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On cover: 100. Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: Itinerario.... . 1596-1595-1596. 1. Acerbi, Joseph: TRAVELS THROUGH , FINLAND, AND LAPLAND, TO THE NORTH CAPE, IN THE YEARS 1798 AND 1799. . 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. 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 , 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 , 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 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 to .... 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 , 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 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 ’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. Anson’s mission was to harass Spanish shipping along the west coast of America dur- ing 1740-43, and concluded with the capture of a Manila galleon carrying £400,000 in . The text was compiled by Richard Walter, the chaplain on board the Centurion, compiled from Anson’s papers and official logs. Elaborately illustrated with dozens of copper plate engravings, including numerous views of islands and harbors visited. “This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel...the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” – Hill. One of the most popular nautical narratives of the 18th century. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 749/283. BORBA , p.38. PALAU 12865. HILL 1817 (ref ). $3000.

5. [Arctic – Search]: [Great Britain, Admiralty Office]: ARCTIC EXPEDITION. FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE AND PRO- CEEDINGS CONNECTED WITH THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and , 1852. 216pp. plus three maps (one folding and colored). Folio. Original blue printed paper wrappers (preserved). Minor chipping at bottom of titlepage. Good.

A rare “Arctic blue book” concerning the search for Franklin: a “major document” (Arctic Bibliography). Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition, his fourth to the Arctic and third as commander, set out in 1845 to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. In September 1846 the expedition’s ships became trapped in the ice off of King Wil- liam Island, which would be their final resting place. The crew spent the next year and a half trapped there before attempting to walk south, dying along the way in the arctic tundra, hundreds of miles from the nearest European settlements. After three years without word, the British Admiralty launched a massive search for the missing ships. Spurred by a large reward, many expeditions from Britain and the set out on the hunt, beginning in 1848 and continuing through the next decade. This “blue book” (a series of parliamentary reports named for their original blue paper wrappers) contains official reports on the various expeditions and search plans undertaken. Among the reports are accounts of the United States Arctic Expedi- tion; Sir John ’ expedition in the ship Felix; the Rae-Richardson expedition overland through arctic ; Sherard Osborn’s proposed plan for a search; the progress of Her Majesty’s ships Enterprise, , and Plover; Lieut. Pim’s proposal for an expedition through Siberia and the West Coast; Lieut. Hooper’s proposal to conduct an overland expedition; suggestions regarding necessary gear for the arctic endeavors; and other letters and reports from explorers such as John Ross, William Penny, and James C. Ross. The report contains three maps, titled “Rough Tracing of Coast Examined by J. Rae During the month of May 1851”; “Chart of Mr. Simpson’s Journey, May 1850”; and “Polar Chart,” illustrating A. Peterman’s paper on the opening into the Polar Sea between Spitzbergen and Novaia Zemlia. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 148. TPL 3257. SABIN 1920. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRA- PHY 45229 (“Major document”). $3000.

6. [Arctic – Franklin Search]: [Great Britain, Admiralty Office]: VES- SELS IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC. RETURN TO AN ADDRESS OF THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, DAT- ED 4 JUNE 1852; – FOR, COPIES OF COMMUNICATIONS BE- TWEEN THE ADMIRALTY AND ANY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AT HOME AND ABROAD, IN REFERENCE TO CERTAIN VES- SELS OBSERVED ON AN ICEBERG IN THE NORTH ATLAN- TIC IN 1851, AND SUPPOSED TO BE ABANDONED.... London. June 22, 1852. 38,[1]pp., plus lithographed plate and handcolored folding map. Folio. Stitched as issued (without the wrappers, stitching loose). Plate dampstained. About very good.

A rare “Arctic blue book” concerning the search for Franklin, publishing com- munications relating to the claim that two ships stuck on an iceberg in the North Atlantic were the and Terror. Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition, his fourth to the Arctic and third as commander, set out in 1845 to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. In September 1846 the expedition’s ships became trapped in the ice off of King Wil- liam Island, which would be their final resting place. The crew spent the next year and a half trapped there before attempting to walk south, dying along the way in the arctic tundra, hundreds of miles from the nearest European settlements. After three years without word, the British Admiralty launched a massive search for the missing ships. Spurred by a large reward, many expeditions from Britain and the United States set out on the hunt, beginning in 1848 and continuing through the next decade. This “blue book” (a series of parliamentary reports named for their original blue paper wrappers) concerns a March 1852 claim by a merchant captain named Story (or Storey) that he had been told by another captain that in the spring of 1851 that an iceberg was spotted with the remains of two three-masted vessels. That report was relayed to the Admiralty by the second master of the H.M.S. Sampson, who suggests that they could have been the Erebus and Terror. The plate which illustrates the report depicts a ship nearing an iceberg on which two ships are foundered, and the map shows the alleged location of the sighting. The report contains numerous communications between the Admiralty and others attempting to confirm the claim, which originated with a sighting by the ship Renovation off the Grand Banks; they were of not the Erebus and Terror. TPL 3253. $2000.

A Suite of Images of an Arctic Whaling Disaster

7. [Arctic Whaling]: ABANDONMENT OF THE WHALERS IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN SEPT. 1871. New Bedford, Ma.: Benjamin , 1872. Five uncolored lithographs, 14¾ x 22½ inches. Each plate numbered in the lower right, and marked “proof ” in the lower left. Light edge wear. Light toning, a bit of foxing on the final two plates. Good.

A scarce, complete set of five lithographs recording the disastrous loss of a large fleet of New Bedford whaleships, trapped in the ice near Point Belcher in Septem- ber 1871. In all, some thirty-four ships were lost, at a cost of $1.5 million. After passing through Bering Straits in June, the fleet began to be frozen in in August. For a time the captains waited for a northeast wind that might carry them out of the ice. They had a chance to escape the floes in late August, but did not heed the warnings of natives, who claimed the ice would close up again soon. Indeed, a southwest wind on August 29th crushed three of the ships, and the captains decided to abandon their ships and escape south in smaller vessels. The stranded ships were abandoned, and more than 1200 men, women, and children took lifeboats to seven whaleships not caught in the ice which ferried them to Honolulu. The first three plates show the various ships stuck in the ice, giving the name of each vessel in the caption. The fourth print shows the crews escaping in smaller rowboats, and the final one shows the rescue ships “receiving the captains officers and crews of abandoned ships.” The illustrations were drawn on stone by J.P. Newell, printed by the lithographic firm of J.H. Bufford in Boston. Peters praises Bufford as being among the very best at producing whaling images. The prints were published by Benjamin Russell in New Bedford, the important whaling port at which the fleet was based. The Lothrop catalogue points out that “all known copies of the prints in this set are marked ‘proof,’ and it is believed Russell retained this to enhance sales.” This event did irreparable damage to the New Bedford whaling fleet and severe damage to the local economy that depended so much on it. WHALING PRINTS IN THE FRANCIS P. LOTHROP COLLECTION 309-313. DOW 97-101. BREWINGTON 23-27. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, pp.124-25. $5000.

A Large Watercolor View of

8. [Ascension Island]: [WATERCOLOR VIEW OF COASTAL FORT, PROBABLY ASCENSION ISLAND]. [Ascension. ca. 1830s]. Water- color on paper, approximately 15 x 22¾ inches, irregularly shaped. Chipped along edges; 1½-inch vertical tear in the sky at top-center; 1½-inch horizontal tear in the water at far-right center. Framed and matted. Very good.

An attractive watercolor view of a small coastal fort and settlement, probably at Ascension Island in the South . The painting, a bird’s-eye perspec- tive facing the sea, shows an austere coastal landscape in reds and browns, with a Union Jack flying from the small fort on a hill near the settlement of one- and two-story buildings. In the foreground a gentleman in a colorful suit stands with a staff or pike, and others survey the scene with a telescope. Near the structures waves crash upon a sandy and rocky shore, and four ships sail in the distance. A later ink inscription on the verso of the painting reads, “Ascension,” and the scene strongly suggests Ascension Island in the South Atlantic, part of the British dependency of St. Helena, and an important stopping point for ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope throughout the age of sail. Few images of Ascension have survived from this early period. $3750.

9. Baralt, Joseph: RECOPILACION DE VARIAS TABLAS PROPRIAS PARA LA NAVEGACION; PRECEDIDAS DE SU EXPLICACION PARA FACILITAR EL USE DE ELLAS A LOS PRINCIPIANTES EN EL ARTE; EXPLICADAS, Y CORREGIDAS. Barcelona: Eula- lia Piferrer, Viuda, Impresora del Rey nuestro Señor, 1786. [4],76,51,[5]pp. Quarto. Early 20th-century half pebbled cloth over embossed cloth, leather label stamped in gilt. Boards and spine moderately worn. Occasional moderate soiling and dampstaining. A good copy.

An extremely rare late 18th-century Spanish maritime manual consisting of vari- ous tables used in navigation, with accompanying explanations of how best to use them. In a prefatory note the author writes that his intention is to ease the work of mariners by compiling these tables and related instructions, usually found in a number of different books, in one single volume. Baralt was a second in the Spanish and an instructor in the school of navigation established with royal approval in Arens de Mar. In addition to various tables used to determine position at sea, the volume also includes separate charts for creating calendars. The latter tables include calculations to determine years, movable feasts, and times of phases of the . An extremely rare Spanish instructional manual for navigators. The Ensayo de Bibliografía Marítima Española cites a single copy at the Museo Marítimo, but not listed in Navarrete, OCLC, JCB Maritime History Hand-List, Crone, or James Ford Catalogue. PALAU 23574. ENSAYO DE BIBLIOGRAFÍA MARÍTIMA ESPAÑOLA 256. $2850.

Newsletter on the Visit of Philip IV to Barcelona

10. [Barcelona]: SEGUNDO AVISO DE LO SUCEDI. DO EN BARCE- LONA, DENDE LA DESSEADA ENTRADA DE SU MAGESTAD, HASTA 14. DE ABRIL, EN EL QUAL TIEMPO HAN ACONTE- CIDO MUCHAS COSAS NOTABLES, Y DIGNAS DE SER SA- BIDAS. Madrid: Bernardino de Guzman, [1626]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary clerical inscriptions on the first and fourth pages. Minor foxing at edges. Else near fine.

Rare Spanish newsletter reporting on events in Barcelona during the visit of King Philip IV and his court in the spring of 1626. By the mid-1620s, ’s involve- ment in the Thirty Years’ War and efforts to restore the Low Countries to Spanish rule, its defense of Portugal against constant attacks by the Dutch and English, at- tacks on Spanish ships by , and wars with Indians in Chile and , had critically overtaxed a financial system already in serious need of restructuring and repair. With Castile shouldering the vast majority of costs for Spain’s wars, Philip IV’s primary advisor, the Count-Duke of Olivares, introduced the plan for a Union of Arms, which would create a massive reserve army for Spain from the money and populations of all Spanish according to their resources. The non-Castilian provinces still possessed long-standing constitutional rights (“fueros”) that required the Spanish ruler to ask for new funds in person; and in 1626, Philip traveled to the Aragonese provinces to request support for the Union of Arms. The cortes of the three realms of the Crown of Aragon convened at Barcelona, the prosperous capital of the particularly autonomous province of Catalonia. At the end of the proceedings, the provinces of Valencia and Aragon proper agreed to contribute some funds but refused to conscript their populace, and Catalonia refused both. The relationship between Barcelona and Madrid rapidly deteriorated, and the stage was set for both the economic collapse of Castile the following year and the Catalan Revolt of 1640-59. The present newsletter discusses recent events in the embattled Empire, lists the numerous dignitaries present in Barcelona for the Cortes, and offers a rich descrip- tion of the activities of King Philip IV and his brother, the Infante Don Carlos, during Holy Week in Barcelona. An important account of a major episode at the beginning of Spain’s 17th-century decline. Very rare, with one copy held by the Biblioteca Nacional at Madrid, and no copies listed by OCLC. PALAU 306271. $2500.

A Major Collection of Cartographical and Navigational Material

11. Bellin, Jacques Nicholas: RECUEIL DES MEMOIRES QUI ONT ÉTÉ PUBLIÉS AVEC LES CARTES HYDROGRAPHIQUES, QUE L’ON A DRESSÉES AU DÉPOT DES CARTES & PLANS DE LA MARINE, POUR LE SERVICE DES VAISSEAUX DU ROI PAR ORDRE DU MINISTERE, DEPUIS L’ANNÉE 1737. JUSQU’EN 1751. [. 1739-1764, collective title issued ca. 1767]. Twenty-four (of thirty possible) pamphlets bound together, as issued, detailed below. Signed and paginated separately. Collective titlepage, 6pp. advertisements. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities lightly worn. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

The collected works of French cartographer Jacques Bellin, discussing many of his important cartographic projects. All of these pamphlets were issued separately, and we have seen various ones in contemporary wrappers and clearly published individually. This collection includes his rare and important Remarques sur la Carte de l’Amerique Septentrionale..., first published in 1755. The first seventy-five pages are devoted to a description of Canada, working from east to west and ending with the Northwest Coast. Here, as Lada-Mocarski notes, “Bellin very wisely admits the lack of knowledge covering this territory...this is an example of one French geographer of note who did not swallow the story of and Buache regarding the so-called Admiral de Font discoveries and the existence of the Mer de l’Ouest.” The remainder of the book describes what is now the United States, beginning with the British colonies, but with an extensive discussion of , the Mississippi, and the lands to the west. The final section describes New and , in which Bellin notes the work of Kino and his discoveries. 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 and then the known coasts of the world, these were published, respectively, as Le Neptune Français in 1735 and Hydrographie Français between 1756 and 1765. Bellin also published a Petit Maritime with 580 charts and plans of harbors, issued in five volumes in 1764. The titles present in this volume are as follow, with the original date of pub- lication noted:

1) “Catalogue des cartes hydrographiques...1755.” 4pp. 2) “Remarques sur la carte réduite des parties connues du globe terrestre...1755.” 16pp. 3) “Observations sur la carte reduite des Mers du Nord...1751.” 8pp. 4) “Observations sur la construction de la carte de l’Ocean Occidental...1751.” 12pp. 5) “Observations sur la construction de la carte de l’Ocean Meridional...1739.” 18pp. 6) “Observations sur la construction de la carte de l’Ocean Oriental ou Mers des Indies...1740.” 35pp. 7) “Observations sur la construction de la carte des mers comprises entre l’Asie & l’Amérique, appellées par les navigateurs Mer du Sud & Mer Pacifique...1741.” 20pp. 8) “Observations sur la carte de la manche...1749.” 4pp. 9) “Remarques sur les Isles de Jersey, Grensesy, et Aurigny, pour joindre aux cartes de ces isles...1756.” 23pp. 10) “Observations sur la carte du Golfe de Gascogne...1750.” 6pp. 11) “Remarques sur la carte reduite des Isles Açores...1755.” 10pp. 12) “Observations sur la carte reduite des costes d’Espagne et de Portugal...1751.” 4pp. 13) “Remarques sur la carte réduite en deux feuilles, des cotes occidentales d’Afrique, depuis le Detroit de , jusqu’a la Riviere de Sierra Leona...1753.” 18pp. 14) “Observations sur la carte générale des costes de Guinée, depuis le Riviere de Sierra-Leona, jusqu’au Cap de Lopés-Gonsalvo...1742.” 8pp. 15) “Remarques sur la carte, en deux feuilles, des cotes occidentales d’Afrique, depuis l’Equateur jusqu’au Cap de Bonne-Espérance...1755.” 7pp. 16) “Remarques sur la carte réduite des Isles Philippines...1752.” 7pp. 17) “Observations sur la carte du Golphe du Mexique, et des Isles de l’Amerique...1749.” 17pp. 18) “Observations sur la carte de l’Isle de Saint Domingue, et de ses débouque- mens...1750.” 8pp. 19) “Remarques sur la carte du Golfe Saint Laurent, Isle de Terre-Neuve, & partie de la cote de Labrador, en deux feuilles...1764.” 11pp. 20) “Observations sur la construction de la nouvelle carte de la Méditerranée...1737.” 8pp. 21) “Observations sur la construction de la carte de l’Archipel...1738.” 8pp. 22) “Remarques sur les cartes du Neptune François...1751.” 15pp. 23) “Lettre de M. B***, ingenieur de la marine, a M. ...de l’Académie Royale des Sciences. De Paris, le 2 1740.” 8pp. 24) “Remarques sur la carte de l’Amerique Septentrionale, comprise entre le 28e et le 72e dégré de latitude, avec une description geographique de ces parties. 1755.” 131pp.

...Amerique Septentrionale: HOWES B337. LADA-MOCARSKI 13. LANDE 29. SABIN 4559. TPL 6408. $45,000.

With Early and Important Maps, and Over 100 Woodcut Maps of Islands

12. Bordone, Benedetto: ISOLARIO DI BENEDETTO BORDONE NEL QUAL SI RAGIONA DI TUTTE L’ISOLE DEL MONDO, CON LI LOR NOMI ANTICHI & MODERNI, HISTORIE, FA- VOLE, & MODI DEL LORO VIVERE, & IN QUAL PARTE DEL MARE STANNO, & IN QUAL PARALLELO & CLIMA GIACIO- NO. CON LA GIONTA DEL MONTE DEL ORO NOVAMENTE RITROVATO. : Nicolò d’Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1534. [4],74 leaves. Letterpress title in red and with ornamental woodcut border, woodcut initials. Full-page diagram of a world map and windroses; four wood- cut double-page or folding maps; four smaller double-page maps of Sicily, Crete, , and Euboea; 103 woodcut maps and plans scattered through the text. Small folio. Expertly bound to style in contemporary vellum. With an early manuscript inscription in Italian on a small piece of paper tipped to the inner margin of D1. Very good.

Early edition of this important geographical compendium with important New World maps and the earliest description in book form of Pizarro’s conquest of Peru. Benedetto Bordone was in and worked in Venice as a geographer, cartographer, illuminator, and wood-engraver. It is believed that he was the creator of the first globe printed in . First published by Nicolò d’Aristotile detto Zop- pino in 1528 under the title Libro di Benedetto Bordone Nel Qual Si Ragiona de Tutte l’Isole del Mondo, the present work, the second edition overall, marks the first appear- ance of the new title. The publisher re-used the same wood-blocks for the maps. An Aldine edition with the same title but different woodblocks followed in 1547. This work offers an illustrated guide to islands and peninsulas of the western ocean, the Mediterranean, the , and the Far East. As a cartographic form, Bordone’s Isolario derives from two manuscript prototypes, Buondelmonti’s Liber Insularum Archipelagi of 1420 and Da Li Sonetti’s Isolario of about 1485, whose maps were also drawn with eight windrays to establish orientation. Ptolemy’s Geographia and nautical charts of the period are another source. This work is notable for its wide scope, spreading beyond the European/Western bounds of the well-known into the newly discovered areas in the Americas. In ad- dition to text which includes the first mention in book form of Pizarro’s triumph, the maps of the area are also particularly important. These include a plan of the city of Mexico (“Temistitan”), showing it before its conquest by Cortes. The “Terra de Lavoratore” map on the verso of leaf VI contains what is considered the first printed map of continental . The verso of leaf XII contains a map of Hispaniola, and the following leaf bears a map of Jamaica on the recto and of Cuba on the verso. Other Caribbean islands depicted by maps include Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique. Also of importance are the four double-page/folding maps: the world (one of the earliest oval projection world maps); Europe and north Africa; the eastern Mediterranean; and Venice and the surrounding lagoon. This work also includes one of the earliest European representations of Japan. The remaining majority of the maps illustrate islands in the Eastern Mediterranean. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 534/2. SABIN 6419. PHILLIPS, ATLASES 163. HAR- RISSE BAV 187. JCB (3)1:112. BORBA DE MORAES, p.112. MORTIMER, ITALIAN 16th CENTURY BOOKS 82 (note). , ITALIAN BOOKS, p.120. $32,000.

Finding Christians Among the Pagans

13. Botero, Giovanni: DISCORSO DE’ VESTIGII, ET ARGOMENTI DELLA FEDE CATHOLICA RITROUATI NELL’ INDIE DA’ PORTHOGHESI, E NEL MONDO NUOVO DA’ CASTIGLIANI. Rome: Giacomo Mascardi, 1615. 16pp. Later speckled paper boards. With the bookplate from the stock and reference library of H.P. Kraus on front pastedown. Minor separation of spine from rear joint. Moderate tanning. A very good copy. In a half morocco box.

The present work is a rare separate edition of an earlier work by Giovanni Botero, first published in 1586. Botero’s letter, written in 1584 and published as part of Epistolarum...Caroli Cardinalis Borromaei Nomine Scripatrum..., was composed on behalf of his patron, Carlo Borromeo, to Cardinal Antonia Carafa. In the letter Botero details the Christian rituals observed by Portuguese and Spanish explorers and compares them to those of the native customs of New Spain (Mexico), Ethiopia, and Japan, remarking especially on the similarities between them. He concludes that the vestiges of Christianity were evidence of early apostolic missions to these lands. Botero was not only one of the greatest economists of the 16th century, he was one of the leading historical and political commentators of his time. An avid student of theology, Botero spent his early years preparing to take vows as a Jesuit missionary, but was prohibited from doing so as a result of his political activity. Carlo Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan, found Botero a position as a secular priest and then soon after offered him the post as his secretary. It was during this time that Borromeo composed his letter to Cardinal Carafa, referencing the Jesuit letters of Peter Martyr, Ramusio, and Barros, as evidence of the Jesuit influence. An important early statement in support of the theory that early vestigial traces of the church could be detected from the beliefs and practices being uncovered by contemporary Jesuit voyages to Asia and the New World. This edition is not listed in European Americana, although the work on which it was based is included. OCLC locates a single copy in at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe II, Book 2, pp.236-37. OCLC 165975033. $3750.

First English Edition

14. Bougainville, Louis Antoine: . PERFORMED BY ORDER OF HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJ- ESTY, IN THE YEARS 1766, 1767, 1768, AND 1769. London. 1772. xxviii,476pp. plus folding plate and five folding maps. Quarto. Contemporary marbled boards and calf-tipped corners, rebacked with antique-style gilt tooled calf, preserving original gilt morocco label. Corners worn, outer hinges lightly worn. Some slight offsetting from the maps, a few very light marks, but on the whole internally very clean and neat. A very good copy, with the bookplate of Hugo Meynell on the front pastedown.

First English edition, translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, who calls this “a work written by a learned, intelligent, and judicious traveller, which abounds with remarkable events and curious observations....” Bougainville first undertook, at his own expense, an expedition to the and Patagonia to secure them for French . To avoid potential conflict due to Spain’s envy of the 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 , and from there to return home. The narrative of this part of the voyage comprises the text of the present volume. The completion of the three-year voyage marked the first official French and drew a good deal of French interest in the Pacific islands. The party collected much natural history information concerning the regions visited, with a chapter on that of the Falklands, as well as a history of their settlement. They stopped at many South Sea islands, among them , and a long section on that island is included, 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. COX I, p.55. SABIN 6869. HILL 165. O’REILLY & REITMAN 285. BORBA DE MORAES, p.115. $4250.

15. [Bougainville, Louis Antoine]: , Denis: SUPPLÉMENT AU VOYAGE DE BOUGAINVILLE. [Contained in:] OPUSCULES: PHILOSOPHIQUES ET LITTÉRAIRES, LA PLUPART POST- HUMES OU INÉDITES. Paris: Imprimerie de Chevet, 1796. [15],270,[1] pp. Contemporary pink decorative boards, paper manuscript label. Hinges lightly cracked; rubbed at extremities. Neat repairs to head and foot of spine. Contemporary bookplate and inscriptions on front pastedown. Bright and clean internally. Near fine. Untrimmed. From the Talleyrand-Périgord library, with armorial bookplate.

First edition, a fine large paper copy, with the philosophe Diderot’s important essay on Bougainville and Tahiti as the highlight of this collection, which includes moral and philosophical essays by authors such as the Marquise du Châtelet, Necker, Dumarsais, and the Abbé Galiani. Bougainville, unaware of ’ stop at Tahiti the preceding year, had believed himself to have been the discoverer of a South Sea paradise, and his official ac- count included a lengthy and idyllic section on the island group which was vastly influential in the development of the European ideal of the noble savage. Diderot’s essay is his response to the notion of the “noble savage,” particularly in light of the fate of Ahu-Toru (Aotourou), the Tahitian who caused a sensation in fashionable Paris when he returned with Bougainville. The essay was first written as early as 1772 or 1773, and circulated in manuscript for more than twenty years before being published here. In this fictional appendix to Bougainville, Diderot expressed his pessimism about the likely European influence on the new discov- eries in the South Seas, in the process developing a vigorous satire on European civilisation. At stake are French claims to ownership of Tahiti: Bougainville “took possession” of the islands, but in a supposed response to this act, one of the chiefs here asks rhetorically how the Europeans would react if a Tahitian landed in France and claimed it (“Si un Otaïtien débarquoit un nour sur vos côtes, et quil gravât sur une de vos pierres ou sur l’écorce d’un de vos arbres: Ce pays appartient aux habitans d’Otaïti, qu’en penserois-tu?”). Uncut and on fine wove paper, this is undoubtedly the deluxe “Papier-vélin” edition, as noted in the colophon. This fine copy has the bookplate of the house of Talleyrand-Périgord, with the motto of the house, “Re que Diou,” emblazoned. Given the close relationship between the great French diplomat Talleyrand himself and the philosophes, this copy is likely from his private library. $9250.

16. Bowdich, Thomas Edward and Sarah: EXCURSIONS IN MADEI- RA AND PORTO SANTO, DURING THE AUTUMN OF 1823, WHILE ON HIS THIRD VOYAGE TO AFRICA...TO WHICH IS ADDED BY MRS. BOWDICH, I. A NARRATIVE OF THE CON- TINUANCE OF THE VOYAGE... II. A DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS ON THE RIVER GAMBIA. III. AP- PENDIX...ILLUSTRATED BY SECTIONS, VIEWS, COSTUMES, AND ZOOLOGICAL FIGURES. London: George B. Whittaker, 1825. xii,278pp. plus twenty-two plates (four colored, three folding), including fron- tis. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. 19th-century li- brary stamp on verso of titlepage and several other pages. A few instances of foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

A very interesting work on Portugal, Madeira, Porto Santo, and northwestern Af- rica. T.E. Bowdich made three trips to Africa and died there at age thirty-three. His notes for this final expedition covered only the outward voyage to Madeira, and the text was completed by his widow, Sarah Bowdich. She edited his notes, completed the text, and provided all but two of the illustrations. In several cases Mrs. Bowdich actually drew the lithographs, which were then printed by the Hullmandel firm. There is much in the text on , zoology, and geology. The plates include coastal and inland views, local costumes, shells, insects, fish, and a plate of linguistic characters. ABBEY 190. COLAS 418. GAY 2983. IBRAHIM-HILMY II, p.382. $2000.

19th-Century American Archeologist in Turkey

17. Bradley, Charles Wesley: [ARCHIVE OF PERSONAL PAPERS BELONGING TO CHARLES WESLEY BRADLEY, PRIMARILY COMPRISED OF JOURNALS KEPT DURING THE ARCHAEO- LOGICAL EXCAVATION OF ASSOS]. [Assos and other places. 1870- 1882]. Approximately 650pp. Diary in 12mo., most other leaves quarto-sized. Boards and a few leaves of diary detached but contents clean. Written in a clear and legible hand. Good to very good throughout.

An archive of papers belonging to Boston native Charles Wesley Bradley (1857- 84), an 1880 graduate of Harvard University. After graduation Bradley volunteered to assist with the archaeological excavations at the ancient Greek ruins of Assos, conducted by Francis H. Bacon and the Archaeology Institute of America, which began in 1881 and lasted two years. Assos, in the northwest corner of the Turk- ish mainland, is along the Aegean coast about fifty miles south of the site of Troy, famously being excavated at the same time by Schliemann. Founded by Greek settlers about 700 B.C., it was a prosperous city for over a thousand years. While abroad Bradley and many others in the party contracted malaria, and his health never fully recovered. After his return to America in late 1882, he prepared to study law and publish some of his travel writings, but died just two years after his return. This archive is primarily comprised of the diary that Bradley kept during the expedition. His writing style is colorful and engaging, filled with gracefully articulated detailed descriptions. Bradley’s diary begins on March 31, 1881 with his departure from Boston aboard the steamer Parisian, arriving in Turkey on May 5th and in Assos on May 11th. He vividly describes the chaotic scene at the wharf upon landing at Smyrna, and paints the scene of his visit to the Acropolis, writing:

The Acropolis did not appear lofty and grand from the sea as I had expected. It was dwarfed by the neighboring hills....The place was silent as it should be if one would know its power. In spite of the feeling of decay caused by the broken columns, the scattered carvings, half hidden by the grass, and the wild flowers blooming in the crevices, much of the old beauty is still visible. Through the temple’s ruins the wonderful harmony of its structure is still felt and recognized. The marbles are [rent?] and yellow with the stains of time, but they are outlined against the clear altic sky with exquisite delicacy; many stones are broken and fallen to the ground, but they ‘are our best teacher.’

On May 16th the party was visited by renowned German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, whom Bradley quotes at great length. As the local cuisine did not agree with the team, they mainly subsisted on bread and cheese. Bradley is an evocative writer, describing a swarm of locusts on June 3rd, a nightly onslaught of bedbugs and fleas, and sailing a small vessel to a nearby Greek island for supplies despite “knowing very little about a boat.” In a lengthy entry on June 7th, Bradley recounts being lost in the mountains, reassured by the grand historic associations of his surroundings. He writes:

The trees were silent and motionless. No sound broke the deep brush of night save the occasional flutter of a drowsy bird that I startled from his rest, as I brushed along. The scene was calm, solitary, silent as death. Yet I had no feeling of loneliness, even when all traces of the path were lost and the prospect of a night in the woods lay before me. This solemn scenery which might have been desolate in the new world was hallowed here by the glory of its associations. The light of human heroism had rested on these hills, the music of divine poetry had floated over them. Memory gave a joy and power and beauty not their own to the quiet pines and majestic cliffs, and one could not feel the chill of desolation in their companionship.

With his numerous adventures in the countryside, Bradley seems to have spent re- markably little time at the dig site. An entry recounting a typical day of surveying reads: “Arrival at the top of the mountain. Max finds he has forgotten the pins. I go down for them. Arrived a second time. Max finds he has forgotten a number of things. It is now dinner time, and we decide to put off surveying until some other day when Max’s memory is better.” His diary concludes on June 24th with a long reverie about his Harvard days. The archive also includes drafts of numerous articles that Bradley wrote about the Assos excavation and his related travels, comprising nearly 250 pages. The articles have titles such as “Schliemann at Home,” “The Carnival in Rome,” “Ar- chaeological Discoveries in Phrygia,” “A Provincial Town in Turkey,” and others. Some of these articles were published in the Times and elsewhere. In one untitled article he describes how the party outfit themselves with guns and knives, appearing as formidable as possible, to deter bandits. Rounding out the collection are four leaves from the diary Bradley kept on his return journey in September 1882; a folder of juvenile work from 1870 to 1875; and a folder of his later manuscripts, which include poetry, philosophy pieces, and an travel piece. Overall, this collection provides useful documentation of an important archaeo- logical expedition, and makes for very lively travel reading. $5500.

A Major North Pacific Voyage

18. Broughton, William R.: A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN...PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY’S SLOOP PROVIDENCE, AND HER TENDER, IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798. London: T. Cadell and W. , 1804. Nine engraved plates and maps (seven folding or double-page). Publisher’s adver- tisement leaf in the rear. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in half russia over contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt. Very good.

“A scarce and exceedingly important work” (Hill), including one of only a handful of 18th-century accounts of Hawaii. A foundation work for any collection of voy- ages, with important accounts of Japan and the northwest coast of North America. One of the rarest British voyages. “In 1793 Broughton was made commander of the Providence, Captain Bligh’s old ship, and was sent out to the northwest coast of America to join Captain George . He sailed to Rio de Janeiro, thence to Australia, Tahiti, and the Hawaiian Islands, and on to on . Finding that Captain Vancouver had left, Broughton sailed down the coast to Monterey, across the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands and on to Japan. For four years he carried out a close survey of the coast of Asia and the Islands of Japan. The ship was lost off Formosa, but the crew were all saved, and work continued in the tender. He arrived in England in 1799 and, until his death, saw much further important service, for the most part in the Far East. This voyage was one of the most important ever made to the northwest coast of America. It is on this document that Great Britain based her claim to the Oregon Territory, in 1846” – Hill. CORDIER JAPONICA 457. FERGUSON 389. FORBES 352. HILL 191. HOWES B821. JUDD 28. LADA-MOCARSKI 59. SABIN 8423. STREETER SALE 3500. TPL 36814. $35,000.

19. Browne, W.G.: TRAVELS IN AFRICA, EGYPT, AND SYRIA, FROM THE YEAR 1792 TO 1798. London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies...and Longman Hurst Reese and Orme, 1806. [2],xxxv,[1],594, [2],[593]-632pp., plus three folding maps and two plates, including frontis. Quarto. 19th-century polished calf, gilt; spine richly gilt, raised bands, gilt morocco label. Boards lightly scuffed. Bookplate of “Christopher Turnor South / Rochford Library” on front pastedown. Title foxed, light age toning, scat- tered foxing. Maps with neat repairs on folds. Very good.

Second edition, enlarged, following the first edition of 1799. “This important work contains the earliest information in English about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by ’s travels, went to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in the eastern Sahara and to journey to the source of the White Nile. He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first Englishman to explore the temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of Siwa....Browne was the first European to describe Darfur, which he reached with a Sudanese caravan in 1793. He was imprisoned there by the Sultan of Darfur. In 1796 he reached Egypt again by caravan and eventually returned to England via Syria and Constantinople” – Blackmer. “His description of Egypt is considered one of the best of the period” – Howgego. “Lowndes calls this book a model for writers of travels to follow” – Cox. HOWGEGO B170. BLACKMER 219 (note). COX I:394. $1500.

One of the First Voyages Printed in America

20. Bulkeley, John, and John Cummins: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE YEARS 1740-1. CONTAINING A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE THE [sic] WAGER ON A DESOLATE ISLAND.... London, Printed; Philadelphia, Reprinted. 1757. xxxii,306pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Binding shelfworn, calf chipped in center portion of front joint. Early ownership signatures (“Mary [??]”) on titlepage and (“William Denny”) on dedication page. Unobtrusive institutional blindstamp on titlepage. Age- toned, with a bit of foxing. A good copy. In a half morocco box.

First American edition of this prime source for the wreck of the Wager off the coast of Chile, beyond the Straits of Magellan. The ship, with Anson’s fleet, was en route to harass the Spanish. Bulkeley, the ship’s , and Cummins led the small group of survivors until their landing at Rio de Janeiro and finally England, concluding a voyage that had lasted almost two years. Bulkeley settled in Pennsylvania and arranged for the publication of this edition, after the first of 1743. It is the first major voyage to be published in the British colonies. The work contains the narrative of Isaac Morris, one of the members of the Wager’s crew left in Patagonia, on pages 244-303, as well as a long list of subscribers in the colonies. This American edition is uncommon in commerce. HUNTRESS 50C. HILL 211. 7859. SABIN 9109. HILDEBURN 1519. NAIP w029694. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.133-35 (ref ). $4500.

German Collection of Travels

21. Büsching, Anton Friedrich: MAGAZIN FÜR DIE NEUE HISTO- RIE UND GEOGRAPHIE. Hamburg & Halle. 1767-1773. Seven vol- umes bound in five. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and patterned boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Hinges on four volumes tender; wear to spines and corners. Ex-lib. with bookplate on front pastedowns. Minor scat- tered foxing and toning. Good plus.

The first seven volumes of Büsching’s Magazin..., published from 1767 until his death in 1793, eventually totaling twenty-five volumes in all. Büsching was among the first geographers to emphasize scientific principles over a more prosaic travel- writing style of geography. These seven volumes contain a considerable amount of information on Russia, along with text on Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and many other places. $1000.

22. [Byron, John]: THE NARRATIVE OF THE HONOURABLE (COMMODORE IN A LATE EXPEDITION ROUND THE WORLD) CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT DISTRESSES SUFFERED BY HIMSELF AND HIS COMPAN- IONS ON THE COAST OF PATAGONIA, FROM THE YEAR 1740, TILL THEIR ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND, 1746. WITH A DE- SCRIPTION OF ST. JAGO DE CHILI, AND THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS. ALSO A RELATION OF THE LOSS OF THE WAGER MAN OF WAR, ONE OF AD- MIRAL ANSON’S SQUADRON.... London. 1768. [4],viii,257pp. Fron- tispiece engraving. Half title. Contemporary calf, raised bands, gilt leather label. Minor shelf wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Very clean in internally. A handsome copy, seldom encountered thus.

This copy bears the bookplate of Francis Needham, Earl of Kilmorey and Member of Parliament. Byron’s account of the shipwreck of the Wager, on which he served as midship- man, off the coast of Chile, including descriptions of the suffering of the survivors and their captivity by the Indians before being turned over to Spanish authorities. The wreck of the Wager led to major changes in British nautical law relating to shipwreck. Byron (alias “Foul-Weather Jack”) went on to command a voyage around the world from 1764 to 1766 in the Dolphin, was later governor of , and in 1775 became an admiral. Byron’s grandson, Lord Byron, the poet, based his description of the shipwreck in Canto II of “Don Juan” on his grandfather’s narra- tive. “...One of the most thrilling accounts in the language” – Sabin. HILL 232. SABIN 9730. PALAU 38223. $1000.

“The first epic poem to celebrate overseas expansion” – Lach

23. Camoens, Luis de: THE LUSIAD, OR PORTUGALS HISTORI- CALL POEM: WRITTEN IN THE PORTINGALL LANGUAGE BY LUIS DE CAMOENS; AND NOW NEWLY PUT INTO ENG- LISH BY RICHARD FANSHAW, ESQ. London: Printed for Hum- phrey Moseley, 1655. [22],224pp., plus full-page engraved portraits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco de Gama. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Camoens with verses below. Folio. 20th-century red morocco, gilt, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, by Bayntun. Minor toning and soiling to text, but generally quite clean. Very good plus.

