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1 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] COOKE (Lieut.-Colonel A[nthony] C[harles]) africa 5 Routes in Abyssinia. Presented to the House of Commons, in pursuance of their Address dated November 26, 1867. near and middle east 27 europe, russia and turkey 40 First edition. Large folding lithographed map, coloured in outline at the rear, further folding outline map. 8vo. Ink stamp of the Law Society to the last page india, and far east 55 only, some light browning, a little marginal brittleness with a few leaves with australia and the pacific 83 splits, title page chipped at the fore-margin, but overall very good in modern calf-backed marbled boards. [iv], 252pp. Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery south america 106 Office by Harrison and Sons, 1867. £1500 central america and the west indies 117 “The object of this compilation is to collect together the information on the routes 127 in Abyssinia which is scattered through the works of different travellers...” [From the Preface by Colonel Henry James, Director of the War Office Topographical and arctic and antarctica 150 Statistical Department.] Includes extracts from the works of Salt, Bruce and of a more contemporary nature, Dr. Beke and Münzinger, extracted from the Abyssinian Blue Books. The excellent folding map was compiled by E.G. Ravenstein, Geographer at the Topographical Depôt, from the same range of sources and was produced on the Depôt’s lithographic press under Cooke’s superintendence. Cooke had access to the library and map-room of the Royal Geographical Society in the preparation of this work, and “In return the Topographical Department supplied the RGS with copies of the textual information it compiled and views it reproduced by both lithography and photography.” [Ryan Picturing Empire. p.84] Before entering the War Office Cooke had distinguished himself at the Siege of Sebastopol, directing the right attack, he was later to Command the RE in Bermuda and at Aldershot. Quite an uncommon item, OCLC lists eight copies with this pagination, but without mentioning the maps. Two further copies are mentioned, of the same date, with maps, but of only 109pp. NSTC further muddies the waters by recording a “Second Edition with Maps”, but without offering a pagination.

2 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] [NAPIER (Field-Marshal Robert Cornelis, Earl) Item 2 & THEODORE (Emperor of Abyssinia)] Superb Large Transfer Ware Loving Cup.

Glazed off-white pottery loving-cup, 117mm high, scrolled handles, pedestal base, on opposite sides are transfer portraits of Napier and Theodore in sea- 6 maggs bros ltd africa 7

green, a frieze of a trophy of arms and an armorial with crossed spears is run 5 [ALGERIA] Album of Pencil Drawings of the French Conquest of Algeria inside the lip, around the foot of the pedestal and along the handles. Small chips in 1844. from the base of the pedestal, glaze minutely crazed, but otherwise very good indeed. No maker’s mark, n.d. but [c.1868] £1500* Light card wrappered landscape 8vo. album, 152 by 228mm, containing twelve An extremely scarce and highly desirable commemorative item relating to the Abyssinian mounted roundels, 115mm diameter, with pencil sketches of scenes from the Expedition, dating is far from exact but must come from the period between the campaign culminating in the battle of Isly, and the bombardment of Tangier and opening of the campaign and before Napier was ennobled as Lord Napier of Magdala, Mogadir, each captioned in ink in a neat copper-plate hand. Some light foxing 17th July, 1868. This cup was purchased in the Blewitt Collection Sale of 2001, having and browning, some of the leaves marginally stained, but overall very good, been exhibited previously in the 1987 “Long to Reign over us” exhibition at Newport the album itself is probably of later construction, the sketches themselves near Museum. contemporary. Unsigned, undated, French, [c.1845.] £850* The drawings are competent, if not professional, the style dramatic and reminiscent 3 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] PRIDHAM (John). The Abyssinian Expedition, of popular prints. Beginning with Bugeaud studying the disposition of the Adb el Grand Divertimento. Descriptive of the Battle and Entry into Magdala, for Kader’s camp a variety of images from the Marshal’s campaign are shown; the Chasseurs the Piano-Forte. d’Afrique taking a standard; the rout of the camp; the famous “exploit” of Colonel Morris - who in hot pursuit of fugitives from the camp found himself isolated with five hundred Chasseurs confronting six thousand Arab cavalry. The second group of six illustrations 4to. Sheet music with tinted lithographic cover with some hand-colour. Very concentrate on the naval bombardments of Tangiers and Mogadir. The Prince de good. 13pp. S.J. Brewer & Co. nd [1868]. £500 Joinville is shown planning his attack; the Suffren opening fire; and the Prince leading AMOT 652, 424, “Col. lith. of infantry assaulting heights.” The cover lithography is by the taking of the Forts at Mogadir. Stannard & Son, the red-coats of the British troops have been hand-coloured over the tinted ground. Attractive item from the period of high enthusiasm for mementoes of 6 ALLEN (Capt. William). Retained copy of Orders to Lieut. Webb, dated June the campaign. 29th 1842, written aboard “HM Steamer Wilberforce, Clarence, Fernando Po”. 4 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] WAR OFFICE. [Views in Abyssinia.] Autograph manuscript. Folio. 4pp. Clarence, Fernando Po, 1842. £1450 Sole edition. Map & 12 lithographs. Oblong 4to. Half red buckram, spine gilt. Allen took part in Lander and Oldfield’s expedition to the Niger in 1832, but is best known 12pp. London, War Office, nd [but 1867]. £1950 for his involvement with the expedition sent in 1841 to the Niger under Capt. Trotter, Juel-Jenson copy with his bookplate. An extremely uncommon work, it was produced when he commanded the Wilberforce. This document relates to the period immediately under the aegis of Colonel Sir Henry James as Director of the Topographical and following this latter disastrous expedition, which was designed to disrupt the slave trade. Statistical Department of the War Office, the restrikes of the “borrowed” plates being Although a number of treaties were signed with tribal leaders, the expedition was struck carried out at the War Office Topographical Depôt. A great innovator, James was by an epidemic of fever that claimed the lives of many of its crew. Indeed, the prospect also director of the Ordnance Survey from 1857 until 1870, and promoted the use of of further illness still looms large: “if therefore the slightest symptoms of sickness should photozincography in mapping. breakout among your European party you are on no account to attempt it...” Produced with very much the same intent as the illustrative material in Geographical The orders, in the form of a letter, respond to Webb’s request to be given temporary Handbooks of later periods, a visual guide to the terrain to be encountered on campaign. command of the Wilberforce, and proceed to ‘Model Farm’. The orders prohibit him from The illustrations are drawn from a variety of published sources: four are taken from Salt’s proceeding further up river than Rabbah or undertaking any additional exploration. illustrations for Valentia’s Voyages and Travels to India ...; two from Lefebvre’s Voyage en Abyssinie; one from Bernatz’s Scenes in Ethiopia; and five photographically reproduced from Salt’s own Voyage to Abyssinia. 8 maggs bros ltd africa 9

7 ANDERSSON (Charles J.) A Journey to Lake ‘Ngami, and an Itinerary of Particularly rare. This edition precedes the first edition noted by both Theal and the Principal routes leading to it from the West Coast; with the Latitudes of Mendelssohn as being published in 1806. No copies on COPAC, only four on OCLC. some of the Chief Stations. Comprised of thirty-nine letters, this account of the Cape before the rule of the Batavian Republic is more properly a vehicle for the author’s view on - to which he was First edition. 12mo. Modern morocco-backed buckram boards, gilt. 44pp. [Cape opposed - and includes a general history of it from ancient times. The dramatic folding Town], Pike & Riches, 1854. £3500 frontispiece and plates are all after sketches by the author. Hosken, p81; Mendelssohn I, p609; Theal, p116. Andesson’s first separately published work, this little pamphlet is extremely uncommon outside South Africa, it was not recorded in Mendelssohn’s bibliography. The text gives an account of Andersson’s second journey which he began in early 1853, reaching the 9 BAIKIE (Dr.W.B.) Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora lake some months later. Descriptions of the game and the native races encountered are and Binue, commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda in 1854. given. Copac records just 2 copies in the U.K. (BL. & Nat Hist Mus.), OCLC gives only the BL. While the SAB adds 7 copies. First edition. Frontispiece, folding map & folding plan. 8vo. Half calf, gilt,

slightly rubbed. xvi, 456pp. London, John Murray, 1856. £800 slavery With Sir Roderick Murchison’s autograph transcription of Baikie’s Times obituary. 8 [ANON.] Gleanings in Africa; Exhibiting a Faithful and Correct View of Murchison secured Baikie the post of surgeon and naturalist on the Niger Expedition the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, and of 1854. Baikie was forced to assume command of the expedition at Fernando Po when Surrounding Country. With a full and comprehensive account of the system the captain died and led the Pleiad 250 miles up the Niger, further than any previous of Agriculture adopted by the Colonists; Soil, Climate, Natural Productions explorer. &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with observations and reflections on the State of Slavery in the Southern Extremity of the African Continent. author’s presentation copy First edition. Folding frontispiece & 9 plates. 8vo. Later quarter calf, shelf worn, 10 BANDINEL (James). Some Account of the Trade in Slaves from Africa as minor foxing, with black cloth slipcase. xxii, 320pp. London, James Cundee, Connected with Europe and America... 1805. £1250 First edition. 8vo. A very good copy in original blindstamped cloth, gilt. xvi, 323pp. London, Longman, Brown & co., 1842. £1850 Presented to Lord Howard of Walden in the year of publication. Bandinel’s work is an overview of the slave trade from its early existence to the introduction of slavery into Europe. The second part is devoted to its abolition in the British empire, while the final section focuses on ongoing abolitionist endeavour. Sabin, 3147. 10 maggs bros ltd africa 11

author’s presentation copy often as a result in danger. However, by 1773 he was eager to retrun to where he felt he would be amply rewarded for his African exploits. 11 BLYDEN (Dr. Edward Wilmot). From West Africa to Palestine. Society seems to have found Bruce’s stories too vivid, and his manner awkward, indeed First edition. Frontipiece vignette. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, extremities Fanny Burney writes: “Mr. Bruce’s grand air, gigantic height, and forbidding brow awed everybody into silence”. Despite the personal recognition of the King, Bruce did not slightly rubbed, small section of front free endpaper clipped. viii, 201pp. gain the title which he felt should have been his, and sorely disappointed, he retired to Freetown, 1873. £1750 his newly enriched (through the discovery of coal) Scottish estate, where following the Scarce. The presentation inscription reads: “To W.F. Regan Esq. with the Author’s death of his second wife, he dictated this narrative. Ibrahim-Hilmy, 91. regards. In remembrance of the voyage from Liverpool to New York on board the S.S. Baltic. July 1882.” Blyden (1832-1912) completed this work not long after a two year stint in Freetown where he edited the journal Negro and led two expeditions to Fouta Djallon in addition to this trip to the Holy Land. He later served as the Liberian ambassador to Britain and France, and is considered the founding father of Pan-Africanism. He converted to Islam and saw that religion was much more relevant to the downtrodden poor of West Africa.

a rare copy in boards 12 BRUCE (James, of Kinnaird). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.

First edition. 5 vols. 3 folding maps and 58 folding plates. 4to. Original boards with paper labels (one in facsimile), the backs with paper loss at head and foot, and minor repair. [xii], lxxiii, 535; [iv], viii, 718; [iv], viii, 759; [iv], viii, 695; [iv], iv, 230pp. Edinburgh, 1790. £4500 Following Harrow, unfinished law studies, and a brief marriage Bruce travelled to where, for a short time, he studied Arabic. On his return to England he came to the notice of Lord Halifax who offered him the consulate at Algiers, a post which required a great deal of courage and diplomacy. Since he was also instructed to survey the ancient monuments not delineated by Shaw, Bruce set out for to gain some experience in the art of surveying ruins, before travelling to Algiers in 1763. His tour in Algiers was troubled by the erratic behaviour of the ruler, whose actions finally prompted the resignation of Bruce in 1765. The archaeological tour which he subsequently made along the Barbary Coast, prompted his tour in 1768 of Egypt which began the journey narrated in these volumes. In that year he travelled up the Nile as far as Aswan, visiting the ruins at Luxor and Karnak before sailing down the Red Sea, arriving in Abyssinia in the following year. It was from here that he made his various expeditions to what he considered to be the source of the Blue Nile (it was in fact merely one of its great tributaries). Whilst in Abyssinia he claims to have been made a district governor (a fact later disputed by Henry Salt) and due to the unstable political climate his life was 12 maggs bros ltd africa 13

13 BURCKHARDT (John Lewis). Travels in Nubia. Burton wanted in print and here we have probably the proof text that he wished to be dispersed to a wider readership possibly in a similar vein to the “The Nile Basin”, for First edition. Engraved portrait & 3 maps (2 of these folding). 4to. Contemporary although his “Word to the Reader” appears in print signed July 17, 1873, on December 10 calf, worn at the edges and rebacked. xcii, 543pp. London, 1819. £2750 of that year, he added the following autograph postscript: “I reprint these pages as they bear upon various highly interesting points in ... the geography of East and West Africa, Published posthumously by the “Association for promoting the Discovery of the Interior and I object to seeing them confined in pamphlet shape. Richard F. Burton.” Parts of Africa”, this volume contains Burckhardt’s description of his two journeys in Nubia, and is preceded by an account of his eventful life. Frustrated by disturbances in As far as rarity goes this work must trump even the famously scarce A Complete System the desert in his quest to explore the source of the Niger, Burckhardt explored the Nile of Bayonet Exercise. Penzer, p224; cf. Casada, No. 85. as far as Mahassa, he then travelled by way of Berber and Shendy, and in the footsteps of Bruce to Suakin in Abyssinia. Hilmy, I p.105.

burton’s copy the rejected appendices 14 BURTON (Richard F.) [Supplementary Papers to the Mwata Cazembe, , July 17th, 1873.] ie. Lacks the title.

Only edition. 8vo. Original brown wrapper with Burton’s card laid down on front wrapper, this detached, with a modern morocco drop-back box, gilt. [iii]- xliii. London, Privately printed, 1873. £25000 Burton’s copy, heavily annotated throughout in his small, legible hand. Burton courted controversy throughout his long career, this being a fine example. Preceded by a foreword in which he examines the achievements and failings of Livingstone, Stanley, Speke and many others connected with East African exploration, and specifically the headwaters of the Nile, this pamphlet contains two intended appendices to the 1873 Lands of Cazembe. These two pieces were rejected by the Royal Geographic Society due to the controversial nature of the views it expresses on Livingstone, and the extravagant hostility of his attack on Cooley. Typically combative, Burton had a few copies printed privately “for the use of my friends.” His first appendix examined the failures of Livingstone’s attempts to bring “cotton, commerce and Christianity” to Eastern Africa. His second was a masterly and brutal rejoinder to Cooley’s armchair geography: “this is a brave statement coming from a man who threw three huge lakes into one, and who again his little volume “Inner Africa Laid Open”, which geographers have agreed to designate “Inner Africa Fast Shut”.” One wonders if this pamphlet ever achieved even the modest circulation promised by the author, we can find no record of it in auction, NSTC, or Worldcat. Penzer cites a copy at the Central Library Kensington, whereabouts now unknown, Casada gives a fuller description in his entry to the Lands of Cazembe. Clearly these were matters that 14 maggs bros ltd africa 15

with appendix iv

15 BURTON (Richard F.) First Footsteps in East Africa; or an Exploration of Harar.

First edition, first issue. 2 maps & 4 coloured lithographs, with 7 illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original purple cloth, gilt, with half title, recased, old cloth laid down, this rather faded and worn, with new endpapers. xli, 648pp. London, 1856. £7500 “Exceedingly rare and practically unobtainable” (Penzer). The Preface (p.xxvii) in listing the contents of the Appendix gives the fourth as: “A brief description of certain peculiar customs, noticed in Nubia, by Brown and Werne under the name of [in] fibulation.” However, unlike the copy described here, in most known copies the fourth Appendix itself is ommitted and in its place a cancel is found: “It has been found necessary to omit this Appendix”. The publisher apparently did not understand the nature of the “peculiar customs” until the print run had begun and was unable to accept that accounts of female cirumcision were a suitable topic for his readers. As Penzer puts it: “Since Burton’s time the great importance of detailed attention on the part of travellers to all kinds of deformations nineteenth century. and mutilations among natives has been fully realized” (p62). Daniell travelled to the Cape of Good Hope during the first British occupation of the Barely a year after returning from his pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah Burton colony. He was appointed secretary and draughtsman to Mr Truter and Dr Somerville set out once again in disguise, this time as an Arab merchant, with the intention of and was despatched by the Lieutenant Governor to Bechuanaland. The expedition travelling to the closed city of Harar. Despite achieving his primary objective, the travelled as far as Latku, the farthest point reached by Europeans at that time, and expedition’s success was overshadowed by the death of Lieut. Stroyan and the loss of they were received warmly. All of the sketches for the work were completed during stores and personal possessions during an attack by Somalis whilst their were encamped this expedition and were later produced as aquatints with the assistance of his brother on the Beach at Berberah. Penzer, p60/61. William.

“the scarcest and most valuable of the large atlas folios 17 DRUMMOND (The Hon. W.H.) The Large Game and Natural History of of south africa scenery” (mendelssohn). South and South-East Africa.

16 DANIELL (Samuel). African Scenery and Animals. First edition. Map, chromolithographed title, frontispiece & 12 plates. 8vo. Very good in original green illustrated cloth, gilt. xxi, 428pp. Edinburgh, 1875. First edition. Two engraved titles & 30 plates. Folio. Very good in contemporary £750 half calf, gilt, rebacked. London, Daniell, 1804. £45000 Scarce. Despite the work’s title, Drummond’s narrative focuses on his hunting adventures A beautiful publication. The thirty plates depict African natural history as well as native from 1868 to 1872. He travelled mainly in Tongaland, Zululand and Swaziland and inhabitants and settlers on the move. The images display a genuine sensitivity of the describes hunting rhinoceros, elephant, lion and leopard. Czech, p52; Mendelssohn I, artist to his subject matter and the quality of the aquatints is amazing. This is not just pp487-8. an important work on Africa, but one of the most significant illustrated books of the 16 maggs bros ltd africa 17

18 [EAST AFRICA] Notes For Officers appointed to East Africa and Uganda. 21 GIRARD (Capitaine Alexandre). Souvenirs d’un voyage en Abyssinie (1868- 1869). 12mo. Original green cloth, gilt, covers a little stained. 78pp. London, 1914. £350 First edition. 8vo. Contemprary quarter calf, spine gilt and a little sunned, Rare. No copies on OCLC, not in BL. extremities slightly rubbed. 312pp. Cairo, Typographie Francaise Delbos- Demouret, 1873. £1250 This slim volume provides a wealth of information necessary to officers despatched to fight in German East Africa. It includes a lengthy chapter on preventing malaria, which Rare. Only five copies on OCLC. Girard took advantage of the opportunity created was an enormous problem for Europeans in East Africa at that time of year, as well as by the British after their campaign against King Theodore at Magdala to explore the notes on travelling through the region. An edition of this was printed in 1912 (of only Abyssinian interior. For two years he travelled mostly in Tigre. Fumagalli, 316. 72pp), no doubt updated here due to the outbreak of war.

“you have had a long walk captain grant” 19 ELTON (J.F.) and COTTERILL (H.B.) ed. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. 22 GRANT (Capt. James Augustus). A Walk Across Africa or Domestic Scenes from my Nile Journal. First edition. Portrait, 5 plates, 3 folding maps (one coloured), illustrations in text. 8vo. A very good copy in original pictorial cloth, a.e.g. xxii, 417, 32ads.pp. First edition. Large folding map in rear pocket & portrait frontispiece. 8vo. London, 1879. £750 Original olive green pictorial cloth, gilt. xviii, 453, [1]ads.pp. Edinburgh, 1864. £3500 Elton was British Vice Consul at Zanzibar 1873-75, and Consul at Mozambique from 1875 until his death. He was renowned for his tireless pursuit of Arab and Portuguese In 1846 Grant obtained a commission in the 8th native Bengal infantry and it was during slave hunters in their most obscure haunts, and his information was the subject of many his time in India that he met John Hanning Speke, with whom he’d hunted tigers in 1852. a government Blue Book. In 1859, Speke invited him to join his expedition to confirm that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile, a fact he was unable to conclusively establish on his expedition with Burton the year prior. Grant travelled with Speke from Zanzibar to Cairo. The two were often separated and, 20 FALCONBRIDGE (Surgeon Alexander). An Account of the Slave Trade on in those instances, Grant had command of his section of the column. He collected some the Coast of Africa. seven hundred species of plants along the way, eighty of which were unknown to the scientific establishment. This work is intended as a companion volume to Speke’s and, in addition to the botanical discoveries, includes much information on the tribes they First edition. 8vo. A very good copy in modern morocco. iv, 5-55, [1]ads.pp. encountered. Grant received the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medal on his return London, J. Phillips, 1788. £750 in 1864. The account is divided into the following sections: Proceedings during the Voyage; The Manner in which the Slaves are procured; Treatment of the Slaves; Sale of the Slaves; Treatment of the Sailors; and, A short Description of such Parts of the Coast of Guinea, as are before referred to. Falconbridge served as surgeon on four slave ships between 1780 and 1787, eventually sickening of the practice after a voyage under Captain Mactaggart. He returned to Bristol, where the slavery-abolitionist Clarkson was gathering evidence, and later testified before a House of Commons committee. Falconbridge made two further trips to Africa to help found a colony of free settlers in Sierra Leone. 18 maggs bros ltd africa 19

23 [GODLONTON (R.)] A Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes into morocco, gilt, occasional minor foxing. iv, 175pp. London, Published for the the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-35. proprietor by W. Pickering, and to be had of P. & D. Colnaghi; W. Wood; and T. Cadell, 1840. £11000 First edition. Frontispiece map. 8vo. Later quarter morocco with buckram Rare. A very attractive copy of “almost the most highly prized of the books relating boards. (x), 280pp. Graham’s Town, Meurant and Godlonton, 1836. £1250 to South African animals...” (Mendelssohn). The tinted lithographs are heightened by Godlonton’s classic account of the Kafir War of 1834-5, which as well as comprising hand and depict elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros, lion, leopard and others. The images are articles reprinted from the Graham’s Town Journal, reports and despatches, contains accompanied by Harris’s detailed description of the game and their habitat. a good deal of information directly from Sir Harry Smith, and his officers, to which Originally published in five parts, this copy has been bound, as is common, without the Godlonton was privy. original wrappers or the subscribers list. Abbey (Travel), 335; Tooley, 247; Mendelssohn I, There are varying accounts of how hostilities between the settlers in Albany and the pp688-9; Czech, pp71-2. Kafirs commenced. The murder of Purcell, a trader, is often posited as the starting point, as is “the lenient methods pursued by the authorites with regard to the thieving propsensities of natives, gradually [resulting] in more daring outrages on their part” (Mendelssohn). Godlonton provides a full account of all the known crimes committed, and considers the Kafir defense, before narrating the skirmishes as they occurred. Peace was finally reached with Kreli on May 19th and later with the Gaika tribe on September 17th. Godlonton provides a useful appendix listing the general orders issued and casualites of the war. Mendelssohn I, pp611-12; Theal, p117.

the author’s copy 24 GROSVENOR (Lord R.) Extracts from the Journal of Lord R. Grosvenor. Being an account of his visit to the Barbery Regencies in the spring of 1830.

First edition. Lithograph title & two lithograph plates. 8vo. Nineteenth century cloth, spine repaired, with ms. notes & newspaper cuttings tipped in. [iv], 5-100pp. Chester, G. Harding, n.d. [but ca. 1831]. £1250 The section title on page 5 “Travels in Barbary” is vigorously crossed out by the author who added that “The title below is a barbarism of the printers”. The tipped in manuscript notes are devoted to Tripoli, Tunis and Islam.

25 HARRIS (William Cornwallis). Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, delineated from life in their native haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn, in 1836 and 1837 with sketches of the field sports. Drawn on stone by Frank Howard.

First edition. Lithograph title with hand-coloured vignette & 30 hand-coloured lithograph plates, with 30 additional tail-piece vignettes. Large folio. Half red 20 maggs bros ltd africa 21

26 HARRIS (Sir William Cornwallis). The Wild Sports of Southern Africa; scarce coloured issue being the narrative of an expedition from the Cape of Good Hope... to the 29 LUCAS (Capt. Thomas J.) Pen and Pencil Reminiscences of the Campaign Tropic of Capricorn. in South Africa. First edition. Hand-coloured lithograph title & 20 further hand-coloured Third and best edition. Folding map, lithographed half title & 25 hand coloured lithograph plates. Small folio. Particularly fine original pictorial cloth, gilt, lithographed plates. 8vo. Good original cloth, gilt, with some restoration to the slightly foxed as usual, a.e.g. [vi], 35pp. London, Day & Son, 1861. £2650 lower spine. a.e.g. xxiv, 387pp. London, 1841. £1400 The scarce coloured issue. Harris claimed to have been “taxed.... with shooting madness ... a most delightful mania...” cf. Mendelssohn, p688/9; Czech, p71 In the brief text accompanying the images, Lucas presents faily typical attitudes towards the Kaffirs, yet the real value of the work is in the plates, which are fine andoften humorous. Mendelssohn I, p932. 27 ISENBERG (E.W.) & KRAPF (J.L.) Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf... Detailing their Proceedings in the Kingdom of Shoa, and Journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the Years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. To which is Prefixed, a Geographical memoir of Abyssinia and South-Eastern Africa, by James M’Queen, Esq. Grounded on the Missionaries’ Journals, and the Expedition of the Pacha of Egypt up the Nile.

First edition. 2 large folding maps (one repaired with some small loss at fold). 8vo. Original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked, old spine laid down. xxviii, 530, [4] ads.pp. London, 1843. £3250 Rare. Just two copies (including this one) have appeared at auction in the last 30 years. Although Krapf and his colleagues considered missionary work to be their primary task, their time spent as explorers paved the way for the more well-known expeditions of Burton, Speke and Livingstone.

special coloured issue 28 JAMES (F.L.) The Unknown Horn of Africa. An Exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River.

First edition. Coloured frontispiece, large folding map in rear pocket & 22 author’s presentation copy plates (9 coloured), with numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original green 30 LYON (Captain George Francis). A Narrative of Travels in North Africa. pictorial cloth, faintly rubbed, occasional spotting. xiv, 344pp. London, George Philip & Son, 1888. £2500 First edition. Frontispiece folding map & 17 coloured plates. 4to. Contemporary James narrates his expedition to Somaliland in 1885. The party set out from Berbera and diced calf. xii, 383pp. London, John Murray, 1821. £1400 travelled south to the “Webbe Shebeyli” close to Bari. The various scientific information relating to the expedition is included in the large appendix which includes details of the Inscribed by the author on the title. “W. Powles with the author’s best regards” plants, birds, lepidoptera and mammals seen. 22 maggs bros ltd africa 23

Following Marryat’s withdrawal from Joseph Ritchie’s expedition, Lyon volunteered ancient and modern cities before moving on to Cario by camel, where he surveyed the to accompany him and spent four months studying Arabic language and culture in interior of the pyramid of Cheops, producing extremely accurate measurements. preparation. The journey itself was to further British interests in central and northern After some delay, due to Nordern’s ill health and insurrections on the Upper Nile, the Africa, however due to serious miscalculations in provisions and misjudgements in expedition (numbering 16 people) finally set off up the Nile. En route Nordern made terms of saleable merchandise, the expedition faltered at Muzurk, where Ritchie died. detailed maps, plans and drawings of contemporary life, the flora and fauna, as well as Lyon continued on to Tegerry before making his way back to London. His “quick the ancient monuments, taking care to record the hieroglyphic texts in detail. Reaching perception, literary gift and skill as a draughtsman, rendered the account of this abortive Aswan in December, the expedition were finally forced to turn back before the second expedition ... one of the most entertaining books of African travel” (DNB, cf. Joseph cataract in early January 1738 due to ill health, turbulent water and the hostility of the Ritchie). Abbey Travel, 404. Nubian people. On returning to Denmark Nordern was ordered to prepare his drawings and maps for large paper copy publication, and translated his notes into French. Promoted to the rank of Captain with a job in the royal dockyard at Copenhagen he subsequently served in the British navy 31 NORDEN (Frederick Lewis) & TEMPLEMAN (Peter). Travels in Egypt and with a number of other Danes, and was elected to the Royal Society. Nubia. Enlarged with observations from ancient and modern authors, that have written on the antiquities of Egypt. Suffering from consumption he set off for the south of France in 1742, but died in , and his drawings and notes were handed over to the Danish Navy and all but one of the plates for his great work were engraved by Tuscher in the years up to his own death. The final work Voyage d’Egypte et de Nubia was finally published by the Royal Danish Academy between 1750 and 1755, with a total of 159 plates by the Royal Danish Academy. An English edition, published by the Royal Society, followed in 1757, with subsequent editions in German, French, Danish, and English editions. Norden’s great work preceded Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt by sixty years, and his maps and drawings, the fine precise quality of which was something of a departure for travel literature of this period. Indeed a contemporary commented that “the beautiful simplicity of the designs, and the exactness with which they were drawn on the spot, are, I believe, superior to any thing of the kind that has ever been published.”

32 RENSHAW (R[ichard]). Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. And Up the Red Sea; With Travels in Egypt, Through the Deserts, &c. in the Course of the First English edition. Large paper copy. 2 volumes in one. Half titles, allegorical Last War. frontispiece, portrait frontispiece, 159 maps & plates on 161 sheets, engraved head and tail pieces. Folio. Early 19th century calf gilt, Northern Light Board First Edition. Engraved Frontispiece. 8vo. 90, [vi]pp. Rebound in paper backed gilt stamp to backstrip, upper board loose, some offsetting from plates, very boards, slightly rubbed, minor marking. Manchester, J. Watts, 1804. £1500 occasional spotting. London, Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. Stationed on the Cape from 1796 to 1801, Renshaw is highly critical of what he sees as £11000 the Dutch mismanagement of the colony in the years since his departure. He writes with displeasure at the decision to introduce slavery into Cape life. A development that A magnificent and impressively large folio with a distinguished provenance, formerly would have been entirely unneccesary “had the same spirit of Batavian industry which belonging to The Lighthouse Trust. raised a wealthy and populous republic out of the sea, impressed the minds of those As official representative of the expedition’s sponsor, King Christian of Denmark, who first formed the settlement”. The work includes considered descriptions of both the Nordern set out for Egypt in 1737. Reaching Alexandria in June, Nordern drew both the Hottentots and Kaffirs. Mendelssohn Vol. 2., pp.209. 24 maggs bros ltd africa 25

a specially coloured copy 33 ROBERTS (David). Egypt and Nubia from drawings made on the spot.

First edition, tinted issue, here with later hand colouring (c.1880) which loosely follows that of the original coloured issue. 3 vols. 3 tinted lithograph titles & 60 large tinted lithographic plates, with 61 half page plates in the text & one map. Contemporary red half morocco, gilt, marbled boards, rebacked, a.e.g. London, Moon, 1846 & 1849. (Illustration on p. 24) £45000 One of the greatest lithograph works of the nineteenth century, which gives an unparalled pictorial depiction of the modern as well as the ancient architecture of Egypt. It was published in conjunction to the “Holy Land”. This example of the ordinary sepia issue has been handsomely bound and hand tinted at a later date Abbey Travel, 272; cf, Blackmer, 1432. (See illustration on opposite page)

with original photographs 34 TREMAUX (Pierre). Parallèles des Edifices anciens et Modernes du Continent Africain dessinés et Relevés de 1847 à 1854 dans l’Algérie, les Régences de Tunis et de Tripoli, l’Egypte, la Nubie, les Déserts, l’Ile de Méroé, le Sennar, le Fa-Zoglo et dans les Contrées Inconnues de la Nigritie. Atlas...

