A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, Volume 8 - Couverture souple

Eames, Wilberforce; Vail, Robert William Glenroie

 
9781145493230: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, Volume 8

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Dictionary of Books RELATING TO AMERICA. ALL (J oseph). Mundus Alter et Idem siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini A cademici nuperrime lustrata. A uthore Mercurio Britannico. Hannovits: G. A ntonium. i6oy. 8vo, Engraved Title, 5M aps. +F rancoforti: apud heredea ascanii de Reinahne, n. d. 8vo, Engraved Title, pp. (12), 224. 2M aps. BA. -j IbidJ 1648. +A ccessit propter affinitatem materiae Thomae Campanellae, Civitas Solis et Nova A tlantis, Franc. Baconis. Ultraecti: Jo, a Wasberge. 1643. i2mo. c. A satirical romance in the style of Gulliver s Travels (of which it is said to have been the prototype), by Bishop Hall, the author of the Virgidemiae. It obtains a place here because two of the maps include a delineation of A merica. H all. Discovery of the New World, or a Description of the South I ndies, hetherto unknowne (T enter-belly, Shee-land, Fooliana, Theevingen). By an English Mercury. Imprinted for Ed. Blount and IV. Barrett, n. d. 8vo. Frontispiece. 29820 A humorous translation of the foregoing work, by John Healey. The first edition is 1643. Brand scopy of this very curious and amusing old work sold for 3. ji. See Wraugham s Catalogue, 260. Hall (J.) An Oration Pronounced July 4, 1800, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American I ndependence. By Joseph Hall. Boston :M anning Loring. 1800. 8vo, pp. 24. George Washington forms the principal topic. Hall (J.) Gems from Greenwood. Photographed by Joseph Hall, Brooklyn. Part i. New York: Caldwell Co. 1868. 12 Photographs. c. 29822 Obi VOL. VIII. folio, 18 leaves.
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