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B A X T E R (George) K n ibb (Rev. William)
Sermon On...
Coloured print measuring 265 by 220mm. Laid down on card.
As issued. 1st January, 1847. A very good copy of Baxter’s famous and
rare portrait of the missionary and abolitionist.
Knibb was one of the most important abolitionists in Jamaica in the period
between 1807 and 1833. He first arrived in Kingston in 1825, filling the
vacancy his father left at the Baptist School. This was at a time when
missionaries were viewed with great unease by plantation owners, especially
in light of the advances abolitionists had made regarding the amelioration of
slavery. Knibb was arrested during the December 1831 slave rebellion and
threatened with death. His case was thrown out of court and he was later sent
to London to defend the missionaries against the lies being told by plantation
owners. Over the following three years he spent much time campaigning
throughout England for the total abolition of slavery, pursuing a far more
strident position than the Baptist Missionary Society advocated. He returned
to Jamaica in late 1834 once the abolition had come into affect.
CA RT E R ( O. B . ) & WA R R EN ( H ) .
Slave Market, Cairo.
engraving measuring 265 by 370mm. London, Hallmandel, c. 1840.
A clean copy of this well known image; from Hay’s Cairo.
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[ C L A R K (William).]
22000
Ladies’ Society Book for Promoting the Early Education of Negro
Children. Six aquatints. Folio. Twentieth century morocco, title gilt to
upper board. 12ll tipped onto stubbs, the last leaf in facsimile. London,
Edward Sutter, 1833.
Rare. The six aquatints originally appeared a decade earlier in Clark’s Ten
Views in the Island of Antigua. However, the text makes no mention of their
subesequent appearance here, nor does it appear in Abbey’s Education. The
sheets for this were all published separately rather than as a single bound
work, which explains the absence of a title page.
More commonly referred to as the Ladies’ Negro Education Society, this
charity began as a result of the abolition of slavery and was partly dependent
on government funding. They operated largely by supporting existing schools
in the West Indies (rather than by establishing their own) and their main aim
was “to assist whatever means of education may already be at hand”.
The beautiful aquatints illustrate the stages of harvesting and refining sugar
for export, being the labour-intensive industry for which slaves were required.
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The text accompanying each presents an informative, if optimistic, account
of life in the cane fields.
1. “Holeing the Cane-Piece:” The image depicts a line of men, women and
children preparing the ground for planting the sugar. The ground has been
cleared of all weeds and scrub, and divided into small squares of about three
and a half feet each. The text advises that the workers are, in fact, former
slaves, who are now “apprenticed to their masters for six years, after which
they will be free”. It further notes that “they each want to do sixty holes
before sunset.”
2. “Planting the Sugar Cane.” Here we see the planting of cane cuttings in the
prepared ground. The cuttings are about eight inches each and two or three
of them are placed in each of the squares. The text describes the process of
tending the cuttings and the best time of year to carry this out. The image
includes a stunning backdrop of a windmill, plantation buildings and a fort.
3. “Cutting the Canes.” The liveliest of the images, showing a line of workers
at harvest, cutting the cane. Behind them we see the three foot “junks” being
bundled and then handed up to the back of a horse-drawn cart to be taken to
the refinery. The harvested cane must be processed within twenty-four hours
in order to avoid spoiling. The text loses no opportunity to tie the harvest to
the ten commandments.
4. “The Cane Mill.” The mill, and boiling house beside it, stand front and
centre in this dramatic image that captures a long line of carts full of cane
being unloaded. The text describes how the canes are run between two
cylinders that squeeze the juice from them and is in turn strained before being
transferred to the boiling house.
5. “The Boiling House.” The sole interior shot in this collection of images, we
see the sugar being boiled in a row of copper vessels before being transferred
to the flat wooden coolers. Lime juice is added to the cane juice as it boils
and then the pieces of cane rind and oil are skimmed off the top, the process
is repeated a further four times and the sugar is barrelled and held for four or
five weeks before being ready to be shipped.
6. “Shipping the Sugar.” The last and most beautiful of the six aquatints shows
barrels of sugar being rolled into a dinghy in the shallows of Willoughby Bay.
Two droghers await in the middle ground, each is able to carry more than
30 barrels (or hogsheads) at a time. The cane mill and boiling house can be
seen in the distance. It is in this last leaf that slavery is mentioned almost en
passant regarding the men and women described in these pages.
There are no copies of this work listed on OCLC and we can only locate two
copies at Brown and the University of Virginia. cf Abbey Travel, 690.
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work on his “factorie” [sic] until the relatives bring in extra quantity to
redeem them. Our illustration depicts one such company on their way to the
white man. How the white man trades in the Congo State: Bringing in Rubber
and hostages.”
The second shows a brutal flogging of a slave with a chicotte, a heavy whip
made of animal hide used in the Congo Free State and Portuguese African
Colonies.
D e m e rara I mpri n t
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[ D E M E R A R A S L AVE R E B E L L I O N ]
Report of the Trials of the Insurgent Negroes Before a General CourtMartial Held at Georgetown, Demerara on the 25th August 1823 and
Continued by Adjournment, until the 11th of October following.
First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, slightly shelf-worn. [iv],
240pp. Demerara, A. Stephenson at the Guiana Chronicle Office,
Georgetown, 1824.
Rare. This copy belonged to William Bruce Ferguson, a British merchant
based in Demerara. He has inscribed the title page “Wm Bruce Ferguson
Demerary 24th June 1824.”
Beginning on 18 August, 1823, the Demerara slave revolt was led by Jack
Gladstone partly in response to the harsh treatment and considerable
workload slaves on the Success plantation received. This discontent was
further fuelled by a rumour that a law emancipating slaves had been passed,
which plantation owners were unwilling to carry out. A co-ordinated uprising
with the Le Resouvenir plantation and, ultimately, 50 plantations between
Georgetown and Mahaica, saw homes ransacked, weapons seized and whites
put in stocks. Martial law was immediately declared and, with the assistance
of the 1st West India Regiment and 21st Fusiliers, order was restored by the
afternoon of the 20th. About 800 slaves were killed in the process.
A general court-martial was effected and trials were held on August 25.
This report includes transcripts from the individual trials of those involved.
Interestingly, prisoners defended themselves and so carried out their own
cross-examinations and spoke their own defenses. The trial of Jack Gladstone
occupies 35 pages and is a detailed, sometimes harrowing, first-hand account
of the uprising. This work ends with a three page index of sentences carried
out.
OCLC locates just 6 copies. This work has not appeared at auction in the
past 30 years.
H A ENEN (Frederic de).
2500
How a White man trades in Congo State
[With] H A ENEN (Frederick de). The Chicotte.
Original watercolours used in the “Graphic” magazine. Both measuring
385 by 270mm. np, 1906.
Two vivid images from West Africa. The first of which includes the following
descriptive caption: “The natives are required to bring in their toll of rubber
every fortnight or twenty days, according to the wish of the individual agent.
The sentries are sent out to bring in the rubber workers. In the event of the
rubber being either short or not good enough in quality, these sentries also
bring in a number of “hostages” which the white man holds and forces to
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H U G G I N S (W.J., after)
1250
[H.M. Brig Black Joke engaging the Spanish Brig El Almirante] To
Commodore Francis Augustus Collier, C.B.This Plate representing H.M.
Brig “Black Joke,” Lt. Henry Downes (Tender to H.M.S. Sybille) engaging
the Spanish Slave Brig “El Almirante” in the Bight of Benin, Feby 1st
1829 which she captured after a Chase of thirty one Hours and close
Action of one Hour and twenty Minutes Is most respectfully dedicated.
Coloured engraving measuring 465 by 600mm.
A very good copy with some minor, expert restoration. London, W.J. Huggins,
June 4, 1830. Built in Baltimore, the Henriquetta was renamed the Black
Joke when captured by the British in 1827. An interesting and somewhat
surprising name for an anti-slaver, the name derives from an early eighteenth
century Irish tune. The Black Joke’s speed made her one of the most successful
ships in the West Africa Squadron, and she was involved in the capture of 21
slavers over five years.
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J.F. A West India Sportsman, Make haste with the Sangaree,
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Quashie, and tell Quaco to drive the Birds up to me - I’m ready.
Hand-coloured aquatint measuring 235 by 350mm. A very good
copy, some neat repairs to marginal tears. London, William Holland,
November 1, 1807.
An amusing satire on the decadence of Englishmen in West Indies, published
shortly after the successful passage of Wilberforce’s bill to abolish slavery.
The artist is believed to be the propagandist and caricaturist, James Sayers
(1748-1823).
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M E Y NE L L (Lieut.)
Albanez Slaver.
Oil painting measuring 170 by 270mm. Framed & glazed. At sea, 1845.
Meynell (1821-70) is best known for his famous below-deck view of Albanez
captured in 1845, “Hold of a Brazilian Slave Ship”.
This watercolour directly preceeds the more famous image as the ms. note on
the back of the frame attests: “Alvarez Bugantine Slaver taken on the west after
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a chase of five hours it was getting dark and she would have escaped but we
opened fire of Grape shot which cut her [rigging?] away and so was captured.
The master was an old hand taken before the man denied his identity, but on
examination we found a wound in his breast seven inches long which was
inflicted by one of his crew , which was sewn up by our doctor about a [year?]
before the knife having run down the ribs so he escaped with his life. He had
400 slaves on board with 68 men and a Brass 18 pounder gun.”
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R I S I N G (John). William Wilberforce.
This Portrait of William Wilberforce esq MP for the County of York
Engraved from a Picture Painted by J Rising for the Right Honbl. Lord
Muncaster is with all Respect dedicated to the Chairman and Committee
of London and to all the Societies for the abolition of the Slave Trade
throughout Britain...
Engraving measuring 505 by 355mm. Trimmed to plate mark & laid
down on card. London, October 1st, 1791.
A fine portrait of the abolitionist, in the year that the hearings before the
Select Committee of the House of Commons concluded.
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RO B E RT S O N (John).
4000
A Slave Schooner.
Watercolour measuring 210 by 330mm. c.1842.
A beautiful image depicting a slave schooner surrounded by native canoes,
possibly at Zanzibar. Inscribed on the verso is the artist’s name and
“Thunderer”. Little is known about the artist, however, HMS Thunderer
was an 84 gun second rate ship of the line that took part in the 1840 Syria
campaign and was later (1841-3) at the Cape of Good Hope. This watercolour
was almost certainly produced at that time.
“ S H O C K I N G LY I N D E C EN T AC T I O N S ”
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RO S S (George).
4750
Collection of letters.
Fair copies comprising a broken run on 28 pages 147-191. Academy
High Street, St Johns, Antigua, 1788-89.
An incredible survival. These letters were used at some point as the lining of
an English oak chest and were later removed by a paper conservator.
The letters are addressed to a wide circle of Ross’s acquaintence: his mother,
the surgeon Charles Gibbon, his assistant, Rev. Dr Coke, Mr John Burke. The
letters concern sales of slaves, and their interests, how best to raise his daughter,
financial matters and “domestic infelicities”. They provide a substantial,
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interesting and varied account of life in eighteenth century Antigua. Among
the highlights is an extraordinary letter addressed to his former assistant,
accusing him of theft, laziness, swearing and sexual misconduct. Ross had
evidently fired him the night previous to the letter. An excerpt reads:
“I furthermore accuse you of having Robbed your Aunt, & Mr Bull & myself
from time to time to the value of money more by far than would have brought
you to an ignominious Death had it happened in any part of either England,
Ireland or Scotland.
“Lastly - your shockingly indecent Actions yesterday evening to Ritta - when
you were naked - & that too before my eyes, brought to my recollection the
villainy you perpetrated on the last Lodge Night - when (taking advantage of
my absence) under pretext of waiting in the Hall for a candle after your sister
& the rest of my family had retired - you then - (shocking to relate) made use
of my young Negro Girl, Jane, in a manner too shameful to comment to Paper!
This she herself acknowledges - which is likewise corroborated by your other
favourite (Ritta) in whose presence you spoilt the other! What a shameful
Action was this! They moreover complain that at all opportunities (which
chiefly offer early in the mornings and near bedtime) you are continually
feeling their Nudities - and encouraging little Master George Hunter in the
same mal-practices...
“You are sensible, it was your neglect and misconduct not want of Capacity
- that expluded you from Assisting me in my Business - Alas! Will you be
evermore blind to your true interests? Reflect for a moment what all this
self-deception will end in. The valuable period of your life is swiftly passing
away - but in doing what? why, in eating, drinking, sleeping and play-cursing,
swearing keeping low company, what not in short in a continual round of
Folly and dissipation.” A chilling insight into domestic life on a plantation.
T H E DA N G E RS O F “ B L AC K P OW E R ” A D D R E S S E D
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S H A R P (Granville).
950
“The System of colonial law” compared with the eternal laws of God;
and with the indispensible principles of the English Constitution.
Only edition. 8vo. A fine copy in contemporary wrappers, with paper
label. 20pp. London, Richard Edwards, 1807.
Published on the eve of the vote for the abolition of the slave trade, this work
responds to a petition presented to the House of Commons by West Indian
planters and merchants that outlined “numerous solemn assertions of very alarming circumstances to be apprehended by the passing of the intended bill”.
Sharp believed that if he could successfully attack one particular premise of
the petition then the entire edifice would collapse “which will save, to their
lordships, much valuable time”. Sharp focused on where the petition states
“that the operation of the Bill, if it shall pass into a Law, will be to violate the
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system of colonial law relative to property, &c”.
Before he examined the claim of the West Indian planters and merchants,
Sharp asks if colonial law violates English law or natural law? He concludes
that “all must argee ... that ‘the system of Colonial “Law”’ which tolerates
slavery and oppression, is absolutely contrary to the laws of God, national
[corrected in ms. to “natural”] and revealed, and, of course, is contrary to the
English Constitution”.
Sharp continues that promoters of the bill believed that after the slave trade
ended slavery itself would wither and eventually die and hoped that “some
prudent regulations would of course be soon adopted to supercede the
other”. Sharp disagreed with this and states that the recent petition by the
West Indian merchants and planters necessitated the declaration that “the
whole system of colonial law is totally illegal, and inconsistent with every just
principle of English law”. Here Sharp is not only addressing the planters but
also his fellow members of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
who disagreed with him in the early days regarding the approach that they
ought to take. Sharp believed that slavery itself ought to be the focus of their
attack from the very beginning but his more moderate colleagues, fearing that
in aiming for too much they might lose all, opposed him. It was at this early
date that Sharp declared: “with respect to myself, individually, when acting
with them, professing that my own opposition is aimed not merely against
the slave trade, but also the toleration of slavery itself” (cited in Anstey,
Roger. The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition 1760-1810. London:
Macmillian Press, 1975. p. 256).
One of the key objections by the West Indian planters and merchants is that
the abolition of the slave trade will encourage a slave revolt similar to the one
that occurred on Haiti, the “BLACK POWER” whose very existence is a bad
example to the neighboring islands. According to the planters and merchants,
Haiti affords “a memorable and dreadful lesson, recorded in characters
of blood, of the issue of doctrines intimately, constantly, and inseparably
connected with ‘the abolition of the Slave-Trade’. Sharp argues that “gentle
and merciful measures are certainly the best means of preventing insurrection,
and bloodshed” and that the only “BLACK POWER” to fear in the world is
the devil and that “even the petitioners themselves seem entangled in the toils
of this Kidnapper”.
The final section of the work is an “Extract of a letter ... on the Extreme
Wickedness, and total Illegality of Tolerating Slavery in any Part of the British
Dominions” (pp. 13-20).
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[ STOWE (Harriet Beecher)].
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Four Uncle Tom’s Cabin Schramberg plates.
Diameter of plate 195mm, diameter of images 100mm within an
elaborate floral border. Stamped “Schramberg” on the verso of each plate.
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Germany, c.1855. Schramberg pottery was founded in 1820 by Isidor
Faist in Baden-Wurttemberg.
The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, initially in serial form and later as a
book in 1852, became the bestselling novel of the nineteenth century, only
the bible exceeded it in sales. The first German edition was published in 1852
and subsequent editions came in 1853 and 1854. Dramatic adaptations first
began to appear while the novel was still in serial form and a cottage industry
soon developed cashing in on its popularity.
The four plates here each illustrate a different scene from the novel: 1. Elisas
flucht; 2. Onkel Tom von Eva mit blumen begranst; 3. Onkel toms todt; 4.
Legree last Tom auf den todt pfitschen.
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[ S T. D O M I N G O ]
1250
An Inquiry into the causes of the Insurrection of the Negroes in
the Island of St. Domingo. To which are added, Observations of
M. Garran-Coulon on the Same Subject...
First edition. 8vo. A fine copy stitched & uncut in the original printed
wrappers. [iv], 39pp. London, 1792.
The Haiti revolution was the only successful eighteenth century slave revolt,
it saw both the eradication of slavery on the island and the foundation of
the Haitian Republic. This Inquiry was published shortly after the revolution
began in 1791 and immediately looks to use it as an example in the ongoing
debate regarding slavery in the British Empire and its abolition. After a
discussion of the causes and outcomes of the revolt, the author sums up:
“such is the present state of this Colony: a prey to the pride and the prejudices
of the white proprietors, not to the violence of the revolted Negroes.”
In the appendix a Decree is included stating: “That National Assembly
acknowledges and decrees, that the people of colour and free Negroes ought
to enjoy the equality of political rights, as well as the Whites...” Sabin, 75135.
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[ W E D G E WO O D (Josiah).]
1500
Am I Not A Man and Brother?
Woodblock on paper laid down on cloth measuring approx. 335 by
230mm. np but London, c.1800.
A reproduction of the iconic design of the crouching slave with the motto
“Am I not a man and a brother” first produced as a jasperware medallion
by Wedgewood in 1787-8. The image had an immediate impact - women
wore the medallions as necklaces or transformed them into bracelets, pins,
or brooches to identify themselves with the abolitionist cause. The image also
appeared on the title-page of works written in support of the abolitionist
cause at that time.
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[ W E D G E WO O D (Josiah).]
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Framed plaquette with a wax figure of a crouching slave in chains
appealing to Britannia, “Britannia set me free” lettered above the slave,
with ship in background.
Oval, measuring 160 by 155mm with frame, interior measures 90 by 90
mm. Painted on ceramic or ivory, gilt mount, in contemporary turned
wooden frame behind a concave glass with painted white designs that
frame the image. Some light chipping to paint under glass but overall in
good condition. [London? c.1830].
A further adaption of Josiah Wedgewood’s iconic design (see item above).
After Wilberforce’s Bill to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire finally
passed in 1807, activists turned their attention to the wider abolition of
slavery and the image of the enchained, crouching slave was adapted for a
new use.
In the framed plaquette, the crouching slave implores Britannia to set him
free. The ship in the background may be a slave ship, and if so would allude
to the earlier triumph of the campaign to abolish the slave trade and hint that
a similar result awaits the anti-slavery campaign.
In the sky between the motto “BRITANNIA SET ME FREE” and standing
Britannia, is the ever-open-eye, which symbolizes the omniscience of God. The
symbol reminds the viewer that God knows of all the injustices perpetrated
by man and subtly suggests that the viewer is complicit in the injustice if he
or she doesn’t act against it.
The wall plaques were produced until parliament passed the Abolition of
Slavery Act in 1833.
[ W E D G E WO O D (Josiah).]
1750
“Humanity”.
Cast iron tobacco box with image of chained slave to lid.
Measuring 140 by 95 by 80mm. Coalbrookdale, c. 1820.
A further example of the many ways in which Wedgewood’s image was used.
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A f rica
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A S T L E Y (Thomas).
5000
A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels.
4 vols. 232 engraved maps & plates. 4to. Eighteenth century speckled
calf. xi, [13], 680; viii, [4], 732; vi, [4], 605; xii, [3], 751,[42]index. with
list of subscribers.pp. London, 1745.
“A particularly good source for Portuguese and English voyages” (Hill).
A fine copy of this compendium of voyages from the preceding three
centuries. Although known as Astley’s collection, the voyages here were, in
fact, compiled by John Green.
This four volume work includes accounts of the first voyages to the East
Indies by the English and Portuguese, voyages to Africa with much valuable
information on Guinea, Benin, the Congo and the Cape of Good Hope.
There are also travels to China, Tibet, Korea and Eastern Tartary. The second
volume includes voyages to America and the West Indies and Brazil. Cox p.
15; Hill p. 210; Sabin 28539; Cordier, Japonica, 232, 277, 279, 322, 405 &
406; Cordier, Sinica, 1947.
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C H A P M A N (James).
4400
Pictures of African Travel. (Chapman’s Expedition, 1860-64.)
20 stereoscope photographs, each image measuring approx. 70 by 75mm
on card measuring 75 by 180mm. Titled & captioned on verso. Cape
Town, J[oseph]. Kirkman, Hout Street, nd but c.1865.
A lovely group of photographs from Chapman’s expedition along the
Zambezi. The objective of the expedition was to explore the Zambezi River
from the Victoria Falls to its delta, assessing its navigability as they travelled.
In addition to being an explorer James Chapman was also a hunter, trader
and a keen photographer. His expedition was distinguished by the first use
of a stereoscopic camera and so these are the first photographs taken of the
tribes of central and southern Namibia. It is not known how many images
were produced but obviously it’s in excess of 100. The images in this group
are as follows:
1. Black Rhinocerous (Rhinocerous bicornis) Linn, and Bushmen at
Murimajani.
2. Damara Warriors at Otjimbinque.
3. On finding the Eggs they off parts tie up the legs and bag the Eggs.
4. No.5. Geology of Damaraland - A Hunting Party at Hykamkap, near the
Fountain, &c., &c.
5. “No.20. ... Namaqua Princess. Her attendant, a Berg Damara Maid, is on
the left. The Gum Acacia (Horida) under which they are sitting overshadows
a well.
6. No.33. Bushman at Koobie...
7. No.35. Leopard killed by Dogs at Koobie, near Lake ‘Guami.
8. No.41. Encampment at the Elephant Vley.
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9. No.43. Mohogu ... or White Rhinoceros, near Lake ‘Gnami.
10. No.48. Female Duiker with horns...
11. No.49. Bushman mode of obtaining fire.
12. No.56. Lechulatebe, Chief of Lake ‘Gnami and his Messangers.
13. No.60. Princess offering Milk for Sale... Lake ‘Gnami.
14. No.67. View on the Botletlie River. - The Bayeye or Macoba Chief
Makhato is making a Model Canoe.
15. No.83. New Quagga...
16. No.87. Makalakas, Weapons ... near Zambezi or Victoria Waterfalls
(Daka).
17. No.89. A Colonial Wagon-Driver in Damaraland (Davihip).
18. No.91. Defences of Otjimbinque.
19. No.95. Damara Girls (and costume) ... at Otjimbinque, Damaraland.
20. No.103. Daniel Cloete’s Family Camp at Otjimbinque...
On the expedition he was accompanied by his brother and by Thomas
Baines. “During the expedition, Chapman would take photographs and
Baines would paint and sketch” (Howgego). Many of the images Baines
completed during this trip would appear in his beautiful colour plate book
The Victoria Falls Zambesi River in 1865. Hartman, W et al; The Colonising
Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History. Cape Town, 1998;
Howgego IV, B9.
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DAV I E S (Rev. William).
