CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED ONE Travels & Voyages WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is made up of travels and voyages throughout the world. Most of the items included here are recent acquisitions which have not appeared in previous catalogues. Of particular note is a beautiful copy of Linschoten’s masterpiece with original color (see the cover of this catalogue) [item 100]; a manuscript album for the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition [item 138]; a set of Thévenot with the famous Tasman map of Australia in two different states [item 149]; Eden’s collection of English voyages, published in 1577 [item 60]; the Rosser prints of the failed U.S. expedition to Japan in 1846 [item 133]; and many other important works from 1478 to 1942. 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Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com ON COVER: 100. Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: Itinerario.... Amsterdam. 1596-1595-1596. 1. Acerbi, Joseph: TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN, FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN THE YEARS 1798 AND 1799. London. 1802. Two volumes. xxiv,396; viii,380pp. plus folding map and sixteen plates (five handcolored). Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepages. Scattered foxing and toning, some offsetting from plates. Very good. Acerbi was an Italian naturalist and composer, and this record of his travels in Scandinavia describes the customs of the people, including folk music, and the surrounding environment. There are detailed observations on natural history, including a plate of the Lapland Owl. His travels were considered remarkable at the time because he penetrated to areas considered inaccessible, with most of the second volume devoted to Lapland. The large folding map shows Sweden, Finland, and Norway, while the plates show scenes of life in the northern realms. $1350. The First European to Visit Tibet 2. Andrade, Antonio de: NUEVO DESCUBRIMIENTO DEL GRAN CATHAYO, O REYNOS DE TIBET, POR EL PADRE ANTONIO DE ANDRADE, DE LA COMPANIA DE JESUS, PORTUGUES, EN EL ANO DE 1624 [caption title]. Lisbon: Mateo Pineiro, 1626. 23 leaves. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Manuscript foliations in upper outer corner of recto of each leaf. A bit of faint spotting. Very good. The first Spanish language edition, following by a few months the first edition (which was printed in Portuguese), printed in Lisbon the same year. This is the second overall printing of Andrade’s important letter. The first authoritative, printed account of a European traveller’s visit to Tibet. Antonio de Andrade (1580-1634) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who entered the order in 1596. From 1600 to 1624 he was the principal missionary in the Indies. In 1624, with the support of the Moghul emperor, he set out for Tibet, hoping to make contact with a reported trans-Himalayan Christian community. Travelling north to the upper Ganges and then to Mana, on the present-day border of Tibet, he continued on past local resistance to the state of Guge, where he encountered his first Buddhists. Andrade successfully convinced the King to allow the teach- ing of Christianity, and returned to Agra, where he wrote the present letter to his superiors, relating his journey and his experiences. Andrade would ultimately return to Tibet two more times, consecrating a church at Tsaparang in 1626. Andrade’s printed letter is crucially important as being the first authentic re- port of Tibet by a European who undoubtedly went there (the 14th-century visit of Odorico de Pordenone remains in dispute). It was very popular and quickly went through many editions. “Throughout Catholic Europe this ‘discovery’ (so proclaimed by the title of the work, though Andrade never called it that himself ) was hailed as a great victory for the faith and as possible aid in circumventing the dangers from the Protestant fleets on the lengthy sea route from India to China.... Through Andrade’s book and his later letters and those of others, Europe learned more about Tibet’s location, size, political divisions, religion and customs” – Lach. A most important European account of travel in Asia, and the first European experience of Tibet. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, pp.338-39, 1773-1775. SOMMERVOGEL I:329.1. CORDIER 2898. STREIT V272. HOWGEGO I:A88. $27,500. 3. Annesley, George, Viscount Valentia and Earl of Mountmorris: VOY- AGES AND TRAVELS TO INDIA, CEYLON, THE RED SEA, AB- YSSINIA AND EGYPT, IN THE YEARS 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, AND 1806. London: W. Bulmer for William Miller, 1809. Three volumes. 1p. advertisement for Salt’s “Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, In- dia, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt.” Three engraved vignette headpieces, sixty-three engraved plates by Fittler, Angus, Heath, Landseer, Storer, and others, most after Henry Salt (five folding, one double-page); six engraved maps (five folding). Half titles. Quarto. Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers paneled in gilt and blind, spines in five com- partments with semi-raised bands, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in the second and fourth compartments, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Expert restoration at joints. Very good. [with:] Miller, William: [NINE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM MILLER TO THE VISCOUNT VALENTIA]. London. July 30, 1807 – Dec. 22, 1809. [23]pp. total. Quarto. Loosely inserted into a pocket affixed to the first volume front endpaper of Annesley. A lovely set of the first edition, illustrated with engravings after Salt. This copy is accompanied by original manuscript letters by the publisher to Valentia concerning its publication. Henry Salt accompanied Viscount Valentia as secretary and draughtsman on this four-and-a-half-year tour through India and Ceylon to the Red Sea, and to Ethiopia and Egypt. Salt’s Twenty-four Views, published in 1809 and advertised in this work, was a result of the tour, and two engravings present here are depicted in that work. For a lengthy contemporary review of Valentia’s Voyages, see the London Quarterly Review, Vol. 2 (1810), pp.82-117. The original correspondence present here concerning the publication of the work is fascinating. In a letter of July 30, 1807, Miller declines to purchase the copyright of the work and explains that in light of “the expences attending...a large edition...& the anxiety and time which must attend the getting up of such a work, the profits which would remain would not be a sufficient compensation....” But two years later, on June 3, 1809, the project is very much alive: “I intend to subscribe the work to the trade early next week in order to ascertain the number of copies to be wanted immediately....” June 30, 1809: “The fate of the Travels is going as well as could be expected....” But there are inevitable hassles. July 10, 1809: “as to the carelessness of the Binders, it is proverbial and I lament my inability to make them better....” On October 10, 1809 he plans the timing of the octavo edition. In the final letter, of December 22, he is selling Valentia a copy of Thomas Daniell’s Oriental Scenery and other works. A fascinating correspondence offering insight not only on the evolution of this book, but on the London book trade at the beginning of the 19th century. ABBEY 515 (note). LOWNDES, p.2747. $7500. 4. Anson, George: Walter, Richard: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, FAIT DANS LES ANNE’ES MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. PAR GEORGE ANSON.... Amsterdam & Leipzig. 1749. [8],xvi,333,[1]pp. plus thirty-two plates (twenty-nine folding) and three folding maps. Half title. Quarto. An- tique three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscrip- tions on half title and titlepage. Light foxing and soiling. Several maps with old repaired tears, without loss, at connective gutter margin. Very good. First French edition, after the first English of the previous year. The narrative, based on Anson’s own journal, had an enormous popular success: for the mid-18th-century reader it was the epitome of adventure, and it was translated into several European languages and stayed in print through numerous editions for many years.