The first English language edition of the epic poem of Portuguese exploration, a monument of Portuguese literature, and a work that gave a Homeric form to -era travels and discoveries. “The Lusiads, as a synthesis of national sentiment and literary development, stands unchallenged as the epic of the Portu- guese nation, and it celebrates more than anything else the voyage of Da Gama and the intrepid bravery of the Portuguese on land and sea” – Lach. Camoens’ work was first published in Lisbon in 1572. In the early 1530s the great Portuguese historian, Joao de Barros, most famous for his Decadas de Asia, called for an epic poem of Portuguese exploration and discovery. That call was answered later in the century by Luis de Camoens (1524- 80). Camoens was educated in a monastic school in Coimbra, and produced poetry and plays at a young age. In his early twenties he was banished from Lisbon after producing a play thought to be disparaging of the royal family. He served as a soldier in the Portuguese forces besieging Ceuta in North Africa, where he lost an eye. Camoens returned to Lisbon in 1550, but found himself in more trouble, and was pardoned by the King on condition he serve the Crown in India for five years. He arrived at Goa in late 1553 and stayed there briefly before joining an expedi- tion to the Malabar Coast. Later he participated in a campaign against pirates on the shores of Arabia. In 1556 he left Goa again for the East Indies, taking part in the military occupation of Macao, where he remained for many months. On his return trip to India, Camoens was shipwrecked off the Mekong and wandered in Cambodia before getting to Malacca and eventually back to Goa. He did not return to Lisbon until 1570. Camoens’ inspiration for his epic poem, composed in ten Cantos, was Virgil’s Aeneid. Camoens made explorer Vasco de Gama his hero, using his exploits as a way to glorify the achievements of the Portuguese nation, the “sons of Lusus” (the mythical first settler of Portugal). Camoens likely wrote parts of Cantos III and IV, which deal with Portuguese history, before his departure for the East, but Lach and others make a convincing case that the bulk of the poem could only have been written after Camoens had his long firsthand experience in India and Asia. Indeed, Camoens wrote much of the work while in the East. Cantos VII to X deal most directly with Asia, beginning with de Gama’s arrival in India and ending with his return to Portugal. Canto X also includes references to Mexico and . The Lusiad is a fine description not only of Portuguese exploits in the East, but also of the flora and fauna of Asia and India, the ethnographic details of the peoples there, and the geography of the region, informed by Camoens’ own experiences as well as familiarity with Ptolemy and Barros. The Lusiad was immensely popular upon its publication in 1579, appearing in several Portuguese and Spanish edi- tions, and serving as a source for Linschoten in the preparation of his Itinerario in 1595. Camoens’ epic poem not only sang the praises of the Portuguese nation, it also appealed to Christian Europe in calling for a common crusade against the Turk and Moslem Asia. “The Lusiads is indeed the national poem par excellence and the supreme epic of Portugal’s conquests in the East....In its stately grandeur, the Lusiads is to Portuguese poetry what Barros’ Decades are to Portuguese prose. Their national literature never again reached such heights, or has the literature of any other country writings to surpass these two masterpieces in their special fields” – Penrose. “The Lusiads is a synthesis of all the elements included in the reality and myth of Portugal’s overseas expansion. It captures the heroism and the suffering, the glory and the disillusion- ment, the generosity and the avarice which characterized the national enterprise. The author himself was the only major Portuguese poet to participate personally in the voyage, the wars, and the rigors of life in Asia. His epic successfully combines the personal with the national experience and provides thereby an intelligible, in- dividualistic expression of the collective enterprise in which Portuguese of all walks of life had engaged either directly or indirectly” – Lach. A most important work of epic poetry and of the literature of overseas expan- sion and the exploration of Asia. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, pp.72-73, 289-90. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe II, Book II, pp.149-60. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 655/30. STREETER SALE 41. WITHER TO PRIOR 349. PFORZHEIMER 362. WING C-397. $14,000.

With a Wealth of Maps and Plates

24. , Jonathan: THE NEW UNIVERSAL TRAVELLER. CON- TAINING A FULL AND DISTINCT ACCOUNT OF ALL THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, AND STATES, IN THE KNOWN WORLD.... London. 1779. [2],iv,668,[6]pp. plus thirty-eight plates and eighteen maps (one folding). Folio. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly re- backed in matching style, spine gilt, leather label. Some very minor foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

An illustrated account of the cultures of the world, including a significant section on North and , with profiles of individual American states. The work is notable for its maps and plates. Many of the plates show the costumes of the various peoples. Those for America show a woman “of the interior parts of North America” and “Esquimaux Indians kindling a fire.” Also depicted are Chilean and Peruvian costume, and a plate showing “The manner of catching wild cattle in Chili.” There are individual maps of North and South America and the West Indies as well as other parts of the world. Jonathan Carver (1710-80) was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, raised in Connecticut, and spent most of his adult years in western Massachusetts. He distinguished himself through his service in the French and Indian War, and in 1766-67 undertook to explore Great Britain’s newly-won lands around the Up- per Mississippi River, partly with a mind to seeking a route to the Pacific Ocean. Carver spent the in London, petitioning the crown for compensation for his explorations and seeking to publish the journal of his travels. Carver’s Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America was published in London in 1778 and was immediately popular, appearing in several editions. Despite this, Carver died penniless in London in 1780. His Travels... is usually considered the first reliable account in English of the country west of the . ’s Cyclopædia notes that Carver sold his name to The Universal Traveller..., rather than compiling the work himself. ESTC T133709. $6000.

Pioneering Work on the Hawaiian Language

25. Chamisso, Adelbert von: UBER DIE HAWAIISCHE SPRACHE [caption title]. [Leipzig. 1839]. 79pp. Quarto. Gathered signatures, bound by a thin strip of later grey paper. Fine. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half morocco box.

“Periodical issue” of Adelbert von Chamisso’s rare, early, and important Hawai- ian grammar. Chamisso visited Hawaii in 1816 and 1817 as a member of the Kotzebue Expedition. Chamisso was the naturalist on the Kotzebue voyage, and also contributed a volume to the official account of the voyage. He was made a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1837, and delivered this paper on the grammar of the Hawaiian islands to the Academy on that occasion. Chamisso was an accomplished ethnologist, a talent which aided him in the production of this grammar, which he based on his own interactions with Hawaiians as well as other published works. Chamisso’s study surpasses previous Hawaiian grammars, however, both in its scholarly detail and its thoroughness. The opening pages also contain a brief bibliography of early Hawaiian imprints. FORBES 1035. JUDD & BELL 162. $8000.

Shipping Lists from the Port of Shanghai

26. [China]: [Pacific Commerce]: [COLLECTION OF THIRTY-THREE LARGE BROADSIDE SHIPPING LISTS ISSUED AS SUPPLE- MENTS TO The North-China Herald]. Shanghai. 1863-1864. Thirty- three large folio broadsides and broadsheets (nineteen broadside and fourteen broadsheets). Old fold lines. Moderate chipping, soiling, and wear. Overall, about very good.

Large group of broadside and broadsheet extras published in The North-China Herald, containing news and information on shipping and trade in China. On June 22, 1860, The North-China Herald was made the official organ of all Notifications proceeding from Her Majesty’s Legation and Superintendency of Trade in China. The supplements here are dated between March 7, 1863 and Jan. 16, 1864. The shipping intelligence includes a list of vessels both arriving and departing, as well as those merchant vessels shipping in the Shanghai harbor and at Woosung. Each list gives particulars about the more than 120 merchant vessels arriving in and departing the port, including the name of each ship, its date of arrival, rigging, weight, captain, consignment, destination, and intended dispatch. Each supplement is likewise filled with interesting advertisements for rentals, goods, and tradesmen. In the supplement for Oct. 17, 1863 a significant portion of the sheet is devoted to the case concerning the salvage of the steamer William IV. The listing for Jan. 9, 1864 prints a long letter by W.H. , Acting Colonial Secretary, on the Compradore System in China, the system upon which the economy of Hong Kong was built under British colonial rule. A further issue publishes the official returns of the export of tea and silk for the year 1863. An interesting collection, rich in informative detail. $6000.

A Flag Honoring the Allied Forces in the Boxer Rebellion

27. [China]: [Boxer Rebellion]: ALLIED FORCES IN CHINA, 1901, 1902, 1903. [Np. ca. 1903]. Hand-embroidered blue silk flag, 25 x 20½ inches. Framed. Some fraying at edges, particularly lower left corner. Light wear and soiling. Very good.

A unique, striking hand-embroidered silk flag commemorating the alliance that suppressed the Boxer Rebellion in China and honoring the Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire) regiment of British infantry. The title, “Allied Forces in China,” is embroidered in a large banner across the top, with the dates “1901, 1902, 1903” stitched across the bottom. The member nations of the alliance are represented by their flags. Arrayed to the left and right of a central Union Jack design are the flags of the United States, Italy, Germany, Russia, Japan, - (a red and white variant flag with a crest), and France, as well as the flag of the Qing (a variation, with a dragon on a white background, birds embroidered on the edges, and a red sun at top left). Centered at the top of the banner appears the insignia for the “Sherwood Foresters, Derbyshire,” a crowned Maltese Cross with a white stag, the Union Jack of Britain, and the flags of the Red Ensign of the British Merchant Navy and the Royal Naval Ensign. Below the flags is a British battleship flying three U.K. flags. Each corner of the banner is embellished with a pink rose. The Boxer Rebellion was a proto-nationalist uprising in China between 1898 and 1901, in which elements in China revolted against foreign intervention and the imposition of Christianity and Western influence on the Qing government. The Imperial Court was deeply divided in its attitude toward the Boxer movement, and although the Dowager Empress eventually chose to side with the Boxers against the westerners, other parts of the Court allied with the foreign powers. The crisis came to a head when the Boxers attacked the European embassies in Beijing, leading to a fifty-five-day siege of the legation district in the summer of 1900. The swift response of the Eight Nation Alliance brought in twenty thousand armed troops, crushed the revolt, and captured Beijing. The Eight Nation Alliance then imposed severe reparations on the Chinese government as indemnity for the campaign. Al- lied troops remained in China for the next three years in a “peace-keeping” role. Stitching embroidered decorations of unit service was a tradition in the British Navy, and such pieces are traditionally known as “woolies.” Similar items can be found in the Royal National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, generally woolwork or embroidered pictures with similar design elements of flags and ships, but nothing quite like this flag relating to China and the Boxer Rebellion. It is most unusual for being on silk, for commemorating an international expedition rather than unit service alone, and for relating to China. Only a part of the Sherwood Foresters regiment served in China, since most of the regiment was engaged in the Boer War, making this an unusual service designation as well. A beautiful and possibly unique flag relating to a major event in Chinese his- tory. $9000.

28. [China]: NEW ATLAS OF CHINA. Shanghai: Commercial Press Ltd., [nd, but ca. 1925]. 6pp. of text in Chinese, plus twenty-six double-page full color maps. Folio. Original cloth stamped in red. Corners worn; rear inner hinge cracked, partial loss and some tearing to cloth on spine. Internally clean. Good.

Detailed atlas of China, entirely in Chinese, showing all the provinces of the coun- try, with insets for important cities. Rendered in full color, each map shows local topography and manmade features such as roads, railroads, the Great Wall, etc. The Commercial Press was founded in Shanghai in 1897 and was the first modern publishing firm in the country, and it is still in operation today. $3500.

29. [China, Mount Emei, Sichuan Province]: Fang, Wen-Pei [editor]: EMEI ZHI WU TU ZHI ICONES PLANTARUM OMEIENSIUM. (BOTANICALS, ASIAN), ICONES PLANTARUM OMEIENSIUM. Chengdu: The National Szechuan University, May 1942. Vol. I, No. 1 only. Title and text in parallel Chinese and English. Fifty lithographic plates, titled in Chinese and English. Folio. Later corduroy-covered boards by Pan Iordanidis, sections of original wrappers loosely inserted. Very good.

A significant and beautifully presented fragment of this remarkable work, a survey of the spectacularly varied botany of the world heritage site Mount Emei and its environs, in Sichuan province. Mount Emei is the tallest of the four Sacred Buddhist Mountains in China. Produced at the height of the second world war, this work is beautifully presented with carefully designed and botanically accurate lithographs which recall the long Chinese tradition of woodcut illustrations. The informative text includes the plant’s botanical binomial, the family to which it belongs, where it was first recorded, a detailed technical description, notes of the specific locations of examples examined for the publication, and then generally short notes by W.P. Fang about the plant. This is the first number of a series that by 1946 had been extended to two volumes, made up from a total of four numbers, with 200 plates. This volume is particularly rich in images and descriptions of Rhododendrons – twenty different varieties are described. This was a species which W.P. Fang came to specialize in during his long career: in all he identified more than 100 new spe- cies of plants, and he is now considered to have been one of the most distinguished Chinese botanists. $1200.

Important Collection of Voyages, in Lovely Original Condition

30. Churchill, Awnsham and John [publishers]: A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, SOME NOW FIRST PRINTED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, OTHERS NOW FIRST PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH. In Six Volumes. London: Printed by as- signment from Messrs. Churchill, 1732. Six volumes. 165 engraved plates and maps (many double-sheet), including portraits (of Nieuhoff and Baldaeus) and extra engraved titlepages in the second and third volumes. Plus many engravings in the text. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, manuscript paper labels. Bindings rubbed and edgeworn, marbled paper scuffed, paper labels chipped. Very clean and fresh internally, and overall a handsome set. Untrimmed.

This set bears the contemporary ownership inscription of John Leveson Gower on each titlepage. Gower (1694-1754) was a notable British Tory politician of the 18th century, a member of the Privy Council, and a member of a powerful aristocratic family long influential in British politics. This is the second edition of this significant collection of voyages, and an im- portant continuation of the work of Hakluyt and Purchas. “This is a very valuable collection, both for its range and for the fact that it gives the original accounts” – Cox. Among the accounts included that relate to America are Brawern and Herckemann’s voyage to Chile in 1642-43; Capt. John Monck’s voyage to Hudson’s Straits in 1619-20 to discover a passage between and America to the West Indies; Nieuhoff ’s travels in Brazil; Capt. John ’s True Travels and Ad- ventures in Europe, Asia, Africa and America During the Years 1592-1629; the journal of a sailor who wintered at Spitzbergen in 1633-34; an account of Greenland by La Peyrere; James’ search for a northwest passage in 1631-32; Ovalle’s Historical Relation... of Chile; Techo’s history of the provinces of Paraguay, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Chile, Guaira, and Urvaica; Barbot’s relation of Guiana; Col. Norwood’s voyage to in 1609; John Gatonbe’s Voyage for a North-West Passage in 1612, among others. Extensively illustrated with fine copper plate engraved maps and plates, many showing eastern ports and harbors, native peoples, natural history specimens, plants, etc. Although Sabin describes this 1732 second edition as con- taining “new title-pages only” in comparison with the first edition of 1704/32, in fact the pagination for the first four volumes is entirely different. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 732/60. SABIN 13016. HILL 295 (3rd ed). BORBA DE MORAES, pp.181-83 (3rd ed). NMM I:33 (3rd ed). COX I:10 (note). $16,000.

Treatises on Navigation

31. Ciscar, Gabriel: TRATADO DE TRIGONOMETRÍA ESFÉRICA PARA LA INSTRUCCION DE LOS GUARDIAS MARINAS. [bound with:] TRATADO DE COSMOGRAFÍA PARA LA INSTRUCCION DE LOS GUARDIAS MARINAS. Cartagena: En la Oficina de Marina de este Departamento, 1796. Two volumes bound in one. [4],84pp. plus two folding engraved plates; [8],159pp. plus four folding engraved plates. Con- temporary calf, mottled and stained, spine gilt. Spine slightly worn. Titlep- ages slightly soiled. Occasional minor dampstaining and age-toning, otherwise internally fresh and clean. A very good copy.

A sammelband of two very rare late 18th-century Spanish illustrated technical treatises, both written expressly for the Marine-Guards. Instructions for the binder on page [4] of the first title regarding the placement of the engraved plates for the two treatises indicate that it was expected that the two titles would often be bound together. The two scientific texts, concerned with spherical trigonometry and cosmography, are detailed, highly technical, and intended for students with a strong background in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Printed by the Office of the Navy in Cartagena, the texts were to provide mariners the solid theoretical grounding needed for successful navigation. Ciscar, the Director of Studies of the Academy for Marine-Guards in the Department of Cartagena, was the author of several other works on mathematics, astronomy, and navigation. Extremely rare, neither title in OCLC, NUC, or the pre-1955 British Museum Catalogue. PALAU 54961, 54960. NAVARRETE, p.527 (both titles). ENSAYO DE BIBLIO- GRAFÍA MARÍTIMA ESPAÑOLA 1253 (TRATADO DE TRIGONOMETRÍA... only). $3500.

A Wonderful Letter-Journal from the U.S.S. Constellation

32. Clymer, George: [LENGTHY AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM GEORGE CLYMER, Jr. TO HIS MOTHER, WRITTEN ABOARD THE U.S.S. CONSTELLATION]. [At sea]. 1829. 12pp. Over 10,000 words. Folio. Gathered sheets. Old folds. Minor wear and soil- ing. Very good plus.

An extensive and detailed letter from George Clymer, Jr., freshly appointed as a naval surgeon aboard the U.S.S. Constellation, the U.S. Navy’s first warship. Clymer (1804-81), grandson of the Pennsylvania signer of the Declaration of In- dependence, would spend the next forty years of his life in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a commodore. He wrote this letter as a newly commissioned assistant surgeon, fresh across the Atlantic after a four-week sail. Clymer writes that he had posted a letter immediately upon arrival in England, on September 12, which bore the perspective of a “gloomy landsman,” unprepared for a “disagreeable” four-week trip across the Atlantic, during which he was despondent, seasick, and homesick. This letter is written in much better spirits. Clymer begins his narrative as “the joyous cry of ‘Land’ was heard from the foremast” at the first sight of the British coast in the stormy English Channel – “a cry of overwhelming and inexpressible delight.” Though he did not get to see as much of England as he might have liked, Clymer’s florid prose provides the reader with a vivid description of the bits he did get to tour. The ship was anchored at Cowes, on the . He writes: “On entering Cowes I was struck by the roast-beef and corporations, and the ruddy faces of the well fed Englishmen, and by the comfortable, simple, yet tasteful attire of the English ladies. I went, with one of the passengers, to a hotel for tea....This much I had seen of England, and this little but wet my appetite for more.” Clymer desired to make a jaunt to London, which was simply not possible. Instead, in order to stay close to the ship, he toured the surrounding towns. “My intended visit to London being thus being put out of the question, three short excursions of interest presented themselves in its stead; a ride into the interior of the Isle of Wight; and a trip by steamboat to Portsmouth and another to Southampton.” He devotes more than a page to the description of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight: “At a short distance from the village, stands in stately and conspicuous eminence the venerable remains of the Castle of Carisbrooke. It arrests the eye before we reach the gentle and verdurous glacis along which the road ascends to the commanding and conical elevation upon which it reposes in majestic solitude.” He expends fewer words, though similarly florid, on the other two locales visited. Upon leaving England several days later, he writes of the expense of the experience:

I had heard that the expences of living in England were great, but I found them on experience, extravagant beyond expectation. Independently of the ordinary prices of articles, we were imposed upon as Americans. ‘I do not think it is right,’ said one Englishman to another, ‘to overcharge these Americans.’ ‘I cannot agree with you,’ replied the other, ‘they will think so much the more of us for it.’ We all encountered many knaves, and experienced exhorbitancy and imposition. The naval button could not escape their eagle-eyes, and was a source of expence to us wherever we went. It had however some advantages by procuring for us attentions from respectable men. I found many of them strongly imbued with national sensibility, and desirous that I should see objects of curiosity and be pleased with the country.

He goes on to elaborate the specifics of various expenses. The ship traveled on to the Mediterranean from England, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar. The final passages of the letter speak of a strong which blew up, carrying away some of the spars and rigging. The storm threw a sailor overboard, and Clymer describes a brave young lieutenant (and some other sailors) risking his life in a small boat to save the man. A good letter, full of detail, from the perspective of a young naval officer. $2000.

Important and Rare Account of Whaling in the Pacific

33. Colnett, James: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC AND ROUND CAPE HORN INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTENDING THE SPERMACETI WHALE FISH- ERIES, AND OTHER OBJECTS OF COMMERCE, BY ASCER- TAINING THE PORTS, BAYS, HARBOURS AND ANCHORING BIRTHS [sic] IN CERTAIN ISLANDS AND COASTS IN THOSE SEAS.... London. 1798. iv,[iii]-vi,xviii,179pp. plus six folding maps, and four plates, including a frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Early 19th-century half calf and boards, black morocco label. Small piece replaced at foot of spine, else very good.

An account of Colnett’s second Pacific voyage in the Rattler, during which he opened the South Pacific sperm whale fields and made two visits to the Galapagos islands. He describes the voyage out via Rio de Janeiro, around Cape Horn, along the coasts of South America and Mexico, and into the Gulf of California. He did not stop at Hawaii on this visit, though the lengthy preface contains references to his first voyage, on which he made an extended stay in Hawaiian waters during the winter of 1787-88. Colnett’s ship, Rattler, a Royal Navy sloop, was purchased from the Admiralty and altered to suit the whale fishery. The voyage lasted from 1793 until October 1794. This account was privately printed for subscription, and is one of the rarest of Pacific voyage narratives, notable for its fine maps and whal- ing information. One of the plates shows a diagram of a sperm whale, complete with scale and labeled segments. The large maps show the Pacific Coast of the Americas as far as California, the islands of Revillagigedo, Cocos, the Galapagos, Felix and Ambrose, and Quito. Colnett first visited the Pacific as a midshipman on ’s second voyage. Later he made several commercial ventures to the Northwest Coast, where in 1789 his brush with the Spanish commander at Nootka Sound instigated the Nootka Con- troversy. An account of that incident is also given herein, as is his meeting with the Spanish commander at the Sandwich Islands. “This narrative is particularly important for the part Colnett played in the dispute between England and Spain over claims to the Northwest” – Forbes. Forbes also indicates that all copies he examined have the same break in pagination, as in this copy. HILL 338. HOWES C604, “b.” SABIN 14546. FORBES 280. STRATHERN 120. STREETER SALE 3494. COWAN I, p.52. $17,500.

A Complete Set of Cook’s Voyages

34. [Cook, James]: Hawkesworth, John: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOY- AGES UNDERTAKEN BY THE ORDER OF HIS PRESENT MAJ- ESTY...PERFORMED BY COMMODORE BYRON, CAPTAIN WALLIS, CAPTAIN CARTERET AND CAPTAIN COOK.... Lon- don. 1773. [with:] Cook, James: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD...IN THE YEARS 1772, 1773, 1774, AND 1775.... London. 1784. [with:] Cook, James: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.... London. 1784-85. [with:] Kippis, Andrew: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN . London. 1788. Ten volumes including atlas volume. A complete set of Cook’s three voyages, being the second (and best) edition of the first voyage, the first edition of the second voyage, and a mixed set of the third voyage (volumes one and two are from the second edition, volume three from the first edition), with the plates of the third voyage bound in an atlas (lacks the rare “” plate, as usual), and with Kippis’ biography of Cook. Text volumes: Large quarto. Contempo- rary calf, expertly rebacked. Atlas: Large folio. Modern three quarter calf over contemporary boards, expertly rebacked in appropriate manner. Boards slightly worn, particularly at edges. Upper right corner of upper board of volume two of third voyage chipped. Light foxing and dampstaining in some volumes, particularly in margins. Some paper restoration on some of the plates in the atlas, particularly in the corners. Armorial bookplates. Overall a very good set.

A basic set for the history of Pacific exploration. The first voyage describes Cook’s explorations of New Zealand, Australia, Tahiti, and other islands; the second describes his southern voyages in search of a southern continent; and the third is his north Pacific explorations of Alaska, the Northwest Coast, and Hawaii, where the great navigator met his death. Of equal importance as a text of exploration, a cartographic source for the numerous maps and charts included in the work, and a visual source of the engravings of fauna, flora, and inhabitants of the Pacific. In all, the entire set contains more than two hundred maps and plates. HILL 782, 783. HOWES C729a (3rd voyage). 5, 24, 47. BEDDIE 650, 1216, 1552. LADA-MOCARSKI 37 (3rd voyage). MITCHELL LIBRARY, COOK BIBLIOG- RAPHY, passim. FORBES 62 (3rd voyage). ROSOVE ANTARCTIC 77 (2nd voyage). $33,500.

35. [Cook, James]: Pingo, Lewis: [THE ROYAL SOCIETY MEDAL, IN COMMEMORATION OF CAPTAIN COOK]. London: Royal Society, 1784. Copper, bronzed. 43.4 mm. 414.2 gns., relief bust of Captain Cook on recto, full-length relief portrait of Fortune leaning on a column while resting her hand upon a rudder which is affixed to a globe on verso. About extremely fine. Obverse signed L.P.F.

One side is a bold relief of the famed British navigator and explorer, the obverse shows the erect figure of Columbia on a plain. The Royal Society’s formal memorial to the great navigator: one of 577 bronze specimens. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a free bronze medal, while and issues were available by subscription only; some were reserved for presentation. L. Richard Smith (The Royal Society Cook Medal [Sydney, 1982]) has suggested a probable final minting figure of twenty-two gold, 322 silver, and 577 bronze medals. An engraving of the medal was printed on the titlepage of the second and third editions (and some copies of the first) of the official account. The commissioning of this medal was due above all else to the efforts of Sir , who supervised “the minting and distribution of the Royal Society Cook medal as a personal task coincident with the publication of the narrative of the tragic third voyage” (H.B. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks, 1988, p.168). Cook’s European reputation is borne out by several letters to Banks from the Continent requesting specimens of the medal, including one from Bougainville, who wrote in June 1785 to remind Banks that as a member since 1756 he felt entitled to one (see W.R. , ed., The Banks Letters, 1958, p.122). BEDDIE 2795. BETTS, AMERICAN COLONIAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY CONTEMPORARY MEDALS 553. BROWN, BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS 258. Carter, Sir Joseph Banks, p.168. KLENMAN K5. MARQUESS OF HAVEN, BRITISH AND FOREIGN NAVAL MEDALS 734. MIRA, CAPTAIN COOK: HIS COINS & MEDALS, pp.35-37. NAN KIVELL & SPENCE, p.72. $3750.

Dublin Edition of Cook’s Third Voyage

36. Cook, James: King, James: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMAND OF HIS MAJ- ESTY, FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.... Dublin. 1784. Three volumes. [8],xcviii,421; [14],549; [11],559pp., plus frontispiece portrait, eighteen folding maps and charts, seven folding plates, and folding table. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn, slight wear to spine end and hinges, but a very good set.

First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook’s third and final voyage, includ- ing text on the exploration of Hawaii and the west coasts of America, Canada, and Alaska. The third voyage was undertaken to continue the British survey of the Pacific, but most particularly to search for a northwest passage from the western side. Sailing in 1776, the expedition called at Kerguelen Island, , New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and , then sailed north and discov- ered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. They then thoroughly explored and charted the Northwest Coast from the Bering Straits along the coast of Alaska and Canada, as far south as present . Returning to Hawaii in 1778, the expedition was at first received warmly; but after departing and being forced to return to repair a mast, trouble developed which led to a tragic series of events in which the great navigator was killed. However, the expedition pressed on under and then Gore, and explored the coasts of Siberia and Kamchatka before returning to England in 1780. Forbes calls this work “arguably the single most important book on the Hawaiian islands.” The Dublin edition was issued both with and without the plates; this copy is the issue with the plates, which is considerably more desirable and difficult to come by. HOWES C729a. SABIN 16250. BEDDIE 1546. London edition: HILL 361. FORBES 62. LADA-MOCARSKI 37. $6500.

Rare American Edition

37. [Cook, James]: CAPT. COOK’S THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780. Philadelphia: W. Woodward, for B. Johnson, 1796. 252pp. 12mo. Modern pink paper boards, printed paper label. Light dampstaining and soil- ing to text, heavier in some places. Good plus.

“Faithfully abridged from the quarto edition.” An abridged children’s version of Capt. James Cook’s third and final voyage, on which he was murdered by natives. The third voyage was undertaken to continue the British survey of the Pacific, but most particularly to search for a northwest passage from the western side. Sailing in 1776, the expedition called at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society islands, then sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. They then thoroughly explored and charted the Northwest Coast from the Bering Straits along the coast of Alaska and Canada, as far south as present northern California. Returning to Hawaii in 1778, the expedition was at first received warmly; but after departing and being forced to return to repair a mast, trouble developed which led to a tragic series of events in which the great navigator was killed. Relatively scarce, with fewer than ten copies listed in ESTC. EVANS 30276. ESTC W37314. $2000.

38. [Cook, James]: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. Montreal [i.e. Dublin]: Published and Sold by T. Carey [i.e. Richard Grace], [nd, but 1820]. 179pp. plus three plates. Titlepage vignette. Frontis. 16mo. Contem- porary cloth backed boards. Some fraying at head and toe of spine, hinges bit shaken but intact. Good. In a cloth case, leather label.

A bibliographically curious edition of The Life of Captain James Cook, actually printed in Dublin by Richard Grace in 1820, but with T. Carey’s Montreal imprint pasted over the legitimate publisher’s name and imprint. Not listed in Beddie as a Montreal imprint. A rare piece of Cookiana, and an interesting example of a Canadian publisher’s expedient response to the public demand for details of Cook’s life, albeit of questionable legitimacy. BEDDIE 1983 (Dublin ed). $2000.

The African Side of the Slave Trade

39. 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. xiv,[1],163pp. plus one map and eight handcolored en- graved plates (seven folding). Quarto. Contemporary paper boards, printed label. Covers soiled and stained, spine abraded, edges worn. Bookplate of John Wilkinson on front pastedown, engraved bookplate of Charles L. Braithwaite tipped in on front free endpaper. Occasional minor foxing and stains. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case.

A finely illustrated account of Corry’s travels to 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.” The work has eight handcolored aquatints based on drawings by Corry, including one of a Mandingo chief and his headman in their costumes. The remaining plates are views of different locales as viewed from offshore. All of the illustrations are attractive and the hand coloring is particularly well executed. A very good copy of an early 19th-century British travel account in a part of the world seldom portrayed in such superior illustrations as found here. ABBEY 278. OCLC 3902546. $10,000.

40. [Costumes of the World]: LA GEOGRAFIA EN LAMINAS Y MAPAS, CON EL RETRATO Y DESCRIPCION DE LOS USOS, TRAGES Y COSTUMBRES DE TODAS LAS NACIONES. Barce- lona. 1834. 264pp. plus thirty-four plates, including added engraved titlepage. Oblong. Contemporary half sheep and boards. Extremities rubbed; boards lightly scuffed. Minor internal soiling, but generally quite clean. Very good.

A geography of the world with costume plates, showing the clothing and culture of many countries, including the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti. A map of the pertinent continent, surrounded by the area’s flora and fauna, graces the beginning of each section. The Americas occupy forty-six pages (pp.212-58), and include fanciful images of the inhabitants of Canada, Greenland, Cuba, Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Patagonia, and several depictions of various Indians. Only five copies in OCLC: New York Public Library, Boston Public Library, the Getty, U.C. Berkeley, and the Library of Congress. PALAU 101454. OCLC 36702031. $1250.

41. Coverte, Robert: A TRUE AND ALMOST INCREDIBLE REPORT OF AN ENGLISHMAN, THAT (BEING CAST AWAY IN THE GOOD SHIP CALLED THE ASSENSION IN CAMBAYA, THE FARTHEST PART OF THE EAST INDIES) TRAVELLED BY LAND THOROW MANY UNKNOWNE KINGDOMES AND GREAT CITIES. WITH A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF ALL THOSE KINGDOMES, CITIES, AND PEOPLE: AS ALSO, A RELATION OF THEIR COMMODITIES AND MANNER OF TRAFFIQNE, AND AT WHAT SEASONS OF THE YEERE THEY ARE MOST IN USE. FAYTHFULLY RELATED: WITH A DISCOVERY OF A GREAT EMPEROUR CALLED THE GREAT MOGOLL, A PRINCE NOT TILL NOW KNOWNE TO OUR ENGLISH NATION. London: Printed by I[ohn] N[orton] for Hugh Perry..., 1631. [vi],68,[1]pp. Printer’s colophon leaf in rear. Small quarto. Red gilt morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Title and A4 on stub guards. Very good. Provenance: early ink and pencil marginalia throughout.

A very rare early account of an overland journey through India and the Middle East. The author and his men left Plymouth 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 overland for the Moghul Court at Agra via Burhanpur (describing the important military post as larger than Lon- don), arriving at Agra in December 1609. Although asked by Emperor Jahangir to serve in his military service, Coverte 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 this work as a “vigorous narrative. It relates its author’s reception by the Emperor Jahangir, and his...journey across India, Afghanistan, and Persia, and...is one of the best examples of a travel journal that the period produced.” The work was first published in 1612, with a second edition appearing two years later before the present third edition. All English editions are rare and desirable. Two German transla- tions followed, and the account was further published in compilations of discovery and exploration, including those published by De Bry, Hulsius, and van der Aa. HOWGEGO C211. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p.324. Oaten, Euro- pean Travellers in India, pp.158-61. STC 5897. $10,000.

Early Alaska Geography

42. Coxe, William: ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN DISCOVERIES BETWEEN ASIA AND AMERICA. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA, AND THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSACTIONS AND COMMERCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA. London: Printed by J. Nichols, for T. Cadell, 1787. xxviii,454,[2] pp. plus four folding maps (including frontispiece) and folding plate. Con- temporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, spine gilt, leather label. Corners bumped. Minor scattered foxing and offsetting. Very good.

“The third edition, revised and corrected,” and important for being the first edition of Coxe’s work to include an account of Cook’s voyages. As such it contains an important early publication of material on Hawaii. Two chapters of supplementary material added to this edition compare the discoveries of Cook and Clerke with those of earlier Russian explorers. One of the keystone works on the history of Russian America, including a number of narratives of exploration herein published for the first time in English. Coxe spent some time in Russia, working to establish the authenticity of the narratives he had collected. This volume proved an im- mensely popular work. Three editions were issued before a much expanded fourth was published in 1803. The engraved maps include a general map of Russia, one of Krenitzin and Levasheff ’s voyage, one of Synd’s voyage, and one of Shalauroff ’s voyage (with an inset of the Bear Islands). Finally, there is a folding engraved view of the Chinese town of Maimatschin. Also included is a “Specimen of the Aleutian Language,” consisting of twelve words and numerals 1 through 10. FORBES 134. BEDDIE 1640. HOLMES 107. LADA MOCARSKI 29. HOWES C834, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 917. SABIN 17309. $1000.

Chapbook on Sir

43. [Crouch, Nathaniel]: , Robert: THE ENGLISH HERO: OR, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIV’D, BEING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE DANGEROUS VOYAGES, ADMIRABLE ADVENTURES, NOTABLE DISCOVERIES...The Eighth Edition Enlarged. London: Printed for Nath. Crouch, 1710. iv,[175],[13]pp. Engraved frontis. Neatly re- bound in half antique calf and marbled boards, leather label. Old library stamp on top of titlepage. Slightly cropped, affecting headlines. Otherwise very good.

Robert Burton was the pseudonym for author-publisher Nathaniel Crouch. Burton’s account of the exploits of Sir Francis Drake was itself mainly cribbed from a work originally published in 1653. His first edition appeared in 1687. Sabin records this as the fifth edition of Burton’s version. Although the titlepage is styled “eighth edition,” that may have been counting from 1653 or, as Kraus suggests, the sec- ond and third editions may never have existed. An important work in the Drake legend, it describes the Nombre de Dios voyage of 1572, the circumnavigation of 1575-77, Drake’s defeat of the Armada in 1588, and his final American voyages. “A biography of Drake in chap-book form...like all such chap-book publications, copies are seldom found” – Kraus (commenting on the 1695 edition). SABIN 9500. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 710/30. KRAUS, WORLD ENCOM- PASSED 45 (1695 ed). $2850.

Some Racism Down Under

44. Cruikshank, George: PROBABLE EFFECTS OF OVER FEMALE EMIGRATION, OR IMPORTING THE FAIR SEX OF THE SAV- AGE ISLANDS IN CONSEQUENCE OF EXPORTING OUR OWN TO AUSTRALIA!!!!! [London. 1851]. Handcolored etching, 7¼ x 17¼ inches, matted to 13½ x 23 inches. Old fold lines, minor wear. Very good.

An excellent example of this satirical print drawn by illustrator and cartoonist George Cruikshank, and issued with his The Comic Almanac for 1851. Cruikshank was a notable artist who contributed illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens, among others. Throughout the first decades of Australian settlement, men outnumbered women to an extraordinary degree, resulting in grave social problems for the new colony. Active attempts to address the imbalance included immigration drives for women in Britain. Cruikshank’s burlesque cartoon imagines that the supposed exodus of women who took up offers of assisted passage to Australia has created a critical shortage of women in England. His dockside scene depicts the ship-load of Pacific Island women – all of whom are drawn as African savages with exaggerated black features, some with stretched ears, etc. – who have responded to the desperate call of the crowd of pallid Englishmen, greeting them upon arrival. $1250.

Elizabeth Custer Travels to Manila

45. Custer, Elizabeth: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, UNSIGNED, DESCRIBING A VISIT TO MANILA]. [Np. ca. 1904]. 18pp. Long, narrow folio sheets, 23½ x 7 inches. Contemporary stitching at the top. Scat- tered manuscript corrections and notations. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Manuscript written by Elizabeth Custer describing a trip to the Philippines. She laments at length the loss of life in attaining the Philippines as an American territory, first in the Spanish-American War and then the Philippine-American War. She goes on to describe life on the islands, including the American military barracks, the surrounding countryside, and her impressions of Americans and the American government on the islands. After General Custer’s dramatic death at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Libbie Custer devoted herself to promoting his legacy as a fallen hero through her books and lectures. She attained a comfortable life for herself through her literary career. $4500.

46. Dallaway, James: CONSTANTINOPLE ANCIENT AND MOD- ERN, WITH EXCURSIONS TO THE SHORES AND ISLANDS OF THE ARCHIPELAGO AND THE TROAD. London. 1797. [2],xi, [1],415,[6]pp. plus ten colored aquatint plates. Quarto. Contemporary diced russia, rebacked in matching style, spine gilt. Very minor soiling, some offset- ting from plates. About very good.

The author spent over a year in Constantinople as chaplain to the British embassy for the Ottoman Empire, from March 1794 to October 1795. He was already of some note as a writer, and this work “was well regarded in its time, [and] helped to awaken interest in the ancient manuscripts to be found there, and contributed to the debate on the location of ancient Troy” (DNB). Besides descriptions of the city, Dallaway travelled with British ambassador Linton to find the site of ancient Troy. The handsome plates show views of Turkey, a Turkish woman, and various ruins including the Tomb of , and the Plain of Troy. ESTC T67772. ABBEY 392. BLACKMER 441. ATABEY 308. $2500.

47. Dalrymple, Alexander: A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES CHIEFLY IN THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC OCEAN. PUBLISHED FROM ORIGINAL M.S.S. London. 1775. [6],19,[1],22,88,16,16,13pp. plus three engraved charts. Quarto. Modern speckled calf in period style, black gilt mo- rocco labels. Some light browning. Very good. Lacks the contents leaf, as usual.

This volume contains in its preface Dalrymple’s appeal to Lord North to allow him official approval to make a voyage of discovery in the South Atlantic to investigate the reports of , Bouvet, La Roche, and Leon, and search for and establish a colony at Halley’s Cape Circumcision. There is a most interesting section which contains a constitution for the new colony:

1) “...there shall be a Tax of Batchelors or Maidens possessing lands and houses... which shall go the maintenance of orphans....” 2) “No coin but Copper Money as in China and accounts kept in decimals.” 3) “Women are not debarred from public office, but may enjoy their rights in the public assembly on the same footing as men.” 4) “No Person shall exercise the Profession of Law, by counsel or otherwise, for hire or fee, on penalty of forfeiture of all his property and perpetual imprisonment.” 5) “No person to be imprisoned for debt, or for any offence, but such as make their being left at liberty dangerous to society.”

