First Edition. 2 vol. Folio. Vol. I, 215 leaves; vol. II, 271 leaves; engraved frontispiece by T. Lediard, with a portrait in the centre within an elaborate frame in compartments, at the foot the reclining figure of
Ars Nautica, her left arm resting on a copy of the book, the caduceus in the hand, the right hand tracing with a quill a map of Georgia;
at the head of the dedication to Sir Charles Wager is a symbolic engraving with his arms in the centre and on the same page
is a fine engraved initial; the signatures and pagination of the two volumes are continuous; the text printed in double columns;
on the last page of the second volume are the separate publisher’s lists of
John Wilcox and of
Olive Payne.
Lowndes III, page 1330.
Grose 558.
Sabin 39683.
Thomas Lediard, 1685-1743, English miscellaneous writer. This work includes accounts of Columbus and other explorers, and of the settlement
of the English colonies in America.
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Campbell’s lives of the Admirals.
4. v.
8
vo.
1060. A.C.-1727.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 40, as above.
CAMPBELL,
John.
Lives of the Admirals, and other eminent British Seamen . . . By John Campbell, Esq; Vol. I [-IV]. The
Second Edition, carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged.
London: Printed for
T. Waller,
1750.
4 vol. 8vo. vol. I, 270 leaves; vol. II, 262 leaves; vol. III, 244 leaves; vol. IV, 245 leaves.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, page 879.
John Campbell, 1708-1775, miscellaneous writer, was born in Scotland. The first two volumes of the Lives of the Admirals were originally
published in London in 1742, and the two remaining volumes in 1744.
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Historical register from 1714 to 1732.
18 v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 18. no. 41, as above.
The Historical Register, containing an Impartial Relation of all Transactions, Foreign and Domestick. Volume I. For the Year 1716 . . . [-Volume XVI. For the Year 1731.]
London: Printed and sold by
H. Meere,
1717-1731.--
The Historical Register . . . with a Chronological Diary . . . from the last Day of July, 1714, to the first Day of January,
1716; being the first Seventeen Months of the Reign of King George . . . In
Two Volumes.
London: Printed and sold by
C. Meere [and others],
1724.
D2 .H6; D2 .H59
Together 18 vol. 8vo. Volumes I-XVI collate in fours, vol. III-XVI have at the end a Chronological Register, with separate
title-page, signatures and pagination. The two additional volumes collate in eights.
Lowndes II, page 1074.
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature II, page 676.
Sabin 32075.
The
Historical Register was a quarterly publication, issued by the Sun Fire-Office, and so stated on some of the title-pages, to save its subscribers
the expense of a weekly newspaper. Vol. X, 1725, is the last which bears the name of Meere in the imprint; the subsequent
volumes are printed and sold by
R. Nutt. Jefferson’s set was to 1731 only, though the
Register was continued to 1738. The two extra volumes printed in 1724 give a complete account of events for the first seventeen months
of the reign of George I. The work contains numerous chapters on, and references to, the American colonies.
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