1250
Extracts from the Journal of Rev. William Davies, 1st, when a missionary
at Sierra leone, Western Africa; containing some account of the country
- its inhabitants - the progress of religion among the negroes-manner of
government - state of the weather &c...
First edition. 8vo. A very good copy in later cloth. ii, 78pp. Llanidloes
[Wales], Wesleyan Printing Office, [1835].
Davies was the first Welshman to serve as a missionary in Sierra Leone, where
he established a school for the native childen. Ill health forced him to return
home, nearly three years to the day of his arrival in February 1818, yet he
maintained an active role producing books for the Sierra Leone mission.
These extracts from his journal include much information on his activities
and life at the mission, there is also a tender account of his wife who passed
away at the mission.
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[ G R A N T (James).] F OX (Major W.R.)
Map of the Nile Provinces from the Railway Terminus
at Sint to Berber.
Intelligence Branch No. 381. Scale 16 miles : 1 inch. Includes an inset
map of “Khartum and Environs.”
Folding colour map measuring 575 by 850mm. Separated and laid down
on linen, housed in contemporary card boards, upper cover detached,
paper label to upper cover with Grant’s ms. ink title, seven lines of ms.
pencil annotations to map upper margin. Compiled & Lithographed at
the Intelligence Branch, War Office. Revised, 1st January 1885.
[With] FOX (Major W.R.) The Nile Provinces from the
third Cataract (Hannek) to Khartoum. Intelligence
Br. No. 354. Includes inset maps of “Sketch of Kasra Dongola and
Neighbourhood” & “Sketch Map of Egypt Proper, Nubia & the Egyptian
Sudan.” Folding colour map measuring 1070 by 670mm. Separated and
laid down on linen. Original ochre slipcase, with Grant’s ms. ink title,
a little worn & chipped. Compiled & Lithographed at the Intelligence
Branch, War Office, 1885.
Both maps bear inscriptions in Grant’s hand. The first, “Presented me by
Intelligence sec Dept. Feb 7 1885 J.A. Grant” and the second, “This map I
received from Con[sul] Cameron of the Intelligence Dept., Feby/85 and sent
him a receipt for it.” These maps were no doubt of great use in the preparation
of Grant’s pamphlet Khartoom as I saw it in 1863 (1885).
In 1859, Speke invited him to join an expedition to confirm that Lake Victoria
was the source of the Nile, a fact he was unable to conclusively establish on
his expedition with Burton the preceeding year. Grant travelled with Speke
from Zanzibar to Cairo. The two were often separated and, in those instances,
Grant had command of his section of the column. He collected some seven
hundred species of plants along the way, eighty of which were unknown to
the scientific establishment. Grant received the Royal Geographical Society’s
gold medal on his return in 1864.
Charles Duncan Cameron served in the Kaffir Wars of 1846-7 and 1851-2
before later being appointed British Consul to Abyssinia. In 1864 he was held
captive by King Theodore until the British Army took Magdala in April 1868.
[ M A DAG A S CA R ] L E T R I L L A R D (Henri)
Album of watercolours and photographs.
68 original photographs, various sizes, from 58 by 70mm to 180 by 240
mm, nearly all captioned in ink & 19 watercolours, various sizes, from
200 by 120 mm to 170 by 250 mm, signed with initials or full name.
Oblong 4to. Original green cloth, rebacked. Madagascar, 1895 – 1902.
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A well executed album compiled and drawn by Henri Letrillard, a French
officer serving in Madagascar, transformed by the 19 watercolours in his
hand, which are made with wit and vigour and vividly illuminate the domestic
life of the military administration of the island.
The years 1896 to 1904 saw a series of insurrections led against the French
military and other foreign influences. The French, using their experience in
Indo-China used the counter-insurgency “oil-spot” principle, where secure
bases were established, from which a ring of stability would spread. Letrillard
appears to have served in two such settlements, Madirovalo and Namorako,
both someway inland from the northwest coast. Both Madirovalo and
Namorako had defended bases, with lookout towers, surrounded by wooden
ramparts and drawbridges. These stockades are shown several times in his
watercolours but not in the photographs, nor in any other photographs we
have seen before of Madagascar.
The photographs capture scenes of daily life showing both settlers and natives,
views of Diego Suarez, Vohemar, Nossi Bè [sic], Antananarivo and Mahajunga
(sometimes spelt here Majunga), and one photograph of Djibouti. One large
photograph is of a firing squad “le peloton d’éxecution” at Majunga: the
victim is not in the frame, but the event is well attended by onlookers. The
caption records that the officer in charge of the firing squad was later killed
by the enemy in Lampasika.
The album concludes with numerous shots of French soldiers at camp
including an exceptional photograph of soldiers on a hunting trip, posing
very theatrically in front of their tent.
The watercolours are titled:
1. Garde Principal - Garde Civile Indigine de Madagascar Tenue d’Europe.
2. Souvenir de Madagascar - L’apperitif au Cape du Cercle a Majungae.
3. Vue generale de Madirovalo - Vue pase du Mirador du Poste - Decembre
1897
4. Souvenir de Madagascar - Grande Rue de Madirovalo Novembre 1897.
5. Souvenir de Madagascar - Place de Nadirovalo - Novembre 97.
6. Souvenir de Madagascar - Rova de Madirovalo ma case - Celle du Chef de
Poste Novembre 97.
7. Souvenir de Madagascar - Un coin du Rova de Madirovalo [Dec 1897].
8. Entree Rova de Madirovalo - Madagascar [Dec 1897].
9. Garde Civile de Indigine de Madagascar Mon Sergent [1897].
10. Souvenir de Madagascar - Grande Rue de Madirovalo [1898].
11. Souvenir de Madagascar - Entree du Rova de Madirovalo, vue prise de
l’interieur de ma case. [1898]. Showing his desk, with his pipe, pictures and a
periodical, and the drawbridge to the stockade beyond.
12. Ceci represente le Chef de poste du Namoroka. [1898]. With the surreal
text “Ceci represente le Chef de Poste du Namoroko s’amusant avec l’intensite
d’un poisson dans une guitare, ou si l’on aime mieux en rason proportionelle
a ses appointements.” - “This picture shows the head of the mission at
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Namoroka, amusing himself with the intensity of a fish in a guitar, or if you
prefer, proportionally to his salary”.
13. Souvenir de Madagascar. Vue interieur du Poste du Namoroka (Ambongo)
Madagascar [Aug 1898].
14. Souvenir de Madagascar. Vue interieur du Poste du Namoroka (cote
Ouest) Ambongo Madagascar [Aug 1898].
15. Souvenir de Madagascar. Poste du Namoroka (cote Est) Ambongo Madagascar [Sept 1898].
16. Souvenir de Madagascar. La chaste epouse de mon caporal (femme
Betsimisara) [Sept 1898]
17. Coive de la Mabarary (reconnaisance du chute de Laizony) [July 1898]
18. Ma Case au village de Madirovalo (1899).
19. Poste de Madirovalo (vue du Campe 1899).
Letrillard (1872-1940) entered the military in 1890, and was posted to
Madagascar in 1896. Six years later, he was sent to the Congo where he
worked as a clerk in the department of native affairs. He was promoted again
in 1909 to assistant administrator and retired in 1923.
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S TA N L E Y (Henry M.)
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Authorized Souvenir Programme of the Henry M. Stanley
Lecture Tour through the United States and Canada ...
Comprising all one hundred lectures.
Photographic illustrations to text. 4to. Original printed wrappers,
chipped. 24pp. [New York], 1890.
Shortly after his marriage to Dorothea Tennant in 1890, Stanley departed on
a series of lecture tours overseas. The first to the United States and Canada
followed shortly thereafter by one to Australia and New Zealand.
The two subjects addressed in the lecture were the Emin Pasha expedition
and then “The Great Forests of Central Africa, its Cannibals and Pigmies, the
Mountains of the Moon and the Sources of the Nile.” The programs list the
full 120 date tour and includes a brief biographical sketch of Stanley along
with portraits of Stanley, Surgeon Thos. Heazle Parke, Mounteney Jephson,
Lieut. Stairs, Capt. R.H. Nelson.
Evidently this one program was used to serve throughout the tour and was
stamped differently for each venue and town. This program is stamped for the
January 5 lecture at Hartman’s Hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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S T EVEN S (Thomas).
Scouting for Stanley in East Africa.
First edition. Portrait frontispiece & 15 further plates. 8vo. Fine original
pictorial cloth, gilt. viii, 288pp. New York, 1890.
Author of the renowned two volume work Around the World on a Bicycle,
in January 1889 the New York World sent Stevens out to report on Stanley’s
Emin Pasha Relief expedition. Despite being ordered to remain on the coast
by Major Wissman, Stevens was determined to beat a rival reporter from
the New York Herald and so hired his own porters and guides. He travelled
first to Bagamoyo and on to Msuwa where reports of Stanley’s whereabouts
proved accurate. Having drunk champagne with Stanley, Emin, Casati, Stairs
and Parke, he accompanied Stanley’s expedition on its final march back to
Bagamoyo. The work concludes with a lengthy interview with Emin.
The English edition was actually printed in America using the same sheets, so
there’s no real primacy between the two.
W I T H 9 O R I G I N A L P H OTO G R A P H S C I RCA 1 8 4 6 / 7
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T R E M AU X (Pierre).
33000
Voyages au Soudan Orientale et dans l’Afrique Septentrionale.
First edition. 9 original photographs (salt prints), 4 maps (2 folding, 1
double-page), & 50 lithograph plates (numbered 1-56: 6 coloured, the
great majority of the remainder in one or more tints, 8 of these after
original photographs, & 2 folding double-page panoramas), with tinted
lithograph title. Oblong folio. Modern half straight-grain morocco,
marbled boards, spine gilt, with red morocco label. [26]ll. (printed on
recto only). Paris, Borani, [1852 - 1858].
From the end of the eighteenth century, when Napoleon occupied Egypt
(1798/9), there was a burgeoning interest in the “Oriental”, with particular
focus on Egypt. The great savants of the age competed with one another to
provide correct translations of the hieroglyphs, images of which were being
published across Europe, until in 1825 Champollion published his Précis du
Système Hiéroglyphique.
Trémaux (1818-95) joined the team of Europeans despatched by Ali Pasha,
following the subjugation of much of northern Sudan by Turco-Egyptian
forces in 1820-22, with a view to exploiting the mineral and archaeological
wealth of the region. The resulting work was published in parts from 1852,
under the title Voyage au Soudan oriental et dans l’Afrique septentrionale,
pendant les années 1847 et 1848..., and this magnificent work includes some
very early and important original photographs taken during the expedition.
Invented in 1834 by William Henry Fox Talbot, the salt paper print process
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was the first type of paper print used in photography, and although largely
replaced by the albumen print in the early 1850s it was in occasional use
until the end of the nineteenth century. Good quality paper is soaked in a salt
solution and dried. It is then brushed with a generous coating of silver nitrate
solution and then the paper is exposed under a negative (originally calotypes
in Fox Talbot’s process) to bright sunlight for approximately ten minutes; the
paper is then washed to remove excess silver nitrate, and fixed. However, the
prints are particularly prone to fading and are therefore extremely rare in
good condition as here, where they have been well preserved.
The British Library copy (14001.g.4) also includes a lithograph (“d’après
photo.”) Vue Pittoresque à Tunis pasted in prior to the photograph labelled
as plate No. 56; this lithograph is not found in our copy. However, the copy
in the Bibliothèque National lacks such a lithograph for the photograph given
as plate No. 38.
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[ W I L S O N (John Leighton).]
A Grammar of the Mpongwe language, with vocabularies.
First edition. Two folding tables on very thin paper. 8vo. Publisher’s
marbled boards with original paper label, rebacked, ex-library copy with
stamps, old shelving label clumsily removed from front free endpaper.
94pp. New York, Snowden & Prall, 1847.
Possibly the first grammar and vocabulary of the Mpongwe dialect of the
Myene languange spoken by a small group of Bantus in Gabon.
According to the 1848 report of the American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, John Leighton Wilson was chiefly responsible for preparing
this for publication. Wilson was an American missionary who served in Africa
in 1834, initially in Liberia before working with the Mpongwe in Gabon.
The vocabularies run, in double-column, from pages 55 to 94 and includes
“those chiefly which are in most common use”
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Egypt
th e N e ar E A S T
th e M iddl e East
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B U RTO N (Richard F.) trans.
5000
The Arabian Nights.
[with] Supplemental Nights. First Edition. 16 vols. Large 8vo. Original
cloth, spines of Supplemental Nights a little faded, some expert repairs
to spines. Benares, Privately printed for the Kamashastra Society,
1885 — 1888.
A lovely copy of the unexpurgated edition of what is probably the most
famous of all of Burton’s works, the translation of which was completed over
a twenty-five year period.
The Arabian Nights is one of the world’s most famous pieces of literature
purporting to recount the thousand and one tales Scheheradze told her master
in order to save her life. “Some of these stories, the folk-lore of the East dating
back as far as the 8th century AD, were written down in ancient manuscripts;
some had simply been handed down orally from century to century” (Lovell).
Amongst the tales are the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba.
Burton’s was not the first translation of The Arabian Nights to appear in
English - Edward Lane published a translation in 1840. Yet, those available
were greatly sanitised and themselves a translation of Antoine Galland’s
French edition. Burton’s translation restored the sexual content to the work
and included a 240 page essay by him which openly discussed the issues.
The Obscene Publications Act of 1857 caused Burton’s publisher’s great
concern and as a result drew up a contract which ensured that he became
solely liable for any criminal charges made as a result of publication.
The work became a bestseller, earning Burton £10000 which enabled him
and his wife and partner Isabelle to live out their remaining years in comfort.
Penzer, p114-6; Casada, 74; Lovell (A Rage to Live), 1998.
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CA RT E R (Howard) & MACE (A.C.)
The Tomb of King Tut-ankh-amen discovered by the late
Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter.
First edition. 3 vols. Numerous photographic plates. Large 8vo. Fine
pictorial cloth, gilt, vol. 1 slightly shaken otherwise fine. [xxiii], 231;
xxxiv, 277; xxiii, 231pp. London, Cassell, 1930-1927-1933.
Very rare. A detailed account of one of the most important archeological finds
of the century. In 1907 Carter was taken on by Lord Canarvon to excavate
in the Valley of the Kings. It proved to be a long, largely fruitless process
interrupted by, among other things, the First World War. Despite resuming in
earnest in 1917, little was found and in 1922, Canarvon advised Carter that
it would be his last season. On November 4 of that year, the steps to King
Tutankamun’s tomb were found. It proved to be intact and the best preserved
of all the tombs found in the valley.
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C H E S NE Y (Capt Francis Rawdon).
3000
Reports on the Navigation of the Euphrates.
First edition. Folding map & folding diagram. Folio. Contemporary calf,
gilt, worn, original upper wrapper bound in. [vi], 68pp. [London], 1833.
The presentation inscription reads: “W.P Andrew Esq. from the Author.”
Among the works Andrew wrote is The Euphrates Valley route to India and
The Euphrates Valley Railway making this an interesting association copy.
Printed on the advice of the “late and present Ambassadors at the Porte” Sir
Robert Gordon and Sir Stratford Canning, this, Chesney’s prospectus for an
Euphrates route to India, led to his being given the command of the official
survey. It contains an account of his first attempt at navigating the Euphrates
when he floated down the river on a raft.
It is a rare work being presumably privately printed for the author and specially bound for presentation to persons of influence. Atabey, 233.
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R AU WO L F (Leonard).
2500
Aigentliche beschreibung der Rais, so er vor diser zeit gegen Auffgang inn
die Morgenlander, fuernemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabian, Mesopotamiam,
Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam...
First edition. Small 4to. Modern calf, gilt title to spine. [16], 488pp.
Lauingen, L. Reinmichel, 1582.
The author was a physician, botanist and explorer. This account of his 1573
journey to the Near East includes ethnographic and botanical notes, though
is best known for its description of coffee. “He was the first modern botanist
to describe the flora of the regions east of the Levantine coast” (Norman).
The work is comprised of three individual parts with continuous pagination.
A fourth part was published the following year. Huennersdorf, HH, 1221;
Mueller, 173; Norman, 1782; Tobler, 80.
A V I S I T TO M E C CA H I N 1 8 4 5
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WA L L I N (Dr. Georg)
Forsta Res Fran Cairo till Arabiska Oknen
1 April 1845.
First edition. Map. 8vo. viii, 126pp. Helsingfors, Simelius, 1853.
Travelling as a muslim from Central Asia under an assumed name (Abd alWali), the Finnish explorer and orientalist” Georg Wallin visited Mecca in
1845, Burton notices this achievement in the Pilgrimage : “That adventurous
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and industrious traveller and orientalist.” It is thought that later Wallin
did in fact convert to Islam. He had held the beduin in high regard, and
greatly admired and collected Arabic poetry, concerning which he was an
acknowledged authority. Howgego II, W12.
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WA R I N G (Edward Scott).
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad;
with various remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and
Literature of the Persians. To which is added a history of Persia, from the
death of Kureem Khan to the subversion of the Zund dynasty.
Second edition (The first was Bombay 1804). 2 engraved portraits after
Persian originals. 4to. Very attractive modern half speckled, gilt, calf old
style by Trevor Lloyd. xiii, 329pp. London, Cadell, 1807.
This work was substantially revised by the author to correct “the numerous
and absurd errors of the press” in the Bombay edition of 1804.
2500
E u rop e
R u ssia
Turkey
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A M E R I CA N R E L I EF A D M I N I S T R AT I O N
American Relief Administration European Childrens Fund.
Broadside measuring 310 by 475mm. Printed in English & Hungarian.
Creased from old folds, corners torn from pins. Hungary, c.1920.
A rare piece of ephemera concerning the American Relief Administration
operations in Hungary. Directed by future president, Herbert Hoover, the
American Relief Administration was established as an aid project to Europe
in the aftermath of both the First World War and Russian Revolution. Having
distributed four million tons of aid to 23 different countries, it wound down
its operations outside Russia in 1922. Russian operations ceased the following
year once it was discovered that the Soviet Union had recommenced exporting
grain.
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B U R NE Y (Sarah Harriet, 1770 – 1844).
8500
Diversions of Florence in 1830 & 1831.
An album consisting of 27 carefully executed original pencil drawings,
mostly heightened with colours. Togther with 4 loosely inserted
watercolours.
Oblong folio. Original green calf, rather rubbed. Florence and elsewhere,
c. 1830. Inscribed by Burney “for my dearest Harriet Crewe, in testimony
of my gratitude for her faithful kindness. April 29th 1837 and in Harriet
Crewe’s hand “To be sent to my Sister at my death H.M. Crewe -1847.”
The remarkable Sarah Burney, youngest daughter of Charles and half-sister of
Fanny, was a woman of many accomplishments: an exceptional amateur artist,
and author of several novels, the first of which Clementine was published in
1796. She was a favourite of her half-sister Fanny, who described her as “one
of the most innocent artless, queer little things you ever saw, and altogther she
is a most sweet and very engaging child”. For a time their relationship cooled
especially when Harriet set up house with her half-brother James, who had
deserted his wife.
In 1822 she was engaged by Lord Crewe, at 300 per annum, with the
responsibilty of overseeing the education of his two motherless granddaughters
Henrietta (known as Harriet) b.1808 & Annabella b.1814 and also to preside
over the Crewe residence near Grosvenor Square. Their sugar estates in the
West Indies failing, the Crewes suffered a severe financial reversal and in
1829 Burney found herself released from her employment and free to travel.
She embarked on a continental tour and by May 1830 she was in Florence
where these delightful images were made. Good fortune has left us an insight
into the artist’s state of mind. She writes to Henry Crabbe Robinson, with
whom she had become acquainted during her travels: “I have had, and still
have a renewal of an old mania; a drawing mania, and instead of a language
master, have treated myself with a drawing master, and fagged as hard as if
fagging for bread. One amongst my many imperfections is that of never being
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able to engage in any pursuit with healthy and rational moderation. ‘The
Cynthia of the minute’ swallows me up, crust and crumb, body and mind. I
have repeatedly drawn from seven o’clock with only brief intervals of rest for
meals, till six or seven in the evening...”
The above drawings demonstrate her considerble talent as a draughtsman
and colourist. In the main they are copies of well known masterpieces but
there are two lively portraits of a “little girl in the Baths of Lucca”.
Four other drawings, watercolours of three landscapes and a character study
are loosely inserted. They have evidently been with the album for some time.
Provenance: The album was offered for sale at Christies rooms 28th June
1961 (lot 110) where it made 150 but without any earlier stated provenance.
W I T H O R I G I N A L P H OTO G R A P H S
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CA RUA N A ( A . A . )
675
Recent Discoveries at Notabile.
First edition. Eleven original mounted photographs (by G.L. Formosa
with his blindstamp). Small folio. Very good original decorative red cloth,
head & tail slightly worn, titled in gilt on upper board. 23pp. Malta,
Govt. Printing Office, 1881.
An interesting report on archaelogical discoveries made on Malta in 1881.
Caruana served as Librarian and Keeper of Antiquities at the Malta Library.
He made his first excavations of catacombs in 1860 with Capt Strickland
and, from 1871, was active for the next thirty years in exploring tombs and
catacombs. This is a good example of one of the reports produced, illustrated
with some fine photographic plates showing details of the Roman remains
discovered.
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C UN Y N G H A M E (Arthur Augustus Thurlow).
Travels in the Eastern Caucasus on the Caspian and Black Seas,
Especially in Daghestan, and on the Frontiers of Persia and Turkey,
During the Summer of 1871.
First edition. Illustrated frontispiece & 26 other illustrations and maps.
8vo. Green cloth, decorative gilt to front, spine gilt.(xvi), 367, 24 ads.pp.
London, John Murray, 1872.
Cunynghame served as aide-de-camp to Lord Saltoun in China in 1841-2 and
with distinction in the the Crimean War. This work records a three month visit
to the Black Sea fortifications accompanied by the author’s son. Among other
places, they visited Bucharest, Istanbul, Odessa, Yalta, Sebastapol, Balaclava
and Grosny. Nerhood 303.
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D O L G O RO UK Y (Princess Varinka).
1500
Gone for Ever. Some pages from my life in Russia 1885-1919.
Photocopied text with numerous original photographs laid in and
captioned (one possibly missing). Coarse cloth. 98pp. nd. c. 1930.
Goddaughter of the Tsar, and moving throughout her life in Russia in the
swirl of high society, Varinka Dolgorouky gives a touching account of prerevolutionary Russia as seen through the melancholy perspective of an exile.
The narrative’s real value though, despite the entertaining anecdotes of the old
regime, is her account of the revolution; the indignities and narrow escapes,
before finally being evacuated from Yalta in the flotilla on which the surviving
Romanovs also fled their homeland.
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D OW S I N G (William) Rambles in Switzerland:
with Reminiscences of The Great St. Bernard, Mont Blanc, and The
Bernese Alps. First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original plum cloth, gilt.
140pp. Kingston Upon Hull & London, 1869.
An uncommon work with surprisingly few copies held by institutions (OCLC
and COPAC list just nine between them).
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W I T H A B E AU T I FU L PA N O R A M A
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S p e cial copy o n thic k pap e r
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D R I NK WAT E R (Capt. John).
