catalogue three hundred thirteen World Travel & Voyages

William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is devoted to world travel, exploration, and trade from the first forays by Europeans to the East Indies and Sir Francis Drake’s first circumnavigation of the world in 1577-80 to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Within this broad frame there are all manner of items: the works of Cortes, Boemus, and Lopes de Castanheda on the early exploration of the Indies; a series of important works on Drake, includ- ing his World Encompassed of 1628; and some of the earliest Dutch works on the East Indies, including Locke’s copy of Schouten’s circumnavigation, and the works of Neck and Linschoten. Important English voyages include Dampier, Narbrough, and Hearne. There is a wealth of French voyages as well, including the copy of Marchand’s voyage given by the author, Fleurieu, to English hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple. In the 19th century there are important manuscripts relating to the American clashes with Algiers, and such voyages as Flinders, Owen Chase (the source book for Moby Dick), and Fanning. There are also many important manuscript logs and narratives, especially the diary of American naval officer Henry Cadwalader on his 1835-36 voyage to the East Indies, and David Marshall’s illustrated journals of 1845-65. There is much else besides. Happy hunting!

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On the cover: 84. [Kamchatka and Siberia Watercolors]: [Album of Six Watercolor Views of Scenes in Kamchatka and Siberia]. [N.p. ca. 1808].

1. [Abbot, George]: A BRIEFE DESCRIPTION OF THE WHOLE WORLD. WHEREIN IS PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED ALL THE MONARCHIES, EMPIRES AND KINGDOMES OF THE SAME, WITH THEIR ACADEMIES. NEWLY AUGMENTED AND ENLARGED; WITH THEIR SEUERALL TITLES AND SCITUATIONS THEREUNTO ADIOYNING. London: Printed for John Marriot, 1620. 88 leaves, including initial blank. Small quarto. Later speckled calf, gilt, neatly rebacked, original spine laid down. Bookplates on front endpapers and verso of titlepage. Minor toning but otherwise internally clean. Very good, in a half morocco box. The Boies Penrose copy, with his bookplate.

Styled “fift [sic] edition,” on the titlepage (but actually the sixth) of what was known as “Abbot’s Geography.” Abbot, who originally wrote this treatise in 1599 for his pupils at Oxford, later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Over forty pages relate to America, including descriptions of Virginia, Florida, New France, the West Indies, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, etc. Also mentions Francis Drake’s visits to Califor- nia and South America. The book contains many interesting descriptions of New World customs, animals, birds, and plants, with a special focus on gold and silver. Abbot is very critical of native religions and takes every opportunity to point out “the devils, foule spirits, and witchcraft” which he felt pervaded New World belief systems. European Americana notes that the first edition is 1599, with editions in 1600, 1605, 1608, 1617, 1620, and other later dates. An important early work of New World geography. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 620/1. SABIN 21. WING A60. $2500.

2. Adams, John Quincy: LETTERS ON SILESIA, WRITTEN DUR- ING A TOUR THROUGH THAT COUNTRY IN THE YEARS 1800, 1801. London. 1804. xiii,[2],387,[1]pp. plus folding map. Original blue paper boards, modern paper spine in matching style. Contemporary owner- ship inscription on titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened.

Letters written by John Quincy Adams to his younger brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, during his time in Germany as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Berlin, with a journal of his tour through Silesia and copious notes on the manners, people, agriculture, and history of the area. Adams spent much of his early life in Europe, first with his father and then as a diplomat in various posts. Not originally intended for publication, the introduction states that “the younger Mr. Adams, at the request of some gentlemen of distinguished taste to whom they were shewn, permitted them to be printed...,” and that they are here “offered to the British public as a faithful picture of the interesting province of Silesia, by the hand of a gentleman, a scholar, and a statesman.” SMITH, AMERICAN TRAVELLERS ABROAD A11. $1250. The First West African Newspaper with African Ownership

3. [Africa]: THE WEST AFRICAN HERALD. Cape Coast: Charles Ban- nerman, April 2, 1860. 4pp. Folio on a folded sheet. Old folds. Some separa- tion at horizontal folds, wear and minor loss to older vertical fold on first leaf. Contemporary ownership inscription at foot of first page, later paper label affixed to margin of first page. Minor wear and soiling. About very good.

English-language newspapers appeared in British colonial Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast in the early 1800s. These early papers, however, were published by whites and intended primarily for the use of European merchants, civil servants, and missionaries – the assumption being that not only the natives but also most of the transplanted freed slaves from England and America were illiterate. After the first African-American newspaper appeared in Liberia in 1830, similar efforts sprang up in British colonies in recognition of the growing number of mission- educated Africans. Charles Bannerman, son of a Euro-African mixed-race merchant and an African princess, was educated in England before returning to Africa and establishing the West African Herald (originally the ACCRA Herald) in 1858, the first African-owned and operated newspaper in Ghana. The Herald persisted until 1874 with a circulation of about 300 subscribers, most of them African. The clos- ing byline reads: “This Journal is edited, printed and published entirely by natives of the Gold Coast.” This issue includes reports of native uprisings and inter-tribal wars, details of court cases and trade conditions, and a few advertisements. The poor print quality and the limited subscription list attest to its rarity. $850.

4. Apianus, Petrus: COSMOGRAPHIA PETRI APIANI, PER GEMMAM FRISIUM APUD LOVANIENSES MEDICUM & MATHEMATICŪ INSIGNEMIAM DEMUM AB OMNIBUS VIN- DICATA MENDIS, AC NON-NULLIS QUOQ, LOCIS AUCTA. ADDITIS EIUSEM ARGUMENTI LIBELLIS IPSIUS GEMMÆ FRISII. Antwerp: Aegidius Coppenius Diesthensis for Gregorius de Bonte, 1545. [2],66 leaves plus folding engraved map. Numerous woodcut maps, charts, and diagrams. Five woodcut illustrations with volvelles or non-moving attachments (lacks volvelle on verso of leaf C3). Quarto. Contemporary limp vellum with remains of two ties. Vellum stained, moderately worn. Contem- porary inscription in Greek on recto of front free endpaper, additional con- temporary inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Ownership inscription on titlepage of Carlo Alberti and Abraham Pury, 1753, noting that the book belonged to Alberti alone after a division of their books on Aug. 15, 1774. Folding map torn along bottom fold, slight loss of paper but no loss of text; small separate repairs on verso of map. Occasional minor marks and stains in the text, but volvelles and non-moving attachments in fine condition and securely mounted. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

This 1545 edition of Apianus’ Cosmographia... is the second to contain the folding map of the world, which first appeared in a French language edition published in Antwerp the previous year. This world map is important for being one of the earliest to show the full sweep of the east coast of North America. The map displays the eastern side of North America as a narrow land mass, named “Baccalearum,” after the cod fisheries off the coasts of New England and Canada. It employs a cordiform projection, much used by Renaissance cartographers to represent the relationship between the Americas and the Old World, and maintains the desirable possibility of a northern passage to Asia over the top of North America. The map is also notable for being the first printed map to depict the Yucatan as a peninsula rather than an island, anticipating Ruscelli’s 1561 map of New Spain. A brief chapter on the recto and verso of leaf 30 is devoted to America. Apianus’ work, first published in 1524, was a fundamental work on cosmography (understood to include cartography, geography, and astronomy) throughout the 16th century. Twenty-nine editions were published within eighty-five years. Karrow writes that in the Cosmographia the author explains “the division of the earth into climatic zones, the uses of parallels and meridians, the determination of latitude, several methods for determining longitude including that of lunar distance, the use of trigonometry to determine distances, several types of map projections, and many other topics.” This edition, corrected and augmented by geographer and mathematician Reiner Gemma Frisius, was first published in Antwerp in 1529. It also contains Gemma’s important treatise on triangulation, which first appeared in 1533. The treatise was the first instance of triangulation being proposed as a means of locating and mapping places. An attractive copy of this work, with a significant map in the history of Ameri- can cartography. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 545/3. CHURCH 84. SABIN 1748. ADAMS A-1279. STC (DUTCH), p.12. ORTROY 36. KARROW, p.53. JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 545/1. $15,000.

A Young American Sailing to India

5. Barnham, John Appleton: [MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF A SEA VOY- AGE TO CALCUTTA, INDIA]. Largely at sea. 1834. [173]pp. About 20,000 words. Contemporary three-quarter calf, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, extremities worn. Contents mostly clean, only occasional scattered foxing. About very good.

Diary of a young man’s voyage to India in 1834. The journal begins with details of a trip through New Hampshire, including the Ossipee Mountains, Bath, and Hanover. In short order, though, the reader finds that the author is out at sea, headed for the Indian subcontinent. The author writes the details of his time aboard ship, including sea-sickness, storms, crossing the Equator, and all manner of sea life. He describes an encounter with a shark in some detail:

Perfectly becalmed. I was writing...below when...there was a shark astern. I sprang to the cabin window and there he was. I ran up and looking over the rails saw the monster directly astern, a brown unshapely looking savage with two front lateral fins protruding like arms, his dorsal fin just out of the water and his forked tail waving about, balancing and directing the body before it.

The sailors then proceed to hook the shark, haul him aboard and beat him to death: “Then the sailors showed the animosity with which all sailors look upon these ‘man-eaters.’ Every one of them fell foul of the shark, beating with sticks and axes and finally stilled him.” The passages on India are sketchy, more like glimpses than descriptions: “Throwing Gods in river. Music at fort. Sacrifice. 50 goats. 1 sheep. 5 bulls.” The final few pages are filled with Psalms and other religious writings. An interesting account of a lengthy passenger voyage at sea. $2250.

6. Barrington, Daines: MISCELLANIES.... London. 1781. iv,viii,557,[1]pp. plus two maps (one folding), five folding tables, and two plates. Quarto. Con- temporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Good.

A strange ensemble, but the two articles in the collection of the greatest interest are “The Possibility of approaching the North Pole discussed” and “Journal of a Voyage in 1775. To explore the coast of America, Northward of California.” This section, consisting of some ninety pages, was written by Don Francisco de la Bodega and is illustrated by a map of the Pacific Coast of America from Baja to Alaska, with capes named by Bodega marked. Wagner comments at length on the origins of this often inaccurate map. Much of the first article was drawn from information provided by whaling captains. There are several pieces on natural historical subjects, as well as “Ohthere’s ‘Voyage, and the Geography of the Ninth Century illustrated.’” In addition there is an account, illustrated with an engraved portrait, of “a very remarkable young musician” (i.e. Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Mozart). HILL 56. LADA-MOCARSKI 34. HOWES B177. STREETER SALE 2445. BELL B61. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 674. $2250.

The Celebrated Thief Down Under

7. Barrington, George: A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY; THE MANNERS, CUS- TOMS, RELIGIONS, &c. OF THE NATIVES, IN THE VICINITY OF BOTANY BAY. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson, 1796. xi,[1], 150,[2]pp. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in matching style. Bumping and wear to tips of boards. 19th-century bookplate of Law- rence D. Knowles on front pastedown, his ownership signatures on front free endpaper. Text uniformly age-toned. Very good.

The first American printing of Barrington’s “narrative” and an early American voyage imprint. Barrington was a famous British thief who was transported to Australia with the Third Fleet in 1791. He had no part in writing books which are attributed to him, which are amalgams of information from the more official reports, but he was famous in England and a profitable choice to whom the chap- book publishers attributed authorship. Although fabricated, it was through such chapbooks that most readers, who could not afford the expensive official accounts, learned of Australia. The popularity of the Barrington account is evident from the numerous editions in which it was published, including this first American edition, which followed the year after the first English edition of 1795. A second American edition was published in 1800. All of the early editions are quite scarce, and this Dobson edition is fine evidence of the American hunger for information regarding voyages to new found lands. FERGUSON 235. WANTRUP, p.87. EVANS 30032. NAIP w029695. $2750.

8. Barrow, John: A COLLECTION OF AUTHENTIC, USEFUL, AND ENTERTAINING VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES, DIGESTED IN A CHRONOLOGICAL SERIES. PERFORMED BY THE FOL- LOWING CELEBRATED COMMANDERS.... London: Printed for J. Knox, 1765. Three volumes. [12],[2],271,[1]; [6],264; [4],280pp., plus four folding maps and five plates. Folding frontispiece maps in first and second volumes. Contemporary calf, raised bands, spines gilt, leather labels. Lightly worn at hinges and around edges. Very good. Misbound, with complete text of first volume bound between boards of second volume, and vice versa. The plates, however, are in the correct volumes so that the illustrations of Colum- bus’ voyage are bound in the Dampier narrative, and so on. The third volume is bound correctly.

Collects accounts of the voyages of Columbus, de Gama, Drake, Raleigh, and others. The maps include a world map; plans of the cities and harbors of Havana, Portobello, Cartagena and Louisburg; a map of Cape Horn; and a map of the Pacific Ocean. $1000.

The Unfortunate Massacre of Rev. Williams at Tanna

9. [Baxter, George]: [Williams, John]: THE RECEPTION OF THE REV. J. WILLIAMS AT TANNA, IN THE SOUTH SEAS, THE DAY BEFORE HE WAS MASSACRED. [with:] THE MASSACRE OF THE LAMENTED MISSIONARY, THE REV. J. WILLIAMS, AND MR. HARRIS. [London: George Baxter, 1841]. Two oil-colored “Baxter prints,” 8 x 12 inches each (visible dimensions within the mat). Matted and in contemporary burnished wood frames. A bit of light spotting, mostly in the sky of the second print, else in fine condition.

A remarkable pair of rare and interesting prints depicting the mission to the South Seas by the Rev. John Williams, and his murder at the hands of natives on the island of Erromango. The prints were produced through an unusual oil-colored process invented by pioneering British print-maker George Baxter, who was a close friend of Rev. Williams and who created these prints as a memorial to his friend, and as a way of raising funds for Williams’ family. Rev. John Williams (1796-1839) was a member of the London Missionary Society, and was in the third group of missionaries to visit Tahiti, arriving there in 1817. He then went on to Australia, where he helped conduct the first Evangelical service in Van Diemen’s Land. He also preached in Raiatea in French Polynesia. In 1838, Williams sailed aboard the missionary ship Camden for the South Seas, visiting the island of Erromango, in what is now a southern province of Vanuatu, in late 1839. He was initially greeted warmly, but shortly after his arrival the natives of the island turned on him and his colleagues, killing Williams and one other. Those events are shown in these two prints. The first image shows Williams and his cohorts coming ashore in a small boat and being greeted – with a welcoming curiosity – by the natives. A chief of the natives urges his people to welcome the visitors, while Williams stands at the front of the small boat and another missionary displays colored cloths and a looking glass. The faint outline of the Camden and a few other small landing boats can be seen in the right side of the image, though it seems that Baxter never fully colored them in this copy of the print. The second print is a scene of violent mayhem as the Rev. Williams, waist deep in the surf, is clubbed to death by natives. Dozens of natives are shown running from the shore into the water in an effort to kill Williams and his colleagues, who attempt their escape by boat. Mr. Harris is seen on shore, being speared and clubbed to death. George Baxter, who produced these prints, was among the most innovative of British print-makers and a close friend of the Rev. Williams. Much of Baxter’s output in the early 1840s was devoted to illustrations of missionary activities abroad, and Courtney Lewis says that “this period includes Baxter’s best and most original work.” Baxter (1804-67) is credited with creating a method of using woodblocks to produce color prints, thereby making color prints commercially viable for the first time in Great Britain. Later he pioneered a printing method using colored oils, which is the method used to produce this pair of prints. Baxter produced a portrait print of Rev. Williams in 1837, and others followed, and the two men became good friends. Lewis notes that when Williams left the Thames aboard the Camden, Baxter was one of the last people to see him off. When Baxter heard the news of Williams’ death, he produced these prints and donated the proceeds to the missionary’s family. Baxter drew the scenes based on the testimony of Mr. Leary, one of the survivors of the mission. He offered the prints as a pair, as they are here, or as a “book” accompanied by seven pages of descriptive text and called Two Specimens of Printing in Oil Colours.... The prints could be purchased in sepia, or fully colored, as here. The DNB says that Baxter produced some of his most powerful work for the missionary societies, and calls the print of the massacre of Rev. Williams “his most celebrated print in this context.” OCLC locates only five copies of this pair of prints, at the National Library of Australia, State Library of New South Wales, National Library of New Zealand, University of Toronto (Victoria University), and University of Hawaii at Manoa. Rare and fascinating images of a little-known event in the missionary history of the South Pacific. Lewis, George Baxter (Colour Printer) His Life and Work 82a, 82b, p.93. OCLC 154637564, 16336100. Australian Dictionary of Biography (online), Vol. 2, pp.599-600. $2000.

Original High Arctic Art by an Important British Explorer

10. Beechey, Frederick William: ARCTIC WALRUSES, MET WITH OFF SPITZBERGEN BY H.M.S.’S DOROTHEA & TRENT. JUNE 1818 [manuscript title]. [Off Spitzbergen, high Arctic]. 1818. Watercolor, 9½ x 13 inches; matted to 13½ x 18½ inches. Small closed tear at top of sheet, not affecting image. Lightly toned, pinholes in corners of sheet, some light wear. Very good.

A charming watercolor of a close encounter with large walruses in the Arctic, painted by naval officer and artist Frederick W. Beechey. In 1818, then twenty- four, Beechey sailed with the Arctic exploring expedition attempting to locate a northern passage to the Pacific via a northeast passage. He later served as second in command and chief draughtsman aboard the Trent under Sir John Franklin. In 1843 he compiled his narrative of the voyage with several sketches, entitled A Voy- age of Discovery Towards the North Pole, in which six reproductions of sketches he had done while in the Arctic were printed. While the printed work does contain two engravings of walruses (including one of the boat being attacked by them), this particular image is not among them. The piece shows the longboat of sailors on the left side approaching an ice floe on which four enormous walruses are perched – the walruses take up fully half the page. A sailor in a red cap stands in the bow of the boat holding a pole (or perhaps it is a harpoon), while the remainder of the men pull at the oars, their backs to the artist. A handsome depiction from this important voyage. Beechey is best remembered for his later voyage to the Pacific and the Bering Strait, where he attempted to enter the Northwest Passage from the west to meet up with his old commander, Franklin. He ultimately retired as a rear admiral. $5000.

11. Beers, W.M.: PRIVATE JOURNAL OF W.M. BEERS [manuscript title]. [At sea off the coast of Africa, and Porto Praya, Cape Verde Islands]. 1843-1845. [100]pp., and approximately 100 blank pages. Plus a shopping list. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards, decorative stamping on spine. Dampstaining and circular cuts to front board, costing approximately 1½ x 12 inches of right edge of front board. Approximately sixteen leaves removed from the back. Children’s drawings inside boards. Some dampstaining to first twenty pages, else text clean.

The manuscript journal of W.M. Beers, a regular seaman in the U.S. Navy, as he departs from Philadelphia aboard the U.S. Frigate Macedonian to Liberia, Porto Praya in the Cape Verde Islands, and the African coast, where the ship was posted to attack pirates and interdict the slave trade. Beers seems to have been a landlub- ber before he sailed, and his adjustment to nautical life was difficult. About half the text consists of a journal, while the rest is Beers’ copies of letters written home from Porto Praya and other ports of call. Beers was a devout man who finds it difficult to maintain his relationship with God while completing his responsibilities on board a ship. In describing the differences between Sabbath in Philadelphia and on board a ship Beers writes: “[In Philadelphia] a universal respect paid to the day, the sanctuary of God open, preaching in all parts of the city and nothing to hinder you from worshipping God. But here you know not the moment you may be called upon to perform some duty, which might as well as not be done on another day....” In a letter to a friend Beers comments on the behavior of his fellow sailors: “I can- not describe to you the feelings that I experienced the first day. I was shocked... to hear the blasphemy and curses which accompanied almost every sentence and I feel these things much more keenly as I had but just emerged from the society of those who had [thought] for the welfare of their eternal souls....” The journal is of a personal nature, consisting, for the most part, of Beers’ reli- gious experiences and adjustment to living on the Macedonian. The letters contain more information about shipboard life and the situation of the ship. Journals by regular seamen from this period are most unusual. $900.

12. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas: OBSERVATIONS SUR LA CONSTRUC- TION DE LA CARTE DE L’OCEAN MERIDIONAL, POUR SERVIR VAISSEAUX DU ROY, DRESSÉE AU DÉPOST DES CARTES, PLANS & JOURNAUX DE LA MARINE, PAR ORDRE DE M. LE COMTE DE MAUREPAS, 1739. [Paris]: Jacques Guerin, [1739]. 18pp. Quarto. In plain blue contemporary boards. Occasional light dampstaining. A very good copy. In a half morocco box.

The very rare first edition of Bellin’s extensive account of his map of the “Ocean Meridional.” The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa and South America as recorded on the map. In addition to geographic locations, observations made in the regions by various explorers are cited. The cartographer, Bellin, was employed for more than five decades in the French Hydrographic Service, where he served as the first Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. Commissioned to develop new surveys of the coasts of France and then the known coasts of the world, these were published, respectively, as Le Neptune Français in 1735 and the Hydrographie Française between 1756 and 1765. Bellin also published a Petit Atlas Maritime with 580 charts and plans of harbors, issued in five volumes in 1764. The present work was later published as one of thirty reprinted pamphlets in the author’s Recueil des Memoires qui ont été Publiés avec les Cartes Hydrographiques (Paris, ca. 1767). Extremely rare, European Americana locates copies (with a variant imprint) only at LC and JCB. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 739/24 (different publisher). SABIN 4556 (note). $5000. 13. Benzoni, Girolamo: NOVAE NOVI ORBIS HISTORIAE, ID EST, RERUM AB HISPANIS IN INDIA OCCIDENTALI HACTENUS GESTARUM...LIBRI TRES, URBANI CALVETONIS OPERA...EX ITALICIS...LATINI FACTI...HIS AB EODEM ADJUNCTA EST, DE GALLORUM IN FLORIDAM EXPEDITIONE, & INSIGNI HISPANORUM IN EOS SAEVITIAE EXEMPLO, BREVIS HIS- TORIA. [Geneva]: Eustatium Vignon, 1578. [32],480,[12]pp. Lacks errata leaf. Later mottled calf, gilt leather label. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Tweeddale on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly soiled, contemporary in- scriptions, small portion of top corner torn away on first two leaves. Top edge trimmed closely, affecting running title and page numbers in some leaves. Internally fresh and clean. Very good.

First Latin edition of Benzoni’s important early account of the New World, trans- lated from the first edition printed in Italian in 1565. Benzoni’s history is the first significant work on the Americas based on firsthand observations by a non-Spaniard, and was one of the most widely disseminated texts of its day. This edition also includes the Latin translation of Nicolas Le Chailleux’s Discours de l’Histoire de la Floride, first published in Dieppe in 1565, an account of the French expedition to Florida in the mid-16th century. Born in Milan, Benzoni spent fourteen years travelling through the Americas, beginning in 1541. He was familiar with the Antilles, Guatemala, and the west coast of South America, and provides descriptions of these regions, as well as a history of the New World from the arrival of Columbus to the conquest of Peru. The work is also notable for containing an early account of the use of tobacco. Engaged in commerce, Benzoni quickly developed an intense enmity for the Spanish and their administration, and he treats them quite unfavorably in his text. He denounces the Spanish for their treatment of the Indians (in contrast, a good portion of the text describes Indian life before it became corrupted by European contact), and the author is also critical of the Spanish for their importation of slaves to America. “[The work] contains interesting details about the countries he visited, but abounds in errors and often in intentional misstatements. What Benzoni states about the Antilles is a clumsy rehash of Las Casas. His reports on the conquests of Mexico and Peru bristle with errors” – Catholic Encyclopedia. Despite these inaccuracies, the wide distribution of his book made Benzoni the single most influential figure in describing the New World to Europe in the mid-16th century. His work went through many printings, though Arents notes that “it appears never to have been permitted to circulate in Spain.” Its final and perhaps most influential version was as parts IV-VI of De Bry’s Grand Voyages, where its anti-Spanish slant helped to advance the “Black Legend” of Spanish depravity in the New World. An important early firsthand account of the Americas, here in its first Latin edition. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 578/3. SABIN 4792. MEDINA (BHA) 250. ADAMS B685. ARENTS 25. JCB (3)I:268. THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (online). $7500. Leading American History

14. Benzoni, Girolamo: DER NEWEN WELDT UND INDIANISCHEN KOENIGREICHS.... Basel: Sebastian Henripetri, 1582-83. Two volumes bound in one. [20],ccxliii,[24],ccxlv-dcii,[2]; [12],cccvi,[2]pp., plus folding table. Titlepages printed in red and black. Folio. Contemporary vellum, manu- script title on spine, yapp edges. Rubbed, front hinge neatly repaired. Mar- ginal tear in folding table. Internally clean. Old bookseller’s label and later ownership signature on front pastedown. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Second edition, after the first of 1579, translated from Benzoni’s Historia del Mondo Nuovo, published in Venice in 1565. Benzoni’s history of the New World was one of the most widely disseminated texts of its day. Having traveled to America himself in 1541, Benzoni was familiar with the Antilles, Guatemala, and the west coast of South America. Engaged in commerce, he quickly grew to hate the Spanish and their administration, and he treats them unfavorably in his text. “[The work] contains interesting details about the countries he visited, but abounds in errors and often in intentional misstatements. What Benzoni states about the Antilles is a clumsy rehash of Las Casas. His reports on the conquests of Mexico and Peru bristle with errors” – Catholic Encyclopedia. Despite his inac- curacies, the wide distribution of his book made Benzoni an influential figure in describing the New World to Europe. It was undoubtedly chosen by De Bry in 1595 for publication because it matched his own virulently anti-Spanish view, promoting the “Black Legend” of Spanish cruelty and duplicity in conquering the New World. A version of the text occupied the fourth, fifth, and sixth parts of the Grand Voyages. The present large folding plate of Cuzco, Peru is among the earliest civic views of South America. An important and rare description of America. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 579/3. SABIN 4797 (another ed). BAGINSKY (GERMAN AMERICANA) 79. JCB (3)I:273. THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA (online). $5000.

Important Work of New World Navigation and Collection of Asian Travels

15. [Bergeron, Pierre]: VOYAGES FAITS PRINCIPALEMENT EN ASIE DANS LES XII, XIII, XIV, ET XV SIECLES...ACCOMPAGNE’D DE L’HISTOIRE DES SARASINS ET DES TARTARES, ET PRE- CEDEZ D’UNE INTRODUCTION CONCERNANT LES VOY- AGES ET LES NOUVELLES DECOUVERTES DES PRINCIPAUX VOYAGEURS.... La Haye: Chez Jean Neaulme, 1735. Two volumes. Num- bered columns (see Borba de Moraes for detailed collation) plus five folding engraved maps. Several in-text engravings. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked, retaining original ornately gilt spines, leather labels. 19th-century bookplates on front endleaves. Light age toning and scattered foxing. Very good.

This is a reissue of Bergeron’s Recueil de Divers Voyages Curieux en Tartarie (Leyden, 1729), including his important Traicte de la Navigation, the latter containing many important American references. “Bergeron translated and edited many travels to Tartary, and wrote descriptions of that region. These works were published in Paris in 1634 and reprinted in Leiden in 1729 in two volumes entitled: Recueil de Divers Voyages Curieux en Tartarie. Each part has its own title page and the text is in two columns. The Traicte de la Navigation is printed at the beginning of the first volume...” – Borba de Moraes. Bergeron’s Traicte de la Navigation is described by Borba de Moraes as “one of the first studies of the history of navigation to be undertaken in France” and by Maggs as “the first scientific review of the history and results of geographical study.” It contains much material on instruments and methods of navigation with reference to many early authors on the topics. There are detailed accounts of early voyages of discovery throughout the world made by the British, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and Russians, with particular attention paid to the French in Canada and the discovery of America. Of significant interest are the accounts of the explorations and voyages of Champlain, Frobisher, Hudson, and Lescarbot, the search for a northwest passage, the development of the fur trade and establishment of New France, the discovery of Florida and Brazil, the activities of the Jesuits, and much more. The remainder of the work collects Asian travels from the 12th through 15th centuries, including those of Marco Polo, Benjamin de Tudele, Jean Du Plan-Carpin, Jean de Mandeville, Ambroise Contarini, etc. The folding maps relate to these Asian travels and the account of the Tartary mentioned in the title. BORBA DE MORAES, p.101. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 735/34. BELL B215. COX I:32. LUST 244. CORDIER 1941-1942. MAGGS BROS. 818:756. $3500.

An Early Edition of Magellan’s Voyage

16. Boemus, Johann: OMNIUM GENTIUM MORES, LEGES & RITUS ...PRÆTEREA, EPISTOLA MAXIMILIANI TRANSYLVANI...DE MOLUCCIS INSULIS. Antwerp. 1542. 123 leaves. Modern vellum. Some spotting and thumbing, some occasional dampstaining. Small erasure and old ownership inscription on titlepage. Good.

One of the classic works on the different races of mankind, first published in Venice in 1520 and here present in the first edition to include American material. The most important addition to this edition is the text of Maximilianus Transylvanus’ De Moluccis Insulis, first published in 1523, here in its sixth appearance in print, following the four separate editions of 1523-24 and an Italian translation of 1536. All of the preceding editions are of the greatest rarity. One of the 1524 editions sold for 68,500 Australian dollars some years ago. The text is one of two contem- porary narratives of the first circumnavigation of the globe, in this case an account dictated to an official of the Spanish court, Maximilianus. The present edition of Boemus also includes Jacob Ziegler’s De Regionabus Septrionalibus, first published in Strasbourg in 1532, describing Greenland and Canada. An important collection. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 542/3. SABIN 106330n. HARRISSE BAV ADDITIONS 136. PALAU 31246. $13,500.

17. [Bougainville, Louis Antoine de]: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, PAR LA FRÉGATE DU ROI LA BOUDEUSE ET LA FLUTE L’ÉTOILE, EN 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Neuchatel: Société Thypo- graphique, 1773. Two volumes bound in one. xxiv,187; 252,[3]pp. Contempo- rary mottled calf, gilt. Extremities very lightly worn. Some faint dampstaining in upper gutter margin on first few leaves; minor scattered foxing. Very good.

“Nouvelle édition augmentée.” A reduced edition of this important work, first pub- lished in 1771. This edition includes a brief dictionary of nautical terms (22pp.). Bougainville first undertook an expedition to the Falkland Islands and Patagonia, at his own expense, to secure them for French colonization. To avoid possible conflict due to Spain’s envy of this acquisition, France gave up the territory to her. The narrative of that expedition was related in The History of a Voyage to the Malouine Islands... (Paris, 1770). After delivering the Falklands to Spain, Bougainville was ordered across the Pacific to the East Indies, and then home. The completion of the three-year voyage marked the first official French circumnavigation and inspired much French interest in the Pacific islands. The party collected abundant natural history information concerning the regions visited; a chapter on the Falklands gives the history of their settlement as well. The expedition stopped at many South Sea islands, among them Tahiti, and included is a long section on that island as well as a vocabulary of the natives. Bougainville was in Buenos Aires when the order arrived for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay, which he describes in detail. An extraordinary capstone to this remarkable voyage was that Bougainville lost only seven out of two hundred men. COX I, p.55. SABIN 6864. HILL 163 (1st ed). BORBA DE MORAES, p.115. DU RI- ETZ 117. $1500.

18. Brinkley, Capt. F., editor: JAPAN, DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRAT- ED BY THE JAPANESE. Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Boston: J. Millet Company, 1897. In fifteen sections, a total of 322pp. “bound in Japanese style,” with numerous plates (chromolithographs, handcolored photographs, etc.). Folio. Each part in original cloth-backed printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached from first part only, edges chipped. Some moderate chipping to second part, at lower forecorner of front wrapper. Otherwise just some very minor chipping at edges of some wrappers. Gener- ally a very nice, clean set.

This elaborate publication displays the general fascination with Japanese things in the West at the end of the 19th century. A notable and quite beautiful American color plate production, displaying an array of color printing formats, including chromolithographs and hand-coloring. BENNETT, p.18. McGRATH, p.171. $1250.

Invaluable Collection of Early Australian Voyages

19. [Brosses, Charles de]: HISTOIRE DES NAVIGATIONS AUX TERRES AUSTRALES.... Paris. 1756. Two volumes. [2],xiv,463pp. (and pp.437-50, pagination repeated); [2],513,[1]pp., plus seven folding maps. This set lacks the 6pp. of errata sometimes found. Quarto. Contemporary calf, re- backed, gilt leather labels. Corners slightly worn. Older institutional stamps removed from titlepages, contemporary authorship note on each titlepage. Minor foxing and age toning, some light scattered soiling. About very good.

A fundamentally important work on early exploration and discovery in the Pacific. Charles de Brosses was president of the Burgundian Parlement, and a shareholder in the French India Company. His work is the first collection of voyages to deal exclusively with the Pacific, and was intended to spur French commercial activity and colonization in the region. Brosses includes a long essay on the advantages to be gained from discoveries and an actual plan for a voyage and settlement. His ideas influenced Bougainville on the French navigator’s Pacific explorations and colonization of the Falklands. Captain Cook took a copy of Brosses’ work with him on his first voyage, which is ironic because part of the author’s aim was to preempt and challenge British exploration in the Pacific. John Callendar largely copied Brosses’ work for his Terra Australis Cognita (1768). Brosses coined several important terms in this work, including “Australasia” and “Polynesia,” though the idea of calling the southeastern Pacific “Magellanica” has not survived. “This is an extremely important and thorough collection of voyages, and one of the outstanding works relating to the early history of Australasia. It contains an account of all voyages, beginning with the second expedition of Vespucci in 1502 and ending in 1747, in which navigators touched upon the supposed southern continent of Magellanica, which is now represented by Australia and some scat- tered islands in the Antarctic regions. It also contains the voyages of Magellan, Drake, Hawkins, Nodal, Schouten, Tasman, and others. The work...is of special importance because in it Brosses proposes that France should settle Australia with her foundlings, beggars, and criminals” – Hill. The collection contains several significant maps, including Vaugondy’s “Carte reduite de l’Australie pour servir a la lecture de l’Histoire des Terres Australes.” There are also maps of the Caroline Islands, New Guinea, and the Straits of Magellan, among others. A rare and important work. SABIN 8388. HILL, p.34. KROEPELIEN 132. TOOLEY, MAPPING OF AUSTRA- LIA AND ANTARCTICA, pp.215, 294. AUSTRALASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY PART I, p.59. O’REILLY & REITMAN 93. COX I, pp.17-18. SPENCE 154. NMM I:39. DUN- MORE, FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC I, pp.45-50. $8500.

Outstanding Journal of a Troublesome American Midshipman in Asian Seas

20. Cadwalader, Henry: PRIVATE JOURNAL OF A CRUIZE [sic] IN THE U.S. SCHOONER ENTERPRISE LT. A.S. CAMPBELL ESQ. COMMANDING IN THE EAST INDIAS & CHINA SEAS [manu- script title]. [Various places at sea and in port in the Indian Ocean, Gulf of Siam, and China Sea, as described below]. July 12, 1835 – April 7, 1836. [118]pp. manuscript on 12½ x 8-inch sheets of paper. A total of some 32,500 words. Includes a pen and ink sketch of “The Town of Zanzibar from the Harbour,” and of the island of “Pemba.” Plus a fragment of a sheet of paper containing a few caricatures and a sketch of the U.S.S. Peacock. Title-leaf and the following text leaf with a long repaired tear; some slight edge wear or staining to the leaves. In very good condition. In an oblong half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

An absolutely outstanding American naval manuscript, this is the journal kept by Midshipman Henry Cadwalader for the first nine months of his voyage as part of the United States Navy’s East India Squadron. Cadwalader sailed on the U.S.S. Peacock, the flagship of the squadron, and on the U.S.S. Enterprise, the squadron’s supporting schooner. The journal is rich with his observations on the places he visited, including Zanzibar, Bombay, Ceylon, and Batavia. Though he went to sea as a teenager, Cadwalader seems to have been well educated (he was a scion of a notable Philadelphia family), and his journal is well written and lively, filled with keen observations of his life on board ship and of the various places he visited on his voyage. The journal gives an excellent picture of life at sea for a young man in the 1830s. Cadwalader is reflective and introspective, yet keenly observant of his surroundings and of the character of the men on his ship and of the natives and British colonizers he encountered. His journal is also an exceptionally early account by an American of Zanzibar, India, and Indonesia. In all, it is one of the most interesting, textured, and detailed American naval manuscripts we have ever encountered. Henry Cadwalader (1817-44) came from a distinguished military lineage: his grandfather, Brig. Gen. John Cadwalader, commanded Pennsylvania troops in sev- eral important Revolutionary War battles, and his father, Major General Thomas Cadwalader, commanded a Pennsylvania militia brigade during the War of 1812. Henry Cadwalader was appointed a midshipman in the U.S. Navy on December 13, 1832 and became a “passed midshipman” on July 8, 1839. At the time he un- dertook this voyage to the East, he was only in his late teens, and very early in his naval career. The Enterprise and the Peacock sailed on an expedition to the Indian Ocean and East Indies for the purpose of obtaining information and negotiating treaties of friendship and commerce with Eastern powers. Among the places the ships visited over the course of the three-year cruise were Muscat, Oman, Ceylon, India, Java, Siam, Cochin, China, the Bonin Islands, Hawaii, Mexico, and California. Cadwalader began his voyage in the Enterprise, but transferred to the commanding ship of the expedition, the Peacock, at Bombay. Cadwalader’s journal covers the first nine months of the voyage, from New York to Bangkok. The journal begins with a manuscript titlepage which includes a list of the officers on board the Enterprise, with Henry Cadwalader listed as one of four midshipmen. The text opens with an entry noting that the Peacock and Enterprise departed Rio de Janeiro bound for the East Indies on Sunday, July 12, 1835. Cadwalader writes that he expects to be transferred at some point to the Peacock, and spends the opening passages of his journal describing life on board the schooner. These initial entries give an excellent impression of life on board an American naval ves- sel for a teenaged midshipman, describing Cadwalader’s daily duties, the drudgery, hazards, and joys of life on board ship, and conveying a youthful sense of wonder at the world. For example, in an entry for August 8, he writes: “Had the morn- ing watch – scrubbed decks & paint work, &c. At 7 bells drank a cup of coffee with [Midshipman] Forbes sitting on the Bitts. Came below at about quarter of 9, washed & eat breakfast, mended my clothes, stowed my locker & read a little Shakespeare. Did not feel well – a swelling under my throat. I had caught cold from sleeping in a wet hammock.” Cadwalader’s illness became so bad that he had to be treated by the First Lieutenant, and he writes: “I am as weak as a cat, can hardly do anything for myself, and my face is so extremely altered that no one would recognize me – the skin is all coming off so that I shall have an entire new & clear covering to my face...The Dr. makes me drink a bottle of porter every day and I live in the wardroom.” Along with Shakespeare Cadwalader also notes that he read Gil Blas in the original French, “for it improves one in the French language, which is decidedly the most useful in the world.” Cadwalader is often critical of the command style of the captain of the Enterprise, A.S. Campbell. In an entry of August 25, 1835 he writes:

The Capt. amuses me more than anyone else. He stays on deck all day doing nothing but fidget about. He looks as if he wanted to quarrel with someone & had nobody to quarrel with. He has nothing to employ his mind & therefore is miserable or rather nervous. A man without resources to pass his time certainly is unfriendly to himself, for he must have what is called the “Blue-devils” or a “what shall I do with myself to day” to pass my time.

Cadwalader remarks several times in his journal on Captain Campbell’s drinking, and the way it affected his command. Life on board ship is a constant backdrop of Cadwalader’s journals, and his depictions of shipboard activities, chores, personalities, and conflicts are one of the great merits of his writing. For example, in his entry of September 4 (fifty-five days out from Rio), he writes:

Kept the middle watch – a most beautiful night almost as light as day, but my mouth was so parched & dry for want of water that I could not speak the truth. Our allowance now is 1/2 a gallon a day, man & officers and in a warm climate it is not enough & we had used all our water during the day...there is a great deal of work going on, at this time on board, painting & blacksmithing work, which they are anxious to get done before going into port. All that we are in want of now is water...it is getting horribly warm but it will be much more so before this cruize is over.

On September 30 he writes:

Forbes [a midshipman] has applyed [sic] to leave the Birth deck, as he has been on it now upwards of 2 months & I think it is more than probable that I will have to relieve him there – however I have not heard anything about it. Yesterday we had one of the hams for dinner that we got in Zanzibar from the English brig – put up in tin it was spoiled & stunk most horridly. Mr. Page [First Lieutenant] made a request – “that we would be much obliged if we would have it thrown overboard” – but Mr. Forbes thought that it was very fine & he ate a great deal of it.

