World Travel & Voyages

catalogue three hundred twenty-seven World Travel & Voyages

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(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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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 foxing. 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, depict 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 titles. 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 extensive 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. In addition to these geo- graphic locations, observations made in the regions by various explorers are cited. The cartographer, Bellin, was employed for more than five decades in the French Hydrographic Service, where he served as the first Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine. Commissioned to develop new surveys of the coasts of France and then the known coasts of the world, these were published, respectively, as Le Neptune Français in 1735 and the Hydrographie Française between 1756 and 1765. Bellin also published a Petit Atlas Maritime, with 580 charts and plans of harbors, issued in five volumes in 1764. The present work was later reprinted as one of thirty reprinted pamphlets in the author’s Recueil des Memoires Qui ont Été Publiés avec les Cartes Hydrographiques (Paris, ca. 1767). Remarkably rare in this original printing. Not in OCLC. SABIN 4556 (note). $5000.

6. Bligh, William: A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP BOUNTY; AND THE SUBSEQUENT VOYAGE OF PART OF THE CREW, IN THE SHIP’S BOAT, FROM TOFOA, ONE OF THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS, TO TIMOR, A DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN THE EAST INDIES. London: for George Nicol, 1790. iv,88pp. plus folding engraved frontispiece plan of the Bounty’s twenty-three-foot launch and three engraved charts (two folding) after William Harrison, engraved by J. Walker. Large quarto. Three- quarter dark blue morocco and cloth, gilt. Minor rubbing along the spine and at spine ends and corners. Armorial bookplate of William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, on the front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. Overall, a very good copy, tall and uncut.

First edition of Bligh’s account of the famous mutiny and the incredible voyage which followed. Although the mutiny is now the best known incident, the most remarkable part of the narrative is undoubtedly Bligh’s account of the voyage in the Bounty’s launch. His achievement of safely navigating an open vessel packed with nineteen men a distance of four thousand miles without serious mishap is almost without parallel in the history of ocean travel. He not only piloted the boat to safety, but “In the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it” (Wantrup, p.128). The resulting chart of the “NE Coast of New Holland” was first published in the present work. HILL 132. DU REITZ, p.44. KROEPELIAN 87. FERGUSON 71. SABIN 5908a. WANTRUP 61. $12,500.

The Mutiny of the Bounty

7. [Bligh, William]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINOUS SEIZURE OF THE BOUNTY, WITH THE SUCCEEDING HARDSHIPS OF THE CREW. TO WHICH IS ADDED, SECRET ANECDOTES OF THE OTAHEITEAN FEMALES. London: Printed by E. Bently And sold by Bell and Taylor, et al, [ca. 1792]. [4],[9]-76pp. plus engraved frontis. Small octavo. Modern speckled calf, gilt, leather label. Small faint spot on first few leaves, else a near fine copy.

One of two Bently variants published simultaneously, the other bearing an imprint “to be sold by H.D. Symonds.” According to Hill, Bently based their publication on a slightly earlier account by publisher Robert Turner. “Following Bligh’s return to England in March of 1790, publisher Robert Turner recog- nized that the public had an insatiable interest in the story of the mutiny. Turn- er believed that he could capitalize on this interest by stealing the thunder from Bligh’s official account, then in prepara- tion. Culling information from news- paper reports, Hawkesworth’s Voyages, and other recent works on Tahiti, Turner published the sensationalized version... An Account on the Mutinous Seizure of the Bounty....The [later] Bently version differed in its larger format, the inclusion of an engraving of Bligh in his nightshirt, and most importantly, as Stephen Walters points out, probably the first published clue to Fletcher Christian’s post-mutiny whereabouts: the publisher reports information from a voyager that Christian and the mutineers had recently left Tahiti with promises to return, and concludes from this information ‘that they have turned pirates’” – Hill. This edition is not in Hill, who only owned a 1987 reprint edition. “An anonymous narrative. The account of the Mutiny is based on Bligh’s book; the ‘Secret Anecdotes of the Otaheitean Females’ are extracted from Hawkesworth” – Ferguson. The latter account of Tahitian women is sometimes lacking, likely due to a censor’s hand. To account for the seeming mispagination at the beginning of the text, Ferguson notes: “Apparently an error occurred in numbering the pages.” FERGUSON 132. ESTC N29876. HILL 1825 (1987 reprint). HOWGEGO B107. $8500.

Customs of the World

8. [Boemus, Johann]: I COSTVMI LE LEGGI ET L’VSANZE DI TUTTELEGENTI; DIVISI IN TRE LIBRI...AGGIUNTOVI DI NOVO IL QUARTO LIBRO, NELQUA SI NARRA I COSTUMI, & L’USANZE DELL’INDIE OCCIDENTALI, OVERO MUNDO NOVO; DA M. PRE. GIERONIMO GIGLIO.... Venice: Dominico & Aluise Giglio, 1566. 240 leaves. Later half vellum and marbled boards, red gilt morocco label. Last leaf with substantial wear and loss to text, laid down on archival paper. Bookplate on front pastedown. Later ownership signature on verso of front free endpaper. Internally clean. Very good.

Later edition, after the first appearance in Venice in 1558 of Boemus’ work with Giglio’s fourth book on the New World. This classic work on the races of mankind was first printed in Venice in 1520, and it is a seminal work of comparative ethnol- ogy. Boemus drew on a variety of authors to provide a portrait of the manners and customs of Europeans, Africans, Asians, and Americans. The entire fourth book of this work, covering nearly fifty leaves of text, relates to the Americas and is drawn from several primary sources, including Lery’s description of Brazil. Several other passages describe other parts of Central and South America. A scarce and early description of New World peoples. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 566/6. SABIN 6119n. PALAU 31252n. JCB (3)I:230. JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 566/2. BORBA DE MORAES, p.109 (ref ). $1250.

A Superb Copy from the Library of Napoleon’s Naval Minister

9. [Bougainville, Louis Antoine de]: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, PAR LA FRÉGATE DU ROI LA BOUDEUSE ET LA FLUTE L’ÉTOILE, EN 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1771. [8],417,[3]pp. with twenty-three maps and plates. Half title. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, leather label. Minor shelf wear. Small contemporary bookplate of the Duc de Decrès on front pastedown. Very minor foxing in margins of half title and last leaf. A remarkably bright and clean copy. Fine.

First edition of this important work. Bougainville first undertook an expedition to the Falkland Islands and Patagonia, at his own expense, to secure them for French colonization. To avoid possible conflict due to Spain’s envy of this acqui- sition, France gave up the territory to her. The narrative of that expedition was related in The History of a Voyage to the Malouine Islands... (Paris, 1770). After delivering the Falklands to Spain, Bougainville was ordered across the Pacific to the East Indies, and then home. The completion of the three-year voyage marked the first official French circumnavigation and inspired much French interest in the Pacific islands. The party collected abundant natural history information concerning the regions visited; a chapter on the Falklands gives the history of their settlement as well. The expedition stopped at many South Sea islands, among them Tahiti, and included is a long section on that island as well as a vocabulary of the natives. Bougainville was in Buenos Aires when the order arrived for the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay, which he describes in detail. An extraordinary capstone to this remarkable voyage was that Bougainville lost only seven out of two hundred men. “Bougainville also touched at the Moluccas, Batavia, and Mauritius before he arrived once again in France in 1769. Although Bougainville made only a few important discoveries, he created a great deal of interest among the French in the Pacific, which resulted in the voyages of Marc-Joseph Marion de Fresne and Jean François de La Pérouse. The largest island in the Solomons and two straits in the Pacific bear his name, and the tropical flowering vine called bougainvillea was also named for him. Bougainville later took part in the American Revolution, survived the French Revolution, and was made a senator and count of the Empire by Napo- leon I. Bougainville’s accounts of Pacific Islanders in this work echoed Jean Jacques Rousseau’s concepts of the ‘noble savage,’ and inspired Denis Diderot to write his denunciation of European contact with indigenous peoples” – Hill. This copy belonged to Admiral, later Duc, Denis Decrès, Napoleon’s Minister for the Navy and the Colonies from 1801 to 1814, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Decrès was the Minister directly responsible for Nicholas Baudin’s voyage to Australia. Therefore, there could have been much instructive value in the present volume for Decrès, who perhaps used Bougainville’s experiences with regard to Baudin, to assist in the various enquiries into voyage events, many of them relating to Baudin’s unfortunate command. A highly distinguished French naval provenance for one of the country’s legendary travel narratives. HILL 163. SABIN 6864. O’REILLY & REITMAN 283. BORBA DE MORAES, p.115. DU RIETZ 117. COX I, p.55. $15,000. Early English Work Depicting the Famed Gardens and Fountains of Versailles

10. Bowles, John: VERSAILLES ILLUSTRATED; OR, DIVERS VIEWS OF THE SEVERAL PARTS OF THE ROYAL PALACE OF VER- SAILLES; AS LIKEWISE OF ALL THE FOUNTAINS, GROVES, PARTERRAS, YE LABYRINTH & OTHER YE MOST BEAUTI- FUL PARTS OF THE GARDENS.... London: John Bowles, [ca. 1740]. Engraved pictorial title and twenty-nine engraved plates by Bowles. Oblong folio. Publisher’s blue paper wrappers. Very good. In a cloth case.

The plates depict the gardens and fountains of Versailles after Sebastien Le Clerc and others, engraved and issued by print and map seller John Bowles. This edition is dated based on Bowles’ address “at the Black Horse, in Cornhill,” where he was active between 1733 and 1752 (after which the name of the firm changed to John Bowles and Son). The last seven plates depict the fountains in the labyrinth at Versailles, representing the Fables of Aesop. The “fable fountains” no longer exist and are now only known through engravings such as the present examples. These seven plates are each divided into six compartments. These contain a map of the Labyrinth giving the location of each fountain, a single compartment of engraved text describing the concept, a view of the entrance to the Labyrinth with its statue of Aesop, and thirty-nine images of selected fountains. Each of the latter images is accompanied by a verse translation of the fable above and a description of the sculpture below. JOHNSTON 394. LOWNDES, p.2764 (1726 ed). $4750.

One of the First Voyages Printed in America

11. Bulkeley, John, and John Cummins: A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE YEARS 1740-1. CONTAINING A FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE THE [sic] WAGER ON A DESOLATE ISLAND.... London, Printed; Philadelphia, Reprinted. 1757. xxxii,306 [i.e. 296]pp. (pp.257-266 omitted from the pagination, as issued). Full antique-style calf. Tanned throughout. Titlepage repaired in top left corner, with expert facsimile supplying three letters of the title; repair to outer corner of the next leaf, not affecting text. Overall very good.

First American edition of this prime source for the wreck of the Wager off the coast of Chile, beyond the Straits of Magellan. The ship, with Anson’s fleet, was en route to harass the Spanish. Bulkeley, the ship’s carpenter, and Cummins led the small group of survivors until their landing at Rio de Janeiro and finally England, concluding a voyage that had lasted almost two years. Bulkeley settled in Pennsylvania and arranged for the publication of this edition, after the first of 1743. It is the first major voyage to be published in the British colonies. The work contains the narrative of Isaac Morris, one of the members of the Wager’s crew left in Patagonia, on pages 244-303, as well as a long list of subscribers in the colonies. This American edition is uncommon in commerce. HUNTRESS 50C. HILL 211. EVANS 7859. SABIN 9109. HILDEBURN 1519. NAIP w029694. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.133-35 (ref ). $4000.

Classic Collection of Pacific Voyages

12. Burney, James: A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE DIS- COVERIES IN THE SOUTH SEA OR PACIFIC OCEAN.... Lon- don: Printed by Luke Hansard for G. & W. Nicol [and others], 1803-1806- 1813-1816-1817. Five volumes. [2],xii,[8],391pp. plus five folding maps; v, [11],482pp. plus six maps (five folding) and four plates; [10],437pp. plus ten maps (two folding) and nine plates; xviii,580pp. plus four maps (three folding); vii,[1],178,[2, sectional title of Index],179-237pp. plus two maps (one folding) and folding plate. Six woodcuts in text. Large quarto. 20th-century three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards, elaborately gilt spines, leather labels, original endpapers preserved. Armorial bookplate and tiny inventory sticker on each front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Near fine.

“The most important general history of early South Sea discoveries containing prac- tically everything of importance on the subject” – Hill. Burney sailed as lieutenant on Cook’s second and third voyages. His work on A Chronological History... was encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks, and Burney was given complete access to Banks’ extraordinary collection of books and manuscripts. Many of the accounts published by Burney remain unavailable elsewhere, and the present work will always be one of the chief authorities on Pacific exploration. Burney covers the 250 years of exploration before Cook, beginning with Magellan and ending with Bougainville. Detailed accounts of the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch voyages are printed, well illustrated with maps and views. Volume IV was apparently particularly popular, as it contains Burney’s account of the pirates (see Vol. IV, pp.1-326). This section of the work was republished separately in 1816 as History of the Buccaneers of America (London, 1816). The volumes are arranged chronologically, as follows:

1) Volume I: From the earliest discovery of the Pacific by Europeans to the voyage of Sir Francis Drake in 1579. 2) Volume II: From 1579 to 1620 (Sarmiento de Gamboa, Thomas Cavendish, Merick, Quiros, Spilbergen, Schouten, Le Maire, Nodal, etc.). 3) Volume III: From 1620 to 1688 (the Nassau Fleet, Kwast, Tasman, Brouwer, Narbrough, Peche, La Roche, etc.). 4) Volume IV: From 1688 to 1723 (buccaneers: Spaniards in Hayti, Careri, Halley, Dampier, Woodes, Rogers, Frezier, etc.). 5) Volume V: From 1723 to 1764 (New Philippine Islands, Bouvet, Anson, Bou- gainville, etc.).

HOWES B1002, “c.” SABIN 9387. HILL 221. HOCKEN, pp.30-34. FERGUSON 372. $18,500.

With the Rare Map

13. [Byron, John]: Ortega, Casimiro de Gomez: VIAGE DEL COMAN- DANTE BYRON AL REDEDOR DEL MUNDO, HECHO ULTI- MAMENTE DE ORDEN DEL ALMIRANTAZGO DE INGLA- TERRA.... [bound with, as issued:] RESUMEN HISTORICO DEL PRIMER VIAGE HECHO AL REDEDOR DEL MUNDO, EM- PRENDIDO POR HERNANDO DE MAGALLANES, Y LLEVA- DO FELIZMENTE A TERMINO POR EL FAMOSO CAPITAN ESPANOL JUAN SEBASTIAN DEL CANO. Madrid: En la Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1769. [16],176; [12],55pp. plus folding map colored in outline. Frontis. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, raised bands. Upper hinge expertly repaired. Remarkably clean internally. A fine copy.

The second Spanish edition, produced the same year as the first, and following the London edition of 1767. The Spanish editions were the first to contain the much sought after map of the Straits of Magellan, making them far more desirable than other editions. Also new to this second Spanish edition is the account of Magellan’s circumnavigation of 1519-22, completed by Capt. Juan Sebastian del Cano. Del Cano took command of the Vittoria after Magellan’s death in the Philippines, thereby becoming the first sea captain to complete a circumnavigation. One of the most celebrated of all voyages, Byron’s adventure in the Dolphin began as a voyage of discovery and ended as a record- setting twenty-two-month circumnavigation. The entire crew was led to believe their destination was the East Indies, and it was not until the ship had left Rio (where it was refitted) that the true mission was revealed: a voyage of discovery to the South Seas. To avoid mutiny, he granted his men double pay, and with renewed enthusiasm they set course for the Pacific. During the voyage Byron claimed the Falkland Islands for Great Britain. His account of the Straits of Magellan is one of the best to that time, further illuminated by the map that accompanies this edition. “Byron passed through the Straits without incident. Having reached the Pacific he succeeded in discovering islands and coral reefs, and returned to England without losing one member of his crew, a rare event in those days. This account of the voyage became famous because of its description of Patagonian giants [pictured in the frontispiece]. These giants were first observed by the crew of Magellan’s fleet, and other authors refer to them, but as the travellers of the nineteenth century were unable to encounter them, their existence came to be considered a fable or optical illusion. What impresses the reader of Byron’s book [sic], however, is the tone of veracity in the description of these very tall men whom the crew observed at close range, and with whom they had some contact” – Borba de Moraes. Extremely rare. BORBA DE MORAES, p.138. SABIN 9733, 57672. HILL 232, 233 (ref ). PALAU 38230. HOWGEGO B200. $8500.

A Key Early Pacific Collection

14. [Callander, James]: TERRA AUSTRALIS COGNITA: OR, VOY- AGES TO THE TERRA AUSTRALIS, OR SOUTHERN HEMI- SPHERE, DURING THE SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH, AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES...WITH A PREFACE BY THE EDITOR, IN WHICH SOME GEOGRAPHICAL, NAUTICAL, AND COMMERCIAL QUESTIONS ARE DISCUSSED. Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. Three volumes. vi,2,viii,516; [4],692; [2],iv,745pp. Folding frontispiece map in each volume. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, sympathetically rebacked in matching calf, spines tooled in gilt, gilt leather labels. General chart of the southern hemisphere with a closed split along one fold. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

With the bookplate of Sir Thomas Munro, first baronet, and an administrator in India who held important financial and judicial posts and who was eventually made governor of Madras. An important early collection of texts on the discovery, exploration, natural history, geography, and commerce of Australia. Callander’s work takes as its basis that of Comte de Brosses, published ten years earlier, but supplemented by additional material and by Callander’s editorial notes. Callander saw Australia as a fertile land for colonization and settlement, and argued that Great Britain, because of her naval dominance, was destined to rule there. He proposed a penal settlement as a base for colonization and further exploration. The work contains many important narratives (some of them represented in whole, others in part), including those of Magellan, Drake, Dampier, Tasman, Quiros, Gamboa, Ulloa, Narbrough, Frezier, and Anson, among others. The maps include a chart of the Straits of Magellan, another of the southern hemisphere, and a third showing Australia. “A work of great Australian importance, containing forty-one relations of voyages, some for the first time in English...the Callander map is of great interest, particularly when compared with the Tasman map of 1644. Although Van Dieman’s Land is still shown as part of the mainland, New Zealand and New Guinea are already known to be separate lands, and in fact the outline of Australia is complete except for the eastern coast, yet to be charted by Cook” – Davidson. “Valuable both for its narratives and for its editorial comments” – Hill. The first volume in this set contains a dedication to Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer; the third volume a dedication to Sir Laurence Dundas. HILL 240. DAVIDSON, p.35. O’REILLY & REITMAN 94. CRITTENDEN 268. SABIN 10053. $16,500.

15. Chappuzeau, Samuel: L’EUROPE VIVANTE, OU RELATION NOU- VELLE, HISTORIQUE & POLITIQUE DE TOUS SES ESTATS.... Paris. 1667. [24],362,329-528,[2]pp. plus engraved titlepage. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in matching style. Minor scattered foxing, else very good.

Samuel Chappuzeau (1625-1701), a French writer in the service of the Duke of Brunswick, compiled this review of the government, politics, and prospects of Europe for the year 1666. He describes territories, alliances, and ruling families of each nation. He also discusses the extent of commerce and empires in America, Africa, and the Far East. Not in European Americana, Sabin, LeClerc, or Brunet, although European Americana lists another work by the same author, published in Geneva in 1665 and 1667. Another edition of this work was published in Geneva in 1667. $2000.

16. [Compagnie des Indes]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT DU ROY, PAR LEQUEL SA MAJESTE FAIT DON A LA COMPAG- NIE DES INDIES, A PERPETUITE, DES MUNITIONS, ARTIL- LERIE, ARMES, MEUBLES, CAPTIFS ACQUERATS, & AUTRES CHOSES A ELLE APPERTENANT, QUI SE TROUVERONT DANS LES FORTS & COMPTOIRS CONSTRUITS & ESTABLIS A LA COSTE DE GUINEE.... Paris. 1722. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Very minor foxing. Contemporary inscription. Fine.

A French royal decree giving to the Compagnie des Indies, in perpetuity, the forts and trading posts which they established off the coast of Guinea. The previous year, after the Mississippi Bubble burst, the Compagnie had declared bankruptcy and was reorganized. Wroth records only three copies; OCLC adds no more. Rare. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727- 94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 981. MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 255 (this copy). $850.

Cook’s First Voyage

17. [Cook, James]: Hawkesworth, John: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOY- AGES UNDERTAKEN BY THE ORDER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, AND SUCCESSIVELY PERFORMED BY COM- MODORE BYRON, CAPTAIN WALLIS, CAPTAIN CARTERET AND CAPTAIN COOK.... London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. Three text volumes plus atlas bound in matching quarto format. [12],xxxvi, [4],[8],456; xiv,410; 395pp., plus fifty-two plates, maps, and charts, mostly folding. Mid-20th-century half calf and cloth, spine gilt. New South Wales institutional library bookplate in each volume. Inner hinges reinforced in all volumes. Light age toning, occasional moderate foxing and dampstaining in all volumes. One chart with 3½-inch tear at right margin with some loss to printed area; a few plates and maps with minor loss at folds. Very good.

One of the cornerstone of Pacific exploration, giving an account of English voyages of the 1760s in the first volume, and of Cook’s first voyage in the second and third volumes. This is the second edition, containing Hawkesworth’s expanded introduction replying to the attacks of Alexander Dalrymple, and with separately paginated volumes. This second edition was issued the same year as the first, and is considered more desirable because of the added material. This set has been bound with all the maps and plates removed from the text and bound separately in a fourth volume. The accounts in this set are among the most famous in the history of exploration: Wallis’ voyage to Tahiti in the first volume, and the voyages of Cook to New Zealand, Tahiti, and Australia. BEDDIE 650. HILL 783. HOLMES 5. SABIN 30934. $6000.

A Ground-Breaking Cook Rarity, in an Important Sammelband of Pamphlets by the Author

18. [Cook, James]: Pringle, John: A DISCOURSE UPON SOME LATE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE MEANS FOR PRESERVING THE HEALTH OF MARINERS. DELIVERED AT THE ANNIVER- SARY MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.... London: Printed for the Royal Society, 1776. [4],44pp. Half title. Small quarto. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt label. Leaf C4 (signed C3) a cancel, as usual. Occasional minor foxing, ink stain on p.2. Very good, bound with five other works by Pringle (see below).