2250
A History of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and account
of that Garrison, from the earliest Periods.
Second edition, this copy printed on thick paper. Extra large folding
portrait as frontispiece, 4 large folding engraved maps, engraved vignette
to title, & 6 fine folding engraved panoramic views of Gibraltar printed
in sepia. 4to. Extremely fine contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt,
in compartments with red morocco label, with the Macclesfield library
plates to front pastedown & facing fly leaf, the discreet Macclesfield crest
blindstamped to title & maps. xxiv, 356pp. London, 1786.
Magnificent copy on thick paper, with the plates printed in sepia, extra
illustrated with a large fine engraved portrait as frontispiece.
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G E RSA I N T ( E . F. )
Catalogue Raisonné d’une collection considérable de diverses Curiosités
en tous Genres, contenuës dans le cabinet de M. Bonnier de la Mosson,
Billy & Capitaine des Chasses de la Verenne des Thilleries & ancien
Colonel du Regiment Dauphin.
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Frontispiece (after Boucher). 12mo. Fine French contemporary marbled
calf, spine richly gilt, in compartments, occasional annotations to the
margins in a fine hand. [iv], xvi, 234, [2]pp. Paris, 1744.
The auction catalogue of one of the great cabinets of curiosities formed during
the eighteenth century, this example ruled in red, priced with buyers and some
comment, in a fine hand. Buffon bought extensively as did the King Louis XV.
One of the original cabinets can be seen with material bought at this auction.
[www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/20/olalquiaga.php]
Gersaint was an art dealer and connoisseur who specalised in material such as
this. Examples of his catalogues covering shell collections and other natural
history specimens are known. This catalogue, however is of considerable
rarity and importance.
G R E L OT (Guillaume-Joseph).
5500
Relation nouvelle d’un voyage de Constantinople, Enrichie de Plans
levez par L’Auteur sur les lieux, & des Figures de tout ce qu’il ya de plus
remarquable dans cette Ville.
First edition. 13 plans & views, ten of which are folding and including
the spectacular panorama, with four further costume engravings in
the text. Contemporary calf, nicely rebacked. xii, 307pp. Paris, Pierre
Rocolet, 1680.
Grelot wandered the streets of Constantinople dressed as a Turk and was thus
able to gain access to mosques, and other places of interest. His systematic
plans of St. Sophia remained the best available until the work of Texier
and Fossati one hundred and fifty years later. The most famous plate is the
extraordinary panorama of the Grand Serail, a lovely impression here, though
with one or two repairs (without loss) to the folds.
“Through the acts of describing and depicting, Grelot inscribes Constantinople
as subject to his design. He imposes his artistic will and captures the city’s
likeness. He especially devotes energy and space to setting forth the religious
customs, practices, and monuments of Islam - as if these were the mainstays
of Ottoman power that constituted the real challenge to a French take-over.
His descriptions, diagrams, snatches of bookish history, along with his casual
anecdotes all point, however discreetly, to a religious orientation as key to the
Ottoman world (and to French national sentiment)” Michele Longino, Duke
University. A nice tight copy of this famous work. Blackmer 750.
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[ H E RS C H E L (Sir William).] W E D G WO O D (Josiah).
Oval medallion commemorating William Herschel and the
Discovery of Uranus.
Fine jasper bust measuring 100 by 135mm. Stamped “Herschel” at the
truncation of the bust, with Saturn and Uranus in the top right corner.
Stamped “Wedgwood” on the verso. Etruria, Wedgewood, c. 1785.
Rare. This beautiful medallion was almost certainly by John Flaxman for
Josiah Wedgwood. Herschel, who was an accomplished musician as well as
astronomer, was born in Hanover in 1738. After a brief, unhappy stint in the
army, he moved to England in the late 1750s. His father not only passed on a
keen interest in music to his children but also an interest in astronomy.
In 1772, Herschel purchased a copy of James Ferguson’s Astronomy and
began acquiring components to make a telescope. Following the directions in
Smith’s Opticks, he soon became the pre-eminent manufacturer of telescopes
in England - especially with regard to the grinding and polishing of mirrors.
His name was soon widely known and he received a visit from Nevil
Maskelyne, the astronomer royal, in 1777.
His major contribution to the field was the discovery of Uranus in 1781. (He
originally called it Georgium Sidus - George’s Star - though the name didn’t
hold and Uranus was soon widely adopted). He was immediately invited by
the king to bring his telescope to the Royal Observatory so that Maskelyne
might compare it to their own equipment. Herschel was appointed George
III’s private astronomer the following year and also awarded the Copley
medal. This medallion was produced in the years immediately following.
At the age of nineteen, John Flaxman was employed by Josiah Wedgwood as
a specialist in classic and domestic friezes. He would become “arguably the
most famous and skilful of all the artists employed by the potter” (ODNB).
The delicacy and accuracy of his technique was vital in the production of
medallions of contemporary luminaries. He worked mainly in jasper and
basalt and it was during this time he produced the portrait on which this bust
is modelled.
G U I D E TO G ENEVA
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R AT H G E B ( A . F. ) Le Grand Hotel de Russie:
Guide de Geneve et ses Environs offert Gratuitement aux Etrangers.
Foldout map of Geneve & woodcut illustrations throughout. 12mo. A
fine copy in original yellow printed wrappers. Geneva, c. 1900.
A lovely copy of this city guide to Geneva. The illustrations are of important
buildings and monuments throughout the city. The detailed map includes 87
different landmarks and the rear wrapper depicts the hotel of the title.
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150
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[SAKHALIN] STEPENSKY (Dr. V.)
2000
ed. [Sakhalin Calendar.] First edition. 4 lithographed plates. 8vo. Period style red half morocco
with raised bands and gilt tooled spine. Six leaves (p. 131-134, 139-142,
145-148) with margins neatly strengthened, but overall a very good
strong copy. [2], iii, 149, 176 pp. Sakhalin, Printed in the typography
on the Sakhalin Island, 1899.
Situated in the North Pacific, Sakhalin is Russia’s largest island. It was charted by La Perouse in 1787 and Krusenstern (who thought it a peninsular) in
1805. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century it was the subject
of territorial disputes between Japan and Russia. Russia established a penal
colony in 1857, but the southern part of the island was held by the Japanese
until 1875 when it was exchanged for the Kuril Islands.
Running for just five years, 1895-9, the Sakhalin Calendar was the first
book published on the island under the direction of the Alexandrovsky
post and permission of Vladimir Dmitrievich Merkazin, the island’s military
commander. The volumes reproduced the Orthodox Christian and Catholic
calendars and contained official documents and orders, journalism, scientific
articles information relating to hospitals, churches, prisons, weather stations
and schools. It records the native population and troop numbers, including a
list of all the military and civil officials on the island. In addition to a report
on the routes of the Korsakov district and several articles on climate, there
is a report on the Sakhalin museum by the director, Pogaevsky, including a
record of recent acquisitions (stuffed bears, a fox, and a model of a Japanese
warrior), and an article on mental health care on the island in 1897-98. This
copy is bound without the final, likely suppressed, article “About hygienic
conditions in Sakhalin convict prisons” and collates identically with that in
the Sakhalin Provincial Universal Scientific library.
The calendar was edited by Dr V. Stepensky, the head of the Sakhalin Medical
Administration. He was aided by L. Stenberg and B. Pilsudski, both exiled
ethnographers, the revolutionaries B. Ellinsky and Daniil Kharms I. Yuvachev,
and Dr N. Kirilov. In the 1898 editorial, Stepensky noted “to be honest, it
is very, very difficult to publish the ‘Sakhalin Calendar.’ A very small group
of people, real old residents of the island who work on this project, would
have most likely given it up, if recently numerous newspapers didn’t publish
articles about Sakhalin which remind them of the stories of the ancient
Phoenicians about their travels to legendary countries ... Sakhalin for the
mother country is terra incognita - write what you want (it happens more
and more in the recent years) - people will believe everything. To give the
opportunity to everyone interested in Sakhalin to separate the wheat from
the chuff, a handful of the mentioned above old residents is working with the
goal to spread the truth about the island.” Rare. The Russian State Library
is the only institution to hold a complete run of the calendars and just single
volumes are held at Harvard and Yale.
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VE RY R A R E
45
6500
S NE L L (Hannah). The Female Soldier;
Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell...
First edition. Frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 plates (1 folding).
8vo. Contemporary half calf, border slightly trimmed on one plate. viii,
9-187pp. London, R. Walker, 1750.
Very rare. No other copies of this work have appeared at auction in the past
thirty years.
Snell was born in Worcester in 1723. Shortly after her husband’s desertion
and the death of her infant child, Snell decided to disguise herself as a man
and to become a soldier. She joined Colonel Guise’s foot regiment and fought
in the 1745 Scottish Rebellion. She marched to Carlisle, subsequently deserted
and then joined the Royal Marines. Assuming her brother-in-law’s name,
James Gray, she managed to have herself enlisted on a ship. She survived
detection, despite incurring an injury to her groin, for her full seven months
on board ship, and it wasn’t until she returned home that she decided to
reveal her secret. Soon after, she met a publisher who encouraged her to write
an autobiography.
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S P EN C E R (Edmund).
Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary &c. Including a Steam Voyage down
the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea,
in 1836.
First edition. 2 vols. 2 folding maps, 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces,
and 2 further lithograph plates. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt.
xxxvii, 355; xiii, 425, [2]ads.pp. London, 1837.
Abbey, 354; cf. Blackmer, 1580 (third edition).
1500
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[ W H I T T I N G H A M (Capt Bernard).]
Notes on the late expedition against the Russian settlements in Eastern
Siberia; and a visit to Japan and the shores of Tartary and of the
Sea of Okhostk.
First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, a trifle
stained here and there. xv, 300pp. London, Longman, 1856.
A scarce book with some good material on Japanese waters, Russian shipwrecks, rescues and hardship during the war with Russia. An appendix particularly critical of the abject failure of a superior Anglo French naval assault
on Petropalovski, may account for the scarcity of the volume.
1750
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I n dia
C e n tral A sia
th e Far East
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[ A F G H A N I S TA N ] .
A fine, large hand-coloured ms. map showing the south and central
areas of Afghanistan around Kandahar. Executed on several joined
sheets, indian ink with coloured washes, squared in pencil for transfer.
Worn at edges. Size: 40 by 27 inches. nd. [but c.1839]
This map was produced at the beginning of the first Anglo-Afghan war.
2500
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B O R G E T (Auguste).
La Chine et les Chinois.
First edition. Lithograph title, and 32 sepia tinted lithograph plates on
25 sheets (ie. 19 full page plates, the remaining 13 on 6). Imperial folio.
Recently bound in half calf. [vi]ff. (title, dedication, letter to the king, list
of plates); 26(text)pp. Paris, Goupil and Vibert, 1842.
The most ambitious plate book of China, showing magnificent views of Hong
Kong, Macao, and Canton. “The feeling of superiority to the Chinese, so
characteristic of accounts from the 1840s, is absent here. The artist observes
with a fresh eye.” (Lust). All scenes were drawn on the spot by Borget and the
text records with charming detail the circumstances under which the sketches
were taken: (Bay of Hong Kong, 23rd June, 1838) “As I advanced a large
crowd followed me, which increased every minute, and all the inhabitants
came to their doors to see the Fan-qui [foreign devil] pass. Everyone invited
me to come in, offering me tea or a pipe. I entered into one of the houses, and
after drinking some tea without sugar, from very small cups, the owner, an
old man, with the greatest appearance of cordiality, to accept the pipe from
which I had been smoking. Indeed, if I am everywhere received so well, in this
new world, I certainly shall have no reason to join in chorus with those who
proclaim it the most inhospitable country on earth...” (taken from the English
edition). The lithographs were executed by E. Cicéri. Abbey Travel 540, Colas
390; c.f. ; Cordier 79-80; Lust 211 for the English issue.
28000
P I R AT E T R I A L
I N S C R I B E D TO H I S B ROT H E R
50
D R E W (Frederic).
The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories. A Geographical Account.
First edition. Large folding map (in front pocket), 6 further folding maps
(on 5 sheets), 7 folding profiles (on 2 sheets), frontispiece & 4 Woodbury
type photographic plates, with further illustrations in the text. Large 8vo.
Original cloth, rebacked, old spine laid down, small stamp to margin of
title, 1 map with tear at fold. xv, 568pp. London, 1875.
With a presentation inscription from the author to his brother on the front
free endpaper: “Henry Drew / from his brother / Fred.”
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Extensive work covering Regions and Inhabitants of the Outer Hills, Jummoo
and the Court, Region of the Middle Mountains, March from Jummoo to
Kashmir, Kashmir, Mountains round Kashmir, Later Geographical History
of Kashmir, March from Kashmir to Leh in Ladakh, Ladakh the Inhabitants,
Central Ladakh, Nubra and Zanskar, Ladakh the Higher Valleys the Plateaus,
Baltistan, Dardistan the Country and People, Gilgit History of Daristan.
Yakushi, D163a.
900
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[ G R EEN (Thomas).]
3000
The Case of Capt. Tho. Green, Commander of the Ship Worcester, and
his crew, tried and condemned for Pyracy & Murther, In the High Court
of Admiralty Scotland.
First edition. Small 4to. Recent half calf, spine gilt, small tear to title page
expertly repaired with no loss of text, with cloth slipcase. 30pp. London,
John Nutt, 1705.
Green was accused of attacking two other ships, the Speedy Return and the
East India off the cost of Malabar in 1703 while serving the Scotch Company
Trading to Africa. Having boarded and seized the two ships, Green then
supposedly sold them.
This account is comprised of depositions, affadavits, certificates and rebuttals
from a variety of crew members on the Worcester (including the surgeon and
the cook) and captains of other ships involved. Both Green and his first mate,
John Madder, were found guilty and hanged in 1705.
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H E R B E RT (Thomas).
4000
Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing
especially the two famous Empires, the Persian, and great Mogull...
Fourth edition (enlarged). Engraved title page, three engraved plates (one
folding) plus numerous illustrations & maps to text. Folio. Nineteenth
century calf. [viii], 400, 42pp. London, 1677.
This edition is expanded from the first which was published in 1634 with
a different title “A Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge: the
Orientall Indyes Iles and other parts of Greater Asia and Africk”.
Herbert set sail, with Sir Dodmore Cotton and Sir Robert Shirley, for Gobrun
in the Persian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope in 1626. They arrived on Jan
10, 1627, proceeded to Mount Taurus and then to Casbin where both of
his companions perished. Having secured a safe passage, Herbert explored
Baghdad before moving on to Ceylon, Mauritius and touching the east coast
of America before arriving back in England. His account relates his travels
and contains a great many digressions of historical and geographic note.
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also a slip tipped in before the half title reminding subscribers not to bind
up their Works “for a year or more after they shall receive them, as Notes
and Appendixes [sic] may occasionally be forwarded, illustrative of particular
facts and passages.”
The Rev. Lee’s translation of Batuta was not taken from the full text because
no complete text had, at that date, been found. Over the succeding years,
perhaps stimulated by Lee, copies were found in the Maghreb and a full
translation into French was made (1853-8).
Although not all of his observations were accurate, some, such as the number
of semi-eunuchs in the Table Valley, were proven correct despite being thought
incredible for centuries. Herbert’s work also includes several sketches of the
dodo and the only extant record of the bird’s weight (at least 23 kilograms).
The bird was hunted to extinction in the 1660s.
The work is also important for its linguistic notes. A Hottentot vocabulary
is included which “must have been the first published in an English work”
(Mendelssohn). Additional vocabularies of Persian and Malay are also
provided. Heavily illustrated throughout. Theal, p134; Mendelssohn I, pp
705-6; Sabin 31471.
AC C O UN T S O F T H E P O RT U G UE S E I N I N D I A
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H I C K S (F[rederick] C[odrington]).
Forty Years Among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore
to the Himalayas.
First edition. Profusely illustrated with 25 maps & 103 plates (67
coloured). Small 4to. A clean & bright copy in full modern dark green
morocco. [2], iv, [2], 668pp. Allahbad, Pioneer Press, 1910.
1400
Scarce. Signed by Hicks on the title page, dated 9/7/10 and marked copy 63
(of an unspecified number). Hicks arrived in India in 1866 and later joined
the Forest service. “He enjoyed considerable sport during his long career and
describes his numerous hunts in great detail. He hunted tigers, buffalo, bison,
panthers and antelopes as well as small game” (Czech). Hicks published a
second edition the following year at Madras. Czech India, p.104.
S U B S C R I B E R ’ S C O PY W I T H C OVE R I N G L E T T E R
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L EE (The Rev. Samuel).
The Travels of Ibn Batuta; translated from the abridged Arabic
manuscript copies, preserved in the public library of Cambridge. With
notes illustrative of the History Geography Botany Antiquities, &c.
occuring throughout this work. [With] Report of the Proceedings of the
Subscribers to the Oriental Translation Fund, with the Prospectus, report
of the Committee, and Regulations.
First edition thus. Extra title in red, black & blue, with covering letter.
4to. Original wrappers, some light wear to edges. xviii, [ii], 243, [1]; [ii],
3-16pp. London, 1829.
With the coloured title in red, black and blue identifying this as the copy
printed for “His Grace the Duke of Leeds, a Subscriber to The Oriental
Translation Fund”. In addition the original part printed, part manuscript
covering letter to the Duke of Leeds from the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic
Society (William Huttmann) is also to be found loosely inserted. There is
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1500
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M A S CA R EN H A S (Jose Freire de Monterroyo).
3500
Relacam dos progressos das armas Portuguezas no estado da India ...
First edition. Four parts in one volume. 4to. Twentieth century polished
blue morocco by Emile Rousselle, gilt dentelles and spine, some very light
staining to the title page of the second part but otherwise a very clean
and attractive volume. 22, [2]; 20; 15; 18 pp. Lisbon, Pascoal da Sylva,
1715-16.
This volume includes: Relacam dos progressos das armas Portuguezas no
estado da India, no anno de 1713 ... Parte I Lisbon, 1716; Relacam dos
progressos das armas Portuguezas no estado da India, no anno de 1714
Lisbon, 1715; Relacam dos progressos das armas Portuguezas no estado da
India, no anno de 1714 ... Parte III Lisbon, 1716; Relacam dos progressos das
armas Portuguezas no estado da India, no anno de 1714 ... Parte IV Lisbon,
1716.
Very rare four part account of the activities of the Portuguese army in India in
the period 1713-14. Also included is the full text of the peace treaty between
the State of India and the King of Kanara, signed in Goa, 19 February 1714
(pp. 6-14 of part II). There is much other interesting material including an
account of the Pirate Angria, and of Portuguese influence on the coasts of
Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and some charming neo-Latin and Portuguese
acrostic sonnets (pp. 5-6 of part I) dedicated to Fernandes Cesar de Menezes
who was the Portuguese governor of India from 1712 until 1717. Mascarenhas
planned to produce additional parts but none were published.
Jose Freire de Monterroyo (1670-1760) was one of the founders of periodical
literature in Portugal. His most famous publication the ‘Gazeta de Lisboa’
began in 1715 and was produced until his death in 1760. He was known
throughout Portugal for his erudition but his interest in periodical literature
prevented him from being accepted in serious academic circles. Monterroyo
wanted to be accepted as both a historian and popular author. An unpublished
dissertation by Andre Belo, Between History and Periodicity: Printed and
Hand-Written News in 18th century Portugal discusses this point: ‘The word
‘journalist’ (jornalista) was not used in Portugal in the first half of the 18th
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century, being derived from the French journaliste and immediately was
given a pejorative sense. The translator and editor of the Portuguese gazette
was sometimes referred to as a gazeteiro (gazetteer), a name that occurs
more than once in the context of satires directed against the gazette. In the
advertisements of his own printed works made in the gazette, where his full
name seldom appears, Monterroyo is occasionally mentioned as the ‘author
of the gazette’. In Monterroyo’s life, periodical and occasional newsbooks did
not give a name to an author.’ Such is also the case with these four works that,
although anonymous, have been attributed to Monterroyo.
OCLC does not record a complete copy with all four parts and catalogues
each work individually, although da Silva Dicionario Bibliografica Portuguez
vol. 4, p. 345, no. 3330 describes this work as consisting of four parts. OCLC
records the Newberry Library as having three of the four parts but no other
institution in America has more than one (OCLC records copies of part II at
the University of Minnesota and Princeton); an additional copy of part III can
be located at Harvard. Only the British Library world-wide appears to have
all four parts.
No copies of any of the four parts have appeared at auction in the past
twenty-five years.
B E AU T I FU L P H OTO G R A P H S O F P EN A N G
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[ K AU L FU S S (August E.)]
5500
Views in Penang, Province Wellesley and Sumatra Strait Settlements.
54 albumen prints most measuring 210 by 275mm. Ms. captions in black
ink. Large 4to album. Half green morocco over buckram, title gilt to
upper board, a.e.g., extremities rubbed, joints cracked but holding nicely.
c.1890.
A rare album of professional photographs of Malaysia. Given their size,
strength of composition and presentation, the images are almost certainly
by August Kaulfuss, the pre-eminent photographer in Malaysia in the late
nineteenth century.
The album divides into three groups: Views of Penang (18 photographs),
Views of Province Wellesley (27 photographs) and View of Sumatra (9
views). They show not only buildings of significance, but with shots of leisure
activities, industry and government institutions, also provide an interesting
overview of colonial life in Malaysia.
The images are as follows:
Set 1. Penang: Town Hall, Msaonic Hall, Government Hill, Strawberry Hill,
Leith Street, Belle Vue Hill, Roman Catholic Church, Wolf’s Craig, Penang
Hill, The Jetty, Lomond Bungalow, Waterfall Road, Protestant Church,
Strawberry Hill (tennis players), Richmond & Wol’s rag Bungalow, Penang
Hill, Waterfall Road, Mangosteen Grove, Photographic Studio (Kaulfus,
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Penang), San Souci House.
Set 2. Province Wellesley: Victoria Estate House, Victoria Estate, Law Tennis
Ground, Victoria Estate Mills, Caledonia Estate, Caledonia Estate Mills,
Prye State Hospital, Prye River, Prye Sugar Estate, European Dwellings, Prye
Sugar Mills, Prye Rice Mill Cottage, Alma Estate “The Lake”, Alma Estate,
Manager’s House, Alma Estate, Assistant Manager’s House, Alma Estate,
Tapioca Works, Kreenan Estate, Kreenan Estate, Kreenan Estate, Manager’s
House, Butterworth, Magistrate’s House, Butterowrth, Police Supt. House,
Government Hospital, Court House.
Set 3. Sumatra: Deli River View, Deli River View, Langhat River View, Langhat
River View, Tardung River View, Battack House, Battak Family, Padang
Brahrang Estate, Manager’s House.
E X T R E M E LY R A R E S E T
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[ M I D D L E TO N (W. N.), editor].
The China Punch.
First and only edition. 3 vols. bound in two. Complete. Vol. 1: No. 1-24.
Vol. 2: No. 1-19; vol. 3: no.1-7. 28 colour lithograph plates, numerous
woodcut illustrations throughout. Folio. Vol. 1 bound in contemporary
half calf, minor restoration, vol. 2&3 bound in contemporary red halfmorocco, some very minor worming and edge-wear, but overall a very
good set. 192pp. Hong Kong, China Mail Office, dated between May 28,
1867-May 28, 1868; November 5, 1872-November 22nd, 1876.
