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NB. having been very desirous of collecting the original Spanish writers on American history, I commissioned m(
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Carmichael to purchase some for me. they came very dear, & moreover he was obliged to take duplicates in two instances. I
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Madison’s box, & will beg the favor of him to sell them for me if he can. I state below the exact prices they cost me in
Spain, adding nothing for transportation to France, which was high.
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La Florida de Garcilasso de la Vega. fol.................}
Historia General de la Florida. por De Cadenas z Caro. fol.
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200. reals=10. Dollars
Herrera Historia General 4. v. fol.
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500. reals=25. Dollars
El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, c. 1535-1616, owed his title to his mother’s royal blood. He was born in Peru but went to Spain about 1560. The original
edition of this work, a contemporary narrative of the conquest of Florida by Hernando de Soto, was published in Lisbon in
1605.
Andrés Gonzáles de Barcia Carballido y Zuñiga, 1673-1743, edited this
second edition of Garcilaso de la Vega’s
La Florida, and attached to it as a second part his own
Ensayo Cronologica under the name Garbriel de Cardenas z Cano, bringing the work down to 1722. Though this book is called for in the title of
the first part, it is frequently given completely separate listing in bibliographies.
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Stork’s description of East Florida, and Bartram’s Journal.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 126, no. 252, as above.
[STORK,
William.]
A Description of East-Florida, with a Journal, kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, Botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas; upon a Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. John’s as far
as the Lakes. With Explanatory Botanical Notes. Illustrated with an accurate Map of East-Florida, and two Plans; one of St.
Augustine, and the other of the Bay of Espiritu Santo. The
Third Edition, much enlarged and improved . . .
London: Sold by
W. Nicoll; and
T. Jefferies, at Charing-Cross, Geographer to his Majesty,
m dcc lxix
. [1769.]
F314 .S89
4to. 2 parts in 1, 26 and 25 leaves, continuous signatures, separate pagination, 3 folded engraved maps by Thomas Jefferys, half-title for the Journal kept by John Bartram on sig. G
1 which sheet has 2 inserted leaves marked *G and *G2, evidently a cancel as the signature without them has only 3 leaves;
the dedication of the
Description of East-Florida to Charles Marquis of Rockingham signed William Stork, and the Introduction to the Journal signed William Stork, M.D.
Not in Halkett and Laing.
Sabin 92222.
Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 123.
Boimare 59bis.
William Stork, English doctor, states in his dedication to Lord Rockingham that he had been in residence in East-Florida, and that he flatters
himself “that an account of a new colony, whereof none hath as yet been published, will have the honour of meeting with your
Lordship’s approbation.” In his Introduction to Bartram’s Journal he gives his reason for appending this work: “. . . In order
to gratify the curiosity of the speculative, and to give all possible satisfaction to the enquiries of those who are desirous
to judge of the nature of the soil and climate of East-Florida, and to compare the advantages and disadvantages of settling
there, I here published the following Journal . . . Mr. John Bartram, a native of Pennsylvania, the author of this Journal,
is well known, and well respected in the learned world, as an able Naturalist; his knowledge in Botany recommended him to
the esteem and patronage of the Great, and procured him the honour of being Botanist to his Majesty for both the Floridas.
The usefulness of his Journal, in making early known to the world what are the natural productions of the country to which
it relates, is a sufficient proof of the usefulness of his appointment . . .”
John Bartram, 1699-1777, known as the first native American botanist, was born near Philadelphia, and was a member of the Society of Friends.
This is the
first edition of his Journal. Bartram is reputed to have been the first to propose the great western trip which eventually resulted
in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
For Thomas Jefferys [or Jefferies], see no. 4000.
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