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Remarkable Original Artworks

1 BATEMAN (Charles S.L.) Original drawings and watercolours for the author’s ‘The First Ascent of the Kasai: being some Records of service Under the Lone Star’. 1). An album containing 46 watercolours (17 not in vol.), 17 pen and ink drawings (1 not in vol.), 12 pencil sketches (3 not in vol.), 3 etchings, 3 ms. charts and additional material incl. newspaper cuttings, a photographic negative of the author and manuscript fragments (such as those relating to the examination and prosecution of Jao Domingos, who committed fraud when in the service of the Luebo District). All carefully attached at corners to modern paper, with typescript labels laid down beneath the images. Various places. [1885-1886]. 2). A portfolio containing the sheets on which the works were originally mounted, with ms. notes. 3). The First Ascent of the Kasai… First American edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, wear to head and foot of spine, some marking to boards. A good, partly unopened, copy. pp. xx, [1]-192. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889. £17,500 The First Ascent of the Kasai … was published in 1889 — a handsomely illustrated volume that recorded the author’s part in an expedition to determine where the waters of the Kasai River emptied themselves. Charles Somerville LaTrobe Bateman joined the so-called ‘German Expedi- tion’ (despatched by the Geographical Society of Berlin under the commission of Leopold II) on the return-leg of the river-voyage, which had succeeded in its initial aim of descending the Kasai to the Congo at Kwamouth; thereby con-

1 firming the Kasai as a tributary to Though remarkable for a number of reasons, the pictures are arguably most the great river. Bateman and the exceptional for the intimate view they provide of the Bashilange-Baluba people, expedition leader, Dr. Wolf, were upon whom the expedition relied so heavily. As the trip from Leopoldville to tasked with ascending the Kasai in Luebo is finished by page 61 of The Ascent…, the majority of Bateman’s words order return the Bashilange-Baluba are given over to his time in the Luebo District, among the Bashilange, and his people (who had acted as guides for pictures reflect that weighting. the descent) to their homeland at Of the author very little is known, other than that which can be gleaned from the headwaters of the river. Once his book. His father was almost certainly Rev. C. H. Bateman (b.1813), which there they had a second objective can be deduced from the records showing that C. H. Bateman fathered Rev. to fulfil: to establish a station at James Henry La Trobe Bateman (b.1848), the brother to whom Charles calls, in the confluence of the Lulua with the preface to The Ascent…, his ‘amanuensis’ and aide in the production of the Luebo, as a port for the station of book. What became of Charles after he departed Luebo is unknown, but he did Luluaburg. not live far beyond that time, a sadness attested to by a gravestone in Carlisle’s Once aboard the steam-wheel Richardson Street Cemetery, bearing the date of his death: 05.08.1892. steamer Stanley and the steam- launch En Avant, they departed Leopoldville on the 30th of Sep- “Private and confidential” tember 1885 and arrived at their destination on the 7th of November 2 CHADDOCK (George A.) in the same year. Bateman then Narrative of a Voyage of Exploration in the served as an administrator for the S.S. “Maud” on the East Coast of Africa... Luebo District: performing a number of difficult functions, such as attempting to prevent slave raiding. He was eventually picked up by by the Stanley on the 18th Sole edition. Two maps (one folding). 8vo. Original printed wrappers, lightly of December 1886, when he, for the last time, looked ‘upon the dark woods and soiled, with a quarter morocco bookform box. 56pp. Liverpool, Lee & swirling waters’ of that territory (p.170). Nightingale, 1890. £2750 In addition to his primary duties as second-in-command to Wolf, Bateman This account of Chaddock’s expedition shows found time to create a remarkable visual record of the expedition, that passed how his crew on the S.S. Maud were able to navi- through the territories of the Chiplumba, Basongo-Meno, Bakuba and Bakete gate the waters of the Limpopo River, which the tribes. His drawings, watercolours and etchings of the native peoples, flora and Portuguese considered impenetrable. Departing fauna and river scenes, recorded things never before depicted (and in some cases Liverpool in 1883 on the steamer Maude, Chad- seen) by Europeans. They subsequently provided the basis for the excellent plates dock’s crew was almost entirely comprised of in his book, which illustrate, inter alia, Hippopotami on the southern shore of “young gentlemen” who’d not previously been Stanley Pool, Bakuba cups and knives, Lulua fish and Bakete hunters. to sea. They spent two months in Natal, and Bateman’s original works survived and are offered here for sale, collected were mistaken for slavers at the Rovuma River. together in an album with additional manuscript charts, passages from the book Despite resistance from the Portuguese authori- and other association material. Along with those images present in the volume ties, the Maude entered the mouth of the Lim- are works which were not included and do not appear in any other published popo on 14 April and navigated the river’s entire material. Some of the latter provide wonderful additions to Bateman’s narrative, length. Chaddock contends that in being the first such as the watercolour depicting the visionary Bashilange Chief Chilunga Meso explorer to chart those waters, Great Britain’s standing atop an islet framed by breaking waves. This picture, when put in the claim to the territory is indisputable. He sets out context of the passage it was presumably made to illustrate, acquires a sense his case, referencing no prior claim, the interna- of dramatic irony, as one learns of how Chilunga Meso was part-tricked into tional nature of the river (that it works through spending periods of inspired isolation on the islet, by an Angolese translator who three different countries) and the acquiescence was exhausted by the chief’s demands. of the Transvaal government. Indeed, the large

AFRICA 3 folding map of Matabele Land is titled: “Map shewing the River Limpopo and The section title on page 5 “Travels in Barbary” is vigorously crossed out by the mouth. Also Native Territory not under the Direct Influence of any Power.” author who has added that “The title below is a barbarism of the printers”. The In addition to the narrative, Chaddock’s account reprints extracts from Captain tipped in manuscript notes are devoted to Tripoli, Tunis and Islam. Elton’s expedition, reports from the Mercantile Marine Service Association Reporter and the correspondence between himself and the Governor of Delgoa Bay. Very little is known of Chaddock, however contemporary reports of his expedition on the Maude were published in The American Naturalist (vol. 19, no. 9, September 1885, p.875), and twice in the Proceedings of the Royal Geo- graphical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Apr., 1885), pp. 239-249, and Vol. 7, No. 12 (Dec., 1885), pp. 841-874. Not in Howgego. Exceedingly rare, not on COPAC, not on OCLC.

Author’s Presentation Copy to his Mother

3 GOLDMANN (Charles Sydney). With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 65 plates & 44 folding maps. 8vo. Panelled red & black morocco by Rivière, spine gilt, presentation inscription on front free endpaper. [xx], 462pp. London, Macmillan & Co., 1902. £800 With the following inscription: “To my dear mother, in deep affection and gratitude from her devoted son, Sydney.” “Few works on the war have been prepared with such thorough attention to detail, and every chapter is accompanied, at its conclusion, by a series of plans, 5 HOLUB (Dr. Emil). maps, and illustrations ...” (Mendelssohn). A precise account of French’s cavalry Von der Cap stadt ins Land Der Maschukulumbe. campaigns - excluding Natal - the work covers Colesberg, the Kimberley relief Reisen im sudlichen Afrika in den Jahren 1883-1887. expedition, the falls of Pretoria and Bloemfontein and the campaign in the eastern Transvaal. The appendices amount to a military manual, discussing cavalry, First edition. 36 parts. Numerous plates & illustrations. 8vo. Original printed reconnaissance and transport in wartime. Included is a brief autograph note wrappers, some parts unopened, some occasional minor spotting, with from Lansdowne, dated 16 Feb. 1900, reporting on French troop movements. handsome quarter morocco drop-back box. Vienna, 1888. £1500 Mendelssohn I, p617. Holub’s account of his second expedition to South Africa. He arrived at the Cape in 1883 with the intention to traverse the continent to Egypt. He crossed the Zambesi west of Victoria falls and explored the area between it and the The Author’s Copy Kafue. However, the expedition was forced to return when it was attacked by 4 GROSVENOR (Lord R.) the Mashukulumbwe. Mendelssohn I, p733. Extracts from the Journal of Lord R. Grosvenor. Being an account of his visit to the Barbery 6 HORNEMAN (Frederick). Regencies in the spring of 1830. The Journal of Frederick Horneman’s Travels, from Cairo to First edition. Lithograph title & two lithograph plates. 8vo. Nineteenth Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa. century cloth, spine repaired, with ms. notes & newspaper cuttings tipped First edition. 2 large folding maps. 4to. Contemporary quarter calf, rubbed. in. [iv], 5-100pp. Chester, G. Harding, n.d. [but ca. 1831]. £1250 iv, xxvi, 195pp. W. Bulmer & Co., London, 1802. £850

AFRICA 5 Horneman was one of the unlucky four sent out by the African Association to find “Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn were amateurs in a small way, but when it comes the source of the Niger and the direction of its flow. During his first expedition to honest-to-God diary writing the big blond nut and bolt man from Linwood he reached Murzuk, but was forced to retreat to Tripoli. On his second attempt Avenue is their superior in every way.” he died somewhere on the Niger, without being able to inform the world of his A breezily written (“the River Nile is quite a stream”) privately printed account accomplishments. Cox I, p398. of this Sudan hunting expedition. Other members of the expedition included D.W. Streeter, H.F. Evans, Bob Evans, Walter Oakman, and Harper Silby. The illustrations show the hunters’ trophies and the manner in which they were 7 MOLLIEN (Gaspard-Theodore). obtained. Czech p.132. OCLC lists 4 copies. Travels in the Interior of Africa to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; performed by command 10 ROSKELL (Arthur H.). of the French Government in the year 1818. Six Years of a Tramp’s Life in South Africa. First English edition. Large folding engraved map & 5 engraved plates. 4to. Original navy cloth with paper label to spine, some minor foxing, in a First edition. 8 plates. 8vo. Fine in half morocco drop-back box, spine gilt. xi, 379, 1(ad.) pp. London, Henry original pictorial yellow paper boards, Colburn, 1820. £1800 with a beige cloth slipcase. 104pp. Capetown, [1887]. £650 The Phillipps copy with press mark in ink on front pastedown. In 1818 Mollien explored parts of central Africa, where he discovered the sources of both the Roskell relates his arrival at the Cape in Gambia and the Rio Grande rivers. The imminent rainy season prevented him 1877, and the loss of his property, with from reaching Timbuktoo and he was forced to abandon his travels in Timbo, good humour and wit. He spent the next the capital of Futa Dschalon. He was the first to transverse Senegal and Gambia six years tramping through the Cape from North to South and provides useful additional information to the research Colony, Natal, and Orange Free State. of Mungo Park. Gay 2910. South African Bibliography, Vol. IV, p83.

