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correction of many by the librarian of the Association, Mr. J. H. Senter, who kindly compared the proof sheets with the books. Another debt of thanks is due to the Committee on Literature, and especially to its former Chairman, Mr. Edward Cary, whose suggestion and encouragement were a principal cause in inducing the compiler to volunteer his services.

PAUL LEICESTER FORD.

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(A. d'). Esquisses Américaines, ou Tablettes d'Un Voyageur aux États-Unis d'Amérique. Par Ad. d'A. Paris, Chez Ébrard, 1841. 16mo.

A (T. B.)-See Aldrich, T. B.

ABBOTT (Edwin A.), and J. R. SEELEY. English People. London. MDCCCLXXI.

pp. 178.

English Lessons for 12mo. pp. 292.

[ABELIN (Jean-Philippe)]. Newe Welt / Und Americanische Historien. Inhaltende / Warhafftige und vollkommene Be- / schreibungen Aller West-Indianischen Landschafften Insulen / Königreichen und Provintzien Seecusten fliessenden und stehen- / den Wassern Port und Anländungen Gebürgen Thälern Stätt Flecken und / Wohnplätzen zusampt der Natur und Eygenschafft dess Erdrichs der Lufft der / Mineren und Metallen der Brennenden Vulcanen oder Schwefelbergen der / Siedenden und anderer Heilsamen Quellen wie auch der Thier Vögel Fisch und Gewürm in denselben sampt andern Wunderbaren Creaturen / und Miraculn der Natur in diesem halben Theil/dess Erdkreyses. / Dessgleichen / Gründlicher Bericht von der Innwohner Beschaffen heit Sit- / ten Qualitäten Policey und Götzendienst Leben und Wesen Barbarischer Un- / wissenheit und unerhörter Grausamkeit dess meisten theils dieser Wilden Leute sampt Unterscheyd der Nationen Sprachen und Gebräuchen. Item, / Historische und Aussführliche Relation 38. Fürnembster Schiffarten unter-schiedlicher Völcker in West-Indien von der Ersten Entdeckung durch Christopho- / rum Columbum in 150. Jahren vollbracht. / Alles auss verscheidenen West-Indianischen Historien-Schreibern unnd mancherley Sprachen mit sonderm fleiss zusamen getragen extrahirt, in ein richtige Ordnung / der Materien und Zeit und in diese Käuffliche Form gebracht Durch Johann Ludwig Gottfriedt. Mit zugehörigen Landtafeln Contrafacturen und Geschichtmässigen Kupfferstücken zum Lust und Nachrichtung reichlich gezieret und verlegt / Durch Mattheum Merian Buchhändlern und Kunststechern zu Franckfurt am Mäyn. / Franckfurt. Ben denen Merianischen Erben. / M. DC. LV. Folio. pp. (8), 661, maps.

*** "Jean-Philippe Abelin published this work under the assumed name of Jean Louis Gottfriedt. It contains a resumé of the histories of Acosta, Oviedo, Peter Martyr, Herrera, Laet, &c.; an account of 33 voyages to America, from Columbus to Spilbergen and Schouten; notices of the expeditions of Lemaire and Peter Heyen; the conquests of Brazil by the Dutch; and descriptions of Greenland and Spitzbergen."

ABERCROMBIE (John). Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth. From the second Edinburgh edition. With questions for the examination of students. New-York: 1835. 16mo. ABOUT (Edmond). Les Mariages de Paris. 1870. 12mo. pp. 440.

pp. 376.

4e éd. Paris:

ABRIA (J. J. B.). De Quelques Propriétés générales des Corps et en particulier de la Force Répulsive des Gaz. Paris: 1867. 24m0. pp. 46.

Voyage de la Lumière au Travers des Cristaux ou de la Structure des Corps étudiée a l'aide de leurs propriétés optiques. Paris: 1868. 241no. 2410. pp. 47.

AN ABRIDGEMENT / of the Laws In Force and Use in / Her Majesty's Plantations; / (Viz.) Of / Virginia, / Jamaica, / Barbadoes, Maryland, / New-England, / New-York, / Carolina, &c. / Digested under proper Heads in the Me- thod of Mr. Wingate, and Mr. Washington's / Abridgements. / London / Printed for John Nicholson at the King's-Arms in / Little Britain, R. Parker, and R. Smith, under the Royal-Exchange, and Benj. Tooke at the Middle- / Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1704. 8vo. pp. (4), 304, 87, 104.

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* See Hildeburn's Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws for a fuller collation, from which however the above copy varies somewhat.

Absalom and Achitophel.-See Dryden.