A very rare complete set of the China Punch. Presumably inspired by the
Japan Punch (printed in Yokohama from 1862 onwards) this work must
rank as one of the rarest satirical magazines ever published. Full of colonial/
expatriate humour it is a valuable historical document of the characters
and attitudes that were prevalent at the time. Much of China Punch relates
to local individuals, their business and local politics but there is also some
comment on international affairs. The whole is illustrated throughout with
line-drawings. According to Eitel (Europe in China, p. 470) two artists were
involved in the production, namely J. B. Coughtrie and E. Beart. After a four
year break the publication was resumed, supplemented with hand-coloured
lithograph plates (not included in the pagination) and continued with some
breaks until 1876.
The present set includes a separately printed title to vol. 1, as well as an
‘Introductory’ advertisement page (dated April 24th, 1867) asking for
subscriptions. The price was 50 cents and “the first number will be issued
when a sufficient amount of subscription to cover expenses of production has
been assured”.
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26000
Important English translation of Qianlong’s edict nominating Prince Jia, his
15th son, as his successor. Qianlong felt that it was improper to rule longer
than his grandfather, the famous Kangxi Emperor, who reigned for 60 years.
The Qianlong Emperor states: “Being by favour of Heaven healthy in my
body with a vigorous composed mind, accustomed to sedulous appreciation to
business, I cannot bring myself to pass a single day in idleness, therefore, after
having given up the government of the Empire, I shall continue to conduct
all affairs relating to war, and those matters whereon the Safety of the State
depends, such as nominations to public employment, and the different offices,
with other things of that Description.” In the edict the Emperor also changes
the first character of Prince Jia’s given name ‘Yongyan’. “The first word of the
name of the hereditary Prince, which is yong shall be no more used, but in its
stead the following shall be adopted (likewise yong).” The former ‘yong’ was a
common character meaning ‘forever’, while the latter means ‘majestic, grand’.
This information was clearly important to the British Government and the
East India Company in particular. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) worked with
Staunton on the compilation of the official account of the Macartney Embassy
which returned to London in 1794. As the ‘Manifesto’ was only issued in the
following year it is likely that the information reached England via the East
India Company some time in 1796. John Bruce (1754-1826), MP, was Keeper
of His Majesty’s State Papers and historiographer to the East India Co. He
was actively engaged in negotiations between the East India Company and
Parliament on extending exclusive privileges for trade in 1794 and published
the ‘Annals of the East India company from 1600 to 1708’ in 1810. We have
not been able to find a copy of this translation in any library or collection.
We believe that this document formed a part of the Melville papers. Henry
Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811), a Scottish lawyer and politician,
was the first Secretary of State for War in the United Kingdom.
PRINTED IN SINGAPORE
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MOOR ( J. H . ) .
Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and Adjacent Countries Being a
Collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra,
Nias, The Philippine Islands, Sulus, Siam, Cochin, China, Malayan
Peninsula, &c.
First edition. 6 folding lithograph maps, charts and town plans, 5 of these
coloured in outline, and with the usual bleed through, one repaired. 4to.
Contemporary half calf, some foxing. [ii], vii, 276, 117pp. Singapore,
[Mission Press], 1837.
This remarkable and very rare specimen of colonial printing was the first part
of a projected two volume work that was to include accounts of Singapore,
Malacca and Penang. However the limited commercial success of this first part
led to the cancellation of the project. Moor had enlisted the help of Mr. Tassin
of Calcutta who supplied him with the maps and charts. They are Coleman’s
extremely important “Map of the Town and Environs of Singapore”, “Map
of the Indian Archipelago”, “Map of the Coti River in Borneo”, “Map of
Malacca Territory”, “Chart of Singapore and Rhio Straits”, “Map of Prince
of Wales Island and Province Wellesley”. The author, or more accurately,
compiler collected material from a variety of sources and produced the most
comprehensive study of the East Indies in English published up to that date.
It includes some ninety pages of material collected on Borneo mostly from
Dalton and Hunt.
Byrd describes the production of this work in some detail and gives a short
history of its author who was born at Macao in 1802. “He was taken to
Ireland at age four where he spent his next twenty years; while at Dublin he at
some time attended Trinity College and served an apprenticeship to a Dublin
bookseller. He arrived at Malacca in 1826 where he originated and conducted
a free school and published the Malacca Observer until the weekly was closed
in October, 1829, by government intervention. Moor came to Singapore late
in 1829, where he became successively, editor of the Singapore Chronicle and
the Singapore Free Press. From 1834 until his death in May, 1843, he was a
school master at the Singapore Free School. “(Byrd). Byrd “Early Printing in
the Straits Settlements 1806-1858”, 29; Cordier, Indosinica, 734.
[ Q I A N L O N G , E M P E RO R O F C H I N A ]
Translation of the Manifesto of the Emperor of China on the Occasion
of Electing a Successor to the Throne, published on the third Day of
the Ninth Moon 1795. (Communicated by the Right Honble Sir Joseph
Banks K. B. to Mr. Bruce). Manuscript in English on paper. A secretarial
copy from the Melville collection. Very good condition. 11ff. Paper
watermarked 1796.
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12000
I M P O RTA N T R A FF L E S A L S
60
9500
R A FF L E S (Sir Thomas Stamford). ALS. to Rev. C. Evans
10000
referring to the establishment of a native school.
Manuscript in ink. 4pp. with an integral blank, small paper loss repaired
without touching text, docketed by the recipient 1820.
[probably Bencoolen, 1820.]
With the foundation of Singapore, Raffles became the most important Briton
ever to be associated with South East Asia. Singapore was the meeting point
of all trade routes in the region and soon became the most important port
between Calcutta and Hong Kong. Moreover, the colonization prevented an
entire monopoly of Dutch interests in the East, a goal they actively pursued.
Raffles's letters from the East are rarely available.
Raffles was fluent in Malay and his concern for native populations was
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evident from his time as Governor of Java. This letter, in support of the
Baptist Missionary to Padang’s plan for establishing a school for natives
and translating the scriptures into Malay, provides another example of this
concern.
Dated just a year after the foundation of Singapore, Raffles states, “In
supporting this plan at the meeting I did not do so from a conviction that it
was the best & only one that could be adopted, but merely because it was the
only one proposed that appeared to lead to any immediate or practical use... I
hope it is not necessary for me to remind you that in whatever way you think
best you shall have my full and unreserved support.”
Raffles then considers his own future, suggesting that he wouldn’t remain in
Singapore for more than another five years and hoped that Evans would be
well established by that time. Lastly, Raffles offers him some keen advice, “I
wish you would... endeavour to make your Establishment the resort of the
most respectable natives... There is nothing to prevent you going into the
villages enquiring into the state & condition & employment of the people
and I fear unless you go to them, you will not find them very anxious to come
to you.”
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RO B E RT S (Issachar Jacox).
China. Grand plan for missionary increase in China.
A printed circular. Seven lithographed sheets in double column on
tracing paper, printed on rectos only. Oblong folio. Some minor chips not
affecting text, edges a little brown. Shanghai, September, 1854.
A rare and unlikely survival. The date and place of publication are corroborated by Roberts himself, writing in The Primitive Church Magazine in a
letter dated October 7, 1854, he refers to his “plan in the circular from China
last month, entitled Grand Plan for Missionary Increase in China.”
Born in Sumner County, Tennessee, Roberts was ordained after a term at
the Baptist school, Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Having
financed his own passage to Macao in 1837, he intially preached at a lepers’
colony and joined the Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Triennial Convention in 1841. The following year, Roberts distinguished himself by becoming
the first permanent resident Protestant missionary in Hong Kong and baptizing the first Chinese convert in Hong Kong. In 1844, he moved outside the
foreign area in Canton, the first foreignor to do so. It was likely high profile
acts such as these that led to him delivering daily catechism to the Christian
convert Hong Xiuquan in 1847.
Hong Xuiquan became the father of the 1850-64 Taiping Rebellion against
the Qing Dynasty. Roberts assumed the Taiping rebellion would succeed and
so composed this piece. The text begins with Roberts lamenting the “slow
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progress of the Missionary Board System” and after quoting a selection of
scripture, states that it is time to capitalise on the “revolution that is now in
progress, and the wide opening it is making for gospel access to the million
of China.” He proposes a committee of Cooperation (involving American and
European missionaries) to work with Taiping rulers to that end.
In 1860, Roberts left for the Taiping capital where he accepted a post as advisor to Hong Rengan, the foreign minister at the Taiping court. Roberts was
dismayed to find his own beliefs differed so dramatically from the Taiping’s
and, after a falling out with Hong, he left China in 1862.
This is an important document reporting the hopes and ambitions of one
of the most significant American missionaries in China during the Taiping
Rebellion.
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SA M PA I O (Manuel de Castro).
2750
Os Chins de Macau [The Chinese of Macao].
First edition. One folding map, folded albumen map of Macao, as well
as additional albumen portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Contemporary half calf.
[xi], 114, [iv](contents & other works by the same author). Hong Kong,
Noronha & Filhos, 1867.
Manuel de Castro Sampaio (1827-1875) was sent to Macao as part of the
army medical corps. He rose to Lieutenant of the Garrison of Macao and was
a man of scholarly and literary ambitions. The present title is dedicated to the
Royal Asiatic Society of London and is regarded as one of the most important
sources about Chinese society in Macao in the 19th century. In thirteen
chapters this book deals with the manners and customs of the Chinese,
their clothing, food & drink, weddings, housing, laws, religion, medicine,
ceremonies, feasts, processions, superstitions as well as their commerce. The
last chapter deals with emigration from Macao, particularly to Havana. Rare.
Only six copies in OCLC.
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[ SA R AWA K ]
Evidence Given before the Commission of Enquiry into the Charges
against Sir James Brooke, K.C.B.
First edition. Folio. Folding map. Original printed orange paper
wrappers, upper wrapper torn with some loss, the text in double column.
[42]pp. Singapore, At the Free Press, 1854.
Worldcat only records one copy (Yale), this dramatic document contains all
the cross examinations made during the enquiry into Brooke’s behaviour
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particularly with regard to his treatment of native Dyaks for the supression
of piracy. There is a considerable amount of testimony from both European
and native traders and all those concerned with the situation along the north
west coast of Borneo.
This work may be the one noted by Dennys in his South East Asian bibliography
but is missed by Byrd “Early Printing in the Straits Settlements” (Singapore,
1970). In fact there was another printed version of these proceedings in
Singapore, with practically the same title but headed The Borneo Question.
This was an 8vo and was printed without a map by another printer, it is also
extremely rare, and was too missed by Byrd.
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S EQUE I R A (Louis de).
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Breve relacion sobre la persecucion de Nuestra Santa Fè en la Provincia
de Kiamnàn, y otras Provincias del Imperio de la China, ilustres vidas,
y gloriosas muertes de los VV. PP. Antonio Ioseph Henríquez, y Tristan
de Atimis, de la Compañía de Iesus, y constancia en la Fe de muchos
Christianos de aquellas Provincias. escribieronla en idioma Portvguez los
PP. Luis de Sequeyra, y Iuan Simoes de la misma Compañia, y traducida
en Castellano, la da a luz, para la comun edificacion este Colegio de
S. Ignacio de la Compañia de Iesvs de Manila, y la ofrece à Los PP.
missioneros de la Compañia de Iesvs de aquel imperio.
First edition. Small 4to. Rebound in early 20th century speckled calf. Title
with minor marginal repairs but overall a fine copy. Title, [ii](prologue)
ff., 72ff. Manila, En la Imprenta de la Compania de Iesus, por D. Nicolas
de la Cruz Bagay, 1751.
De Sequeira (1693-1763) was born in Cartavelho in Portugal. He joined
the Jesuit order in 1709 and arrived in China in 1726. The present is an
account of the martyrdom of two Jesuit missionaries, the Portuguese Antonio
Joseph Henriquez and the Italian Tristam d’Attimis in Suzhou. They had
been arrested in December 1747 by the local magistrate and both were
executed on September 12th in the following year. This was the first time
since the foundation of the mission in 1584 that Jesuit priests had suffered
martyrdom in China and this marked the beginning of the enforcement of
anti-Christian laws under the Qianlong Emperor. The last chapter by Juan
Simoes provides detailed statistics on baptisms, confessions, communion as
well as the administrations of Last Rites in the provinces surrounding Peking.
A Portuguese edition was issued in the same year in Lisbon, followed by an
Italian edition in the following year. Streit VII, 3407. Medina: La Imprenta
en Manila 236. Exceedingly rare. Only one copy in OCLC (Yale University
Library).
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[T H O M (Robert), translator].
4200
Wang Keaou Lwan Pih Neen Chang Han, or, The Lasting Resentment
of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang. A Chinese Tale: Founded on Fact. Translated
from the Original by Sloth.
First edition. One lithograph plate. Small 4to. Bound in modern half
calf, original front wrapper (worn and repaired) preserved and bound
in. Some wear throughout, margin of title stained and frayed, lower
corner repaired, library stamp. Title with presentation inscription, from
the author’s brother: “To the Manchester New College, from D. Thom,
1842”. [viii], 66pp. Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839.
Robert Thom, 1807-1846, worked for some years with Jardine Matheson at
Canton, where he developed a good knowledge of Chinese, and he dedicates
this translation to William Jardine, James Matheson, and Henry Wright “as
a trifling mark of gratitude and respect”. In 1843 he was appointed British
consul at Ningbo. He was an official linguist during the Opium war and took
over from Robert Morrison as interpreter during the 1843 treaty negotiations.
This is his first published translation, which was taken and adapted from the
11th volume of the 12 vol. Ming anthology, Jin gu qi guan “Wonderful stories
of modern and ancient times”. The plate was lithographed in Canton after a
Chinese woodblock illustration. Our copy has a printed slip, ‘London: Ball,
Arnold & Co., 1840’ pasted on the front wrapper, which shows that this
work was distributed commercially in England. Lust 1103.
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[ T H O M (Robert), translator].
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Esop’s Fables - Yishi yuyan.
Written in Chinese by the learned Mun Mooy Seen-Shang, and
compiled in their present form (with a free and a literal translation)
by his pupil Sloth.
First edition. One leaf with lithograph Chinese text showing different
types of calligraphy. Text in English, Chinese, with romanisations in the
Nanking and Cantonese dialect. Folio. Bound in early 20th cloth, original
wrappers bound in, small repair to title, overall a very good copy. [ix],
xxi, [iv], 104pp. Macao, Canton Press Office, 1840.
Robert Thom, 1807-1846, worked for some years with Jardine Matheson at
Canton, where he developed a good knowledge of Chinese, and he dedicates
this translation to William Jardine and James Matheson and Henry Wright
“by whose bounty the entire expense of his Chinese education was defrayed”.
In 1843 he was appointed British consul at Ningbo. He was an official linguist
during the Opium war and took over from Robert Morrison as interpreter
during the 1843 treaty negotiations.
The preface states: “The following fables were selected indiscriminately from
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Esop - Phedrus - Ananius [i.e. Avianus] - Barlandus &c. &c. &c., but all
published under the general name (used for the sake of briefness) of Esop’s
fables. These were delivered orally at different times, in Mandarin Chinese,
by the compiler to his native teacher; who being a good penman, found
little difficulty in writing them off, in the simple easy style in which they
are composed.” This work was, according to Lust, “intended as a reader for
beginners in Chinese” (Lust 1065). Very rare.
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WA L L AC E (Alfred Russell).
The Malay Archipelago: The land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird
of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
First edition. 2 vols. 2 frontispieces, 9 maps (2 folding), 6 plates,
numerous illustrations. 8vo. Orginal green cloth, hinges repaired,
extremities slightly rubbed. xxiii, 478, 52ads (dated December 1868); iv,
524pp. London, Macmillan & Co., 1869.
Wallace began his eight year journey in 1854 visiting each of the islands in
the archipelago, some more than once. Perhaps his most important discovery
being that the archipelago is zoologically divided into two by the deep water
straight (Wallace’s Line) between Bali and Lombok. As his journey progressed
so Wallace became a confirmed evolutionist, however it was not until he was
suffering from a fever in the Moluccas that he came up with the theory of
natural selection as the method of evolution. Putting his ideas down on paper
over the following two days Wallace sent them off to Charles Darwin, the
result being their joint paper which was given to the Linnean Society on 1st
July, 1858.
Returning to London in 1862, Wallace sold sufficient of his collections to
obtain income of some £300 per year from the capital raised and began work
on The Malay Archipelago which was published in 1869 (ODNB).
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WAT H EN (James).
Journal of a Voyage in 1811 & 1812 to Madras & China Returning by
the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena; in the H.C.S. The Hope, Capt.
James Pendergrass.
First edition. 24 hand-coloured aquatint views, some very slight offsetting
from text to plate on a few plates. 4to. Modern quarter morocco. xx,
246pp. London, 1814.
Charmingly described in the ODNB as an “artist and pedestrian,” Wathen
worked as a glover and tour guide before departing for India and China in
1811 under the command of his old friend, Capt. James Prendergast. This
work was well received in the Gentleman’s Magazine and Wathen includes
seven views of Indian scenery, six of Penang and Malacca, nine of China and
two of St. Helena, all very fine aquatints. Abbey, Travel, 517; Lust, 386.
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A R AG O (Francois).
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Signed ms. listing Hawaiian imprints on La Bonite.
4pp with three integral blanks on Ministere de la Marine et des Colonies
stationery. Folio. Paris, 1848.
A wonderful document pertaining to Vaillant’s 1836-7 circumnavigation on
La Bonite. The purpose of the voyage was broadly commercial, Vaillant was
instructed to collect any information that might be useful for French traders
and any scientific data that might improve knowledge of little known regions.
Vaillant’s visit coincided with the incunabula of Hawaiian printing. The
Mission Press had been moved from Honolulu to Lahainaluna just two years
prior to his visit and the first Hawaiian newspaper was printed on February
14, 1834. Among the nine titles listed here as “Ouvrages en Langue Sandwich
imprime aux isles Sandwich” are the “Dictionnaire Anglais & Sandwich”,
the 5700 word Hawaiian dictionary printed by the Hawaiian Mission
Press in 1836, and “La Bible en Sandwich” almost certainly an early copy
of the duodecimo bible printed between 1837-9. No doubt the information
contained in these works were considered a part of the voyage’s remit.
La Bonite reached Kealakekua Bay on October 1, 1836. Eager to distance
himself from the tensions between Catholic and American missionaries,
Vaillant made for Honolulu. After lengthy discussions with the Hawaiian
government, he was able to secure rights for French missionaries equivalent
to those enjoyed by their American counterparts.
Signed by Francois Arago in his capacity of minister of marine and colonies.
He was the elder brother of the explorer, Jacques, who sailed with Freycinet’s
expedition on the Uranie from 1817 to 1821. Francois Arago was a renowned
mathematician, astronomer and politician. He was a member of the French
Academy of Sciences, minister for war, and was instrumental in securing the
abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
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A R N O U L D (M., pseud. of Jean Francois Mussot).
La Mort du capitaine Cook, a son troisieme voyage au nouveau monde.
First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed headcap
chipped, last leaf browned but still entirely legible. [ii], 3-36pp. Paris,
Chez Lagrange, 1788.
The rare first edition of an important contribution to the legend of Cook’s
death. After the news of Cook’s death in Hawaii in February 1779 reached
Europe, his achievements - and death - were celebrated in a series of creative
tributes. These ranged from paintings and engraving to eulogies and dramatic
works. The first, by Anna Seward and Alexander Schomberg, appeared in
1780 and were quickly followed by the notable examples of Brooke, Gianetti
and Samwell.
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Arnould’s pantomime - a staged spectacular with accompanying music but
no dialogue - opened in Paris in October 1788. The plot is a romanticised
interpretation of the events leading up to Cook’s death in Hawaii. Cook is
portrayed in a merciful light, engaged by the Hawaiian King to assist against
his enemies. Having done this, Cook intercedes to prevent the King issuing
death sentences. Despite this generous act, he is later betrayed and murdered
by the same men. This text is partiularly important as it was used as the basis
for the 1789 London stage production The Death of Captain Cook a grand
serious pantomime and several other English dramatisations of Cook’s death
in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It therefore provides much of
the core, if ahistorical, material from which a large part of the British public
understood the explorer.
This copy is bound as the last work in a sammelband of plays, allowing us
to see Arnould’s play in the context of the theatre of the day. Those bound
here include Romeo et Juliette, Ducis, 1772; Alexandre, Tragedie nouvelle en
cinq actes, M de Fen..., 1754; La gageure imprevue, Sedaine, 1788, nouvelle
edition; Tom Jones a Londres, Desforges, 1782; Le vaporeaux, M. M... D...,
1782; L’esprit de contradiction, Dufresny, 1760, nouvelle edition; L’anglois a
Bordeaux, Favart, 1763; Le francais a Londres, Boissy, 1782, nouvelle edition.
Beddie, 2450; Holmes, 68; Kroepelien, 39, Forbes, 141.
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B ENNE T T (Frederick Debell).
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Narrative of a Whaling Voyage round the Globe, from the Year 1833
to 1836. Comprising sketches of Polynesia, California, the Indian
Archipelago, etc., with an account of southern whales, the sperm whale
fishery and the natural history of the climates visited.
First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & 2 aquatint frontispieces (Pitcairn
and Tahiti). 8vo. Original cloth, rebacked with original spines laid down,
prelims a trifle foxed, contemporary annotations in pencil to volume two.
xv, 402, [2ads]; vii, 395pp. London, 1840. Increasingly rare. “There she spouts! - There she Blow-o-os - Where away
- two points on the lee bow, sir a school of whales. Bring up the glass boy.
Aye aye sir. How far off do you see them? About four miles sir. Back the
main yard; brail up the trysail. There she blow-o-s! - There again! Flukes! (An
expectant pause ensues, and all are intent to discover the next rising) - There
she breaches!.. get you boats ready for lowering... lower away! I see a large
whale amongst them that wants a passage to London.”
According to Melville this is the best book on the south sea whale fishery.
The author, a surgeon, has an excellent descriptive style and he includes a
very interesting and extensive description of the Sandwich Islands, where he
stopped three times visiting Honolulu, diamond Head, Pauoa, Manoa and
Kalihi. The descriptions include notes on native customs and dress, tattooing
and burial rites. He has devoted about half of the second volume to the
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natural history of the Pacific and also relates his 1834 visit to Pitcairn Island
and “he gives an account of the islanders and details concerning the mutiny of
the Bounty” (Hill). Ferguson, 2936; Forbes, 1192; Hill, 113.
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B O U G A I NV I L L E (Louis de).
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A Voyage Round the World.
Performed by His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767,
1768, and 1769... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster.
First English edition. 4to. xxvii, 476pp. Plus folding plate & 5 folding
charts. Contemporary calf, beautifully rebacked by Aquarius. London, J.
Nourse, 1772.
The first English edition of the first official French circumnavigation
was prepared for the press by both the Forsters. Georg, apparently, made
the translation while his father contributed a preface and added copious
footnotes. It is clear that Alexander Dalrymple had a hand in the production
of the charts in this work.
