A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time

The

Hundred Maps and Cuts, curiously Engraved on copper. Third Edition. London: Henry Linlot. MDCCXLIV-VI. 6 vols., folio, pp. lxxii, (4), 668; 2 l., pp. 744; 794; 780; 21., pp. 708; 824, Index, 56 1., xxix BA. 13017

305 Plates.

To this edition a copious index is added, and there is some little difference in the arrangement of the articles. The account of books of voyages and travels is also brought down to the present year. Many of the works in this collection have never appeared elsewhere in English. Sir James Macintosh remarks: "The old voyages are always more picturesque and poetical than modern. Churchill and Harris furnish a great abundance of Indian imagery." And Richarderie observes: "This collection is very valuable; its place cannot be supplied by recurring to the original works, as a great part of them are first published in it from the manuscript." In the so-called Mondidier Catalogue, a copy is described as being on the largest paper. It is a work which sells at a price below its real value. In 1825, Wheatley's copy sold for £12 12s.; 1840, Jas. Bohn, mor., £18 18s.; Merly, £12; Reed, £13 6s.; Splidt, £15 58.; Dr. Heath, £15; Maddison, £20; and Joshua Smith, £22 11s. 6d. It now ranges at from £4 to £6 6s. in booksellers' catalogues.

CHURCHILL. Histoire de la Navigation, son Commencement, son Progrès & ses Découvertes jusqu'à présent. Traduit de l'Anglois. Le Commerce des Indes Occidentales. Avec Un Catalogue des meilleures Cartes Geographiques & des meilleurs Livres de Voyages, & le caractere de leurs Auteurs. Paris: Etienne Ganbau. MDCCXXII. 2 vols., 12mo, 6 l., pp. 378, 3 l.; 4 1., pp. 316. H. 13018

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This work is a translation, with some augmentations, of the introduction to Churchill's collection of voyages. The French editor, in his preface, apologises for the cruelties of the Spaniards to the Indians in this summary way: "It was difficult to use moderation towards beings human only in figure; finally, of these savages were made men, of these animals were made Christians. God is adored where he was not known. The mission truly has not been like that of the first apostles, but the Gospel has been preached and received."

CHURCHILL (J. C.) Niagara Ship-Canal. John C. Churchill in the House Washington. 1869. 8vo, pp. 8.

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Speech of Hon. January 15, 1869. H. 13019

CHURCHILL (Juvenal). Magazine of Wonders, addressed to the People of New York. New York. 1819.

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CHURCHILL (S.) A Sermon, occasioned by the Death of Gen. Washington, late President of the United States of America: delivered at Lebanon, in the Town of Canaan, February 22d. 1800. By Silas Churchill, A.M. Albany: Printed by Barber and Southwick. M,DCcc. 12mo, pp. 31.

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13021

CHURCHILL. Sermon on the Restoration of Peace between the United States and Great Britain.... Pittsfield. 1815. 8vo. CHURCHILL (T. O.) The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronté, &c. By T. O. Churchill. Illustrated by En

gravings of its most Striking and Memorable Incidents. London: J. Bentley. 1808. 4to, pp. viii, 100.

15 Plates. 13023

Contans details of Nelson's services in the West Indies during the Revolutionary War.

Churchill's Guide through the Albany Rural Cemetry. Albany. 1857. 12mo, pp. 68.

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s. 13024

CHURCHMAN (J.) An Account of the Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of a Faithful Minister of Christ, John Churchman, late of Nottingham, in Pennsylvania, deceased; to which is added, -A Short Memorial of the Life and Death of a Fellow Labourer in the Church, our valuable Friend Joseph White, late of Bucks County. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph Cruikshank. 1779. 8vo, pp. 264. + London: Reprinted by James Phillips. MDCCLXXX. 8vo, pp. viii, 351. + London: James Phillips. M.DCC.LXXXI. 8vo, pp. vii, 351. BA. + Dublin: Robert Jackson. 1781. 8vo, pp. 360. + Philadelphia. 1818. + London: Harvey and Darton. 1829. 12mo, pp. 324.

Reprinted in the Friends' Library.

13025

CHURCHMAN (John). The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the whole Terraqueous Globe; comprising a system of the Variation and Dip of the Needle, by which, the observations being truly made, the Longitude may be ascertained. London: John Sewell. 1794. 8vo, pp. vii, 80. 3 Plates. + Third Edition. New York. 1800. 4to.

