green morocco, gilt tops, UNCUT. Uniform with Audubon's Birds, to which it forms an important and necessary addition. It contains FIFTY BEAUTIFULLY COLORED PLATES of new or unfigured Birds inhabiting the United States, which have not been given by former American authors, in connection with whose works it continues, as far as possible, to the present time, the pictorial representation of all North American Birds. See Audubon (J. J.) No. 89. CASTELL (W.) A Short | Discoverie | Of the Coasts and Continent of America, From the Equinoctiall Northward, and of the adjacent Isles. By William Castell, Minister of the Gospell at Courtenhall in Northamptonshire. | Whereunto is prefixed the Author's Petition to this pre- | sent Parliament, for the propagation of the Gospell | in America, attested by many eminent English and Scottish Divines. And a late Ordinance of Parliament for that purpose, and for the better government of the English Plantations there. | Together 352 353 354 355 356 with Sir Benjamin Ruyder's Speech, in Parliament, 21 Jan., concerning America. | London: Printed in the yeer 1644. 4to, pp. (4), 48, 54. Polished calf, gilt edges, by W. PRATT. Although the title page, (and perhaps the leaf following) is an exact fac-simile, by Harris, and the upper margins of 4 leaves restored, this is a FINE COPY of a book of MUCH RARITY. A copy was priced in a recent English catalogue at £45. CASTLEMAN (R.) The Voyage, Shipwrack, and Miraculous Escape of Richard Castleman, Gent. With a Description of Pensylvania, and the City of Philadelphia, &c. [London] Printed in the Year. MDCCXXVI. 8vo, pp. 333-374. Engraved Frontispiece. Polished calf, gilt edges, by F. BEDFORD. AN ELEGANT COPY. Extracted from "Boyles Voyages." Castleman's narrative bears marks of authenticity. His visit to Philadelphia took place in 1710. CATALOGUE of a Valuable Collection of Curious, Rare & Interesting Books, being Purchase-Duplicates from the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Sold by Auction, 1865. London: [1865.] 8vo, cloth, UNCUT. Ruled; with names and prices. CATALOGUE of an Extraordinary Collection of Works relating to America. [Known as the Bruce Collection.] New York: 1868. 8vo, balf green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. Neatly ruled, and priced. CATALOGUE of the Antiquities, Works of Art and Historical Scottish Relics exhibited in the Museum of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland during their Annual Meeting, held in Edinburgh, July, 1856. ... Comprising Notices of the Portraits of Mary Queen of Scots, Collected on that Occasion, etc. Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co. 1859. 8vo, pp. xxxiv., 233. Half orange morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Contains 32 beautiful full page plates embracing FOUR FINE PORTRAITS of MARY QUEEN of Scors, besides 112 engravings printed in the text. The FINE and interesting plate of the DARNLEY JEWELLS, ILLUMINATED in GOLD and COLOURS, inserted at page 163, was published separately at half a guinea. AN ELEGANT Volume. CATLIN (G.) Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: in a Series of Letters and Notes written during Eight Years of Travel and Adventure among the Wildest and most Remarkable Tribes now Existing. With Three Hundred and Sixty Engravings from the Author's Original Paintings. By Geo. Catlin. Ninth Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn. MDCCCLVII. 2 vols., roy. 8vo, pp. viii., 264; viii., 266. 360 COLOURED PLATES. Half red morocco, gilt edges. A FINE SET, and one of TWELVE COPIES ONLY COLOURED in this manner. VERY SCARCE. "Mr. Catlin is the Historian of the Red Races of mankind; of a world fast fading away, and leaving hardly a trace or a wreck behind. With his pen and pencil he has brought the existence of these wild and uncivilized beings so vividly before our eyes, that we seem to 357 358 359 have accompanied him in his wanderings, seen them, mixed with them, and impressed the recollection of their forms and features, their costume, strange customs, feasts, ceremonies, religious rites, wars, dances, sports, and other modes of life, distinctly upon our minds.”— Literary Gazette. CATLIN. O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony and other Customs of the Mandans. By George Catlin. Philadelphia: 7. B. Lippincott and Company. 1867. Imp. 8vo, half morocco, gilt edges; by BRADSTREET. 13 COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Uniform with the preceding No. "In the latter part of 1866 one of the numbers of Trübner's monthly catalogue contained a notice of a pamphlet purporting to be written by Mr. Catlin upon the secret customs of the Mandans, said to be indescribably lascivious. This excited the indignant denial by Mr. Catlin, of his authorship of the essay, of which, as only fifty copies were printed, little was known. The next year, as a more effectual disproval of his association with what he deemed a disreputable performance, Mr. Catlin produced O-KEE-PA."