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Antiquariaat FORUM BV ASHER Rare Books Tuurdijk 16 Tuurdijk 16 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten The Netherlands The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 E–mail: [email protected] E–mail: [email protected] Web: www.forumrarebooks.com Web: www.asherbooks.com www.forumislamicworld.com cover image: no. 1 v 1.0 · 24 Apr 2019 Two extremely rare naval print series: the first by a nearly forgotten Dutch master working for the French court and the second unrecorded

1. BEECQ, Jan Karel Donatus van (Jean-Charles-Donat). Plusieurs pieces maritimes. Paris, “rue St. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d’or” [=Gérard Audran, ca. 1683]. Oblong 2º. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates after designs by Van Beecq, including title-page and 5 naval views with captions below. The title-page notes the series is engraved by Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard, but three of the other plates give Gérard Audran as the engraver. With: (2) POILLY, Nicolas de. Livre de plusieurs navires de guerre et vaisseaux marchands. Paris, Nicolas de Poilly, [ca. 1683?]. Oblong 4º. Series of 6 plates, the first with the title as a caption below and the name and address of De Poilly, the others only note “NDePoilly ex C.P.R.”, that is “cum privilegio regis”. 2 works in 1 volume. Contemporary calf. € 19 000 Ad 1: Third (or second) copy located of an attractive print series by the Dutch marine painter J. van Beecq (1638–1722), a nearly forgotten master who had left the Netherlands when the art market collapsed in the “year of disaster” 1672. He first followed father and son Willem van de Velde to , but soon moved to France where he became painter to Louis XIV, a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and a protégé of important patrons. In 1685, the art-loving naval official Esprit Cabart de Villermont wrote a letter to the Minister of Navy Jean- Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, recommending Van Beecq to his attention: “He is the only here [in France] who excels in this genre”. The only copy we could actually locate is in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Schwartz also notes a copy in the Bibliothèque National, but the title is not found in their online catalogue. Ad 2: Only copy located of a naval print series by the French engraver Nicolas de Poilly (1626–1696). He was taught the art of engraving by his better known brother François de Poilly and mostly produced portraits and religious and historical engrav- ings. The first plates show large war and merchant ships and the last shows several battered ships in the aftermath of a storm. A stain at the top right corner throughout, only affecting a small corner of the plates, and a vertical fold though the centre of the second series, otherwise in very good condition. Binding restored. [12] ll. Ad 1: Hollstein I, p. 192 (doesn’t give a location); G. Schwartz, “J. van Beecq” in: Les échanges artistiques entre les ancien Pays-Bas et la France 1482–1814 (2010); KVK/WorldCat (1 copy); Wurzbach I, p. 68; not in Cat. NHSM; CCfr; Groot & Vorstman; Polak; SUDOC; ad 2: not in CCfr; Polak; SUDOC; WorldCat; for Poilly: Nagler XIII, pp. 68–69. ☞ More on our website Fine untrimmed copy of a pilot guide, with coloured maps and aquatint profiles

2. BOUGAR D, René and John Thomas SERR ES. The little sea torch: or, true guide for coasting pilots. London, J. Debrett for the “author” [Serres], G. & W. Nicol, et al. [printed by T. Rickaby], 1801. Large 2º (47 × 30 cm). With 20 numbered aquatint plates containing 137 coastal profiles, and 12 partly numbered engraved plates containing 24 maps of port cities, harbours, islands and the Strait of . All coastal profiles and maps beautifully and subtly coloured by a contemporary hand. Contemporary boards. € 14 500 First English edition, with aquatint profiles, of Bougard’s Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer, a marine pilot guide to coastal navigation originally published in 1684 and extensively revised for the present edition by Serres. The coastal profiles cover the British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, and the islands included among the maps include Corsica, Malta and Corfu. The coastal profiles show many spectacular cliffs and rock formations, numerous light-houses (an important source for their history), fortresses and occasionally other buildings, as well as ships and smaller boats, a large view of the whole city of La Valette on Malta, and even three smoking volcanoes (Vesuvius, Stromboli and Etna). The text includes information on the Barbary Coast, and islands and coasts en route to the East Indies. This is the first major revision to the maps and views of the Petit Flambeau, which saw only minor changes of content from 1684 to 1716 and no more in the editions (to 1789) before the present. With a contemporary owner’s signature on the title-page (Peter Rye) and the lovely armorial bookplate of the Philadelphia publisher and bibliophile Moncure Biddle (1882–ca. 1952). Spine subtly restored, but otherwise fine and wholy untrimmed. VI, 144, [5] pp. Abbey, England 344; Cat. NHSM, p. 218; Pastoureau, Bougard N (5 copies); Phillips & LeGear 2852. ☞ More on our website Navigating the waters around Texel 3. BR A NDLIGT, Laurens. Scylla en Charybdis; behelzende een project, ter verbetering der zeegaten en het vaarwater van Texel, en aanwinning van eenige duizend morgen land. , Johannes Allart, Laurens Brandligt, 1780. 8º. With 4 folding engraved maps and 1 folding engraved plate. Contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spine. € 2750 First and only edition of a work on navigation around the Dutch island Texel, written by the sea merchant Laurens Brandligt. Due to alluviation the stream velocity in the waters around Texel had decreased. Brandligt suggests several ways to improve the nav- igability of these waters, which was important since Dutch warships often took refuge in them. Brandligt also tries to promote Den Helder as a new harbour for both war and merchant ships, stressing the poor accessibility of Amsterdam. Small tear in first free endleaf, restored, title-page slightly browned. Binding rubbed along the extrem- ities, spine damaged at the top and front hinge partly cracked. Overall in good condition. XIII, [1], 194 pp. Bierens de Haan 558; Kemper 1566; STCN 160106095. ☞ More on our website Biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Large paper copy of the first edition