In his journal entry for September 11, 12, and 13, Cadwalader notes that they saw land and thought that it was Zanzibar. In fact it was the island of Pemba, not far from Zanzibar off the east coast of Africa. Cadwalader includes a nice pen and ink view of the island in the journal. By the afternoon of September 14 they were near the island of Zanzibar, and he includes a sketch of the “town of Zanzibar from the harbor.” He also describes a visit to the Enterprise by a representative of the prince of Zanzibar:

In a little while the Capt. of the port came alongside in a large 76 oared boat pulled by Mahomedan riggers with turbans on their heads. We were surprised when he came over the gangway to hear him say in very good English indeed “how do you do, I am very glad to see you” & shook hands. He took a letter from his pocket for the Capt. from Com. Kennedy. The Peacock had sailed here 5 days ago from Muskat [i.e. Muscat] & had a passage of 54 days from Rio, 10 days less than we had. She left orders for us to get in water & provi- sions & proceed immediately to Bombay. The Capt. asked him down in to the cabin and he sat there for more than an hour. He was a fine looking man, about 6 feet very dark complexion, fine large eyes, and a large black beard. He was dressed as all Mahomedans of his rank are, with a fine turban of different coloured silk, an outer robe of very fine snuff coloured cloth and his under garments were of the finest white [?] edged around with lace. His feet were bare but were protected from the ground by a pair of wooden sandals that had a leather strap up between his toes. He wore spectacles & altogether he was a very fine looking man. Another peculiarity was his teeth which were very large and fine, and his gums of bright vermilion, but his teeth were jet black!!! evidently died [sic] so.

In all, the Enterprise spent nearly a week at Zanzibar, and Cadwalader devotes sev- eral pages in his journal to describing his experiences there, including descriptions of walks he made around the island. In his entry for September 17 he describes a visit to the royal palace to meet the prince of Zanzibar:

On the morning of the 17th I accompanied Capt. Campbell, Mr. Sharpe, the Dr. & Mr. Waldron to see the young prince. We fired a salute of 17 guns, which was returned by the frigate of the town....At the door we were met by the young prince & about 60 or 70 attendants with their scimitars....We were all of us presented to him. He was distinguished enough & led the way proudly towards the Audience Chambers. This was a large apartment, very high ceiling, the walls white, there was little furniture in the room, nothing but a large chandelier in the centre & the chairs set all round. The floor was white marble. I was as much disappointed in the appearance of the young Prince as I was in the Palace. I expected to see something magnificent but it is a very common looking building outside, with a flag staff in front of it, the national flag flying, which is a field of red, the same as the Red Rovers. The prince is a very common looking boy, only 17 years old, large sleepy eyes, very thin and not at all good looking. He was dressed well but not as I ex- pected to see a prince. His turban was neatly tied & his clothes rather finer than those worn by the generality of Arabs. He wore a scimitar of beautiful workmanship mounted with gold & embossed work on it....The young prince said that he would always remember the Commodore Kennedy with pleasure & do everything in his power for the Americans whenever they came in here. After sitting about 20 minutes a black eunuch came in with another slave & handed us coffee in gold cup....

The Enterprise departed Zanzibar on September 20, bound for Bombay, where they arrived in mid-October. Cadwalader reports that the Enterprise was the first American man-of-war ever to visit Bombay, having arrived there ahead of the Pea- cock. There were several American trading vessels in port and dry docks including the ship Shepherdess of Salem, which had brought ice along with other goods. The Enterprise elicited a good deal of curiosity from the residents of Bombay, many of whom came aboard the ship. Of Bombay, Cadwalader writes:

I like the place very much indeed. The harbour is a fine one & a good deal of fun on shore, the people are very hospitable...I had an opportunity of seeing the dry docks, they are large enough to hold 5 line of battle ships. They are exactly on the same plan as the one in Norfolk, but not half so fine in workmanship, nor so well worth seeing. They belong to the E[ast] I[ndia] Company.

He includes a description of a dinner hosted on shore by English officers and re- marks on the hospitality and lavishness of the affair. Cadwalader also reports that two members of the Enterprise crew deserted the ship while at Bombay, and that he was part of a party sent after them. The men were eventually caught, court- martialed, and whipped as punishment. On September 23 the Peacock arrived in Bombay, the first time they had seen the flagship since they departed Rio de Janeiro. The Peacock had been damaged when it ran aground on a small island some 250 miles from Muscat, and it was necessary to pull it in for repairs while in Bombay. Cadwalader took the oppor- tunity to apply for a transfer to the Peacock, and visited the town several times during their long stay:

I have been on shore frequently. It is delightful in the afternoon to take a walk on the esplanade and see the officers riding about. The town is walled and there are sentries at all the gates. There is two regiments of native soldiers here under pay of the company. After dark you get into one of the Buggies outside of the gates & go out north to Dungaree green. The roads are beautiful & they drive very fast. There is all kinds of “casts” [sic] here and all kinds of religions, fire worshippers, “sons of Hafed.” You may see them coming down to the water in the morning in droves to wash their faces, feet & hands. They dare not take or eat anything that is touched by a Christian or they lost their “cast.” There is a fellow on shore now who is in this way. He is doomed to hold a flower pot in his hand for 30 years – it is his God – he has been so for 15 years & has as much longer to stay. His nails on his fingers are about a foot long and curled round, and he holds the pot out at arms length. When the flower dies he is to be killed. There is another one that is hung up by a silver hook from his 3rd rib for a certain length of time, I do not remember how many years.

On November 4, Cadwalader received his orders to transfer to the Peacock, “the flagship of Commodore E.P. Kennedy, commanding the East India & Asiatic squadron (consisting of this ship & the Schooner).” Finally repaired, the Peacock, with Cadwalader on board, departed Bombay in early December, heading south and east. Over the next several weeks the ship visited a number of places, including the island of “Elephanta,” where Cadwalader and his mates toured the famed caves with their Hindu statuary, and the island of Ceylon, where they docked for nearly two weeks at the harbor of Colombo. The Peacock stayed there longer than expected because, according to Cadwalader, Commodore Kennedy found the harbor so hospi- table. While anchored there they were visited by local vendors selling trinkets: “In a very short time after anchoring the ship was filled with peddlers having stones, shells, rings, jewels, boxes, & jewelry of almost every description. There are no very pretty things among them & all of very bad workmanship. At first they ask a most enormous price but you can generally get anything for 6 or 8 times less than the first price. Here I bought 2 small models of boats of this country.” Cadwalader also includes a description of the town of Colombo, including a visit to a very large cinnamon plantation owned by Mr. Laird, the “fort adjutant,” and describes several parties thrown for the Americans by the English residents. From Ceylon they sailed for Batavia, (now called Jakarta) on the island of Java, arriving there on January 12. The Peacock and Enterprise remained in Batavia for just over a month, and Cadwalader took the opportunity to make several visits to the town and surrounding country, giving long descriptions of the people and places he saw there. He made the acquaintance of the American consul at Batavia, and remarks on the Dutch presence in the colony:

Batavia is a regular Dutch place & the natives have adopted the Dutch cos- tume. Many of the houses look like those old buildings you see in New York & Albany. Canals running in every direction about the town. Some of the country houses are very pretty & shaded with green trees & gravel walks & are very neat & cool. The grand square & the palace for the Governor or Resident is a very large stone building facing on the square in the centre of which is a monument with a lion & his foot resting on a ball. What the monument meant to represent I could not find out....We saw a detachment of a Dutch convict Regiment, they were dressed in a green frock coat with yellow worsted belts and a heavy black cap with a large black feather....The uniform was very warm looking & not at all suited to a climate like this. The men were all transported from their own country on account of some rascalities committed there and sentenced to serve so many years in this Regiment, some for life.

The Peacock departed Batavia and sailed north for the China Sea, arriving in the Gulf of Siam in late March. On April 6, Cadwalader boarded a junk for the passage up the river to Bangkok. The journal concludes on April 7, 1836 with Cadwalader having arrived in Bangkok. An absolutely outstanding American naval journal kept by a young midshipman, with fine details of life aboard ship and giving excellent observations of several ports in the Indian Ocean and the East Indies. $42,500.

Detailed Account of the Canaries

21. [Canary Islands]: Guillen, Giovanni Francesco: RISTRETTO DELLO STATO DELLA DIOCESI DI CANARIA. [Lanzarote Island]. March 26, 1774 [i.e. Rome, mid-1700s]. 28pp. manuscript. Folding table. Folio. Dbd. About fine.

From the libraries of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, and Sir Thomas Phil- lipps. This manuscript offers a detailed description, both social and physical, of the Canary Islands in 1744, as composed by the bishop of the islands. Guillen discusses the population; the convents of the various orders, their number and adherents; the threat of invasion by pirates, Moors, Turks, and British corsairs; and the quality of wines. The folding chart summarizes statistics for 1633 to 1642, broken down by religion, occupation, and gender. An extensive mid-18th-century examination of the islands by a keen observer. $1250.

Fire in St. Thomas, a Malay Grammar, and Voyage Journals

22. Carter, Crawford: [LETTER BOOK OF CRAWFORD CARTER, CONTAINING CORRESPONDENCE TO THE RHODE ISLAND MERCHANT FIRM MUNRO, SNOW & MUNRO, DURING HIS SOJOURNS IN THE WEST AND EAST INDIES]. [Various places, but primarily St. Thomas and Batavia]. 1804-1809. 84pp. plus [4]pp. bifo- lium sheet laid in. Quarto. Original marbled paper wrappers. Front wrapper detached, some wear at edges. Contents bright and clean, in a highly legible hand. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Letter book and journal of Crawford Carter, agent for the merchant firm of Munro, Snow & Munro. The first twenty-three leaves comprise the letter book, providing copies of correspondence from Carter in the West Indies to Messrs. Munro, Snow and Munro. The letters contain details of Carter’s activities for the firm – trying to unload goods at various ports (mainly beef, pork, and nankins, but also coffee and sugar), the prices and quantities of said goods, and the general state of trade in the region. In addition to business news, Carter writes about a devastating fire on the island of St. Thomas:

Since I had the pleasure of writing you on the 25th, this town has been de- stroyed by a dreadfull fire which commensed about half past seven oclock on the evening of the 22nd, and owing to the inability of the inhabitants to stop it, continued to rage until about 5 oclock the next morning when fortunately the wind shifted and carried the flames out of the direction of the few houses that remained. About fifteen hundred dwelling houses and stores were burnt: it is impossible to make any near calculation respecting the amount of mer- chandize and furniture destroyed; those who are good judges suppose about six millions of dollars; the town was never known to contain so many valuable goods as there was in it at the time of the fire. He goes on to detail losses to the company, which he considered minor, adding, “We were the most fortunate vessel in the harbour.” The second half of the volume, nineteen leaves, is written dos-a-dos style. It contains “Copy of a Malay grammar, made at Batavia by an American gentleman during his stay there,” “Journal of the Voyage from Providence toward Rio Janeiro in the Ship George & Mary,” and several pages of “memorandums” concerning cargo loaded onto the George & Mary, including “10 Large Cases Gin.” A note preced- ing the grammar reads: “‘The Malay language, although uncommonly soft, is not possessed of that stressing of metaphor for which most of the languages of the East are so justly famed.’ James Harrison M.D., author of a Malay & English grammar published at London 1801.” A search for such a work in OCLC proved unfruitful. Also laid into the volume is a single bifolium sheet, docketed as “Papers relat- ing to a loss on Brig Torno. – Settled June 27, 1826.” Dated January 4, 1826, the document details damage to the Brig Torno, belonging to Israel Snow, which oc- curred due to heavy seas while anchored at Gibraltar Bay. The ship was repaired, and this document is testimony to the fact that the ship was damaged by weather and not due to any carelessness on the part of the owners. It has been notarized by Henry Stokes, Notary Public of Gibraltar, and affirmed by Bernard Henry, U.S. Consul at Gibraltar, presumably as a means of collecting insurance to cover the damages and repairs. An interesting manuscript volume, detailing American business transactions in the West Indies. $3500.

23. Cauvelt, J.L.B.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM J.L.B. CAUVELT ON THE U.S.S. DE SOTO AT ST. THOMAS, VIR- GIN ISLANDS, GIVING A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE 1867 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI THAT JUST HIT THE ISLANDS]. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Nov. 21, 1867. 5pp. manuscript (written on rectos only) on folio sheets, with the letter addressed to his mother on the fifth page, following the description of events. Approximately 1250 words total. Sheets with wear around the edges. Each sheet neatly backed with paper, repairing small tears or separations. Overall, in good condition, and very readable. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt.

An exciting firsthand account by an American sailor, describing the effects of the terrible earthquakes and tsunamis that hit the Virgin Islands on November 18, 1867. J.L.B. Cauvelt was a sailor aboard the U.S.S. De Soto, which was anchored in the harbor of St. Thomas when the earthquake hit. The ship was badly damaged in the resultant tsunamis caused by the earthquakes, which had an estimated 7.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. These are Cauvelt’s original notes of his experiences, written shortly afterward and appended to a letter he wrote to his mother on November 21. On the afternoon of November 18, 1867, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred in the Anegada trough, located between the Virgin Islands of St. Croix and St. Thomas. The earthquake actually consisted of two shocks, separated by ten minutes. These shocks generated two tsunami waves that were recorded at several island locations across the eastern Caribbean region, most notably on the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The U.S.S. De Soto was docked at St. Thomas when the earthquake hit. Initially a private commercial ship, the De Soto was purchased by the United States Navy at the outbreak of the Civil War. The ship assisted in the blockade of Confederate ports, and participated in the capture or destruction of numerous blockade runners. The De Soto and two other American naval vessels arrived at St. Thomas on November 17, 1867, a day before the earthquakes and tsunamis hit. The De Soto was initially thrown onto a wharf, but was carried back to deep water by the next wave that hit St. Thomas. Badly damaged, the ship was repaired by its crew over the following days. Cauvelt begins by describing the earthquake and resultant tsunami:

At 2.50 p.m. Nov. 18th...we felt a strong quivering of the ship with a slight rumbling noise which we immediately recognized as a shock of an earthquake & of course run on deck. The shock lasted about 7 minutes and at 3.05 p.m. we saw the water rising in an immense wall about two miles out side the harbor, seemingly some 35 to 40 ft. high and advancing towards us. Of course we let go all our anchors & made what preparations we could closing all air ports &c. In about two minutes from the time we first saw it it struck a brig & bark on the outer edge of the harbor with a fearful force throwing them completely on their beam ends & the water rushing over them & parting all their moorings & tossing them about as if they were but shells. They however righted & both eventually went on shore where I suppose they will be total wrecks. A small tug boat of about two or three beams was just coming in to the harbor & received the full force & of course was swamped. Her capt. was picked up dead shortly afterwards. At the same time a sail boat went down just outside of us & all on board were lost. All this happened outside of us & as for what was going on inside of us I had no time to look for we were all rather anxious about our own fate but as the water came in the harbor it sensibly diminished & did not strike us with the same force that it did the vessels outside of us but when it struck us it made us tremble from stem to stern, at the same time parting two of our cables & sending us ashore. The reflux of the sea sent us back swinging us in all directions. One small anchor still being down but dragging & we thump- ing pretty heavily although as the bottom was soft it did not hurt us much. A large iron wharf on our port side was about this time washed away except the outer end against which we swung breaking our starboard paddle wheels. After being here a short time the wharf gave way, we swinging over it & the iron poles punching two holes in us. At this time the pumps were manned but could not keep her clear. We then drifted over on some dangerous rocks on the other side of the harbor & worked hard to get another anchor down. At this time I would not have given ten cents for the ship.

Cauvelt goes on to describe the cool-headed response of the De Soto’s commodore, and the repairs that were effected over the next few days. He mentions that another American naval vessel, the Monongahela, which had been sent to Santa Cruz from St. Thomas the day before “was totally wrecked by the effects of the same earth- quake...She was struck by 5 large rollers & 7 minutes after they first saw the sea coming in she lay high & dry on the beach with her back broken.” Cauvelt also comments on the destruction caused by the tsunamis on St. Thomas itself, and the plight of the people of the island: “[they] were in the greatest state of excitement as well as in a most abject state of fear being on there [sic] knees & praying more like maniacs than reasonable beings to all the saints in the callender [sic]. Business was abandoned stores being left open & unattended, men rushing out of their business places perfectly frantic leaving money and goods strewed all around.” A remarkable letter, giving a detailed account of a terrible series of earthquakes and tsunamis in the Caribbean in 1867. $1750.

Inspiration for the Climax of Moby Dick

24. Chase, Owen: NARRATIVE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AND DISTRESSING SHIPWRECK OF THE WHALE-SHIP ES- SEX, OF NANTUCKET; WHICH WAS ATTACKED AND FINAL- LY DESTROYED BY A LARGE SPERMACETI-WHALE, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE UNPARAL- LELED SUFFERINGS OF THE CAPTAIN AND CREW.... New York. 1821. 128pp. 12mo. Original blue paper boards, modern paper spine, printed label. Boards lightly soiled. Light foxing and soiling to leaves, worn at edges. Final leaf with some small loss in margins, repaired, and a small repaired tear, affecting two words of text. A good copy.

The extremely rare first authentic account of the famous Essex shipwreck, whose sinking by a whale was, apart from being a sensational story in its own right, a landmark in American literature as the inspiration for the climax of Melville’s Moby Dick. Chase, first mate of the Essex and a native of Nantucket, provides a firsthand description of the ramming and sinking of the ship by a furious sperm whale on Nov. 20, 1819, some 2000 miles west of the Galapagos. The surviving twenty crew members struggled to survive in three open boats, but only eight lived through the ordeal. Six men who died of natural causes were eaten by their shipmates, and one other crew member was shot and eaten. Interestingly, all six of the black crew members died or were reported as missing. The voyage of the two small boats that were rescued off South America was twice as long as that of Bligh in the launch of the Bounty. A classic Pacific whaling rarity. HILL 281. FORSTER 17. HOWES C318, “c.” SHAW & SHOEMAKER 4964. SABIN 12189. $13,500.

A Photo Album of Missionaries in China

25. [China]: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF A FRENCH MISSIONARY IN CHINA IN THE 1920s]. [Shanghai and vicinity. 1890, 1928-1932]. Six leaves containing sixty-seven mounted and loose photographs, plus two larger photographs mounted on card, and three postcards. Varied sizes, but most photographs approximately 4 x 5 or 3 x 2 inches. Oblong folio album. Contemporary morocco spine and cloth boards, spine gilt. Front inner hinge cracked, first two leaves detached. Some light wear and soiling to leaves, but images generally clean and crisp. Very good.

A fantastic album of images assembled by a French Jesuit missionary in early 20th- century China. At the center of the album’s story is Jesuit priest Père Crochet, who worked as a missionary in China for over fifty years. It is likely that this album was assembled by him, though he appears in many of the photographs. We found little information about Père Crochet, other than that he worked in Shanghai and the adjacent regions. The images show orphans, children at the missionary schools, the residence of Père Crochet and other mission buildings, and scenes of daily life. Many of the photographs show “incurables” from the mission hospice (possibly lepers, many with ulcerated and bandaged limbs). Some of these images are quite graphic, including one showing Père Crochet tending a man’s ulcerated leg. Many of the images are captioned in French in a neat hand, and many have further annotations on the verso. There are three postcards included in the album (all of which have been used) and two larger photographs mounted on card. The two large photographs show a younger Père Crochet with a large group of students; the second is a studio portrait of a family baptised by Père Crochet on Pentecost 1891 in Shanghai, mounted on a card from Tien Yen’s Photographic Studio in Foochow Road. These two pieces would appear to be the only images from that earlier date, the rest dating to the late 1920s and early 1930s. An altogether fascinating look at life in a Chinese Catholic mission, document- ing the last few years of a dedicated missionary’s life in China. $6000.

26. [Chinese-American Trade]: [Standard Oil Co. of New York]: STAN- DARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK. [CHROMOLITHOGRAPH ADVERTISING BROADSIDE, PRINTED ON SATIN]. [N.p., but possibly Hong Kong. ca. 1912-1928]. Chromolithographic broadside, 31 x 20 inches. Printed on satin in a wide variety of colors, including silver and gold metallics. Hemmed finishing at top and bottom edges. Some light creasing and minor soiling. Very good.

A stunning advertising broadside and calendar from early 20th-century China, showcasing the wares of American enterprise and industry in the Far East. Broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911 for its monopoly, and with its public image given a black eye in America, the Standard Oil Company continued under a variety of state-based corporations, to conduct a shrewd export business of petroleum products worldwide. The company had established offices in Shanghai in 1892, in many respects an early pioneer from a major American industry to do so, and had subse- quently opened a station in Hong Kong, which had become the great depot for the kerosene trade of the southern ports of China. The Americans competed with the Russians and Dutch to fill cheap lamps and chimneys with kerosene, now seen as indispensable in the lives of all social classes of Chinese. Standard Oil advertised for single American men to go to China to learn Chinese. As biographers Lilley & Lilley describes it:

SOCONY employees called their work “selling oil for the lamps of China,” and it became an almost messianic mission to spread light around China and make profits for “the company.” [My father’s] job was to sell kerosene and other oil products to the Chinese multitudes. To do this, he established a network of Chinese sales agents to peddle oil products to the villages and towns in his district....The business was time-consuming and demanded patience. Success in securing reliable and trustworthy Chinese agents depended largely upon how well the manager understood Chinese customs and ways of doing busi- ness. The American managers and their Chinese agents differed like night and day – both on the surface and in more substantive ways.

To compete with other foreign oil suppliers, this arresting broadside was created and perhaps hung in a local retail kerosene depot. Printed in two languages, this piece was clearly intended for indigenous and English-speaking customers. Discreetly arrayed on the perimeters, avoiding a garish display of crass commercialism, one sees a variety of Standard Oil products with printed advertisement copy in English and Chinese: pale oil, SOCONY candles, machinery oil, comet oil, refined oil, SOCONY auto oil, etc. The central image is of a man with a horse on the bank of a flowing river. He stands with clasped hands raised in the direction of several women on a cloud (one of whom is elderly and in a wheel chair), who appear perhaps to be angels and ancestors. Three men stand behind a tree to the left rear of the horse, one of them looking slightly shifty and holding a pike. A calendar is at the bottom center, just as many businesses today send out advertising posters with calendars for the year discreetly placed at the bottom. The local lithographer’s name, Chan Yue, is in the bottom corner. The investment in the quality of the material used for this piece, the quality and brilliance of the printing, the attempts to create an image of aesthetic appeal, the prominent appearance of the native lithographer’s name – all this speaks of a deliberate attempt to favorably market and position Standard Oil products with cultural sensitivity and savvy in this burgeoning foreign market. A beautiful piece. Lilley & Lilley, China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia (New York, 2004), pp.3-5. $2750.

27. Chinnery, George: THE REV’D. CHAS. GUTZLAFF. THE CHI- NESE MISSIONARY, IN THE DRESS OF A FOKIEN SAILOR. London: Colnaghi & Co., 1835. Uncolored lithograph, on a 14 x 10½-inch sheet. Minor foxing, primarily around outer edges, else quite clean. Very good. Matted.

An uncolored lithograph of German missionary Karl Gutzlaff (1803-51), after a painting by George Chinnery. Gutzlaff was the first German Lutheran missionary to China, and was one of the first Protestant missionaries to dress like the Chinese. Gutzlaff wrote several works on China and worked on a Chinese translation of the Bible. This image, lithographed by R.J. Lane, shows him clothed in the garb of a Fujian sailor. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHINESE CHRISTIANITY (online). $750. 28. Clarke, William Branwhite: RESEARCHES IN THE SOUTHERN GOLD FIELDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, 1860. [8],305pp. plus folding map and corrigenda tipped in at rear. Modern tan cloth, gilt leather label. Very small tear at gutter margin of map, repaired with tissue. Internally clean. Very good.

William Branwhite Clarke (1798-1878) was an English clergyman and geologist who emigrated to Australia in 1839. “The first trained geologist to settle in Australia, he moved out rapidly from Sydney on horseback in a widening arc collecting rocks and fossils, and in 1841 discovered evidence of gold. His interest in mineralogy was keen and he publicly predicted that the country would be found wonderfully rich in metals, a prediction verified in the rush to the New South Wales goldfields in 1851. During 1851-3 Clarke was engaged by the government to conduct a geological and mineral survey of New South Wales and, on foot and horseback, traversed some 60,000 square miles from the southern Alps to northern New South Wales and into southern Queensland. On this reconnaissance Clarke opened up important mineral resources in the colony, describing the metalliferous districts and the stratigraphy and structure of the country in twenty-eight reports to the govern- ment and preaching, burying, and baptizing at the diggings as he went” – DNB. He would eventually become a household name in the colony. The folding map shows gold localities in the basin of the Snowy River and Upper Murrumbidgee, 1851-52, which were chiefly discovered by Clarke. FERGUSON 8337. DNB (online). $800.

29. Clerk, John: AN ESSAY ON NAVAL TACTICS, SYSTEMATICAL AND HISTORICAL. WITH EXPLANATORY PLATES. IN FOUR PARTS. Edinburgh. 1804. [6],xv,[vi]-xv,[4]-287pp. plus fifty-two handcol- ored folding plates. Half title. Contemporary polished calf, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Boards edgeworn; hinges cracked but boards still firmly bound. Scattered foxing. About very good.

Second edition, following the first edition printed in parts in 1790 and 1797. One of the most important works on naval tactics published in the age of sail. Clerk was a Scottish merchant with a major interest in navigation, and he based this work on his study of English and continental naval tactics. He was partially influenced to produce the present work due to British naval defeats during the American War of Independence, especially the defeat at Yorktown. The plates illustrate many of the battles Clerk analyzes, including Admiral Rodney’s engagement with the French in 1780, Arbuthnot’s battle off the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1781, Byron’s defeat by the Comte d’Estaing at Grenada in 1779, and more. Admiral Nelson implemented some of Clerk’s tactics during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Not in Sabin, despite the American content. “Distinctive as one of the first British ac- counts of tactics, as opposed to a work in French translation, and for its criticism of the current Royal Naval practice of looking more to signal books to the detriment of fighting instructions” – DNB. First edition: JCB MARITIME HAND-LIST 1277. ADAMS & WATERS 359, 360. SCOTT 419. $1250.

30. Colebrooke, Henry Thomas: A GRAMMAR OF THE SANSCRIT LANGUAGE. Calcutta: Printed at the Honorable Company’s Press, 1805. Volume 1 (all published). xxii,370,[4]pp. Printed in English and Sanskrit types. Early boards, rebacked in cloth, new endpapers. Rubbed. Toned, a few worm tracks at end, clean tear across pp.1-2, a few corners dog-eared or with small loss, chips and short tears in edges of title-leaf. Else good. Provenance: Fort William College, Calcutta (ownership inscription and “sold” remark signed by Secretary of the Board on verso of title, with some offsetting, show-through, and oxidation; the College’s trilingual Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali ink stamp below).

“The first European work to be based on the indigenous linguistic tradition” – DNB. Colebrooke had been appointed honorary professor of Hindu law and Sanskrit at Calcutta’s new Fort William College in 1801. “Unfortunately he never finished the second volume, being discouraged by the greater popularity of the simpler grammars which were being published on the Latin model familiar to Europeans. Nevertheless, Colebrooke’s volume stands as a monument marking the beginning of the study of traditional Sanskrit linguistics (vyakarana) by non-Indians, and in due course that study was to bring vyakarana into the global development of linguistics.” Rare: the only copy to appear in auction records was sold in 1987. DNB (online). $7800.

31. Colomb, Philip Howard: SLAVE-CATCHING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. viii,[4],503pp. plus eight plates and folding map. Frontis. Contemporary polished calf, ornate gilt spine, maroon gilt morocco label, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

A study of the Arabian slave trade based in the Persian Gulf performed by Capt. Colomb of the H.M.S. Dryad. Colomb, a naval innovator (he invented a system of nighttime signal flashing and worked hard to reduce collisions at sea), spent the middle part of his career harassing Arab slave traders based largely in Zanzibar and Oman. In the present text Colomb describes his adventures in the Gulf, and discusses the economic and legal issues of ship seizure on the open seas. The several plates show scenes from the slave trade, including chases and freed slaves. A well reasoned and dispassionate account of one of the last refuges of the slave trade. Scarce. Dictionary of British Ships and Seamen, pp.92-93. OCLC 3711911. $1350. A Surprisingly Rare Pacific Voyage

32. Colvocoresses, George M.: FOUR YEARS IN THE GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION; COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN CHARLES WIL- KES, TO THE ISLAND OF MADEIRA – CAPE VERD ISLANDS – BRAZIL – COAST OF PATAGONIA – CHILI – PERU – PAU- MATO GROUP – SOCIETY ISLANDS – NAVIGATOR GROUP – AUSTRALIA – ANTARCTIC CONTINENT – NEW ZEALAND – FRIENDLY ISLANDS – FEJEE GROUP – SANDWICH IS- LANDS – NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA – OREGON – CALIFORNIA.... New York. 1853. 371,[2]pp. Seventeen plates (fourteen of them within the pagination). Frontis. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light soiling to boards, minor wear at extremities. Contem- porary owner’s inscription on fly leaf. Text lightly foxed. Very good.

Second edition, after the first of the previous year. “Colvocoresses, a naval officer, saw extensive service throughout the world, including taking part in the overland expedition of the Wilkes expedition in 1841 from Vancouver Island to San Fran- cisco. He was mysteriously murdered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, thirty years later” – Hill. His account, based on a journal he kept during his travels, is a most readable overview of the people, scenery, and events encountered by the Wilkes expedition. Illustrated with many nice engravings of west coast scenes, whales, icebergs, the Hawaiian palm tree, the “Puebla of Los Angeles,” and many natural history subjects. This second edition contains only seventeen plates, whereas the very rare first edition contains nineteen. One of the plates that has been excluded from this edition would comprise pages 319 and 320, which accounts for the lack of those page numbers in this edition (the text is complete). Several of the plates in this edition are also printed on “brownish parchment-like paper” as noted by Rosove. This is one of the rarest Wilkes expedition narratives. HASKELL 115. HOWES C635. HILL 347 (another ed). SABIN 14907. COWAN, p.138. SPENCE 310. RADER 878. BORBA DE MORAES, p.194. FORBES 1854 (another ed). ROSOVE ANTARCTIC 74.B1. $1000.

A Classic of Travel to the East in the 15th Century

33. Contarini, Ambrogio: IL VIAZO DEL CLARISSIMO MESSER AMBROSIO CONTARINI AMBASCIATOR DELLA ILLUSTRIS- SIMA SIGNORIA DI VENETIA AL SIGNON UXUNCASSAN RE DE PERSIA. Venice. 1543. 40 leaves. 12mo. Modern half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt. Occasional very minor spots, some leaves expertly restored in lower margin, not affecting text. Leaf C3 bound before C2, leaf C6 bound before C7. A very good copy.

The rare third edition of Contarini’s account of his travels from Venice to Persia and Russia between 1473 and 1477. A member of a prominent Venetian family, the author was delegated by the republic, which at the time was at war with Ma- homet II, to travel to the court of Hussum Hasan Bey, the sovereign of Persia. The purpose was to encourage that ruler to continue to wage war against the Ottomans, who were threatening Venetian interests in the Middle East and Europe. Unable to travel by sea, Contarini traveled by land through Poland to the Crimea, crossing the Black Sea and continuing to his destination through Mingrelia and Armenia. “Contarini encountered Hussum Hasan at Esfahan, accompanied him to Tabriz, and then returned homeward by way of Derbent and the Caspian Sea to Astrakhen. From there he ascended the Volga to Moscow, where he was politely received by the grand-duke of Muscovy. Contarini returned to Venice in 1477” – Howgego. First published in 1487, a second edition followed in 1524. In addition to this 1543 edition, the account was reprinted the same year with that of the Venetian traveler, Josafa Barbara. Confirming continuing interest in Contarini’s travels throughout the Renaissance, the account was also included by Ramusio in his great collection of voyages and travels published between 1550 and 1559, and Antonio Minutio’s collection of writings on Persia printed in Frankfurt in 1607. A rare edition of this early European account of travels to Persia and Russia. OCLC locates ten copies. BELL CATALOG C570. BRITISH MUSEUM (ITALIAN BOOKS 1465-1600), p.195. ADAMS C-2557. OCLC 36528737. HOWGEGO C170. $15,000.

A Ground-Breaking Cook Rarity

34. [Cook, James]: Pringle, John: A DISCOURSE UPON SOME LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MEANS FOR PRESERVING THE HEALTH OF MARINERS. DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVER- SARY MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.... London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1776. [4],44pp. Half title. Small quarto. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Leaf C4 (signed C3) a cancel, as usual. Occasional minor foxing, ink stain on p.2. A very good copy, bound with five other works by Pringle, listed below.

Extremely rare. One of the most significant of all the printed works relating to Cook’s voyages and their importance. This is the first appearance in print of Cook’s epoch-making account of the successful measures taken against scurvy on his first two voyages. There were several later versions and translations, but the original edition of this milestone publication has long been acknowledged as a major rar- ity. The paper on scurvy was read to the Royal Society by its president, Sir John Pringle (in the absence of Cook himself, then just beginning his final voyage), as the year’s Copley medal award winner, and immediately published in this form. Pringle’s long presentation address, quoting directly from Cook and other sources, is followed by Cook’s paper and an extract from a letter by Cook to Pringle written from Plymouth Sound in July 1776. The paper subsequently appeared in the of- ficial account of the second voyage and in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1783 a series of six of Pringle’s discourses at the annual presentations of the Copley medal was published in one volume. “In Pringle’s discourse on preserving the health of mariners he includes the first printing of Captain Cook’s important paper entitled: ‘The Method taken for preserving the Health of the Crew of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution during her late Voyage round the World.’ In this paper, which Cook communicated to Pringle, President of the Royal Society, Cook describes the supplies carried on the voyage and his maintenance of the cleanliness of his ship and crew. It was included by Pringle in his discourse commemorating Cook’s receipt of the Copley medal” – Norman sale. The winning of the battle against scurvy was one of the most important achievements in the general field of exploration. It made possible the major voyages that followed. As Robert Hughes so aptly put it in The Fatal Shore: “malt juice and pickled cabbage put Europeans in Australia as microchip circuitry would put Americans on the moon.” This copy is very appropriately accompanied by five other Royal Society dis- courses of the period. A Discourse... is here bound chronologically with five other Pringle first editions: A Discourse on the Different Kinds of Air (1774); A Discourse on the Torpedo (1775); A Discourse on the Attraction of Mountains (1775); A Discourse on the Invention and Improvements of the Reflecting Telescope (1778); and A Discourse on the Theory of Gunnery (1778). The Streeter-Norman copy of the Discourse...for Preserving the Health of Mariners was also bound with these five additional works by Pringle. STREETER SALE 2410. NORMAN SALE 378. GARRISON-MORTON 2156, 3714. BEDDIE 1290. HOLMES 20. KROEPELIEN 1065. $48,500.

Cooper Moves to Lake Como

35. Cooper, James Fenimore: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, REGARDING HIS RE- CENT MOVE TO SWITZERLAND]. Veray [Switzerland]. Sept. 5, 1832. [1]p. Old fold lines. Remnant of wax seal. Minor rumpling. Very good.

Author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) moved his family to Europe in 1826 in an effort to bolster his income and bestow a better education on his children. Writing to a Mr. Cox, Cooper says, in part:

I am commanded by the ladies to report our arrival at this place, where we have taken a house for a month. We hope to see you, to compare notes, shake hands and measure the children....We shall be sorry to quit this part of Switzerland without seeing you, but as we are now, seven weeks en route, we are so glad to be abed in the mornings, and to be rid of a carriage, that we are not much inclined to stir again immediately. We have taken the house...that you look’d at the other day, and shall probably remain until October. We think of going to the shores of Lake Como...after which we steer towards Paris for the winter.... $1850. The African Side of the Slave Trade

36. Corry, Joseph: OBSERVATIONS UPON THE WINDWARD COAST OF AFRICA, THE RELIGION, CHARACTER, CUSTOMS, &c. OF THE NATIVES; WITH A SYSTEM UPON WHICH THEY MAY BE CIVILIZED, AND A KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED OF THE INTERIOR OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE; AND UPON THE NATURAL AND COMMER- CIAL RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY, MADE IN THE YEARS 1805 AND 1806. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol and James Asperne by W. Bulmer, 1807. Single-page engraved map, eight handcolored engraved and aquatint plates. Half title. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in half period russia and period marbled boards, spine gilt. Very good.

A finely illustrated account of Corry’s travels to West Africa in the early years of the 19th century. There is much information regarding the region’s inhabitants, particularly their religion and customs, as well as the area’s natural productions and commercial resources. In addition to advancing England’s commercial prospects, the author was also interested in ending the practice of slavery. To this end, the text includes the author’s letter to Lord Howick abolishing the slave trade. The author hoped that “if in the most remote degree, I excite the interference of my countrymen in behalf of the African, extend our commerce, and enlarge the circle of civilized and Christian society, I shall think that I have neither travelled, nor written in vain.” ABBEY 278. OCLC 3902546. $10,000.

A Crucial Edition, with Many Important Materials Published for the First Time

37. Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, Hernan: DE INSULIS NUPER INVEN- TIS FERDINANDI CORTESII AD CAROLUM V...NARRATIO- NES, CUM ALIO QUODAM PETRI MARTYRIS AD CLEMENT- EM VII...LIBELLO. HIS ACCESSERUNT EPISTOLAE DUAE DE FELICISSIMO APUD INDOS EVANGELII INCREMENTO... ITEM EPITOME DE INVENTIS NUPER INDIAE POPULIS IDOLOLATRIS AD FIDEM CHRISTI...CONVERTENDIS, AU- TORE R.P.F. NICOLAO HERBORN.... Cologne: ex officina Melchioris Novesiani, impensis Arnoldi Birckman, September 1532. [82] leaves. Text in Latin. Woodcut title portrait of Charles V within a woodcut border of escutch- eons of Spanish provinces and towns, the portrait repeated within decorative border-pieces on A1 and F1; large ornamental woodcut initials and border- pieces in text; woodcut printer’s device at end. Small folio, signed in 4s and 6s. Later half calf and paper boards, gilt leather labels. Bookplate of the Duke of Devonshire on front pastedown. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. In a black half morocco box.

Second Latin edition of the second and third letters of Cortés to Emperor Charles V, and the first to contain missionary reports from Yucatan and Mexico. Cortés gave his personal account of the conquest of Mexico in a series of five letters, or Cartas de Relación, which he addressed to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. The famed first letter was lost, making the second letter the earliest account by Cortés himself, describing the events in Mexico after his departure from Vera Cruz. The third letter continues the narrative, describing Mexican events from October 1520 to May 1522. The present work includes the second editions in Latin of the second and third letters (translated by Petrus Savorgbabus), as well as Peter Martyr’s De Insulia (a condensed version of the lost first Cortés letter); a letter from Mexico by Martin de Valencia, dated June 12, 1531, which is the first printed report from the Yucatan; a letter from Bishop Zumarraga giving an account of the Franciscan schools in Mexico, their teachers, and the Indian converts; and a letter from Nicholaus Herborn dated 1532. These last three sections appear here in this edition for the first time. A rare edition, with only three other copies appearing in the auction records over the last thirty-five years. This copy from the library of Spencer Compton, the eighth Duke of Devonshire, with the Chatsworth bookplate. CHURCH 63. HARRISSE 168. JONES 21. SABIN 16949. VALLE 15. MEDINA I:86. PALAU 63192. JCB I:103-104. $35,000.

38. Coulter, John: ADVENTURES IN THE PACIFIC; WITH OBSER- VATIONS ON THE NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE NATIVES OF THE VARIOUS IS- LANDS; TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON MISSIONARIES, BRITISH AND OTHER RESIDENTS, etc. etc. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845. x[i.e. xi],290pp. Late 19th-century three-quarter polished calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, red and brown labels stamped in gilt. Outer joints slightly worn. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Book- plate of American financier Jay Gould on front pastedown. Titlepage with contemporary gift inscription (“With the publishers compliments”), first page of preface also with publisher’s signature. A very good copy.