First edition. Large double-page map, two original photographs, tinted lithograph title, two chromo-lithographs, two photo-lithographs & 43 other lithographs (majority tinted in one or more tints, one coloured), 33 engraved plans (2 of these coloured). Folio. Contemporary half morocco, extremities slightly rubbed, lower corner of upper board bumped. [2](title, contents), [14] (letterpress, printed on recto only) ll. Paris, Hachette et Cie., [1864 - 1868]. £28000 With Napoleon’s occupation of Egypt (1798/9) came a burgeoning interest in all things Oriental with particular focus being placed on the land of the Pharoahs, and North Africa. Trémaux (1818-95), an architect by training, came to North Africa as part of the team of Europeans despatched by Ali-Pasha to investigate the economic potential of the region. Recognising the importance of recording everything that he saw, Trémaux sketched not only the ancient sites along the Nile and in the Sudan and Nubia, but also contemporary buildings on every scale, from native huts to great edifices, thereby providing the material for this his second work. Amongst the buildings which he sketched were the pyramids at Méroé (see lithograph title), whilst he provided plans of the Amun temple at Jebel Barkal, noting separately that 26 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 27

two pylons and a row of ram sphinxes were still visible: “The sanctuary could be entered NEAR & MIDDLE EAST to find a lovely granite altar covered with sculptures and a hieroglyphic inscription of Taharqo with his cartouche, all dedicated to the supreme god Amun.” It is interesting to note that many of the buildings which Trémaux recorded are now covered by the waters 36 ATKINSON (Dr. James). Sketches in Afghanistan. of the High Aswan Dam, particularly so in the South where Lake Nubia, part of Lake First edition. Lithograph title & 25 further sepia lithograph plates, with Nasser hides many architectural treasures. lithograph dedication to Marquis Wellesley, governor-general of India. Folio. Publisher’s green quarter morocco, titled in gilt on upper board, moiré fine- ribbed cloth boards, some light wear. 2pp. London, 1842. £3500 This work includes some of the most famous images of the first Afghan War, and it is probably the best known of the several folio lithograph works that were published soon after the campaign. Atkinson was a medical officer on the original expedition, but being on leave he escaped the fate which befell most of his comrades in the army of occupation at Kabul. Abbey (Travel), 508.

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from stanley’s library 35 TROUP (J. Rose). With Stanley’s Rear Column.

Second edition. Portrait frontispiece, folding map, & 12 plates. 8vo. Original green decorative cloth, spine gilt, Stanley’s facsimile bookplate to front free endpaper, added at the time of the 2002 sale. xii, 361, [2], 40ads.pp. London, 1890. £400 The Emin Pasha relief expedition enjoyed no shortage of controversy. Added to the fact that Emin Pasha declined the proffered relief, the Rear Column was beset with difficulties. Troup served as the transport officer with the Rear Column. After the deaths of Bartelot and Jameson Troup returned to England and faced criticism for doing so in Stanley’s account. This is his own defense (published after an agreed delay with Stanley) and so makes this a fascinating association copy. 28 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 29

the first mention of dubai 39 BURCKHARDT (John Lewis). Travels in Nubia. 37 BALBI (Gasparo). Viaggio dell’Indie Orientali... Nelquale si contiene First edition. Engraved portrait and 3 maps (2 of these folding). 4to. quanto egli in detto viaggio ha veduto per lo spatio di 9 Anni consumati in Contemporary calf, worn at the edges and rebacked. xcii, 543pp. London, 1819. esso dal 1579-1588. Con la religione de i datii, pesi, &misure di tutte le Citta £2750 di tal viaggio, & del goucrno del Re del Pegu & delle guerre fatte da lui con altri Re d’Annua & di Sion. Published posthumously by the “Association for promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa”, this volume contains Burckhardt’s description of his two journeys in First edition. 8vo. Modern vellum. [xxxii], [346]pp. , Camillo Nubia, and is preceded by an account of his eventful life. Frustrated by disturbances in Borgominieri, 1590. £6250 the desert in his quest to explore the source of the Niger, Burckhardt explored the Nile as far as Mahassa, he then travelled by way of Berber and Shendy, and in the footsteps of An interesting narrative which contains much of use to the contemporary merchant Bruce to Suakin in Abyssinia. Hilmy, I p.105. with rates of exchange, duties etc. especially relating to gems. Balbi, a Venetian jeweller, gives one of the best early accounts of the East Indies, especially Burma. In addition, he records an interesting account of the Japanese embassy, returning from its tour of the guide book to mecca Catholic capitals of Europe, which he encountered at Hormuz. 40 BURTON (Richard F.) The Guide Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Balbi, followed a very similar route to his fellow Venetian Cesare Federici who travelled Medinah... in the East in the previous decade. Beginning his travels in Aleppo he visited Egypt, then Basra via the Euphrates, thence to Ormus, Diu, Goa, Cochin, and then to Burma, Martaban, and Malacca returning via the same route. While in Hormuz Balbi gives a First edition. Portait frontispiece. 8vo. Original green printed wrappers, very detailed account of the pearling grounds, and mentions many islands and settlements slightly rubbed, with a modern morocco on the Arabian coast, several of which find their way into literature for the first time drop-back box, gilt. 58pp. London, printed including Dubai. for the author, 1865. £15000 A fine copy of this “exceedingly rare” (Penzer) 38 BUCKINGHAM (J.S.) Travels among the Arab Tribes. Inhabiting the work. A key piece of Burton ephemera, The Guide Countries East of Syria and Palestine. Book was published to accompany an exhibition of the illustrations used in ...Pilgrimage to Mecca and El-Medina (1855-56) arranged by the Royal First edition. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt. xvi, 679pp. London, 1825. Polytechnic Institution. £2850 Only four copies are listed on OCLC. Casada, 39; The Lighthouse Trust copy. This is the second of Buckhingam’s publications documenting Penzer, p76. his travels in the Middle East between 1813 and 1818. It recounts his journey from Nazareth to Aleppo and Damascus, and it also contains a map of Palestine and Syria. The appendix is an earnest refutation of the charges of plagiarism brought against his his 41 BURTON (Richard F.) & TYRWHITT 1821 volume recording the first part of his travels. DRAKE (C.F.) Unexplored Syria Visits to Buckingham settled in India in 1818 and immediately commenced publication of his the Libanus, the Tulul el Safa, the Anti- Calcutta Journal which openly criticized the East India Company. His opinions were Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ill received and led to his expulsion from India. After which time he settled down and ‘Alah. became a prolific writer and lecturer. His works are characterised by an ongoing interest in the social conditions of the countries he visited. Blackmer, 232. First edition, first issue. 2 vols. Folding map, 27 plates (those of inscriptions folding). 8vo. Original cloth, with double black 30 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 31

lines to boards, enclosing lettering in black on upper. xx, 360; vii, 400pp. 43 [CORANCEZ (Louis Alexandre).] Histoire des Wahabis, depuis leur Origine London, 1872. £3000 Jusqu’a la fin de 1809. Although the bulk of this work is written by Burton himself, the opening chapter in volume one is by his wife Isabel, whilst two chapters and various appendices in volume First edition. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf, with morocco label, gilt, slightly two are by Tyrwhitt Drake. Burton’s passion for Syria is clear from the outset, when rubbed. viii, 222; [2]pp. Paris, Crapelet, 1810. £3750 he makes a plea in his Preface particularly to subscribers to the Palestine Exploration The anonymous author, Corancez, first wrote about the Wahabis in 1804 (published in Fund to transfer their interest to Syria: “an old country, in more than one aspect - the Paris Moniteur of October 31st) while he was French consul in Aleppo. This was geographical and technological, for instance - virtually new. A Land of the Past, it has the first European study of the origins and history of Wahabism. It was plagiarised by a Future as promising as that of Mexico or of the Argentine Republic. The first railway Jean Baptiste Rousseau in his Description du Pachalik... of 1809. In the preface of this that spans it will restore to rich and vigorous life the poor old lethargic region...” Penzer, expanded version of his original article Corancez puts the record straight. p85; Casada, 68. In the preface to the recent translation of the work, the late Professor R.M. Burrell comments that “Corancez was a man with considerable powers of observation and 42 BURTON (Richard F.) trans. The Arabian Nights. [With] Supplemental reflection. He was prepared to ask profound and difficult questions about the Middle Nights. Eastern society in which he lived”. The author notes with prescience “Ces Arabes paroissent destinés à jouer un grand rôle First editions. 16 vols. Large 8vo. Very good original publisher’s cloth gilt / dans l’histoire.” The first two chapters give details of the conversion of Mohammed ibn silver gilt, some minor chipping to headcaps. Benares, Privately printed for the Saoud, but most of the work is taken up with material concerning the years 1798 to Kamashastra Society, 1885 - 1888. £5000 1809, beginning with the first Ottoman campaign against the stronghold of Dereyah A fine copy of the unexpurgated edition of what is probably the most famous of all of and ending with their operations against Muscat and Ras al-Kaima. The author adds Burton’s works, the translation of which was completed over a twenty-five year period. a further two chapters firstly his reflections on the emergence of an “idée du caractère national” and secondly notes on Wahaby customs. The Arabian Nights is one of the world’s most famous pieces of literature purporting to recount the thousand and one tales Scheheradze told her master in order to save her life. As Burrell comments “the final merits - and challenges - of this book are... [that] “Some of these stories, the folk-lore of the East dating back as far as the 8th century AD, Conancez was prepared to reflect upon a range of issues which remain relevant and were written down in ancient manuscripts; some had simply been handed down orally controversial, for many people in the Middle East today. These include the nature from century to century” (Lovell). Amongst the tales are the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad of Islam and its apparent resistance to self-doubt and the challenge of change, the the Sailor and Ali Baba. complex attitude adopted by Muslims to Christians and Jews, the status of the Prophet Mohammed within Islam, the reasons for the enduring nature of despotic rule in the Burton’s was not the first translation of the Arabian Nights to appear in English - Middle East, the significance of the different status afforded men and women...” Edward Lane published a translation in 1840. Yet, those available were greatly sanitised and a translation themselves of Antoine Galland’s French edition. Burton’s translation restored the sexual content to the work and included an 240 page essay by him which 44 FINATI (Giovanni), BANKES (William John). Narrative of the Life and openly discussed the issues. Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara; Who, under the assumed name of Mahomet made the Campaign against the Wahabees for the The Obscene Publications Act of 1857 caused Burton’s publisher’s great concern and as a result drew up a contract which ensured that he became solely liable for any criminal recovery of Mecca and Medina; and since acted as interpreter to European charges made as a result of publication. The work became a bestseller, netting Burton travellers in some of the parts least visited of Asia and Africa. £10,000 which enabled him and Isabel to live out their remaining years in comfort. Penzer, p114-6; Casada, 74; Lovell (A Rage to Live), 1998. First edition. 2 vols. Folding map. 12mo. Modern half calf, red morocco labels gilt to spines. xxiii, 296; viii, 430, [2]ads.pp. London, John Murray, 1830. £4500 A scarce title: Finati was one of the few who left us an eye-witness account of Mehmet Ali’s campaign against the Wahabis for control of the Holy Cities. The author was a 32 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 33

deserter from Napoleon’s conscript army in Italy, who made his way to Egypt and “for This work contains probably the first full description of coffee in English. “The account want of anything better to do” joined Mehmet’s Albanian guards. He devotes most of the of the ‘Voyage’ and the ‘Second Expedition’ in this volume are anonymous; and they first volume and some of the second to these events. The editor has carefully compared were edited by Jean de La Roque (1661-1743). He was born at Marseilles, studied the account against the history of the campaign by Mengin, and finds the author most oriental languages, made some voyages to the Levant himself and served apparently, accurate. He also compares the description of Medina and Mecca to that of Ali Bey and as correspondent to his father’s newspaper... the captain who tells the story of the first also finds the Italian’s account reliable. The second volume continues with the author’s voyage in a series of five letters, proves to be ‘Captain Monsieur de Marveille’ .... But he later exploits with William Bankes among others. It describes trips throughout the does not go on the second voyage. The account of that trip was put together by La Roque Middle East, including a visit to Petra and meetings with Belzoni and Salt, and much from information furnished by M. Grelaudiere, who journeyed from Mokha to Muab to else. It is written in a colourful and lively way throughout, though the author rather cure the King of Yemen, and two ship surgeons, Noiers and Barbier” (Hunt). cf. Hunt, too often for credence finds himself arround a corner when some atrocity or other is 489; Hünersdorff, ‘Coffee: A Bibliography’, p1284. committed. Macro, 954; not in Atabey, Blackmer or Hamilton.

47 LE BAS (M.Ph.) Asie Mineure depuis les Temps les plus anciens jusqu’a mecca la Battalille d’Ancyre, en 1402. [With] TEXIER (Charles). Asie Mineure Description Géographique, Historique et Archéologique des Provinces et 45 GALLAND (Julien Claude). Receuil des Rits et Cérémonies du Pèlerinage de des Villes de la Chersonnése d’Asie. la Meque, auquel ont a joint divers écrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs. 2 vols. 6 folding maps & 64 plates. 8vo. Contemporary quarter cloth, French marbled boards spines gilt. [iv], 530; [iv], 758pp. Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1878 & First edition. 12mo. Later half calf, upper joint cracked. viii, 215pp. Amsterdam, 1882. £500 1754. £4250 A very attractive set of volumes bringing together the work of two of the most important “This very interesting work contains five separate essays” (Navari). The first of which writers on Asia Minor. In order to make a more balanced pair the first 32 plates of Texier contains the account of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The remaining texts include an Islamic are bound in at the end of the Le Bas volume. catechism, a disertation concerning science in the Ottoman world, a long relation on the Island of , and finally an account of the wedding of “la Sultane Esma”. Blackmer, Trained as an archaeologist, Texier superintended excavations at Ostia before departing 643. for the Levant. He made three journeys to the region between 1834 and 1836, returning to France in 1837 to start work on Description of Asia Minor. This book, “probably the greatest work of exploration made by a single traveller” (Blackmer), was not so much an 46 [LA ROQUE (Jean de).] A Voyage to Arabia Felix, through the Eastern account of his journey but rather the summation of the information he had collected en Ocean, and the Streights of the Red-Sea, first made by the French in the route. Le Bas meanwhile started his archaeological travels some ten years later, travelling years 1708, 1709, 1710. Together with a particular account of a Journey from throughout and Asia Minor from January 1843 to December 1844, and collecting more than 4000 inscriptions along the way. Blackmer, 1646; Atabey, 1212. Mocha to Muab, or Mowahib, the Court of the King of Yaman, their Second Expedition, in the years 1711, 1712, 1713. Also a Narrative concerning the tree and fruit of Coffee. Collected from the Observations of those who made the last Voyage; and an historical Treatise of the Original and Progress of Coffee, original manuscript: the egyptian pilgrimage to mecca both in Asia and Europe. 48 MAILLET (Benoit de) d1738 MS. De La Caravanne D’Egypte, Pour la Meque.

First English edition. Folding map & 3 engraved folding plates. 12mo. Folio. Written in a fine hand and sewn on a silk thread. 20pp. In a green buckram Contemporary calf, rebacked. xii, 312pp. London, Strahan and Williamson, drop-back box. Paris, before 1735. £25000* 1726 £2500 “Maillet was French consul in Egypt from 1692. In his retirement he decided to publish This copy has the date on the title altered by hand to 1730. his memoirs, material which he had collected during his long sojourn in Egypt. The 34 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 35

manuscript was edited by Mascrier and takes and with many inaccuracies corrected. (This map on its own has made several thousand the form of letters; it is not an account of pounds at auction.) Interestingly, Jomard had seen and made use of Sadlier’s account travels but a general synthesis of all that was published in Bombay earlier in 1823. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p30. known about Egypt up to that time. Maillet had developed a passionate interest in Arabic, and in Egyptian antiquities, as well 50 OLIPHANT (Laurence). The Land of Gilead with Excursions in the Lebanon. as in the contemporary life of the country...” (Leonora Navari in the Blackmer catalogue). First edition. Folding map at rear & one other map, photographic frontispiece In this text Maillet lays some emphasis on & 3 plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Fine pictorial cloth, gilt. the Hadj as a trade fair for the Muslim world. [xxxviii], 538, 4ads.pp. Edinburgh & London, 1880. £625 The above is one of the many cahiers that Oliphant, one time diplomat, politician, traveller, and mystic, relates his journey to the were developed by the Abbe Mascrier, (to East in 1879 which was undertaken in order to investigate the possibility of “colonising” whose meddlesome hands Maillet later left Palestine with Jewish people, in the hope of obtaining a concession from the Turkish his literary estate) into the Description de government. Unfortunately, the approach to the Turkish government failed, and the L’Egypte. See Blackmer 1061. scheme broke down.

muscat - from the library of phillip gosse 51 OVINGTON (J.) A Voyage to Suratt in the Year, 1689. Giving a large Account of that City, and its Inhabitants, and of the English Factory there. Likewise a Description of Madeira, St. Jago... St. Helena, Johanna, Bombay, the City of with the atlas coloured/containing an account of the Muscatt, and its Inhabitants in Arabia wahabis Felix, Mocha, and other Maritine towns upon the Red-Sea, the Cape of good 49 MENGIN (Felix). Histoire de l’Egypte sous le Gouvernement de Mohammed- Hope, and the Island of Ascention... Aly, ou recit des Evenemens Politiques et Militaires qui ont eu lieu depuis le Depart des Francais jusqu’en 1823. First edition. 2 folding engraved plates & a folding table. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt, First edition. Atlas & 2 vols 8vo. Fine contemporary quarter calf, gilt, atlas rebacked, armorial stamp on boards, a few rebound to match [li], 464; 644pp. Paris, A. Bertrand, 1823. £10500 minor stains, one plate with tear repaired. A good copy of this notable book with many of the plates in the Atlas volume specially [xvi], 606pp. London, 1696. £6250 coloured at the time of issue. The book has a long appendix containing a history of the From the library of the noted collector Philip Wahabis, with an account of the sack of Derrieh, and the atlas contains the celebrated Gosse, with his label to the front pastedown. portrait of Ibn-Saud who was executed by the Turks for sedition. The atlas, here the de luxe issue with contemporary hand-colouring, is more commonly found uncoloured, in Ovington (1653-1731) sailed for India as either state it is rare. chaplain on an East India Company ship. His work presented new, first-hand observations The map newly engraved for this work by Jomard, who also gives a valuable and lengthy of Surat and western India, and also includes commentary on it in an appendix, is of particular note, being a synthesis of Arab and a detailed account of the city of Muscat: “This western knowlege with many place names added for the first time, Riadh for instance, 36 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 37

part of Arabia, because of its pleasantness and fertility ... has obtain’d the name Hyaman, event which marked the end of the first Saudi State which had been established in 1726, which signifies Happy.” Appended are four treatises from other sources: an account of Sadleir was sent to congratulate Ibrahim Pacha, and to get his cooperation for action the succession crisis in Golconda, a description of Arkan and Pegu, a list of Indian coins, against the pirates in the Persian Gulf: a continual plague to British interests. and a treatise on silkworms. Mendelssohn II, 131; Wing, 0701.

the first european to cross arabia a rare work on oman 54 SADLEIR (Capt. G. Forster). Diary of a Journey across Arabia From El 52 ROSS (E.C.) Annals of ‘Oman from early imes to the year 1728. In Journals Khatif in the Persian Gulf, to Yambo in the Red Sea, During the Year 1819. of the Asiatic Socity of Bengal 1874. First edition. Folding lithograph map. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, very 2 plates (one folding). 8vo. Original pink printed wrappers. 99-196pp. Calcutta, slightly soiled, small loss at head of cloth spine, in a quarter green morocco Printed by G.H.Rouse, Baptist Mission Press, 1874. £950 dropback box. vii, 158pp. Bombay, The Eductation Society’s Press, Byculla, 1866. £35000 This was the first appearance of Ross’s “Annals of Oman”. The work was printed separately later that year. Ross was the long-time Political Agent at Muscat and a noted Arabic A very rare account published here for the scholar. He writes in his short introduction as follows: “The Arabic work from which first time in full and also for the first time in the following account of the the History of Oman is translated, is entitled “Keshf-ul- book form. A condensed version was printed Ghummeh”, or “Dispeller of grief”... Copies of the “Keshf-ul- Ghummeh” are extremely some years before in the Transactions of the rare in Oman; and out of that country I doubt if it is known, I have only heard of two Bombay Literary Society, but much colourful copies existing... The work now translated may fairly be considered, as far as it goes, the detail was excluded. most authentic and coherent account of the history of Oman that has emanated from native sources...” Sadleir, whose name is incorrectly spelt “Sadlier” on the title, was sent to congratulate Ibrahim Pacha on his successes against the Wahabis and to establish how far he might sadleir’s famous journey announced & the first mention of be inclined to cooperate in the suppression riyadh in print of Wahabi pirates in the Gulf. Not being able to make the intended rendezvous on the 53 SADLEIR (Capt. G. Forster). BOMBAY LITERARY SOCIETY. Account of a Gulf, Sadleir was forced to cross the Arabian Journey from Katif on the Persian Gulf to Yamboo on the Red Sea... Peninsula from Qatif to Medina and was the first the European to successfully complete Extract from vol. III of the Transactions of the Bombay Literary Society. Engraved such a journey. He visited Riyadh then much smaller, and (as it seemed to Sadleir), less map, this printed in London. 449-494pp. Bombay, 1823. £7500 significant than the neighbouring town of This is the first printed account of the first reported trans-Arabian journey. Sadleir (his Deriah. name is given as Sadlier on the title) gives us the first or second mention of Riyadh “Travelling... expeditiously and alone, in print. (It is to be found on the Mengin map of Arabia which also appeared in through a country in which the exact position of a single town has never been 1823, this map with that issued above are the first two of central Arabia based on first ascertained, and unprovided with the necessary instruments, it has not been in Captain hand knowlege.) “I, however, met some persons at Munfooah and Riad, who avowed Sadlier’s [sic] power to give the geographical precision to his route which he would have themselves to be of the wahabi faith; but their number was inconsiderable, and they wished; ...the principal part of [his]... journey lay through the provinces of Hajar, or were the remains of the inhabitants of Deriah, and not Bedouins”. Bahrein and Najd, which have always been the residence of the Bedouin tribes. Their With Ottoman control re-established over central Arabia at the fall of Deriah in 1818, an peculiar mode of life, and the deserts which they inhabit, must ever prevent any material 38 maggs bros ltd near & middle east 39

change taking place in their manners, customs and government...” (Introduction). 56 [SELIM I (Sultan).] Das ist ein anschlag eins zugs wider die Türcken vnd alle In short, Sadleir is one of the many unsung heroes of British exploration and his desert die wider den Christenlichen glauben seind. journey ought to be considered one of the great feats of nineteenth century travel. In many ways he was the precursor of Burton, Doughty, Philby, Lawrence, and Thesiger Title with woodcut coat of arms. Small 4to. Bound in old flexible vellum, overall but in contrast to them was a man who considered his undertaking no more than a a very good copy. 4ff. [Nürenberg, Jobst Gutknecht, 1518]. £3800 rather inconvenient duty. The expansion of the during the reign of Sultan Selim I. (1465-1520) was Copies of this book are notoriously rare. This example belonged to the diplomat and closely watched throughout Europe. The present work calls for the formation of an army historian Col. Miles who wrote “The Tribes of the Persian Gulf”. Altogther only eight to be sent against the Turks (and all others opposed to Christianity). In the first half of copies are listed in OCLC, none of them in the United States. We know of three others the 16th century over 900 pamphlets relating to the Turks were issued, documenting the in private hands. widespread fear of a Turkish domination. The present call to arms was issued in various cities throughout central Europe including Augsburg, Breslau, and Basel. Two other shipwreck on the coast of oman Nuremberg imprints are known to have been printed in the same year (Georg Stuchs & Friedrich Peypus). Göllner: Turcica I, 107. VD16, D-160. Köhler 664. Weller 1088. Only 55 SAUNDERS (Daniel). A Journal of the Travels and Sufferings of Daniel two copies in OCLC. Saunders, jun. A Mariner on board the Ship Commerce, of Boston, Samuel Johnson, Commander, which was cast away near Cape Morebet, on the Coat of Arabia, July 10, 1792.

First edition. 12mo. Original publisher’s calf, a very good copy of this book usually found in poor condition. 128, 15pp. Salem, Thomas C. Cushing, 1794. £2250 “Daniel Saunders was born in Salem, Mass. in March 1772, and as a teenager took up the occupation of mariner. In May 1791 Saunders sailed for the Cape of Good Hope as second mate on the Grand Salem and proceeded to Mauritius, where he quit the ship and took a position as able seaman on the Boston ship Commerce, under the command of Captain John Leach. In Madras... Samuel Johnson took command of the ship, and proceeded to sail her to Bombay. A combination of bad weather and poor navigation resulted in the Commerce being grounded on a off the coast of Dhofar near [Mirbat] on July 10th 1792. Twenty-seven of the crew, nineteen blacks and seventeen Europeans, succeeded in getting ashore, and commenced a very arduous journey” (Marshall European Travellers in Oman and South East Arabia). Shipwrecked some five hundred miles from Muscat the party divided. Sauders was robbed at his first meeting with the natives, but finally they found a friendly welcome and were taken, exhausted, to Muscat only eight of the seventeen suvived and the cook Juba Hil, “a black man from Boston” was “detained among the Arabs probably as a slave” (Macro). This work, a typical example of the shipwreck narrative genre, briefly descibes the wreck and then the subsequent boat voyage (pp1-17) and, in more detail, the adventures of the crew on the coast of Oman which ended with their rescue at Muscat (pp18-128). At the end of the work is a short description of Arabia and its inhabitants, which includes a charming desciption of the “Bedoween” which must rank as one of the earliest to have been put before the American public. Macro, 2014. Item 55 40 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 41

EUROPE, RUSSIA & TURKEY Beginning with the Spanish declaration of war on Great Britain in June 1779 through to Feb 20th 1783, the journal covers in great detail the blockade and siege of Gibraltar, which saw General Augustus Eliott and his British troops under attack for over three lithographic views of the urals years. Spain joined with France and the combined attack, involving 100,000 men and 48 ships, on September 13, 1782 is covered in great detail. 57 ADAM (Victor). [Views of Russia.]

12 (uncoloured) lithographs, each numbered in the top right-hand corner, with 59 BRIGHT (Dr. Richard). Travels through Vienna and lower ; with printed border and title. Image size: 245 by 365mm (appox.), paper size: 320 by some remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814. 420mm (approx.) Oblong folio. Paris, Engelmann & Cie., [c. 1850]. £7500 First edition. Frontispiece & 9 engraved Whilst the figures are identified as being drawn by Victor Adam, the plates were plates. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. lithographed by several well-known fellow artists: Isidore-Laurent Deroy, Louis [3], vi-xviii, [3], 4-642, cii, [2]pp. Edinburgh, Bichebois, Louis Villeneuve, Jean-Louis Tirpenne, Nicolas-Marie Chapuy, Leon Sabatier and Edward Hostein. The son of a “respected” engraver Adam was born in Paris in 1801. Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. He went on to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1814-18) before exhibiting sucessfully £1250 at the Paris salons between 1819 and 1838 at which point he withdrew from the public The Lighthouse Trust copy. This work includes a gaze, re-emerging in 1846 with an exhibition of lithography to which art he devoted vocabulary of the Gypsy, Gitano and Cygani. himself until his death in 1866 at Viroflay. Bright achieved lasting fame for his pioneering The finely detailed plates show views in the Urals and Siberia, including what is now work in nephrology and his identification of the the Republic of Tartarstan: Vue de la Ville de Kazan du Côté du Sud; Vue de la Ville de eponymous Bright’s Disease. Kazan du Côté du Nord; Vue de Slatoouste. (Oural.); Vue de Miask. Avec une partie de la chaine des Montagnes Jlmenès. (Oural.); Vue des Lavages d’Or d’Anninsky & du Mont Aouchkoul. (Oural.); Vue du Taganaï, près de Slatoouste. (Oural.); Vue de 60 CLARK (William George). Slatoouste prise du Sommet le plus élevé de l’Oural; Vue de Catherinebourg. (Oural.); Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel. Vue des Forges de M. Yakowleff à Werkhisetok près de Catherinebourg. (Oural.); Vue de Kouchwa & de la Montagne Blagodat. (Oural); Vue de Werkhotourie. (Sibérie.); Vue First (only) edition. 5 maps & plans. 8vo. de Bogoslowsk. (Oural). Original blue cloth, joints strengthened. xiv, [ii], 344, 8ads.pp. London, 1858. £1250 58 [ANON.] An Authentic and accurate Journal of the Late Siege of Gibraltar; “Clark travelled in Greece from March to May of being a circumstantial Account of every material transaction relative to that 1856 in company with W.H. Thompson, Master of memorable event, from the day on which the communication between that Trinity College. He has produced an interesting Garrison and Spain was shut up, to the arrival of the Thetis Frigate with the work, intermingling his ideas concerning the cultural and religious history of the ancient preliminary Articles of Peace. with archaeological observation and comments on modern Greek life” (Navari). From the collection of A.C. Lascarides, with his bookplate. Blackmer, 361. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, Macclesfield library plates to front pastedown & facing leaf, discreet Macclesfield blindstamp to title & 2 following leaves, some very light foxing to first few leaves. [iv], 173pp. London, [1783]. £1000 42 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 43

61 CORNWALL (Col. [William Henry]). The City of Funchal, Madeira, from a 63 COTTON (Maria F.) Costumes of the drawing made from “The Angustias,” the residence of Her Late Majesty the 22 Cantons of Switzerland, copied from Queen Dowager, in the Winter of 1847-48. R.H. Zukli by Maria F. Cotton.

Particularly fine hand-coloured lithograph panorama, in three sections, joined. Twenty-seven watercolours with 1495 by 315mm. Oblong small folio. Original cloth boards, sunned, titled in gilt autograph manuscript captions. 4to. on upper. London, Dickinson, c. 1850. £3800 Original diced russia, worn, presentation A fine lithograph view of Funchal. inscription to front free endpaper. (4, 4 [blank], 54)pp. np, 1831. Following the death of William IV in 1837, the Queen Dowager, Adelaide, lived her final £2500* years as an invalid, seeking more temperate climes. In 1838-39 she spent the winter in Malta, and in 1847-48 she wintered in Madeira, where the artist acted as her Equerry. The presentation inscription reads: “Joseph She died in December 1849 in Stanmore, now a northern suburb of London. Hordern Oct 22nd 1831 from Maria.” The work includes a brief three and a half page introduction on the history of the Helvetic 62 CORONELLI (Vincenzo). Epitome Cosmografica, o Compendiosa Confederacy and the terms under which it was Introduttione All’Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia, Per I’Uso, formed. The watercolours are accompanied by Delucidiatione, e Fabrica delle Sfere, Globi, Panisferi, Astrolabi e Tavole captions describing the chief produce, capital city and religion of each canton. Geografiche. Each of the watercolours depict a figure (usually a woman) in what might be termed the ‘national’ costume of each canton and these are portrayed in settings reflecting the First edition. Engraved title & 37 engraved plates (mostly double-page but captions. also including 5 circular plates), one with volvelles and pointers, Small 4to. Contemporary boards. [xxviii], 420, [16] pp. Cologne [but Venice], 1693. 64 [GREECE] WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT. “Madon [ie Manto Mavrogenous] £7500 daughter of the Hospodar Nicholas Mavrogyeni, a distinguished Grecian A very nice clean copy of the Epitome. Heroine from Micone a small island of the Archipelago.” Coronelli was born in Venice in 1650. The son of a tailor, he was apprenticed to a wood- Watercolour 205 by 205mm. nd, c. 1825. £575* engraver in Ravenna. Aged thirteen he Possibly derived from Freidel. determined on a religious life and in 1665 he became a Franciscan novitiate in Venice at the convent of S. Maria Goriosa dei Frari. From 65 [GREECE] “W.A.” WATERCOLOUR PORTRAIT. “Portrait of Theodore this unlikely start, using the convent as his Colocotroni [Kolokoltronis] Commander in chief of the Troops in the headquarters, Coronelli became the greatest Morea. This is a distinguished Greecian warrior who has assisted materially geographer, and geographical publisher of his age. In 1684, in order to finance his cartographic in the struggle between the Greeks and the Turks.” projects through subscription, he started the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the Watercolour measuring approx. 190 by 230mm. np, c. 1825. £750* world’s first geographical society. A fine portrait of Kolokotronis (1770-1843), one of the prominent military leaders in the Greek War of Independence. 44 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 45

Born in Ramavouni in Messenia, he served in the Russo-Turkish War in 1805. He 67 HEATH (William). Rigden’s Panoramic View of Dover. distinguished himself five years later as a part of a corps of Greek infantry in English service on Zakynthos where he attained the brevet rank of brigadier. He returned to First edition. One long folding hand-coloured etched plate measuring 195 by the Greek main land just prior to the outbreak of war in 1821. The Greek general is 1550mm. Oblong 4to. Patterned cloth, gilt lettering to upper board. Dover, renowned for his part in the defeat of the Ottomans at Dervenakia in 1822.Three years later he was placed in charge of the Greek forces at . Thomas Rigden, 1836. £1200 A beautiful and extremely detailed view of the white cliffs of Dover. Heath was primarily Inscribed in a contemporary hand on the reverse, this naive watercolour is possibly known for his caricatures and illustrations but turned to landscapes in his later years. derived from Friedel’s portrait. Little is known about his life but he was certainly a talented artist. Examples of his work are now held at the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Abbey Life, 533.