4. BR A NDT, Geeraert. Het leven en bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter. Amsterdam, for Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, van Someren and Goethals, 1687 (engraved title-page: printed by Pieter and Joan Blaeu, 1686). 2º (34.5 × 22.5 cm). With engraved title-page, engraved portrait of De Ruyter, 7 engraved double-page plates by Sebastiaen Stoopendaal and 1 engraved plate by Joseph Mulder. Late 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. € 3750 Large paper copy of the first edition, in the original Dutch, of the standard biography of the great Dutch naval hero Admiral Michiel Adriaansz. de Ruyter (1607–1676), who scored several major victories against the French and English, the best known abroad being the Raid on Chatham, one of the worst defeats of the British . For the present work Brandt used numerous original documents from De Ruyter’s son and other private individuals, as well as from official government sources. “This resulted in a book that was not only based on good information, but through his exalted, lucid and engaging style also became a true folk-book in the best sense of the word” (NNBW). De Ruyter fought the English off the coast of West Africa, the Caribbean, temporarily took St John’s, New Foundland, and even considered retaking New York. While the binding is somewhat scuffed along the spine, the book itself is in very good condition, with only an occasional spot. [10], “1063” [=1065], [23] pp. Alden & Landis 687/21; Cat. NHSM, p. 843; Sabin 7405; for the author: NNBW VI, cols. 184–187. ☞ More on our website Only edition of a biography of the leader of the Portuguese campaign in India

5. COUTO, Diogo do. Vida de D. Paulo de Lima Pereira capitam mo’r de armadas do estado da India ... o Hercules Portuguez. Lisbon, Jozé Filippe, 1765. 8º. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine. € 4500 Rare first edition of the only account of the life of Paulo de Lima Pereira (1538–1589), leader of the Portuguese campaign in India. It was originally written in 1611 by the captain’s friend, the historian Diogo do Couto (ca. 1542–1616), but only published here more than 150 years later for the first time, with a foreword by the celebrated Portuguese bibliographer Diogo Barbosa Machado. The section on the shipwreck and death of Paulo de lima was taken from the man- uscript and published in Brito’s História trágico-maritima (1729–1736). It includes the attack against the Malabar pirate Khunali and the destruction of Johor Lama, Singapore. Couto (1542–1616) impressed the Lisbon court in general and King João’s brother Luis of Portugal in particular at an early age. Under Luis’s patronage he studied at the Jesuit college and elsewhere. Luis died in 1555, however, and Couto set off for Portuguese India as a soldier in 1556. Aside from a visit to Portugal in 1569–1571, he was to remain in Asia for the rest of his life, staying mostly at Goa, but also serving the military in the Red Sea and the Gulf. One quire heavily browned, some other leaves slightly browned, one leaf with a tear, wormholes throughout the foot margin, and the spine slightly rubbed and with a few wormholes. A good copy. [16], 426, [5], [1 blank] pp. Boxer, The tragic history of the sea 1589–1622; Innocencio II, p. 155; G.P. Rouffae, “Encyclopaedie- artikelen” in: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde LXXXVI, pp. 196–201. ☞ More on our website Expedition in Canada and shipwreck off Anticosti Island 6. CR E SPEL , Emmanuel. Voyages du R.P. Emanuel Crespel, dans la Canada et son naufrage et revenant en France. Mis au jour par le Sr. Louis Crespel. Frankfurt am Main, Heinrich Ludwig Broener, 1752. Small 8º (16 × 9 cm). Contemporary boards, covered with gold-brocade paper with a floral pattern coloured in a calico pattern. € 2500 Second edition of Crespel’s account, edited by his brother Louis. Emmanuelle Crespel (1703–1775) sailed for Quebec in the Chameau in 1724. Two years later he was ordained priest and subsequently served at Fort Richelieu. While in Canada he accompanied a punitive expedition to raid the Fox Indians (in present-day Wisonsin), who were disrupting French trade around Lake Michigan. “Crespel’s account provides the only account of that expedition” (Howgego). Crespel was called back to France in 1736 and left Quebec in the Renommée, which was wrecked on the southern tip of Anticosti Island after 11 days. He wintered in Anticosti, surviving famine, illness and the harrowing cold, finally reaching France in 1737. Crespel relates these adventures in the form of letters written from Paderborn (Germany) in 1742 to his brother Louis, who inscribed the present copy. With modern bookplate. In very good condition with only some minor browning and staining. The binding slightly chafed and the foot of the spine chipped. Crespel’s “relation is an important supplement to those of Sagard and Le Clerq on the same region” (Streeter). [8], 135, [1 blank] pp. Howes C-880; Howgego, to 1800, C218; Huntress 49C; Sabin 17476; cf. Streeter, Americana 122. ☞ More on our website Important account of the , with 10 engraved maps and views 7. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. A history of the late Siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that garrison, from the earliest periods. … Third edition. London, T. Spilsbury, 1786. 4º. With an engraved device on title-page, 4 folding engraved maps and 6 folding engraved views. Contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spine. € 1250 Third edition of a detailed account of the great siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783), one of the longest sieges in history, by the English army officer and military historian John Drinkwater Bethune (1762–1844). When he was 15, Drinkwater joined the 72nd Regiment of Foot in Manchester and was stationed in Gibraltar, which was in British hands since 1704. In June 1779, Gibraltar was besieged Spanish forces, who were later reinforced by the French. During the entire siege, Drinkwater kept a detailed diary, where upon the present work is based: “The following history ... is compiled from observations daily noted down upon the spot, for my own satisfaction and improvement; assisted by the information and remarks of several respectable characters, who also were eye-witnesses ...” (preface). The preface is followed by a list of subscribers and a table of contents. The main text is divided into 8 chapters, covering Gibraltar’s history, the garrison, the first blockades, sieges and bombardments, evacuations, British strategies, etc. The work closes with an appendix, listing casualties, expenditure of ammunition, provisions, and the sums of prize-money. The engraved plates include maps of Gibraltar, ground and battle plans and coastal views. With the bookplate of Georg Ortenburg and the armorial bookplate of Sir Thomas Beauchamp-Proctor, 2nd Baronet (1756–1827), on paste-down. Small piece torn off in the foot margin of page 343/344. Binding rubbed, hinges slightly damaged. Internally in very good condition, with only a few faint stains. XXIV, 356 pp. ESTC T151999; cf. NMM V, 1413 (fourth edition); not in Adams & Waters; JCB MH. ☞ More on our website ”One of the most important eye-witness accounts of the battle”

8. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, John. A narrative of the Battle of St. Vincent; with anecdotes of Nelson, before and after that battle. London, Saunders & Otley (back of title-page: printed by William Wilcockson), 1840. 8º. With an engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Horatio Nelson, 3 wood-engraved vignettes and 8 lithographed full-page sea-battle plans. Publisher’s original blind-blocked cloth, with title in gold on spine and front board, gilt edges. € 850 Enlarged second edition of a work on the sea battle at Cape St Vincent, by the English army officer and military historian John Drinkwater Bethune (1762–1844), “one of the most important eye-witness accounts of the battle, by a spectator rather than a partici- pant” (NMM). The battle the took place near Cape St Vincent, Portugal, on 14 February 1797, when the British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeated the much larger Spanish fleet. The work honours Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), whose con- tribution during the battle was essential, and the present edition is enlarged with some anecdotes from Nelson himself. The work opens with a preface, followed by a description of the battle. The appendix contains a list of killed and wounded marines, two lists with the names of the ships of the British and Spanish fleet, and 8 battle plans, showing the positions of the ships of both fleets during different hours of the battle. With traces of a removed bookplate on paste-down. Binding very slightly rubbed, slightly damaged at the top and bottom of spine. Internally in very good condition. XII, 97, [3 blank] pp. NMM V, 1765. ☞ More on our website Naval convoys for merchant ships; import and export taxes on 430 goods, under the short-lived British governorship of the Netherlands

9. DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Placcaet op tstuck vande convoyen (mitsgaders licenten, …) ghedaen … by zyne Excellentie, tot Utrecht den laetsten Aprilis, anno. M. D. LXXXVI. Utrecht, widow of Coenraet Henricksz, 1586. With: (2) DUDLEY, Robert, Earl of Leicester. [Incipit:] ¶ Robert, Grave van Leycester …, allen … die deze … sullen sien oft hooren lesen saluyt. Alsoo …: so ist dat wy … goet … geacht hebben, alle de … lysten vanden goedere[n] gaende naer … vreemde lande[n], …, te redigeren en[de] dresseren in ee[n] sijste[! = lijste], .... (Colophon: Utrecht, printed by Hendrick van Borculo, [1586]). 2 works sewn together. 4º. Disbound. € 750 Rare first and only editions of two official publications for the government of the Netherlands, represented in the years 1585 to 1587 by the English governor-general of the Dutch United Provinces, Robert Dudley (1533–1588), Earl of Leicester, the Netherland’s last foreign head of state before it established true self-rule as a Republic in 1587. The second, with a 15-page list of taxes on hundreds of goods, is especially rare, with only 2 other copies located. Ad 1: A proclamation of 30 April 1586, announcing the introduction of taxes authorized by the Dutch States General to provide funds to equip warships for the protection of the United Provinces, namely to convoy incoming and outgoing merchant ships. Ad 2: An ordinance issued on 1 July 1586, consolidating the various lists of taxes on the import and export of goods, and raising them above their 1581 levels. With a 15-page list of about 430 goods covered, giving the import and export tax for each. With a couple early manuscript notes on the first title-page. With minor damage to the first leaf of the first work and last leaf of the second work, affecting a few letters of the text. Further with minor marginal defects. [8]; [17], [1 blank] pp. STCN (2 copies each); Typ. Batava 6481 (8 copies) & 6945 (same 2 copies). ☞ More on our website History of seafaring 10. ELW ES, Alfred and A.A. DEENIK (translator). De zee en hare beheerschers, of beknopte geschiedenis der voornaamste zeemogendheden uit vroegeren en lateren tijd. Sneek, Van Druten and Bleeker, 1861. 8º. Contemporary red half sheepskin. € 500 First edition of the Dutch translation of a history of all sea-faring nations, from Classical Antiquity to contemporary times, by the British writer and translator Alfred Elwes (1819–1888). In 34 chapters it relates the sea-battles of the Greek, the Phoenician and Egyptian trade routes, the sea-merchants from Venice, Genoa and Pisa, the explorers from Spain and Portugal, the Dutch and English East and West India Company, etc. Browned with some occasional minor foxing. Spine slightly discoloured. Overall in very good condition. XXV, 368 pp. ☞ More on our website Manuscript giving information and sources for about 400 voyages of discovery, by one of Napoléon’s most important advisors on maritime affairs (signed binding by Bozérian l’aîné)