The first Dublin edition of Coulter’s account of his experiences in the Pacific on the English whaler, Stratford, between 1832 and 1836, issued the same year (and with the same pagination) as the London edition. The book includes descriptions of the Falkland Islands, Chile, Juan Fernandez Island, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, and Tahiti. Of particular interest is his time on the Marquesas, which included dressing as a native and being tattooed to the extent of his “complete appearance as a native.” The author also describes preparations for sperm whaling and his first experience killing a whale. Coulter’s sequel, Adventures on the Western Coast of South America, and the Interior of California, was issued in 1847. HILL 385 (London ed). HOWES C802. SABIN 17142. FORSTER 30. $1500.

An Early English Voyage to the East Indies

39. Coverte, Robert: A TRUE AND ALMOST INCREDIBLE REPORT OF AN ENGLISHMAN, THAT (BEING CAST AWAY IN THE GOOD SHIP CALLED THE ASSENTION, IN CAMBAYA, THE FARTHEST PART OF THE EAST INDIES) TRAVELLED BY LAND THROUGH MANY UNKNOWNE KINGDOMES, AND GREAT CITIES...the Second Impression, newly corrected. London: N.O[kes]. for Thomas Archer, 1614. [6],68pp. Small quarto. Expertly bound to style in red morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt extra, leather label, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Without blanks A1, K3, and K4. Titlepage soiled and repaired, with the lower right quarter supplied in facsimile. Light soiling throughout. Other than loss to title-leaf, a very good copy.

The second edition of Coverte’s account of his voyage to the East Indies, following the first edition published in London in 1612. The author and his men left Plym- outh in March 1607 aboard the Ascension and were among the first Englishmen to see the Cape of Good Hope, arriving there in July 1608. Coverte eventually reached Gujarat, where the ship ran aground while approaching Surat. Not granted permission to remain in Surat, the crew departed to various destinations. Coverte and others set out for the Moghul Court at Agra, arriving there in December 1609. He and other crew members left Agra in January 1610 “with the intention of making their way back to the Levant by the overland route. Travelling by way of Kandahar, Esfahan, and Baghdad...they reached Aleppo in December 1610 and from the coast of the Levant sailed for England. They subsequently arrived home in April 1611” (Howgego). An absorbing account presented in the form of a travel diary, Penrose described the work as a “vigorous narrative...it relates its author’s reception by the Emperor Jahangir, and his tedious journey across India, Afghanistan, and Persia, and as such is one of the best examples of a travel journal that the period produced.” An extremely popular travel account, a third London edition appeared in 1631, and German translations were printed in 1617 and 1648. The account was also included in compilations of discovery and exploration published by De Bry, Hulsius, and van der Aa. STC 5896. HOWGEGO C211. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p.324. $20,000. The Gospels in Creole

40. [Creole Gospels]: TORI VO WI MASRA EN HELPIMAN JESUS KRISTUS SO LEKI WI FINI HEM NA INI DEM FO EVANGE- LISTE MATTEUS, MARKUS, LUKAS EN JOHANNES. [Bautzen: Ernst Moritz Monse], 1843. 336,[15]pp. Contemporary cloth. Extremities worn. Contemporary book label on front pastedown. Some very minor age- toning and soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

A remarkable production of the Dutch Creole gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, for use in Dutch Guiana (present-day Surinam). This is evidently the first translation of any part of the Bible into a Creole dialect. Only two copies located in OCLC, at Yale and the Newberry. $2500.

41. Cunningham, Robert Oliver: NOTES ON THE NATURAL HIS- TORY OF THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN AND THE WEST COAST OF PATAGONIA MADE DURING THE VOYAGE OF HMS ‘NASSAU’ IN THE YEARS 1866, 67, 68, & 69.... Edinburgh: Ed- monston and Douglas, 1871. xvi,[2],517pp. plus twenty-one lithographic plates (views of the region and natural history subjects) and colored folding map. Original green cloth, spine gilt. Some slight spotting on binding. Hinges a bit weak but holding. Occasional light foxing on text leaves. Still very good, with bookplate of George Bennett (see below) and of noted collector Kenneth Hill.

A rare account of an exploration of the Strait of Magellan. Cunningham was ap- pointed naturalist aboard the Nassau, a steamer sent to survey the Strait and the adjacent channels. This book contains a narrative of the voyage and natural his- tory descriptions. Cunningham’s own interest was in the ornithology of the region (after the voyage he published various pieces in the Ibis on the subject), but he also discusses the botany of the area, mentioning his collections of plants in the Royal Herbarium, Kew, and promising articles on the reptiles, amphibia, fishes, mollusca, and crustacea in Linnean Transactions. His natural history connections were evidently impeccable, since he acknowledges the help of Hooker, Huxley, Newton, Flower, Sclater, Salvin, Gray, Gunther, and Baird. The folding map shows Patagonia, with an inset of the Strait of Magellan. Though the present copy bears the bookplate of noted collector Kenneth Hill, there is no copy listed in the catalogue of the Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages at the University of California at San Diego. This copy also bears the bookplate of George Bennett, M.D., a Sydney doctor and leading figure in colonial science, closely involved with many of the newly established societies such as the Australian Museum, the Acclimatization Society, and the Zoological Society. He corresponded with some of the prominent natural history figures of the day such as Richard Owe, and was John Gould’s agent in Sydney. He was himself the author of two excellent travel books (Wanderings in New South Wales [1834] and Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia [1860]). $1250. 42. D’Avity, Pierre: NOUVEAU THEATRE DU MONDE, CONTEN- ANT LES ESTATS, EMPIRES, ROYAUMES ET PRINCIPAUTEZ .... Paris: Pierre Rocolet, 1644. [6],1414pp. plus engraved titlepage. Large folio. Contemporary calf, gilt. Hinges partially cracked, head and foot of spine chipped, corners bumped. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. About very good, handsome withal.

Extensive geographical and historical compendium written by Pierre D’Avity (1573- 1635), first published in Paris in 1613. The work describes the principal kingdoms of the world, including France, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Italy, parts of Africa and Asia, and with brief sections on the New World and Terre Australis. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 644/9. $3500.

The Most Important Buccaneering Narratives

43. Dampier, William: A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES. IN FOUR VOLUMES. CONTAINING I. CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPI- ER’S VOYAGES...II. THE VOYAGES OF LIONEL WAFER... AND DAVIS’S EXPEDITION... III. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD...BY W. FUNNELL...IV. CAPT. COWLEY’S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE. V. CAPT. SHARP’S JOURNEY...VI. CAPT. WOOD’S VOYAGE...VII. MR. ROBERTS’S ADVENTURES. Lon- don: James and John Knapton, 1729. Four volumes. Sixty-three plates and maps (nineteen maps and four plates folding). [7]pp. of publisher’s advertise- ments. Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked with original richly gilt spines laid down, gilt morocco labels. Bindings a bit rubbed. Contemporary bookplate of Richard Malone on front pastedown of each volume. Very clean internally. A very good set.

An attractive set of the most complete version of these important voyages. Dampier is generally described as the first Englishman to set foot on the Australian conti- nent. This set bears the early bookplate of Richard Malone, Lord Sunderlin, of the prominent Irish family. This is the first collected edition, and the best textually, of Dampier’s voyages. The additional titlepage in the first volume designates this the “7th edition, corrected” of the writings of celebrated British navigator and buccaneer William Dampier. Hill states that the narratives in the second volume are in the fourth edition, those in the third volume are in the third edition, and those in the fourth volume are not designated, although he notes: “Parts II-V of v. 4 are a reprint, with separate title page and paging, of Hacke’s A Collection of Original Voyages, London, 1699.” Dampier’s first voyage to the Pacific was in 1680, raiding on the Spanish coast of South America, then crossing the Pacific to the East Indies. Throughout the next two decades he travelled extensively in the Pacific, at various times visiting Tierra del Fuego, the west coasts of South and Central America, Guam, the Philippines, the East Indies, China, the Campeche coast, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. In 1688, Dampier touched on New Holland, or Australia, for the first time, making a survey of the coast near King Sound. In 1698, after the first volume of his voyages had been published and received great acclaim, the Admiralty gave him a commission as a captain in the Royal Navy and command of the Roebuck. With it he undertook another expedition to Australia, the second British expedition to go there and the first to have that destination as its objective. He explored the south coast of New Guinea, discovered New Britain and Dampier Strait, and explored along the western coast of Australia. Although hampered by illness amongst his crew, he ultimately completed the circumnavigation in 1701. Dampier was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers who tormented the Spanish in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. “This collection of Dampier’s works is considered by many to be the best edition. However, Dampier obviously did not write the whole work...[as it also] includes the narratives of Lionel Wafer and William Funnell as well as the whole book of Wil- liam Hacke” – Hill. His books were a great success and were frequently reprinted, as well as emulated by some of his less literate companions, often to his disgust. HILL 422. SABIN 18373-18377. NMM 1:92, 93, 95, 96. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 729/69. DNB V, pp.452-57. $14,500.

Item 44. 44. Daniell, Thomas and William: A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO IN- DIA, BY THE WAY OF CHINA. London: Longman, Hurst [et al], 1810. Fifty handcolored aquatint plates on thick paper after T. and W. Daniell, each plate with one accompanying leaf of text. Folio. Contemporary half russia and marbled boards. Front joint repaired, light wear to corners. Light foxing to a few plates. Else very good.

“Thomas Daniell played an instrumental role in graphically documenting a wide geographical and cultural range of sites across the Indian subcontinent, travelling more extensively than any of his contemporary colonial artists, and earning him the title ‘artist-adventurer’” – DNB. Accompanied by his nephew William, Daniell left England on the China-bound Indiaman in 1785, returning to England by way of India in 1794. The journey, financed in part by the sale of oil paintings of their travels, was documented in William’s journal and by the publication of Oriental Scenery in 1795-1808 and the present publication in 1810. The album opens with the Indiaman’s departure from Gravesend, a stop at Madeira, and a rough turn around the Cape of Good Hope. The majority of the views depict native life in Java (including shark fishing) and nautical scenes along the Chinese coast and Canton River, with some scenes of Chinese dress and manners. ABBEY 516. TOOLEY 173 COLAS 797. LIPPERHEIDE 1523. DNB (online). $15,000.

De Bry’s Petit Voyages: An Essential Collection of Voyages in a Contemporary Binding

45. De Bry, Johann Theodor and Johann Israel: [THE PETIT VOYAGES, PARTS I – X]. Frankfurt. 1598-1613. Ten parts bound in three volumes. Collations below. Small folio. Contemporary calf, boards ruled and tooled in gilt, spines gilt, gilt morocco labels, raised bands. Boards lightly rubbed, hinges cracking but sound. Bookplates on front pastedowns, an occasional blindstamp (see below). A few plates shaved along the foredge. An occasional tanned leaf, but generally quite clean and neat internally. Very good.

The Macclesfield set, with their armorial bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, and an occasional small armorial blindstamp at the head of a titlepage, plate, or text leaf. A complete set of the first ten parts of the first Latin edition of the Petit Voy- ages of De Bry, one of the grandest collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery, with all of the hundreds of maps and plates, as detailed below. This series of voyages, devoted mainly (but not entirely) to the East Indies, was issued concurrently with the same publishers’ Grand Voyages, which are primarily devoted to the Americas. The present set is without parts XI and XII (the latter so rare that even Church lacked much of the text), and the appendix to Part I, also a legendary rarity. Both of these parts were issued by a different publisher in 1625 and 1628, long after the rest of the series. Almost all sets lack some plates and maps, and assembling complete copies has been a passion of collectors since the beginning of the collecting of voyages in the early 19th century. A number of the maps and plates are highly prized individually, which has contributed to parts being disassembled. The Petit Voyages comprise probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. The De Brys’ intention as publishers to present an illustrated record sets them apart from other, textual voyage collections such as Ramusio or Hakluyt. They are a cornerstone of any serious library of travels and voyages. The collations of the parts in the present set agree with those given in Church for the first Latin editions of each part, with parts III and IX being the second issues of the first edition. Full titles and bibliographical details can be found in Church. A summary of the parts and their contents follow:

Part I, Vera Descriptio Regni Africani, 1598. First edition. Fourteen plates and two maps (on three sheets). Fillipo Pigafetta’s description of the Congo, describ- ing Odoardo Lopez’ voyage there in 1578, probably the most important early description of central Africa. CHURCH 205. Part II, Pars Indiae Orientalis, in Qu Johan. Hugonis Lintscotani Navigatio in Orientem, 1599. First edition. Thirty-nine plates, three maps, and portrait of Linschoten at the head of the preface. Linschoten’s famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 were published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. CHURCH 207. Part III, Tertia Pars Indiae Orientalis..., 1601. First edition, second issue, without the map of Nova Zembla on the verso of plate 58. Sixty plates and three maps. In this copy the plates are bound before the text. The large folding map, “Descriptio Hydrographica,” shows the eastern hemisphere and the routes to the east around Africa. This is a highly important piece of cartography. Included are the rest of Linschoten, Cornelius de Houtman’s pioneering voyage to the East Indies of 1595-97 (instrumental in opening the spice trade to the Dutch), and Gerit de Veer’s voyage in search of a northeast passage in 1594-96. The plates show scenes in the East, as well as Veer’s horrible experiences in Spitzbergen, where his expedition was attacked by polar bears. CHURCH 209. Part IV, Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis..., 1601. First edition. Twenty-one plates (image in plate 20 printed upside down). Linschoten and Houtman’s voyages concluded, and the voyage of Jacob von Neck and Wybrandt van Warwijck to the East Indies in 1598-99. As in the two previous parts, most of the plates are scenes in the East Indies. CHURCH 211. Part V, Quinta Pars Indiae Orientalis..., 1601. Sole edition, first issue. Twenty plates. More material on Von Neck, and the establishment of Dutch power in Bantam. CHURCH 212. Part VI, Indiae Orientalis Pars VI..., 1604. Sole edition, first issue. Twenty-six plates. Pieter de Maree’s description of Guinea in 1600, and other early voyages to Guinea by the Portuguese, Dutch, and French. This whole section therefore relates to the Gold and Slave coasts of Africa and the growing European trading presence there, which laid the foundation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. CHURCH 213. Part VII, Indiae Orientalis Pars Septima..., 1606. Sole edition, first issue. Twenty-two plates. Joris von Spilbergen’s voyage to Ceylon in 1601-4 and Gasparo Balbi’s voyage to Pegu via Syria in 1579-88. This part is mainly devoted to India and Ceylon, with excellent plates of the latter. CHURCH 216. Part VIII, Indiae Orientalis Pars Octava..., 1607. Sole edition, first issue. Eighteen plates. A collection of five Dutch voyages to the East Indies, 1600-6, including trips to China and the Spice Islands, all illustrating the rising Dutch power in the East. The plates show various military encounters, and a famous double-page plate of Macao. Note that in this copy plate 13, a double-page plate, is bound in between plates 11 and 12, i.e. on the verso of plate 11 and on the conjoined leaf. CHURCH 218. Part IX, Indiae Orientalis Pars Nona..., 1612. First edition, second issue. Seventeen plates. A world map appears on the supplementary title to the extra plates sec- tion. This part describes the voyage of Admiral Pieter Willemsz to the Spice Islands to seize them from the Portuguese, written by one of the officers on the expedition. CHURCH 221. Part X, Indiae Orientalis Pars X..., 1613. First edition. Three plates and three maps. This part is important on several accounts. The first section includes one of the first published accounts of Hudson Bay, describing the explorations of Henry Hudson. The most important map in this part, showing Henry Hudson’s explo- rations, was first published the year before by Hessel Gerritsz in Amsterdam. It is the first map of Hudson Bay and the adjacent country, and is present here in a slightly reduced version of Gerritsz’ map, with the name of the island “Frisland” clearly engraved (see Burden). The double-page map shows Hudson Bay in the west, and stretches all the way east to include Ireland and Iceland. Befitting Hudson’s extensive explorations, the coastline of Hudson Bay is quite detailed and accurate, place names are noted, and islands in the bay are shown. Hudson did make mistakes, however, in his charting of the southern part of the bay in a rectangular shape. “This map serves as the foundation piece to Canada’s basic economic history. It served as the only functional chart to the northern regions of Canada for several decades, and enabled the successful establishment of the Hudson Bay Company which was to dominate trade, exploration and the eco- nomic development of Canada for a long time” – Kershaw. The second section of Part X of De Bry describes other voyages to the North by Linschoten, while the third section relates to De Quiros and his supposed discovery of a new con- tinent, “Terra Australis Incognita.” The other two maps relate to a search for a Northeast passage. CHURCH 222.

A rare opportunity to acquire one of the great monuments of early travel literature. CHURCH as cited above. Hudson map: BURDEN 162. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.94. VERNER & STUART-STUBBS, THE NORTHPART OF AMERICA 29. KER- SHAW, EARLY PRINTED MAPS OF CANADA 53b, pp.56-58. $150,000.

The Circumnavigations of Drake and Cavendish, and Raleigh in Search of El Dorado, with Important Maps

46. [De Bry, Theodor]: Drake, Sir Francis; Sir Thomas Cavendish; and Sir Walter Raleigh: AMERICAE PARS VIII. CONTINENS PRIMO, DESCRIPTIONEM TRIUM ITINERUM NOBILISSIMI ET FOR- TISSIMI EQUITIS FRANCISCI DRAKEN...SECUNDO, ITER NOBILISSIMI EQUITIS THOMAE CANDISCH...TERTIO, DUO ITINERA, NOBLISSIMI & FORTISSIMI DOMINI GUALTHERI RALEGH.... [Frankfurt]: Theodorici de Bry viduae & filiorum, 1599. Two parts bound in one volume. [2],78; 99pp. Double hemisphere copper plate world map on title-leaf, plus letterpress title and eighteen plates, each with a half-page copper plate engraving and descriptive text, versos blank. Folding engraved map of northeastern South America. Folio. Modern limp vellum. Leaves expertly washed and pressed. Overall a very good copy. In a half mo- rocco and cloth slipcase.

The first edition, in Latin, of Part VIII of De Bry’s Grand Voyages, here in the third issue, but without the two extra in-text maps on pages 78 and 3. This volume contains relations of six different voyages, by Drake, Cavendish, and Raleigh, with a map and illustrations never before published. These accounts describe Drake’s famous circumnavigation of the world and Caribbean raids, Cavendish’s circumnavigation, and the famous search for El Dorado. The three voyages of Sir Francis Drake recounted here are of the greatest im- portance. The first is a description of the famous voyage of circumnavigation of 1577-80, only described in print up to that time by Hakluyt, here based on the ac- count of Nuno da Silva. Drake’s Caribbean raid of 1585-86 is also reported, based on the account of Walter Bigges, as well as the final voyage of 1595-96, directed against the Spanish at Panama. This is the first extensive account of the last voy- age, during which Drake died off Panama, and it is evidently based directly on his log, continued by others after his death. Besides these texts, the titlepage of the volume has an extraordinary double hemisphere world map, showing the track of Drake’s circumnavigation with an inset portrait of Drake. Illustrations relating to Drake include engravings of his landing on the coast of Patagonia and his reception by California Indians during the circumnavigation voyage, as well as engravings after Boazio showing his captures of Santiago, Santo Domingo, Cartagena, and St. Augustine during the 1855-86 Caribbean raid. The St. Augustine view is the earliest view of any North American town. Sir Thomas Cavendish’s circumnavigation of 1586-88 was the third voyage around the world, and the account published here on pages 43-78 is one of the first to appear (accounts were issued in Amsterdam almost concurrently). This account is by Francis Pretty. The voyage followed a track similar to that if Drake and was certainly based on knowledge gleaned from his trip. Three plates illustrate Cavendish’s experiences in the Pacific. The remainder of the volume describes two voyages to the Caribbean and South America, one by Sir Walter Raleigh undertaken in 1595 in his famous search for El Dorado, and another of the following year to the same place, attributed to Raleigh but actually undertaken by Laurence Kemys. The large folding map illustrates this part of the volume and provides the most detailed version of the cartography and imagined cartography of the Orinoco, Amazon, and Guiana region published up to that time. Five of the illustrations also relate to the Guiana exploration. One of the most difficult parts of the De Bry Grand Voyages to obtain, with descriptions of the second and third circumnavigations of the world. CHURCH CATALOGUE 164. JCB (3)I:401-2. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 599/21. SABIN 8784. KRAUS, DRAKE 31. SERVIES 87. $35,000.

47. Delano, Amasa: A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES: COM- PRISING THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; TOGETH- ER WITH A VOYAGE OF SURVEY AND DISCOVERY IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ORIENTAL ISLANDS. Boston: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. 598,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (in- cluding frontispiece portrait) and engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked in matching style in modern calf, spine gilt. Boards scuffed and worn, especially at extremities. Light foxing throughout, faint dampstain in lower gutter throughout the text, most pronounced in the first half. Overall, good.

One of the major printed accounts of world voyages for its time, and the source book for Melville’s Benito Cerino. Delano recounts his travels between 1790 and 1810, encompassing visits to the Palau, Hawaiian, and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; and Chile and Peru. Includes detailed accounts of whaling and seal hunting, observations of the inhabitants indigenous to Delano’s stopping points, etc. HOWES D233. SABIN 19349. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 40635. HILL 463. RICH, pp.92-93. FORBES 463. NAYLOR 64. $1350.

48. Denon, Dominique Vivant: VOYAGE DANS LA BASSE ET LA HAUTE EGYPTE PENDANT LES CAMPAGNES DU GENERAL BONAPARTE. Paris: P. Didot, An X [1802]. Two volumes. Large quarto text volume: half title, list of subscribers. Large folio atlas: 143 engraved plates (numbered 1-141, plus 20 bis and 54 bis) on 142 sheets (plates 4 and 5 on the same sheet). Contemporary French blue boards. Expert repairs to spine of atlas. Very good, uncut. In two blue morocco backed boxes. Provenance: Armaney (contemporary signature on the front blank of text and title-leaf of atlas).

A foundation work of Egyptology by “the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe” (Atabey). “At [Napoleon] Bonaparte’s invitation Denon eagerly accepted an opportunity to join the expedition to Egypt (1798), and while there accompanied General Louis Charles Antoine Desaix up and down the Nile in pursuit of Murad Bey, recording antiquities as he went. He returned to France with Napoleon in 1800, and within the space of two years produced his monumental Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, which contained 141 of his illustrations” – Howgego. The remarkable plates which illustrate this work, each described in detail in the accompanying text, are of great importance to Egyptology, as they illustrate for the first time many new discoveries. Denon accompanied Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt, and the present series of plates are among the great artistic achievements of that monumental campaign. The work was first published in two folio volumes in 1802. Later that year the present edition was published with the text in large quarto and the atlas in “folio atlantique”; octavo, duodecimo, and other editions followed. “Denon’s work has been justly praised. As a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt, he remained in Egypt for thirteen months, working continuously to record the Egyptian monuments. He was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe” – Atabey. BLACKMER 471. GAY 1998. ATABEY 338 (1807 ed). CARRE I, pp.118-25. HOW- GEGO D34. $20,000.

Extraordinary Broadside Celebrating Drake’s Circumnavigation in 1581

49. [Drake, Francis]: FRANCISCUS DRAECK NOBILISSIMUS EQUES ANGLIAE IS EST QUI TOTO T TERRARUM ORBE CIRCUMDUCTO.... [Nuremberg. ca. 1581]. Etched illustrated broadside on two joined sheets, 29 x 57 cm. Minor wear at lower left and upper right corners. Small rust spot in the text. Near fine. Framed, glazed, and matted.

A very rare portrait of Sir Francis Drake on a German broadside, celebrating his circumnavigation of the world and so most likely published after 1580. It is one of the very few lifetime portraits of Drake and is a marvelous representation. Drake is shown full length, in armor, holding a firearm, standing at a port, also illustrat- ing three men loading a ship, with two columns of German poetry in the center. Another copy of this broadside is in the John Carter Brown Library, a gift of Henry C. Taylor in 1944. The two columns of German poetry in the center refer to Drake’s recent return from his voyage and invoke the image in the broadside of him loading his ship with powder to fight the enemies of Christendom. It then warns soldiers not to act as mercenaries for non-Christians. As Drake never fought the Turks nor any non-Christian government, it seems likely that the author of this broadside sought to exploit Drake’s fame as a privateer and successful military leader for Queen Elizabeth, as a model for Germans to serve Christendom in the war against the Turks. Andresen ascribes the etching to Balthasar Jenichen (fl. 1563-92, died before 1621), a prolific artist of Nuremberg. Drugulin describes a copy with that artist’s name inscribed in the plate, “B. Jenichen fec.,” and a copy of the unsigned state appeared in Ludwig Rosenthal catalogue 85 in 1892 as item 427, from which it was sold to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Rosenthal assigned to the etching a date of circa 1568, which seems impossible given the inscription. Our copy is the state without the artist’s name, as is the copy at the John Carter Brown. The most extensive discussion of Drake portraiture, in Wagner, does not mention this example. None of the examples reproduced there, painted or engraved, show the same treatment of the face, though the pose and type of armor are reminiscent of the famous “Hondius” portrait. In his discussion of the John Carter Brown acquisition, Lawrence Wroth notes that a copy of the portrait alone is noted in the Gardiner Greene Hubbard collection in the Library of Congress. He also notes that from that copy the portrait was reproduced by John Fiske in his Beginnings of New England (1898), the only instance of its use known to Wroth. It is not listed in O’Donaghue’s Catalogue of Engraved English Portraiture in the British Museum. A fine copy of an extraordinary illustrated broadside, of the greatest interest for the early history of world travel and exploration. JCB, MARITIME HISTORY: A PRELIMINARY HANDLIST (1979) 1103 (dated 1588 by conjecture of L. Wroth). JCB, REPORT 1943/44, pp.23-27. WAGNER, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE’S VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD (1926), p.509, note 62. W. DRUGULIN, HISTORISCHER BILDERATLAS...ZWEITER THEIL (1867) 558. ANDRESEN, DEUTSCHE PEINTRE-GRAVEUR II:58. HOLLSTEIN XVB 162. $120,000.

Rare German Edition of the Drake Raid on Cadiz

50. [Drake, Francis]: RELATION WAS DER CAPITAN DRACKH VNND COLONEL NORIZ WELCHE ANNO 1589. AN STAT DER KUNIGIN IN ENGELLAND, DEN DON ANTONIO IN DAS KONIGREICH PORTUGAL EINSETZEN, VND DIE SPAN- NIER DARAUSS VERTREIBEN SOLLEN, MIT JRER MECHTI- GEN ARMADA VON DER ZEIT AN, ALS SIE ABGEFAHRN BISS SIE WIDER HAIM KOMMEN, AUSSGERICHT. Munich: Bey Adam Berg, [n.d., ca. 1590]. [32]pp. Small quarto. Modern paneled calf, gilt morocco label. Minor wear to calf. Occasional light foxing. Else near fine.

A very rare German printing of an account of Drake’s raid on Spain in 1589, a retaliatory attack in the wake of the Armada the year before, most likely based on Anthony Wingfield’s narrative printed soon after the event. The expedition, led by Drake and Sir John Norreys, sailed from Plymouth on April 17, but met with failure in its main objective of starting a rebellion in Portugal against King Philip II of Spain. It mostly consisted of private ships with privateering permission. An attack on Coruna alerted the Spanish, and by the time the expedition reached Lisbon, the city was too well defended to accomplish anything. Contrary winds scattered the ships, and they returned to England in disorder. This German edition is lacking from Kraus’ extensive Drake catalogue, and the only copies we locate are at the British Library, the Hispanic Society of America, the John Carter Brown Library, Yale, and The New York Public Library. HUTH CATALOGUE 2454 ( JCB copy). QUINN & EDWARDS, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, p.46. PALAU 76149. JCB (3)I:322. $9500.

The First Edition of The World Encompassed, with the Very Rare Map

51. [Drake, Francis]: THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED BY SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, BEING HIS NEXT VOYAGE TO THAT TO NOMBRE DE DIOS FORMERLY IMPRINTED; CAREFULLY COLLECTED OUT OF THE NOTES OF MASTER FRANCIS FLETCHER.... London: Printed for Nicholas Bourne, 1628. [4],108pp. plus folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Modern brown morocco, gilt, by Aquarius, spine gilt extra, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Frontispiece portrait trimmed out- side original plate mark, expertly inlaid in larger sheet. Folding map fine. Minor expert marginal paper repairs. Paper loss on upper right corner of leaf I3 affecting a few letters of text, also expertly repaired. Overall a very nice, large copy.

The first edition of one of the most important works in the history of exploration, the narrative of Sir Francis Drake’s famous circumnavigation of the world in 1577- 80, the first detailed account of the voyage to be published. The present copy is complete with the portrait of Drake and the highly important map of the world, usually lacking. Drake’s circumnavigation, the second successful voyage around the world (the first being Magellan’s expedition), extended British maritime power into the Pacific for the first time, threatened the Spanish empire in America to its heart, opened a new age in British seamanship, and made Drake a rich man. Sailing from Plymouth in December 1577, the expedition reached Patagonia in June 1578, weathered a near mutiny, and saw the second ship, the Elizabeth, turn back during the stormy passage of the Straits of Magellan. Drake sailed on alone in the Golden Hind, raiding Spanish commerce along the Pacific coast of the Americas and culminating his piracy with the seizure of a major treasure galleon. This exploit allowed him to pay a 4600% dividend to his backers on returning to England. In 1579 he explored northward up the California coast, discovered San Francisco Bay, and went as far north as Vancouver. He then crossed the Pacific, took on a cargo of spices in the East Indies, and went home by the Cape of Good Hope, arriving back at Plymouth in September 1580. It was the most heroic feat of seamanship of the age. For reasons of secrecy and diplomacy, the story of the voyage was kept veiled at the time, with brief accounts appearing much later in the works of Hakluyt and De Bry. This version, the first really detailed account, did not appear until after the death of James I. It is largely based on the narrative of the chaplain of the voyage, Francis Fletcher, but with considerable editorial additions and deletions, probably by Drake’s nephew and heir. The portrait of Drake which appears here, showing him facing to the right, his arm over a globe and navigational instruments by him on a table, appears in two issues, one with the verses below the portrait in English, the other in Latin. Pres- ent is the Latin version (there is no known priority). The double hemisphere map of the world is of great interest and importance. Entitled “A New and Accurate Mappe of the World, Drawne According to the Best and Latest Discoveries That Have Been Made,” it was engraved by Robert Vaughan. The margins contain various decorative figures and the portraits of circumnaviga- tors Drake, Magellan, Cavendish, and Noort. A caption notes of the Straits of Magellan: “Twice in our age hath these straits been passed by Englishmen, the first was Sir Francis Drake Ano. 1578 the second by Mr. Thomas Cavendish in the year 1586.” Kraus notes there are two issues of the map, one with the engraved caption “Fol. 61” in the upper left corner, the other without. The present copy is the latter issue, probably the second, since the erased “Fol. 61” from the plate can still be seen faintly (see Kraus page 84 for a reproduction of this map). A book of the greatest possible importance and rarity, one of the great classics of the Age of Discovery. CHURCH 413. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 628/37. JCB II(1):214. SABIN 20853. KRAUS, DRAKE 42. WAGNER, SPANISH SOUTHWEST 31. STC 7161. TAYLOR 311. SHIRLEY 326. WAGNER, NORTHWEST COAST 304. $225,000.

A French Naval Officer’s Travels Around the World

52. Dralsé de Grandpierre: RELATION DE DIVERS VOYAGES FAITS DANS L’AFRIQUE, DANS L’AMERIQUE, & AUX INDES OC- CIDENTALES. LA DESCRIPTION DU ROYAUME DE JUDA, & QUELQUES PARTICULARITEZ TOUCHANT LA VIE DU ROY REGNANT. LA RELATION D’UNE ISLE NOUVELLE- MENT HABITÉE DANS LE DÉTROIT DE MALACA EN ASIE, & L’HISTOIRE DE DEUX PRINCES DE GOLCONDE. Paris: Claude Jombert, 1718. [10],352,[4]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt me- dallion on boards, spine gilt extra, gilt leather label. Discrete institutional ownership stamp on titlepage. Some very minor age-toning, otherwise clean and fresh. A very good copy.

First edition of this rare collection of travels. Dralsé de Grandpierre was a French naval officer, and this volume recounts his journeys around the world from 1700 to 1718. He gives a description of Buenos Aires, the city, people, and commerce there, as well as an account of naval combat against the British in the Caribbean, with descriptions of the coasts of Guinea and Martinique. Much space is devoted to Mexico, including Veracruz and Mexico City, and an account of the Spanish conquest and a description of the Mexican people. Another part of the text dis- cusses a newly discovered island in the Straits of Malacca. There is also much on Africa and the kingdoms of Juda and Benin. A notable collection of French travels. SABIN 20885, 28273. LeCLERC 266 (note). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 718/48. PALAU 260452. CIORANESCU 25362. $9500.

53. Duflot de Mofras, Eugene: MENDOZA ET NAVARRETE. NO- TICES BIOGRAPHIQUES. Paris. 1845. 72pp. Large folio. 19th-century cloth, spine stamped in black. Corners rubbed. Later notes on front endpapers and on one text leaf by Henry Harrisse. Very good.

Duflot de Mofras, a French diplomat and early traveller to California, here offers a study of two Spanish explorers and sailors Pedro de Mendoza and Martin Fernandez de Navarrete. Pedro de Mendoza (1487-1537) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who founded the colony of Rio de la Plata and the city of Buenos Aires. Martin Fernandez de Navarrete (1765-1844) was a Spanish sailor and historian who held a number of important posts in the ministry of the marine, and did significant work on Spain’s maritime history. This copy bears the ownership markings and signature of bibliographer and historian Henry Harrisse (1823-1910), who was the author of several works on Spanish exploration and the discovery of the Americas, including Jean et Sebastian Cabot (1882), Christophe Colombe (1884-85), and Biblio- theca Americana Vetustissima (1866). Duflot de Mofras is best known for his Pacific voyage and exploration of the California, Oregon, and Washington coast, described in a narrative published the year before this volume. $2000.

54. Duke, George: THE LIFE OF MAJOR-GENERAL WORGE, COLONEL OF THE 86th REGIMENT OF FOOT, AND GOV- ERNOR OF SENEGAL IN AFRICA; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SETTLEMENTS OF SENEGAL AND GOREE. London. 1844. vii,152pp. plus errata slip, two handcolored maps (one folding) and two plates. Original red publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gold, rebacked, with origi- nal spine laid down. Bookplate on front pastedown and fly leaf. Minor foxing. Very good.

Biography of Richard Alchorne Worge (1707-74), first governor of the British settlements in Senegambia from 1758 to 1763. This work includes a description of the native inhabitants of the country, as well as the landscape and wildlife. An important work for the involvement of the British in the African slave trade during the Seven Years’ War. The maps show Senegambia and the coast of northwestern Africa, and the island of Goree. OCLC lists only ten copies. OCLC 28815655. $850.

The Real Jack Aubrey

55. Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of: NARRATIVE OF SER- VICES IN THE LIBERATION OF CHILI, PERU, AND BRAZIL, FROM SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE DOMINATION. London: James Ridgway, 1859. Two volumes. xxii,293; xi,305pp. Original blue pebbled cloth. Spine ends darkened and lightly worn. Front hinge of first volume tender. Moderate age-toning, occasional foxing. Very good.

Dundonald had an almost impossibly romantic life, one of the most effective English naval officers of the Napoleonic era, and the model for the fictional Capt. Jack Aubrey of “Master and Commander” fame. From an ancient Scottish family, he had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy until expelled in 1818 on the false accusation of stock market fraud. He left for South America, becoming the com- mander of the Chilean Navy from 1819 to 1822 during their war of independence from Spain. From 1823 to 1825 he occupied a similar position in the Brazilian navy before returning to Europe to fight for Greek independence. He was later reinstated in the Royal Navy and became a rear admiral. The first volume of this work is devoted to Dundonald’s Chilean years, and the second volume relates the Brazilian period. Besides his naval efforts, there is much on the politics of the period in both countries. A fascinating narrative by a man frequently mentioned by other Pacific mariners of the period. SABIN 21274. NAYLOR 6. DNB IV, pp.621-31. $2750.

Privately Printed in a Small Edition

56. [DuPont, Samuel F.]: OFFICIAL DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF REAR ADMIRAL DU PONT, U.S. NAVY. 1846-48. 1861-63. Wilmington, De. 1883. [2],531pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Contempo- rary ownership inscriptions on front fly leaf. Internally quite clean. Very good.

Both this work and DuPont’s Extracts from Private Journal-Letters... were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that the present volume is even rarer than its companion. The first section is devoted to dispatches sent by DuPont from Cali- fornia during the Mexican-American War, when he transported Fremont and his troops from Monterey to San Diego and attacked Mexican shipping in the Gulf of California. He also commanded the Atlantic blockading forces against the Confederacy for the first two years of the Civil War. This copy has ownership inscriptions from two DuPont family members on the front fly leaf, A. Bidermann DuPont and Meta DuPont Coleman. EBERSTADT 132:174. HOWES D589, “b.” GARRETT, p.207. HILL 520. $2250.

Spanish Newsletter on Portuguese Wars in Asia, 1625

57. [Dutch-Portuguese War]: RELACION CIERTA Y VERDADERA DE LA FELIZ VITORIA Y PROSPEROS SUCESSOS QUE EN LA INDIA ORIENTAL HAN CONSEGUIDO LOS PORTUGUESES, CONTRA ARMADAS MUY PODEROSAS DE OLANDO, Y PER- SIA, ESTE AÑO DE 1624. LA FECHA EN LA CIUDAD DE GOA, CABEÇA DE AQUEL REYNO, A 27. DE MARÇO, DEL DICHO AÑO, Y VINO EN LA NAO SANTO TOMÊ. Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, 1625. [4]pp. In Spanish. Decorative woodcut initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Light contemporary annotations in margins of each page. Early folds. Loss, repaired in silk, to gutter and outer margins and along one fold, affecting a few characters of text on p.[4]. Overall very good.

Rare Spanish newsletter reporting on recent victories by the Portuguese against the Dutch, the Persians, and others throughout Asia in 1624. The early 17th century saw the Dutch begin to present a serious threat to Portuguese power and commerce in the East, and by the mid-1620s the Portuguese were beleaguered by constant at- tacks by the Dutch navy and its various Asian allies. The present Spanish newsletter celebrates one of the last great series of Dutch defeats by the Portuguese, who are lauded here by their Iberian partners as worldwide defenders of the Catholic faith holding their ground against overwhelming odds. Within a few years the Dutch would clearly gain the upper hand in Asia, both militarily and commercially, and by 1663 would control much of the Malabar Coast, Ceylon, Indonesia, Malacca, and European trade with Japan, leaving Portugal only with bases at Macao, East Timor, and Portuguese India. The newsletter discusses several naval battles off the coast of Persia, down the Malabar Coast to Ceylon, to Malacca, China, and Macao. A significant portion of the pamphlet describes the heavy Portuguese losses sustained by repeated attacks on Macao by the Dutch, who by this time had established a base in the Pescadores Islands. In the last paragraph attention is turned to the activities of the Jesuits in Ethiopia (described here as the “Realm of Prester John”) and the recent conversion of Ethiopian King Suseynos to Roman Catholicism. Palau records four printings of the text, assigning priority to the present document and locating one copy at the National Library in Madrid. Palau also notes that a copy of this printing was sold by Maggs Bros. for £5 5s in 1927 and by Melchor García for 35 pesetas in 1934. OCLC locates four copies, at the Bavarian State Library in Germany, the University of Amsterdam, the Newberry Library, and the University of Chicago. PALAU 257729. $5500.

Defending India Against the Dutch in the Seven Years’ War

58. [East India Company]: A DEFENCE OF THE UNITED COMPANY OF MERCHANTS OF ENGLAND, TRADING TO THE EAST- INDIES, AND THEIR SERVANTS, (PARTICULARLY THOSE AT BENGAL) AGAINST THE COMPLAINTS OF THE DUTCH EAST-INDIA COMPANY.... London. 1762. [4],71pp. plus folding plan. Quarto. Dbd. Quite clean. Very good.

The Seven Years’ War (known in America as the French and Indian War) has often been considered the first “world war” because the European powers contested with each other in every sphere of the globe. This led to clashes in India between the French, British, Dutch, and Portuguese. This is a rebuttal to a memorial published by the Dutch East India Company in which the Dutch East India Company “ex- culpate their servants in India from the charge contained in the Memorial of the 14th August, of committing hostilities against the English in Bengal...and even to introduce and give colour to other complaints, no way relative to the English Memorial.” It details aggressions by the Dutch against the British in India from 1756 to the time of writing. The plan shows the fort at Bangalore. ESTC T97097. KRESS 6007. GOLDSMITHS 9776. $2250.