8 MOODIE (Donald). An Inquiry into the Justice and Expediency of Completing the Publication of the Authentic Records of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, relative to the Aboriginal Tribes. First edition. 4to. Original green printed wrappers, spine repaired. iv, 48pp. Cape Town, A.S. Robertson, 1841. £375 11 VAN DER KEMP (Rev. J.T.). The main section of this item attempts to show that “the colonists had been Memoir of the Late Reverend J.T. van der Kemp, maligned and misrepresented with reference to their relations with the natives” Missionary in South Africa. (Mendelssohn). Mendelssohn II, p45. First edition. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo. Later half calf, with red morocco label, spine gilt, tear to page 8. 42pp. London, 1812. £750 9 PLUMB (R. Hudson). Dr. Kemp spent thirteen years in South Africa as a missionary. Having failed after fifteen months to persuade King Gaika to grant permission for the establishment The Log of the Amka. of a mission in Kaffir Country, he travelled to Algoa Bay. Here, with Mr. Read First edition. Photographic illustrations in the text and a folding map pasted and the assistance of Governor Dundas, a settlement and mission was formed at inside the lower wrapper. 8vo. Original embossed wrappers, an excellent Bota’s Place. However, ongoing problems with the neighbouring Boers beset the copy. 53, [3]pp. n.p., n.d. but [c. 1928]. £1200 mission’s activities. Mendelssohn II, p543.

AFRICA 7 EGYPT, THE NEAR EAST & MIDDLE EAST

12 ABD-ALLATIF & SILVESTRE DE SACY (Antoine Isaac, Baron). 13 BREYDENBACH (Bernhard Von), HUEN (Nicolas Le). Relation de L’Egypte par abd-Allatif, medecin Arabe Le Grant Voyage de Hierusalem diuisé en deux de Bagdad; Suivi De divers Extraits d’ Ecrivans parties. En la premiere est traicte des peregrinations orientaux, et d’un Etat des Provinces et des Villages de la saincte cité de Hierusalem, … de Egypte dans le xiv.e siecle. Le tout traduit et enrichi de notes historiques et critiques. Third French edition. 2 large folding woodcut plates, both with minor paper repairs. 4to. Nineteenth (c. 1840) century English straight-grained First French edition. 4to. Contemporary tree calf repaired, gilt filleting to red morocco, gilt by C. Smith a.e.g. [iv], 209ll. Paris, Nicolas Hygman for boards, boards slightly scuffed, spine richly gilt, contemporary ownership François Regnault, 1522. £40,000 inscription to half-title, later Arabic inscription to p.[iv]. xxiv, 754pp. Paris, De l’Imprimerie Imperiale, 1810. £1800 Nicolas Le Huen’s adaption of Breydenbach was first published in 1488 in Lyon. Apart from the description of Mount Sinai and St Catherine’s monastery, it is The author, an enlightened native of Baghdad, gives the best account of Egypt not a translation, but rather a superimposition of Le Huen’s own experiences on during this era. A polymath who travelled widely throughout the Middle East, Breydenbach using the latter’s narrative as a blueprint: the dates and details are of his many works on philology, law, philosophy and medicine, this is the only all different and the description of the return journey is entirely new. one that survives. The text was then reprinted in 1517 for Regnault and again as above in 1522. Although first discovered by Thomas Pococke in 1665, it wasn’t published in To this 1517/22 version a second part was added, divided into sections: the first English until 1800. A French translation followed in 1810 with notes provided seven concern European endeavour in the Middle East, consisting of pertinent by Silvestre de Sacy. texts culled from different chronicles and sources such as Giovanni Rotta’s history of Ismael Shar of Persia. The eighth section contains Cabral’s 1500 voyage to Calicut with an account of manners, costume etc. taken from Montalboddo, as is the ninth section which includes four letters: firstly the announcement of Cabral’s discovery of a New Land “terre de papegaulx”, secondly the discovery

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 9 of Labrador by Cortereal, thirdly material concerning J. de Nova’s voyage of of 1488 (i.e. Reuwich). The remainders are included in the 1522 edition for the 1502 and fourthly the treaty signed between the King of Portugal and the ruler first time and are from various sources. The exception is the large cut of Charles of Calicut and the voyage of “de la frote” of 1502-3. Martel, which is retained from 1517. There are two large folding woodcuts, here in good condition, that are often Bernhard Von Breydenbach was dean of Mainz. His pilgrimage to the Holy land wanting or in facsimile. That of Jerusalem was specially made for the 1517 edition via Venice began in April 1483 and he returned in January of the following year. and is an adaptation of the Reuwich original, (Reuwich accompanied Breydenbach Provenance: Nicolas Yemeniz (1783-1871), of Lyon, sale, Paris, 1867; then as artist and was the original publisher). The second shows (on the left) the blessing Ambroise-Firmin Didot (1790-1876), bookseller and bibliographer, sale, Paris, of the Christian Kings prior to their departure on crusade (with some verses which 1883; then William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney supply an acrostic giving the authorship to Oronce Fine); displayed on the right (1835-1909), sale, Sotheby’s, March 1909; later Giannalisa Feltrinelli, sale, is the siege of Jerusalem. Of the smaller cuts, the 6 alphabets are copied from the Christies, (1995-2001). [see inside front cover for further illustration] 1488 Lyon edition and that of the Holy Sepulchre is copied from the Mainz edition

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 11 The History of the Wahhabis

14 BRYDGES (Sir Harford Jones, Bart.) An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty’s Mission to the Court of Persia in the years 1807-11. To which is appended a brief history of the Wahauby. First edition. 2 vols. in 1. Folding map, lithograph frontispiece to each vol. (on india paper), with 9 other lithograph illustrations (all on india paper). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt title to spine. Some spotting to plates. A good copy. 8vo. viii, 472, xxxv; [ii], vi, 238pp. London, Bohn, 1834. £6750 The author, a diplomat, was posted to Basra between 1784 and 1794, and subsequently visited Baghdad in 1798. He was an eyewitness to the ratification of the first treaty, an extraordinary affair where the Pasha mustered all possible splendour to impress the Wahhabi emissary but was roundly snubbed. Although his history is somewhat partial (he was too closely connected with the events that occurred), it does give a unique picture, and corrects many errors and misconceptions in Burckhardt’s account of the Wahhabis. 15 COSTE (Pascal). Harford Jones (as he then was, before adopting the surname Brydges) was Monuments Modernes de la Perse. attached to the Persian mission lead by Sir John Malcolm, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Tehran. His account of events during this period is again full of First edition. 71 plans and views incl. 8 chromolithographs. Folio. Half interesting detail, character sketches and aperçus. His judgment however was called straight grain black morocco over speckled boards, spine gilt. Marginal into question by Lord Minto and a long feud began, which despite the support foxing to some of the plates. A very good copy. [4], 57, [3]pp. and 53 leaves of Lord Melville, resulted in Brydges having to withdraw from diplomatic life. of plates. Paris, A. Morel, 1867. £11,500

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 13 An architect from Marseilles, Pascal Xavier Coste (1787-1879) travelled extensively Having survived WW1 (where he fought at the Somme and Gallipoli), De Gaury in Persia, Egypt, Greece and western Europe between 1817 and 1877. He spent took up the study of Arabic, which led to a career as a soldier-diplomat in the ten years in Egypt between 1817 and 1827, working on a variety of projects for Middle East. He was one of the first Britons to be allowed entry to Riyadh in Mehmet Ali, and became fascinated with Muslim architecture. He recorded many 1934; a city he returned to the following year with the first British Minister to of the buildings he found with the permission of Mehmet Ali, and exhibited the Saudi Arabia, Sir Andrew Ryan. resulting drawings in Paris in the mid 1830s, producing his great work on Cairo The introduction to A Saudi Arabian Note Book explains that such visits in 1837. required the approval of Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, with whom De Gaury had built Some two years later Coste was chosen by the Acadamie Royale des Beaux Arts, good relations. It also states that photography was “still unwelcome to many of to accompany the embassy of M. le Comte de Sercey, despatched by Louis-Philippe the inhabitants, and it was only after receiving special permission that the pho- to the court of Persia. He visited much of the country, along with Flandin, who tographs in this book were taken...” As the photographs are undated they may had been selected by the same institution to record the ancient reliefs, returning stretch back to the first official visit to Riyadh in November 1935. to France in 1842. There are a number of ‘notes’ after the photographic plates, which De Gaury This work, on the modern architecture of Persia, is informative and beautiful devised as “a brief handbook” for professionals travelling and working in the in equal measure. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Scarce, with OCLC locating only 3 copies (at the New York Public Library, Na- tional Library of Israel and Georgetown).