One of the most significant of all the printed works relating to Cook’s voyages and their importance. This is the extremely rare first appearance in print of Cook’s epoch-making account of the successful measures taken against scurvy on his first two voyages. There were several later versions and translations, but the original edition of this milestone publication has long been acknowledged as a major rarity. The paper on scurvy was read to the Royal Society by its president, Sir John Pringle (in the absence of Cook himself, then just beginning his final voyage), as the year’s Copley medal award winner, and immediately published in this form. Pringle’s long presentation address, quoting directly from Cook and other sources, is followed by Cook’s paper and an extract from a letter by Cook to Pringle written from Plymouth Sound in July 1776. The paper subsequently appeared in the official account of the second voyage and in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1783 a series of six of Pringle’s discourses at the annual presentations of the Copley medal was published in one volume. “In Pringle’s discourse on preserving the health of mariners he includes the first printing of Captain Cook’s important paper entitled: ‘The Method taken for preserving the Health of the Crew of His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution during her late Voyage round the World.’ In this paper, which Cook communicated to Pringle, President of the Royal Society, Cook describes the supplies carried on the voyage and his maintenance of the cleanliness of his ship and crew. It was included by Pringle in his discourse commemorating Cook’s receipt of the Copley medal” – Nor- man sale. The winning of the battle against scurvy was one of the most important achievements in the general field of exploration. It made possible the major voyages that followed. As Robert Hughes so aptly put it in The Fatal Shore, “malt juice and pickled cabbage put Europeans in Australia as microchip circuitry would put Ameri- cans on the moon.” This copy is very appropriately accompanied by five other Royal Society discourses of the period. A Discourse... is here bound chronologically with five other Pringle first editions:

1) A Discourse on the Different Kinds of Air. 1774. 2) A Discourse on the Torpedo. 1775. 3) A Discourse on the Attraction of Mountains. 1775. 4) A Discourse on the Invention and Improvements of the Reflecting Telescope. 1778. 5) A Discourse on the Theory of Gunnery. 1778.

The Streeter-Norman copy of the Discourse...for Preserving the Health of Mariners was also bound with these five additional works by Pringle. STREETER SALE 2410. NORMAN SALE 378. GARRISON-MORTON 2156, 3714. BEDDIE 1290. HOLMES 20. KROEPELIEN 1065. $35,000. The Famed Death of Cook Plate

19. [Cook, James]: Webber, John: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR EXECUTING THE OF- FICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN, &c. THIS PLATE REPRESENTING THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED. BY THEIR LORDSHIP’S MOST OBEDIENT AND DEVOTED SERVANT, JOHN WEB- BER. London: J. Webber and W. Byrne, Jan. 1, 1784. Engraving. Image size: 16¾ x 23 inches. Very good. Matted and framed.

The scarce separate printing of Webber’s plate of the death of Capt. James Cook at the hands of the Hawaiian natives. Dated Jan. 1, 1784 in the imprint, it predates the publication of the account of Cook’s third voyage later that same year. The plate was not formally part of the contents of the third voyage atlas, and is only occasionally found there. Beddie identifies this as the earliest state of the print. Webber was the son of a Swiss sculptor who emigrated to London. He received artistic training in Berne and Paris. He was appointed as draughtsman to Cook’s third voyage, and interviewed the eyewitnesses to the attack in order to create this image. Cook is shown trying to stop his men from firing on the Hawaiians, one of whom is about to stab him in the back. The figures were engraved by Bartolozzi and the landscape engraved by Byrne. The Hill catalogue notes a scarce one-page folio description of the engraving, printed in English and French, which is not present here. Forbes does not list the present first printing of the plate, though he does list a 1785 printing. An iconic image of Pacific exploration. BEDDIE 2603. HILL 1835. FORBES 108 (ref ). $8000.

An Extraordinary Set of Cook’s Third Voyage

20. Cook, James, and James King: [Douglas, John, editor]: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAINS COOK, CLERKE, AND GORE, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND DISCOVERY; IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, AND 1780. London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nichol and T. Cadell, 1784. Three quarto text volumes plus large folio atlas. Text: twenty-four engraved maps, coastal profiles, and charts (thirteen folding); folding letterpress table. Atlas: sixty-three engraved plates, charts, and maps (including one folding map and one double- page map). Extra-illustrated with three additional plates in the atlas (see list below). Text: Contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, black morocco labels, rebacked with original spine laid down, marbled endpapers. Atlas: Expertly bound to style in half speckled calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands, black morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh (armorial bookplate in text).

An extraordinary copy of the first edition of Cook’s Third Voyage, extra-illustrated with Webber’s “Death of Cook” plate and two rare portraits of Cook and King. The extra illustrations comprise:

1) Portrait of Capt. James Cook, after Dance, engraved by Sherwin, published Aug. 1, 1784. BEDDIE 3384. 2) Portrait of Capt. James King, after Webber, engraved by Bartolozzi, published June 4, 1784. BEDDIE 4510. 3) “The Death of Cook” after Webber, engraved by Bartolozzi and Byrne, published July 1, 1785. BEDDIE 2603.

“Cook’s third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Is- lands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery – the Hawaiian Islands” – Hill. BEDDIE 1543. FORBES 62. HILL 361. LADA-MOCARSKI 37 (later issue). PRINT- ING AND THE MIND OF MAN 223. SABIN 16250. $30,000. Important Map of the World

21. Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria, and Jean-Nicolas de Tralage: LE GLOBE TERRESTRE REPRESENTÉ EN DEUX PLANS-HEMISPHERES ET EN DIVERSES AUTRES FIGURES. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Nolin, [after 1690]. Copper-engraved map with original outline color. Sheet size: 18 7/8 x 24 5/8 inches. Very good.

A very beautiful and finely engraved world map, principally devised by one of the period’s greatest cartographers. This very fine map is the result of the synergy of the talents of Coronelli and his French colleague, Tralage, popularly known as the Sieur de Tillemont. It principally depicts the world in a bi-hemispheric projection and largely follows the geography represented on Coronelli’s celebrated globe of 1688. California is shown to be an island, and in the enigmatic void that lies to the northwest is the “Strait of Anian” that supposedly forms the western terminus of a presumed northwest passage. Beyond the strait, just to the northeast of Japan, is the mysterious “Terre de Jessu,” that supposedly represents Hokkaido. Much further south, the loosely defined area that is now known as New Guinea is labeled as “Terre de Quir,” noting on the map that it was discovered in 1606 by the Spanish explorer, Ferdinand de Quir. The only major addition here to Coronelli’s established geography is the appearance of the Solomon Islands. Surrounding these principal hemispheres are eight diverse hemispheric projections of the world, evincing a playful fascination with mathematics and perspective that anticipated the Enlightenment of the next century. Adorning the two upper corners of the map is a pair of hemispheres capturing the world from an oblique perspective, one centered on Paris and the other from its diametrically opposite position in the antipodes. Also in the upper portion of the map is a pair of hemispheres capturing the world in an ovoid projection, and resting in the spaces in between the two main hemispheres is a pair of projections depicting the world from a perspective centered at the poles. In the lower left corner the entire world is captured on a projection centered at the North Pole. Most strikingly, in the lower right corner the world is captured in a cordiform or heart-shaped projection, which since it was first devised during the Renaissance was considered an iconological symbol of various humanist values. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, a Venetian scholar and Minorite Friar, became one of the most celebrated map and globe makers of his era. Throughout his industri- ous life he produced more than 100 terrestrial and celestial globes, several hundred maps, and a wealth of cartographic publications. In 1683 he completed the Marly Globes for Louis XIV, the largest and most magnificent globes ever made. In 1684 he founded the Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the first geographical society, and was appointed Cosmographer of the Republic of Venice. The present map is the result of the lucrative partnership Coronelli formed in the late 1680s with prominent Paris cartographer Jean-Baptiste Nolin, who printed editions of Coronelli’s maps that flourished on the French market. Coronelli published two atlases, Atlante Veneto (Venice, 1691) and the Isolario (1696-98), and compiled the first encyclopedia to be arranged alphabetically. This map was first printed in 1690. The present map is in the second state, as indicated by its dedication, which honors Louis Philippeaux de Ponchartrain, the French minister of Finance. SHIRLEY 546. $8500.

Chap-Book on Sir Francis Drake

22. [Crouch, Nathaniel]: Burton, Robert: THE ENGLISH HERO: OR, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIV’D. BEING A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE DANGEROUS VOYAGES, ADMIRABLE ADVENTURES, NOTABLE DISCOVERIES...THE SIXTEENTH EDITION... Inlarged and Reduced into Chapters and Contents, by R.B. London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Laws, and S. Crowder and Co., 1762. [6],162pp. including frontispiece portrait of Drake. 16mo. Modern gilt morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g. Spine ends bit worn, outer hinges rubbed. Some scattered dust soiling. Else very good.

“R.B.” were the initials of Robert Burton, the pseudonym for author-publisher Nathaniel Crouch. This account of the exploits of Sir Francis Drake was itself mainly cribbed from a work first published in 1653. Crouch’s first edition appeared in 1687. Although styled “sixteenth edition” on the titlepage, that may have been counting from 1653 or, as Kraus suggests, the second and third editions may never have existed. An important work in the Drake legend, it describes the Nombre de Dios voyage of 1572, the circumnavigation of 1575-77, Drake’s defeat of the Armada in 1588, and his final American voyages. “A biography of Drake in chap- book form...like all such chap-book publications, copies are seldom found” – Kraus (commenting on the 1695 edition). SABIN 9500 (ref ). KRAUS, WORLD ENCOMPASSED 45 (1695 ed). $2000.

The Monumental Harriman Expedition Report

23. Curtis, Edward S.; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; [et al]: ALASKA VOLUME I NARRATIVE, GLACIERS, NATIVES. By John Burroughs, John Muir and George Bird Grinnell. [with:] VOLUMES II – V, VIII – XI, XIII – XIV. Washington. 1910-1914. Eleven volumes bound in twelve, lacking only the twelfth volume (sixth and seventh volumes were never published). Numerous plates (some colored) and maps. Volumes I and II in modern green half morocco, the others in original gilt green cloth, t.e.g. A couple covers slightly rubbed. Minor dampstain on foredge of front board of Volume XIII. Shelf label removed from toe of some spines. A few volumes with library labels on front pastedown and front free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown of volumes I and II. Generally a very good, sharp set. Volumes V through XI in green cloth dust jackets.

A very rare, nearly complete set of the Harriman expedition publications, lacking only one volume. These volumes record the findings of perhaps the largest private expedition to Alaska ever undertaken, that backed by Edward Harriman in 1899 in cooperation with the Washington Academy of Sciences. The party, which included an impressive roster of scientists and naturalists (e.g. William H. Brewer of Yale, George Bird Grinnell, John Muir, Prof. William Ritter of the University of California), sailed from Seattle on May 30 and returned two months later. They sailed along the Northwest Coast, through Bering Sea with stops at various islands, visited Eskimo settlements on the Asiatic and American coasts, and went through Bering Strait to Siberia before heading home, travelling nine thousand miles in all. The first two volumes constitute the entire narrative section. The other ten volumes (of which nine are present here) of scientific data are extremely scarce, having been printed over a period of thirteen years, with a change in publisher after Harriman’s death in 1910. The work is illustrated with handsome plates and maps throughout, including chromolithographs of birds and plants, as well as photogravures of Curtis Eskimo photographs. Accompa- nying the expedition were artists R. Swain Gifford and Fred S. Del- lenbaugh, as well as bird painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Most of the photographs are by E.S. Curtis or C. Hart Merriman. Following is a list of the titles of each volume:

1) Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. By John Burroughs, John Muir, and George Bird Grinnell. 183pp., paginated continuously with Vol. II, which contains the index for both. 2) History, Geography, Resources. By William Healey Dall and others. pp.185-383. Index. 3) Glaciers and Glaciation. By Grove Karl Gilbert. 231pp. 4) Geology and Paleontology. By Benjamin Kendall Emerson and others. 173pp. 5) Crytogamic Botany. By J. Cardot and others. 424pp. 6) Never published. 7) Never published. 8) Insects. Part 1. By W.H. Ashmead and others. 238pp. 9) Insects. Part 2. By W.H. Ashmead and others. 284pp. 10) Crustaceans. By M.J. Rathbun and others. 337pp. 11) Nemerteans and Bryozoans. By W.R. Coe and A. Robertson. 251pp. 12) [Lacking from this set:] Enchytraeids and Tubicolous Annelids. By C. Eisen and K.J. Bush. 355pp. 13) Land and Fresh Water Mollusks of Alaska and Adjoining Regions. Hydroids of the Expedition. By W.H. Dall and C.C. Nutting. 250pp. 14) Monograph of the Shallow-Water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic to California. By A.E. Verrill. Two volumes. 408pp. 110 plates.

Sets of the Harriman expedition series are extremely rare on the market. RICKS, p.116. TOURVILLE 1950. $11,000.

The Derby Copy

24. Dalrymple, Alexander: AN HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH PA- CIFIC OCEAN.... London. 1770-1771. Two volumes bound in one. [iii- xxx],24,24,204,[4, errata]; [4],124,20,8,12,40pp., plus four folding maps and twelve engraved plates (four double-page or folding). Lacks both half titles and the leaf after the preliminaries (c4, usually lacking) in the first volume. Quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked, original elaborately gilt spine with raised bands expertly laid down, leather labels. Joints and corners a trifle worn. Bookplate and tiny ownership ink stamp on front endpapers, small bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. Small marginal stain to bottom edge of leaf R2 verso in first volume. Short tear in outer margin of leaf F4 in second volume. Very good.

The second issue of the first volume (the first being essentially unprocurable) with the first issue of the second volume. This important work, issued before the return of Cook’s expedition, is the result of a latter-day Hakluyt’s passionate belief in the existence of a southern continent. Comprising the text are twelve partial translations of Spanish and Dutch works, including accounts of Magellan, Queiros, and Alvaro Mendana de Neira’s voyage to the Solomon Islands, as well as the voyages of Ferdinand Grijalva, Juan Fernandez, William Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, Abel Tasman and Jacob Roggeveen, etc. All of these accounts were presented to help support Dalrymple’s belief in a “Terra Australis,” which Cook finally dispelled in his second voyage. The author had yearned for command of the South Seas expedition sent out in 1768, and in an instance of scholarly optimism thought his preeminence as an academic would make up for his paltry sea experience. Fortu- nately the Admiralty opted against him and chose Lieut. James Cook. Nevertheless, Dalrymple (1737-1808) did lead quite a fascinating life, including associations with the East India Company and Benjamin Franklin, as well as travel to India, Borneo, and the Philippines, the latter being where he was exposed to early Spanish voyages in the South Seas. In later life he gained preeminence in the field of cartography and became hydrographer to the Admiralty, but undoubtedly still harbored some ill feelings toward the naval establishment. “Dalrymple was the first critical editor of discoveries in Australasia and Polynesia....An avid mercantilist, [he] theorized that the unexploited lands of the South Pacific would serve to augment England’s expanding trade” – Hill. A basic work for any Pacific voyage collection. Bookplate of Lord Derby on the front pastedown. HILL 409, 410. STREETER SALE 2404 (both first eds). SABIN 18338. HOCKEN, p.7. KROEPELIEN 245. SPENCE 264. $15,000.

The Most Important Buccaneering Narratives

25. Dampier, William: A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES. IN FOUR VOLUMES. CONTAINING I. CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPI- ER’S VOYAGES...II. THE VOYAGES OF LIONEL WAFER... AND DAVIS’S EXPEDITION... III. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD...BY W. FUNNELL...IV. CAPT. COWLEY’S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE. V. CAPT. SHARP’S JOURNEY...VI. CAPT. WOOD’S VOYAGE...VII. MR. ROBERTS’S ADVENTURES. Lon- don: James and John Knapton, 1729. Four volumes. Frontispiece portrait, thirty-six engraved maps by or after Herman Moll (nineteen folding), twenty- seven engraved plates (four folding). 7pp. publisher’s advertisements. Expertly bound to style in paneled calf, gilt, spines gilt. General title in first volume with small early repair at foredge. Very good. Provenance: Thos Hill (near contemporary inscription on titlepage of Vol. I); R.R. Butcher Library (pencil inscription on recto of front free endpaper of Vol. I).

A fine set of the most complete version of these important voyages. Dampier is generally described as the first Englishman to set foot on the Australian continent. This is first collected edition, and the best textually, of Dampier’s voyages. The additional titlepage in the first volume designates this the “7th edition, corrected” of the writings of celebrated British navigator and buccaneer William Dampier. Hill states that the narratives in the second volume are in the fourth edition, those in the third volume are in the third edition, and those in the fourth volume are not designated, although he notes: “Parts II-V of v. 4 are a reprint, with separate title page and paging, of Hacke’s A Collection of Original Voyages, London, 1699.” Dampier’s first voyage to the Pacific was in 1680, raiding on the Spanish coast of South America, then crossing the Pacific to the East Indies. Throughout the next two decades he travelled extensively in the Pacific, at various times visiting Tierra del Fuego, the west coasts of South and Central America, Guam, the Philippines, the East Indies, China, the Campeche coast, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. In 1688, Dampier touched on New Holland, or Australia, for the first time, making a survey of the coast near King Sound. In 1698, after the first volume of his voyages had been published and received great acclaim, the Admiralty gave him a commission as a captain in the Royal Navy and command of the Roebuck. With it he undertook another expedition to Australia, the second British expedition to go there and the first to have that destination as its objective. He explored the south coast of New Guinea, discovered New Britain and Dampier Strait, and explored along the western coast of Australia. Although hampered by illness among his crew, he ultimately completed the circumnavigation in 1701. Dampier was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers who tormented the Spanish in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. “This collection of Dampier’s works is considered by many to be the best edition. However, Dampier obviously did not write the whole work...[as it also] includes the narratives of Lionel Wafer and William Funnell as well as the whole book of Wil- liam Hacke” – Hill. His books were a great success and were frequently reprinted, as well as emulated by some of his less literate companions, often to his disgust. HILL 422. SABIN 18373-18377. NMM 1:92, 93, 95, 96. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.242-43. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 729/69. DNB V, pp.452-57. $17,500.

Notable Plates of Asia

26. Dapper, Olfert: ASIA / ODER: AUSFUHRLICHE BESCH- REIBUNG DES REICHS DES GROSSEN MOGOLS UND EINES GROSSEN THEILS VON INDIEN.... Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmanns, 1681. [6],300pp. plus twenty-eight plates (four of them double-page) and a double-page map. [bound with:] Dapper, Olfert: BE- SCHREIBUNG DES KO- NIGREICHS PERSIEN IN SICH HALTEND DIE LANDSCHAFFTEN FARS.... Nurnberg: Johann Hoffmans, 1681. [2],170,[5] pp. plus eleven plates (eight of them double-page) and three double-page maps. Text printed in double columns. Extra engraved titlepage in first work. Folio. Contemporary vellum, initials and date stamped in gilt on front board, manuscript title at head of spine. Light scattered foxing and tanning. Very good.

The first German edition of Dap- per’s important compilations of travels in Asia and Persia, following the first Amsterdam edition of 1672. Olfert Dapper (1639-89) was a Dutch physician and indefatigable scholar and compiler of travel accounts. Though he apparently never left Amsterdam, Dapper produced several finely illustrated volumes describing travels in Asia, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Africa. Culled from a variety of accounts, his works were very popular, and are especially noteworthy for their excellent illustrations and maps. The first title in the present volume describes travels in Asia and contains several detailed illustrations of Hindu and Buddhist myths, as well as Indian natives and port scenes. There is also a double-page map of “Indostan,” showing the Indian subcontinent. Much of the text relates travels in India, though there are also sections on Kabul and Kandahar. The second title relates travels in Persia and includes a double-page map showing the area encompassing present-day Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. There are double-page plates showing views of the cities of “Schamachie,” “Isfahan,” “Kom,” “Derbendt,” and more. OCLC locates only nine copies of this dual issue of Dap- per’s works. Not in Cox. Scarce. BLACKMER 451. OCLC 6812164. $10,000.

De Bry’s Petit Voyages: An Essential Collection of Voyages, in a 17th-Century Binding

27. De Bry, Johann Theodor, and Johann Israel: THE PETIT VOYAGES, PARTS I – XI. Frankfurt. 1601-1633. Eleven parts bound in two volumes. 256 (of 259) engraved maps and plates. Small folio. 17th-century stamped vellum, raised bands, manuscript titles on spines, a.e.g. Vellum a bit soiled and stained, mostly at the edges. Internally clean and neat. A nearly complete set of the first eleven parts (lacking only three Africa maps in Part I), in very nice condition.