Bougainville’s first objective on his voyage around the world was to organise
the handover of the Falkland Islands from France to Spain. Having completed
this task he sailed for Patagonia, where, like Wallis, he measured the height
of the fabled Patagonian Giants and found them to average less than six feet.
It is however his travels in the Pacific for which Bougainville is perhaps best
known, including the New Hebrides, Samoa, the Solomons and Tahiti. The
latter captured Bougainville’s imagination and, as well as a long description
of the island and its people, he includes a vocabulary of some 300 words
at the end of the text. Like many Europeans of the period he compared the
Tahitians to Greek gods, and their island to Elysium, as did Joseph Banks in
the following year when he arrived with Cook. Spence, 158; Cox I, 55; Hill,
165; JCB II, 1816; Kroepelien, 113; Sabin, 6869; Howgego, B142.
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B U L L E R (Sir Walter Lawry).
A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
First edition. Frontispiece, 35 fine hand-coloured lithographs. 4to. Half
calf, spine gilt, bookplate to front pastedown. xxiii, 384pp. London, John
Van Voorst, 1873.
A lovely copy of an important work originally issued in five parts between
1872-3. The Foljambe copy, bearing the bookplate of Cecil Foljambe, the first
Earl of Liverpool. Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, served as both the
last Governor of New Zealand and its first Governor General, 1913-1920.
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Born at Pakanae in 1838, Buller was the son of Wesleyan missionaries and
completed his education at the missionaries’ Wesleyan college in Auckland.
The publication of his Essay on the Ornithology of New Zealand in 1865
established Buller as an authority on the subject. He sent copies of it to
various authorities across Europe and it was on the basis of this work that
he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Tübingen. Shortly thereafter,
he’d assembled enough material to publish this work and obtained leave to
oversee its publication in London.
The thirty-five lithographs are after drawings by the Dutch artist John Gerrard
Keulemans, one of the most significant bird artists of the late nineteenth
century. These are regarded as “Keulemans’ finest drawings” (Jackson). In
addition to this work, Keulemans was a frequent contributor to The Ibis,
and provided the illustrations to Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s “Monograph on
Kingfishers” (1868-1871), Shelley’s “Monograph of the Sun-Birds” (18761880), William Vincent Legge’s “Birds of Ceylon” (1880), Daniel Giraud
Elliot’s “Monograph of the Hornbills” (1887-1892), Henry Seebohm’s
“Monograph on Thrushes” (1902), and Osbert Salvin’s “Biologia CentraliAmericana” (1879-1904). Jackson, Bird Illustrators, p88; Nissen IVB, 163;
Wood, p269.
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B UN C E (Daniel).
Language of the Aboriginies of Victoria, and other Australian Districts;
With parallel Translations and familiar specimens in Dialogue, as a
guide to Aboriginal Protectors, and others engaged in ameliorating their
condition. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary black moire cloth. vi, 60,
[2]pp. Melbourne, Daniel Harrison, 1851.
A lovely copy of the first edition. A trained botanist and gardener, Bunce
emigrated to Hobart in 1833. He established a nusery at Launceston before
moving to Port Phillip in 1839. His study of Aboriginal languages commenced
on a trip he made to Western Port that same year. Bunce had accompanied
Leichhardt into the interior and left an account of his exploits. A letter from
Leichhardt is included at the end of this work. Later editions were published
in 1856 and 1859, the latter (labelled the second edition) turns up from time
to time, this is the first copy of the 1851 edition we’ve held. Ferguson, 7662.
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B U R NE Y (James).
A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific
Ocean. Part I. Commencing with an Account of the earliest Discoveries
of that Sea by Europeans, And terminating with the Voyage of Sir Francis
Drake, in 1579. [Part II. From the Year 1597, to the Year 1620; Part
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III. From the Year 1620, to the Year 1688; Part IV. To the Year 1723,
including a History of the Buccaneers of America; Part V. To the
Year 1764].
First edition. 5 vols. Twenty-eight engraved maps, 16 of which are folding
(some with the usual offsetting), with 13 engraved plates. 4to. Early
cloth, backs a trifle soiled with old morocco labels. London, 1803 - 1817.
An excellent set of this important collection which was compiled to
complement Hawkesworth and the two other Cook voyages, the whole to
comprise a complete account of Pacific exploration. Hill states that “many
of the voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not... [here]
collected” calling the work the “most important general history of early
South Sea discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the
subject...” Hill, 221; Sabin, 9387; Ferguson, 372.
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C O L NE T T (Capt. J.)
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A Voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn to the Pacific
Ocean, for the purpose of extending the Spermaceti whale fisheries, and
other objects of commerce, by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours and
anchoring berths...
First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 6 folding maps, 2 engraved plates of
coastal profiles, & a diagramatic plate illustrating a sperm whale, this
slightly cropped at the upper margin. 4to. Smart early nineteenth century
half calf, black morocco label to spine, gilt, small piece replaced at the
foot of the spine. iv, [iii]-vi, xviii, 179pp. London, 1798.
Having served as a midshipman on Cook’s last voyage, in a crew which also
included Vancouver and Bligh, Colnett went on to become a ship’s captain
and maritime fur trader. His introduction to A Voyage to the South Atlantic...
gives some idea as to the underlying mercantile spirit of the man: “...I never
ceased to blend the zeal of my naval character with the spirit of commercial
enterprize...” This same spirit no doubt made him the obvious choice to survey
ports and harbours for British whalers along the South American coast from
Chile to Baja California.
This narrative was published in the same year as Vancouver’s voyage and gives
an account of Colnett’s seizure by the Spanish at Nootka. Having arrived from
Macao in 1789, Colnett informed the Spanish commander that he had orders
“under the authority of the King of England... to take possession of Nootka,
construct a fort, establish a factory, and plant a colony.” Not surprisingly
the Spanish acted quickly and Colnett found himself, his officers and men in
irons. This indignity precipitated the “Nootka Controversy” which itself was
one of the principal reasons for Vancouver’s expedition. Borba, p193; Hill,
p58; Sabin, 14546; Streeter VI, 3494.
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C O O K (Capt. James).
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A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed
in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the years
1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux’s
Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation
of the Ships.
First edition. 3 volumes. 2 volumes 4to plus folio atlas. Text: 1 folding
letterpress table; Atlas: Engraved portrait of Cook by J. Basire after
William Hodges, engraved folding map, 62 engraved plates, maps and
charts (unfolded). Text: expertly bound to style in 18th century russia,
flat spines gilt in compartments; Atlas: expertly bound to style in half
18th century russia over contemporary marbled paper covered boards,
spines uniform to the text. London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.
A rare and desirable set with the plates unfolded, uncut and edge bound in
a separate folio atlas.
“The success of Cook’s first voyage led the Admiralty to send him
on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to
circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern
continents” (Hill). On his monumental second voyage aboard the HMS
Resolution, Cook became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle and delve
deep into the ice. “Further visits were made to New Zealand, and on
two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and
rediscoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society
Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia,
Norfolk Island, and a number of smaller islands. Rounding Cape Horn, on
the last part of the voyage, Cook discovered and charted South Georgia,
after which he called at Cape Town, St. Helena and Ascension, and the
Azores ... This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning
the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer as an
aid to finding longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy”
(Hill).
The plates to Cook’s second voyage are largely after the expedition artist
William Hodges, who personally oversaw the engraving process, which was
accomplished by among the most noted engravers of the day: West, Bartolozzi,
Byrne and others. Copies of Cook’s second voyage are invariably found in
two volumes, with the maps and plates cut down and/or awkwardly folded
and interspersed within the text. As the plates were printed larger than the
text block, many of the portraits and views found in the usual 2 volume issue
have been trimmed to or even within the image. The present set, however,
includes copies of the plates (almost) entirely uncut and unfolded and edge
bound in a separate folio atlas volume. Furthermore, the impressions of these
plates are dark and rich and far better than the images generally found in
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the usual 2 volume issue. It is unclear why or for whom sets with a separate
folio atlas were produced, but it seems likely that this deluxe version was
intended for members of the Admiralty or for presentation. It is very rare to
find the second voyage in this desirable form. The usual Cook and Antarctic
references make no mention of such an issue (though do identify a very small
number of extant folio volumes containing proof impressions of plates,
similarly unfolded and uncut).
“Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western
civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given
for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and
Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern
continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of
antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until
the explorations of the nineteenth century” (Printing and the Mind of Man
p.135). Beddie 1216; Hill, 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man
223; Rosove 77.A.
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F O RS T E R (George).
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A Voyage Round the World in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop,
Resolution, Commanded by Captain James Cook, during the Years 1772,
3, 4 and 5.
First edition. 2 vols. Large folding engraved map of the South Pole. 4to.
A fine copy in contemporary pale calf, yellow & green morocco labels to
spine. xx, 601, [2]; [iv], 607pp. London, 1777.
A lovely copy from the Northern Lightboard Trust with its distinctive gilt
stamp to both spines.
The younger Forster’s version preceded Cook’s official account by six weeks;
it is a substantial work and was produced at great speed to rival Cook’s
official account. On his return to London a furious quarrel developed between
Forster and Sandwich over the former’s contribution to the official history,
which was deemed unworthy of publication without substantial correction.
The author, outraged at this slight determined that his son (who as an unpaid
civilian was outside the official ban on memoirs) bring out a rival account in
similar format to that proposed by Cook. Forster’s is an essential adjuct to the
literature of the second voyage, it came out in March 1776 three months or so
after Marra’s octavo. A full account of the circumstances of the publication,
its qualities and defects, can be found in Beaglehole vol. II ppcxlviii-clii. Hill,
p108; Holmes, 23; Sabin, 25130.
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[H AY E S (Capt. William “Bully”).] BUNTING (Charles).
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ALS to his brother recounting the voyage of the Ellinita from
San Francisco to Sydney under the command of the notorious
Capt. William Hayes. Manuscript in ink. 6pp. Folio & 4to. Paper a little worn and reinforced
on old folds. Sydney, 1 January 1860. [With] RAY (Mr.) ALS regarding
Ellinita ‘s prior service in British Columbia. 2pp. 8vo. Old folds,
embossed stamp. Victoria, 5 April?, 1858.
Capt. William “Bully” Hayes is one of the more memorable 19th century
pirates. He spent twenty years - from the first recorded visit of his arrival
in Fremantle in 1857 to his death in 1877 - engaged in piracy, blackbirding,
fraud and larceny in the Pacific. Apparently born in Cleveland Ohio, his story
was celebrated in Rolf Boldrewood’s A Modern Buccaneer, 1894.
This lengthy letter is a detailed and sometimes amusing first-hand account
of the voyage of the Ellinita, which brought Hayes to Australia for a second
time. Hayes had stolen the Ellinita and departed San Francisco in August
1859 with passengers on board. Having stopped at Hawaii, the Ellinita began
to take on water. Despite both passengers and crew being enlisted to help, the
ship was abandoned about seventy miles from Samoa with passengers and
crew being dispersed in a life boat and a raft.
The Sydney Morning Herald records Charles Bunting and his son as survivors
and Bunting seems to regard this letter as an opportunity to vent his anger
and relief. “The Captain pretended to me that I would not have to pump and
at the same time told the men to make me that I was a damned proud stuck
up son of a bitch...” Bunting then described the intimidation tactics brought
against him, before he “helped the pumping every other four hours for three
weeks. The Capt the scoundrel walking about nursing a lapdog he had, taking
the world easy whilst us poor devils were pumping night and day up to this
time.”
Things only get worse for Bunting when the ship is finally abandoned and
he and his son are ordered to different vessels. “When dear little was put in
the boat he looked up and said good bye Papa I will never see you any more
it was really heart rendering and all felt it ... After we got on this raft settled
considerable so that the seas washed completely over us to make matters
worse a couple of very large sharks came around and were very savage no
one can have any idea of our feelings ... I thought we were sure to die and
before doing so would suffer awfully.”
However, Bunting was later transferred from the raft to the boat and reunited
with his son. After four days at sea in the open boat, they landed at Savii
Island (in the Samoan group) where “the natives commenced plundering and
threatening our lives. We were quite helpless and sore from exposure of the
sun and water.” They were spared much more of this by white settlers on
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a neighbouring island with whom they spent two weeks before the British
man-of-war Elk arrived as part of the official rescue mission. The “Consuls”
of the Elk first looked for the raft and then “went to Sataua, the village where
we were so ill-treated; they got some of the things they had robbed us of and
then fined them $600, if not paid in a certain time a Man of War will blow
their town up.”
Bunting and the remaining survivors were taken to Apia in a native canoe
where they spent four weeks. He gives a neat description of the journey and
the time spent in Apia. Eventually making his way to Sydney, he met the 13
survivors from the raft, who had spent 19 days at sea, living off the three
sharks they caught and their own urine.
The fate of the Ellinita was widely reported in the Sydney Morning Herald on
December 24th 1859 and then January 2nd and 4th, 1860. With each report,
the accusations against Hayes mounted and culminated in the publication of
an extract from the San Francisco Evening Bulletin on January 6th titled “A
Remarkable Story of a Scoundrel”.
Incorporating piracy and shipwreck, shark attacks, aggressive natives and
colonial retribution, this letter, rich in incident and emotion, provides a
fascinating insight into the experience of disaster at sea and life in the Pacific
in the mid-nineteenth century.
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I R E L A N D (John).
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The Shipwrecked Orphans; a true narrative of the shipwreck and
sufferings of John Ireland and William Bayley, who were wrecked in the
ship Charles Eaton, on an island in the South Seas...
12mo. Illustrated title page & 8 plates. Original green printed wrappers,
spine chipped, some minor dampstaining not affecting text. 64pp. New
Haven, S. Babcock, [1845].
Originally published in England in 1838, this is a scarce copy of a delightful
publication for children. Indeed it is one of the earliest juveniles to be set in
Australia.
The Charles Eaton departed London in December 1833 with a crew of 22
and about 30 passengers, 25 of whom were children from the Emigration
Society. The work begins ominously with the author stating that he didn’t
know how to swim and was nearly drowned when he fell into the Thames
on embarking. The Eaton was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef and the
survivors made their way to a nearby island where all but two of boys were
killed by the natives. These two, the author and William Bayley, were traded
to a less hostile tribe and spent the next four years with them. Eventually,
they were rescued and brought to Sydney. Ferguson, 4078a; Muir, 3720; cf
Hill, 869.
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K I N G (Capt. Philip Parker).
3750
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Colonies of
Australia. Performed between the Years 1818 and 1822. With an
Appendix containing various subjects relating to Hydrography and
Natural History. First edition, 2nd issue. 2 vols. Engraved folding chart,
and 10 uncoloured aquatint views, 8 woodcut engravings, Plan of Port
Cockburn. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt &
sunned, slightly shelf-worn, extremities rubbed. xxxix, 451; viii, 637pp.
London, 1827.
The Sturt Family copy with the Alington book plate to the pastedown of
both volumes. Charles Sturt was the cousin of the first Baron Arlington,
Henry Gerard Sturt. This is a lovely association copy linking two of the most
important explorers of Australia in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Sturt arrived in Australia in the same year as the publication of King’s work
and would have undoubtedly had a copy.
King was appointed by the British Government when “circumstances
consequent upon the restoration of Peace... rendered it most important
to explore with as little delay as possible, that part of the coast of New
Holland... surveyed or examined by the late Captain Flinders”. King surveyed
the Australian coast from the Torres Strait to King George III sound. He
identified many small islands and explored the geography, flora and fauna.
Ferguson, 1130; Abbey Travel 573.
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L A P E RO U S E (M. de).
A Voyage round the World performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787,
1788, by M. de la Peyrouse... to which are added A Voyage from Manilla
to California, by Don Antonio Maurelle: and an abstract of the voyages
and Discoveries of the Late Capt. G. Vancouver.
First American edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, extremities
slightly rubbed, slightly brown as usual, some dampstaining to title page.
vi, 7-334pp. Boston, Joseph Bumstead, 1801.
A very good copy of the scarce first American edition of this important
Pacific voyage. It’s believed that this edition is based on the 1798 Edinburgh
abridgement. The Hill copy records a map which was added later.
La Pérouse’s expedition departed from France in 1785 in the Boussole and the
Astrolabe with orders to continue the work of exploration begun by Cook in
the Pacific and on the North West Coast. Having rounded Cape Horn the two
ships reached Easter Island in April of the following year, before sailing on to
Hawaii, where the expedition members became the first Europeans to land
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on Maui. They then preceded to Alaska, surveying the coastline as instructed,
before moving West to Asia, where La Pérouse charted the coast North of
Macao as far as Kamchatka, and successfully navigated the Sea of Japan.
Copies of the expedition’s logs were sent home from Macao, Kamchatka (in
the care of M. de Lesseps on the overland route), and Botany Bay (in early
1788). Thereafter nothing was known of the expedition’s fate until Dillon
discovered the wreck of the two ships on the reef at Vanikoro in the Santa
Cruz islands in 1827.
Although merely a precis, this is also the first American appearance of
Vancouver’s voyage in print. It follows the first London edition of 1798.
Maurelle’s voyage to California included stops at Tonga and New Guinea.
Ferguson, 333; Forbes, 331; Hill, 976; Kroepelien, 1331; Sabin, 38966.
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L A B I L L A R D I E R E (Jacques J. de H.)
Voyage in Search of La Pérouse.
Performed by order of the Constituent Assembly During the Years 1791,
1792, 1793 and 1794. 2 vols. 45 engraved plates with a large folding
map. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, . xxxii, 33-487; 344, 105pp. London,
Stockdale, 1800.
A superb copy of this work from Berkeley Castle, having had only very minor
restoration to the headcap of the first volume.
Hill gives the above as the first English edition although Stockdale did
publish a single volume quarto edition in 1800 (Ferguson, 309) which may be
earlier. There were also two other octavo editions issued in 1800. Hill, p168;
Ferguson, 310.
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M O O N (Henry).
An Account of the Wreck of H.M. Sloop “Osprey”; with the encampment
of her crew, and their march across the island of New Zealand: blended
with Moral and Scriptural Illustrations. By one of her crew.
First edition. 12mo. Original publisher’s cloth, spine very lightly sunned.
x, [2], 128pp. Londport, Annett and Robinson, 1858.
A lovely copy of this rare work. Just a single copy has appeared at auction in
the past 30 years.
Moon served as the steward on the Osprey and his account was edited from
his diary and notebooks and further ammendments were provided by Edward
Colls Stacey. As per the title, Moon regarded the publication of this work as
an opportunity to air some of his own religious beliefs.
The ship departed Wangaroa on March 9, 1846, and immediately encountered
rough weather. The captain, and indeed crew, mistakenly thought they had
reached Hokianga and were clear to proceed into the harbour. The ship was
wrecked as they endeavoured to cross the bar, losing both masts. The captain
and crew then proceeded to march overland to the Bay of Islands. Huntress,
184; Hocken, 91; Not in Hill.
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[ NE W Z E A L A N D ]
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Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth on the Coast
of Taranake, New Zealand. Comprising Letters from Settlers there...
First edition. Woodcut frontispiece & a woodcut vignette. 12mo. A fine
copy in original printed wrappers. [58]pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co.,
1842.
A crisp copy of this account of New Plymouth, on the west coast of the North
Island.
In 1828, Richard Barrett established the first trading post in what is now
New Plymouth. They traded firearms for flax and grains with the Maoris and
negotiated the purchase of land from them on behalf of the New Zealand
Company. The first settlers arrived in 1841 and this pamphlet, published
the following year, contains an important record of their early experiences.
Furthermore, it includes a neat overview of the establishment of the colony,
trade with the Maoris as well as notes on agriculture and even a labour strike.
Of great interest are the letters written by the settlers themselves, which are
all dated either October or November 1841. Hocken, p103.
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L I N DT ( J. W. )
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Picturesque New Guinea With an Historical Introduction and
Supplementary Chapters on the Manners and Customs of the Papuans.
First edition. 50 full-page autotype plates several with more than one
image. Large 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt, a little rubbed. xviii, 194pp.
London, 1887.
The inscription reads: “The Revd J Dawson with J.W. Lindt’s compliments.
New Year 1919.” In the preface the author of this uncommon work decries
the lack of photographic illustration in works of travel, and in particular that
scientific expeditions had hitherto made little use of the “black art”. This
is a beautifully illustrated work and along with with Thomson’s China and
Its Peoples, is one of the first to use autotypes as illustrations. The author
accompanied Sir Peter Scatchley who had been appointed High Commissioner
in the newly aquired territory in 1885.
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N O R M A N (Capt. W.H.) & M U S G R AVE (Thomas).
Journals of the Voyage and Proceedings of HMCS “Victoria” in Search
of Shipwrecked People at the Auckland and other Islands. With an
Outline Sketch of the Islands. Folding frontispiece map. 8vo. Recent half
calf. 46pp. Melbourne, John Ferres, [1865?]
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papers and drawings between his brother, Stanfield Parkinson and Sir Joseph
Banks. In spite of a generous payment made to Stanfield, he had the papers
transcribed while they were on loan to him, and prepared the present work.
His publication threatened to preempt the official account of the voyage by
Hawkesworth and an injunction was granted to prevent this, but the unpleasantness led to the exclusion of any mention of Parkinson in Dr. Hawkesworth’s An Account of the Voyages... for making Discoveries in the Southern
Hemisphere in spite of the fact that he drew on his journals and reproduced
some of Parkinson’s drawings. Hill, p.223; Holmes, 7.
Having survived the wreck of the Grafton, and returning to rescue two other
seamen left behind, Thomas Musgrave accompanied Captain Norman on an
expedition to chart the Auckland Islands and search for any further survivors
of the Grafton. Sailing on the H.M.C.S. “Victoria”, the trip was commissioned
by the governments of Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales.
This work is effectively a companion volume to Musgrave’s Castaway on the
Auckland Isles (1865), which recounts the eighteen months he spent on the
Auckland Islands and the trip back to the New Zealand mainland made in an
13 foot dinghy. Ferguson, 13440.
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O G L E (Nathaniel).
The Colony of Western Australia: A Manual for Emigrants to that
Settlement or its Dependencies: comprising its Discovery, Settlement,
Aborigines, Land regulations...
First edition. Folding map, 4 engraved plates (2 folding). 8vo. Original
green cloth. xii, 298, lxivpp. London, James Fraser, 1839.
A very good copy of the first issue complete with the folding map, one of
the earliest maps of the colony and certainly the most up to date to that
time. It was compiled by John Arrowsmith from information gleaned by John
Septimus Roe, surveyor-general to the fledgling colony.
Ogle provides a neat precis of each region of the colony including its local
history and the agriculture best suited for it. This emigrant’s manual focuses on
the acquisition, use and maintenance of property and all of the information it
holds is organised accordingly - from the list of landowners and the specifics
of their holdings to relations with local Aborigines. Ferguson, 2819.
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PA R K I N S O N (Sydney).
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty’s Ship The
Endeavour.
First edition. Map, portrait, and 26 engraved plates. 4to. A tall copy.
Early plain calf, rebacked, original back laid down, original red morocco
label xxiii, 212, [2]pp. London, 1773. The most handsome unofficial account of Cook’s first voyage with important
information on Australia and New Zealand. The twenty-seven plates here
provide a fascinating visual narative of the voyage, while his journal records
accurately without embellishment.