59. Ellis, Henry: A VOYAGE TO HUDSON’S-BAY, BY THE DOBBS GALLEY AND CALIFORNIA, IN THE YEARS 1746 AND 1747, FOR DISCOVERING A NORTH WEST PASSAGE; WITH AN ACCURATE SURVEY OF THE COAST, AND A SHORT NATU- RAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY. TOGETHER WITH A FAIR VIEW OF THE FACTS AND ARGUMENTS FROM WHICH THE FUTURE FINDING OF SUCH A PASSAGE IS RENDERED PROBABLE. Dublin. 1749. xvi,152pp. plus map. Contemporary calf, later gilt-stamped spine, blind decorative tooling on edges. Map neatly handcolored. Neat armorial bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary notations on verso of front free endpaper. Very good.

Later Dublin edition, after the first and second London editions. “The first part contains a synopsis of twenty-three English voyages to discover the Northwest Passage, a history of the rise of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the discovery at- tempted from New England. The second part gives an account of a voyage under Captains Moor and Francis Smith, financed by private subscription, with Arthur Dobbs the leading subscriber. Ellis, also a subscriber, was hydrographer, surveyor, and mineralogist on the expedition, which proved, finally, the nonexistence of a Northwest Passage from Hudson Bay. The voyage led to a rapid decline of British interest in the search for a Northwest Passage, which was not revived until 1816. The work includes many valuable observations on tides, on the vagaries of the com- pass, and on the customs of the Eskimos, people then practically unknown” – Hill. SABIN 22312. HILL 540 (ref ). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 749/95. $1000.

The St. Vincent Botanical Garden

60. Ellis, John: SOME ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE METHOD OF PRESERVING SEEDS FROM FOREIGN PARTS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR AMERICAN COLONIES. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE GARDEN AT ST. VINCENT, UNDER THE CARE OF GEORGE YOUNG. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nich- ols, 1773. 15pp. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt. Slight age toning. A near fine copy.

John Ellis (1710-76) was one of the most diligent “seed-men” at work during the Second Great Age of Exploration, overseeing the collecting of seeds and young plants from all parts of the world and importing them to Europe. In this, one of his rarest works, he discusses methods for preserving seeds gathered in North America, and shipping plants from the East Indies to the Caribbean, where he was convinced the monoculture of sugar cane could be supplanted by other tropical products. To demonstrate this he gives a brief account of some of the tropical products being grown at George Young’s new botanical garden on the island of St. Vincent, in the Grenadines, where East Indian spices such as nutmeg and coriander were being grown next to tea, almonds, and olives. The St. Vincent Botanical Garden, which survives today, was founded in 1765, and this is the earliest description of it. Ellis was an agent for West Florida and Dominica, and corresponded widely with other naturalists of his day. Linnaeus proclaimed him “the main support of natural his- tory in England.” Of great rarity; only a handful of copies in ESTC, and no copies in auction records. ESTC T49239. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE I:32746. $8500.

A Work of the Greatest Rarity and Beauty

61. [Espinosa y Tello, Jose]: ATLAS PARA EL VIAGE DE LAS GO- LETAS SUTIL Y MEXICANA AL RECONOCIMIENTO DEL ESTRECHO DE JUAN DE FUCA EN 1792. [Madrid: La Imprenta Real], 1802. Letterpress title (verso blank) and contents leaf. Nine engraved maps (four folding), eight plates (two folding aquatint views, six engraved plates). Folio. Period marbled wrappers. Minor dampstaining, else very good.

The atlas to one of the scarcest Pacific voyages and the last great Spanish exploration of Nootka Sound and the northwest coast of America. The two ships, Sutil and Mexicana, were associated with the Malaspina expedition but pursued a separate course and made their own observations. The ships made a complete survey of the shore at the east end of the strait of Juan de Fuca on the coast of present-day British Columbia, arriving at Nootka Sound in the spring of 1792 and working through the summer. This atlas contains notable maps and plates associated with the expedition. The maps show the California coast from Baja to the northwest, Vancouver Island and the waters around it, the coast of Alaska and British Columbia, a more detailed map of California from Cape San Lucas to Cape Mendicino, the port of San Diego, Monterey Bay, Nootka, and two more bays near Juan de Fuca. The plates include two wonderful folding aquatints of scenes at Nootka showing native houses, boats, and scenery; two portraits of Nootka chiefs; a plate of the famous shaman prayer box; and two plates of native woodcarving. GRAFF 1262. HILL 570 (ref ). HOWES G18. LADA-MOCARSKI 56. PALAU 82853, 82854. REESE & MILES, CREATING AMERICA 98. SABIN 69221. STREETER SALE 2459. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 252, 861. $18,500.

62. Esquemeling, Alexander: PIRATAS DE LA AMERICA, Y LUZ A LA DEFENSA DE LAS COSTAS DE INDIAS OCCIDENTALES.... Madrid. 1793. xxiv,228,[4]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf. Extremities lightly worn. Rather clean internally. Very good.

The third Spanish edition, after the rare first two editions of 1681 and 1682, of Esquemeling’s famous book, the classic account of pirates in the Caribbean, on the Spanish Main, and in the South Seas. First published in Amsterdam in 1678 as De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, it next appeared in Cologne in Spanish in 1681. The first English edition, translated from the second Spanish edition and not from the original, was published in 1684. Rare on the market. PALAU 85732. SABIN 23474. $2500.

63. Esquemeling, Alexander Oliver, [et al]: THE HISTORY OF THE BUCANIERS OF AMERICA; FROM THEIR FIRST ORIGINAL DOWN TO THIS TIME; WRITTEN IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES; AND NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME.... London. 1699. [4],180,[4],180,[12],204pp. plus fourteen plates and numerous in-text maps and illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked, spine gilt, leather label. Boards rubbed at extremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light soiling, some light age toning. About very good.

The best and most extensive account of the British and French pirates of the Carib- bean, and the primary source book on the romantic era of freebooting on the Span- ish Main. This work has served as the basis for many novels, stories and dramas, as well as establishing the reputations of a number of pirates. A collection of four works, including that of Esquemeling; an account by Basil Ringrose, first published in 1685 as Bucaniers of America; Raveneau de Lussan’s Journal of a Voyage; and the fourth part, Montauban’s Relation of a Voyage. European Americana indicates that a separate titlepage appears before part three (Raveneau de Lussan), which is not present here. At least one of those described in the work was not happy with the way he was portrayed: Sir Henry Morgan sued for defamation of character, and was awarded £200 and a public apology. The plates include portraits of some of the buccaneers in the narrative, including Morgan, as well as numerous maps of areas in Latin America. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 699/72. SABIN 23483. MEDINA (BHA) 1714n. WING E3899. JCB (4):393. ESTC R39523. $4500.

A Connecticut Yankee Explores the South Seas

64. Fanning, Edmund: VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; WITH SELECTED SKETCHES OF VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS, CHINA, etc....BE- TWEEN 1792 AND 1832. New York. 1833. 499pp. plus five plates (two folding), including frontispiece. Modern brown three-quarter morocco, spine gilt with raised bands. Ownership ink stamp on fly leaf. Moderate dampstain- ing, primarily at edges; light to moderate foxing. Very good.

Fanning, a native of Connecticut, set sail in 1792 for the South Seas in search of seal skins. During the following twenty-five years he made voyages around the world and to the Pacific, visiting Australia, south Georgia, Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. He discovered a number of islands, one of which still bears his name. Included is a narrative of the first American naval exploring expedition to the southern hemisphere in 1829-30. HILL 581. FERGUSON 1643. HOWES F27, “aa.” SABIN 23780. FORBES 839. $2250.

65. Fellows, Charles: A JOURNAL WRITTEN DURING AN EXCUR- SION IN ASIA MINOR. London. 1839. x,[1],347pp. plus folding map and twenty plates. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Minor foxing to plates, else very good.

“The appearance of this journal excited such interest that the British Museum un- dertook three subsequent expeditions, under Fellows’s direction....In February, 1838, he disembarked at Smyrna and began to explore the interior of the surrounding country. In Lycia, an area relatively unknown to European travellers, he discovered the ruins of cities which had existed prior to 300 B.C.” – Blackmer. The British Museum subsequently removed numerous marbles from the area. BLACKMER 578. $750.

Scarce Account of Early Spanish Voyages to the New World

66. Fernandez de Navarrete, Martin: NOTICIA HISTORICA DE LAS EXPEDICIONES HECHAS POR LOS ESPANOLES EN BUSCA DEL PASO DEL NOROESTE DE LA AMERICA. Madrid: La Im- prenta Real, 1802. [8],clxviii pp. Small quarto. Modern vellum, title in manu- script on spine. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean internally. Near fine.

The scarce separate printing of Navarrete’s review of all Spanish voyages in search of the Northwest Passage, deemed by Lada-Mocarski “unsurpassed in importance.” The work is usually found as the first part of the account of the voyage of Sutil and Mexicana, ascribed to Jose Espinosa y Tello, also published in Madrid in 1802. According to the Hill catalogue, “a few copies [of Navarrete’s history] were issued as separate books.” Navarrete’s work is very detailed and accompanied by informative footnotes. Wagner asserts that “Navarrete was the first Spanish writer to present a comprehensive sketch of the voyages to the northwest coast based on original documents in the archives in Spain.” His work begins with a discussion of Columbus’ voyages, and takes the story of Spanish explorations into the Pacific and up the Northwest Coast all the way through the 18th century. Navarrete was an experienced Spanish sailor and a highly respected naval historian. Howes calls this work “a splendid historical sketch of earlier Spanish explorations.” HILL 594. LADA-MOCARSKI 56. HOWES G18 (note). WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST, p.13. PALAU 89455. SABIN 69221 (ref ). $2250. A Presentation Set of a Key Northwest Coast Exploration, Inscribed to the Admiralty Hydrographer

67. Fleurieu, Charles Pierre Claret de: VOYAGE AUTOUR DE MONDE, PENDANT LES ANNEES 1790, 1791, ET 1792, PAR ETIENNE MARCHAND, PRECEDE D’UNE INTRODUCTION HISTO- RIQUE; AUQEL ON A JOINT DES RECHERCHES SUR LES TERRES AUSTRALES DE DRAKE, ET UN EXAMEN CRI- TIQUE DU VOYAGE DE ROGGEWEEN. Paris. 1798-1800. Four volumes. xii,cxliv,628,[3]pp. plus folding table; [iii]-xvi,676,[2]; xi,[1],431,[3]; [2],viii,158,[2]pp. plus sixteen maps (some folding) and plates. Quarto. Later 19th-century half calf and purple cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover with the seal of the Admiralty Library, rebacked with gilt spines. Minor rubbing at edges and corners. Occasional light foxing to margins and maps. Overall a very good set.

A presentation set, inscribed by the author: “A Monsieur Alex. Dalrymple de la part de l’Auteur.” This is a special wide-margined presentation copy, with all volumes in matching large quarto size. A most desirable presentation to the hydrographer of the East India company, Alexander Dalrymple, who later served in the Admiralty in the same capacity. An account of the second French circumnavigation and the first French com- mercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest. Marchand, commander of the voyage, had learned of the lucrative potential for the fur trade in that region from British captain Portlock. He sailed via Cape Horn, stopped at the Marquesas, and traded along the Northwest Coast in the summer of 1791. He provides detailed descrip- tions of Norfolk Sound and Sitka, followed by a particularly detailed account of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and further explorations as far as the southern end of Vancouver Island. “A very important and authoritative work for the history of the Northwest Coast” – Lada-Mocarski. From North America Marchand sailed to Hawaii and then to Macao, where he failed to sell his valuable cargo of furs. He then returned to France, where the Revolutionary government confiscated his cargo. The voyage was a loss for its investors. Marchand died in 1793 and Count Fleurieu, himself an experienced Pacific explorer, took over the editing and publication of the material from the voyage, as well as adding an authoritative history of Pacific exploration and dis- coveries along the American coast. Considerable text is also devoted to natural history exploration en route. The detailed maps are of Alaska and the Northwest Coast, the Marquesas, and Hawaii. A superb set of an important work, seldom found on large paper. HILL, pp.105-6. STREETER SALE 3496. LADA-MOCARSKI 54. HOWES F195, “b.” EBERSTADT NORTHWEST COAST 111. WICKERSHAM 6622. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST I:212. SABIN 24751. $25,000. “The most outstanding book on the coastal exploration of Australia” – Wantrup

68. Flinders, Matthew, Capt.: A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, UNDERTAKEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPLETING THE DISCOVERY OF THAT VAST COUNTRY, AND PROSECUTED IN THE YEARS 1801, 1802 AND 1803, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE INVESTIGATOR, AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN THE ARMED VESSEL PORPOISE AND CUMBERLAND SCHOONER. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE PORPOISE, AR- RIVAL OF THE CUMBERLAND AT MAURITIUS, AND IMPRIS- ONMENT OF THE COMMANDER DURING SIX YEARS AND A HALF IN THAT ISLAND. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. Two text volumes plus atlas. [4],x,[10],cciv,269; [4],613pp. Quarto text volumes: Half titles. Nine engraved plates by J. Byrne, John Pye, W. Woolnoth, I. Scott, Edward Finden, and S. Middiman after William Westall. Folio atlas: Mounted on guards throughout. Sixteen engraved maps (ten dou- ble-page); two double-page plates of coastal profiles; and ten botanical plates by Elz. Byrne (three), F. Sansom (four), John Pye (one), and two unsigned, all after Ferdinand Bauer. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia and period marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco labels. Very good. Text uncut.

A fine set of the first edition of the official account of the first English circum- navigation of Australia: a cornerstone of Pacific exploration. Flinders, who had sailed as a midshipman on Bligh’s second voyage, sailed from England on July 18, 1801 on his ship Investigator, on a full-scale expedition to explore the entire coastline of Australia. During the next two years he surveyed the entire south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to Bass Strait, the east coast, and the Gulf of Secretaria, and he returned to Port Jackson in 1803 having completed the first circumnavigation of Australia. On the return journey Flinders was detained by the French in Mauritius for six and a half years and was not released until June 1810. He devoted the remainder of his life to the publication of this important work, which was formally published one day before his death on July 19, 1814. Flinders’ Voyage is a day-by-day record of the expedition and includes a lengthy introduction detailing earlier South Seas voyages and an appendix by Robert Brown, the botanist who accompanied the expedition. Flinders took great pains to insure the accuracy of the work. The charts contained in the atlas were used for naviga- tion for over a century and became the basis for much of the future cartography of Australia. The text volumes include plates engraved after watercolors by landscape painter William Westall, the official artist of the expedition. These images are among the earliest published views of many of the places visited. The earliest issues of the plates and maps in the atlas all have the imprint of the publishers, G. & W. Nicol, and are dated 1814. Subsequent issues include imprints with the Nicols’ names removed and replaced with “Published as the act directs by Capt. Hurd R.N. Hydrographer to the Admiralty.” The present set includes the first-issue maps and plates. DAVIDSON, pp.121-23. FERGUSON 576. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, p.94. HILL 614. INGLETON 6487. KROEPELIEN 438. NISSEN BBI 637. TOOLEY 570-585. STAFLEU & COWAN 1806. WANTRUP 67a, pp.138-44. $90,000.

A Scandinavian Bear and Moose

69. [Folk Art]: [PAIR OF CHARMING SCANDINAVIAN FOLK DRAWINGS DEPICTING HUNTING SCENES IN THE SNOW]. [N.p. Early 19th century]. Two pastel drawings, each 10¾ x 14 inches. With contemporary frames. Minor wear at edges of sheets, else fine.

Two well executed folk drawings depicting a bear and a moose, each with a tiny figure hunting in the background. Each scene is set in a snow-covered landscape. In the first image the bear is shown walking with a snarl on his face, one paw raised. He occupies most of the foreground. In the background on the far left, barely noticeable and set back a considerable distance, is the top half of a small person holding a rifle. The second drawing shows an enormous moose, who occupies almost the entire sheet. The hunter is still on the left, but positioned directly next to the moose, nearly under his hooves. In the perspective shown, the hunter is no taller than one of the moose’s legs, and his features are more defined than in the picture with the bear. Each image is signed at the bottom. The bear reads, “Wog in Natura, 28. lispund”; the moose is inscribed: “Wog 61. lispund, och 12 marck.” $1500. Natural History from Cook’s Second Voyage

70. Forster, Joannes Reinoldus and Georgius: CHARACTERES GENERUM PLANTARUM, QUAS IN ITINERE AD INSULAS MARIS AUSTRALIS, COLLEGERUNT, DESCRIPSERUNT, DE- LINEARUNT, ANNIS 1772 – 1775. London: B. White, T. Cadell, & P. Elmsly, 1776. x,[2],viii,150,[3]pp. plus seventy-eight engraved plates. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Titlepage slightly soiled and cleaned, some scattered stains, else a nice copy.

First edition, first issue of this important botanical work on Australia and New Zealand, also published in a folio edition of eight copies the same year. This was the first scientific work, in fact one of the earliest publications of any kind, published as a result of Cook’s second voyage. It lists the botanical discoveries made during the voyage, following a Linnaean classification system. The descriptions are by Anders Sparrman, and the engravings are after drawings by the younger Forster. The Forsters, father and son, travelled as scientists on the second voyage. Char- acteres... was one of the earliest publications resulting from that journey. Marra’s surreptitious narrative had been published the previous year, and in 1776 only this and the anonymously written Second Voyage Round the World appeared. In 1777 both the Forsters’ narrative and the official account by Cook were published, along with Wales and Bayly’s Astronomical Observations, followed a year later by the Forsters’ Observations.... The rush to get Characteres in print should probably be seen in the light of the quarrel with the Admiralty over the Forsters’ claims to publishing rights for their official account of the voyage. This preemptive scientific publication may well have been intended to show the strength of the Forster claim. The Forsters’ intellectual arrogance has earned them considerable ridicule, including some criticism of the present work “owing to the minute scale on which the plants were drawn as compared with the size of the paper” (Holmes). The Hill catalogue notes, “it has been said to be the foundation of our knowledge of New Zealand, Antarctic and Polynesian vegetation...,” but scientifically it is now seen as rather slight. Nevertheless, the book is one of the earliest sources of our knowl- edge of the plants of Australia and Polynesia, it has considerable significance for the history of Cook’s second voyage, and it is one of a perhaps surprisingly small number of monuments to the major scientific achievements of the three voyages. BEDDIE 1385. HILL 627. HOLMES 17. NISSEN (BBI) 644. PRITZEL 2981. SABIN 25134. ROSOVE ANTARCTIC 139. $7500.

The French East India Company

71. [French East India Company]: MÉMOIRE PRÉSENTÉ AU MIN- ISTRE, ET A LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES, POUR LE SIEUR DELASELLE, CONSEILLER AU CONSEIL SUPÉRIEUR DE PONDICHÉRY. Paris. 1764. [2],75pp. Quarto. Contemporary marbled wrappers, stitched. Very minor soiling and wear. Near fine.

A defense of the Sieur de la Selle and an account of his service with the Compagnie des Indes in India during the Seven Years’ War. Only one copy located in OCLC, at the Bibliothèque Nationale in France. $1500.

72. [French East India Company]: [Necker, Jacques]: RÉPONSE AU MÉ- MOIRE DE M. L’ABBÉ MORELLET, SUR LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES, IMPRIMÉE EN EXÉCUTION DE LA DÉLIBERATION DE MRS. LES ACTIONNAIRES, PRISE DANS L’ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE DU 8 AOUT 1769. Paris. 1769. [2],50pp. Quarto. Con- temporary marbled wrappers, stitched. Spine lightly worn and faded. Minor foxing to first and last leaves. Very good plus.

Jacques Necker (1732-1804) was serving as a director of the French East India Company when he penned this rebuttal to the Mémoire of Abbe Morellet. Morellet had argued against the Compagnie’s trading monopoly, which Necker here defends. Necker would become Finance Minister under Louis XVI until the French Revolu- tion. $1250.

73. [French East India Company]: [Morellet, André]: MÉMOIRES RELA- TIVES A LA DISCUSSION DU PRIVILÉGE DE LA NOUVELLE COMPAGNIE DES INDES. Amsterdam & Paris. 1787. [2],140pp. Quar- to. Contemporary blue wrappers, stitched. Spine with some wear and chipping. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine. Untrimmed.

Mémoires of the French East India Company, freshly reconstituted in 1785 after its liquidation in 1769. The text includes figures on investor shares and the business of the Company. Seven copies are listed in OCLC. $1250.

74. [French East India Company]: CONSULTATION POUR LES AC- TIONNAIRES DE LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES. Paris. 1788. 103, [1],24pp. plus folding letterpress table. Quarto. Contemporary blue paper wrappers, stitched. Minor wear and soiling. Near fine.

Memorial of the French East India Company, freshly reconstituted in 1785 after its liquidation in 1769. Twenty-four pages of tables provide a detailed accounting of the Compagnie’s commercial activities from 1769 through 1777, while the text advocates the importance of the Compagnie and details its further activities to date. Fewer than ten copies are located in OCLC. $1500.

75. Gray, William: TRAVELS IN WESTERN AFRICA, IN THE YEARS 1818, 19, 20, AND 21, FROM THE RIVER GAMBIA, THROUGH WOOLLI, BONDOO, GALAM, KASSON, KAARTA, AND FOOLIDOO, TO THE RIVER NIGER. London. 1825. [iii]-xv,[1], 413pp. plus fourteen plates (ten aquatints and four lithographs) and a fold- ing map. Lacks the half title. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, leather label. Minor foxing on title and frontispiece, other wise internally clean. Very good.

An account of a British exploring expedition whose goal was to explore the interior of Africa starting on the western coast with the goal of locating the source of the Niger River. The text describes the local scenery and populace, and the plates show native costumes, villages, and local flora; one plate shows eight musical instruments. The author’s final chapter discusses slavery and the nature of the African race in general. ABBEY 282. GAY 2899. $750.

Large Paper Set

76. Hakluyt, Richard: THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES, AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NA- TION. Edinburgh: E. & G. Goldsmid, 1885-90. Sixteen volumes in 124 [of 126] original parts as issued. This set lacks volume 10, part 4, and volume 14, part 2, both of which have been replaced with duplicates of volume 9, part 4 (for a total of three copies of that part in this set). Titlepages printed in red and black. Several facsimiles and plates on india paper and mounted. Quarto. Each part bound in stiff vellum as issued to original subscribers. A few parts with spotting and discoloration, but mostly fine.

A fine edition of Hakluyt limited to 100 copies on sumptuous large paper. The greatest assemblage of travel accounts and navigation to all parts of the world col- lected up to its time, and a primary source for early New World exploration. In- cludes accounts of Hariot, Frobisher, Gilbert, the Zenos brothers, Cartier, Raleigh, Laudonnière, Coronado, Drake, and many, many others. $2500.

Teenage Sailor in Hawaii and the Arctic

77. Hall, Daniel Weston: ARCTIC ROVINGS: OR, THE ADVEN- TURES OF A NEW BEDFORD BOY ON SEA AND LAND. Bos- ton. 1861. 171pp. plus [4]pp. of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, expertly rebacked retaining portion of original spine. Light foxing and soiling. About very good.

A scarce account of a teenager’s adventures at sea, including Pacific whaling experi- ences and visits to Hawaii and Siberia. During a three-month stay in Honolulu, Hall witnessed a volcanic eruption and planned his escape from the cruel captain of the whale ship Condor. After some whaling adventures in the Pacific, Hall deserted ship along the coast of Siberia, near the bank of the Oudskoi River. He was eventually rescued as a result of his father’s efforts back home in New Bedford. One of the reasons Hall published this work was to call the public’s attention to the severe punishments suffered by seamen, especially in the whaling fleet, and to encourage the reform of discipline at sea. Includes a chapter entitled “Peep at the Whale Fisheries.” Not in Hill nor, apparently, Arctic Bibliography. SABIN 29745. FORSTER 469. FORBES 2422. $1000.

78. Harrison, William Henry: REMARKS OF GENERAL HARRISON, LATE ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTER PLENIPO- TENTIARY OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA, ON CERTAIN CHARGES MADE AGAINST HIM BY THAT GOVERNMENT. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN UNOF- FICIAL LETTER FROM GENERAL HARRISON TO GENERAL BOLIVAR.... Washington. 1830. 69pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Light foxing and age toning. Small tears at edges of some leaves. Good.

Harrison’s defense of his conduct while American ambassador to the new state of Colombia. Harrison was appointed to that post in 1828 through the influence of Henry Clay. He arrived in Bogota in February 1829, quickly decided that Bolivar nursed plans to make himself an emperor, and became far too involved with the faction opposing the President. These interferences were deeply resented by the Colombian government. On Sept. 21, 1829, Harrison received notice that Jackson had replaced him with T.P. Moore, who arrived in Bogota that day. On Sept. 27, Harrison wrote Bolivar a letter of “extraordinary temerity, urging him to adhere to the tenets of republicanism” (DAB). This so upset the Colombians, Harrison was more or less forcibly ejected from the country two weeks later. Despite having acted in a highly inappropriate fashion, Harrison immediately wrote the present work, defending his conduct and publishing his offensive letter to Bolivar. Relatively scarce on the market. DAB VIII, pp.350-51. STREETER SALE 1740. $1000.

First Edition of Pilgrim’s Progress in Hawaiian, in a Hawaiian Binding

79. [Hawaii]: Bunyan, John: KA HELE MALIHINI ANA MAI KEIA AO AKU A HIKI I KELA AO; HE OLELONANE I HOOHALIKEIA ME HE MOEUHANE LA. Honolulu: Mea paipalapala a na Misionari, 1842. 418pp. plus seven woodcut plates. Frontis. 12mo. Contemporary calf, tooled in blind, leather label. Light wear at extremities. Near fine.

The rare first edition in Hawaiian of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, and the first printing in Hawaiian of an English literary classic. The Hawaiian title translates as The Traveler from This World to That Which is to Come. In 1840 the American Tract Society in Honolulu hoped to publish an abridged edition of Bunyan if a translator could be found, and in 1841 Artemas Bishop took on the task, promis- ing the Society that “it will prove one of the most popular works in the Hawaiian Language.” Unfortunately for Artemas and the Society, the book flopped and the 10,000 copies that were printed were remaindered in unbound sheets, most of which were disposed of to Chinese vegetable peddlers for wrapping produce. For copies that survived this, the rate of attrition, as with all early Hawaiian works of this type, remained very high, and the book is quite scarce today. The work failed to impact the Hawaiians, as the English allusions lost all meaning when translated. The names of the extensive cast of characters became incomprehensible: Mr. Lechery became Kekowale (literally, lust + only), and Mrs. Filth became Pelapela (decayed flesh). Some of the surviving unbound sheets of this book were bound into limp suede in 1910. This copy, on the other hand, is in a contemporary Hawaiian binding of the mid-19th century, which is most unusual and notably rare. See David Forbes’ Buniana (San Francisco, 1984) for an extensive discussion of the book. This copy is from the library of James F. Hunnewell (1832-1910), with his bookplate. Hun- newell was a Boston book collector and bibliographer. He published a Bibliography of the Hawaiian Islands in 1869. His father, James Hunnewell, became familiar with the islands when the ship he was on was sold to Hawaiian chiefs. The senior Hun- newell was responsible for collecting the payment in sandalwood and then selling it in China. As a result, he spent several months in the islands and became friendly with the local populace. In 1820 he arrived in Honolulu as second mate on the brig Thaddeus, the ship bearing the first American missionaries as well as the first printing press there. He later developed a significant business in Hawaii which grew into the commercial house later known as C. Brewer & Company. Though he returned to Charlestown, Massachusetts, he spent the rest of his life actively engaged in exporting goods to Hawaii and California. Part of his considerable fortune was given to found Oahu College. A lovely association copy in a beautiful contemporary binding. FORBES 1351. JUDD 237. DAB IX, p.381. $3750.

80. Hearne, Samuel: JOURNEY FROM PRINCE OF WALES’S FORT, IN HUDSON’S BAY, TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN. UNDER- TAKEN BY ORDER OF THE HUDSON’S BAY COMPANY. FOR THE DISCOVERY OF COPPER MINES, A NORTH WEST PAS- SAGE, &c. IN THE YEARS 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. Dublin. 1796. l,459,[1]pp. plus folding map, three folding plates, and four folding plans. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Minor soiling and toning. Very good.

Dublin edition, after the first edition published in London the previous year. The London edition was a quarto, while this scarcer Dublin edition is printed in octavo. In 1769, Hearne was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company to find a northwest pas- sage via Hudson Bay and to explore the country for copper mines which had been reported by the Indians. After two initial failures, Hearne reached the Coppermine River in December of 1770 and followed it to its mouth on the Arctic coast. Dur- ing his return trip he discovered the Great Slave Lake. As a result of Hearne’s explorations, any hope of a western exit was abandoned, and much was learned and reported about the natural history and Indian tribes of the region. Curiously, it is to the great French explorer, La Pérouse, that we owe the publication of Hearne’s narrative, for it was La Pérouse who discovered the manuscript when he captured Fort Albany on Hudson Bay. After the British recaptured the fort, La Pérouse insisted on the publication of the manuscript by the Hudson’s Bay Company. A classic of American travel, by the man whom Lande says will always be re- membered as “the first white man to gaze on the Arctic or Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the continent of America.” ESTC T111224. SABIN 31181. First edition: HILL 791. TPL 445. LANDE 1120. $1500.

Item 81. The Opening of Japan

81. Heine, Wilhelm: GRAPHIC SCENES OF THE JAPAN EXPEDI- TION. New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Twelve leaves letterpress text. Ten lithographic prints: one tinted portrait of Perry from a daguerreotype by P. Haas; nine views by Heine (two of them chromolithographed, seven printed in two colors on india paper mounted); all printed by Sarony & Co. Folio. Original wrappers bound into 20th-century three-quarter maroon mo- rocco and paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. Near fine.

William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year the present volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, probably the best lithographers in the United States at that time. “As artistic productions, the pictures speak for themselves... none superior to them have been executed in the United States, and they have no cause to shun comparison with some of the best productions of Europe” – Intro- duction. Copies were produced tinted on regular paper, as in the present copy, and handcolored. The plates are numbered and titled as follow:

[1) portrait of Perry] 2) “Macao from Penha Hill” 3) “Whampoa Pagoda” 4) “Old China Street, Canton” 5) “Kung-kwa at On-na, Lew-Chew” 6) “Mia or road side chapel at Yokuhama [sic]” 7) “Temple of Ben-teng in the harbor of Simoda” 8) “Street and bridge at Simoda” 9) “Temple of the Ha-tshu Man-ya-tshu-ro at Simoda” 10) “Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge”

Bennett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the regular account of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both of Cordier’s Japanese bibliographies. BENNETT, p.53. McGRATH 123. $34,000.

An Important Work on Early Russia

82. Herberstein, Sigismund von: COMENTARI DELLA MOSCOVIA ET PARIMENTE DELLA RUSSIA, & DELLE ALTRE COSE BELLE & NOTABILI.... Venice: Giaon Battista Pedrezzano, 1550. [12],90 leaves (including six full-page woodcuts on three leaves), plus folding map. Small quarto. Modern stiff vellum, manuscript spine lettering. Bookplate of noted collectors Laura and Valerian Lada-Mocarski on front pastedown. Very minor scattered soiling. Map laid onto modern paper and tipped to rear board. Very good.

The first Italian edition, and second overall, of Sigismund von Herberstein’s Notes on Russia, first published in 1549 under the Latin title, Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii. Herberstein was born in the Hapsburg Empire, in present-day Slo- venia. He served as a diplomat and member of the Imperial Council. In his role as diplomat he served as the Imperial Ambassador to Russia, and he is most noted for his writings on the customs and history of Russia. The handsome woodcuts show the accoutrements of a warrior, mounted warriors on horses, and a charming scene of sleighing and skiing. A handsome edition of this important work. The first edition is exceedingly rare, and no copies appear in auction records. The only copy of this edition to appear in the last thirty years realized £8750 ($13,567) net at Sotheby’s London in 2012. MORTIMER, HARVARD ITALIAN BOOKS 229. Sold

83. Herrera, Antonio de: HISTOIRE GENERALE DES VOYAGES ET CONQUESTES DES CASTILLANS, DANS LES ISLES & TERRE FERME DES INDES OCCIDENTALES...[THIRD DECADE].... Paris. 1671. [18],790,[12]pp. Quarto. Old calf, expertly rebacked. Very good.

The third volume only of the first translated edition of Herrera’s great history of the New World. Herrera was appointed Royal historiographer in 1596. Between 1601 and 1615 he produced his comprehensive history of the Spanish in the Americas, in eight “decades” covering 1492 to 1554. Only the first three of these have ever been translated, appearing in this French edition and in an English edition in 1726. The volumes of the French translation were issued separately, and the third volume was issued eleven years after the other two, so they are generally accorded separate numbers by bibliographers. The first three “decades” carry the story through 1526 and include notable accounts of Columbus, Vespucci, Balboa, the conquest of the Antilles, and especially Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. An important edition of one of the foremost New World histories. JCB (3)III, p.38. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 12f, g, h. SABIN 31548, 31549, 31550. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 660/88. PALAU 114293. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 51. $1850.

Splendid Watercolors of Kamchatka and Siberia

84. [Kamchatka and Siberia Watercolors]: [ALBUM OF SIX WATER- COLOR VIEWS OF SCENES IN KAMCHATKA AND SIBERIA IN THE LATE 18th CENTURY]. [N.p. n.d., but ca. 1808]. Six water- colors on individual sheets, measuring 10½ x 16¼ inches on average. Five of the six watercolors titled in manuscript below the image, and with extensive Dutch-language notes on the verso of each sheet. Bound into modern half morocco and marbled boards (oblong quarto in size), gilt morocco label on front board reading: “Kamtschatka et Siberie Album de Dessins.” Very minor wear or soiling in the edges of the margins, else fine. See cover of this catalogue for another illustration

An atlas of splendid watercolors by an unknown artist, showing scenes in Kamchatka and Siberia in the late 18th century. The paintings are quite well done. While the artist’s facility for drawing human figures is not of the highest magnitude, his ability in rendering places, topography, and villages is excellent. The identity of the artist is unknown, but it seems likely that he was a Dutchman of some means who owned or had access to a collection of the most important accounts of 18th-century travel in eastern Russia and the Kamchatka peninsula. The watercolors show scenes of village and seaside life as originally depicted in the plates to the travels of Cook, Sarychev, and Chappe D’Auteroche, which all took place between 1760 and 1795. Though undated, a manuscript note on the verso of the final watercolor carries the date of 1808, and likely indicates when one or all of these images were painted. The images contained in this atlas are faithful, detailed, and accomplished watercolor renderings of printed plates from the atlas to James Cook’s third voy- age; the atlas to the voyage of Gavrila Sarychev; and the account of Jean Chappe D’Auteroche’s travels to Siberia in the early 1760s. The artist has taken great care to retain interesting ethnographic details from the original sources, showing details of clothing and decoration as well as animals, dwellings (from thatched huts to wooden structures), buildings, churches, sleds, and local boats and canoes. Two of the images feature fishing scenes, and all but one of them shows a locations near a river or the sea. The interest and usefulness of the album is further heightened by the extensive manuscript notes in Dutch on the verso of each view. In some cases the notes give details of the source of an illustration, but they also provide infor- mation about the region depicted, the people who live there, the natural resources and topography, and much more. Further study of the album could lead to more information about the artist and the circumstances of its creation. The illustrations (with their original manuscript captions) are as follow:

1) “Gericht der stad Bolcheretskoi in Kamtschatka en ein Man, Reirende in en Winter.” This winter scene in Kamchatka is a combination of two plates from the atlas to Cook’s voyages, “A Man of Kamtschatka Travelling in Winter” and “A View at Bolcheretzkoi in Kamtschatka.” It shows a small village of wooden buildings with thatched roofs, while a family of natives, bundled against the cold, stand in the foreground. Two cows are shown in a pen, and farm dogs and sled dogs mill about. 2) “Gerigt van de Stad en Haven van St. Petrus en St. Paulus aan Kamtschatka.” This image copies a plate from the atlas to Cook’s voyages entitled “A View of the Town and Harbour at St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamtschatka.” An interesting scene of a small fishing village, featuring a group of men casting large nets and other groups in canoes. Larger sailing vessels are in the water in the background, and snow-capped peaks are seen in the distance. In the left foreground are a native husband and wife, with an infant strapped to the woman’s back. 3) “Gericht der Stad Tobolsk, in Siberien.” Copies a plate from Chappe D’Auteroche’s Voyage en Siberie (Paris, 1768). A very nice and well-done scene of a largish seaside town, with several whitewashed buildings with tall spires along the waterfront and on a cliff. Workers are shown storing casks of goods by the waterside. 4) “Gericht der Vesting auf Sterkte Sueden – Kolymsk en der Rivier Kolyma.” This image copies a plate from the atlas to Sarychev’s voyage, Puteshestvie Flota Kapi- tana Sarycheva... (St. Petersburg, 1802). An attractive scene of a small village of wooden buildings in a waterside setting. This scene is most interesting for the details of the structures, including a Russian Orthodox Church. 5) Untitled. This is a version of the Cook atlas plate titled “Summer and Winter Habitations, in Kamtschatka.” This interesting scene gives great details of the dwellings used in Kamchatka. Located along a river, they are built on stilts so as to withstand floods. 6) “Gericht van de Sterkte (of Vesting) Werchue – Koymsk, en van de Rivier Jasjas- chna.” This image copies a plate from the atlas to Sarychev’s voyage, Puteshestvie Flota Kapitana Sarycheva... (St. Petersburg, 1802). Another view of a small fish- ing village, with men casting nets at the shoreline, a mid-size sailing ship in the water, and a small group of one- and two-story buildings on the shore opposite.

A very interesting suite of watercolors, showing evocative scenes of village life in Siberia and Kamchatka at the time when European explorers were first visiting that remote area. $60,000.

Rare Narrative by the Surgeon and Naturalist on the Back Expedition

85. King, Richard: NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE ARCTIC OCEAN, IN 1833, 1834, AND 1835; UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPT. BACK, R.N. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Two volumes bound in one. xv,[1],312,[1]; viii,321,[1]pp., plus four plates including two frontispieces and one map. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

“Dr. King’s narrative is full of the details of Indian life, as it was presented to the members of Captain Back’s expedition. He looked at the same transactions with the natives, and the same phases of their character which Captain Back portrays, from a different point, and their coloring to his eye bears another tinge. His journal, filled with descriptions of interviews with the Chippewyans, Crees, Dog-Ribs, and Esquimaux, is therefore exceedingly interesting even after the perusal of Captain Back’s narrative. Although every chapter is largely devoted to incidents associated with the natives, and anecdotes illustrative of their character, Dr. King yields the whole of Chapter xii. to an examination and relation of the present condition of the tribes inhabiting the Hudson’s Bay territories. The Doctor does not attempt to conceal the chagrin he felt, at the cool absorption of his own careful researches in the narrative of Captain Back. In the splendid work of that really eminent explorer, there appears a little, and but a little of that want of generosity which the relation of Dr. King insinuates. Both give the most minute narrations of the peculiar traits of the Northern Indians, their destructive wars, their wasting from disease, and famine, and debauchery, all of which are directly traceable to their communication with the whites. Dr. King, however, finds in them traces of some of the nobler, as well as the more tender emotions, the possession of which Captain Back somewhat superciliously derides. Dr. King very justly reminds him that the gallant Captain owed his life, and that of his entire party, to the devotion and self-denial, through two long starving winters, of the Chippewyan chief Akaitcho. This remarkable Indian deserves an honorable fame. While his tribe in common with himself were starving, he shared with Captain Franklin in his two expeditions, and with Captain Back in a third, the scanty food, which his superior hunter-craft enabled him to obtain, when the duller white reason failed. Captain Franklin would never have sailed upon his fateful voyage, but for the humanity of Akaitcho, as he would have perished of starvation on his first exploration” – Field. “King, surgeon and naturalist of the Back expedition that descended the Back River to the arctic coast of Canada, includes much material similar to that contained in Sir George Back’s Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition, 1836, with additional detail on birds, mammals, and fishes, especially as observed near Fort Reliance” – Arctic Bibliography. Most notable from a historical perspective is King’s charge that Captain Back appropriated his own research and that Back’s conclusions were less than exact. King praises to great length the aforementioned Chipewyan chief Akaitcho. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 8708. FIELD 831. NMM 857 (ref ). SABIN 37831 (calling for 7 plates). TPL 1899. STREETER SALE 3705. $13,500.