A nearly complete set of the Petit Voyages of De Bry, one of the grandest collections of voyages published in the Age of Discovery. This series of voyages, devoted mainly (but not entirely) to the East Indies, was issued concurrently with the same publishers’ Grand Voyages, which are primarily devoted to the Americas. The present set, in a mixed state of first and second Latin editions of the parts, is close to complete. Three Africa maps are missing from Part I; and the set is also lacking Part XII (so rare that even Church lacked much of the text), and the appendix to Part I, which is also very difficult to obtain. Both of these parts were issued by a different publisher in 1625 and 1628, long after the rest of the series. Almost all sets lack some plates and maps, and assembling complete copies has been a pas- sion of collectors since the beginning of the collecting of voyages in the early 19th century. A number of the maps and plates are highly prized individually, which has contributed to parts being disassembled. The Petit Voyages comprise probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of cartographical and visual material on Africa, India, the Spice Islands, and South Asia. The De Brys’ intention as publishers to present an illustrated record sets them apart from other, textual voyage collections such as Ramusio or Hakluyt. They are a cornerstone of any serious library of travels and voyages. The collations of the parts in the present set agree with those given in Church for the first or second Latin editions of each part, the only exception being that some plates are bound in differing order and some blanks are not present. Full titles and bibliographical details can be found in Church. A summary of the parts and their contents follow:

Part I. Vera Descriptio Regni Africani. 1624. Second edition. Fourteen plates. This set lacks the two folding maps of Africa, and the map of the Congo. Pigafetta’s description of the Congo, describing Odoardo Lopez’ voyage there in 1578, probably the most important early description of central Africa. CHURCH 206. Part II. Pars Indiae Orientalis, in Qu Johan. Hugonis Lintscotani Navigatio in Orientem. 1628. Second edition. Thirty-seven in-text illustrations, plus portrait. Linschoten’s famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 were published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. CHURCH 207 (note). Part III. Tertia Pars Indiae Orientalis.... 1629. Second edition. Sixty plates, four maps. The large folding plan of Agra, often missing, is present here. The maps include Java and Nova Zembla. The large folding map, “Descriptio Hydrographica,” shows the eastern hemisphere and the routes to the east around Africa. This is a highly important piece of cartography. The rest of Linschoten, Cornelius de Houtman’s pioneering voyage to the East Indies of 1595-97 (instrumental in opening the spice trade to the Dutch), and Gerit de Veer’s voyage in search of a northeast passage in 1594-96, are included. The plates show scenes in the East, as well as Veer’s horrible experiences in Spitzbergen, where his expedition was attacked by polar bears. CHURCH 210 (note). Part IV. Pars Quarta Indiae Orientalis.... 1601. First edition. Twenty-one plates. Linschoten and Houtman’s voyages concluded, and the voyage of Jacob von Neck and Wybrandt van Warwijck to the East Indies in 1598-99. As in the two previous parts, most of the plates are scenes in the East Indies. CHURCH 211. Part V. Quinta Pars Indiae Orientalis.... 1601. First edition. Twenty plates. More material on Von Neck, and the establishment of Dutch power in Bantam. CHURCH 212. Part VI. Indiae Orientalis Pars VI.... 1604. Sole edition, first issue. Twenty-six plates. Pieter de Maree’s description of Guinea in 1600, and other early voyages to Guinea by the Portuguese, Dutch, and French. This whole section therefore relates to the Gold and Slave coasts of Africa and the growing European trading presence there, which laid the foundation for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. CHURCH 213. Part VII. Indiae Orientalis Pars Septima.... 1606. Sole edition, first issue. Twenty-two plates. Joris von Spilbergen’s voyage to Ceylon in 1601-4, and Gasparo Balbi’s voyage to Pegu via Syria, in 1579-88. This part is mainly devoted to India and Ceylon, with excellent plates of the latter. CHURCH 216. Part VIII. Indiae Orientalis Pars Octava.... 1607. Sole edition, first issue. Eighteen plates. A collection of five Dutch voyages to the East Indies, 1600-6, including trips to China and the Spice Islands, all illustrating the rising Dutch power in the East. The plates show various military encounters, and a famous double-page plate of Macao. CHURCH 218. Part IX. Indiae Orientalis Pars Nona.... 1612. First edition, second issue, and with a differently decorated titlepage. Seventeen plates. A world map appears on the supplementary title to the extra plates section. This part describes the voyage of Admiral Pieter Willemsz to the Spice Islands to seize them from the Portuguese, written by one of the officers on the expedition. CHURCH 220. Part X. Indiae Orientalis Pars X.... 1633. Second edition. Three plates and three maps (the three maps are bound after Part XI). This part is important on several accounts. The first section gives one of the first published accounts of Hudson Bay, while the second describes other voyages to the North by Linschoten. All of the maps relate to the search for a northeast passage. The third section relates to De Quiros and his supposed discovery of a new continent, “Terra Australis Incognita.” CHURCH 222 (note). Part XI. Indiae Orientalis Pars Undecima.... 1619. Sole edition, but with a differently illustrated titlepage. Ten plates. Again, there is American content, reprinting the narratives of Vespucci’s third and fourth voyages, followed by a description of Robert Coverte’s journeys in Persia and Mongolia, and then an account of Spitzbergen and the northern whale fisheries. This copy contains what Church calls the rare state of plate seven, the woman being carried to be thrown into the fire. CHURCH 223.

A rare opportunity to acquire one of the great monuments of early travel literature. CHURCH as cited above. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 619/30. $125,000. Source Book for Melville

28. Delano, Amasa: A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES: COMPRISING THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; TO- GETHER WITH A VOYAGE OF SURVEY AND DISCOVERY, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND ORIENTAL ISLANDS. Boston. 1818. 598,[1]pp. plus plate and folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt-lettered spine. Front board neatly rehinged. Moderate foxing, bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership signature on front fly leaf. Overall very good.

Second edition, after the first of the previous year, with the same collation. One of the major printed accounts of world voyages for its time. The book is most famous as the source book for Melville’s Benito Cerino. Delano recounts his travels between 1790 and 1810, encompassing visits to the Pelew, Hawaiian, and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; and Chile and Peru. Includes detailed accounts of whaling and seal hunting, observations of the inhabitants indigenous to his stopping points, etc. HOWES D233. SABIN 19349. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 43828. HILL 463 (1st ed). FORBES 477. $1750.

Finding the Remains of La Pérouse

29. Dillon, Peter: NARRATIVE AND SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF A VOYAGE IN THE SOUTH SEAS, PERFORMED BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH INDIA, TO ASCERTAIN THE ACTUAL FATE OF LA PÉROUSE’S EXPEDITION.... Lon- don. 1829. Two volumes. lxxviii,302pp. plus errata; [2],436pp., plus three plates (two folding, one colored) and folding map of Mannicolo. Modern three- quarter gilt morocco and cloth by Aquarius, spines gilt, t.e.g. A few minor fox marks, mostly on preliminary leaves of first volume. Lacks half title in first volume. Overall very good.

Forty years after the disappearance of La Pérouse, Dillon, a sandalwood trader, was shown a sword hilt in the Solomon Islands which raised his suspicions about the fate of La Pérouse. He organized an expedition in Bengal and sailed back via Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tonga. He was able to assemble enough evidence from natives, both in testimony and artifacts, to determine where La Pérouse had grounded. One of the ship’s relics, a glass piece from a thermometer, became a native’s nose piece (depicted on a folding plate). Along the way Dillon was involved in a terrific legal row with the government of Tasmania, also reported in detail. He provides a scathing examination of the legal system of Tasmania and New South Wales, finally declaring Australia “a land of corruption and injustice.” For his efforts, France made Dillon a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his expenses were defrayed, and he was granted a decent pension. HILL 480. FERGUSON 1336. ABBEY 598. HOCKEN, p.44. SABIN 20175. $3250.

30. Drake, Edward Cavendish: A NEW UNIVERSAL COLLEC- TION OF AUTHENTIC AND ENTERTAINING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS TO THE PRESENT TIME. JUDICIOUSLY SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS IN THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN, DUTCH, GERMAN, DANISH, AND OTHER LANGUAGES.... London. 1770. [2],706pp. plus frontispiece, fifty-two plates, and three maps (one folding). Also, two plates inserted with the images pasted to another sheet. Folio. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Occasional offsetting. Closed tear repaired at edge of folding world map. Very good.

“A collection of voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century, including those of Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, William Dampier, Woodes Rogers, John Clipperton, George Anson, and Lionel Wafer” – Hill. This is the supposed third edition, after editions of 1768 and 1769, but the identical collation and variation in 1770 titlepages suggests that there is one printing of text with variant title leaves. ESTC lists two 1770 editions, the first with the titlepage in red and black, and the other printed in all black. This is the latter, of which the ESTC locates only one copy, in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. ESTC N470709. HILL 492 (another ed). $2000.

A Very Early Engraved Portrait of Sir Francis Drake

31. [Drake, Sir Francis]: De Leu, Thomas, engraver: [After] Rabel, Jean, the Elder: FRANCISVS DRAECK NOBILIS- SIMVS EQVES AN- GLIÆ AN. ÆT SVE 43. Paris. [ca. 1583]. Engraved portrait, oval with surrounding legend and text beneath, on laid paper (6 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches). Cut to just within plate mark and inlaid into later wove paper sheet. Later ink inscription on verso reading: “from Holland / 1809.” Minor wear and soiling. Matted. Very good.

A clean impression of the second state of this famous portrait of Sir Francis Drake at age forty- three, shortly after he returned from circumnavigating the globe, the basis for most of the later images of him. The image is taken from a portrait purportedly painted from life by Jean Rabel the Elder and is said to be a credible likeness of the famed navigator. The legend beneath the portrait indicates the dates of Drake’s circumnavigation, listing Rabel as the painter and Thomas de Leu as the engraver. Thomas de Leu (1560-1612), a pupil of Rabel, moved to Paris around 1576 and became one of the most noted portrait engravers of his time. This engraving of Drake was the basis for many later images of him, including the well-known engravings by Jodocus Hondius and Crispin van de Passe. The earliest graphic image of one of the greatest figures in maritime history. Marianne Grivel, “Au Sieur Rabel, Parangon du la ‘pourtraicture’...” in H. Zerner and M. Bayard’s Renaissance en France (Paris, 2009), pp.227-92 (2d state). $7500.

Arguments Over French Actions in 18th-Century India

32. [Dupleix, Joseph François]: [India]: MEMOIRE A CONSULTER POUR LA FAMILLE DU SR. DUPLEIX. Paris. 1751. [2],31,108,91pp. Quarto. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Light wear to wrappers, internally fresh and clean. Very good.

Memorial of Joseph François Dupleix (1697-1763), Governor General of India, detailing the ongoing feud between him and Bertrand François Mahé de La Bour- donnais, and reporting on Dupleix’s activities in India. The memorial reprints correspondence between the two men during 1746. The feud was escalated in September of that year when the French captured British-held Madras. La Bour- donnais offered generous and lenient terms to the commander of the island, only to have Dupleix disregard them once he was left in command. A primary source for French activities in India. $850.

Privately Printed in a Small Edition

33. [DuPont, Samuel F.]: OFFICIAL DISPATCHES AND LETTERS OF REAR ADMIRAL DU PONT, U.S. NAVY. 1846-48. 1861-63. Wilmington, De. 1883. [2],531pp. Original purple cloth, spine gilt. Cloth speckled, else near fine.

Both this work and DuPont’s Extracts from Private Journal-Letters... were issued in privately printed editions of only fifty copies for private distribution, and are exceedingly rare. Eberstadt states that the present volume is even rarer than its companion. The first section is devoted to dispatches sent by DuPont from California during the Mexican-American War, when he transported Fremont and his troops from Monterey to San Diego and attacked Mexican shipping in the Gulf of California. He also commanded the Atlantic blockading forces against the Confederacy for the first two years of the Civil War. EBERSTADT 132:174. HOWES D589, “b.” GARRETT, p.207. HILL 520. $2000. Classic Work on Pirates of the Caribbean

34. Esquemeling, Alexander: BUCANIERS OF AMERICA: OR, A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ASSAULTS COMMITTED OF LATE YEARS UPON THE COASTS OF THE WEST-INDIES, BY THE BUCANIERS OF JAMAICA AND TOR- TUGA, BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH. London: William Crooke, 1684. [12],115,151,[1],124,[11]pp. plus four engraved portraits (including frontispiece), four engraved plates (two folding), and folding engraved map of Panama. Small quarto. 19th-century speckled calf, spine gilt, leather label, a.e.g., by Mansell. Light shelf wear. Some minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. A very good to near fine copy.

The first English edition of the first extensive account of the pirates of the West Indies, with all plates and map present. A fourth part was issued separately the following year. One of the most engaging examples of early British Ameri- cana, this work has served as the basis for countless novels, stories, and dramas, as well as establishing the popular leg- ends of many famous pirates. One buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, followed a very modern course and sued the author for defamation. He was awarded £200 for damages. CHURCH 689. SABIN 23479. STEVENS, HISTORICAL NUGGETS 1002. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 684/54. WING E3894. HILL 578. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 82. $10,000.

French Explorations in the Pacific

35. [Fleurieu, Charles Pierre Claret]: DISCOVERIES OF THE FRENCH IN 1768 AND 1769, TO THE SOUTH-EAST OF NEW GUINEA, WITH THE SUBSEQUENT VISITS TO THE SAME LANDS BY ENGLISH NAVIGATORS, WHO GAVE THEM NEW NAMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN HISTORICAL ABRIDGEMENT OF THE VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE SPANIARDS IN THE SAME SEAS. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1791. xxiv, 323,[1]pp. plus nine folding maps, two folding views, and folding plate. Half title. Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, black morocco label. Very good. Provenance: J. T. Sureune (signature dated 1837 on endpaper); Thomas Gill (bookplate on the front pastedown).

First English edition, following the French edition of the previous year. Writ- ing during a period of intense international rivalry over discoveries in the Pacific, Fleurieu (a French politician and scientist) promotes the discoveries of Bougainville and Jean de Surville at the expense of British claims, though he does acknowledge some of Capt. Cook’s discoveries. To bolster his claims for the French, Fleurieu uses unpublished manuscripts as well as the printed accounts of several Spanish and British navigators. An appendix prints Buache’s “Extract from a memoir concerning the existence and situation of Solomon’s Islands....” The twelve folding maps and plates relate to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. “The maps are interesting, since they were based both on actual discoveries and on Fleurieu’s theories. When d’Entrecasteaux returned from his fruitless search for La Pérouse, he confirmed that Fleurieu’s theories appeared to be generally correct” – Hill. HILL 611. BEDDIE 1302. FERGUSON 105. SABIN 24749. COX II:304. $3250. Very Early References to Columbus

36. Foresti, Jacopo Filippo, da Bergamo: NOVISSIME HYSTORIARUM OMNIUM REPERCUSSIONES, NOVITER...EDITAE. Venice: A. Vercellenius, 1503. 452,[9] leaves. Folio. Medieval vellum manuscript over boards, rebacked in vellum at an early date, manuscript label. Boards rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage lightly soiled and with contemporary hand-coloring. Minor soiling and foxing to text, contemporary underlining and annotations throughout, sometimes trimmed closely with loss to annotations. Very good.

An important illustrated history of the world, containing in this edition some of the earliest published references to Columbus’ voyage and the discovery of the New World. First published in 1486, this is the fifth illustrated edition to be produced in Italy, but the first to contain any of the Columbus references. The original text, tracing world history from Adam, was written by Philip of Bergamo (1434-1520) and later brought up to date by other hands. The Columbian references, which occur on leaves 441-442, briefly describe the first voyage of Colum- bus and the lands he discovered for Spain. It places this work among the handful of texts to describe the discovery of the New World in the first decade after Columbus’ return and the publication of his Letter in 1493. Besides the New World references, this work is a magnificent example of Italian woodcut printing, with four impressive full-page woodcuts of the Creation, Expulsion from Eden, the Death of Abel, and the Tower of Babel. There are also ninety-five smaller woodcuts of city views, forty-seven of which are repetitions, but with larger views of Verona, Genoa, Rome, Milan, and Venice. Some of the blocks were used in earlier printings, but the four large cuts are unique to this edition. A rare, very early Americanum with notable illustrations. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 503/2. MORTIMER 195. SABIN 25083. HARRISSE ADDITIONS 11. JCB (3)I:36. PROCTER 12387. ADAMS F748. $16,500. Wonderful Collection of Watercolors from a Yacht Voyage Around the World

37. [Francis, Francis]: [TWENTY-TWO ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS DONE FROM LIFE DURING A CRUISE ABOARD THE LAN- CASHIRE WITCH]. [with:] [WAR, WAVES, AND WANDERINGS. A CRUISE IN THE “LANCASHIRE WITCH”]. London. [1881]. Eighteen stiff cards, four with two mounted watercolors, fourteen with one watercolor each, for a total of twenty-two illustrations. Average image size approximately 9 x 5½ inches. Large folio portfolio. Three quarter red morocco, green tie straps. Bookplate of the Easton Neston Library on front pastedown. Moderate edge wear to all cards, some minor chipping. All watercolors bright and near fine, with autograph descriptions of scenes written in margins. Over- all an excellent set of these charming original amateur watercolors. In a cloth case, leather label. Book: Original cloth, very good, in matching case.

These original watercolors were executed from life during a gentlemen’s adventure around the world in the yacht, Lancashire Witch. This portfolio is accompanied by Francis Francis’ narrative of the voyage, titled War, Waves, and Wanderings. A Cruise in the “Lancashire Witch” (London, 1881, 308pp.), the watercolors also all done by Francis. Departing from Natal, the adventurers visited several points in Madagascar, Johanna, Zanzibar, Formosa, the Seychelles, Singapore, Siam, Japan, San Francisco, and Alaska. The watercolors as listed below are in chronological order, with Francis’ titles listed first, and with appropriate references to Francis’ text provided in quotations. The tone of the text is playful, and the illustrations are often touched with humor and sport.

1) “A cold douche on board the yacht.” “Near the lee scuppers C. is being played upon with the hose instead of having a shower bath below....” p.93. 2) “Mode of travelling in Madagascar.” “S. was the first seated, and rousing the sleepy inhabitants of Majunga with a ‘Hark for’ard, gone away, gone away, gone away, tally-ally-ally-ally ho!’ he and his bearers went off at a rapid trot. We soon followed.” p.108. 3) “Duck shooting, Madagascar.” “Through the slim trunks we could see the glint of water, and as the view became more extensive, flocks of ducks and teal could be distinguished on the surface and round the shores of the pond. Up they rose in clouds. The main body departed, but for a few minutes single birds continuesd to circle aimlessly round. We bagged four and a half brace, besides three plover which fell to a single shot.” p.110. 4) “Tip asleep.” “Tip was asleep. Tip always is asleep if left to himself for five minutes.” p.113. 5) “Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands.” “Soon after sunrise we caught our first glimpse of Johanna. Already we were well within view, and amply justified were the expectations we had formed with regard to its attractions. Still and picture- like the painted island lay on the sunlit waters, as though under a spell....” p.122. 6) “Hippo shooting on the Wami.” “Submerged in water were ten or twelve hippoes in every reach, there just visible above the surface as they gazed curiously at us... With a little care in stalking I wounded a couple of hippoes. The first, after a great deal of splashing and considerable loss of blood, disappeared in deep water; the second, with decent resignation speedily turned up his toes and floated down stream, feebly pawing the surface of the water. I followed him until at length he also sank.” p.161. 7) “Seychelle Islands.” “A run of six days close-hauled – headwinds varied by calms prevailing throughout the voyage – brought us to the Seychelles, and about noon on a brilliant sunny morning Douglas, with his accustomed skill and care, piloted us through the somewhat intricate entrance to the little reef-bound harbour of Port Victoria.” p.199. 8) “Marketplace. Patchbowree. Siam.” “The bazaar is simply a long narrow foot road, with open stalls on either side. It was perhaps the – and yet no, bearing in mind the bazaar at Zanzibar, I cannot call this the dirtiest place I ever visited....[It] was crowded with a stream of Klings, Parsees, Malays, tattooed Burmese, handsome Laos, savage Tongzus, Chinamen, and Siamese all more or less naked.” pp.260-62.

9) “On the Meinam, Siam.” “Early morning on the Meinam is very charming. The delicate rosy tints of the rising sun, reflected on the broad ‘mother of waters;’ the soft clear skies, pierced by the slender minarets and spires of many temples; the fresh coolness of the morning breeze whispering down the river ripples, as yet unbroken by the rush of traffic; the very stillness, even, are doubly pleasing after the hot restless night and ceaseless hum of insect life.” pp.276-77. 10) “On the Mekong, Siam.” “Bananas, tall clumps of graceful bamboos with feathery foliage not unlike the willow, stalwart mangoes, stately palms, tree ferns, and the great embossed trunks of many a ‘green-robed senator’ whose name I knew not, fringed with rich scenery the banks of a river far broader than the Thames.” Vol. II, p.3. 11) “Tip asleep on river bank, a lizard ran up his leg, tied his handkerchief round it to prevent it ascending, tied it in instead of out.” “During a pause in the conversation, S. who was reclining at ease according to his custom, on the bamboo matting of the floor, suddenly sprang up with a yell and howl. ‘Oh! oh! oh! Hi! cut the trousers off me! Cut ‘em off, I tell ye! He’s up my leg! Oh! the beast!... At length, removing the handkerchief, S–– began gingerly shaking the leg of his trousers, with a face no pencil could ever depict.” Vol. II, pp.9-10. 12) “Camp kitchen, camp on the Meinam.” “Our camp is pleasantly situated on a high bank, at a point where, for a few hundred yards or so, it is clear of the jungle. Just below us the broad shallow river, sweeping rapidly by, is joined by a lesser stream, and then swerves suddenly to the left. A teak forest lines the bank on one side; on the other there is a thick bamboo jungle, where a colony of black monkeys are constantly engaged in watching us through the delicate lace-like foliage.” Vol. II, p.21.

13) “In a teahouse, Japan.” “The tea made, they offered it, still shyly, but with charming grace, and – remained. One, seated by the hibachi, played idly with its chopstick fire-irons; the other, standing near her, occupied her pretty fingers with a fan. She was very attractive, this girl. Taller than the average Japanese maidens, and slim, with, as far as her coquettish little costume would allow one to judge, a figure lithe and straight as a reed.” Vol. II, p.62. 14) “Japanese dancing girls.” “The dancing was an utter failure. It was of a style that would have admitted the exhibition of much quiet elegance and grace in gesture and movement. Unfortunately there was no poetry of motion, no swim- ming ease, no lightness displayed in the evolutions of our danseuses...As for their management of the fan (which in the hands of an artiste would have lent considerably to the charm of such slow dancing), no ordinary English girl could have wielded it to less advantage....” Vol. II, p.78. 15) “Inland Sea, Japan.” “As we advanced the view expanded, until at length, having cleared the gloomy and abrupt hills that form the gates, we passed into the Inland Sea. A grand view – grand if only for its expanse – extended before us. Calm it was and peaceful, grey sky and grey sea alike waking and warming to life with the radiance of the early sun.” Vol. II, p.85. 16) “Bay. Alaska.” “In the foreground were rocky stones, which had been rugged and wild but for indescribable richness of the heavy mosses that clung around them and, blending their own endless varieties of colour with wondrous softness, knit rock to rock with tones that soothed away all trace of harshness. Further removed were pine-clad hills, from deepest green, waxing purple, and in the far- off distance dim pale blue. Behind them rose range upon range of inland snowy mountains and glittering peaks ice-helmed....” Vol. II, p.198. 17) “In a barabbora, Alaska.” “A barabbora, reader, constructed to hold two natives is, as may be supposed, hardly likely to offer spacious accommodations for six Europeans and one native. Moreover, owing to the assistance we had received at Ozinki, our rum and whiskey had given out, and consequently we had not even the opportunity of regarding the situation through that benign lens....” Vol. II, p.226. 18) “Port Muller, Alaska.” “The men of the village are all away sea-otter hunting. This unfortunate animal, cursed as it is with the handsomest of furs, knows no moment’s peace. It is hunted almost without intermission throughout the year, and dogs, females, and pups are killed indiscriminately. Many assured us that their numbers were not decreasing, but they based this assumption on the fact that the annual number of skins obtained showed no signs of diminution.” Vol. II, p.264. 19) “Pryvloff Islands, Barbary Sea.” “There are few places on the globe where summer does not exhibit some of those welcome features we are accustomed to associate with its presence. The Pryvloff Islands summer seems, however, to have struck entirely off her visiting list.” Vol. II, p.289.