17 FINATI (Giovanni). BANKES (William John). Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara; Who, under the assumed name of Mahomet made the Campaign against the Wahabees for the recovery of Mecca and Medina; and since acted as interpreter to European travellers in some of the parts least visited of Asia and Africa. First edition. 2 vols. Folding map. 12mo. Contemporary boards, rebacked, with paper labels to spines. 8ads., xxiii, 296; viii, 430, [2]ads.pp. London, 1830. £3750 A rare title: Finati was one of the few who left us an eye-witness account of Muhammad Ali’s campaign against the Wahhabis for control of the Holy Cities. The author was a deserter from Napoleon’s conscript army in Italy, who made his way to Egypt and “for want of anything better to do” joined Muhammad Ali’s Albanian guards. He devotes most of the first volume and some of the second to these events. A Scarce Photobook The editor has carefully compared the account against the history of the campaign by Mengin [see below], and finds the author most accurate. He also compares the 16 DE GAURY (Gerald). description of Medina and Mecca to that of Ali Bey and also finds the Italian’s A Saudi Arabian Note Book. account reliable. The second volume continues with the author’s later exploits with William Bankes among others. It describes trips throughout the Middle East, First edition. 39 black and white photographic plates, a map and 2 folding including, inter alia, a visit to Petra and meetings with Belzoni and Salt. It is written genealogical tables. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, somewhat chipped and in a colourful and lively way throughout, though the author rather too often for rubbed, minor loss to foot of spine. Contents clean and bright. Housed in a credence finds himself around a corner when some atrocity or other is committed. handsome blue cloth solander box. [8], [1]-50pp. Cairo, Imprimerie Misr, Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 232. Macro, 954; not in Atabey or Blackmer. 1943. £3500 [Bindings photograph overleaf]

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 15 Item 17, Finati, preceding page

An Englishman’s Travel Diary, Lithographed in Tehran

19 WEBB (William). A Record of my Journey from London Bridge to Berlin Thence to Persia via The Baltic Volga & Caspian Sea. First and only edition, with folding lithographed plate (‘by a Persian artist’). 4to. Original paper wrappers, somewhat browned and worn, with minor 18 [RADZIWIŁŁ (Mikołaj Krzysztof, Prince).] incidents of chipping to edges and corners. Text lithographed throughout Jerosolymitana Peregrinatio Illustrissimi Principis on paper of Russian origin (see watermark on p.25), pages 1-4 and 43-44 Nicolai Christophori Radzivili Militis Jerosolymitani... fragile at extremities and with some minor loss (not affecting text). 44pp. Printing Office of the Royal College of Teheran, Persia. [1870]. £8500 4th Latin edition. 2 full page engraved illustrations, an engraved plan. Folio. Contemporary calf, hints of faded gilt, faded label and raised bands to spine. When William Webb left London in June 1869 he had never before been abroad, (iv), 229, 7[index]pp. Cassoviae, Jesuit Press, 1756. £2200 spoke only English and was embarking on a new profession in order to provide for his infant daughter. His eventual destination was the Persian (now Iranian) A Polish nobleman, Radziwiłł campaigned against the Muscovites, though is best capital Tehran, where his employer, the Indo-European Telegraph Company, had known for his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1583. He spent about 2 months in sent him to work as a signaller. His journey there is the subject of this unusual Egypt, visited the pyramids and collected several artifacts, including two mummies. and possibly unique book. There is no record of the print run, but one cannot His detailed account was first published in Latin in 1601, and quickly went through imagine more than a handful of copies were made. several editions. In addition to his vivid prose, this was one of the first works to Webb was first required to travel to Berlin where he was expected to master accurately describe many of the smaller relics (i.e. coptic jars and shabti figurines) the use of cutting-edge, ‘high-speed’ telegraph equipment at the offices of Siemens, and so made a significant contribution to the existing knowledge. The mummies who had developed the technology. In a lovely footnote to a passage on page never made it back to Poland. On the advice of a priest, the author tossed them five Webb marvels at the alacrity he witnessed: ‘Fancy sending a message from overboard his ship during a storm. cf Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p149. Teheran [sic] to London in 5 seconds and then turning aside as if nothing had Rare, this edition especially so. OCLC locates no copies with the Cassoviae happened’. Once trained he continued his journey to Persia where the equipment imprint. was going to be implemented.

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 17 headaches, the latter requiring the pulling of two teeth by an Armenian doctor. Despite such troubles he still found the energy to report the beauties of the land, such as the Alborz mountains, and to provide some humorous asides on matters such as being repeatedly swindled by the local traders: ‘It is a great point gained in Persia if you can make the usual bargain of the country’. Of real significance is the manner in which he had his diary printed. The whole book, including a folding plate, was lithographed at the Printing Office of the Royal College of Tehran, otherwise known as Da¯r al-fonu¯n, which was the first modern (or European influenced) university in Persia. Though lithographic equipment had been present in Persia from 1821 and had been used to produce books since 1832/33, the medium came to life in the late 1840s and approached its heyday at around the time of Webb’s arrival in Tehran. While books were produced in Arabic, Persian, Tabriz and Turkish (some Persian to European language glossaries also appeared, such as the French glossary present in a medical work by an Austrian doctor, Jakob Polak, in 1854) we cannot find any record of an earlier lithographed English-language book printed in Persia. Resultantly, Webb’s diary, of which this is the only copy we know of, may represent the lone item of evidence for English-language printing in Persia up to and during the period [c.1870] of his residence. It may also shed new light on the technical development of Persian lithography — both the offset process used to print the text, and the illustration by an anonymous Persian artist, could be unique to the era. The press at Da¯r al-fonu¯n was established in 1851 and was probably outmoded in the first decade of the 20th century when typeset printing overtook lithography as the preferred process in Persian book production. As stated above we cannot locate any other copy. Not in COPAC or OCLC. [See front cover for further illustration]

His route from Berlin to Tehran can be split into two month-long endeavours: the first by way of Stettin, St. Petersburg, Moscow and down the Volga to the Caspian Sea, and the second an overland journey from the Persian port of Enzeli (Bandar Anzali) to Tehran. While the narrative of the first month is not without interest, the second is markedly more gripping due to the hardships detailed. Led by a German called ‘Matthias’ and an Armenian guide named ‘Moses’, Webb and a group of other Europeans (made up of signallers, clerks and their wives) experienced a period of ‘misery and privation’. From October 27th to November 26th 1869, they slept in flea-ridden stables, went without food and were repeatedly thrown by their horses. Webb also suffered the added cruelty of fever and

EGYPT, NEAR & MIDDLE EAST 19 21 DOUGLAS (James). Hints on Missions. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary straight grain morocco, gilt, silk endpapers, a.e.g. vi, 118pp. Edinburgh, Wm. Blackwood, 1822. £300 Operating from the premise that “miracles are liable to be over-rated”, Douglas sets about explaining more pragmatic methods for the propagation of Christian- ity in the New World. Within the bounds of this guide, Douglas essentially provides a philosophy of missions.

22 HUGHES (Rev. Thomas Smart). EUROPE, Travels in Sicily, Greece, and Albania. First edition. 2 vols. 12 engraved aquatints, RUSSIA, TURKEY 3 maps & plans (1 double-page & 1 folding). 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt filleting to boards, gilt stamp of the Northern Light Board and morocco labels to spine. An ex- 20 [ANON.] cellent copy. xii, 532; viii, 393pp. London, Narrative of a French Prisoner’s Escape from Norman Cross J. Mawman, 1820. £2950 Barracks, and of his Subsequent Perilous Adventures, in 1810. The Lighthouse Trust copy. After a distinguished First Edition. Small 4to. Sewn as issued. Original yellow wrappers, worn career at Cambridge, Hughes accepted the and folded at corners, otherwise very good. 46pp. (incl. front wrapper). position of travelling tutor to Robert Townley Stamford: S. Wilson. [1827]. £350 Parker. This is an account of his time abroad in A very entertaining pamphlet, that tells the story of a young Frenchman’s incar- that capacity and Hughes combines historical ceration in, and eventual escape from, an English prisoner-of-war camp. accounts of the regions with his travelogue. The Norman Cross was erected in Peterborough to house the multitude of French plates are after drawings by C.R. Cockerell. soldiers taken captive during the Napoleonic Wars, and was the first purpose-built structure of its kind. A number of escapes were recorded and it is likely that such prison breaks found a place in the popular imagination of the period. 23 LOADER (T.B.). The narrative in question appears to have been published by a number of book- sellers and printers in 1827 and 1828, with differing titles. An article in Fenland T.B. Loader’s Scientific and Commercial Map of Notes & Queries, (Vol. 1) (Peterborough: G. C. Caster, 1889) claims that it was England and Wales in which are delineated the canals, not what it claimed to be, but was actually “a mere imaginary sketch” conceived railroads and navigable rivers. The extent of the by Mr Bell, a schoolmaster from Oundle. The article also states that the narra- navigation of each river with the elevation of the canals, tive was first published in Drakard’s Stamford newspaper, which bodes well for together with the Geology, and Principal Situations of the earliness of the present copy which shows ‘Drakard, Printer, Stamford’ at the the Mineral Productions, 1836. Second Edition. bottom of the title-page. Not in OCLC or COPAC. Lithographed wall-map on six sheets joined as one, 1340 x 1075mm, dis- sected and mounted on cloth, with marbled paper endpapers, folding into the original slipcase, in fine bright original wash colour, the slipcase worn and rubbed with loss to both spines. London: William Day for T.B. Loader, 1836. £5000