Parkinson had been appointed as botanical draughtsman to the first voyage
of Captain Cook by Sir Joseph Banks, and his “unbounded industry” extended greatly the collection of drawings relating to the voyage. His untimely
death at sea, however, led to an unfortunate controversy over the title to his
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[ R I C K M A N (Lieut. John)].
Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on
Discovery; Performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.
Illustrated with Cuts, and a Chart, shewing the Tracks of the Ships
employed in this Expedition.
Second edition. Folding map repaired without loss, & 10 engraved
plates (one folding). 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked. [viii], lvii, 376pp.
London, E. Newbery, 1785.
Rickman, second lieutenant of the Resolution, but for the greater part of
the voyage on the Discovery, was the first to publish an account of Cook’s
third voyage. The work was, however, wrongly attributed to Ledyard until
1930 when Judge Howay demonstrated that Ledyard had simply copied
whole sections of Rickman’s book. The publisher, Newbery, recognised the
potential of Rickman’s anonymous journal, correctly assuming that it would
be as successful as Marra’s account of the Second Voyage, which he had also
published.
The folding plate is of some importance being the first printed pictorial
representation in print of Hawaii: “Representation of the Murder of Capt
Cook at O-Why-ee”. Forbes 106; Hill, p.253; Holmes 53; Howes R276;
Streeter 3474.
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S H I L L I B EE R (Lieut. J.)
A Narrative of the Briton’s Voyage, to Pitcairn’s Island; including
an interesting sketch of the state of the Brazils and of Spanish South
America.
First edition. 16 engraved plates, one in bisque, several folding. 8vo. A
fine copy in later polished calf, spine elaborately gilt with black morocco
labels. viii, 179pp. Taunton, printed for the author, 1817.
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A fine copy of the rare first edition. Although the title page asks for 18 illustrations, only 16 etchings are listed in the direction to binders and Shillibeer
adds a note that 16 is complete. The illustrations are etchings made by the
author; they include a folding panorama of Rio. Upon reaching Rio, Shillibeer
was “ordered into the Pacific to search for the American frigate Essex, then
threatening British whalers” (Hill). The Marquesas, Juan Fernandez and the
Galapagos were also visited during the cruise. At Pitcairn Island, Shillibeer
met John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer and describes the descendants of the crew, giving a charming portrait of Friday Christian. Borba,
p796; Hill, 1563.
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S M I T H (S. Percy).
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The Eruption of Tarawera: a report to the surveyor-general.
First edition. Seven original photographs laid down, lithographs & maps.
8vo. Contemporary cloth. 84pp. [Wellington], 1886.
The photographs are taken by G.D. Valentine. “Detailed and full report of
eruption and aftermath largely from two visits in June and July immediately
after the event. The standard account to be read with contemporary studies
by Prof. A. P. W. Thomas and F. W. Hutton. Appendices include Lawrence
Cussen’s report of April ascent of Ruapehu with description of Lake Taupo.”
Bagnall 5212.
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S TA NF O R D (Edward).
A Map of Australia constructed from the most recent official documents
furnished by the Surveyors General and from the Admiralty surveys.
Four large folded sheets, coloured, dissected and mounted on linen. Each
sheet measuring 970 by 1340mm. Scale: 26 miles to 1inch. London,
Edward Stanford, May 1st, 1879. A fine copy of this large map, which includes a map of New Zealand’s south
island. After the wave of immigration during the gold rush and the great
success of the Intercolonial Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866, Australia’s
international stature continued to improve through the 1870s. Exploration of
the interior continued with the likes of the Forrest brothers becoming the first
to cross from the west to the Telegraph line in 1874 and Ernest Giles crossed
the Gibson and Victoria deserts in 1873 and 1874. This map includes the
tracks of these explorers and their discoveries.
Stanford served a three year apprenticeship in Wiltshire, before returning to
London in 18844. Having worked for different stationers including Trelawny
W. Saunders with whom he was briefly in partnership, he set up on his own
in 1853 and became one of the most prominent map makers and publisher of
the late nineteenth century.
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S T U RT (Capt. Charles).
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia,
During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831:
With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of
the Colony of New South Wales. First edition. 2 vols. A large folding
engraved map, a chart and 5 lithograph views, a further 4 hand-coloured
lithographs of birds, and 4 lithographic illustrations of geological
specimens. 8vo. Very good original purple cloth, backs faded as usual,
one or two tiny nicks here and there, but an entirely unrestored example.
[ii], lxxx, 219; [ii], vi, 271, 16[ads.]pp. London, Smith Elder & Co., 1833.
Sturt arrived in Australia in 1827, his regiment in charge of one of the
convict convoys, and during the following years he participated in many
of the expeditions arranged by amongst others Oxley and Hume which
greatly expanded contemporary knowledge of Australia. Some ten years after
returning to the continent in 1834 Sturt set out from Adelaide with fifteen men
heading towards the Barrier Range. On reaching the Great Stony Desert his
expedition was forced to turn back for Adelaide due to the extreme heat and
illness. In the months between August 1844 when they left and their return in
January 1846 the party covered approximately 3000 miles. Ferguson,1704;
Wantrup, 118a.
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[ TA H I T I ] [ H EN RY (Tenira).]
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Quelques mots sur L’Histoire de Tahiti en reponse a la presse de Papeete
par Patriote. Traduit de l’Anglais.
8vo. A fine copy in original pink printed wrappers, presentation
inscription to front wrapper & ALS tipped on to verso of front wrapper.
14, [2]pp. Tahiti, 1888.
The accompanying note addressed to Miss Sophia Henry states “I send you
my first literary publication, all my own. Blanche will tell you its history ...
from your fond niece Tenira H.” Comparatively little is known about Tenira
Henry, though she is almost certainly a descendant of the LMS missionary,
William Henry who spent 60 years working in Tahiti and Sydney.
James Frazier references one of her accounts of a fire-walk in Tahiti in his
masterpiece The Golden Bough. Frazier states that at the time she was living
in Honolulu.
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This copy has the rare map Carte de le Baye Botanique et Harvres Adjacens
sur la Cote du Nouveau Pays de Galles Meridional. We know of only four
other copies that include it - the National Library of Australia copy cited
by Ferguson, the Mitchell copy, the Davidson copy and the Kroepelien copy
- making it one of the rarest eighteenth century maps of New South Wales.
Indeed, such is its scarcity that many speculate its inclusion can only be postpublication. Our copy complies with the Davidson, Mitchell and Kroepelien
copies, having the map at p262. The NLA copy has the map at p264.
Tench’s book was an immediate success with the public, and ran to three
editions in England during 1789 and many others in Dublin, France,
Germany and the Netherlands. A contemporary review testifies to this
success: “A regular, connected, and seemingly well authenticated narrative
of the expedition, and of the adventures of the emmigrant. Our author’s
modest preface, and unassuming manner throughout the whole of this little
work, entitle him to our attention and regard” (Critical Review, May 1789).
Ferguson, 53; McLaren, ‘Lapérouse in the Pacific’, 813; Davidson, p75; Hill,
1686 (without the map); Kroepelien, 1280.
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T EN C H (Capt. Watkin, R.M.)
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; With an Account of New
South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined,
A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson. First
edition. 8vo. Later full red morocco, gilt, lacking the half title. viii, 148,
[2]ads.pp. London, 1789.
Watkin Tench [1758?-1833] entered the Marines in 1776, and fought in
the American War of Independence rising to the rank of First Lieutenant.
Following his promotion to Captain, Tench volunteered to serve in the
proposed Colony of New South Wales and travelled on board the transport
Charlotte arriving at Botany Bay in 1788.
An acute and perceptive observer, he took careful note of the new experiences
provided by the Australian continent and his fellows’ reactions to it. When
not writing these down, Tench lead several expeditions into the interior,
discovering amongst other things the Dawes river, which he traced to the
Hawkesbury. His attempt to conquer the Blue Mountains however failed, the
expedition having to turn back at the Razorback.
Tench’s book was an immediate success with the public, and ran to three
editions in England during 1789 and many others in Dublin, France,
Germany and the Netherlands. A contemporary review testifies to this
success: “A regular, connected, and seemingly well authenticated narrative of
the expedition, and of the adventures of the emmigrant. Our author’s modest
preface, and unassuming manner through the whole of this little work, entitle
him to our attention and regard” (Critical Review, May 1789). Ferguson, 54.
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T EN C H (Capt. Watkin).
Voyage à la Baie Botanique; Avec une Description du nouveau Pays de
Galles Meridional, de ses habitans, de ses productions, &c.
& quelques details relatifs a M. de la Peyrouse, pendant son sejour a le
Baie Botanique.
First French edition. Folding map. 8vo. Original paste paper wrappers,
uncut, slightly worn, inner joints mended with plain paper some time
ago, and ms. label added to spine, old signature and stamp of Albert
Spitaels (probably the Dutch banker b. 1770 at Geraarsbergen; printout
from a genealogical website inserted), housed in a black cloth box viii,
266pp. Paris, Letellier, 1789.
According to Ferguson, this is the first of the two French editions printed in
1789. Certainly it is a far fuller account than that published by Knapen, and
includes an eighty-five page account of the discovery of Australia.
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T EN C H (Capt. Watkin).
Letters written in France, to a Friend in London, between the Month
of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795.
First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in period style full crimson morocco, spine
gilt. iv, 224pp. London, J. Johnson, 1796.
On Tench’s return to England, following the publication of A Complete
Account... he once again entered active service on board the Alexander under
Capt. Richard Bligh. However, returning from escorting convoys to Lisbon
and the Mediterranean, Tench’s ship was surprised by a French squadron
on 6th November, 1794, and despite putting up “stout resistance” (ODNB)
was captured and taken into Brest, where he was held on the Alexander and
Marat.
In February 1795 Tench, along with his fellow prisoners, was transferred to
Quimper and in May of the same year they were given their freedom and
allowed to travel back to England. This period in Quimper, by comparison to
the previous months, allowed him some freedom and as he had done in New
South Wales he went about recording his surroundings and the people with
whom he came into contact.
Tench kept a diary throughout his time in France and was well aware of
the risks. In the third letter (7 Dec. 1794) he explains: “From a fear of being
searched, I have used some extraordinary precautions... I have so transposed
the order of sentences, and so intermixed the words from all the languages I
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could recollect (not excepting that of New Holland) that it would puzzle the
interpreter of the convention to decypher them.” His diary was revised and
published as this work. This is a very early published reference to a European
using an Australian Aboriginal language outside of Australia in the eighteenth
century.
There is a further reference to Australia in latter pages where Tench considers
the state of mankind: “National prejudices and political antipathies I consider
as a vile state engine, which, in the hands of a few crafty men, has for more
than five thousand years wrought the misery of the human race. Englishmen
and Frenchmen, the Charib and the Hindoo, the philosopher of Europe and
the naked savage whose wanderings I have witnessed at Botany Bay, shall one
day, I presume in humble confidence to trust, be assembled before the “living
throne” of a common Father...”
Tench’s significance in the early history of Australia is beyond question.
This work clarifies the lasting impression Botany Bay made on him. This is
possibly further borne out, according to DNB, as “Tench may also have had a
hand in the composition of an imaginary-voyage narrative, Fragmens [sic] du
dernier voyage de La Perouse (Quimper, 1797).” Crittenden, ‘A Bibliography
of the First Fleet,’ 244; Ferguson, 248.
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T H O M S O N (David F. F.)
Interim General Report of Preliminary Expedition to Arnhem Land,
Northern Territory of Australia, 1935-36.
Folio. 2 coloured maps. Grey paper wrappers, some staining to front
and back resulting from rusted hinges, slightly bumped. Contents, 49pp.
Canberra, Department of the Interior, 1936.
Thomson studied zoology at the University of Melbourne and later anthropology at the University of Sydney, determined to realise his early ambitions
to become an explorer.
Thomson made two expeditions to North Queensland in 1928 and 193233, which resulted in significant collections in zoology and ethnography. It
also afforded him the opportunity to witness conditions for Aborigines at
the Presbyterian mission in Aurukun and he became a strong supporter of
Aboriginal rights.
In 1932-33 five Japanese and three Europeans were killed by Aborigines and
Thomson volunteered to investigate. He departed in May 1935 for eastern
Arnhem Land and stayed in the region until September 1937. This is the first
report he filed on his expedition, one which would result in the restoration of
peaceful relations between the native Yolngu people and the Commonwealth
government.
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WA D E (William Richard).
A Journey in the Northern Island of New Zealand, interspersed
with various information.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth backed papered boards, some light
staining, extremities rubbed with a little loss of paper, rebacked with
original spine laid down. 206pp. Hobart Town, George Rolwegan, 1842.
Dedicated to Lady Franklin who the author had met during her visit in
1841. The author’s journey included stops at Kerikeri, Waimate, Mangungu,
Hokianga, Kaihu, Kaipara, Thames, Waikato, Rotorua and Ohenemutu. This
is a very good copy of an early Hobart printing. Bagnall, 5770; Ferguson,
3530.
6250
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Z I M M E R M A N (Heinrich).
Dernier Voyage du Capitain Cook autour du Monde, ou se trouvent
les circonstances de sa mort...
Second French (language) edition. 8vo. Sewn as originally issued,
intrimmed with large margins, in drop-back box, with black morocco
label to spine. xvi, 200pp. Berne, 1783.
Although the type was reset and the title page altered slightly this second
French language edition is nearly identical to the first, which was published
in Berne in the preceding year. Both are “of great rarity” according to Holmes.
They include, in addition to Zimmerman’s narrative, a life of Cook taken from
Lichtenberg’s Gottingisches Magazin... of 1780. This, the first biography of
Cook, was written with material supplied by the Forsters.
Zimmerman was coxswain of the Discovery. He gives a valuable account
of “below decks” life on board the ship, and although his narrative is not
without errors, Homes concedes that the work has “an ingeniousness and
charm which differentiate it from other accounts”. Indeed, Sir Joseph Banks
noted that it contained “some curious details, not in the larger work” (ie. the
official account). Forbes (Hawaiian Nat. Bib.) I, 59; du Reitz, 1364; cf. LadaMocarski, 33; cf. Hill, p333.
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Z I NKE (Johann Wenzel)
[After] CAJETAN Greens grosser Luftballon in Lande der Antipodean.
Hand coloured engraving measuring approx.
180 by 250mm. Vienna, c. 1836.
Green set a long distance record for a balloon flight from London to Germany
of 480 miles in November 1836. This image was produced in the lead up to
his planned trans-Atlantic balloon flight. It is listed as number 47 in the series
Satyrisches Bild. Its typically unsympathetic portrayal of the Antipodean
natives seems to be drawn from Saison’s images which were published at about
the same time. Sainson accompanied Dumont D’Urville on the Astrolabe.
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[ B R A Z I L ] C O S TA (Claudio Manoel da).
1500
Orbas de Claudio Manoel da Costa, Arcade Ultramarino,
chamado Glauceste Saturnio.
First edition. 16mo. Contemporary calf, moderately worn, inked
inscriptions to title page and edges. xxiv, 320pp. Coimbra, Luiz Secco
Ferreira, 1768.
“Very rare” (Borba). OCLC locates just six copies.
A very good copy of Costa’s collected works. Costa (1729-89) was perhaps
the foremost Brazilian poet of the eighteenth century. He studied law at the
University of Coimbra (1749-53), during which time he composed the majority of his poems. Upon returning to Brazil, he practised law and in 1768 set
up Ouro Preto, an academy devoted to neo-classical poetry.
He was one of the conspirators in the 1789 Inconfidencia Mineira, an independence movement that would have seen Oura Preto evolve into a university town. The movement was betrayed by three of its own and, upon arrest,
Costa commited suicide. Borba des Moraes, I, p220.
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B U RTO N (Richard F.)
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Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil...
With a Full Account of the gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing
down 1500 Miles of the Great River São Francisco...
First edition, first issue. 2 vols. Folding map, pictorial half titles &
frontispieces. 8vo. Very fine original green pictorial cloth, gilt. xii, 443;
viii, 478, [2]ads.pp. London, 1869.
A faultless copy apart from remnants of small paper labels on the backs.
Posted as Consol at Santos, Sao Paulo’s port in 1865, Burton sailed to Rio de
Janeiro before travelling into the interior and down the Sao Francisco by raft.
Lady Burton herself saw the work through publication, writing a particularly
interesting Preface in which she gives vent to her personal feelings with regard
to her husband’s views on religion and polygamy, begging the “fair or gentle
reader” to bear in mind that her husband is writing “from a high moral
pedestal”. Penzer, p78-80; Casada, 33.
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D I E R EV I L L E (N. de).
1650
Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l’Acadie ou de la nouvelle France.
Second edition, engraved frontipiece, title printed in red and black. 12mo.
Contempory calf, back gilt a fine copy. [xviii], 236, [7]pp. Amsterdam,
Pierre Humbert, 1710.
Includes a 7pp. appendix describing the unsuccessful attack on Port Royal
by the New Englanders in 1707. The text is a verse interspersed with prose.
Lande seems to indicate that a half title may exist, it is not present here. Sabin
20128; Lande 184.
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A C O NQU I S TA D O R O F T H E P H I L L I P I NE S W H O
F O U G H T AG A I N S T D R A KE
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H E R R E R A (Captain Martin de).
20000
Autograph confidential report signed (in Spanish) in which the writer
exposes the malice of the Viceroy of New Spain, don Alvaro Manrique
de Zuniga, Marquis de Villamanrique, and describes his own services
to the Crown, and adventures.
Manuscript in ink. 60pp. Folio. The top 40mm of all leaves lacking from
insect damage and damp. [Mexico], 1588.
The Diccionario Universal de Historia y de Geografia states: “This Viceroy,
brother of the Duke of Bejar and a member of one of the most illustrious
families of Spain, took up office on 17th October, 1585, and resigned in
February 1590. He had bitter contentions with the Dominican, Franciscan
and Augustinian Provincials over the question of compliance with the King’s
instructions with regard to the secularisation of the curacies which those
orders administered.... In 1587 Sir Francis Drake seized the ship Santa Ana
off the coast of California, bearing merchandise from China and Japan.
Drake had travelled the Pacific previously, causing damage to the provinces
of Jalisco and Sinaloa. The Viceroy had ordered the ships at Acapulco to be in
readiness and nominated Dr. Palacios as head of the expedition, but although
these ships pursued the English, they were unable to find them.
“Grave questions arose between the Viceroy and the Audiencia at Guadalajara
on judicial matters, which led to a rising of the troops on both sides. The news
of these differences was probably exaggerated, but caused much uneasiness
at the Court of Spain, which feared civil war, for which reason they hastened
to remove the Marquis de Villamanrique from the supreme command, and
appointed as Inspector (Visitador) the Bishop of Puebla, Don Diego Romano,
who treated the Marques very harshly, ordering his property to be seized,
even to the wearing apparel of the Marquesa; but although the Council for
the Indies ordered the embargo to be removed, the Marquis died in Madrid
without having recovered his property.”
This report, which gives the other version of the matter, is methodically divided
into 101 paragraphs and describes, minutely, all the misdeeds and abuses of
the Marques de Villamanrique; the indignities to which he subjected the high
ecclesiastical and other officials; his high-handed attitude in dimissing certain
members of the Treasury, even replacing these competent administrators by
his own servants; and a full catalogue of his iniquities.
The writer states that he is not prompted by malice, but merely by an honest
desire to serve his king and country’s interests in reporting these incidents.
The Governor began his campaign of annoyance by issuing orders before he
had been properly sworn in as Viceroy. He then proceeded to dismiss as many
officials as he pleased, in defiance of the King’s express wishes, and appointed
his own friends. He ordered that Don Diego Caballero, a priest, who reported
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certain irregularities to the Visatador, should be arrested and sent to Acapulco
for banishment to Peru, but subsequently rescinded the order, and, to the
indignation of the people, had the priest conveyed back to San Juan de Uloa
in a wooden cage, in which he passed through the Indian encampments and
infected areas “with no other object in view than that this honoured and
esteemed priest should die under such conditions.”
The writer was a particular bete-noir of the Viceroy, having been one of the
principal informants against him. He states how he called on the Viceroy and
informed that he had been “a respected resident of that city for twenty-five
years, and had in every way served his Majesty (Philip II), helping to guard
the city of Mexico with his arms and horses...”; and how he was at the port
of San Juan de Ulua when the corsair Juan Aquines [Hawkins] took it; and
how he was amongst those who defended the port of Acapulco “against the
corsair, Francisco Draque [Drake] when he sailed the Pacific.” He related how
his ancestor, Captain Juan de Herrera had died in the service of the King, at
Castelnovo; how his uncle, Francisco de Herrera, had arrested Francis I of
France, and how his father’s three brothers had died in one day in the service
of the Emperor (Charles V); and how he he had been amongst the conquerors
of the Philippines. His efforts to obtain permission to travel proved fruitless,
the Viceroy suspecting this zealous royalist of endeavouring to communicate
his information to headquarters; and instead of granting him leave to travel,
the Viceroy ordered him to be arrested, his house searched and many of his
papers seized. Herrera escaped, however, leaving behind him his wife and
children, and tried to get aboard one of the ships of the Spanish fleet. Arriving
at Tlaxcala, however, he sought sanctuary at the Franciscan Monastery of
Atiliqueza, where the Viceroy’s men ran him to earth, with warrants to seize
him whether he happened to be in a monastery or a church. He was therefore
obliged to flee to a place where the Viceroy had no authority.
This long report also includes a most interesting relation of the vicissitudes
of Martin de Herrera and his brother, Diego; and of their efforts to enlist the
sympathy of the Consejo de Indias.
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M A X I M I L I A N (Prince Wied-Neuwied).
1950
Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817.
Second edition. 2 vols. plus 3 atlases. 2 folding maps & 16 engraved
plates. 8vo & 4to. A fine set in the original printed wrappers. iv,
[2], 376, [4]; vi, 345pp. Frankfurt, H.L. Broenner & Wein, Carl Gerold,
1820 - 1821.
“Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, taking advantage of peace reigning in Europe,
took the opportunity of exploring a part of Brazil, such an interesting country,
which was still almost unknown to Europe. Encouraged by the reception
which had been given to Mawe by the Regent D. Joao and not wanting to
explore the same territory... he preferred to follow the Atlantic coast from Rio
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de Janeiro upwards. In this city he met two of his countrymen, Preissreis and
Sellou - the latter an excellent botanist - with whom he undertook the journey
which started from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia, with an excursion to Minas. The
book is most interesting in that it shows us what the interior of Brazil was
like at the time of Independence. The author not only describes us the flora
(thanks to his companion Sellou) but also the condition and customs of the
Indians, whose tribes he knew best, especially that of the Botocudos. In fact at
the end of volume II there is to be found a vocabulary of the various tribes.”
cf. Sabin, 47019; Borba, p544-45; Bosch, I, 322.
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[ M E X I C O ] [I T U R B I D E (Augustin de).]
1750
Decree declaring Augustin de Iturbide a traitor.
Small folio. 2pp. Mexico, April 30, 1824.
Having reached the rank of general, Augustin de Iturbide’s military and
political coalition brought the Mexican War of Independence to a close with
a dramatic march into the capital on September 27, 1821. This act led to him
being named President of the Regency and Constitutional Emperor. Iturbide
soon proved unpopular and remained in power for little less than a year. For
one, his economic policies left the country in ruins. Having been overthrown,
he was sent into exile in 1823, which he spent in both Italy and then England.