Three additional watercolors that are present are not described in the text. The first is of a member of the crew staring over a gunnel of the Lancashire Witch at a moonlit sea. The second is of a crew member, called “the Commodore,” though not likely to be the captain of the vessel, relaxing on deck with the crew’s pet monkey, Jacko, and pet dog, Joe. The third is of skinning a kwang, a type of Siamese deer. All of the watercolors are done in Francis Francis’ quite impressive amateur hand, their greatest strength lying in their blending of color between sky and landscape. All together, a remarkable selection of artwork from, as is made plain in the narrative, a thoroughly pleasant circumnavigational tour. NUC 0323044 (War, Waves, and Wanderings). $22,500.

Item 38. The Europeans Arrive in Idyllic West Africa

38. Freret, Louis: ARRIVÉE DES EUROPÉENS EN AFRIQUE. Paris. 1795. Stipple engraving, with etching and mezzotint, 17 x 20 inches. Minor mat stain, one diagonal crease, small tape remnants on verso. Very good.

An idealized image of life in West Africa produced as part of early anti-slavery literature in Republic-era France. An evocative engraved view of peaceful Africans poised to trade goods with Europeans landing on shore in a long-boat, with their ship behind them. Also includes depictions of wildlife, fruit, and African trade goods, such as tusks and bread. Colibert engraved the image after Freret. Rare. $1750.

A Happy West African Village

39. Freret, Louis: HABITATION DES NÈGRES. Paris. 1795. Stipple engraving, with etching and mezzotint, 17¼ by 20 inches. Minor mat stain, small tape remnants on verso. Very good.

A richly detailed and quite striking view of an African village, with families and their livestock and homes, situated near a waterfall, with a rope bridge connecting the two houses. This idealized view of life in West Africa, a humanizing view of African natives, was produced as part of early anti-slavery movements in Republic- era France. Colibert engraved the image after Freret. Rare. $1750. An Idealized African Scene

40. Freret, Louis: LE MARIAGE DES NÈGRES. Paris. [1795]. Stipple engraving, with etching and mezzotint, 17 x 20¾ inches. Light mat stain, small tape remnants on verso. Very good.

An idealized image of life in Africa, produced as part of early anti-slavery campaign- ing during the French Republic. A finely detailed depiction of an African village in the midst of a marriage celebration, with the women engaged in conversation and the men dancing in the background while children play. A few village buildings stand in the distance beneath a large hill. A humanizing and energetic view of African natives. Colibert engraved the image after Freret. Rare. $1750.

A Major Landmark in the Literature of Portuguese Expansion in the East

41. Galvao, Antonio: TRATADO DOS DESCOBRIMENTOS ANTI- GOS, E MODERNOS, FEITOS ATÉ A ERA DE 1550. COM OS NOMES PARTICULARES DAS PESSOAS QUE OS FISERAÕ: E EM QUE TEMPOS, E AS SUAS ALTURAS, E DOS DESVAI- RADOS CAMINHOS POR ONDE A PIMENTA, E ESPECIARIA VEYO DA INDIA ÁS NOSSAS PARTES, OBRA CERTO MUY NOTAVEL, E COPIOSA. Lisbon: Officina Ferreiriana, 1731. [16],100pp. including a full-page woodcut portrait of the author. Folio. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt. Boards and spine slightly rubbed. Very minor worming on boards, pastedowns, and free endpapers. Modern bookplate of Franz Pol- lack Parnau on front pastedown. Inoffensive ownership stamp in foremargin of titlepage. Internally clean and fresh. [bound with:] Moreno Porcel, Francis- co: RETRATO DE MANUEL DE FARIA Y SOUSA...CONTIENE UNA RELACION DE SUA VIDA, UN CATALOGO DE SUS ES- CRITOS, Y UN SUMARIO DE SUS ELOGIOS, RECOGIDOS DE VARIOS AUTORES. Lisbon: Officina Ferreiriana, 1733. [16],102,[1]pp. Internally clean and fresh, with minor worming in lower margin of final seven leaves. Both titles in very good condition.

The second edition of Galvao’s history of exploration and voyages, after the virtually unobtainable first edition of 1563. According to Sabin, this second edition “is also rare, the greater portion having been destroyed by an earthquake.” Galvao’s text was translated in 1601 by Hakluyt, who complained about the rarity of the first edition even then and had to rely on a copy sent from Lisbon. Currently only three copies of the first edition are known, including one at the John Carter Brown Library. Born in 1503, Galvao was sent to India in 1527, and after distinguishing himself there he was appointed gover- nor of the Moluccas. He maintained a keen interest in military and religious affairs throughout his career and spent the latter part of his life assembling accounts of the voyages that comprise this collection. He provides a relatively succinct chronological list of ancient and modern discoveries to the year 1550, including those by Columbus, Cabral, Cortés, and Pizarro. “The author has been styled ‘the founder of historical geography.’ The book gives a good summary of the geographical explorations of the Portuguese and other important voyagers, including the English” – Hill. Bound with Galvao’s Tratado is the second edition of Francisco Moreno Porcel’s biography and critical appreciation of the Portuguese poet and historian, Manuel de Faria y Sousa (1590-1649), enlarged from the first edition of 1650. Faria y Sousa is known for his enormous commentary on Camões’ Os Lusiadas, his historical writings on Portuguese expansion, and his own poetry. A key collection of voyages, here in the first obtainable edition, bound with a contemporary edition by the same publisher of a significant biography. HILL 670 (note). SABIN 26468. BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA 642. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/89. BORBA DE MORAES, p.289. OCLC 11831464. PALAU 182290 (Moreno Porcel). OCLC 2679785, 51370126, 48741116. $10,000.

The Complete Set, with a Presentation Inscription

42. Gilliss, James Melville: THE U.S. NAVAL ASTRONOMICAL EXPE- DITION TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, DURING THE YEARS 1849-’50-’51-’52. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1856. Four volumes (all published), consisting of volumes 1, 2, 3, and 6. xiii,[3],556pp. plus three maps and eleven plates; ix,[3],300pp. plus two maps and thirty- five plates of natural history subjects and Indian artifacts (many colored); cclxxxviii,492pp. plus one plate; xlviii,420pp. Quarto. First and second volumes in contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, morocco labels, gilt. Third and sixth volumes in original gilt pictorial, blindstamped cloth, spine gilt. Bindings generally rubbed and edgeworn, corners bumped. Small library stamp on titlepage of sixth volume. Save for an intermittent tideline in first volume (not affecting plate images), internally very clean, with bright, fresh plates. Very good.

The first volume bears a presentation inscription on the titlepage: “W. Jeffries Wyman with compliments of the author.” A full set of this landmark expedition, including the two seldom found volumes of astronomical observations and experiments. The fourth and fifth volumes were never published, and the last two volumes are very scarce. The first volume comprises a detailed account of Chile, covering geography, resources, history, and political situation, and a narrative of the expedition’s travels in the country. The second volume contains a variety of reports, mostly on natural history subjects, as well as an account of Archibald MacRae’s journey across the Andes and pampas of the Argentine Provinces, including a map of part of the Argentine Republic. The bird plates that illustrate John Cassin’s report on birds in the second volume are beautifully colored. The appendices are on zoology, mammals (by Spencer Baird), birds (by John Cassin), reptiles, fishes, plants, and paleontology. The third volume records thousands of astronomic observations in tabular format, conducted at various places, including the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.; in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and in Santiago, Chile. The fourth volume (Volume 6) contains more astronomic observations and experiments, mostly from Chile, but also from other observatories around the world. The first volume includes a remarkable folding panoramic view of the city of Santiago, from the summit of Santa Lucia. “This expedition to South America, led by James Melville Gilliss (1811-65), was the third American Naval Scientific expedition; the first was that of Charles Wilkes to the Pacific and the second that of William Francis Lynch to the Holy Land. These scientific expeditions were notable successes and their published products are much appreciated. This expedition went overland to Panama City and then via the South Pacific to Callao, Valparaiso, and Santiago. A subsidiary expedition was sent to explore northern Chile as far as La Paz, Bolivia” – Hill. HILL 707. SABIN 27419. McGRATH, pp.95, 117. $2500.

The Jesuits in Ethiopia

43. Godinho, Nicolao: DE ABASSINORUM REBUS, DEQUE AE- THIOPIAE PATRIARCHIS IOANNE NONIO BARRETO, & ANDREA OVIEDO, LIBRI TRES. Lugduni: Horatii Cardon, 1615. [16],414pp. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Front pastedown detached from text block, modern bookplates on front pastedown. Lightly tanned. Very good.

An important treatise on Ethiopia and the efforts of the Jesuit missionaries there, written by fellow Jesuit Nicolao Godinho. In 1555 the Church in Rome assigned Ethio- pia to the Jesuits for missionary endeavor, and particularly Portuguese members of the Order, since there was already a small Portuguese trade with the kingdom. Joao Nunes Bar- reto was consecrated Bishop of Ethiopia in Lisbon before he and fellow Jesuit Andres de Oviedo set out for Goa, where they arrived in September 1556. There it was decided that the arrival of a foreign bishop without proper groundwork being laid might be a bad idea, so Barreto stayed in Goa, where he died in 1562. Oviedo proceeded to Ethiopia, arriving in the fall of 1557. He spent the next two years fruitlessly attempting to persuade the Emperor to join the Roman church before storming out of court in 1559. He was never readmitted, although he spent the next eighteen years in missionary work there, dying in 1577. A number of Catholic missionaries were critical of how the Jesuits had behaved. Dominican Friar Luis de Urreta wrote a work, published in 1611, which was deeply critical of Oviedo and his tactics. Urreta did not help his credibility, however, by making a number of wild claims about Ethiopia. Godinho, a Portuguese Jesuit based in Rome, served as a reviser of works to be published in Portuguese. In this position he was privy to information from a wide variety of sources and able to sift out the more ridiculous assertions. He was also eager to defend the actions of his order, and Oviedo in particular. This history, then, is essentially the Jesuit side of the story. At the heart of this was the rivalry between the two orders, since Urreta’s book made inferences to a group of people who had lately entered into Ethiopia, causing their Christianity to be schismatic (i.e. the Jesuits, who promptly set about tearing his work apart). DE BACKER & SOMMERVOGEL, p.1520. $5000.

An Early Account of the West Coast of Africa and the Slave Trade

44. Goncalves D’Almada, Andre: RELACAO, E DESCRIPCAO DE GUINE NA QUAL SE TRATA DAS VARIAS NACOENS DE NE- GROS, QUE A POVOAO, DOS SUES COSTUMES, LEYS, RITOS, CEREMONIAS, GUERRAS, ARMAS, TRAJOS.... Lisbon. 1733. iv, 62pp. Later plain wrappers. Very clean internally. Very good. Untrimmed.

A rare early account of the nations of the West Coast of Africa, written by a Portu- guese ship captain who had evidently gained familiarity with the nations along the coast through the slave trade. He describes the various tribes, laws, costumes, rites, and ceremonies, and concludes with an account of the conquest of Sierra Leone by the Cumbas. There are numerous references to Brazil, where the Portuguese mainly exported African slaves. MAGGS 827, 143L. $1750.

The First Great English Collection of Voyages

45. Hakluyt, Richard: THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES, TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NA- TION, MADE BY SEA OR OVER-LAND, TO THE REMOTE AND FARTHEST DISTANT QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE COMPASSE OF THESE 1500 YEERES...AND LASTLY, THE MEMORABLE DEFEATE OF THE SPANISH HUGE ARMADA, ANNO 1588, AND THE FA- MOUS VICTORIE ATCHIEVED AT THE CITIE OF CADIZ, 1596.... London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598- 1600. Three volumes bound in two. [24],619; [16],312,204; [16],868pp. Wood- cut initials and ornaments. Folio. Early 19th-century diced russia, gilt. Joints slightly cracked. Occasional stains and other marks or minor flaws (as often). Titlepage of first volume and the Cadiz leaves present in later reprints, some other leaves possibly supplied but genuine. Very good.

This is a remarkable example of a renovated and sophisticated set of the great second and best edition of Hakluyt’s celebrated collection of voyages. It was put together in the early 19th century, at a time when demand was outstripping the supply of perfect copies and changes in taste meant that collectors frequently looked for a set, even if restored, that would be impressively handsome on their shelves. For- merly in the library of the Lords Monson, it was most probably acquired by the 6th Baron, William John Monson (1796-1862), a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries with wide bibliophilic and historical interests who bought extensively from leading London booksellers such as Rodd, Payne & Foss, and Thorpe. “This [second edition] was indeed Hakluyt’s monumental masterpiece....Much that was new and important was included: the travels of Newbery and Fitch, Lancaster’s first voyage, the new achievements in the Spanish Main, and particularly Ralegh’s tropical adventures....The book must always remain a great work of history, and a great sourcebook of geography, while the accounts themselves constitute a body of narrative literature which is of the highest value in understanding the spirit of the tendencies of the Tudor age” – Penrose. “It is difficult to overrate the importance and value of this extraordinary collection of voyages” – Sabin. “...An invaluable treasure of nautical information which has affixed to Hakluyt’s name a brilliancy of reputation which time can never efface or obscure” – Church. Hakluyt’s collection will always be the primary source for the history of early British exploration, as well as one of the gems of Elizabethan letters. Hakluyt took such patriotic pride in his countrymen’s exploits in the fields of travel and adventure that he devoted his life to preserving the records of all British voyages and to advancing further means for the promotion of wealth and commerce for the nation. “Hakluyt was a vigorous propagandist and empire-builder; his purpose was to further British expansion overseas. He saw Britain’s greatest opportunity in the colonization of America, which he advocated chiefly for eco- nomic reasons, but also to spread Protestantism, and to oust Spain” – Hill. The third volume is devoted almost entirely to the Americas, the South Seas, and various circumnavigations of the world. It includes the accounts of Niza, Coronado, Ruiz, and Espejo relating to New Mexico; Ulloa, Drake, and others regarding California; and Raleigh’s account of Guiana. Commonly absent from The Principal Navigations is (and was) the “Cadiz leaves,” which narrate the English raid on Cadiz in 1596 and were originally included at the end of the first volume. These were excised soon after publication because of the political sensitivity of the raid and its close association with the Earl of Essex, the hero of the action at Cadiz who was now increasingly at odds with Queen Elizabeth and falling into disgrace. As a result of this censorship, numerous copies of The Principal Navigations lacked the Cadiz leaves, and by the 18th century booksellers were keen to remedy this deficiency by supplying reprints, one set of replacements being produced circa 1720, another in circa 1794. (A similar instance of such rec- tification is found in the censored leaves of Holinshed’s Chronicles of 1587 which were several times reprinted in the 18th century.) Although the reprinted Cadiz leaves are well done, they are readily identifiable: most obviously, the original leaves are paginated 607-19, whereas the circa 1720 reprint is pages 607-20, and that of circa 1794 is pages 607-”417.” In the present copy the Cadiz leaves are found in the circa 1794 reprint, which is the rarer of the two. The censorship of the Cadiz leaves also resulted in the removal of the original titlepage of the first volume, dated 1598, which made special mention of the “famous victorie” at Cadiz and its replacement with a new one, dated 1599, which omitted the reference to Cadiz. Perhaps because some copies survived with the original 1598 titlepage missing but without the 1599 replacement, a reprint of the 1598 titlepage was produced circa 1794, and this is recorded in a number of copies extant today (the dating of this and the second reprint of the Cadiz leaves is determined by the presence of watermarks dated 1794 in some examples). The present copy, however, is exceptional in having a reprint of the 1599 titlepage, also made (to judge from its appearance) circa 1794. None of the usual references record such a reprint of the 1599 titlepage of the first volume. Aside from the need to restore the leaves missing as a result of censorship, there was considerable incentive to produce “perfect” sets of The Principal Naviga- tions by cannibalizing incomplete volumes, as is the case with the present set. The titlepage of its third volume has the 1604 ownership stamp of brothers Arthur and John Farewell, who were both admitted to the Middle Temple in February 1604 (Pantzer 126). The same stamp, however, is found on the titlepage (1598) of the first volume of the set now at the Guildhall Library, which also has the Cadiz leaves in the circa 1794 reprint. The Farewell volumes, therefore, went toward making up two sets, both of which had to be rendered perfectly complete by the addition of Cadiz leaf reprints. In the present set, as noted above, the titlepage of the first volume had to be provided in reprint as well; some other leaves are possibly supplied but genuine. It preserves the typical early arrangement of binding the first and second volumes together. As with all but a handful of surviving copies, it does not contain the world map. GROLIER 100, 14. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 3, 4, 5, 6, 8c, 9a, 18a. PRINT- ING AND THE MIND OF MAN 105. STC 12626a. SABIN 29595, 29597, 29598. JCB (3)I:360-61. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 598/42. HILL 743. PALAU 112038, 112039. BORBA DE MORAES, p.328. PFORZHEIMER 443. CHURCH 322. Charles E. Arm- strong, “The Voyage to Cadiz in the Second Edition of Hakluyt’s Voyages” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 49 (1955), pp.253-62. $32,500. A Utopian Vision of Madagascar

46. Hamond, Walter: A PARADOX. PROOVING, THAT THE IN- HABITANTS OF THE ISLE CALLED MADAGASCAR, OR ST. LAWRENCE, (IN TEMPORALL THINGS) ARE THE HAPPI- EST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. WHEREUNTO IS PREFIXED, A BRIEFE AND TRUE DESCRIPTION OF THAT ISLAND...WITH MOST PROBABLE ARGUMENTS OF A HOPEFULL AND FIT PLANTATION OF A COLONY THERE.... London: Printed for Na- thaniel Butter, 1640. [38]pp. Small quarto. Three-quarter antique calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco label. 19th-century armorial library bookplate on front pastedown. Closely trimmed, just touching the first “A” at the top of the titlepage and cropping the upper portion of a few running titles and catchwords. Titlepage soiled, with small ink spots affecting a few characters of text. Very good.

The only edition of this rare utopian work describing the island of Mada- gascar and its inhabitants. The author, Walter Hamond (d. 1648) had by his own account traveled several times to Madagascar in the service of the East India Company, once “resident there Foure Moneths together.” During the 1630s, as King Charles I was advised that Madagascar would be an ideal location for English traders bound for India and the Far East to refresh and repair their ships, Hamond composed A Paradox..., encouraging further use of the island for colonization and trade. Describing the land of Madagascar in Edenic terms, Hamond begins his characterization of its inhabitants by referring to them as “a sluggish and slothfull people.” “If any where,” he writes, “the Proverbe, Terra bona, gens male, may here be applied” (A4v). He swiftly recasts them, however, as an innocent and virtuous race, whose “Nakednesse, Poverty, and Simplicity” demonstrate a happy, prelapsarian state instead of one of wretchedness or misery: “Now for Pride [of clothing and appearance], such is the Happinesse of these people, that they know not what it meanes, here is no man that respectech another the better for his Out-side, but for his inward vertue, and naturall Endowmens....They know that the inordinate desire of riches in the Root of all mischiefe, a Raging famisht Beast, that will not bee satisfied....As for Gold, the Soule of the World...[t]hese people know it not, or doe they know it, they regard it not, at least I am sure they value it not” (D4v-E1). Hamond continues with the observation that the Golden Age “so much celebrated by ancient Writers, was not so called, from the Estimation, or predomination that Gold had in the Hearts of men...[b]ut from the Contemps thereof ”; this “happy Age these people doe at this present enjoy” (E1v). A fascinating precursor to the 18th-century imaginings of the Noble Savage, and a rare title on the market. STC 12735. DNB VIII, p.1137. $12,500.

Two Rare Fiji Imprints

47. Hazlewood, David: A COMPENDIOUS GRAMMAR OF THE FEEJEEAN LANGUAGE; WITH EXAMPLES OF NATIVE IDI- OMS. [bound with:] A FEEJEEAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY: WITH EXAMPLES OF COMMON AND PECULIAR MODES OF EXPRESSION, AND USES OF WORDS. ALSO CONTAIN- ING BRIEF HINTS ON NATIVE CUSTOMS, PROVERBS, THE NATIVE NAMES OF THE NATURAL PRODUCTIONS OF THE ISLANDS, NOTICES OF THE ISLANDS OF FEEJEE, AND A LIST OF THE FOREIGN WORDS INTRODUCED. Vewa, Feejee: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1850 [i.e. 1852]. 72pp. plus two folding tables; 349,[2]pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, raised bands. Minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

These works were printed by Edward Martin, a Frenchman who was wrecked in an American ship among the Fiji Islands in a hurricane in 1848. Printing began in the Fiji Islands in Buthainambua in 1839 and continued, in fits and starts due to native politics and wars, until it was firmly established in Viwa in 1844. The mission press was the only press in Fiji until a commercial press was established in 1868. “The most notable book printed during this time was David Hazlewood’s often reprinted Compendious Grammar... and Fijian and English Dictionary. This was first printed in two parts in 1852 in an edition of 700...” – Lingenfelter. The NUC locates four copies (OC, RPB, IEG, NN). The NSTC adds copies at Cambridge, British Library, and Bodleian. SNOW 4550, 4551. TAYLOR, p.389. LINGENFELTER, p.65. $2500.

