12mo. 132 leaves, the last a blank, full-page engraved plates; the copy in the Library of Congress has the leaf with
Review of this work, described by Wagner-Camp, but is without the map of Louisiana.
Sabin 26741.
Wagner-Camp 6 (in the note).
Field 597.
Morgan, page 136.
Jefferson ordered a copy (not specifying the edition) from
Samuel Pleasants of Richmond, in a letter dated May 21, 1813.
Patrick Gass, 1771-1870, joined the Lewis and Clark expedition as a private, but on the death of Sergeant Charles Floy in 1804, was made
a sergeant by suffrage of his mates. In the camp orders issued by Lewis and Clark on May 26, 1804, they directed that “the
sergts. in addition to those duties are directed to keep a separate journal from day to day of all passing occurrences, and
such other observations on the country &c. as shall appear to them worthy of notice.” Gass’s journal was the first to be published.
His notes were revised by David McKeehan, a schoolmaster of Wellsburg, and were first published by him in Pittsburgh in 1807.
The copyright was then purchased by Mathew Carey, who published the Journal in Philadelphia in 1810, 1811 and 1812.
For the Lewis and Clark expedition, see no. 4168.
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Romans’s history of Florida.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no. 85, as above.
ROMANS,
Bernard.
A Concise Natural History of East and West-Florida. Containing, an Account of the Natural Produce of all the Southern Part
of British America, in the Three Kingdoms of Nature, particularly the Animal and Vegetable. Likewise, the Artificial Produce
now raised, or possible to be raised, and Manufactured there, with some Commercial and Political Observations in that Part
of the World; and a Chorographical Account of the same. By Captain Bernard Romans.
New-York Printed: sold by
R. Aitkin,
m.dcc.lxxvi
. (Price, Bound,
One Dollar.) [1776.]
12mo., no copy of this edition was seen for collation. 172 leaves, 7 copperplate engravings and 1 folded table. This edition
consists of the sheets of the First Edition, 1775, with a reprinted title and introduction; the frontispiece, lists of subscribers,
appendix, errata list and final advertisement are omitted.
Sabin 72993.
Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 123.
Boimare 68.
John Carter Brown 2323.
Church 1139.
Bernard Romans, 1720?-1784?, engineer and author, was born in Holland. He was educated in England, and was sent by the British government
to North America in his capacity of civil engineer. Between 1760 and 1771 he lived in East Florida in the employment of the
government. On the outbreak of the Revolution he was engaged to construct the fortifications at Fort Constitution opposite
West Point, and in 1776 became captain of the Pennsylvania artillery. In 1779 he was captured by the British and sent to England,
and eventually disappeared in 1784, when on his way to New York. The first edition of this book appeared in 1775. Volney,
in his
Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis d’Amérique
, Volume II, page 365, has written
Éclaircissemens sur divers articles indiqués dans cet ouvrage
, of which
Article Premier is
Sur la Floride, et sur le livre de Bernard Romans, intitulé a Concise natural and moral history of East and ouest Florida.
New-Yorck 1776, sold by Aitken, in-12. Courte histoire, naturelle et morale de la Floride orientale et occidentale.
Other
eclaircissemens concern
l’Histoire de Newhampchire, par
Jérémie Belknap, Membre de la Société philosophique de Philadelphie. Et sur l’histoire du Vermont, par Samuel Williams, Membre
de la Société météorologique d’Allemagne, et de la Société philosophique de Philadelphie
[qqv.].
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Histoire de la conquete de Mexique par Fernand Cortez. d’Antoine de Solis,
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 122, no. 94, Conquete de la mexique, par de Solis, 2 v 12mo.
SOLIS,
Antonio de.
Histoire de la Conqueste du Mexique ou de la Nouvelle Espagne, par Fernand Cortez, Traduite de l’
Espagnol de Dom Antoine de Solis, par l’Auteur du Trium-