A Cornerstone Work on Pacific Exploration

86. La Pérouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup de: VOYAGE DE LA PÉROUSE AUTOUR DU MONDE...RÉDIGÉ PAR M. L.A. MILET- MUREAU. Paris: l’Imprimerie de la République, an V [1797]. Five quarto text volumes, plus folio atlas. Text: half titles, final blank Qq4 in fourth vol- ume. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Atlas: engraved allegorical titlepage by Ph. Trière after J.M. Moreau le jeune, sixty-nine copper-engraved plates com- prising thirty-one charts, maps, and plans (one folding, twenty double-page); thirty-eight views, ethnographical or natural history plates, or coastal profiles. Expertly bound to style in half red straight-grained morocco and pale pink boards, spines gilt. Very good.

First edition of the official account of the famous but ill-fated voyage aboard the frigates Astrolobe and Boussole which took place between 1785 and 1788. “La Pérouse’s expedition was one of the most important scientific explorations ever undertaken to the Pacific and the west coast of North America....The charge to the expedition was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook; to seek for an interoceanic passage; to make scientific observations on the various countries, peoples, and products; to obtain reliable information about the fur trade and the extent of Spanish settlements in California; and to promote the inducements for French enterprise in that quarter....La Pérouse and his men did important geographical research [including visits to Easter Island, Hawaii, Macao, Formosa, the Aleutian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and Australia]....The voyage also included the first foreign scientific group ever to visit Alta California [two of the plates depict a bee-eater and a male and female partridge of California; there are also maps and plans of San Francisco, Monterery, and San Diego]....La Pérouse sent dispatches back to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay. The two ships then set sail from Botany Bay, in 1788, and were never heard from again” – Hill. Thirty-nine years later, in 1825, the wrecks of the two frigates were found at Van- ikoro in the Santa Cruz group by Peter Dillon. The La Pérouse voyage is notable for its superb mapping of the Alaska and California coasts (discussed at length by Wagner in Cartography of the Northwest Coast), including maps of San Diego, Monterey, and the entire Northwest Coast. Of equal importance are the series of charts that were produced as a result of the expedition’s surveys of the Asiatic side of the Pacific. The atlas also contains numerous interesting coastal views, as well as botanical and natural history plates. The text contains a wealth of scientific and ethnographic information. In addition, La Pérouse was the first westerner to safely navigate and chart the Japan Sea and the strait between the island of Sakhalin and the northernmost island of Japan. En route for Australia in 1788, La Pérouse sailed via Samoa. This work “is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century” (Howell). SABIN 38960. HILL 972. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 837-848. ANKER 276. COWAN, p.383. FERGUSON I:251. FORBES I:272. HOWES L93. LADA-MOCARSKI 52. ZAMORANO 80, 49. $27,500.

With an Important Series of Maps

87. Laet, Joannes de: NOVUS ORBIS SEU DESCRIPTIONIS INDIAE OCCIDENTALIS LIBRI XVIII...NOVIS TABULIS GEOGRAPHI- CIS ET VARIIS ANIMANTIUM, PLANTARUM FRUCTUUMQUE ICONIBUS ILLUSTRATI. Leiden: Elzevier, 1633. [32],690,[18]pp. plus fourteen double-page maps by Hessel Gerritsz. Engraved title with elaborate emblematic and architectonic border, sixty-eight woodcuts in text. Folio. Near- contemporary marbled calf, gilt, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt with raised bands. Very good.

The first Latin edition of “arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century” (Burden). The maps include the first to use the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam (for New York), and Massachusetts, and “one of the foundation maps of Canada” (Burden). This work is one of the most important 17th-century New World histories. It is a cornucopia of early knowledge of the Americas and was compiled by de Laet, a director of the newly formed Dutch West India Company, with access to all the latest geographic knowledge. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, writing in the 18th century, noted that the work as a whole “is full of the most excellent and curious details of the natural history, and the character, manners, and customs of the American aborigines, derived from the reports of the European mission es- tablishments in America.” The present first edition in Latin was preceded by two editions in Dutch (the first of which was published in 1625). De Laet continued to add to and improve the work throughout his lifetime: the present edition contains fourteen maps as opposed to the ten in the 1625 edition, and the text has been considerably expanded. The maps are by Hessel Gerritsz and are some of the very best to appear up to that time. Gerritsz had trained under Willem Blaeu, but had been chosen in preference to his old master when the appointment of cartographer to the Dutch West India Company was made. The charming in-text illustrations are chiefly of biological or botanical specimens and are generally surprisingly accurate for their time, and each of the eighteen constituent books is turned over to the consideration of a different region of the New World. The quality of the maps can be gauged from the fact that they served as a prototype for the mapping of America, with a number of them being reused in various later 17th-century atlases. The maps are titled as follow:

1) “Americae sive Indiae occidentalis tabula generalis.” “The best west coast delinea- tion to date”- Burden. BURDEN 229. 2) “Maiores minoresque insulae. Hispaniola, Cuba, Lucaiae et Caribes” 3) “Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes.” “One of the foundation maps of Canada” – Burden. BURDEN 230. 4) “Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia.” “The first [map] to use the names Manhattan and N. Amsterdam. It is also the earliest to use...Massachusets [sic]”- Burden. BURDEN 231. CUMMING 35. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.105. 5) “Florida. et regiones vicinae.” “Its influence was quite considerable” – Burden. BURDEN 232. CUMMING 34. 6) “Nova Hispania, Nova Gallicia, Guatamala.” “The delineation of the coastlines here was the most accurate to date” – Burden. BURDEN 215. 7) “Tierra Firma item Nuevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan” 8) “Peru” 9) “Chili” 10) “Provinciae sitae ad fretum Magellanis itemque fretum Le Maire” 11) “Paraguay, o prov. de rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus Provinciis, quas vocant Tucuman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra” 12) “Provinciua de Brasil cum adiacentibus provinciis” 13) “Guaiania sive provinciae intra rio de las Amazonas atque rio de Yviapari sive Orinoque” 14) “Venezuela, atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalusiae”

BORBA DE MORAES, p.451. SABIN 38557. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 633/65. STREETER SALE 37. STREIT II:1619. JCB (3)II:246. TIELE 628. BELL L33. VAIL 84. RODRIGUES 1352. ASHER 3. WILLEMS 382. ALDEN II:337. BRUNET III:741. $30,000.

88. Las Casas, Bartolomé de: RELATION DES VOYAGES ET DES DE’COUVERTES QUE LES ESPAGNOLS ONE FAIT DANS LES INDES OCCIDENTALES. [bound with:] L’ART DE VOYAGER UTILEMENT. Amsterdam. 1698. [10],402,[2]; [4],51,[1]pp., plus frontis- piece. 12mo. 20th-century green morocco by Brugalla, gilt, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Spine lightly sunned. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine.

An interesting combination of Montauban’s account of his buccaneering voyages against the slave ships off Guinea, and Las Casas’ stirring tracts against the brutal treatment of the West Indies natives. Sieur de Montauban was a member of the group of French pirates who took the name “Freres de la Cotes.” His hatred for the Spanish and English impelled him to terrorize their slave ships off the West African coast. He became famous for freeing African slaves and for his demon- strated respect for their humanity. Las Casas, the first great historian and humanist of the New World, arrived in Cuba in 1502 and spent most of his time in the Caribbean and Mexico until his return to Spain in 1547. An early critic of Spanish policy, he nonetheless rose to be Bishop of Chiapas. After his return to Spain he launched a series of attacks on Spanish Indian policy. His tracts, first published in 1551-52 and printed in the present volume in an English translation, denounce Spanish cruelty to Indians in the West Indies and Mexico. This is a translation of four of the nine Las Casas tracts, softened in some of the cruel parts “which might have given pain to delicate persons” (Sabin). The third work, L’Art de Voyager Utilement, is a short, rare, anonymous piece extolling the virtues of “le Voyager.” Its author discusses what it takes to join their ranks: courage and rugged strength to endure the inevitable hardship and depriva- tion that accompanies life on the high seas and in unknown parts of the world. A handsome volume. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 698/33, 698/148. SABIN 11274. PALAU 46965n. ME- DINA (BHA) 1085n. JCB (4):359. NICHOLSON C127. HANKE 560. STREIT I:735. $3750. Major World Atlas with the Most Updated Pacific Cartography

89. [Laurie, Robert, and James Whittle]: Kitchin, Thomas: A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, EXHIBITING ALL THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES, REPUBLICS, &c. &c. IN THE WHOLE WORLD. BEING A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE MOST APPROVED MAPS EXTANT...INCLUDING ALL THE TRACKS AND NEW DISCOVERIES OF THE BRITISH CIRCUMNAVI- GATORS BIRON [sic], WALLIS, CARTERET, CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, VANCOUVER, PEROUSE, &c. &c. The Fifth Edition. London: Printed and Published by Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1801. Mounted on guards throughout, letterpress title (verso blank) and 1p. in- dex (verso blank), otherwise engraved throughout. Fifty-nine engraved maps on seventy-five map sheets, all handcolored in outline (one map on three folding sheets; fourteen on two folding sheets; nine on single folding sheets; thirty-four on single double-page sheets; one on a one-page sheet). Thick folio. Contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt, blue morocco label. Marbled endpapers. Fine.

A very fine copy of the fifth edition of this important atlas of the world, including a newly revised chart of world and nine other maps that were not available in the early editions of this spectacular work. Eight editions of this work were issued on an almost annual basis from 1796 through until 1807. The publishers constantly changed and improved the atlas in an effort to outdo not only their competitors, but also to improve on the previous edition. Maps were added (the first edition included only sixty-six map sheets), maps were replaced (the present work includes two maps dated 1800, including “A New Chart of the World” dated Nov. 25, 1800), and maps were updated (eight maps are dated 1799). The scale of some of the maps is truly spectacular: this atlas contains fifteen maps that if joined would form large-scale wall maps. “Asia and its Islands” (on three folding sheets, ranging from the Arctic regions in the north, down through Russia, Indonesia and Australia) would measure approximately 56 x 46 inches if as- sembled. The remaining maps on two folding sheets would all be approximately 40 x 46 inches if joined, including three maps of American interest: “A new map of the whole continent of America”; “A new map of North America, with the West India Islands”; and “A map of South America.” The remaining areas that are covered by large-scale maps are “A general map of the World”; England and Wales; Scotland; Ireland; the Netherlands; Germany; Hindoostan; Bengal, Bahar, etc.; Delhi, Agrah, Oude, and Allahabad. This atlas was originally created by Thomas Kitchin. Sayer and Bennett had published the work in 1773, and Laurie and Whittle took over the Sayer business in 1794. They subsequently enlarged the work, adding maps and changing the name from the General Atlas to A New Universal Atlas. The maps are based on the work of a variety of mapmakers and surveyors: Thomas Kitchin, Thomas Jef- ferys, John Rocque, Robert Campbell, John Armstrong, John Roberts, L.S. d’Arcy Delarochette, James Rennell, Andrew Dury, Thomas Pownall, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Also included is the information gathered as a result of the important Pacific voyages of Captain James Cook, George Vancouver, and Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse. PHILLIPS ATLASES 3534. $42,500.

Famous Whaling Mutiny

90. Lay, William, and C.M. Hussey: A NARRATIVE OF THE MU- TINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, JAN. 1824. AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS.... New London: Lay and Hussey, 1828. 168pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine label lacking. Top and bottom of spine worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear free endpaper: “Dartmouth the 22 day 1832. Alma Bullou[?], her book.” Browning and foxing, one signature starting, a few minor marginal tears including one in titlepage (not affect- ing text of titlepage, but loss of a few letters on verso). Front free endsheet excised. A good copy.

An important firsthand narrative of one of the most infamous mutinies in Ameri- can naval history, compiled by two of the few survivors of the event itself and its aftermath. The Globe was taken over near the Line Islands, four of the officers were murdered, and the remainder of the crew were forced by pain of death to join the mutineers. The crew then proceeded to the Marshall Islands and thence to the Mulgrave Islands, where the leader of the original mutiny was killed, and some of the party escaped to Valparaiso. Lay and Hussey remained on the Mulgrave Islands and were the sole survivors of an attack on their party by natives. They were eventually rescued by a war vessel sent in pursuit of the mutineers. HOWES L158. SABIN 39467. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 3386. HILL 990. FORBES 697. $1500.

A Primary Source for Jesuit Missions and Travels

91. [Le Gobien, Charles, and others, editors]: LETTRES ÉDIFIANTES ET CURIEUSES...NOUVELLE ÉDITION AUGMENTÉE [PAR L’ABBÉ Y. M. M. DE QUERBEUF]. Paris: J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes. Fifty-six maps and plates. Contemporary gilt calf. A fine set.

Styled “New edition” on the titlepage, this is the second edition, and first collected, with significant additions and corrections by the editor, l’Abbé Querbeuf. It is also reorganized by geographical areas. “This edition is generally preferred to the original, because it has the advantage of being systematically arranged” – Sabin. The reports on Jesuit missions cover their activities throughout the globe, including highly important material on North America. “[The volumes] are filled with Relations, Narratives, and Letters from Jesuit Missionaries....they are undoubtedly among the most authentic sources of infor- mation, regarding some of the most obscure and mysterious of aboriginal customs, languages, and religions....The most important historic portion...perhaps of the whole collection, is the Journal of an Abenakis missionary who was present at the massacre, by the Indians, of the English garrison of Fort George, after it had surrendered....A curious identification of the name of the city of Chicago is found in the letter of Father Petit, which gives minute details of the Illinois chief Chi- caugou to the mission....Every one of these volumes is crowded with interesting details for the history of the aborigines of the countries in which these wonderful men held their missions” – Field. In addition to this material, the collection publishes the important Piccolo let- ter describing California, the activities of missionaries there and in the Southwest, and has the third printing of the famed Kino map showing that California is not an island. The other world relations are equally informative. The continued struggle in China is given exhaustive treatment, while other volumes discuss work in the Philippines, Madagascar, Japan, Bengal, Armenia, Ethiopia, and many others in addition to those mentioned above. Overall, the Lettres Édifiantes... comprises one of the best sources for studying the remarkable international deployment of Jesuit missionaries and their contributions to a European understanding of the varied and exotic cultures and lands of the world. An impressive set. HOWES L299. SABIN 40698. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 89 (ref). WAGNER, SPANISH SOUTHWEST 74 (ref ). BELL J72. HILL 1014. $13,500.

Prince from the Cannibal Isles

92. [Lee Boo, Prince]: [Palau Islands]: THE HISTORY OF PRINCE LEE BOO, A NATIVE OF THE PELEW ISLANDS BROUGHT TO ENGLAND BY CAPTN. WILSON. A New Edition. Philadelphia: Printed for B. Johnson & J. Johnson, 1802. 143pp. plus seven plates, includ- ing engraved title and frontispiece portrait. Contemporary half calf, rebacked. Rubbed at extremities. Old private library stamp on fly leaf. Some minor fox- ing. Very good. In a marbled paper slipcase.

First printed in London in 1789, this Lee Boo was the second son of King Abba Thulle of the Palau Islands. When the ship Antelope was wrecked in the island kingdom in 1783, Captain Henry Wilson received full assistance from the King in building a new ship. Lee Boo then accompanied Wilson to England and became a much loved part of the family. This narrative was written for children, with several charming engravings, including a portrait of Lee Boo. Only seven copies located in OCLC, and another copy at the American Antiquarian Society. This is the earliest dated American edition, and probably the earliest (another edition, undated, is posited to have been printed between 1801 and 1807). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2410. ROSENBACH CHILDRENS 277. HILL 813 (1844 ed). OCLC 5523128. $900.

A Fine Copy of This Important and Influential Work

93. Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: HISTOIRE DE LA NAVIGATION DE IEAN HUGUES DE LINSCHOT HOLLANDOIS: AUX IN- DES ORIENTALES CONTENANT DIVERSES DESCRIPTIONS DES LIEUX JUSQUES À PRESENT DESCOUVERTS PAR LES PORTUGAIS: OBSERVATIONS DES COUSTUMES & SINGU- LARITEZ DE DELÀ, & AUTRES DECLARATIONS. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts bound in one volume. Three letter- press titles (two within elaborate engraved surrounds, the third with engraved vignette), engraved portrait of Linschoten on verso of index leaf, six folding engraved maps, thirty-six engraved plates and views by Johann and Baptiste ven Doetecom after Linschoten (five folding, thirty-one double-page). Folio. Early 18th-century calf, expertly rebacked to style with gilt spine with raised bands, red morocco label. Minor worming in lower inner corner, just affecting the image area of one map. Very good. In a dark blue morocco backed cloth case, spine gilt. Provenance: La Trémoille, prince de Talmont (1652-1733, arms stamped on fly leaf ); armorial stamp of Serrant (on fly leaf and first two title margins). In a half morocco clamshell case, spine gilt.

Third edition in French of this famous work, with commentaries by B. Paludanus, reprinted from the edition of 1619. The second and third parts are titled: Le Grand Routier de Mer...Continant une Instruction des Routes & Cours qu’Il Convient Tenir en la Navigation des Indes Orientales, & au Voyage de la Coste du Bresil, des Antilles, & du Cap de Lopo Gonsalves and Description de l’Amerique & Des Parties d’Icelle, Comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Jamaica, &c. The maps include van Langren’s maps of the East Indies and South America (including the Caribbean and Florida), and the double-hemispherical world map of Plancius dated 1594 (Shirley 187). Linschoten, a Dutchman born in Haarlem in 1563, was in Goa between 1583 and 1589 as a clerk to the Portuguese Archbishop, and with Willem Barents on his second voyage to the Kara Sea in 1594-95. He had an “avaricious thirst for knowledge which enabled him to get detailed information of land and sea as far afield as the Spice Islands and China” (Penrose). This practical experience all lent authenticity to the present work, first published in Dutch (Amsterdam, 1595-96), and it remains one of the most important of all travel books. It was the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the beginning of the 17th century. As well as including important travel accounts taken from con- temporary Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish sources, it is the first work to include precise sailing instructions for the Indies, and, according to Church (and other authorities), “it was given to each ship sailing from Holland to India.” The third part gives an excellent account of America. An important work that served not only as a valuable record, but also as a catalyst for change in the balance of power amongst European trading nations in the east: “the navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” (Penrose). When Linschoten returned from Goa to his home in the Netherlands, he did so at a time when the people of northern Europe and particularly his countrymen were especially interested in what he had to report concerning the trading activities of the Portuguese in the East. His most important and far-reaching observations concerned the gradual decline of Portuguese power in the East and her ability to protect her trade routes and monopolies. This, together with the trading possibilities he detailed, encour- aged a series of Dutch, French, and English fleets to set sail for the Spice Islands, and beyond to China and Japan. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 638/67. JCB (3)II:271. PALAU 138584. SABIN 41373. TIELE 686-88. $90,000. With the Kino Map of Arizona and New Mexico

94. Lockman, John: TRAVELS OF THE JESUITS, INTO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD.... London. 1743. Two volumes. vi,xxii,[2],487; 507pp. plus two pages of ads, five folding maps, folding plate, and errata. With the canceled leaves as described by Streeter. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather labels. Some tanning and light foxing. Very good, with maps and plate in near fine state, and with the uncanceled leaves in the first volume as described by Streeter.

An abridged translation of the first ten volumes of Lettres Edifiantes..., including Piccolo’s description of the California missions; particulars of the missions in Mexico, Peru, and Hudson Bay; and Barrera’s Abode Among the Moxos and Chiriguanos of South America. “A work so entertaining and curious, that it has been translated into most of the languages of Europe” – Cox. Includes handsome engraved maps of Arizona and New Mexico showing part of California, Tierra del Fuego, the Straits of Magellan, the “Mission of the Moxos, or Moxes: settled by the Jesuits in Peru,” and the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. An “Account of the Chiriguanos of South America” is also included. The plate illustrates the ginseng plant. HOWES L414. COX I, p.14 (2nd ed). HILL 1031 (later ed). SABIN 40708, 40709. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 743/131. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 74a (note). STREETER SALE 2430. $2750.

Two of the Most Important Early Dutch Voyages to the East

95. Lodewijcksz, Willem: Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: [TWO SIG- NIFICANT DUTCH VOYAGES TO THE FAR EAST IN EARLY FRENCH TRANSLATIONS, BOUND TOGETHER AS ISSUED]. Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two volumes bound in one. Described in greater detail below. Folio. Contemporary boards, rebacked in calf, spine gilt, leather label. Very good. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with engraved 1860 bookplate on front pastedown and blind pressure stamp on first two printed leaves of first title.

Two highly important Dutch voyages, both in their second French editions and bound together as issued in 1609. These two voyages represent the initial Dutch exploration and expansion to the East Indies, a significant element in a global com- mercial enterprise which was to develop throughout the 17th century. The two foundation accounts in the present volume, originally issued together by Amsterdam printer Cornille Nicolas, include:

1) [Lodewijcksz, Willem]: Premier Livre de l’Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Orien- tales, par les Hollandois.... Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. 53 leaves. Titlepage with engraved map, forty-five in-text engravings (including three maps), seventeen in-text woodcut illustrations, and one plate on separate leaf following printed text. Moderate soiling on titlepage, slight edge wear to first few leaves. Second French edition, following the first French edition of 1598. Lodewijcksz gives an account of the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies under Cornelis Houtman, from 1595 to 1597. The information collected by Houtman on the spice trade convinced the Dutch they could compete with Portugal’s monopoly in the East Indies, and his narrative served to initiate the explosion of Dutch trading at the turn of the century. “Like the English, Houtman’s men suffered so severely from scurvy that they had to put in at the Cape of Good Hope and at Antongil Bay in Madagascar to recuperate. But they then sailed straight across the Indian Ocean to the Straits of Sunda and dropped anchor at Bantam in Java without the loss of a ship. At this port, the center of the Javanese pepper trade, a long time was spent. Both natives and Portuguese showed considerable hostility, and Houtman and some of his men were imprisoned. However, the Dutch succeeded in making a com- mercial treaty and departed with a good cargo. They proceeded eastward to Bali, and then returned along the south coast of Java, thereby acquiring a more correct impression of the width of the island than had prevailed and laid the ghost of Java’s being the northern part of the Southern Continent...the Dutch skipper had enough to show for his venture to inspire the merchants of Amsterdam with a determination to exploit the trade” – Penrose.

2) Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: Le Second Livre, Iournal ou Comptoir, Contenant le Vray Discours et Narration Historique.... Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two parts. 22,[8] leaves. Titlepages with engraved illustrations, twenty-two in-text engravings (including one map), two in-text woodcuts. Second French edition, following the first French edition of 1601. Van Neck, who represented the Verre Company, commanded three ships which were part of the first successful Dutch trading voyage to the region. The other two ships were commanded by Wybrand Van Warwijck and Jacob Van Heemskerk. Van Neck’s vessel became separated from the other two after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and the three did not reunite again until his arrival in Java in late December 1598. Unlike his Dutch predecessor, Cornelis Houtman, who three years earlier had seized the port of Bantam, Van Neck dealt diplomatically with the natives. “Rather than rejecting the inflated prices asked by the local ruler, he offered to pay over the odds in order to cement a lasting relationship...Van Neck’s was the most profitable of the pre-VOC [Dutch East India Company] voyages. Despite the apparently high price paid for spices, he netted a profit of 300 per cent on his overall costs. In 1601, fourteen fleets comprising sixty-five ships sailed for the East Indies, but by that time competition between rival Dutch operators, as well as with the Portuguese, had inflated prices and none were as successful as Van Neck’s first enterprise” – Howgego. While focused on activity in the East Indies, European Americana notes the text includes references to Brazil and tobacco from the West Indies. The second part of this 1609 French edition, an eight-page appendix of words spoken in Java and Malay, includes word lists in French (printed in roman type), Malay (in italic type), and Javanese (in civilité).

Two of the most important of the pioneering French voyages to the Far East, bound together as probably issued in this edition. Lodewijcksz: EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/71. TIELE-MULLER 115. JCB (3)II:63. HOWGEGO H105 (Houtman). Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance (1952), p.204. Neck: EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/93. TIELE 786. TIELE-MULLER 129. HOWGEGO N13. $30,000.

One of the Greatest Collections on the East

96. Lopes de Castanheda, Fernão: HISTORIA DELL’INDIE ORIEN- TALI, SCOPERTE, & CONQUISTATE DA’ PORTOGHESI, DI COMMISSIONE DELL’INUITTISSIMO RE DON MANUELLO, DI GLORIOSA MEMORIA. Venice: Giordano Ziletti, 1577. Two vol- umes. [17],518,[1]; [13],365 leaves. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spines. Front joint of first volume cracked, other joints worn. Early bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally remarkably clean. A beautiful copy.

Lopes de Castanheda is considered one of the definitive chroniclers of Portuguese activity in Asia. With the majority of the narrative focused on Persia, Arabia, China, and Molucca, this work is enhanced by the inclusion of details regarding the Portuguese exploration of Brazil. That Book One of the present work was first translated into French by Nicolas de Grouchy, Montaigne’s instructor at the Collège de Guyenne, shows that it had a least a partial impact on Montaigne’s understand- ing of the New World, shedding some light on some of the source material for his numerous Essays. Most of the Historia... is devoted to the great Portuguese thrust into Asia in the early 16th century, chronicling their epic expansion to India, the East Indies, and China between 1497 and 1525. Castanheda himself spent some two decades in the Portuguese colonies in the East, and so was well equipped to write this account. It is one of the primary sources for the early Portuguese trading empire, a model that the British were beginning to emulate at the time of publication. Penrose says of the author: “...He wrote an impartial book of outspoken sincerity which was the fruit of years of residence in the East.” However, this work is equally important for its American content, being the first to describe in detail the voyage of Cabral and his discovery of Brazil in 1500, while on his way out to the East Indies. Cabral’s landing is the first recorded there, recounted in chapters 29-31 of the present work. The present work was translated from the author’s Historia do Descobrimento e Conquista da India Pelos Portuguezes, published between 1551 and 1561. It was translated by Alfonso Ulloa, translator of Fernando Columbus’ biography of his father, Christopher Columbus. A beautiful set. SABIN 11389. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 577/29. Europe Informed, pp.55-58. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe I, Book 1, pp.187-88. SABIN 11387 (another ed). BORBA DE MORAES, pp.142-43. STREIT IV:972. JCB (3)I:265. $12,500. A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Sinking of the Lusitania

97. [Lusitania]: Beattie, Allan: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“LOVE TO ALL, ALLAN”), FROM ALLAN BEATTIE TO MARC (BOWMAN), A TWELVE-PAGE SURVIVOR’S ACCOUNT OF THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA]. Folkestone [England]. May 15, 1915. [12]pp. Pen and ink on letterhead of Coman’s Hotel, 21 & 23 Castle Hill Avenue. 15 lines per page (approximately 750 words). Quarto. With typed transcript. Old folds, large pinhole in top center margin. Old envelope of Lewis-Clark Hotel, Lewiston, Idaho, with “Allan Beatty’s letter” in ink. Fine. In a half morocco and cloth box, leather labels.

A dramatic and detailed account by a survivor of the sinking of the Lusitania. Allan Beattie, eighteen, of Winnipeg, travelling Second Cabin with his mother Grace, was sitting on the hurricane deck when the ship was struck.

I got an awful smash in the back from the water and was thrown about thirty feet on my face. I got up and ran down stairs people were pouring up from the decks below and I caught sight of Mother. I ran up to her and kissed her goodbye, then I lost her for a while....I thought to myself I haven’t much of chance if I don’t get a life belt so I thought a minute and then rushed down to my own stateroom and grabbed my own belt....I had to hang on the side of my bed to get a hold of it. The lights were practically all out.

He gave away the first life belt he found, then went down three decks to his state- room to get his own life belt. Returning topside despite “a pretty hard time,” he met his mother again.

She says, “I am not nervous I don’t think there is much danger do you?” I replied that “It looked about as bad as it could” and I told her to take my life belt but she refused, I made her put it on after promising that I would get another. I kissed her goodbye again and just as I got the top straps of her life belt tied, the boat went down. I was sent sliding the whole width of the deck.

Allan was flung free, and was soon picked up by a life boat. He describes how the boat soon became perilously crowded. When another boat was located, survivors were shifted across. In due course his boat was rescued by the Flying Fish, and the survivors were brought to Queenstown. Beattie (whose first name is given as “Allen” in the New York Times list of survivors), writes his correspondent: “Mother is gone, and altho we have not heard of her I don’t think that she can be alive.” Beattie appears to have been one of the Lusitania survivors who were profoundly traumatized by the incident. He was rejected from military service because of poor eyesight and was reported to have suffered a series of breakdowns beginning in 1920, and was unable to hold steady employment. A remarkable, detailed narrative by a survivor of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 20th century, written in the immediate aftermath of the event, by a young man whose actions show proof of calmness in the tumult. $15,000.

98. Mannert, Conrad von: DIE ERDE IN ZWEY HALBKUGELN. Nur- emberg: Christoph Fembo, 1839. Copper-engraved map, with original outline color. Sheet size: 17 1/3 x 23 1/2 inches. Very good.

A very attractive and finely colored twin-hemisphere map of the world. This very finely engraved map portrays the world on a bi-hemispheric projection. It evinces the great cartographic tradition of Nuremberg, where it was devised by Professor Conrad Mannert. It depicts the globe during the height of European imperial ex- pansion. Various possessions of the colonial hegemons are labeled, especially with regards to the British domains in the Americas. Geographically, the world has a form quite familiar to the modern eye, save the curious exception of the Canadian Arctic, which is largely shown to be an enigma. $1000.

Rarest of the Narratives of Canadian Rebels of 1837 Transported to Australia

99. Marsh, Robert: SEVEN YEARS OF MY LIFE, OR A NARRATIVE OF A PATRIOT EXILE. WHO TOGETHER WITH EIGHTY- TWO AMERICAN CITIZENS WERE ILLEGALLY TRIED FOR REBELLION IN UPPER CANADA IN 1838, AND TRANSPORT- ED TO VAN DIEMAN’S LAND.... Buffalo: Faxon & Stevens, 1848. 207pp. including one full-page illustration. Original black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Very faint tide- line throughout, minor foxing. Very good. In a cloth case, leather label.

An exceptionally rare firsthand account of the Canada Rebellion of 1837-38, and the experiences of an American participant who was imprisoned and sent to Tasmania. Marsh was one of eighty-two Americans convicted of aiding the Canadian rebels. Captured after the Battle of Prescott, he was detained at Toronto and Kingston before being sent to Van Diemen’s Land aboard the British prison ship Buffalo. He reached Hobart Town in February 1840. Marsh was pardoned in 1845 and returned to Buffalo the next year. He describes in detail his imprisonment in Canada, the voyage to Tasmania, and the “cruel and unmerciful treatment during five years of unmitigated suffering on that detestable prison island.” Also of interest is Marsh’s description of Tasmania, its inhabitants and products. The illustration is a woodcut of the burning of the steamship Caroline. “The most detailed, most graphic, and most valuable of the narratives of exiles to Van Diemen’s Land” – Severance. “Rarest of the Canadian Prisoner Narratives” – Ferguson. Ferguson notes one known copy, that formerly in the collection of Dr. C. Craig of Launceston, Tasmania, bearing an 1847 publication date. That copy sold at auction in 1975 for $3871. The copy of the 1848 edition of this title described by Ferguson is stamped in gilt on the front board: “New Book of Martyrs.” Our copy is stamped in gilt on the front board: “Patriot Exile.” Not in Lande, Sabin, or TPL. Quite rare and desirable. HOWES M307, “aa.” FERGUSON 4822. SEVERANCE, UPPER CANADA REBEL- LION, p.471. SEVERANCE, BUFFALO IMPRINTS, p.601. $17,500.

The Extraordinary Illustrated Diaries of an American Sailor, “Wicked Ned”

100. Marshall, David E.: a.k.a. “Wicked Ned”: [ILLUSTRATED JOUR- NALS OF AMERICAN SAILOR DAVID E. MARSHALL, WHO ALSO REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS “WICKED NED,” IN- CLUDING SCORES OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF HIS TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD, AS WELL AS POETRY, SAILING IN- STRUCTIONS, PRACTICAL ADVICE, AND MUCH MORE]. [Various places. ca. 1845-1865]. Collection includes three folio volumes, a lengthy manuscript on folio sheets, and two smaller sketchbooks. Hundreds of pages of text. More than 200 total ink and watercolor, ink and wash, or pencil illustrations (see details below). Three bound volumes in contemporary bind- ings of half leather and marbled boards, one binding covered with sailcloth. Bindings with expected wear, but quite clean internally. Smaller sketchbooks unbound and with wear to outer leaves, but clean internally. Very good overall. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A truly remarkable collection of illustrated journals created by an American sailor, David E. Marshall of Connecticut, filled with outstanding colored illustrations of his voyages and adventures. Marshall had an incredibly creative mind, and developed an alternate persona for himself, “Ned Cleaveland,” a.k.a. “Wicked Ned,” who becomes the protagonist of some of Marshall’s more outlandish deeds, as recounted in these volumes. Marshall was also a very talented draftsman, and this collection is a marvelous illustrated journal of an American sailor’s life at sea in the mid-19th century. The illustrations in these volumes are simply splendid, the work of an accom- plished amateur artist. Marshall’s drawings are wonderful depictions of his service in the American Navy, on privateering vessels, and on whaleships, and also of his adventures around New England. There are well over two hundred illustrations in all, the majority of them full-page and in color. Heavily represented are views of Marshall’s travels as a sailor, with illustrations and views of ports and cities in South America, the Pacific (including Tahiti and Hawaii) the Arctic, the British Isles, and scenes around the American Northeast, including his native Connecticut. Several of the illustrations show Marshall’s whaling adventures, including vibrant scenes of whale hunting, while many others are beautiful depictions of sailing vessels. Taken as a whole, Marshall’s wide-ranging text becomes a series of interlinked stories recounting his adventures over a span of some twenty years, and ultimately explaining what he considers to be his repeated failure to make a success of himself. Included are narratives and poems regarding Marshall’s life aboard military vessels and a whaler; a description of an incident involving the privateer, America, at Rio de Janeiro; experiences in Hawaii; recipes for paint and brightwork cleaning; instruc- tions on how to keep a log; thoughts on the Civil War, missionaries, temperance, and hypocrisy; and thousands of lines of poetry, from mini-epics to brief fragments. There is also a manuscript of some 10,000 words, written aboard a Union gunboat on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Of special note are two versions of a 600-line poem about Marshall’s whaling voyage around the world on the ship, Henry. Among the most interesting aspects of Marshall’s prose and poetry is his creation of the “Wicked Ned” alter ego, a sort of “evil twin” of Marshall, who spills blood as a privateersman, romances and abandons women, causes chaos ashore, swears to mend his ways, but ultimately returns to his rough and rowdy life. Little is known of David E. Marshall beyond the information he gives us in these volumes. He seems to have been born around 1807 in Milford, Connecticut, and in another volume he copies what appears to be his will, dated 1865, writing that he was born in Milford, and that he still resides there. Marshall continues his double identity in this document, asserting that he is also the “Edward Cleaveland herewith subscribed.” Marshall served in the United States Navy aboard the U.S.S. Raritan and the U.S.S. Savannah, and also on a Union gunboat on the Mississippi during the Civil War. He was also a sailor on the whaleship, Henry, which sailed out of Sag Harbor, and served aboard a privateer and various merchant vessels. In his 1881 book, Recollections of Curious Characters and Pleasant Places, author and traveller Charles Lanman includes a chapter called “A Story of a Modern Mariner,” which is a first-person account of the life of Lanman’s friend, David Marshall, though in the book he refers to himself as “Tom Cleaveland.” Lanman concludes the chapter by writing that “‘Cleaveland’ was himself his worst enemy.” Adding another dimension to this curious life story, a published print is located at Princeton University, entitled “U.S. Frigate Savannah. struck by a heavy Squall when entering the Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, between the hours of 7 & 8, on the evening of July 5th 1856.” The illustration was published by Endicott and Company of New York, and is identified as being “drawn by Wicked Ned.” Marshall was, in fact, a sailor aboard the Savannah and was on the ship when it visited Rio in 1856. The contents of the various volumes are as follow: 1) Bound folio volume, titled in manuscript, “David E. Marshall of Milford Conn.” [205]pp. total, including 101 illustrations, most of them full-page and almost all of them colored. A second manuscript titlepage reads: “Works of Ned Cleave- land.” The illustration on the first titlepage is of Poseidon sitting upon a rock, while an American eagle, arrows and olive branches in its talons, flies past in the background. The second illustration in the volume shows a woman, perhaps Columbia, atop a sea serpent. This volume includes a version of Marshall’s long poem of his whaling ad- ventures, entitled “Whaleing [sic] Voyage on the ‘North West’ in the Henry of Sag Harbor in 1846, 46 & 47 by ‘Wicked Ned.’” The tone of the poem varies, from elegiac to wistful to enthusiastic. Marshall writes:

And now farewell my dear Sag Harbor girls, for I must bid you all a long adieu as I am bound, a cruise around the world in the Ship Henry. She’s a whaleman too. I’ve had enough of shore. This weary bout I’ve frollicked very hard indeed likewise so let old women loudly rant and rout about the man who madly drinks, and dies. The times are hard and money very scarce good folks on shore all seem so wondrous sad; To stay on shore would be a foolish farce while on the North West right whale may be had.

The text of the poem gives details of the voyage, occurrences on board, ship, and the hunt for whales. Other texts in this volume include sailing instructions, a poem written on board the Raritan and another entitled “Farewell to Cape Horn,” as well as verses regarding military battles, including that at Churubusco during the Mexican-American War. The illustrations in this volume include scenes of Marshall’s whaling voy- age, including a striking illustration of “Monganuea” (i.e. Mount Maunganui, New Zealand), and views of whale hunting. There is also a color illustration of “Lobos Island” (apparently in the Galapagos), done while Marshall was a crew member of the U.S.S. Raritan in 1852. There are a number of riverside and seaside views, including views of Tobago, Panama, Puna, Callao, San Lorenzo at Chagres, Table Mountain on the Cape of Good Hope, and a lovely view of St. Thomas. Several of the views are in and around New England, including a view of the coast of Milford, Connecticut, another along the Housatonic River, near Milford, and a political cartoon entitled “The Present Days of New England.” There are also several portraits of figures Marshall encountered, and much more.

2) Bound folio volume, titled in manuscript “Sketchbook of David E. Marshall.” [256] pp. total, including ninety-nine illustrations, most of them colored and many of them full-page. This volume also begins with allegorical watercolors of the United States, represented by the figure of Columbia. As with the previous volume, it is filled with text and illustrations describing and depicting Marshall’s travels. The texts in this volume are as wide-ranging as in the previous, and include another version of Marshall’s poem about his whaling voyage aboard the Henry. In one stanza he describes a stop in the Pacific to refill their stores:

Now we arrived at Wy-ta-taks fair isle to get our fruit and pumpkins and sour lime, while oranges and lemons made our crew to smile and then we fill’d away for far Northwestern climes, on Mellus banks our sail took in by night stood quarter watches through the darkened gloom hoping next day to see a fish and fight and kill a whale amidst the white sea foam.

Another poem is entitled “Last words to the Dead” and was written in Valparaiso in 1851. A long essay entitled “Reminiscences of By-Gone Times” gives a his- tory of Marshall’s life through approximately his first forty years. He writes:

As at present I have nothing more profitable to do I shall endeavour to give a description of some parts of my life which otherwise might roll away into oblivion when I am forgotten myself. I am now at the noontide of life and full three quarters of that time have been spent in the service of daddy Neptune. And one half at least has been expended in ploughing up his blue and poetic fields; on board of different ships under different commanders and different employs. And to sum the whole in a small space I can say I have served in vessels from a clam boat to a seventy-four, have been in all capacities in the merchant service, from cook to Captain....

Marshall follows with a lengthy narration, some thirty-seven folio pages long, recounting his adventures at sea. This volume is also filled with marvelous and accomplished illustrations, most of them colored. Foremost is a dramatic colored illustration of a whale hunt, with blood spurting from the whale’s blowhole. There is also a dramatic colored illustration of the wreck of the Steamer Independence at Margarita Island off the coast of Venezuela on February 16, 1853. Other views include Sugar Loaf Mountain at Rio de Janeiro, Praya Grande in Brazil, a view of the east side of Maunganui Bay in New Zealand, Payta in Peru, Capetown, three views of Tahiti, three views of Valparaiso, as well as views of Madagascar, Marshall’s island, Callao, and illustrations of naval flags of various nations. In the United States there are illustrations of Niagara Falls, Connecticut and Long Island, sailing ships, the Bunker Hill Monument, Stratford Harbor, a view of Sutter’s Fort in California, and a drawing of “Culloma” showing the area near Sutter’s Fort where James Marshall discovered gold in January 1848.