48. Hough, William: A NARRATIVE OF THE MARCH AND OPERA- TIONS OF THE ARMY OF THE INDUS, IN THE EXPEDITION TO AFGHANISTAN IN THE YEARS 1838 – 1839.... London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1841. [2],xl,443,95pp. plus folding map, three plates, and 16pp. of publisher’s advertisements. Original brown publisher’s cloth, expertly rebacked preserving most of original spine. Corners bumped and repaired. Closed tear in map repaired with tissue. Very good.

An account of an invading expedition into Afghanistan by the Army of the Indus, an Indian force led by the British, during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42). Though the British were successful at the Battle of Ghazni in July 1839, they were ultimately pushed out of Afghanistan. The whole affair was part of a greater conflict between Britain and Russia for control over the area. The views in this work include Kabul, Ghazni, and Kandahar, and the map shows the greater region in some detail. $1000.

49. Keate, George: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PELEW ISLANDS, SITU- ATED IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. COMPOSED FROM THE JOURNALS AND COMMUNICA- TIONS OF CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON, AND SOME OF HIS OFFICERS.... London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1788. xxvii,[1],378,[1]pp. plus frontispiece, folding map, and fifteen plates (one folding). Quarto. Contem- porary tree calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Corner tips repaired. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some faint offsetting from plates, but text generally quite clean. Very good.

The ship Antelope, under Wilson’s command, was wrecked near the Pelew Islands in 1783. The crew was treated well by the islanders, who helped them build their return vessel. The King’s son, Prince Lee Boo, accompanied them when they returned to England, where he found great favor and much publicity. A grammar of the Pelew language is appended. The plates show scenes in the islands, artifacts, a profile, and a portrait of Lee Boo. HILL 907. ESTC T122142. $1250. First Edition of La Pérouse’s Voyage, with the Atlas

50. La Pérouse, Jean François: VOYAGE DE LA PÉROUSE AUTOUR DU MONDE.... Paris: de l’Imprimerie de la Republique, 1797. Four large quarto text volumes plus folio atlas. Text volumes: [4],lxxii,346,[1]; [4],398,[1]; [4],422,[1]; [4],309pp. plus engraved portrait frontispiece in first volume. At- las: Engraved titlepage plus sixty-nine maps and plates (many folding). Half titles. Text volumes: Large quarto. Original blue marbled paper boards, paper labels. Atlas: Large folio. Matching blue marbled boards, paper label. All untrimmed, some gatherings unopened, especially in third text volume. Some rubbing to spine ends, joints, and labels. Unobtrusive worming to part of the text in second and third volumes, persistent light dampstain at bottom edge of some leaves in third volume. Atlas with light marginal dampstaining on some leaves. Overall, a near fine copy in contemporary condition.

First edition of one of the greatest French voyages, published by order of the French government. La Pérouse, one of the foremost French navigators of the 18th century, left Brest with two vessels in 1785 to explore the northwest coast of America. He arrived there the following summer and explored extensively along the Alaska coast, then sailed south to California. The expedition’s goals were to explore the potential for fur trading ventures, pursue the geographical exploration of both America and Siberia, investigate the possibility of a northwest passage, and establish some French claim north of Spanish and south of Russian claims on the American coast. After his California visit, La Pérouse visited China, some Pacific islands, and the Siberian coast. He sent back copies of his journals, both overland across Russia and via British ships met at Botany Bay in the spring of 1788. After he left Australia his party was never seen again, and it was not until the 1820s that the wrecks of his ships were discovered on a reef in the Santa Cruz group. When it became clear that something had happened to the expedition, a decision was made to publish the journals he had transmitted home. The La Pérouse voyage is notable for its superb mapping of the Alaska and California coasts (discussed at length by Wagner in Cartography of the Northwest Coast), including maps of San Diego, Monterey, and the entire Northwest Coast. The atlas also contains numerous interesting views of the coast in California and the Pacific, as well as botanical and natural history plates. The text contains a wealth of scientific and ethnographic information. “It is one of the finest narratives of maritime exploration ever written, and certainly deserves to hold a place of high honor among the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century” – Howell. Although La Pérouse did not sail around the world, as announced in the title, he might well have achieved that objective if disaster had not overtaken him. HILL 972. HOWES L93, “b.” STREETER SALE 3493. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 837-848, pp.199-201. SABIN 38960. ZAMORANO 80, 49. COWAN, p.383. LADA-MOCARSKI 52. FERGUSON 251. FORBES 272. $35,000.

In Search of La Pérouse, with Botanical Plates by Redouté

51. Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houten de: RELATION DU VOYAGE À LA RECHERCHE DE LA PÉROUSE, FAIT PAR ORDRE DE L’ASSEMBLÉE CONSTITUANTE PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1791, 1792.... Paris. [1800]. Two text volumes plus atlas. Text volumes: xvi, 440; 332,110,[2]pp. Atlas: Title-leaf, folding chart of the Pacific, and forty- three engraved plates. Contemporary half gilt calf and boards. Slight wear to spine of atlas and outer edge of front board, else a fine set.

The first edition of this narrative by the naturalist on the d’Entrecasteaux expedition in search of the great French navigator, La Pérouse, whose party disappeared without a trace in 1788. D’Entrecasteaux’s party searched Australian waters and north to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and New Caledonia. Labillardière’s account is particularly interesting for its descriptions and illustrations of Tasmania and the islands mentioned above. The atlas contains important views of these areas by the artist, Piron, as well as fourteen botanical plates engraved by Redouté. The expedition twice circumnavigated Australia, as well as its island stops, although it was beset by difficulty throughout. D’Entrecasteaux died in Batavia, and news of the French Revolution fragmented the crew and ended the expedition. The papers of the expedition fell into British hands, but were returned under a flag of truce in 1796, and Labillardière was the first to publish his account. “The expedition made several important contributions to geographical knowledge, and the investigations of the naturalists...were of special value” – Ferguson. FERGUSON 308 (octavo text vols). HILL 954. SABIN 38420. DAVIDSON, pp.105-6. $10,000.

Ledyard’s Rare Account of Cook’s Third Voyage

52. Ledyard, John: A JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN COOK’S LAST VOY- AGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND IN QUEST OF THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE, BETWEEN ASIA & AMERICA; PER- FORMED IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, AND 1779.... Hart- ford. 1783. 208pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Boards and joints worn, corners bumped. Contemporary gift inscription on front fly leaf. Dampstain at top of titlepage and following few leaves. Moderately toned and foxed. Lacking the very rare map (as is virtually always the case). A good copy.

“This is not only the first American book on the Northwest Coast, but also the first American book on Hawaii...” – Streeter. Ledyard sailed as a corporal of Royal Marines on Cook’s last voyage and was on board ship when Cook met his death on Hawaii. A native of Connecticut, he was with Cook during the first part of the American Revolution and in England until 1782. Assigned to the North Ameri- can station, he deserted and returned to Hartford, where this account (evidently intermixed with the 1781 narrative of John Rickman, probably by an unidentified editor) was published in 1783. One of the rarest subsidiary accounts of Cook’s voyage, and a book of the greatest interest in the history of the Northwest Coast and its exploration. HOWES L181, “d.” STREETER SALE 3477. EVANS 17998. SABIN 39691. WICK- ERSHAM 6556. LADA-MOCARSKI 36. FORBES 52. $25,000. The First French Edition of the Great Classic of Early East Asian Navigation

53. Linschoten, Jan Huygen: HISTOIRE DE LA NAVIGATION DE JEAN HUGUES DE LINSCOT HOLLANDAIS ET DE SON VOY- AGE ES INDES ORIENTALES...AVEC ANNOTATIONS DE BERNARD PALUDANUS DOCTEUR EN MEDICINE, SPECIAL- EMENT SUR LA MATIERE DES PLANTES & ESPICERIES...A QUOY SONT ADIOUSTEES QUELQUES AUTRES DESCRIP- TIONS TANT DU PAYS DE GUINEE, & AUTRES COSTES D’ETHIOPIE, QUE DES NAVIGATIONS DES HOLLANDOIS VERS LE NORD AU VAYGAT & EN LA NOUVELLE ZEMBLA ...NOUVELLEMENT TRADUICT EN FRANÇOIS. Amsterdam: Théodore Pierre, 1610. Six engraved maps on eight sheets (two double-page, two folding, two on two folding sheets), fifty-eight engraved in-text illustrations. Folio. Expertly bound to style in old vellum. Five illustrations shaved into image area; occasional expert restoration. Very good. In a half black morocco and cloth folding box.

Very rare first edition in French of the great classic of travel literature. “When Linschoten returned from Goa to his home in the Netherlands, he did so at a time when the people of northern Europe and particularly his countrymen were especially interested in what he had to report concerning the trading activities of the Portuguese in the East. He had lived in Goa for six years from 1583, and while he never ventured far from the Portuguese capital, he did have an ‘avaricious thirst for knowledge which enabled him to get detailed information of land and sea as far afield as the Spice Islands and China’” – Penrose. But his most important and far-reaching observations concerned the gradual decline of Portuguese power in the East and her ability to protect her trade routes and monopolies. This, together with the trading possibilities he detailed, encouraged a series of Dutch, French, and English fleets to set sail for the Spice Islands and beyond to China and Japan. An important work that served not only as a valuable record, but also as a catalyst for change in the balance of power amongst European trading nations in the east. This first edition in French is translated from the Latin edition of Linschoten published in parts II-IV of De Bry’s Petit Voyages in 1599 and 1601 (which also contains other narratives). The illustrations are printed from exactly the same plates used in De Bry, and other aspects conform with the text as it appears in the Petit Voyages. This includes the commentary on Linschoten’s text by Bernard Paludanus, first appearing in the De Bry edition, and only otherwise appearing here. It is particularly useful for notations on botany and food. It has generally been accepted that this edition was actually printed in Frankfurt rather than Amsterdam, despite the imprint, probably by the same printer who printed De Bry’s work (see Tiele 685). There are two issues of the first edition in French published in 1610: one by H. Laurenszoon, and one by Pierre (as here). It would have made sense for De Bry to have done this; the Petit Voyages appeared only in Latin and German, but the demand for Linschoten made it worthwhile to publish separately in French. Because of De Bry’s strong anti-Catholicism, he could not reach the French market directly, but did it by using the Dutch publishers as intermediaries. The differing imprints reinforce this, suggesting Laurenszoon and Pierre were really publishers, not printers, of the work. One of the most important early editions of Linschoten, the first to appear in French, and indicative of the complex printing and publishing relationships of the time. Ernst van den Boogaart, Jan Huygen Van Linschoten and the Moral Map of Asia. BORBA DE MORAES, p.489 (ref ). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 610/69. JCB (3)II:71. SABIN 41369. TIELE-MULLER 95(f ). $90,000.

One of the First Works in English on World Exploration

54. Lopes de Castanheda, Fernao: THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE HIS- TORIE OF THE DISCOVERIE AND CONQUEST OF THE EAST INDIAS, ENTERPRISED BY THE PORTINGALES, IN THEIR DAUNGEROUS NAVIGATIONS.... London: Thomas East, 1582. [6],164 leaves. Woodcut border device surrounding the titlepage, woodcut initials throughout the text. Small quarto. 19th-century diced Russia, stamped in blind and gilt, expertly rebacked to style. Corners lightly worn. Bookplates of J.C. MacCoy and George Wilbraham on front pastedown. Very minor worming in outer margin. Some light toning and soiling. Very good.

The first English edition of one of the most important historical works of the first great age of discovery, trans- lating the first book of Castanheda’s work, originally published in Coimbra in 1551. Translated by Nicholas Li- chefield, this edition is appropriately dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. Most of the Historie is devoted to the great Portuguese thrust into Asia in the early 16th century, chronicling their epic expansion to India, the East Indies, and China between 1497 and 1525. Castanheda himself spent some two decades in the Portuguese colonies in the East and so was well equipped to write this account. It is one of the primary sources for the early Portu- guese trading empire, a model that the British were beginning to emulate at the time of publication. Penrose says of the author: “...he wrote an impartial book of outspoken sincerity which was the fruit of years of residence in the East.” This work is equally important for its American content, being the first to describe in detail the voyage of Cabral and his discovery of Brazil in 1500 while on his way to the East Indies. Cabral’s landing is the first recorded there, recounted in chapters 29-31 of the present work. “This English edition is very rare” – Hill. “A most interesting and rare book” – Sabin. This work has become difficult to find. Not in Church. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 582/54. HILL 1035. BORBA DE MORAES, pp.166-67. Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, pp.274-79. STC 16806. SABIN 11391. STREETER SALE 26. $65,000.

A Superb Collection of Early Dutch Voyages

55. Marees, Pieter de; [Willem Lodewijcksz]; Jacob Cornelissoon van Neck; Gerrit de Veer; Olivier van Noort: [COLLECTION OF FIVE IMPORTANT DUTCH VOYAGES TO THE FAR EAST]. [Amster- dam. 1605-1610]. Five volumes bound in one (see below). Folio. 19th-century half calf and marbled boards, ornate gilt spine. Spine rubbed and worn. Con- temporary ownership signature on titlepage. Old institutional stamps on front free endpaper and first titlepage. Overall internally clean. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

A collection of five highly important Dutch voyages, in their first or early French editions, bound in one volume. These voyages represent the foundation Dutch voyages in their initial expansion (one might say explosion) into the world as the Dutch began their seaborne empire. The voyages are, in chronological order by publication date:

1) Marees, Pieter de: Description et Recit Historial dv Riche Royavme d’Or de Gvnea.... Amsterdam: P.D.M. Claesson, 1605. [2],96,[8]pp. plus twenty in-text engravings. Titlepage vignette. First French edition, after the first edition of 1602. De Marees is one of the least-known early Dutch navigators and is best remembered for this narrative, which provides the earliest substantial description of the Guinea coast, its people and languages, and which discusses the dangers of rounding the tip of Brazil. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 605/73. TIELE 717. TIELE-MULLER 135. CARDINALL, p.13. 2) [Lodewijcksz, Willem]: Premier Livre de l’Histoire de la Navigation aux Indes Ori- entales.... Amsterdam: Nicolas, 1609. 55 leaves. Titlepage with engraved map, forty-six in-text engravings, and one full-page engraving. Neat restoration to blank corner of one leaf. Small hole affecting two plates. First French edition, after the first of 1598. Lodewijcksz gives an account of the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies under Cornelius Houtman, from 1595 to 1597. The spice trade data collected by Houtman convinced the Dutch they could break Portugal’s monopoly in the East Indies, and his narrative offers a jumping-off point for the explosion of Dutch trading at the turn of the century. This narrative also includes the first European description of Bali, written by a crew member. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/71. HOWGEGO H106. TIELE 508. TIELE-MULLER 114. Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe, p.200. 3) Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: La Second Livre, Iournal ou Comptoir, Contenant le Vray Discours et Narration Historique.... Amsterdam: Nicolas, 1609. 228 leaves. Vignettes, twenty-four engravings in text. First French edition, after the Dutch first of 1601. A detailed account of a watershed moment in Dutch commercial enterprise. As mentioned above, Holland’s aggressive pursuit of opportunity in the East Indies demanded the Dutch first unseat Portugal from its dominance of the region. Van Neck’s voyage was the first such expedition by the Dutch to make substantial progress in this regard, and he provided his investors with a whopping total return of over 400%. The bells of Amsterdam which saluted his return hardly stopped ringing before other Dutch merchant companies with designs on the East Indies “sprang up like mushrooms” (Boxer). Meanwhile, the mood in Portugal was somber. Merchants there credited Neck’s remarkable success to the dishonorable use of “force or fraud.” HOWGEGO N13. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/93. TIELE 786. TIELE-MULLER 129. BOXER, pp.22-23. 4) Veer, Gerrit de: Vraye Description de Trois Voyages de Mer Tres Admirables, Faits en Trois Ans, a Chaevn An Vn; par les Navires d’Hollande et Zelande.... Amsterdam: Nicolas, 1609. [1],44 leaves. Titlepage vignette, thirty-one in-text engravings, plus three maps (one full-page). Third French edition, after the first of 1598. An early Arctic voyage, representative of the extent of Dutch ambitions. De Veer, as a chronicler for the expedition, accompanied Jacob van Heemskirk on his second voyage to the Barents Sea searching for a northeast passage to China. “[T]he ships advanced well to the north of Scandinavia, sighting Veere Island for the first time. Continuing further north as far as 80 degrees 11 minutes, the expedition sighted [Spitsbergen], which they coasted in a southerly direction. This was probably the first sighting of the islands of Spitsbergen, although there is some evidence of their discovery by Icelandic navigators...” – Howgego. HOWGEGO H55. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 609/128. TIELE-MULLER 99. 5) Noort, Olivier van: Description dv Penible Voyage Fait Entovr de l’Vnivers ov Globe Terrestre. Par Sr. Olivier dv Nort D’vtrecht, General de Qvatre Navires, Assavoir: de Celle Dite Mauritius.... Amsterdam: Nicolas, 1610. [2],62pp., including twenty-five in-text engravings and two full-page maps. Titlepage vignette. Second French edition, after the first of 1602. Van Noort, a former tavern keeper in Rotterdam, accomplished the third circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan and Drake, and was the first Dutch explorer to do so, making the trip from 1598 to 1601. The voyage was particularly arduous. Half the crew mutinied, his ships were constantly harassed, and most of those that didn’t mutiny perished from disease. Despite his effort, Van Noort contributed little to the known geography of the world. Still, Van Noort was an inspiration to his country, and he established Hol- land as a power in global exploration. HOWGEGO N37. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 610/79. SABIN 55438. BORBA DE MORAES II:103. TIELE 806.

Though issued separately and complete as such, these voyages were clearly intended to comprise a set. It is remarkable to find a collection like this one which survives in this intended format. A rare and compelling volume, describing the era Dutch sea power first asserted itself on the world stage. $72,500.

“The first printed account of man’s entry into the region south of the Antarctic circle” – Spence

56. [Marra, John]: JOURNAL OF THE RESOLUTION’S VOYAGE, IN 1772, 1773, 1774, AND 1775. ON DISCOVERY TO THE SOUTH- ERN HEMISPHERE, BY WHICH THE NON EXISTENCE OF AN UNDISCOVERED CONTINENT...IS DEMONSTRATIVELY PROVED. ALSO A JOURNAL OF THE ADVENTURE’S VOY- AGE, IN THE YEARS 1772, 1773, AND 1774. WITH AN AC- COUNT OF THE SEPARATION OF THE TWO SHIPS.... London. 1775. xiii,[1],328pp. plus folding map and five plates. Modern paneled calf, gilt leather label. Light dampstaining to a few leaves, some minor foxing. Offsetting from plates. Very good.

The earliest published complete account of Cook’s second voyage, issued at least eighteen months prior to the official version. The second voyage included the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle, making Marra’s narrative the earliest firsthand account of the Antarctic, and the engraved plates are the first depictions of that region. Due to the strict regulations against private publications, the work was published anonymously, but the identity of the author did not remain a mystery for long. “Correspondence between Cook and the Admiralty shows that the author was John Marra, one of the gunners’ mates in the Resolution. He was an Irishman whom Cook had picked up at Batavia during the first voyage. He made an abor- tive attempt to desert at Tahiti on 14 May 1774, an escapade of which Cook took so lenient a view that he says – ‘I know not if he might have obtained my consent, if he had applied for it in proper time.’ This did not, however, as Marra states at p.241, prevent his being put in irons...” – Holmes. This copy contains the extremely rare extra folding map, “Part of the Tropical Discoveries of the Resolution Sloop Captain J. Cook in 1774,” which is noted by Beddie and Rosove but not called for in most of the references. This map has, however, been present in three of the twenty-five copies of the first edition sold at auction in the last thirty or so years. The chart appears opposite the first page of text and shows New Caledonia and the Great Cyclades islands to the north and Norfolk island to the south. It is a most interesting production and is to be found in two states: first, as here with the engraver’s name and with the position of Norfolk Island incorrectly placed 4° too far south; and second, with the engraver’s name erased (but just visible), with the Norfolk Island’s latitude corrected. The chart follows two of the Gilbert manuscript charts in spelling Ballabeah Isle with a final “h,” unlike all the other manuscript charts. We have a definite date for the corrected issue of this chart, as it accompanied the article, “Late Voyages of the Resolution and Adventure,” published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol. XLVI, 1776 (edited by David Henry), opposite page 120 in the March issue. Therefore, it seems probable that the uncorrected chart found its way into copies of Marra issued during the last two or three months of 1775. “A rare work...contain[ing] details of many events not recorded in the official account, and a preface recording the causes which led Banks and his staff to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment. Accordingly it is a vital second voyage item...” – Davidson. BAGNALL 630. ROSOVE 214.A1.b. KROEPELIEN 809. BEAGLEHOLE II, pp.cliii- clv. BEDDIE 1270. SPENCE 758. DAVIDSON, p.60. HOLMES 16. O’REILLY & REIT- MAN 379. KAEPPLER 29. HOCKEN, p.14. HILL 1087. CONRAD, p.13. STREETER SALE 2408. SABIN 16247. $14,000.

The Collected Peter Martyr

57. Martyr, Peter: DE REBUS OCEANICIS ET NOVO ORBE...ET ITEM DE REBUS ÆTHIOPICIS, INDICIS, LUSITANICIS & HISPANICI.... Cologne. 1574. [48],655,[30]pp. Early 19th-century paper boards, gilt leather label. Paper worn away on boards, some wear and rubbing. Ownership inscription and notations on front endpapers. Light dampstain along bottom edge of text. Very good.

An important edition of Martyr, the foremost chronicler of the New World in its earliest period, including all of his most important texts on New World discovery. Besides all of the chronicles Martyr wrote as official historian of the Indies from 1511 to 1534, it adds two important works: Martyr’s 1521 Basel letter, which contains the text of the lost first Cortés letter describing his initial landing and forays into Mexico; and Damiao de Goes’ work, originally published in 1544, included by Harrisse in Additions (144). The most accessible edition of one of the foundation works of New World history. SABIN 1558. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 574/1. MEDINA 235. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 2. BELL A214. JCB (3)I:253. $7500.

