Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son

Date:
December 1926
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/51/2
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 930: James Tregaskis & Son. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CAXTON HEAD CATALOGUE, No. 930. tata alata taint tae ta tata tatntatatalahatnta tata tit ta talatatatalatalntaiatatstalatataiaiatatsta tata talatatatatactats Cheques may be crossed WESTMINSTER BANK. LIMITED. COC OT OO OO OOO OO Kes- Every item has been collated with care, and 1s therefore guaranteed perfect, unless the contrary be indicated. x Cables and Telegrams .. TREGASKIS LONDON. .... . & zi | rt : > (WESTERN UNION ‘Universal Edition). aa : per aad he RY AME ‘Shean CABLE CODEX (loth Edition), x Teleplione! A.) 318th Oi). MUSE UMD B60: Be inns SS SER, 1 AMERICA. JOSSELYN (John) AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES TO NEW ENGLAND; wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; the prices of all necessaries. for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming; a description of the countrey, natives and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use, the Government of the country as it is now possessed by the English, ete. <A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages from the first discovering of the Continent of America to the year 1673. 12mo, printer’s device on first page, some leaves discoloured, stamp on title, contemporary sheep, with errata leaf, and leaf of advertisements atend. £37 10 0 For Giles Widdowes: London 1674 «sx FIRST EDITION. Not in Lowndes, who, however, quotes a book by the same author, and of the same date, with a very similar title: ‘‘ A rela- tion of two voyages to New England’’; Allibone 1000: ‘‘‘ The relation is curious and faithful: when the author makes his own remarks they are in the oddest uncourth expressions imaginable ’—John Locke: The philosopher ‘Contains a variety of curious facts regarding MEDICINE and SURGERY : the author, however, appears a little credulous.’—Watt’ Bibl. Brit. A little credulous certainly, for he tells us, ‘Some frogs, when they set upon their breech, are a foot high’; ‘barley frequently degenerates into oats’; See Biog. Dict. The collector of American history is not obliged to give implicit credence to all the marvellous stories of this eccentric raconteur, but he must by no means neglect to secure his rare volumes, when they are within his reach ’’?; D.N.B. x. 1096: ‘‘ The book was reprinted by the Massachusetts. His- torical Society in 1834 in their Collections (8rd_ series, vol. ii) and again at, Boston in 1869’; Huth Auct. Cat., 4095: ‘‘ Very rare”’; Hazlitt I., 243; B.M. Gen. Cat. “‘I,’”’ xxvi. 145; Sabin 36772; Dedicated to the President and Fellows of the Royal Society. The errata are excused on account of the ‘‘raogedness of the copy.’? On the first title is a distich translated into English by Heylin. ie 2 AMERICA. LAS CASAS (Bartolomé de, “ the protector of the Indians,” 1474-1566) ENTRE LOS REMEDIOS que Don fray B. de L.C...... . refirio por mandade del Emperador Re, nuestro sefior, en los ayuntiamentos que mando hazer su magestad de. perlados y letrados y personas grandes en Valladolid en afio de mill y quinientes y quarenta y dos para reformacion de las Indias: El octavo en orden es el siguiente. Donde se asignan veynte razones por las quales prueva no deverse dar los Indios a los Espafioles en encomienda, ni en feudo, 4