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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! Available on request or via our website are our recent catalogues 309 Western Americana, 310 American Manuscript Archives, Journals & Narratives, and 311 American Women, as well as Bulletins 30 Manuscripts, 31 Manuscripts, 32 Western Americana, 33 American Natural History, 34 Adams & Jefferson, 35 American Travel, and many more topical lists. Some of our catalogues, as well as some recent topical lists, are now posted on the internet at www.reeseco.com. A portion of our stock may be viewed via links at www. reeseco.com. 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[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.