Presentation Copy

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

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

The Island of Mauritius Following are a number of items relating to the island of Mauritius. The Dutch were the first Europeans to become interested in the island, tak- ing possession in 1598. After exploiting the island’s dense forests for a century and introducing the cultivation of sugar cane and cotton, in 1710 the Dutch abandoned the colony. The French soon claimed it as “Ile de France,” and the island remained under the control of the French East India Company until 1767. During the long war between France and England at the beginning of the 19th century, Mauritius proved to be an important strategic naval base; as a result the British took charge of the island in 1810, and the Treaty of Paris confirmed official British possession in 1814. It remained an important sugar producing colony, and in the 20th century agricultural production was expanded to include tea, rice, and other produce. 59. [Mauritius]: [ARCHIVE OF MANUSCRIPTS FROM AND RE- LATING TO THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS]. [Mauritius. 1767- 1817]. Approximately thirty-four items, totaling 75pp., plus several other later or tangential items. Mostly folio and quarto sheets, with a few smaller pieces. Light soiling and wear throughout, heavier to some documents. Overall good to very good.

A superb archive of manuscripts spanning more than fifty years of French colonial history in the southern Indian Ocean, and reflecting the extreme danger of some of France’s farthest-flung endeavors, especially during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. Among the manuscripts offered are letters, signed by Mauritius governor Malartic, to the governor of Réunion, and an instruction given to the Chevalier de Sanglier sent to Mauritius by the Commander of the French troops in Madagascar, Maurice Auguste, Baron Benyovszky. The earliest item is a letter from the Cesar Gabriel de Choiseul, Duc de Praslin, regarding the precarious social climate in the colony. Dated 1767, he writes: “Mes- sieurs... les revolutions arrives En Cette Colonie dans les affaires de la Compagnie....” At that time the Compagnie des Indes was handing over control of the island to the French government. There are eight autograph manuscripts signed by Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maures de Malartic – Governor of the island, “Le Citoyen President,” and “Sauveur de la Colonie” – regarding the governing of the islands during the French Revolution. All are dated at the Ile de France from 1793 to 1794. There are also two autograph letters on the printed letterhead of Maurice Auguste, Baron Benyovszky, regarding the supplies needed for his Madagascar colony, including tens of thousands of seeds for coffee and cotton. An officer of the Hapsburg army during the Seven Years’ War, Benyovszky later served in the Confederation of Bar and assisted with a rebellion against the King of Poland, for which he was eventually imprisoned in Siberia. He managed to organize a rebellion among the Polish soldiers, commandeer a ship, and sail through the Aleutian islands and on to Taiwan and then Macau, where he befriended French diplomats. He used his new contacts to arrange an audience with Louis XV, to whom he proposed a French colony on Madagascar (King Louis was intrigued enough to agree and he appointed Benyovszky governor of the new colony). Two further manuscripts relate to the precarious position in which the French colonists found themselves during the Mauritius campaign of 1809-11. “Croyez, Messieurs, que Sa Majesté L’Empereur, Saura apprécier ce nouvel acte de Votre dévoue- ment....” Dated at the Ile de France, “31 8bre 1809.” There is also a group of letters and other items from 1853 relating to Eugene Leclezio, the man who seems to have assembled all of the manuscripts. It includes several small manuscript maps of the island and the region in the Indian Ocean. There are also several later printed and manuscript items related to the same subjects. A unique and fascinating archive of manuscript material relating to French activities in the Indian Ocean. $6500.

60. [Mauritius]: CARTE DE MAURICE (CI-DEVANT ILE-DE- FRANCE) CONTENANT LA SITUATION DES PRINCIPALES SUCRERIES, LES ROUTES & LES LIMITES DES DIVERS QUARTIERS DE L’HE. Port Louis: J. Maisonneuve, 1859. Single-sheet map, 25½ x 21 inches. Old folds, some minor loss at folds, including in center of sheet. Several small losses at edges. Contemporary ink doodles on verso, resulting in some small instances of loss due to ink burn. Good.

A remarkable, locally produced map of the island of Mauritius, off the coast of Africa, showing sugar plantations, roads, terrain, the city of Port Louis, and the several other small villages that dot the coast. The scale and quality of the map are a tribute to the remarkable local culture of books and printing which flourished on the island in the 19th century. James Pope-Hennessy, in his biography of his grandfather, at one time governor of the island, describes the many local bookstores and libraries. Toussaint notes a second edition in 1848, but does not list this particular edition of the map, styled the fifth in a caption. TOUSSAINT F67 (ref ). $2000.

61. [Mauritius]: ILE DE FRANCE [manuscript title]. [N.p., but most likely Mauritius. Early to mid 1900s]. Manuscript map, 7¼ x 5½ inches. Bottom corners trimmed away, wear and some loss along left and top edges. Light to moderate soiling. About good.

An early manuscript map of the island of Mauritius, done in pen and ink on laid paper. On the map the town of Grande Port is labeled as Port Bourbon (the port was renamed Port Bourbon when the French took over the island in 1710, although the name reverted back to Grande Port by the late 18th century). Plains, mountains, rivers, and other major geographical features are indicated on the map, as are the outlying smaller islands. $1000. Item 61.

Unrecorded

62. [Mauritius Imprint]: A MONSIEUR LE BAILLY DE SUFFREN QUE L’ON S’ATTENDOIT A VOIR A L’ISLE DE BOURBON AU RETOUR DE SE GLORIEUSE CAMPAGNE DE L’INDE [caption title]. Isle de France: Imprimerie Royale, 1784. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Moderately worn with loss at foredge and gutter margins, not affecting text. Lightly soiled and dampstained. Good.

An early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mau- ritius, also known as the Ile de France. The text comprises a poem in eleven stanzas by an anonymous soldier from the Regiment of the Isle de France who retired to the island of Bourbon. As most early imprints from Mauritius are official documents, this piece, a work of local literature, is particularly interesting and desirable. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768. During the French period, until 1810, only about 400 imprints were produced, mostly in the form of official documents and newspapers, though there are also almanacs and a few other items. All are quite rare. No copies located in OCLC, and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. $4500.

Unrecorded

63. [Mauritius Imprint]: LE PRÉFET APOSTOLIQUE, AUX COLONS DE L’ISLE DE FRANCE [caption title]. Isle de France: Imprimerie Royale, 1788. Broadsheet, 12¾ x 8 inches. Folio. Moder- ate wear and soiling, small hole in center of sheet, affecting a few letters of text. Good.

Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius, also known as the Ile de France. The text contains the articles for establishing a Bureau de Charité for the island. No copies located in OCLC, and not recorded by Toussaint in his bibliography of Mauritius imprints. $3500.

Important Early Imprint

64. [Mauritius Imprint]: ASSEMBLÉE COLONIALE DE L’ISLE DE FRANCE. SÉANCE Du 17 BRUMAIRE AU MATIN, 3me. AN- NÉE DE LA REPUBLIQUE...RAPPORT FAIR A L’ASSEMBLÉE COLONIALE DE L’ISLE DE FRANCE, AU SUJET DE ST. FÉ- LIX, DUPLESSIS, TYROL, TESSAN, FAYOL, MARCENAY, GRANGIER, TOUS ARRETÉS A L’ISLE DE LA RÉUNION, PAR LES COMMISSAIRES DE LA CHAUMIÈRE, & DÉTENUS ÉS PRISONS DE LA PLACE [caption title]. Port de la Montagne [i.e. Port Louis]: Chez F.N. Bolle, [1794]. 28pp. Small quarto. Stitched as issued. Contemporary notation on first page, some contemporary underlining in text. Minor soiling. Very good.

A remarkable early imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius, also known as the Ile de France, in the south Indian Ocean. The text contains a report of the French Revolutionary Com- mittee of Public Safety regarding prisoners arrested on the island of Réunion being held as enemies of the Revolution. The document was printed in the capital, Port Louis, which was called Port de la Mon- tagne from 1792 to 1795. No copies located in OCLC; Toussaint locates a copy at the Archives Nationales in Paris. TOUSSAINT A247. $8500.

65. [Mauritius Imprint]: LIBER- TÉ. EGALITÉ. RÉPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, UNE & INDI- VISIBLE. PROCLAMATION. ANNE-JOSEPH-HYPPOLITE MALARTIC...[caption title]. Port Nord-Ouest: Chez F.N. Bolle, [1797]. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Contem- porary manuscript notation at head of first page. Top corner torn away slightly, small dampstain at foredge. Very good.

An early imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius, also known as the Ile de France. The text deals with the defense of the island, presumably against potential English invasion. The British did contemplate an invasion in 1797, but concluded it would be too difficult and abandoned the idea. Much of the text is devoted to citing the French defense of Quebec in the French and Indian War as a heroic example, making this a most unusual piece of Canadiana. No copies located in OCLC; Toussaint locates copies at the Mauritius Archives, Archives Nationales in Paris, and the British Library. TOUSSAINT A270. $6000.

The People of Calicut

66. [Maximilian I]: Burgkmair, Hans; Albrecht Altdorfer; and Hans Schäufelein: [TWENTY-SIX WOODCUT PANELS FROM The Triumphal Procession OF HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR MAXI- MILIAN I]. [Germany. Originally 1512-1519, but this printing ca. 1777]. Twenty-six woodcut panels, from 15 x 9 inches to 15 x 15¼ inches, most sized closer to the latter. All mounted to old cardstock, some toning and edge wear, almost all with pinholes, some with the printed sequence number trimmed away, short jagged tear in one example. Overall good.

A collection of twenty-six panels from the famous and monumental series of woodcuts commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and commonly known as The Triumphal Procession or The Triumph of Maximilian I. This massive undertaking to celebrate in woodcut the achievements of the young emperor resulted in a continuous woodcut image that measures approximately 177 feet when all 139 images are placed in sequence. From 1512 and until Maximilian’s death in 1519, numerous skilled artists of the day created woodblock images for The Triumph, including Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Springinklee, Leonard Beck, Hans Schäufelein, and Wolf Huber. The text to accompany the book was person- ally dictated by Maximilian to his secretary, Marx Treitzsaurwein. It is from this text that we know the subjects and settings for each of the individual woodcuts. Hans Burgkmair was the chief artist responsible for The Triumph. Burgkmair was the leading painter and draughtsman in the wealthy city of Augsburg, and of all of Maximilian’s artists, Burgkmair was the most important in adapting his talents to the service of the Emperor. He is best remembered for his graphic work including Biblical illustrations, book illustrations, coats of arms, and ornaments. Burgkmair drew sixty-six of the 137 woodcuts for The Triumph, accounting for nineteen of the twenty-six woodcuts here. Six of the remaining seven woodcuts in this collection were accomplished by Albrecht Altdorfer (numbers 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, and 85), attributed to him by critic Joseph Meder in 1932 on stylistic grounds. Number 126 is attributed to Hans Schäufelein. Because the portions of some of the woodcuts with banner plaques are supposed to have inscriptions but are printed in solid black (as in numbers 73-76, and others below), these examples were printed from the original woodblocks in either the 1520s or circa 1777. The cutting of the inscriptions on these woodblocks was completed after the second edition in 1777 but before the edition of 1796. So these woodcuts are most likely from the 1777 second edition based on paper stock, overall appearance, and the differences in the numbers printed on some examples as they relate to the first edition strikes. The woodcuts present here are especially interesting for their depiction of peoples, animals, and costumes from exotic lands. The two-panel scene composed of numbers 21 and 22 shows a giant camel pulling two men playing organs. The giant African or Asian elephant in the penultimate number is exquisitely handled, and punctuates the two panels present here that depict the exotic peoples of Calicut, a port city on the Malabar coast of southern India. Portuguese ships had first reached Calicut in 1506 and the colony of Goad established in 1511, so their appearance represents peoples as exotic as New World natives would have been. These people are largely represented as little more than savages, wearing loin cloths, animal skins, grass skirts, or no clothing, carrying primitive weaponry, and juxtaposed with their animals in a more intimate manner than the more “civilized” people represented in the other woodcuts, carrying monkeys and birds and walking amongst their cows and sheep. Several examples present here can be conjoined to make two-, three-, or four- panel displays. Numbers 41 and 42 connect jousters to the chief jousting official who bears their banner, the beginning panels of the jousting section of the display. Numbers 44 and 45 connect Italian jousters with their standard bearer. Numbers 47-49 also connect jousters in a three-panel display showing high-saddled jousters, those in leg armor, and still more Italian jousters with rounded handguards. The most continuous display achievable with this selection is a four-panel representa- tion of horsemen from the Austrian hereditary territories from Duino to various foreign inheritances. “In its boldness of conception, its epic proportions, and its wealth of content, The Triumph of Maximilian I stands as one of the world’s richest and most unusual monuments of art....In one splendid sheet after another it portrays the achievements and aspirations, the dreams of eternity and the earthly pleasures, of the most colorful and paradoxical ruler of his time....Fond as he was of entertainments and traditions that harked back to medieval times, still this ‘last of the knights’ (born 1459, dies 1519) possessed a sense of the power of publicity unique in his day. He saw clearly how he could enhance the glory of himself and his Hapsburg dynasty through the widest possible dissemination of inspiring words and pictures. The woodcut was the ideal medium for his purpose....It is impossible to overestimate the importance of The Triumph as a primary source for the history of costume, musical instruments, heraldry, and military and sporting weapons, armor, and appurtenances; for portraits of individual historical characters; and for hundreds of authentic and unusual ornamental motifs” – Appelbaum. An excellent cross-section of Maximilian I’s incredible pictorial celebration of his reign, extraordinarily rare in the market for even a single example. A detailed list of the twenty-six woodcuts included here is available upon request. Stanley Appelbaum, The Triumph of Maximilian I (New York: Dover Publications, 1964). $8500.

Maps and Views of South Germany

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

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

68. [Moulton, William]: A CONCISE EXTRACT, FROM THE SEA JOURNAL OF WILLIAM MOULTON; WRITTEN ON BOARD OF THE ONICO, IN A VOYAGE FROM THE PORT OF NEW- LONDON IN CONNECTICUT, TO STATEN-LAND IN THE SOUTH SEA; TOGETHER WITH STRICTURES AND RE- MARKS ON VARIOUS SUBJECT MATTERS WHICH CAME WITHIN HIS NOTICE, ON THE COAST OF SOUTH AMER- ICA, AND AT A VARIETY OF ISLANDS IN THE SOUTH SEA AND PACIFIC OCEAN, IN THE YEARS, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 AND 1804. Utica: For the author, 1804. 158pp. plus errata. Modern three-quarter gilt morocco and marbled boards. Browned and foxed, a few leaves dampstained. Else very good.

“Moulton had served the country under arms, before he shipped out on the American schoo- ner Onico on the voyage ‘to take fur seal in the Southern and Pacific Oceans, and when she had obtained her cargo, to proceed to Canton in China, to dispose of it, and take in a cargo of the merchandise of that country, for America.’ Moulton’s object for the voyage was to acquire property and to improve his health. He kept a diary for the length of the trip recording every event in detail. The whole crew with him suffered great hardship and indignities from the ship’s master, George Howe, and the first mate, George Haley, who eventually sold the ship and abandoned the mutinous crew ‘in a remote part of the Southern Hemisphere.’ The Onico visited ports along the west coast of South America and Juan Fernandez, where the crew was deserted by Howe. The account includes interesting observations on the history, geography, climate, and natural history of the places visited, in addition to numerous documents pertaining to the events and account of the sealing activities. This little-known book is notable for its scarcity and for being the first book to be printed in Utica, N.Y. Although the printers are not stated, it was doubtless printed by Merrell & Seward” – Hill. This volume is one of the few narratives published of the early period of American sealing activities in the South Atlantic and South Pacific. HILL 1193. AII (UTICA) 15. HOWES M863. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6832. SABIN 52236. $4000. The Fourth Circumnavigation

69. Noort, Olivier van: DESCRIPTION DV PENIBLE VOYAGE FAIT ENTOVR DE L’VNIVERS OV GLOBE TERRESTRE. PAR SR. OLIVIER DV NORT D’VTRECHT, GENERAL DE QVATRE NA- VIRES, ASSAVOIR: DE CELLE DITE MAU-RITIUS.... Amsterdam: La vefue de Cornille Nicolas, 1610. [2],61,[1]pp., including twenty-five in-text engravings and two full-page maps. Folio. Antique calf, spine ornately gilt, leather label. Contemporary inscription on titlepage. Very minor toning and soiling. A few leaves trimmed a bit close. Very good.

Second French edition, following the first French printing of 1602. Van Noort, a former innkeeper in Rotterdam sponsored by a group of Dutch merchants, accomplished the fourth circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan, Drake, and Cavendish. He was the first Dutch explorer to do so, making the trip from 1598 to 1601. The voyage was particularly arduous. Half the crew mutinied, his ships were constantly harassed, and most of those that didn’t mutiny perished from disease. He returned to Holland “with only one battered ship and eight crew left (although some accounts suggest that forty-five crew survived). His voyage contributed little to the geographical knowledge of the time but had some effect in opening the way to the establishment of the Dutch in the East Indies...Van Noort’s achievement, however, captured the imagination of his countrymen, and the published accounts sold well, the first appearing only eighteen days after his return. A more complete edition appeared later that year, followed by two amended editions in 1602” (Howgego). HOWGEGO N37. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 610/79. SABIN 55438. BORBA DE MORAES II:103. TIELE 806. $17,500. With Notes by the Author?

70. Osborn, Sherard, Capt.: A CRUISE IN JAPANESE WATERS. Edin- burgh & London. 1859. 210pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and cloth, spine with raised bands, leather label. Bit rubbed, covers bit faded. Pencil corrections in the text, possibly by the author. Very good.

The author was a captain in the Royal Navy. He describes travel from China to Japan, Japanese scenery in Nagasaki, the Dutch establishment in Japan, a visit by the governor of Nagasaki, an earthquake at Simoda, and a visit to Yedo, as well as the customs and attitudes of the Japanese toward westerners. An interesting account by a British naval officer just after the opening of Japan. CORDIER 541. $950.

71. Osorio, Jeronimo: HIERONYMI OSORII, LUSITANI, SILVENSIS IN ALGARBIIS EPISCOPI, DE REBUS; EMMANUELIS, LUSITA- NIAE REGIS INVICTISSIMI, VIRTUTE ET AUSPICIO, ANNIS SEX AC VIGINTI, DOMI FORISQ, GESTIS, LIBRI DUODEC- IM.... Cologne: Arnold Mylius, 1586. 50,[2],368,[19] leaves. Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Light tanning, some light dampstaining; some leaves heavily tanned. Very good.

The sixth edition of Osorio’s history of Portugal during the reign of King Manuel I (1495-1521). Osorio records the exploits of the great Portuguese explorers such as Cortereal, Vasco de Gama, Magellan, Cabral, and de Lemes. There is much material about the eastern shores of South America (present-day Brazil) as well as the coasts of Africa and the East Indies. This edition contains the dedicatory epistle by Joannes Metellus describing Portuguese and Spanish explorations in the East Indies. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 586/56. BORBA DE MORAES, p.638. SABIN 57804. $750.

Cook’s First Voyage, with Handsome Plates

72. Parkinson, Sydney: A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP, THE ENDEAVOUR.... London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. xxiii,212,[2]pp. plus twenty-six plates, map, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Large quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, vellum corners, expertly rebacked in calf, retaining original leather label. Slight offsetting from some plates, otherwise quite clean. A near fine copy.

A large paper copy of this important narrative. Parkinson accompanied Capt. James Cook on his first voyage to the South Pacific and New Zealand, serving as draughtsman under naturalist Joseph Banks. As botanical artist for the Endeavor voyage, Parkinson produced a large number of magnificent botanical and natural history drawings of Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia. His untimely death near the end of the voyage while en route from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope resulted in a dispute between his brother Stanfield and Banks over ownership of his manuscripts and drawings. When Hawkesworth learned of the impending publication of this work, he sought and received an injunction to prevent its appearance until sometime after the official account was issued. Hawkesworth went so far as to omit mention of Parkinson’s name from the official account, and even failed to give him credit for his botanical illustrations. The present work stands as the most attractive of the unofficial accounts of Cook’s first voyage. It contains extensive descriptions of Australia and New Zealand, and is the first work to properly identify the kangaroo by name. The handsome plates are from Parkinson’s drawings, depicting natives of Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, and New Zealand; scenes in Tahiti and New Zealand; and native artifacts. Also included are several vocabularies of South Sea languages. A major journal for Cook’s first voyage. BEDDIE 712. BELL P100. STREETER SALE 2406. HILL 1308. DAVIDSON, pp.54- 56. HOLMES 7. SABIN 58787. NMM I:564. O’REILLY & REITMAN 371. KROEPE- LIEN 944. COX I, p.58. $12,000. 73. Peralta Barnuevo, Pedro de: HISTORIA DE ESPANA VINDICADA. EN QUE SU HAZE SU MAS EXACTA DESCRIPCION LA DE SUS EXCELENCIAS, Y ANTIGUAS RIQUEZAS.... Lima: Francisco Sobrino, 1730. [72]pp. 1,644 [i.e. 1,614] columns, plus fifteen (of twenty- six) portraits. Lacks frontis. Folio. Later calf, spine gilt, leather label. Boards rubbed, large piece of leather missing from front cover. Spine heavily worn and cracked, missing bottom portion. Ex-lib. with bookplate on front pastedown. Heavy worming throughout, though generally bright and clean. Lacks eleven plates. Fair.