EUROPE, RUSSIA, TURKEY 21 Exceedingly Rare

24 [MANBY (George William).] [SHIPWRECKS]. Reminiscences. 8vo., contemporary brown cloth covered boards, worn, split at rear hinge, rear pastedown coming away but internally clean and bright, begins at gathering B, issued without titlepage, ink ownership inscription, 154pp. Yarmouth, Sloman, n.d. [1839] £6,500 One of four known copies, this the printer’s own, never completed or published. A candid but refreshingly personable memoir, chiefly concerning Manby’s invention of a System for Preserving the Lives of Shipwrecked Persons. As the older brother of naval officer Thomas Moore Manby, who accompanied Vancouver on his circumnavigation aboard the Discovery and fought in the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars, G. W. begins his Reminiscences accompanying his brother to the Azores Islands as volunteer chaplain on the frigate Bourdelais. In 1821, Manby made a voyage to Greenland with William Scoresby in order to trial a new type of whale harpoon. He published an account of the journey the following year. There is a certain whimsicality to his narrative that suggests a natural aptitude for a life of creativity and imagination rather than one of naval achievement. Indeed, the text is littered with vivid anecdotes. To wit: the distemperate lighthouseman in the Irish Sea preserving his quarrelsome companion's body in a specially constructed coffin affixed to the outpost lest he be accused of his murder, and the extraordinary episode in which he outlines the bequeath of his head (post mortem) to the famous surgeon Sir Astley Cooper so that future generations may learn “what injury the head is able to undergo”. Manby himself had undergone serious cranial surgery having been “basely shot by an officer in the East-India Company’s service, who seduced and carried off my wife” (all of which is allegedly foretold by a Yarmouth cunning-woman). That is not, however, to undermine the seriousness with which he applied himself to the invention of apparatus to aid rescue in shipwrecks. Following his appointment as Barrack Master at Great Yarmouth, he witnessed the fruitless Following the success of the ground-breaking geological map of England and efforts to rescue the wrecked crew and passengers of the Snipe, many of whom Wales by William Smith, first published in 1815, a number of other cartographers drowned within 50 yards of the shore. This galvanising experience set him to produced geological maps, notably George Bellas Greenough, James A. Knipe develop a rope projectile (the Manby Mortar) and an unimmersible boat, which and T.B. Loader. contributed to the salvation of many hundreds of lives. Much of this volume Loader’s version first appeared in 1831, once Smith’s copyright had expired. It concerns experiments undergone in this process and transcriptions of various is a detailed delineation of the geological strata of England, with extensive notes letters of thanks and recognition received from official bodies or those who had amplifying the colour code employed in the map itself. benefited from his inventions. This example is in lovely bright original colour; unusually, the map bears the Inserted in this copy is a manuscript note in an unknown 19th century hand printed acknowledgement ‘Mounted & Coloured by G. Cross, 98 Dean St. Soho reading: “This work was never completed or published - was the printers own copy Sq[uar]e.’ All in all it is a remarkable map, and of considerable rarity. - D. Turner had only A set of the rough proof sheets - sold at the sale of his library May 1889. Lot 1121 - and one copy bound lot 721 in catalogue.”

EUROPE, RUSSIA, TURKEY 23 INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA & THE FAR EAST

Signet Library Copy

25 AMIOT (Joseph), SJ, and others. Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages … des Chinois … par les Missionnaires de Pekin. First edition. 17 bound in 16 vols. Two frontispiece portraits, 193 engraved plates (some folding), maps and tables. 4to. Uniformly bound in 19th century Although it lacks a title page [in accordance with the BL copy which is the ex libris Dawson Turner cited above], it is attributed in the colophon to “Sloman, polished calf, elegantly rebacked. Some occasional minor staining (damp Printer, King-Street, Yarmouth”, and this copy bears the inscription above the and waterstaining affecting vol. 2), but overall a very good set. Paris, Nyon/ title on the first page “Sloman, Yarmouth August 39”, further supporting the idea Treuttel & Würtz, 1776- 1814. £26,000 that this was Charles Sloman’s own copy. This work was never published, and it A beautiful and very rare complete set of the most comprehensive survey of all seems that although it was set and printed, the very few copies distributed were aspects of Chinese life in the 18th century. The publication was the project of reserved for intimate acquaintances. Dawson Turner, the noted bibliomaniac and Henri Bertin (1720-92) who controlled the finances under Louis XVI. The main ephemera collector also of Great Yarmouth, clearly qualified as this - aside from contributor was Joseph Amiot (1718-94) who had arrived in Peking in August this precious proof volume of his memoirs, he was also the recipient of those 1751 and remained there for the rest of his life (a fine portrait in the final volume metal slugs so painfully extruded from Manby’s brain. shows him in Chinese dress). Others include Gaubil, Prémare, Cibot, Poirot, as Other than this and Turner’s, there are two further extant copies at Lambeth well as two Chinese converts, named Aloys Gao and Etienne Yang who had both Palace Library and at the National Library of Australia. studied in Paris. They returned to China in 1765 with a pension from the French King on the understanding that they would send reports and materials that would improve the knowledge of China in France.

EUROPE, RUSSIA, TURKEY 25 The Mémoires were published over a period of 38 years with much of the cost It had a great influence on French philosophers of the 18th century, who were being carried by King Louis XVI. It is curious to note that the entire project was impressed with the way that Confucianism formed a strong social order without published three years after the Jesuit order had been banned by Pope Clement XIV. having to rely on religious dogma. There are numerous Jesuit letters touching on Furthermore, the last two volumes XVI/XVII are exceedingly rare having been current Imperial affairs, including the nature of the tribute system, and relations published in Nyon some 23 years after volume XV. The first volume includes a with Tibet. Of particular rarity is vol. 16, which contains the 2nd part of the translation of the Emperor Qianlong’s account of his conquests in Western China. ‘Abridged History of the Tang Dynasty’ by Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759), as well The frontispiece shows him wearing Manchu dress and he is honoured in the as a Chinese chronology from the beginning of time to the year 206 B.C. (i.e. to following glowing terms: “Working tirelessly for an admirable government - the shortly after the end of the first Qin dynasty) by the same author. Gaubil was greatest ruler in the world and the best scholar of his empire”. particularly interested in early Chinese history and astronomy because it conflicted The Jesuits were the first Europeans to make a thorough study of Chinese with Western notions of a biblical chronology. These ideas contributed to a big language, literature, history, and people: The Mémoires include translations of controversy in 18th century Europe over the true date for the beginning of the large parts of the Chinese Classics; Chinese law, maxims, and proverbs; as well as world and other events mentioned in the Old Testament. essays on Chinese linguistics, current affairs and scientific observation. It includes This set came from the prestigious Signet library, which formed part of the Society a reprint of Amiot’s important work on Chinese military strategy with French of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet, a private society of Scottish solicitors dating translations of some of the most important Chinese texts, i.e. the ‘Sunzi’, ‘Wuzi’, back to 1594. Lust 96; Cordier 54-56; Catalogue: China Illustrata 93. Collation: and ‘Bingfa’. There are biographies of noted Chinese throughout history, texts pp. [iv], xvi, 485, [1]; viii, 650; 504; iv, 510; iv, 518; [iv], 380; xii, v-xii, [iii]-x, on martial arts, food and silk-production, musical instruments, natural history, [3]-397, [2], [1, blank]; vi, [ii], 375, [1]; xxiv, 470; xi, [i], 510; xxiv, 609, [1]; [iv], astronomy, and medicine. Furthermore, it contains Amiot’s ‘Life of Confucius’. vii, [i], 532; [iv], xvi, 543; xvi, 561, [1]; [iv], 516; [iv], vi, 395, [1]; x, 291.

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 27 Slavery and Human Sacrifice

26 [BURMA]. RICH (Edmund, Tillotson). [Archive of service in Burma, 1896-1929.] Official reports, manuscript letters, survey notes, field reports, maps and 75 original photographs. [Including] Six confidential reports: 1 Barnard, J.T.O. Report on the Hukawng Valley Expedition for the Liberation of Slaves... Rangoon: June, 1926. Folding map. 26pp. 2 Barnard, J.T.O. Report on the Expedition to the “Triangle” for the Liberation of Slaves... Rangoon: July, 1927. 3 folding maps. 38pp. 3 Dewar, T.P. Report on the Naga Hills (Burma) Expedition for the abolition of Human Sacrifice... Rangoon: August, 1927. Large folding map. 50pp. 4 Dewar, T.P. Report of an Expedition to the Hukawng Valley and Naga Hills (Burma) During the Season December 1927 to May 1928... Folding map. 15pp. 5 Mitchell, H.J. [Report of an Expedition to the Naga Hills Tracts bor- dering on Upper Chindwin for the abolition of Human Sacrifice. Rangoon, 1927.] 14pp. 6 Mitchell, H.J. Report on the Naga Hills (Upper Chindwin) Expedition for the Abolition of Human Sacrifice January to March 1928... 2 folding maps. 42pp. 2 vols. Folio. Custom cloth with labels to spine and upper Rich was keen to engage with those around him, especially the village headmen. covers, plus a card folder. Some occasional chipping as one would expect. “This [one] is more intelligent than the average Shan and in the afternoon I had Very good. 1896 - 1929. a long talk with him … through my Shan interpreter… Five years ago his village For a full list of contents please contact [email protected] £10,350 was attacked by Kachins & burnt… his people had to flee as they stood, leaving cattle & everything behind & they could not return till the British came up…” A remarkable archive documenting Rich’s service in Burma from his first posting He also provides extensive notes on the geography as well as customs of the in 1896 through to his work in the 1920s when he was engaged in the suppression local tribes. He includes a lengthy description of a village at Maingyaw and its of slavery and human sacrifice. school. At Pangwo, he notes “it is the custom of these hill tribes to move their After sixty years and three Anglo-Burmese wars, Burma became a British colony villages about once in 3 years. I once asked a villager how they agreed on when to in 1886. Having completed the Suez Canal, Britain turned to Burma for its rice move & he said that they usually waited till there were 3 deaths in one house…” supply and much of the Irrawaddy delta was dredged for the purpose. The British Rich then describes the dwellings and wonders how after three years “not that 3 began an extensive survey work and initially Rich was an engineer attached to it. have died but that anyone is alive to tell the tale.” The archive commences with two letters written from Upper Burma to his Furthermore, there are two typed reports (totalling 24pp.) to H. A. Thornton, mother while engaged on survey work in 1896 and 1897. Rich communicates Commissioner of the North-East Frontier Division. With a covering letter dated much of what life was like for surveyors – preferring a grass hut to his tent, 17 March, 1923, the first report is titled Report on the Hukawng and adjoining noting his meals and providing a general account of his travels (incl. notes on Unadministered Territory. It provides a detailed overview of the region with a the geography and topographical sketches). The material from this early period view to governing the un-administered areas. There is also the following aside: also includes his diary documenting the period 8-17, May 1899 when he was “the Nagas continue gaily to practice their human sacrifices, whilst slavery still engaged in survey work for the Salween Railway in the Shan state. An early entry flourishes amongst the Nagas, as well as amongst the Kachins and Shans of the gives some of the flavour: “May 9th… arrived at camp no 2 at a Kachin village Hukawng and bloodfeuds are common amongst Kachins as well as Nagas.” The called Kangmong at 9 o’clock after an eventful march. At this village the present second report is titled Brief account of survey operations of No. 10 Party, Survey headman two years ago burnt a man by placing him in a hole in the ground with of India, in the North East frontier Division, Burma from 1909 to 1923. The two a fire on his head.”