11. FLEUR IEU, Charles Pierre CL AR ET, Count d’Eveux de. Notice générale des navigations, des découvertes maritimes, de la fondation des colonies, et du commerce des peuples de l’Europe, dans les autres parties du monde. [Paris], commencée en 1795, finie en 1800 [with a note that there are later additions, in fact to 1807]. Large 2º (39 × 26.5 cm). Manuscript in French, written in dark brown ink on good Dutch laid paper. Near contemporary (ca. 1805?) gold-tooled tree calf, by Jean-Claude Bozérian; rebacked, preserving most of the original backstrip. € 27 500 A remarkably thorough and conveniently organised compilation of information concerning European voyages of discovery from antiquity to 1806. “Fleurieu ne négligeait rien pour donner à ses écrits le degré d’exactitude qui les distingue et les fait rechercher par tous les amis de la géographie.” (Eyriès). He covers about 400 voyages, which precludes detailed accounts of famous voyages (none of Columbus’s receives more than a short paragraph), but aims at comprehensiveness, providing data for many little-known voyages. For voyages carried out in the fifty years before he wrote, especially voyages by the French, his positions in the French government and related institutions at the time he wrote would have given him access to many primary sources, including some that have not survived. In addition to its value as a source of information about the voyages themselves, it also shows the extent of knowledge available to Napoléon concerning world-wide voyages at the time he declared himself Emperor. Charles Pierre Claret, Count d’Eveux de Fleurieu (1738–1810) was appointed Ministre de la Marine et des Coloniea in 1790 by Louis XVI but he resigned a year later in a dispute with the Assemblée Nationale and remained loyal to the king. He was imprisoned for fourteen months during the reign of terror, but managed to avoid the guillotine and was freed after Robespierre’s fall in 1794. He was granted posts at the Bureau des longitudes and the Institut de France in 1795, when he began compiling the present manuscript. He was elected to the Conseil des Anciens in 1797, expelled a few months later with the coup d’état, then elected to the Conseil d’État in 1799 and remained one of Napoleon’s most important advisors on maritime affairs to his death in 1810. Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Eyriès (1767–1846), a founding member of the world’s first geographical society in 1821, may have acquired the manuscript soon after the author’s death in 1810. He described the present manuscript and attrib- uted it to Fleurieu in 1842, when it was in his possession, but its authorship had been forgotten when Hiersemann sold it in 1930. With a couple tiny marginal defects, not affecting the text, and an occasional very faint smudge, but otherwise in fine condition. The binding has been rebacked and the boards are scuffed and the book is structurally sound. [1], [1], [34], [4 blank]; [1], 42, 42 bis, 43–106, [6 blank, numbered 107–112]; [1, numbered 113], 131, [1 blank] ll. plus 30 slips bound in. Eyriès, “Vocabulaire de la langue ... de l’île de To’bi”, in: Nouvelles annales des voyages et des sciences géographique II (1842), pp. 163–176, at p. 176; Karl W. Hiersemann, French manuscripts relating to navigation, ..., (Leipzig, 1930), item 1. ☞ More on our website One of the last manuals on sailing ships before mechanical propulsion took over

12. FUNCH, Diderik Hansteen. Dansk Marine-Ordbog. Copenhagen, Bianco Luno, 1846–1852. 2 parts in 1 volume. Large 4º (30 × 23.5 cm). With 67 full-page engraved plates (7 folding), partly coloured by hand. € 1950 First edition of a pictorial maritime encyclopaedia and dictionary, written by the famous Danish shipbuilder Diderik Hansteen Funch (1791–1856). The first part describes and illustrates numerous aspects of shipbuilding and rigging, including timber work and framing, knot making and. The second part is a dictionary of terminology used for ship parts and details, as well as for the sailing itself, including the whole typical seamen’s vocabulary. Funch was one of the most important builders and designers of warships in Denmark of his time, building both sailing vessels and paddle steamers. “Ships designed according to Funch’s system had parabolle waterlines and curves; all the curves were thus mathematically determined. Funch’s system seems to have influenced ship design in the provinces from about 1830 to 1845–50” (Nielsen). He described his ideas on shipbuilding in several books for which he also prepared the drawings. With the blind library stamp of ‘Det Lergenborgske bibliothek’ and two written shelsmarks on the title-page. Binding somewhat worn at the extremities and title label damaged. Foxed throughout and the plates have been browned, but nevertheless a good copy. [4], 169, [3]; 152 pp. Dodge, “Bibliography of Danish and Swedish Dictionaries”, in: PMLA, 5/4 (1890), pp. 298; Cf. Nielsen, Skibsbygning i Danmark, pp. 139–140; Dansk biografisk lexicon V, pp. 492–493. ☞ More on our website 3 militaria: on understanding the “human heart” of soldiers and on battles in the West Indies 13. GR ASSE-TILLY, Francois Joseph Paul de. Memorie van den Graave de Grasse, betreffende de actien in de West-Indiën voorgevallen. [Amsterdam?, 1782]. With 8 large folding engraved nautical nautical charts. With: (2) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte schets over de noodzaaklykheid van de kennisse van het menschlyk hart voor een chef. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. (3) [KINSBERGEN, Jan Hendrik van]. Korte verklaringe van verscheidene actiën tusschen de Engelsche en Fransche vlooten, gedu- urende den laatsten oorlog. In de West-Indiën voorgevallen. Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1791. With 21 folding engraved plates including nautical charts showing the French and English fleets near Grenada, Basseterre, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Kitts and Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. 3 works in 1 volume. Royal 4º (29 × 23.5 cm). Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. € 5950 Three first editions of works on naval tactics and accounts of battles between the English and French fleets in the West Indies, written (2 & 3) or translated (1) by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735–1819), the famous Dutch admiral. Ad 1: An account of the British Admiral George Rodney’s defeat of the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies in 1782, written by Count F.J.P. de Grasse-Tilly (1722–1788), the commander of the French fleet (who was imprisoned by Rodney), with extensive descriptions of naval tactics. Ad 2: An unusually early discussion of military psychology, namely an argument that a naval officer needs to understand the ‘’human heart’’ of his soldiers. Ad 3: An account of the naval battles and tactics of the French and English fleets in the West Indies. Sloos describes a “large paper copy”. If copies were produced on large and small paper the present copy must also be on large paper, for it has margins of about 8 cm at the fore-edge and foot. With a hole restored in first title-page, an occasional small marginal tear or water stain in the folding maps, and toward the end a few marginal browned patches, but otherwise in very good condition. Binding scuffed and the hinges of the binding have been reinforced. Most of the tooling remains clear. 55, [1 blank]; 27; [8], 25, [1], 5 pp. Cat NHSM, pp. 925–926; Sloos, Warfare 09118 bis, 09163, 09169; cf. Sabin 28333 (French ed. of ad 1). ☞ More on our website Three unrecorded print series of the Levant trade, with beautifully engraved ships 14. GUNST, Pieter Stevens van. Levantsche vaartuigen. With: (2) R A M, Johannes de. [Print series of Dutch trade convoy]. (3) [Anonymous]. [Print series of Oriental trading scenes]. [Amsterdam, ca. 1700]. 3 parts in 1 volume. Small oblong 2º (18.5 × 27 cm). With 22 engraved plates in 3 series numbered 1–8, 1–6 and the last 8 unnumbered. 19th-century marbled boards, later endpapers. € 6950 Collection of 3 unrecorded Dutch print series of the Levant trade. The first by Pieter Stevens van Gunst (1659–1724) with 8 prints showing ships at the Levant being unloaded, lying at anchor and getting attacked by pirates. The second series with 6 prints by Johannes de Ram (ca. 1647–1696) showing the Dutch convoy protecting trade ships, probably on their way to the Orient. The third (anonymous) series shows inhabitants of the Orient in some scenes trading with Dutch merchants and with Dutch ships in the background. Although the 3 series are engraved in quite different styles, they have a similar subject and look surprisingly good together. With only a few minor spots and the binding with rubbed edges. Very good copy from the library of Harrison D. Horblit. Not in Atlas van Stolk; Cat. NHSM; De Groot & Vorstman; Hollstein; Muller, Historieplaten; for Gunst: Thieme & Becker XV, p. 345; for De Ram: Thieme & Becker XXVII, p. 584. ☞ More on our website Popular story of an East Indiaman wrecked off the coast of Bengal