13026 Also Explanation of the Magnetic Atlas, Philadelphia. MDCCXC. 8vo, pp. 46. The Churchman's Almanack for 1832. New York. 1832. 13027

12mo.

The Churchman's Monthly Magazine; or, Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge. By a Committee appointed by the Convocation of the Episcopal Church of Connecticut. Vols. I.-VIII. N. S., Vols. I.—II. New Haven, N. Y.; Elizabethtown, N. 7. 1804, etc. 8vo. 13028 Churchman's Repository, for the Eastern Diocese. Newburyport. 1820. 8vo.

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CHURCHWELL (W. M.) Speech of the Hon. Wm. M. Churchwell, of Tennessee, on the Public Lands, and Mr. Johnson's Homestead Bill, for the encouragement of Industry and Agriculture, delivered in the House of Representatives Tuesday, March 30, 1852. [n. p. n. d.] 8vo, pp. 15.

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on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill ... House of Representatives Washington: printed by A. O. P. Nicholson. 1854. 8vo, pp, 16.

CHURCHWELL (W. M.), and CULLOM (William). Letters of an Eye Witness, Comments and Opinions of the Newspaper Press, upon the late Difficulties [in the U. S. House of Representatives] between Churchwell and Cullom. [n. p. 1854.] 8vo, pp. 16. H. 13031

CHURCHYARD (T.) A Discovrse of the Queenes Maiesties Entertainement in Suffolk and Norfolk (in 1578); with a Description of many Things then presently seene. Deuised by Thos Churchyarde, Gent. With diuers Shewes of his own Inuention sette out at Norwich; and some Rehearsal of her Hignesse Retourne from Progresse. Wherevnto is adioyned a Commendation of Sir Humphrey Gilberts ventrous Iourney. Imprinted by H. Bynneman. [About 1788.] 4to.

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CHURCHYARD. A trve discovrse | Historicall of the svcceeding Governovrs in the Netherlands, and the Ciuill warres there begun in the yeare 1565, with the memorable seruices of our Honourable English Generals, | Captaines and Souldiers, especially vnder Sir John | Notice Knight, there performed from the Yeere 1577. vntill the Yeere 1589. and afterwards in | Portugale, France, Britaine and Ire- | land, vntill the Yeare | 1598. | Translated and collected by T. C. Esqvire and Ric. Ro. Ovt of the Reuerend E. M. of Antwerp. his fifteene bookes | Historiæ Belgicæ; and other collections added: altogether manifesting all martiall actions meete for euery good | subiect to reade, for defense of Prince and Couentry. [Woodcut Vignette.] at London | Imprinted for Matthew Lownes, and are to be Sold at his shop under S. Dunston's church in the West. | 1602.| 4to, 3 l., pp. 3, 2, 1 l., PP. 154. L. 13033

At the end follows a brief discourse of the memorable voyage of Sir John Norice and Sir Francis Drake.

CHURCHYARD. A Prayse and Reporte of Maister Forboishers Voyage to Meta incognita. London: Andrew Maunsell. 1578. 16mo. BM. 13034

A volume of extreme rarity.

CHURION (Julian), Coronel de Ingenieros. Informe relativo á la esploracion de las dos carreteras que se proyectan entre Vaiencia y Barquisimeto, pasando por Nirgua y San Carlos. Valencia. 1869. 8vo, pp. 30. 13035

CHWOSTOW and DAWYDOw. Reise der russ.-kaiserl. Flotten Officiere Chwostow und Dawydow von Petersburg durch Sibir

ien nach Amerika in den Jahre 1802, 1803, und 1804. Aus dem Russischen. Berlin. 1816. 13036 CHYTRAEUS (N.) Variorum in Europa Itinerum Deliciae seu ex Variis Manuscriptis selectiora tantum Inscriptionum maxime Recentium Monumenta, quibus passim in Italia, ... Anglia Templa Bibliothecae conspicua sunt, collecta et digesta a Nathane Chytraeo. Herbornae Nassov. 1594. + Tertia Editio. [Ibid.] 1606.

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"The importance of this book, for the history of America, has been pointed out in Dr. G. Asher's bibliographical appendix to his 'Hudson the Navigator. London. 1860.' 8vo, pp. 261. ... They also contain the date of his first voyage, which was in 1494, not in 1497, as is generally supposed."