About these laws Dalrymple comments in his Preface: “A Friend of mine, who is no Enemy to the Publick Liberty, having perused this Plan declared it a ‘very good Model of the Worst of all Governments.’” Dalrymple had intended to expand the work further, but decided to collect such articles as he had assembled on the sub- ject, for he was about to set sail for India. The various accounts contained within the book are printed in different places; for example, the “Extrait du Voyage” is obviously of French origin, while Dalrymple’s brother, James, saw the Lyon journal through the press in Scotland. SABIN 18336. SPENCE 335. $27,500.

The Most Important Buccaneering Narratives

48. 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. 28pp. publisher’s ad- vertisements. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Dampier in second volume; sixty-three other engraved maps, plans, coastal profiles, or plates (the maps, eighteen of which are folding, by or after Herman Moll; three of the plates folding); occasional woodcut illustrations. Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked with original spines preserved, gilt morocco labels. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally quite clean. Very good. Provenance: Miss Wynne (Woodcliff Hall, early signature and inscription); James Arthur Wynne Finch (d. 1903, armorial bookplate dated 1878).

A fine set of the most complete version of these important voyages. Dampier is generally described as the first Englishman to set foot on the Australian continent. This is 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 . 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 , Guam, the Philippines, the East Indies, China, the Campeche coast, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. In 1688, Dampier touched on , 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 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 William Hacke” – Hill. His books were a great success and were frequently reprinted. See the DNB for a detailed sketch of this remarkable man. HILL 422. SABIN 18373 through 18377. NMM 1:92, 93, 95, 96. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.242-43. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 729/69. DNB V, pp.452-57. $15,000.

One Great Landscape Artist Portrays Another

49. [Daniell, William]: [TWO PENCIL SKETCHES BY WILLIAM DANIELL, AFTER ARCHITECT GEORGE DANCE, SHOWING ARTISTS WILLIAM HODGES AND COCK- ERELL]. [Np, but possibly London. nd, but possibly ca. 1809]. Each pencil sketch on a sheet 10 x 8 inches. Matted to 15½ x 13½ inches. Minor toning and soiling. Very good.

Two pencil drawings by landscape painter and engraver William Daniell, after draw- ings by George Dance, possibly executed around the time of Daniell’s engraving of the portraits for A Collection of Portraits Sketched from the Life Since the Year 1793 by George Dance... (London, 1809-14). Daniell (1769-1837) was an accomplished landscape artist, etcher, and engraver. He traveled with his uncle, renowned land- scape painter Thomas Daniell, to India (1786-93), where he assisted his uncle and developed his own skills. He later produced many magnificent views of locales around the globe, particularly of India. In addition to his well-known landscape works, he engraved and published a series of portraits drawn by architect George Dance (1741-1825), some of which were published in a two-volume work in 1809-14. Late in his career Dance turned his hand to other art forms, including music and chalk profile portraits of friends and acquaintances. The two subjects depicted here are fellow artists: Samuel Pepys Cockerell was a fellow architect; and William Hodges was a painter, particularly noted for being the artist on Captain James Cook’s second voyage. Each volume of the work published thirty-six portraits with descriptive text about the subject. William Hodges is depicted in the second volume. The engraved portrait faces right, while this sketch faces left, making it a mirror image for printing. The Yale Center for British Art holds not only the published work but also a volume of proof prints, each labeled in manuscript, with the manuscript title, “A Series of Portraits drawn by George Dance Esq. and Engraved by Wm. Daniell.” This proof volume is comprised only of portraits, with no text, and includes a further eighty-five engravings beyond the seventy-two published by Daniell in 1809-14. This is particularly interesting in light of the fact that while the portrait of William Hodges appears in the published work, Samuel Pepys Cockerell does not – though he is among the proof prints. Since Dance’s original drawings were done in chalk, which is a much looser medium than line-engraving, it is possible that Daniell created these drawings to provide himself with a more defined and delineated image from which to create his engraving. These drawings therefore provided an interesting and important step in the engraving process. DNB (online). $12,000.

50. [Danish Mission in India]: DER KONIGL. DANISCHEN MIS- SIONARIEN AUS OST-INDIEN. Halle: Orphanage Press, 1729. [64],148,151-183,[8],72,[28],73-151,3-16,153-224,[28],225-385,[16],387-553, [10],555-773,[12],775-906,[10],907-992,995-1064,[76]pp., plus two folding engraved charts and three plates (one folding). Portrait. Small quarto. Con- temporary speckled calf. Binding rubbed. Some minor worming, not affecting text. Very good.

Parts XIII-XXIV of the official reports of the Danish Tranquebar missionaries, who were responsible for the first Tamil grammar in 1716. At the behest of King Frederick IV of , the mission was founded by Halle pietists Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plutscho in 1706. It became one of the most active of all missions in India, translating the Bible and other works into Tamil and Telugu, and promoting education and the dissemination of information via the establishment of schools and a seminary. This work was printed at the orphanage at Halle, founded in 1695. Rare. $2500.

Key Work on Asia Minor and the Middle East

51. Dapper, Olfert: NAUKEURIGE BESCHRYVING VAN ASIE: BE- HELSENDE DE GEWESTEN VAN MESOPOTAMIE, BABYL- ONIE, ASSYRIE, ANATOLIE, OF KLEIN ASIE: BENESSENS EENE VOLKOME BESCHRIVJVING VAN GANSCH GELUK- KIGH, WOEST, EN PETREESCH OF STEENIGH ARABIE.... Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1680. [8],357,[3]; 324,[4]pp., including in- text illustrations, plus twelve plates (ten double-page, two folding) and three double-page maps. Engraved and letterpress titlepages (letterpress titlepage printed in red and black). Folio. Contemporary blindstamped vellum, manu- script title on backstrip, raised bands. Minor wear to boards. Near fine.

The first edition of Dapper’s important study of Asia Minor and Arabia, celebrated for its views of cities and scenes of life in Turkey and Arabia. Olfert Dapper (1639-89) was a Dutch physician and indefatigable scholar and compiler of travel accounts. Though he apparently never left Amsterdam, Dapper produced several finely illustrated volumes describing travels in Asia, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Africa. Culled from a variety of accounts, his works were very popular and are especially noteworthy for their excellent illustrations and maps. This volume, as indicated on the handsome engraved titlepage, covers Arabia, Mesopotamia, Babylonia (Iraq), Assyria, and Anatolia (Turkey). The entire second half of the text treats Arabia. Included are views of Baghdad, Ephesus, Smyrna, Muscat, and other significant cities, as well as illustrations of Babel and the Tower of Babel. In-text illustrations include views of other cities, as well as scenes of life, dress, topography, etc. One of the maps shows the whole of Anatolia, and another shows the entire . ATABEY 322. BLACKMER 450 (German ed). $6750.

First Appearance of the Voyage of the

52. [, Charles; Philip Parker King; and Robert FitzRoy]: NAR- RATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1826 AND 1836, DESCRIBING THEIR EXAMINATION OF THE SOUTHERN SHORES OF SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE BEA- GLE’S CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. Four volumes, including appendix volume. xxviii,[4],597,24; xiv,[2],694,[1]; xiv,615,16; viii,352pp,. including half titles in three primary volumes; plus forty-six plates (including two frontispieces), one plan, and ten maps and charts (nine folding). Original green publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth on the first two volumes lightly sunned; spine lightly faded on the fourth volume. Corners lightly rubbed. Light scattered foxing and soiling, some slight offsetting. Several leaves loosening in the second volume. Overall, a very good to near fine set, in the original binding.

First issue of the first, second, and fourth volumes, with the second issue of the third volume. The account of the Beagle’s two voyages, edited by Robert Fitzroy, who served as commander of both voyages. The third volume of this work represents the first edition (second issue) of Darwin’s account of the voyage, which provided the basis for his , found here in its second issue entitled, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle. “The third volume contains Darwin’s account of the voyage, now famous as the genesis of his theory of evolutionary biology. The demand for Darwin’s Journal immediately exceeded that for the companion volumes of the Narrative. Colburn therefore brought out a separate edition of it in the same year” – Hill. Freeman notes that Darwin’s “first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed.” The first volume contains Captain King’s account of the first coastal surveys of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, produced on the first expedition between 1826 and 1830. The other volumes comprise the account of the second voyage of the Beagle. Between 1831 and 1836 the ship visited Brazil, Argentina, Terra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. The ap- pendix to the second volume, bound here as the fourth volume of this set, includes a meteorological journal, official instructions, correspondence, and notes. Four of the six plates in the appendix volume consist of sixteen separate illustrations of various cloud formations. An attractive set of a landmark of scientific exploration, one of the most impor- tant Pacific voyages, and Darwin’s first substantial book publication. HILL 607. FREEMAN 10, pp.31-39. BORBA DE MORAES, p.247. SABIN 37826. $47,500.

Important Early Work on Surveying

53. Digges, Leonard: A BOOKE NAMED TECTONICON, BRIEF- LIE SHEWING THE EXACT MEASURING, AND SPEEDIE RECKONING ALL MANNER OF LAND, SQUARES, TIMBER, STONE, STEEPLES, PILLERS, GLOBES, &c. FURTHER, THE PERFECT MAKING AND LARGE USE OF THE CARPENTER’S RULER.... London: Felix Kingston, 1605. [2],26 leaves. Two folding tables. Numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Small quarto. Dbd. Slight soiling on and chip in margin of titlepage, else good. In a cloth case, leather label.

From the library of Harrison D. Horblit. An extremely rare edition of an impor- tant practical work on mensuration by Leonard Digges, an expert mathematician whose chief interest was in the application of that science to surveying, military engineering, and architecture. First published in 1556, this is the ninth edition, according to the new STC. The work plainly had great popularity and usefulness, and continued to appear regularly through 1692. STC 6852. $4000.

An Important Longitude Proposal

54. [Ditton, Humphrey, and William Whiston]: PROPOSALS (BY WAY OF SUBSCRIPTION) FOR A NEW AND MOST CORRECT SETT OF MAPS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, BY AN AC- TUAL SURVEY OF THE SAME, ACCORDING TO MR. WHIS- TON’S AND MR. DITTON’S NEW METHOD FOR THE DIS- COVERY OF THE LONGITUDE [caption title]. [London]. Jan. 3, 1714/5 [i.e. 1715?]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin, 5-inch lower portion of inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Some toning in upper margin and very light foxing. Very good.

In the early 1710s noted mathematicians and friends William Whiston and Hum- phrey Ditton conducted a historic conversation over the problem of longitude, the means of figuring which had continued to elude sailors and cartographers well into the age of navigation. Whiston, Isaac ’s successor as Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, mentioned to Ditton that he had been able to hear the guns fired at the Battle of Beachy Head from Cambridge, some ninety miles away. Ditton seized upon the idea of the constant speed of sound as a solution to the longitude prob- lem: firing cannons from fixed points at specified times could allow people within hearing distance to calculate their longitude based on the amount of time it took for the sound to reach them. After seeing the fireworks celebrating the Peace of Utrecht on July 7, 1713, Whiston added the element of light to the proposal, which he and Ditton had since learned was insufficient due to the unreliability of sound travel at sea. By firing a shell from a fixed location timed to explode at 6,440 feet, recorders on distant ships could time the delay between the fireball and the bang and plot their longitude accordingly. An entire fleet of signal boats, Ditton and Whiston imagined, could be anchored at regular points throughout the Atlantic to allow navigators to calculate their ships’ longitudinal positions. Despite the innumerable problems with their invention, Whiston and Ditton’s proposal, which they first published in 1713, led to Parliament’s creation of the Board of Longitude in 1714 and its offer of an award from £10,000 to £20,000 for the discovery of a successful method of figuring longitude within a specified degree of accuracy. Whiston and Ditton laid their idea before the Board, which eventually rejected it, following widespread derision of the plan and the death of Ditton later that year. Whiston continued on, however, reimagining the invention as a land-based system that would allow for the creation of newly precise maps, beginning in England, where rockets would be fired at the intersections of every estimated meridian from Greenwich with half-degree parallels throughout the land, to be recorded by “one or more skillful Persons in every Market-Town.” The present broadsheet advertises the map proposal on behalf of Whiston and Humphrey Ditton’s widow and is dated “Jan. 5. 1714/5” in the final line of text. The fraction form of the year’s final digit was common in printed documents during the early 18th century in England, which still had yet to change from the Julian to the (Catholic countries had instituted this reform in the 16th century, and most Protestant countries followed in the early and mid- – Great Britain officially changed in 1752). The DNB and other references cite October 15, 1715, as the date of Ditton’s death, but the reference to his widow in this docu- ment, together with what is known of the final year of his life, strongly suggest that 1714 was the actual year of his death, with the later biographical sources possibly confused by calendar change inconsistencies. The document, this copy of which was discovered bound in a volume of early 18th-century political leaflets, was likely distributed both at bookstores, where subscriptions were sold, and in the lobby of Parliament, where subscribers and political supporters were surely sought. It describes Whiston and Ditton’s method for figuring longitude, prints a sample blank table for a recorder’s entry of data, and announces that “as soon as 1000 Setts of these Maps shall be Subscribed for, a large Mortar shall be procur’d, such as will shoot a of Fire near a mile perpendicularly high, and be seen 50 or 60 miles distance in a clear night.” The maps and the fireworks were never realized, presumably for lack of subscriptions. Despite their own plan’s ultimate failure, Whiston and Ditton’s work on determining longitude was the extremely important catalyst for the creation of the Board of Longitude and John Harrison’s subsequent invention of the marine chronometer, the revolutionary device credited with the solving the problem for navigators by the end of the century. A fascinating and very rare document, with ESTC recording only one copy, at Oxford. Dava Sobel, Longitude... (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), pp.46-50. DNB V, p.1026; XXI, pp.10-14. $5000.

Item 55. The Famous Hondius Portrait of Sir Francis Drake

55. [Drake, Francis]: FRANCISCVS DRAECK NOBILISSIMVS EQVES ANGLIÆ ANo ÆT SVE 43. [London: , ca. 1583, but printed later]. Engraved portrait, 15¾ x 12¼ inches. Matted and framed. A fine, black impression, expertly laid down on a larger sheet. Slight wear to upper edge. Very good and handsomely presented.

This handsome and striking print is generally considered the finest contemporary portrait of Sir Francis Drake. It has been attributed as the work of the engraver, Hondius, since the 18th century, although Kraus and others suggest it might be the work of Remigius Hogenberg. Only two copies are known of the first state of the print. This is a copy of the second state, probably printed by George Vertue in the 18th century, from the original copper plate, which he altered by adding additional shading to the background. Drake is shown standing, holding a baton in one hand and a helmet in the other. He looks the viewer squarely in the eye. The mole on his nose and short-cropped hair testify to the trueness of the unidealized portrait. Behind him, by a window, hangs a globe. The caption below the portrait makes reference to the circumnavi- gation. The image forcefully conveys the appearance and personality of the man. A cornerstone for any Drake collection. Kraus used this portrait as the fron- tispiece for his book on Drake. KRAUS, DRAKE 55 (and frontispiece). Hind, Engraving in England, p.159. $12,500.

The Very Rare Crispin van de Passe Portrait of Drake

56. [Drake, Francis]: Passe, Crispin van de, the Elder: [ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF FRANCIS DRAKE]. [Cologne. 1598]. Engraved por- trait, approximately 4½ x 6¼ inches. An excellent, sharp, crisp impression. Fine. In a blue half morocco slipcase.

This rare portrait of Drake by Crispin van de Passe comes from an early volume of engraved portraits, Effigies Regum ac Principum, Eorum Scillicet (Cologne, 1598). Drake, who circumnavigated the globe in 1577-80, appears under the title, “most noble English knight, very experienced in all things nautical and military.” “The portrait of Drake is of especial interest: it is a close copy of the smaller Hondius Drake portrait which in its first state exists in only two copies (Royal Geographical Society, and Huntington Library). It depicts him in bust, with a shield, and with a two-hemisphere terrestrial map displaying the track of his circumnavigation” – Kraus. De Passe’s stylized monograph appears near the bottom of the portrait. Epigrammatic verses in Latin by Matthias Quad appear beneath the portrait. KRAUS, DRAKE 59. SABIN 58995. GRAESSE V:154. BRUNET IV:414. $7500. Important Plates of the South Seas

57. Dumont d’Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar: ENTDECKUNGS-REISE DER FRANZOSISCHEN CORVETTE ASTROLABE UNTER- NOMMEN AUF BEFEHL KONIG KARLS X. IN DEN JAHREN 1826 – 1827 – 1828 – 1829.... Schaffhausen, Switzerland: Brodtmann, [1836]. 118,[1]pp., printed in double-column format, plus sixty lithographic plates (several plates containing more than one image). Extra lithographic titlepage. Folio. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

A scarce, early edition of the historical atlas from Dumont d’Urville’s famous Pacific voyage as commander of the Astrolabe, with a comple- ment of sixty important plates of South Sea natives and nautical views. “Dumont d’Urville commanded his first expedition, which was to gain additional informa- tion about the principal groups of islands in the Pacific and to augment the mass of scientific data acquired by Louis Duperrey. The Astrolabe sailed south, around the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at Port Jackson. Proceeding to New Zealand, its coast, especially the southern part of Cook Strait, was surveyed with great care. Tonga and parts of the Fiji Archipelago were explored, then New Britain, New Guinea, Amboina, Tasmania, Vanikoro, Guam, and Java. The return home was by way of and the Cape of Good Hope. Huge amounts of scientific materi- als were collected and published” – Hill. The detailed plates include many scenes of anthropological interest, as well as dramatic views of the Astrolabe under sail. This scarce edition was published in Switzerland and is located on OCLC in only six copies, with only one of those – at the University of Michigan – in the United States (and that copy with the plates only). FERGUSON 2118b. HILL 504 (ref ). SABIN 21210 (ref ). OCLC 220282313, 180558539, 68182659. $5000.

The Rarest DuPont Volume

58. DuPont, Samuel F.: EXTRACTS FROM PRIVATE JOURNAL-LET- TERS OF CAPTAIN S.F. DuPONT, WHILE IN COMMAND OF THE CYANE, DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO, 1846 – 1848. PRINTED FOR HIS FAMILY. Wilmington: Ferris Bros., Printers and Binders, 1885. [4],444pp. plus [2]pp. of errata. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor shelf wear. Original binder’s ticket at- tached to front pastedown. A fresh, near fine copy.

“These extracts from DuPont’s journal and letters, privately printed for his family by his wife after his death, are a valuable and almost unknown account of U.S. Naval operations in the Pacific and Gulf of California during the Mexican War. After conveying Fremont and his battalion from Monterey to San Diego and participating in the taking of San Blas, DuPont entered the Gulf of California, seized La Paz, and at Guaymas burned the Mexican fleet. Within a few months he had cleared the Gulf, and in 1847 aided Commodore Shubrick in the occupation of Mazatlan, and later led his troops to the rescue of the American forces at Mission San Jose” – Streeter. “The richest mass of first-hand source material extant on the conquest of California” – Eberstadt. “Even more important than DuPont’s detailed and meticulous account of his own actions is his careful recording of the movements of, and communications with, other important figures with whom he was in almost constant contact” – Hill. Only fifty copies were printed for the family. STREETER SALE 2991. HOWES D588, “b.” 1184. BARRETT 744. HILL 521. GARRETT, p.207. EBERSTADT 132:173. $6500.

Breaking English News on Conflicts in the East Indies, 1622

59. [East Indies]: A COURANTE OF NEWES FROM THE EAST IN- DIA. A TRUE RELATION OF THE TAKING OF THE ISLANDS OF LANTORE AND POLAROONE IN THE PARTS OF BAN- DA IN THE EAST INDIES BY THE HOLLANDERS, WHICH HANDS HAD YIELDED THEMSELVES SUBJECT UNTO THE KING OF ENGLAND...[caption title]. [London]. Feb. 8, 1622. 6pp. Small quarto. Modern half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Lightly age-toned and stained, with light edge wear. Very good.

This newsletter is probably the earliest surviving English bulletin of current in- formation concerning events in the Far East and the East Indies. This newssheet reports the capture of the islands of Lantore (Great Banda) and Polaroone (Pulau Run) in the Banda Islands from the British by the Dutch East India Company. The islands had been discovered and annexed to Portugal in 1512, and were valued for their spices, especially nutmeg. Early in the 17th century the Dutch expelled the Portuguese. The British subsequently gained control of the islands from the Dutch for a brief period. Despite treaties, the Dutch attacked and expelled the British in 1621, as detailed here. According to ESTC, a Second Courante of news from the East Indies was printed in London on February 18. Lach notes that the Dutch and English produced several tracts during this period, each giving their respective accounts of hostilities in the East Indies and Banda in particular. The present Courante is among the rarest such works. ESTC locates a total of only five copies of this February 8 newsletter, at the , Cambridge, Oxford, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the University of Minnesota, and this particular title is not mentioned by Lach. Rare. LOWNDES, p.1670. BELL IV, 34. STC 7457. ESTC S113953. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, pp.555-56, 1427-36. $22,500. One of the Earliest English Collections of Voyages

60. Eden, Richard, and Richard Willes: [Martyr, Peter]: THE HISTORY OF TRAUAYLE IN THE WEST AND EAST INDIES.... London: Richarde Iugge, 1577. Title-leaf, [8],466,[6] leaves, with numerous misnum- berings. Historiated initials. Small, thick quarto. Modern crushed red morocco by Pratt, boards paneled and gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Lightly washed, and very clean internally. A beautiful copy.

One of the first English language versions of some of the most important early New World narratives. Eden first published his translations, primarily drawn from Peter Martyr and Francisco Oviedo, in 1555. The present book is not a second edition of that work but an entirely new one, edited by Richard Willes. While it also draws its text from those two great Spanish chroniclers, a number of additions are present in this volume which did not appear in the 1555 version, and obsolete material is omitted (see Church for a list of additions and deletions from the 1555 edition). The main interest of Willes as editor was in the East, and this has been called “the first comprehensive account of Asia to be published in England,” according to E.G.R. Taylor. Additions include an account of Frobisher’s explorations in search of a northeast passage, the best 16th-century report on China in English, and the first account of Japan in English. Also included is the first English edition of Ludovico di Varthema’s famous travels to Arabia, Persia, India, and possibly the Spice Islands in 1502-7. Varthema, an Italian, learned Arabic, acknowledged Islam, travelled to Mecca, and was one of the first Europeans to report extensively on the East. In all, these extremely important additions make up a third of the text of this edition. Willes also includes one of the first accounts in English of Magellan’s circum- navigation, a translation of Maximilian Transylvanis (pp.430-447). This is one of the earliest narratives of high latitude sailing in the Southern Hemisphere. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 577/2. CHURCH 119. STREETER SALE 24. ARENTS 23. BORBA DE MORAES, p.33. HILL 533. STC 649. SABIN 1562. CORDIER, JA- PONICA 71. FIELD 485. $80,000.

Pioneering English Missionary on Hawaii

61. [Ellis, William]: A JOURNAL OF A TOUR AROUND HAWAII, THE LARGEST OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. BY A DEPU- TATION FROM THE MISSION ON THOSE ISLANDS. Boston. 1825. 264pp. plus four plates and folding map. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. Hinges and corners rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing, some offsetting from one plate. Near fine.

An important early account of Hawaii by a visiting group of London missionaries in company with Rev. William Ellis. Ellis, a British missionary, established the first printing press in the South Seas, and while on Hawaii, he and Hiram Bing- ham printed the first book there in 1823, a hymnal. “Rev. Ellis and three of the American missionaries, Asa Thurston, Artemas Bishop and Joseph Goodrich, were dispatched for the purpose [to learn more of the Hawaiian people with a view to establishing mission stations in Hawaii] in June, 1823, landing at Kailua and spend- ing two months in making the circuit of the island. They were the first white men to visit the volcano of Kilauea. Upon the return of the party to Honolulu, a joint Journal of the expedition and observations was prepared by Ellis. Copies of this, together with a report by the American missionaries, were printed in Boston in 1825...” – Hill. The handsome engraved plates depict Kuakini, governor of Hawaii; a missionary preaching to natives; the great crater at Kilauea; the burial house of Keave; and Makoa, a guide to the deputation of missionaries. The map of Hawaii is improved from that of Vancouver. The appendix contains biographical information about persons mentioned in the text, geographical data, names of the former gods of Hawaii, and an alphabet and vocabulary of the Hawaiian language. Ellis later rewrote portions of this work, adding further observations, which were published collectively the following year in London as Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii. This copy is from the library of James F. Hunnewell (1832-1910), with his book- plate. Hunnewell 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 Hunnewell 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 nice association copy of this missionary account of the island of Hawaii, one of the earliest and probably the best of such accounts. FORBES 600. STREETER SALE 3751. SHOEMAKER 20399. HILL 545 (ref ). DAB IX, p.381. $1500.

With the Rare Fourth Part

62. Esquemeling, Alexander: BUCANIERS OF AMERICA: OR, A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ASSAULTS COMMITTED OF LATE YEARS UPON THE COASTS OF THE WEST-INDIES.... [bound with:] BUCANIERS OF AMERICA. THE SECOND VOLUME.... London: Printed for William Crooke, 1684-1685. Two volumes bound in one. [12],47 [i.e. 55],80,84,[12]; [16],212,[24]pp., plus eight engraved plates (two folding) and three folding maps. Also fourteen engraved maps and plans in text of second volume and numerous coastal elevations in text. Bookseller’s advertisements at rear. Small quarto. 19th- century mottled calf, gilt, spine gilt extra, leather labels, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Extremities lightly worn; small chip to head of spine. The larger map in the second part is backed with closed tear repaired. Quite clean internally. A very good copy.

The English edition of the first extensive account of the pirates of the West Indies, with all plates and map present. This copy is bound with the second edition of the first part, and the first edition of the second volume or fourth part, issued separately the following year and containing an account of South Seas adventures from the journal of . This adds the adventures of Captain Cooke, Sharp, and others who “lately setting forth from Jamaica, penetrated into the South-Sea, and there ransack’t and pillaged...all they could meet.” One of the most interesting pieces of early English Americana, this work has served as the basis for countless novels, stories, and dramas, as well as establishing the popular legends of many famous pirates. One pirate, Sir , followed a very modern course and sued the author for defamation. He was awarded £200 for damages. Many of the plates are startling close-up portraits of now famous buccaneers. “This is the first complete edition” – Hill. “Frequently described as the greatest early book on ” – NMM. CHURCH 689. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 684/55. SABIN 23481. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.299-300. WING E3894,E3897. STEVENS, NUGGETS 1002. HILL 579. NMM 2:175. $15,000. A Classic Narrative of Voyages to the Pacific

63. 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 frontis. Contemporary half cloth and boards, printed paper label. Label chipped, neat repairs to spine. Very good. In a green cloth che- mise, green cloth slipcase, brown morocco label. Provenance: E.A. Bradford (early pencilled signature on front pastedown); Sarah F. Bradford (inscription).

Fanning’s adventurous life at sea began at a young age. A native of Connecticut, he set sail in 1792 for the South Seas in search of seal skins. During the follow- ing quarter century he made voyages around the world and to the Pacific, visiting Australia, south , Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. Included in his work is a narrative of the first American naval exploring expedition to the southern hemisphere in 1829-30 by Benjamin Pendleton. “Fanning, who went to sea as a 14-year-old cabin boy in 1783, first sailed to the South Seas on a voyage for seal skins on the Betsey in May 1797. During the next 25 years he either captained or directed over 70 voyages to the Pacific and around the globe, personally visiting China, Australia, Fiji, and the Marquesas. In 1798 he discovered both Fanning and Palmyra Islands...the latter is officially a part of the city and county of Honolulu and is privately owned by a Honolulu family. In 1829 Fanning was instrumental in sending out an exploring expedition under the command of Captain Benjamin Pendleton and Nathaniel Brown Palmer....It was Fanning’s petition to Congress and largely his own personal efforts that led to the...fitting out of the United States Exploring Expedition [i.e Wilkes Expedition]” – Forbes. The Bishop Museum in Honolulu holds Princess Kaiulani’s copy of Fanning’s Voyages. FORBES 839. HILL 581. FERGUSON 1643. HOWES F27, “aa.” SABIN 23780. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 18752. $2450.

64. Farington, Joseph; ; Samuel Owen; and others: [AL- BUM OF VIEWS ON THE RIVER THAMES, ENGLAND]. [nd, but mounts watermarked 1837]. 92 leaves, window-mounted with 344 prints after Farington, Westall, Owen, and others, and two original watercolors, all of views on or near the Thames; one plate folding; twenty-eight handcolored. Folio. Expertly bound to style in light brown half calf over original red tex- tured cloth boards, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Most plates cut close to the image, some with loss of imprint. Very good. Provenance: James Frothingham Hunnewell (1832-1910, Charleston, Suffolk County, Mass. bookplate dated 1902).

A very fine series of views mounted and bound geographically: the first leaf has views of Thames Head, the final leaf of the Thames estuary. Following the tradition established by the Boydells with their History of the River Thames, the present album allows the viewer to follow the course of the river Thames through the countryside of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Surrey before entering London, and then through and out the other side, with Es- sex on one bank and Kent on the other. The prints include aquatints (handcolored, printed in two tints, printed in one tint, and uncolored), lithographs, copper engravings (handcolored and uncolored), and steel engravings. There are images from two main works: J. & J. Boydell’s History of the River Thames (London, 1794-96) with twenty-eight from a total of seventy-six aquatints after Joseph Farington (with five printed in bistre, one printed in two tints, and twenty-two handcolored) (see Abbey 432). There is also a complete suite of uncolored plates from William Westall’s Thirty-five Views on the Thames (London, 1824) (see Abbey 434 [a handcolored issue]). Also included are at least eighty-one uncolored engravings by William or George Cooke after sketches by Samuel Owen. Neither of the watercolors are signed, but one is of Randall’s Mill at Nine Elms and is inscribed “Nine Elms / Battersea Surrey” in pencil on the verso with a pencilled annotation on the mount. The second is inscribed in pencil: “Scene from the Inn at Purflett [sic] Sept 18/[18]25.” Randall’s Mill was a favorite subject for artists in the 1820s, but the present example is reminiscent of the work of John Varley (1778-1842). He is known to have produced at least one other view of the same subject (see Brighton & Hove Museums catalogue: John Varley’s “Randall’s Mill, Nine Elms, looking towards Vauxhall Bridge,” signed and dated 1830, watercolor, 8 3/16 x 12 inches, accession number 100018), and the pencilled annotation beneath the watercolor could be in Varley’s hand. If this is the case, then he is a possible compiler, as a number of the other images are inscribed in pencil in the same hand. The album was subsequently in the library of the well-known 19th-century Boston book collector, James F. Hunnewell. The author of a number of antiquar- ian and historical works, he also had a catalogue of his library privately printed in an edition of fifty copies, A Catalogue of Books Belonging to James F. Hunnewell of Charlestown, Mass. (Cambridge, Ma., 1873). ABBEY 432 (Boydell), 433 (Havell). TOOLEY 102 (Boydell), 255 (Havell, 1812 ed). $9,500.

65. [Firmin, Philippe]: [Dutch East India Company (VOC)]: ÉTAT PRÉSENT DES INDES HOLLANDAISES, CONTENANT UNE PEINTURE VRAIE ET FIDELLE DU GOUVERNEMENT, DE L’ADMINISTRATION, ET DE LA CONDUITE DES HOLLAN- DAIS DANS LES INDES-ORIENTALES.... Batavia, [i.e. Amsterdam?]. [ca. 1780]. 96pp. Contemporary decorated waste-paper wrap- pers, manuscript paper label on cover. Contemporary Swiss bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Covers laid down, newer spine; title and second leaf neatly remounted. Some minor dampstaining. Very good. Untrimmed.

A remarkable 18th-century pamphlet detailing the political, economic, and military conditions in the Dutch East Indies. Although anonymous, the work was writ- ten by an evidently well-informed author who provides sensitive strategic insights into the weakness of Dutch interests in the region, stressing their vulnerability to British and French aggression. Translated from a simultaneously issued Dutch edition (Nederlandisch India), the report was written either shortly before or at the beginning of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-84). The unknown author’s frank and candid discussion of the weaknesses of the VOC in general and Batavia in particular, has led to much speculation about the objectives of the work. “The economy was precarious, persons in both Europe and Southeast Asia were Jekyll and Hyde. There were those who tried to warn of VOC troubles but, when corruption reaches the highest places and when statistical cooperation can be secured between production and sales, what to do! The Heeren XVII knew less than they should have known about affairs abroad. They ‘regulated’ to a degree only, whereas the truth of minimal salaried men bringing fabulous fortunes home...was easily and constantly very visible in Asia to anybody who looked. This author was writing from a position of prominence; he too had money; he was equally fluent in Dutch and French: he tried to warn. Where did he print? And – what was his name?” – Diehl. The susceptibility of Batavia to a British or French attack is a central concern, and in compelling detail the author outlines the weakness of the various garrisons defending the VOC administrative capital. “[Batavia] un château qui tombe entière- ment en ruine...J’oserais assurer que trois ou quatre vaisseaux Anglais, Français ou de route autre nation, emporteraient Batavia dans deux ou trois jours.” It is unclear then why the report was immediately rendered into French (as well as English), but these translations did raise the hackles of contemporary commentators, particularly in London: was the work in fact some sort of ruse de guerre? The volume is bound in a bookseller’s catalogue (from which we can suppose a publishing date sometime around 1780) which has been overprinted in red ink in a striking diamond pattern. The catalogue likely belonged to Geneva bookseller Jean François Bassompierre, whose ticket is pasted down on the inside cover. The titlepage notes printing in Batavia, although Landwehr suggests very plausibly that it may in fact have been Amsterdam. Smith Diehl, Printers and Printing in the East Indies to 1850: Batavia (1990), pp.151-52. LANDWEHR 1597. $2250.

French Explorations in the Pacific

66. [Fleurieu, Charles Pierre Claret]: DISCOVERIES OF THE FRENCH IN 1768 AND 1769, TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF NEW GUINEA, WITH THE SUBSEQUENT VISITS TO THE SAME LANDS BY ENGLISH NAVIGATORS, WHO GAVE THEM NEW NAMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN HISTORICAL ABRIDGEMENT OF THE VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE SPANIARDS IN THE SAME SEAS. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1791. xxiv,323,[1]pp. plus nine folding maps, two folding views, and a folding plate. Lacks the half title. Quarto. Modern three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label. Offsetting from the maps, some slight age toning, but a handsome, very good copy.

First English edition, following the French edition of the previous year. Writing during a period of intense international rivalry over discoveries in the Pacific, Fleu- rieu (a French politician and scientist) promotes the discoveries of Bougainville and Jean de Surville at the expense of British claims, though he does acknowledge some of Captain Cook’s discoveries. To bolster his claims for the French, Fleurieu uses unpublished manuscripts, as well as the printed accounts of several Spanish and British navigators. An appendix prints Buache’s “Extract from a memoir concerning the existence and situation of Solomon’s Islands....” The twelve folding maps and plates relate to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. “The maps are interesting, since they were based both on actual discoveries and on Fleurieu’s theories. When d’Entrecasteaux returned from his fruitless search for La Perouse, he confirmed that Fleurieu’s theories appeared to be generally correct” – Hill. HILL 611. BEDDIE 1302. FERGUSON 105. SABIN 24749. COX II:304. $3500.

67. Flinders, Matthew: VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS; UNDER- TAKEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPLETING THE DISCOV- ERY 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 VES- SEL PORPOISE AND CUMBERLAND SCHOONER. London: W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1814. Two text volumes only, lacking the atlas volume of plates. [4],ix,[10],cciv,269; [4],613pp. plus nine engraved plates by John Pye, W. Woolnoth, Edward Finden, I. Scott, J. Byrne, and S. Middi- man after William Westall. Half titles. Quarto. Contemporary half russia over marbled boards, spines gilt. Plates and pages on either side toned. Very good.

A fine set of the first edition text of the first circumnavigation of Australia, an enlightening and fascinating story of brilliant navigation and discovery. Wantrup rightly calls this work “the most outstanding book on the coastal navigation of Australia” and “the centerpiece of any collection of books dealing with Australian coastal discovery.” Flinders sailed from England on July 18, 1801, and during the next two years he surveyed the entire south coast of Australia from Cape Leeuwin to , the east coast, and the Gulf of Carpentaria. He returned to Port Jackson in 1803, having completed the first circumnavigation of Australia. On the return journey he 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 work, which was formally published one day before his death on July 19, 1814. It is a day-by-day record of the expedition and includes a lengthy introduc- tion 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, and the charts contained in the atlas were used for naviga- tion for over a century. The two volumes of text were originally published in both large paper and regular size issues; the present set is from the regular-sized issue. CLANCY 9.5. DAVIDSON, pp.121-23. FERGUSON 576 (miscounting the preliminar- ies in the first volume). GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, p.94. HILL 614. INGLETON 6487. KROEPELIEN 438 (text only). NISSEN (BBI) 637. TOOLEY 570-585. STAFLEU & COWAN 1806. WANTRUP 67a, pp.138-44. (all refs) $7000.

Early German Americanum

68. , Sebastian: WELTBUCH: SPIEGEL UND BILDTNISZ DES GANTZEN ERDBODENS VON SEBASTIANO FRANCO WOR- DENSI IN VIER BUCHER.... Tübingen: Ulrich Morhard, 1534. [6], [ii]-ccxxxvii,[7] leaves. Folio. Modern pigskin, tooled in blind. Some light soiling and minor dampstaining. Contemporary notations in text. Very good.

First edition of the first cosmography in German, in the rare variant issue with five leaves in the preface “Vorred” instead of the usual four. More than fifty pages of this work are devoted to the Americas, which is reflected in the title, “Also some- thing about the newly found world and islands, not from such like fables as those of , John of Monte Villa (Mandeville?) and S. Brandon’s history, but from accredited, trustworthy, experienced geographers, brought together with great pains from widely diffused books, and embodied and published in a single volume, the like of which in German was never before published” (translation by Harrisse). This is probably the most substantial printed German text on the subject to date, with descriptions of the travels of , Vespucci, and Cortes. Sebastian Franck was a controversial Anabaptist whose works were refuted by Luther. The present title and his Paradoxa, published in the same year, were both censured. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 534/9. HARRISSE 197. JCB I:112. SABIN 25468. $9000.

Famed Arctic Explorer Captain William Parry’s Copy

69. Franklin, John, Capt.: NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA, IN THE YEARS 1819, 20, 21, AND 22...WITH AN APPENDIX ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS RE- LATING TO SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY.... London: Printed by William Clowes for John Murray, 1823. iii-xvi,768pp. plus thirty engraved or aquatint plates (eleven handcolored) by Edward Finden, J. , and others after Robert Hood (eight), George Back (fifteen), Hood & Back (one), and J. Curtis (six); four folding engraved maps. Small format errata slip tipped in before p.1 of the text. Half title. Quarto. Later half speckled calf over contemporary marbled boards, spine with raised bands, original morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Captain William Edward Parry (signature on the half title).