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 29 reports were made at the end of his service as the head of No. 10 Survey Party to Rs.196,163.” There were further monies paid as “agricultural advances.” and essentially summarize fourteen years of his achievements. Regarding human sacrifice, a similar method of dissuasion was used. “Promises The bulk of the archive concerns the expeditions into the Hukawng Valley have been clinched by mutual presents and though there may be occasional to release slaves being held captive and also to eradicate the practice of human breaches… periodic visits from Civil Officers [will ensure] the end of the custom sacrifice. The Hukawng Valley is an area of roughly 6000 square miles and at of human sacrifice is in sight.” In addition to the narrative of the expeditions, there the time had a population of about fifteen thousand. The swampy nature of the is also a full breakdown of how these expeditions were equipped, methods of terrain, and rapids on the Chindwin River, made the valley extremely difficult communication, tables showing at what rates slave owners would be compensated, to access and in the 1920s the area was basically un-administered. It was only and medical information relating to disease and vaccinations. The sketch maps through the work of survey parties that slavery was discovered, and although show the tracks of each expedition. there had long been reports of human sacrifice among the Nagas, this was only These confidential reports complement the additional material and this archive verified by the likes of Rich in 1922. provides a substantial record of a dramatic, if little known, episode in British colonial rule. Rich’s contributions are acknowledged in a 1929 letter from Hugh The heart of the collection are the two bound volumes titled Slavery & Human Aylmer Thornton, C.I.E.: “you must feel that you more than anyone else is clearly Sacrifice on the North East Frontier of Burma. The first volume contains 102 due the credit for ending the slavery and human sacrifice in the unadministered bound leaves of manuscript, typescript and printed papers (many confidential) areas.” concerning Rich’s work in Burma. They begin with notes regarding him passing All of this is complemented by 75 original photographs that provide a rare exams in colloquial Yunnanese, the Chingpaw dialect of Kachin and Maru. glimpse into a seldom visited part of Burma. The remaining papers concern the Kachin rising though principally involve operations in the Hukawng Valley and Naga Hills. They include Rich’s report, Rich attended Sandhurst and served as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. his correspondence with superiors (letters and telegrams), receipts and accounts, His long association with Burma commenced almost immediately when he was despatches along with seven leaves of plates and ten folding maps, many of which posted to India in 1895 and then to Burma in 1896 where he helped survey the are annotated. railway. He returned to Burma in 1911 for more surveying work, this time at the frontier post at Myitkyina from where he was responsible for the surveying of the border with Tibet and Yunnan. After the Second World War Rich returned to Burma where he was in charge of the Burma Circle of the Survey of India. He retired with the rank of Colonel and was made C.I.E. in 1928.

27 DAVIS (John Francis). Hien Wun Shoo. Chinese Moral Maxims, With a Free and Verbal Translation: Affording Examples of the Grammatical Structure of the Language. First edition. 8vo. Early diced cloth, repaired. Printed on Chinese Paper (slightly brittle). [viii], 199pp. London, J. Murray/ Macao, Printed at the Honorable Company’s Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1823. £1750 “Good sayings are like pearls, strung together”. Sir John Davis (1795-1890) was appointed writer in the factory at Canton in 1813 at the age of eighteen. He was chosen to accompany Lord Amherst on the embassy to Pekin in 1816 and the present work is in fact dedicated to Staunton. Upon the return of the mission Davis again took up his duties at Canton, where he formed the present collection of The second volume contains six confidential reports, none of which are located proverbs. The manuscript was originally sent to the library of the East India Co. on OCLC, COPAC or KVK. The first report indicates the scale of the situation for publication in London. There being no Chinese types for printing in England and how it was dealt with: “The number of slaves dealt with was 3445 … The it was returned to Macao where P. P. Thoms had been printing for the East India slaves were released on payment of compensation and solatium amounting Co. since 1815. Lust 725; Cordier 1429.

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 31 remain so for a hundred and fifty years, but it also included the first publication of the report on Bering’s first expedition into the North Pacific illustrated by an excellent map. The success of the original edition (Paris, 1735) lead to the publication of two English translations. The first into print was that of R. Brookes published by John Watts. It was issued in four octavo volumes, was much abridged textually and illustrated with only 19 plates and maps. The above version was published by Edward Cave who had employed John Green to translate the 4 vol. French work in its entirety. The use of a smaller type and a different layout enabled Cave to fit the text into two volumes. However the finished book which cost more than twice as much as its competitor, is physically a most appealing publication. Lust 15; Cordier 50; cf. Lada Mokarski, 2; cf. Imago Mundi VI, pp 85- 91; Not in Yakushi.

29 INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOMS. MACMURRAY (John). Treaties, Conventions, etc., between China and Foreign States. III. - Miscellaneous Series: No. 30; Second enlarged edition. 2 vols. 4to. Texts in Russian English, French, Swedish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese & Japanese. Original cloth, overall in very good condition throughout. [x], 956; [ix], 919pp. Shanghai, Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General, 1917. £2400 The Best English Edition Vol. I: Russia, International Protocol, Great Britain, United States of America, France, Import Tariff Agreement. Vol. II: Belgium, Sweden and Norway, Sweden, 28 DU HALDE (Jean Baptiste), [GREEN (John) trans.] Germany, Portugal, Denmark, The Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Austria-Hungary, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese Japan, Peru, Brazil, Congo Free State, Mexico, Korea, China. These texts were first Tartary, together with the Kingdoms of Korea and Tibet: published in 1908. The second edition includes the texts of 24 further documents. Containing the Geography and History (Natural as well as Civil) of those Countries... With Notes Geographical, The Gurkha-Qing Campaign Historical, and Critical; and Other Improvements, particularly in the Maps, by the Translator. 30 JIA (Shiqiu). LI (Ming), and others. Second and best English edition. 2 vols. Engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved Pingding Kuo’erka desheng tu plates, and 51 engraved maps and plans (mostly folding), several woodcut [Victorious Battle Prints of Campaigns in Nepal]. illustrations in the text. Folio. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, some occasional light foxing and marginal browning, but generally a very good 8 large engraved prints, each measuring 51x88cm, folded in the middle, copy. [iv], xii, xii, [ii], 678; [iv], 388, [10]pp. London, E. Cave, 1738-41. printed calligraphic inscription by the Qianlong Emperor in the upper £18,000 margin. Overall in very good condition. Dated: Qianlong 60 to Jiaqing 1 [i.e. 1795- 1796]. POA The best English edition of this work, which was translated by John Green. Du Halde (1674-1743) collected a massive quantity of material relating to China, An extremely rare complete set of eight prints describing the Gurkha-Qing Central Asia and Korea from the many Jesuit reports sent back to France. His Campaigns in Tibet between 1791 and 1793. During his reign the Qianlong work is particularly rich for the excellent maps by d’Anville (1697-1782), which Emperor oversaw Ten Great Campaigns that considerably extended the size of show the Chinese Empire and neighbouring countries in unprecedented detail. the Qing Empire. The most important of these was in Eastern Turkestan where The book became the standard source on China and Tibet and was virtually to Qing troops fought the Dzungars in a series of battles that lasted over four years (1755-1759).

