CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN World Travel & Voyages WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue of travels and voyages covers a broad range of travellers around the world from the 16th century onward. High spots are sets of De Bry’s Petit Voyages and Purchas’ Purchas His Pilgrimes; early Dutch voyages to the East Indies; and classic voyages such as Cook, La Perouse, Peron, Dampier, Bougainville, and Bligh, among others. There is a group of significant early imprints from the islands of Mauritius and Réunion, unusual maps and prints, and a broad selection of other travels. 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Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are con- sidered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com COVER: 90. Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb: Chinese War Junk. [China. ca. 1805]. 1. [Acarete de Biscay]: A RELATION OF MR. R.M.’S VOYAGE TO BUENOS-AYRES: AND FROM THENCE BY LAND TO POTOSI. DEDICATED TO THE HONOURABLE THE COURT OF DI- RECTORS OF THE SOUTH-SEA COMPANY. London: Printed by John Darby, 1716. v,3-117,[2]pp. plus folding engraved map by H. Moll. 12mo. Antique speckled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Minor soiling and fox- ing. Near fine. “A reprint of the translation printed in 1698 of the Voyage of Sieur Accarrete to Buenos Aires, from Thevenot’s Collection, without any acknowledgement of the source from whence it was taken” – JCB. The original was supposedly Relation des Voyages dans la Riviere de la Plata (Paris, 1632), although European Americana says this edition is “very possibly a ghost.” The handsome folding map by Moll is “A New Map of Part of the Great River de la Plata, of Tucuman....” The dedication in this edition by Darby is addressed to the directors of the South Sea Company. In it Darby points to a profitable future in the South American trade: I don’t doubt but by your wise Direction, under the Patronage of your August Governour, our Wealth and Commerce will be vastly increas’d: this Way being evidently the easiest and speediest to convey the Product and Manufactures of Europe to Chili and Peru, and also the safest to bring Gold and Silver from thence into this part of the World. European Americana locates only four copies (DLC, MnU, NNH, RPJCB). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 716/1. SABIN 42918. PALAU 1690. JCB (1)III:215. $2250. Early Photographs of a Remote Pacific Island 2. [Australia]: [Norfolk Island]: [ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SCENERY AND PEOPLE OF NORFOLK ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN]. Norfolk Island. [ca. 1900]. Forty-two car- bon prints, approximately 6 x 8 inches, on forty-two cream card album leaves, each mounted within ruled frame with printed caption below. Oblong small folio. Contemporary red morocco, gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Very good. Provenance: Hon. B.R. Wise, Attorney General (lettered in gilt on upper cover). Norfolk Island, a largely autocratic dependency of Australia, was first sighted by Capt. James Cook on his second voyage and settled by the First Fleet in 1788. For the first half century of the 19th century the island was largely used as a penal colony, with many of the worst offenders transferred from Australia to the remote island. In the 1850s, after use of the island as a penal colony was abandoned, it was settled by the Pitcairn Island descendents of the Bligh mutineers. In the 1860s the Anglican Church established a large Melanesian mission on the island. The present images, by an unknown but probably Australian photographer, comprise views of Kingston, various lagoons and bays, landscape scenes featuring the island’s iconic pine trees and other vegetation, images at the Melanesian Mis- sion, and group portraits of the island’s inhabitants (presumably including Bligh mutineer descendents). The original owner of this album was Bernhard Ringrose Wise (1858-1916), whose name appears on the upper cover; Wise served as the Attorney General of Australia from 1899 to 1904. $12,000. Lovely Lithographic Views, Including the Fur Trade 3. [Bedelet, Leonie C.]: LE MONDE EN ESTAMPES TYPES ET COSTUMES DES PRINCIPAUX PEUPLES DE L’UNIVERS... par Elisabeth Muller [pseudonym].... Paris: Amedee Bedelet, Libraire- Editeur..., [1858]. 