BOOK
Title:
Compendio de la arte de la lengua Tagala
Creator:
Gaspar de San Agustin, 1650-1724
Publication:
Correa, Manila, 1703.
Call #:
499.2 SA5
Extent:
40 l. ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
Format
Subject
BOOK
Title:
Nova plantarum americanarum genera
Creators:
Plumier, Charles, 1646-1704 | Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de, 1656-1708
Publication:
Apud J. Boudot, Paris, 1703.
Notes:
"Catalogus plantarum americanarum, quarum genera in Institutionibus rei herbariae jam nota sunt, quasque p. Carolus Plumier ... descripsit & delineavit in insulis americanis": 21 p. Title vignette; head and tailpieces. Unidentified marginalia.
Call #:
581.9729 P73N
Extent:
[8], 52, [4], 21, [1] p., 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Politica Indiana
Alt. Title:
De Indiarum jure. Spanish
Creator:
Solórzano Pereira, Juan de, 1575-1655
Publication:
por Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, En Amberes [i.e. Antwerp], 1703.
Notes:
Includes index. First published in Latin, Madrid, 1629-1639, under title: "... De Indiarum ivre ..." Title in red and black. Double columns. Reprint, with new title, of the 1648 Madrid edition of the author's Spanish version of his "De Indiarum jure."
Call #:
972.9 SO4
Extent:
[26], 536, [84] p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 34 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
New voyages to North-America: containing an account of the several nations of that vast continent ... the several attempts of the English and French to dispossess one another ... to which is added a dictionary of the Algonkine language which is generally spoke in North-America
Alt. Title:
Nouveaux voyages de mr. le baron de Lahontan dans l'Amerique Septentrionale. English
Creator:
Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arcebaron de, 1666-1715?
Publication:
Printed for H. Bonwicke ..., T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, B. Tooke ... ; and S. Manship, London, 1703.
Notes:
"In two volumes, a greater part of which never printed in the original." Includes index. Vol. 2 has title: New voyages to North-America : giving a full account of the customs, commerce, religion, and strange opinions of the savages of that country : with political remarks upon the courts of Portugal and Denmark and the present state of the commerce of those countries / written by the Baron Lahontan, ...
Call #:
917 L13N
Extent:
2 v. : ill., maps (some fold.) ; 20 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
A description of the Western Islands of Scotland: Containing
Creator:
Martin, Martin, d. 1719
Publication:
Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys and Bible, in Cornhil, near Stocks-Market, London, 1793.
Notes:
Contents: (from t.p) A full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides anchoring places and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. Contents: (cont'd.) A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of foreseeing things to come, by way of vision so common among them. A brief hunt of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney and Schetland.
Call #:
VGN 914.11 M36D
Extent:
[32], 392 p., [2] folded leaves of plates : map, plan ; 20 cm. (8vo)
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