Captain William Parry’s copy of the first edition of Sir John Franklin’s first expedi- tion, a cornerstone narrative of overland Arctic exploration. In 1819, Lieut. John Franklin, a career naval officer who had been at the battle of Trafalgar, was placed in command of an expedition appointed to proceed overland from Hudson Bay to the shores of the Arctic Sea, and to determine the trendings of that coast east of the Coppermine River. At this period the northern coast of the American continent was known at two isolated points only: this, the mouth of the Coppermine River (which, as Franklin discovered, was erroneously placed 4° of latitude too far to the north), and the mouth of the Mackenzie far to the west. Lieutenant Franklin and his party, consisting of Dr. Richardson, midship- men George Back and Richard Hood, and a few boatmen, arrived at the depot of the Hudson’s Bay Company at the end of August 1819, and making an autumnal journey of seven hundred miles spent the first winter on the Saskatchewan. Ow- ing to the delay in the arrival of supplies which had been promised by the North- West and Hudson’s Bay companies, it was not until the summer of 1821 that the Coppermine was ascended to its mouth, and a considerable extent of seacoast to the eastward surveyed. The return journey over the region known as the Barren Ground was marked by the most terrible sufferings and privations and the tragic death of Lieut. Hood. The survivors of the expedition reached in June 1822, having accomplished altogether 5550 miles of travel. While engaged on this service Franklin was promoted to the rank of commander ( January 1821), and upon his return to England at the end of 1822 he obtained the post rank of captain and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The narrative of this expedition was published in the following year and became at once a classic of travel. WAGNER-CAMP 23:1. FIELD 560. HILL 635. GRAFF 1406. LANDE 1181. PEEL 80. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1326. SABIN 25624. TPL 1248. ABBEY 635. $8500.

A “brilliant episode” of the Portuguese in India

70. [Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas, José]: EPANAPHORA INDI- CA [Parts I – VI]. Lisbon 1746-1752. Six volumes bound in one. 59; 74; [20],3-67pp. plus folding map; [1],109; [1],86; [12],72pp. In Portuguese. Small quarto. Antique-style speckled calf, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt morocco label. 20th-century bookplate and manuscript notes in Portuguese on modern front endpapers. Margins of Part V trimmed more closely than margins of other parts. Light wear to calf. Minor foxing; some toning; minor marginal worming affecting a few characters of text on pp.9-14. A very good copy.

The extremely rare complete series of writings of José Freire de Monterroyo Mascar- enhas on the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Goa under the Marquez do Castelo Novo. Dom Pedro Miguel de Almeida e Portugal, the Count of Assumar and first Marquez of Castelo Novo, served as Viceroy of Goa from 1744 to 1750. The present work, published in six parts between 1746 and 1753, describes Castelo Novo’s government, its struggles with the neighboring Maratha Empire, and various other events of the period, including the voyage and installation of Father Lourenço de as Primate Archbishop of Goa and Primate of Oriental Asia in 1744. Castelo Novo was largely successful in defending Portuguese interests from the Marathas, earn- ing the title Marquez do Alorna for his capture of the city of that name in 1746. In his major work on the Portuguese in India, Frederick Charles Danvers writes that the “government of the Marquez de Castello-Novo e Alorna is deservedly looked upon as a brilliant episode in the declining years of Portuguese Power in India, and he as one of the best and most successful Viceroys of that period” (The Portuguese in India, Vol. II, p.418). Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas’s work, the most extensive history of this episode, has also been noted for “throw[ing] much new light on Mahratta [i.e. Maratha] History” when it was examined by Ethel M. Pope for her 1937 work, India in Portuguese Literature (p.191). The six parts of the Epanaphora... are as follow:

1) Parte I: Epanaphora Indica Na Qual Se Dà Noticia Da Viagem, Que O...Senhor Marquez De Castelo Novo Fez Com O Cargo De Vice-Rey Ao Estado Da India, E Dos Primeiros Progressos Do Seu Governo...E Se Referem Tambem Os Successos Da Viagem Do...Senhor D. Fr. Lourenço De Santa Maria, Arcebispo de Goa.... [1746]. 2) Parte II: Epanaphora Indica Em Que Se Referem Osprogressos Que Tem Feito No Gov- erno Do Estado Da India Portuguesa O...Senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo.... [1747]. 3) Parte III: Epanaphora Indica Continua-Se Em Referir Os Inclitos Progressos Do... Senhor Marquez de Castelo Novo.... [1748]. This part contains a large folding map of Goa and its surrounding lands, “Planta Da Jlha de Goa Na India E Suas Terras Consinantes f. por d’Orgeval 1747.” 4) Parte IV: Epanaphora Indica Em Que Se Lerám Os Progressos Politicos, Militares, E Civis, Que No Discurso Do Anno de 1747, Fez No Seu Governo O...Senhor Marquez de Alorna.... [1748]. 5) Parte V: Epanaphora Indica Continuam Os Progressos Do Governo Do...Senhor Mar- quez de Alorna.... [1750]. 6) Parte VI: Epanaphora Indica Continuaõ-Se, E Finalizaõ-Se Os Progressos Do Governo Do...Senhor Marquez de Alorna.... [1752].

An early 20th-century inscription on the front free endpaper notes the quality of this work (“Classico, muito estimado”) and the great difficulty in procuring or assembling a volume containing all six parts, a task that took the original owner of this volume “many years.” This owner also mentions that the “sage orientalist [Mons Rodolfo Sebastião] Dalgado was aware of only four parts.” WorldCat and OCLC list only two complete copies, at the National Library of Australia and the Newberry Library; the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal in Lisbon also holds a copy in all six parts. Harvard and the University of Minnesota both hold copies in only the first five parts. Not in Palau. Frederick Charles Danvers, The Portuguese in India Being a History of the Rise and Decline of the Eastern Empire (London, 1894). Ethel M. Pope, India in Portuguese Literature (Bastorá, Goa, 1937). $9500. 71. Freycinet, Louis Claude de Saulces de: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROI, SUR LES CORVETTES DE S.M. L’URANIE ET LA PHYSICIENNE, PENDANT LES AN- NEES 1817, 1818, 1819 ET 1820. ATLAS HISTORIQUE. Paris. 1825. 10pp. plus engraved titlepage and 112 plates and maps (two folding, forty colored). Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf over moire silk boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, boards rubbed. Bookplate on front past- edown. Light scattered foxing, several leaves loosening; small tears to edges of some plates. About very good.

The Atlas Historique for this important French-sponsored circumnavigation. The Freycinet expedition resulted in a total of four large atlases and nine accompanying volumes of text. The purpose of the expedition, which was commanded by Frey- cinet, was to make chronometric and magnetic observations in various latitudes. The voyage included a one-month visit in the Sandwich Islands, with time spent in Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu, as well as visits to Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Montevideo, Mauritius, , and the Caroline Islands. “This later circumnavigation by Captain Freycinet was organized by the French government, under the recently restored Bourbon Dynasty, to show the flag around the world and to make scientific observations on geography, magnetism, and meteorology. It was one of the important voyages of exploration of the early nineteenth century. The Uranie sailed from Toulon to Gibraltar, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape of Good Hope, Mascarene Islands, Western Australia, Timor, New Guinea, the Mariana Is- lands, Caroline Islands, Sandwich Islands, New South Wales, New Zealand, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands, where the Uranie was shipwrecked in French Bay....The ship’s doctors, Quoy and Gaimard, and the pharmacist Gaudichaud served as the naturalists, collected specimens, and published separate volumes on zoology and botany. Freycinet was clandestinely accompanied by his wife, Rose, after whom he named an island in the Samoan chain....The scientific results of Freycinet’s explorations in Timor, the islands off New Guinea, the Marianas, and Hawaii were particularly significant and added greatly to the fund of knowledge that the Europeans had of the geography, cultures, and histories of these areas. The writings on the penal colony of Port Jackson, Australia, are of special historic importance” – Hill. The many handsome plates in the atlases, many of which are colored, add greatly to the ethnographic and natural historical aspect of the work. FERGUSON 941. HILL 649. SABIN 25916. FORBES 602. $28,000.

72. Frezier, Amedee François: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH-SEA, AND ALONG THE COASTS OF CHILI AND PERU, IN THE YEARS 1712, 1713, AND 1714.... London. 1717. [14],335,[9]pp. plus thirty-six plates and maps (some folding). Lacks the frontispiece map. Quarto. Later three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges and corners rubbed. Light, scattered soiling and foxing; some light offsetting. Bookplate on verso of titlepage. First page moderately soiled. Very good.

The first English edition of this important Pacific voyage, after the first French edition of 1716. “This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original, but is preferred to the latter because it contains a postscript by Edmund Halley (of comet fame), which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frezier” – Hill. Copies with the date of 1735 are the same edition with a new titlepage. With numerous maps, as well as several engravings, depicting the wildlife and inhabitants of Chile and Peru. ESTC T145981. HILL 654. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 717/66. SABIN 25926. PA- 94965. $1700.

73. Garnett, Thomas: OBSERVATIONS ON A TOUR THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS AND PART OF THE WESTERN ISLES OF SCOT- LAND, PARTICULARLY AND ICOLMKILL.... London. 1800. Two volumes. ix,[1],338; [2],275,[12]pp. plus folding map and fifty- three aquatint engravings. Quarto. Antique three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepages. Scattered foxing, some light offsetting. Very good.

Garnett was a British chemist and physician who toured Scotland after taking up a practice in in 1798. He authored the present work, which is extensively illustrated with views of the countryside. “Published in two volumes in 1800 and embellished with plates by Walter H. Watts, who had accompanied him, the work enjoyed considerable success and was translated into German in 1802” – DNB. ABBEY, SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN 482. ESTC T131649. DNB (online). $1250.

74. Garrison, William Lloyd: THOUGHTS ON AFRICAN COLONI- ZATION: OR AN IMPARTIAL EXHIBITION OF THE DOC- TRINES, PRINCIPLES AND PURPOSES OF THE AFRICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. TOGETHER WITH THE RESO- LUTIONS, ADDRESSES AND REMONSTRANCES OF THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR. Boston: Printed and published by Gar- rison and Knapp, 1832. Original wrappers, letterpress title on upper cover; letterpress “Prospectus of The Liberator, a weekly journal” on the lower cover. Wrapper and titlepage with old dampstaining. Wear to margins of leaves to p.29. Good. Provenance: Walter Bowne (1770-1846, state senator and mayor of New York, armorial bookplates).

Important early critique of the Colonization Society by one of the leading lights of the Abolitionist movement. The second section of the work contains the statements of various African-Americans involved in the abolitionist movement, such as Ab- salom , James Forten, and many others. The lower wrapper gives publication details of Garrison’s other great work, The Liberator, an abolitionist weekly journal which ran from 1831 until it was triumphantly discontinued in 1865. SABIN 26708. $1200. All the Stats on Greenland

75. [Greenland]: NALUNAERUTIT SINERÍSSAP KUJATÂNE MIS- IGSSUISSUT PIVDLUGIT.... [Godthaab: Lars Møller, 1862-1872]. 172, [32],87,[1],54,[2],28pp. plus twenty-five lithographic tables. Modern half red calf and boards, gilt-lettered spine. Internally bright and clean. Very good.

The complete four-volume series on southern and northern Greenland local coun- cils. Of the four volumes, three discuss the southern councils and one treats those in the north. Each was produced separately, though intended to form a complete work. The folding lithographic plates include various local statistics pertinent to the councils. A bevy of information on regional Greenlandic government. Like most early Greenland imprints, quite rare. Knud Oldendow, The Spread of Printing. Western Hemisphere. Greenland (Amsterdam: Van- gendt & Co., 1969), p.37. $3000.

The First Collection of English Travels

76. Hakluyt, Richard: THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION, MADE BY SEA OR OUER LAND, TO THE MOST REMOTE AND FAR- THEST DISTANT QUARTERS OF THE .... London: Chris- topher Barker, 1589. [16],242,[2],243-501,[1],506-643,[12],644-825,[10]pp. Large quarto. Old calf, gilt leather labels. Calf somewhat worn, cracking slightly at bottom of front hinge, extremities bumped. Titlepage with old manuscript marks; some leaves with slight staining, other leaves with small marginal tears. A good copy. In a folding cloth box, leather label. Without the map, which is lacking from most copies.

The first edition of one of the greatest of all travel books, presenting for the first time the many narratives of exploration and travel compiled by , particularly the spectacular feats of the British adventurers of the Elizabethan Age. Most notable is the first appearance in print of Sir Francis Drake’s circumnaviga- tion, here in the special six-leaf inserted form (between pages 643 and 644), lacking from many copies. This 1589 edition of Hakluyt is also very notable for the large amount of information on the “lost colony” of Roanoke, Virginia, organized by Sir . Included is the text of Thomas Hariot’s “Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia,” first published just a year before, in 1588, and appearing here in a voyage collection for the first time. There is also a wealth of other firsthand information on the failed venture, including an account of the first voyage to the region led by Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, with their glowing account of the potential of Roanoke. Richard Grenville was the leader of the settlement, and he gives an account of his experiences there in 1585. There are also descriptions of voyages and experiences by colonists in 1586 and 1587, in all providing the earliest full account of the Roanoke adventure. This issue of Hakluyt also contains the second version of the narrative of Sir Jerome Bowes’ journey to Moscow, replacing the first version, which Hakluyt found incorrect. Comprehensive and accurate, the Hakluyt compilation is one of the classics of travel literature, and the first English collection of voyages. The first two parts of Hakluyt’s text deal with British adventurers in Asia, Af- rica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Europe. The third part is devoted to America and provides detailed descriptions (and in some cases the first) of the voyages in search of a northwest passage; settlements in the Carolinas, Virginia, and at Roanoke; exploits in Caribbean waters; and narratives of Cabot, Hawkins, , Frobisher, Drake, Lane, Hariot, and others. The Drake narrative provides a complete account of the circumnavigation of 1577-80, including Drake’s explora- tions on the California coast. It has remained the primary source for the history of early British exploration, and one of the gems of Elizabethan letters. CHURCH 139A. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 589/31. SABIN 29594. STC 12625. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 9. STREETER SALE 28. KRAUS, DRAKE 27. $27,500.

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 ads. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, expertly rebacked with portion of original spine retained. Minor foxing. 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. $1250.

78. Havell, William: [A SERIES OF PICTURESQUE VIEWS OF THE RIVER THAMES. FROM THE DRAWINGS OF WM. HAVELL. DEDICATED TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF THAMES NAV- IGATION, BY...ROBT. HAVELL]. London: Robert Havell, [1818]. Twelve handcolored aquatint plates by Robert Havell after William Havell, each with black ruled border at the edge of the image and a buff wash border, on thin card, all on guards. Large folio. Expertly bound to style in dark green straight-grained morocco, covers with fine decorative border of stylized foliage, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Very good.

A very fine copy of this important series of Thames views: a visual essay in the pic- turesque from one of the great watercolor landscape artists of the time, with plates by Audubon’s engraver. The almost unobtainable original edition was published in 1812 with plates aquatinted by Robert Havell from his cousin’s watercolors. It marked the start of a long series of important publications by Robert Havell that were to culminate with his work on Audubon’s Birds of America. The present work, also very rare, is the second edition published by Thomas McLean in London in 1818, here bound without the title. The DNB describes William Havell as “one of the best earlier painters in wa- tercolour,” an artist of the highest caliber whose images are “distinguished by pure and delicate colour.” Born in 1782 in Reading, England, he traveled widely in his search for subjects: Wales, the Lake District, Europe, and eight years in India and Burma. However, the present series, drawn from the river that flowed through his home town, is arguably his best work. The panoramic views betray the artist’s intimate understanding of his subject. He ably captures both the river as a calm focus for scenes of great picturesque beauty, and the river as a vital highway for transport and trade. The plates offer the viewer a visual journey: from Oxford and the famous skyline of the colleges, through the busy market town of Abingdon, to Wallingford (a view taken in 1810 while the bridge was being repaired), then two wonderful truly pan- oramic views of the Thames Valley, one viewed from higher ground at Streatley, and a second of Caversham Bridge near Reading. The journey continues with bucolic views near Park Place in Oxfordshire, the weir viewed from Marlow bridge and Clifden spring and woods, near Maidenhead. Taplow is next, then an interesting view of Windsor Castle before the renovations, showing a skyline that is strange yet familiar. The journey ends with a fine view of Datchet Ferry near Windsor, and a spectacular view of Staines church in newly emerged sunlight, while the rain clouds behind are lightened by a beautifully observed double rainbow. ABBEY 433. PRIDEAUX, p.265. TOOLEY p.141. $30,000.

79. [Hawaiian Hymnal]: [, Hiram]: O KE KUMU LEOMELE, NO NA HIMENI A ME NA HALELU E HOOLEA AKU AL I KE AKUA. [bound with:] NA HIMENI HAWAII, ME NA LEOMELE; OIA KA LUA O NA HAPA O KE KUMU LEOMELE. Oahu: Na Na Misionari, 1834-1837. 360pp. Separate titlepage on p.57, with continuous pagination. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt, leather label. Hinges cracked. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some scattered foxing. Near fine.

This is the first work printed in Hawaii that includes musical scoring, and a rare Hawaiian hymnal and manual. The first part is comprised of a musical and singing instruction manual, while the final three hundred pages are a hymnal, including some 194 religious hymns in Hawaiian. The first part translates: “The rules of music for hymns and psalms to praise God.” The second part translates: “Hawaiian hymns with their music; the second part of the rules of music.” Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), who produced this work, was a Congregational missionary in Hawaii from 1820 to 1841. In 1825 he began his translation of the New Testament, and by 1839 he and his associates had translated the entire Bible. “Although dated 1834 this book was so difficult to produce at the Mission Press that it was not completed until three years later. Present day Hawaiian music is based in part on the music taught by the missionaries so this is a particularly interesting example of early printing in the Islands” – Streeter. This copy is from the library of James F. Hunnewell (1832-1910), with his bookplate. Hunnewell was a Boston book collector and bibliographer. He pub- lished 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; Hunnewell 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 and the first printing press. 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 917. BALLOU, BOOKS IN THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE 129. JUDD 110. STREETER SALE 3759. DAB IX, p.381. $6000.

First American Edition of Cook: The First World Map Printed in the Americas, and a Paul Revere Plate

80. Hawkesworth, John: A NEW VOYAGE, ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS 1768, 1769, 1770, AND 1771; UNDERTAKEN BY OR- DER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY, PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOKE, IN THE SHIP ENDEAVOR...IN TWO VOL- UMES, WITH CUTTS AND A MAP OF THE WHOLE NAVIGA- TION. New York: James Rivington, 1774. Two volumes. [2],17,4,[2],260pp. plus frontispiece and folding engraved map; [2],250pp. plus folding frontis- piece. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original backstrips laid down. Mod- ern leather label, gilt, on spine of first volume; contemporary label and “2” stamped in gilt on spine of second volume. Frontispiece in first volume with clean tears along folds, just touching image (no loss). Contemporary owner- ship inscription on titlepage of first volume: “Joseph Alston, Junior.” Folding map with clean tear along fold, just touching printed image (no loss). Con- temporary inscription (“Darby”) on front pastedown; another contemporary inscription abraded and partially erased. Frontispiece in second volume with clean two-inch tear at bottom, just touching printed image and text (no loss). Both volumes age-toned, with occasional foxing and soiling. A very good set. In a half morocco box.

The first American edition of any of Cook’s voyages, issued in New York on the eve of the American Revolution by the Loyalist printer, James Rivington. The work contains one of Paul Revere’s more exotic copper plate engravings and the first world map printed in the Americas. Hawkesworth’s account of Capt. James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific first appeared in 1773. One of the most important publications in all of the literature of exploration and voyages, it describes Cook’s important explorations of Australia, discovery of New Zealand, adventures on Tahiti, and a wealth of other material. The tremendous interest in the voyage is reflected in this American edition, only the second work devoted to Pacific exploration to be published in an American edition. “The frontispiece by Paul Revere and the Romans map make this a distinguished book” – Streeter. The publisher, Rivington, later famous as the New York Loyalist printer of the Revolution, made every effort to make this product of the British colonial press as elegant as possible. The frontispiece of the first volume was engraved by Paul Revere. Brigham records the correspondence between Rivington and the bookseller (and later general) Henry Knox, commissioning Revere to execute the plate entitled “Dramatic Interlude & Dance Given by the Indians of Ulietea....” In his records Revere notes billing Rivington for the plate on May 3, 1774. The plate is thus the conjunction of three famous Revolutionary figures, as well as the first visual image of the South Seas to be printed in America. The untitled map is the first map of the world to be published in the Americas. A Mercator projection designed to show the track of Cook’s voyage, it also shows the course charted by Bougainville as well. It was designed and engraved by the famous American mapmaker, Romans, best known for his work as a naturalist and cartographer in Florida, as well as his sailing directions of the East Coast and an engraved map of Connecticut. A rare American cartographic landmark, found as originally published in the first American edition of any of Cook’s voyages, itself a significant issue of the late British colonial press. BEDDIE 656. STREETER SALE 2407. WHEAT & BRUN 1. BRIGHAM, pp.76-78. SABIN 30936. HOLMES 9. $25,000.

The Deluxe Issue

81. Heine, Wilhelm: GRAPHIC SCENES IN THE JAPAN EXPEDI- TION. New York: Putnam, 1845. 12 leaves of letterpress text. Ten litho- graphic prints on proof paper, tipped onto bristol board (one tinted portrait of Perry from a daguerreotype by P. Hass, nine views by Heine printed in colors and finished by hand), all printed by Sarony & Co. Large folio. Half dark maroon morocco and period cloth portfolio. Very good. In a dark maroon morocco backed box.

The very rare deluxe colored issue on card of this important work recording Com- modore Perry’s expedition to Japan. Evidence of the rarity of this album is given by Bennett writing in 1947: “Obviously several copies must have been preserved, but the one described seems to be the only one yet offered for public sale.” Wil- liam Heine was the official artist of 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” – Introduction. Copies were produced on regular paper, and in the deluxe form, as in the present copy, mounted on bristol board and beautifully finished by hand. 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 Yokohama”; 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 ac- count of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both the Abbey catalogue and Cordier’s Japanese bibliography. BENNETT, p.53. McGRATH, p.123. $37,500.

A Classic Early Travel Narrative

82. , Johannes Witte de: ITINERARIUS IOANNIS DE HESE PRESBYTERIA HIERUSALEM DESCRIBENS DISPOSITIO- NES TERRARUM INSULARUM.... Paris: Robert Gourmont for Olivier Senant, [ca. 1505]. [20] leaves. Small quarto. Early 20th-century speckled calf, tooled in blind, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities lightly worn. Minor soiling. Very good.

A rare edition of this early travel narrative, giving an account of the journey of Johannes de Hesse, encompassing the Holy Land and other regions, in 1389. In a similar vein with Mandeville’s travels, Hesse’s work provides the reader with a fantastic and extremely engaging narrative – he encounters cannibals, pygmies, and a unicorn; sees a parting of the sea, which enables him to reach a holy shrine; finds and visits the Garden of Eden; and spends a significant amount of time visiting the legendary (and mythical) Prester John in his oriental . Like Mandeville’s travels, Hesse’s Itinerarius is significant for its place in the development of travel literature. It was popular enough to have been printed in seven editions from about 1490 to 1500, in Cologne, Antwerp, and Deventer. Includes a full-page woodcut printer’s device on the verso of the final leaf. GW M07739. GOFF H-148. TOBLER 1389. $18,500.

83. Hobhouse, John C.: A JOURNEY THROUGH ALBANIA, AND OTHER PROVINCES OF TURKEY IN EUROPE AND ASIA, TO CONSTANTINOPLE, DURING THE YEARS 1809 AND 1810. London. 1813. xix,[1],1152,[2]pp. plus two folding maps and twenty-five plates (seventeen in color and seven double-page). Quarto. Contemporary calf, ornately gilt; rebacked with original spine laid down. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to one map, otherwise quite clean and fresh internally. Very good.

“Hobhouse was an intimate friend of [Lord] Byron, with whom he made the journey described in this book....Hobhouse’s account of this journey, Byron’s first visit to Greece, is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on an important period in the poet’s life, but also for Hobhouse’s detailed accounts of ethnographical and topographical material and his description of Ali Pasha’s court” – Blackmer. With handsome colored views of the area, as well as images of the locals. ABBEY 202. BLACKMER 821. $5000.

84. Hooker, Joseph [et al]: THE FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA. London. 1875-1897. Seven volumes. Later three-quarter morocco and cloth, raised bands, t.e.g. Spine ends bit chipped. Outer hinges worn, with crack- ing on most volumes, sometimes nearly detached. Bit tanned. Ex-New York Horticultural Society. Overall a very good set.

Hooker was one of the most prolific botanical writers of his day and had been on Ross’ expedition to Antarctica in 1839-43. He compiled the present extensive work on Indian flora with the assistance of many other botanists. See Taxonomic Literature for a detailed synopsis of the contents. A work of the greatest importance in the history of botanical exploration. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 2981. $2250.

85. Horton, Africanus B.: LETTERS ON THE POLITICAL CONDI- TION OF THE GOLD COAST SINCE THE EXCHANGE OF TERRITORY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH GOV- ERNMENTS, ON JANUARY 1, 1863.... London. 1870. 179,[3]pp. Original green publisher’s cloth, stamped in black and gold; neatly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled. Presentation inscription from the author on front pastedown; ownership inscription on titlepage. Some light toning and a few spots of foxing. Very good.

A writer, surgeon, and political economist, Africanus Horton was also a visionary who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. A native of Sierra Leone, he was the first African graduate of the University of Edinburgh. “Horton served for twenty years as a medical officer in west Africa, chiefly in the Gold Coast, during which time he participated in two of the wars against the king- dom of Asante, acted from time to time as an administrative officer, and undertook medical and geological research. In 1859 he published his doctoral thesis, a medical topography of west Africa, and later issued three more medical works – a plea for much-needed sanitary reform in west Africa, a monograph on the Guinea worm, and a textbook of tropical medicine (which went into two editions). His Political Economy of British West Africa appeared in 1865 and was followed by his best-known work, West African Countries and Peoples (1867, reprinted 1969). Subtitled ‘A Vin- dication of the African Race,’ the latter begins with a refutation of contemporary racial theories, and goes on with Horton’s own blueprint for the future evolution of west Africa, including substantial expenditure on education and economic de- velopment, on lines that foreshadow those followed at decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1870 he published Letters on the Political Condition of the Gold Coast (reprinted 1970)” – DNB. This work, which was published by subscription “for private circulation only,” is quite scarce. This copy is especially desirable, as it is inscribed by the author on the front pastedown. Only six copies are in OCLC, and only one of those – at the New York Public Library – is in North America. DNB (online). $5000.

86. Hunter, John: AN HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF THE TRANS- ACTIONS AT PORT JACKSON, AND NORFOLK ISLAND. IN- CLUDING THE JOURNALS OF GOVERNORS PHILLIP AND KING, SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF PHILLIP’S VOYAGE. WITH AN ABRIDGED ACCOUNT OF THE NEW DISCOVER- IES IN THE SOUTH SEAS. London. 1793. 525,[3]pp. plus folding map, folding plate, and 16pp. of advertisements. Frontis. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Some light scattered foxing and soiling, light offset- ting from plates. Very good.

The abridged octavo edition, after the quarto edition of the same year. “Hunter, vice-admiral and governor of New South Wales in succession to Governor Phillip, went out as second-in-command on the Sirius in the first convict fleet. He was an experienced and scientific navigator. With his encouragement, the exploration of the coastline of Australia made rapid progress, and the early discoveries of Flinders and Bass owe much to him. His journal is a very valuable work on the early history of the English settlement in Australia” – Hill. The plate of the aboriginal family is engraved by William Blake. ESTC N33298. HILL 857 (ref ). FERGUSON 153. $2000. Important Early Travel in Russia and China

87. Ides, Evert Ysbrants: THREE YEARS TRAVELS FROM MOSCOW OVER-LAND TO CHINA: THRO’ GREAT USTIGA, SIRIANA, PERMIA, SIBIRIA, DAOUR, GREAT TARTARY, &c. TO PEKING .... London. 1706. [14],110,[2],115-210pp. plus a large folding map and thirty plates (eight folding). Small quarto. Contemporary paneled calf. Corners and hinges lightly worn. Contemporary bookplate on verso of titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

The first English edition of an account of the travel of Ambassador Evert Ysbrants Ides, a Dutch merchant, from Moscow to China in 1692, on behalf of Peter the Great. The work contains “an exact and particular description of the extent and limits of those countries, and the customs of the barbarous inhabitants; with refer- ence to their religion, government, marriages, daily imployments, habits, habitations, diet, death, funerals, &c.” Departing Moscow on a sled, he traveled across Siberia and on to Peking. The large folding map shows imperial Russia, while the plates show people and scenes along the way. One plate shows the Dalai Lama, while a large folding plate shows the Great Wall of China. An interesting and important travel narrative for both Russia and China, handsomely illustrated. ESTC T55175. $7500. 88. Ireland, John: THE SHIPWRECKED ORPHANS: A TRUE NAR- RATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF JOHN IRELAND AND WILLIAM DOYLEY, WHO WERE WRECKED IN THE SHIP CHARLES EATON, ON AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH SEAS. New Haven: S. , [1845]. 64pp. including eight full-page illustrations in text. 16mo. Original tan pictorial wrappers. Covers worn and soiled, spine perished. Text moderately foxed. Last leaf torn slightly in gutter margin. Still, a good copy of this scarce work.

Scarce narrative, published as part of Teller’s Tales for children, relating the tale of two boys who survived the wreck of the Barque Charles Eaton and subsequent capture by natives in 1834. The Charles Eaton crashed on the off the coast of Australia. The castaways constructed two rafts out of the wreckage and began to float, finally coming ashore on the islands off the tip of York Penin- sula, near present-day . Unfortunately the natives were not friendly and murdered most of the refugees. Several young boys were traded to other, friendlier natives for a bunch of bananas, but the only two left alive by the time rescue ar- rived were the cabin boy, John Ireland, and the young son of one of the passengers, William Doyley. The work is illustrated with eight plates showing the natives in various scenes, such as murdering the castaways. “This ‘True narrative’ published for juvenile readers is very rare” – Ferguson. Only a handful of copies on OCLC. FERGUSON 4078A. $2500.

Photography and Tobacco Comes to Japan

89. [ Japan]: [ORIGINAL COLORED JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT SHOWING A MEETING BETWEEN THE KABUKI AC- TOR DANJURO IX AND THE ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHER AD- OLFO FARSARI]. [Tokyo: Nichinichi Shinbun, 1874]. Colored woodblock print, 13¾ x 9 inches. Left edge trimmed a bit in border. Light wrinkling. Very good, the colors bright and robust.

An attractive and vibrant colored Japanese woodblock print, showing a meeting between renowned Kabuki actor Danjuro Ix and Italian-born photographer Adolfo Farsari. The illustration provides a striking image of a meeting between East and West, and between western technological innovation and traditional Japanese culture. Drawn by Utagawa school artist Yoshiiku, the woodblock was issued as a supple- ment to the Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun newspaper in September 1874. Yoshiiku was a founder of the newspaper and is known for his sensational color supplements and other illustrations. According to the Japanese text, in May 1872 an unidentified “yojin” (“ocean person”) visited Danjuro Ix backstage and asked to photograph the actor in exchange for some cigarettes. The westerner is not identified in the text, but a comparison with photographs of Adolfo Farsari is conclusive. Farsari took up residence in Japan in the early 1870s, and eventually became one of the most prominent photographers in the country. In this image he sits beside the heavily adorned Kabuki performer, who is seated before his dressing table. A striking im- age. $1000.

90. [ Japan]: [Photographs]: REMINISCENCES OF KYUSHU [cover title]. [Various locations in Japan. ca. 1900]. Ten leaves containing eighty photographs, each 2¼ x 3¼ inches. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black three- quarter morocco and cloth. Hinges and corners lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing, primarily to mounts and not images. Prints sharp and clear. Very good.

Eighty attractive images of turn-of-the-century Japan, as seen through a Western lens. Evidently narrating a trip in Japan, each photograph is captioned in English, usually stating location. Locations include Kagoshima, the Kuma River, Kumamoto, Nakatshu, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, and Isahaya. While most of the images show land- scapes and the scenery of the area, many of them include local people – at temple and shrines, in city streets, going about every day life. Of particular interest are a photograph of a woodcutter’s hut, with the family in the foreground, a fortuneteller plying his trade, a group of young men washing vegetables, a view of Suizenji Park, a Buddhist Temple, threshing rice, the sulphur springs at Nagasaki, and various scenes in native villages. A nice collection of images, with the bookplate of New Zealand photo-historian Frederic Hardwicke Knight. $2000.

With Color Plates of Exotic Missions

91. Jouhanneaud, Pablo: ALBUM DE LAS MISIONES O COLECCION PINTORESCA DE PINTURA DE COSTUMBRES, DE REFLEX- IONES MORALES, DE AVENTURAS Y NARRACIONES INTE- RESANTES, DE COSAS CURIOSAS, etc. etc. Paris: Libreria de Rosa y Bouret, 1859. 192pp. plus twenty-four handcolored lithographs. Half title. Quarto. Original green cloth, boards beautifully gilt and colored, spine heavily gilt, a.e.g. Spine a bit rubbed, binding lightly worn at spine ends and extremi- ties. Occasional light foxing. Very good.

A little-known but quite interesting work providing reports of missionary activities around the world, embellished with two dozen attractive colored plates of exotic scenes. The regions covered are Oceania, including the Sandwich Islands, the Marquesas, Fiji, Tahiti, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia, including China, Tibet, and Bengal. The largest geographic region covered is the Americas, with reports on missionary activities in New Orleans, the Rocky Mountains, Hudson Bay, Texas, Kansas, Canada, Patagonia, Brazil, and Greenland. Most of the plates show mis- sionaries preaching in exotic settings among wild natives. The book was produced in Paris but printed in Spanish, likely meant to be sold largely in South America and other parts of the Spanish-speaking world. Not in Forbes, though the first report, two-pages long, is on the Sandwich Islands. OCLC locates only nine cop- ies. A scarce color plate book showing missionary activities in the Americas and other exotic lands. O’REILLY-REITMAN 7126. $2750.

92. Keppel, George: PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND, BY BUSSORAH, BAGDAD, THE RUINS OF BABYLON, CURDISTAN, THE COURT OF PERSIA, THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE CASPIAN SEA, ASTRAKHAN, NISHNEY, NOVOGOROD, MOSCOW, AND ST. PETERS- BURGH: IN THE YEAR 1824. London: Henry Colburn, 1827. xii,338pp. including in-text illustrations, plus three handcolored aquatint plates (including frontispiece) and a folding map. Quarto. Contemporary polished green calf, boards elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands and gilt morocco label, gilt inner dentelles. Spine ends worn, corners bumped, hinges rubbed. Bookplate of Stephen Hungerford Pollen on front pastedown. Early ownership signature on titlepage. A couple of light marginal stains, but on the whole very clean and fresh internally. Very good.

The first edition, which was followed by two more editions the same year. Keppel (1799-1891), who became the sixth Earl of Albemarle, joined the army at a young age and was present at the Battle of Waterloo, after which he served in the Ionian Islands, Mauritius, and the Cape. He was ordered to India as a lieutenant in the 20th Regiment in 1821, where he served for two years as aide-de-camp to the governor-general. He then returned to England by an overland route, describing his experiences in this volume. “Relying on a slight knowledge of Persian acquired during the long passage out to India, he visited the ruins of Babylon and the court of Tehran, from there journeying to England by way of Baku, Astrakhan, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, then a rare feat. His published account is an interesting book” – DNB. A significant journey through Arabia. Not in Abbey. BLACKMER 908 (3rd ed). $3000.

A Pioneering Northern Voyage

93. Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves-Joseph de: RELATION D’UN VOYAGE DANS LA MER DU NORD, AUX CÔTES D’ISLANDE, DU GROENLAND, DE FERRO, DE SCHETTLAND, DES ORCADES & DE NORWÉGE; FAIT EN 1767 & 1768. Paris: de l’Imprimerie de Prault, 1771. viii,[2],220pp. plus fifteen plates (seven folding) and three fold- ing engraved maps. Lacks the sixth preliminary leaf, “Avis,” with list of maps and plates. Quarto. Contemporary paper boards, original paper label (ink in- scription faded). 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Titlepage slightly soiled and age- toned. Slight age-toning at edges and occasional minor foxing, one leaf at rear dampstained. Edges untrimmed. A very good copy.

First edition of the account of French explorer Kerguelen-Trémarec’s voyage in the North Sea, including the coasts of , Greenland, and Norway, undertaken in 1767 and 1768. A second edition was published the following year in Amsterdam and Leipzig, and an English translation appeared in the first volume of John Pinkerton’s collection of voyages and travels issued in the early 19th century. According to the preface, the purpose of the expedition was to “give protection and encouragement to the cod fishermen on the coast of Iceland, and to preserve order among the French fishermen” (Cox). Complementing the three folding engraved maps are several plans and coastal profiles and four fine plates depicting the indigenous peoples of the Arctic regions. Kerguelen-Trémarec’s later expeditions included a voyage to the South Seas, where he discovered the Kerguelen and Desolation islands in the Antarctic in 1772. SABIN 37616. JCB 1493-1800, III:1806. COX II, p.21; III, p.94. $4000.

94. Kippis, Andrew: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. London. 1788. xvi,527,[1]pp. Lacks the half title. Frontispiece portrait. Quarto. Modern half calf, spine gilt, and marbled boards. Light old marginal dampstains to prefatory leaves, minor internal foxing. Small closed tears in margins of pp. 55 and 335. Contemporary manuscript notes and an 18th-century magazine article relating to Cook bound in at rear.

The first British biography of Cook, providing a well balanced account of his life. The three great voyages are covered in considerable depth, but there is also a good deal of information concerning his career prior to the Pacific voyages, in Canada and at the siege of Quebec, as well as his early and family life. Samwell’s narra- tive of the death of Cook is included. Some have criticized the work for lacking information on Cook’s personal life, but that was not a goal of Kippis, who gathered his information from a wide array of sources, including Cook’s widow, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir , the Earl of Sandwich, and Lord Howe. An important contemporary source on the life of Cook. HILL 935. HOLMES 69. FORBES 149. BEDDIE 32. LADA-MOCARSKI 40. HOW- ES K179, “aa.” SABIN 37954. O’REILLY & REITMAN 455. KROEPELIEN 647. $3000.

95. Krusenstern, Adam Johann von: [VIEW OF SHORE NEAR NA- GASAKI WITH IMAGE OF JAPANESE BIRD NAMED SKOPA]. [Tab. XLVI]. St. Petersburg. 1814. Copper plate engraving. Image size (in- cluding text): 21¼ x 26½ inches. Sheet size: 24½ x 34½ inches. A fine copy.