15. HEY DEN, Frans Jansz. van der. Vervarelyke schip-breuk van ‘t Oost- Indisch jacht Ter Schelling, onder het landt van Bengale; ... beneffens een bondige beschryving der Koningryken van Arrakan, Bengale, Martavan, Tanassery, … Den vyfden druk doorgaens met platen verciert. Harderwijk, Jan Rampen, 1722. 4º. With 18 woodcut illustrations plus 1 repeat. Modern half vellum. € 2250 Extremely rare fifth edition, the second illustrated with woodcuts, of a popular account of the story of the East Indiaman Ter Schelling, which was wrecked off the coast of Bengal. The author, a member of the crew, kept a journal of his experiences, and the 18 woodcuts illustrate the crew’s adventures both at sea and on land. The ship left Batavia with 85 men and about 28 canons under captain Jacob Jansz. Stroom on 3 September 1661 and came within sight of Bengal on 8 October. They wrecked on a sandbank off shore, however, and had to make rafts to travel further, 32 of them managing to reach an uninhabited island. Van der Heyden describes the crew’s desperate hunger, when they were tempted even to eat a worm-filled human corpse. They survived on turtles, snakes, iguana and occasionally rotten buffalo meat. By chance they reached mainland Bengal in the middle of the region’s greatest war (1660–1662), so once ashore they were conscripted into the enormous Mogul army to fight against the kingdom of Assam, said to be cannibals. The gruesome massacre of captives by the Nabob is described and illustrated. Following the story of the voyage are descriptions of the kingdoms of Arrakan, Martaban, Tanassery, Bengala and Patan along the coast of the Bay of Bengal from modern Bangladesh to Burma. Though all editions are rare, those with woodcut illustrations aimed at a lower market seems to be the rarest. Slightly browned throughout, a minor dampstain in the inner margin of the foot of the title-page and a tiny dampstain in the lower outer corner throughout. A good copy of a very rare edition of a gripping true-life adventure story. 96 pp. Landwehr & V.d. Krogt, VOC 422 note; STCN (1 copy); Tiele, Bibl. note; WorldCat (2 copies, incl. 1 the same). ☞ More on our website Curious and rare treatise on a newly-invented life belt: author’s annotated copy

16. L A NQUER, Richard. Le naufrage sans peril, ou l’invention d’une machine qu’on peut porter à la poche, qui nous fait passer les rivieres tous vestus, & ester plusieurs jours sur la mer, sans aucun péril pour nostre vie, & sans moüiller nos armes ny nos habits. Paris, printed by C. Blageart, 1675. 8º. Modern light brown half cloth, with original paper wrappers mounted on sides. € 4500 Author’s annotated copy of the extremely rare first and only edition of Lanquer’s treatise on his newly-invented life belt, known in early dictionaries as a “Lanquerre” and described on the title-page as a “machine that fits in a pocket and allows travelling on rivers and seas without any danger to life, and without wetting weapons and clothes”. Brunet describes it as “Pièce curieuse et d’une grande rareté” and mentions a copy withdrawn from the De Lassize auction. That is clearly the present copy, for the auction catalogue notes it is annotated by the author, quoting a manu- script comment on page 22: “Laquelle machine depuis que j’ai mon privilége, j’ai encore tellement perfectionnée que c’est à présent un prodige. [etc]”. The treatise is also mentioned in Thevenot’s classic swimming manual L’art de nager. With bookplate. Some minor wear in the corners, otherwise in very good condition. 54, [2 blank] pp. Brunet, Suppl. I, col. 775; Cat. … la bibliothèque de M.H. de Lassize (1867), no. 1363 (this copy); Thomas, Swimming, p. 74; WorldCat (3 copies). ☞ More on our website Manuscript table of the provisions on board the French frigate “Amphitrite” 17. L A PL ACE, Cyrille Pière Théodore. La frégate de Roi L’Amphitrite. États des consommations faites pendant le mois de Décembre 1824 et que restent abord le 1e Janvier 1825. [On board, December 1824–1 January 1825]. Manuscript table in brown ink on a whole sheet of laid paper (40 × 52 cm), with the title at the head and signed at the foot right by Laplace. Folded twice. € 3500 Manuscript table recording and tallying the supplies and consumptions on board of the French frigate L’Amphitrite during December 1824, signed by its lieutenant C. Laplace, that is the French navigator Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793–1832), famous for two of the most important 19th-century circum- navigations of the globe. On the Amphitrite Laplace made several trips to the Antilles. The table gives great insight into the expenditure on board a ship in the first half of the 19th century. A wormhole at the head, just shaving one letter of the title, but otherwise in very good condition. Cf. Howgego, 1800 to 1850, L12–L13; Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes’ Geographischer Anstalt XXII (1876), p. 69. ☞ More on our website Manuscript for an unpublished French navigation manual by a French prisoner of war in England