With the printed signatures of Melchor Muzquiz and Fernando Navarro, this
document states clearly that Iturbide is regarded as an enemy of the state
(“declarado enemigo publico del Estado”) and that anyone caught assisting
him (or any other foreign invader) to return to Mexico will be regarded
similarly.
With Iturbide in exile, the situation in Mexico continued to deteriorate
and rumours that Spain were to launch another invasion reached Iturbide’s
supporters. He was led to believe he would be received as the national saviour
on returning to Mexico. Doubtless, he sought to emulate Napoleon’s return
from Elba.
This document was printed shortly before Iturbide returned to Mexico on
July 14. He was arrested and executed by firing squad just five days later. In
the years following, his reputation was rehabilitated and as of 1839 his ashes
are kept in the Chapel of San Felipe de Jesús at the Mexico City Cathedral.
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and
T h e W e st I n di e s
T U R K S & CA I C O S I S L A N D S ,
B A H A M A S & B E R M U DA
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B E L L I N (Jaques-Nicolas).
Description des débouquemens qui sont au nord de l’isle de SaintDomingue.
Second edition. Engraved title & 34 plates, incl. 11 folding charts. 4to.
Fine contemporary French mottled calf, marbled endpapers. viii, 152pp.
Versailles, Dept. de Marin, 1773.
A clean and bright copy of this important compilation of sailing directions for
the waters north of St. Domingo. The work includes material concerning the
Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, and also has a section and chart on
Bermuda. Bellin was a noted naval engineer and hygrographer, who spent fifty
years at the French Hydrographic Service. Both the first and second editions
are scarce. Sabin, 4552.
E X QUE M E L I N G (J.)
The History of the Bucaniers in America.
containing, I. The Exploits and Adventures of Le Grand, Lolonois,
Roche Brasiliano, Bath the Portuguese, Sir Henry Morgan, &c. II. The
dangerous Voyage and bold Attempts of Capt. Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins,
Coxon, and others in the South Sea. III. A Journal of a Voyage into
the South-Sea by the Freebooters of America, from 1684 to 1689. IV.
A Relation of a Voyage of the Sieur De Montauban, Captain of the
Freebooters, in Guinea, in the Year 1695. Exhibiting A particular Account
and Description of Porto Bello, Chagre, Panama, Cuba, Havanna, and
most of the Spanish Possessions on the coasts of the West-Indies, and also
all along the Coasts of the South-Sea; with the Manner in which they
have been invaded, attempted, or taken by these Adventurers. The Whole
written in several Languages by Persons present at the Transactions.
‘Fourth’ English edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Very attractive contemporary
speckled calf, morocco label to spines. [ii], [iv], 354; [ii], 406, [21], [3]ads.
pp. London, D. Winter [&c.], 1741.
F R EE M A N (Dr. W.H. after)
Needham’s Point, Garrison Burial Ground and the
Town and Harbour of Bridgetown, Barbados.
Sepia tinted lithograph measuring 345 by 595mm. Some chips and tears
to margin not affecting image. London, Day & Son, 1853.
This handsome sepia tinted lithograph shows the Point, with the British fleet
in the harbor, and an inset of the HMS Dauntless below. In reality the print
is a memorial to a tragedy. Dauntless was an experimental vessel, originally
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intended as a paddle steamer, then lengthened for screw propulsion, not
completely successful in either configuration. In 1852, she was sent to the
West Indies, where many of her crew died during an outbreak of Yellow fever.
For this reason the burial ground is marked on the print, and the names of
sixty-eight deceased crewmen are printed beneath.
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LAWN TENNIS IN BERMUDA
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L U S H E R (N.E.) et al. [B E R M U DA P H OTO G R A P H S ]
A Bermuda Photograph Album dating from the 1870s and early 1880s,
containing 46 images of Bermuda with 6 further views of elsewhere
(3 of a miltary train in Africa).
The majority measuring 7 by 5 inches & smaller. c.1878.
This is a good collection of Bermuda photographs, several depicting costumes
for a fancy dress pageant with some topography, some nautical and some
street scenes, etc.
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A N E X T R AO R D I N A RY P U B L I CAT I O N
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M AU D S L AY ( Alfred P.)
25000
Biologia Centrali-Americani... Archaeology... Plates...
[With] MAUNDSLAY (Alfred P.) A Note on the Position and Extent of
the great temple Enclosure of Tenochititlan and the position, structure
and orientation of teocalli of Huitzilopochtli.
First edition. 18 vols. (2 text + 16 altas). 404 plates, mostly autotypes,
some tinted & some coloured lithographs. Large oblong folio. lightly
rubbed. Text in modern cloth, atlases in original printed boards,
rebacked, some marginal annotations in red pencil, most folding plates
repaired at fold, some small marginal tear not affecting images. London,
1889 – 1912.
One of the great monuments in the history of Mayan studies: Alfred
Maudslay’s photographs and drawings of a number of the major Mayan
sites such as Quirigua, Copan, Chjichen Itza, Palenque and Yaxchiland, were
executed during his explorations in Central America between 1881 and 1900.
Maudslay’s work was published as part of the Biologia Centrali-Americana
edited by Frederick DuCane Goldman and Osbert Salvin. Most of that
massive set is devoted to natural history, and Maudslay’s work was added
almost as an afterthought.
Maudslay, an archaeologist, was fascinated by the Mayan ruins and set
himself the task of recording the architecture and monuments. He worked
with a large wet-plate camera, developing his photographs on the spot. He
also made extensive casts. In London, he hired an artist, Miss Annie Hunter,
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to draw accurate lithographic plates from his photographs and casts. The
result is this stunning series of plates. Michael Coe says, “It is impossible to
exaggerate the importance to Maya research of Maudslay’s published work.
For the first time, Maya epigraphers had large-scale, incredibly accurate
illustrations of complete Classic Text...” (Breaking the Maya Code). Coe also
credits Maudslay with being the greatest recorder of Mayan inscriptions.
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TAY L O R (Dr. Charles Edwin).
An Island in the Sea.
Descriptive of the Past and Present of St. Thomas Danish West Indies.
First edition. Frontispiece & ten plates. 8vo. A very good copy in the
original plum pictorial cloth, gilt, a.e.g., extremities slightly rubbed. 120,
[6ads]pp. St Thomas, 1895.
An interesting account of St. Thomas, published just prior to its transfer from
Danish to US control.
A prominent member of the expat community in St. Thomas, Taylor’s work
begins with a general history, before providing an overview of the island at
the time of writing. The last, and largest, section of the work is devoted to
“Short Stories about Bluebeard’s and Blackbeard’s Castles.”
The six pages of advertisements at the rear provide much additional insight
into the sort of commercial activity present on the island.
750
[ W E S T I N D I E S ] C O R B E T T (Sir John).
4750
Fifteen views of the Caribbean including “From Sir Robert
Schomburgk’s House, St Domingo, 1855”; “Channel of Regina, St
Domingo”; “Panorama of San Domingo from Consul House, Wolverene
at anchor, 1855”; “H.M.S. Wolverene hove down for repairs in Bermuda
Harbour, 1855”; “Church at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1854”; “H.M.S.
Wolverene off Sacrificios Island; Sacrificios Island, 1854”; “Vera Cruz
from Sacrificios Island”; and “H.M.S Bermuda wrecked on the Grand
Caicos, W. Indies, 1855”.
Watercolours on paper measuring 255 by 355mm and smaller. Three
signed “J Corbett”. Bermuda, St Domingo, Jamaica et al, 1854 - 1855.
A wonderful group of watercolours illustrating life in the Caribbean during
the mid-nineteenth century. Newly promoted to the rank of Commander,
Corbett took charge of the Contract Mail ship Wolverine in the Caribbean
where these watercolours were executed. The ship was wrecked in 1855.
In a four decade career in the Royal Navy, John Corbett served variously
in the Mediterranean, West Africa (where he was wounded in action at
Lagos in 1851), the Caribbean and the Far East. He found himself on the
HMS Inflexible during the Second Opium War (1855-60) and witnessed the
destruction of Chinese war-boats at Tuoung Konan and of the Fatshan flotilla.
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[ A M E R I CA N V I T I C U LT U R E ] B U L L (Ephraim Wales).
The Concord Grape.
Folio broadside (502 x 356mm), printed ornamental border containing
an image of a large bunch of grapes above and between four columns
of text. Laid down neatly on later card (some very light browning and
a little damp staining to the upper part of the sheet). Concord, Mass,
March, 1859. 1750
A scarce broadside advertising - and celebrating - the most iconic of all
American grapes.
Although numerous types of grapes had flourished in American soil none of
them had ever proved resilient enough to survive the cold climates of New
England. Bull, who was a gold beater and amateur horticulturalist, had long
experimented with different types of vine in the New England area but it
was not until he moved to a house in Concord in 1836 that he noticed the
eponymous fruit beginning to flourish in his garden. The possibly apocryphal
story is that young boys returning from playing in the Concord River had
scattered various seeds in the area and this had resulted in a fortuitous cross
pollination and a resulting hardier grape.
This handsome broadside advertises the sale of Bull’s own Concord vines
and is a valuable document of American viticulture and the (greatly unsung)
achievement of Bull to produce a grape that would go on to become hugely
popular.
Either side of the image of the grapes is a list of the superior qualities of
the Concord grape including the boast that it appears “four weeks earlier
than the Isabella’ and about two weeks earlier than the Diana”; the text
also states that the grape is “an inch in diameter” with a “very dark” colour
and “soft, tender and juicy” flesh. The appearance of the Concord grape has
become synonymous with the grape itself in America and Thomas Pinney
has suggested that it is “by far the most popular and widely planted grape
ever introduced in this country, the Concord still defines ‘grape’ for most
Americans” (Pinney, A History of Wine in America from the Beginnings to
Prohibition, Vol. 1, p.212).
The middle section of the broadside reproduces the testimonies of various
horticulturalists and horticultural publications which attest to the superior
taste and hardy nature; put simply, by the Horticulturalist, the Concord grape
is described as “large, handsome and excellent.”
The bottom section of the sheet supplies Bull’s contact details and an offer
of “greatly reduced prices” and “liberal” discounts for trade supplies. Bull
promises that all plants will be “carefully packed in moss and delivered in
Boston free of charge”. Bull’s reasonably priced vines were quickly purchased
by competing growers and meant that he saw little profit from his venture, his
epitaph sadly stated: “He Sowed Others Reaped”.
Not recorded in OCLC, Amerine & Borg or Gabler.
10 6
1750
AU T H O R ’ S P R E S EN TAT I O N C O PY
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A N S T E D (David Thomas.)
The Gold-Seeker’s Manual; Being a practical and instructive guide to all
persons emigrating to the newly discovered gold regions of California.
Second (and best) edition. 8vo. Original cloth, paper labels to spine and
upper board, some minor staining, library stamp to title page. [iv], 172,
[6ads (dated June 1848)]pp. London, John Van Voorst, 1849. 1250
A near fine copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Miss Clara Ansted
- with the author’s love and thanks for her help in the preparation of this
book.” Clara Ansted was almost certainly the author’s sister. He married
Augusta Baillie in 1848.
Published in the same year as the first edition, this is nearly twice the length
with the extra material being devoted to the California gold rush. It was
regarded as “the standard authority of the time” (Cowan).
“The concluding chapter described California’s prospects as a gold-producing
country and promoted the gold discovery as a grand opportunity for English
manufacturers” (Kurutz). Cowan, p.17; Howes, A286; Kurutz, 19b; Sabin,
1647; Wheat Gold Rush, 5.
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B EVE R L E Y (Robert).
2750
The History of Virginia in Four Parts.
The History of the First settlement of Virginia, and the Government
thereof for the Year 1706. II. The natural productions and Conveniencies
of the Country suited to Trade and Improvement. III. The Native Indians,
their Religion, Laws and Customs in war and Peace. IV The present
State of the Country, as to the Polity of the Government, and of the
Improvements of the Land, the 10th of June 1720.
Second English edition, “revised and enlarged”. 8vo. Engraved half title
and 14 engraved plates. Early nineteenth century russia, repaired. [8],
284, [28]pp. London, Fayram & Clarke, 1722. 2750
First published in London in 1705, the first French edition appeared in Paris
in 1707. Although technically the second account of the history of the colony,
Beverley’s work was the first history of Virginia to be published by a native
and is considered to be “the best contemporary record of its aboriginal tribes
and of the life of its early settlers” (Howes). Sabin, 5113; Howes, H410; cf.
Field, 122; cf. Streeter II, 1098.
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A FA M O U S C L A S S I C O F S H I P W R E C K N A R R AT I VE S
& I N D I A N CA P T I V I T I E S
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D I C KEN S O N (Johnathan).
16000
God’s Protecting Providence, Man’s surest help and defence in times
of the greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger. Evidenced in the
remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons,
from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered
shipwrack [sic]: and also the cruel devouring jaws of the inhumane
cannibals of Florida.
Second edition. Small 8vo. Late nineteenth century speckled calf, with red
morocco label to spine. [10], 89pp. London, T. Sowle, 1700.
The exceedingly rare second edition, following the unobtainable Philadelphia
1699 edition, of this important Florida captivity narrative. “The author was
a Quaker merchant who, with his wife and young son, together with Robert
Barrow, a Quaker missionary, and others aboard the ship Reformation, were
cast ashore in August, 1696, during a trip from Port Royal to Philadelphia. The
party was seized by Indians near Jupiter Island, robbed of their possessions,
but allowed to make their way on foot to St. Augustine, 200 miles distant.
They were befriended by the Spaniards who sent them on their way to
Charleston” (Servies). The journal ends with the death of Robert Barrow after
the group’s arrival at Philadelphia. “This book has more literary merit than
most of the travel accounts of the period... The author gives a clear account
of the Indians of Florida and their customs, describes the city of St. Augustine
and its fortifications, and gives one of the best accounts we have of the coast
from St. Augustine to Charleston” (Clark).
There are two issues of this London 1700, edition - one with 89 pages (as
here), to which Vail gives priority, and another with 85. Of the Philadelphia
1699 edition (and this London edition as well) of Dickenson’s narrative, Field
says “it is certainly one of the rarest gems of the book collector. A perfect copy
would be eagerly seized by half a score of this class at any price... The second
edition is almost equally rare, at least I have never seen, or indeed known of
a copy.” “This edition of this popular Indian captivity is almost as rare as the
first edition” (Streeter). The Siebert copy fetched $26,000 (plus premium) in
1999. Rare and highly desirable. Vail, 284; European Americana, 700/79;
Sabin, 20015; Clark I, 73; Howes, D317b; Streeter, 1176; cf. Field, 427;
Servies, 237; Wing, D1390.
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F O RC E (Peter).
Declaration of Independence.
Broadside, framed & glazed. Measuring approx. 750 by 640mm.
Washington, D.C.: St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1843.
The most accurate and beautiful early printing of the founding document of
the United States.
The original copper plate for this printing was created in 1823 by William
Stone under the sponsorship of the Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. In
1843 Peter Force reused the plate to produce this printing of the Declaration
as part of his American Archives which published, often for the first time,
texts from the founding of the nation.
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[ F R A NK L I N (Benjamin), printer] L AW (William).
An Extract from a Treatise by William Law, M.A. called
The Spirit of Prayer; or, The Soul Rising out of the Vanity of Time, into
the Riches of Eternity...
First edition. 12mo. Nineetenth century half morocco, gilt. 48pp.
Philadelphia, B. Franklin & D. Hall, 1760. A crisp copy of this Franklin printing. Evans, 8633; Miller, 731.
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L O N G (John).
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Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader
First edition. Folding engraved map. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt spine,
rubbed, some offsetting to map. [ii], x, [ii], 295pp. London, printed for
the author, 1791.
A lovely copy. Long spent nineteen years working as a fur trapper and trader
for the Hudson’s Bay Company. He dealt closely with the Indians and his
account is replete with information on their customs and manners.
Field was an admirer of his work: “His knowledge of the character, customs,
and domestic life of the Indians was therefore the most thorough and intimate.
His relations are characterized by candor and intelligence.” The work includes
a Chippewa Indian vocabulary and the map records the southern part of the
country where it meets the Great Lakes. Field, 946; Howes, 443; Sabin,41878.
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M O RS E (Dr John F.) & C O LV I L L E (Samuel).
Illustrated Historical Sketches of California with a minute history
of Sacramento Valley together with an appendix of general views.
Number 1 (all published). Frontispiece, 8vo. Original printed, pictorial
wrappers. iv, 5-46, 8pp. Sacramento, John Hand, March, 1854.
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Coffin [Coffyn] American Consul... 4th September Captn Richard Pearcy of
the Hound sloop of Warr of 18 guns [actually 16] his officers & seven men
came to Prinson this day with seven men with Capt Duncan of Alert London
and Captn Belfour of the Nancy of Londonderry, sunk off Stald Land. Capt
Symon Doets of Horn Holland & Lieut Alexander Jn Augustus Westervelt
of the Flora Schooner 10 guns taken of Scilly by 7 F[rench] Frigates were in
Prison when we arrived.”
Braidy has written 40 lines on two pages detailing the fates of 12 ships some
“sunk” or “scuttled” and the names of their masters. He also writes on the
rear free endpaper: “Wrote to N.York 23rd Augt 1794 by Capt Glover/ Captn
Park.”
It was a difficult time for American sailors, even though the American
Consul, Francis Coffyn, had worked actively on the behalf of the U.S. Navy
and was highly regarded by Benjamin Franklin and Gouveneur Morris, the
Ambassador to France. Coffyn’s efforts may have been in vain as Morris had
refused to interfere on behalf of American sailors serving on British ships,
feeling that while doing so they had forfeited the protection of the United
States.
No copies on OCLC, COPAC or ESTC. Murray was killed in 1785 and this
is the only edition of his popular work to have been printed in the author’s
lifetime. It was reprinted twice in London in 1793 and in Berwick in 1803 and
1805. Edwards Lester, C.; Our First One Hundred Years... vol 1, p449. 1877.
A lovely copy of this rare, early California imprint.
Born in Vermont, Morse completed his medical degree at the University of
the City of New York in 1844. He immediately set up practice in Brooklyn
and was a founding member of the Plymouth Church. Ill health forced him
abroad just two years later and he set sail for Panama. Returning to the
US, he disembarked at Sacremento and, following an attempt at mining, he
became a vital member of the Sacramento community. He was a member
of the Oddfellows Relief Association of Sacramento and helped establish its
first hospital in 1849. Morse served as Secretary of its Board of Trustees and
was the first to inaugurate health insurance in California. Beginning in 1851,
he served for a year as editor on the Sacremento Union before returning to
practise medicine. He eventually moved to San Francisco, taking up a position
on the faculty of Toland Medical College before being appointed Professor of
medicine at the University of the Pacific, the forerunner to Stanford, in 1874.
T H E O N LY KN OW N C O PY O F T H E F I RS T E D I T I O N
W I T H M S . N OT E S B Y A N A M E R I CA N SA I L O R CA P T U R E D
B Y A F R EN C H C O RSA I R 1 7 9 4
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M U R R AY (Alexander).
An Easy English Grammar for the use of Schools. In Three Parts.
First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, with blindstamped border, ms.
ownership inscription “Jno K. Murray” to title and ms. annotations
to front pastedown & free endpapers, slightly browned with some pale
dampstaining. viii, 169, [3], 12pp. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, T. Angus for
the Author, 1784.
A fascinating copy of an exceedingly rare work.
Relations between the U.S., Britain and France were uneasy in 1794. The latter
being “irritated because she could not sway us from our policy of neutrality
and non-intervention, her vessels commenced a series of depredations upon
American commerce. Wherever her cruisers encountered our ships, they were
overhauled or captured; and causes were in operations to start a war with our
only Revolutionary war ally” (Edwards Lester).
This copy was owned by an American sailor, George Braidy, who was captured
by a French Corsair, the Poisson Volant, and imprisoned in Dunkirk. We don’t
know whether Braidy was serving on an American ship or was perhaps a
volunteer on a British one. His notes detail his capture as well as that of other
ships:
“Taken by the Poisson Volant, Capt. Thurot at 5am Sunday morning Augst
10 -1794. Mr Routier / Mr Icard / Mr Cary Lieutents” [sic]. Braidy list
the names of four shipmates “on Bd the Cutter with me” and two “left on
Bd”. Ten days later, he writes “Came to Anchor in Dunkirk Roads & next
morning Thursday ye 21st went onshore to Prison sent a few lines to Mr
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[ NE W YO R K ] S C OT T (John Morin).
Deed of Partition of a Tract of 10,200 Acres of Land to the Eastward
of Fort Edward in Charlotte County.
Manuscript on vellum measuring 645 by 790mm. Folio. Folded, with
small ms. map (240 by 440mm) of the area attached, signed by both
Scott & Kempe, housed in a quarter morocco drop back box, gilt.
[New York], 19 July, 1773.
An early deed relating to Charlotte County, which was established the year
prior. In 1784 it was renamed Washington county in honour of the first
President. The deed is signed by both John Morin Scott and John Tabor
Kempe. Manhattan born, John Morin Scott was a lawyer, military officer
and, later, politician. He studied at Yale and served in the Revolutionary war
under George Washington in the New York and New Jersey campaign. He
fought at the Battle of Brooklyn and was reputedly the last to argue against
the surrender of Manhattan to the British - possibly due to his large property
holdings on the island. In 1777, he was elected to the New York Senate and
became the New York Secretary of State in 1778, an office he held until his
death in 1784.
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T H E F I RS T P U B L I S H E D B O O K B Y A N
A M E R I CA N I N D I A N
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O C C U M (Samson).
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A Sermon, Preached at the E X E C U T I O N of Moses Paul,
An I N D I A N , Who was executed at New Haven, on the 2nd of
September 1772, F O R T H E M U R D E R O F M r M O S E S C O O K ...
First edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, small tear to rear wrapper
affecting five lines of text, faint contemporary ownership inscription to
front wrapper. 24pp. New London, T. Green, 1772.
The scarce first edition with the page long biography of Moses Paul on the rear
wrapper. This was an immensely popular publication which went through 19
separate editions published in the US and England between 1772 and 1827.
Occum (1723-92) was a Mohegan who spent four years studying under Eleazer
Wheelock and was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in August 1759.
Despite enduring an inequality of wage with his white colleagues, along with
Nathaniel Whittaker, Occum travelled to England in 1766 to raise funds for
Wheelock’s church, where he gave around 350 sermons and raised £12,000.
Upon his return, he fell out with Whittaker learning that he’d broken his
promise to care for Occum’s family in his absence. However, he still remained
active as a clergyman and founded the Brothertown Indian tribe in New
York, which was the first to relinquish their tribal sovereignty and accept US
citizenship. The tribe later moved to Wisconsin where it still exists today. Two
years later, Occum followed this publication with a pamphlet of Songs and
Hymns and also produced a ten page manuscript account of his life.
There was plenty of interest in the case of a white man being murdered by an
Indian, not least as Paul was the first criminal to be executed in New Haven
since 1749. Paul invited Occum to deliver the execution sermon, making this
the first execution sermon preached by a Native American. As a result, the
large crowd was as interested in Occum’s sermon as it was in the execution
itself.