51,[1]pp. plus twenty-three chromolithographs and in-text illustrations. Frontis. Half title. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Slight offsetting on text; illustrations clean and bright. Occasional light foxing and soiling. A lovely copy. The handsome lithographs by J. Bocquin, after drawings by Leloir and Fossey, de- pict the native costume of various peoples of the world, generally shown in street scenes. The countries represented include those of Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America (including a rendering of American Indians negotiating with a fur trader, while a buffalo hunt proceeds in the background), scenes in Mexico, Brazil, and the Pacific Islands. There is also a plate of Australian aborigines trying on clothes washed up in a shipwreck. The costumes and natives are brightly colored, while the background is in black and white. Each plate is followed by explanatory text, with many biblical references. The frontispiece shows three angels overseeing the “Dispersion des Peuples.” A lovely work, one of a number of illustrated books written and produced by Bedelet, mainly for children. Rare. OCLC locates only three copies. HILER, p.634. COLAS 2153. LIPPERHEIDE 70. OCLC 14562971. $1250. 4. [Behrens, Karl Friedrich]: [Roggeveen, Jacob]: HISTOIRE DE L’EXPEDITION DE TROIS VAISSEAUX, ENVOYÉS PAR LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES OCCIDENTALES DES PROV- INCES-UNIES, AUX TERRES AUSTRAL- ES EN MDCCXXI. PAR MONSIEUR DE B***. The Hague: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1739. Two volumes. [12],224; [4],254pp. Half ti- tles. 12mo. Later full polished calf, gilt, spine with raised bands, leather labels, marbled endpapers. Minor shelf wear, joints slightly rubbed. A clean, near fine copy. In a modern buckram slipcase. The first French edition of Behrens’ Reise Durch Die Süd-Länder und Um Die Welt, an account of Jacob Roggeveen’s 1721-22 Pacific voyage, which provided important impetus for further exploration for the great Southern Continent. “Roggewein’s is the first certified account of contact with Easter Island and its great stone images, as well as the last of the great Dutch circumnavigations” – Cox. The author was a sergeant and commander of marines on the voyage. Con- temporary accounts of Roggeveen’s explorations were first published in Dutch in 1728 and in German beginning in 1735. This French translation was based on the Frankfurt and Leipzig edition of 1737. “Though some attribute the translation to Charles de Brosses, [Charles Pierre Claret] Fleurieu believed that the style of language revealed the efforts of a non-native speaker. With the text often more a paraphrasing of the German version than a direct translation, Fleurieu and others credit Behrens himself with the translation” – Hill. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 739/21. SABIN 4379. HILL 99. COX I, p.51. BORBA DE MORAES, p.95. HOWGEGO R63 (Roggeveen). $7500. The Mapping of the Indian Ocean 5. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas: OBSERVATIONS SUR LA CONSTRUC- TION DE LA CARTE DE L’OCÉAN ORIENTAL OU MERS DE INDES, POUR SERVIR VAISSEAUX DU ROY, DRESSÉE AU DÉPOST DES CARTES, PLANS & JOURNAUX DE LA MA- RINE, PAR ORDRE DE M. LE COMTE DE MAUREPAS, 1740. [Paris]: Jacques Guerin, 1739 [i.e. 1740]. 35pp. Quarto. Contemporary paper- backed boards, rebacked. Boards with slight foxing. Small tear in outer margin of first leaf (no loss). Slight age toning at outer edges, otherwise internally fresh and clean. Brief contemporary manuscript corrections in text on pp.7, 12, 21, 28, and 30. From the Library of the Earls of Mac- clesfield, with library shelf marks on front pastedown and front free endpaper; blind pressure stamp of the Library on the first two printed leaves. Very good. In a half morocco box. The rare first edition of Bellin’s ex- tensive account of his map of the Indian Ocean. The work includes lengthy separate analyses of the coasts of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to the Red Sea, Madagascar and other isles in the Indian Ocean, and the coasts and isles of Asia from the Red Sea to China.