The first edition of this history of Spain and its royalty, by the notable Peruvian linguist, described frequently as his country’s “Poet Laureate.” The author was the official cosmographer of Peru, held the post of accountant to the Real Audiencia, founded the Academy of Mathematics, and was for a time the Rector of the Uni- versity of San Marcos. The illustrations are singled out by various authorities as of great significance for the period: “C’est peut-etre le seul livre de cette epoque publie, dans l’Amerique du Sud, qui soit si curieusement illustra” (LeClerc). Pedro Peralta Barnuevo was colonial Peru’s greatest polymath: linguist, historian, architect, administrator, mathematician, poet, and medical writer. In this work he essays in detail the history of Spain from Greco-Roman times to circa 600 a.d. The text is one of the most important histories written in Peru during the colonial era, but it is also one of the greatest illustrated books produced in Lima in the period to 1825. Adorned with fifteen copper engraved plates, all portraits of historic and mythic Spanish leaders, each one contained in an elaborate copper engraved frame. Peralta is quoted as saying that the artist was “un sublime genio, cual lo es el del varón religioso que ha ilustrado esta obra son las suyas, grande en la cátedra y en el púlpito y mayor en la virtud” (Medina). To this day this artist has remained anonymous; however, Medina and recent scholarship have zeroed in on Juan de Gazitúa as the most likely candidate. The complex historiated borders that surround the portraits are of six designs, each being used multiple times. Simply put, this is one of the most highly illustrated and best illustrated books produced in colonial South America, and it can hold its own against illustrated books of its sort produced anywhere. It is an uncommon book in the United States; OCLC locates only ten copies around the world. MEDINA (LIMA) 854. PALAU 218086. LeCLERC 1816. SABIN 60849. Jerome Wil- liams, Censorship and Art in Pre-Enlightenment Lima... (1994), p.186. $4000.

A Vital Early Australian Exploration

74. Peron, Francis; Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet; and Nicholas Baudin: VOYAGE DE DÉCOUVERTES AUX TERRES AUSTRAL- ES EXÉCUTÉ PAR ORDRE DE SA MAJESTÉ L’EMPEREUR ET ROI, SUR LES CORVETTES LE GÉOGRAPHE, LE NAT- URALISTE, ET LA GOELETTE LA CASUARINA, PENDANT LES ANNÉE 1800, 1802, 1803 ET 1804. Paris: L’Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807/1811/1816. Two large quarto volumes plus folio atlas, consisting of: 1) Voyage de Decouvertes...Historique. Two volumes. Engraved portrait in second volume. Three folding tables. 2) Partie Historique Atlas. Two parts bound in one volume, with engraved title for each part. First part contains forty plates including map, five colored coastal profiles, fourteen ethnographic plates (eight colored), eight other views (one colored; two folding, including Lesueur’s view of Sydney), eleven natural history plates (nine colored), and one technical plate. Second part contains fourteen maps (two double-page or folding). An- tique three-quarter calf and later 19th-century marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Occasional minor foxing in both text volumes. Plates and maps in atlas volume all pristine. Overall a clean and near fine set, untrimmed.

The very rare account of the Baudin-Freycinet expedition, one of the most important early explorations of Australia. The expedition was sent out by the French government in 1800 with orders to complete the cartographic survey of the Aus- tralian coast. Commanded by Nicolas Baudin, the expedition left France in 1800 and sailed via Mauritius to the Australian coast in the region of Cape Leeuwin, arriving in May 1801. Peron sailed as naturalist on the expedition and Freycinet as cartographer. The vessels, Geographe and Naturaliste, sailed north from Cape Leeuwin, surveying the coast and making observations on the natural history and inhabitants, until they crossed to Timor. After three months the two ships set out for Tasmania, continued making detailed surveys, and went on to Sydney. The group then undertook a complete survey of the southern coast and an examination of the northern coast before returning to Mauritius where, near the end of 1803, Baudin died. It was a celebrated voyage which brought back to France the most important collection of natural history specimens in the history of the French Museum, as well as a wealth of geographical and other information. The narrative of the expedition was begun by Peron, and completed by Freycinet after Peron’s death. A tacit agreement between Peron and Freycinet, both of whom disliked Baudin, kept the commander’s name mostly absent from the present official account of the expedition. Flinders completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, but his seven-year imprisonment by the French in Mauritius resulted in the French exploration account being published first. Consequently, the Baudin-Freycinet narrative includes the first complete and fully detailed map of the Australian continent. It is justly one of the most famous depictions of Australia ever produced, with virtually the entire southern coast labeled “Terre Napolean,” indicating possible French colonial ambitions. The Historique Atlas contains a group of beautiful color plates, mostly of natural history specimens, many of which depict what the French saw during their important visit to Tasmania. The navigational text and atlas, which was issued separately a few years later, are rarely found together with the narrative section. A most important Pacific voyage account. FERGUSON 449, 536. DUNMORE, FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC II, pp.9-40. WANTRUP 78a, 79a. HILL 1329 (narrative volumes only). Davidson, Book Collec- tor’s Notes, pp.108-10. Sharp, Discovery of Australia, pp.232-39. Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines, 1802. $18,500. With the Suppressed Nude Bathing Scene

75. [Perry, Matthew C.]: Hawks, Francis L., compiler: NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF AN AMERICAN SQUADRON TO THE CHINA SEAS AND JAPAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1852, 1853, AND 1854, UNDER THE COMMAND OF COMMODORE M.C. PERRY, UNITED STATES NAVY, BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.... Washington. 1856. Three volumes. Ninety tinted lithographic plates, maps (some folding), and numerous in-text woodcut illustrations. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, first and third volumes rebacked with original backstrips laid down, second volume recased. Old library stamp on each titlepage. Scattered light dampstaining and some foxing affecting margins of some plates in first volume. Some dampstaining in upper margins of preliminary leaves of first and second volumes. This copy contains the suppressed nude bathhouse plate opposite p.408 in first volume, which is not included in the list of illustrations and which is lacking from most copies. Overall just about very good.

In 1852, Perry was appointed head of a naval expedition charged with inducing the Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with the United States. In 1853 the Japanese were finally forced to accept a treaty demanding better treatment of shipwrecked seamen and which allowed American ships to dock at two Japanese ports to purchase fuel and supplies. “The most important result, however, was that the visit contributed to the collapse of the feudal regime and to the modernization of Japan” – Hill. The lovely plates depict the country, Japanese natives, and their customs. “In this valuable scientific work the first successful attempt at producing a coloured lithograph, in imitation of drawing, is introduced” – Sabin. HILL 1332. SABIN 30958. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 74. $3500.

Classic Travel Narrative

76. Pinto, Ferdinando Mendes: THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF FERNAND MENDEZ PINTO, A PORTUGAL: DURING HIS TRAVELS FOR THE SPACE OF ONE AND TWENTY YEARS IN THE KINGDOMS OF ETHIOPIA, CHINA, TARTARIA, CAU- CHIN-CHINA, CALAMINHAM, SIAM, PEGU, JAPAN, AND A GREAT PART OF THE EAST-INDIES. WITH A RELATION AND DESCRIPTION OF MOST OF THE PLACES THEREOF.... London. 1653. [14],326pp. Large quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, gilt leather label. Outer corners worn. Ink notation on titlepage. Text moderately tanned, seventh leaf reinforced and repaired with tissue. Very good.

The extremely rare first English edition of a classic travel narrative, first published in Lisbon in 1614. Mendes Pinto left Portugal in 1537 and did not return until 1558. During that time he visited Japan four times, claiming to have been the first European to set foot on Japanese soil, in 1543. He gives firsthand accounts of India, Abyssinia, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, China, Tartary, and Burma. “Not only an account of his travels but a work of art, which is at once a picture of Asia, a relation of what he did and saw, a summing up of the Portuguese Empire, a vast gallery of portraits, and an encyclopedia of adventure both in the sphere of action and of the spirit” – Maurice Collis. WING M1705. CORDIER 40. ESTC R18200. $6750. Massive Collection of Voyages: A Foundation Work for English Exploration

77. Purchas, Samuel: HAKLUYTUS POSTUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES. CONTAYNING A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, IN SEA VOYAGES & LANDE-TRAUELLS, BY ENGLISHMEN & OTHERS...IN FIVE BOOKS.... London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, 1625-1626. Five volumes. Folio. Crushed blue morocco, gilt, by W. Pratt, covers with central gilt arabesques, spines lettered in gilt in six compartments, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. A fine copy.

The second great collection of English voyages, expanding upon and greatly add- ing to the work of Hakluyt, whose manuscripts Purchas took over after Hakluyt’s death. Purchas collects over twelve hundred separate narratives of explorations in every part of the world. Many of the accounts relate to the New World, especially Virginia, and one of the engraved maps is Smith’s famous “Map of Virginia.” Besides the Smith Virginia map, Purchas also includes two other maps of the greatest importance for North American cartography. The first of these is the “Briggs” map of North America, generally considered the first map to show California as an island. The Briggs map is also the first to note New Mexico by that name, and the first to name the Hudson River and Hudson Bay. The other notable American map is William Alexander’s depiction of the Northeast, showing the coast from Massachusetts north to Newfoundland. As Burden notes, this is the first map to record many place names and is a “map of great importance.” Purchas began work on his massive collection in 1611, and published various editions of a short collection, with the similar title of “Purchas His Pilgrimage,” over the next ten years. That publication, however, was merely a precursor to the present work, an entirely different book and arguably the greatest collection of travels and voyages ever published. The first two volumes are mainly devoted to travels in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The third volume largely treats northern explorations and America. The fourth volume is almost entirely devoted to America. The fifth volume, Pilgrimage, is a supplement to all of the preceding parts, and properly completes a set of Purchas’ Pilgrimes. A foundation work for any collection of travels and voyages. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 625/173. SABIN 66682-6. CHURCH 401A. HUTH SALE 6057. BAER MARYLAND 8. HILL 1403. STREETER SALE 36. STC 20509. ARENTS 158. JCB (3)II:196-97. BURDEN 164, 208, 214. $135,000.

Imprint from a Small and Remote Island

78. [Réunion Imprint]: CORPS DE VOLONTAIRES DE BOURBON [cover title]. L’Isle Bourbon: Imprimerie Coloniale, 1793. [2],7,[2]pp. Quarto. Printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Contemporary manuscript inscription on titlepage. Moderate dampstaining in lower half of text. Good plus.

An extremely early and rare imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Bourbon, present-day Réunion Island, dated Aug. 1, 1793. The text outlines the articles for the organization of a voluntary militia for the island. The first printing press arrived on Réunion in June 1792 and began to print early in 1793, rendering this piece very early in the history of printing on the island. Once printing began on the island, it was spotty at best, with a dormant period from 1797 to 1803, and many of the official documents still came over from nearby Mauritius, which was responsible for the administration of Réunion. Printing began on Mauritius in 1768, and it would seem that, for the most part, Mauritius’ press was sufficient for the distribution of printed material on Réunion Island. No copies located in OCLC. Possibly unique. $8500. 79. Rousset de Missy, Jean: RECUEIL HISTORIQUE D’ACTES, NE- GOCIATIONS, MEMOIRES ET TRAITEZ. DESPUIS LA PAIX D’UTRECHT.... Hague. 1728-1745. Eighteen parts bound in nineteen volumes. 16mo. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, leather labels. A good set.

Rousset’s compilation of state papers and treaties is one of the most important sources for European diplomacy from after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 through the early 1740s. Several additional volumes were issued which are not present here, bringing the set to twenty-three volumes by 1755. Besides numerous important diplomatic correspondences, French or Latin versions of Davenport 111, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 124, 125, and 133 appear here. Along with treaties of American interest there are numerous documents of American and East Indian interest in regard to overseas trading companies, particularly those of the Nether- lands, England, and Sweden. SABIN 73495. $2750.

Famous Early Circumnavigation

80. Schouten, Willem: [Blaeu, Willem Jansz]: WARHAFFTE BE- SCHREIBUNG DER WUNDERBARLICHEN RAYSE UND SCHIFFART, SO WILHELM SCHOUT VON HORN, AUSS HOL- LANDT NACH SUDEN GETHAN, UND WAS GESTALT ER HINTER DER MAGELLANISCHEN ENGE, EIN NEWE UND ZUVOR UNBEKANTE DURCHFAHRT IN DIE SUDERSEE GE- FUNDEN. Arnheim: Jan Jansen, 1618. [38]pp. plus nine folding plates. Small quarto. Modern vellum. One plate with an older tissue repair on verso. Minor toning. Very good.

First German edition, and second overall, of the chronicle of this major voyage, an important step in the rise of the Dutch seaborne empire. Undertaken in 1615 and lasting until 1617, this important expedition was the fourth complete circumnavigation, after Magellan in 1519, Drake in 1577, and Cavendish shortly thereafter. The expedition was the first to visit Cape Horn, naming the cape after the Dutch town of Hoorn, whose aggressive traders sponsored the voyage. In addition, the expedition explored the Pacific coast of South America, pursued the search for Terra Australis, and proved that Tierra del Fuego was not an island. The plates include maps of the route, as well as a view of Cocos Island, Tierra del Fuego, an Indian sailing canoe, a meeting of the Indian kings, and a plate of Porto Desire which shows several species of animal. Translated from Schouten’s Journal Ofte Beschreyvinghe..., published the same year in Amsterdam, this edition used the same plates to print the map and illustrations. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 618/120 (only two copies). PALMER 386. SABIN 77955. $22,500.

81. Seemann, Berthold: POPULAR HISTORY OF THE PALMS AND THEIR ALLIES, CONTAINING A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT OF THEIR STRUCTURE, GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION, HISTORY, PROPERTIES, AND USES, AND A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL THE SPECIES INTRODUCED INTO OUR GARDENS. London. 1856. xvi,359pp. plus twenty chromolithographic plates. Original red publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine lightly sun-faded. Lower corners bumped, extremities rubbed. Internally clean, untrimmed, and unopened. Very good.

Berthold Seeman (1825-71) was a German botanist and traveler. He trained to be a botanical collector at Kew Gardens in London, and later collected and studied specimens on the Fiji islands, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Panama. Seemann also served as a naturalist aboard the H.M.S. Herald during its survey of the Pacific Northwest and throughout the Pacific. He later managed a gold mine in Nicara- gua, where he succumbed to fever and died. This work is illustrated with twenty chromolithographic plates showing various palm species in their native environ- ments, as well as a frontispiece showing the Great Palm House at Kew Gardens. A particularly handsome copy internally. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 2: 11,604. $750. The Aftermath of the Seven Years’ War in India

82. [Seven Years’ War]: [India]: [Lally, Comte]: TABLEAU HISTO- RIQUE DE L’EXPEDITION DE L’INDE. POUR LE COMTE DE LALLY. CONTRE M. LE PROCUREUR GÉNÉRAL [caption title]. Paris. 1766. 51pp. Large folio. Stitched. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

Defense of the Comte de Lally for his actions in India during the Seven Years’ War. This is one of two versions authored by him. Lally, head of the French expedition to India, reached Pondichery in 1758. Though capable, he was extremely unpopular and fell into a series of events which proved fatal to his career and his person. He was unsuccessful in the Siege of Madras and beaten at the Battle of Wandiwash, and eventually capitulated from the siege of Pondichery. Taken prisoner by the British, he returned to France on parole and was imprisoned for two years before being put on trial and executed. This is his last defense, published shortly thereafter or perhaps immediately preceding (a publisher’s note is dated April 14 and Lally was executed May 6). $850.

Finding the Bounty Mutineers

83. Shillibeer, J.: A NARRATIVE OF THE BRITON’S VOYAGE, TO PITCAIRN’S ISLAND. Taunton: Printed for the Author by J.W. Mar- riott, 1817. [6],iii,[3],179,[2]pp. plus twelve plates (two folding) comprised of sixteen etchings. Modern green calf gilt by Middleton, red morocco label. Boards slightly bowed. Larger folding plate faintly spotted. Else a fine copy.

A fascinating and valuable account of Pacific travel, by an officer in the Royal Ma- rines on the H.M. Frigate Briton, including much information on the mutiny of the Bounty, and an interview with the last survivor on Pitcairn Island. Shillibeer was able to record what he saw in beautiful etchings he made on the spot, including views of Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Juan Fernandez, Callao, and Santa Christina, as well as portraits of Friday Fletcher October Christian (Fletcher Christian’s son), Patookee, a lady of Lima, and several others. “An engaging narrative including some curious details regarding the mutiny of the Bounty, gleaned from a meeting with the last survivor, John Adams, when the ship called at Pitcairn Island. The Briton first visited Rio de Janeiro. From Brazil the vessel was ordered into the Pacific to search for the American frigate Essex, then threatening British whalers in those waters. Interesting information regarding Captain David Porter of the Essex and his proceedings in the Marquesas is included. Various places on the coast of Chile and Peru were visited, particularly Lima, as well as the Galapagos Islands” – Hill. HILL 1563. BORBA DE MORAES, p.796. SABIN 80483. $2500. Some of the Earliest Photographic Images from South Africa, with a Striking Portrait of a Basuto Chief

84. [South Africa]: [Photography]: THE PROGRESS OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED ERNEST ALBERT THROUGH THE CAPE COLONY, BRITISH KAFFRARIA, THE ORANGE FREE STATE, AND PORT NATAL, IN THE YEAR 1860. Cape Town: Saul Solomon, 1861. xii,180pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Light scattered foxing, occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good.

An early photographically illustrated book, and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was produced to commemorate the visit of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, one of Queen Victoria’s sons. It was designed to showcase the colony, which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well received by the colonists in South Africa, and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony’s usefulness to the British Empire. The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman, who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork, but others capture live scenes along the Prince’s route, including a grand portrait of African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center, dressed in a top hat and suit, holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men, all in Western dress, stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince’s progress are as follows: Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860, Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is, presumably, an image from that scene.

“Graham’s Town, from the West” “The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown” “The Prince’s Interview with the Tambookies” “Moshesh and His Counsellors” “The Prince and His First Wildebeeste” “The Prince’s Travelling Equipage”

Not in The Truthful Lens. A rare and interesting work, and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa. $4500.

85. [Spain – Fishing and Whaling, 18th Century]: CEDULA DE S. M. PARA EL ESTABLECIMIENTO DE LA REAL COMPAÑIA MA- RITIMA DE 19 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1789. Madrid: de Orden Su- perior, 1789. [i-ii],1-44pp. In Spanish. Letterpress title with large woodcut vignette of the Spanish Royal arms, signed at the end with the paraph of Antonio Valdés, minister of the Spanish Navy. Small format (5½ x 7¼ inches) handcolored engraving of the Real Compañia Maritima flag. Small folio. Bound to style in vellum, manuscript lettering on spine. Very good.

The printed version of the Spanish Royal decree establishing the Real Compañía Marítima (Royal Maritime Company). This fascinating work is beautifully printed, and includes a carefully engraved and colored image of the flag that was granted to the Real Compañía Maritima. The text includes detailed instructions for what was to prove to be a short-lived venture. The intention was that the Compañía Maritima should spear-head a revival of the Spanish fishing and whaling industries, which had foundered by the late 18th century. The Compañía Marítima was initially well-funded with its financial backers including the Spanish King himself, but was not a success and was dissolved early in the 19th century. OCLC 17730296 (3 copies), 475348085 (2 copies). $1250. An Epic Early Voyage

86. Spilbergen, Joris: OOST ENDE WEST-INDISCHE SPIEGHEL WAER IN BESCHREVEN WERDEN DE TWEELAETSTE NAVI- GATIENGHEDAEN INDE JAEREN 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617, ENDE 1618.... Zutphen: Andries Janssz van Aelst, 1621. 192pp. plus two folding maps and twenty-three plates (five folding). Small oblong quarto. 19th-century vellum. Very minor soiling and toning. Very good.

A fundamentally important record of Dutch circumnavigation, military activity, and trade rivalry in the early 17th century, this narrative was first published in Leyden in 1619 and later published in French and the present Dutch, in 1621. It is appropriate that this volume contains the accounts of both Joris Van Spilbergen and Jacob Le Maire’s voyages, since the two were intertwined. Van Spilbergen undertook his voyage on behalf of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Le Maire’s father, Isaac, had had a falling out with the VOC in 1605. He outfitted his own vessel for a circumnavigation, captained by his son Jacob and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, in order to lessen the VOC’s trade monopoly. The first part of this volume contains the account of Spilbergen’s circumnavigation, while the later part treats the voyage of Le Maire. Of the two voyages, that of Le Maire and Schouten is the more significant. They discovered a new passage to the Pacific south of the Straits of Magellan, sailed around Tierra del Fuego, and named Cape Horn. Sailing to the west, they discovered the islands of the Taumoto Archipelago, the Tonga group, the Solo- mon Islands, and several islands along the northern coast of New Guinea. These discoveries contributed greatly to the European knowledge of the South Pacific. When Le Maire and Schouten’s ship reached Jakarta in late 1616, they were seized by agents of the Dutch East India Company and sailed the rest of the way back to the Netherlands accompanied by Van Spilbergen’s fleet. Le Maire died en route. The main contribution of Van Spilbergen’s exploration was in the Philippines and the Ladrone Islands. He also performed important military work for the Dutch government, raiding Spanish shipping and settlements along the coast of South America. Many of the locations he visited and raided are depicted in the woodcuts. Van Spilbergen was apparently impressed with Le Maire and Schouten’s achievement, and had the account of their explorations published together with his own voyage. The work went through several printings in many languages. The book contains a wealth of images of the islands and peoples of the South Pacific, including a map of Tierra del Fuego and the “Straits of Le Maire,” the “Cocos” Islands (Tafahi), and the “Hoornsche” Islands of the Tonga group. It also includes the important map showing Le Maire and Schouten’s route across the Pacific, and maps of the Philippines. The illustrations include views of the Straits of Magellan, Acapulco, Lima, and Concepcion. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 621/118. BORBA DE MORAES II:276. TIELE- MULLER 69. HILL 1619 (ref ). $30,000.

The Elusive Limited Edition

87. Stanley, Henry Morton: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HEN- RY MORTON STANLEY...EDITED BY HIS WIFE, DOROTHY STANLEY. With Sixteen Photogravures and a Map. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., 1909. xvii,551,[1]pp. plus sixteen photogravures (including frontispiece portrait), one folding facsimile letter, and one folding map. Titlepage printed in red and black. Half title. Thick quarto. Original green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, raised bands, covers ruled and front cover stamped in gilt, gilt-ruled turn- ins, t.e.g. Moderate wear and minor fading to spine and extremities; minor scuffing to boards. Original printed tissue guards intact. Small ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Extremely light foxing on first few leaves, else fine internally. Very good.

Deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 250 copies signed by Dorothy Stanley, this copy numbered 22. Containing a finely detailed, folding two-color map of central Africa, with Stanley’s routes outlined in three colors and an accompanying outline of England and Wales drawn in the same scale for land size comparison. Henry Morton Stanley, the most accomplished and celebrated 19th-century Af- rican explorer, was also one of his era’s greatest self-inventors, a feat both chronicled and extended in his posthumously published Autobiography. Stanley was born John Rowlands in 1841, the illegitimate son of a housemaid in Wales. As a child, Rowlands suffered years of cruelty at the hands of his family and in the workhouse where he was raised from the age of six. In 1859, Rowlands fled to America and came under the care of a New Orleans cotton merchant named Henry Morton Stanley, who informally adopted Rowlands and gave him his name. At the out- break of the Civil War, the younger Stanley enlisted in the Confederate Army. In 1862 he fought and was taken prisoner at Shiloh, where, to obtain his release, he enlisted in the Union Army. Soon thereafter, he became a ship’s clerk in the Union Navy and would become one of the few people to see battle from both sides of the Civil War (Hochschild, p.25). Following the war, Stanley was hired as a newspa- per correspondent for the St. Louis Missouri Democrat. He was assigned to Gen. Hancock’s army in the Indian campaigns and distinguished himself with dramatic dispatches to both the Democrat and various publications on the East Coast. The entire first half of the book is devoted to Stanley’s adventures in the Civil War and the Plains Indian Wars. In 1868 the New York Herald hired Stanley to cover war in Abyssinia and in 1869 sent him to find Dr. Livingstone. For the next twenty years Stanley explored and charted much of the African interior, wrote several best-selling books, and helped establish the Congo Free State of Belgian King Leopold II, setting the stage for one of the darkest chapters in the history of European imperialism. In the final years of his life, Stanley lectured widely on his adventures and defended Leopold’s massive project against international charges of mass murder and de facto slavery. During this time he also worked on his Autobiography, “as he indicates, out of a desire to make his nature and character comprehensible to the world which knew him in the day of his fame” (DAB). The book, which Stanley did not live to complete, was edited and prepared for publication by his wife, Dorothy. Nearly half the work is devoted to Stanley’s early life in Wales and America, the forma- tive years that molded the conquering figure of international renown. “It was the American Stanley,” according to Constance Lindsay Skinner in the DAB, “the man who had seen the wheel-ruts of pioneer wagons on the western prairie and young sturdy towns on recent Indian battle-grounds, who looked at the Congo region and saw nothing there to daunt determined men thoroughly equipped with the means and methods of civilization.” Contemporary scholars write of Stanley and his Autobiography with a less celebratory tone, noting the excesses of his career as a Congo taskmaster and the various contradictory and probably fanciful elements in his memoirs (Hochschild, pp.23-25, 235). Nevertheless, Stanley’s life and his final book, here in its finest edition, stand as monuments to his era’s boldest notions of personal resolve and self-creation. DAB XVII, pp.509-13. Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). $4500. With the Important World Map

88. Strabo: STRABONIS RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM LIBRI XVII. ISAACUS CASAUBONUS RECENSUIT, SUMMÓQUE STUDIO & DILIGENTIA, OPE ETIAM VETERUM CODICUM, EMENDAUIT, AC ACMMENTARIIS ILLUSTRAUIT. Geneva: Eu- stathius Vignon, 1587. Two parts bound in one volume. [8],602,[2],[8],223pp., printed in Greek and Latin in double-columns, plus double-page engraved map, Rumold Mercator’s Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio (Geneva, 1587), 13 x 21 inches. Titles on titlepage and section-page for second part within historiated woodcut border. Folio. 17th-century green-stained vellum over paste-boards, gilt, with central gilt coat-of-arms of “Ferdinand Hoffman Freyher Herr auf Grevenstein”; spine gilt, title in manuscript with later number “26” [library mark?] written over title; lacking silk ties, edges sprinkled with red bands. Slight wear to boards and spine. Large engraved allegorical bookplate of Ferdinand Hofmann, Freiherr von Grevenstein, designed by M. Göndelach and engraved by L. Kilian. Light worming in right margin of bookplate, front free endpaper, titlepage, and first two leaves of text (affecting small printed portions). Light age toning. A very good copy.

The first edition of Strabo’s Geographia edited by Isaac Casaubon, with the exces- sively rare double-hemispherical world map by Rumold Mercator based on his father Gerald’s renowned 1569 world map. One of the earliest and most important scientific treatises on historical geography, and Strabo’s only surviving work, the Geographia represents an initial attempt to compile geographical knowledge in a unified manner. The work provides a survey of the topographical, historical, and political characteristics of the principal regions of the Roman world, also including information concerning philosophy, political theory, geology, mathematics, science, and history. Casaubon’s famous edition is based on four manuscripts which were in the library of his father-in-law, Henri Estienne, the esteemed Geneva printer and humanist. The first appearance of Mercator’s only obtainable world map, the two-page double-hemispherical world map is handsomely decorated with elaborate strap-work borders, an armillary sphere, and a compass rose. “Gerald Mercator’s great world map of 1569 was condensed into double-hemispherical form by his son Rumold.... Later Rumold’s map was incorporated into editions of Mercator’s long-lived and influential Atlas from 1595 onwards....The engraving is a model of clarity and neatness, with typical cursive flourishes to the lettering of the sea names” – Shirley. An important 16th-century edition of Strabo with the first appearance of Mer- cator’s only obtainable world map. Strabo: ADAMS S-1908. Mercator: SHIRLEY 157. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 146. KOEMAN Me12. $42,500.

Early Searches for Terra Australis

89. Terra Rossa, Vitale: RIFLESSIONI GEOGRAFICHE CIRCA LE TERRE INCOGNITE. DISTESE IN OSSEQUIO PER- PETUO DELLA NOBILTÀ VENEZIANA, NELLE QUALI...SI PRUOVA, CHE I PATRIZI DI VENEZIA PRIMA D’OGNI AL- TRO HANNO ALL’ITALIA, & ALL’EUROPA, DISCOPERTE TUTTE LE TERRE ANTICA- MENTE INCOGNITE, ANCO L’AMERICA, E LA TERRA AUS- TRALE. Padua: Cadorino, 1686. [32], 298,[10, Index]pp. including portrait of the author. Half title. Quarto. Contem- porary vellum, manuscript title. Mod- erate soiling to boards, small repair to spine tail. Rear free endpaper lacking. A clean copy. Very good.

First issue of Terra Rossa’s famous account detailing discoveries in the New World, as denoted by the 1686 date and the privilege below the imprint reading: “Et Privilegio del Serenissimo Principe.” Includes much information on Venetian explorers, going so far as to credit Marco Polo with discovering Australia, and attempts to rename Terra Australis as Terra Australe Magallanica to honor Magellan. In this work Terra Rossa “attempted to prove that Venetians had discovered all lands unknown to the ancients, including America and Terra Australis...” (Hiatt, Terra Incognita, p.261). He also defends the claims of the Zeno brothers to have made a northern discovery of America prior to Columbus. A rare and surprisingly little-known work focused on early exploration of the Southern Hemisphere. SABIN 94858. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 686/157. $9500.

Original Illustration for Krusenstern’s Voyage

90. Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb: CHINESE WAR JUNK OR COMMANDER’S VESSEL IN FRONT OF THE DANISH SETTLEMENT, DRAWN AFTER NATURE IN THE CANTON RIVER [translation of manuscript caption title]. [China. ca. 1805]. Wa- tercolor on paper, 9 x 14¼ inches. Original manuscript caption attached to verso. Small chip (less than one inch) in upper right corner, else near fine. Mounted at upper corners onto heavier paper stock. Archival matting, and protected with Mylar sheet. See cover of this catalogue for illustration.

An extremely important and visually appealing watercolor depicting trading practices on the Canton River in China, early 19th century. The work was done during the Krusenstern expedition, Russia’s first major scientific voyage in the Pacific and first circumnavigation of the world by a Russian ship. It was executed by the ship’s artist, Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau. The view is from the perspective of a boat on the river and shows several Danish trading houses set up on the riverside. The buildings are made of wood and thatch, and several barrels and logs are also present. The factories fly flags of a white cross on a red background. Several men are shown on the riverbank, a tower is seen in the middle distance, and mountains are shown across the background. A large Chinese ship, identified in the manuscript caption as a “war junk,” dominates the scene on the river, and six smaller vessels are also shown. The present image by Tilesius provides a rare and vivid record of these fleeting trade seasons, providing important details of the Danish post. The original manuscript caption is attached to the verso of the watercolor and reads: “Eine Chinesische Krieges Junke oder Kommandeurs Schiff vor dem Daenischen Bankshall. Dr. Tilesius v. T. ad nat. pinxit in flumine Sinico Taiho Cantonensi.” In the early 19th century foreign merchants were allowed to trade in Canton for a short four-month season only. After that the warehouses and living quarters of the company were required to be torn down, only to rebuilt the following year at the company’s expense. Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) accompanied the Krusenstern expedition on the ships, Nadeshda and Newa, during the first Russian circumnavigation, from 1803 to 1806. After the Russian painter, Kurjlandzow, left the expedition in Kamchatka in 1804, Tilesius became responsible for recording interesting observations relating to the geography and natural history of the places they visited. He contributed many detailed designs for the illustrations in the third volume of Krusenstern’s account of the voyage, and also published several papers of his own research. The largest part of his archive was presented to Leipzig University after his death, but the present work remained in the family of his son, Adolph Tilesius. Such original art from the Krusenstern circumnavigation is exceedingly rare. $27,500.

In Original Boards

91. Trusler, John: A DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ISLANDS LATELY DISCOVERED IN THE SOUTH-SEAS.... London: R. Baldwin, 1778. [4],vii,303,[9]pp. Original blue boards, drab paper spine, contemporary manuscript titling on spine and front board. Light wear and soiling to binding. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Very minor foxing, primarily to outer leaves. Very good and in unsophisticated original condition. In a cardboard slipcase.

An important early compilation of South Seas voyages, assembled by John Trusler, who drew primarily on Cook’s explorations. This would have been the first introduction of many readers to the English advances in exploring the Pacific. “John Trusler is described in the DNB as an eccentric divine, a literary compiler, and a medical empiric. Throughout his diverse career Trusler published many works, on subjects ranging from philosophy to farming, but he was most renowned for his Hogarth Moralized and for his various condensations of famous sermons in cursive-facsimile type for use by the clergy....The [present] work contains descriptions and history of Tahiti and the Society Islands, the Friendly Is- lands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, the Solomon Islands, New Holland, and Kamchatka. It offers lively and entertaining discus- sions of the customs of the inhabitants of these various Pacific islands” – Hill. A very few copies were apparently issued with a folding map, which is not present in this copy, nor was it present in the Hill copy; likewise, ESTC does not call for a map. Scarce, with only a handful of copies in ESTC. HILL 1719. ESTC T107078. $9750. 92. Vancouver, George: VOYAGE DE DECOUVERTES, A L’OCEAN PACIFIQUE DU NORD, ET AUTOUR DU MONDE.... Paris. [1801- 1802]. Six volumes, including atlas with seventeen plates and nine maps (eight folding). Contemporary tree calf, gilt morocco label. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Light scattered foxing. Very good plus.

Second French edition of Capt. George Vancouver’s voyage and exploration of the northwestern Pacific coast. Vancouver, who served as a midshipman on the voyages of Cook, was placed in command of an expedition to the Northwest Coast to determine England’s rights under the Nootka Sound convention of 1790. The ships of the expedition reached the Northwest Coast in 1792 and spent two years in surveying the coastline, resulting in the most precise maps of the Northwest made up to that time, or for many years thereafter. Vancouver remained on the coast until 1794 and returned to England in 1795. The expedition visited Hawaii several times as well. He spent the rest of his life preparing his material for publication, although he did not live to see it, dying in 1798 at the age of forty. This is the most important British voyage to the West Coast after Cook, and a basic early California and Northwest Coast work, as well as being one of the primary early Hawaii books. SABIN 98442. HOWES V23, “aa.” HILL 1753 (ref ). TPL 688 (ref ). $2000.

Key Work on the Straits of Magellan

93. [Vargas y Ponce, José de]: RELACION DEL ÚLTIMO VIAGE AL ESTRECHO DE MAGALLANES DE LA FRAGATA DE S.M. SANTA MARIA DE LA CABEZA EN LOS ANOS DE 1785 Y 1786. EXTRACTO DE TODOS LOS ANTERIORES DESDE SU DESCUBRIMIENTO IMPRESOS Y MSS. Y NOTICIA DE LOS HABITANTES, SUELO, CLIMA, Y PRODUCCIONES DEL ESTRECHO. Madrid: La viuda de Ibarra, hijos, y compañia, 1788. [6],xvi,359pp. including four folding tables (lacks the four folding maps). Frontispiece portrait. [bound with:] APENDICE A LA RELACION DEL VIAGE AL MAGALLANES.... Madrid. 1793. [2],128pp. including folding table (lacks the folding map). Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Bit rubbed. Frontispiece portrait neatly mounted, tear at top of one leaf repaired with no loss of text, some scattered foxing and dust soiling, else very good. Lacks the four folding maps from the Relacion... and the folding map from the Apendice....

The objective of the voyages recorded here was to determine whether Spanish ships should continue to use the Straits of Magellan in voyages to the Pacific. Under the command of Captain Antonio de Córdoba y Laso, both expeditions ascertained negative conclusions and afterwards “the Spanish trade routes were exclusively to east coast ports and then overland to Pacific ports” (Hill). A major portion of this work, the first comprehensive study of the Straits of Magellan and Patagonia, was compiled from the journals of D.A. Galiano and A. Belmote, Cordoba’s lieutenants. The Relacion... also includes Vargas y Ponce’s review of earlier explorations of the area, with descriptions of the region’s climate, natural resources, and native peoples. HILL 1756. SABIN 16765, 1729. PALAU 352514, 352515. $1250.

With Woodcuts of Natives from the Americas and Elsewhere

94. Vecellio, Cesare: HABITI ANTICHI, ET MODERNI DI TUTTO IL MONDO. Venice: Bernardo Sessa, 1598. [56],507 leaves. Thick octavo. Later vellum, gilt leather labels. Labels and corners lightly rubbed. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing and soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

Second edition of this extensive work on the costumes and peoples of the world. This edition includes a section on the Americas not included in the first edition, rendering this edition both more complete and desirable. The work is extensively illustrated with woodcuts by Christoph Krieger, an illustration appearing on the verso of each leaf. Libro XII contains full-page woodcuts of the costumes of the inhabitants of Peru, Cuzco, Mexico, Virginia, and Florida, both men and women. The rest of the volume shows the costumes of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Especially interesting for its early depiction of Native Americans. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 598/112. HILER, p.873 (1st ed). EDIT 16 CNCE 29586. SABIN 98732. $9500.

A Standard Geographical Work

95. Venegas de Busto, Alejo: PRIMERA PAR- TE DE LAS DIFFERENCIAS DE LIBROS QUE HAY EN EL UNIVERSO. Madrid. 1569. 8,242 leaves. 19th-century vellum, lacking ties, new endsheets. Some leaves heavily foxed. Marginal re- pairs to the first signature, not affecting text. Else a clean, decent copy.

The third edition, after Toledo editions of 1540 and 1546. An important geographical and cosmographical work, with numerous New World references, and an important early navigational guide. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 569/48. MEDINA (BHA) 128. HARRISSE ADDITIONS 156. $3000.

Everything About Malta

96. Vertot, René d’Aubert d’Auboeuf, l’Abbé: THE HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA...ILLUSTRATED WITH LXXI HEADS OF THE GRAND MASTERS &c. ENGRAVED BY THE BEST HANDS IN FRANCE...WITH MAPS BY MONS. DE LILLE, AND THE PLANS AND FORTIFICATIONS OF MALTA BY THE CHEVALIER DE TIGNE. London: Printed for G. Strahan, et al, 1728. Two volumes. [8],487,[1],180; [2],220,143,[1],196,[24],3,[1]pp., plus seventy-one portrait plates and five engraved maps and plans (four folding). Pp.157-180 are bound correctly in the first volume (usually this section is bound later in the second volume). Folio. Later three-quarter red calf and cloth, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges, by Mudie. Very minor wear along the joints and spine bands. A very good copy. With the bookplate of South African sugar magnate James Liege Hulett on the front pastedown.

First edition in English, originally published in French in 1726. Commissioned by the Order itself, Vertot’s history remained the standard work on the Order for two centuries. The Abbé’s “talent as an historian was more of a literary than of a critical character” (Catholic Encyclopedia), which perhaps was fitting for the telling of a tale of such legendary scope and scale. The Order was founded in Jerusalem after the reconquest in 1099 and forced from the Holy Land after the fall of Acre in 1291. They settled briefly on Cyprus before being gifted lands on Rhodes. They were expelled from there by Silliman the Magnificent after a six-month siege in 1522, and after a short sojourn on Sicily, the Order was granted the islands of Malta and Goo by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1565 the Order organized the heroic resistance to the Siege of Malta, the island losing over a third of its population while withstanding a bombardment of nearly 150,000 cannon shots. Even if the Siege did little to alter the balance of power in the Mediterranean, it was the first true defeat of the Ottoman Empire in a century and lifted European morale immeasurably. The text also includes Vertot’s “Discourse upon the Alcoran,” originally given before L’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1724, and his “Dissertation on Zizim,” a historiographical study of Cem Sultan’s time on Rhodes. LOWNDES, p.1864. $4250.

97. Wafer, Lionel: A NEW VOYAGE AND DESCRIPTION OF THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA. GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S ABODE THERE...THE INDIAN INHABITANTS... WITH REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE SOUTH-SEA AND ELSEWHERE. THE SECOND EDITION. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THOSE PARTS...AND DAVIS’ EXPEDITION TO THE GOLD MINES, IN 1702. London: James Knapton, 1704. [16],283,[13]pp. plus folding map and three engraved folding plates. 19th-century three-quarter black morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt, leather labels. Extremities rubbed. Closed tears in large folding plates discreetly repaired. Light scattered foxing. A few leaves trimmed a bit close. About very good.

The second edition of this important narrative. Wafer, a British surgeon, abandoned the trading party with whom he had sailed for the West Indies in 1679, joining up with celebrated buccaneers Lynch and Cook. In their company he crossed the Isthmus, where he remained in order to recover from an injury, staying with the Darien Indians, whose confidence he gained. When he reached the coast again, he joined Dampier’s party. The map is the same as that which appeared in Dampier’s A New Voyage... (1697), and the folding plates depict scenes among the Indians, including a view of a Council, “smoaking Tobacco after their way.” Appended to this edition is an interesting account by Nathaniel Davis of an expedition of Englishmen to the gold mines of Spanish America in 1702. This work is so complimentary to that of Dampier that it was subsumed into the third edition of Dampier’s narrative. SABIN 100940. HILL 1797. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 704/168. JCB (1)III:62. $2250.

Scarce Whaling Narrative

98. Whitecar, William B., Jr.: FOUR YEARS ABOARD THE WHALE- SHIP. EMBRACING CRUISES IN THE PACIFIC, ATLANTIC, INDIAN AND ANTARCTIC OCEANS IN THE YEARS 1855, ‘6, ‘7, ‘8, ‘9. Philadelphia. 1860. 413pp. 12mo. Modern paper boards. Ex-lib. with ink stamp on titlepage and a few text leaves, some pages with minor staining, but overall very good.

A rare whaling narrative and Pacific voyage. Whitecar was aboard the whaling barque Pacific out of New Bedford, cruising the south Atlantic and Indian oceans before whaling off southwest Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, then returning to New Bedford by the same route. A colorful, detailed account. Not in Hill or Ferguson. HOWES W373. FORSTER 101. $900.

Standard Edition

99. Wilkes, Charles: NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EX- PLORING EXPEDITION. DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845. Five text volumes plus atlas volume. Plates and maps. Half title in each text volume. Impe- rial octavo. Original gilt cloth. Cloth worn at corners, spine ends, and along hinges. Early ownership signature on titlepage of each volume. Scattered foxing, occasional offsetting. Minor splits at cross-folds of maps in atlas volume, but with no loss. Very good.

This is the first regularly available trade edition of the narrative of the expedition, preceded only by the extremely rare official edition and the further printing of 150 copies made for gifts. The Wilkes Expedition was the first United States scientific expedition by sea, working mainly in the Pacific Ocean. Wilkes sailed along the Antarctic continent and throughout the islands of the South Pacific, visited the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, and explored the northwest coast of America in 1841. The expedition was made up of a number of notable American scientists, and their botanical, natural history, and geological findings are included. HOWES W414, “aa.” STREETER SALE 3324. TWENEY 89, 83. HILL 1867. TAXO- NOMIC LITERATURE 17646. HASKELL 2B. SABIN 103994. FORBES 1574. ROSOVE ANTARCTIC 353. FERGUSON 4209. COWAN, p.683. $6500.

100. [Wilson, William]: A MISSIONARY VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH- ERN PACIFIC OCEAN, PERFORMED IN THE YEARS 1796, 1797, 1798, IN THE SHIP DUFF, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN JAMES WILSON.... London: Printed for T. Chapman by T. Gillet, 1799. [12],c,395,[7]pp. plus six plates and seven folding maps. Quarto. Contem- porary tree calf, rebacked in lighter modern leather, spine gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Large map reinforced with tissue at folds, some repaired tears. Material from front fly leaf through titlepage detached but present. Internally clean. Good.

The voyage of the Duff, undertaken by the London Missionary Society for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti, became the first such voyage to sail the little-known waters of the Pacific Ocean. “After two hundred and eight days the vessel reached Tahiti, landing seventeen missionaries there, a further twelve at Tonga, and one on the Marquesas. Trouble with the natives arose and three of the missionaries in Tonga were killed. Others were compelled to seek refuge at Sydney. Nevertheless the work was maintained and extended by heroic members of the band as opportunities offered. Several of the missionaries settled in Australia and founded families important to Australian history” – Ferguson. “The account is of extraordinary interest for its fresh and somewhat naive viewpoint, and for its descriptions of customs passed over by the nautical and geographical explorer” – Cox. The charts made an important contribution to South Pacific cartography. HILL 1894. COX II, p.307. DURIETZ 528. FERGUSON 302. $900.