18. LE GR IP, Jean Baptiste. Cayez de navigation. Le Havre, 24 September 1762. 2º (33 × 21 cm). Manuscript in dark brown ink on laid paper, in a cursive hand, with 6 volvelles and about 140 illustrations and diagrams (8 on 7 folding leaves and several others full-page or nearly full-page) including a wide variety of armillary spheres (in 2 cases held aloft by an ink-wash putto), 2 quadrants, 2 sundials, a large compass rose, astronomical and cosmographical diagrams, 4 ink-wash drawings of hands presenting finger mnemonics for the days of the months and other matters, and a stunning and detailed side view of a French warship (probably Le Grip’s ship when he was taken prisoner in England). Contemporary reversed calf. € 38 000 Original unpublished manuscript for a very detailed and extensive manual of navigation, beautifully illustrated with precise construction drawings of quadrants, sundials, armillary spheres and a warship, the whole designed to teach the art beginning with the basic principles. “Ce manuscrit est très cruieux et très instructif” with “figures finement exécutées” and “pas inférieur aux” Dulague’sLeçons de navigation (Rouen, 1775) (Anthiaume). Parts present questions and answers and parts include practical examples. Jean-Baptiste Le Grip (1734–1791 or later) was born in Prêtreville, near Lisieux (département Calvados in Normandie), the son of a weaver. Little is known of his early life, but Anthiaume plausibly suggests that he trained as navigator at nearby Le Havre, where Louis Cléron taught hydrography. In one way or another he clearly learned navigation and must have served on a ship, for in 1762, near the end of the Seven Years’ War, he was a prisoner of war in England. The evidence for this comes from the present manuscript itself: Le Grip signs the seven-line note at the foot of the precise and detailed drawing of the universal astronomical quadrant from the Baker/Sackville family’s Sissinghurst Castle near Canterbury in England on 12 September 1762: “J Batiste Le Gris au Chateaux de Sisinghuerst, le 12de 7bre 1762”. The family leased their castle to the British government during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), to serve as a prisoner-of-war camp for 3000 captured French sailors, so Le Grip must have been one of them. Anthiaume, in his 1920 publication, describes the manuscript as “De la collection de Mr Du Loup”, but it was offered for sale in 1930 (Hiersemann). The 6 volvelles survive intact, but 3 no longer turn, the folding leaf that was backed with blank paper is slightly browned (from the paste?) and where a drawing or text has been heavily inked it sometimes shows through or on rare occasions has even eaten a very small hole in the paper, but the manuscript is still in good condition. Binding rubbed and front hinge repaired. An excellent and finely illustrated unpublished manuscript manual of navigation, written while the author was a prisoner of war in England. [8], 190, [2], 191–358, [100 blank] pp. plus 7 folding leaves. Anthiaume, Evolution et enseignement de la science nautique, vol. 1 (1920), pp. 281–284; Karl W. Hiersemann, French manuscripts relating to navigation, ..., (Leipzig, 1930), item 10. ☞ More on our website Ship’s journal from Seychelles and Madagascar, with numerous maps and earlier illustrated anatomical lecture notes

19. MORSE, Edward George. A journal of remarks and observations as kept by E. G. M. . .. [mostly on board the barque Sarah of London], April 1831–14 March 1833 (with additions to 1835). with an engraved view as frontispiece, 15 full- page, 1 nearly full-page and 1 smaller manuscript maps and coastal profiles, plus a small engraved view (“Tomb of Napoleon”) mounted on 1 page. Including: MORSE, Edward George. Lecture Book [notes on anatomical lectures by Joseph Constantine Carpue]. [London], November-December 1828. with a matching pair of engravings of a scull on and facing the title-page, and 27 pencil and/or ink ana- tomical drawings (including 2 full-page), some also with red. 4º (19.5×16.5 cm). Contemporary sheepskin parchment. € 35 000 A manuscript ship’s journal kept by Edward George Morse (Bromyard 1805?–Deal post 1850?), who no doubt served, among other functions, as the ship’s surgeon. Morse made his earliest dated entries in April 1831 at the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean and others at Madagascar and its sur- rounding islands from May to August 1831. Morse provides extensive notes on the natural history, topography and people of the Seychelles, Madagascar and the neighbouring islands, and provides detailed maps of many of the islands and coastal areas, along with a few coastal profiles. The two manuscripts are written in a single album of laid paper. Morse used it 1828 to take notes when he attended the London lectures on anatomy and blood circulation by the innovative surgeon Joseph Constantine Carpue, who had pioneered facial reconstructive surgery by introducing ancient Indian techniques. He was famous for illustrating his lectures with chalk drawings, which no doubt served as the models for the anatomical illustrations in Morse’s notes. A few clippings and hand-written notes have been inserted. [191] ll. Including paste-downs and about 55 blanks. ☞ More on our website Large Japanese watercolour painting of Nagasaki harbour, with many ships and boats