68 HUGHES (Rev. Thomas Smart). Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania.

First edition. 2 vols. 12 engraved aquatints, 3 maps & plans (1 double-page & 1 folding). 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. xii, 532; viii, 393pp. London, J. Mawman, 1820. £2950 The Lighthouse Trust copy. After a distinguished career at Cambridge, Hughes accepted the position of travelling tutor to Robert Townley Parker. This is an account of his time abroad in that capacity and Hughes combines historical accounts of the regions with his travelogue. The plates are after drawings by C.R. Cockerell.

69 KARAVIAS GRIVAS (Nikolaos). Istoria tis Nisou Ithakis apo ton 66 HADRAVA (Norbert). Ragguagli di varii scavi e scoverte di antichita fatte arkhaitaton khronon mekhri tou nell’ isolda di Capri... 1849.

Second edition. Engraved vignette, folding map & 8 plates. Small 4to. Quarter First edition. Original yellow-paper cloth over old boards, spine gilt. 97, [3]pp. Dresda, 1794. £1250 printed upper cover. 25, [1], 169,[1] pp. Athens, Karambe & Vafa, 1849. Scarce. In addition to his consular duties at the Austrian embassy at , Hadrava [Bound with] [VALETTAS (Spyridon was a part-time composer and, as this work attests, active in archaeology. Indeed, his Ioannou)]. O geron Limperis e dialogoi reputation in Capri has suffered somewhat as he is closely associated with the removal en peripatoi ypothesin echontes ethe of antiquities from the island. The book includes a beautiful folding map of Capri. kai pragmata ellehnika. Graphentes apo tou Kuriou Sibi. First edition. 46 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 47

Original printed wrappers. [4], 104pp. Athens, A. Angelides, 1836. 2 vols in 1. 71 PATON (Andrew Archibald). Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic, 8vo. Nineteenth-century calf-backed boards. 1836 - 1849. £650 including Dalmatia, Croatia and the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire. The first work is a history of Ithaca from the earliest times up to 1849, and, apart from dwelling on the Homeric glories of the island, gives an account of the physical nature of the island and its flora, and ends with an account of local notables, including First edition. 2 vols. Frontispieces, 8 lithographic plates (1 folding) & a folding many members of the Karavias family. At the end is a list of subscribers who together map. 8vo. Contemporary green half calf, red morocco labels to spine, excellent subscribed for 272 copies, although there is a note stating that others had been left off copy. xxiv, 314; viii, [ii], 308pp. London, Chapman & Hall, 1849. £1750 the list because their names had not arrived in time. One imagines that the size of the Written by a diplomat formerly in the employ of Sir Robert Gordon, Ambassador to edition must have been 300-350 copies. Vienna, this insightful study provides a richly textured analysis of the region. While Nikolaos Karavias Grivas, who was a native of Ithaca and a doctor and surgeon, putatively concerned with the peoples and the land they inhabit Paton also includes published in 1841-1842 in Constantinople a Lexicon of men famous in the arts and in much on the political tensions of the era. With descriptions of Ragusa, Croatia and politics. Both of his books have been reprinted in modern times (1977 and 2003). Montenegro, including a depiction of the Palace of Diocletian. Spyridon Valettas (or Balettas 1786?-1843) was the first Minister for Education of the kingdom of Greece, and came from the island of Ios. He also published in 1818 in Paris a 72 [PETALIOUS ISLANDS Megalonisos etc.] Report on the Petalious Islands. translation of a short work by Rousseau on the foundations of inequality in society, and in London in 1827 a work Hepta Plegei tes Hellados, a reprint of which was published in Manuscript in ink with some pencil annotations. Folio. 8; 6pp. np, c. 1832. 1972. O geron Limperis is an account of Greek history and culture, placed in the mouth of £2500* an elderly man called Limperis. OCLC lists copies at Harvard, Göttingen and Cincinnati. An interesting report on some of the lesser known Greek islands. Notes include, “water From the Bibliotheca Lindesiana with bookplate. is very scarce on the principal island and brakish, scarcely fit for use tho’ the few Greeks residing there had not any other.” Evidently the islands were being considered as a possible site for a business venture, and the report seems to have been prepared for a 70 MURE (William). Journal of a Tour in Greece and the Ionian Islands: with Maltese investor possibly with a view to explanding the olive oil production. There may remarks on its recent history, present state, and classical antiquities of those also be some hidden consideration whether the region was suitable for a naval base. In countries. any event these mss. give a very detailed account of all production and physical feature of the various islands in this small group. First edition. 2 vols. Frontispiece & 14 plates. Contemporary calf, gilt. xxii, 292; London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1842. £1500 73 PORTER (Major Whitworth). A History of the Knights of Malta or the order The Lighthouse Trust copy. of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. Mure was a renowned classical scholar and this is an account of a tour he made in 1838. Arriving in Corfu, Mure travelled to Ithaca, Acarnania, Delphi, Boetia and Attica. In First edition. Two vols. Frontispieces, 2 plates & a folding coloured map. 8vo. the aftermath of the Greek War of independence, Mure was eager to explore the areas Contemporary calf with red & green morocco labels to spines, gilt. xvi, 518; viii, formerly occupied by the Turks. 522pp. London, Longman, Brown et al, 1858. £300 A handsome set. 48 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 49

74 ROCKWELL (Charles). Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; including discoveries in print. In addition its many finely executed engraved maps are in many a cruise on board a Man-of-War, as Also a Visit to Spain, Portugal, the cases extremely important being the earliest published cartographic depictions of newly South of France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Continental discovered lands, often preceeding those published by the explorer in his own work. Greece, Liberia, and Brazil; and a Treatise on the Navy of the United States. first photographs of troy First edition. 2 vols. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original black blindstamped cloth, gilt. 76 SCHLIEMANN (Dr. Henrich), ZAPHEIROPOULOS (Panagos T.) Atlas xviii, 404; viii, 437pp. Boston, 1842. £1250 Trojanischer Alterthümer. Photographische Abbildungen zu dem Berichte über die Ausgrabungen in Troja. A fine copy of this tour through the Mediterranean, which included time on Minorca, the Lipari islands, Sicily, Corfu and Malta. One of 500 copies. 217 mounted bromide photographs. Folio. 19th century Rockwell was originally posted to Marseille as a missionary of the American Seamen’s half-calf, rebacked, with metal clasps, stamped title. [ii], 57pp. Leipzig, In Friend Society in 1834. Shortly thereafter, he accepted the post of naval chaplain aboard Commission bei F.A. Brockhaus, 1874. £16500 the USS Potomac. Blackmer,1440; Sabin, 72420.

75 [ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY]. Journal

Vols. 1-50 + Index [with] Proceedings vols 1-22 [with] Proceedings new series, vols. 1-14. Numerous maps, charts and illustrations. 87 vols in 79. 8vo. Smart contemporary half calf, a little rubbed with red morocco labels, one or two rebacked to match. London, John Murray, 1832 - 1892. £30000 Including the rare first series of the Proceedings, this set provides a complete history of one of the most important periods of British exploration. Thanks to the voyages of Cook, Vancouver and Flinders and exhibits such as that of the Leverian Museum, the public interest in exploration of the New World was already engaged. By 1820, the world’s coastlines had largely been mapped and attention naturally turned to the vast unchartered interiors of the continents. In sponsoring some of the great expeditions to Africa, Australia, the Antarctic and Central Asia, The Royal Geographical Society became a major promoter of nineteenth century exploration and symbolised the expansion of the British Empire. Indeed, the role call of contributers reads like a who’s who of nineteenth century exploration, from This album contains the first results from Schliemann’s excavations at Hissarlik the site James Clarke Ross, to David Livingstone, Richard Burton, Charles Sturt, and Burke and of ancient Troy. Few archaeological discoveries have so captured the imagination of the Wills. public. Despite accounts of Troy appearing in the classics of Ancient Greek and Roman literature, the actual site of Troy had remained undiscovered. Through the regular publication of its Proceedings and Journal (instead of an annual volume of Transactions), the RGS was able to communicate knowledge of these When the Schliemannn discovered the great treasure in June 1873 work on the site was discoveries to the public in a cheap, accessible manner. In this way reports filed by abruptly terminated. He was so keen that the world should see his discoveries that there explorers were quickly disseminated, debated and publicised. These reports almost was no time for the long process of making woodcuts, maps and plans to illustrate his always pre-dated official accounts and usually marked the first appearance ofnew account, the fastest most accurate way of so doing being the production of this portfolio. Given that it was available in January 1874, and that its production required the editing 50 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 51

of 136,000 images it was a staggering achievement, nor is it suprising that the print 79 TIGHE (Lady Louisa M.) Sketches from Nature in England. quality is variable. In any event by March 14th 1874 the entire issue has been sold out or disposed of by Schliemann. Album containing 119 original watercolours from life, each mounted directly “The plates forming the portfolio can be divided for a clearer appreciation into six unequal into the album & titled beneath, with dates. Oblong small folio (280 by 390mm). groups: an interesting series of sketches of the Troad, twenty-two in all, supplemented by Contemporary half morocco, extremities slightly rubbed. England & Wales, seven plans of the excavations and another seven actual photographs of the trenches at 1825 - May 20th, 1886. £5000 Hissalik... The objects found fall naturally into three classes: photographs of sketches of A truly charming album by one of the seven daughters (and seven sons) of the fourth objects (eighty-one plates), actual photographs of objects (eighty-two plates) and finally Duke of Richmond, Lady Louisa Tighe (née Lennox), a person of some distinction. nineteen plates of the great treasure, all but two actual photographs. The plans were all Legend has it that at the age of 10 she buckled the sword of the Duke of Wellington as drawn by Adolphe Laurent, a surveyor and civil engineer borrowed by Schliemann at he left her mother the Duchess of Richmond’s ball on the eve of the battle of Waterloo. great cost from a French contractor building the railway line from Piraeus to Lamia” Although she chose not to marry a duke (as did 3 of her sisters) or a Marquess (as (Lascarides The Search For Troy, Lilly Library, 1977). did another) she remained well-connected in society with her marriage to William Frederick Fownes Tighe, an Irish gentleman. This album provides a fascinating insight 77 SMITH (Agnes). Glimpses of Greek Life and Scenery. into the life and travels of a woman in her position, with links to many of the great houses of England. There are several fine detailed watercolour views of the interior of her family home Goodwood in Sussex, as well as several views of the house and park. First edition. Frontispiece, 3 plates & a coloured map. 8vo. Original brown In addition there are several fine views of Endsleigh the cottage orné of her cousin the pictorial cloth, gilt, some minor dampstaining to plates, inner hinges cracked. x, Duke of Devonshire. 352, 16ads.pp. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1884. £500 The album is not arranged merely in chronological order, but subjects are grouped A very good copy. together, thereby showing the growing skill and accomplishment of the artist. Another album with Lady Louisa’s Scottish watercolours was similarly laid out, with views of her travels in Scotland, including the houses of her Uncle the Duke of Gordon and her author’s presentation copy cousin the Duchess of Devonshire. A full list of the drawings is available upon request. 78 TENNANT (Robert). Sardinia and its Resources. 80 TRANT (Thomas Abercromby). Narrative of a Journey through Greece in 1830. With Remarks upon the Actual State of the Naval and Military Power First edition. 12 plates & a map. Small 4to. of the Ottoman Empire. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, a slightly rubbed. 311pp. London & , 1885. £650 First edition. Frontispiece, 5 engraved plates & 3 woodcut illustrations. 8vo. Tennant’s accounts sprung from a business Contemporary half calf. x, [ii], 435pp. London, Henry Colburn & Richard trip to Sardinia, requiring him to spend a few Bentley, 1830. £1500 months on the island and travel extensively “First and apparently only edition. Trant’s journey was begun in October, 1829. He throughout. This is one of the few English travelled extensively through Greece and made his way to Constantinople. There is language publicatons concerning the island at also a lively and very interesting description of Greek social life. The plates illustrate the time. Karitena, Mega Spilion, Mistra, Bassae and Argos. He spent some time in Ava, the capital of Burma, and produced an account of it in 1827.” Blackmer, 1671 52 maggs bros ltd europe, russia & turkey 53

81 TYNDALE (John Warre). The Island of Sardinia including pictures of the author’s presentation copy Manners and Customs of the Sardinians, and Notes on the Antiquities and 83 WORDSWORTH (Rev. Christopher). Athens and Attica: Journal of a Modern Objects of Interest in the Island: to which is added some account of Residence There. the House of Savoy. Second edition. Frontispiece, 2 folding maps & 2 plates. 8vo. Contemporary half First Edition. 3 vols. Frontispiece in each volume, illustrations in the text calf, spine gilt, rebacked. xx, 297pp. London, John Murray, 1837. £500 throughout, title illustrated with the arms of the four giudicati, half-title to volume I, foldout map. Publisher’s original patterned green cloth boards but The inscription reads: “The Marquis of Abercorn Governor of Harrow School with the recased, with title in gilt to spine, spines faded, untrimmed. 8vo. xvi, 345; vi, 356; Author’s respects.” vii, 342pp. London, Richard Bentley. 1849. £750 An interesting and detailed description of the Attic plain, and the first work of travel by A very good copy. Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), nephew of the poet, who earned a reputation for his classical studies and translations and his deciphering of graffiti and inscriptions. He is credited with discovering the oracle of Zenus at Dodona. 82 VON WULFSCHMIDT (Jakob Pontus Von). Bondestolpe. [Inventions for farmers.] occupied channel islands Folio. With numerous hand coloured woodcut illustrations throughout the 84 [WORLD WAR TWO] A Nazi Execution Poster. text. Twentieth century quarter vellum, red morocco label to spine, some pages discreetly repaired. 20pp. Sundqvist, E.P. Gävle, 1783. £3500 Poster printed in red & black. Measuring 410 by 550mm. Some minor worming Between 1771 and 1783 Von Wulfschmidt produced eight different editions of this work, & a small tear. Jersey, 23 March, 1941. £1500 although only three of which used moveable type as here. The book describes various kinds of tools and gear for farming, cattle-raising, hunting and fishing, and contain Material relating to the occupation of the Channel Islands is very scarce. This poster explanatory illustrations. records the execution of Francois Scornet, who led an escape from Brittany in January, 1941. Errors in navigation led them to Guernsey rather than the Isle of Wight. They were promptly captured by the Germans and transferred to Jersey, where they were shot on March 17th at St Owen’s Manor. Between June 30 and July 4, 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Great Britain to be occupied by Germany in the Second World War. The islands were considered extremely valuable by Hitler for propaganda purposes and he eventually despatched 27,000 troops to maintain them. In fact, on June 17,1940 the islands were demilitarised and not defended, Churchill rightly believed that they would provide a useful drain on German resources. 54 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 55

beautiful presentation copy INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA & FAR EAST 85 ZICHY (Eugene de). Voyages au Caucase. 86 ATKINSON (Thomas Witlam). Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of First edition. Profusely illustrated with plates (many folding) and illustrations Seven Years Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis to the text. 4to. A fine copy in contemporary half calf, spine gilt, presentation Steppes, Chinese Tartary and Part of Central Asia. inscription to half title. [viii], l, [2], 613pp. Budapest, 1897. £4000 Zichy made three trips to investigate the origins of Hungarian culture in the Caucasus. First edition. Large folding map & 20 lithographed plates some with several This work documents the first two expeditions and provides a wealth of illustration tints. With 32 wood-engravings in the text. Tall 8vo. A very bright, fine copy from native costumes and jewellery to architecture. A parallel text in Hungarian and in original pictorial cloth, gilt. xi, 611, [8]ads.(undated)pp. London, Hurst & French, the first section is an ethnography of the Caucasians, the second a catalogue of artefacts. Blackett, 1858. £750 Yakushi, A111.

presented by the subject’s widow to his mother 87 [BALUCHISTAN] A Soldier Civilian. A Brief Sketch of the Life and Work of the late Lieut.-Colonel Gilbert Gaisford, Indian Staff Corps; Political Agent in Baluchistan.

First edition. Frontispiece. 8vo. A fine copy in original burnt orange cloth, gilt, bookplate to front pastedown. 89pp. London, Printed for the Army & Navy Co- operative Society Ltd., 1900. £250 Inscribed “For dear ‘Mum’ with much love from L.F.G. [Laura F. Gaisford widow of Lieut.-Colonel Gaisford] 23.5.1900.” A further inscription by a friend of Laura’s, Wilfred Grenfell, states “I had only left her half an hour in London, when the terrible news of his murder was received. The men (2) were hanged & sewed up in pigskins to ‘prevent’ them entering paradise as the Moslems think.” Gaisford arrived in India in April, 1868 and spent most of the next 30 years in the Quetta- Pishin district. He was renowned for his political work and was 48 when he was killed.

88 BELCHER (Captain Sir Edward). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, During the Years 1843-46; employed surveying the islands of the Eastern Archipelago...with notes on the natural history of the islands by Arthur Adams.

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First edition. 2 vols. 3 folding charts (damaged folds, some old repairs) in back highly detailed account of his subsequent captivity provides a fascinating insight into pocket, 9 tinted lithograph plates, 23 further plates. 8vo. Rebound in half-calf, the dangers of serving in the region as well as a description of the ethnography of his occasional light foxing but generally a good copy. xxix, 358; [vi], 574, [2]pp. captors. London, Reeve, 1848. £1800 Account of a surveying voyage chiefly to Singapore, Borneo, the , Korea and 91 BERNARD (W.D.) & HALL (W.H.) Narrative of the Voyages and Services of Japan. The second half of vol. II deals entirely with the Natural History of the countries The Nemesis, From 1840 to 1843; and of the combined Naval and Military visited. Abbey II, 528; Cordier, 2947. Operations in : Comprising a complete account of The Colony of Hong Kong, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of the Chinese.

a beautiful copy First edition. 2 vols. 6 engraved plates, 3 folding maps. 8vo. Original cloth, 89 [BENARES] Clark’s Handy Pocket Guide to the Principal Sights of Benares. (slightly faded). Light staining affecting plates, but overall a very good copy. [xvi], 449; [x], 522pp. London, H. Colburn, 1844 £1200 First edition. Folding map & two plates. 8vo. Fine in the original printed pink The present work chiefly deals with the events leading up to the First Opium war and wrappers. vi, 40, [2]pp. Benares, Printed at the Medical Hall Press, 1882. its consequences. The Nemesis was the first iron steamer to ship around the Cape of £1500 Good Hope and it is in no small way due to its technical innovations and improved manouverability that the victory over the Chinese troops was as easy and decisive. The Very rare. OCLC locates just two copies. treaty of Nanking (1842) was a devastating blow to Chinese sovereignty resulting in the Being both a site of pilgrimmage for Hindus and Buddhists and of learning, Benares was cessation of the island of Hong Kong to the British Empire. C.f. Lust 558-559. an obvious centre for publishing. Early publishers like the Medical Hall Press printed books in several languages to satisfy the demands of the Benares Sanskrit College and others. a beautiful copy Here, however, is an excellent example of one of their more commercial publications. 92 BOCK (Carl). The Head- Benares was a popular site for tourists and this charming guide provides a neat digest Hunters of Borneo. of the major sights of Benares, its manufacturing base, geography and history. The lithograph map includes the area between the Buddhist ruins to the Maharajah of Benares Palace, while the plates depict the Kashi Vishwanath (or Golden) Temple and Second edition. Folding map & 30 the Manikarnika Ghat. lithograph (28 coloured) plates. 4to. A fine copy in original green pictorial cloth, ownership inscription to front 90 [BENNETT (Lieut. Richard).] Narrative of the Captivity of an Officer who free endpaper, some discreet library Fell into the Hands of the Burmahs During the Late War. blindstamps. xvi, 334pp. London, Sampson, Low, 1882. £950 First edition. 8vo. Modern Chinese-style backless over-sewn binding with Bock decided on a career in natural history slipcase. ii, 145pp. Madras, the Asylum Press, 1827. £1250 in 1875 and, within three years, was on his Very rare, only three copies located on OCLC. first expedition on behalf of the London Zoological Society. He collected specimens Bennett’s account begins in November 1825 when he was taken ill in Prome and, with at Paio, Ayer Angat, near Muara Labu, and his regiment’s surgeon, Dr Sandford, was required to travel 300 miles down the river to at Lolo and Ayer Mancur. On his return to Rangoon. A lack of servants necessitated hiring some of the natives to row them and, “[a] Batavia he was commissioned to produce s might be expected, a plot was laid to betray us into the hands of the enemy.” Bennet’s a report on native tribes of South-eastern 58 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 59

Borneo, especially on the Dyak. The work includes a vocabulary of the Long Wai (Dyak) dialect. cf Tiele, 146.

93 BODDE (Derk). Annual Customs and Festivals in Peking as recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shih-chi by Tun Li-ch’en.

First edition. 6 plates (3 in colour), decorated end-papers & numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original half cloth, ex-library copy from a Chinese collection, still a very good copy. [xxii], 147pp. Peiping, Henri Vetch, 1936. £200 “This little book is a translation from the Chinese of the Yen-ching Sui-shih-chi by Tun Li-ch’en, a title which literally means ‘Record of a Year’s Time at Yen Ching’ Yen Ching being an ancient name for Peking. It is a record, day by day, and month by month, beginning with the Chinese New Years Day and taking us throughout the year, of what used to take place in Peking: its festivals, temple pilgrimages, fairs, customs, and the clothing, food, and the animals of the season” (introduction). The plates include an interesting reproduction of a painting showing the preparations for the New Year careful to avoid the mistakes made by the Macartney embassy and did their utmost to Celebrations in a Manchu household. conform to Chinese customs. However, since the official letter contained no demands, the embassy achieved very little. the first american at the court of china Of the three accounts published (Guignes’ and Titsingh’s being the others), Van Braam’s is the most comprehensive and interesting. He gives a vivid account of the hardships 94 BRAAM HOUCKGEEST (André Everard van), MOREAU DE SAINT- endured by the embassy, who had not left themselves enough time for the arduous MERY (M. L. E., transl.) Voyage de L’Ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes overland journey and seemed ill-prepared for the Siberian cold that grips Peking in Orientales Hollandaises, Vers L’Empereur de la Chine, dans les années 1794 winter. Both Van Braam and Titsingh were disappointed by the reception they got from & 1795: Ou se trouve la description de plusieurs parties de la Chine inconnues the emperor. Titsingh in fact was deeply offended when he was given to eat some bones aux Européens, & que cette Ambassade a donné l’ occasion de traverser... which the Emperor had already nibbled at. While the Chinese regarded this as a mark of special favour, it was obvious proof to Titsingh of their lack of civilisation. First edition. 2 vols. Two large folding maps (repaired tears) & 12 engraved Van Braam Houckgeest returned to Philadelphia in 1796 where he met the French plates. French text. Folio. Early 19th century half-red morocco, (some foxing emigrant Moreau de Saint-Mery, who translated, edited and printed the work.The & browning), but overall a very good copy. [lxxx], 437; xii, 520pp. Philadelphia, Philadelphia issue of this book is dedicated to George Washington and is extremely 1797- 1798. £7500 rare. 500 copies of the first volume were lost to a pirate on their way to England (c.f. Walravens: China illustrata, item 82). Lust and Cordier only record the pirated French Braam (1739-1801) came to America as Dutch Consul to North and South Carolina and 8vo-edition of 1898-99 which was subsequently translated into English and German but inspired by the War of Independence became an American citizen in 1784. Plagued which in fact only contains material from the first volume. Landwehr 547; c.f. Lust 504; by financial difficulties he accepted the post of supercargo to the Dutch East India Cordier 2350. Company in Canton in 1790. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne, the VOC sent a delegation to Peking in order to congratulate the Qianlong-emperor. The embassy was in fact led by Isaac Titsingh with Braam taking the second place. The Dutch were 60 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 61

a fine contemporary local binding 95 [BRAHE (Count Per).] Nine accounts of travels to the Far East, the East and the West Indies.

Small 4to. Contemporary panelled calf with gilt inlays, spine elaborately gilt with four raised bands, a.e.g., initials in gilt on boards. 304, 60, 162, [viii], 94, 42pp. Visingsborg Castle, Sweden, Johan Kankel for Count Per Brahe the younger, 1674 - 1675. £22000 This private compendium of seventeenth century Swedish voyages brings together nine accounts in five separate works, all published at Count Brahe’s private press. Brahe served in the military and was the governer general of Finland between 1637-54. He later became chancellor of Sweden and, following the death of Charles X in 1660, a regent. He was related to the astronomer Tycho Brahe. Alexander Haijock, the mayor of Jonkoping, acquired the volume in the 1670s and commissioned the binding from a local craftsman. It was subsequently purchased for the Ericsberg Castle (on the west coast), whose collection was only recently dispersed. The accounts are as follows: 1. VARIOUS AUTHORS Een fort Beskrffning uppa Trenne reesor och... peregrinationer, sampt konungarijket Japan... 1674. Almqvist, 19; Bibl. alt-Japan-katalog 173/4; Cordier, BJ 380 & BS 1943/4. 2. SCHOUTEN. Sanfdrdig beskrijjfning om konungarijket Siam. First Swedish edition. Almqvist, 27; Cordier, BI 719-20. 3. MARTINI (Martini). Historia om thet tartariske krijget uthi konungarijket Sina, sampt theras seder. First Swedish edition. Almqvist, 21; Cordier, BS 626. 4. HEMMERSAM (Michael). West-Indiansk rese-beskriffning. First Swedish edition. Alqvist, 20; Borba de Moraes, p397; Sabin, 31290. 5. KORT BERATTELSE om Wast Indien eller America, som elliest kallas Nya Werlden. Almqvist, 28; Sabin, 38244. 62 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 63

96 CAMERON (John). Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India; being a 98 COLQUHOUN (Archibald Ross). Across Chryse, Being the Narrative of a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca; Journey of Exploration through the South China Border Lands from Canton their Peoples, Products, Commerce, and Government. to Mandalay.

First edition. Coloured lithograph frontispiece & 6 further tinted lithograph First edition. 2 vols. 3 maps (2 large folding), plates & numerous illustrations. plates. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt, neat mark to upper board, slightly 8vo. Original decorated cloth, stamps removed from title, but generally very shaken. x, 408pp. London, 1865. £1450 nice. [xxiii], 420; [xvi], 408, [32]ads.pp. London, Sampson Low, 1883. £550 With the book plate of Owen Rutter. The author covers every aspect of life in the Famous account by Colquhoun (1848-1914), explorer (Gold Medallist Royal Geographical Malayan Archipelago, from the social structure of the native population and the climate Society) and ‘Times’ correspondent in the Far East, of his travels from Canton to Bhamo to the architecture of the European occupiers and the government imposed by them. in 1881-82 to trace the best route for connecting Burmah and China by railway. A richly Some thirty pages are devoted to jungle tigers and the means taken to “exterminate” illustrated work with 300 illustrations from original photographs and sketches, 30 them. The colour frontispiece shows a fine view of Singapore. facsimiles of native drawings and three colour lithograph maps showing the author’s route and the proposed extension of the British-Burma railway route. Cordier, 343.

his own copy with annotations 99 CRAWFURD (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General 97 CAREY (Fred W.) Memento Book. of India to the Courts of Siam and Cochin China; Exhibiting a View of the Actual State of those Kingdoms. Items collected over the course of twenty years in the service of the Chinese Customs Service. 224 items. Small folio. Half-calf (boards worn, spine missing, Second edition. 2 vols. Large engraved folding map, 2 plans, 15 tinted lithograph minor browning to pages), latter half of book blank. Overally a good copy. n.p, plates (5 folding), two engraved plates showing samples of writing, one large n.d, [ca. 1920s.] £1750 folding table of vocabularies, as well as several woodcut illustrations in the text. In 1904 F. W. Carey was promoted to Commissioner of Customs at Santuao (Fukien 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine faded, mabled edges, generally a very good, clean province), before in 1909 being appointed the Delegate for China to the International copy. [viii], 475; v, 459pp. London, Henry Colburn, 1830. £3200 Opium Commission at Shanghai, as well as nominated Secretary to the International Opium Commision. These distinguished positions proved the pinnacle in the life of this John Crawfurd (1783-1868) entered the Medical Service of the East India Co. in talented and popular diplomat. The album, his ‘memento book’, is a fascinating 1803. After serving in India he transferred to Penang in 1808, and three years later insight into his colourful life and career amidst high society in the late 19th, and early accompanied the British expedition to Java where he was appointed Resident at Djakarta 20th Centuries. The book consists of Chinese and Western business cards, letters and and held several other senior posts in the British administration. The present work is invitations to dinners, balls, weddings and other functions from many distinguished an account of the successful embassy undertaken in the years 1821 and 1822 on behalf members of society, such as Lord and Lady Curzon, Sir Robert and Lady Bredon, Dr. of the East India Company in the hope of stimulating trade. The second volume gives Walther Rössler, Dr. Augustine Henry and countless others. Also present are articles a detailed description of the history, geography, religion and culture of both countries from journals and newspapers, (often relating to Carey), posters advertising his together with a chapter on Singapore. The plates show costumes and scenic views with a numerous lectures, correspondence and menus from dinners he attended. They are particularly attractive large panoramic view of Singapore. Satow 111; Cordier, Indosinica supplemented by annotations in Carey’s own hand. Of particular interest is the guest list 454. and table layout for the Royal Geographical Society Anniversary Dinner of May 26th, 1911, over which Lord Curzon of Kedleston presided, traditional Chinese name cards from such notable persons as Teung Shan, the Viceroy and Tartan General of the Fukien 100 CUBERO Y SEBASTIAN (Pedro). Peregrinacion que ha hecho de la Mayor province, and a short story Carey penned under the pseudonym of ‘Dacy Frere’. Parte del Mundo... con las cosas mas singulares que le han sucedido, y visto, entre tan Barbaras Naciones, su Religion, Ritos, Ceremonias, y otras cosas