CIAPARRO (J. G.) Lettera del P. Giov. Gonzalez Ciaparro della Compagnia di Giesù scritta al P. Alonso d'Ovaglie del Manzano della medesima Compagnia, Procuratore della ViceProvincia del Cile nell' Indie Occidentali. Ove s'intendono casi stravagantissimi del Terremoto ivi seguito alli 13 di Maggio 1647. Roma: nella stamperia di Lodovico Grignani. 1648. 4to, 4 1. 13038 CIBO (S. F.) Cenni storici sugli Stati Uniti d'America per S. Frenfanelli Cibo ... Foligno: stabil. tip. di. P. Scariglia. 1865. 16m0, 4 l., pp. 119, xxx, 6 1. folded.

CIBOLA. 11379.

BA. 13039

See Castaneda, Relation du Voyage, Vol. 11., No.

Probably the finest production of Franklin's press, and really a splendid specimen of the art. The title-page is rubricated. The translator was Judge James Logan; and Franklin, in his address, "The Printer to the Reader," calls it, "this first translation of a classic in this Western World," which is not strictly correct. Sandy's translation of Ovid was made in Virginia about ninety years earlier, but printed and published in London; and Franklin himself had printed Cato's "Moral Distiches," Englished in couplets, in 1739, which translation is attributed to James Logan. See our No. 11548. See also Epictetus, infra. It is, doubtless, the second classic author translated and printed in North America, and is eagerly sought after by American collectors. Uncut copies are among the rarest of rare books. I know of but four copies-the two mentioned above, one belonging to Mr. William Menzies, and one to Mr. C. E. Mann, the latter being the copy described in Stevens' Nuggets, No. 551, is on "large and thick paper, and unique' - a mistake. It was reprinted in England as

CICERO. Cato Major: or, a Treatise on Old Age, by M. Tullius Cicero, with Explanatory Notes from the Roman History. By the Honourable James Logan, Esq., President of the

Council, and Chief Justice of the Province of Philadelphia. Fourth Edition. Philadelphia, Printed; Glasgow, Re-printed By R. Urie. M.DCC.LVIII. 12mo, pp. 168, 2 1. 13041

CICERO. M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or Discourse on Old Age. Addressed to Titus Pomponius Atticus. With Explanatory Notes. By Benj. Franklin LL.D. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin. London: Re-printed for Fielding and Walker. MDCCLXXVIII. 8vo, 2 l., pp. 163. Portrait. 13042

In this edition, Dr. Franklin is made to appear as the editor; doubtless a publisher's trick, to increase the sale of the book. See M. R., LIX. 467. In the last edition the title is :

CICERO. Cato Major; or, a Discourse on Old Age, addressed to Titus Pomponius Atticus, with Explanatory Notes, by Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Philadelphia: W. Duane. 8vo, 13043

PP. 251-357

This was intended to form part of Duane's edition of Franklin's works, but was omitted.

CICERO, pseudonym. See [Galloway (Joseph)].

CIEÇA DE LEON (P. de). Parte Primera | Dela chronica del Peru. Que tracta la demarca-cion de sus prouincias: la descripcion dellas. Las fundaciones de las nueuas ciudades. Los ritos y costumbres de los indios. Y otras cosas estrañas | dignas de ser sabidas. Fecha por Pedro d Cieça de Leon vezino de Seuilla. 1553. Con priuilegio Real. | [Colophon:] Impressa en Seuilla en casa de Martin de montesdoca. Acabose a quinze de | Março de mill y quinientos y cinquenta y tres años. Folio, 10 l., Text, cxxxiiij 1. J.C.B. 13044

"The first part only was printed; the second and third part were seen in MS. in Madrid some time ago, but it is not known what became of them."-RICH. The manuscript of the third part is now in Mr. Lenox's collection. Mr. Prescott bestows much praise on the work, and Mr. C. R. Markham characterizes it as "one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of Spanish Conquest in America." It is, in fact, the only book which exhibits the "physical aspect of the country as it existed under the elaborate culture of the Incas."-PRESCOTT, II. 328. As long ago as 1835, Mr. Rich priced this at £5 5s. ; it would probably sell for five times the price now (1870). In a catalogue of Puttick and Sampson, for 1860, an edition is described as "Anvers en Casa de Juan Steelsio, 1553," which is probably the same as described in our note to No. 13046.

CIEÇA DE LEON. La Chronica del Perv, nveva- mente escrita, por Pedro de Cieça de Leon, vezino de Se- uilla. | En Anvers En casa de Martin Nucio. | M. D. LIIII. | Con preuilegio Imperial. 12mo, 8 l., Text, 204 leaves.

C., J.C.B. 13045

On the reverse of the title is the dedication, " Al Mvy Alto," etc. the foregoing work.

It is a reprint of

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