20. O C H I A I Yoshiiku. Kiyoko zuga [= Representation of Nagasaki harbour]. [Nagasaki, ca. 1880?]. A large watercolour painting of Nagasaki harbour (image size: 49.5 × 87.5 cm), probably on mulberry bark paper, with one large Asian ship, more than a dozen small Asian boats, and a steam boat in the background, all rendered following Western conventions of per- spective. In a passe-partout in a modern wooden frame painted gold (95 × 125 cm), behind glass. € 8500 A large watercolour painting from the Meiji period showing Nagasaki harbour viewed from the city, looking across at the Papenburg (Dutch for Pope’s mountain), named for the many Catholic martyrs who were thrown off the peak. A large Asian ship in the harbour (15.5 cm tall in the painting) forms a focal point in the painting, while the masts of another appear in the foreground at left. Several more Asian sailing ships appear far in the background and there are many small rowboats in the foreground and background. Of special interest is a steamboat sailing into the harbour in the background left, with two smokestacks. Ochiai Yoshiiku (1833–1904) belonged to the group of woodcut artists known as the Utagawa school, and is therefore also known as Utagawa Yoshiiku. He studied with Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861), who had studied with Tokokuni I (1769–1825), who took charge of the group when its founder, his teacher Utagawa Toyoharu (1735–1814), died. The Utagawa school is known for mixing Western traditions, especially Western perspective, into tra- ditional Japanese styles. While most of Ochiai’s work remained faithful to the traditional manner, the present painting shows a nearly pure Western perspective. This combined with the fact that his name also appears transliterated in the Latin alphabet may mean this painting was made for a European patron. With a few wrinkles in the paper slightly affecting the mountain at the right, the sky near it and the sail of the large ship, but otherwise in fine condition. A lovely and unusually large Japanese watercolour painting, showing Nagasaki harbour with many ships and boats. ☞ More on our website Wholly engraved illustrated book on naval strategy 21. OZ A NNE, Nicolas-Marie. Marine militaire ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre suivis des manoeuvres qui ont le plus de raport au combat ainsi qua l’ataque et la deffense des ports. Paris, Chereau, [ca. 1775]. Large 8º (25 × 17 cm). A wholly engraved book, with 50 engraved plates (1 folding), including a title-page in an architectural frame and 44 leaves with illustrations of ships. 18th-century brown half morocco, with owner’s (?) initials at the foot of the spine “I.G.”. € 1750 Second edition of a wholly engraved and well-illustrated account of battleships, other naval vessels, and naval manoeuvres. The title-page is followed by two leaves containing the “Avertissement” and a table of contents, leaves 4 to 50 illustrate and describe battleships with 40 to 120 guns, other types of ships, battle orders, a windward and leeward attack, chasing an enemy ship, forcing the enemy to fight, avoiding a fight, forcing a passage through an enemy line, etc. The folding leaf 50 also contains a list of terms with explanations of their meanings. In engravings 5 to 20 each illustration shows a different kind of ship, with notes about it and sometimes a decorative tailpiece. Most of the illustrations in engravings 23 to 48 show sea battles or manoeuvres, with an explanatory text and in most cases a plan at the foot showing the positions and movements of the ships. Nicolas-Marie Ozanne (1728–1811), known as Ozanne l’aîné, worked as an artist for the French navy. The dedication describes the Duke of Choiseul as (among other things) Minister of the Marine, a post he held from 1761 to 1766. Small dampstain in the fore-edge margin of the first 20 leaves and at the head of the last three leaves (never touching the plate), the title-page slightly browned and some occasional spots. Still a good copy of a wholly engraved and well-illustrated work on battleships and naval strategy, with large margins. 50 engraved ll. Berlin Kat. 1463; Cat. NHSM, p. 750; Cohen, Livres a Gravures, col. 778; Lewine, p. 399 note; Polak 7234; for Ozanne: NBG XXXVIII, cols. 1021–1022; Thieme & Becker XXVI, p. 110. ☞ More on our website Passport for an Amsterdam skipper 22. [PASSPORT]. Alder-doorluchtichste, … heeren … die dese opene letteren sullen sien … doen wy burgermeesteren … der stadt Amsterdam te weten, dat schipper Jurriaen Gerritsz. van Amsterdam … dat het schip genaemt de Helena … Amsterdam, 7 November 1710. Small 1º (41 × 30.5 cm). Letterpress passport, with a large woodcut initial and spaces where the city, skipper, ship and size are filled in, with two seals, signed in the left margin by François Fagel (1659–1746) and at the foot by J. Aley(?). € 675 Letterpress passport issued by the city of Amsterdam for Jurriaen Gerritsz., skipper of the Helena, asking the reader to receive the bearer well and just and to give him passage on all main waterways. In very good condition, two tiny holes in the fold. ☞ More on our website Extremely rare novel on the fictitious pirate captain William Gordon

23. [POLT, Johann Joseph]. Lotgevallen van den kaper kapitein William Gordon. Naar het Hoogduitsch. Amsterdam, Johan Christoffel van Kesteren, 1818. 8º. With engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page. Modern calf. € 750 Third copy located of the Dutch translation of a German novel telling the adventures of the fictitious pirate captain William Gordon. It was originally published in 1801 asWilliam Gordon, der Korsarenkapitaine and republished in German in 1817, both extremely rare. Slightly thumbed, but otherwise in very good condition. IV, 136, [4] pp. Buisman 1815; NCC (2 copies); Scheepers II, p. 175; WorldCat (same 2 copies as in NCC). ☞ More on our website 1752 treaty between the and the Sultan of Morocco