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 33 In 1764 Qianlong commissioned a series of sixteen drawings that were executed suites of engravings commemorating military campaigns in and beyond his empire by four Jesuits (Castiglione, Attiret, Sichelbarth and Damascène) who lived in the as well as one showing European-style gardens in the north-east corner of the court at the time. The drawings were in turn sent to Paris where Charles-Nicolas Yuan-ming yuan. Cochin of the Academie Royale supervised the production of sixteen engraved Economic and other tensions between Nepal and Tibet led to the first Invasion plates, which were eventually sent back to Beijing. That series has subsequently of Southern Tibet by Gurkha forces in 1788. The Qianlong Emperor sent troops become known as the ‘Victorious battle prints of the campaign in Dzungaria and from Sichuan to restore order, but by the time they reached Lhasa, the invaders Chinese Turkestan’ (Pingding Zhun Hui liangbu desheng tu). Qianlong was so had already left. After a period of negotiations relations broke down again in pleased with the result that it became his ambition to develop engraving skills 1791 and the Gurkhas launched a second invasion. This time Qianlong dispatched amongst court artists at home. During his reign he commissioned a further seven an army of 70,000 men under the command of the trusted Manchu General

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 35 Fu Kang’an (1753-1796), who had in 1787 suppressed the armed insurrection First edition. Numerous photographic illustrations. Small oblong folio. against Qing rule in Taiwan. General Hai Lancha (1740-1793) was his Second- Original decorated boards (minor wear) in original silk-covered chitsu, in-Command. Troops entered Tibet from Qinghai in the north, thereby shortening ownership inscription on title-page and inside chitsu, a very good copy. Gilt the march but forcing them to cross high mountain passes during the middle of edges. 59pp. Tokyo, Gunkan Hiei, dated: Showa10 [i.e. 1935]. £1200 winter. They reached Central Tibet in the summer of 1792 and within two or On April 2nd, 1935 Pu Yi, the last Emperor of China and by then puppet-ruler of three months could report that they had won a series of victories that pushed Manchuria, paid a three-week state-visit to Japan. This book is a photographic the Gurkha armies across the crest of the Himalaya and back into the valley of record of his journey aboard a Japanese warship. The text gives a day-to-day Kathmandu. Fu Kang’an continued to pursue Gurkha troops into Nepal until account of his engagements in Japan as well as lists of the people he met with. It is 1793, and eventually forced them to sign a treaty which made Nepal a vassal hard to imagine a more humiliating record for a Chinese Emperor and the strain state of the Qing empire. clearly shows on his face. The chitsu and title-page includes a ms. inscription by The present set of eight prints was commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in the a Japanese general. Very rare. No copy in OCLC. year of his abdication: In October 1795 Qianlong officially announced that in the spring of the following year he would voluntarily abdicate his throne and pass the crown to his son. The Gurkha wars document the Qing court’s continuing 32 LAUR (Francis). sensitivity to conditions in Tibet and they depict seven military victories as well Siege de Peking. Recitsauthentiques des assieges S. Pichon, as the ceremony concluding hostilities: ‘Capturing Camu’, ‘Capturing Ma Gaer d’Anthouard, C Darcy, Matignon, Bartholin, Mathieu, Piot, and Xiaer’, ‘Capturing Jilong’, ‘Capturing Resuo Bridge’, ‘Capturing Xiebulu’, etc. Avec Photographies de Piry prises pendant la Siège. ‘Capturing Dongjiao Mountain’, ‘Capturing Palanggu’, and ‘The Gurkha vassals arrive in the Capital’. First edition. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. 8vo. Bound in contemporary calf by Noronha & Co. (Hong Kong). 442pp. Paris, Société des Publications scientifiques et industrielles, 1904- 1905. £450 A French eyewitness account of the Boxer rebellion of 1900 illustrated with interesting photographs from various sources. Item 33, Le Mouel

31 KUMAKURA (Jun). IMAKAWA (Fukuo) editors. Manshukoku Kotei Heika goraiho omeshikan shokan kinen shashincho. [Memorial Album of His Imperial Majesty’s visit aboard a ship to Japan].

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 37 33 LE MOUEL (Eugene). First edition. Photographic frontispiece, 2 folding maps and 15 plates. 8vo. Voyage du Haut Mandarin Ka-Li-Ko et de son Fidele Original decorated cloth, minor rubbing, corners bumped, but overall still a very good copy. xxii, 269pp. London, E. Arnold, 1904. £385 Secretaire Pa-Tchou-Li. [The Journey of the High Mandarin Ka-Li-Ko and His Loyal Secretary Pa-Tchou-Li]. Robert Logan Jack (1845-1921) was a geologist who was surveying some mining regions in Szechuan province when he was caught out by the Boxer rebellion. The First edition. Chromolithograph title page and 31 chromolithograph plates. British Consul advised them to escape to Bhamo and the present is an account of Large oblong 8vo. Original decorated boards. Unpaginated. Paris, E. Kapp, their adventures through regions that had hardly seen foreigners. n.d. [but ca. 1880s]. £1200 A satirical work depicting the travels of two Chinese to Paris on the order of the Chinese Emperor. It describes their adventures and escapades on board and 36 LUDWIG (Ernest). en-route in the company of foreigners. The work parodies both the Chinese and The visit of the Teeshoo Lama to Peking. their fellow foreign travellers on board the ship: the British “Milord and Milady Ch’ien Lung’s Inscription. Brandyfull”, the Italian musician “Macaroni” etc. A number of the illustrations are signed ‘Gillot’. OCLC lists six copies dated between 1885 and 1890 under First edition. Small 8vo. Rebound in modern half-calf, original wrappers the publisher of Jules Levy. [see illustration on preceding page] bound in. Overall a very good copy. [viii], 88pp. Peking, Tientsin Press, 1904. £750 Translation of a Chinese account of the 6th Panchen Lama’s visit to Beijing in 34 [LINDSAY (Hugh Hamilton)]. [GUTZLAFF (Karl)]. 1780 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the Qianlong Emperor. Unfortunately Report of Proceedings on a Voyage to the Northern the Panchen Lama contracted smallpox and died in the capital on November Ports of China, in the ship Lord Amherst. Extracted 2nd, 1780. The Emperor erected a stone stele in his honour on the grounds of from Papers, printed by order of the House of the Xihuangsi Temple. Commons, relating to the trade with China.

First edition. 8vo. Contemporary half-calf. [iv], 296pp. Added to which is a 37 [MALAYSIA. PERAK.] 28pp. extract from the Parliamentary Papers. London, B. Fellowes, 1833. £1500 Enquiry as to the Complicity of the Chiefs in the Perak Outrages. Precis of Evidence. These official parliamentary papers relate to an unauthorised expedition on behalf of the East India Company which created an international incident: On Folding map. Title stained and worn at edges. Folio. Modern quarter morocco. 26th February, 1832 the sloop of war Clive (renamed Lord Amherst) set sail on 34, xli, 4pp. Singapore by T. Keaughran, Govt. printing Office. 1876. £1500 a voyage along the Chinese coast with the aim of exploring the possibilities of Sultan Abdullah Mohamed, with British help, claimed his rightful position in trade in clear violation of Chinese law. The expedition was led by Hugh Hamilton Perak following the death of his father, the succession having been contested Lindsay (1802-1881) with Karl Gutzlaff (1803-1851) acting as interpreter. In the by Sultan Ismail. Mr. J. Birch was appointed the British Resident and the Sultan course of the journey they visited Amoy, Ningpo, Taiwan, Shanghai as well as agreed to accept his counsel. Various chiefs had benefitted from the anarchy Korea and Okinawa. 15pp. relate to the visit to Korea where they landed on the that had existed during and immediately prior to Ismail’s short rule, and with 17th July, 1832, staying for approx. three weeks. Gutzlaff, a German missionary, law and order gradually being restored and taxes levied, they lost influence and was famously described by Arthur Waley as “a cross between parson and pirate, money. Birch was brutally murdered under the orders of Maharaja Lela in a plot charlatan and genius, philanthropist and crook”. Cordier 2110. involving the deposed Ismail; Sultan Abdullah was also implicated and was sent into exile in the Seychelles.

35 LOGAN JACK (Robert). This is a very rare report taking all the evidence submitted and giving character assessments of those giving depositions. The Back Blocks of China. A Narrative of Experiences We can find no copy (using NST, OCLC etc.) other than one listed in Singapore among the Chinese, Sifans, Lolos, Tibetans, Shans National Library. and Kachins, between Shanghai and the Irrawadi.

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 39 B. L. Ball’s Copy

38 MEDHURST (Walter Henry). A glance at the Interior of China obtained during a journey through the Silk and Green Tea districts. The Chinese Miscellany No. 1. First edition. 7 plates (mostly folding), 2 folding maps and several illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original yellow boards, some restoration to cover and bookblock, minor fraying to edges. Benjamin Lincoln Ball’s copy with copious diary entries in pencil on verso of plates. [ii], 192pp. Shanghai, Mission Press, 1849. £7500 A rare account by the famous sinologist of his travels in Zhejiang province. Medhurst provides a vivid description of Chinese customs with special reference to their dress, food, modes of travelling etc. The main narrative is written in the form of a diary detailing the author’s adventures. Medhurst made a considerable effort to adopt local customs to the point of shaving his hair and having a Chinese-style cue fitted. The illustrations and maps are reproductions from Chinese originals. Prefixed to the narrative is a note by the editor, apologising for the poor paper- quality “owing to non-arrival of supplies from Canton”. The present copy belonged to Benjamin Lincoln Ball (1820-1860) an American doctor who travelled to Shanghai in 1849 where he in fact met Medhurst. He published an account of his travels under the title Rambles in Eastern Asia, including China and Manilla, during several years residence (Boston, 1855) and curiously enough he goes into some detail about this very book, without mentioning the title (p.263-264): “To reach the first temple from the space in front, an ascent of twenty stone steps is necessary; advancing thirty feet, there is an ascent of four steps more, when the entrance is attained. In the middle of the room a large god, some twenty or thirty feet in height, is the first object that meets the eye. While sitting here I made a few notes on the blank leaves of a yellow-covered book which I had brought to read. Yellow is the imperial color, and as soon as the monks observed it they collected around me with the greatest curiosity, evidently thinking that it emanated from the emperor. One commenced pulling up the leaves, little by little, stooping, with his head lower than the book, to see what was inside; another caught sight of a map, and was trying to feel it with his fingers, looking at it as if it were some large hieroglyphic; one was making remarks on the curious English letters; another saw two or three Chinese characters interspersed among the printings, and began trying to pronounce them aloud, and others, hearing him, gathered around, and, not agreeing in the view he took of them, joined in with their voices, pronouncing for themselves, till finally numbers of them were pronouncing on their own account, and others were arguing and discussing. It my handkerchief, pulling it partly from my pocket; one, whose curiosity urged was a confusion of Hoe-hee-ehing-larr, fow-lee-yung-tze, chow-ts-de-shing-kwo, him a little further, feeling something outside the coat-pocket, thrust his hand or some other indescribable sounds, as if one was in the midst of a flock of geese. inside, exploring the recesses, pulling out articles, and examining them, with many While this was going on, one of the monks was examining my coat, and another expressions of wonder at his discovery. One handled my whiskers, running his

