ÉTATS-UNIS

Y compris la Louisiane , la Californie, le Texas, le Nouveau Mexique

et la Floride.

fCTS of Assembly, passed in the colony of Virginia, from 1662, to 171 5. Volume L London, J. Baskett, 1727, in-fol., rel. 70 fr.

xxiv et 391 pp. — Collection fort importante du Recueil des lois de l'état de Virginie, comprenant les années 1662-1715.

Les lois de la Virginie avaient déjà été imprimées à Londres en 1662, et publiées par Francis Moryson. Le volume que nous avons continue cette série et Lowndes' indique en outre des suites imprimées à Williamsburg, 1733, 1769 et 1770.

a This volume contains ail the acts down to 1715, and is probably calied vol. 1. in référence to those that migbt be subsequently passed and printed. The laws of Virginia were printed in London, without date, probably before 1696, as an act passed in that year is mentioned by Trott as not contained in it. » Rich.

798. ACTS of Assembly. of the Province of Pennsylvania, carefully comparée! with the Originals. And an Appendix, containing such Acts, and parts of Acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered or repealed. Together, with the royal, proprietary, city and borough charters ; and the original concessions of the honourable Wm. Penn to the first settlers of the province. Published by order of Assembly. Philadelphia, printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, 177b, in-fol., rel. 1 3o fr.

xxi et 536 pp. a An appendix containing a su mmary of such Acts of Assembly as hâve been formerly in force within this Province, for regulating of descents, and transferring the Property of Lands, etc. . . . With notes upon divers of them, by the late chief Justice Kiksey » 22 pp., Index 6 foc, addendum 3 pp.

Bel exemplaire de cet important volume non cité par Rich.

799. ADAIR (James). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Missîsippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia : Containing an Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, etc., etc.; with an Appendix, containing A Description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi Lands, with their productions. London, Edwards and Ch. Dilly, 1775, in-4, rel. 5o fr.

Bon exemplaire d'un ouvrage important.

4 fnc, 464 pp., carte. — a In this very curious work, the author, who was a résident in North America above forty years, endeavours to trace the Indians to a Hebrew orïgîn. Lowndes*. » — Le cinquième argument qui occupe les pp. 37-74, traite de la langue des Indiens .

800. ADDRESS (An) of the Convention, for framing a new Constitution of Governement for the state of Massachusetts- Bay, to their constituents. Boston, printed by White and Adams, 1780, 18 pp. (Sig. James Bowdoin. Président. Attest Samuel Barret Secretary). — A Constitution or Frame of government, agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the state of Massachusetts-Bay, in convention, begun and held at Cambridge on the.first of September, 1779, and continued by adjournments to the second of March, 1780.... Boston, Benjamin Edes et sons, 1780, 53 pp. In-8, broché. 100 fr.

Deux pièces originales et importantes pour l'histoire de l'état de Massachusetts; toutes deux sont signées James Bowdoin, président, et Samuel Barrett, secrétaire.

Les signatures ont été effacées par un trait, mais on y a ajouté les lignes suivantes : « The foregoing is the Constitution or Frame of Government for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, as agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the said commonwealth, submitted to the revision of their constituents, and by them approved : as appeared by the Returns from the several Towns et Plantations, received et examined in convention, previous to its dissolution on

the 16 th. day of June, A. D. 1780. »

James Bowdoin, président of the Convention.

Attest :

Samuel Barrett, secrY.

Compared with the original

Pr. James Bowdoin.

« By virtue of a Résolve of the convention in June 1780, the administration of government agréable to this constitution, commenced the 2$ th. 0f Oct°. 1780 : the necessary Elections being previously made by the People : who hâve since made them, and will annualy make them, at the times mentioned in the constitution.

Boston Nov*. 27. 1781.

Cf. Rich, p. 281, n° 36 et p. 288, n° 26.

801. ALLEN (Ira, General of the militia in the state of Vermont). The natural and political History of the state of Vermont, to which is added an Appendix, containing answers to sundry queries, addressed to the author. London, J. W. Myers, 1798, in-8, demi mar. coins. 20 fr.

vii et 300 pp., 1 fhc. — Exemplaire de Ternaux-Compans (vente Rietzel, n° 1477).

La carte manque. »

802. ANBUREY (Thomas). Journal d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Ouvrage dans lequel on donne des détails précieux sur l'insurrection des Anglo-Américains, et sur la chute désastreuse de leur papier-monnoie. Traduit de l'anglois et enrichi de notes par Noël. Paris, La Villette, 1793, 2 vol. in-8, demi rel., non rogné.

20 fr.

Vol. I. 356 pp., carte, 2 pi. — Vol. II. 453 pp., 1 fig.

Ce voyage, écrit en forme de lettres par un officier de l'armée anglaise, sous les ordres du général Burgoyne, contient des renseignements curieux et exacts sur l'histoire de la guerre des Etats-Unis, pendant les années 1776 à 1781. L'édition originale a paru à Londres en 1789, en 2 vol. in-8.