A fine view of coastal Japan in the first decade of the 19th century, showing an American ship, with Nagasaki in the background, and a Japanese Fish Hawk on a branch. This image comes from the atlas of plates to Krusenstern’s account of his voy- age around the world (published in St. Petersburg in 1810-14). The expedition departed Kronstadt in August 1803 aboard two British vessels purchased for the voyage and, via Cape Horn and visiting the Sandwich Islands, Kamchatka, and Japan, eventually returned to the same port, via the Cape of Good Hope, in August 1806. The expedition constituted the first ever Russian voyage around the world, and the published work included much of value, particularly about Japan. The voyage was one of the most important post-Cook Pacific voyages, specifi- cally aimed at obtaining more knowledge of the north Pacific region, establishing diplomatic and commercial relations with Japan, and visiting the Russian trading posts in Alaska and on the west coast of America. It comprised the first Russian expedition to circumnavigate the globe, under the command of Ivan F. von Kru- senstern, between 1803 and 1806. The expedition touched on Brazil and rounded Cape Horn, visiting the Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, Kamchatka, and Japan. In Hawaii the expedition separated, with ships under Langsdorff and Lisianski sailing to the Northwest Coast while Krusenstern himself undertook the delicate Japan expedition. He then returned via Macao and the Cape of Good Hope. All references: LADA-MOCARSKI 62. SABIN 38327. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 9377. HOWES K272, “c.” BORBA DE MORAES, pp.374-75. PHILLIPS, ATLASES 5813. $6000. First American Edition of an Important Pacific Voyage

96. La Pérouse, Jean François: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788...TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A VOYAGE FROM MANILLA TO CALIFORNIA, BY DON ANTONIO MAURELLE: AND AN ABSTRACT OF THE VOYAGE AND DISCOVERIES OF THE LATE CAPT. G. VANCOUVER. Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1801. 333pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in matching style, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Contemporary ownership signature of “Elisha Whitney Junior” on front free fly leaf. Foxing and tanning. A good plus copy.

The rare first American edition of one of the most important Pacific voyages. The La Pérouse account was first published in Paris in French in 1797, and in Eng- lish in 1798. This is one of the earliest Pacific voyages to appear in an American edition and, published much less modestly than the French and British editions, would have been the way that the average American would have learned about La Pérouse’s important surveys of the Pacific coast and his descriptions of native Americans there. This is also the first American version (although only a précis) of Vancouver’s voyage, first published in London in 1798. The 1781 voyage of the Spanish naval officer Francisco Antonio Mourelle (incorrectly spelled in this edition’s title) went from the Philippines to the South Pacific, where he explored in the vicinity of New Guinea and the Tonga Islands, before sailing on to Mexico. Howes is inaccurate in his pagination of this edition, and the Hill copy contains a map that was added later. HILL 976. SABIN 38966. HOWES L93. FORBES 331. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 789. FERGUSON 333. KROEPELIEN 1331. $3750.

Laplace Consolidates French Power in the Pacific: His Second Great Voyage, Including Hawaii

97. Laplace, Cyrille Pierre Theodore: CAMPAGNE DE CIRCUMNAVI- GATION DE LA FRÉGATE L’ARTÉMISE, PENDANT LES AN- NÉES 1837, 1838, 1839 ET 1840.... Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1841-1854. Six volumes. xxxix,343,[3]; [4],467,[3]; [2],548,[1]; [4],464,[3]; [4],iii,542,[2]; [4],400pp. plus two maps and thirty-one plates. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Some light foxing. Very good.

“This is the official account of Laplace’s second voyage of circumnavigation....This voyage of the Artémise is of great importance for the part it played in the expansion and consolidation of French interests in the Pacific Ocean. The objectives of this voyage were to advance wherever possible French political and commercial interests in the Pacific, particularly with regard to Tahiti and Hawaii. “Laplace arrived in Honolulu on July 9, 1839. His visit had the specific inten- tion of redressing ‘grievances’ of French citizens, and reinforcing treaty agreements, and it has been described as one of ‘avowed hostility’ ( Judd and Lind). Captain Laplace had instructions to impress upon the king of the Hawaiian Islands the power of France, and by issuing a ‘Manifesto,’ to demand satisfaction for wrongs done to French citizens; achieve freedom of worship for the Catholic religion and freedom from persecution for Catholics; and ensure the introduction of French priests, the importation of wines and brandies, and the trial of French nationals by foreign juries. He forced the Hawaiian government to sign a treaty to this ef- fect, and he demanded and received twenty thousand dollars as guarantee of good conduct and a salute of 21 guns to the flag of France. The cash guarantee, which literally emptied the Hawaiian treasury, was not returned to the Hawaiian govern- ment for a number of years. “The fine quality engraved views in the text volumes depict scenes where stops were made during the course of the voyage. These include Monterey, California, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Papeete, Manila, Macao, Calcutta, and Bombay. There is one Hawaiian plate in this work (Vol. V, p.442): ‘Honorourou, Capitale dOuahou, vu du Mouillage’ (10.5 x 17.3 cm). The original watercolor of this plate, by Lieuten- ant (later Admiral) François Edmond Paris, is in the Bishop Museum Collection, a gift of Mr. Donald Angus. “The work was originally issued in livraisons (parts), and volumes were bound in green paper covered boards, with advertisements for other works on the back covers of each. The first livraison (part one of Vol. I) was recorded in the Bibliographie de la France, October 16, 1841 (No. 1906). At that time, it was announced the work would form four volumes octavo, ornamented with 30 to 35 woodcut vignettes, and a map. ‘Each volume will be divided into 2 livraisons which shall be published in intervals.’ Each livraison was priced at 7 francs to subscribers, and after the publication of the third livraison it was stated that the subscription list would be closed, and the price for each part to nonsub- scribers increased to 8 francs. Volume IV (with livraisons 7 and 8) was recorded as received July 15, 1848 (Bibliographie No. 3620). The two later volumes do not seem to be recorded in the Bibliographie” – Forbes. The maps illustrate Laplace’s route for this voyage as well as his earlier circum- navigation aboard the Favorite in 1830-32. Forbes would seem to be in error in calling for a total of thirty-two plates; specifically in calling for a total of six plates in the fourth volume. The plate list in that volume calls only for five plates, and the four copies we have examined (including two in original printed boards) each have only five plates in the fourth volume, making a total of thirty-one plates for the set. Extremely rare. Forbes locates only seven copies. FORBES 1298. HILL 981. DUNMORE, pp.317-40. HUNNEWELL, p.50. O’REILLY & REITMAN 984. SABIN 38983. TAILLEMITE, p.197. JUDD & LIND 105. $18,500. Lovely Illustrated Work on the Design of the Place de la Concorde

98. Le Gendre, Jean-Gabriel: DESCRIPTION DE LA PLACE DE LOUIS XV QUE L’ON CONSTRUIT A REIMS, DES OUVRAG- ES A CONTINUER AUX ENVIRONS DE CETTE PLACE, & DE CEUX A FAIRE DANS LA SUITE POUR L’UTILITE & L’EMBELLISSEMENT DE CETTE VILLE. Paris: de l’imprimerie de Prault, 1765. Eight engraved plates and plans (double-page plan, four double- page plates by Pierre-Philippe Choffard after Le Gendre, one double-page and two single-page plates by P.E. Moitte after C.N. Cochin); engraved headpiece by Choffard. Plates and text on laid paper. Large folio. Expertly bound to style in half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Very good.

Le Gendre, ingenieur du roy, inspecteur general des ponts et chaussees de France, submitted his first grandiose plans for the Place de la Concorde in 1755, based on a similar project carried out in the extensions to Nancy in 1752-55. Revised plans were submitted and accepted in 1758 and are the subject of the present work. One of the plates depicts the fine statue of Louis XV by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle erected in the Place Royale. BERLIN CAT. 2515. COHEN-DE RICCI 615. Vera Salomons, Choffard (1911), p.75. $8000.

Extensive Journals of Travels in

99. Leigh, John Studdy: [MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A YOUNG ENGLISHMAN’S CAREER IN EAST AFRICA, INCLUDING TRAVEL THROUGH UNEXPLORED AREAS OF ZANZIBAR]. [1836-1840]. Two volumes. Vol. 1: 184pp., 40,000 words. Vol. 2: 136pp. plus blanks, 45,000 words. Vol. 1: Quarto. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. Binding rubbed and worn, spine chipped, text block nearly detached from boards. Internally very clean, legible, tightly bound, and in very good condition. Vol. 2: Quarto. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. Binding lightly worn. Internally near fine. The two volumes together in a half morocco and cloth box.

An engrossing East Africa journal by John Studdy Leigh, an energetic and obser- vant young employee of a London merchant firm, containing very early accounts of many locations in Zanzibar. Leigh was hired by Newman, Hunt and Christopher in 1836, and his journal begins with an account of him receiving his commission and leaving his native Jersey. He first landed at Quelimane, having met J.B. Emery, later governor of Mombasa, on the voyage over. Once in Quelimane, he calls on the governor and trades at the Custom House, socializing with soldiers who were engaged suppressing the slave trade. He then begins to travel, going to Majunga, Madagascar in August and then sailing to Kilwa Kivinje, Kilwa Kisiwani, and the southeast coast of the before returning to Majunga in December. He sets out again in Febru- ary 1837 for Vohémar and St. Mary’s on the east coast of Madagascar and Mahé in the Seychelles. From Mahé he heads to Zanzibar for the first time in August 1837. However, Leigh was not destined to stay long in Zanzibar this time. He arrived sick with fever (possibly malaria), and after a month of “fumigatory baths” and much “fever, sickness and shivering,” he heads to South Africa to recuperate. It is a testament to his observatory powers and keen interest in the events around him that, in spite of his illness, he managed to get around “Zanzibar town” and write insightfully about the slave trade and local customs. Leigh stayed in South Africa recovering until June 3, 1838 (fifty engaging pages in the first volume of the diary are devoted to his time there), and returned to work in Zanzibar on the 24th of that same month. During Leigh’s second trip, he began to explore the southern interior of Zanzibar and the island of Pemba. On July 6 he set out on an excursion to the “lands of Mwene mcu [Mwenyi Mkuu],” the ruler of the Hadimu people in southern Zan- zibar. His trip to the island of “Oozy [Uzi]” and the old capital at Unguja Ukuu is actually the first recorded European visit. He notes local flora and fauna, recounts wedding preparations between “a young Arab and a daughter of the governor of Pangani,” and dines with Mwenyi Mkuu and describes his house and grounds. He left for the island of Pemba on July 18 and arrived the next day (Volume II of the journal starts then). Among other exploits (including a near death experience with an unruly horse), he treks to Pujini, the ruins of a fortified palace. His account of its “staircase of stone and lime, niches in many of the walls” and general “ruins of great solidity” is the first one since the raid of Duarte de Lemos in 1510. He left Pemba on July 29th, staying in Zanzibar until August 18th, when he embarked on an ancillary voyage through Mozambique, Juan de Nova, Mayotte, and Dalrymple Bay, Madagascar. He returned to Zanzibar for just a brief visit in October, and then left on a “voy- age mostly of discovery” on the north coast of Somalia and through Aden. Coming back to Zanzibar for his last visit in March 1839, he spent his time socializing, playing parlor games, engaging in local trade, and interacting with the inhabitants (“Happening to show a five franc piece I had accidentally in my pocket it was begged of me so coaxingly by Bibiacha that I could not resist her request. She said she would make a finger ring of it. Foreign coin is frequently used for this purpose.”). On May 29th, Leigh was transferred to Madagascar until February 1840, when he sailed back to England (the journal continues until the end of that year.) Leigh’s journal notably brings to life several areas of Zanzibar previously unknown to Europeans, and he uses his powers of observation in every area in Africa that he passed through. His relative lack of professional responsibility (either his tasks were simple or he was not inclined to work much) left him much time to explore, and he has a particularly good eye for social custom, offering many fascinating de- scriptions of ornaments, food, clothing, and domiciles wherever he traveled. Parts of his journal have been transcribed and heavily annotated by James S. Kirkman (a noted East African archaeologist) in three articles in The International Journal of African Historical Studies. Overall, this item is a fascinating record of Africa and particularly Zanzibar at the time, made by an interestingly observant young explorer. James S. Kirkman, “John Studdy Leigh in Somalia” in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 8, 1975, pp.441-56. James S. Kirkman, “The Zanzibar Diary of John Studdy Leigh, Part I” in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 13.2 (1980), pp.281-312. James S. Kirkman, “The Zanzibar Diary of John Studdy Leigh, Part II” in The International Journal of African Historical Studies 13.3 (1980), pp.492-507. $18,500.

A Handsome Copy of This Important and Influential Work, with Beautiful Hand-Coloring

100. Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: ITINERARIO, VOYAGE OFTE SCHIPVAERT...NAER OOST OFTE PORTUGAELS INDIEN.... [bound with:] REYS-GHESCHRIFT VANDE NAVIGATIEN DER PORTUGALOYSERS IN ORIENTEN.... [bound with:] BESCHRI- JVINGE VANDE GANTSCHE CUSTE VAN GUINEA, MANI- CONGO, ANGOLA, MONOMOTAPA, ENDE TEGEN OVER DE CABO DE S. AUGUSTIJN IN BRASILIEN.... Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1596-1595-1596. Three parts bound in one volume (parts two and three bound in reverse order in this copy). Text in double columns. [8],160; 134,[4],135-147,[8]; 82,[1]pp. plus a total of six folding or double-page maps, thirty-six folding or double-page plates, and a single-page portrait of Lin- schoten. Folio. Contemporary vellum, elaborately tooled in gilt, spine gilt, silk ties, yapp edges; recased, with new endpapers. Maps and folding plates with occasional slight chipping or splits at folds, repaired on verso in some cases. Occasional tanning or foxing. Overall, a handsome copy, brilliantly colored. In a chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. See cover of this catalogue for another illustration

A remarkable copy of the first edition of the most important description of the East Indies in the , with beautiful early hand-coloring and in a handsome contemporary vellum binding, likely a special presentation copy. Lin- schoten’s work was of tremendous importance, as it unlocked the secrets of Asian trade routes, once the exclusive domain of the Portuguese, for the rest of Europe Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611), a Dutchman born in Haarlem in 1563, 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). Linschoten travelled to Goa in 1583 as a clerk of the newly-appointed Portuguese Archbishop of Goa. He made a few trips into India, compiling notes on his expe- riences, gleaned information on sea routes from Portuguese sailors, and collected information from other sources as well. Linschoten left India in 1589, hired as a pepper factor for the Fugger and Welser interests, where he learned about the organization and administration of the spice trade. Returning to Holland in 1592 following a two-year stay in the Azores, he prepared his notes for the Amsterdam publisher, Claeszoon, in response to interest of the Netherlands and other Euro- pean countries about commercial possibilities in Asia. As trade in the Far East was dependent on routes via America or Africa, his work eventually encompassed the entire globe, including Spanish and Portuguese activities in America. Linschoten’s practical experience lent authenticity to his work, and it remains one of the most important of all travel books. Linschoten’s Itinerario... and the two other works published in 1595 and 1596 (which should properly be found together, as here) soon was considered the single most significant source regarding the East and West Indies and numerous editions were published in Dutch, Latin, French, German, and English. Klooster describes the work as “a magnificent panorama of pictures and maps of the non-European world. Itinerario contained so much detailed and accurate information about ship- ping lanes, winds, and currents, that seafarers could use it virtually as a handbook. Many of his maps were in fact copies of the excellent models of the Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado.” 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 contemporary 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 second section, Reys-Gheschrift Vande Navigatien..., was published in 1595, a year before the Itinerario, and is bound last in this copy. The text gives detailed sailing directions for the East Indies, as well as for Brazil and the West Indies. The third part (bound second in this copy) gives an account of America on pages 17-82, especially the coastal regions, and includes information on the African coast as well. It is found here in its first state (see Church), and was published in 1596. 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 1596 (Shirley 192). The marvellous plates include scenes of Asia, particularly Java, China, and India. Several of the plates depict activities in Goa, including a wonderful panoramic view of the market, while other plates depict Portuguese travellers on land and on sea. Linschoten’s is 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 possibili- ties he detailed, encouraged a series of Dutch, French, and English fleets to set sail for the Spice Islands, and beyond to China and Japan. Lach says that Linschoten’s description of Goa is “one of the most original and reliable narratives prepared during the sixteenth century on life at the hub of Portugal’s Eastern empire and still is regarded as one of the best sources for Goa’s history at the peak of its glory....The original edition...contains a number of excellent maps, three of which are of great value for the study of Asia. These maps, which are much better and more detailed than earlier printed maps, were clearly derived from the latest and best Portuguese charts of the Eastern oceans and sea coasts.” Parry calls Linschoten’s work “a journal of human adventure and observation, an uplifting story that appeals on many levels.” “Fine copies of this work with all the maps and plates are extremely rare” – Church catalogue. A work of tremendous consequence and importance, here in a handsome copy with lovely contemporary hand-coloring. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 596/63 & 596/64. JCB I, pp.343-45. SHIRLEY 192, 182. SABIN 41356. TIELE 84-87. KLOOSTER, DUTCH IN THE AMERICAS, p.8, catalogue item 5. David E. Parry, The of the East Indian Islands, pp.84-85. CHURCH 252. HOWGEGO L131. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.486-87. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 184. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe I, pp.198-204, 482-89. $275,000. The Greatest 16th-Century Depictions of the East Published in Europe

101. Linschoten, Jan Huygen van: [ICONES, HABITUS GETUSQUE INDORUM AC LUSITANORUM PER INDIAM VIVENTIUM, TEMPLORUM AEDIUM, ARBORUM, FRUTUM, HERBARUM, AROMATUM]. [Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, ca. 1596-1604]. Twenty- nine (of thirty) plates, plus two maps and one extra plate. Oblong quarto. Contemporary Dutch vellum, gilt. Cockled, soiled. Marginal stains on two plates; one plate chipped in margin, not affecting text. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

This extremely rare portfolio of plates consists of fine early impressions of Linschoten’s famous views of Portuguese Asia. They are among the first eyewitness illustrations of the East to reach Europe, and were by far the most widely disseminated. Don- ald Lach has called them “a watershed in Europe’s pictorial impression of Asia.” They rank among the most influential images of the period, and appeared in the many subsequent editions of Linschoten’s works. The illustrations were executed by Joannes and Baptista Doetechum from sketches brought back by Linschoten. Linschoten described the images of the people, places, methods of travel, and ani- mals of Asia as “counterfeits from life,” which would give a realistic representation of what he saw, but also a general perception of the reality of the distant East. In the present copy, a large, double-page view of Goa is missing, while two maps, one of Mozambique and one of Ascension Island, have been added. Also added is an untitled panorama of an Indonesian or Malaysian procession. This plate is likely connected to the 1598 Claesz publication of Houtman & Loewijk’s account of the first Dutch expedition. It seems clear that the present item is one of the very rare issues of the plates produced for separate sale by Linschoten’s publisher, Cornelis Claesz. Claesz sold the images and maps separately from the Itinerario..., under a title translated as The Figures and Maps of Jan Huyghen. He used Latin and Dutch captions, as in our copy, in order to increase the images’ marketability. Four similar sets of Linschoten plates are known, but only one of these, at the Atlas van Stolk in Rotterdam, has a titlepage. The other three copies which, like ours, lack titlepages, are at the Uni- versiteitsbibliotheek in Amsterdam (containing all the plates), the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and the Amsterdams Scheepvaort Museum (lacking some plates as well as the titlepage). They all have Latin and Dutch text beneath each image. In Tiele’s Memoir (1867), on page 103 he discusses an edition of the Icones... containing twenty-nine plates and no titlepage. Ernst Van Den Boogaart, who has produced a fine study of the publication history, iconographic significance, and coded messages of Linschoten’s work, examines these issues in great detail. The Linschoten plates were produced to accompany his famed Itinerario, in which he gave his perceptions of the culture, customs, and societies of Asia. Lin- schoten had lived in Goa for six years from 1583, and while he never ventured far from the Portuguese capital, he did have 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” (Boies Penrose). He released his work at a time when Europe was desperately in need of knowledge about the Far East. A wonderful collection of Asian and early travel iconography, in an exception- ally rare edition. Ernst Van Den Boogaart, Jan Huygen Van Linschoten and the Moral Map of Asia, passim, esp. pp.161-75. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe II, p.94. $20,000.

Navigation to the Straits of Anian: The Sir Thomas Phillipps Copy

102. Linton, Anthony: NEWES OF THE COMPLEMENT OF THE ART OF NAVIGATION. AND OF THE MIGHTIE EMPIRE OF CATAIA. TOGETHER WITH THE STRAITS OF ANIAN. London: Felix Kyngston, 1609. [2],44pp. Small quarto. Contemporary vellum. Vellum a bit soiled and wrinkled. Front fly leaf torn with loss of lower edge, rear fly leaf torn in lower outer corner. Titlepage torn in lower outer corner, not affecting text. Faint marginal dampstaining. Very good. In a folding half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

The Sir Thomas Phillipps copy, with his shelf mark on the inner front cover. A rare and important early navigational work and Americanum, with a discussion of Drake, Gilbert, “Sir Thomas Candish” (i.e. ), and other navigators who came to America. Linton was chaplain to Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham, who served as High Admiral from 1585 to 1618, and he pays special attention to the travels of English explorers. Linton himself had just returned from a voyage to the north of Asia, and notes that he has added “50 or 60 degrees of good discoverie, unto the alreadie known longitude, comprehended between the Westerne coast of America...on the one side, and the Vaygatz, or Ile van Oranges, upon the North of Nova Zemla.” “The great part of the book is taken up with instructions how to find the longitude of any place ‘without the help of any Eclipse’” – Church. One of the earliest English books dealing with navigation in the Pacific Ocean. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/69. CHURCH 343. JCB II, 63. SABIN 41385. STC 15692. $75,000.

The Beginning of the Contest for Longitude

103. [Longitude]: A PETITION ABOUT THE LONGITUDE [docket title]. WHEREAS HER MAJESTY HAS BEEN PLEAS’D, THIS VERY SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT...[caption title]. [London]. April 29, 1714. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Light foxing. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label, cloth chemise.

A rare political leaflet petitioning Parliament for a bill that would create financial incentives for developing an accurate method of determining longitude. The peti- tion was successful: the same year Parliament established the Board of Longitude, which soon began offering an award from £10,000 to £20,000 based on the accuracy of the method discovered. It is likely that the petition was written by mathemati- cians William Whiston and Humphrey Ditton, who had recently devised a plan for determining longitude based on the firing of rockets from stationary ships anchored in the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, Humphrey and Ditton’s plan did not materialize or earn an award, but their petitionary efforts played a major role in Parliament’s creation of the Board. This is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records five copies, at the British Library, National Library of Wales, Oxford, California State Library, and Harvard. Dava Sobel, Longitude... (New York: Penguin Books, 1995), pp.46-50. $6500.

104. MacQueen, James: THE COLONIAL CONTROVERSY, CON- TAINING A REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES OF THE ANTICOLONISTS; THE STATE OF HAYTI, SIERRA LEONE, INDIA, CHINA, COCHIN CHINA, JAVA, &c. &c.; THE PRO- DUCTION OF SUGAR, &c. AND THE STATE OF THE FREE AND SLAVE LABOURERS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.... Glasgow: Printed by Khull, Blackie, & Co., 1825. 223pp. Dbd. Very clean internally. Near fine.

Inscribed on the titlepage: “Messrs. Yates Brothers & Co. from the West India As- sociation.” Yates Brothers & Co. of Liverpool was a commercial firm specializing in the West Indies. The Glasgow-based West India Association was a leader in the fight against England’s anti-abolition campaign. Early in his life James MacQueen (1778-1870) was manager of a sugar plana- tion in Grenada, and travelled throughout the West Indies. By 1821 he settled in Glasgow, and was editor of a newspaper there; he used his columns to defend the rights of British plantation owners in the West Indies. The DNB describes him as “mostly remembered as a staunch defender of imperial commercial interests and their extension, particularly into west Africa, not least as he was one of the first to advocate the extension of legitimate commerce as the way to overcome the slave trade in Africa.” Despite the DNB’s assertion, MacQueen was one of the most outspoken critics of the anti-slavery campaign in Britain in the 1820s and 1830s, and in these letters, addressed to the Earl of Liverpool and to Zachariah Macaulay, he defends the actions and methods of British colonizers in the West Indies, Africa, India, and Asia, at the expense of the rights of the locals and of slave laborers. While well represented in institutional holdings, this work is rather scarce in the market, and we can find no copies at auction in the past thirty-five years. SABIN 43641. RAGATZ, p.527. $900.

105. Martyn, Thomas: [ALBUM CONTAINING IMAGES OF SHELLS SELECTED FROM Figures of Nondescript Shells Collected in the Different Voyages to the South Sea Since the Year 1764]. London: Thomas Martyn, [after 1784]. 144 engraved images of 72 different species of shells, finely handcolored in imitation of watercolors, mounted onto 30 leaves of 19th-century wove paper, each image carefully cut to the edge of the image and mounted with between two and eight images displayed per page. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in half dark red straight-grain morocco and contemporary red glazed boards, spine gilt with raised bands. Very good.

A fascinating album of plates from Martyn’s seminal work on the shells collected on Captain Cook’s voyages. A highly lucrative market in shells from exotic lands had developed by the middle of the 18th century. The shells from Cook’s first and second voyages, for example, were eagerly sought after, and when the specimens collected on the third voyage were offered for sale, one of their most enthusiastic buyers was Thomas Martyn. In a letter dated December 9, 1780 he wrote: “I may venture to affirm that I have purchased, amounting to 400 guineas, more than 2 thirds of the whole brought home. Nevertheless I do not abound either in variety of the new or many duplicates of the known ones that are valuable” (quoted in P. Dance, Shell Collecting [London, 1966], p.100). The present album features images of shells from Martyn’s Figures of Nondescript Shells (or the larger work, The Universal Conchologist), which was published in vari- ous forms from 1784 onwards, mostly depicting shells collected on Cook’s voyages (the third in particular). The reasons for the present selection and the way the shells have been presented are unclear, but the great care taken in assembling each page and the deliberate arrangement of related species suggests it was the work of a knowledgeable conchologist. Perhaps the album was an attempt to make sense of the haphazard order of publication of the original plates. Martyn writes in his preface to the work that he published The Universal Con- chologist in an effort to counteract the “complicated systems, bad arrangements, and the practice of crowding many sheets of different families into one plate, [which] have not only confused the subject, and created a distaste to the science itself, but made it necessary that even the most experienced collector should have some clew to conduct him through those labyrinths of difficulties” (Universal Conchologist, p.4). The shells in Martyn’s plates are beautifully detailed and very clearly displayed, with only one or two different specimens per plate. They are also exquisitely colored, with a particularly lavish application of color which all but obliterates the faint printed bases. All are the work of an academy of young artists trained by Martyn himself. He recruited young men who showed artistic talent and trained them so there “would generally be found that uniformity and equality of style, conception, and execution which it would be in vain to expect from a variety of independent artists” (Martyn, quoted by P. Dance op. cit., p.101). BM (NH) III, p.1258. BRUNET III, 1507. FERGUSON I, 40. FORBES 176. NISSEN (ZBI) 2728. SPENCE, p.39. (all refs) $4500.

106. Martyn, Thomas: THE UNIVERSAL CONCHOLOGIST EXHIB- ITING THE FIGURE OF EVERY KNOWN SHELL, ACCURATE- LY DRAWN AND PAINTED AFTER NATURE...FIGURES OF NONDESCRIPT SHELLS COLLECTED IN THE DIFFERENT VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEA SINCE THE YEAR 1764. Lon- don: Thomas Martyn, 1789. Two volumes bound in one. Parallel text in French and English. Engraved title and secondary title, both in French and English; engraved dedication to the King; two engraved plates of medals; handcolored engraved frontispiece (the image within a gilt neo-classical border, as issued); eighty engraved plates, finely handcolored in imitation of watercolors, each numbered in ink and protected by a facing guard of thin blank paper. Extra- illustrated with nineteen handcolored variant plates, and a related [3]pp. a.l.s. tipped in at the front. Without the two engraved Explanatory Table leaves found in some copies. Quarto. Near-contemporary red straight-grained mo- rocco, covers gilt; neatly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, brown endpapers, a.e.g. Very good. Provenance: James Wiglesworth (Halifax, 1759- 1826, inscription, dated 1818, presenting the book to his nieces); Elizabeth, Barbara, Mary and Dorothy Gorst (inscription); Arthur Blok (Rottingdean, Sussex, d.1974, [3]pp. a.l.s. dated Sept. 7, 1934, concerning the book from conchologist Alfred Santer Kennard).

A fine extra-illustrated copy of the second edition of “One of the most beautiful of all shell books, containing exquisite renderings of shells collected on Cook’s three voyages and on other voyages, with specimens identified as having been obtained from New Holland, New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga, and the Hawaiian Islands” (Forbes). The present example is a second edition, dated 1789 on the titlepage, containing a frontispiece, eighty plates, and two uncolored plates of medals (one dated 1792): this according to Forbes is complete. In addition this copy is extra-illustrated with nineteen very rare variant plates believed to be images rejected for publication by Martyn. Copies of The Universal Conchologist exist with 160 plates, but these “were apparently assembled rather than published and contain no letterpress text,” according to Forbes. The engraved secondary title (Figures of Nondescript Shells, Collected in the Dif- ferent Voyages to the South Seas Since the Year 1764) makes clear the impetus which induced Martyn to publish his masterpiece. A highly lucrative market in shells from exotic lands had developed by the middle of the 18th century. The shells collected on Cook’s voyages were greatly desired, and when the specimens collected on the third voyage were offered for sale, one of their most enthusiastic buyers was Thomas Martyn. In a letter dated December 9, 1780 he wrote: “I may venture to affirm that I have purchased, amounting to 400 guineas, more than 2 thirds of the whole brought home. Nevertheless I do not abound either in variety of the new or many duplicates of the known ones that are valuable” (quoted in P. Dance, Shell Collecting (London, 1966), p.100). For the present work, in addition to his own collection, Martyn was also able to supplement where necessary with specimens from the other great collections of the time (the Duchess of Portland, the Countess of Bute, John Hunter, and others). The Universal Conchologist is the only extant illustrated catalogue of the greater part of the shells collected on Cook’s third voy- age. From a scientific perspective, it is therefore an invaluable conchological record, much as Banks’ Florilegium stands as a monument to the botanical discoveries made on Cook’s first voyage. Martyn writes in his preface that he published The Universal Conchologist in an effort to counteract the “complicated systems, bad arrangements, and the practice of crowding many sheets of different families into one plate, [which] have not only confused the subject, and created a distaste to the science itself, but made it neces- sary that even the most experienced collector should have some clew to conduct him through those labyrinths of difficulties” (Universal Conchologist, p.4). The shells on Martyn’s plates are beautifully detailed and very clearly displayed, with only one or two different specimens per plate. They are also exquisitely colored, with a particularly lavish application of color which all but obliterates the faint printed bases. All are the work of an academy of young artists trained by Martyn himself. He recruited young men who showed artistic talent and trained them so that there “would generally be found that uniformity and equality of style, conception, and execution which it would be in vain to expect from a variety of independent artists” (Martyn, quoted by P. Dance op. cit., p.101). The publication history of the work is complex in part due to Martyn halting production of the first edition and redrawing eighty plates. The present example includes fourteen of these rejected plates, here bound adjacent to the published versions. They are printed on different paper from the published images and show differences in the way they are laid out on the page as well as variations in the colouring. An intriguing additional five plates with no corresponding counterparts in the published work, but very faintly titled on the versos in an unknown hand, are bound at the back of the volume. This copy is accompanied by a series of early 20th-century offprints of articles on Martyn by W.H. Dall, T. Iredale, and P. Dautzenberg, as follow:

1) William Healey Dall, “Thomas Martyn and the Universal Conchologist,” originally issued in The Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Washington, 1905), Vol. XXIX, no. 1425, pp.415-32. Stapled. 2) William Healey Dall, “Supplementary Notes on Martyn’s Universal Concholo- gist,” originally issued in The Proceedings of the United States National Museum (Washington, 1907), Vol. XXXIII, no.1565, pp.185-92. Wrappers. 3) Ph. Dautzenberg, “A Propos de L’Universal Conchologist de Thomas Martyn,” originally issued in Journal de Conchyliologie (Paris, 1917), Vol. LXIII, pp.148-52. Upper wrapper. 4) Tom Iredale, “Unpublished Plates of Thomas Martyn, Conchologist,” originally issued in The Proceedings of the Malacological Society (Hertford, England, 1921), Vol. XIV, part IV, pp.131-34. Wrappers.

BM (NH) III, p.1258. BRUNET III:1507. FERGUSON 40. FORBES 176. NISSEN (ZBI) 2728. SPENCE, p.39. $45,000.

Important Collected Edition of Martyr

107. Martyr, Peter: ...DE REBUS OCEANICIS & ORBE NOVO DE- CADES TRES: QUIBUS QUICQUID DE INVENTIS NUPER TERRIS TRADITUM, NOVARUM RERUM CUPIDUM LEC- TOREM RETINERE POSSIT, COPIOSE, FIDELITER, ERU- DITEQUE DOCETUR. EIUSDEM PRAETEREA LEGATIONIS BABYLONICAE LIBRI TRES.... Basel: Joannes Bebelius, 1533. [12],92 leaves. Folio. Bound to style in old vellum. Some very light dampstaining in margins. Discreet contemporary marginal annotations throughout. Very good.

This esteemed early Americanum contains Martyr’s initial three Decades, first published in 1516, supplemented in this edition by an abridgement of the fourth Decade. Martyr, a native of Italy, served the Spanish court in numerous capacities: soldier, priest, courtier, chaplain, teacher, historian, and ambassador. “In 1520 he became secretary to the Council of the Indies and later was appointed by emperor Charles V as the first official chronicler of the Indies. Although Martyr never set foot in the New World, he used his privileged position as a courtier to gather a great wealth of information from documents and through personal interviews. Following the model of the Latin historian Titus Livius, the Decades are volumes written in Latin divided into ten books each. They cover all aspects of the New World – the geography, the natural world...the natives, and all major events after the discovery” – Delgado-Gomez. Based on firsthand information the author was able to access through his posi- tion on the Council of the Indies, the Decades include accounts of the discoveries of Columbus, Vespucci, Cabot, and Cortes. In addition, there is information con- cerning the conquest of Mexico and details regarding Spanish settlements in the New World including Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Caribbean. Included in this edition, as in the 1516 printing, is Martyr’s account of his embassy to Egypt in 1501 on behalf of King Ferdinand. A nice copy of this fundamental text by the first Spanish historian of the New World. HARRISSE 176. CHURCH 65. SABIN 1557. MEDINA (BHA) 92. MAGGS BIBLIO- THECA AMERICANA VII:4923. BELL A213. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 533/1. JCB (3)I:108. DELGADO-GOMEZ, SPANISH HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD 3 (1516 ed). JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 533/1. $16,500. Presentation Copy

108. Matsunaga, Yasuzaemon: YAMA NOBORI [MOUNTAIN CLIMB- ING]. Tokyo. Showa 2 [i.e. 1927]. Numerous collotype plates with English and Japanese captions on facing tissue guards. Japanese text. Oblong folio. Original decorated cloth in original chitsu with printed title-slip on both. Near fine.

A presentation copy. Matsunaga Yasuzaemon (1875-1971), the president of the Toho Electric Power Company, was also known as the King of Electricity in Japan. His hobbies included art collecting, the tea ceremony, and mountaineering. The present book is illustrated throughout with photographic plates recording climbing parties in the Japan Alps. He had formed a mountaineering club (Shinaikai) inside his company, but he was also a member of the Keio University Camera Club, his alma mater. There is no indication as to the print-run of this item, but it appears to have been printed in a small edition, and was distributed only through the Toho Electric Power Company as well as the Shinaikai Mountaineering Club. Only one copy in OCLC, at the National Diet Library. Rare, with lovely photographs of the Japanese Alps. OCLC 674225797. $3550.

An Exotic Account of Sea Battles of the American Revolution

109. [Mauritius Imprints]: RELATION DÉTAILLÉE DE LA CAM- PAGNE DE M. LE COMMANDEUR DE SUFFREN, DANS L’INDE, DU 1er. JUIN 1782. AU 29 SEPTEMBRE SUIVANT. Port-Louis [Mauritius: Nicholas or François Nicolas Bolle], 1783. [1],33pp. 12mo. Modern morocco, spine gilt, a.e.g. A fine copy.

First edition of this very rare and early Mauritius imprint, published fifteen years after the first press was established there in 1768, recording French Admiral André Suffren’s actions against Sir Edward Hughes’ British Squadron in the East Indies during the American Revolution. These attacks, famed for their ferocity, provided Suffren with a unique standing among French admirals, and placed him in the front rank of sea commanders of the era. This pamphlet, possibly written by Jacques Jerome Antoine Trublet de Villejegu, documents two of Suffren’s four engagements with the British Navy in the Bay of Bengal. Although fought on the other side of the globe, these battles may be con- sidered the final formal engagements of the Revolution which influenced Britain’s decision to end the war with the colonies. Suffren had previously been attached to the comte D’Estaing’s squadron throughout its operations in North America and the West Indies. These New World activities are also briefly mentioned in the text. An extremely rare 18th-century Mauritius imprint. The NUC records one copy at NYPL, while OCLC lists only the 1970 London reprint. TOUSSAINT, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAURITIUS 98. TOUSSAINT, EARLY PRINT- ING IN THE MASCARENE ISLANDS, p.97. NMM 1441. GEPHART 14523 (1970 ed). $12,500.

The Lost Tribes of Israel in Japan?

110. McLeod, Nicholas: ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE EPITOME OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF JAPAN, INCLUDING ILLUSTRA- TIONS TO GUIDE BOOK. Kyoto. 1878. [6],91pp. Oblong. Limp brown cloth covers. Some light wear to covers. Minor soiling and toning. One leaf torn. Very good.

Second edition. A fascinating book in which the author purports the emigration of the Israelites into Japan, complete with illustrations to prove his point. Primarily composed of engravings, the work shows portraits of “Jewish Type” Japanese people; archaeological relics pertaining to Israel or the Jews which were found in Japan; and such colorful illustrations as “Supposed conveyance of Israelitish Families to Japan. Cart of the Period and large ox. E.P.P. 32,” which shows several Japanese people being conveyed in a large cart being drawn by an even larger ox. Also with many elaborate scenes of Japanese myth and history. Not in Bibliotheca Japonica. $2000.

Highly Important Atlas

111. [Mead, Braddock, alias “John Green”]: A CHART OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, INCLUDING THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, WITH THE NEAREST COASTS OF EU- ROPE, AFRICA, AND ASIA. London: Thomas Jefferys, Feb. 19, 1753. Engraved map of the Americas, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans on six double- page sheets, hand-colored in outline (each sheet 24 x 30¼ inches). Folio, 24 x 16½ inches. Contemporary marbled paper over pasteboard, early manuscript title lettering in ink on backstrip (tears in backstrip and extremities). In a modern morocco-backed cloth box, green morocco title labels on spine and upper cover. Bound without the letterpress color key slip, one-inch square repaired area in lower right corner of the image area of the first map sheet. Provenance: Early inscription in French on front pastedown, and partial in- scription (in the same hand) in upper border of first map sheet.

