Carver's 'Travels in N. America,' with plates, 8vo., Lond., 1778, 10s.
Long's 'Voyages and Travels in N. America,' 4to., Lond., 1791, 11s. 6d.
'Histoire des Antilles,' par Père du Tertre, 3 vols., 4to., Paris, 1667, £2 2s.
Blome's 'Description of Jamaica,' etc., 8vo., Lond., 1678, 8s.
Gage's 'Travels in America and the W. Indies,' 8vo., Lond., 1699, 2s. 6d.
Wafer's 'Description of the Isthmus of America,' 8vo., Lond., 1699, 9s.
'Collectio Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et in Indiam Occidentalem, 19 partibus comprehensa, cum multis figuris Fratrum De Bry, 4 vols., folio, Francof., £51 9s.
This 'Collectio Peregrinationum,' or Grands Voyages of Theodore de Bry, nearly always makes its appearance in the auction-room in sections. Nine of the parts, including the Additamentum, all first editions, with the plates and maps, sold on July 1, 1895, for £18 10s.
And now we must take a final leave of the Duke of Roxburghe and the collection which he got together during the course of a long life of painstaking and critical research. His catalogue is worth comparing with several important records of the present day, but to do this thoroughly would involve a tabulated analysis quite out of keeping with a work such as I am engaged upon. There is magic in comparisons, for they tell us what to avoid, and it may be that by their aid we could in a measure take fashion by the forelock and jump the years to come. Such a consummation is possible, but life is rounded too narrowly by the present, and therefore too short to make it worth anyone's while to endeavour to peep into futurity.
CHAPTER III.