3) Bound folio volume, including sailing rules and regulations, poetry, journals, and tales. [135]pp. total, including twenty-eight illustrations, most of them full-page. The text of this volume includes directions for keeping a sailing log, instruc- tions on how to polish brightwork, an essay written “At Sea” in October 1856 describing a near-violent encounter between the “suspected privateer America” and a British ship, and another essay regarding life on board a privateer. Twelve pages of manuscript (accompanied by several illustrations) give an account of a few weeks of Marshall’s experiences in the summer of 1856 on board the U.S.S. Savannah at Rio de Janeiro. There is also an essay on the Sandwich Islands and the missionaries there, and Marshall’s assessment of what he sees as their hypo- critical views. Illustrations include Arctic scenes, a view of Trinidad, illustrations off the coast of Brazil, views around Connecticut, and more.

4) Manuscript on loose folio sheets of ruled paper. 47pp. Plus a full-page colored illustrations of a sailor. The first page of the manuscript is datelined: “On board U.S. Ship ‘Lampero’ River Mississippi Nov. 19, 1862.” Other entries are dated February 9th and 25th, 1863. Marshall’s essay is a long, rambling disquisition on American history up to that point, the causes of the outbreak of the Civil War and the morality of the argument on both sides of the conflict. While not espousing particular pro-slavery views, he heaps scorn on Northern Abolitionists for bringing the Union to a state of Civil War. For Marshall, the abolitionists are of a piece with temperance advocates and other moralists, and he holds no sympathy for them:

The determination of the Abolitionists, Temperance, and other fanatics to prosecute the present contest to extermination of all who oppose them, the tremendous debt which they have imposed upon the country and suicidal and foolish transactions in Army & Navy have at length aroused the Sons of the States west of the Mississippi, and ere long we shall without doubt hear that they too have seceded and left poor Yankeedom in possession of all the glory.

5) Small sketchbook of tied-together leaves (not bound), containing text and pencil illustrations on a total of [117]pp.

6) Small sketchbook of tied-together leaves (not bound), containing text and pencil illustrations on a total of [22]pp. This sketchbook and the one before it in- clude manuscript text and pencil illustrations, including sketches and details of faces, architectural ornaments, ships, cannons and weapons, navigational tools, landscapes, etc. The text is mostly comprised of poetry and anonymous letters.

An outstanding collection of illustrated travel manuscripts from an American sailor who was a talented artist, and who was also possessed of a fertile and imaginative mind. Through his art, prose, and poetry, David Marshall, a.k.a. “Wicked Ned,” provides us with an enthralling view of his life and the world. http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2009/07/drawn_by_wicked_ned.html $80,000.

Mountain Climbs in Mauritius

101. [Mauritius]: [DOCUMENTS, PRINTS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO THE ASCENT OF THE MOUNTAIN PIETER BOTH IN MAURITIUS, INCLUDING SEVERAL MAURITIUS IMPRINTS]. [1832-1865]. Three items: 1) Autograph manuscript: 17pp., 800 words, quarto, sewn in brown paper wrappers. 2) Two uncolored litho- graphic plates, 19½ x 12½ inches, accompanied by folio broadsheet. 3) Printed book: 15pp. plus six mounted photographs, 12mo., half brown morocco gilt with marbled boards, small tear in lower cover, inscription, with accompanying leaf from The Illustrated London News, Feb. 4, 1865. All contained in a large folio brown cloth folding case.

A noteworthy collection of items documenting and illustrating attempts to climb Pieter Both, an unusually shaped mountain located near Port-Louis in Mauritius. Included are several interesting and quite rare Mauritius imprints. The earliest item is an autograph manuscript by Lieut. Arthur Taylor, “Account of the Ascent of the Pieter Both Mountain, Mauritius, on the 7th of September 1832.” Written in letter format, it details Taylor’s climb, the first British expedi- tion to successfully reach the top (a French group led by Claude Peuthé is thought to have scaled the peak in 1790). The party, which had suffered an unsuccessful attempt the previous year, included Taylor, Capt. Lloyd, Lieut. Phillpots, and the Hon. Thomas Keppel. Taylor’s account, which includes a small sketch of the “head” of the mountain, lists previous attempts, doubting the veracity of the French at- tempt in 1790, and recounts the difficulty of the climb, particularly a long sheer cliff face passable only by a narrow ledge. When the summit was reached in the afternoon, the party celebrated with a bottle of wine and spent the night on the mountain with brandy and cigars. Next are two lithographic plates, titled in both French and English. The first is “View of Peterbot, from the Moka side,” and the second is “Ascent on the peak of Peterbot on the 24st May 1848.” They were drawn by Lieut. Swinny in situ, and lithographed by V. Devreaux in Port Louis. Accompanying the plates is a broadsheet, Ascent of Peterbot, Island of Mauritius, printed in Port Louis on June 15, 1848, which recounts the second successful ascent of the mountain by an English party led by Swinny, sixteen years after Taylor. TOUSSAINT A617. The third item is a printed book titled The Ascent of Pieterboth Mountain and published in Mauritius by E. Dupuy and P. Dubois (undated and without author). The book contains the first photographic record of a Pieter Both climb, shot dur- ing an expedition by Capt. Johnston and Mr. Symons of the 2/24th Regiment and others. Although accompanied by Mr. B. Greene “who had with him a camera and everything requisite to take photographic views,” the weather did not permit him to do so. The photographs were taken a few days later by Mr. G. Burgman, who was able to ascend the mountain on a fine day. The photographs include the “head” of the mountain, the ascent of the “Ladder Rock,” and a view of Port Louis. The inscription present on the front pastedown testifies to the difficulty of the climb: “I tried to climb the Pieterboth in 1865 with a party from the troop ship Tam[ar]. Owing to a heavy fog when near the top the ascent failed. P.H. Leith 11th regi- ment.” TOUSSAINT A783. Accompanying this item is a leaf from the newspaper, The Illustrated London News of Feb. 4, 1865. It includes the text of this item as an article titled the “Ascent of the Peter Botte Mountain, in the Mauritius,” and three wood engravings based on Burgman’s photographs. A splendid collection that features several rare Mauritius imprints and pays tribute to the indomitable spirit of mountain climbing. TOUSSAINT A617, A783. $7500.

A Major Dutch History, with the First Published History of Hudson Discovering the Hudson River

102. Meteren, Emanuel van: COMMENTARIEN OFTE MEMORIEN VAN DEN NEDERLANDTSCHEN STAET.... London [i.e., Amster- dam]. 1610. [8],244,cxciv,167,[23],37,[1] leaves, including engraved titlepage and portrait of the author, plus 6pp. contemporary manuscript notes. Folio. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, tooled in blind; metal clasps, corners, and bosses. Wear to head and foot of spine, spine leather crack- ing. Some light scattered soiling and wear, minor worming to margin of last few leaves. About very good.

A classic history of the Netherlands and the wars against the Spanish, and an important Americanum with very significant material on the discovery of the Hudson River and the English settlements in Virginia. The author, although Dutch, spent much of his career as a merchant in London, and had extensive commercial and publishing contacts on both sides of the Channel. The first part of his history was published in 1593, followed by subse- quent editions, all with added material, including an account of Drake’s West India voyage of 1585, the capture of Spanish shipping by the English in 1592, and the Hawkins and Drake West India raid of 1595. This Dutch chronicle has become essential for understanding the activities in London leading to British exploration and permanent settlement in the New World. Though dated 1608 on the titlepage, the colophon gives a London, 1610 imprint. Beginning with the Dutch edition of 1609, Meteren included detailed accounts of the Virginia Company and the English settlement in Virginia. According to Parker, that edition included “the first appearance in print of the first document relating to the Virginia colony...Meteren’s abstract of the charter is so close to the original patent in both form and content as to leave no doubt that it was based on the original letters patent or some document closely related to them.” Besides this, there is extensive information on the Virginia colony which appears to come directly from Virginia Company sources. The present 1610 edition also contains the first published account of the explorations of Henry Hudson along the Middle Atlantic seaboard and the discovery of New York and the Hudson River, and the first description of his coasting of Newfoundland and New France. All early editions of Meteren are extremely rare, with the NUC and European Americana locating only a few copies of each. John Parker’s Van Meteren’s Virginia (Minneapolis, 1961) provides a translation of the sections relating to Virginia and a detailed account of Meteren and his life. J. Franklin Jameson, as editor of Nar- ratives of New Netherland, translates the Henry Hudson section. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 610/76. PALAU 166948. STC 17845.7. $5000.

103. [Mexican-American War]: Read, George C., Commander: [MAN- USCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED BY U.S. NAVY COMMODORE GEORGE CAMPBELL READ AT CAPE VERDE OFF THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA, TO THE SECRETARY OF THE U.S. LEGATION AT MADRID, REGARDING THE NEED TO GUARD AMERICAN COMMERCE IN THE ATLANTIC AGAINST MEXICAN PRIVATEERS DURING THE MEXICAN- AMERICAN WAR]. Porto Praya, Cape Verde. May 31, 1847. [2]pp. on a folio sheet. Docketed on the bottom of the second page. Old folds. Leaf strengthened with tissue along left edge. A few small closed slits in the sheet, and a chip in the upper right corner, not affecting text. Good. In a folding cloth box, gilt leather label.

A very interesting letter from the commander of the United States Navy’s African squadron stationed at Cape Verde, regarding the threat to American shipping from Mexican-hired privateers during the Mexican-American War. Commodore George C. Read writes the secretary of the United States legation in Madrid, assessing the danger posed by English or Spanish privateers, and the U.S. Navy resources avail- able to combat the potential threat. The letter, in a secretarial hand, is signed by George Campbell Read, com- mander of the U.S.S. United States and of the U.S. Navy’s African Squadron. Read (1788-1862) had a long and distinguished naval career. He joined the crew of the U.S.S. Constitution in 1806, first serving under the command of his uncle, Capt. Hugh G. Campbell, and then as a lieutenant under Commodore Isaac Hull during the War of 1812. Read also served under Commodore Stephen Decatur when the U.S.S. United States defeated H.M.S. Macedonian. Read rose steadily through the ranks and took command of the Constitution in 1825. After several years at the Philadelphia Naval School he was put in command of the African Squadron from 1846 to 1847, the period in which this letter was written. Read later com- manded the Mediterranean Squadron, and was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1862, a month before his death. Read’s letter is in response to a January 31, 1847 letter from J.C. Reynolds, which was addressed to “the officer in command of any armed vessel of the U. States.” Reynolds had apparently sent out a message to all the captains of Navy vessels in the Atlantic, warning them that the Mexican government may be trying to hire European privateers to harass and capture American shipping during the Mexican-American War. Read, whose ship was anchored at Cape Verde, off the west coast of Africa, writes in response:

I can readily conceive the danger to which our commerce may be exposed, if the Mexican agent in England & Spain should succeed in persuading the subjects of those nations to fit out privateers. But it seems to me so improbable that men, having no ports into which they could carry their prizes for adjudication, should attempt it. And if their object should be merely to plunder our vessels of such articles as privateers could store, their gains would hardly compensate them for the expense incurred and the risk they may take.

Read notes that he has been directed to send the sloop of war Marion to Gibraltar in response to Reynolds’ concerns. He writes, however: “...the ‘Marion’ is by no means fit to cruize [sic] for privateers. This vessel has become very foul from the length of time it has been kept on the coast of Africa; but it is the only cruizer [sic] we have on this station that can, with propriety be employed for such service.” A very interesting letter from the commander of the U.S. Navy’s African squad- ron, discussing a little-considered aspect of the Mexican-American War. $1500.

One of the Rarest Canadian Exile Narratives

104. Miller, Linus W.: NOTES OF AN EXILE TO VAN DIEMAN’S LAND: COMPRISING INCIDENTS OF THE CANADIAN RE- BELLION IN 1838, TRIAL OF THE AUTHOR IN CANADA... AND TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMAN’S LAND.... Fredonia, N.Y. 1846. xi,[1],378pp. Three-quarter antique-style calf and marbled boards. Scattered foxing. Very good.

Miller, an American citizen who participated in the Canadian rebellion of 1837- 38, was transported to the penal colonies in Van Dieman’s Land and New South Wales. He was one of nine political exiles who published accounts of their experi- ences. His is a vivid firsthand narrative of the Rebellion; his trial, conviction, and transportation; life in the penal colony; and subsequent pardon and return home. This is one of the rarest of the Canadian exile narratives, of interest for both its Australian and North American connections. FERGUSON 4349. HOWES M613. SABIN 49037. COHEN 4305. LANDE 1980. TPL 2790. STORY, p.699. $1750.

The Rare Final Edition of the Fourth Book of The English Pilot, the First Entirely English Sea Atlas of American Waters

105. [Mount and Davidson (publishers)]: THE ENGLISH PILOT THE FOURTH BOOK. DESCRIBING THE WEST-INDIA NAVIGA- TION, FROM HUDSON’S BAY TO THE RIVER AMAZONES [sic]. PARTICULARLY DELINEATING THE COASTS, CAPES, HEADLANDS, RIVERS, BAYS, ROADS, HAVENS, HARBOURS, STREIGHTS, ROCKS, SANDS, SHOALS, BANKS, DEPTHS OF WATER, AND ANCHORAGE, WITH ALL THE ISLANDS THEREIN...ALSO A NEW DESCRIPTION OF NEWFOUND- LAND, NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, EAST AND WEST NEW JERSEY, DELLAWAR [sic] BAY, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, CAROLINA, &c. SHEWING THE COURSES AND DISTANCES FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER; THE EBBING AND FLOW- ING OF THE SEA, THE SETTING OF THE TIDES AND CUR- RENTS, &c. WITH MANY OTHER THINGS NECESSARY TO BE KNOWN IN NAVIGATION. THE WHOLE BEING MUCH ENLARGED AND CORRECTED, WITH THE ADDITIONS OF SEVERAL NEW CHARTS AND DESCRIPTIONS. London: Mount and Davidson, 1794. Letterpress title (verso blank), text pp.[3-]66 with numer- ous illustrations, including a half-page “Draught of the Bay of Homda,” four three-quarter-page engraved maps or charts, and about 250 woodcut coastal profiles and harbors). Twenty-two engraved maps and charts. Folio. Expertly bound to style in half 18th-century russia and period marbled boards, spine with raised bands. Very good.

The English Pilot, in five separate books, was the first major sea-atlas published in England. ...The Fourth Book was the first wholly English sea-atlas of American waters. The English Pilot, taken as a whole, had a long and complex publishing history that illustrates the development of the chart trade in England during its formative period. Introduced in 1689 by John Thornton and William Fisher, The Fourth Book was the most successful of the five, and had the longest continuous run of editions. “The Fourth Book of the Pilot is of special interest to American carto-biblio- graphical description because it was the first great atlas of wholly English origin to deal exclusively with American waters; because its production involved some of the most noted map makers and publishers of the time; and because through suc- cessive editions its maps illustrated the unfolding geographical knowledge of the American coast within a century of exploration and settlement” – Verner (p. vii). The present 1794 edition of The Fourth Book contains important material not found in the earliest editions: Andrew Hughes’ “A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia,” added in 1778, is one of the best sea charts of these regions of the late 18th century; Edmund Halley’s “A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans,” in its various editions, is one of the landmarks of English cartography; the revised 1775 edition of Cyprian Southack’s famous “Map of the Coast of New England” is the first to contain the large inset of Boston based on John Bonner’s great map; the unattributed “Chart of New York Harbour” is a significant addition to the cartography of that city. The charts in this edition comprise:

1) [Edmund Halley (1656-1742)]: “A New and Correct Chart of the Western and Southern Oceans Shewing the Variations of the Compass According to the latest and best Observations.” London: Sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page on Tower Hill. Folding (25 x 22½ inches), flanked by panels of separately printed pasted-on text titled “The Description and Uses of a New and Correct Sea-Chart of the Western and Southern Ocean, Shewing the Variations of the Compass.” This folding chart precedes the titlepage. It is a corrected edition of Edmund Halley’s landmark 1701 chart with the same title. Peter Barbour hailed that chart as the “most significant cartographic achievement of Williamite England” (The Age of William III & Mary II, plate 106). It was one of the earliest thematic maps, and the first to show lines of equal magnetic variation, which was an important advance for navigation. A version of Halley’s chart was added to The Fourth Book in 1721, but was discontinued in favor of this revised version in 1749. As noted in the flanking text, there is a “perpetual though slow Change in the Variation almost everywhere, which has made it necessary to construct [the chart] anew from accurate Observations, made by the most ingenious Navigators.” 2) “A New and Correct Chart of the North Part of America from New Found Land to Hudsons Bay.” London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 inches). 3) “A New Generall Chart for the West Indies of E. Wright’s Projection.” London: sold by W. and J. Mount and J. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 1/8 inches). 4) Emanuel Bowen (d. 1767): “A New and Accurate Chart of the vast Atlantic or Western Ocean.” [London]: sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Folding (26 1/4 x 31 3/4 inches). This fine general chart was a recent addition to The Fourth Book, first appearing in the 1778 edition. 5) [Captain Cyprian Southack (1662-1745)]: “The Harbour of Casco Bay, and Islands Adjacent.” London: sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 23 inches). CUMING, p.42 (ref ). 6) “A New and Correct Chart of the Coast of New Foundland from Cape Raze to Cape Bonavista” [with inset of Chebucto Harbor]. London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (19 x 41 inches). 7) “A Chart of the South-East Coast of Newfoundland.” [London]: printed for Mount and Page. Folding (19 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches). Added to The Fourth Book in 1780. 8) Captain Henry Barnsley: “A New and Correct Chart of the Sea Coast of New- England from Cape Codd [sic] to Casco Bay.” London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (22 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches). 9) Captain Cyprian Southack: “A Map of the Coast of New England, from Staten Island to the Island of Breton; as it was actually Survey’d by Capt. Cyprian Southack.” London: sold by I. Mount, T. Page & W. Mount. Folding (26 x 32 inches). This is a reduction of the eight-sheet chart that made up The New England Coasting Pilot (London, 1729-34), by Southack, one of New England’s most knowledgeable and experienced pilots. This reduction was added to The Fourth Book in 1775, and replaced an earlier version of the chart that had first appeared in the 1737 edition. The present new version is distinguished by two new insets that do not appear in any other edition of Southack’s chart. One of these, a large plan of “The Town of Boston in New England,” is an unattributed reduction of John Bonner’s famous map, “the earliest and most important engraved plan of Boston.” WHEAT & BRUN 224 (ref). DEÁK 79. REPS, AMERICAN MAPS AND MAPMAKERS, pp.221-22. KRIEGER & COBB, MAPPING BOSTON, pp.43-44. 10) “A Chart of New York Harbour with the Banks Soundings and Sailing marks from the most Accurate Surveys and Observations.” [N.p., no publisher’s imprint]. Folding (25 1/4 x 22 3/4 inches). A fine sea chart of New York Harbor which replaced Mark Tiddeman’s outdated “Draught of New York,” which had appeared in early editions of this work since 1732. 11) [ John Thornton]: “Virginia, Maryland, Pennsilvania, East & West Jersey.” [London]: sold by Jno: Mount & Thos. Page. Folding (23 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches). A classic chart of the Chesapeake Region, originally published in 1689. It is a close copy of Augustine Herrman’s map. The delineation of Delaware Bay and New Jersey includes additional data, probably from the Holme map of Pennsyl- vania. Verner describes this chart as Thornton’s most notable contribution to Maryland-Virginia cartography. Morrison, On the Map, fig. 36. 12) Mark Tiddeman: “A Draught of Virginia from the Capes to York River and to Kuiquotan or Hamton in James River.” London: sold by W. & I. Mount & T. Page. Double-page (19 x 22 7/8 inches). Trimmed close as usual. The first printed map to show Williamsburg. 13) Andrew Norwood: “A New Mapp of the Island of St. Christophers being an Actuall Survey taken by Mr. Andrew Norwood Surveyr. Genll.” With insets of Guadeloupe and Martinique. [London]: sold by W. Mount & T. Page. Double- page (19 x 23 inches). 14) Andrew Hughes: “A Draught of South Carolina and Georgia from Sewee to St. Estaca.” With lengthy integral engraved text entitled “Instructions for the Coast of South Carolina Georgia and the Coast of St. Augustine.” London: sold by W. Mount and T. Page. Folding (19 x 33 1/8 inches). This is one of the finest 18th-century sea charts for the coasts from Sewee River to St. Augustine, and an important recent addition to The Fourth Book. It was first added to the 1778 edition. 15) “A Correct Chart of the Caribbee Islands.” London: sold by Mount & Page. Double-page (19 x 23 1/4 inches). 16) C. Price: “A Correct Chart of Hispaniola with the Windward Passage.” London: Jno. Mount & Tho. Page. Folding (20 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches). 17) “A Draught of the West End of the Island of Porto Rico and the Island of Zachee....A Draught of the Island of Beata... [etc.].” Five charts on one sheet. [N.p., no publishers’ names]. Folding (19 5/8 x 24 1/2 inches). 18) “A New & Correct Chart of Cuba, Streights of Bahama, Windward Passage, the Current through the Gulf of Florida.” With an inset plan of Havana. [London]: sold by Mount & Page. Folding (21 1/4 x 26 1/8 inches). First added to the atlas in 1767. 19) R. Pearson: “A New and Correct Draught of the Bay of Matanzas on ye North Side of ye Island Cuba....” [N.p., no publishers’ names]. Half sheet (18 7/8 x 12 inches). 20) “A New & Correct Chart of the Island of Jamaica, with its Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Soundings &c.” [London]: sold by J. Mount & T. Page. Folding (21 1/8 x 27 1/4 inches). 21) R. Waddington: “A Chart of the Coast of Guyana.” With two insets of the Orin- occo and Surinam rivers. [N.p., no publishers’ names]. Folding (19 1/4 x 25 inches). 22) “A New and Correct Chart of the Trading Part of the West Indies.” London: sold by I. Mount & T. Page. Folding (19 x 32 3/8 inches). This is a general chart of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, showing the entire United States Gulf Coast.

PHILLIPS, ATLASES 1171. Verner, The English Pilot The Fourth Book [facsimile] (London, 1689). $45,000. 106. [Murchio, Vincenzo Maria]: IL VIAGGIO ALL’ INDIE ORIENTALI DEL PADRE F. VINCENZO MARIA DI S. CATERINA DA SIENA PROCURATOR GENERALE DE’ CARMELITANI SCALZI...DI- VISO IN CINQUE LIBRI.... [bound with:] SECONDA SPEDITIO- NE ALL’ INDIE ORIENTALI DI MONSIGNOR SEBASTIANI.... Venice: Appresso Antonio Tiuani, 1683. [16],516,[19]; 147,[5]pp. Small quar- to. Contemporary vellum, gilt title on spine. Some persistent dampstaining in lower gutters of many leaves, titlepage bit tanned. Except for lacking four preliminary leaves of index and dedication, very good and quite clean.

First published in Rome in 1672, this 1683 edition is the first to contain the Seconda Speditione All’ Indie Orientali of Giuseppe di Sebastiani, which has its own titlepage. An early, very detailed account of travel in India by a Carmelite missionary. The NUC locates only four copies, at Indiana University, Ohio University, Harvard, and Yale. $1750.

107. Narbrough, John, [et al]: [Robinson, Tancred editor]: AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL LATE VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES: I. SIR JOHN NARBROUGH’S VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH-SEA....II. CAPTAIN J. TASMAN’S DISCOVERIES ON THE COAST OF THE SOUTH TERRA INCOGNITA. III. CAPTAIN J. WOOD’S ATTEMPT TO DISCOVER A NORTH-EAST PASSAGE TO CHINA. IV. F. MARTEN’S OBSERVATIONS MADE IN GREEN- LAND, AND OTHER NORTHERN COUNTRIES...TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A LARGE INTRODUCTION AND SUPPLE- MENT, CONTAINING SHORT ABSTRACTS OF OTHER VOY- AGES INTO THOSE PARTS, AND BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THEM. London: Printed for D. Brown, J. Round, W. Innys and T. Ward, 1711. Three large folding engraved maps, nineteen engraved plates (seven fold- ing). Two images with flags of ships with early hand-coloring. Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind, rebacked with spine gilt with raised bands, black morocco label. Very good. Provenance: Earl Ferrers, Robert Lord Viscount Tamworth (armorial bookplate on verso of title-leaf ).

An excellent copy of the second edition, which “is preferred because it has the chart of the western and southern oceans, which was not included in the first edition, and additional text relating to Greenland and to whales and whaling” (Hill, p.525). This work was originally published in 1694, and was probably edited by Sir Tancred Robinson. Hill describes this work as of particular importance for its account of the Straits of Magellan, much relied upon by the next generation of navigators, and says further: “The book is of the greatest importance to an Australian collec- tion, as it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman’s famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia.” Also contained herein are two important northern voyages, including Marten’s account of whaling in the Greenland waters. Three of the folding plates depict whales and whaling, while the other plates depict indigenous birds, animals, and plants. COX I, pp.8-9. HILL 1476. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 711/183. SABIN 72186. $9000.

A Pioneering Dutch Voyage to the Indies

108. Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: LE SECOND LIVRE, IOURNAL OU COMPTOIR, CONTENANT LE VRAY DISCOURS ET NARRA- TION HISTORIQUE.... Amsterdam: Cornille Nicolas, 1609. Two parts. 22,[8] leaves (second part with its own titlepage). Folio. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. A few leaves with worm tracks ex- pertly repaired. Very good.

Second French edition, following the first French edition of 1601, of this important voyages narrative, describing the initial Dutch exploration and expansion to the East Indies, a significant element in a global commercial enterprise which was to develop throughout the 17th century. Van Neck, who represented the Verre Company, com- manded three ships which were part of the first successful Dutch trading voyage to the region. The other two ships were commanded by Wybrand Van Warwijck and Jacob Van Heemskerk. Van Neck’s vessel became separated from the other two after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and the three did not reunite again until his arrival in Java in late December 1598. Unlike his Dutch predecessor, Cornelis Houtman, who three years earlier had seized the port of Bantam, Van Neck dealt diplomatically with the natives. “Rather than rejecting the inflated prices asked by the local ruler, he offered to pay over the odds in order to cement a lasting rela- tionship...Van Neck’s was the most profitable of the pre-VOC [Dutch East India Company] voyages. Despite the apparently high price paid for spices, he netted a profit of 300 per cent on his overall costs. In 1601, fourteen fleets comprising sixty-five ships sailed for the East Indies, but by that time competition between rival Dutch operators, as well as with the Portuguese, had inflated prices and none were as successful as Van Neck’s first enterprise” – Howgego. While focused on activity in the East Indies, European Americana notes that the text includes refer- ences to Brazil and tobacco from the West Indies. The second part of this 1609 French edition (which has its own titlepage) is an eight-page appendix of words spoken in Java and Malay, including word lists in French (printed in roman type), Malay (in italic type), and Javanese (in civilité). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/93. TIELE 786. TIELE-MULLER 129. HOWGEGO N13. JCB (3)II:64. $12,500. The Adventures of a Sailor

109. Nichols, Reuben: THE ADVENTURES AND RAMBLINGS OF A SAILOR, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF [manuscript caption title]. [Bridgeport, Ct. ca. 1840]. 213pp., written on rectos only; approximately 70,000 words. Folio. Moderate wear with some loss to first few leaves. Minor soiling. Written in a clear and very legible hand. Good plus. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

A lively and entertaining account of the times and exploits of Reuben Nichols, who went to sea as a merchant sailor in 1811 at the tender age of seventeen, on the eve of the War of 1812. His narrative describes many encounters with other trading ships, with pirates and privateers, and tells of the sentencing of mutineers and de- serters to death or brutal punishment under the whip’s lash. Nichols lived through numerous skirmishes with British cruisers. After one such engagement he and his shipmates were impressed into service and taken to England, where he met John Quincy Adams, then minister to the Court of St. James. With Adams’ help, Nichols set sail on an English ship bound for St. Petersburg. Among the many ports of call he encounters over the course of the narrative are Norway, Malta, Turkey, Greece, Smyrna, Seville, Cadiz, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Aruba, Brazil, Haiti, Grenada, among others. At a number of these destinations he had chance to observe and record the customs of the native inhabitants, as well as his own unusual and entertaining exploits. In Spain, for example, he notes a visit to abandoned torture chambers in monasteries. The narrative continues up to about 1840, at which point Nichols tired of the hardships of a seafaring life. Among the many interesting moments in the memoir is the author’s 1837 rescue in New York City of John Hopper, who was to be tarred and feathered by an angry mob who believed him to be an abolitionist. In this effort, he was partly aided by the mayor of New York, Aaron Clark. A separate memoir by Hopper confirms Nichols’ actions. The memoir references a number of important historic events, such as Napoleon’s return to France in 1815; the Battle of Waterloo; the election of James Monroe as fifth president of the United States; the outbreak of a yellow fever epidemic in Charleston, South Carolina; and a defeat in battle of the revolutionary forces of Henri Christophe (later king of Haiti) in Haiti. Born near Bridgeport, Connecticut, the author returned there after his adven- turous and exotic life at sea. Upon settling in Bridgeport, he involved himself in local politics and pursued a career in shipbuilding. An entertaining and interesting account of one man’s life abroad. $9500.

Chinese Newspaper on Nixon’s Historic Visit

110. [Nixon, Richard]: [China]: JEN MIN JIH PAO [THE PEOPLE’S DAILY – NEWSPAPER ANNOUNCING PRESIDENT NIXON’S VISIT TO CHINA]. Peking. Feb. 22, 1972. 4pp., on a folded sheet. Large folio. Old folds. Minor wear. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth folder.

Peking newspaper announcing President Richard Nixon’s visit to China, with pho- tographs of Nixon meeting with Mao Tse-tung on the front page. Other headlines note that Henry Kissinger and Premier Chou En-lai also participated in the discus- sions, and that Premier Chou En-lai hosted a banquet in honor of President and Mrs. Nixon. Nixon’s visit was the dramatic breakthrough in formalizing relations with the People’s Republic of China, which had not been the case since the triumph of Communist forces in 1948, and was generally regarded as one of his greatest achievements as president. $750.

A Primary Document in American Diplomacy: The Chief U.S. Diplomat to Muslim Powers Instructs His Successor, Tobias Lear

111. O’Brien, Richard: [ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ESSAY OF IN- STRUCTIONS AND NOTES ON THE CUSTOMS OF ALGIERS AND THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL, FROM OUT- GOING CONSUL, RICHARD O’BRIEN, TO HIS SUCCESSOR, TOBIAS LEAR; ALSO INCLUDING O’BRIEN’S STATEMENT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF HIS OFFICE AND NOTES ON TRADE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ALGIERS]. Algiers. 1801-1804. [52]pp. of accounts statement plus [62]pp. description of local customs. A total of about 10,000 words. Small quarto. Original marbled boards, backed with later brown cloth tape. Boards a bit worn, and with some small paint drops on the front board. Very clean and neat internally, and in overall near fine condition. In a half morocco box.

A remarkable and fascinating volume, amounting to a thorough primer on how to conduct business with the Muslim powers as the American consul in Algiers, writ- ten by the outgoing American consul for his successor. Richard O’Brien was the American consul general at Algiers from 1797 to 1803 and, in essence, the chief American diplomat to all the Barbary states. He was replaced by Tobias Lear, and these two men were the primary American representatives in the region, and to any Muslim powers, during a period of high diplomatic tensions and unfolding military actions. The Mediterranean was a highly important outlet for American trade goods, but attacks from Barbary pirates on American shipping and demands for tribute and ransom from deys, pashas, and sultans led to American military actions against the Barbary states. Richard O’Brien was at the center of all these events, and this manuscript volume is an invaluable work on how to conduct diplomacy and commerce in the Barbary states. It is also highly significant in discussing the importance of Jewish trading houses and business leaders in conducting commerce and in negotiating with the Algerine regency. This volume was given to Tobias Lear as he succeeded O’Brien as United States consul general at Algiers. Though not addressed directly to Lear, it was clearly written for him (and descended in his family papers), and Lear is mentioned by name several times in the text. It was designed to give Lear an idea of the status of the accounts of the United States and its consul, and also to give him highly detailed advice on how to perform the full range of his duties in Algiers. It is a unique and vitally important primer on the workings of the Barbary regencies and the chief diplomatic and commercial challenges in the area. O’Brien discusses a huge range of issues, including diplomatic protocol when dealing with heads of state, details for receiving American commercial and military vessels in ports, the bribes needed to permit commerce to function efficiently, and local customs involving slaves, women, and the Muslim religion. An important sec- tion discusses the methods for communicating and working with the Dey of Algiers and his ministry, including the use of an Algerine “drogerman,” and the importance of working with leading Jewish-owned trading houses, who have much influence and power within the workings of the regency. The section dealing with American accounts gives much information on the use of the house of Bacri and Busnach in facilitating American trade. Indeed, O’Brien’s discussion of the role and power of these Jewish trading houses is an important contribution to our knowledge of the role and power of Jewish traders and business houses in north Africa at the time. Richard O’Brien (1758-1824) was born in present-day Maine, though his fam- ily soon moved to Ireland. He was apprenticed to a sea captain at an early age, and was a mariner until 1785. Though without much formal schooling, he was an autodidact, and became a skilled sailor. He engaged in privateering on behalf of his native country during the American Revolution, and served as a lieutenant on the brig Jefferson. After the war he became master of a Philadelphia merchant ship, but was captured by Algerine pirates in July 1785, and was held captive by the Dey of Algiers for several years. During his imprisonment he carried on an extensive correspondence with prominent Americans regarding events in Algiers. The United States made a peace treaty with Algiers in 1795, resulting in O’Brien’s release, and he spent the next several months assisting in the signing, ratification, and implementation of the treaty. In October 1796 he was assigned the task of concluding a treaty with Tripoli, which he accomplished with dispatch. O’Brien was appointed United States consul general to Algiers in July 1797, effectively becom- ing the chief American diplomat to all the Barbary states. He held this position until he was replaced by Tobias Lear in the fall of 1803, after which he assisted Commodore Edward Preble in negotiations with Tripoli while the U.S. was at war with that state. O’Brien returned to the United States in 1804, served a term in the Pennsylvania legislature, and cultivated a farm near Carlisle. The centerpiece of this volume is O’Brien’s sixty-two page essay, “Customs, &c. of Algiers, copied from the papers of Richard O’Brien, Esqr. late Consul-General of the United States, for this Regency. Jan. 1804.” The essay begins with instruc- tions on sailing into the harbor of Algiers from all directions, and gives advice on how the consul should assist American ships in dealing with harbor officials. The advice is practical and detailed. For example:

When you arrive & anchor at the port of Algiers, if you have stores for the Regency, you will get 2 or 3 of the cables of the regency to aid you in moor- ing; these with 2 out anchors & cables of your own, will be sufficient for your moorings between the two pier-heads of the harbor. If you have a bell, it is to be muffled – the sound is offensive to the people of this country. You are not to hoist your colors, as a merchant vessel, in this port. You are to chain your boats & not to keep oars in them, for if the slaves should escape, in your boat, the gov’t. of the U.S. is answerable for the amt. of their ransom.

O’Brien continues with advice on the utility of bribing (with goods rather than money) the man who holds the position of “cable measurer” and on customary pay- ments to the harbor guardian and his slaves, who help moor the ship. Indeed, the number of Algerine palms that must be greased to get any business done is dizzying. To compound these problems, O’Brien warns Lear about being found giving bribes, and the potential dangers:

Should you be found out, & a report made to the great men, it will cost you sums to save your face. Should the report & detail reach the Dey, you will have a greater luncheon to give; and they might make this a pretence to get rid of you. They would consider you a bad engineer – blown up by your own mine. They would condemn you, without judge or jury; and after this you would never be satisfied with yourself. If you should be an innocent character they will pick the flesh from your bones & leave you, as an orange, without the juice. Mind you are between two capes – gain & loose, or between two currents – one sets to windward & the other to leeward. Notice well the discharging of cargoes into the pontoon flats or boats of the Regency. If you do not look out sharp, part will be plundered & the note from the ship & the store receivers will not agree; they will say it has been a mistake of the ship or mate – and where is your remedy? On all tacks, you are amongst privateersmen, sharpers & contrabandistos....In fact, the consul of a nation, in circumstances as the U.S. is by treaty, custom & usansa – has only a choice of difficulties. It will be a rare thing if he has it in his power to make a good tack to windward of Cape Lee-way.

One of the most fascinating passages of O’Brien’s essay is his discussion of a consul’s relations with the Dey’s court, and the proper methods and channels of communi- cation. Each consul employs a “drogerman,” a Muslim intermediary who conducts discussions with the court. O’Brien writes, however, that it is often more useful to employ Jewish businessmen as intermediaries in such matters:

Most all important affairs, relative to your nation & this regency are transacted between the Consul & Jew-directory, without the Drogerman having any great knowledge of the whole particulars. I have often observed, on these occasions, that the Jews act as the political ferry-boats, or as lawyers employed by both parties; whoever fees them best, they are in his behalf – but with consideration that they stand in no fear or dread of the consuls – but their lives & families &c. &c. are fully in the power of the Dey &c. The influence of the Jews & the present system of doing business, renders the drogerman not of so much importance as in times past. When the Consul, independent of the Jews, transacts any business with the Dey or Ministry, he must have the drogerman with him; but if on this plan – without doubt, the Jews will get scent of it, & oppose him, altho’ the affair may not concern them; but it is evident done, to sustain their system – and depend on it, agreeable to their present influence. It is not a pleasant thing for a Consul or his nations affairs to get a thwart of the Jewish Directory. They will make use of their political & lying harpoons – will, on this occasion, spend their own money to keep their ground, and drive you to leeward of that port, you presume to advance to....Such is the present power of the Directory – it is to be considered as a 2nd Dey & Ministry – & often, as the First.

O’Brien devotes a section of his essay to a discussion of the powerful Jewish-owned trading house of Bacri & Busnach, and its role in Algerine politics and diplomacy. Judging from his accounts located at the front of the present volume, Bacri & Busnach, which had been in business in Algiers for decades, was the chief house that O’Brien turned to for loans and to keep his accounts solvent. It will often be in their [Bacri & Busnach’s] power to do him [the consul] an injury or render service. They are to know some affairs – but never your all.... It will be to the interest of our affairs, for the Consul always to intimate that at present the Mediterranean commerce is no great object to the U.S. That our gov’t. intends, if any more extra demands &c. &c. to withdraw their af- fairs from this sea & have a fleet of frigates & light corsairs at Gibraltar. This they will hear with no great satisfaction to their ideas & to their commercial interest. Those hints, occasionally, might be favorable to aid the scheme of cash payts. in lieu of stores &c. and also in not having heavy extra demands. Another consideration is that the Consul should always report or magnify to all the Ministry & directory & other consuls, that the Marine force of the U.S. in this sea is much greater than it really is – and never to give a true idea, how it is stationed, but that more is expected shortly.

O’Brien also discusses more day-to-day concerns that Lear will have to deal with, observing that “the consular house should be shut at sundown; and after this, no Turk or Moor should enter it.” He goes on to discuss the use that the consul may make of slaves loaned to him by the Regency, and his liability should any of them run away or be killed, and his options should he wish to exchange them for other servants. O’Brien also advises that the American consul should confer with his Danish and Swedish counterparts when considering gifts to the ministry or a new Dey, so that the gifts would be equivalent, and none of the three nations punished or put on the “black list” for seeming to be less generous than the others. He stresses that such things are not to be taken lightly, and that Algiers has started wars over perceived insults such as paltry sums in tribute:

On this acct. the Consular Agents of those powerful & particularly the tribu- tary nations, must be sensible, that every person in office in the Regency can do him injury. Therefore, his line of conduct towards those described must be visible or clearly understood. Difficult, as scripture describes it to be, for a man to serve two masters – notwithstanding the Consular efforts, must, seem- ingly be tried to all – thus act or demonstrate – if not in reality, it must be so to appearances – often giving bribes & presents.

Another section of text discusses more mundane issues of court propriety, and espionage:

The Consul, in all his visits to the Dey, kisses his hand, approaching & when ready to retreat; he shakes hands with all the ministry. The Consul & all of his nation must take off their hats or caps when they pass the street in front of the Palace – and never presume to put their hats or caps on in the Palace [this portion is underlined]. The drogerman should always attend the Consul in town, in going thro’ the streets, for if he should be insulted & not have his drogerman with him, it would be difficult to obtain redress. Thus, politically speaking, you are to be in company with the spy of the Regency.