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memorables, y curiosas que ha podido inquirir; con el viage por tierra, desde valley and spent the winter in Skardu in Baltistan. The party carried out a detailed study Espana, hasta las Indias Orientales. of the valleys and glaciers of Kashmir, the report of which later filled 16 volumes. The publication of this narrative report was delayed by outbreak of the First World War, in Second Spanish edition. 8vo. Stained old vellum. [xvi], 288pp. , Pasqual which De Filippi served in the Italian army medical service. Howgego 4, F11. Bueno, 1688. £2400 Salva (No. 3764) mentions but did not possess the first edition of this very entertaining 102 EARL (George Windsor). The Native Races of the Indian Archipelago. work, which describes the missionary’s peregrinations from Spain to India and other Papuans. parts of Asia. In the course of his wanderings, for the most part overland, he came accross many curious people, whose country no less than their mode of life, religion, First edition. 2 folding plates, 3 coloured plates of native costume & 2 other ceremonies and customs, are described with much charm and a wealth of incident. His plates (one folding). 8vo. Original cloth, back faded. xvii, 239pp. London, 1853. itinerary included: Paris, Rome, Constantinople, the Caspian Sea, Persia, Afghanistan, £950 , India, Malaya, the Philippines, and ; whence he returned to Spain, to place his account of all he had witnessed in the hands of his King Charles II. He The work is divided into twelve chapters. Apart from the first which serves as a general appends a statistical account of the Chinese Empire, and there are in addition, several introduction, each chapter is devoted to a racial or island group. There is also a discussion sonnets adddressed to the author. on Melville Island and the Aborigines of North Australia. This book was intended as the first in a series of anthropological studies and is advertised as such, the second volume Pedro Cubero y Sebastian was born at Fresno, Zaragoza, circa 1640; and having studied was to be The brown tribes of the Indian Archipelago. Ferguson, 9339. theology and jurisprudence at , was elected “doctoral” prebend of Tarazona. He was authorized by the Congregation of Propoganda Fide to use the title of Apostolic Preacher, and to preach the gospel in Asia &c. At the age of twenty five he became the 103 FARIA Y SOUSA (Manuel). Asia Portuguesa preacher of the Imperial army in Hungary against the Turks; and soon after set out on his world tour, which lasted nine years. Streit, V 543; Sabin 17821; Palau, 65757. Second edition of vol I, first editions of vols II & III. 3 vols. 19 folding plans, with 101 [DE FILLIPI (Dr Fillipo).] WOOD (Henry). Explorations in the Eastern numerous woodcuts throughout the text. Kara-Koram and the Upper Yarkand Valley. Narrative Report of the Survey Small folio. Contemporary speckled calf, of India Detachment with the De Filippi Scientific Expedition. 1914. spines gilt, some marginal staining and occasional worming. [xxxiv], 396, 42; viii, Small folio. Photographic frontispiece, 10 photographic panoramas, 6 970; viii, 564, 4pp. Lisbon, 1703, 1674, photographic illustrations on 2 plates & 2 folding maps. Original cloth backed 1675. printed boards, library stamp to front pastedown, some discreet ms. library £15000 numbers to some early leaves. iv, 42pp. Dehra Dun, Office of the Trigonometrical Most uncommon. Faria y Sousa’s work is a vital Survey, 1922. £1500 source for the history of Portuguese conquests and administration in Asia. The scope of this A very good copy of the official narrative report of De Fillipi’s expedition. Auction monumental work stretches from the Middle records record only a single copy of this work appearing over the past 30 years. East to India and as far as China and Japan. Dr Fillipo De Filippi trained as a surgeon at the University of Bologna and had a keen It details the various military campaigns as interest in mountaineering. He led expeditions through Turkestan (1903), Uganda well as providing information on geography (1906), and Karakoram (1909), which included an unsuccessful attempt on K2, before and native populations. The volumes are assuming leadership of this scientific expedition. Sponsored by the Italian and Indian illustrated throughout with a remarkable governments and the Royal Geographical Society, it proved to be the largest ever series of woodblock portraits of the explorers mounted in the region. Beginning in Srinagar, they proceeded through the Sringar discussed. 66 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 67

The author was both a historian and poet. His controversial work Epitome de las historias with additional plate volume Portuguezas placed him on the wrong side of the inquisition. As a result, he was briefly incarcerated and suffered the permanent loss of his official salary. His life’s work then 105 HAMILTON (Gen. Douglas). Records of Sport in Southern India chiefly on became a comprehensive history of Portuguese activity across the globe. After his death, the Annamullay, Nielgherry and Pulney Mountains. Also including notes on the three completed parts were published, Africa Portuguesa, Europa Portuguesa and Singapore, Java, and Labuan from Journals written between 1844 and 1870. Asia Portuguesa. Cordier (Bibliotheca Japonica), 378; Cordier (Bibliotheca Sinica) II, 301; Cox I, 279; Laures, 490; Takahashi, 115; Streit V, 476. First edition. Atlas portfolio containing 14 tinted lithograph views. Frontispiece & 22 plates, with numerous illustrations in the text. Oblong folio & large 8vo. 104 FORBES (James). Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridged from a Series of The plate volume in modern cloth, the text, a good copy in highly decorative familiar Letters written during seventeen years residence in India: including pictorial cloth, gilt, the back a little soiled. xlviii, 284pp. London, 1892. observations on parts of Africa and South America, a narrative of occurences £4800 in four India Voyages. There is a chapter in this work concerned with Singapore, Java and Labuan, visited in 1846, but for the most part it records the exploits of this famous and intrepid hunter First edition. 4 vols. Portrait frontispiece to vol. I, 28 hand-coloured, 8 lithograph in the remote hills of Southern India, specifically the Shervaroys, in 1861, Pulneys and & 57 other plates. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, some minor foxing, bookplates Annamullays. The author was an accomplished draughtsman and the text is enlivened to front pastedowns. xxiii, 481; xv, 542; xii, 487; xi, 425, [vi]pp. London, 1813 - by many illustrations taken directly from his field books. 1815. £7000 Czech, who was unaware of the extra illustrations contained in the plate volume, A very good copy of one of the greatest describes the book as being “An excellent work on sport in southern India...[which] works on India. provides amixture of hunting in the jungle and mountains of the region....shooting ibex in the hill country, tiger, bison and antelope.” Forbes travelled to Bombay in 1765 as a writer for the East India Company, before The extra plates offered with the above were made after Hamilton’s drawings by the becoming private secretary to Colonel Topographical Dept. of the Army. They depict scenes described in the work above but Keating. In 1775 he accompanied were printed some 27 years prior to the Records. In fact, they were commissioned by British forces sent to assist Raghunath the Madras Army, who directed Hamilton in 1862 to make drawings of hill plateaux in Rao in the Maratha civil wars, and went Southern India “which were likely to suit as Sanitaria, or quarters for European troops”. on to become collector and resident at It was this commission which gave Hamilton a marvellous opportunity to explore and Dubhoy in 1780. However following the hunt in these regions some of which had not been visited or described before. The plates treaty of 1782, which ceded this district are titled as follows: to the Mahrattas, Forbes returned to 1. Panoramic View of the Plateau of the Green Hills; 2. Panoramic View of the England in 1784. yercand from the summit of the Sheravoyen; 3. View from the high ground west of the During his time in India, Forbes’ skill as settlement of Kudaikarnal; 4. Boundary Ridge dividing the Pulnis from Travancore; 5. a draughtsman and his keen eye enabled View of the Pombary Valley; 6. View of the Perryoor on the Lower Pulnis; 7. View of him to produce some 150 folio volumes the Perumal Mullay on the Lower Pulnis; 8. Malayaly Village and Cultivation; 9. View (52,000 pages) of sketches and notes on of the Perreakolum Pass; 10. Distant view of the Kudaikarnal looking West; 11. Lake at the natural history, ethnography and Yercand; 12.View of the Valley of the Perrumbookarnal; 13. Perumal Mullay from the religion of India, from which this work encampment; 14. Entrance to the Valley of Manavanor. Czech, p96. is compiled. Indeed, Forbes describes it as “the principal recreation of my life” (Preface). Abbey, 436. 68 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 69

chinese in the persian gulf faded), still a very good copy. Sapporo, Hokkaidocho, dated: Taisho 14, [i.e. 1925]. £450 106 HIRTH (Friedrich), ROCKHILL (William Woodville), transl. Chau Ju-kua: His work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth An extremely rare Government publication showing industrial and agricultural Centuries, entitled Chu-fan-chi. development of Hokkaido. Includes images of government offices and institutions, tourist spots, factories, as well as logging, farming, and mining. The album was produced to encourage immigration to the island. Only one copy in OCLC. First edition. Large folding lithograph map. 4to. Original wrappers (light browning, minor wear to spine), stamped, overall a very good copy. [x], 288pp. St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1911. £1750 108 KERSHAW (Capt. J., 13th Light Infantry), DANIELL (William). Views in the First English translation of the “Description of Barbarous People” (Chufan zhi), written Burman Empire. by Zhao Rugua (ca. 1170-1231), an inspector of foreign trade in Fukien in the first half of the 13th century. It records Chinese trade and exploration in Southeast Asia, India, First edition. Ten fine hand-coloured aquatints. Oblong folio. Original buff Persia and Arabia where myrrh, pearls and frankincense were purchased. printed wrappers, some repairs to corners, rebacked, with modern cloth box, This translation caused a great stir at the time, as it challenged the widely held view title to spine. London, Smith, Elder & Co., [1831]. £17500 that the Chinese did not know countries beyond their own spheres of influence. The introduction traces the development of Chinese maritime intercourse with southeast Asia until the 12th century. Extremely rare.

107 HOKKAIDO-CHO. Hokkaido Shashincho [A photo album of Hokkaido].

First edition. 50 collotype plates with text on facing tissue-guards. Japanese text. Large oblong 8vo. Original brocade with printed label on top board (slightly

One of the rarest aquatint view books. The plates, all of which are signed beneath the title “Drawn on the spot by Capt: Kershaw, 13th Light Infantry”, are titled: Rangoon from the Anchorage; View from Brgr. McCregh’s Pagoda Rangoon; Dagon Pagoda, near Rangoon, taken from the Lines of His Majesty’s 13th & 38th Regts.; Dagon Padoga, near Rangoon; Prome from the South Heights; North face of the great Pagoda, Prome; Prome, from the heights occupied by 70 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 71

His majesty’s 13th Light Infantry; Melloon from the British Position; Pagahm - Mew; This is a transcription of the logs of some twelve voyages, made mainly on East View from the West face of the Great Pagoda, Prome. Indiamen to either Bengal or to the China Seas, with the exception of one yacht voyage to the Orkneys and a trading voyage to St. Petersburg. It would appear that Landon has Though he was not the originator of these plates, they are in an unmistakeable Daniell himself made the transcription as some commentary seems to have been included from style in form and colouring, indeed this is probably the rasest of all the colour plate a later but personal perspective. books in which he was involved. In 1788, Landon first went to sea at the age of eleven as a “guinea pig” on board the The separately printed text volume is not found here. Abbey (Travel), 406. Nottingham an East Indiaman bound for Madras and later China. He gives a vivid account of the life of his miserable lot, fortunately he had two dogs for companions 109 KINNEIR (John Macdonald). Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia, and “they were the only being on board that knew me or cared for me & the delight they expressed at seeing me with their caresses, often made me cry till my heart ached” ... “[I Koordistan, in the years 1813 and 1814; with remarks on the marches of was] not allowed to sit at table, my linnen washed in urine used to offend the nose of Mr. Alexander, and retreat of the ten thousand. Bower one of our passengers”.

First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, old spine laid down. xii, 603pp. By 1802, Landon, now the veteran of several voyages, was given command the City of London. London, John Murray, 1818. £1000 Narrative of a journey through Turkey, Armenia and Persia with the object of “visiting all the countries through which a European army might attempt the invasion of India”. The 111 MACGOWAN (A[lexander] T[horburn]). Tea Planting in the Outer author had served in the Madras infantry and was later attached to Sir John Malcom’s Himalayah. mission to Persia. Without the map, which was published separately. Wilson (Bibliography of Persia), 119. First edition. Lithographic frontispiece and title page. 8vo. Cloth-backed pictorial boards, extremities rubbed. 73pp. London, 110 LANDON (Samuel). Honourable East India Company Journal. Smith, Elder & Co., 1861. £1250 Manuscript journal of c.280pp. covering sea-service with the East India A very good copy of this scarce item. Macgowan Company from 1788 until 1813. Subsequently written from the surviving original served as Assistant Surgeon in the 52nd Light notes and incorporating 6 good watercolours. £8500* Infantry and produced this account shortly after the Indian mutiny, at which time a scheme to colonize India was being discussed in the House of Commons. He states in the preface “At this present moment, when the resources of India are being carefully opened up and explored, in order that a system of future credits may secure the prosperity and advancement of this vast empire, the following description of a tea plantation in the Himalayahs may not be deemed inopportune.” The author was registered as both a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. 72 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 73

112 MANNING (Thomas, 1772-1840). Narrative of the Journey of Thomas 113 [MEDHURST (Walter Henry).] Ancient China: the Shoo-king, or, The Manning to Lhasa (1811-1812). Historical Classic: Being the most Ancient Authentic Record of the Annals of the Chinese Empire. Illustrated by later Commentators. Copy ms. prepared by Manning’s daughter on paper watermarked 1834. Closely written on 99 pp. with one or two blanks. Bath, c. 1835. £25000* First edition. 4 double-page plates on Chinese paper & 12 maps (double- It is strange that, in a period when anyone who made an interesting journey generally page on Chinese paper), & several diagrams and illustrations in the text. capitalised by publishing an account of his or her adventures, Thomas Manning’s 8vo. Contemporary half-calf, slightly rubbed, a very good copy. [xvi], 413pp. remarkable adventure remained shrouded in mystery until many years after his death. Shanghai, Mission Press, 1846. £3500 This ms. was lent by the Manning family for Clements Markham to use for the second Medhurst (1796-1857) was a famous Englishman in China and one of the early translators part of Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas of the Bible into Chinese. After spending some twenty-five years in Malacca Medhurst Manning to Lhasa (1876). According to Markham, (whose editorial marks are evident went to Shanghai where he founded the London Missionary Society Press. This is the throughout), it is a copy prepared by Manning’s daughter. Of uncertain date, although first English translation of the Confucian classic, the Shu-jing (Book of History). “For the paper (extracted at some time from a binding) is watermarked 1834, it most probably the benefit of students in Chinese, the text is interspersed with the translation, so as would have been transcribed either in Manning’s last days or soon after his death. As far to afford a pretty correct clue to the meaning of each particular character.” (preface, p. as we can trace it is the only Manning ms. relating to his journey as the original from IX). Medhurst also supplies extracts from the Historical Classic covering the period of which it was copied is lost. That it was never intended for publication is evident in the the Shu-jing as well as two appendices on Chinese Constellations and Astronomy, in inclusion of much matter which would have seemed both trivial and intrusively personal particular the Chinese Zodiac. Rare. Cordier II, 1378; Lust 739. to the early nineteenth century reader, yet it is just these details of minor irritations and such like that add greatly to the immediacy of the narrative. Though Markham has followed the text fairly closely this ms. is all we have as a direct literary link to one of 114 MILNE (John), BURTON (W.K.) The Great Earthquake in Japan, 1891. the greatest unsupported travel adventures, an extraordinary journey, undertaken by a brilliant linguist and eccentric: a true forerunner to Burton and Doughty. First edition. One lithograph map & 29 collotype plates by K. Ogawa. Oblong A student of China, Manning’s adventure in Tibet was the result of his frustrated attempt folio. Original decorated cloth, slight staining to cover, minor marginal to penetrate China to further his linguistic studies. Having failed to get permission for waterstaining, but overall still a very good copy. [viii], 10pp. Yokohama, Lane a journey from the coast he detmined to reach the interior from the west. So with a Crawford, n.d. [but 1891]. £600 Chinese servant named Sid “he departed Calcutta in September 1811, following a route through Siliguri, up the Tista River, the Chumi Valley and through Gyanste... While The best photographic record to have been produced of the devastating earthquake in still some distance from Lhasa, he made the aquaintance of a Chinese general, whose Gifu Prefecture. “It may be worth mentioning that this very paper is a product of the friendship he won with a gift of two bottles of cherry brandy. In return the general wrote Earthquake District, being manufactured only in Echizen.” (Preface). to the Chinese ambassador in Lhasa, requesting permission for Manning to enter the capital. Manning duly arrived in Lhasa in December 1811; the first Englishman ever to enter the city” (Howgego). He left in April and was back in Calcutta by June. prince of wales island described 1789 Writing of his interview with the nine year old seventh Dalai Lama, he states, “by this 115 [PENANG] HOWISON (Dr. James). Autograph ms. entitled An Account of interview with the Lama I could have wept through strangeness of sensation I was Prince of Wales Island by James Howison one of the Surgeons to that New absorbed in reflections when I got home I wrote this memorandum ... this day I saw Settlement from a Letter dated 10th November 1789. the Grand Lama! beautiful youth, face poetically affecting, could have wept, very happy to have seen him and his blessed smile ... I strove to draw the Lama with the pencil, I produced a beautiful face but it did not satisfy me. I drew another which I could not An important 7pp. 4to letter, extensively docketed on the 8th originally blank make handsome yet there was in some respects a likeness in it which the other wanted. sheet by the recipient Henry Dundas, later Lord Melville, with a covering letter From the two together and instructions from me a skilful painter might make a good picture of him.” 74 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 75 dated June 1st 1790, from Howison presenting the account to Dundas. 1p. 4to trade in opium and Tin, their Company having offered death as a punishment to the with integral address leaf, thrice franked. 1789-90. £5000* individual detected in the purchase and sale of these great staples.... Howison published a Malay Grammar in 1801, and is noticed too, in a contemporary “...this Island Government is endebted to its present Governor Mr. Light-- he being a account as an amateur naturalist. Gentleman of great observation, had long beheld it as a place of the uttmost importance for an English settlement, and at length proceeded a grant of it from the King of Queda, Beginning with a description of the situation and climate of Penang, Howison continues to whom he had formerly rendered essential service.” “Its healthfullness if equalled, is to be surpassed by no European Settlements in the east. Out of a garrison of three hundred troops (Natives of Hindostan) not one has for these last fourteen months, a most irregular circumstance to be experienced by a new 116 [PENANG] TATE (Paul, Civil Engineer). ALS to the Honble. William Settlement in an uncleared country. I am of the opinion that this great salubrity may be Fullerton Elphinstone, a director of the East India Company, explaining his the effect of a constant ventilation, supplied by almost continuous but gentle breezes... failure to construct a repairing dock at Prince of Wales Island in 1810. “... In the decoration of the lawns, nature is here pecularly lavish. A assemblage of flowering Treese & Shrubs in perpetual flower, and endless in the variety of their species 4pp. folio, on paper with 1808 watermark. np, nd. but c. 1810. £625* form the first shade, these are overlooked by forest trees on an immense height which spread their wide extended branches thickly covered with foliage and afford protection Tate had been sent to design and construct repairing docks on Prince of Wales Island. to the under blossoms of lest robust parents. Here strangers feel with rapture the effect The work required a steam driven pump, this was sent from England but without anyone of the breezes so strongly tainted with the fragrence of the groves... who knew how to put it togther and keep it going. No money was available from the local administration for the works which Tate was forced to abandon after being sent “The original animal productions of this island are very limited. Of quadrupeds the back to Europe to find suitable specialist manpower. In setting out the facts in a plain wild Hog, Deer & squirrel nearly comprehend the whole. The absence of the tiger & way the evidently frustrated engineer seeks to forestall any criticism with regard to his leopard whose numbers & ferocity almost render the opposite shores uninhabitable conduct during his employent by the East India Company. amply compensate for this seeming deficiency. The flying fox & squirrel are natives of this Island, the former a non descript and a great natural curiosity... 117 PERCIVAL (Robert). An Account of the Island of Ceylon containing Its “The possession of this Island when viewed in a political & commercial light is highly History, Geography, Natural history, with the Manners and Customs of its interesting our situation which renders us accessible to all our settlements during every season of the year, and where the voyage from either is generally performed in sixteen various Inhabitants; to which is added, the Journal of an Embassy to the days & seldom exceed a month, must, in the event of a war in India with a naval power Court of Candy. be of immense advantage... Timbers fit for masts and yards of ships of the first rate may be had in any quantity... the smoothness of the water admits of careening... First edition. 2 folding engraved maps. 4to. Particularly fine contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt, with black morocco label, marbled edges, matching fine “The valuable trade in gold dust tin, pepper beetle nut and canes which is carried on in the straits of Malacca, and for which we give in return opium and piece goods... was... marbled end papers. xii, 420pp. London, 1803. £2200 attended with the utmost danger... Now the case is widely altered a fear of retaliation A particularly lovely copy, beautifully bound and in perfect condition. Although there is has produced an apparent honesty in their dealings but which their reeling passion for no bookplate or any other sign of provenance, it comes from the library of the Dukes of plunder will never allow of being sincere... Abercorn; a number of volumes with this provenance (sometimes disguised) have been turning up at Christie’s over the last few years. “Our centrical situation with regard to the trading coasts would render us an easy matter to be amply revenged for any act of barbarity or injustice they might be induced to commit upon the ships of our nation -- and in time of war, as an Island, neither relief to us nor our trade could be well entirely shut up -- We have nothing to apprehend from a Hyders army while we have all the advantages of the mainland our channel protects us from the inconveniences and dangers of elephants & assembled armies... “Our only rivals the Dutch at malacca must soon yield to our superiority from a free 76 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 77

118 [PORTUGUESE IN INDIA] Relacao Marcial do plausivel, e affortunado time as Governor of Java. This letter, in support of the Baptist Missionary to Padang’s successo, que nas partes da India tiverao as armas... plan for establishing a school for natives and translating the scriptures into Malay, provides another example of this concern. First edition. 8vo. Twentieth-century half morocco, gilt. 8pp. Lisboa, Na Officina Dated just a year after the foundation of Singapore, Raffles states, “In supporting this de Francisco Borges de Sousa, 1759. £500 plan at the meeting I did not do so from a conviction that it was the best & only one that could be adopted, but merely because it was the only one proposed that appeared to lead Rare. A brief report on the battle which took place on 9th May, 1758, between the to any immediate or practical use... I hope it is not necessary for me to remind you that Portuguese and the forces of Khem Savant III Bhonsle, who succeeded his father in 1755, in whatever way you think best you shall have my full and unreserved support.” with his mother acting as Regent until he came of age in 1763. However, following the battle here described he was granted the hereditary title of Raja of Savantwadi (founded Raffles then considers his own future, suggesting that he wouldn’t remain in Singapore 1627) and installed as such on 11th May 1758. for more than another five years and hoped that Evans would be well established by that time. Lastly, Raffles offers him some keen advice, “I wish you would... endeavour to make your Establishment the resort of the most respectable natives... There is nothing to 119 RAFFLES (Sir Thomas Stamford). ALS. to Rev. C. Evans referring to the prevent you going into the villages enquiring into the state & condition & employment establishment of a native school. of the people and I fear unless you go to them, you will not find them very anxious to come to you.” Manuscript in ink. 4pp. with an integral blank, small paper loss repaired without

touching text, docketed by the recipient 1820 on paper watermarked “W Thomas 1816”, [probably Bencoolen, 1820.] £7500* 120 ROSS (David). The Land of the Five Rivers and Sindh. Sketches Historical and Descriptive.

First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Fine and highly decorated original cloth in gilt. viii, [iv] ads, 322, [2 blank] 32 ads.[dated June 83]pp. London, Chapman & Hall, 1883. £575 “[A] short historical and descriptive account of the country and places of interest between Karachi, Multan, Lahore, Peshwar, and Delhi” (preface).

121 SHAW (Robert). Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashghar (Formerly Chinese Tartary) and a Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass.

First edition. 2 folding maps & 14 plates & illustrations in the text. 8vo. Modern half calf, bookplate to front free endpaper. xiv, 486,1, 16[ads dated Nov. 1871]pp. London, 1871. £850 With the foundation of Singapore, Raffles became the most important Briton ever to be Shaw was the first Briton to visit Yarkand, and travelled on his return via the Karakoram associated with South . Singapore was the meeting point of all trade routes in Pass. Yakushi, S194. the region and soon became the most important port between Calcutta and Hong Kong. Moreover, the colonization prevented an entire monopoly of Dutch interests in the East, a goal they actively pursued. Raffles letters from the East are rarely available and those written from Singapore are especially so, most being in institutions. Raffles was fluent in Malay and his concern for native populations was evident from his 78 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 79

122 SHIZUOKA-KEN TEA ASSOCIATION. Shizuokaken Tea Industry - A 125 WORKMAN (F.B. & W.H.) Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh. An Account Pictorial. of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. First edition. One colour lithograph print and numerous collotype plates (2 folding). English text with Japanese abstract. Oblong 8vo. Original decorated First edition. Two large folding maps, numerous plates & illustrations throughout brocade, a very good copy. Unpaginated. Tokyo, Showa 2, 1928. £250 the text. Large 8vo. Original pictorical cloth, gilt. xv, 444pp. London, 1908. “The tea industry of Shizuoka Prefecture has been developing year after year that her £675 production today is unrivalled by any other district within the whole country.” (Preface). An excellent copy of this account of the Workmans’ pioneering expeditions in the A beautifully illustrated booklet detailing the various stages of tea-production in, and Himalayas. Yakushi, W123; Neate, 927. tea-export from Shizuoka prefecture. Uncommon.

123 SILK (C.A.) & VANDERVEER (J.J.) Spanish-American War, 1898: The USS paper peints “Baltimore”, at the Battle of Bay, (Phillipine Islands) May 1st, 1898. 126 ZUBER ENGELMANN (Père & fils) lithographers. Collection d’esquisses des principaux articles de décoration exécutés en papeir peint dans la First (only) edition. Folding map & 13 collotype plates. 4to. Original polished manufacture de Jean Zuber & Compagnie à Rixheim près Mulhausen, dept. black sheep, blind-stamped and gilt, inner hinges cracked, map tipped in, du haut-Rhin. Prix 3 francs. printed in red & blue. 40pp. Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1898. £950 Presentation inscription reads, “To Mr E.W. Woodworth with compliments from M. F. Printed title page & 73 lithographed images on 41 sheets (one loose), incl. 15 Bathke, Chief Master at Arms, U.S.S. Baltimore.” with fine contemporary hand-colouring, 4 of these heightened with gum arabic. Small folio (495 by 365mm). Contemporary French boards, with red morocco The battle occured only days after the official declaration of war and resulted not only label (this richly gilt) to upper board, edges somewhat rubbed. Mulhausen, in the collapse of the Spanish naval presence but without any American casualties. The [c.1850]. £17500 decisiveness of the victory greatly enhanced the reputation of the United States as a military power. Rare. Only 7 copies in OCLC. A magnificent album, with some fine examples of designs for decorative wallpapers produced by Zuber & Cie., including sections of several of the magnificent panoramic papers for which they are still famous. The firm of Zuber et Cie. was founded by Jean 124 SIRR (Henry Charles). China and the Chinese their Religion, Character, Zuber in Alsace in 1797, and continues to this day to print wallpaper and fabrics using Customs, and Manufacturers: the Evils arising from the Opium Trade: with the original nineteenth century woodblocks (of which they have in excess of 100,000). a Glance at our religious, moral, political and commercial Intercourse with The majority of the plates included in the album show papers which were first produced the Country. in the early part of the nineteenth century, including: Vues du Brésil (1830), Décor Chinois (1832) and Les Vues de l’Amerique du Nord (1834), the latter being produced following First edition. 2 vols. 2 colour lithograph frontispieces. 8vo. Contemporary Jean Zuber’s own journey to North America. It is however the image of a section of El polished calf, school prize binding, gilt on spine, minor staining, but overall a Dorado which enables us to date the album to the middle of the century, since it was not very good copy. [xvi], 447; [viii], 443pp. London, W.S. Orr & Co., 1849. £750 produced until 1848. Henry Charles Sirr (1807-1872) was a British lawyer, diplomat and writer. Trained as In addition to the examples of papier peint there are numerous plates showing designs a barrister he eventually went into government service, working as Deputy Queen’s for decorative papers for a variety of schemes, including faux pannelling (in a variety Advocate in Ceylon. From 1843 he served as British Vice-Consul in Hong Kong. The of styles), ceilings, ceiling roses, chimney breasts &c.&c. Some of these are designed present provides important insights into the nature of the opium trade, with a particular to reproduce plaster, some woodwork, and some again fabric, but all are of the highest focus on smuggling operations in the Pearl River region. quality, with a particularly fine attention to detail. 80 maggs bros ltd india, central asia & far east 81

The plates are titled as follows: bottom) Devant de Cheminées (4 images - 2 “framed”) Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18” (uncoloured) Devant de Cheminées Echelle de 3 Pieds (4 images) Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18” (uncoloured) [Devant de Cheminées] (4 images - 2 “framed”) Les courses des chevaux Paysage en camayeux 32 lés 18” (uncoloured) [Devant de Cheminées] (4 “framed” images) Les Jardins Espagnols 25 lés de 20 pouces (fine hand-coloured lithograph, with ms. title beneath) [Devant de Cheminées] (5 images - 2 “framed”) [Jardins] (fine lithograph view with elaborate decorative border) Sujets en hauteur (6 images) Paysage en camayeux. Les Vues d’Ecosse sur 32 lés de 18 pouces (uncoloured lithograph Sujets de fleurs et de chasse (7 images) with elaborate neo-gothic style borders at head and foot) [Sujets de fleurs et de chasse (6 images) El Dorado Décor colorié en 24 lés No. 4201 à 4224 (elaborate finely hand-coloured Paysage colorié L’Helvétie, sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (particularly fine hand-coloured image, divided into three sections by richly decorative border, this also hand-coloured) lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, enclosed within an elaborate gold frame) Décor chinois. No. 2911-2914 (5 lés de 20”) (particularly fine detailed and delicately Paysage colorié L’Italie sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (particularly fine hand-coloured hand-coloured lithograph) lithograph, heightened with gum arabic, within an elaborate frame, with classical Décor de l’Alhambra det Paysage Isola Bella (No. 3551) Echelle d’un Mètre (particularly columns to either side, and an elaborate freize to top and bottom) fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into three by a Conquète du Mexique (hand-coloured lithograph) fine highly eloborate frame in the moorish style, this too hand-coloured) Paysage à Chasse (Première moitie) en colorié 32 lés de 18 pouces (fine hand-coloured Décor à fleura (particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the lithograph) image divided into two panels surrounded by a floral border, with a final plain border arround the whole) Paysage à Chasse (Deuxième moitie) en colorié 32 lés de 18 pouces (uncoloured lithograph) Décor Florentin particularly fine detailed and delicately hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided into three panels with an extremely elaborate border, this too hand- Jardins français Paysage colorié de 25 lés de 20 pouces (1re partie No. 1 à 12) (fine hand- coloured) coloured lithograph, heightened with gum arabic) Décor Louis XV (particularly fine detailed hand-coloured lithograph, the image divided Jardins français Paysage colorié de 25 lés de 20 pouces (2de partie No. 13 à 25) (uncoloured into two panels, with a richly detailed & coloured border, the lower section of which is lithograph) painted to ressemble panelling) Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (1r au 10e lé) (uncoloured) Décor à rideau No. 2864 1/20 [with] Décor etrusque No. 2866 1/20 (uncoloured Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (10me au 21me lé) (coloured) lithographs) Vues de l’Amérique du Nord (22me au 32me lé) (uncoloured) No. 2052. Rosace pour plafond, à ornemens coloriés sur fond irisé. No. 2430. Le milieu seul sur fond irisé, et avec une guirlande de fleurs. (single image, uncoloured lithograph) Vues du Brésil (fine hand-coloured lithograph) No. 2203. Rosace pour plafond executée surfonds irisés, les ornemens en grisaille ou Vues du Brésil (uncoloured lithograph) teinte d’or, le Tors Légèrement colorié. No. 2203½. La même rosace executée en rond sur un diamêtre de 7 pieds avec un autre milieu sur fond Irisé (single image, uncoloured Vues du Brésil (uncoloured lithograph) lithograph) Paysage colorié L’Italie sur 20 lés de 26 pouces (uncoloured lithograph, within an No. 2201. Rosace pour polafond en octagone exécuté sur fonds irisés en colorié. No. elaborate frame, with classical columns to either side, and an elaborate freize to top and 82 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 83

2202. Le milieu seul avec amour, sur fond ciel irisé (single image, uncoloured lithograph). AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC No. 1806. Plafond à voute en grisaille. No. 1883 le milieu seul (single image, uncoloured lithograph). 127 [ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE] TEICHELMANN & SCHURMANN (C.G. & 2341 Rosace en gris ou en colorié (single image, uncoloured lithograph) C.W.) Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of the Aboriginal Revolution Italienne (loose, fine hand-coloured lithograph heightened with gum arabic, language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance with manuscript title to upper margin) around Adelaide.

First edition. 8vo. A clean copy in modern stiff wrappers. (x), 24, 76pp. Adelaide, published by the authors at the native location, 1840. £1750 A very good copy of this early Adelaide imprint and important Kaurna grammar and vocabulary. The authors were Lutheran missionaries and pastors. They arrived in Adelaide on 12 October 1838 and immediately set about establishing a school. This was their first publication. The extensive vocabulary includes a section on “the names of places and rivers.” Ferguson, 3102.

the high priest of the british enlightenment on a “noble” savage 128 BANKS (Joseph). ALS to Lord Monboddo.