A very fine copy of this rare and fascinating atlas by an Irish cartographer of great ability: Braddock Mead (who worked under the name, “John Green”) was one of the most gifted mapmakers working in London in the first half of the 18th century. This atlas (essentially an unassembled six-sheet wall map centered on the Americas) accurately documents European exploration in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans up to the mid-18th century. Rare: only the DuPont copy and two others are listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years. The six sheets of the atlas cover an area from 185° west to 20° east, and from 60° south to 82° north. The atlas records the tracks of all the latest voyages to the Arctic and the Bering Straits, as well as the Dutch voyages to the South Pacific. Overall, the work offers a clear record of the discoveries that had been made in the area as of 1753, just before an explosion of Western activity in the Pacific and the start of the search, in earnest, for the North-West Passage. Each of the six double-page sheets includes tables recording distances and posi- tions, the voyages of various explorers, and additional miscellaneous notes (many referring to other maps and mapmakers). Each map is individually titled along the upper margin as follows:

Sheet 1: “Chart containing part of the Icy Sea with the adjacent Coast of Asia and America” Sheet 2: “Chart comprising Greenland with the Countries and Islands about Baffin’s and Hudson’s Bays” Sheet 3: “Chart containing the Coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian Discoveries to the North; with the Peninsula of Kamchatka, in Asia, opposite thereto; and Islands, dispersed over the Pacific Ocean, to the North of the Line” Sheet 4: “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish Settle- ments in North America, and the West Indies” Sheet 5: “Chart containing the greater part of the South Sea to the South of the Line, with the Islands dispersed thro’ the same” Sheet 6: “Chart of South America, comprehending the West Indies, with the Adjacent Islands, in the , and the South Sea”

Jefferys, the leading British mapmaker of the mid-18th century, became geographer to the Prince of Wales in 1746 and geographer to the King in 1760. He published a remarkable number of maps and charts, many of the North American continent. “The genius behind Jefferys in his shop was a brilliant man who at this time went by the alias of John Green. He made a great six-sheet map of North and South America (1753), concerning which he said, ‘The English charts of America being for the general very inaccurate, I came to a resolution to publish some new ones for the use of British navigators.’ Green had a number of marked characteristics as a cartographer. One was his ability to collect, to analyze the value of, and to use a wide variety of sources” – Cumming. In addition to his extensive cartographic abilities, Green’s personal history stands out from amongst the biographies of other 18th-century British mapmakers. John Green was born Braddock Mead in Ireland before 1688, married in Dublin in 1715, and around 1717 moved to London. He was imprisoned in 1728 for try- ing to defraud an Irish heiress. He also worked with Chambers on his Universal Dictionary. After he got out of gaol he took the name of Green, and subsequently worked for Cave, Astley, and Jefferys. Mead “had a number of marked character- istics as a cartographer...One was his ability to collect, to analyze the value of, and to use a wide variety of sources; these he acknowledged scrupulously on the maps he designed and even more fully in accompanying remarks. Another outstanding characteristic was his intelligent compilation and careful evaluation of reports on latitudes and longitudes used in the construction of his maps, which he also entered in tables on the face of the maps...Mead’s contributions to cartography stand out... At a time when the quality and the ethics of map production were at a low ebb in England, he vigorously urged and practiced the highest standards; in the making of maps and navigational charts he was in advance of his time. For this he deserves due credit” – Cumming. G.R. Crone, “John Green. Notes on a neglected Eighteenth Century Geographer and Cartographer” in IMAGO MUNDI, VI (1950), pp.89-91. G.R. Crone, “Further Notes on Braddock Mead, alias John Green...” in IMAGO MUNDI, VIII (1951), p.69. CUMMING, BRITISH MAPS OF COLONIAL AMERICA, pp.45-47. SABIN 28538. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.109. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1196. $60,000. A Fine Copy of the Rare 1478 Edition

112. Mela, Pomponius: POMPONII MELLE COSMOGRAPHIA DE SITU ORBIS.... Venice: F. Renner de Hailbrun, 1478. 48 leaves. Small quarto. Handsome brown morocco, tooled and paneled in gilt, spine gilt, raised bands, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Front hinge repaired. Several small but per- sistent worm holes, several early marginal notes. A very nice, large copy of an important edition.

Noted scholar Boies Penrose’s copy, with his bookplate on the front free endpaper. Pomponius Mela is often taken as an accurate sum of European geographical knowl- edge before the discovery of the New World. This handsome Venetian edition is one of two printed in the city in that year, and they are among the earliest published geographical works. The publications of Mela and Ptolemy were incentives for further exploration, and in particular Mela’s descriptions of Africa were used by the Portuguese navigators who were venturing far out into the Atlantic for the first time. GOFF M450. BMC V:195. JCB (3)I:9. HAIN 11017. PENROSE SALE 196. $30,000.

113. Merian, Matthaeus (engraver & publisher): Zeiller, Martin: TOPO- GRAPHIA WESTPHALIAE. Frankfurt: Matthaeus Merian, [nd, but ca. 1700]. Engraved titlepage; fifty engraved plates, town plans, or maps by Mat- thaeus Merian and others (thirty-four folding). Titlepage with 3/4-inch piece torn from outer blank margin. [bound with:] TOPOGRAPHIA ARCHI- EPISCOPATUM MOGUNTINENSIS, TREUIRENSIS, ET COL- ONIENSIS. Frankfurt am Main: Matthaeus Merian, 1646 [but ca. 1700]. Engraved titlepage and forty-four plates (thirteen folding, eleven double-page) by Matthaeus Merian. Folio. Contemporary brown sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco label, red-stained edges. Very good.

Swiss-born engraver and publisher Matthaeus Merian is best known for his twenty- one-volume series with German geographer Martin Zeiler, collectively known as Topographia Germaniae. This volume collects two titles from this early travel series, and features many of the fine engraved views and maps for which the work is so highly regarded. The second work (which is actually bound first in this example) includes maps, plans, and views of Trier (on the Moselle River, and the oldest large city in Germany), Mainz (the capital of the Rhineland-Palatinate), and Cologne, all on the Rhine, and the surrounding area. The second work is on the region of and is centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, and Osnabrück. C. SCHUCHHARD, DIE ZEILLER-MERIANSCHEN TOPOGRAPHIEN 50.B, 38.D. $12,000. With Working Volvelles

114. Munster, Sebastian: ORGANUM VRANICUM. SEBASTIANVS MVNSTERVS HABES IN HOC LIBRO, AMICE LECTOR, EX- PLICATAS THEORICAS OMNIVM PLANETARU.... Basel: Hen- ricvm Petrvm, [1536]. [8],70,[36]pp., including fourteen working volvelles (four in pen-and-ink facsimile). [bound with:] Finé, Oronce: ORONTII FINEI DELPHINATIS, REGII MATHEMATICARVM PROFES- SORIS QVADRANS ASTROLABICVS, OMNIBUS EUROPÆ REGIONIBUS INSERUIES: EX RECENTI & EMEDATA IPSIUS AUTHORIS RECOGNITIONE IN AMPLIORÉ, AC LONGE FIDELIOREM REDACTUS DESCRIPTIONEM. Paris: Simonem Colinæum, 1534. 18 leaves. Folio. Later calf, ornate blind tooled covers, gilt- lettered spine. Moderately rubbed. Front board detached. Old bookplate and binder’s label on front pastedown. Some light dampstaining to inner margin of first few leaves, one leaf neatly repaired. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

Two primary works of early astronomy and mathematics. The first, by Sebastian Munster, author of the celebrated Cosmographia Universalis of 1544, is especially notable for its remarkably clean and operable original volvelles. His inclusion of numerous volvelles (which track the movements of the planets through the solar system) has made his text one of the primary sources for the study of “dialing” in the 16th century. Munster previously employed volvelles in his 1525 Instrument of the Suns, though here he makes more ample use of them. The text examines the movement of the planets, a popular subject of the time due to the demand to improve navigation techniques. It is extremely rare for volvelles to survive in such pristine condition, making this copy highly desirable. The second text, by Oronce Finé, is the second edition, after the first of 1527. This work is Finé’s first treatment of what Karrow calls a “universal” quadrant, an essential component of astronomy during Finé’s lifetime. Though Finé is best known for his work on spheres, all of his writings demonstrate his command of contemporary mathematical theory and are evidence of his station as one of France’s leading 16th-century mathematicians. Two astronomical and mathematical treatises by leading luminaries of their day, one with lovely volvelles, both fueled by the demands of the art of navigation and the race to the New World. Organum...: KARROW 58N. BURMEISTER 1964:43. GRAESSE IV:622. OCLC 6494643. Orontii...: HILLARD & POULLE 1971:2. KARROW 27H. GRAESSE II:580. OCLC 23624574, 3425957, 18073996. $22,500.

An Extraordinary Rarity, with Extra Illustrations: The Macclesfield Copy

115. Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: THE IOURNALL, OR DAYLY REGISTER, CONTAYNING A TRUE MANIFESTATION, AND HISTORICALL DECLARATION OF THE VOYAGE, ACCOM- PLISHED BY EIGHT SHIPPES OF AMSTERDAM, UNDER THE CONDUCT OF IACOB CORNELISZEN NECK ADMIRALL, & WYBRANDT VAN WARWICK VICE-ADMIRALL, WHICH SAY- LED FROM AMSTERDAM THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1598. SHEWING THE COURSE THEY KEPT, AND WHAT OTHER NOTABLE MATTERS HAPPENED UNTO THEM IN THE SAYD VOYAGE. London: [Simon Stafford and Felix Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby & John Flasket, 1601. [1],58,[4] leaves. Woodcut vignette of sailing ship on titlepage. Extra-illustrated with 19 engravings (numbered 1-3, 19, 4-18) from Van Neck’s Historiale Beschrijvinghe... (Amsterdam, 1619). Text and plates “inlaid to size,” remargined to 9¼ x 6¾ inches. 19th-century mottled calf, double-fillet gilt border on boards, spine gilt in compartments, gilt leather label. Boards and spine slightly worn. Titlepage and extra-engraved plates fully attached to sheets; printed pages of text inserted in blank leaves in order to show recto and verso. Engraved plates annotated in ink with correspond- ing “page” (leaf, recto or verso) of text. Lacking the dedication leaf (paraph 2) and leaf Q4 (blank), pages shaved (with occasional slight loss of text in lower margin), rust hole in leaf P3 (affecting a few letters on recto), tear in leaf Q3 (repaired, not affecting text). Overall, a very good copy, with the 1860 engraved bookplate of the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield on front pastedown, shelf marks inscribed on verso of front free endpaper. Embossed stamp of the Earls of Macclesfield in upper extended margins of titlepage leaf and following two leaves of text.

The first English edition of Van Neck’s account of his 1598 voyage to the East Indies, translated from the 1601 Amsterdam edition of the author’s Het Tweede Boecke. The Dutch navigator, 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 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. Van Neck’s account was popular throughout the first half of the 17th century and was reprinted and translated into German and French as well as English. It also appeared in collections of voyages such as those by De Bry, Hulsius, and Colijn. This extra-illustrated copy includes nineteen engraved plates from the Amsterdam 1619 edition of Van Neck’s Historiale Beschrijvinghe published by Michiel Colijn. The images are mounted on separate sheets and bound in the book at the appropriate portion of the text. The engravings are annotated in ink, indicating the appropriate page (i.e. recto or verso of a specific leaf ) related to the image. A rare book on the market. Prior to this copy from the Macclesfield sale in March 2007, the last copy previously available was sold at the Boise Penrose sale in 1971. Both European Americana and STC record only two copies in the U.S., at the Huntington and NYPL, the latter noted as imperfect. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 601/66. STC 18417 (noting quires A-G printed by Stafford, paraph 2 and quires H-Q printed by Kingston). TIELE-MULLER, p.144. HOWGEGO N13. $75,000.

Directions for Mariners Collecting Natural History

116. [New Bedford Lyceum]: [Pacific Voyages]: GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING ARTICLES IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF NATURAL HISTORY.... New Bed- ford: Printed by J.C. Parmenter, 1837. 8pp. Half morocco and marbled boards. Some light foxing. Very good.

A treatise submitted by the Class of Natural History of the New Bedford Lyceum, who are intent on forming a museum, containing recipes and collection methods for the preservation of various plant, animal, and other specimens. The titlepage indicates that it is directed “To the attention of travellers, sea-faring men, and all lovers of nature and of nature’s handy works, who are willing to lend their aid in promoting the cause of science, and advancing the progress of the arts.” Only a single copy recorded by OCLC, at the American Antiquarian Society. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 45777. $900. Running a Shipping Line Between China and the United States

117. [Pacific Mail Steamship Company]: , F.E.: [GROUP OF THREE LETTER BOOKS DESCRIBING THE WORK OF FRED E. FOSTER, A COMMERCIAL AGENT IN SHANGHAI IN THE 1860s, AND ALSO AGENT OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY IN YOKOHAMA AND HONG KONG FROM THE 1870s TO THE 1890s. PLUS MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO HONG KONG AND BACK, 1891-92]. [China and Japan, and at sea, as described below. 1863-1892]. Four volumes. Letter books totaling some 1200 leaves of wet-transfer copies, printed on one side only. Voyage manuscript 130 pages. In all, more than 150,000 words. Quarto volumes in contemporary half leather bindings, two of the three with explanatory manuscript labels on front boards. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, backstrip detaching on earliest volume, but all volumes firmly bound. Wet-transfer copies made onto very thin paper, with some occasional adherence of leaves or small tears. Some letters quite faint, but on the whole quite readable. In very good overall condition.

A significant manuscript archive, providing much information on trade from the United States to China and Japan, and on the operations of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in the second half of the 19th century. Three of the volumes contained herein are the retained letter books of Fred E. Foster, an American working as a commercial agent in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Yokohama. These letter books are an excellent source with which to study American and European trade with China and Japan, and the operations of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in particular in this early period. Foster’s letter books cover his dealings in the 1860s, the late 1870s, and the early 1880s, providing evidence of the changes and growth in the market over several decades. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company (PMSSC), founded in 1848, expanded its operations to Asia in the 1860s. The initial route was to Yokohama, with additional service to Hong Kong and Shanghai. The company also became a primary carrier of Chinese and Japanese immigrants to the West Coast of the United States. Fred Foster was one of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s representa- tives in Asia – from the quantity of his work as recorded in these letter books it would seem he was the company’s primary agent in China and Japan. Before that, in the 1860s, he was an independent commercial agent in Shanghai, working on behalf of several trading companies in the United States, England, and Europe. The earliest volume contains copies of Foster’s correspondence from March 1863 to October 1866, before his work with the PMSSC. During this period Foster was an independent agent in Shanghai, working with mercantile firms in the United States, England, and Europe that were shipping goods to Asia. He often signs his correspondence as “attorney for...” the person with whom he is corresponding. His letters give valuable information on the state of trade between Asia and the West, from the specific to the general, and describes the market for a wide variety of goods, from sugar, butter, and blankets, to alcohol and pistols. Topics in these letters include Foster’s arrangements for leasing land on behalf of particular merchant houses, his performance of consular services, the great trad- ing activity in the port, and life in Shanghai in general. At one point he mentions that there is an enormous stock of merchandise in the port, “which can be bought in many instances for prices under invoice cost.” Foster often refers to transac- tions in terms of Taels – a system of measurement and also of currency in China at the time. Other correspondence shows that, in his capacity as a lawyer, Foster was occasionally employed to settle the estates of other businessmen who died in Asia. Aside from the purely business letters, there are also copies of letters from Foster to his family, where he also discusses his work and his life. A few letters are illustrated by small drawings, including one in this volume from Foster to a London shirtmaker, in which he places an order and includes a drawing of the type of shirt he wants. In a letter to his father of October 8, 1865 describing life in Shanghai, Foster includes a drawing of a Chinese junk on the Yangtze River. The second volume contains Foster’s letters from September 1878 to October 1879, when he was employed as the general agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in Yokohama, Japan. In the period of just over a year his letters com- prise some five hundred leaves of text, a clear indication of how busy he was in his tasks. The correspondence covers everything from the schedules of the ships of the PMSSC going back and forth from the United States to Japan and China, the goods being shipped, and the day-to-day operations of the company. For example, in a letter of September 21, 1878 from Foster to D.S. Babcock, president of the company, Foster responds to Babcock’s concerns about coal consumption by his ships, and replies that “rigid economy should be enforced in all departments & my best energies will be devoted to the accomplishment of this end.” There are also dozens of letters between Foster and employees of the PMSSC in San Francisco, the company’s headquarters. Foster’s letters in this volume provide a great wealth of information on the state of markets in Yokohama and other Asian ports, the schedules of particular ships, and the operations of the company. The third volume contains Foster’s outgoing correspondence for the period from August 1881 to July 1882, when he was stationed at Hong Kong. These letters were sent from Foster to PMSSC officers in the United States, as well as to agents in other Asian cities, including Yokohama. Much of the correspondence herein is directed to J.B. Houston, who was then the president of the Company. The final volume, 130 pages in length, contains the manuscript log of the ship St. James as it conducted a voyage from New York to Shanghai in 1891. The ship took four months to reach Shanghai. From there it went to Hong Kong and San Francisco, before sailing to England and then back to New York. It accompanies Foster’s letter books, but may not be in Foster’s hand. Foster’s letter books, containing copies of hundreds of letters written by him from Shanghai, Yokohama, and Hong Kong over the course of three decades, present an excellent opportunity to study not only the operations of the vitally important Pacific Mail Steamship Company, but more generally the growth of trade between Asia, the United States, England, and Europe in the second half of the 19th cen- tury. $12,500.

118. Palairet, Jean: 3E MAPPE-MONDE. London: Nourse, Vaillant, Millar, Rocque & Sayer, 1755. Copper-engraved map, with full original color. Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 29 1/3 inches. Repaired area in blank space in lower left of im- age, lower centerfold strengthened. Otherwise in very good condition.

A highly decorative map, depicting the world shortly before the great era of Pacific voyages. This fascinating and attractive map showcases the world in twin hemi- spheres. While the general outlines of most regions are familiar to the modern observer, one will notice that vast realms of the Pacific still remained a mystery to the European consciousness. This is especially evident with reference to eastern Australia, which is shown to be connected to New Guinea and the “Terre du S. Esprit” by the “Côtes conjecturées.” New Zealand is only partially delineated, having not been visited since Tasman’s landing in 1642. The Pacific coast of North America remains a complete enigma north of “Nle. Albion” (California). The Pacific Ocean is traversed with the normal routes of the Spanish galleons that ran between Acapulco and Manila. The map also features the track of Admiral Anson’s epic circumnavigation of the world in 1740. The tropics in the Western Hemisphere are divided in the climatic zones, while the northern temperate regions are similarly divided in the Eastern Hemisphere. The map is gracefully adorned with a magnificent title cartouche of a rococo style that rests between the twin hemispheres. Jean Palairet was born in Montauban, France, but emigrated to England where he became a French tutor to the children of George II. He later wrote several informative books on arithmetic, language, arts and sciences, and geography. The present map is from the second edition of Palairet’s greatest work, the Atlas Mé- thodique, a magnificent cartographical demonstration, in which landmasses are shown in various stages of political definition. PHILLIPS ATLASES 3503, map 3. $2400.

Plates by Bartlett, Handcolored in This Special Copy

119. Pardoe, Julia: THE BEAUTIES OF THE BOSPHORUS...ILLUS- TRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS ENVIRONS, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY W.H. BARTLETT. London: Published for the Proprietors, by George Virtue, 1838. One volume bound in two. [4],164pp. plus eighty handcolored engraved plates (including an engraved titlepage and portrait in the first volume), plus a colored map. Quarto. Full red calf, elaborately gilt boards and spines, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Corners slightly bumped, spine ends lightly worn. Very clean and fresh internally. A handsome copy.

Julia Pardoe had achieved great success with her illustrated travel narrative, City of the Sultan, published the previous year. This volume was issued in its wake, to capitalize on her popularity. In this work Pardoe’s text supports the marvelous plates of William Henry Bartlett, a skilled topographical draughtsman. Bartlett travelled widely in the eastern Mediterranean, and produced handsome engravings such as these for a number of illustrated travel books. The illustrations in this volume depict the natives, architecture, ancient ruins and landscapes of Turkey, including views of St. Sophia, mosques, bazaars, homes, aqueducts, ports, and public spaces. This copy is notable for having all the plates in beautiful contemporary color, one of only a handful of such copies that we have been able to trace. The Blackmer copy, for example, had only three of the plates “coloured very amateurishly,” and Atabey does not mention colored plates. A very desirable copy of this beautifully illustrated tour through Turkey. BLACKMER CATALOGUE1254. BLACKMER SALE 888. ATABEY 922. $6000.

120. Park, Mungo: TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION AND PA- TRONAGE OF THE , IN THE YEARS 1795, 1796, AND 1797...WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING GEOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF AFRICA. New York. 1800. 354,[2],86pp. plus folding map. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

First New York edition, after the first London edition of the previous year, of Park’s initial African expedition and adventures. Park was instructed by the Af- rican 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. This American edition adds an appendix by Major Rennell giving “Geographical Descriptions of Africa.” EVANS 38189. $1000.

121. Peary, Robert E. THE NORTH POLE. ITS DISCOVERY IN 1909 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PEARY ARCTIC CLUB. New York: Frederick A. Company, 1910. xxxii,373pp. plus eight color plates, 100 black and white illustrations from photographs, and a folding colored map. Small quarto. Three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine and boards gilt, t.e.g. A few small scuffs at edges of boards. Internally fresh and clean. Near fine.

The signed limited “General Hubbard” edition of this narrative of Peary’s final, and successful, expedition to the North Pole in 1908-9. This copy is number 155 of 500 copies, signed. This detailed account is lavishly illustrated with eight color plates “reproducing photographic enlargements colored by hand,” an additional 100 black and white illustrations from photographs, and a folding colored map. The narrative provides information on the expedition’s organization, personnel, the voyage, interactions with Eskimos, hunting, sledging, and a detailed account of the final march to the pole. The volume also includes an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt and a foreword by Gilbert H. Grosvenor, director and editor of the Na- tional Geographic Society. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 13230. $2500.

First Edition of Pigafetta’s Complete Account

122. Pigafetta, Antonio: PRIMO VIAGGIO INTORNO AL GLOBO TERRACQUEO, OSSIA RAGGUAGLIO DELLA NAVIGAZIONE ALLE INDIE ORIENTALI PER LA VIA D’OCCIDENTE FATTA DAL CAVALIERE ANTONIO PIGAFETTA.... Milan. 1800. lii,237pp. plus two folding maps. Engraved illustrations in text. Quarto. 19th-centu- ry three-quarter brown morocco and marled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good plus.

The first edition of the complete account Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, written by Antonio Pigafetta, one of the survivors of the voyage. A brief account of the expedition was published in 1526, but this version is only a short sketch compared to the versions in manuscript. There are four of these: two in the Bibliothèque National; the Phillipps manuscript, now at Yale; and the copy in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. It is the last of these that was the first to be rediscovered by scholars, being identified by Carlo Amoretti in 1785. Generally considered the earliest and most complete of the Pigafetta accounts, it was edited and published by Amoretti in 1800, with slight textual editing. The present edition is thus the first edition of the full account of the first circumnavigation of the globe. The volume is a very handsome production, with four beautifully handcolored illustrations based on the manuscript, depicting the Straits of Magellan, the Ladrones in the Pacific, the island of Zubu, and islands off the Indian coast. Additional engraved folding maps show the route around the world and in the Philippines. A highly desirable volume, this copy from the famous Latin American collection of Jose M. Rodriguez, with his bookplate. HILL 1355. SABIN 62804. LeCLERC 1170. $12,500.

123. [Pirates]: NOTICIA DO GRANDE COMBATE, QUE JUNTO AO ESTREITO DE GIBRALTAR TIVERAO DUAS NAOS DE GUARDA COSTA DE HESPANHA CONTRA OS MOUROS, E PIRATAS DE ARGEL, E SALE’ &c. Lisbon. 1757. 8pp. Small quarto. 20th-century paper boards with red cloth spine. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Some wear and loss to endpapers. Some minor worming at center of text block, affecting several letters of text on each leaf; reinforced with tissue. Lightly foxed. Good.

A Portuguese newsletter, announcing a great battle fought at the Straits of Gibraltar against the Moors and the Barbary pirates of Algiers during the Seven Years’ War. The Seven Years’ War saw most of Europe, North America, and parts of India and Africa involved in global military conflict. This work describes a naval battle off the coast of Spain. A series of these newsletters about the war were issued in Lisbon in 1756-58. Only four copies in OCLC, none in North America. $1250.

The Spanish Marco Polo

124. Polo, Marco: HISTORIA DE LAS GRANDEZAS Y COSAS MA- RAUILLOSAS DE LAS PROUINCIAS ORIENTALES. SACADO DE MARCO PAULO VENETO, Y TRADUZIDA DE LATIN EN ROMANCE, Y ANADIDA EN MUCHAS PARTES POR DON MARTIN DE BOLEA Y CASTRO...DIRIGIDA A DON BELTRAN DE LA CUEBA, DUQUE DE ALBURQUERQUE.... Caragoca: Por Angelo Tauano, 1601. [180] leaves. 12mo. Original limp vellum, contemporary ink title on spine. Contemporary ink signature on titlepage, mild tanning. An internally clean and bright copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A rare early 17th-century Spanish edition of Marco Polo’s description of his jour- ney across Asia in the late 13th century, one of the most significant and resonant travel accounts in the history of human endeavor, and a key text in the perception in Europe of the East during the late and the Renaissance. This edi- tion, printed in Zaragoza in 1601, is the first edition of the Spanish translation by humanist Martin Abarca de Bolea y Castro of Marco Polo’s travel narrative, which replaced the antiquated Spanish version first printed by Cromberger in Seville, 1503. Bolea y Castro, the son of the vice-chancellor of Spain under Charles V and Phillip II, was a scion of one of Aragon’s leading families. A lover of literature and humanist ideology, with a predilection for numismatics, Bolea y Castro spent some time serving in Spain’s military, although the exact length of his service is not known. Interestingly, this rare translation is his only prose work. Born into a prominent Venetian trading family, Marco Polo (1254-1324) de- parted with his father and uncle toward the East in 1271, travelling through Syria, Jerusalem, Turkey, Persia, and India, to China and the court of Kublai Khan. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Khan and travelled throughout China over the next fifteen years as an emissary of the Mongol emperor. Polo returned to Venice in 1295, only to be briefly imprisoned in Genoa as a prisoner of war a few years later. During this imprisonment, in 1298, he dictated his adventures to Rusticiano (also called Rustichello) of Pisa, and the text became known as Il Milione. (The exact meaning of this term in Polo’s time is still unclear, although it may refer to the popular belief regarding the traveller’s great riches.) The original work was written in Franco-Italic, and was quickly translated into Latin and other languages by court clerks. Over one hundred extant manuscript versions, translations, and adaptations are recorded. First printed in a German language edition in Nuremberg in 1477, a Latin translation followed circa 1485 (Christopher Columbus possessed a copy of this Latin edition). The immense popularity of Polo’s account is reflected in the numerous editions which followed printed in German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, and Dutch. Polo’s account includes vivid descriptions of cities, waterways, architectural monuments, industries, natural resources, plants, and animals as well as reports on customs and traditions. In addition to Cathay and Mangi (the Mongol name for South China), Polo also writes of the native societies he visited in Tibet and southwestern China. Donald F. Lach, in his magisterial study, Asia in the Mak- ing of Europe, writes that “other Europeans lived and worked in China during the thirteenth century, but Marco Polo was the only one, so far as is known, to travel and work there and to write an account of his experiences. For the first time in history Europe possessed a detailed narrative about China and its neighbors based upon more than hearsay and speculation...Marco Polo provided Europe with the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the East produced before 1550.” A fascinating 17th-century Spanish edition of Marco Polo’s travels, one of the most celebrated travel accounts of all time. OCLC records a single copy in Germany at the Bayerische Staatsbilbliothek. PALAU 151209. OCLC 81177641. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe I, pp.34-38. HOW- GEGO P124-P126 (Polo). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 39 (Venice 1496 ed. of Polo). $60,000.

Attacking British Whalers in the

125. Porter, David: JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN...IN THE UNITED STATES ESSEX, IN THE YEARS 1812, 1813, AND 1814. CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ISLANDS, COASTS OF BRAZIL, PA- TAGONIA, CHILE, AND PERU, AND OF THE GALLAPAGOS ISLANDS.... Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1815. Two volumes bound in one. vi,[2],263,[1]; [2],169pp. plus thirteen (of fourteen) engraved plates and maps. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Foxing and tan- ning, as usual. Lacks the folding map (a fragment is present), as is frequently the case. Good.

This copy bears the ownership signature of Samuel Sitgreaves on the titlepage. A Federalist lawyer from Philadelphia, Sitgreaves (1764-1827) was a member of the Fourth and Fifth U.S. Congresses, and was one of the House managers of the impeachment proceedings against William Blount in 1798. He was also one of the two American commissioners assigned to settle outstanding claims by the British under Article Six of the Jay Treaty between the United States and England. The uncommon first edition of this important narrative which, according to Hill, “was suppressed and is a very rare book.” Porter, without authorization, took the Essex around the Cape, and was the only American commander to sail against the British in the Pacific Ocean during the War of 1812. He inflicted much damage on British shipping and whaling enterprises and showed the flag along the coast and in the islands, although the government never followed up on his annexation of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas. An 1822 edition provided some additional text. The illustrations include portraits of islanders, , etc. This book is quite rare, and in our experience, always in poor condition and lacking some plates. This may be happenstance, but others of experience tell us the same thing. Thus, this copy may be about as good as it gets. HOWES P484, “aa.” HILL 1371. SABIN 64218. FORBES 447. SHAW & SHOE- MAKER 35674. $1250.

Racy Poetry on the South Seas

126. [Preston, William]: SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY- SEVEN: OR, A PICTURE OF THE MANNERS AND CHARAC- TER OF THE AGE. IN A POETICAL EPISTLE FROM A LADY OF QUALITY IN ENGLAND, TO OMIAH, AT OTAHEITE. Dub- lin: Printed for W. Wilson, 1777. [4],23,[1]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Some faint toning, else quite clean. Near fine.

Scarce socio-sexual satirical poem in which “a lady of quality” writes to re- questing more Polynesian men to satisfy the appetites of her European sisters. The poem reads: “Come, Southern youths! these happy feats explore, / New pleasures wait you on Britannia’s shore.” The author was a Dublin-born poet and playwright. The sexual overtones are complemented by the author’s social commentary on Brit- ish greed and love of luxury: “Two fiends with joint and sov’reign sway shall reign, / The love of pleasure, and the love of gain, / And full, and perfect, as in British soul, / Absorb all feelings, and all aims controul.” Omai was the first Tahitian to visit England; he arrived aboard the Adventure, one of the ships with Cook’s Second Voyage. He was returned to the Society Islands by Cook in November of 1777, in the course of Cook’s third and final voyage. “When the Adventure arrived in England Omai was taken under the wing of Joseph Banks who, along with Solander, presented him at court on 17 July 1774. He was received with such favour that he was granted a royal pension while in England. Shortly afterwards (possibly at the king’s urging) he was taken by Banks and Solander to Baron Dimsdale in Hertfordshire to be inoculated against . (The disease had killed Omai’s compatriot Aoutourou, the first Tahitian to visit Europe, who had been taken to France in 1769 by Bougainville.) While in England, thanks to the connections made possible by Banks, Lord Sandwich, and the Burneys, Omai came to know many of the most prominent members of aristocratic and literary society. When Dr. Johnson met him in April 1776 he was ‘struck with the elegance of his behaviour,’ accounting for it on the grounds that ‘he had passed his time, while in England, only in the best company; so that all that he had acquired of our manners was genteel’ (Boswell, Life, 3.8)....During his two years in England Omai provided elite society with a living example of the ‘noble savage’ and a focus for discussions about the virtues of natural man as against the artificiality produced by civilization....He was painted by a number of major artists, most notably Sir Joshua , whose celebrated is now in the Tate collection” – DNB. Only a dozen copies are listed in ESTC. ESTC N22237. DNB (online). $2750. Privateering in the French and Indian War

127. [Privateering]: [CIRCULAR LETTER, IN FRENCH, FROM AN INVESTOR IN SEVERAL FRENCH , BEMOAN- ING HIS LOSSES AND SEEKING TO RECOUP THEM WITH FURTHER RAIDS]. Paris. Jan. 15, 1759. 2pp. plus integral blank. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. Very good.

An example of the financial risks inherent in investing in privateers, two of which the writer of the letter lost during the British raid on St. Malo on June 5, 1758. Thirty privateers and one hundred other vessels were also burned in that same raid. The present letter concerns a famous ship that did not burn with the others. During the Seven Years’ War, François Thurot, legendary captain of the famous forty-six-gun French frigate Maréchal de Bellisle, terrorized British shipping and the coasts of England and Scotland. In this letter the principal investor in that ship writes about financial difficulties caused by the burning of two of his ships during the raid on St. Malo. Having eluded the forces sent specifically to destroy him, Thurot arrived at Bergen on Sept. 13, 1758, staying there until November 25th. Heading south, taking more prizes along the way, Thurot spent most of December at Ostend selling the prizes, and finally reached Dunkirk at the beginning of Janu- ary 1759, when this letter was written. At the end of the letter is the holograph signature of one “Merlin,” a chief investor in several French privateers including the Maréchal de Belleisle. Merlin says his creditors will only be satisfied with further adventures by Thurot, whose name is, however, never directly mentioned. Merlin is looking for an agreement to meet his liabilities in four installments. He notes that under the circumstances he hopes the recipient will seek the help of Mons. Vallet de la Touche (whose name is supplied in manuscript). Vallet de la Touche (1698-1759) was secretary and advisor to King Louis XV. At the end, Merlin has penned under his signature a nine-line postscript, again mentioning Vallet de le Touche, and giving his address. Thurot was killed and his ship captured in an ac- tion off the Isle of Man. His body washed ashore near the Mull of Galloway, and he was buried with full honors in the churchyard of Kirkmaiden, Scotland. $1500.

128. Ptolemy, Claudius: [MOROCCO AND ALGERIA] PRIMA AFRI- CAE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Good condition apart from repairs to the center fold and at the lower margin.

This important map is from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. It shows the majority of Morocco and Algeria, with Spain 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 craftsman- ship 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 ar- resting. 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. In any event, the prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic im- portance. 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. , THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAPS, 1472-1500 (1987), 122. CAMPBELL, pp.131-33. GOFF P-1086 (ref ). HAIN 13541 (ref ). IGI 8128. KLEBS 812.7 (ref ). 3966 (ref ). SABIN 66474 (ref ). SANDER 5976 (ref ). SHIRLEY 4. Skelton, Claudius Ptolomaeus Cosmographia Rome 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p. xiii. STE- VENS, PTOLEMY 42 (ref ). STILWELL P-992 (ref ). SUAREZ, SHEDDING THE VEIL 5. $5500.

129. Ptolemy, Claudius: [TURKEY] PRIMA ASIAE TABULA. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, Nov. 4, 1490]. Engraved map. Sheet size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches. Some marginal repairs, else good.

This important map is from the 1490 Rome edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia. It shows the whole of Turkey, the Black Sea above, the Mediterranean below, with part of Cyprus in outline. 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 ar- resting. 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. In any event, the prints from these fine copper plates rank as some of the earliest successful intaglio engravings, quite apart from their undeniable cartographic im- portance. 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 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” (op. cit. p. x). BMC IV, p.133 (ref ). CAMPBELL, THE EARLIEST PRINTED MAPS, 1472-1500 (1987), 122. CAMPBELL, pp.131-33. GOFF P-1086 (ref ). HAIN 13541 (ref ). IGI 8128. KLEBS 812.7 (ref ). PROCTOR 3966 (ref ). SABIN 66474 (ref ). SANDER 5976 (ref ). SHIRLEY 4. Skelton, Claudius Ptolomaeus Cosmographia Rome 1478 (Amsterdam, 1966), p. xiii. STEVENS, PTOLEMY 42 (ref). STILWELL P-992 (ref). SUAREZ, SHEDDING THE VEIL 5. $6500.

Hakluyt’s Successor

130. Purchas, Samuel: PVRCHAS HIS PILGRIMAGE. OR RELATIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE RELIGIONS OBSERVED IN ALL AGES AND PLACES DISCOVERED, FROM THE CREATION UNTO THIS PRESENT. In Foure Parts.... London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Featherstone, 1614. [28],331,330-851,862-889,900-918, [36]pp. Small, thick folio. Near contemporary paneled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt morocco label, new endpapers. Boards rubbed, worn at cor- ners, chipped at spine ends. Titlepage a bit soiled and wrinkled. Small tear in upper margin of leaf Ii3, just touching the running headline. Faint old stain in upper portion of several leaves, else rather clean internally. Early signature on the errata leaf. About very good, in a contemporary binding.

The second edition, “much enlarged with additions through the whole work,” after the first of the previous year, of this famous collection of travel narratives. The first three parts relate to travels in Asia, Africa, and the East Indies. With accounts of , Virginia, Florida, explorations of Cabeça de Vaca, Columbus, Frobisher, Cartier, Hudson, Raleigh, Cortes, and others, along with general histories of the conquests of Mexico, Peru, etc. This work saw constant revision after its first publication in 1613; the fourth edition was issued as the supplementary volume to the noted Hakluytus Posthumus... in 1625. SABIN 66679. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 614/94. JCB (3)II:105. STC 20506. ESTC S111828. $3500. An Early Proposal to Find Longitude: One of Two Known Copies

131. Purshull, Conyers: [TO THE] LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR THE LONGITUDE [caption title]. [London? 1715]. Small folio broad- side. Dbd. Closely cropped, with loss of first line of title and portion of printed signature. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. Overall very good.

An extremely rare petitionary leaflet relating to the historic longitude prize, evidently printed in the first two years after the creation of the Board of Longitude. In 1714, responding to a problem that had continued to beleaguer sailors and cartographers well into the age of navigation, Parliament passed the Longitude Act, establishing awards from £10,000 to £20,000 for developing an accurate method of determining longitude, and a panel, the Board of Longitude, to judge submissions. The author of the present document, Conyers Purshull (for whom no biographical information has been discovered), had submitted a plan for finding longitude at sea by “mea- suring the Distance which the Ship runs from Place to Place, with a Wheel fixed thro’ the Bottom of a Boat towed by the Ship.” His plan was rejected by the Board based on three major objections, for which Purshull offers various solutions here. The petition was discovered in a bound volume of similar documents, nearly all of which date with some certainty to 1714 and 1715, and there is no reason to believe that this document is an exception. It is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records no copies; OCLC lists one, at Yale. $4750.

132. Randolph, Bernard: THE PRESENT STATE OF THE MOREA, CALLED ANCIENTLY PELOPONNESUS: WHICH HATH BEEN NEAR TWO HUNDRED YEARS UNDER THE OF THE TURKS AND IS NOW VERY MUCH DEPOPULATED. TO- GETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY OF ATHENS, ISLANDS OF ZANT, STRAFADES, AND SERIGO. London. 1686. [2],26pp. Dbd. Contemporary notations and stains on titlepage. Moderate wear and foxing. Irregularly trimmed, shaving a few letters at foredge of leaf C4. Good.