Later he writes: “If you should be on horseback and meet the Dey (it is customary) you should alight, salute him & let him pass on....Observe, as two main shoals, that the religion and women of these Mahometans is not to be touched, nor will it hardly admit to be talked of, to these people.” O’Brien also notes that when the Dey meets with consular officials en masse the French consul always appears the night before, so as not to be seen going after the British consul, that the British consul never kisses the hand of the Dey, and that the American consul is always the last to be received. The concluding sections of O’Brien’s essay discuss protocol for when U.S. warships come into port. With the practical advice comes a general warning: “A vessel to anchor in the bay of Algiers should be ready always to get under way – and always ready for action – here are strong & sudden gales – and I may add, you are hardly ever secure on your affairs.” O’Brien notes that it is customary for the Algerines to fire a salute for visiting warships, but that it is the duty of the consul to reimburse the ministry of marine for the honor: “The Americans, Swedes, Danes, Dutch, pay for the salute $76. The British, French & Spanish pay $66. An old & humiliating custom.” This part of O’Brien’s volume concludes with a two-page list of the “marine force of Algiers, Jan. 10th, 1804” describing the ships and weaponry of the Algerine navy. The first fifty-two pages of this volume describe the general and specific nature of American trade with Algiers from 1799 to 1801, and O’Brien’s role in facilitating such trade. Included are descriptions of goods delivered to Algiers by American trading vessels, as well as lists of goods provided for those ships by O’Brien, on his account. A framework for conducting trade between the United States and Algiers had been constructed by the 1795 treaty, which allowed for free trade with all Algerian subjects. A customs duty would be charged on most goods, though military and naval goods were exempt from customs fees. Several American ships are named in O’Brien’s account book, including the Sophia, the George Washington, and the Peace & Plenty. There are also numerous entries detailing accounts with the Algerian regency, with Algerian trading houses, for business conducted in Tripoli, and describing the expenses incurred by O’Brien in his duties. Many of O’Brien’s accounts were conducted with the leading Jewish-owned trading house of Bacri & Busnach, and this volume provides important details on the functioning of that prominent Jewish- Algerian business. The account book highlights some of the difficulties O’Brien encountered in facilitating trade for the cash-strapped United States, as well as some of the peculiarities associated with the region he worked in. He often had to borrow money from local merchants to carry on his transactions. In one instance he writes: “Had I funds not to be dependent on the Jews for advances, I am convinced I would have saved 4 thousand dollars in the account to the United States.” An entry dated June 14, 1801 records O’Brien having forwarded $517 for “a present to the Dey on the circumcision of his son.” Another entry records costs for a “present to the Gen’l. of Marine on his return from Constantinople.” O’Brien notes that on May 10, 1801 he paid $24 to the carrier that took controversial American William Eaton to Tunis, while on the next day he paid $40 “to the Christian slave hospital a customary national charity.” Several other entries record payments (i.e. pay-offs) to various local officials to enable O’Brien to do his job in an efficient manner, while other payments were clearly for bribes. For example, an entry of November 1, 1801 describes a payment of $120 “to the Dey’s nephew who went in a Swedes vessel for Rhodes a customary present & something extra for his helping to persuade the Dey from not taking the ship Brutus of Salem on a voyage for Rhodes.” Also included is a copy of a lengthy letter from O’Brien to Secretary of State James Madison, dated November 25, 1801, discussing trade with Algiers, the Dey’s purchasing of timber from the United States, and the importance of not falling into arrears with Bacri & Busnach. A substantial portion of the letter describes O’Brien’s thoughts on several types of ships he has seen in the port of Algiers and their suit- ability for use in the American navy. He relates his views on the importance of a strong American naval presence in the Mediterranean, in order to protect shipping and to impress the leaders of the Barbary states:

We should never forget the necessity of having 3 or 4 frigates in this sea. It is force on one tack that will give us security and keep the evil minded in awe and it will be in vain for us to know that we are a great nation, that we have 6 millions of inhabitants, that we have great exports and imports, that we have 6000 sail of vessels. All this avails nothing to foreign nations, particularly to Barbary. They will say where is your navy – the Swedes, [?], Portuguese and Dutch have not half your number or resources & they have considerable mari- time force....I am convinced that as long as those regencies do not exceed the boundary of reason that it will be the interest of the U.S. to be at peace with them. The Mediterranean is equal to all Europe out side of the Straits, and is an extensive field for commerce. If we have war with all we must have a large fleet of frigates in this sea and I doubt that we would be effectually adequate to give a secure convoy to our commerce in this sea owing to winds & currents and to give our commerce in the Western Ocean security. We should have a fleet at Gibraltar and even then war would raise the insurance on our whole commerce to Europe.

O’Brien also tells Madison that he has forwarded him a Koran, “the contents I presume will give you some singular information.” A copy of another letter to Madison relates details of the meeting of a French revolutionary official with the Dey of Algiers and the Dey’s demand of a bribe for peace. A fascinating and highly important manuscript, giving an incredibly wide-ranging and detailed description of all aspects of American commerce and diplomacy in Algiers in the early years of the Barbary wars, and with significant information on the role and importance of Jewish trading houses in local politics and commerce. DNB XIII, pp.611-12. $75,000.

112. Ortelius, Abraham: ABRAHAM ORTELII ANTUERPIANI THE- SAURUS GEOGRAPHICUS RECOGNITUS ET AUCTUS.... Ha- nover: Guilielmi Antonii, 1611. [1236]pp. Small quarto. Later stiff vellum, gilt. Ink stamp on titlepage. Heavily tanned throughout. Good.

Third edition, enlarged. Ortelius, together with Mercator, was the most famous 16th-century cartographer. His geographical gazetteer was first published in 1587. This edition contains nearly 40,000 place names, arranged alphabetically, each with a brief etymology and indication of source. There is also an index of “modern” names with their Latin equivalents. SABIN 57709. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 611/87. $2750.

113. [Pacific Photographica]: [PHOTO ALBUM OF SCENES IN WASH- INGTON STATE, THE PHILIPPINES, JAPAN, HAWAII, AND ALASKA]. [Various locations. ca. 1910]. 26pp. containing eighty-six photo- graphs, nine colored photographs, and one photographic postcard. Two photos 8 x 6 inches, the remainder approximately 3½ x 4½ inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth. Binding separating from text block; corners and extremi- ties worn. Photos clean, many with manuscript captions. Good plus.

Photo album of assembled snapshots showing various parts of Japan, the Philippines, Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington state. The two larger images are of Snoqualmie Falls in Washington, the first showing the park area and the second showing the falls itself. The images appear to be in no particular order, with scenes from all the various locales dispersed throughout the album. Other photographs show scenes in Manila, including the “oldest church,” a “Spanish transport sunk by Dewey” in the Spanish-American War, Fort Malata, other churches, some water buffalo, and other rural scenes in the area. Images of Honolulu include a group of school children, the palace, views in a park, and some rural scenes, including a waterfall. Images of Japan are primarily from Nagasaki, Kobe, and Osaka. They include views of the harbors and ships, the dry dock at Nagasaki, the lower and upper falls at Kobe, Japanese peddlers aboard a ship, “temple 2000 years old” at Nagasaki, among others. Views of Alaska are primarily taken from off the coast, showing Dutch Harbor from several angles. The transport ship Oopack is featured in several photos; the Oopack was a Brit- ish merchant vessel that was sunk by the Germans in 1918 off the coast of Malta. Several unlabeled photos at the rear of the volume show what are presumably local scenes from home, likely the Pacific Northwest. There are two farmers plowing a field behind a horse, bathers at the seashore, picnickers, and other group photos. The picture postcard is a baseball team group shot, and the colored images are views of Japan. $850.

Superb Lithographs Made in Buenos Aires

114. Pallière, León: ALBUM PALLIERE ESCENAS AMERICANAS REDUCCION DE CUADROS, AQUARELLES, Y BOSQUEJOS. Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eño]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]. Thirty-six (of fifty-two) lithographed plates, nearly all tinted. Without title- page. Oblong folio. Contemporary half black morocco and cloth boards, title stamped in gilt on front cover, spine gilt. Head and foot of spine heavily worn and tearing, hinges and corners lightly worn. Contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Tissue guards with some foxing, but plates generally quite clean. Good plus.

A very rare album of South American scenes, originally drawn by León Pallière and finely printed as lithographic plates in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain. The plates include views and portraits of local inhabitants in Argentina (30), Brazil (2), Uru- guay (2), and Chile (2). Pallière, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1823 to French parents, travelled to France as a young child and eventually studied art there under F.E. Picot. He continued his artistic training in South America from 1848 to 1850 and in Europe from 1850 to 1855. He then returned to South America, travelling for the next decade in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Bolivia, and producing the images found in this volume. The views consist primarily of rural scenes, and many of these images portray local inhabitants in a variety of activities. These illustrations and the other images of the native and mestizo population represent a variety of local types and occupa- tions including Indians; rural and urban mestizo laborers; middle and upper class women in a theatre gallery and in church; working men in pulperias; black men and women at a market in Bahia; gauchos; soldiers (apparently rural conscripts); and even a surveyor in the countryside. A number of the lithographs focus on life in the country – on the plains, in camp, and at home. One such image, of a couple standing outside a straw house, includes a ten-line romantic poem by R. Gutierrez. Though a full album is comprised of fifty-two plates and a titlepage, this album does not appear to be missing anything and was likely bound this way originally. A marvelous album, extremely rare; no copies on OCLC. PALAU 211114. BORBA DE MORAES, p.648. $11,000. Notable Early Essay on Travel

115. [Palmer, Thomas]: AN ESSAY OF THE MEANES HOVV TO MAKE OUR TRAUAILES, INTO FORRAINE COUNTRIES, THE MORE PROFITABLE AND HONOURABLE. London: Imprinted, by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1606. [8],131pp. including engraved headpieces, plus four folding tables. Small quarto. Dbd. A couple tears in folds of tables with no loss; some margins shaved, affecting some text, headlines, or catch- words. Otherwise about fine. In a cloth chemise and brown half morocco and cloth box.

One of the classic early English works on travel in foreign parts, a by-product of the great Elizabethan expansion into the world. This is the Marquis of Lothian’s copy, sold at Anderson Galleries in 1932. Palmer was appointed high sheriff of Kent in 1595. The following year he accompanied the expedition to Cadiz and was knighted. Noted by Rosenbach as “exceedingly rare,” Palmer discusses in this work the advantages of foreign travel and outlines some commercial and politi- cal principles of which the traveller should be apprised. He outlines reasons for travel, from tourism to spying, and the economic imperatives for going overseas in the expanding world. Several references are made to America, with notes on the customs and manners of the Indians, etc. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 606/85. JCB (2)III:41. COX II, p.322. STC 19156. DNB XV, pp.161-62. $12,000.

A Rare Series of Plates of Maritime Life on the Senegal Coast

116. [Paris, Leon]: SOUVENIR DE LA BELLONE, 1870-71-72. [N.p., but possibly Paris. ca. 1875]. Forty engraved plates. Folio. Contemporary green half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine faded. Lightly rubbed at ex- tremities. Bookplate on front pastedown. First plate lightly age-toned. Some very minor scattered foxing, else bright and clean internally. Very good.

A volume of engravings depicting the voyage of the ship Bellone and seafaring life. Following the “title” plate, which is numbered 21, are scenes of Africa, primarily in Senegal. These plates depict the natives, villages, and cities. After the scenes of Africa are plates depicting maritime life, evidently on a French naval vessel in the Atlantic. These images are much more delicately engraved and are not numbered. The first few of these detail a “day in the life” of a sailor, from morning muster and breakfast, through scrubbing the deck and inspection, and shore leave. Two plates of Uruguay and two unidentified landscapes are also inexplicably inserted in the midst of this sequence. An interesting and perhaps unique compilation of travel and maritime images. $2500. Item 116.

“A classic of travel literature”

117. Park, Mungo: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND PA- TRONAGE OF THE AFRICAN ASSOCIATION, IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797...WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF AFRICA: BY MAJOR RENNELL. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, 1799. [iii]-xxviii, 372,xcii,[2]pp. plus frontispiece, two leaves of music, three folding maps, and five plates (two folding). [with:] Park, Mungo: THE JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, IN THE YEAR 1805 .... London. 1815. [10],cxxx,[1],219pp. plus folding map. Quarto. Contem- porary tree calf, neatly rebacked to style, spine gilt, leather labels. Some light scuffing and wear to boards. Light, even age toning, some scattered foxing. Very good.

Third edition, after the first two of the same year, of Park’s initial African expedition and adventures. He was instructed by the African Association “to pass on to the River Niger either by way of Bambouk or by such other route as should be found most convenient, to ascertain the course, and if possible the rise and termination, of that river.” Along the way he experienced almost unbelievable depredations, including robberies by local kings, imprisonment, and the loss of everything except his horse, clothing, and a pocket compass. He fell ill and would have died had a black man named Kaarta Taura not taken him in for several months. Includes the text of a “Negro Song” and a vocabulary of the Mandigo language. A fundamental African exploration. The second work is the first edition. Following his first expedition into the interior of Africa, Park returned to his Peebles surgery until, having applied several times to Joseph Banks and the African Association, he was finally asked to serve on another expedition. The expedition was charged with locating the source of the Niger River, and Parks headed a largely military force, facing disease and danger at every turn. The mission was a total disaster – forty-four Europeans died, the last of them a small group who, along with Park, were attacked at Bousa. Park had man- aged to send his journals back to Gambia prior to the attack, and they were edited by John Whishaw and finally published, with a life of Park, in the present form. KAINBACHER, p.102 (another ed). TRAIN, p.111. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 253. ESTC N13834. $3000.

A British Sailor Writes Home with Accounts of Adventures at Sea and in the Americas

118. Parsons, William C.: MOTHER, THIS IS A SHORT NARRATIVE OF SOME OF THE OCCURRENCES DURING MY ABSENCE FROM YOU AND MY BELOVED RELATIVES [manuscript caption title]. [N.p.] 1849. 40pp. plus 6pp. letter. Written in a clear and highly legible hand. About 12,000 words. Folio. Contemporary marbled wrappers, stitched. Some light wear to wrappers, but internally clean and fresh. Very good.

Autograph manuscript of William C. Parsons, a British sailor of the merchant ma- rine. Parson’s nautical career spanned some twenty-one years and included service on about thirty-five ships. His narrative begins on leaving England in 1822 and goes through 1843. His was a typical sailor’s life of the period – suffering under despotic captains, press gangs, tempests and shipwreck. The author spares the reader no detail of his personal bravery and is at pains to leave an impression of his self-sufficiency and sense of fair play throughout some harrowing escapades, particularly on the Pacific coast of South America during the wars of independence. An educated man, Parsons’ career advances until he rises to become mate on the ship, eventually settling in America and taking command of a trading vessel that plys the Eastern Seaboard. Much of the narrative takes place in the Americas, either on the west coast of South America or in United States ports. This autobiography is written to his mother and seems to have been a response to a box of gifts sent to him from England. In response, Parsons sent his own box of curiosities to be shared out among his family members (not present here), including tapa cloth, Indian beadwork, and articles made from wood from various famous ships, all of which are described in the separate letter. Of particular inter- est is Parsons’ description of sitting for his daguerreotype portrait by Mr. Cohill, which he included in the box of treasures. “Below decks” narratives of ordinary sailors from this period are relatively rare. $4500.

From the Marquesas to Connecticut

119. [Patoo, Thomas]: MEMOIR OF THOMAS HAMITAH PATOO, A NATIVE OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS; WHO DIED JUNE 19, 1823, WHILE A MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN MISSION SCHOOL, IN CORNWALL, CONN. [Andover, Ma.]: Published by the American Tract Society, [1825]. 48pp. Frontispiece portrait. 24mo. Original tan printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, extremities rubbed. Some minor foxing. Near fine.

Illustrated with several woodcuts, this tale tells of Thomas Patoo, who runs away from the Marquesas Islands to Boston, then to school in Cornwall, Connecticut, where he finds both religion and education. Interest- ingly, Patoo was in school at Cornwall with John Ridge, son of a leading Cherokee family and later one of the tribe’s chief negotiators with the United States. There is a brief de- scription of the islands and their inhabitants at the beginning of the tale. Written for children, with an advertisement for children’s books published by the Society on the back cover. Only a handful of copies in OCLC. SHOEMAKER 21413. ROSENBACH CHILDRENS 681. $1250.

The U.S. Navy in the Pacific During the Civil War: The First American Naval Clash with the Japanese Navy

120. Pearce, Walter: ABSTRACT LOG OF THE U.S.S. WYOMING, DAVID McDOUGAL, COMMANDER [manuscript caption title]. [Various locations, including the Far East]. 1861-1864. 160pp. plus manu- script map and [18]pp. of letters. Folio. Original cloth boards. Spine perished, edges of boards reinforced with linen. Light wear and soiling internally. Let- ters flattened, separation at some folds, inserted in mylar wrappers, laid into manuscript. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A log kept by Ensign Walter Pearce during his time serving aboard the U.S.S. Wyoming during the Civil War. The Wyoming spent most of her Civil War career in the Pacific Ocean searching for Confederate ships, primarily the C.S.S. Ala- bama. However, in July 1863, off the coast of Japan, she engaged in the Battle of Shimonosheki, resulting in the first United States naval victory over the Japanese. The Wyoming then continued its hunt for the Alabama. Pearce provides an im- portant firsthand account of the details of the engagement at Shimonosheki Straits. Pearce’s journal, which is written in prose snippets, begins on Oct. 26, 1861 with his appointment as Acting Master Mate, reporting for duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. On Nov. 11 he ships out for the Pacific, reporting to the commander of the Wyoming, anchored at Panama. His entries include brief accounts of the weather and the day’s activities, such as naval exercises, trimming the sails, encountering other ships, painting and cleaning the Wyoming, coaling the ship, etc. When the ship is at sea he also records the latitude and longitude. The Wyoming spent the next several months off the coast of northern South America, until June 1862, when she was ordered to sail for the Far East in search of Confederate ships. Pearce’s entries for June include long lists of supplies and munitions garnered for the voy- age: hammocks, cannons, cartridges, rope, fishing tackle, shovels, sewing notions, socks, blankets, ink, pencils, reams of paper, sugar, apples, shaving brushes, and many others. Setting out on June 22, the Wyoming rested overnight in Honolulu on July 8 and continued on the next day. On August 3, Pearce records passing the Ladrone Islands (the present-day Mariana Islands), arriving in Manila on the 15th. For the rest of 1862 and into the first half of 1863, the Wyoming bounced around the Pacific theatre, always on the trail of the Alabama, but never quite catching her. Throughout the voyage Pearce records day-to-day events aboard ship, includ- ing one shipmate being locked in the brig for illegally removing whiskey from the spirits cabinet. In early 1863, dissatisfied with the opening of Japan to the western world, the Japanese government decided to expel all the foreigners from their country. For most of May, June, and July 1863, the Wyoming lay at anchor at Yokohama. Pearce records the opening hostilities by the Japanese against the foreigners in the port, recording visits by the American consul and various exercises aboard ship. On May 24 he records: “This morning at 2 o’clock the legation at Yeddo was set on fire by the Japs & totally consumed together with a great amount of Genl. Brig’s private property.” On the 31st: “Inspected, called all hands to muster & read the attached Genl. Order, [ships] went to Canagawa & return with the family of the Amer. consul, all foreigners having been ordered out of Canagawa by the Japanese. They took up their quarters in our armory. [The women] all expect an attack to night by the Japs.” The following day he records that remaining American residents have fled Kanagawa for Yokohama, that the U.S. Minister fled Edo in the middle of the night, and that Japanese troops have arrived to guard Yokohama. On June 9 he writes: “The beach is covered with Chinamen. By 5:40 PM we had taken all the Chinamen (458 in number) on board with their baggage and started back toward Limoda....” He mentions several other incidences of evacuating foreigners from Japanese soil, and the preparations made by the consuls for fleeing the country. On June 25 the American merchant steamer Pembroke was fired upon by the Japanese at Shimonosheki Straits. Pearce mentions the Pembroke heading out of Yokohama on the 21st. This began the conflict that resulted in the Battle of Shimonosheki Straits – between the U.S.S. Wyoming and three Japanese vessels – three weeks later. The Wyoming left Yokohama for Shimonosheki on July 13. On the 16th marginal notes in Pearce’s journal indicate “in action at Simona Saki Straits.” He writes:

At 5:10 got underway & steamed toward the Straits of Simona Saki. At 9 went to general quarters, loaded the pivot guns with shell, and cleared ship for action. At 10:45 AM entered the Simona Saki Straits & beat to quarters. On entering 3 signal guns were fired from the batteries on shore on the starboard hand, immediately two shots were fired at us from the 1st battery...upon which we hoisted our colors & opened fire in return. In passing thro’ the straits we engaged 4 batteries. One steamer, one bark, & one brig (all flying the Japanese colors at the peak & flag of Prince Choshoe at the fore) were lying in the straits, they also opened fire on us which we returned. After passing all the batteries & vessels, we returned & engaged them a second time....At 12:10 stopped firing and steamed out of the straits having been one hour & 10 minutes under fire.

He goes on to list the casualties of the encounter (four killed and seven wounded) and to write an expanded account of the engagement. All three of the Japanese ships were heavily damaged, and their losses totaled forty souls. Pearce’s account also includes a detailed manuscript map of the straits and the position of the bat- tery emplacements and the courses of the ships involved. The Wyoming sailed for Yokohama the next day, following funeral services for those killed in action:

Hove the ship to & called all hands to bury the dead. The deceased, having been sewed up in their hammocks, with two 32lb shots at their feet, were placed on planks resting out of the front port. The capt. then read the burial service, and the four were launched into the deep (at the same time the surgeon at work amputating, the wounded screeching & crying all helps to make one feel sick & sore at heart). Three vollies of musketry were fired over their graves & the ship kept away her course for Yokohama.

The ship sustained considerable damage in the battle, and after completing repairs at Yokohama, the Wyoming continued her search for Confederate vessels in the Pacific. Pearce’s journal continues until July 1864, when the Wyoming returned to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. An interesting and detailed naval journal, including an account of the first open gunfire exchanged between the two rising Pacific powers, who eighty years later would engage in the greatest naval war ever fought. $8500.

Taken to Japan on the Perry Expedition

121. [Perry Expedition]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS; AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... New York: New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, [circa 1848]. xx,580,109,[2]pp. Con- temporary black morocco, gilt, rebacked to style. Corners lightly worn. Con- temporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

Self-styled “Standard Edition.” This copy of the Book of Common Prayer is notable for its provenance. The inscription on the front fly leaf reads: “Edmund C. Bittinger, U.S. Steamship Susquehanna, June 7th, 1851. On Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan.” Edmund C. Bittinger (1819-89) was a U.S. Naval Chaplain, commis- sioned in 1850. The U.S.S. Susquehanna, also commissioned in 1850, was Perry’s flagship for the expedition that opened Japan to the West. In 1852, Perry was ap- pointed head of a naval expedition charged with inducing the Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. In 1853 the Japanese were finally forced to accept a treaty demanding better treatment of shipwrecked seamen and which allowed American ships to dock at two Japanese ports to purchase fuel and supplies. The most important result of the voyage, however, was that Japan was opened to the West for the first time in history and ushered in to the modern era. This prayer book made the journey from the U.S. to the unknown East with that historic expedition. A wonderful association. $2000.

Japanese Print of Perry’s Ships in Tokyo Harbor

122. [Perry Expedition]: [ JAPANESE WOOD BLOCK PRINT SHOW- ING THE BLACK SHIPS OF COMMODORE MATTHEW C. PERRY’S EXPEDITION ENTERING TOKYO HARBOR]. [To- kyo? ca. 1855?]. 24½ x 16 inches. Matted. Old fold lines, some minor wear and soiling. Near fine.

Large wood block print, comprised of two sheets, showing the disposition of the Japanese soldiers and ships in preparation for the arrival of Commodore Perry’s American fleet, seen sailing into Tokyo harbor at the right side of the image. The top third of the print is comprised of text (in Japanese characters). Three large American ships dominate the right side of the print, while several smaller boats dot the rest of the harbor. The whole is dotted with Japanese characters, denoting various people and places around the harbor. Perry first arrived in Japan on July 8, 1853 with a fleet of four ships, flying his pennant on the steam frigate Susquehanna. This first visit lasted ten days and culminated on July 14 with Perry’s presentation of a letter from the President of the United States to the Japanese commissioners. Perry then absented himself for seven months, returning on February 11, 1854 for a stay of over four months. He negotiated a treaty opening Japan to trade with the western world, providing for a U.S. consul in Japan, and protecting visiting ships and crews. Perry’s visit to Japan remains one of the most important events in the diplomatic history between western and eastern nations. A handsome print, showing the Japanese side of this important historic event. $9500.

Signed by Matthew Perry 28 Times

123. [Perry, Matthew C.]: U.S. SHIP NORTH CAROLINA GUNNER’S, BOATSWAIN’S, CARPENTER’S & SAIL MAKER’S DEPART- MENTS. YEAR 1827 [manuscript cover title]. [The Mediterranean]. January to May, 1827. [20]pp. Folio. Contemporary paper wrappers, stitched. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. Very good.

A detailed record of consumable requirements of the U.S.S. North Carolina’s four major departments during part of her time with the Mediterranean squadron. The North Carolina was laid down in Philadelphia in 1818 and fitted out in 1820. Carrying seventy-four guns, she was the most powerful ship of her day, and for a decade was the symbol of American naval might. In the Mediterranean she served as the flagship for Commodore John Rodgers from 1825 to 1827. Matthew Perry as “Captain, U.S. Mediterranean Fleet” has signed each of the twenty-eight entries, certifying them. A few entries may be signed by the respective department heads; however, most signatures other than that of Perry are in a clerk’s hand. $3000.

A Remarkable Confederate Imprint by a General Famous for His Role at Gettysburg

124. [Pettigrew, James Johnston]: NOTES ON SPAIN AND THE SPAN- IARDS, IN THE SUMMER OF 1859, WITH A GLANCE AT SAR- DINIA. By a Carolinian ( J.J.P.). Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861. viii,430pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Boards edgeworn. Early discreet library stamps (properly deaccessioned). Author’s name supplied in ink on titlepage, with two dates written in ink below the imprint. Scattered light foxing. Withal, still a very good copy in original binding.

From an edition limited to 300 copies, printed “for private circulation.” This is a rare, substantial, and interesting Confederate imprint, describing Pettigrew’s travels in Spain and his impressions of the land and its people two years before the out- break of the American Civil War, one of the very few travel narratives published in the Confederacy. James Johnston Pettigrew is best known for his service in the Confederate army, where he eventually reached the rank of brigadier general. Born in North Carolina in 1828, he entered the University of North Carolina at age fifteen, eventually studied law, and settled in Charleston, South Carolina to practice. At the outbreak of the war he was elected colonel of the 12th South Carolina and was commissioned a brigadier general in early 1862. He is most famous for his prominent part in the attack on the third day of Gettysburg (Pickett’s Charge), in which he commanded one of the divisions that unsuccessfully assaulted the Union center. Having survived that charge, he was fatally wounded in a rear guard skirmish during Lee’s retreat from Pennsylvania, and died on July 17, 1863. In his pre-war travels through Spain, Pettigrew was much impressed by the beauty of the country and by the sophistica- tion of Spanish culture. On returning to America he felt the need to rectify the prevalent notion that the Spanish were ignorant, slothful, and filled with prejudice against non-Catholics. He privately published these extensive Notes... for friends who had not had the opportunity to visit Spain. Rare on the market: we are unable to locate any copies having appeared at auction in at least the past thirty-five years. One of the most interesting books published in the Confederacy. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5713. THORNTON 10685. SMITH P65. $6000. Early Diplomacy with Russia

125. Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY TO FULWAR SKIPWITH, RELAYING INFORMATION FROM THE EM- PEROR OF RUSSIA RELATIVE TO AMERICAN SHIPPING]. Amsterdam. March 6, 1797. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds. Small loss from wax seal, repaired; affecting a few words of marginal postscript. Some light soiling and foxing. About very good. In a folio-sized brown half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney – signer of the Constitution, Founding Father, and twice presidential candidate – writes to U.S. Consul General in France Fulwar Skipwith concerning orders he has received from the Russian emperor regarding the shipping of French liquors to Russia. Skipwith served as Consul General for several years and was integral in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase. Pinckney writes from the Netherlands, where he awaits further orders from the U.S. govern- ment after being expelled from France, where he was serving as U.S. Minister. The French, highly displeased with the results of the Jay Treaty which the U.S. made with Britain, threatened to imprison Pinckney and evicted him from the country. Pinckney writes:

Sir, I have just received authentic information of the enclosed orders of the Emperor of Russia relative to the importation of the wines & brandies of France in neutral vessels into his territories. As these orders may prove of considerable importance to such of our fellow citizens in France as are con- cerned in shipping, you will be pleased to communicate them to our consuls, vice consuls & consular agents in that Republic, that our countrymen may be made acquainted with them.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1745-1825) was a South Carolina politician and army officer, who rose to the rank of brigadier general in the American Revolution. After the war he set about rebuilding his plantations and fortunes. Elected to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, he signed the U.S. Constitution (as did his cousin, Charles Pinckney), and worked to have the document ratified by his state. Though he turned down several government appointments to pursue his personal affairs, Pinckney did accept a position as Minister to France, which he held only briefly, arriving in December 1796 and leaving in January 1797. Expelled by an indignant French government, angry over the Jay Treaty, Pinckney returned to Paris in September 1797 with Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall to negotiate. He left in April 1798, outraged that the French had tried to extort bribes form the com- mission. He ran twice as a Federalist candidate for president, in 1804 and 1808, but was elected neither time. A good letter from this Founding Father, concerning diplomatic affairs in France. This letter sold for $475 at Sotheby’s in 1978. $2000. Difficult to Find Complete

126. Porter, David: JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIF- IC OCEAN, BY CAPTAIN DAVID PORTER, IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE ESSEX, IN THE YEARS 1812, 1813, AND 1814 .... New York. 1822. Two volumes. Frontispiece portrait, lxxvi,246pp. plus two plates, folding table, and folding map; [4],256pp. plus five plates. Original plain paper boards, printed paper labels. Boards a bit worn, expertly and un- obtrusively repaired. Foxing, as usual; some staining in first volume. A good set, in original condition, untrimmed.

Porter left the U.S. at the beginning of the War of 1812 with orders to cruise against British shipping in the Atlantic. He exceeded his instructions by round- ing Cape Horn and attacking British whalers operating off South America and in the Galapagos, then landing in the Marquesas and conducting a war against the natives and annexing the islands to the United States (the U.S. government never supported these claims). His expedition ended off Chile in 1814 when his boat was captured by British warships. Paroled, he returned to a hero’s welcome in the U.S. and wrote this account, first published in 1815 and quickly suppressed. This is the second edition, “the best edition and only complete edition” accord- ing to Hill. Its new, lengthy introduction adds much material of interest, and the second half of the second volume recounts for the first time in print the details of the loss to the British and events at Valparaiso in 1814. A very important Ameri- can Pacific voyage, a source for Melville’s Typee, and a rare book. For some reason copies of this book almost invariably lack some of the plates. HOWES P484. SABIN 64219. HILL 1373. FORBES 558. $2000.

Among the Wild Indians of Chile

127. [Prince, George]: RAMBLES IN CHILI AND LIFE AMONG THE ARAUCANIAN INDIANS, IN 1836. Thomaston [Me.]: D.J. Starrett, 1851. [5],10-88pp., printed in double columns. Original printed paper wrap- pers bound into later brown cloth, leather label. Wrappers chipped at edges. Some dampstaining. Good, unopened.

Adventures of a sailor on board the Chilean brig of war Achilles, originally pub- lished serially in a Thomaston newspaper. Wright’s American Fiction lists this, but cautiously notes that it is “based upon an actual trip.” A contemporary review reads: “It is put forward as an authentic narrative, and many of the scenes appear too natural and life like to be an invention of the author. The very minuteness and novelty of the details preserve it from the charge of being an imaginary work. It is, however, a striking proof of the fact that truth is stranger than fiction, being full of stirring adventures, vivid scenes, and hair breadth escapes.” SABIN 12800. PALAU 256530. WRIGHT 2:1967. FIELD 57. $1750. 128. Ptolemy, Claudius: [NETHERLANDS, GERMANY AND DEN- MARK] QUARTA EUROPE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Fine condition apart from a small marginal repair to the lower blank margin and a small rust hole in the image area.

An important early map of Northern Europe, from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptol- emy’s Cosmographia, containing some of the finest Ptolemaic plates ever produced. The map shows the whole of “Magna Germania” with Denmark in the uppermost third of the plate. All the maps are printed from the same plates as the Rome edition of 1478. “The copper plates engraved at Rome...[were] much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the 1477 Bologna edition....Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas in 1578” – Shirley (p.2). Skelton (p. viii) echoes Shirley’s sentiments: “The superior craftsmanship of the engraved maps in the Rome edition, by comparison with those of the [1477] Bologna edition, is conspicuous and arresting. The cleanliness and precision with which the geographical details are drawn; the skill with which the elements of the map are arranged according to their significance, and the sensitive use of the burin in working the plates – these qualities...seem to point to the hand of and experienced master, perhaps from North Italy.” A number of authorities have suggested an engraver from either Venice or Ferrara. The prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic importance. Another aspect of these maps which stands out is the fine roman letters used for the place names on the plates. In an apparently unique experiment these letters were not engraved with a burin but punched into the printing plate using metal stamps or dies. According to Skelton (p. x) the 1490 edition of Ptolemy, from which this map came, was issued “in response to the geographical curiosity aroused by the Portuguese entry into the Indian Ocean....The printer, Petrus de Turre (Pietro de la Torre) used the plates of the 1478 edition, which still showed little wear and produced excellent impressions.” BMC IV, p.133. CAMPBELL, pp.131-33. GOFF P-1086. HAIN 13541. IGI 8128. KLEBS 812.7. PROCTOR 3966. SABIN 66474. SANDER 5976. Skelton, Claudius Ptolo- maeus Cosmographia Rome 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p. xiii. STEVENS, PTOLEMY 42. STILWELL P-992. $6500.

129. Ptolemy, Claudius: [TUNISIA AND LIBYA] SECUNDA AFRICAE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Good condition apart from a small repair to center fold and in lower right corner.

An important early map of north Africa, from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia, containing some of the finest Ptolemaic plates ever produced. The map shows the majority of Tunisia and Libya, with Sardinia and Sicily in outline to the north. All the maps are printed from the same plates as the Rome edition of 1478. “The copper plates engraved at Rome...[were] much superior in clarity and craftsmanship to those of the 1477 Bologna edition....Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas in 1578” – Shirley (p.2). Skelton (p. viii) echoes Shirley’s sentiments: “The superior craftsmanship of the engraved maps in the Rome edition, by comparison with those of the [1477] Bologna edition, is conspicuous and arresting. The cleanliness and precision with which the geographical details are drawn; the skill with which the elements of the map are arranged according to their significance, and the sensitive use of the burin in working the plates – these qualities...seem to point to the hand of and experienced master, perhaps from North Italy.” A number of authorities have suggested an engraver from either Venice or Ferrara. The prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic importance. Another aspect of these maps which stands out is the fine roman letters used for the place names on the plates. In an apparently unique experiment these letters were not engraved with a burin but punched into the printing plate using metal stamps or dies. According to Skelton (p. x) the 1490 edition of Ptolemy from which this map came was issued “in response to the geographical curiosity aroused by the Portuguese entry into the Indian Ocean....The printer, Petrus de Turre (Pietro de la Torre) used the plates of the 1478 edition, which still showed little wear and produced excellent impressions.” BMC IV, p.133. CAMPBELL, THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAPS, 1472-1500 (1987), 122. CAMPBELL, pp.131-33. GOFF P-1086. HAIN 13541. IGI 8128. KLEBS 812.7. PROCTOR 3966. SABIN 66474. SANDER 5976. SHIRLEY 4. Skelton, Claudius Ptolo- maeus Cosmographia Rome 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p. xiii. STEVENS, PTOLEMY 42. STILWELL P-992. SUAREZ, SHEDDING THE VEIL 5. $5500.

130. Raynal, Guillaume Thomas François: HISTOIRE PHILOSO- PHIQUE ET POLITIQUE, DES ETABLISSEMENS & DU COM- MERCE DES EUROPEENS DANS LES DEUX INDES. Geneva. 1775. Three volumes. [4],iii,iii-viii,719pp. plus folding map and three plates; [4],viii,622pp. plus two folding maps and two plates; [4],viii,658,iv pp. plus folding map and three plates. Thick quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Some light wear to hinges and corners. Contemporary ownership inscription on each fly leaf. Internally clean. Near fine.

The elegant Geneva edition of this work, the handsomest of the contemporary edi- tions. Abbé Raynal’s critique and history of the European colonization of much of the rest of the world is one of the most famous historical works of the Age of Revolution. While often tripping over his facts, Raynal was among the first widely read writers to attack the morality of European exploitation of native peoples and the institution of slavery. It was widely believed that he only served as the front figure for Diderot and others in making his charges. The book was first published, anonymously, in Amsterdam in 1770, and many other editions followed; this is by far the best. Raynal’s position made him the hero of many who defied the estab- lishment, and the book was an important philosophical work, especially for openly attacking slavery as a fundamental violation of human rights. It became a key text of the American Revolution, and Raynal became a correspondent of Franklin, Jef- ferson, and Adams. SABIN 68080. BELL R44 (1st ed). CLARK I:292. JCB, LES NOUVELLES FRANCES 180. SOWERBY, JEFFERSON’S LIBRARY 466. HOWES R84 (ref ). $2750.

Early Geographical Description of the World

131. Rithaymer, Georg: DE ORBIS TERRARUM SITUA COMPENDI- UM. Nuremberg: Johann Petri, 1538. [8],111pp., including a full-page map of the world and its zones. Small quarto. Modern calf, spine gilt, raised bands. A few instances of early manuscript notes in the margins. Minor, expert repair to the foredge of the titlepage. Light, even tan- ning. A very handsome copy.

The first and only edition of a geographical description of the world whose last chapter, “De Terris et Insulis nuper repertis,” is devoted to the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci is named as the discoverer of the New World, which Rithaymer dubs “America” in his honor. The chapter also includes references to Temiscela (Mexico), Haiti, Cuba, and Brazil, and reports two islands discovered under the auspices of Ferdinand and Isabella, but with no mention of the discoverer. There is also in- formation on Java, Madagascar, and Zypangrus ( Japan). The map, a sphere with Europe, Africa, and Asia at its center, is not noted by Shirley. Rithaymer, a native of Mariazell in Styria, relates much detailed information, based on his personal knowledge and observations, and on sources such as Vadianus, Ziegler, and Tornadel. Not in Borba de Moraes, Church, or Medina. OCLC locates only two copies, at Yale and the University of Minnesota. Rare and significant. HARRISSE, ADDITIONS 119. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 538/10. KRAUS, AMER- ICANA VETUSTISSIMA 45. SABIN 71582. JCB (3)1:124-5. OCLC 40522276. $16,000.

132. Ross, John: NARRATIVE OF A SECOND VOYAGE IN SEARCH OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE, AND OF A RESIDENCE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS DURING THE YEARS 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London. 1835. [8],xxxiii,[1],740,[1]pp. plus thirty plates, many handsomely colored, and partially colored folding map. Frontis. Large, thick quarto. Original cloth, expertly rebacked, original backstrip (sunned and worn) laid down. Some scattered foxing, tear in gutter of folding map with no loss. Else very good.

A large paper copy of this handsome work. Despite the failure of his earlier trip in 1818, Ross set out in 1829 in the small ship, Victory, to find a northwest passage, but the boat had to be abandoned in 1832. Ross and his party were eventually rescued in the summer of 1833 in Lancaster Sound. In the meantime, Capt. George Back had set out in search of Ross. His account of his explorations was published the year after this volume appeared. The greatest scientific yield of the trip was the discovery of the Magnetic Pole. The many plates are listed in detail in Abbey. The large map, “...Chart of Discoveries in the Arctic Regions...,” shows the route of exploration around King Williams land and the Gulf of Boothia. A number of the attractive plates depict the natives and events during the voyage. ABBEY 636. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 14866. LANDE 1462. HILL 1490 (ref ). SMITH 8792. TPL 1808. SABIN 73381. $1000.

133. Ross, John: EXPLANATION AND ANSWER TO MR. BRAITH- WAITE’S SUPPLEMENT. London: Whiting for A.B. Webster, [1836.] 8pp. Original light brown paper wrappers, titled in letterpress on upper cover. Minor foxing and light wear, slight loss at top edge of front cover. Very good.