4pp with address blank. 4to. London, Soho Square, 29 December, 1782. £2500* An unpublished letter by Banks regarding Peter the Wild Boy, the celebrated feral child brought to England from Hanover by King George I in 1726. Peter the Wild Boy (c.1712-85) was discovered in a forest near Hamelin. He walked on all fours, ate grass and leaves and could not communicate. Once in England, despite being tutored at length, he did not learn to speak or pick up civilized manners. In the midst of the Enlightenment, Peter was seen as a rare example of man in his native state and thus attracted great interest from the public and the academy. The concept of the noble savage was given great currency by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s 1771 account of , which depicted an idyllic, innocent society free from the corruption of civilization. Banks himself was familiar with the charms of Tahiti, having famously observed the transit of Venus there on Cook’s first voyage. Such was the interest that a number of subsequent British scientific voyages to the Pacific Item 127 returned with members of the native tribes they’d encountered. Peter the Wild Boy was a fascinating European counterpoint to this and of interest to the burgeoning field of anthropology. Unlike the “bring backs” from the South Seas, who perished abroad or 84 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 85 shortly after their return, Not in Chambers (ed), The Scientific Correspondence of Sir , (2007); not listed Peter lived until 1785 when in Dawson, W.R (ed) The Banks Letters: A Calendar... (1958). he was about 70.

James Burnett (Lord 129 BOUGAINVILLE (Louis de). . Performed by His Monboddo, 1714-99) saw Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769... Translated Peter in 1782 and used from the French by John Reinhold Forster. him as an example in his Origin and Progress of Language, which sought to First English edition. Folding plate & 5 folding charts. 4to. Contemporary calf, demonstrate that man was new label, joints split but firm, contemporary marbled endpapers. xxvii, 476pp. born mute and that language London, 1772. £4000 is the product of habit and This, the first English edition of the first official French circumnavigation, was prepared learning. He was the first for the press by both the Forsters. Georg, apparently, made the translation while his to postulate the single- father contributed a preface and added copious footnotes. It is clear that Alexander origin hypothesis (that all Dalrymple had a hand in the production of the charts in this work. humans originated from a single area) and very much Bougainville’s first objective on his voyage around the world was to organise the a part of the developments handover of the Falkland Islands from France to Spain. Having completed this task he in scholarship that led to sailed for Patagonia, where, like Wallis, he measured the height of the fabled Patagonian Darwin’s formulation of the Giants and found them to average less than six feet. theory of evolution. It is however his travels in the Pacific for which Bougainville is perhaps best known, Understandably, he was including the New Hebrides, Samoa, the Solomons and Tahiti. The latter captured the eager to harness Banks’s Comte’s imagination and, as well as a long description of the island and its people, he expertise and, in a letter dated 9 July 1782, asks if he might assist in finding out more includes a vocabulary of some 300 words at the end of the text. Like many Europeans of about Peter. Banks replied on July 29 agreeing to help, though was unequivocal that he the period he compared the Tahitians to Greek gods, and their island to Elysium, as did thought Peter an idiot “who was by his parents placed in the woods... in order that they Joseph Banks in the following year when he arrived with Cook. Spence, 158; Cox I, 55; might be relieved from the thankless expense of providing for a driveller.” This opinion Hill, 165; JCB II, 1816; Kroepelien, 113; Sabin, 6869; Howgego, B142. later became the prevailing scientific view.

In this letter Banks elucidates some of his earlier opinions - “No extract from newspapers 130 CALLANDER (John). Terra Australis Cognita; or, Voyages to the Terra however carefully written will induce me to believe that a human being can exist at Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and all upon leaves & moss while the anatomical structure of his stomack & digestive organs teach me to consider it as impossible & that among all the nations I have seen Eighteenth Centuries... heard of or read of no instance in which I put the least confidence except in the case of Nebuchadnezzar & that you know was a miracle which like all others commands a First edition. 3 vols. 3 engraved folding maps. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, sacrifice of reason to faith.” rebacked. Edinburgh, 1766 - 1768. £5250 He further informs Bennett that he has “commissioned Baron Reden a very sensible A work of the greatest importance and value in the early history of Australia. & learned man of Hanover... to enquire both from living & written evidence all in his Callander based his work on that of the Frenchman De Brosses, and advises the power concerning Peter.” Banks was no doubt deluged by requests such as this and foundation of a colony on the island of New Britain, as a suitable spot for the further some probably quite outlandish theories on discoveries from the New World. Here he exploration and settlement of the vast continent of New Holland, New Zealand, and provides a lovely, telling line which captures the spirit of the age: “I require that the evidence in goodness should bear proportion to the magnitude of the wonder”. Tasmania. 86 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 87

presented to his “old mate” godfrey massie, expedition know that Cleveley taught watercolour painting at this period and one might suppose this to be either one of his exemplas or more probably a work carried out by a skilled member student. The work is certainly executed on eighteenth century paper, which has been 131 CARNEGIE (The Hon. David). Spinifex and Sand. A narrative of Five Years’ laid down in recent years. Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia. Their father was a distinguished naval painter, James Clevely was a carpenter on the third voyage, and his brother a noted naval artist of the period. Though deemed unlikely First edition. 4 folding maps by Joppien and Smith it seems a reasonable to assume, notwithstanding problematical (2 in rear pocket). 8vo. names and ethnographic detail, that James had some influence on the content of these Original pictorial cloth, gilt images. lettering to spine, soiled & A full discussion of the Cleveleys can be found in Joppien and Smith’s The Art of Captain rather worn, internal foxing Cook’s Voyages Vol. III, pp216 to 221. quite serious in places. xvi, 454pp. London, 1898. £4250 A wonderful association copy of this exploration classic inscribed by the author: “Godfrey E. Massie from his old mate David W. Carnegie Good Luck! 1899”. Massie was one of Carnegie’s three European companions on the main expedition described in this work, one of whom died in a hunting accident during the trip. The youngest son of the Earl of Southesk, Carnegie (1871-1900) left Ceylon, where he had been a tea planter, in 1892 to join the gold rush in Western Australia. With money raised at home in England by his fellow prospector Lord Percy Douglas, Carnegie set out in 1894 on his first expedition in which he covered some 850 miles. Despite having had to abort another expedition due to ill health, Carnegie set off in 1896 on his most important journey during which he explored the deserts of the interior covering some 3000 miles, carrying out work which earned him the Royal Geographical Society’s Gill the voyages of captain Memorial medal (Wantrup). Ferguson, 7960; Wantrup, 196a. 133 COOK (Capt. James), HAWKESWORTH & KING (John) & (James). An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for 132 [CLEVELEY (James / or John.) after.] View of Matavai Bay, February 1788. Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..; A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World..; A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... Watercolour measuring approx. 330 by 465mm. c1788. £12000* First editions throughout. 8 vols. text & 2 atlases (folio & quarto). A total of 202 This watercolour is on a smaller scale than the print from which it is connected. Apart charts and plates. 4to. Recently bound in full 18th century Russia from the Metta from scale the are some subtle differences from the print which may denote priority. We 88 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 89

Catharina by Aquarius. [xii], xxxvi, 676; xvi, 410; [vi], 411- 799; xl, 378; xcvi, 421; accidents) were recorded on this voyage - a dramatic reduction from the one third who [xii], 549; [xii], 558pp. London, 1773, 1777 & 1784. £35000 died on his first voyage. Cook’s third voyage began in July 1776 and concentrated on the North Pacific, resulting in the discovery of Hawaii, which Cook considered to be his greatest feat. In addition the theory of a Northern passage conecting the Pacific to the Atlantic was also disproved. With him travelled who later charted the North West Coast of America and also the artist John Webber who provided Europe with many images of the Pacific. Cook however was killed on 14th February, 1779 in a shoreline skirmish (illustrated in the plate included in this set) and Captain King took over command of the expedition, which returned to England in 1780. Holmes, 5/24/47; Hill, p139/61; Sabin, 30934/16245/16250.

134 COOK (Capt. James). The Method taken for preserving the Health of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution during her late Voyage round the World. [With] Of the in the South Seas. Transactions of the Philosophical Society, vol. LXVI, part 2, XXII & XXVI.

Small 4to. Later half speckled calf, red morocco label to spine, gilt, marbled A fine set of first editions of Cook’s three voyages. The plates for the second and third boards. [iv], [1], 402-406, 447-449, [1]pp. London, Lockyer Davis, 1777. voyages are bound in a 4to and folio atlas to match. The russia was reclaimed from the £2000 wreck of the Metta Catharina located in Plymouth Sound in October 1973. The ship was Finding a preventitive cure for scurvy marked a significant turning point in the wrecked in 1786 and a large quantity of the leather was found in its cargo. history of maritime exploration. Indeed, the explosion of scientific voyages in the late Cook (1728-1779) was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and despatched by the eighteenth and early nineteenth century was largely enabled by the advances made by Admiralty at the insistance of the Royal Society to observe the 1769 transit of Venus Cook, and his contemporaries, in the treatment of this condition. Cook’s second voyage across the face of the sun and to seek out the much-discussed southern continent. in particular attracted considerable interest as no member of his crew died of scurvy, Accompanying Cook were Joseph Banks (from the Royal Society), the Swedish naturalist something which was unheard of at the time. Dr. Daniel Carl Solander and the artist Sydney Parkinson. Sailing via Madeira and Tierra This paper, first published in Pringle’s Discourse upon some late improvements of the del Fuego Tahiti was reached in April 1769 where the transit was successfully recorded means of preserving the health of mariners, (1776), was read before the Royal Society in June of that year. From Tahiti Cook sailed to the South Pacific in search of the new on March 7, 1776. It documented Cook’s use of malt wort in conjunction with ‘sour continent, first striking the Society Islands, before reaching New Zealand, whose coast krout’, broth made with fresh vegetables (when available), and the extract of oranges he surveyed. From thence Cook proceeded to New Holland surveying the whole East and lemons. Aware that some items were either not always available or expensive to Coast, before returning home via Batavia, proving once and for all the New Guinea was procure or store, Cook advocated a combination of all three in the fight against scurvy. not a part of Australia, a fact first shown by Torres in 1607. He finally reached England in Writing to Pringle from Plymouth Sound Cook said: “I entirely agree with you that the 1771, anchoring off the Downs on 12th June, having lost one third of his crew. dearness of the rob of lemon and oranges will hinder them from being furnished in In July of the following year Cook, now promoted to the rank of Commander, set out large quanitites. But I do not think this so necessary; for though they may assist other once more for the southern Pacific in the Resolution with the Adventure. This voyage things, I have not great opinion of them alone. Nor have I a higher opinion of vinegar.” was particularly important since Cook made the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle It is interesting to note that neither lemon juice nor malt were used on Cook’s third and and finally determined once and for all that the Southern Continent did not exist. final voyage. In addition Cook secured the medal of the Royal Society by successfully eradicating In recognition of his services to mariners Cook (or rather in his absence his wife) was scurvy through diet and better hygiene. Only three shipboard deaths (all resulting from presented with the Royal Society’s Copley medal. Scurvy however continued to be a 90 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 91

major problem in the British Navy, particularly during the American Revolutionary 136 COXE (William). Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and War. It was not erradicated until the , when Gilbert Lane, chairman of America. To Which are added the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Navy’s ‘Sick and Hurt Board’, applied the theories of James Lind who had as early the Transactions and Commerce between Russia and China. A Comparative as 1747 proved that scurvy could be prevented by the use of citrus fruits such as lemons View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captain Cook and and limes (hence the phrase ‘limey’ for a British sailor). Lloyd and Coulter (Medicine Clerke; and a Sketch of What remains to be ascertained by Future Navigators. and the Navy) III. First edition. Armorial bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq. on front pastedown with the bookplate of fleurieu endpaper. 4 charts and maps (2 folding, two extending) and one large folding plate. 4to. Contemporary full calf, with splitting to the leather at otherwise 135 COOKE (Edward). A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, sound joints. Interior clean and crisp. xxii, 344, xiii[index], 2ads.pp. T. Cadell. perform’d in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711. Containing a Journal of London, 1780. £1100 all memorable transactions during said voyage... the taking of the towns Samuel Enderby was one of the most important figures in the history of Pacific whaling. of Puna and Guayaquil, and several prizes one of which a rich Following the Boston Tea Party, when the cargoes of tea carried in Enderby’s ships ship. A Description of the American Coasts, from Tierra del Fuego in were lost, his company moved into the Southern Fishery for sperm whales. Along with the South, to California in the North, (from the Coasting Pilot, a Spanish Alexander Champion and John St Barbe he fought for “an unlimited right of fishing in manuscript)... With a new map and Description of the mighty river of all seas”, which they had attained by 1801, when all but the China Seas were open to the whalers. It was in one of his whaling ships (the Tula) that Biscoe discovered “Enderby the Amazons. Wherein an Account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk, his Land” in the Antarctic. Sabin, 17309; Hill, p71; Streeter VI, 3481; cf.Lada-Mocarski, 29. manner of living and taming some wild beasts during his four years and four months he liv’d upon the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. rennell’s copy 137 DALRYMPLE (Alexander). An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages The true first edition as distinct from the and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. I. Being chiefly a Literal reset version with a second volume from the Translation from the Spanish Writers. same publishers. 2 large folding maps, folding [Volume II. Containing the Dutch panorama & 17 engraved plates (numbered 1-16 Voyages.] with 1 extra view). Fine contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, with First edition (second issue of Vol. I as usual). red morocco labels, repair to title-page. xxiv, 2 vols. in 1. 4 folding maps & 12 plates (mostly 456, 12pp. London, 1712. £3750 folding). 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked. A rush to issue an account of this voyage developed xxx, [2], 24, 24, 204, [4]; [iv], 124, 20, [58]pp. between the publishers of this version and that of London, 1770 & 1771. Woodes Rogers. This single volume edition came £9500 out before the two volume expanded version which was completely reset. With the neat ownership signature of the noted geographer James Rennell (1742-1830) to the A very attractive copy, with an interesting association, having the bookplate of M. le upper margin of the title page, and his book plate Chevalier de Fleurieu on the front pastedown. Fleurieu sailed on the second French on the front pastedown. circumnavigation and the first commercial voyage to the North West coast. The Historical Collection is a work of far reaching importance; its author was the leading English 92 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 93

hydrographer of his day, a man of great dedication and prolific output. Passionately the 1729 dampier with wafer, involved in the argument over the possible existence of a southern continent, Dalrymple partially translates here some twelve accounts which support his belief in its existence. funnell & hack Dalrymple had wanted command of the official South Seas Expedition sent in 1768. He 139 DAMPIER (William) & others. was much aggrieved not to have been given the appointment, feeling that his preeminence A Collection of Voyages. In Four as a hydrographical scholar should have outweighed his relative inexperience of nautical Volumes. Containing I. Captain command. Understandably the Admiralty thought otherwise, and Lieut. James Cook William Dampier’s Voyages Round was given his chance. A much embittered man, Dalrymple immersed himself in the the World: Describing Particularly, research which finally led to the publication of this book, which was issued before the return of Cook’s expedition. Hill, p.389; Sabin, 18338; Hocken, p7. the Coasts and Islands in the East and West Indies. The South-Sea Coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico... 138 DAMPIER (William), SEWELL (William) & WAFER (Lionel). Nieuwe The Cape of Good Hope, New Reystogt Rondom de Werreld... Holland, etc. II. The Voyages of Lionel Wafer;.. and Davis’s First Dutch edition. 3 vols in 2. Frontispiece, illustrations and maps throughout. expedition to the Golden Mines... 4to. Clean & bright in contemporary vellum. (vi), 395; (xii), 284, 88, (viii. appendix)pp. Gravenhage, Abraham de Hondt, 1698. £3500 III. A Voyage Round the World... by W. Funnell, Mate to Mr. Dampier. A very good copy of this scarce work, which includes four maps by Hermann Moll. IV. Captain Cowley’s Voyage round After years of adventure along the coasts of Spanish America Dampier joined Capt. the Globe. V. Capt. Sharp’s Journey Swan in the Cygnet in 1685. Swan was also eager to try his hand in the western Pacific, over the Isthmus of Darien... VI. and after taking several small Spanish prizes among the East Indian Islands, they made Capt. Wood’s Voyage... VII. Mr. for the vaguely known coast of New Holland, which was sighted on 4th January, 1688, near the Lacepede Islands. The vessel sailed along the coast to the entrance of King Roberts’s Adventures. Sound, where she was repaired. Here Dampier made a full survey of the country and noted its inhabitants as the most miserable people in the world. After several adventures First edition thus. 4 vols. 62 engraved maps & plates, many folding. 8vo. Dampier reached England and wrote the first of these volumes. The book was an Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, morocco labels to spines, these gilt, immediate success (by 1729 six editions had been printed) and the publisher, Knapton, library stamp to margin of titles, 18th-century ownership inscription also urged Dampier to write a second volume. partially erased from titles. London, 1729. £6500 In 1698 Dampier was put in command of the Roebuck in order to make an expedition A collection of voyages that includes all Dampier’s expeditions, together with the to New Holland, New Guinea, and the Moluccas. On 2nd August, 1699 he arrived on buccaneer narratives of Wafer and the four accounts contained in Hack’s collection ie. the coast of Western Australia, sailing northward along the coast he arrived at an inlet Captains Sharp, Wood, Roberts and Cowley. Hill, p75; Sabin, 18373. which he named Sharks Bay. By this time his crew were in such bad condition and the country appeared so hostile that Dampier was forced to set sail for Timor and replenish his supplies. The voyage continued from there to New Guinea, New Ireland and New Britain returning finally via the Cape of Good Hope in 1701. His subsequent work was again a success and again Knapton persuaded him to write a continuation, and these appeared in 1703 and 1709 respectively. Sabin, 18385. 94 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 95

with the rare map author’s presentation copy 140 FORSTER (John Reinold). Observations made during a Voyage round the 141 HALE (Right Rev. Bishop). The Aborigines of Australia Being an Account of World, on Physical Georgraphy, Natural History, and Ethic Philosophy... the Institution for their Education at Poonindie, in South Australia.

First edition. Folding map, large folding table. 4to. Contemporary calf, rebacked, First edition. Frontispiece. Small 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt, extremities a and corners repaired. [iv], iv, iv, 9-16, 10-650, [1](list of subscribers)pp. London, little rubbed. 102, 6ads.pp. S.P.C.K.[1889]. £500 1778. £6000 Presentation inscription reads: “To Doctor George Harley With Bishop Hale’s compliments Janry 1890.” A very good copy of this scarce work. Founded in 1850 by the author, the school proved immediately popular with its program of instruction in religion and agriculture. Hale was a noted advocate for the rights of Aborigines and later served as the bishop of Perth and Brisbane. Ferguson, 10159.

special paper copy 142 HUNTER (Capt. John). An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island, with the Discoveries which have been made in and in the Southern Ocean, since the Publication of Phillip’s Voyage; Including the Journals of Governors Phillip and King, and of Lieut. Ball; and the Voyages From the first Sailing of the Sirius in 1787, to the Return of that Ship’s Company to England in 1792.

First edition. Stipple engraved portrait Originally intended to be included with the official narrative of Cook’s second voyage, frontispiece, engraved title, 2 large folding Forster provides a particular good account of the countries visited along with a fine comparative table of the languages of the South Seas. maps, 2 charts & 11 further engraved illustrations & views. 4to. Contemporary This copy has the map which is often lacking: “A Chart representing the isles of the South- red morocco, text clean & bright, plates a Sea, according to the notions of the inhabitants of 0-Taheitee and the Neighbouring little foxed. [xvi], 582pp. London, Stockdale, Isles, chiefly collected from the accounts of Tupaya”. Drawn by Europeans, but based 1793. £15000 on indigenous knowledge, its importance stems from the suggestion that the Tahitian’s geographical knowledge was much greater than previously assumed. Du Rietz, 456; A rare copy of the special issue. The original Sabin, 25140. prospectus for this work, which Ferguson evidently saw, states “A few copies of the above Work may be had printed on a super fine, Wove Royal, price 2l 2s. in Boards.” An integral member of the , Hunter was second in command on the Sirius under 96 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 97

Arthur Phillip. He served diligently in the early days of the colony, though the Sirius Both voyages did prove to the French, as Cook had demonstrated previously, that there was wrecked under his command off the coast of Norfolk Island. This necessitated his was no great southern continent. However, Kerguelen-Tremarec’s expeditions proved to return to England, during which time he collaborated in the production of this journal. be the last occasion in which an officer of the French Navy was promoted to a position Having been exonerated, he returned to New South Wales and succeeded Phillip as of such responsibility without having previously proved his worth. “Brains before Governor in 1794. At his behest, exploration of the east coast was conducted “and the breeding” became the way forward. early discoveries of Flinders and Bass owe much to him. His journal is a very valuable The book also contains chapters on the American War of Independence and Madagascar work on the early history of the English settlement in Australia” (Hill). as well as others concerning natical matters. Du Rietz, 641; Sabin, 37618; Spence, 650; The plates are of some importance, the “View of the Settlement on , Port Brunet III, 654; Brosse (Les Tours du Monde), p77. Jackson, 20th August, 1788” is the first published view of Sydney and ’s plate of an Aboriginal family is engraved by the English poet and artist William Blake. Ferguson, 152; Wantrup, 13; Hill, 857. “an extremely rare work” the preferred english edition 144 LA PEROUSE (Jean François de Galaup). A Voyage round the World, 143 KERGUELEN-TREMAREC (Yves-Joseph). Relation de Deux Voyage Dans performed In the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussule and les mers Australes & des Indes, aits en 1771, 1772, 1773 & 1774...ou Extrait du Astrolabe... Journal de sa Navigation pour la découverte des Terres Australes, & pour la vérification d’une nouvelle route proposée pour abréger d’environs de huit Third English edition (the first unabridged). 2 vols. 4to. & folio atlas. Portrait cents lieues la traversée d’Europe à la Chine. frontispiece to vol. I, engraved title & 69 engraved maps, charts & plates to atlas. Contemporary English tree calf, joints repaired, the atlas in rather faded non- First edition. Large folding plate with charts & coastal profiles. 8vo. French matching early nineteenth century roan. [viii], lvi, 539; viii, 531, [14]index, [1] quarter calf, decorative paper boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with half title. erratapp. London, Johnson, 1798- 1799. £11000 viii, 244, [3]pp. Paris, Knapen & Fils, 1782. £15500 “This edition is usually considered to be the best one “Ce volume est devenu très-rare, le gouvernement en ayant fait saisir le plus grand in English and is now an extremely rare work” (Hill, nombre d’exemplaires” (Brunet). It seems that the authorities objected to the author’s p174). Whilst Stockdale and Johnson both published Epitre Dédicatoire à la Patrie in which he reaffirmed his love for his country, and in octavo editions in 1798, the one found here is the particular for Britanny, the land of his birth. On 28th May, 1783, all copies that could be only quarto version in English, and it is the first seized were destroyed. unabridged translation of the official French account Kerguelen-Tremarec approached M. le Ministre de la Marine at Versailles in September, of the voyage. 1770, with a proposal to explore the oceans between Australia, the Cape of Good Hope La Pérouse’s expedition departed from France in and Cape Horn with a view to discovering the southern continent. His plans were well 1785 in the Boussole and the Astrolabe with received and he set out from the Isle de France in the following year with the highest orders to continue the work of exploration of hopes, returning with news of having discovered “France Australe”, stating that it begun by Cook in the Pacific and on the North would provide a commanding position over both America and Asia. In fact he had West Coast. Having rounded Cape Horn the discovered and charted the Kerguelen Islands which consisted of 300 or so islets as well two ships reached Easter Island in April of the as Kerguelen or Desolation Island itself, which Cook visited four years later. following year, before sailing on to Hawaii, Due to the sheer bravado of his accounts he was given a second command, with a where the expedition members became the first complement of some 700 crew and marines, with orders to make a circumnavigation of the globe. This voyage was intended as a ripost to Cook’s explorations, however having made it as far as the Kerguelen Islands in 1774, he turned back for France where he was summarily court martialed and imprisoned for what amounted to gross negligence. 98 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 99

Europeans to land on Maui. They then preceded to Alaska, surveying the coastline as the Gentleman’s Magazine later that year was in Harrison’s favour. instructed, before moving West to Asia, where La Pérouse charted the coast North of Harrison only received the prize owing to him under the terms of the Longitude Act of Macao as far as Kamchatka, and succesfully navigated the Sea of Japan. 1714 after appeals to the King (George III) and the Prime Minister (Lord North) which Copies of the expedition’s logs were sent home from Macao, Kamchatka (in the care of resulted in a further Act of Parliament awarding him a final settlement. He died three M. de Lesseps on the overland route), and Botany Bay (in early 1788). Thereafter nothing years later. was known of the expedition’s fate until Dillon discovered the wreck of the two ships on the reef at Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz islands in 1827. cf. Hill, p174. presentation copy a member of the committee which investigated the 146 MACDONALD (John Graham). Journal of J.G. Macdonald, on an expedition from Port Denison to the Gulf of Carpentaria and back. workings of harrison’s masterpiece: h4

145 LUDLAM (Rev. William). Astronomical Observations made in St. John’s First edition, ordinary issue. Portrait & large folding map (this repaired with a College, Cambridge, in the Years 1767 and 1768: with an Account of Several very small amount of in-filling by the restorer). 12mo. Original cloth-backed Astronomical Instruments. glazed paper boards titled on the upper cover. [ii], iv, 5-60pp. Brisbane, George Slater, T. Pugh, 1865. £3250 First edition. 8 fine folding engraved plates. 4to. Particularly fine contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, with red morocco label, & fine contemporary marbled endpapers, with Matthew Boulton’s library label to front pastedown. [viii], 35, [1]blank, 37-148pp. Cambridge, J. Archdeacon, 1769. £1750 From the library of the great industrialist Matthew Boulton; one of the most inovative entrepreneurs of the age. The detailed folding plates with their astronomical and mechanical drawings demonstrate Ludlam’s considerable skill in the practical areas of these sciences. As such he was an obvious choice for the committee of experts set up in 1765 by the Board of Longitude in order to examine John Harrison’s fourth chronometer: H4. This was Harrison’s masterpiece, the size of a large pocket watch, with a diameter of 5.2 inches and weighing a only 3 pounds. Inscribed on the fly-leaf “Alfred G. Manning with the Author’s Compts.” The first trial for H4 was made in 1761 when it lost a mere 5.1 seconds on a voyage of According to Wantrup this title is “most desireable... copies are rare... one of the more 81 days to Jamaica. However, the Board of Longitude refused to award the full prize to important privately funded pastoral expeditions... In August 1864 Macdonald set out Harrison as they argued that he had not informed them that in making the calculations to examine the country between Port Denison on the east coast and the Albert River he had applied a ‘rate’. This was the previously unknown practise of using the known on the Gulf of Carpentaria. He discovered much useful land, on which the settlements daily performance of a timekeeper before a voyage when making the final calculations. of Burketown and Normanton were later established... His successsful journey was In 1764 a second trial was made on a voyage to Barbados when the watch lost 39.2 seconds undertaken at his own expense.” Talking of the private expeditions in the second half of on the forty-seven day outward journey - equivalent to 9.8 geographical miles. This the nineteenth century Wantrup makes the valid point that without expeditions such as was in theory one third of the maximum allowed for the Board’s full prize of £20,000. the above the opening of the Australian inland “would have taken many more years to However, the Board refused to accept the figures and insisted that H4 be dismantled accomplish”. Wantrup, pp245/6 & 184a; Ferguson,11936. before a committee, and so in August 1765 Ludlam and his fellow members met at Harrison’s house to see the timepiece. The report which he subsequently published in 100 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 101

147 MARINER (William). An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, with an Original Grammar and Vocabulary of their Language, Vols I & II.

Second edition “with additions”. 2 volumes. Portrait frontispiece and folding engraved map. 8vo. Original boards, repaired with new printed paper labels. lvi, 444; [iv], 344, [156]pp. London, Murray, 1818. £675 This edition has a map and an enlarged introduction not present in the first. The unpaginated appendix is a comprehensive grammar and dictionary. Mariner sailed from Gravesend for South America and the Pacfic on board the Port au Prince in February, 1805. After various adventures involving Spanish colonial administrators and the whale populations the crew mutinied in the Tonga Islands. Unfortunately for them, they were subsequently captured and killed by the natives, whilst Mariner had the luck to be adopted by the King as his son and remained there for some four years. “The best report on Tongan life and culture before the arrival of Christianity” (Hill). Hill, 1076.

subsequently named, Fly River. Depictions of New Guinea, Timor and Java are included hand coloured issue as well as of Tasmania, the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland, Port Essington, 148 MELVILLE (Harden Sidney). Sketches in Australia and the Adjacent Islands, Swan River and Port Phillip. Accompanying each plate is a page of text locating the selected from a number taken during the surveying voyage of H.M.S. “Fly” scene and providing information on the local inhabitants and natural history. and “Bramble,” under the command of Capt. F.P. Blackwood, R.N. during One of the most important of illustrated works on Australia, auction records state the Years 1842-46. that there have been just six copies since 1977 and only the Davidson copy post-1985. Ferguson, 5109; Wantrup, 242a; Kerr (Dictionary of Australian Artists). First edition. 25 hand coloured lithographs. Oblong 8vo. Original wrappers, very slightly soiled, lacking lithograph title & text leaves to plates 1, 2 & 25. 149 MORRELL (Abbey Jane). A Narrative of a Voyage to the Ethiopic and South London, [1849]. £10000 , Indian Ocean, Chinese sea, North and South Pacific Ocean. A deluxe copy of the only separate commemorative publication of an Australian surveying expedition. “Melville’s book in either form is rare, in the hand-coloured form First edition. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth, spine sunned, upper joint it is very rare indeed” (Wantrup). It is distinguished from the standard edition which repaired, original paper label to spine, ownership inscription to upper margin was produced with tinted lithographs. of title. [2]ads., xii, 13-230, 10ads.pp. New York, J and J Harper, 1833. £850 A Royal Academy artist, Melville was persuaded to accept the position of draughtsman “Abbey Jane Morrell’s narrative holds an important place among the very few accounts on board HMS Fly in 1841 having seen “[s]plendid visions of the South Pacific acquired of a circumnavigation by a woman author” (Howgego). from reading Captain Cook’s Voyages as a boy...” (Kerr). One of the best equipped expeditions to visit Australia, both the naturalist MacGillivray and geologist Beete Dismayed by his constant absence, the author determined to accompany her husband, Jukes served on board. Although the expedition circumnavigated Australia twice, it’s the navigator Benjamin Morrell, on the schooner Antarctic on a proposed two year primarily remembered for its hydrographical and geological work on the Great Barrier voyage. Departing on 2nd September, 1829, the voyage took in Newfoundland, Cape Reef. Verde Islands, Tristan da Cuhna, New Zealand, Manila, Fiji and the Cape of Good Hope. The expedition sailed north to Papua and charted the hitherto unexplored, and Benjamin Morrell’s own account preceded this one, yet far from being a mere abridgement 102 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 103

of her husband’s, Jane Morrell’s account provides a more reflective narrative, which also cruise. The first edition is quite uncommon, much more so than the second edition of addresses the treatment of American sailors. Howgego II, M58; Hill, 1185. 1718. Sabin, 72753; Borba, p744; Hill, p258.