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 41 fingers through them with evident pleasure; and another gently pulled off and to power and various qualifications that he sought to overcome in his campaign. examined my cap, turning it over and over, with a face full of astonishment. One He reprints notices from Thomas Cochrane condemning piracy in the region and stooped down and felt of my shoes, as if he thought them made of polished iron, cites articles from the Illustrated London News, Journal of the Indian Archipelago and then pulled up the pantaloons to look at my stockings; and another took hold and the Singapore Free Press. Napier minutely examines the accounts of the of a button, looking at it as we would examine a diamond. In many other things punitive expedition and questions Brooke’s actions at every point. The maps they were equally curious, and it seemed as if they would pick me to pieces; yet I is titled: “Sketch chart of part of the north west coast of Borneo exhibiting the did not interfere much with them, in order the better to observe their operations. relative positions of the British settlement of Labuan the territory of Sarawak They asked me many questions, which I could only answer by shaking my head; and the precise locality of the surprise and massacre of the Sarebas and Sakarran and they continued until my head was dizzy.” Lust 380; Cordier 2117-18. Dyaks, on the Night of July 31st 1849.” The plate illustrates the massacre. A number of post-it slips with Sir Donald Hawley’s manuscript notes are also provided. COPAC locates 5 holdings.

40 OGAWA (Kazuma). Souvenir of the Allies in North China - Hokushin Jihen Shashin-cho. First edition. Title, two leaves of text, 3 colour lithograph plates, 3 lithograph maps, and 126 collotype plates, colophon. Printed captions in Japanese and English. Errata slip pasted in. Oblong folio measuring 29 x 39cm recently bound in plain black cloth. Some finger-staining and occasional wear & tear, some crude repairs, overall still a good copy. Tokyo, Ogawa Kazuma, 1902. £5500

39 [NAPIER, William]. Lieutenant-Governor of Labuan. Borneo. Remarks on a Recent “Naval Execution”. First edition. Folding, partly coloured map & lithograph plate. 8vo. Modern binding of quarter calf with cloth boards and leather spine label, gilt on black, map is very slightly torn at the margin, without loss, very good indeed. 47pp. London, Effingham Wilson, 1850. £1500 Napier’s strident attack on James Brooke, the first Raja of Sarawak. Brooke’s rise to power was partly due to the favour he gained through an ongoing campaign against the Dayaks who had formed alliances with the sultan of Brunei’s sherifs and were assisting in pirate raids as far north as Sumatra. The most notorious of these occurred on the night of 31 July 1849, when Brooke engaged Captain Arthur Farquhar’s ships to attack the Dayaks of the Saribas. The battle of Beting Marau at the mouth of the Saribas resulted in the killing of over 1000 Dayaks. Napier wrote out of concern that Brooke’s actions weren’t attracting sufficient notice in the English press. As such he outlines Brooke’s ascent

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 43 This album is an exceedingly rare publication with excellent photographs of scenes in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion. Between 1899 and 1900 an armed anti-foreign insurrection supported by the Empress Dowager swept through Northern China cul- minating in the famous siege of the Legation in June 1900. On Aug. 14, 1900, following some fierce fighting, an international force finally captured Peking. The present publication published one year after Yamamoto’s ‘Views of the North China Affair’ is a much-expanded version of that publication. It provides detailed information on the American, English, French, German, Austrian, Italian, and Russian forces, showing their uniforms, weaponry, modes of transport, and equipment. Separate chapters deal with the Medical departments (the Germans took a Roentgen Ray apparatus). Furthermore, it provides a vivid record of the aftermath of the fighting, with group portraits of officers and soldiers, aerial photographs of Peking taken from the French balloon, scenes inside the Imperial Palace, as well as the destruction surrounding the legation quarter and the city gates. OCLC lists only 1 copy (at the National Art Library, UK). of the 12 vol. Ming anthology, Jin gu qi guan (“Wonderful stories of modern and ancient times”). The plate was lithographed in Canton after a Chinese woodblock illustration. Our copy has a printed slip, ‘London: Ball, Arnold & Co., 1840’ 41 [THOM (Robert), translator]. pasted on the front wrapper, which shows that this work was distributed com- Wang Keaou Lwan Pih Neen Chang Han, or, The Lasting mercially in England. Lust 1103. Resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang. A Chinese Tale: Founded on Fact. Translated from the Original by Sloth. First edition. One lithograph plate. Small 4to. Bound in modern half calf, original front wrapper (worn and repaired) preserved and bound in. Some wear throughout, margin of title stained and frayed, lower corner repaired, library stamp. Title with presentation inscription, from the author’s brother: “To the Manchester New College, from D. Thom, 1842”. [viii], 66pp. Canton, Canton Press Office, 1839. £3800 Robert Thom, 1807-1846, worked for some years with Jardine Matheson at Canton, where he developed a good knowledge of Chinese, and he dedicates this translation to William Jardine, James Matheson, and Henry Wright “as a trifling mark of gratitude and respect”. In 1843 he was appointed British consul at Ningbo. He was an official linguist during the Opium war and took over from Robert Morrison as interpreter during the 1843 treaty negotiations. This is his first published translation, which was taken and adapted from the 11th volume

INDIA, CENTRAL ASIA, FAR EAST 45 AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC

42 ARAGO (Jacques). Voyage Autour du Monde sans la Lettre a par Jacques Arago. First edition. 12mo. Original printed wrappers, very good. 31pp. Paris, 1853. £2500 A wonderful curiosity - more than a century before Perec and the OuliPo - Arago published this famous lipogram: as per its title, this brief account of the voyage is written entirely without the use of the letter “a”. Arago himself confessed shortly before his death that there is, in fact, a single appearance of the letter a on page 27 in the word “serait”. The linguistic restriction results in several quirks, including the attribution of the discovery of the Society Islands to Cook rather than Wallis. Arago was the official artist on Freycinet’s circumnavigation on the Uranie. Departing in 1817, Freycinet’s crew stopped at the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Shark Bay, New Guinea, Guam, Hawaii, Sydney, then passed Campbell Island en route to Cape Horn and the Falkland Islands, where the Uranie was shipwrecked. Arago collaborated on the official publication while composing his own account. He later became a prolific author and dramatist, composing works such as this The Death of Cook and his humorous guide to the different eating habits around the world, Comme on Dine Partout. 43 ARNOULD (M., pseud. of Jean Francois Mussot). Toussaint, Bibliography of Mauritius, D52. La Mort du capitaine Cook, a son troisieme voyage au nouveau monde. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, a little rubbed, spine gilt, headcap chipped, last leaf browned but still entirely legible. [ii], 3-36pp. Paris, Chez Lagrange, 1788. £12,500

AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 47 The rare first edition of an important contribution to the legend of Cook’s death. Item 44, Barrington After the news of Cook’s death in Hawaii in February 1779 reached Europe, his achievements - and death - were celebrated in a series of creative tributes. These ranged from paintings and engraving to eulogies and dramatic works. The first, by Anna Seward and Alexander Schomberg, appeared in 1780 and were quickly followed by the notable examples of Brooke and Gianetti. Arnould’s pantomime - a staged spectacular with accompanying music but no dialogue - opened in Paris in October 1788. The plot is a romanticised interpretation of the events leading up to Cook’s death in Hawaii. Cook is portrayed in a merciful light, engaged by the Hawaiian King to assist against his enemies. Having completed this task, Cook intercedes to prevent the King issuing death sentences. Despite this generous act, he is later betrayed and murdered by the same men. This text is particularly important as it was used as the basis for the 1789 London stage production The Death of Captain Cook a grand serious pantomime and several other English dramatisations of Cook’s death in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It therefore provides much of the core, if ahistorical, material from which a large part of the British public understood the explorer. This copy is bound as the last work in a Sammelband of plays, allowing us to see Arnould’s play in the context of the theatre of the day. Those bound here include Romeo et Juliette, Ducis, 1772; Alexandre, Tragedie nouvelle en cinq actes, M de Fen..., 1754; La gageure imprevue, Sedaine, 1788, nouvelle edition; Tom Jones a Londres, Desforges, 1782; Le vaporeaux, M. M... D..., 1782; L’esprit de contradiction, Dufresny, 1760, nouvelle edition; L’anglois a Bordeaux, Favart, 1763; Le francais a Londres, Boissy, 1782, nouvelle edition. Beddie, 2450; Holmes, 68; Kroepelien, 39, Forbes, 141.