Occum is seemingly aware of the significance of this publication. In the
preface he compares his own writing style to that of other published sermons,
“it is common, plain, every-day talk - little children may understand it; poor
Negroes may plainly and fully understand my meaning... Again, it may in a
particular manner be serviceable to my poor kindred Indians - as it comes
from an uncommon quarter, it may induce people to read it because it is
from an Indian.” Evans, 12493; Sabin, 56635; Connecticut Journal and New
Haven Post Boy, 4 September 1772.
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S M I T H (WIlliam).
The History of the Province of New York from the First Discovery to
the Year M.DCC.XXXII. To which is annexed, A Description of the
Country, with a short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious
and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in that
Colony.
First edition. Folding frontispiece. 4to. Later red morocco, spine gilt. xii,
255pp. London, Thomas Wilcox, 1757.
“Within the period subsequent to the English Revolution, Smith is still without a successful rival. This work ranks with Smith’s Virginia and Hutchinson’s
Massachusetts as one of the worthiest examples of historical literature produced in later colonial times” (Larnard).
Smith, a distinguished lawyer and Chief Justice of New York, supported the
Loyalist cause during the American Revolution and was forced to move to
Canada at its conclusion, taking up the same post there. His history of the colony as published here only ran to 1736, however he anticipated some of the
events of the 1754-1760 war, some of which were taking place as he wrote.
The plate bound as a frontispiece is an engraved view of Oswego on Lake
Ontario. Sabin, 84566; Church, 1023; Howes, S703; Larnard, 1109.
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S H I P B OA R D P R I N T I N G :
T H E B AT T L E O F M A N I L A B AY
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[ S PA N I S H - A M E R I CA N WA R ]
The Bounding Billow: Published in the Interests of American
Men-o’-Warsmen.
Vol 1, No.5. Coloured illustration to title. Small 4to. Ownership
inscription to top of title page, small tear to title page not effecting text.
16pp. Manila on board the U.S.F.S. Olympia, June, 1898.
Rare shipboard printing. This the first issue of The Bounding Billow printed
after the Battle of Manila Bay. The crew of the U.S.F.S. Olympia used paper
left behind by the Spanish Army. Indeed, page 9 is printed over the letterhead
of the Arsenal de Cavite. The map on the final page was produced by shipmate
L. C. Pasano and is hailed in the publication: “who with indomitable energy
and a couple of sail needles, made it after a number of failures... Without a
doubt it is the first thing of the kind done on a man-o’-war, and taking into
consideration the difficulties under which our artist labored, it can pose as a
work of art.”
The entire issue is devoted to the battle and includes not only a lengthy
account, but reports congratulatory telegrams from the President and “naval
authorities in Washington” and devotes a full page to a translation from the
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Diario de Manila, May 4th, 1898.
Interestingly, there is a sonnet titled “Mason of Illinois” on page 12. Mason
initally came out in favour of the war (an important Republican vote in
line with the pressure the Democrats were exerting on a reluctant President
McKinley), though a year later changed his tune due to concerns that the
ongoing hostilities were becoming an example of American Imperialism.
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T H O M S O N (Charles).
An Enquiry into the Causes of the Alienation of the Delaware and
Shawanese Indians from the British Interest, and into the measures
taken for recovering their Friendship. Extracted from the Public Treaties,
and other Authentic Papers...Together with the remarkable journal of
Christian Frederick Post, by whose negotiation, among the Indians of
the Ohio, they were withdrawn from the Interest of the French, who
thereupon abandoned the Fort and Country. With notes by the editor
explaining sundry Indian Customs &c. Written in Pennsylvania.
First edition. Folding engraved map. 8vo. Uncut in modern half morocco
contained in a chemise & half morocco slip case. 184pp. London, J.
Wilkie, 1759.
“The Journal of Christian Frederick Post, in his Journey from Philadelphia
to the Ohio, a Message from the Government of Pennsylvania to the
Delaware, Shawanese and Mingo Indians settled there, and formerly in
alliance with the English” beginning on the 15th July 1758, occupies some
fifty pages of this work. Indeed it is a remarkable account of a man who
was held as a most trusted figure by the Indians, a linguist and former
missionary.
This work supposedly written at the behest of Benjamin Franklin was
assembled partly to discredit the rapacious land dealings of the Proprietary
government of Pennsylvania. Thomson was another sympathetic too, and
trusted by the Indian Nations and was chosen by them as recorder and
representative during the deliberations surrounding the Treaty of Easton
(1757). His most famous contribution to history was as the secretary of the
Continental Congress during the earliest days of the independence. Vail, 515;
Field, 1548; Sabin, 95562; Streeter, 2, 966.
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A M E R I CA N W H A L E RS I N F R A N C E
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[WHALING]
Pêche Francaise de la Baleine dans le Mers du Sud, en 1829.
Offprint from Le Navigateur, journal des naufrages et de autres evenements
nautiques. September 1829. Frontispiece & a folding lithograph plate. 8vo.
Fine in quarter calf over old marbled boards, spine gilt. [ii], 56pp, Havre,
Hue, 1829.
A crisp, clean copy of this rare offprint. The work includes the two relevant
plates from the original publication of Le Navigateur, a journal which is only
held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The frontispiece illustrates the
Cachelot and Baleine Franche whales. The folding plate, Peche de la Baleine,
is by Brochy after Precourt and depicts a whaling scene.
The timing of this publication is interesting. In December 1829, the French
government sought to encourage whaling by awarding each ship bound for
the northern seas 90 francs per man and those that travelled further afield
180 francs per man, regardless of their catch. It’s only too likely that this
offprint was issued as a result of this ordnance.
Much of the information in this article is drawn from the accounts of M.
Venard and M. Descarrieres captains of the Franco-American whalers George
and Albert and the l’Entreprise. The work includes a description of different types of whales, discusses migration routes (referencing the North-West
Passage) and natural enemies (the killer whale and sharks), harpooning techniques, mooring dead whales, and the importance of having a surgeon on
board. The author is clearly concerned about safety on board and much of
the material relates to this.
However, of real interest is the account of tensions onboard the ships between
the French and American sailors - the French were upset by what they perceived as breaches of protocol by American sailors and their lack of formal
training. The Americans in turn aggrieved by the unsympathetic attitude of
the French and this quickly led to a violent confrontation. The matters were
brought to a naval tribunal on the return to France which saw the vindication
of the American complaints. This did not, however, prevent a second voyage
departing almost immediately. Almost certainly, these whalers were a part
of the fleet first established by William Roch, Sr at Dunkirk. His South Sea
Fishery routinely sent whalers into the Southern Atlantic and, by the time
of publication, the South Pacific. This work also discusses the effect of the
Revolutionary War on whaling. Information on the Franco-American whaling fleet is rare.
We have only been able to locate two copies at the Bibliotheque Nationale de
France and the University of Glasgow.
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and
T h e P ol e s
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[ALASKA]
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Catholic Prayers and Hymns in the Tinneh Language [Bound with]
Tinneh Indian Catechism of Christian doctrine.
Square 16mo. 39, 22pp. Bound in original limp floral cloth. Indian Boys’
Press, Holy Cross Mission Kosoreffski, Alaska, 1897.
“These two books are the only ones listed in the imprints catalogue at the
New York Public Library as printed at Holy Cross, on the west side of the
Yukon near the mouth of the Kosoreffski River, and are the earliest listed
under any of the towns on the Seward Peninsula. A letter from Frederick R.
Goff of 13 June 1951 [not included] says that the order of printing of the two
is not known. - TWS” (Streeter). Both of the copies at the Beinecke and Lilly
Libraries are bound thus. Wickersham, 1047 & 1046; Streeter, 3569.
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A M UN D S EN (R.)
The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition
in the “Fram”, 1910-1912.
First English edition. 2 vols. 21 maps and charts, 136 illustrations. 8vo.
Original red cloth, gilt, with the Norwegian flag on the backs and upper
covers, a very good copy. xxxv, 392; x, 449pp. London, 1912.
“Amundsen’s modest account of his extraordinary South Pole exploit is a
classic in exploration literature” (Rosove). Rosove, 9.A1; Spence, 16.
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P L A N S F O R A FU RT H E R E X P E D I T I O N
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B E RT R A M (G.C.L.)
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Plans for a new expedition to West Antarctica
(to be organised and led by G.C.L. Betram).
Typescript. 3pp. Folio. Map coloured and annotated by Bertram.
13 October, 1938.
[Plus] RYMILL (John). Southern Lights. The Official Account of the
British Graham Land Expedition, 1934-37. 4to. Original green cloth, TLS
signed by Rymill on British Graham Land Expedition stationery pinned
to front free endpaper. xvi, 296pp. London, Chatto & Windus, 1938.
As the results of the scientific data from the British Graham Land Expedition,
1934-37, were being interpreted, Betram wrote to Captain Christopher
Browne suggesting they meet to discuss plans for a further expedition. Bertram
estimated that only a third of the coastline of the Falkland Islands sector was
known at that time and so proposed a further expedition to address this.
“The object of the expedition here planned is to extend the present
fragmentary knowledge of the Dependencies by means of exploratory
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survey journeys from a base in the southern part of Marguerite Bay ... The
present case is almost unique in antarctic [sic] history in that there is a great
amount of local knowledge available that will enormously facilitate further
exploration, yet at the same time the geographical field is scarcely limited by
what is already known. The efforts of the B.G.L.E. 1934-37 may be looked
upon as the preliminary reconnaissance to which the work here planned is the
logical sequel. In brief the plan of action would be by means of a small diesel
vessel to transport stores and personnel to the southern part of Marguerite
Bay on the west cost of Graham Land, and there erect a base. From this point
... surveys would be pushed to the eastward (beginning by a known route)
and then north and south along the shores of the Weddell Sea, and by way of
King George IV Sound, the western cost of the sector would be followed and
the main mass of the interior penetrated.”
The document proceeds to explain the proposal in detail with sections
including “Leadership and opportunities”, “Transport” (ship, plane and
dogs), “Time” (ie duration of the expedition), “Location of the Southern
Base”. The accompanying map clarifies the proposal neatly. The expedition
was never attempted, not least because of the looming Second World War.
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[ B R I T I S H A N TA RC T I C E X P E D I T I O N , 1 9 1 0 - 1 3 ]
Cruet set from the Terra Nova.
Silver plated cruet set, on three raised ball feet & cut glass fitments,
with the stamped device of the British Antarctic Expedition, Terra Nova,
RYS, with a mustard spoon and salt spoon both engraved BAETN RYS.
Sheffield, Walker & Hall, c. 1910.
From the collection of Edward A. McKenzie, stoker aboard the Terra Nova. A
set very similar in appearance is visible upon Captain Scott’s table in Ponting’s
famous photograph of the mid-Winter’s day dinner celebration. It was kindly
presented to McKenzie by Lady Scott to illustrate lectures that he gave on his
return from the Pole.
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[ B R I T I S H A RC T I C E X P L O R AT I O N , 1 8 7 5 - 7 6 ]
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[ N A R E S (Capt. George S.)] A Copeland Dinner plate.
Measuring 9 inches diameter. Rope border with expedition crest in the
centre, stamped “Discovery” on the verso. London?, 1875.
A fine example of the expedition’s crockery.
Nares was recalled from H.M.S. Challenger on arrival at Hong Kong in 1874
to lead the British Government’s Arctic expedition, the aim of which was to
reach the Pole by way of Smith Sound. The expedition was equipped with
two ships Alert and Discovery and, though unsuccessful, on May 12, 1876,
a sledging part led by Albert Hastings Markham reached a latitude of 83°
20’26”N, which was a record at that time.
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L I Z A RS (W.) & (D.) after A N D E RS O N (Amilia).
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John Sakeouse “A native of Jacob Sound, Greenland,
the first Esquimaux known to have been in this country.”
Engraved broadside. Sheet measuring approx 310 by 265mm.
Edinburgh, 1816.
A remarkable survival in fine condition.
A native of Disco Bay, Greenland, at the age of 18 John Sakeouse persuaded
Captain Newton (of the Thomas and Anne) to take him to Edinburgh. They
arrived in Leith in August 1816 and Sakeouse soon astonished locals with a
demonstration of his kayak skills.
His fame spread and he was recruited by Captain John Ross as an interpreter
on his expedition in search of the North West Passage. It is from him that we
know the Inuit thought that the European ships were live creatures whose
sails were actually wings and Ross mentioned him favourably in his account.
Sadly, before he could assist on further expeditions Sakeous contracted
typhoid and passed away in February 1819.
[ L OVE (Mary)]
A Peep at the Esquimaux; or Scene on the Ice To which is annexed,
A polar Pastoral.
With forty coloured plates, from original Designs. By a Lady.
Second Edition. 40 hand coloured illustrations 12mo. Original dark red
backed marbled boards. viii, 58, [4]ads.pp. London, 1828.
A very good copy of this popular work, being a collection of linked poems
interleaved with lovely woodcuts depicting eskimo life. The first edition was
published in 1825, subsequent editions appeared in 1830 and 1833.
PA R RY (William Edward).
Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821, 1822 and
23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla... First edition. 40 engraved
maps, charts & views. 4to. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with
contemporary-style end papers. [viii], xxx, 571pp. London, 1824.
Inscribed: “Thomas Martyn Esq., With the Author’s kind regards”.
Parry had already sailed to the Arctic with Ross before setting out on the first
of his three voyages, during which he discovered Melville Island and made
extensive meteorological observations. On this his second voyage Parry was
iced up, as before, for several months and was therefore able to make various
land excursions, during which he made an extensive study of the eskimos and
their life - well illustrated in the plates. Sabin, 58861; Hill, 1312.
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S C O R E S B Y (William, Jnr.)
Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including
Researches and Discoveries on the eastern Coast of west Greenland,
made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool.
First edition. One large & one other folding map, & 6 engraved plates
(2 folding), with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Contemporary half
calf marbled boards, upper joint repaired, occasional very light browning
(as usual), with the distinctive library stamp of Rudmose-Brown on the
front paste-down. xliv, 472pp. Edinburgh, 1823.
An important whaling account, from a polar library. Scoresby set out for
the fishing grounds in the Baffin, a ship of some 321 tons ordered by him
specifically for whaling, with the object of surveying the coast in addition to
harpooning. The resultant new charts he hoped would enable ships to pursue
the whales all the more successfully. Sabin, 78171.
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RU D M O S E - B ROW N ’ S C O PY
S C OT T (Capt. R.F.)
Scott’s Last Expedition.
Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O. Vol. II.
Being the Reports of the Journeys & the Scientific Work undertaken by
Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition.
First edition. 2 vols. Numerous plates, including 8 photogravures &
18 coloured plates, with numerous maps, panoramas & illustrations in
the text. 8vo. Very fine cloth, gilt. t.e.g. xxvi, 633, [2]ads.; xvi, 534pp.
London, 1913.
[With] SCOTT (Capt R.F.) ALS thanking donors for their contribution
to the B.A.E. Single sheet on expedition stationery. London, 7 October,
1909. [And] OATES (L.E.S.). ALS to his mother. 2pp. 8vo. 16 November,
1907. [And] BOWERS (Henry R.). ALS to Messrs & Co. enquiring
after employment. 28 July, 1899. [Plus] WILSON (Dr. Edward A.). ALS
regarding Emperor penguin eggs. Hertfordshire, 17 July, 1905.
A wonderful group including one of the best copies of Scott’s Last Expedition
that we have handled along with autograph letters by four of the five members
of the Polar Party.
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[ S C OT T (Robert Falcon).]
The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
8vo. Limp black morocco, “ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION TERRA
NOVA 1910” gilt to upper cover. Oxford University Press, c. 1910.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Captain Scott, RN on his leaving New
Zealand Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition Nov. 1910. - with every kind wish
from A.R. Falconer Sailor’s Missionary, Dunedin. John 3:16.”
The Terra Nova stopped at Dunedin to refuel, take on provisions as well as
the remaining members of the crew. It departed on November 29, 1910. We
do not know if everyone was given a bible, however Levick, Abbott and Oates
all received one.
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[ S C OT T ’ S F I RS T E X P E D I T I O N ] S H AC K L E TO N (Sir Ernest).
Royal Terror Theatre August 6th 1902 Dishcover Minstrel Troupe,
Programme.
A single vertically folded quarto sheet, printed in blue, the recto a
pictorial title, the verso a list of cast and songs. A duplicated ephemerum
printed in the Antarctic. The Discovery, 1902.
An excessively rare printed survival from Scott’s first expedition. We are
aware that a copy of this piece also exists at SPRI, but it is doubtful whether
another has survived.
The evenings entertainment, which began at 7.30 consisted of thirteen solos
and four choral efforts, only one officer took part (Lt. Royds who sang “De
Ole Umbrella”). There is a photograph of the evening in the “Voyage of the
Discovery”, and though of course Minstrel Shows were a common feature of
entertainment at the time, nevertheless it is difficult to imagine a more bizarre
evening. The South Polar Times records a number of “witty quips” which
featured during the entertainment.
This example was given by Shackleton, who was editor of the South Polar
Times at its inception, when on his early return from the expedition to the
Paterson family from whose album it originates (it was separated from this
album by an auction house).
For an excellent survey of Polar printing in general but particularly of the
Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions see Ann Savours’s introduction to
Volume 4 of the South Polar Times 2010.
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S H AC K L E TO N (Sir Ernest).
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“L’Envoi to the South Polar Times”
Autograph manuscript poem signed and dated March 1904, written
out for the Paterson sisters and with significant differences from the
published version, together with a telegram from Shackleton to the
Paterson sisters, “Discovery and relief ships safe Shackleton”, April
1904 & a photograph of Shackleton in the Antarctic and another of the
Discovery amongst ice.
[PLUS] A piece of rock from the summit of
Mount Hope situated at the foot of the Beardmore Glacier, Ross
Ice Shelf, Antarctica, cased in silver metal and with a plaque inscribed,
“Summit Mount Hope 2785 Feet Lat. 83º 33s Long. 170º E”, [1908].
“L’Envoi to the South Polar Times” was originally published in The South
Polar Times in 1903. Shackleton served as the editor and many of the
illustrations were provided by junior surgeon, Dr Edward Wilson. Here, it is
written out by Shackleton with several differences from the published version.
Shackleton must have met the Paterson family en route to England after being
invalided out of the National Antarctic Expedition in 1903. They obviously
got on well as the subsequent telegram (included here) reporting the safe
arrival of the Discovery and piece of rock from the summit of Mount Hope
establishes. Mount Hope was so named as from its summit they could see the
Beardmore Glacier and their way to the South Pole.
P R E S EN TAT I O N C O PY TO B O RS H G R EV I NK
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S L O C U M (Captain Joshua).
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Sailing Alone Around the World.
Second edition. Numerous illustrations. 8vo. Bound in modern full
green morocco, gilt & blindstamped, in a custom cloth dropback box,
duplicating the design of the original cover. xviii, 294pp.
New York, 1901.
The free endpaper bears the inscription “To C.E. Borshgrevink Commander
of the British Antarctic Expedition with Admiration and Respect. Joshua
Slocum master of the Spray New York Feb 18th 1902.”
Captain Slocum set out from Boston in his small sloop Spray on 24th April,
1895, at the age of 5, and after a passage of 46,000 miles returned to Newport
Rhode Island on 27th June, 1898, thereby becoming the first person to sail
around the world single-handed.
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A F I RS T A RC T I C W I N T E R I N G
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VEE R (Gerrit de).
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Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione
nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de Sini,
doue scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla, Et un Paese
nell’Ottantesimo grado creduto la Groenlandia....
First Italian edition. Engraved vignette on the titlepage, engraved full
page compass rose, and 31 half page plates (including 4 maps one of
which is repeated) the prints good dark impressions. 4to. Old calf,
rubbed. [iv], 78ll. Venice, Jeronimo Porro, 1599.
A French and a Latin edition were published in 1598. Both follow the
original Dutch edition, (as does this version), an oblong quarto issued by
Claesz without a date, but it is assumed in November or December of 1597,
as the third expedition did not return to Amsterdam until the 1st November
of that year. In this edition the plates are re-engraved in a smaller format
and as a consequence, it being their first appearance, are extremely fine dark
impressions.
Gerrit de Veer here gives us an account of William Barent’s three voyages
made to find the North East Passage in 1594, 1595 and 1596. The idea for the
voyage was enthusiastically promoted by Oliver Brunel who had made a land
jouney through the Samoyed territory to Siberia, before making a coasting
voyage as far as the river Ob.
As Boies Penrose remarks: “Brunel’s travels led to the fitting out of a fleet in
1594, headed by Willem Barents, who ranks in history as one of the greatest
Arctic navigators. With Barents went Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, the
celebrated traveler to the East. Their first venture took the Dutch the whole
length of Novaya Zemlya, to its northern tip, after which Barents retraced
his course to Vaigatz, and passed through the Kara Sea as far as the latitude
of the Ob.
The relative success of this voyage led to another the following year (1595),
like the first commanded by Barents with Linschoten as supercargo. The high
hopes placed in this undertaking were not realised, for the ships could not
fight their way through the straits between Vaigatz and the mainland, and
were obliged to return to Holland, victims of the unusual severity of a season
which had kept the straits packed with ice throught the summer.
Barent’s third and last was his greatest, ranking among the hardiest
achievements of all Polar Exploration. Sailing in 1596, he set his course
neither by the Northeast nor the Northwest Passage, but boldly accross the
Pole. In this wise he discovered Spitzbergen, but as he could not penetrate the
pack-ice beyond, he abandoned his original idea, and steered once more for
Nova Zemlya. After passing the farthest point of his 1594 voyage, Barents
rounded the northern tip of the island, where his ship was crushed in the
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ice and he and his men were forced to spend the winter in great misery. The
following spring the survivors set out in open boats and after incredible
difficulties reached Russian territory. Barents perished during the passage,
and with him the driving force of Dutch exploration in this quarter, but his
indomitable spirit had enabled a party of men for the first time to winter far
within the Arctic Circle, suffering from all the hardships inseparable from
such a first experience” (Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance p174 ). Tiele
Mémoir, 95; Alden, 598/113.
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W I L KE S (Cmdr. Charles).
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition.
During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.
First trade edition. 5 vols. plus atlas. 9 double-page maps, 64 engraved
plates & 5 large folding maps in the atlas, with numerous illustrations in
the text. Tall 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, a good copy unfaded with
the gilt still bright, one or two minor repairs lx, 434; xvi, 476; xvi, 438;
xvi, 539; xvi, 558pp. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1845.
With this voyage the United States entered a field of endeavour long dominated
by Britain, France and to a lesser extent Russia. This is the narrative for
the expedition, a lavishly produced work, but it was supported by several
specialist scientific volumes produced by the savants who accompanied the
expedition.
The Antarctic content of the work is of special significance “In January and
February 1840, sighted the Antarctic continent and followed its coastline for
a distance of more than fifteen hundred miles... he was the first to definitely
announce the existence of the Antarctic continent” (Lydenberg & Haskell).
One thousand copies of this, the first generally available edition were
produced. Wilkes commented that “in some respects as a library and reading
book it is to be preferred to the 4to edition”. One hundred and fifty copies of
which had been produced at the same time. Haskell, 2b.
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