150 NARBOROUGH (Sir John), [ROBINSON (Tancred) ed.] An Account of 152 SAMWELL (David). The Negro Boy, To Mr Skinner and On Visiting the Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narbrough’s Voyage to the Grave of Sterne in Roach’s Beauties of the Poets , No. XII. South-Sea... II. Captain J. Tasman’s Discoveries on the Coast of the South Terra Incognita. III. Captain J. Wood’s Attempt to discover a North-East Bound as vol. 3 with Nos. IX-XI. 4 frontispieces & 4 title vignettes. 8vo. Passage to China. IV. F. Marten’s Observations made in Greenland, and Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed with some minor browning. other Northern Countries... To which are Added, a Large Introduction and 60; 60; 60; 60pp. London, Printed by and for Roach, 1794. £500 Supplement, containint Short Abstracts of other Voyages into those Pars, and Brief Description of them... Rare. David Samwell served as surgeon’s mate on Cook’s Third Voyage. He is well known for his pamphlet A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook... and Second edition. 3 large folding maps & 19 plates. 8vo. Contemporary panelled observations respecting the introduction of the venereal disease into the Sandwich speckled calf, rebacked, old spine (with red morocco label) laid down. [ii], xxix, Islands (1786), and for having completed the first written record of the Maori [vii], 191, [1]blank, 223pp. London, 1711. £4500 language. An accomplished poet in both Welsh and English, Samwell claimed that composing poetry helped alleviate the tedium of life at sea. First published in 1694 and dedicated to Samuel Pepys, Narborough’s work is chiefly important for its translation of the Tasman voyage and for providing tantalizing This small selection includes what is likely his best known work, “The Negro Boy” information of the vast potential to be exploited in the South Seas. Also included is an (pp45-7), which recounts a sailor’s regret having purchased an African slave for the cost English translation of Martius’s relation of Spitzbergen and the northern fisheries, which of a pocket watch. Records do not indicate whether Samwell was involved in any way includes chapters on the natural history of these Arctic regions along with instructions with the abolitionist movement, but the sentiments expressed in this piece are clearly on how to catch whales etc. Sabin, 72187. sympathetic.

selkirk’s rescuer 153 TENCH (Capt. Watkin, R.M.) A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay; With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c. To 151 ROGERS (Captain Woodes). A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to which is subjoined, A List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape Jackson. of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711. Containing a Journal of all the Remarkable Transactions; particularly, of the Taking of Puna Dublin edition. 8vo. A very good copy in later half calf, spine gilt in compartments and Guiaquil, of the Acapulco Ship, and other Prizes; An Account of [viii] 146pp. Dublin, Chamberlaine et al., 1789. £2500 Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four Years and four Months in an Island... The uncommon Dublin edition. And an Introduction relating to the South-Sea Trade. Watkin Tench (1758?-1833) entered the Marines in 1776, and fought in the American War of Independence rising to the rank of First Lieutenant. Following his promotion to First edition. 5 engraved folding maps laid down. 8vo. Late eighteenth-century Captain, Tench volunteered to serve in the proposed Colony of New South Wales and half calf, joints repaired. xxii, 428, 56, [14](index)pp. London, A. Bell & B. Lintot, travelled on board the transport Charlotte arriving at Botany Bay in 1788. 1712. £4500 An acute and perceptive observer, he took careful note of the new experiences provided “Febr. 2. [1709]... Immediately our Pinnace return’s from the shore, and brought an by the Australian continent and his fellows’ reactions to it. When not writing these down, abundance of Craw-fish, with a Man cloth’d in Goat Skins, who look’d wilder than the Tench lead several expeditions into the interior, discovering amongst other things the first Owners of them...” A minor event in this important and very profitable privateering Nepean River, which he traced to the Hawkesbury. He failed however to conquer the 104 maggs bros ltd australia & the pacific 105

Blue Mountains, the expedition having to turn back at the Razorback. been founded by other powers” (Hill). Tench’s book was an immediate success with the public, and ran to three editions in He set out in April 1791 with two ships, the Discovery and the Chatham, commanded England during 1789 and many others in Dublin (being this copy), France, Germany and by William Broughton. They rounded the Cape of Good Hope and discovered King the Netherlands. A contemporary review testifies to this success: “A regular, connected, George’s Sound on the south west coast of Australia in September of that year. Having and seemingly well authenticated narrative of the expedition, and of the adventures of sighted Tasmania in October, they proceeded to New Zealand, Tahiti (where they spent the emmigrant. Our author’s modest preface, and unassuming manner throughout the four weeks), Hawaii and then onto the north west coast of America. San Francisco Bay whole of this little work, entitle him to our attention and regard” (Critical Review, May was sighted in April 1792. 1789). Ferguson, 51. Vancouver spent the following three seasons carrying out his instructions. He surveyed the Spanish settlements from La Paz in Baja, California, to San Francisco. His impression 154 VANCOUVER (George). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, of the Spanish settlements was of weakness and waste upon the part of the government and Round the World; in which the Coast of North-West America has been of Spain. He wrote: “Why such an extent of territory should have been thus subjugated and after all the expense and labour that has been bestowed upon its colonization carefully examined and accurately surveyed... turned to no account whatever, is a mystery not easily to be explained.” Onboard the Discovery was the English artist, John Sykes, and the engraved illustrations made from First edition. 3 vols. & atlas. 10 folding charts in atlas, 18 plates in text & 6 in atlas. his drawings were the first published views of California. 4to text, folio atlas. Period style half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt with red morocco lables. xxix, [viiil], 432; [v], 504; [v], 505, [3](errata)pp. London, The achievements of this voyage rank among any of the great explorers of the late eighteenth century. Vancouver completed the formalites with Spain at Nootka, Robinson & Edwards, 1798. £45000 “investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca; discovered the Strait of Georgia; circumnavigated Vancouver Island; and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay” (Hill). Furthermore, his map of the Hawaiian islands was the first published to depict the entire group. Sabin, 98443; Wantrup, 63a; Hill, 1753; Tweney, 78; Forbes I, 298; Howes, V23; Ferguson, 281; O’Reilly-Reitman, 635; Fitzpatrick Early Mapping of Hawai’i, 39-43pp.

Having gained the necessary experience serving on Cook’s second and third voyages, and in the Caribbean under Commodore Sir Alan Gardner, Vancouver was appointed to command a vessel that would “reclaim Britain’s rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention at Nootka Sound, to thoroughly examine the coast south of 60 degrees in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic; and to learn what establishments had 106 maggs bros ltd south america 107

SOUTH AMERICA Dampier proceded only as far as the South Seas. The purpose of the expedition was to harass the Spaniards and take plunder from vessels and towns in South America. Its failure was due to the differences that arose between them. Funnell arrived in England 155 BATES (Henry Walter). The Naturalist on the River Amazons, A record of before Dampier and seized the opportunity to compose a relation of his voyage: a task for which he was poorly qualified. His narrative contained much that was disapproved adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and of by Dampier, who immediately after published a Vindication of his voyage, pointing Aspects of Nature under the equator, During Eleven Years of Travel. out the misrepresentations of Funnell” (Hill). Hill, pp117-118; Sabin, 26213.

First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & 9 plates, with illustrations in the text. Small 8vo. Contemporary half calf, rebacked, marbled boards, a little browned, one measuring longitude at the equator plate repaired. ix, 351; vi, 423pp. London, John Murray, 1863. £1750 158 GODIN (Louis). ALS to Cardinal Fleury? Darwin encouraged Bates to write this famous work. The author formed an enormous collection of insects during this period and was one of the great naturalists of his age. Borba, p91. Manuscript in ink. 2pp. with integral blanks. 4to. Cartegena, 22 November, 1735. £2500* The French astonomer Godin (1704-60) sought to resolve the dispute over whether the 156 ELWES (Robert). A sketcher’s tour round the world. With illustrations from Earth was flattened at the Poles, as believed by Newton and Voltaire, or stretched, a theory original drawings, by the author. posited by the astronomer Giovanni Cassini. His plan was to measure the exact length of one degree of longitude at the equator with a complementary expedition despatched First edition. 21 tinted lithographs. Large 8vo. Very fine contemporary half calf , to Lapland to take measurements near the North Pole. These would produce a more accurate measurement of the Earth’s circumference, which had obvious ramifications gilt. xii, 411, [1]pp. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1854. £950 for navigation. A beautiful publication. The tinted lithographs are particularly fine. The proposal was submitted to Academy member Cardinal Fleury and, in May 1735, the Travelling for pleasure, Elwes’ tour took more than two years to complete. “He relates expedition departed Rochfort under the leadership of Charles Marie de la Condamine. with simplicity all that he saw and noted, writes about the slaves and the travic, He and Godin were joined by Pierre Bougher and Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio and describes places with great accuracy. His work is full of picturesque details and de Ulloa. Condamine (see item 161) and the two Spaniards would all publish accounts of interesting information about the places he visited” (Borba de Moraes). Sabin 22371; the expedition. Godin did not and so this is a rare example of his point of view. Abbey, Travel, 9; Borba Des Moraes I, p287. Reporting on the sixteen day journey from Petit Goave (Haiti), Godin maintains a sense of humour and he provides valuable insight into the day to day experience and travails of the expedition. “If someone wanted to do a quick study of the sickness one develops a beautiful copy at sea, he should have come with us from Petit Goave to Cartagena in a boat too little 157 FUNNELL (William). A Voyage around the World. Containing an account of for the many people and the big load in it, with a powerful wind... a frightful sea and continuous rain, and not even a bed and worst of all, smelly water.” Captain Dampier’s expedition into the South-Seas in the Ship St. George. In the Years 1703 and 1704... together with the Author’s Voyage from Amapalla Expeditions such as this one were almost always beset with shortages in equipment and on the West-Coast of Mexico to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. ballooning expenses and this was no different. Here Godin tries to balance the request for additional supplies while trying not to overly concern his patron. Of real interest are First edition. 4 folding engraved maps & charts, 10 engraved plates. 8vo. his comments detailing contemporary methods of measuring longitude. Eighteenth century sprinkled calf, joints repaired. 300, [17]pp. London, 1707. “Our expenses grow at twice the rate of our distance... We already asked you for [my £4750 own] Les Connaissances des Temps, a copy of the memoirs of M De La Condamine, some thermometers and some simple barometers with curved piping. You would make us “It was Funnell, not Dampier, who really circumnavigated the globe on this voyage, as 108 maggs bros ltd south america 109

happy if you could add half a dozen hydrometers. We could receive all that by next May. though not affecting text, with a blue quarter morocco drop-back box, gilt. I ask you once again to pass on my request to the gentlemen the astronomers to observe 157pp. At sea, 1865 - 1868. £20000* the moon as often as they possibly can. We will observe it here on our trip as well. By studying the parallax when the change of the moon as it declines is small in the tropic, HMS “Nassau” was a steam survey gunboat, launched at Pembroke in February it can still be useful for the longitudes as when it is close to the equator. It is only meant 1866. In September, under Captain RC Mayne she carried the Irish naturalist Robert to give you, Monsieur, a glimpse of our situation...” Godin then closes by asking him to Cunningham (1841-1918) on an extensive survey of the Straits of Magellan and the West pass on his regards to his colleagues at the Academy. Coast of Patagonia, recording and surveying many of the sites visited by HMS “Beagle” only a few decades earlier. During one of these surveys along the Messier Channel, Sub. The expedition made its way down to Quito and began measurements. Interference Lt. Hoskyn discovered and charted the anchorage which by Captain Mayne’s permission from the local population necessitated them obtaining permission from the viceroy bears his name (see entries for April 21st and 8th May 1868). to work unimpeded. However, the return of the Lapland expedition in 1737, proving Newton was correct, led to the withdrawal of government funding. The party decided to John Thomas Hoskyn was born in Southampton in 1844, the son of a Clerk to the continue their measurements and Godin stayed with them until 1741 when he went to Ordnance Survey. There were two brothers who also entered the Navy. He served as Lima and remained there for another nine years before returning to Europe. 2nd Master on board HMS “Hydra” in the Mediterranean in 1865, before returning to England to join the newly commissioned HMS “Nassau”, where he was promoted to Navigating Sub Lieutenant. In December 1868 he left the survey ship on his promotion 159 HOSKYN (Lieut John RN). Manuscript Journal, Royal Naval Surveying to Navigating Lieutenant and joined HMS “Aboukir” at Jamaica, part of her complement 1865-68. On board HMS “Surprise”, Captain Stokes, surveying Cephalonia, of Surveying Officers. He served there until he sadly died at the age of 30 in 1875. Ithaca and Zante in the Ionian Islands, 1865, then on board HMS “Nassau” surveying the Straits of Magellan and Patagonia, 1866-68. yankee revolutionary in chile Thirty-seven watercolours, 6 pencil illustrations, 2 coloured maps and 3 loosely 160 JOHNSTON (Samuel B.) Letters written during a Residence of Three inserted photographs. Folio. Original paper covered boards, fore-edges worn, Years in Chili, containing an Account of the most remarkable events in the revolutionary struggles of that province with an interesting account of the loss of a Chilian ship, and brig of war, by mutiny, and the consequent imprisonment and sufferings of several citizens of the United States, for six months, in the dungeons of Callao.

First edition. 8vo. Original plain boards, untrimmed, somewhat shaken, spine partially perished, scattered foxing, else a very good copy in original state, with half morocco box, spine gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription of John Leymour to title, Thomas W. Streeter’s copy, with his pencil notes of provenance on front pastedown. [9], 10-205pp. Erie, Pensylvania, R.I. Curtis, 1816. £7950 An extremely rare account by a Yankee revolutionary in South America, this copy owned by both Thomas W. Streeter and Frank S. Streeter, with the former’s pencil notes on the front pastedown. After briefly describing the voyage from New York to Valparaiso, the author details his involvement with the Chilean Revolution against Spain during the years 1812-14. While in Chile he established the first newspaper there, La Aurora. Henry Wagner relates in his memoirs of how he almost bought a copy of this rarity at a Chilean auction (“...there was one [book], however, which almost made my heart stop beating...”), but was outbid by a prominent local publisher who happened to be a good 110 maggs bros ltd south america 111

friend as well. france and brazil compared “...Johnston had taken part in the revolution 162 LERY (Jean). Histoire Memorable de la Ville de Sancerre. Contenant les against Spain, and in all had a most exciting time. Entreprises, Siege, Approches, Bateries, Assaux & autres efforts de asiegeans: Johnston arrived at Chile in a voyage around the le resistances, faits magnamimes, la famine extreme & delivrance notables Horn in the fall of 1811 and in due course travelled des asiegez, Le nombre des coups de Canons par journées distinguées. Le from Valparaiso to the capital at Santiago where catalogue des morts & blessez a la guerre, sont a la fin du livre. J.R. Poinsett was Consul-General and the Carreras in charge of the government. There is much authentic material about the Chilean First edition. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, with gilt lozenge, restored, with revolution” (Streeter). Streeter Sale, 4136 (this one or two small blemishes internally with the loss off one or two letters. [viii], copy); Sabin, 36385; Wagner (Bullion to Books), 254pp. Np, but [La Rochelle?], 1574. £12000 pp.230-31. Not listed by Shaw & Shoemaker; Not Published before both his own, and Thevet’s, accounts of the French expedition to Brazil in Hill. in 1555, this rare work describes the infamous siege of Sancerre where Léry was an eye- witness. At once harrowing and matter-of-fact, this is a brilliant account of the siege, (the last where trebuchets were used), peppered with references to Léry’s experiences in the New World, in which he compares conditions in the Brazilian jungle to the less than noble savagery of Europe. It is thus one of the few works to draw from the experiences of the expedition and one of the rare few sixteenth century texts where the difference in Old and New World cultures is examined in counterpoint; the sonnet on the verso of the 161 LA CONDAMINE (Charles title being an example: Marie de). Journal du Voyage fait par Qui vouda voir une histoire tragique, Ordre du Roi a l’Equateur, Servant d’Introduction Historique à la Mésure Ne lise point tant les livres divers des Trois Premiers Degrés du Méridien. Grecs & Latins, semez par l’univers, First edition. Large folding and one other map, folding panorama, plan of Monstrans l’horreur d’ Amerique & the city of Quito & 3 other plates. 4to. Fine contemporary speckled calf, red d’Afrique. morocco label to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, with particularly attractive marbled endpapers. [ii], xxxvi, 280, xv, [i]blankpp. Paris, l’Imprimerie Royale, Qu’il jette loeil sur Sancerre l’antique, 1751. £1250 Il y verra des ennemis pervers, Without the supplement, issued in the following year. The Academie de France Canons, assaux, coups a tors, a travers. desptached two scientific expeditions in 1735, one to the Arctic and one to the Equator, in order to take measurements which would enable a more exact calculation of the earth’s Et tous efforts de la guerriere pique. circumference. La Condamine travelled to South America with fellow scientists Bouger Combat terrible, & plus cruelle faim, and Godin, using Quito as their base, since it sits on the Equator. With the information gathered in Equador and in the Arctic, the savants were able to establish that the earth Ou de l’enfant la chair seruit de pain. was flatter at the Poles. Borba I, p447; Rodrigues, 702; Sabin 38490. O ciel ! o terre! o grand Dieu! quel ouvrage! Qu’en moins d’un an un seul lieu face voir 112 maggs bros ltd south america 113

Plus de pitiez, que ce que peut avoir oblong folio. Contemporary half vellum, the atlas bound to match, a little foxed Tout l’univers de hideux en partage. here and there, but in general a fine copy. Frankfurt, 1820-1821. £8750 “Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, taking advantage of peace reigning in Europe, took This grisly reference to the occurence of infant cannabalism in Sancerre is later described the oportunity of exploring a part of Brazil, such an interesting country, which was and juxtaposed with the author’s experiences in the New World at some length, with a still almost unknown to Europe. Encouraged by the reception which had been given to particularly gruesome account of a Brazilian barbecue. There are a number of other Mawe by the Regent D. Joao and not wanting to explore the same territory... he preferred references, some slight some more lengthy; for instance Lery acknowleges his debt to the to follow the Atlantic coast from Rio de Janeiro upwards. In this city he met two of his Indians when designing a hammock. Borba describes the work as “full of reminiscences countrymen, Preissreis and Sellou - the latter an excellent botanist - with whom he of Brazil”. undertook the journey which started from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia, with an excursion to “Unlike so many other travellers he had no belief in European superiority and [he] Minas. The book is most interesting in that it shows us what the interior of Brazil was establishes many parallels between Europe and the Americas, between Christians and like at the time of Independence. The author not only describes us the flora (thanks to pagans generally to the advantage of the latter” (Speake). his companion Sellou) but also the condition and customs of the Indians, whose tribes he knew best, especially that of the Botocudos. In fact at the end of volume II there is to This work is most uncommon and no copy is recorded to have been sold at auction since be found a vocabulary of the various tribes.” Rodriguez B.B., 1576; Borba, p544; Maggs 1975. Alden (European Americana), 574/33; Borba I, p46/7 (“This work is very rare”); cf. Brazilian Books (1930), 285; Bosch, 321. Speake ( Literature of Travel and Exploration ) p709.

164 PAGAN (Count Blaise Francois de), HAMILTON (Wm.) trans. An Historical large paper copy and Geographical Description of the Great Country & River of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers Authors, and reduced into a better forme; 163 MAXIMILIAN (Prince Wied-Neuwied). Reiser nach Brasilien in den Jahren with a Mapp of the River, and of its Provinces, being that place which Sr. 1815 bis 1817. Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his Voyage to Guiana. Large paper copy of the text volumes. 2 vols. plus atlas. Atlas: 3 maps (one folding) & 22 engraved plates, 5 of these hand-coloured; text: 19 vignettes.4to & 114 maggs bros ltd south america 115

First English edition. Folding map. 12mo. Attractive unrestored contemporary mottled calf, slightly worn at extremities. [xxx], 153, [1], [6]pp. London, John Starkey, 1661. £7250 In the dedication of the original French edition Pagan calls on Cardinal Mazarin to “take posession of the Amazon and establish several colonies. He proves that it would not be a difficult enterprise and large armies and many pieces of artillery would not be necessary. The map drawn by Pagan is of great importance as a proof of the French ambitions in the Amazon regions...” (Borba). However, in the English edition here, the translator William Hamilton urges the Kind of England to take the same action in his “Epistle Dedicatory”. It is accompanied by the same map as found in the first edition. “This translation is rare...” (Borba). Borba II, p646.

165 RESENDE (André). Deliciae Lusitano-Hispanica: in quibus continentur De magnitudine Hispanici Imperii Re. Novo Orbis reionum a Lustinais subactarum brevis descriptio...

First edition. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. 48, 346, [6]pp. Cologne, Greuvenbruch, 1613. £1500 Rio and contributed illustrations to a number of works printed there between 1827 and A scarce book, of which there is only a single copy recorded in the US (JCB), it has a 1830 when he was under contract to lecture at the Military Archive. He seems to have short section on the New World in which Drake’s exploits are mentioned. The remainder returned to Switzerland in about 1832 where he published a series of large loose views of the volume concerns classical inscriptions found on the Iberian peninsula. Borba, of South America and the above album. According to Borba the book was issued with a p.750; Maggs BA, 4126 (this copy); Not in Alden. variety of dates from 1834 to 1839. The views shown are as follows: “Bota Fogo”; “Vista Tomada de Sta. Thereza”; “St. Joao coloured plates of rio de Carachy, a Praya Grande”; “Moro de Castello & da Praya d’Ajuda”; “Novo Friburgo (Colnia Suissa, ao Morro Queimodo)”; Igreja de St. Sebatiao”; “Largo de Paço”; “Ilha 166 STEINMANN (J.) Souvenirs de Rio de Janeiro dessinés d’après nature... das Cobras”; “Plantaçao de Café”; “Caminho dos Orgaos”; “Vista de N.S. da Gloria et da Barra do Rio de Janeiro”; “Vista do sacco d’Alferès & de St. Cristovao”. Each plate is 12 particularly fine highly finished hand-coloured lithograph plates with ascribed to a particular artist, with 9 being by Steinmann himself, two by Kretschman original tissue guards, laid onto buff sheets. Oblong 4to. Modern straight grain and one by Victor Barrat. They were all engraved by Frederico Salathe. Borba de Moraes, green morocco, titled in gilt on upper board, with original buff printed wrapper p. 839; cf. Sabin, 88693. (comprising title within elaborate lithograph border incorporating Brazilian scenes & vegetation) bound in. Paris, chez Rittner et Goupil, but [Basel, 1835]. £22000 This is a lovely copy of an exquisite and rare book; the plates are so finely coloured and heightened that they might easily be taken for original gouaches, the workmanship being the equal of the very best Swiss view books of this period. This copy is entirely unaffected by oxidization which frequently occurs with this work. Steinmann was Swiss by birth and emigrated to Brazil in 1825. He set up a studio in 116 maggs bros ltd central america and the west indes 117

streeter’s copy of the plantin thevet CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE WEST INDES 167 THEVET (Fr. André). Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique, Autrement nommée Amerique, & de plusiers Terres & Isles decouvertes de notre temps. 169 ALBERMARLE (Earl of). Gazeta Extraordinaria de Londres, publicada por Auctoridade. Second edition. 41 small woodcuts in the text. Small 8vo. Early, wrinkled and stained vellum, the last 15 leaves lightly stained in the margin. [xvi], 163, [2]ll. Folding map of . Small 4to. Later marbled wrappers, rebacked, with Antwerp, Plantin, 1558. £22000 paper label to upper. 64pp. Lisbon & Whitehall, Miguel Rodrigues, 1762. £850 This elegant printing was preceeded by one of the two issues of the Paris edition. The woodcuts are reversed copies from the first edition. They revealed Brazilian Indians in Scarce. Albermarle’s report of Admiral Pocock’s capture of Havana in July 1762. Despite their natural habitat, animals, etc for the first time, and were much copied, influencing, his inexperience, Albermarle was put in charge of military operations, and decided to among others, Lery, Benzoni and De Bry, one famously shows an indian smoking a attack the fortress of El Moro, which dominates the mouth of the harbour, instead of cigar. the city itself. After four days a mine was “sprung under a seaward bastion of El Morro, the breach was stormed and the fortress taken. Havana itself was now bombarded and, Like Lery, Thevet was one of those who chose to accompany Villegagnon in his attempt after the arrival of American reinforcements, was completely surrounded. The city to found a colony on an island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro. Interdenominational surrendered on 13 August” (DNB). rivalries bubbled to the surface as the enterprise met difficulties. Thevet returned to France in 1556, and wrote this work, it is one of the key texts of the period, and along with Staden also printed in 1557 gives one of the earliest full accounts of Brazil to appear army victualling in the british west indies in Europe. Thevet chose to place his account in the context of other discoveries in the New World and there are chapters on Peru, Florida and eleven on where he is 170 [BARBADOS IMPRINT] Existing Regulations Connected with thought to have visited. Commisariat Department in the Windward & Leeward Islands & Colonies in the West Indies, Condensed & Collected up to Present Date. 168 WEBSTER (W.H.B.) Narrative of a Voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, First edition. 4to. Contemporary wrappers, some insect damage to lower outer In the Years 1828, 29, 30, Performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer, under the edge (not touching text), 3-page ms. Command of the late Captain Henry Foster, F.R.S. &c... index preceding title, with attractive red morocco-backed slipcase, spine titled First edition. 2 vols. 2 maps (1 folding) & 5 plates. 8vo. Fine nineteenth-century in gilt. [vi], (blank), [iii](ms. index), half green morocco, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments. xii, 400; viii, [ii], 55pp. Bridge-Town, Barbados, W. 298pp. London, Richard Bentley, 1834. £1250 Walker, 1823. £2500 Kimbolton Castle copy, with shelf mark label neatly affixed to front pastedown of both Exceptionally scarce. A combination of volumes. “Dr. Webster was the surgeon on board this British expedition to southern factors including the climate and economic waters to take pendulum observations and to chart Staten Island and the South decline has meant that nineteenth century Shetlands....The commander, Captain Foster, and been astronomer to Sir William Barbadian imprints are even more scarce Edward Parry on his third voyage and was himself a distinguished Arctic explorer. In than those printed in the eighteenth 1831 Foster was unfortunately drowned in a accident in Panama towards the end century. This comprehensive guide to army of this voyage. Among the officers were Lt. H.G. Austin and Sir Richard Collinson, rationing includes details of the allocations both of whom were later involved in the search for Sir John Franklin. The Chanticleer to women, children, the sick and “Colonial visited Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Patagonia, Staten Island, the South Shetland Islands, Negroes”. It is interesting to note that the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, and several Brazilian and Spanish South American the widows and orphans of officers only ports” (Hill). Hill, p612. received rations for up to 90 days following 118 maggs bros ltd central america and the west indes 119

their husbands’ deaths - thereafter they were no longer the responsibility of the Crown. However, the widow did receive her husband’s full ration for this period (less rum and fresh beef) whereas a wife received the equivalent of only one half of the full ration (again less the alcohol and fresh beef).

presentation copy 171 BROCKLEHURST (Thomas U.) Mexico To-Day: A Country with a Great Future, and a Glance at the Prehistoric Remains and Antiquities of the Montezumas.

Second edition. Coloured map, 17 chromo-lithographs & 37 other plates. 8vo. Original publisher’s decorative red cloth, gilt, expertly rebacked, old spine laid down, new endpapers. xv, [i], 260pp. London, John Murray, 1883. £125 With the following presentation inscription on the front free end paper: “For W.H.S. Aspinwall, with the authors best wishes. Henbury Park. Nov 12th 1884”. The author is perhaps best known for introducing the North American grey squirrel into Great Britain, when he released a pair in grounds of his home Henbury Park in 1884.

family presentation copy 172 BUDAN ([Louis Armand]). La Guadeloupe Pittoresque.

First edition. 12 lithograph plates, including decorative half title & large folding panorama (this with a closed tear expertly repaired). Folio (555 by 400mm). Fine original publisher’s blindstamped cloth, titled in gilt on upper board. [iv], 44pp. Paris, Noblet & Baudry, 1863. £5500 An uncommon work and probably one of the last of the few plate books devoted to the West Indies. With a fine presentation inscription from the author’s eldest son and heir Even Budan to the upper margin of the title page: “A Monsieur A. Arnaud / Souvenir affectueux / [En. Budan] Beneath there is further presentation inscription from Monsieur Arnaud: “Mon cher Commandant / Recevez ce faible souvenir, c’est l’oeuvre d’un vos amis de collège, de ce pauvre Budan qui était aussi mon ami. Songez a lui meme en parcourrant, et aussi au modests edecin que a été votre hote. A qui l’honore d’être; votre... [A Arnaud] Born on Guadeloupe in 1827 Budan was well known as both a painter and as one of the first photographers in the Antilles, exhibiting at the Paris salons in 1863 and 1867. In November 1862 he launched a subscription for La Guadeloupe Pittoresque which was to 120 maggs bros ltd central america and the west indes 121

be published in 12 livraisons (4 francs per part or 48 francs complete). The subscribers made to the external which lead to Green’s conviction extremely doubtful could, if they wished, have the album bound with their initials stamped in gilt on the testimony. It was a trial which “rip’d up an old sore, and made the people of Scotland upper board. The finished items arrived in Guadeloupe in December 1863 and were put apprehend that it was a new Scene of Darien Tragedy by which they lost 200,000l near on sale at the beginning of 1864 at the price of 50 francs for a bound copy. He died in 1500 and several valuable ships besides the loss they sustain’d in honour and reputation.” Saint-Pierre on Martinique in 1874.

175 JOHNSON [(J.)] An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island of the liberator of haiti Antigua.

173 COUSIN ([Charles Yves] d’Avalon). Histoire de Toussaint-Louverture, First edition thus. Seven fine hand-coloured aquatints, a lithograph vignette, chef des Noirs insurgés de Saint-Dominigue; Précédée d’un Coup d’Oeuil one engraved folding hand-coloured map & two lithograph maps on each side politique sur cette Colonie, Et survie d’anecdotes et faits particuliers of a single sheet. Large oblong folio. Original boards with fine gilt label on upper concernant de Chef des Noirs, et les Agens directoriaux envoyés dans cette cover, rebacked with new leather corners. [28]pp text. London, “Printed for the partie du Nouveau-Monde, pendant le cours de la révolution. Author”, 1832. £37500

First edition. Fine engraved portrait frontispiece. Original blue decorative wrappers, some light wear to spine, large margins, edges uncut, with modern drop-back box. xii, 211pp. Paris, 1802. £1850 The rare first edition of Cousin’s biography of Pierre-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1746-1803), liberator of Haiti, who became an icon for the newly independent countries of Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. Born a slave, he was able to acquire a good education and was made superintendent on the plantation. When the slaves revolted against the owners of the plantations in 1791, they were trained and organised by Toussaint-Louverture into a strong army and fought off the invading French authorities. When Napoleon came to power in 1799, he sympathised with the plantation owners and planned to re-instate slavery in the French colonies, but nine months after Toussaint’s death, Haiti declared independence, forcing Napoleon to surrender his possessions in the New World. In 1796, Toussaint was named commander-in-chief of the armies of St. Domingo, and renounced the authority of France and called himself “Buonaparte of St. Domingo”, but was taken prisoner under a charge of treachery and died in prison at Joux (near Besançon), where he died in April 1803.

174 [GREEN (Capt. Thomas).] A Vindication of the False Aspersions laid against the Judges of Admiralty in Scotland by Green’s Associates in England. Johnson had originally conceived a magnificent colour plate book covering the entire Second edition. Folio. Contained in a cloth slip case. 2pp. Edinburgh, 1705. British West Indies which was to be published in parts. His plan was “to convey a £675 faithful outline of the existing state of slavery on the plantations in the British islands; - the costume of the negroes;- process of sugar making &c: combining at the same time First printed in London. The author argues that the the unfortunate Green was convicted a selection of such scenes calculated to form pictures, and describe the character of the and hanged on the evidence of his own crew, all Englishmen, with the exception of scenery in the several colonies”. Antonio Fernando a moore. Other English objections are countered, but reference is By 1827 the firm of Smith Elder had published the first two of three parts which 122 maggs bros ltd central america and the west indes 123

eventually comprised eleven plates and a map. However the high cost of production coalition brought the Mexican War of Independence to a close with a dramatic march and the difficulty in attracting subscribers crippled the project and it was abandoned. into the capital on September 27, 1821. This act led to him being named President of the Johnson, who had most probably funded the project from the start, retained at least six Regency and Constitutional Emporer. However, Iturbide soon proved unpopular and of the plates, and published them as above, adding one further view of Old North Sound remained in power for little less than a year. His economic policies left the country in that had not been issued before. This second attempt at publication could hardly be ruins and, having been overthrown, he was sent into exile in 1823, which he spent in judged a success as Johnson succeeded in finding orders for only sixty-five copies, and a both Italy and then England. printed note pasted in suggests that the capital expense of production precluded copies being available for non-subscribers. With the printed signatures of Melchor Muzquiz and Fernando Navarro, this document states clearly that Iturbide is regarded as an enemy of the state (“declarado enemigo The plates, which are among the most beautiful of the West Indies, are titled as follows: publico del Estado”) and that anyone caught assisting him (or any other foreign invader) 1. Saint John’s Antigua from Otto’s; 2. Saint John’s Harbour Antigua from Southward to return to Mexico will be regarded similarly. and Eastward; 3. View Near Saint John’s Antigua from Gambles; 4. View of Saint John’s Harbour, Antigua from Friar’s Hill; 5. View in Old North Sound Antigua from Mount With Iturbide in exile, the situation in Mexico continued to deteriorate and rumours Joy; 6. View in Old North Sound Antigua From Freemans; 7. English Harbour Antigua. that Spain was to launch another invasion reached Iturbide’s supporters. He was led to cf. Abbey (Travel), 678; Tooley, 285. believe he would be received as the national saviour on returning to Mexico. Doubtless, he sought to emulate Napoleon’s return from Elba. This document was printed not long before Iturbide returned to Mexico on July 14. He revolt in new spain was arrested and executed by firing squad just five days later. In the years following, his reputation was rehabilitated and as of 1839 his ashes are kept Chapel of San Felipe de 176 [MEXICO] [ANON.] Memorial de lo Sucedido en la Ciudad de Mexico. Jesús in the Mexico City Cathedral.