— Field. CATS (J.) and Farlie (R.) Moral Emblems, with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs of all Ages and Nations. From Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations freely rendered, from Designs found in their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. ... New York: [i. e. London.] 1860. 4to, purple morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges. Contains upwards of 120 beautiful engravings by the most eminent English artists, after the original designs of ADRIAN VAN DE VENNE. A SPLENDID COPY from the ALLAN Collection. The Emblems and other works of Cats have for two centuries been household books in Holland, both for their moral doctrine, and for the ingenious designs with which Adrian Van de Venne symbolized their teachings. The Tail pieces are from Farlie's "Lights, or Moral Emblems." CAVENDISH (G.) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey. By George Cavendish, his Gentleman Usher. From the Original Autograph Manuscript. With Notes and other Illustrations, by Samuel Weller Singer, F. S. A. Second Edition. London: Harding and Lepard. 1827. 8vo, pp. xxix., 542. 8 Plates and Facsimile. Half olive morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. "One of the most interesting and valuable specimens of biography in the English Language." Lowndes. 360 Carton, (W.) The Game of the Chesse. By William Caxton. [Reprinted, London: 1855.] 361 4to, Calf antique. EIGHTY COPIES only printed. Frequently as we read of the Works of Caxton and the early English Printers, and of their Black Letter Books, very few persons ever had the opportunity of seeing any of these productions, and forming a proper estimate of the ingenuity and skill of those who first practiced the "Noble Art of Printing." This Fac-Simile reproduction of the FIRST WORK PRINTED BY CAXTON at Westminster, containing 23 woodcuts, is intended in some measure to supply this deficiency, and bring the present age into somewhat greater intimacy with the Father of English Printers. Carton. Here begynneth a lityll treatise shorte and abredged spekynge of the arte or crafte to knowe well to dye translated oute of frenshe in to englysshe by Willm. Caxton. 1490. [Reprinted, London: 1852.] 362 Sm. folio, green morocco, carmine edges. RARE. An exact facsimile reprint of the UNIQUE ORIGINAL in the British Museum. SIX COPIES ONLY were privately reprinted for the late Mr. THOMAS RODD. CHALKLEY (T.) A Collection of the Works of Thomas Chalkley. In Two Parts. Philadelphia: Printed by B. FRANKLIN and D. HALL. MDCCXLIX. 2 vols., sm. 8vo, pp. xiii., (2), 326; 329-590. Half gray calf, by BRADSTREET. A fine copy. Chalkley was a Quaker preacher, who came to America in the year 1700, and settled at Philadelphia. He travelled and preached in all the British Colonies from New England to North Carolina. He also visited the West India Islands, and the Bermudas. "Some of the New England priests," he says, "were so bitter against Friends, that, instead of being humbled, under the mighty hand of God upon them in suffering the Indians to destroy them, they express'd their enmity against the poor Quakers." 363 [CHALMERS (George.)] Second Thoughts: or, Observations upon Lord Abingdon's Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq., to the Sheriffs of Bristol. By the Author of the Answer to Mr. Burke's Letter. London: T. Cadell. 1777. 8vo, pp. 74, balf morocco, gilt top. See Bertie (Willoughby.) No. 162. 364 CHALMERS. Political Annals of the Present United Colonies, from their Settlement to the Peace of 1763: Compiled chiefly from Records, and authorized often by the Insertion of State Papers.... By George Chalmers, Esq. Book 1. 365 366 London: Printed for the Author and Sold by G. Bowen. M.DCC.LXXX. 4to, pp. (8), 695. Half purple levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Clean and fine as when issued. RARE in this state. PROOF PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR inserted. The second part was never published. "Chalmers was a strenuous supporter of the right of the mother country to tax the colonies, and, throughout his narrative, every fact which would admit of it was studiously applied to support this principle." CHALMERS. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies; being a Comprehensive View of its Origin, derived from the State Papers contained in the Public Offices of Great Britain. By George Chalmers. Boston: James Monroe and Company. 1845. 2 vols., 8vo, balf calf, gilt top, UNCUT. An elegant copy. The author carefully suppressed the original edition, either "owing to the separation of the colonies, which happened just at the season for publication, namely, December, 1782, or the prior cause in April precedent, the dismission of a Tory administration." This Boston edition was printed from the author's Ms. CHAMBERS (R.) Scottish Songs and Ballads; Collected and Illus- trated. 367 ... 3 vols., post 8vo, balf green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. A tasteful selection. One of the earliest of its editor's works. Now Scarce. CHAMBERS. Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Third Edition with |