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466 p., illustrated, 30 cm. ; Serrano de Wilson (1834?-1922) was a Spanish writer who produced historical and sociological works, as well as novels, literary translations, and guides to conduct for young women. In this, her most ambitious work, Serrano de Wilson displays an encyclopedic range of interests, including history, ethnology, climatology, and botany, and it clearly reflects her three overriding passions: literature, traveling, and a fascination with the Americas. The product of firsthand research conducted during two voyages, over the course of which she traveled, unaccompanied for the most part, to every country in Latin America, including extended periods of time in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Cuba, and Mexico. The length of these voyages kept her away from her native Spain for close to 15 years. Serrano de Wilson employs a geographical approach to handling the vast amount of material at her disposal, describing the landscapes, detailing the flora and fauna unique to each place, the indigenous peoples, the European settlers, as well as current politics and literature. She visits haciendas in Brazil and Argentina, hikes the Andes in Ecuador and Chile, collects antiquities in Mexico and beside the shores of Lake Titicaca in Peru, and enjoys the company of fellow writers in literary salons throughout the continent. An interesting feature of her methodology is her reliance on a network of female friends with shared intellectual habits and interests, including Juana Gorriti, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, and Soledad Acosta de Samper, all of whom were invaluable in providing Serrano de Wilson invitations to historical sites and archives which her position as a single woman would have normally barred her access to. She frankly acknowledges the dependency of intelligent women on such networks of 'sisterhood' and endorses them as a model for enterprising women. While the majority of the work deals with Latin America, early chapters discuss stereotypes, both racial and gender, popular in European intellectual circles, while a later chapter describes her visit to the United States, specifically New York City and Washington, D.C. ; This document is an English translation of the "América y sus mujeres." Translated by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson. The language of the original document is Spanish.

Tables. ; Signed: F.N. Blake. ; Duplicate of CIHM microfiche no. 10303. ; Caption title. ; At head of title: Management of Indians in British America. ; "Presented by Mr. Clarke, from the Committee on Indian Affairs." ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44

No more published. ; Plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress. ; Added title page (leaf following page 15): Portraits to the life and manners of the inhabitants, of that province in America, called Virginia; in charge of the honourable gentleman, Sir Walter Raleigh, knight and steward of the stannaries in Cornwall and Exeter, by licence and authority granted in the year 1585, for the government of the new provinces, by the Most Serene Queen of England Elizabeth. The whole carefully executed and drawn to the life, by John Wyth, sent forth to that province in the years 1585 to 1588, afterwards engraved on copper, and originally published by Theofore De Bry, 1590. ; Half title (page [5]): Graphic sketches. Part I, The natives of Virginia, by John Wyth. 1585-1588. ; Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, ; Checklist of American imprints, ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Contemporary publishers' binding; dark brown vertical rib grain cloth; covers blocked blind; faded green leather lettering piece on spine. ; Red ink stamp: Indian library No. 3 D.H. Landis. Autograph in ink: D.H. Landis, no 71. ; ACQ: 3341; A. Davidson; Gift; 12/8/1936 (no. 1 in Henkels sale).

Printed document, 4pp, Folio. ; This document is an English translation of the "Manifesto del gobierno supremo de los Estados del Centro de America." Translated by Cecilia Bonnor. The language of the original document is Spanish.

Printed document, 3pp, Folio. ; This document is an English translation of the "Ciudadanos de las provincias unidas del Centro de America." Translated by Cecilia Bonnor. The language of the original document is Spanish.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 22342. ; Half title: Account of the United States of North America. ; Brief bibliographies at end of many of the chapters. ; Mode of access: Internet.

92, [4], p., [1] folded leaf ; 20 cm. (8vo) ; Half-title: The rights of Great Britain asserted against the claims of America. [Price three shillings.] ; Attributed to Macpherson by Adams. Frequently attributed to John Dalrymple. ; "A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America . setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms."--p. [5]-12, dated July 6, 1775. ; "A few more words, on the freedom of the press, addressed by the printer, to the friends of liberty in America."--[4] p. at end. By Robert Bell.

66, [6] p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) ; Two states noted by Adams, "one with Tucker's name alone on the title page and one with three lines that identify him further." ; "A few more words, on the freedom of the press, addressed by the printer, to the friends of liberty in America."--p. [67-68]. ; "A short answer to some criticisms. Which were exhibited under the signature of Aristides: containing, a reasonable vindication of the propriety of those defences of the liberty of the press, which were annexed to Plain truth, and to the Additions to Plain truth; published, in 1776. Extracted from an old pamphlet, published in the year 1756, entitled Plain truth: or, Serious considerations on the present state of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. By a tradesman of ; Philadelphia."--p. [69-70]. ; Bookseller's advertisement, p. [71-72].

4, viii, 342 [i.e., 340], [2], lxxxix, [5] p., [1] folded leaf, [11] leaves of plates : ill., 3 maps ; 19 cm. (8vo) ; Dedicated to John Ellis. ; The second volume was not published. ; The "two whole sheet maps" of East and West Florida mentioned in the title were not issued with this work, but were eventually published separately in 1781. Cf. Library of Congress. Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies 1750-1789. Washington, 1981, p. 352. ; Most plates engraved by Romans. ; Error in paging: page numbers 176-177 omitted from pagination. ; "An aggregate and valuation of exports of produce from the province of Georgia . Compiled by William Brown, comptroller and searcher of His Majesty's Customs in the Port of Savannah."--folded table facing p. 104. ; "List of subscribers to this work."--p. i-viii. "A list of subscribers, whose names were too late to be prefixed to the work."--p. [344]. ; Errata, p. lxxxix and [xci-xcii].

[4], 16 p. ; 21 cm. (8vo) ; Advertised as "just published" in Rivington's New York gazette, Nov. 17, 1774, where it is suggested that the author might be either Sir Francis Bernard or Benjamin Franklin. Although it has commonly been attributed to Bernard, it is attributed to Franklin in Crane, Verner W. "Certain writings of Benjamin Franklin ." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 28 (1934): 13-15.

[4], 16 p. ; 24 cm. (4to) ; Half-title: The importance of the colonies of North America, and the interest of Great Britain with regard to them, considered. [Price one shilling] ; Attributed to William Bollan in Appleton's cyclopaedia of Amer. biog.

Part of a CIHM set. For individual microfiches in this set see CIHM microfiche nos. 38806-38808. ; "Vol. II." ; "A conference or dialogue between the author and Adario, a noted man among the savages" (p. 92-185) has been attributed to Nicolas Gueudeville--Cf. A narrative and critical history of America, vol. 4, p. 257-260 / ed. by Justin Winsor (CIHM microfiche no. 34416). ; Electronic reproduction. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 44