After his failure to explore Lancaster Sound in his first voyage of 1818, Ross had his 1829-33 second voyage privately financed. Forced to abandon his steamship Victory in the ice at Felix Harbor, Ross in his Narrative... placed the blame largely on the shortcomings of the boilers supplied by Messrs. Braithwaite and Ericsson. Braithwaite responded to the accusations by publishing his craftily titled Supplement to Captain Ross’ narrative, and Ross herein follows with his Explanation and Answer. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 14862. Fergus Fleming, Barrow’s Boys (1998), pp.310-11. SABIN 73370. $3000.

134. Santa Maria, Agostinho de: HISTORIA DA FUNDAÇAÕ DO REAL CONVENTO DE SANTA MONICA DA CIDADE DE GOA, CORTE DO ESTADO DA INDIA, 7 DO IMPERIO LU- SITANO DO ORIENTE.... Lisbon: Antonio Pedrozo Galram, 1699. [12], 819pp. Early 20th-century morocco, boards and spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., silk marker. Internally very clean. A very fine copy.

An extensive history of the Augustinian convent of Santa Monica, founded in Goa in 1606. The work includes a detailed biography of Aleixo de Meneses, archbishop of Goa and founder of the convent, as well as shorter accounts of other missionaries connected to the institution. Meneses also oversaw the great expansion of Augustin- ian missionary work in the East. Lach notes that between 1600 and 1610 convents outside Goa were established on the west coast of India, on the Coromandel coast, and in Ceylon and Bengal. The number of friars for these areas also increased from 99 to 155 in the same years. The Historia... provides much information on the Portuguese missions and other aspects of Portuguese expansion in the East. Boxer also used this narrative as a source for early shipwreck narratives. STREIT V:639. PALAU 298083. INNOCENCIO I, p.18 Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, p.141. OCLC 23624965, 38277605. $4000.

John Locke’s Copy

135. Schouten, Willem: IOURNAL OU RELATION EXACTE DU VOY- AGE DE GVILL. SCHOUTEN, DANS LES INDES: PAR VN NOUUEAU DESTROIT, & PAR LES GRANDES MERS AUS- TRALES QU’IL À DESCOUUERT, VERS LE POLE ANTAR- TIQUE. ENSEMBLE DES NOUVELLES TERRES AUPARAU- ANT INCOGNUËS, ISLES, FRUICTS, PEUPLES, & ANIMAUX ESTRANGES, QU’IL A TROUUÉ EN SON CHEMIN: ET DES RARES OBSERUATIONS QU’IL Y À FAIT TOUCHANT LA DECLINAISON DE L’ AYMANT. Paris: Chez M. Gobert, 1618. [13], 232pp. plus four folding maps and four folding plates. Contemporary vel- lum, manuscript title on backstrip. “E” signature supplied from another copy. Quite clean and neat internally. A lovely, near fine copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Famed philosopher John Locke’s copy, with his ink ownership inscription on the front pastedown. In front of his signature Locke has made the notation “b” which, according to The Library of John Locke by Harrison and Laslett, was an inventory mark put into books in or about 1697 and not to be found in any books acquired after that date. Locke has noted at the foot of the titlepage that this is a duplicate copy. The rare first Paris edition. Undertaken in 1615 and lasting until 1617, this important expedition was the third complete circumnavigation, after Magellan in 1519 and Drake in 1577. The expedition was the first to round Cape Horn from the east, naming the Cape after the Dutch town of Hoorn, whose aggressive trad- ers sponsored the voyage. In addition, the expedition explored the Pacific coast of South America, pursued the search for Terra Australis, and proved that Tierra del Fuego was not an island. Principle among the merchant benefactors of Hoorn was Isaac Le Maire, whose son, Jacob Le Maire, was charged as the director of the enterprise, and for whom the Le Maire strait is named. “Partly inspired by Quiros and motivated by Dutch trading zeal, this [voyage] was the essential precursor to Tasman’s voyage; indeed Tasman made great use of Le Maire’s mapping of the ocean. The Le Maire voyage, the last of the seventeenth century expeditions to search for the unknown continent from the east, was responsible for extensive discoveries in the Pacific...” – Hordern House. This edition contains four maps and four plates. They are: a map of the world in two hemispheres with surrounding portraits; a map of Tierra del Fuego; a map of the South Sea; a plate of a Polynesian sailing a canoe; a plate bearing the inscrip- tion, “Isle de Cocos”; a plate bearing the inscription, “Isle de Hoorn”; a plate of the “Indian kings” and their village; and a map of Nova Guinea. This copy has the pagination errors on pages 56, 215, and 179, not found in all copies. Schouten’s work was originally published in Amsterdam in 1618 by Willem Jansz Blaeu. Though printed in his name, Schouten was most likely not the author of the present work, and it was probably compiled for him by Blaeu from the ships’ logs. The work proved exceedingly popular, “no fewer than thirty-eight editions of the work were printed in Holland alone between the year 1618 and 1766” (Church). This is the first Paris edition. A fundamental voyage in worldwide navigation. SABIN 77952. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 618/119. PALAU 305104 (Paris 1619 ed) TIELE-MULLER 42n. $55,000.

A Consul’s Daughter Draws Scenes in Algiers, 1825-27

136. Schultze, Frances Kenney: [PORTFOLIO OF PENCIL DRAWINGS BY ARTIST FRANCES K. SCHULTZE, PRIMARILY EXECUTED DURING HER TIME IN ALGIERS AS A YOUNG WOMAN]. Tu- nis. 1825-1827, 1841-1842. Twenty leaves, containing twenty-one individual items. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter black calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor wear to binding. Several modern leaves bound in at rear. Very good.

Album of charming pencil drawings by English-born artist Frances Kenney Schultze (née Bowen, 1810-61) at the young age of fifteen. Schultze’s father was stationed in Algiers as the British consul, and these drawings show scenes in Tunis and vicin- ity. They show an able hand and keen eye. Several feature a camel, while others show the consul’s residence, ancient ruins and temples, gazelles, one portrait of a woman (possibly her mother), and a figure copied from one of Raphael’s frescoes in Rome. Some of the sketches have Arabic captions as well as English. Most of the compositions are from Algiers and dated 1825-27, though the latter leaves contain two pages of sketched notes for a painting and three other pieces which appear to date to 1841-42. The young artist has signed many of the compositions with either name or initials. Schultze became a noted oil painter, primarily of oriental scenes, and these early sketches show the development of her love for the area and subject matter. A wonderful album of views in an area little seen by European eyes in this period. $6500.

137. [Scott, Thomas]: VOX POPULI. OR NEWES FROM SPAYNE, TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH COPPIE. WHICH MAY SERVE TO FORWARN BOTH ENGLAND AND THE UNITED PROVINCES HOW FARRE TO TRUST TO SPAN- ISH PRETENCES. [bound with:] THE SECOND PART OF VOX POPULI, OR GONDOMAR APPEARING IN THE LIKENES OF MATCHIAUELL IN A SPANISH PARLIAMENT.... [London]. 1620, 1624. [27]; [4],60pp. plus extra illustration tipped in at p.54. Small quarto. Later diced Russia, rebacked, gilt leather labels. Extremities rubbed. Some soiling to rear board. Bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. Later notations on front fly leaf, contemporary ink notation crossed out on titlepage. Minor soiling. Engraved titlepage of second part trimmed closely at bottom, affecting last line of imprint. Very good.

Two famous anti-Catholic tracts opposing the marriage of Prince Charles with the infanta of Spain. “[This work] purports to describe the report of the Spanish ambassador, Gondomar, to the council of state in Madrid on his return from his first embassy to England in 1618. The ambassador recounts the success of his ef- forts to subvert the English government, and describes with evident satisfaction the crowds that flocked to mass in his chapel in London. Relaxation of the recusancy laws, the banning of decent protestant preaching as ‘puritan,’ and the distribution of popish propaganda, Gondomar claims, have all been obtained by bribery of courtiers and the king’s ministers. Gleefully Gondomar also describes the failure of Ralegh’s expedition and his subsequent destruction, connived at by the unholy alliance of greedy courtiers, personal enemies, and outright papists which the Span- iard boasts of orchestrating....Apparently taken for a piece of genuine reportage at a time of deep, and not entirely unjustified, religious paranoia, the anonymously published pamphlet caused a furore, and prompted an energetic hunt for its author. Its printers remained at work producing new editions, though they were evidently disturbed by the hue and cry – several of these editions ‘are composed of assorted sheets of different impressions hastily bound together’ (Adams, ‘Captain Thomas Gainsford’, 143)....[T]his tract stands as a powerful and excoriating criticism of the Hispanophile and pacific strands of Jacobean foreign policy....In Vox Populi, as later in the tracts written on the continent, Scott articulated strong ‘country’ ideology, contrasting the honest patriotism of the ordinary people and their representatives in the Commons with the vogue for all things Spanish within the highest circles of government and society; in particular he advocated an ideal of active citizenship which has been described as quintessentially puritan, or else classical republican, but which could equally well be characterized as both” – DNB. Of particular note for Americana interest, there is reference to the Spanish colonies in America, as well as to Virginia and Bermuda. ESTC S4894, S125029. STC 22100.4, 22103.3. SABIN 78376, 78377. LOWNDES, p.2222. $2000.

Hooking Up in the South Seas

138. [Scott-Waring, John]: AN EPISTLE FROM OBEREA, QUEEN OF OTAHEITE, TO JOSEPH BANKS, ESQ. TRANSLATED BY T.Q.Z. ESQ. PROFESSOR OF THE OTAHEITE LANGUAGE IN DUBLIN, AND OF ALL THE LANGUAGES OF THE UNDIS- COVERED ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH SEA; AN ENRICHED WITH HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. London: Printed for John Almon, 1774. 15pp. Quarto. Modern three quarter straight- grained gilt morocco and cloth, gilt, spine richly gilt. Near fine.

“The third edition” of this popular lyrical satire at the expense of the eminent British naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks. Written in imitation of Ovid, the poem pokes fun at Banks and his purportedly amorous shore leave on Tahiti (Banks had a considerable reputation as a ladies’ man). The poem masquerades as an affectionate letter from Queen Oberea of Tahiti, who recollects her encounters with Banks. In the text, which incorporates notes from Hawkesworth’s account of Cook’s first voyage, Banks is cast as Ulysses and the Queen as Calypso. The true author of the work has been identified as Major John Scott-Waring of the East India Company. The first edition of this poem was published in 1773 and a second letter from the Tahitian Queen appeared in 1774. An early bit of Cook-inspired satire, and quite funny indeed. BEDDIE 3915. KROEPELIEN 1166. O’REILLY & REITMAN 9791. HOLMES 11 (1st ed). $2000.

Fighting in India in the Seven Years’ War

139. [Seven Years’ War]: [India]: [Lally, Comte de]: VRAIES CAUSES DE LA PERTE DE L’INDE, POUR LE COMTE DE LALLY; CONTRE M. LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL [caption title]. Paris. 1766. 22,20pp. plus large folding map. Large folio. Stitched. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

Defense of the Comte de Lally for his actions in India during the Seven Years’ War. This is one of two versions authored by him. Lally, head of the French expedition to India, reached Pondichery in 1758. Though capable, he was incredibly unpopular and fell into a series of events which proved fatal to his career and his person. He was unsuccessful in the Siege of Madras, beaten at the Battle of Wandiwash, and eventually capitulated from the siege of Pondichery. Taken prisoner by the British, he returned to France on parole and was imprisoned for two years before being put on trial and executed. This is his last defence, published shortly thereafter or perhaps immediately preceding. A publisher’s note is dated April 14 and Lally was executed May 6. The map shows the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar. $1250.

The Third and Best Edition

140. Shelvocke, George: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY WAY OF THE GREAT SOUTH SEA: PERFORMED IN A PRIVATE EXPEDITION DURING THE WAR, WHICH BROKE OUT WITH SPAIN, IN THE YEAR 1718. London. 1757. [6],iii,[3],476pp. plus folding map and four engraved plates (two folding). Contemporary speck- led calf, gilt. Some scuffing and wear to boards and hinge, corners lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor scattered soil- ing and foxing. A nice copy in unsophisticated condition. Very good.

The third and best edition (styled “second edition, with additions” on the title), after the first of 1726. Shelvocke was engaged in a privateering expedition against Spanish shipping on the Pacific coast of America. He sailed as far north as Baja California, and two of the plates depict men and women of that peninsula. He also reported gold in the region. A storm had separated Shelvocke’s ship from the accompanying vessel on the expedition, and Shelvocke did not wait for the captain of that ship at the agreed locations in the Canaries and Juan Fernandez islands; instead, he sailed for Brazil and then to the west coast of South America, including stops at Payta, Peru, and Lower California. Two of the plates are notable for their depictions of California natives. Shelvocke returned home via Guam and Macao. Upon his return to England he was accused of piracy and taken prisoner. Betagh, in the preface to his book about the same expedition, describes Shelvocke’s book as “entirely a deception, and his whole conduct a disgrace to his country.” Hill notes that “this second [actually third] edition is superior to that of the first edition of 1726. It was edited by Shelvocke’s son, who corrected the text extensively in a further effort to vindicate his father from charges of piracy and embezzlement.” The folding map depicts Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, with the route of the voyage traced. “The whole history of this expedition is a curious commentary upon the morals of the times. The English had passed out of the freebooting stage, strictly speaking, and were now eager to cover their privateering exploits with a little more clothing than in the preceding century” – Wagner. An important English Pacific voyage. HILL 1558. HOWES S383, “aa.” COWAN, pp.581-82. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTH- WEST 88. BORBA DE MORAES, p.796. SABIN 80159. BARRETT 2261 (note). $5500.

Early American Novel Set in China

141. Sherburne, Henry: THE ORIENTAL PHILANTHROPIST, OR TRUE REPUBLICAN. Portsmouth, N.H.: Wm. Treadwell & Co., 1800. 215,[1]pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt leather label. Boards quite scuffed, half of spine label chipped away and much of spine leather as well. Age-toned, with foxing. Still, a good copy.

An early American novel set in China, and an early work of fiction printed in New Hampshire. In his preface Sherburne informs the reader that he seeks to offer instruction and examples to Americans by using the method of allegory, or fable, and as a result he has chosen to set his tale in China, “where the most stupendous fabulous legends originated.” In that vein, there are also several references to Persia and “genies.” This is one of two states of the first edition, with a prospectus for another work printed on the verso of the final page. EVANS 38495. ESTC W28813. WRIGHT I:2382. SABIN 80332. BRINLEY SALE 7145. $1250. The First Englishman in Persia

142. Sherley, Antony: SIR ANTONY SHERLEY HIS RELATION OF HIS TRAVELS INTO PERSIA. THE DANGERS AND DISTRESS- ES, WHICH BEFELL HIM IN HIS PASSAGE, BOTH BY SEA AND LAND, AND HIS STRANGE AND UNEXPECTED DELIV- ERANCES. HIS MAGNIFICENT ENTERTAINMENT IN PER- SIA, HIS HONOURABLE IMPLOYMENT THERE-HENCE, AS EMBASSADOUR.... London: Printed for Nathaniell Butter and Joseph Bagset, 1613. [8],139pp. Small quarto. 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt leather label. Titlepage moderately soiled, short clean tear in outer margin (not affecting text). Top and bottom edges closely trimmed throughout, affecting numerous running titles, catchwords, and sig- nature marks. Light age toning and occasional instances of soiling. Lacks the portrait of Sherley, issued separately the previous year and seldom found with the book. A very good copy, with the 1860 engraved bookplate of the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield on front pastedown.

The first edition of this account by Antony Sherley of his travels in Persia, reprinted in 1625 in Purchas His Pilgrimes. Leaving Venice in 1599 with his brother, Robert Sherley, and John Manwaring, Antony Sherley travelled to Persia “with the inten- tion of promoting Persian trade with England. Travelling by way of Cephalonia (in Greece), Crete, and Cyprus, he reached Aleppo in August 1599, then proceeded down the Euphrates to Baghdad and across the mountains to Esfahan. From there, in 1608, Robert Sherley returned to Europe as an envoy of the Shah. Anthony Sherley entered the service of Shah Abbas...and arrived at the Caspian Sea sometime in 1600” – Howgego. Boies Penrose has chronicled the story of these extraordinary Elizabethan brothers in his book, The Sherlian Odyssey. Their narratives provided England with its first clear account of the Persian Empire. COX I, p.247. STC 22424. OCLC 5841190. HOWGEGO S95. $27,500.

143. [Ship Log – American]: [MANUSCRIPT LOG BOOK OF A VOY- AGE FROM CONNECTICUT TO MEXICO, ENDING IN SHIP- WRECK]. [Various places. 1827]. 13pp. Large folio. Unbound. Cover sheet with docket title soiled, occasional minor foxing and soiling, evidence of old folds and contemporary sewing threads. Very good.

A manuscript log maintained on board the American schooner, Mars, during a voy- age in September and October 1827 from New London, Connecticut towards Port Santiago, Mexico. The journal abruptly concludes with the ship running aground as it attempts to reach the harbor in Mexico. The anonymous author provides much detail on the various attempts to save the ship in the midst of very harsh weather and the eventual decision to abandon the vessel, salvaging whatever was possible “to be sold on the beach for the good of the owners with all her tackle, apparel, and furniture such as could be got safe on shore.” The remainder of the journal covers the ship’s departure from New London until the shipwreck. Daily entries include records of the ship’s course and speed, latitude readings, and wind directions. Additional remarks regarding the progress of the voyage, wind, weather, sails, rigging, and events on board are recorded each day in a section devoted to “remarks and transactions on board.” The activities of the crew are usually recorded simply as “employed variously.” In early October, Captain Sandforth Kidder became ill with fever. He did not recover for the rest of the voy- age, being taken ashore in Mexico just prior to the ship’s attempt to reach shore. A fine firsthand account of a shipwreck and the various attempts to save the vessel. $1000.

144. [Sierra Leone Company]: SUBSTANCE OF THE REPORT DE- LIVERED BY THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE SIERRA LEONE COMPANY, TO THE GENERAL COURT OF PROPRI- ETORS, ON THURSDAY, MARCH 27th, 1794. [bound with:] SUB- STANCE OF THE REPORT OF THE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE SIERRA LEONE COMPANY, DELIVERED...THURS- DAY THE 26th OF FEBRUARY, 1795. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1795. Two volumes bound in one. 168pp. plus folding map; 24pp. Original paper wrappers. Front wrapper chipped, light wear, age toning and soiling. Contemporary ownership markings on front fly leaf. Map loosely inserted, repaired at some folds. Still, about very good, in unsophisticated condition. In a half morocco box.

Two scarce early reports of the Sierra Leone Company, the first containing the very rare map of the colony and its surrounds, “Plan of Sierra Leone and the Parts Adjacent.” The second report is often found bound with the first, and may have been issued thus. The colony of Sierra Leone was established in 1791 as a result of the efforts of Henry Smeathman, Alexander Falconbridge, and others, who were interested in alleviating the plight of victims of the slave trade. In 1792 a large number of former American slaves who had been in Nova Scotia were moved there by the British. The Sierra Leone Company was incorporated in 1795, and numerous former slaves from the United States and the Caribbean were deposited there over the next decade. The map shows the settlement of the natives, land purchased by the company, and other settlements being developed in the area. It was engraved by Philadelphia engraver J. Vallance. EVANS 29513, 29514. ESTC W29500, W31451. $3000.

145. Sparrman, Anders: VOYAGE AU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE, ET AUTOUR DU MONDE AVEC LE CAPITAINE COOK, ET PRINCIPALEMENT DANS LE PAY DES HOTTENTOTS ET DES CAFFRES. Paris. 1787. Three volumes. xxxii,388; [4],366; [4],363pp., plus sixteen engraved plates (some folding) and large engraved folding map. Uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Some very minor rub- bing at extremities. A fresh and especially handsome set. With the bookplate of Nils Rosen in each volume, as well as New York Horticultural Society bookplate on front fly leaf of each volume, noting Kenneth K. Mackenzie’s bequest of the book.

The first French edition, translated from the original Swedish. Sparrman, a zoologist from the University of Uppsala, was at the Cape when Cook’s second expedition arrived, and from 1772 to 1775 he accompanied that party on its famous reconnais- sance of the South Pacific. He gives an account of this in the present work. Most of the book is devoted to his experiences in Africa in 1772, 1775, and 1776. An important work of natural history and South Africa material, as well as an interesting account of the Cook expedition. This edition contains a beautiful engraved map of the Cape of Good Hope and sixteen engraved plates of natural history subjects. HILL 1615 (ref ). $1250.

A Remarkable Collection of Voyage Narratives, Assembled by the First Great Collector of Americana

146. Ternaux-Compans, Henri: VOYAGES, RELATIONS ET MÉ- MOIRES ORIGINAUX POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE DE LA DÉCOUVERTE DE L’AMERIQUE. Paris. 1837-1841. Twenty volumes. Original printed wrappers. Spines split and heavily chipped, covers chipped to varying degrees, a few detached. Minor age toning and foxing. About very good, many volumes unopened.

A complete set of this impressive collection of French translations of early histo- ries of Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Florida, and more, assembled by Henri Ternaux- Compans, the first major collector of Americana. The scion of a French family who had made a fortune in the wool trade, Ternaux-Compans collected vigorously in the two decades after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, publishing a catalogue of his collection in 1837, the same year he began publishing this series. On the title page of each volume is given a subtitle of the work contained therein, followed by the place and date of its first publication. The final eleven volumes contain translations from Spanish manuscripts, which, with the exception of three articles in volumes 10 and 20, were previously unpublished. The first ten volumes are usually referred to as the first series, and volumes 11 through 20 as the second. Some of the works included are those of Cabeça de Vaca; Xérès’ Relation Veridique de la Conquete de Perou; Ixtlilxochitl’s Cruautes Horribles des Conquerants du Mexique; Oviedo y Valdés’ Histoire du Nicaragua; Velasco’s Histoire du Royaume de Quito, and others. Two works of particular note in the set are Castaneda de Nagera’s Relation du Voyage de Cibola Enterpris en 1540 and the collection on Florida, Recueil de Pieces sur la Floride.... The Castaneda de Nagera is the “first appearance in any language of the chief source on Coronado’s expedition, previously known of only from meager accounts found in Ramusio, Herrera, Gomara and Venegas. Coronado and his men were, aside from De Vaca, the first Europeans to visit Texas, and preceded all others into New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado” – Howes. Most of the pieces in the Florida volume are published here for the first time. The bulk of Ternaux-Compans original collection ultimately passed, via the booksellers Obadiah Rich and Henry Stevens, to John Carter Brown, and provided the original basis of that great library. An important collection for scholars and collectors of Latin America. SABIN 94856. PALAU 330425. HOWES C224a “aa,” T104 “aa.” SERVIES 2660. $3000.

147. Thomas, Pascoe: A TRUE AND IMPARTIAL JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH-SEAS, AND ROUND THE GLOBE, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE CENTURION, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE GEORGE ANSON.... London. 1745. [16],347,[1],39pp. Contemporary calf, paneled in gilt, rebacked in matching calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Boards a bit rubbed and worn. Very clean and neat internally. A very good copy.

A scarce account of Anson’s voyage to harass Spanish shipping along the west coast of South America in 1740-43, concluding with the capture of a Manila galleon carrying £400,000 in treasure. Includes general historical accounts of Chile, Peru, Mexico, and China. “Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Included are a very interesting list of subscribers names and an appendix giving an account of the treasure taken from the Nuestra Signora del Buono Carmella. This account of the voyage preceded the publication of the official account of Lord Anson’s voyage by three years” – Hill. SABIN 95437. HILL 1693. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 745/205. COX I, pp.48-49. PALAU 331781. $1500.

Original Artwork from the Krusenstern Expedition

148. Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb: JAPANESE MERCHANT SHIP WITH THE FLAGS, CRESTS, AND INSIGNIA OF THE OWNERS AND THE MERCHANT HOUSES [translation of manu- script caption title]. [Off the coast of Japan. ca. 1805]. Watercolor on paper, 6½ x 9¾ inches. Original manuscript caption attached to verso. Small chip in upper left corner, else near fine. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet.

A fine watercolor view of a Japanese merchant ship plying the waters off the coast of Japan. The work was done during the Krusenstern expedition, the first major Russian scientific voyage in the Pacific and the first circumnavigation of the world by a Russian ship. It was executed by the expedition’s artist, Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau. The detailed work gives an excellent view of the technical aspects of Japanese vessels commonly used in the coastal trade, showing the ship’s high bow, its rigging, the long rudder used to steer the vessel, and six crew members hard at work. The insignia of the ship is clearly shown on its stern. The crests or flags used by four other merchants are shown on the same paper along the right edge, just outside the border which surrounds the image of the ship. The original manuscript caption reads: “Ein Japanisches Kauffahrtsschiff aus Miako mit den Flaggen, Wappen und Inschriften der Warenbesitzer und Handels Compagnien. Hermann L. v. Loewenstern hat das Schiff mit dem Tauwerk gezeichnet. Dr. W. G. Tilesius ad nat. pinxit.” The note explains that this watercolor was painted by Tilesius after a sketch by Loewenstern, fourth lieutenant on the Krusenstern expedition. In the English translation of the account of the Krusenstern voyage, Loewenstern is described as “an amiable and cultivated mind, he added a very extensive and well grounded knowledge of his profession.” Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) accompanied the Kru- senstern expedition on the ships, Nadeshda and Newa, during the first Russian circumnavigation, from 1803 to 1806. After Russian painter Kurjlandzow left the expedition in Kamchatka in 1804, Tilesius became responsible for recording interesting observations relating to the geography and natural history of the places they visited. He contributed many detailed designs for the illustrations in the third volume of Krusenstern’s account of the voyage, and also published several papers of his own research. Such original art from the Krusenstern circumnavigation is exceedingly rare. $17,500. 149. Torrens, Henry D.: TRAVELS IN LADAK, TARTARY, AND KASH- MIR. London. 1863. iv,367pp. including numerous in-text illustrations, plus chromolithographic frontispiece, eleven additional chromolithographic plates (two folding), and one folding map. Errata slip following p. iv. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt morocco la- bels. Calf rubbed, worn at joints and extremities. Very good.

Second edition of Lieut. Col. Henry D. Torrens’ account of his travels in the Trans-Himalayan regions of present-day northern India. The work is illustrated with dozens of chromolithographic and wood-en- graved ethnographic portraits and landscape views. The large pan- oramic folding plates show views of “Kashmir Valley from Soleiman’s Seat to Nishat Bach” and “Lè [Leh], from the Palace...to the Valley of the Indus.” The folding map traces “the Course of the Hindostan and Thibet Road from Kalka in the Plains to Shipkee on the borders of China.” $1500.

An American Navy Cruise in the Mediterranean

150. [U.S.S. Delaware]: Storer, Robert B.: [MANUSCRIPT LOG OF THE U.S.S. DELAWARE, KEPT BY ROBERT STORER, DURING HER FINAL CRUISE HOME FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN]. [Various places]. Jan. 1 – March 22, 1844. 62pp. Quarto. Original brown cloth. Cloth moderately soiled and stained. Light dampstaining to some of the text. About very good.

Manuscript log book of the U.S.S. Delaware, kept by seaman Robert B. Storer dur- ing the ship’s final voyage. The U.S.S. Delaware was launched in October 1820. She spent most of her active duty cruising in the Mediterranean, where she served in the interests of American commerce and diplomacy in that area, though she also spent several years stationed in Brazil, patrolling the coasts of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina to represent American interests during political unrest in those countries. She began her final voyage to the Mediterranean in February 1843, setting out from Rio de Janeiro. This log covers the last three months of the Delaware’s active service, documenting her return voyage from the Mediterranean to Norfolk. She arrived home in March 1844, and was still at the naval yard in 1861, when she was set afire with other U.S. ships in order to keep them from falling into Confederate hands. The log begins with the ship at anchor in Mahon harbor, off Minorca in the Mediterranean. Storer keeps details of provisioning the ship and readying to sail for first twelve days of January. As is standard with ship’s logs, he records speeds, winds, and weather conditions, as well as the positioning of the sails. Everyday events such as inspecting the crew or holding “divine service” on Sundays are noted, as are sightings of other ships’ sails and exchanging colors with passing vessels. The Delaware sights the coast of Spain and moves into the Atlantic around the third week in January; on February 2, crew member Jacob Lawrence, a marine, dies (though Storer does not say from what), and his funeral service is held the next day, and Lawrence’s body is committed to the deep. Also of note, the Delaware investigates a wreck on February 15:

At 7.45 hauled up the courses, hauled down the jib and laid the main and mizen topsails to the mast, and sent a boat to board the wreck. At 8.15 the boat returned from the wreck; discovered her to be the English Hermaphrodite Brig “Halifax” of “Halifax,” loaded with lumber, water logged and foremast sawed off, nothing living on board.”

The rest of the voyage is uneventful and relatively smooth, and the Delaware sights the Cape Henry lighthouse on March 4. The last few days are recorded as the ship is anchored at Hampton Roads, including a salute to the passing of former Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, who died on February 28. $3250.

151. Ulloa, Antonio de, and George Juan: VOYAGE HISTORIQUE DE L’AMERIQUE MERIDIONALE FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROI D’ESPAGNE.... Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkste’e & Merkus, 1752. Two volumes. [22],554; [2],316,[6],[6],309,[3]pp., plus fifty-five plates and maps (most folding). Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges cracked, boards lightly worn and stained. Bookplates on front endpa- pers. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Good plus.

First French edition, after the original Spanish of 1747. Sabin lists the French language edition as published in Amsterdam and Leipzig, with the note: “Some copies of this French translation have the imprint, ‘Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, MDCCLII’; this has given rise to the idea that an edition was printed there, which is not the case; there is merely a change in the title. The translator was M. de Mauvillon.” This voyage to Peru was undertaken due to the desire of the French government to send members of the Academy of Sciences to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru. To share in the honor the King of Spain sent along his two most scientific-oriented officers, Ulloa and Juan. The text is illustrated with handsome engraved plates and maps of the region and the inhabitants. Much of the second volume is devoted to the Incas and their customs. COX II, p.275. HILL 1740. PALAU 125479. MEDINA 3464. FIELD 1587. SABIN 36812. BORBA DE MORAES, p.873 (ref ). $2500.

152. [United States Exploring Expedition]: Dana, James D.: UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION. DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. UNDER THE COMMAND OF CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N. ZOOPHYTES.... [with:] ...ATLAS. ZOOPHYTES. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848-1849. Two volumes. Quarto text: x,[7]-740pp. Atlas: 12pp. Sixty-one engraved plates (forty-six with hand-coloring, as issued) after Dana and Drayton, engraved by Wilmer, Glover, Hinman, and others. Expertly bound to style in uniform half black morocco and 19th-century green cloth, spines with raised bands. Very good.

A major illustrated work on corals: the unofficial issue of the text and atlas volumes to James Dana’s rare report on zoophytes from the Wilkes Expedition, limited to 100 copies. The United States Exploring Expedition circumnavigated the globe under the command of Charles Wilkes between the summer of 1838 and the summer of 1842. It is usually known by the name of its commander as the Wilkes Expedition. The United States Exploring Expedition “was the first American scientific expedition of any size, charged to ‘extend the bounds of Science and promote the acquisition of knowledge,’ and was one of the most ambitious Pacific expeditions ever at- tempted” (Forbes). The Expedition represents “the first governmental sponsorship of scientific endeavour and was instrumental in the nation’s westward expansion. Specimens gathered by expedition scientists became the foundation collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Significant American contributions in the fields of geology, botany, conchology, anthropology, and linguistics came from the scientific work of the expedition. Wilkes’s evaluations of his landfalls influenced later U.S. positions in those areas” (DAB). The reports and atlases for the U.S. Exploring Expedition were published over a long period of time. The Expedition returned in 1842 and the final atlas volume did not appear until 1858. Because of their limited issue and historical importance, the reports from the Expedition are highly sought after, though they very rarely appear on the market. All of the official and unofficial issues of the natural history atlases of the Wilkes expedition are rare. James Dana, the author of this report, was trained in geology and the earth sciences at Yale. He was only twenty-six when he set out with the Expedition as geologist and mineralogist, returning five years later in 1842. He then worked steadily on his Wilkes reports until he was appointed professor of geology at Yale in 1849, where he spent the rest of his career. Although the intention had been to publish only new material and discoveries, “Dana soon perceived that in the case of the Zoophytes no satisfactory contribu- tion could be made without a survey of the entire field” (Haskell). In a letter to a colleague he wrote: “‘Corals are so peculiar in their forms & so little known that descriptions, unless extended to an unwarrantable length, convey but little idea of the species: and figuring one species in a genus will not answer the purpose it does in Conchology.’” The sixty-one plates in the atlas contain 1008 figures and skillfully illustrate the text of Dana’s important work on corals, which he planned as “the most com- plete work on the subject ever published.” Dana’s work was so thorough, noted naturalist Louis Agassiz said of it: “‘For years I have not learned so much from a book as from yours.’” An important publication from the most important American naval expedition of the 19th century. HASKELL 22, 26. FORBES 1584, 1728. ROSOVE 354-2.A2.a, 355-1.A2. $16,000. Major Manuscript Report on the State of the Philippines, 1765

153. Viana, Francisco Leandro de: DEMOSTRACION DEL MISERO DEPLORABLE ESTADO DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS, DE LA NECESIDAD DE ABANDONARLAS Ó MANTENERLAS CON FUERZAS RESPETABLES: DE LOS INCONVENIENTES DE LO PRIMERO, Y VENTAJAS DE LO SEGUNDO; DE LO QUE PUEDEN PRODUCIR A LA RL. HACIENDA, DE LA NAVEGA- CION, EXTENSION, Y UTILIDAD DE SU COMERCIO [caption title]. Manila. Feb. 10, 1765. [1],125 leaves. Small folio. Modern stiff vellum. Fair copy in a neat late-18th-century hand of a mid-18th-century Spanish document. 20th-century notes in pencil on front fly leaf erased, impressions of writing still visible. Internally clean and fresh. In fine condition. In a modern half morocco and cloth clamshell box, elaborate gilt leather labels on spine and front board.

A manuscript fair copy of this important report on the conditions, needs, and po- tentials of the Philippine Islands in 1765, originally written by Francisco Leandro de Viana, the fiscal of Manila Audiencia. In the process of surveying the Philip- pines, the report also reflects upon conditions in Spain and the country’s relations with its colonies and with other European nations. Viana’s plans for implementing changes in order to establish a major Spanish trading center in the Philippines were proposed after the conclusion of the two-year British occupation of the islands from 1762 to 1764, following the end of the Seven Years’ War. The author writes that the Spanish must either withdraw completely or strengthen their position in the region to take advantage of the commercial pos- sibilities offered by the islands. Viana advocates the latter, proposing immigration from Spain, fiscal and military reforms, increased trade, expansion of the haciendas, and taking advantage of the geographical location of the islands for shipping routes either around the Cape of Good Hope or by way of Panama. The British capture of Manila in 1762 was a bitter blow to Spain, although the city was not thriving at the time. Since the Spanish conquest, Manila had devel- oped to include a great fort and a trading post; it was also a center of missionary activity in the region. By the mid-18th century, however, the urban center was stagnating. The anticipated trade of Mexican silver for Chinese silk never came to fruition, half of the Spanish population of the islands belonged to religious orders, and Spanish laws forbade non-Spanish Europeans from trading there. In the text Viana contrasts the stagnant development of the Philippines to the success of the commercially-minded Dutch in the Moluccas. In March 1764, following the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years’ War, Philippine governor Francisco Xavier de la Torre reached the island of Luzon, bearing orders from London for the English to surrender Manila to him. Viana, a well-educated and able man who had served as a college rector of the University of Salamanca and a member of the royal council, addresses the prologue of the Demo- stracion, and by extension the report itself, to de la Torre in the latter’s capacity of representing the Spanish king, Charles III. Later in 1765 de la Torre was replaced by José Raon, whose unscrupulous rule made Viana’s position, and his proposals, untenable. Viana appears to have returned to Spain in 1767, where he wrote the King that his desire to serve the Crown and enact reforms had antagonized those in the Philippines who wished to continue plundering the treasury. The Demostracion, with its outspoken criticisms of both religious and secular authorities, was regarded as inflammatory and its publication forbidden. A fine fair copy of Viana’s report concerning the Philippines in the mid-18th century. Apparently never published, although the Newberry Library holds two similar copies of the manuscript report. $15,000.

154. Webster, W.H.B.: NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH- ERN ATLANTIC OCEAN, IN THE YEARS 1828, 29, 30, PER- FORMED IN H.M. SLOOP CHANTICLEER, UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE LATE CAPTAIN HENRY FOSTER, F.R.S. &c..... London. 1834. Two volumes. xi,[1],399; viii,398pp., plus five aquatint plates and two frontispiece maps (one folding). Wood engravings in the text. Later 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines richly gilt, leather labels. Corners bit scuffed. Neat bookplate in each volume. A very good set.

Webster was the surgeon for this British expedition, which was sent to the southern waters off South America and Cape Horn to record pendulum observations and to chart Staten Island and the South Shetlands. Other scientific observations covering the fields of magnetism, navigation, currents, meteorology, geology, and oceanog- raphy were also made on behalf of the Royal Society. At the end of the voyage the captain, Foster, who had been astronomer to Sir William Edward Parry on his third voyage, was drowned in a canoe accident in Panama. The Chanticleer stopped at Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Patagonia, Staten Island, the South Shetland Islands, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and other South American ports. The maps are “Track of H.M.S. Chanticleer,” which charts the Atlantic travels of the expe- dition, and “The Isthmus of Darien between Porto Velo, Chagres, & Panama...,” which shows proposed Isthmian railroad routes. The fine uncolored aquatint plates show ports and locations off Cape Horn and in the Atlantic, including St. Martin’s Cove, Pendulum Cove (Deception Island), and Ascension. SABIN 102429. ABBEY 11. HILL 1842. BORBA DE MORAES, p.937. $1250.

Sailing Directions for Terra Firma, Aruba, and Curaçao

155. [West Indies]: [COLLECTION OF FRENCH NAVIGATIONAL MANUSCRIPTS CONCERNING THE ANTILLES AND SUR- ROUNDING AREA]. [N.p. but probably Paris. ca. 1829]. Three manu- scripts. 13; 17; 17pp. plus manuscript map. The first two manuscripts in folio, the third in octavo. All, save the single-sheet map, in self-wrappers. Uniformly bright and clean. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case.

An interesting early 19th-century assemblage of manuscripts concerning navigation near the Antilles and Venezuela. They are:

1) “Routier des Antilles, des Côtes de Terre Ferme et de Celles du Golfe de Mexique, Traduit de Espagnol....” Translated from the Spanish by ensign J.C. Chauche- prat, this manuscript offers a description of the Cartegena coast and lengthy navigational directions for entering Veracruz. A version of Chaucheprat’s text was published as early as 1842. OCLC 17658994 (ref ). 2) “Description de la Partie de la Côte Ferme Qui s’Étend Depuis la Pointe Espada Jusqu’à Carthagène....” Translated from a Spanish “derrotero,” a type of sea chart, this manuscript offers navigational tips similar to the previous document, though here the emphasis is on various landmarks, including those near Sala- manca and others. 3) “Description de la Côte de Caracas et des Îles Voisines, Depuis le Cap Codera Jusqu’à Celui de San Roman....” A collection of pithy descriptions of various locales in the Antilles, including Caracas, Aruba, Cape Codera, Curaçao, and others. 4) Manuscript map of Madame Island. Executed in what was known as “Chinese ink,” this map offers what is, essentially, a navigational chart for the waters sur- rounding the island, including various hazards and a scale. A delightful collection of maritime manuscripts, obviously executed with great care. Good evidence of the navigational sources with which French pilots were familiar. $2250.

Scarce Whaling Narrative

156. Whitecar, William B., Jr.: FOUR YEARS ABOARD THE WHALE- SHIP. EMBRACING CRUISES IN THE PACIFIC, ATLANTIC, INDIAN AND ANTARCTIC OCEANS IN THE YEARS 1855, ‘6, ‘7, ‘8, ‘9. Philadelphia. 1860. 413pp. Half title. 12mo. Original orange publisher’s cloth, spine gilt. Rubbed, edges and corners worn, hinges cracked but holding. Internally clean and very good.

A familial presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Benjamin Whitecar, from Mrs. W.B. Whitecar Sr.” A rare whaling narrative and Pacific voyage. Whitecar was aboard the whaling barque, Pacific, out of New Bedford, cruising the south Atlantic and Indian oceans before whaling off southwest Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, then returning to New Bedford by the same route. A colorful, detailed account. Not in Hill or Ferguson. HOWES W373. FORSTER 101. $1000.