First printed in 1686 in two editions, the present London edition and an edition in Oxford. Blackmer argues that the Oxford edition should have precedence, though both editions are relatively scarce, and this London edition is known in fewer copies. This London edition includes a description of Cerigo, not found in the Oxford edition. Randolph’s description of the Morea, also known as the Peloponnesus, is a valu- able account of southern mainland Greece, based on his own firsthand observations while a merchant there. He describes several important port cities, their attributes, suitability for commerce, and the quality of life there for the Greek and Turkish residents. “By 1664 he was living in Smyrna and he traded extensively through the Aegean region of the Ottoman empire until after 1680. Between 1683 and 1684 he travelled three times to Massachusetts to assist his elder brother Edward as deputy collector of customs. Back in England he published in 1686 The Present State of the Morea, a brief account of the port cities of the Peloponnese” – DNB. Blackmer praises the work for its accuracy: “Randolph writes from the point of view of a merchant rather than an antiquary, from personal observation of actual conditions, prompted by his economic interests. The Venetian invasion of the Morea had just occurred and possibly this event prompted Randolph to set down what he knew of the area.” Blackmer owned a copy of the Oxford edition, but not of this scarcer London printing. Blackmer’s copy had a folding map, and he asserts that the London edi- tion should as well. The ESTC description does not mention a map, however, and the three copies of this London edition listed by ESTC in the United States, at Yale, the Huntington, and UCLA, do not contain a map. Only Blackmer’s Oxford edition appears at auction in the last thirty-five years. BLACKMER CATALOGUE 1384 (Oxford ed). BLACKMER SALE 274 (Oxford ed). ESTC R13431. WING R235. $1250.

The First American Diplomatic Mission to Japan, Seven Years Before Perry

133. Rosser, S.F.: THE U.S.S. COLUMBUS AND VINCENNES IN JAPAN. [with:] DEPARTURE OF THE U.S.S. COLUMBUS AND VINCENNES FROM JEDDO BAY, JULY 29th, 1846. Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan, Lithographers, [1848]. Two folio lithographs, each 17 x 21½ inches, matted to 22 x 26 inches. First lithograph with several minor neatly repaired tears; expertly backed with heavier paper. Second lithograph with some very minor wear and soiling. Very good.

This extremely rare pair of lithographs is one of the very few printed records of the first official American expedition to Japan, the diplomatic mission of Commodore James Biddle which attempted to establish formal relations between the United States and Japan in 1846. Although overshadowed by the famous and successful mission of Commodore Matthew Perry seven years later, the Biddle expedition deserves far greater fame. It was, in fact, the first official contact between America and Japan, and certainly a necessary precursor to Perry’s breakthrough of 1853. This graphic representation of the events of the visit, with the extensive textual gloss accompanying each plate, given the dearth of written accounts by the key figures, is the most important published record of the Biddle expedition. The prints depict Biddle’s ships, the Columbus and the Vincennes, in Tokyo Bay during Biddle’s visit of July 20 to 29, 1846. Commodore James Biddle, a distinguished naval career officer and scion of a noted Philadelphia family, served his country in a diplomatic capacity on various occasions. Because of this, he was a reasonable choice in 1845 to head a mission to exchange ratifications of the first treaty between the United States and China, after which he was to attempt to negotiate a treaty with Japan. Biddle sailed from New York in June 1845, concluding the treaty with China early in 1846 and cruising along the Chinese coast throughout that spring. In early July, Biddle proceeded to the next part of his mission, sailing for Japan on the 7th. Rather than sail for the open port of Nagasaki, he decided to make directly for Yeddo (modern-day Tokyo), arriving there on July 20, mindful of his instructions to “ascertain if the ports of Japan are accessible,” but “not in such a manner as to excite a hostile feeling or a distrust of the Government of the United States.” Biddle’s ships moved up Tokyo Bay on July 21, 1846, but were stopped by numerous small vessels carrying armed soldiers. His ships remained at anchor about fifteen miles below Tokyo for the duration of their visit. After an initial confrontation in which Japanese officials demanded that the Americans surrender their weapons, peaceful relations were established and numerous Japanese visited the ships, bringing many supplies as gifts. The first of the lithographs depicts the American warships at anchor, surrounded by many smaller Japanese vessels. Biddle continued negotiations to be received on shore, without success. Finally it was arranged that he would present an address to suitable Japanese officials on board a Japanese vessel, and he arrived in full uniform for the occasion. However, upon boarding the boat, the Commodore was deliberately knocked over by a com- mon sailor. The Japanese officials professed to be mortified, and Biddle accepted their apology without insisting on harsh punishment for the offender. Subsequently there was much debate over whether Biddle had helped or hurt the American posi- tion by losing face or being magnanimous, depending on one’s point of view, and this dialectic is still pursued by historians today. In any case, much of Commodore Perry’s behavior in Japan seven years later was designed to avoid such an incident. Feeling that he had carried out his instructions as far as they could be pursued, Biddle accepted from his reluctant hosts both supplies and a tow out to sea to catch the wind. For their part, the Japanese were happy to aid him in departing. A small fleet of rowboats towed the American warships from their anchorage, and this scene is the subject of the second lithograph. After the departure on July 19, Biddle made for Hawaii, where he learned of the outbreak of the Mexican War. As a result, instead of heading home, the Commodore took his warships to the west coast of America to support the conquest of California, and spent the next year there. Only in March 1848 did Biddle finally arrive back in Norfolk, Virginia. Biddle arrived home in Philadelphia in April 1848, and died there on October 1. Since both of these prints bear a dedication from the artist, S.F. Rosser, to Commodore Biddle as if he were alive, it seems certain that they were produced during the six months of peaceful retirement the old sailor enjoyed before his death. Rosser, evidently a Philadelphia lithographic artist, credits his lithographs to be based on “Sketches by John Eastley,” presumably a member of the expedition; of course, these probably arrived in town with Biddle. The printing was executed by the well-known firm of Wagner & McGuigan. An indication that the prints may have been hastily struck is the blank spaces left where the longitude and latitude of Tokyo were to be filled in. A small print run or limited interest must account for the extreme rarity of the prints today. We can locate sets only at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The Biddle mission to Japan paved the way for the later successful expedition of Perry, and the latter’s famous “Opening of Japan” must be seen in the context of the 1846 expedition. Perry came not as an isolated phenomenon, but part of an escalat- ing American pressure campaign which was begun by Biddle. These prints are the most striking artifact of the true beginning of the Japanese-American relationship. A truly extraordinary pair of lithographs, utterly unknown to most experts in the field, and of the greatest rarity. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.395. David F. Long, Sailor-Diplomat, A Biography of Commodore James Biddle, 1783-1848 (Boston, 1983), pp.185-238. Charles Oscar Paullin, American Voyages to the Orient (Annapolis, 1971), pp.107-13. Nicholas Wainwright, “Com- modore James Biddle and his Sketch-Book” in Pennsylvania Magazine of History XC (1966), pp.3-92. Merrill L. Bartlett, “Commodore James Biddle and the First American Naval Mis- sion to Japan, 1845-1846” in The American Neptune XLI (1981), pp.25-35. Stephen B. Luce, “Commodore Biddle’s Visit to Japan in 1846” in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute XXXI (1905), pp.555-63. Richard A. Von Doenhoff, “Biddle, Perry, and Japan” in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute XCII (1966), pp.78-87. $75,000. A Very Early Report on Travels in Persia

134. Rota, Giovanni: LEBEN UNND GEWONHEYT, UND GE- STALT DES SOPHI KUNIGSS DER PERSIEN, UNND DER MEDIER. UND VON VILL ANDERN KUNGREICHEN. UND LANDT. MIT DEN ALLER GROSSISTEN KRIGE. WELCHE ER THAN HAT. WIDER DEN GROSSEN TURCKEN. UNDER ANDERER KUNG. UND HERRN. UND VON DER BESCHREY- BUNG. DER LANDT. LEBEN UN GEWONHEYT DEREN VOL- CKER. MIT VILLEN ANDERN KURTZWEYLICHEN DINGEN. Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1515. [10] leaves. Small quarto. Dbd., leather tab on foredge of first leaf. Moderate soiling and dampstaining. Short clean tears at inner margin of last leaf (affecting printed area, but no loss). A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

An extremely rare German translation of Giovanni Rota’s La Vita del Sophia Re de Persia, following an Italian edition of 1508. The text consists of reports concerning the Persian and Turkish empires sent by Rota, a doctor who had resided in Aleppo, to Leonardo Loredan, the Doge of Venice from 1501 to 1521. Also included are brief reports from other regions of the Near East. First published in Rome in 1508, another Italian edition was printed in Ven- ice circa 1515, and a French translation appeared in Jean Lemaire de Belge’s Le Traictie Intitule de la Differe[n]ce des Scismes et Des Concilles de Leglise, printed in Lyon in 1511. It has been suggested that Rota’s writings were published in part to create interest in Christian Europe in a new Crusade. These reports, particularly the present German translation printed in newsletter format, can also be seen as responding to a market strongly interested in reports from the Near East and Asia. Extremely rare. Not in OCLC, Catalog of the James Ford Bell Library, or British Library’s STC German 1455-1600. VD16 records copies in Munich, Berlin, and . VD16 R3194. http://mek.oszk.hu/03500/03534 (Budapest National Library copy). $25,000.

135. St. Aulaire, A.: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE. Paris: Chez Ar- nauld de Vresse, [nd, ca. 1850]. 54,[2]pp. plus twenty-five tinted lithographic plates (including the titlepage). Small folio. Original pebbled cloth, spine gilt, a.e.g. Spine rubbed, hinges a bit worn. Internally neat and clean. A very good copy.

A rare and attractive work, showing the peoples of the world, their costumes, hab- its, physiognomy, dwellings, and architecture. Each plate is accompanied by text describing the country or people illustrated, giving population figures, describing the regions, their history, style of government, customs, etc. The contents cover France, England, Russia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Persia, the Barbary States, Australia, the Canary Islands, the East Indies, Java, Africa (including Mozambique and the Congo), Argentina, Switzerland, Turkey, Brazil, the United States, China, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Egypt, and New Zealand. The plate of the United States shows a farm couple and their dwelling, Choctaw Indians, and a steamboat on the Missis- sippi. The plates of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru also show several Indians. The plates of Australia and New Zealand show aborigines, their clothing, weapons, dwellings, and huts, as well as New Zealanders in a longboat. No copies listed on OCLC, nor in NUC. Not in Hiler, Colas, or Lipperheide. A rare and interesting illustrated work. $3500.

A Bounder of Great Distinction

136. Semple Lisle, James George: THE LIFE OF MAJOR J.G. SEMPLE LISLE; CONTAINING A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF HIS ALTERNATE VICISSITUDES OF SPLENDOR AND MISFOR- TUNE.... London: Printed for W. Stewart, 1800. xxii,[2],382pp. Mezzotint frontispiece portrait. Half title. Original paper-covered boards, printed label. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, spine and joints cracked and worn, label largely worn away. Occasional light foxing. Three bookplates (two armorial) affixed to front endpapers. Overall a very good copy, untrimmed.

Second edition, after the first of 1799. The scarce memoirs of a great scoundrel and adventurer, “including a full account of the on the Lady Shore, in which he was being carried as a convict to New South Wales, and of the adven- tures of the landing party in their journey to Rio de Janeiro” (Ferguson). James George Semple, who laid claim to the extinct French title of Viscount Lisle, was born in 1759 in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a former excise man. In 1775 he left to serve in America, where he was captured in 1776 and soon released. Upon his return to Great Britain in 1777, Semple befriended novelist Eliza Gooch, who chronicled their meeting in her memoirs, “though,” he writes, “not quite correctly” (p.3). In 1778, Semple departed for the Continent with the “notorious” Duchess of Kingston, whose goddaughter he had just married, and proceeded, he claims, to have accompanied Frederick the Great on his 1778 campaign, met with Catherine the Great, traveled with Prince Potemkin to the Crimea, and designed a uniform for the Russian Army. After additional travels in Denmark and Prussia, Semple returned to England and was arrested and sentenced to seven years’ transportation for “obtaining goods by false pretenses” (DNB). His sentence was commuted with the provision that he leave England, and he soon found himself in Paris, serving on General Berruyer’s staff and witnessing the execution of Louis XVI. Returning to England in 1795, Semple was arrested for defrauding tradesmen, imprisoned at Newgate, and transported to Australia on board the Lady Jane Shore, whose crew mutinied during the voyage. Semple and several others were permitted to leave the ship in a boat and made their way to South America, where further adventures ensued. In 1799, Semple arrived in , surrendered himself, and was sent back to England, where he was committed to Tothill Fields prison. The present narra- tive, published during Semple’s imprisonment at Tothill Fields, appears to be the last the world heard of Semple, of whom “nothing further is known” by the DNB. FERGUSON 317. SABIN 41421. DNB XVII, p.1179. $1750.

British Privateering in the Pacific, with an Early Account of California and Its Natives

137. Shelvocke, George: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD BY WAY OF THE GREAT SOUTH SEA, PERFORM’D IN THE YEARS 1719, 20, 21, 22, IN THE SPEEDWELL OF LONDON.... London. 1726. [8],xxxii,[4],468pp. plus five plates (three folding), including one map. Contemporary paneled calf, expertly rebacked, spine richly gilt, leather label. Corners expertly repaired. Some light dampstaining at the front of the volume, else bright and clean. Very good.

First edition of “the fullest account of California, the natives and other features, of any of the old voyages” (Cowan). “Captains Shelvocke and Clipperton led a privately financed privateering expedition to attack Spanish shipping. Shelvocke gave his superior officer the slip in a storm and proceeded to Brazil and thence to the west coast of South America, where in two months he sacked Payta, Peru, and captured several small prizes. His vessel, the Speedwell, was wrecked at Juan Fernandez Island, but a ship was built out of the wreckage, and he sailed up the coast to Baja California. After crossing the Pacific via Guam and Macao, Shelvocke returned to England, where he was accused of piracy and embezzlement, and then acquitted. He soon left for the Continent a wealthy man. Shelvocke wrote this account, in part, as a vindication of his conduct. In it he mentions the gold of California and the guano of Peru, more than a hundred years before their rediscovery in the 19th century. An incident in the narrative describing the passage around Cape Horn, in which a sailor kills an albatross, is said to have inspired Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient ” – Hill. “On the map of the world, California is shown as an island. Two of the plates represent male and female inhabitants of California” – Cowan. COWAN II, pp.581-82. HILL 1157. HOWES S383. SABIN 90158. $7500.

A Spectacular Illustrated Album of the Challenger Expedition, of Great Antarctic Interest

138. [Shephard, Benjamin]: [ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT SKETCH- BOOK OF THE H.M.S. CHALLENGER EXPEDITION, 1872 – 1874]. [H.M.S. Challenger. 1873]. Thirty-six leaves, including illustrated titlepage and thirty-five ink and watercolor illustrations, all but titlepage in full color. Oblong quarto sketchbook, 9½ x 12½ inches. Original printed wrap- pers, backed in later tape. Inscribed on front wrapper verso: “William Gurl- ing. H.M.S. Challenger. Sydney. Australia.” Covers worn. Some minor soiling internally, but overall clean, bright, and in very good condition, with most tissue guards remaining. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

The remarkable original watercolor sketchbook of Benjamin Shephard from the historic scientific voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger. In 1968, J. Welles Henderson, collector, historian, and founder of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, discovered the sketchbook in an antique shop in Boston. He purchased the volume and soon showed it to Harris B. Stewart, an oceanographer and member of the Maritime Mu- seum’s Underwater Advisory Board, who agreed that the drawings added “a delightful artistic postscript to the volumes already written about what is still considered the greatest of all oceanographic expeditions” (Stewart and Henderson, p.[3]). In 1972, on the centennial of the Challenger’s launch, the Philadelphia Maritime Museum published a facsimile volume of the sketchbook, with an introduction and detailed commentary by Stewart and Henderson accompanying each plate. During their research on the sketchbook, Henderson and Stewart discovered that Benjamin Shephard was a who served during the entire voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, from November 1872 to May 1876. Shephard was born at Brixton in Surrey in 1841, entered the navy in 1862, and died in Australia from tuberculosis in 1887 at the age of forty-five. “Evidently,” Henderson and Stewart write, “he found work not particularly to his liking, as he was promoted and de- moted several times during his 25-year career.” He paid significant attention to his Challenger sketchbook, however, creating this series of splendid watercolors that show the work of a skilled and observant amateur. The sketches are all approximately 6 by 9¾ inches, each featuring a view of the ship and framed with a caption-bearing garter. Following the attractive pictorial titlepage, they begin with a fanciful scene of the Challenger dredging the sea floor, with mermaids guiding the net below and bestowing it with shells and an old anchor. Stewart and Henderson note that like the sailors on most oceanographic expedi- tions, “those aboard the H.M.S. Challenger, although intrigued by the work of the scientists, were more interested in the ports which punctuated the long periods of observations at sea. Thus Shephard, with few exceptions, concentrated on painting not the scientific work at sea but rather the Challenger at her various ports of call.” Twenty-five of the watercolors are port or other coastal views, covering Madeira, St. Thomas, , Halifax, St. Michael’s, St. Vincent, St. Paul’s Rocks, Fernando Noronha, Tristan de Cunha, Capetown, Prince Edward Island, Crozet Island, Ker- guelen Island, and McDonald Island. Many of these depict other ships and boats, with forts, towns, and the occasional lighthouse in the background. Non-coastal scenes include one of a violent storm in the Gulf of Florida, a particularly attractive view of the ship at full sail “on her way to St. Paul’s Rocks,” and six sketches of the Challenger sailing, firing, and dredging among the Antarctic icebergs. A beautiful and important visual record of what Howgego has called “the most detailed and extensive examination of the world’s oceans in the history of exploration.” HOWGEGO N5. [Benjamin Shephard], Challenger Sketchbook B. Shephard’s Sketchbook of the H.M.S. Challenger Expedition 1872-1874 Prepared and Edited for Publication by Harris B. Stewart, Jr. and J. Welles Henderson (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1972). $150,000. German Travels in the Caribbean and

139. Simler, Johann Wilhelm, editor: VIER LOBLICHER STATT ZU- RICH VERBURGERTER REISS BESCHREIBUNGEN: GESCHE- HEN 1. DAS GELOBTE-LAND. 2. DIE INSUL JAMAICA. 3. DIE CARIBES INSLEN, UND NEUW ENGEL LAND, IN AMERICA. 4. DIE LANDTSCHAFFT FETU IN AFRICA. Zurich. 1677-1678. [16],192,174pp. plus engraved titlepage and four plates (one folding). Con- temporary calf, spine gilt. Boards scuffed, foot of spine chipped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing. Very good.

The first collected edition of these travel accounts by citizens of Zurich, containing the first editions of three of the titles: H.J. Zeller and H. Huser’s “A new descrip- tion of the island of Jamaica”; Felix-Christian Spori’s “American travel account to the Caribbean Islands and New England”; and Hans-Jacob Zur Eich’s [i.e. W.J. Muller] “African travel journal to Fetu on the African Gold Coast.” The first work by Hans Jacob Amman, “Narrative of a trip to Palestine,” had been published in 1618 and 1630. Several of the plates are unusual images of Africans on the Gold Coast. Only a handful of copies on OCLC. SABIN 99534. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 677/185. JANTZ 2342. FABER DU FAUR 452. PALMER 405. BAGINSKY 197. JCB (3)II:44. $3000.

140. Slocum, Joshua: SAILING ALONE AROUND THE WORLD. New York. 1905. xvi,[2],294pp. plus frontis. Original blue pictorial cloth. Extremi- ties rubbed. Contemporary manuscript letter pasted to leaf following fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

This copy was inscribed on the front fly leaf by the author at Nantucket, July 18, 1907, and includes a letter relating the tale of meeting Slocum and having him sign the book. Slocum rebuilt the Spray, which was given to him in wrecked condition, and sailed around the world alone, departing Boston in 1895 and returning in 1898. He went westward through the Straits of Magellan, stopped in Melbourne, and sailed back via the Cape of Good Hope. “This classic account of a small boat voyage has been compared favorably to Thoreau’s Walden. Slocum perceived the world in a poetic manner and described his vision of reality with grace” – Toy. TOY 462 (ref ). $900.

Important Classical Geography in a Contemporary Sammelband

141. Solinus, Caius Julius: Mela, Pomponius: IVLII SOLINI POLYHIS- TOR. CUM INDICE SUMMATIM OMNIA COMPLECTENTE. [bound with:] Mela, Pomponius: POMPONII MELAE GEOGRAPH- IAE, LIBRI TRES. Vienna: Johann Singriener for Lukas Alantse, [1520]. [8],151,[32]pp.; [56] leaves. Contemporary green-stained vellum. Some light wear and soiling, ties lacking. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good, in unso- phisticated original condition.

A contemporary sammelband containing a pair of works by two important early geographers. Solinus (ca. 250 a.d.) was a Roman geographer of some repute. His Polyhistor... was first published by Nicholas Jenson in Venice in 1473. Mela was the earliest Roman geographer, writing around 43 a.d. Both works have extensive indexes. Only four copies of either title are located by VD16 online. An interest- ing and handsome volume combining the two most important geographical sources of the ancient world. VD16 S6965, M2312. $8500.

Account of a Hurricane Near Seville

142. [Spain]: ESPANTOSO HURACAN QUE VINO SOBRE LA VILLA DE ZAFRA, QUE FUE SERVIDO DIOS NUESTRO SEÑOR, SU- CEDISSE POR NUESTROS GRANDES PECADOS, PARA QUE SEA ESCARMIENTO A TANTAS MALDADES, COMO CADE DIA SOMETEMOS CONTRA SU DIVINA MAGESTAD. DASE CUENTA DE LA GRANDE RUYNA QUE UVO DE PERSONAS Y HAZIENDAS, EN ESTE ORRIBLE Y ADMIRABLE TERRO- MOTO. Seville: Juan de Cabrera, 1624. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut orna- ments and decorative initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Early folds. Faint contemporary ink annotations in margins of first page. Closed marginal tear at foredge and slight loss along gutter, both repaired in silk, with no loss to text. Faint dampstaining in gutter, two small stains in upper margins, not af- fecting text. Very good.

A fascinating early Spanish newsletter account of a devastating hurricane near Seville on the Feast of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in September 1624. The anonymous reporter chronicles the event in minute detail and attributes the cause of the disaster to the sins of man. Interestingly, Seville, which has traditionally been a center of Marian devotion, was at that moment in history embroiled in a major debate regarding the Immaculate Conception, with two of its local champions, Bernardo de Toro and Mateo Vázquez de Leca, establishing a religious knighthood in defense of the doctrine earlier that same year. OCLC locates no copies of the present document. Very rare. PALAU 82040. $2250.

With Hand-Drawn Harbor Plans of Naples and Palermo

143. [Spanish Navy]: ADVERTIMIENTOS A V. MAGESTAD, TO- CANTS AL GOVIERNO DE GALERAS, Y OTROS AUISOS DE JUAN JACOBO LOCADELO, VASSALL DE VUESTRA MAGES- TAD. Madrid: Por la viuda de Alonso Martini, 1617. [4],34,[4] leaves plus several pen and ink illustrations. Folio. Later speckled calf, maroon gilt mo- rocco label, spine gilt. Covers with slight wear and scuffing at extremities. Faint dampstain in lower margin. Occasional contemporary manuscript notes and marks. Overall internally clean. Very good.

A comprehensive list of rules addressed to ship captains governing the proper pro- visioning of Spanish vessels based in Sicily and Naples, both then under Spanish rule. The text includes a bevy of rules, expense guidelines, and more, and offers a fine window into the near-obsessive attention to detail that marked the administra- tion of the Spanish military at the peak of its powers. Of particular interest are several pen and ink sketches that include tools, a ship in dry dock, and storage bins, as well as two much larger harbor plans of Palermo and Naples. Each drawing is keyed to a printed description of the location, and shows fortifications, lookouts, and, in the case of Naples, dormitories. These are charming and well accomplished. Good evidence of the Spanish navy at work at the height of empire, with rules which certainly applied to vessels in the Americas as well. Extremely rare, and not on OCLC. $8500. 16th-Century English Work on Navigation

144. Stevin, Simon: THE HAVEN-FINDING ART, OR, THE WAY TO FIND ANY HAVEN OR PLACE AT SEA, BY THE LATITUDE AND VARIATION. LATELY PUBLISHED IN THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND LATINE TONGUES, BY COMMANDEMENT OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE COUNT MAURITZ OF NAS- SAU, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED PROVINCES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES, ENIOYNING ALL SEAMEN THAT TAKE CHARGE OF SHIPS UNDER HIS IUIRSDICTION, TO MAKE DILIGENT OBSERVATION, IN ALL THEIR VOYAGES, ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTIONS PRESCRIBED HEREIN. AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH FOR THE COM- MON BENEFITS OF THE SEAMAN OF ENGLAND. London: G. B[ishop], R. N[ewbery], and R. B[arker], 1599. [16],27pp. including three woodcut figures in the text (one full-page, one three-quarter page). Small quarto. Modern sprinkled calf, boards and spine gilt. Upper outer joint ten- der, separating at top and bottom. Bookplates of Boies Penrose on front free pastedown and recto of front free endpaper, bookplate of Frank S. Streeter on verso of front free endpaper. Titlepage age-toned, slight chips to foredge, old paper repairs at corners (not affecting text). A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box.

First edition in English of Simon Stevin’s navigation manual, Havenvinding, pub- lished the same year as the original Dutch edition and separately printed French and Latin editions. Stevin served as quartermaster-general of the Dutch army and was often consulted on matters of defense and navigation by the government of the Netherlands. A compilation of information on magnetic variation which would assist navigators in determining their position at sea, this English edition was translated by Edward upon the urging of Richard Hakluyt. The translator “explained that he had brought the book out in the hope that it would assist masters engaged on long voyages to find their position by means only of their latitude and variation....It was hoped that instead of guessing, as up till now those not in pos- session of the information had had to do, and often wrongly...English navigators knowing their variation when in the latitude of St. Helena would be able to say, like the Portuguese, ‘I am east, or I am west, of St. Helena because my variation is less, or is more, than the variation at St. Helena.’ They could, of course, find the variation of St. Helena from The Haven-Finding Art” – Waters. A work of extraordinary rarity, this is the only copy to appear at auction in the last seventy years. It realized $5280 at the Penrose sale in 1971. PENROSE SALE 237. FRANK STREETER SALE 483. STC 23265. TAYLOR, MATHEMATICAL PRACTITIONERS OF TUDOR & STUART ENGLAND 100. & WATERS, ENGLISH MARITIME BOOKS 3453. Waters, The Art of Naviga- tion, pp.229-30. $72,500.

145. Strahlenberg, Philip Johann Von: DAS NORD- UND OSTLICHE THEIL VON EUROPA UND ASIA, IN SO WEIT SOLCHES DAS GANTZE RUSSISCHE REICH MIT SIBERIEN UND DER GROSSEN TATAREY IN SICH BEGREIFFET, IN EINER HIS- TORISCH-GEOGRAPHISCHEN BESCHREIBUNG DER ALTEN UND NEUREN ZEITEN...NEBST EINER NOCH NIEMAHLS ANS LICHT GEGEBENEN TABULA POLYGLOTTA VON ZWEY UND DREYSSIGERLEY ARTEN TARTARISCHER VÖLCKER SPRACHEN UND EINEM KALMUCKISCHEN VO- CABULARIO, SONDERLICH ABER EINER GROSSEN RICH- TIGEN LAND-CHARTE VON DEN BENANNTEN LÄNDERN. Stockholm: in Verlegung des Autoris, 1730. Ten engraved plates (four fold- ing, one double-page), folding woodcut chart, folding letterpress table, twelve woodcut illustrations and samples of alphabets. Quarto. Contemporary sheep over beveled wooden boards, spine gilt with raised bands, leather label, two leather and brass clasps on covers, red-stained edges. Light worming to final twenty leaves, else very good.

A Swedish officer taken prisoner during Charles XII’s campaign in Russia, Strahlen- berg was held captive in Siberia for thirteen years. Situated in Tobolsk from 1711 to 1721, he was able to explore the lower basins of the Ob and Yenisey rivers, gathering the geographical information regarding the northern and eastern parts of Europe and Asia recorded in this book. The text is of great importance, offering much firsthand information – geographical, historical, and ethnographic – about Siberia and Great Tartary. The work also includes early descriptions of the linguistics of the region, with a Kalmyv vocabulary including the translations of Mongolian words. A large folding table contains a comparative list of words in thirty-two dialects from eastern Europe and Asia. The work would be translated into English, French, and Spanish before 1800. As usual, this copy does not contain the separately issued map, “Nova descriptio geographica Tattariae Magnae.” BELL S698. BRUNET V:558. $3000.

South Seas Flowers for British Gardens

146. Sweet, Robert: FLORA AUSTRALASICA; OR, A SELECTION OF HANDSOME, OR CURIOUS PLANTS, NATIVES OF NEW HOLLAND, AND THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS; CONTAINING COLOURED FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF THE CHOICEST SPECIES.... London: James Ridgway, 1827-1828. Ti- tle-leaf, fifty-six handcolored engraved plates by S. Watts after E.D. Smith, each with a facing leaf of text description, plus leaf of index and bibliography. Contemporary patterned cloth, expertly rebacked, original gilt backstrip laid down. Minute foxing, later ownership signature on front free endpaper. Plates generally quite clean. Very good.

An important and rare work of Australian botany, a pioneering effort in describ- ing plants from Australia and the South Seas which had been brought to England. Illustrated with fifty-six elegant handcolored plates, all richly colored. The letterpress descriptions are numbered 1 to 56, each occupying two pages and accompanied by a stunning handcolored engraved botanical plate. Sweet presented the plants as suitable for garden cultivation, noting that “the greater part are handsome evergreen shrubs, and many produce sweet-scented flowers....” Sweet (1783-1835) was a notable British nurseryman who wrote extensively on botanical subjects, including Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis (1818), Hortus Britannicus (1826-27), Botanical Cultivator (1821), The British Flower Garden (1823-29), and numerous other titles. All of the plants described here are ones Sweet cultivated in England, and thus all of the plates were drawn from live specimens. His work in this regard was based directly on the methods of Sir Joseph Banks. FERGUSON 1144. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, p.143. NISSEN (BBI) 1924. PRITZEL 9081. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 13548. DNB XIX, p.197. $5000. 147. [Tamil Language]: FIRST LESSONS IN ENGLISH AND TAMUL: DESIGNED TO ASSIST TAMUL YOUTH IN THE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I. [bound with:] ...II. Manepy, Ceylon: Press of the American Mission Society, 1835/1836. Two volumes bound in one. 64; 96pp. In English and Tamil. 19th-century patterned cloth over boards. Bookplate of John Lawson on front pastedown. Ink ownership signature of James Minor on front free endpaper and ownership ink stamp of same on last page of text. Faint staining on titlepage. Else near fine.

A complete English primer for Tamil-speaking students, with extensive vocabulary lists in both languages. Printed by the American Mission Society in Jaffna, in the present-day Northern Province of . OCLC lists only two complete sets, at Yale and Trinity College (Connecticut), and one separate copy of Volume II, at Harvard. A rare early Sri Lankan imprint. $1000.

A Landmark East Asian Travel Account

148. Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste: THE SIX VOYAGES OF JOHN BAPTIS- TA TAVERNIER...THROUGH TURKY [sic] INTO PERSIA, AND THE EAST-INDIES, FINISHED IN THE YEAR 1670...TOGETH- ER WITH A NEW RELATION OF THE PRESENT GRAND SEI- GNOR’S SERAGLIO...TO WHICH IS ADDED A DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE KINGDOMS WHICH ENCOMPASS THE EUXINE AND CASPIAN SEAS. BY AN ENGLISH TRAVELLER, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED. [bound with:] A COLLECTION OF SEVERAL RELATIONS & TREATISES SINGULAR AND CURIOUS, OF JOHN BAPTISTA TAVERNIER, BARON OF AUBONNE. NOT PRINTED AMONG HIS FIRST SIX VOYAGES. London. 1678-1680. Two volumes bound in one. First title in four parts: [2],2,[18],264; [2],214; [6],97; [8],107-19,[3]pp. including publisher’s advertisements, plus twenty four engraved plates (one folding) and text illustrations. Second title in two parts: [20],66,[2]; 14,[4],15-46,[4],47-87,[1]pp. including bookseller’s advertisement, plus two maps on one folding leaf and eight engraved plates (six folding). Folio. 20th-century three-quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards, spine gilt. Ownership inscription on front fly leaf: “Thomas A. Wise 1852.” First title: Contemporary manuscript annotations in margin of p.143 of second part. One plate with contemporary manuscript annotations crossed out. Second title: Clean tears in folding leaf with two maps expertly repaired (no loss). Three plates with contemporary manuscript annotation in upper margin crossed out; one plate torn at bottom (no loss of image, but caption text removed); one plate with contemporary manuscript annotation in upper margin crossed out and torn at bottom, affecting most of caption text; one plate with contempo- rary manuscript annotation. Very light age-toning, particularly at outer edges, occasional minor foxing and soiling. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell box, leather label.

A fine gathering in a single volume of the early English translations of Tavernier’s renowned and informative accounts of his travels in Asia. Lach refers to the author as “one of the most celebrated travelers of the seventeenth century and one of its greatest authorities on the routes of Eastern travel and on the diamond mines of India.” The son of a Parisian geographer, Tavernier completed six overland jour- neys to Turkey, Persia, and India between 1631 and 1668. “In 1676-77 at Paris, Tavernier published in two volumes Les Six Voyages, one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. The first volume is centered on Turkey and Persia; the second on India, Ceylon, and the East Indies. By 1712 this work was reprinted at least six times in French, three times in English, and one time each in German, Dutch, and Italian” – Lach. The Six Voyages... records Tavernier’s extensive travels through India, Ceylon, , and Persia. Lach writes that the Voyages, “are rich in materials on routes, traveling conditions, trading practices, the mines of Golconda [in India], and the Dutch and English activities in the East. While Tavernier’s contemporaries debated the authenticity of the Voyages, modern scholars agree that they constitute a valu- able source for Indian history during the years from 1640 to 1667, or for almost a generation.” The twenty-four plates include numerous engravings of coins and gems, reflecting the author’s commercial activities, as well as images of town plans and scenes of local color. Two of the finely engraved plates provide examples of Arabic script. The second work, A Collection of Several Relations & Treatises Singular and Curious, is the English translation of Tavernier’s 1679 supplement to the original account of his six voyages. Composed of five separate parts based on the author’s own observations and reports from other travellers, these accounts include descrip- tions of Japan (and Christian persecution there); French negotiations in Persia and India following the establishment of Colbert’s East India Company; the kingdom of Tongking (now the northern part of Vietnam); the author’s own observations on commerce in the East Indies; and Tavernier’s highly critical remarks on “how the Hollanders manage their affairs in Asia.” The two maps (on one folding leaf ) are of Tongking and Japan; all eight plates show scenes of Tongking, including two related to funerary customs, one of pagodas, and one with fine detail of the costumes of the court. A fine set of the early English translations of Tavernier’s celebrated and au- thoritative account of the East Indies. COX pp.275-76. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, Book 1, pp.416-18. WING T256 (Six Voyages); T250 (Collection). $12,500.

Among the Greatest Early Voyage Collections, with Copies of the Tasman Map of Australia Present in Both the First and Third States

149. Thévenot, Melchisedech: RELATIONS DE DIVERS VOYAGES CU- RIEUX. QUI N’ONT POINT ESTÉ PUBLIÉES, OU QUI ONT ESTÉ TRADUITES D’HACLUYT, DE PURCHAS, & D’AUTRES VOYAGEURS ANGLOIS, HOLLANDOIS, PORTUGAIS, AL- LEMANDS, ESPAGNOLS; ET DE QUELQUES PERSANS, AR- ABES, & AUTRES AUTHEURS ORIENTAUX.... Paris. 1666-1672. Four volumes. Includes eleven maps and twenty-one plates, with many in-text illustrations. Fourth volume lacks two leaves of Mexican hieroglyphs. Without the map of Japan, but with two copies of the Tasman map of Australia, in the first and third issues. Folio. 18th-century calf, spines gilt; rebacked with original spines laid down. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Light toning and foxing. Very good.

A handsome set of Thévenot’s significant and wide-ranging compilation of voyages and travels to the New World, Australia, Asia, the East Indies, the Far East, and Africa. This work is an essential document for the study of European discovery and exploration to all areas of the known world in the early modern period, reprinting numerous texts first published in several countries in a variety of languages. Comple- menting the texts are maps, plates, and in-text illustrations documenting voyages and explorations, geographic areas, coastal profiles, flora, fauna, native costumes and customs, and exotic alphabets and languages such as Chinese, Chaldean, and Mexican pictographs. Most significant among these are two different issues of the first map to show a separate Australian continent, by Abel Tasman. Melchisedech Thévenot (ca. 1620-92) was a French author and scientist. He is well known for his work on The Art of Swimming (1696) and for his invention of the bubble level. Additionally, he compiled this important collection of travel narratives which contains many important maps, including the Abel Tasman map of Terra Australis and some of the earliest and most detailed depictions of the Middle East. This work is particularly valuable for its content on China and the East Indies. Included here is a lengthy geographical description of the Chinese empire by Martino Martini, the Jesuit missionary and historian. Martini (1614-61) spent most of the last twenty years of his life in China, studying the country’s history and geography in an objective manner, making his account incredibly useful to scholars both then and now. Accompanying Martini’s work is a large and detailed map of China; there are several other sizable maps of the East Indies present as well, showing India, the Philippines, and Ethiopia. American voyages are discussed in the preliminary “Avis” in the beginning of the work, and the primary texts of New World interest are found in part four. These include Acarete du Biscay’s Voyage...a Buenos Aires sur la Riviere de la Plate, first published in Paris in 1672 (which itself includes Juan de Palafox y Mendoza’s “L’Indien, ou Portrait au naturel des Indiens”); a marvellous forty-six-page woodcut facsimile of the Codex Mendoza taken from the London 1625 edition of Samuel Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimes; and Thomas Gage’s Relation du Mexique, et de la Nouvelle Espagne, an abridged translation of Gage’s The English-American, His Travail by Sea and Land which was first published in London in 1648. Beyond the Americas, the work includes François Pelsart’s account of the dis- covery of Australia, complete with the rare map based on the explorations of Abel Janszoon Tasman. One of the first charts to show parts of the Australian coastline in detail, it records part of the coast of New Guinea, Tasmania, and much of the east coast of Australia. It is a basic work of Australian cartography, present here in both the first issue, with incorrect latitudes, no Tropic of Capricorn, no rumb lines, and without Tasman’s track, and its third issue, with the Tropic of Capricorn inserted and with the rhumblines. “In any state the map is a great rarity. It is one of the earliest charts devoted entirely to Australia, and is the first French map of Australia” – Davidson catalogue. Other historical relations include accounts of Egypt, accompanied by plates of the pyramids and mummies; travels into various portions of the Asian landmass, including Russia; voyages sponsored by the Dutch East Indies Company; and different expeditions to China. The work is extremely complex bibliographically, as different parts were reprinted to accompany texts issued in later editions. “There is really only one edition of Thévenot’s collections, issued in five parts between 1663 and 1696. Part one was first issued in 1663, part two in 1664, part three in 1666, part four during 1672-4, and part five in 1696. During the course of publication, the parts of the collection already published were reissued with new titles pages in 1664, 1666, 1672, 1683, and 1696. Some sheets were reprinted for these reissues. The contents and ar- rangement of individual copies vary” – European Americana. This copy conforms to the “second issue” of the first three volumes, all dated 1666, with the fourth volume appearing in its first issue and dated 1672. The Lenox Library’s account of Thévenot, compiled in the 19th century, remains the best source in its delineation of the various segments and configurations. The maps are an invaluable source of information. According to the Lenox Library collation, all maps here are present excepting a map of Japan. However, the Tasman map of Australia is present in two copies, in both the first and third states. The maps are as follow:

1) “Carte de la Colchida.” 14 x 18 inches. Accompanies text on travels to Georgia and the Caucuses. 2) “Description de la partie des Indes Orientales qui es sous la domination du Grand Mogol.” 14 x 17 inches. Map showing the northern part of the Indian subcon- tinent as controlled by the Mughal Empire. 3) “Vera delineatio civitatis Bassorae nec non fluuiorum....” 13½ x 16 inches. An engraved plan of the city of Bassora and its environs. 4) “Terre Australe.” 16½ x 22 inches. The rare first state of the Abel Tasman map, the first map of Australia. 5) “Terre Australe.” 16 x 28 inches. The third state of the Abel Tasman map. 6) “Ioao Teixeira cosmographo de sua megestad Afez em Lixboa....” 29 x 21 inches. Showing the eastern coast of Africa. 7) “Muro que por entre serras se continua por mais de 360 leguas fi zer....” 21½ x 28½ inches. Shows Borneo, the Philippines, and the eastern coast of China. 8) “Route du voyage de Canton a Peking.” 10 x 26 inches. The route of the Dutch Ambassadors. 9) “Imperii sinarum nova descriptio.” 19 x 25 inches. A large map of China and the southern portion of Japan, quite detailed. 10) “Carte d’Ethiopie et de l’empire des Abyssins, autrement du Prestre-Jan....” 13 x 16 inches. Map of Ethiopia and the Abyssinian Empire. 11) “Entre’es quelques ports de la Mer Rouge de coste de l’Ethiopie....” 10½ x 14½ inches. Shows three woodcuts of harbors on the Red Sea along the coast of Ethiopia.

