"VITA e Costumi di Don Giulio Alberoni": a violent attack on the character of Alberoni, on the occasion of his being promoted to the Cardinalate in April, 1717. Italian. Paper; ff. 27. Small Folio. Giulio Alberoni, Archbishop of Malaga; Spanish Minister of State; Cardinal 1717: Vita e Costumi: ...
DEDICATION-LETTER to George II. from Andreas Beÿer, Engraver, of Regensburg, to accompany the engraving made by him from the picture of the king by Joachim Kayser, of Hanover; 26 Dec. 1730. Elaborately written, partly in gold lettering. Germ. Paper; ff. 6. Bound in violet velvet, lined with blue...
"THE ELEMENTES or groundes of Geographye, both Theoreticall and Practicall" ; by Richard Raby. Preceded (ff. 2-1l b) by a dedicatory epistle from the author to "the Worshipfull and his much honoured freinde and Master, Mr. Arthure Capell." In two books: the first (ff. 14-121) theoretical, explai...
"ABREGÉ de la Geographic"; compiled towards the end of the 17th century (see ff. 1 b, 21). Paper; ff. 150. Late XVIIth cent. Belonged to George Bridges. Quarto. Geography: Abrégé de la géographie: late 17th cent.
1. "ABREGÉ de la Geographie"; apparently compiled between 1742 and 1763 (see ff. 136, 137). Not the same work as No. 788, and much less full. 2. "Principes de la langue françoise": a short treatise on French grammar. f. 186. Paper; ff. 197. XVIIIth cent. Quarto. includes: f. 1 Geography: Abr...
"RELATION of a Journey from London to Paris and thence home through Flanders and Holland," starting "from the Spread Eagle in Gracechurch street" on 7 May, 1720, and ending "at the Tower Wharf" on 19 Aug. 1721, after a seven days' passage from Rotterdam "on board the Hampton Court sloop, Captain...
"JOURNAL of a summer's excursion, by the road of Montecasino to Naples, and from thence over all the southern parts of Italy, Sicily, and Malta, in the year MDCCLXXII"; by [Sir] William Young [2nd Bart., F.R.S., etc.]. Printed; with marginal notes in the author's band, and a few pen-and-ink sket...
ACCOUNT of "a tour into the Indian Nations" made by General James Edward Oglethorpe, Commander of the British Forces in S. Carolina and Georgia, "to establish peace between them and the English," and of his subsequent operations against the Spaniards, including an attempt on the Fort St. Augusti...
"JOURNAL of a Voyage performed by order of the N.W. Company, in a bark canoe, in search of a passage by water through the N.W. Continent of America from Athabasca to the Pacific Ocean, in summer 1789"; [by Sir Alexander Mackenzie]. A pencilled entry on the first fly-leaf states that this is the ...