24. [STATES GENERAL—MOROCCO]. Tractaat van Vreede en Commercie, geslooten tusschen sijne Majesteit den Keiser van Marocco en de … Staaten Generaal der Vereen. Nederlanden. Including: — [drop-title:] Formulier van het pasport … — [drop-title:] Translaat van de brief van Muley Abdala, Keiser van Marocco, … The Hague, Jacobus Scheltus, 1777. Small 4º. With the woodcut arms of the States General on the title-page. Disbound. € 1250 Second edition, published in several issues, of a treaty concluded between the Dutch States General and Abdullah bin Ismail (1694–1757), Sultan of Morocco on and off from 1734 to his death in 1757. The 23 articles of the treaty are followed by a form for the passports that Dutch ships were to carry, a note on the treaty’s ratification at Fez, and a translation of a letter (originally in Arabic?) from the Sultan of Morocco to the States General. The treaty was negotiated by Mohamed Lucas, governor of Tétouan, acting for Morocco and Francisco and Louis Butler, granted power of attorney by the States General. It guarantees access, free trade and safety for ships of the States General and its subjects and their crews and passengers in ports under Moroccan authority. Goods they sell there are subject to the usual taxes, but military and shipbuilding supplies are exempt (gunpowder, timber, wheel-lock muskets etc.). The treaty was concluded on 21 November 1752/14 Muharram 1166. A further note says it was ratified at Fez on 4 December/28 Muharram and Sultan Abdullah’s letter to the States General is given the same date. With a small inscription on the title-page. Last two leaves detached and worm holes, only slightly affecting the text. Otherwise a good copy. 26, [2 blank] pp. STCN 161081134; not in Knuttel. ☞ More on our website How to calculate longitude at sea 25. SW INDEN, Jan Hendrik van, Pieter NIEU W L A ND and Gerard HULST VAN KEULEN. Almanach ten dienste der zeelieden voor het jaar 1788. Including: (2) Over het bepalen der lengte op zee door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of vaste sterren, ... (3) Van tafelen, ten dienste der zeelieden, en voor al ter bevordering van het bepaalen der lengte op zee, door de afstanden van de maan tot de zon, of de vaste sterren; ... Amsterdam, Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1787–1788. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8º. With three title- pages with woodcut printer’s device, mathematical figures in the text, letterpress tables, and 4 large printed folding tables. Contemporary half vellum. € 1500 First edition of an almanac for the use of seamen, in three parts, published by order of the board of the Amsterdam Admiralty by the Committee for the establishment of longitude at sea and the improvement of nautical charts, in which committee Van Swinden played a leading role. The almanac is based on the English Nautical almanac and includes everything that can be of use to seamen, including a separate part on the calculation of longitude at sea and a part with letterpress tables necessary for the calculations. Although John Harrison had already demonstrated the accuracy of his chronometer in the 1760s they were still not in widespread use and the present works calculate longitude from very precise measurements of the position of the moon. In very good condition, only slightly browned around the margins. Binding worn along the extrem- ities, sides chafed but otherwise good. XXX, 108, 87, [1]; XXIII, 136; [4], 30, [2], 60 pp. Bierens de Haan, 4789 (1), 4791 (2), 4793 (3); C.A. Davids, Zeewezen en wetenschap, pp. 188–190; Poggendorf II, col. 1058. ☞ More on our website The opening of Japan to British ships and a description of Joseon Korea 26. TRONSON, John Mortlock. Personal narrative of a voyage to Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, Tartary and various parts of coast of China; in H.M.S. Barracouta. London, Smith, Elder & Co. (colophon: printed by Bradbury and Evans), 1859. 8º. With 2 woodcuts in text, 8 lithographic plates (4 tinted) 5 lithographed folding maps. Modern half morocco. € 1650 First and only edition of the adven- tures of a small British squadron in the Western Pacific in 1854–1856. The ships, under the command of Sir James Stirling took part in various actions against the Russians, with whom Great- Britain had been at war since 1853 (the Crimean War). Their main objective was to obstruct the Russians in getting the upper hand in Japan, since that country had opened itself to the West in 1853. After negotiating a treaty which opened Japanese ports to the British, the fleet travelled to China to battle pirates and later “captured” the almost deserted Russian harbour of Ayan. Besides giving his own colourful descriptions of Japan and the Japanese, Tronson also visited Korea, then an isolationist country under the Joseon dynasty. With a repaired tear in the first map and some minor foxing, mostly near the plates. In very good condition. XV, [1 blank], 414 pp. Cordier, Japonica, col. 543; Cordier, Sinica, col. 2124; Hill, pp. 293–294. ☞ More on our website Sailing orders in the aftermath of the Battle of Beachy Head

27. W ICHER S, Wicher. [Manuscript letter to Hans Hartwich, Capiteyn op s’landts oorlogschip Harderwijk]. The Hague, 29 July 1690. Small 2º (31 × 20.5 cm). Manuscript letter in in 7 lines on one page, with the signatures of Wicher Wichers and François Fagel, followed by two blank pages, and the name of the addressee in manuscript on the fourth page with a seal. € 575 Manuscript letter ordering Hans Hartwich (1630–1692), captain of the warship Harderwijk, to set sail for the island of Texel. Hartwich was a captain in charge of the Amsterdam admiralty and was present at the burial of Cornelis Tromp in 1691. At the time of the order the Dutch Republic took part in the Nine Years’ War, a conflict between Louis XIV of France and a European coalition of the Holy Roman Empire (led by Austria), the Dutch Republic, Spain, England and Savoy. Earlier that month Rear Admiral Jan van Brakel was killed in the Battle of Beachy Head. The order is signed by Wicher Wichers (1651–1715), a member of the States General. In very good condition. [1], [2 blank], [1] pp. ☞ More on our website Rare Dutch shipbuilding manual, with 8 plates 28. Z W IJNDR EGT, Leendert van. Verhandeling van den Hollandschen scheepsbouw, raakende de verschillende chartres der oorlogsschepen, tot ‘s lands dienst, en ter betrachtinge van alle bespiegelende en werkdadige liefhebberen der Hollandsche scheepsbouwkunde, … Waarby, tot een aanhangsel, gevoegd is eene verhandeling van’t bouwen der koopvaardyschepen door C. de Ruiter. The Hague, Pieter van Thol, 1759. 4º. With engraved frontispiece view of a shipyard, title-page printed in red and black with charming woodcut device, the dedication with an armorial headpiece giving the arms of the dedicatee (Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer) and 8 engraved folding plates, including one very large (83 × 30 cm), showing the most important parts of a Dutch galleon with 50 cannons. 20th-century half vellum. € 4750 Second issue of the first edition of a rare manual on shipbuilding by Leendert van Zwijndregt, a member of a family of three generations of shipwrights working for the Rotterdam admiralty. It was written as a defence of the Dutch tradition of shipbuilding against the upcoming tendency to look to the French and English traditions. Added at the end is a short treatise on the construction of Dutch merchant ships by C. de Ruiter. Van Bruggen points out that Van Zwijndregt was one of the earliest to propose the new method of calculating a warship’s length on the basis of the width of and space between the portholes (Maritime geschiedenis der Nederlanden, p. 45). Extremities slightly browned and some spots to the first and last few leaves, but otherwise in very good condition and wholly untrimmed, leaving all deckles intact. [8], VIII, 126, [2 blank] pp. Bruzelius, p. 50; STCN (9 copies); cf. Bierens de Haan 5481 (first issue); Cat. NHSM, p. 748 (first issue); Crone, Nederlandsche jachten, p. 138; Maritime geschiedenis der Nederlanden III, pp. 45 & 398. ☞ More on our website More books, maps, photographs, manuscripts and prints related to maritime history available at our websites: www.forumrarebooks.com/category/ www.asherbooks.com/category/ maritime_military_history.html maritime_military_history.html Previously published and available for download at our websites www.forumrarebooks.com www.asherbooks.com

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