One of the primary collections of voyages and travels, documenting European ex- plorations to all known areas of the world in the 16th and 17th centuries. JCB (3)III:102-121, 148. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 666/152, 672/222. SABIN 95334. LENOX (THÉVENOT) 2, 27/2, 47, 58. PALAU 331564. $85,000.

150. [Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb]: Friderici, Herman von: SKETCH OF THE HUTS OF KAMCHATKA COPIED AFTER COOK [translation of portion of manuscript caption title]. Nagasaki, Japan. March 1805. Gouache and ink on paper, 7½ x 12½ inches. Signed along lower edge of image, original manuscript caption written on verso. One-inch chip in upper left corner, small chip in upper right corner and center of lower edge, else very good. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet.

A handsome original gouache and ink on paper copy of plate seventy-two in the atlas of Cook’s third voyage, called “A View of Bolcheretzkoi, in Kamtschatka.” This copy of the view of Kamchatka natives, their huts, and their animals was made during the Krusenstern circumnavigation of the globe (1803 to 1806). It was drawn by Herman von Friderici, who was major of the General Staff for Ambassador Rezanov, and was presented to Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau, a naturalist and artist on the Krusenstern expedition. A manuscript note on the verso in Tilesius’ hand explains that it was made by Friderici and given as a gift. Comparison with the actual plate in the Cook atlas shows this to be a very accomplished copy, with all the details from the original reproduced very faithfully. Ambassador Rezanov’s mission was to attempt to open Japan to Russian trade, but he was ultimately unsuccessful. An interesting artifact, linking the Krusenstern and Cook voyages. $6000.

Official Report on the Titanic

151. [Titanic]: SHIPPING CASUALTIES (LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP “TITANIC.”) REPORT OF A FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING THE FOUNDERING ON 15th APRIL, 1912, OF THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP “TITANIC” OF LIVERPOOL, AFTER STRIKING ICE.... London. 1912. [2],74pp. Folio. Dbd. Minor wear. Very good. In a blue cloth folder.

Uncommon first edition of the official report on the sinking of the Titanic, providing a full accounting of the ship’s technical specifications, its journey, and the disaster which took it to the bottom of the North Atlantic. The report gives an account of the damage, saying that water rushed in at such a rate that “the ship’s pumps could not possibly have coped, so that the damage done to these five compartments alone inevitably sealed the doom of the ship.” The account of rescue gives a breakdown of passengers and crew who made it into the lifeboats: “The real difficulty in deal- ing with the question of the boats is to find the explanation of so many of them leaving the ship with comparatively few persons in them.” Statistical analysis, delineated herein, shows what was to be expected – women and children had the highest survival rate, while first- and second-class passengers had better luck in getting into the boats than did those passengers in steerage. The report makes a point, however, of stating unequivocally that third class passengers were not treated unfairly, and that those steerage passengers who spoke English (and therefore, presumably, understood what was going on) were mostly saved. A fascinating and detailed accounting of this most significant of shipping disasters. $2750.

152. Turnbull, John: A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, AND 1804; IN WHICH THE AU- THOR VISITED THE PRINCIPAL ISLANDS IN THE PACIF- IC OCEAN, AND THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS OF PORT JACKSON AND NORFOLK ISLAND. London. 1805. Three volumes. xx,238; [2],237; [2],204,[4]pp. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Light wear to extremities. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. Contem- porary ownership inscription of Edmund Fanning in each volume. Very good.

The first edition of the important narrative of John Turnbull’s circumnavigation. “Turnbull, an Englishman, aware of the lucrative fur trade on the northwest coast of America, set out for America in 1800 on the Margaret. Turnbull was the busi- ness manager of the expedition. Though the voyage was a financial failure, it did obtain interesting information about the Society, Tonga, and Hawaiian Islands and the discovery of the islands Margaret, Phillips, and Holt in the Tuamotu Archi- pelago” – Hill. While at Hawaii, they learned of Kamehameha’s planned invasion of the island of Kauai, traded at Hawaii, and were briefly off Lahaina, Maui. “This account contains interesting comments on Kamehameha’s ‘Brick Palace’ built by men at that village” – Forbes. This copy bears the ownership inscription of Edmund Fanning in each volume. 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, and wrote several well-known books on his voyages to the Pacific. An excellent association. HILL 1725. FORBES 367. FERGUSON 421. $2850.

A Superlatively Rare Atlas of the Wilkes Expedition

153. [United States Exploring Expedition]: Gray, Asa: UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION. DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CHARLES WIL- KES, U.S.N. ATLAS. BOTANY. PHANEROGAMIA. New York: George P. Putnam, 1857. Two volumes. 4pp. plus 100 engraved plates. Folio. Expertly bound to style in half dark blue morocco over 19th-century marbled boards. Light foxing, else very good.

The rare unofficial issue of ’s botanical atlas issued to accompany the nar- rative of the Wilkes Expedition. One of several separate botanical atlases issued as part of the official publications, this particular volume is devoted to tropical flowering plants. Only 150 copies of the unofficial issue were printed. 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 endeavor 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 United States Exploring Expedition were pub- lished 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, all the atlases from the Expedition are highly sought after, though they very rarely appear on the market. This atlas includes one hundred plates beautiful depicting Pacific botanical specimens collected during the course of the voyage. The botanical report, and the atlases to accompany it, were beset by difficulties from the start. Asa Gray was appointed as the expedition’s botanist, but long delays in the expedition’s departure caused him to resign. He was replaced by William Rich, who had previously been designated the assistant botanist, though his position was cut due to rearrangements within the scientific corps. When it came time to write the report, Wilkes divided the botanical undertaking into several parts, for fear of its never being completed. In 1846, upon completion of his portion of the report, Rich resigned to join the army. Wilkes, unsatisfied with Rich’s work, proceeded to find someone else to do it over, finally settling once more on Gray, who began work in mid-1848. Though Gray’s report appeared in 1854, the atlas volume was not completed until four years later, owing to delays with the artist. The highlights of Asa Gray’s life and career (1810-88) are many and well- known: he was the first professor of botany in America, at Harvard University; he initially signed on to the Wilkes Expedition and, though he did not go with the Expedition, nonetheless wrote many of the botanical reports upon its return; and he was ’s most important American correspondent and successful champion of the Origin of Species. An important publication from the most important American naval expedition of the 19th century. HASKELL 63. FORBES 2203. ROSOVE 355-6.A2 $15,000.

Early Philippine Military Manual

154. Valdes, Francisco: PRONTUARIO DE LAS REALES ORDENAN- ZAS, Y SOVERANAS RESOLUCIONES RECOPILADAS EN EL. TODAS LAS OBLIGACIONES DE LAS CLASES SUBAL- TERNAS, DESDE LA DEL SOLDADO HASTA LA DEL CAPI- TAN INCLUSIVE, CON TODO LO NECESARIO, PARA EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE SUS DEBERES. PARA LA INSTRUCCION Y ENSENANZA DE LOS SARGENTOS Y CABOS DEL CITADO BATALLON. Manila: Carlos Francisco de la Cruz, 1806. [6],339pp. plus twenty-three leaves of instructions, forms, and tables bound in at rear (three of them loosely laid in, two having been roughly torn out). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title and small printed paper label on spine. Vellum worn, separated from text block at front hinge, loosening at rear hinge. Old tideline in most of the text. Overall, good.

A rare, virtually unknown, military manual for the use of Spanish troops in the Philippines. The text begins by describing the duties and requirements of all ranks, from common soldiers to sergeants, , and captains. The subjects are very wide-ranging, covering rules for marches and formations, the display of the flag, requirements for military honors, regulations for hospital visits, and standards of horsemanship. Valdes is identified on the titlepage as being a lieutenant in the battalion, “Reyna Maria Luisa.” Not in Medina’s bibliography of Manila imprints (nor in Retana’s additions) or in Medina’s bibliography of the Spanish in the Philippines. OCLC locates only a single copy, at the at Berkeley. That copy gives a collation of 359 pages followed by another four pages, and does not note the unnumbered instructions and forms found at the rear of this copy. This copy appears to be textually complete with 339 pages. Rare. OCLC 17808617. $2500.

The Best American Costume Book of the 19th Century

155. Van Lennep, Henry J.: THE ORIENTAL ALBUM. TWENTY IL- LUSTRATIONS IN OIL COLORS OF THE PEOPLE AND SCEN- ERY OF TURKEY.... New York. 1862. Engraved title, printed title, 48pp. Twenty chromolithographs. Folio. Original brown morocco, gilt pictorial cover showing a woman on camelback under a crescent moon beside palm trees, gilt-stamped spine, a.e.g. Head and toe of spine expertly repaired. Slight wear along foredge of first five leaves, text pages uniformly tanned. Minor marginal foxing on plates, all images fine. Overall very good.

One of the relatively few American costume books, and certainly the best such cre- ated in 19th-century America. This is a notable and unusual instance of the taste for “Turkish” which manifested itself in the furniture of the period, but seldom in books. In terms of American color plate books, this is one of the only large projects from the 1860s, when the Civil War seems to have curtailed production of such lavish enterprises. “The one really big chromolithographic book of this decade...the art is simple, but [Charles] Parson’s hand is obvious in the good lithography, and Endicott’s printing is well done for its time” – McGrath. “...Endicott achieved a rich variety of color which demonstrated the increased technical ability of American printers in the medium” – Reese. Henry Van Lennep was born in Smyrna, the son of European merchants. Edu- cated, on the advice of American missionaries, in the United States, he returned to Turkey as a missionary in 1840 and spent most of the next twenty years in various parts of the Ottoman Empire. Returning to the United States in 1861, he turned his superb original drawings of Middle Eastern life into The Oriental Album.... The plates, which include two scenes of Jewish life in the Ottoman Empire, are “A Turkish Effendi,” “Armenian Lady (at home),” “Turkish and Armenian Ladies (abroad),” “Turkish Scribe,” “Turkish Lady of Rank (at home),” “Turkish Cavass (police officer),” “Turkish Lady (unveiled),” “Armenian Piper,” “Armenian Ladies (at home),” “Armenian Marriage Procession,” “Armenian Bride,” “Albanian Guard,” “Armenian Peasant Woman,” “Bagdad Merchant (travelling),” “Jewish Marriage,” “Jewish Merchant,” “Gypsy Fortune Telling,” “Bandit Chief,” “Circassian Warrior,” and “Druse Girl.” A rare and important color plate book. McGRATH, pp.38, 115, 162. BENNETT, p.108. BLACKMER CATALOGUE 1715. BLACKMER SALE 1500. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 97. DAB XIX, p.200. $15,000.

One of the Most Important Northwest Voyages

156. Vancouver, George: A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN, AND ROUND THE WORLD; IN WHICH THE COAST OF NORTH-WEST AMERICA HAS BEEN CAREFULLY EXAMINED AND ACCURATELY SURVEYED... PRINCIPALLY WITH A VIEW TO ASCERTAIN THE EXIS- TENCE OF ANY NAVIGABLE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE NORTH PACIFIC AND NORTH ATLANTIC OCEANS; AND PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1790...[–] 1795, IN THE DIS- COVERY SLOOP OF WAR, AND THE ARMED TENDER CHA- THAM.... London: G.G. & J. Robinson and J. Edwards, 1798. Four volumes, including atlas volume of plates and maps. Text volumes: Half titles in first and third volumes, 3pp. errata at the end of third volume, engraved chart, seventeen engraved plates (four double-page), after J. Sykes. Atlas: mounted on guards throughout, ten folding engraved charts, six engraved plates of coastal profiles (including two proofs before all letters, two scratch proofs with the names of the artist and engraver but no other lettering, one plate as published, and one plate from the French edition of Vancouver’s voyage); extra-illustrated with four plates of coastal profiles, “gravé par Michel,” taken from the French edition. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century diced russia, spines gilt, red and dark green morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Robert Ballard Whitebrook (armorial bookplate).

A unique set of “One of the most important [voyages] ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge” (Hill), from the library of Robert B. Whitebrook, au- thor of the Coastal Exploration of Washington (Palo Alto, Ca., 1959) (Tweney 82), whose M.A. thesis submitted to the University of Washington in 1963 was titled The Maritime Frontier, 1775-1825 (OCLC 19992020). The atlas volume in this set includes fascinating proof images of four of the six coastal profile plates which offer a real insight into the working methods of the highly talented engravers who labored over these valuable aids to navigation. The prime aim would, of course, have been to make them as accurate as possible – any mistakes and lives of subsequent visitors to the region would have been put at risk – but, almost by accident, the profiles are also very beautiful images. This beauty that can best be appreciated when the plates are without lettering, as is the case with these proofs. Vancouver was put in command of the expedition on the recommendation of his past commanding officer, Alan Gardner. He had served earlier with both Admiral Rodney and on James Cook’s second and third voyages, so was well equipped in terms of experience; in addition he was a first class navigator. The voyage was mounted as a “grand-scale expedition to reclaim Britain’s rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention, at Nootka Sound, to thoroughly examine the coast south of 60º in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic; and to learn what establishments had been founded by other powers. This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge. Vancouver sailed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Australia, where he discovered King George’s Sound and Cape Hood, then to New Zealand, Hawaii, and the northwest coast of America. In three seasons’ work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California; visited San Francisco and San Diego...and other Spanish settlements in Alta California; settled the necessary formalities with the Spanish at Nootka; investigated the Strait of ; discovered the Strait of Georgia; circumnavigated Vancouver Island; and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay” (Hill, p.623). COWAN (1914), p.236 (“superior to any of its kind, and constitutes the chiefest source of authority of that period”). COWAN (1933), pp.654-55. COX II, p.30 (“one of the most im- portant voyages ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge”). FERGUSON I:281. FITZPATRICK, EARLY MAPPING OF HAWAII (“Vancouver’s voyage resulted in the first published map of Hawaii to depict the islands in their entirety”), pp.39-43. FORBES 298. GRAFF 4456. JCB 2009. JONES 667. JUDD 178. LADA-MOCARSKI 55. LANDE 1495. NMM 142. O’REILLY & REITMAN 635. SMITH, PACIFIC NORTHWEST AMERICANA 10469. STATON & TREMAINE 688. STRATHERN 582. STREETER SALE 3497. TWENEY 78. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST, pp.853-60. WANTRUP 63a. WICKERSHAM 6601. ZAMORANO 80, 77. A. David, “Vancouver’s Methods and Surveys” in Fisher & Johnston (editors), From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of (UBC Press, 1993), p.68. $85,000.

The Christian Militia of the Immaculate Conception

157. [Vázquez de Leca, Mateo, and Bernardo de Toro]: ...RELACION DE LA INSTITUCION EN ROMA DE LA INMACULADA CONCEP- CION DE LA VIRGEN MARIA N.S. POR LA SANTIDAD DEL PAPA URBANO VIII. N. SEÑOR. COPIA DE DOS CARTAS, ESCRITAS DE ROMA, À DOS SEÑORES PREBENDADOS DE LA S. IGLESIA MAYOR DE LA CIUAD DE SEVILLA.... Madrid. [1624]. [4]pp. In Spanish. Woodcut illustration of the Virgin Mary and deco- rative initial on first page. Small folio. Dbd. Contemporary ink inscriptions in margins of second page. Early folds. Separated at center fold. A few small stains in upper margin of first leaf, not affecting text; very faint dampstains. Else very good.

Two letters from Rome, signed in print by the Archdeacon of Carmona, Mateo Vázquez de Leca, and the Spanish composer and Franciscan priest, Bernardo de Toro, regarding the founding of a military religious order devoted to the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Writing from Rome in February 1624, the two had recently arrived from Seville, a major base of support for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, the belief that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. While the Church had implicitly endorsed the doctrine with the establishment of its feast day in 1476, the belief was not ruled dogma until 1854. Before that time, a healthy debate reigned among both theologians and popular believers, and the Franciscans and general populace of Seville were well known for their fierce advo- cacy of the doctrine. Bernardo de Toro (1570-1643) and Mateo Vázquez de Leca (1563-1649) contributed substantially to the cultural aspects of the Sevillan move- ment, with the former setting popular verses on the subject to music and the latter supporting devotional painters and the famous Seises dancers with generous funds. Toro and Vázquez are still remembered as -era Seville’s two greatest champions of the Immaculate Conception, a reputation they began to develop in 1615, when they traveled together to Madrid to defend the Archbishop of Seville’s promulgation of the doctrine before King Philip III. In the early 1620s the two garnered support from several European nobles to found the religious knighthood discussed in this letter, gaining an audience with Pope Urban VIII in 1624. The present letters discuss the backing of the order, the “Christian Militia of the Im- maculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary,” by the Count of Altan (Ger- many), the Duke of Mantua, the Duke of Neuers (France), and Ana Mendoza, the Duchess del Infantado. Vázquez dates his letter February 8, four days before the Pope would issue the Bull “Imperscrutabilis,” formally establishing the establishing the order on February 12. Little is currently known of the group beyond a hand- ful of documents printed in 1624 and 1625, but it may have inspired the similarly named Militia Immaculada, founded by sainted Polish Franciscan priest Maximil- ian Kolbe in 1917 (Kolbe was executed at Auschwitz after volunteering to die in the place of a fellow prisoner, and canonized by John Paul II in 1982). Palau lists four printings of a similarly titled document (with “de la Orden militar” before “de la Immaculada Concepcion,” which appears to have been omitted accidentally in the present issue), but no copies matching the title or imprint of the present one. Not located by OCLC, and possibly unrecorded. A very rare Spanish imprint, documenting an important moment in Catholic Mariology. PALAU 257775 through 257778 (variants). $3250.

With Woodcuts of Natives from the Americas and Elsewhere

158. Vecellio, Cesare: HABITI ANTICHI, ET MODERNI DI TUTTO IL MONDO. Venice: Bernardo Sessa, 1598. [56],507 leaves. Later marbled calf, rebacked with spine laid down. Extremities lightly worn. Minor foxing. Some minor worming in bottom margin, not affecting text. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase.

Second edition of this extensive work on the costumes and peoples of the world. This edition includes a section on the Americas, not included in the first edition, rendering this edition both more complete and desirable. The work is extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Christoph Krieger, an illustration appearing on the verso of each leaf. Libro XII contains full-page woodcuts of the costumes of the inhabitants of Peru, Cuzco, Mexico, Virginia, and Florida, both men and women. The rest of the volume shows the costumes of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Especially interesting for its early depiction of Native Americans. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 598/112. HILER, p.873 (1st ed). EDIT 16 CNCE 29586. SABIN 98732. $9000.

The Russian Window on the Pacific

159. [Vladivostok]: [EARLY 20th-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, CONSISTING OF TWENTY-FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN IN VLADIVOSTOK CIRCA JUNE 1900, EACH WITH CONTEMPO- RARY HANDWRITTEN ANNOTATIONS IN GERMAN. [Vladi- . 1900]. Twenty-four photographs (3½ x 4½ inches each), each print matted on heavy paper of commercial photograph album. Early 20th-century German photograph album with textured paper boards and spine. Front board decoratively embossed with image of a flower and the words, “Moderne Licht- bildere.” Top and bottom of spine, edges of boards, and outer joints moderately worn. Mounts separating, but very good. Images very clean overall and in very good condition.

An album of twenty-four original photographs taken in Vladivostok in June 1900. The snapshot- size images are each matted one per page in a German-made pho- tograph album, and each image is inscribed in a contemporary hand in German. The photographs include views of the port, Russian naval ships and numerous other vessels, the city center, the post office, street scenes, buildings and houses (including a German brewery), and pictures of everyday life. Due to its location in the Russian Far East on the coast of the Sea of Japan and near both the Chinese and Korean borders, Vladivostok was a settlement with numerous international residents and visitors, and this heterogeneity is recorded in this album. Half of the photographs are of people, including images of Russians, Chinese, and Koreans. Photographs of local Chinese residents predominate, with images of a waterman filling his wagon, a fruit seller in the market, another seller in the market with his measuring scale, and other laborers. Other images in the album include Korean children playing, various neighborhoods and locales, and a family portrait (complete with cow) in front of a house. A fine turn-of-the-century album consisting of original contemporary photo- graphs of Vladivostok, with numerous images of the local population. Due to its strategic location, Soviet Russia later kept the port under the highest security, and any photographs of it are uncommon. $2000.

A Large Collection of Vues D’Optique

160. [Vues D’Optique]: [Europe]: [TWO ALBUMS OF MORE THAN 120 VUES D’OPTIQUE OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN EU- ROPE]. Paris. 1760-1762. Two volumes. 62; 61 leaves, each with a mounted plate. Images vary in size, either 11 x 16 inches or 8 x 12 inches. Oblong folio. 19th-century cloth, gilt; rebacked in red morocco. Corners repaired. Wear and soiling to boards. Internally clean, colors bright and fresh. Very good.

Two large albums containing 123 brightly colored vues d’optique depicting scenes from Paris, Rome, London, and many other locations in Europe. Lettering is typically printed at the top and bottom of the plate, primarily in French, with the letters at the top reading backwards. The letters above the text were deliberately reversed, since these prints were designed for viewing in optical machines with a magnifying glass and a reflective mirror, which gave the viewer an illusion of depth and reversed the image. The views are mostly of France, including many scenes from Versailles and the ports of the realm. There are likewise a significant number of views of important landmarks around Rome. Other views depict notable locations in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Poland, and London. A handful of the plates show more unusual locales such as , Siberia, St. Petersburg, Peking, Cayenne, and French Guiana. Altogether, an impressive collection of these handsome engravings. $19,500. Beautiful Chromolithographs of New Zealand

161. Wakefield, Edward: NEW ZEALAND ILLUSTRATED. THE STO- RY OF NEW ZEALAND AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ITS CITIES AND TOWNS...ALSO...THE NATURAL WONDERS OF NEW ZEALAND (PAST AND PRESENT). Wangnanui: A.D. Willis, 1889. [4],[39]pp. One large folding and thirteen other fine chromolithograph plates, and one uncolored lithograph plate with three images. Oblong folio, 28.5 x 49 cm. Original morocco backed boards, the upper with a large chromolithograph panel. Near fine.

A beautiful album of chromolithographs of scenes in New Zealand. “Chromo- lithographs by W. Potts from photographs by J. Martin, S. Carnell, Burton Bros., Wrigglesworth & Bins, Tyree, etc., except for the eruption of Tarawera, a mag- nificent choreographic extravagance by Blomfield. The quality and clarity of the reproductions is heightened by the neo-primitive conventionalised representation of figures, trees and the facades of buildings” – Bagnall. The plates are captioned as follow: “Auckland Harbour, N.Z.”; “Napier, N.Z.”; “City of Wellington, N.Z.”; “Wanganui, N.Z.”; “New Plymouth, N.Z.”; “Nelson, N.Z.”; “Greymouth, N.Z.”; “Lyttelton Harbour, N.Z.”; “City of Christchurch, N.Z. (From the Cathedral)”; “Oamaru, N.Z.”; “Dunedin, N.Z.”; “Pink Terrace, Rotomahana, N.Z., (Destroyed by the Eruption of Mount Tarawera, June 10, 1886.)”; “White Terrace, Rotomahana, N.Z. (Destroyed by the Eruption of Mount Tarawera, June 10, 1886.)”; “Mount Tarawera in Eruption, June 10, 1886 (From the native village of Waitangi, Lake Tarawera, N.Z.)” (large folding chromolithograph); “The Waitomo Caves, N.Z. (The Blanket. Mair’s Cave. The Blanket...)” (uncolored chromolithograph). The chromolithograph on the upper board is entitled “Queenstown, N.Z.” Bagnall mentions an extra illustrated titlepage, with the chromolithograph of Queenstown used on the upper board; however, we have been unable to find another copy which includes this. Not in Hocken. BAGNALL 5786 (ref ). $4750.

Illustrated Manuscript of a British Staff Officer

162. West, Ensign Henry A.: NOTES &c. OF THE PRACTICAL DU- TIES OF A STAFF OFFICER [manuscript title]. Gibraltar. 1827. [108,1]pp. including forty-eight illustrations (most done in watercolor). 12mo. Original three-quarter red calf and marbled boards. Binding rubbed and worn. Front free endpapers detached. Some foxing, lower portion of p.33/34 with a repaired tear, with no loss of text or illustration. Overall, very good.

A marvelous illustrated manuscript detailing the duties and activities of a staff officer in the British Infantry, illustrated with dozens of watercolors of cannons, carriages, bridges, and fortifications. It takes the form of an instructional manual, with direct and clear directions, and is illustrated with quite expert drawings, most of them done in watercolor. The volume most clearly resembles a manuscript pre- pared for publication: it does not appear to have been created solely for personal use, and there are no cross-outs or corrections. Among the illustrations are cannons, bridges, forts, gates and walls, knots and slings, and more. West was an ensign in the Twelfth Infantry, stationed on Gibraltar in late 1827. He was promoted to lieutenant in the spring of 1828 and still held that rank on the army list of 1840; by 1844 he was no longer listed. We can find no evidence that this manual was ever published or copied, and this manuscript appears to be unique. The first section addresses the process of making signal rockets (including several illustrations of their various parts), followed by sections on small arms and “blue lights.” Next comes a lengthy section on cannons and the carriages used to transport them. Several types of carriages are illustrated, as are various “gyns” (i.e. mounts). The illustrations in this section include precise and accomplished drawings of a “triangle gyn,” a “Gibraltar gyn,” a “platform carriage,” a “Devil car- riage,” and a “sling cart.” Other drawings show methods of pulling ordnance up an incline or pulling cannon parts straight up an ascent using various cranes. The next section deals with the construction of bridges, and was adapted from the work of Sir Howard Douglas. The text describes and illustrates “flying bridges,” pontoons, rope bridges, trestle bridges, and fords, and includes mathematical formu- las for figuring the depth to which a pontoon is sunk by a given weight, and other such problems. A brief section follows on knots and slings, and contains several illustrations. The concluding section of the manuscript addresses problems of field fortification, including descriptions and illustrations of field lines, gates and walls, as well as plants found in the warmer of the that may be used as obstacles in combat, such as the Aloe plant and the Prickly Pear (both are illustrated). The text is followed by an index. A very fine and accomplished military manual, created by a British soldier at a colonial outpost, and containing important practical instruction and exceptional illustrations. $4750.

Two Significant Whaling Logs to Patagonia and the South Atlantic

163. [Whaling]: A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM NEW LONDON TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC IN THE SHIP ANN MARIA. ROB- ERT B. SMITH, MASTER. JULY 1st 1822 [manuscript title]. [bound with:] A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE FROM SAG HARBOR TO THE COAST OF PATAGONIA IN THE SHIP MARCUS [manu- script title]. [Various locations, at sea. 1822-1823, 1827]. 101 leaves. Folio. Contemporary burlap wrapper, crudely stitched. Lightly dampstained at lower edge. Scattered soiling. Quite legible. In a blue cloth slipcase. About very good.

The Ann Maria was a Connecticut whaling vessel which was built in Philadelphia in 1810 and became part of the fleet of whaling vessels in New London in 1822. Robert B. Smith was the master on two journeys to the South Atlantic, the first being from 1822 to 1824, when the vessel collected 145 barrels of sperm whale oil and 1919 barrels of baleen whale oil; and subsequently from 1826 to 1828, when the vessel collected 63 barrels of sperm whale oil and 2258 barrels of baleen whale oil. The Ann Maria was lost off of St. Paul’s in the Indian Ocean, where she was run down by a French whaler in 1842. The present log records two whaling voyages. The first is on the Ann Maria out of New London and comprises a little over half the volume. The log contains the standard navigation details such as wind and weather and chores performed for the day, as well as any interesting happenings at sea. When the Ann Maria sights or speaks another ship, for example, that is noted. On July 24 the author notes: “Lowered away a boat and caught a fine turtle for dinner.” On Sept. 2 a whale is sighted but not caught: “Latter part saw some hump back whale. Lowered away the boats but could not strike.” Luck was with the crew, however, a few days later. The entry for Sept. 11 reads: “Squally weather, the wind from the South and East. Made sail & stood to the south west. Latter part saw one right whale, lowered away the boats, struck and killed it, took it along side & cut it in. The ship Pacific in sight. So ends.” By that time they had hit prime whaling grounds, and many of the subsequent entries concern kills or sightings. The second voyage recorded here, written in the same hand, is on the ship Marcus out of Sag Harbor. The first page contains a list of provisions for the outbound voyage, including thirty barrels of beef and twenty barrels of pork. The Marcus likewise finds good hunting in September, taking several whales. On Sept. 24: “At 3 PM saw some right whale, lowered away & struck one and the iron [?], struck another & killed her which sank. Plenty of whale in sight.” The next day they take a right whale in the evening and cut into it the following day: “Cut in the whale with the loss of the head and lips.” An interesting whaling log, containing much information on the whaling activity of the two ships. $9500.

Standard Work on Early Australia

164. White, John: JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES WITH SIXTY-FIVE PLATES OF NON DESCRIPT AN- IMALS, BIRDS, LIZARDS, SERPENTS, CURIOUS CONES OF TREES AND OTHER NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. London. 1790. [18],299,[35]pp. plus sixty-five engraved plates. Engraved title. Quarto. An- tique calf, decorative blindstamped borders on covers, leather labels. Except for an occasional fox mark, internally clean. Overall a very good copy.

White, chief surgeon to the settlement at New South Wales, was also an accomplished naturalist and herein describes the animals he discovered during his exploratory journeys in the new colony. The ornithological and other natural history plates are most attractive. The journal includes an important account of a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, to , and of other colonial voyages to Norfolk Island. With a subscribers list containing some seven hundred names, speaking for the contemporary interest in the South Pacific in the wake of Cook’s voyages. “White’s account contains many circumstances omitted by Governor and others. The long appendix is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first major work of this sort” – Hill. Some copies, unlike this example, were issued with the plates colored. FERGUSON 97. WANTRUP 17. HILL 1858. $5000.

With the Plates Colored

165. Willyams, Cooper, Rev.: A VOYAGE UP THE MEDITERRANEAN IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE SWIFTSURE, ONE OF THE SQUADRON UNDER THE COMMAND OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR HORATIO NELSON, K.B....WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF THE NILE ON THE FIRST OF AUGUST 1798, AND A DETAIL OF EVENTS THAT OCCURRED SUB- SEQUENT TO THE BATTLE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. London: Printed by T. Bensley...for J. White, 1802. xxiii,[1],309pp., plus forty-one handcolored aquatint plates (including dedica- tion leaf ), a folding colored map, and a colored plan of the Battle of the Nile. Quarto. Modern three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Very slight shelf wear. Quite clean, fresh, and unblemished internally. A handsome, near fine copy.

A fully colored copy of the quarto edition of this important account of Nelson’s victory at the Battle of the Nile, and of his subsequent tour of the Mediterranean. Quarto copies were offered colored and uncolored; the majority were issued as uncolored aquatints. Willyams served as chaplain of the Swiftsure, a ship in Nelson’s squadron, and he was present at the Battle of the Nile. The DNB calls this book “the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account of the battle.” Willyams was a talented topographer and artist, and this is a handsomely produced book, showing the skill of the printer, Bensley. The plates are after drawings done by Willyams and include a plan of the battle, as well as views in Sicily, Syracuse, Egypt, Alexandria, Syria, Venice, Gibraltar, and other locations around the Mediterranean. The text includes well-written descriptions of all these places and more. ABBEY 196. BLACKMER 1813. HILMY II:335. PRIDEAUX, pp.223, 357. COX II:448. JCB MARITIME HAND-LIST 1235. NMM 5:1657. $4000.

166. [World War I]: MESOPOTAMIAN DEMOBILIZATION ORDER No. UMPTEEN [caption title]. Poona [India]: Loyal Press, [ca. 1918]. Broadside, 13 x 8 inches. Old fold lines; light soiling and wear. Very good.

Broadside poem printed in Poona, India around the end of the First World War. The Mesopotamian campaign was fought in Iraq, primarily by British and Indian troops against the Turkish empire. The British had a vested interest in the oil of the region and were set on protecting refineries, etc. The poem specifically mentions the Battle of Kut, to that time the scene of the worst British defeat in the entire history of the British Army. The poem was clearly written by a survivor of the campaign, if not that particular battle. It is possible that the poem is also a nod to Kipling’s 1917 poem, “Mesopotamia,” which also commemorated the bloody fight in that region. The poem, which is headed with the line, “To be carried in the hand by every soldier on arrival in England from Mesopotamia,” describes the madness and malady borne by soldiers upon return from the misery of that campaign. A section of the poem reads:

If I should do things that seem senseless to you, / You’ll find there’s a method in all this I do. / I’m a marvel at catching Flies Fever and Flu. / They teach it in Mesopotamia. ...And if in the strand I’m found charging a bus. / Or otherwise making a damnable fuss. / If I’m squashed or smashed up don’t stand by & cuss. / A mad man from Mesopotamia. ...Take me up tenderly treat me with care. / I’m one of a crowd England sent over there. / To line in a desert for years trying to scare. / Some Turks out of Mesopotamia. ...And if when I die I’m sent for a spell / To some place where stained souls are made clean and well, / Pray to Peter in mercy to send me to Hell, / But not back to Mesopotamia.

Priced “One Anna.” Not located in OCLC. A scarce memento, commemorating the horror and madness of the Middle Eastern theatre of the Great War. $1250.

Watercolors of Northern Siberian Tribes

167. Znamensky, Mikhail Stepanovich: [THREE WATERCOLORS SHOWING SCENES OF THE KHANTY PEOPLE, A NORTH- ERN SIBERIAN TRIBE FROM THE VICINITY OF TOBOLSK, PAINTED TO CELEBRATE THE 300th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF TOBOLSK AND THE ANNEXATION OF SI- BERIA TO RUSSIA]. Tobolsk. [ca. 1880]. Three watercolors, 7½ x 10½ inches, matted to 13 x 16 inches. Fine. In a blue three-quarter cloth portfolio.

A set of three lovely watercolors by Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, a prominent 19th-century Siberian artist, writer, historian, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Each is captioned in pencil and all are signed by the artist. The first scene shows two summer tents with three Khanty women seated in or just outside them. One woman holds a child. The second image is a winter snowscape showing a man with three reindeer standing outside a log cabin. The third scene depicts three Khanty people in traditional clothing standing in a dining room, with a Russian official seated on the left; a portrait of the Tsar hangs on the wall in the background and an animal skin is draped on the table. Very well educated as a religious artist, Znamensky was among the elite of To- bolsk and was close to many exiled members of the famous Decemberist revolt of 1825 (Puschin, Yakushkin, and others), as well as the outstanding Russian writer, Pyotr Yershov. Znamensky worked as a teacher in several religious and secular colleges in Tobolsk, was a translator of the Tatar language, and illustrated the literary works of Gogol, Yershov, Goncharov, and Tolstoy. He regularly published his caricatures in the magazines of Saint Petersburg. His main interest, however, was Siberian history and ethnography. Znamensky’s essays and stories on Siberian history were regularly published in the local magazines, and several of his books on the subject were published in Tobolsk, Tyumen, and Saint Petersburg. In pursuance of his interest, Znamensky traveled extensively in Siberia, Central Asia, and the northern regions of Asiatic Russia in the 1850s and 1860s, making sketches and paintings of the landscapes and tribes. In 1872 his works were exhibited at the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition, where they were awarded the silver medal from Moscow University. The present watercolors are from a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. The artist took a special trip around the towns of the region, the result of which was a unique series of sketches and watercolors. From this body of work an album entitled “From Tobolsk to Obdorsk” was created, specially bound in birch bark. It was comprised of thirty-two images showcasing local life in Tobolsk, Berezov, and Obdorsk, with images of local people, the sur- rounding area, and historical sketches. The album was exhibited in the Tobolsk Art Gallery in 1889. Later, in 1894, the heir to the Russian throne – the future Nikolai II – visited Tobolsk during his round-the-world trip. He was quite taken with the album, which he acquired for the high price of 800 roubles (per his inscription on the verso of the folder). The album came to the Emperor’s library in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and after the Revolution of 1917 it became part of the Russian State Library in Moscow where it currently resides. The three watercolors offered here were not part of that album, but are similar stylistically and clearly come from the same series. For example, the image with the three Khanty and the Russian official appears almost exactly in the album, with trivial changes in detail, such as a different color of tablecloth. Znamensky’s watercolors weren’t published in Russia before the Revolution of 1917. His album “From Tobolsk to Obdorsk” was printed in facsimile for the first time in 2008. His drawings were used, however, as illustrations in the first and only edition of the book by the Italian ethnographer and anthropologist, Stefano Sommier, Un’ Estate in Siberia Fra Ostiacchi, Samoiedi, Sirieni, Tatari, Kirghisi e Baskiri (Florence, 1885). This valuable report of Sommier’s travels through Siberia in 188 contains fourteen interesting woodcuts based on Znamensky’s watercolors and depicts Samoyeds and Ostyaks resting in their dwellings, riding deer, playing musical instruments, walking in market places, and more. Znamensky’s original works can be found in many Russian state institutions. $12,500.