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 ...
JOURNAL of the ship Chesterfield, Matthew B. Alt commander; 28 May, 1793-21 Oct. 1794. In two parts: Part i. (ff. 1-28) is the journal of the voyage made in company with the Hormuzeer, William Bampton commander, from Norfolk Island through Torres Strait to Timor, 28 May-11 Sept. 1793. An abridgm...
MISCELLANEOUS topographical collections, consisting chiefly of transcripts made in the 18th cent., viz.: - 1. Papers relating to Thornbury, co. Gloucester, 1305-1583. ff. 1-4, 7-60. They include-(a) Appropriation of the church to Tewkesbury abbey, in 1305. Lat. f. 1;-(b) Institution of the vicar...
COLLECTIONS relating to Corporations, 13th-18th centt., being chiefly transcripts of the 18th cent., viz.:- 1. "An abstract of the Grant of King Charles the First to the Trust- of the City [of London], 25o Sept. 4o Car. 1" [1628]. f. 2. On the cover is the name of Sir Peter Pett, Commissioner ...
EXTRACTS from the Quo Warranto, Assize and Plea Rolls, chiefly of counties York, Cumberland and Durham. Lat. The dates given extend from 25 Hen. III. to 1 Hen. IV. [1240-1400]. At ff. 2-6 b, "Iste sunt libertates quas Burgenses de Scardebury [Scarborough, co. York] clamant habere." Paper; ff. 20...
PERAMBULATIONS of Royal Forests in cos. Huntingdon and Gloucester and several other counties, made tempp. Hen. III.- Edw. I. Lat. and Fr. At the end are copies of :-(a) Charter of Edward the Confessor concerning the endowment of Westminster Abbey, 5 Kal. Jan. 1066, [28 Dec. 1065]. Lat. f. 39. Pr...