Wrappers. 25ll. [Mexico, 1624] £4500 This very rare tract consists of 25 leaves (though Sabin states 28) and was apparently the fishes of the carribean / a cuban imprint printed in Mexico in 1624. It outlines the quarrel between Don Diego Carillo de Mendoza 178 PARRA (Antonio). Descripcion de diferentes piezas de Historia Natural las y Pimentel, Marquis of Gelves, seventeenth Viceroy of Mexico, an uncompromising and impulsive ruler subject to severe fits of temper, and Archbishop Juan Perez de la mas del Ramo Maritimo... Serna. Pimentel’s hotheadedness lead him to a disastrous intervention in the complex hydrodynamics of Mexico city which lead to inundation and ultimately to the revolt of First edition. 75 plates (2 folding, one hand coloured) Small 4to. A clean & bright his subjects. The rebels were given a temporal lead by Pedro de Vergara Gaviria, a senior copy in later morocco, elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. 195, 5(index)pp. Habana, En judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico, and a moral lead by the Archbishop. Matters la Imprenta de la Capitania General, 1787. £22000 became so destabalised that in January, 1624, the Viceroy was obliged to seek sanctuary in the Convent of San Francisco, from where later in the year he returned to Spain. The first significant publication on Cuban zoology. It is also the first illustrated work This pamphlet is written in support of the Archbishop. Pimentel responded to it in two printed in Cuba, the plates accounting for nearly half the island’s production of printed pamphlets published in Spain in 1625. Sabin 69212 & 69233. images in the eighteenth century, and moreover it is probably the most ambitious illustrated work printed in the Americas up to this date. Medina, Vol. II., No. 772; Sabin, 47628. A Portuguese naturalist, Parra was sent to Cuba by the Spanish government to collect natural history specimens on behalf of the Botanical Garden of . Parra stayed on 177 [MEXICO] [ITURBIDE (Augustin de).] Decree declaring Augustin de the island for thirty years and his Cuban-born son, Manuel Antonio, etched the plates Iturbide a traitor. for the illustrations. Most of the work is devoted to fish and crustacea. Sixty different species of fish and Small folio. 2pp. Mexico, April 30, 1824. £1750 twenty-three crustaceans are discussed and illustrated, though there are also numerous images of turtles, eels and maritime plants. The plates are all extremely well produced Having reached the rank of general, Augustin de Iturbide’s military and political 124 maggs bros ltd central america and the west indes 125

author’s presentation copy 179 RANKING (John). Historical Researches on the Conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, In the Thirteenth Century by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants; and the local agreement of History and Tradition, with the remains of Elephants and Mastodontes, found in the New World... [With] Supplement to the Conquest of Peru and Mexico...

First edition. 2 folding maps & 4 plates. 8vo. Modern buckram-backed boards, with printed paper label to spine. [iv], 479, [1]ads., 51pp. London, 1827. £450 With a presentation inscription to the upper margin of the title from the author to the noted physician and author Sir Alexander Chrichton. Sabin, 67891.

the dangers of “black power” addressed 180 SHARP (Granville). “The System of colonial law” compared with the eternal laws of God; and with the indispensible principles of the English Constitution.

Only edition. 8vo. A fine copy in contemporary wrappers, with paper label. 20pp. London, Richard Edwards, 1807. £950 Rare. Published on the eve of the vote on the motion of 2 February 1807 made in the House of Commons for the abolition of the slave trade, this work responds to a petition presented to the House of Commons by West Indian planters and merchants that outlined “numerous solemn assertions of very alarming circumstances to be apprehended by the passing of the intended bill”. Sharp believed that if he could undermine one particular premise of the petition, the entire edifice would collapse. He focused on the eighth paragraph where the petition states “that the operation of the Bill, if it shall pass into a Law, will be to violate the system of colonial law relative to property, &c”. Before he even examines the claim of the West Indian planters and merchants that the bill violates colonial law, Sharp asks the wise question - does colonial law violate English and detailed. Curiously, the final three images depict a thirty-two year old man with an law or natural law? He concludes that “all must argee ... that ‘the system of Colonial enlarged hernia. “Law”’ which tolerates slavery and oppression, is absolutely contrary to the laws of God, Of additional interest is that Parra was the first to diagnose the potentially fatal disease national [corrected in manuscript to read “natural”] and revealed, and, of course, is ciguatera, a toxic organism that passes up the food chain. Parra, and twenty-one others contrary to the English Constitution”. suffered from this after eating a Cubera in March 1786. The resulting publication is not Sharp continues that promoters of the bill believed that after the slave trade ended, only a landmark document but also particularly beautiful. A scarce work. The last copy slavery itself would wither and eventually die since the most effective means of its appeared at auction in 1985. Medina (Havana) 90; Palau 213308; Nissen (Zoologie) 3094. sustenance would be cut-off and hoped that “some prudent regulations would of course 126 maggs bros ltd north america 127 be soon adopted to supercede the other”. Sharp points out that he himself does not hold NORTH AMERICA this belief and that the recent petition by the West Indian merchants and planters has necessitated the declaration that “the whole system of colonial law is totally illegal, and inconsistent with every just principle of English law”. Here Sharp is not only addressing 181 An Account of the number of inhabitants in the colony of Connecticut, 1774: the planters but also his fellow members of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade who disagreed with him in the early days regarding the approach that they together with and account of the number of inhabitants, taken January 1, ought to take. Sharp believed that slavery itself ought to be the focus of their attack 1756. from the very beginning but his more moderate colleagues, fearing that in aiming for too much they might lose all, opposed him. It was at this early date that Sharp declared: First edition. Oblong folio. Nineteenth-century quarter morocco, title within “with respect to myself, individually, when acting with them, professing that my own decorative typographic border, extremities slightly rubbed. 9ll (rectos only). opposition is aimed not merely against the slave trade, but also the toleration of slavery Published by order of the General Assembly Hartford, Ebenezer Watson, 1774. itself” (cited in Anstey, Roger. The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition 1760-1810. £3250 London, 1975. p. 256). Scarce. The Rosebery copy. One of the key objections by the West Indian planters and merchants is that the abolition of the slave trade will encourage a slave revolt similar to the one that occurred This breakdown of the Connecticut population is organised by age, gender and race on the island of Haiti the “BLACK POWER” whose very existance was a bad example (including figures for Native and African Americans). Published just a year prior to the to the neighboring islands. According to the planters and merchants, Haiti affords outbreak of the American War of Independence, demographic studies such as these “a memorable and dreadful lesson, recorded in characters of blood, of the issue of were in all likelihood used in the establishment of local militias. Indeed, it was in this doctrines intimately, constantly, and inseparably connected with ‘the abolition of the year that the Seventeenth through Twenty-second Connecticut militias were raised, Slave-Trade’.” Sharp argues that “gentle and merciful measures are certainly the best which included the reorganisation of the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 11th militias. Evans 13206; means of preventing insurrection, and bloodshed” and that the only “BLACK POWER” Sabin 1563. to fear in the world is the devil and that “even the petitioners themselves seem entangled in the toils of this Kidnapper”. The final section of the work is an “Extract of a letter ... on the Extreme Wickedness, and one president eulogises another total Illegality of Tolerating Slavery in any Part of the British Dominions” (pp. 13-20). 182 ADAMS (John Quincy). An Eulogy on the Life and Character of James According to ABPC no copies have appeared at auction in the last thirty years. Monroe, Fifth President of the United States.

Sole edition. 8vo. A very good uncut copy in original printed wrappers, lacks rear wrapper. 100pp. Boston, John H Eastburn, 1831. £650 Incribed “George Alexander Otis. Presented to him at Quincy, by John Quincy Adams, propia manu [with his own hand] May 29th, 1839.” The incription is not in Adams’s hand, though one wonders if this was a gift to George Alexander Otis, the prominent army surgeon born in Boston in 1830, who later became curator of the Army medical museum in Washington. Adams served as Monroe’s Secretary of State and succeeded him as the sixth President. He was the son of the second President, John Adams. The town of Quincy, Massachusetts, Adams’s birthplace, was named after his mother’s paternal grandfather Col. John Quincy. As Secretary of State Adams achieved renown for contributing the Monroe Doctrine, which asserted American neutrality and warned of further colonization of the Americas by European powers. He was also a leading opponent of slavery. 128 maggs bros ltd north america 129

183 [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] [ANON.] Opium Eating. An autobiographical This pamphlet is a compilation of letters and documents leading to the creation of the sketch. By an habituate. first coloured regiments. Published in 1864, it is a clear endorsement of the policy and the breadth of contributors shows how widespread and, in certain quarters controversial, First edition. 8vo. A fine copy in original green cloth, gilt, contemporary the idea was. advertisement laid down to front free endpaper. xii, 13-150pp. Philadelphia, Born in Massachusetts, Charles Sumner was a lawyer and politician. An adamant Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1876. £850 abolitionist, he is perhaps best known for suffering a beating at the hands of Preston Brooks on the floor of the senate. After an absence of several years he returned to help A fascinating prisoner of war account in the Confederate States and possibly the first full lead the Civil War. In the lead up to the 1860 presidential election, he delivered a famous length memoir of an American opium addict. speech, “On the Barbarism of Slavery”. He was the leader of the Radical Republicans Although the author entered the Union army as a drummer, he was required to fight in during the civil war and led antislavery forces in his home state. He worked closely with every battle his regiment engaged in. He was captured on the first day of the battle of Abraham Lincoln, having been appointed chairman of the US Senate Committee on Chickamauga in September 1863 and was initially held at Richmond. Later transferred to Foreign Relations. His actions in this capacity prevented the involvement of France and Danville, he was then interred at Andersonville (“grim Leviathan of Death!”), the most England in the civil war. Along with his counterpart in the House of Representatives, notorious prisoner of war camp in the American civil war. The narrative is unstinting Thaddeus Stephens, Sumner was considered one of the foremost exponents of black in its description of the cruel treatment administered, the effects of starvation, scurvy rights in America. Sabin, 57594n and smallpox, and some unexpected kindness. In 1865, he was exchanged as a prisoner and allowed to return home. The treatment he received for a stomach complaint led to an addiction to opium and this account includes a full description of the physical author’s presentation copy and mental states relating to his addiction. The work also includes a discussion of De Quincey and Coleridge’s experiences. 185 [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] PATTERSON (General Robert). Narrative of the Campaign in the Valley of Shenandoah in 1861.

author’s presentation copy to charles sumner Fifth thousand. Frontispiece map. Large 8vo. Original brown cloth, slightly sunned, small chip missing from headcap. 128pp. Philadelphia, John Campbell, 184 [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] O’RIELLY (Henry). First Organization 1865. £175 of Colored Troops in the State of New York, to aid in suppressing the Slaveholder’s Rebellion. Statements concerning the origin, difficulties Presentation inscription reads “Professor Charles Davies with respectful compliments of Genl Patterson.” and success of the movement, including official documents, military testimonials, proceedings of the “Union League Club,” etc. Patterson’s distinguished career included service in the war of 1812 and the Mexican War after which he retired having attained the rank of Major-General. At the beginning of the Civil War he joined the military once again and held command of the military First edition. 8vo. Original orange printed wrappers. 24pp. New York, Baker & department of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and District of Columbia. He was Godwin, 1864. £500 instructed to retake Harpers Ferry from a relatively small Confederate army. Patterson The inscription on the bottom of the printed wrapper reads “Hon. Chas Sumner with hesitated to comply and was subsequently defeated at the battle of Hoke’s Run. This in respects of Henry O’Rielly” turn led to a confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run.

On June 9, 1863, the Committee of the New York Association for Colored Volunteers This work presents a strident defence of the author’s actions throughout. obtained an interview with President Lincoln and presented a memorial which read in part: “Extensive observation and inquiry among the colored people of the Free States have convinced your memorialists of the patriotism and devotion of this portion of our fellow-citizens, and of their willingness to bear their full share of the burdens, dangers, and privations of the war against the rebellion.” 130 maggs bros ltd north america 131

[AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE] [ANON.] British Artillerymen “Should he be unsuccessful in the present contest I am now more convinced than I was with Two Cannons. in Decr. last that he will pursue the Dons... at that time I mentioned to your Lordship. Situated as Great Britain is, I consider his success of great consequence to her being properly convinced he sees the propriety of forming the closest [ties] with G.B. and Watercolour on laid paper. Measuring approximately 90 by 210mm. Docketed at [the] same time circumscribing the overgrown power of France, by which, without verso in a contemporary hand reading “Cap Lyon Oct 2, 1776.” £275* exertion in the executive, this country will soon be governed. My friend Gen Wn. has A charming watercolour showing a British officer, a gunner, and two three-pounders of already been of great service to Mr. Burr and he will still more have it in his power to “Grasshoppers” as they were known. The “Grasshopper” was a popular artillery piece be so, as he some days ago set off for the western parts of the State where he has the during the Revolutionary War as it was light and easy to move over the often poor roads. first influence and is indeed looked up [to] as is a Highland Chief by his clan. Should Mr. Burr become Governor of this State or President he will I have no doubt in either or both situations properly appointed his services, and study to return them in the way aaron burr in the west most conducive to Gen Wn.’s present views.... Provided that government supports him with that liberty they have done others of much less deserving.” 186 ARMSTRONG (William). Two long ALS addressed to Lord Melville [then We have managed to find little detail on William Armstrong; however, a British Officer Secretary of State]. of that name later served with Bolivar.

16 pp. including one integral address leaf. New York 27th March 1804 & 17th April 1804. £4500* 187 BULLOCK-WEBSTER (Harry). A small group of drawings made in British Columbia where the artist was a Hudson’s Bay Official. In the first letter (which is evidently the second he had sent Melville), Armstrong gives a detailed account of Vera Cruz which he saw as a possible strategic target for British arms. He then gives a resume of political events in the United States... I ventured to Nine watercolour & pen and ink sketches, on 8 album sheets (or parts thereof). state an opinion that the Union of the States was not likely to be of long continuance... Fort McLeod and elsewhere, 1876-79. £3500* proceedings in congress have been more like a show in a beer garden... from this is Born in 1855, the artist of these sketches was taken on as a Hudson’s Bay Company however to be excepted the minority of federal members who though small in number cadet in 1874 and by 1878 found himself in charge of the trading post at Fort Connelly, are gentlemen... Should Mr Burr not be successful in the present election, I am now on Bear Lake in Northern B-C. After leaving school another career he had considered more convinced than I was when I last wrote that he will repair to the Western side was that of an artist, and he put these, it has to be said rather slender, skills to good use of the mountains... and here carry into effect the idea I suggested which if properly sending in sketches to the Graphic magazine for a series of illustrations depicting life attended to may prove most beneficial to GB.” in the Rockies (several of these prints, both coloured and uncoloured, cut from the The second letter gives over several pages an illuminating account of the discord magazine, are present in addition to the drawings.) Although not an especially talented existing between the Gov. Claiborne and the French and Spanish subjects in Louisiana. draughtsman, his work does have an immediacy and charm that brings to life the lonely Armstrong strongly advocates the annexation of the Floridas to gain a foothold on existence the HBC’s frontiersmen. Even more fortunate is the fact that the artist has the mainland and undermine Spanish influence in the Caribbean, especially in Cuba. left a brief account of his life in a scarce work published when an old man, From the “Possession of the Floridas would also give the instant command of the Gulf of Florida Hudson’s bay Company to New Zealand published in Ludlow in 1938, a copy of which is and I have every reason to believe would be the means of the inhabitants of Cuba moving included with these drawings. themselves under the protection of Great Britain. Another very great advantage would a. [Two scenes] “How we tried to see the old year out” amd “New years Morning I am convinced result from it, that British subjects who have come out to this country Trying to feel “happy” [Fort McLeod], pen ink and washes, signed and dated 1879. 200 finding themselves disappointed or deceived in the advantages they expected to receive by 325mm. in it would immediately flock [there] like so many repentant children.” Armstrong gives a most disparaging account of Claiborne and Jefferson, “neither he nor Claiborne have b. [Three scenes] “We make a pudding for Xmas”, “and eat it all” & “ the effect the next spirit to act with any decision...” and continues with his interpretation of the New York morning N.B. Puddings are henceforth forbidden at Fort McLeod”. Pen, ink & washes, state election: signed and dated 1879. 200 by 325mm. 132 maggs bros ltd north america 133 c. [Allegory of the New Year depicting two frontiersmen confronted by an elk and a fox] presentation copy from the author captioned “Drawn on New Year’s Morning 1879 to my cousins with best wishes for the New Year Harry B-W.” Pen, ink & washes. 200 by 325mm. 188 CHANDLESS (William). A Visit to Salt Lake; being a Journey across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlements at Utah. d. My dogs & Cariole a Christmas card from the “Wild North Land” pen ink & washes, nd. 190 by 320mm. First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Original blind-stamped orange pebble-grain e. [Voyageurs ] Pen & ink. Signed. 180 by 320mm. cloth, slightly dust soiled. xii, 346, 16ads.pp. London, 1857. £675 f. [Self-portrait dressed in fringed buckskin with admiring squaw in the foreground With a presentation inscription to the upper margin of the title page: “Kevin(?) Gream with Fort Connelly or McCleod? in the background.] Sepia watercolour heightened / From the Author”. with white. Signed and dated 1876. 265 by 160mm. “Highly commended by the Critic, Leader and National Review” according to Sabin, this g. “A Grizzly.” Sepia watercolour. 230 by 150mm. books still makes good reading today, taking the form of both the narrative of a journey West across the Plains and a description of the Mormon settlements. Sabin, 11889. h. [An unidentified fort the same as in f. from a slightly different angle]. Pen ink & wash. 185 by 90 mm. i. “A Bunny” of the Far North. Pen & ink c90 by 100mm. author’s presentation copy The University of British Columbia have ninety-two of his sketches in their collection. 189 EVANS (William). Agricultural Improvement by the education of those who are engaged in it as a profession addressed very respectfully to the farmers of Canada.

First edition. 12mo. Original blindstamped plum cloth, sunned, original paper label, lacking front free endpaper. 105pp. Montreal, 1837. £450 The presentation inscription reads “To the Editor of the Minerva. Very respectfully from the author.” Evans (1786-1857) was born in Co Galway, Ireland, and arrived in Lower Canada in 1819. Having some experience in fattening livestock in Ireland, he settled on a 150 acre farm at Comte-Saint-Paul and became one of the most dynamic farmers in Montreal. His appointment as secretary of the Agricultural Society of the District of Montreal around 1830 led to some renown and his work with agricultural societies continued right through his life. Evans served as secretary on the Agricultural Society of Lower Canada in 1847 and then on the Board of Agriculture of Lower Canada in 1852. Evans was fiercely opinionated and his concerns for progress in the field of agriculture spurred his work as a journalist. He contributed to both the Montreal Courier, the Montreal Gazette and quite possibly Le Minerve to whose editor this work was presented. In addition to journalism he produced a series of books, the first Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Agriculture was published in 1835. 134 maggs bros ltd north america 135

the first published account of the lewis & clarke Lower Canada: “We pass along delighted through a beautiful rural country... The inhabitants are always not only civil, but polite and hospitable...” Not in Sabin. expedition 190 GASS (Patrick). A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, 192 HAKLUYT (Richard). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and under the Command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke of the Army of Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or overland... Divided into the United States, from the Mouth of the River Missouri through the Interior three severall Volumes ... The First... toward the North and Northeast by Parts of North America to the Pacific Ocean, during the Years 1804, 1805, & Sea... The second... to the South ans South-east. The third... to all parts of the 1806. Containing an authentic relation of the most interesting transactions Newfound world of America, or the West Indies. during the expedition: A description of the country: And an account of its inhabitants, soil, climate, curiosities and vegetable and animal productions. First editions. 3 vols in 2. Small folio. Nineteenth-century straight grained blue morocco, a.e.g., silk endpapers, gilt. [xxiv], 620, [xvi], 312, 204; [xvi], 868.[six Second (first English) edition. 8vo. Attractive contemporary polished calf, spine leaves supplied from another copy ]. London, Ralph Newberie and Robert lettered in gilt, joints repaired, a very clean copy, with fine endpapers. iv, 381, [2] Barker, 1598 - 1600. £21000 ads.pp. London, J. Budd, 1808. £6750 “The most complete This second edition is scarcer than the Pittsburgh first edition and is not listed in the collection of voyages and NSTC. At this period one would expect a London production to be superior, and this discoveries of the nautical is certainly the case here. The English publisher’s two-page introduction is dated April achievements of the 1808. Elizabethans” (Hill). As is well known, Gass’s was the first account of the Lewis and Clarke expedition to be Hakluyt’s work ranks with published, appearing just six months after the ‘Corps of Volunteers of North Western Ramusio as one of the Discovery’ returned to St. Louis. Gass was one of twelve men to enlist at Fort Kaskaskaia seminal publications in the in Illinois Territory, where he was serving in the US army, when Lewis and Clarke sailed history of exploration. The down the Ohio River looking for volunteers. A carpenter by trade he was one of the first lecturer on modern seven men (including Lewis and Clarke themselves) to keep a journal of the overland geography at Christ Church, expedition from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. Oxford, Hakluyt was later With the bookplate of Sir Thomas Munro on the front pastedown. appointed chaplain to the Paris embassy and then rector of Wetheringsett. A sailing instructions for the st. lawrence correspondent of Drake, Mercator, Raleigh and 191 [GOULD (Nath.)] Instructions for making Gaspè, and Mitis and Rimouski, Frobisher, he initally oversaw in the River St. Lawrence. the translation of European accounts into English, though by 1589 had sufficient First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers, these slightly dust soiled, sewn as issued. material to publish the first [ii], 3-16pp. London, Gould, Dowie, & Co., 1832. £475 edition of his work. Hakluyt With the following inscription to the upper margin of the front wrapper “To the was an active proponent of Statistical Society of France / from the writer Nath’ Gould.” empire building through maritime exploration and Although written primarily in order to provide printed instructions for “masters of spent the following decade vessels bound to Mitis and Rimouski” the author waxes lyrical about travelling through both documenting and 136 maggs bros ltd north america 137

proposing voyages to the New World. He clearly understood the value of exploration lincoln mourning piece as much of the text concentrates on the expansion of trade. As such, Hakluyt may be viewed as a significant figure in the foundation of the British Empire. 194 [LINCOLN (Abraham).] WE MOURN! OUR CHIEF HAS FALLEN!

The first volume is devided simply into voyages to the south and south east, north Letterpress broadside with a single rule border measuring 480 by 620mm. and north east, and voyages to the west. The second is more properly devoted to the Old tears expertly repaired with two minor instances of ink filled in and paper Mediterranean and the Cape of Good Hope. His support of American colonisation is reflected in the content of the third volume to which it is almost entirely devoted. restored, a pencil ms. inscription reading “Feb 15th 1865 Death of Abraham Lincoln President of US”. Loag, Fourth and Chestnut, [Philadelphia, 1865]. Of African interest is “The Voyage of Thomas Stephens about the Cape of Buona £2250 Esperanza unto Goa” and “The memorable Voyage of Mr James Lancaster about the Cape of Buona Esperanza, along the Easterne coast of Africa.” This copy includes the 1720 facsimile of the Cadiz leaves, which were originally suppressed at Queen Elizabeth’s behest, following the disgrace of the Earl of Essex. The title page of volume one is in its first state, retaining the refences to Cadiz. As usual it is lacking the world map. (The map is sufficently uncommon to doubt whether it was issued with all copies of the work). Bell, H10; Borba de Moraes, pp391-92; Church, 322; Hill (2nd ed), 743, 745; JCB III, I:372-74; Mendelssohn I, pp668-9; Palau, 112039; Penrose (Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance), p318; Printing & The Mind of Man, 105; Quinn, The Hakluyt Handbook, pp490-497; STC, 12626; Sabin 29596, 29597.

193 JOHNSTONE (Walter). A Series of Letters, Descriptive of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulph of St. Laurence, addressed to the Rev. John wightman, Minister of Kirmahoe, Dumfries-shire. [Bound with] Travels in Prince Edward Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence, north America, in the Years 1820-21... First editions. Folding map. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, slightly worn at edges. iii, [4]-72; xi, [12]-132pp. Dumfries, J. Swan, 1822 & Edinburgh, David Brown, 1823. £1500 “The Author of these Letters went out for the express purpose of surveying Prince Edward Island, and collecting information on the subject of Emigration. During two Summers, and one Winter, he was assiduously engaged in the prosecution of this object; and the small Volume now presented to the Public, will be found to contain a full and particular Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, and Mode of Husbandry A rare survival. We can only locate two copies, one at the Library of Congress, the other adopted in the Island; together with Sketches of Scenery, Manners of the Inhabitants, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. &c. &c.; the whole being intended for the guidance of future Emigrants, particularly as to what Implements and Necessaries it may be proper to provide themselves with before In the wake of Lincoln’s assassination, a great deal of memorabilia was produced to crossing the Atlantic”. Sabin, 36400, 36401. mourn his passing - from silk ribbons to badges and medals. Broadsides such as this were displayed in train stations along the route of his funeral train that retraced his path through seven states from Washington to Illinois. This is less elaborate than those printed with Lincoln’s portrait or images of the US flag, yet the simplicity of its stark message on a white background is arguably more powerful. 138 maggs bros ltd north america 139

195 MARESTIER (Jean-Baptiste). Mémoire sur les bateaux à vapeur des Etats- at anchor in a none too safe position he sent a boat ashore to look for a better one, but Unis D’Amerique. the party never returned. After waiting some time he sent a few men in his only other boat after the first party, and they never returned. He was now in a difficult position, First edition. 2 vols. 4to & folio. 17 engraved plates (1 double-page). Contemporary without boats and with fifteen men missing. He therefore, concluded to return. He sailed northward and saw Mount St. Elias. Finding that the coast was turning westward he half calf, rebacked, extremities rubbed & quarter green roan, a little rubbed. [iv], had to take the same direction. He finally passed around east of the Alaskan Peninsula, 290, [1errata]pp. Paris, Imprime Royale, 1824. £3750 rounded the islands to the south, and reached home in October. The day he put into Uncommon especially with the atlas volume. Prepared by the officers of the French port Deslisle died of scurvy. Bering pursued much the same course from near Mount Ministry of the Marine, this thorough dissertation on contemporary American St. Elias, which he discovered, but went far enough west to name a few islands and then steamboats was part of a wider effort to track advances in the field. The combination followed the same course as his companion but died on December 8, on Bering’s island of technical drawings, history, location and detailed analysis of the boats makes this where he was wrecked in November. In the following summer Steller with the remnant undeniably the best work in the field. Sabin, 44523; Polak, 6384; Howes, M282. of the party reached home” (Wagner). Muller’s text of this portion of the above is known in a French translation and a well known English version done by Jefferys (L-M 17). Lada-Mocarski notes of Jeffrey’s the first full accounts of bering’s expedition translation “that at times some parts - occasionally important ones - of Muller’s text were either omitted from the translation or incorrectly rendered. For anyone speaking 196 MULLER (Gerhard Friedrich). Sammlung Russischer Geschichte. German it is therefore desirable to study Muller’s original work.” [Containing]: Nachrichten von Seereisen und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen, die von Russland aus längs den Küsten des Eismeeres There is also a very important account (some 20 pages) of an expedition under Captain Spangenberg who set out in 1739 from Kamtschatka with two ships to explore the and aus dem östlichen Weltmeere gegen Japon und Amerika Japanese coast. The ships were separated in a storm and both filed reports describing geschehen... their encounters with Japanese in Honshu and the Ainu in Hokkaido. In both cases they were given supplies and treated in a friendly manner. The Russians were aware of the Part 3 of this collection, itself containing 6 parts. With the very rare map, fact that Japan was a closed country and were careful not to offend or attract suspicion. coloured in outline, with one or two little tears, but no loss. Large folio & small Text not in Sabin or Streeter; Howes, M875 (b); Lada-Mocarski, 15; For map see: Wagner 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [ii], 612, 43pp. St. Petersburg, Kayserl. Akademie I, p157 & II, p 591; Streeter, 3457. der Wissenschaften, 1758 - 1760. £7500 This is the second state of the Muller’s map, with the date altered from 1754 to 1758 and the first narrative of a magician in america with a slightly altered title. It was this issue which the author refers to in the text of the Sammlung, although the two seem not actually to have been issued together. 197 OEHLER (Andrew). The Life, Adventures, and Unparalleled Sufferings of Andrew Oehler Containing An Account of his Travels through France, Italy, The first three parts of the text (some 300 pages) begin with an extensive summary of voyages in the North Pacific including the first Bering expedition during which the the East and West Indies, and parts of the United States; his imprisonment strait was named. Further on there is the first extensive printed account of the second in France, Germany and Spain: and the latitude, soil, climate, productions, Bering expedition: “the chief result... [of which] was to establish the existence of a vast manners and customs of the different countries. Alaskan peninsula” (Wagner). It concludes with a resumé of recent discoveries and a discussion on cartographic matters of roughly 50 pages. First edition. 12mo. Modern half calf, marble boards, spine gilt with the usual Wagner gives a good precis of the second Bering expedition: “It was not until June 1741 foxing and spotting. 226pp. Printed for the author, [Trenton, N.J.], 1811. £1850 that the expedition of two vessels set sail from Kamchatka, Bering was in command of Scarce. Oehler was the first known magician to visit America. Born in Frankfurt, the St. Peter and was accompanied by Steller; Peter Chirikof accompanied by Delisle Germany, Oehler travelled through the greater part of Europe before embarking for the commanded the St. Paul. Shortly after the vessels became separated and in July Chirikof Americas. Arriving in Baltimore in 1800, his account relates all manner of misadventures discovered the American coast in Latitude, according to him, of about 56° 15”. While across both Mexico and the United States in the first decade of the nineteenth century. 140 maggs bros ltd north america 141

In fact, this is an early example of a form that would come to dominate American letters, illustrated by Plate 2, which is entitled Carte d’une Partie de l’Amérique Séptentrionale, the picaresque tale of a likeable ne’er-do-well. qui contient partie de la Nle. Espagne, et de la Louisiane (approx. 315 by 415mm). The map shows New Orleans and the Red River as far North as Nachitoches in the upper Much of Oehler’s time in America was spent in the Deep South including episodes right quadrant, with “Province de los Texas” to the West, and Mexico, as far South as in Nashville, Charleston, Columbia, Mississippi, Augusta and Natchez. Indeed, Acapulco on the Pacific coast, beyond. In addition the tribal lands of Native Americans a contemporary advert in a Natchez paper serves to corroborate this portion of the are marked, including those of the Apaches and Tegas. cf. Hill 1285; Sabin, 58168; Clark story. Oehler has numerous run-ins with the law and is never far from destitition. He I, 285. is imprisoned in Mexico as a result of having learned ‘Legerdemain’ in a bid to pay off his debts before returning to the United States where he eventually settles in New Jersey. Howes, O25; Sabin, 56732. 199 [PASSIONFRUIT] [PARLASCA (Simone).] Copie de la Fleur de La Passion de Nostre Seigneur.

