Sales catalogue 552: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/100
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 552: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Americana—continued. 52 FITE (&. D.) and FREEMAN (A.). A hook of old Maps delineating American History from the earliest Days down to the close of the Revolutionary War. With coloured frontispiece and 74 plates of maps. Folio, cloth. Cambridge, Mass., 1926. £5 5s 53 JONES (H. V.). Adventures in Americana 1492-1897. The Romance of Voyage and Discovery from Spain to the Indies, the Spanish Main, and North America; inland to the Ohio Country; on toward the Missi- ssipp1; though to California; over Chilkoot Pass to the Gold Fields of Alaska. Being a Selection of Books from the Library of Herschel V. Jones, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Wuith a Preface by Dr. Wilberforce Eames. With numerous reproductions of title-pages. 2 vols., 4to, cloth. New York, 1928. £21 One of 200 copies. THE FIRST SPANISH AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. 34 LEON PINELO (Antonio de). Epitome de la Bibliotheca Oriental y Occi- dental, nautica y Geografica de Don Antonio de Leon Pinelo . . . afiadido y enmendado nuevamente. 3 vols., folio, ovzgznal vellum. Madrid, Francisco Martinez Abad, 1737-8. £63 Sabin, No. 40053. Sabin, No. 2484. This is the enlarged edition of Leon Pinelo’s original bibliography of travel, the first to contain a catalogue of books on America. The additions, by Don Andres Gonzalez de Barcia (who modestly refrains from mentioning his own name in connection with the work) are so considerable as almost to constitute a new work; Leon Pinelo’s original work consisting of one quarto volume containing 200 pages, and this ‘‘ second edition ’’ by Barcia, comprising three folio volumes of closely printed matter, containing about 1.300 pages. The second volume deals with America. 55 [MASSACHUSETTS.| Farrand (Max). The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts. Reprinted from the copy of 1648 edition in the Henry Huntington Library. With an introduction by Max Farrand. With interesting frontispiece facsimile. Folio, cloth. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. £1 1s 56 STEVENSON (Edward Luther). Portolan Charts, their origin and characteristics, with a descriptive list, of those belonging to the His- panic Society of America. With frontispiece illustration and 14 other Charts. Ato, buckram, t. e. g. New York, ioll. £6 Gs Out of print and very scarce.