ABU ISHAC. Liber Climatum auctore Abu Ishac el-faresi vulgo El-Issthachri. E codice Gothano edidit Dr. J. H. Moeller. Gothæ, in officina Beckeriana MDCCCXXXIX. 4to. 126 11. pls.

* Except for the title, the book is in Arabic character.

ACTES de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable / a la diéte de Suède, des années 1755 et 1756; / Tirés des Regîtres de cette Diète, / & traduits du Suèdois: / Avec / Une Relation circonstantiée de la dernière révolte. [u. p.] M. DCC. LVI.

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ADAMS (John).

A Defence of the Constitutions of Govern-
London: Printed for

ment of the United States of America.

C. Dilly, in The Poultry. M. DCC. LXXXVII

3 vols. 8vo.

This so called "defence" of American State Constitutions was in truth a plea for Constitutional limitations and clogs on popular government, and was so undemocratic in its whole tone as later to be a most effective political argument against the author in the campaigns of 1796 and 1800.

Défense des Constitutions Américaines, ou De la nécessité d'une balance dans les pouvoirs d'un gouvernement libre. A Paris: Chez Buisson. 1792. 2 vols.

8vo.

The Works of John Adams, second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, notes and illustrations, by his grandson, Charles Francis Adams. 1850- 10 vols. rl. 8vo. ports.

Boston:

ADAMS (John Quincy). An Address delivered at the request of a Committee of the Citizens of Washington; on the occasion of reading the Declaration of Independence, on the Fourth of July, 1821. City of Washington: 1821. 8vo. pp. 31.

The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents relating to transactions at the negotiation of Ghent. Collected and published by John Quincy Adams, one of the Commissioners of the United States at that negotiation. Washington: Printed by Davis & Force, (Franklin's Head) Pennsylvania Avenue. 1822. 8vo. pp. 256.

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* The negotiation at Ghent, which terminated the War of 1812, ranks among the most interesting episodes of American diplomacy. Especially difficult was the position of Adams, for the New-England attitude towards the war had been so cold as to savor of actual disloyalty. In consequence, the American commissioners, as a whole, were not over anxious to save to that locality the fisheries; and to Mr. Adams were practically due the fishery clauses finally inserted in the treaty. His efforts for that purpose are set forth in full in these letters. The whole story is brilliantly told in the third volume of Mr. Henry Adams' History of the Administration of James Madison; but these original letters are still interesting, as much because of the individuality of the writer, as because of the constant reappearance of the main question in our diplomacy.

to his son, on the 16o.

Letters of John Quincy Adams, Bible and Its Teachings. Auburn: 1850. Lettres sur la Silésie, écrites en le cours d'un voyage fait dans cette province; parties. Traduit de l'Anglais, par J. Dupuy.

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pp. 128. 1800 et 1801, durant Divisées en deux Paris: M. D. CCc.

ADAMS (R.). The Narrative of Robert Adams, a Sailor, who was wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1810, was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and resided several months in the city of Timbuctoo. London: 1816. 4to. pp. 231. map.

ADAMS (W.)—See Rice, N. L.

ADAMS (W. H. D.). The Buried Cities of Campania; or, Pompeii and Herculaneum, their history, their destruction and their remains. London: 1869. 12mo. pp. 282. pls.

ADDISON (J.). The Works of the Right Honourable / Joseph Addison, Esq;/ In four Volumes. / Volume the first / London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's-Head, over against Katharine-street in the Strand. / MDCCXXI. / 4 vols. 4to. 4to. port. and pls.

This beautiful edition of Tonson's is not even mentioned in Allibone, though the first collected edition of the author's writings, and the basis of all subsequent ones.

The Works of Joseph Addison, including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's Essay on his Life and Works. Edited, with critical and explanatory notes, by George Washington Greene. In five volumes. New York: 1853. 8vo. port. and pls.

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A Letter from Italy, To the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Halifax. By Mr. Joseph 'Addison. 1701. Together with the Mourning Muse of Alexis. A pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our Late Gracious Queen Mary. By Mr. Congreve. 1695. To which is added the Despairing Lover. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-fryars, near the Water side, 1709. 8vo. pp. 16.

The Campaign: /a/ Poem, To His Grace the / Duke of Marlborough. By Mr. Addison. /. . . . / London: / Printed, and Sold by H. Hills, in Black-Fryers, near the Water-side, 1710. Svo. pp. 16.

The true story of the writing of this poem, which secured the author such contemporary fame, and won him his pension, can be found in any life of Addison. Yet even so modest a poet could hardly have dreamed that one day his poem, which sold a hundred thousand copies in three months, would be chiefly known by the fictitious account of its writing, purporting to be narrated by one Lieut.-Colonel Esmond, though penned by Thackeray.

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