a journey through texas Letterpress broadside (325 by 410mm) the double column text enclosed within 198 PAGES (Pierre Marie François). Voyages Autour du Monde et Vers les Deux printed border, incorporating engraved botantical image (215 by 130m). The Poles par Terre et par Mer, Pendant les Années 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, paper has been skillfully repaired, and the border restored with facsimile inserts, 1773, 1774 & 1775. damage to the text has not been replaced and a small amount of text is lost, the engraving remains almost entirely untouched bar a small repair in the caption. First edition. 2 vols. Seven large folding engraved maps (including one A Cavaillon ce 10 du mois de Juillet, Thomassi Theiologal, 1610. £3500 showing Texas & Mexico), one large folding & 2 other folding plates. 8vo. Fine contemporary French mottled calf, red morocco labels to spines, these richly gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, neat library stamp to lower outer margin of half titles. [iv], [5]-432; [iv], [5]-272pp. Paris, Chez Moutard, 1782. £3250 Born in Toulouse in 1748 the author of this extraordinary work joined the French Navy in 1766 and was posted to St. Domingo. Obtaining leave to travel he sailed to New Orleans and thence up the Mississippi, continuing up the Red River to Nachitoches by canoe. From there he travelled overland through Texas to San Antonio before going on to Mexico City and Acapulco where he took a passage to Guam and then Manilla. Unable to visit China, he voyaged westward through the Straits of Malacca to Muscat and up through the Persian Gulf, finally reaching Marseilles in December, 1771. An “inveterate traveller” (Clark), Pagès was selected to join the unsuccessful second voyage of Kerguelen in search of the “Great South Land” in 1773. Since Kerguelen was dismissed from the service and imprisoned, and his account suppressed, the good account of the voyage which Pagès gives is particularly important. It is in some respects fuller than Kerguelen’s own, but never once mentions his captain’s name, evidently owing to the trouble that had occurred. To complete his travels Pagès sailed in a Dutch whaler to the north of Spitzbergen. After service in the American war he made a second voyage round the world and eventually retired to his estate in St. Domingo where he was killed in the slave uprising of 1793. The author’s journey through Texas occupies about sixty pages of this work, and is 142 maggs bros ltd north america 143

This intriguing, and apparently unique, broadside is derived partly from a pamphlet vessel to enter San Francisco Bay. In December 1796 the same ship arrived in Hawaii written by Parlasca and published under the title Il Flore della granadigla... (Bologna which is described over some forty pages from pp135 to 175. 1609) in which the passionfruit was first properly described; the engraved illustration Forbes (Hawaiian Nat. Bib.), 585; Hill, p230; Lada-Mocarski, 89; Sabin, 61001; Streeter, follows closely the woodcut used in that work. Another work by Giacomo Bosio La 3513; Ferguson, 980. Trionfante e Gloriosa Croce (Rome, 1610) has a different woodcut and repeats Parlasca’s notion connecting the flower to the Passion. The passionflower was not actually so named in print until 1651. signed by the extraordinary nicolas perrot The specimen (or drawing) which Bosio examined seems to have been brought to him by an Augustinian, Emmanuel de Villages, presumably a missionary returned from the 201 PERROT (Nicolas). Voyageur Contract signed by the two voyageurs and New World. The flower was first noticed in Europe in the works of Cieza de Leon and Nicolas Perrot (know to various Indian tribes as “Ironlegs”). then later by Monardes. Manuscript in ink. 2pp. Folio. July 1688 and later August 1689. £7750* northwest coast in the eighteenth century A remarkable survival from the far west 200 PERON (Pierre François). Mémoires du Capt. Péron, sur ses Voyages aux of French colonial America. côtes d’Afrique, en Arabe, a l’ile d’Amsterdam, aux iles d’Anjouan et de “Sr. Nicolas Perrot, Seigneur of the Mayotte, aux côtes nord-ouest de l’Amerique, aux iles Sandwich, et la Chine. “Riviere du Loup”, on one part and Raphael Beauvais & Nicolas Gode of First edition. 2 vols. 4 folding engraved maps & 2 folding lithograph plates. this island, on the other part” signed Contemporary quarter morocco, a little worn. [iv], v, 328; [iv], 359pp. Paris, by all three, and others outlining a two 1824. £2750 year expedition for fur trading with the conditions of their employment; their M. Brissot-Thivars, a friend of Péron’s, edited the journals, in his own words “giving provisions and recompense. With a reality the charms of a novel”. His efforts produced one of the most entertaining second paragraph in a different notarial accounts of the merchant seaman in the later years of the eighteenth century. Péron had hand dating from 1689 concluding the many extraordinary adventures, and visited in the course of his quest for both whales agreement signed again by Beauvais, and seals many then obscure destinations. For instance, he was left in charge of five but not by his partner. seamen on remote Amsterdam Island for forty months, midway between Australia and South Africa, in order to collect sealskin for the China trade. During his stay the One of the most extraordinary Macartney mission on its way to China paid a visit and Péron showed them over the characters in the opening up of the island. However, Péron’s companions mutinied and the author spent a considerable time west during the French colonial period, marooned on the desolate spot in fear of his life. Perrot arrived in New France with the Jesuits in 1660 and formed a fur trading In 1795 he visited New South Wales (where the ship picked up the absconding Thomas company in what is now Wisconsin Muir) and various south Pacific islands before reaching the northwest coast of America seven years later. He’d taken advantage of the opportunity to learn the native languages in May 1796, where he was again employed in the fur trade. One month later his ship and was engaged as a translator for the French commissary Daumont de Saint-Lusson, entered Nootka Sound, where Péron met the infamous Macuina, whose duplicitousness whose remit encompassed the territories of the , Amikwas, Illinois, and other and cruelty are described in some detail. Sailing northward the ship made several stops Indian natives to be discovered in the direction of Lake Superior. In this role, Perrot before reaching Alaskan waters at Bucareli Bay which is shown in one of the maps. continued to trade furs and received a land grant near Quebec. Péron gives many descriptions of his dealings with the natives he encountered and records how friendly those to the north were as compared with the natives of Nootka. “As French commandant in the region of (present) Wisconsin Perrot undertook expeditions to the upper Mississippi. Cold weather and frost, which broke his , Péron was also aboard the Boston registered ship Otter which was the first American 144 maggs bros ltd north america 145

prevented his return to Sioux country so Perrot and his companions built a wintering presentation copy post at the foot of a mountain, behind which was a great prairie abounding in wild beasts. The site was near the present town of Trempealeau located about twenty miles 203 PRICE (James P.) Seven Years of Prairie Life. north of La Crosse along the Mississippi River” (Howgego). First edition. 8vo. Fine original pictorial cloth, headcap repaired, missing back His reputation rests largely on his involvement in Indian affairs. In 1684, he brokered free endpaper. xii, 88pp. Hereford, Jakeman & Carver, 1891. £450 a peace treaty between several Indian nations and the Governor’s army. A year later he was made Commandant-in-Chief of Bais Des Puants and had some success in With the following presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: “To M.L. Hill establishing peace between the warring Fox, Sioux and Chippewa tribes. In 1687, Perrot / With the best wishes of the / Author / Christmas 1900 / Earlswood / nr Chepstow / acted as an interpreter for the treat between the Governor and Otreouti, the Onondaga Mon.” chief, who promised the neutrality of the Onondagas, Cayugas, and Oneidas. He was also responsible for French claims on the unmapped wildneress west of the Great Lakes. A somewhat cautionary narrative, in which Price gives details of his immigration to Kansas and the six winters and seven summers that he and his wife, and their growing At the time of this document, Perrot was engaged in building Fort Saint-Pierre at the family spent there, farming on the prairies. Having experienced “the destructive mouth of the Wisconsin River. He was one the most important figures of this period. His cyclone... the terrible hailstorm... the bitter northern blasts... the long-continued activities as an explorer, diplomat and trader were vital in promoting peace throughout drought... the flashing of lightning...” they decided to return to “old England.” New France. At the time that his “little volume of... personal experiences of life on the American Perrot is also of particular interest as he is one of the very few early pioneers to have left prairie” was published James P[hilip] Price was, according to the 1891 Welsh census, a written record of his exploits. It was not published until 1864 Memoires sur les moeurs, living with his wife and three children (all born in Kansas) in Hereford, where his coustumes et relligion des sauvages de L’Amérique Septentrionale. occupation was listed as a farmer. Ten years later, in 1901, shortly after he presented this copy as a Christmas gift, he and his family (now with 4 more children) are found at Starvenacre in Shire Newton (of which Earlswood is a part) where he is now identified 202 PIKE (Zebulon Montgomery). Exploratory Travels Through the Western as a grocer and farmer. Kelly’s Directory of Monmouthshire for the same year, also lists Territories of North America: comprising a voyage from St. Louis, on the him as a shopkeeper at Starvenacre. Mississippi, to the source of that river, and a journey through the interior of Louisiana, and the north-eastern provinces of New Spain. Performed in the years 1805, 1806, 1807, by order of the government of the United States. the first account of the ozarks 204 SCHOOLCRAFT (Henry R[owe].) Journal of a tour into the interior of First edition. 2 maps (1 folding). 4to. Late nineteenth century calf, gilt, morocco Missouri and Arkansaw from Potosi, or Mine à Burton, in Missouri Territory, labels to spine. xx, 436pp. London, printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, in a South-West Direction, toward the Rocky Mountains; performed in the and Brown, 1811. £5000 years 1818 and 1819. One of the most important inland travel narratives, giving an account of the South-west, including the author’s description of his earlier journey to explore the headwaters of First edition. Large folding map. 8vo. Twentieth century green half morocco, the Mississippi. The two maps are among the first of the area executed by a government spine gilt. 102pp. London, Phillips, 1821. £650 expedition. Sabin, 62837; Howes, P373. Departing Potosi on 6 November 1818, the author and Levi Pettibone travelled nearly 900 miles meeting many new settlers en route to what is now Springfield, Missouri. It was during this expedition that Schoolcraft travelled into the Ozark Mountains which overlap northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. Schoolcraft is renown for his work in both ethnology and geography. In 1832, he discovered the source of the Mississippi River. Howes, S-185; Sabin, 77858. 146 maggs bros ltd north america 147

205 SEEMANN (Berthold). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald during 207 SEYMOUR (Capt. Michael). Twelve Views of Canada. the Years 1845-51. Under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett... Being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and three cruises to the Arctic Regions in Watercolours and pen & ink drawings. Laid down on cream card, captioned in Search of Sir John Franklin. ink, some occasional foxing. Quebec & Montreal, August – September, 1846. £10000* First edition. 2 vols. in 1. Two tinted lithograph frontispieces & a folding track Third son of the Rear Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, he entered the navy in 1813 and chart. 8vo. Original blue cloth, front hinge of vol 1 worn. xvi, 322; [viii], 302, (2), made his way through the ranks serving in Algiers, South America and the Pacific. He 16ads.pp. London, 1853. £2000 spent three years (1845-8) as flag captain on the Vindictive in North America and the West A good copy of this important voyage, during which Kellett’s planned survey of the Indies station. Seymour saw action in the Crimea under Napier and was commander in Pacific coast of Central America was cut short in order to assist the search for Franklin chief of the East Indies Station, which included China during the Second Opium war. and his crew. The Herald made two summer excursions beyond the Bering Straits in Having attained the rank of Admiral in 1864, Seymour retired six years later. 1849 and 1850, and the ship visited the Sandwich Islands on two occasions. Most of the first volume describes the west coast of Latin America. Sabin, 78867; Lada-Mocarski, 141; Hill p.271.

published a month after the fire 206 SEWELL (Alfred L.) “The Great Calamity!” Scenes, incidents and lessons of the Great Chicago Fire of the 8th and 9th of October, 1871...

First edition. Folding frontispiece map. Fine in original green cloth, gilt. 100pp. Chicago, Alfred L. Sewell, November, 1871. £150 A beautiful copy of this uncommon work. Published in the month following the fire, it begins with a brief, though detailed, history of the city, documenting its expansion and prosperity from its establishment until the eve of the fire. Sewell then provides a near block by block account of the fire from De Koven Street, where a kerosene lamp was knocked over in a barn, to the moment when it was extinguished 36 hours later. There is a heartrending description of the effect of the fire on the population. The map extends from just north Lincoln Park south to 67th St. Almost certainly one of the first maps of Chicago to be printed after the fire, the area affected is marked in green. Sewell was notable for his fundraising efforts during the Civil War. He created the Army of the American Eagle, which involved children selling images of Old Abe, the Eighth Wisconsin’s Infantry’s eagle. The Army raised $16,308, an enormous sum at the time. Seymour is renowned for the many images he produced while abroad, and these include some lovely examples of his work. He executed these drawings and watercolours at the latter stage of this time, when Montreal was the capital of the Province of Canada. The images are as follows:

1. “Quebec from the Road leading to below the Montmorency Falls Sep 8 1846” 148 maggs bros ltd north america 149

2. “Natural Steps on the Montmorency River Sep 8 Canada” 209 [TEXAS] Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation, Provisional 3. “Falls of Montmorency near Quebec Tuesday Sep 8 1846” Government of Texas and the Convention, which assembled at Washington March 1 1836. 4. “Kingston. Canada from the Dock Yard side of the Bridge Monday Sep 14 1846” 5. “Brockville on the St Lawrence Canada Tuesday Sep 15 1846” First (only) edition. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt. 156pp. Houston, National Banner Office, 1838. £4000 6. “Quebec from Mount Lilac Beauport G Ryland’s Esq Sep 11 1846” The provisional government of Texas was led originally by Henry Smith and lasted from 7. “From the higher part of Quebec looking down the St Lawrence Sep 18 1846” November 15, 1835 until March 1, 1836. The following day, during the siege of Alamo, 8. “Montreal from the Mountain Thursday Sep 17 1846” Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Texas won formal independence on April 21 with the victory over Mexican forces at the Battle of San Jacinto and remained an 9. “Montreal from St Helen’s Island on the St Lawrence Sep 16 1846” independent nation until 1845 when it officially joined the United States. This landmark document establishes the structure of provisional government, the creation of a militia 10. “The Mill at Loretto near Quebec Sep 10 1846” and navy. Sabin, 94959; Streeter, Texas, 246. 11. “Douglas Town. Gaspe Bay from HMS Vindictive Anchorage Aug 25 1846” 12. “Cape Haldimand. Bay of Gaspe entrance to Gaspe Harbour. Aug 25 1846”

208 [STEWART (Sir William Drummond).] WEBB (J. Watson) editor. Altowan; Or incidents of Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains. By An Amateur Traveler.

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Particularly fine original red pictorial cloth, gilt. [ii], [ii], iii-xxix, 255; [ii], 3-240pp. New York, Harper & Bros., 1846. £2250 Although based on Sir William Drummond Stewart’s sporting trips during the 1830s it seems most likely that these two volumes were written by Webb himself. Field gives a most amusing description of the book: “An English officer... fell... into the hands of that eminent tuft-hunter James Watson Webb. The Englishman, an ardent sportsman spent five years, from 1832 to 1837 in the wilds between the Mississippi and the Pacific. The journal of his adventures, among and residence with the Indians, was, together with his verbal narrations, edited by his American friend...” Sir William invited the young artist Alfred Miller to accompany him on his 1837 expedition when he led about forty-five trappers and hunters out West to the annual rendezvous of trappers at Horse Creek in the Wind River Mountains near the present- day Idaho-Wyoming border. Miller produced vast numbers of drawings of the frontier landscape as well as intimate scenes of native American life, which he later worked up on the East Coast. Field, 1632; Howes, S-991; Sabin, 91392, Wagner Camp, 125.

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ARCTIC & ANTARCTICA 211 [BRITISH ARCTIC EXPLORATION, 1875-76] [NARES (Captain George S.)] 210 BARROW (Sir John). A Copeland Dinner Plate. A Chronological History of of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; Measuring 9 inches diametre. A brown rope border with an exhibition crest in Undertaken Chiefly for the the centre, gilt. [London, 1875]. £2500* Purpose of Discovering a North- A fine example of the expedition’s crockery. East, North-West or Polar Passage Between the Atlantic and Pacific... Nares was recalled from H.M.S. Challenger on arrival at Hong Kong in 1874 to lead the British Government’s Arctic expedition, the aim of which was to reach the Pole by way of Smith Sound. The expedition was equipped with two ships Alert and Discovery and, First edition. Folding, linen-backed though unsuccessful, on May 12, 1876, a sledging party led by Albert Hastings Markham frontispiece map & 3 illustrations to reached a latitude of 83° 20’26”N, which was a record at that time. text. 8vo. Nineteenth century calf, gilt, black morocco label to spine. [iv], 380, 48[appendix]pp. London, 212 [BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1910-13] A stainless steel dinner John Murray, 1818. [With] BARROW knife. (Sir John). Voyages of Discovery and Research within the Arctic Measuring 255mm with plain shaped handle stamped with B.A.E. Terra Nova Regions from the year 1818 to the logo. Sheffield, W&H (manufacturers), c.1910. £1200* present time... First edition. Portrait A knife from the ward room of the Terra Nova. frontispiece & two maps (1 folding linen-backed). Contemporary calf, gilt, black morocco label to spine. 213 CRANTZ (David). The History of Greenland: containing a Description of xiv, 530pp. London, John Murray, the Country and its Inhabitants: and particularly, A Relation of the Mission, 1846. £2000 carried on for above these Thirty Years by the Unitas Fratrum, at New Herrnhuth and Lichtenfels, in that Country. The Lighthouse Trust copy with its distinctive binding. First English edition. 2 vols. 2 folding maps & 7 folding plates (most with 2 The first volume covers the history of Antarctic exploration from Frobisher through images). 8vo. Fine contemporary polished calf, joints repaired. [iv], lx (2 leaves to Mackenzie on the eve of Buchan and Ross’s departure. The second volume picks up misbound after title), 405; [ii], 498pp. London, 1767. £975 where the former leaves off and produces accounts of Ross and Buchan, Parry’s four voyages and Franklin’s two. Together they provide an overview of the search for the Crantz provided much information on Greenland’s flora and fauna, but gave particular North-West Passage from the early era of Scandinavian navigation up to the time of emphasis to the Inuit in his account of Greenland. The plates show “Greenlanders” going publication. about their daily lives: with illustrations of “Kaiak”, “” (women’s boat), harpoons, and a tent, amongst other items. It is interesting to note that Crantz was the first writer Along with Banks and Scorseby, Barrow was instrumental in promoting renewed efforts to record rolling, of which he gives ten examples, a vital survival skill for the Inuit to discover the North West Passage. His efforts were subsequently acknowleged with hunter. the naming of the Barrow Straight in the Canadian Arctic, as well as Point Barrow and the town of Barrow, Alaska. He retired in 1845 to concentrate on writing his Voyages of Discovery. Cox II, 492; Lada-Mocarski, 76; Lande, 940; Sabin, 3660 & 3669. 152 maggs bros ltd arctic & antarctica 153

an extraordinary antarctic letter 215 HURLEY (Frank). The Endurance in the Weddell Sea, midsummer sunset. 214 EVANS (Edward R. G. R.) The letter of condolence written to the widow Original carbon tone print measuring 385 by 482mm. Framed & glazed. of Petty Officer Edgar Evans expressing his sympathies and referring to the February, 1915. £8500* character of the deceased: one of the Antarctic immortals. A beautiful shot with the Endurance in the background. Hurley served as official Written in ink on both sides of a photographer for both Shackleton and Mawson. The purpose of Shackleton’s 1914 sheet of expedition notepaper, with expedition was to mount the first crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole. Far from the embossed penguin motif. Dated making a successful crossing, the expedition failed to even reach the main land. The Endurance became trapped in the ice and was subsequently crushed by the . “Terra Nova” RYS At Sea Feb 5 13. Together with the original envelope addressed in Evans distinctive hand with three New Zealand one penny presentation copy of the instructions & manual for the stamps over printed “Victoria Land” nares expedition with bold strikes of the expedition 216 JONES (T. Rupert) ed. Manual of the Natural History, Geology and Physics frank with further frankings from of Greenland and the Neighbouring Regions; prepared for the use of the Lyttleton, Wellington, Auckland, Arctic Expedition of 1875, under the direction of the Arctic Committee of Portsmouth, Bristol and Swansea. the Royal Society. 1913. £7500* British Naval Officer and Antarctic First edition. 3 large folding charts, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Explorer (and later Admiral) Evans Original printed cloth, slightly dust soiled. vi, 86; xii, 783, [1]pp. London, Eyre & served as second-in-command on Spottiswoode, 1875. £1500 Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. While we must infer from With printed presentation slip: “Presented by the Lords Commissioners of the the phrasing of his opening remarks Admiralty” (under whose auspices this work was published). that Petty-Officer Evans’s widow already In a letter received in 1874 the Royal Society were requested by the Admiralty to provide knew of the her husband’s death, nevertheless this touching ALS is the official letter of any information which “might appear to them desirable in regard to carrying out the condolence from the leader of the expedition. scientific conduct of the voyage” which was to set out for Greenland and the Arctic in “He lost his life for the honour of his country, and the British Navy will be proud of the Spring of 1875. The results are to be found here, with eighty-six pages of Instructions having possessed such a brave man. His “grit” will for ever be an example to the lower and a Manual of some 783 pages, which includes pieces by Sir John Ross, Sir Clements deck, his ability was remarkable and I wish to convey to you from the whole expedition Markham, John Rae, and Sir Edward Belcher. our sorrow.” The expedition was led by Captain (later) Sir George Nares, who was recalled from Edgar Evans “a huge bull-necked beefy figure” had served under Scott before he began H.M.S. Challenger on arrival at Hong Kong in 1874. His instructions were to lead the polar exploration. He was chosen for the Discovery expedition, and then again for Terra British Government’s Arctic expedition in the Alert and the Discovery to the North Pole Nova , Scott overlooking his occasional drunken lapses. He was found to be such an by way of Smith Sound, a task which was found to be impossible. invaluable member of the crew that he was chosen for the Polar party. It is difficult to read this remarkable letter without seeing it as premonitory of so many similar letters that would be written during events which would soon engulf Europe, and where the grit of the men “below decks”, and the “other ranks” was so severely examined. 154 maggs bros ltd arctic & antarctica 155

217 MACCLURE (Commdr. Robert). The occupys most of the first volume, with only the final 50 or so pages, concerned with the North West Passage. Capt. M’Clure’s Parry 1827 voyage. Volume two includes material on the 1852 expedition to search for Despatches from Her Majesty’s Franklin where McCormick made a distinguished boat journey, (the narrative of this Discovery Ship, “Investigator”, off adventure was actually published separately at the time). Point Warren and Cape Bathurst. Rosove mentions that this work was published in an edition of 750 copies, in the autumn of the author’s life; he gives a total of 7 variants, the last three of which contain First edition, thus. Folding engraved “Memorandums and Opinions of the Press” (16pp). This copy is the variant “f”. map. 8vo. Sewn as issued, a little paper McCormick was eighty-four when he published these memoirs; they are handsomely restoration to the margins of the title bound volumes and very well illustrated, but five years after publication less than 375 copies had sold. We know from the variations in the bindings recorded by Rosove, 4 succeeding leaves. 48pp. London, that the binding work was done in batches, and one may reasonably assume that many John Betts, 1853. remaining copies were never bound. Had there been a “remainder” of perfect copies, £3750 one would expect to see a high proportion of fine copies, whereas the reverse is true. A number of pamphlets were issued in Rosove, 221. 1853 relating to the North West Passage (see item 742 catalogue 1102). This one includes MacLure’s despatch dated April 219 NANSEN (Fridtjof). The First Crossing of Greenland. 5th 1853. It was published before news of the successful outcome of the expedition First edition. 2 vols. Portrait frontispieces, 5 coloured folding maps & 10 had become known. T.P.L. records only a plates. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, silver gilt, a remarkably fine copy with no copy of a fourth edition of this pamphlet restoration xxii, 510; x, 509, 24ads.pp. London, Longmans & Co., 1890 which has been expanded by the addition £1200 of 10pp. Not in T.P.L. but cf. 3372. Having sailed through the waters surrounding Greenland in 1882, Nansen returned six years later where, accompanied by five others, he made the first crossing of Greenland from east to west. His detailed account includes lengthy discussions on equipment a beautiful copy and preparations, a history of previous attempts to cross the island, and ethnographic 218 M’CORMICK (Dept. Inspector General R.) Voyages of Discovery in the information on the eskimo, as well as the scientific results. Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the world: being personal narratives of A lovely copy of a work that is usually found bruised and shaken. attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of an open boat-expedition up the Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin and Her majesty’s Ships “Erebus” and “Terror” in Her Majesty’s Boat “Forlorn Hope” under the 220 PONTING (H.G.) The Terra Nova at the Ice-Foot. (Illustration Overleaf) command of the author. To which are added an Autobiography, Appendix... Green tone carbon print, slightly faded. 740 by 600mm. Original Fine Arts First edition. 2 vols. 3 maps (1 folding), numerous lithograph & woodcut plates, Society oak frame. Ponting’s blindstamp in lower right corner. c.1913. with illustrations in the text. Tall 8vo. Exceptionally fine original pictorial cloth £5500* gilt. xx, 432, xii, 412, 16pp. London, 1884. £5750 “For several days after our arrival scarcely a ripple disturbed the surface of the sea. The The author had “the good fortune to be engaged in three of the most memorable Terra Nova was wonderfully picturesque as she lay berthed alongside the ice; she was of expeditions of the present century: with Parry, in his attempt to reach the North Pole, in a type nowadays seldom met with on the seas, and her square-rigged masts and rugged the year 1827; with Ross, in his Antarctic voyage during the years 1839-43; and having had hull, mirrored in the water, lent great effect to my pictures” (Ponting The Great White command of a boat expedition in search of Franklin in 1852-53...” The Ross expedition South). 156 maggs bros ltd arctic & antarctica 157

german antarctic expedition in wrappers 221 RITSCHER (Capt. Alfred). Die Deutsche Antarktische Expedition. 1938- 1939 mit dem Flugzeugstutzpunkt der Deutschen Lufthansa A.G.M.S. “Schwabenland”...

First edition. 2 vols. Numerous maps, plates and photographic illustrations (20 being in 3D). 8vo. Original cloth backed boards, original dust jackets, a little worn, original 3D glasses included. xv, 304; iv, (56), (4)pp. Leipzig, Koehler & Amelang, 1942. £2450 Very scarce. Dedicated to Hermann Goring “and printed at the height of Nazi success, the edition may well have been bombed into oblivion” (Taurus). The German Antarctic Expedition departed Hamburg in December 1937 on the Schwabenland and sailed as far south as 69°10’, which they reached on January 19, 1938. From this point two hydroplanes were launched to annex swathes of Antarctic land by dropping aluminium darts (emblazoned with swastikas) over Queen Maud Land, an area already claimed by Norway. More than fifteen flights were made over 600,000 square kilometres (about 20% of the Antarctic continent) and over 11,000 photographs were taken. The Germans promptly renamed the area Neuschwabenland, though the annexation was never recognised by any other country. Despite the appalling prospect of a Nazi stronghold in Antarctica, the enormous amount of material collected on the expedition remains valuable to this day. The first volume is an account of the expedition, where the second is devoted to plates and maps. Taurus, 127. 158 maggs bros ltd arctic & antarctica 159

222 ROQUETTE (M. de la). Notice Biographique sur L’Amiral Sir John Franklin, “It was not long before we were in the pack ice, and our stout ship was crashing through correspondant de la Société Géographie, etc... mighty flows and even then every now and again reeling back from the shock...we were fortunate enough to penetrate farther east and discover new land... On our way [to Lithographic portrait on India paper after Negelen, 2 folding maps, and 12pp winter quarters] we entered an inlet in the Barrier and sent the balloon up: I went up 700 feet but no sign of land could be seen.... On the 19th I was given a small party to facsimile letters. 4to. Later library cloth [Guille Library Guersey with their make a sledge reconnaisance of the South west in order to see what chances there were ownership & withdrawal stamps on the title]. 67pp. [Paris, 1856.] £1200 for getting to the South by sledge journeys...so we are now making preparations for A very scarce offprint from the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie. the Southern trip... Our paper [The South Polar Times] is a success so far, and we have frequent concerts and plays... the unfortunate accident deprived us of a man, he being The maps are as follows: Arrowsmith (John) “The Arctic Shores of America and part lost in a blizzard out sledging, by falling over a cliff into the sea... I hope that the coming of Asia... London, 1855; Roquette “Chart of the Arctic Regions from beering’s Straits to summer will enable us to make good geographical work and that I may be lucky enough Spitzbergen...” Paris, 1856. The letters include one written to Murchison at Great Bear to be chosen for one of the long trips by sledge...my diary will be able to give you a full Lake in November 1825. and accurate account of our doings and I will have it sent to you when I send it home...”

223 ROSSE (Irving C.) Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the 225 TOMLINSON (Charles). Summer in the Antarctic Regions. N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881. Medical and Anthropological Notes on Alaska. First edition. Folding map numerous illustrations in the text. 12mo. Fine original First edition. 3 heliotypes, 5 chromo & 4 tinted lithographs, with further blue cloth, gilt. London, S.P.C.K., 1848. £500 illustrations in the text. Small folio. Original cloth, title stamped in gilt on upper board, extremities lightly worn. 120pp. Washington, Goverment Printing Office, This little book intended as a pot boiler is in fact a thoroughly good digest of Antarctic discovery up to the date of publication with, in the introduction, a thorough 1883. £650 meteorological analysis of the Antarctic regions. There are chapters on Cook and the In addition to Rosse’s Medical and Anthropological Notes which provide an interesting early navigators, Wedell Biscoe and co., Wilkes, Dummont Durville, and finally Ross. insight into the native people of Alaska, as viewed in the late nineteenth century, there Spence 1207. are two further pieces which make up this work: Botanical Notes on Alaska by John Muir and Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean by E.W. Nelson. The latter being particularly well illustrated with four coloured ornithological lithographs, the fifth 226 WILKES (Cmdr. Charles). Narrative of the United States Exploring being an anthroplogical study of body painting. Anker 360; Dinse 667. Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

First trade edition. 5 vols. plus atlas. 9 double-page maps, 64 engraved plates & 5 224 SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest). Outstanding ALS written in the Antarctic large folding maps in the atlas, with numerous illustrations in the text. Tall 8vo. on S.S. Discovery to a Mr. Douglas. Together with two small contact print Original pictorial cloth, gilt, a good copy unfaded with the gilt still bright, one photographs “Shackleton on arrival at Lyttelton” and “Terra Nova in Pack or two minor repairs. lx, 434; xvi, 476; xvi, 438; xvi, 539; xvi, 558pp. Philadelphia, Ice” Lea & Blanchard, 1845. £6750 4pp on on the expedition notepaper. Dated S.S. “Discovery”, August 3rd, 1902. With this voyage the United States entered a field of endeavour long dominated by £7500* Britain, France and to a lesser extent Russia. This is the narrative for the expedition, a lavishly produced work, but it was supported by several specialist scientific volumes A superb letter to a recipient who appears to have been an early mentor of the youthful produced by the savants who accompanied the expedition. Shackleton, clearly a nautical man “and I have felt always that in you I have a friend who understands really, what a sailor’s life is”. The Antarctic content of the work is of special significance “In January and February 1840, sighted the Antarctic continent and followed its coastline for a distance of more Shackleton gives a digest of events after leaving New Zealand: than fifteen hundred miles... he was the first to definitely announce the existence of the 160 maggs bros ltd arctic & antarctica 161

Antarctic continent” (Lydenberg & Haskell). - probably the most tragically interesting photographs in the world. One thousand copies of this, the first generally available edition were produced. Wilkes They were taken with a quarter-plate film camera; and in the case of the groups, the commented that “in some respects as a library and reading book it is to be preferred to shutter was released by a long thread, so that all might appear in the picture... The the 4to edition”. One hundred and fifty copies of which had been produced at the same films were nearly two years old at the time they were exposed at the South Pole. For time. Haskell, 2b. eight months those two rolls of film lay on the snow- beside the dead bodies of three of the five explorers whose images were hidden therein... later they were developed by Debenham in the Hut at cape Evans. It seems almost incredible that they should have yielded excellent negatives.” Notwithstanding the above the negative of this image was damaged at an early date, possibly when it was developed. It is re-produced in the Great White South opposite page 279 and though re-touched the disguised damage can still be made out.

227 WILSON (Dr. E.A.) The Camp at the South Pole with the Polar Party with their sledging flags.

Vintage print of this rare image. Image size: 380 by 300mm. At the South Pole, January 18th, 1912. £6500* Wilson can be seen holding the string. “We built a cairn, put up our slighted Union Jack and photographed ourselves - mighty cold work all of it.” As Ponting comments: “In the photographs they took that day, it is magnificently eloquent of the manner in which the explorers took the frustrating of their hopes..” The same author comments “Beside the note-books were the little camera and two rolls of film. In these films were... photographs... which show the explorers at the South Pole Item 218

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