44 BARRINGTON (George). The Memoirs of George Barrington, containing every remarkable circumstance, from his birth to the present time, including the following trials... Engraved frontispiece. 12mo. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, mild staining 45 HARRIS (John). to upper board, otherwise very good. 40pp. London, J. Bird & Simmonds, Navigatium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or A Complete [1790]. £1500 Collection of Voyages and Travels. Consisting of above Barrington occupies a unique position in the history of early Australia, being the six hundred of the most Authentic Writers... Containing most famous of all the transported convicts, with a near heroic status in England. whatever has been observed Worth of notice in Europe, He travelled with the Third Fleet in 1791 but so impressed Governor Phillip that Asia, Africa, and America… including particular accounts he was granted the first ever warrant of emancipation the following year. “This of the manufactures and commerce of each country. work, one of the two biographies of Barrington immediately after his sentence … contains a significant proportion of material extracted from newspaper reports Second (and best) edition. 2 vols. 2 frontispieces and 60 further engraved of Barrington’s court appearances, with the most likely source being the official charts, maps and plates. Large folio. Period style sheep, original calf spines Old Bailey Sessions paper, The Whole Proceedings. Some letters by Barrington laid down, gilt. [ix], xviii, 984; [x], 1056, [22](index & list of plates)pp. are also included” (Garvey). Ferguson, 68; Garvey, B1b. London, T. Woodward, 1744. £9000

AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 49 According to Dibdin the reader had only to inspect the “curious contents”of the first volume to realise that it is a work of great importance. This is the second and best edition of Harris, which includes Emanuel Bowen’s important maps of Georgia and Australia. Both are present in fine condition. “A New Map of Georgia, with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana”extends 46 ROSENBERG (C.B.H. von). from Charles Town to the Mississippi River and as far as Cape Canaveral. Its Reistochten naar Nieuw-Guinea in de jaren 1869 en 1870. significance is enhanced by the inclusion of colonial forts (both French and English), settlements, and native villages. The chapter it accompanies, “The History First edition. 21 plates including 13 lithographic illustrations, 4 hand of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Colony of Georgia” is also new coloured bird illustrations, and a large folding map. 4to. Original printed to this edition. boards. xxiv,153pp. Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1875. £1500 Bowen’s other contribution, “A Complete Map of the Southern Continent An early, significant work on New Guinea, with a particular focus on Geelvink Survey’d by Capt. Abel Tasman & depicted by order of the East India Company Bay of West Irian. A German in the employ of the Dutch, Rosenberg spent some in Holland in the Stadt House at Amsterdam” is the first English map of Australia. time in Andai south of Dorei protected by the Sultan of Tidore. He spent nearly “This is the revised and enlarged version of the 1705 edition … [This] edition, 30 years travelling in the region and became an assistant to Franz Junghuhn especially prized for its maps, has been called the most complete by several au- at Padang in 1870. He relates much of the information gathered in this time, thorities. Particularly valuable is the inclusion of Tasman’s original map and two including notes on the people and their customs. short articles printed on the map. To the original extensive collection are added accounts completed since the first publication: Christopher Middleton to Hudson’s Bay, 1741-42; Bering to the Northeast, 1725-6; Woodes Rogers’s circumnaviga- 47 SHILLIBEER (Lieut. J.). tion, 1708-11; Clipperton and Shevlocke’s circumnavigation, 1719-22; Roggeveen A Narrative of the Briton’s Voyage, to Pitcairn’s to the Pacific, 1721-33; and the various travels of Lord Anson, 1740-44” (Hill). Island; including an interesting sketch of the state Cox I, p10; Hill, 775; Lada-Mocarski 3; Sabin, 30483. of the Brazils and of Spanish South America.

AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 51 First edition. 2 vols. A large folding engraved map, a chart and 5 lithograph views, a further 4 hand-coloured lithographs of birds, and 4 lithographic illustrations of geological specimens. 8vo. Early 20th century half plumb morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt, mildly rubbed, lower board of Vol. 1 bumped at edge. Ex-libris of County Borough of Hanley Public Library, with expected labels and stamps, incl. blindstamp to title-page. Contents First edition. 16 engraved plates, one in bisque, several folding. 8vo. Recent very clean and bright, overall very good. [ii], lxxx, 219; [ii], vi, 271, 16[ads.] quarter calf over blue marbled boards (antique style), red morocco label to pp. London, Smith Elder & Co., gilt spine, uncut, small repair to title page. viii, 179pp. Taunton, printed for 1833. £10,000 the author, 1817. £2200 Sturt arrived in Australia in 1827, lead- The rare first edition. Although the title page asks for 18 illustrations, only 16 ing a regiment in charge of one of the etchings are listed in the direction to binders and Shillibeer adds a note that 16 is convict convoys. During the following complete. The illustrations are etchings made by the author and include a folding years he participated in many of the panorama of Rio. Upon reaching Rio, Shillibeer was “ordered into the Pacific to expeditions arranged by, amongst oth- search for the American frigate Essex, then threatening British whalers” (Hill). ers, Oxley and Hume, which greatly The Marquesas, Juan Fernandez and the Galapagos were also visited during the expanded contemporary knowledge of cruise. At Pitcairn Island, Shillibeer met John Adams, the last surviving Bounty Australia. Some ten years after return- mutineer and describes the descendants of the crew, giving a charming portrait ing to the continent in 1834 Sturt set of Friday Christian. Borba, p796; Hill, 1563. out from Adelaide with fifteen men heading towards the Barrier Range. On reaching the Great Stony Desert Presentation Copy to his Father his expedition was forced to turn back for Adelaide due to the extreme heat 48 STURT (Capt. Charles). and illness. In the months between Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, their departure in August 1844 and During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: their return in January 1846 the party With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General covered approximately 3000 miles. Resources of the Colony of New South Wales. Ferguson, 1704; Wantrup, 118a.

AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 53 A Seminal Compendium of Dutch Voyages

49 VALENTYN (François). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien, vervattende een Naaukeurige en Uitvoerige Verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die Gewesten, benevens eene wydluftige Beschryvinge de Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java, en alle e Eylanden onder dezelve landbestieringen behoorende; het Nederlands Comptoir op Suratte, en de Levens der Groote Mogols... Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap der Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. First edition. 5 vols in 8. Engraved half title, engraved dedication & folding portrait, & 20 further portraits; large folding general chart of the East Indies, with 6 engraved charts in the text; 184 engraved plates (28 of these double-page & 23 folding), with 81 engraved illustrations in the text; 61 engraved maps (24 double-page & 20 folding). Small folio. Contemporary calf, rebacked, spines richly gilt, all edges gilt; a few spines somewhat fragile and chipped in places, otherwise very good. Dordrecht & Amsterdam, 1724 - 1726. £42,000

A tall copy, with wide margins, of this rare complete set of one of the most important compendiums of Dutch voyages. Valentyn (1666-1727) was a minister in the service of the V.O.C. (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) from 1684 to 1695 and again from 1705 to 1714, where he spent most of the time in Amboina. His work Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien covers the East Indies, China, Japan, Australia and the Cape of Good Hope and is a valuable source of information on the early history of the East Indies - in particular Amboina. He also made four voyages to the Cape of Good Hope which are described in volume five (149 pages), with a folding map, folding view of the early settlement, a folding plan of the town, a chart and six other engravings of natives and animals. In addition to Dutch commercial activities in the East, the work includes trade information, histories and natural histories of the lands described. The many illustrations throughout the work are evidence of the scope of Valentyn’s enquiring mind, with the natural history plates being particularly beautiful. Indeed, Valentyn’s work contains notable examples of the finest Dutch artists and engravers of the eighteenth century: F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, J. Goeree, G. Schoute and J. Lamsvelt, after designs by M. Balen. Valentyn ranks with Hakluyt, Purchas and Ramusio as one of the great compilers of voyages. cf. Mendelssohn II, p535-6; Cordier (Japonica), 426-428; Cordier (Indosinica), 927-930; Landwehr (VOC), 467.

AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC 55 Anson successfully intercepted and captured. This one act, heavy in symbolism, redeemed the voyage and Anson returned to England as the hero of the hour. Just four copies have appeared at auction in the past thirty years. Hill, 39; Sabin 1630.

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50 [ANSON (George).] An Authentic Account of Commodore Anson’s Expedition: Containing All that was Remarkable, Curious and Entertaining, during that long and dangerous Voyage... taken from a private Journal. First edition. 8vo. Period style half calf, title page a little dusty, untrimmed. 60pp. London, M. Cooper, 1744. £8500 “An extremely rare and unauthorized account, published four years before Richard Walter’s official narrative of the voyage...” (Hill). Anson’s voyage commenced at a time of crisis in Anglo-Spanish relations. The prospect of a short war seemed unlikely and so Walpole and first lord of the Admiralty Sir Charles Wager adopted a strategy of harassing the Spanish colonies. A large fleet was sent to the Caribbean while Anson’s smaller one was sent to the Pacific. He was to be ready to attack Panama should the larger force gain sufficient foothold on the other side. If the opportunity arose, he was also charged with capturing the annual galleon, linking 51 [ARGENTINA] BUCARELI Y URSUA (Francisco de Paula de). Mexico and the Philippines. [L.s. regarding the expulsion of the Jesuits.] After long delays, a squadron of eight ships departed in 1740. They managed to elude the Spanish ships, which had learned of their objectives, on the coast Manuscript in ink in a secretarial hand. 8vo. 3pp. Buenos Aires, 26 December, of Patagonia and rounded Cape Horn. Assembling at Mas-a-Tierra in the Juan 1768. £750 Fernández Islands in mid-June, they eventually learned that only four ships Duplicate copy. A letter in Spanish from Governor Bucareli to Manuel de Roda remained - the Wager being wrecked and two others forced back in to the Atlantic. (a government minister in the reign of Charles III of Spain, and one of the leading This was an unmitigated disaster: the squadron emerged with insufficient men rights in the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain and the Colonies). The Governor to man even the Centurion properly and was very quickly reduced to just two of Buenos Aires relates his services to the crown especially in the matter of ships. In a committed act of leadership, Anson pursued his stated objectives as the expulsion (“la grande operacion” and “el negocio mas importante, util y best he could and took small prizes. The Centurion then limped across the Pacific conveniente”). The expulsion of the Jesuits was decreed by King Carlos III in to Macau, where the ship was repaired and he was able to recruit more men. 1767 and was greatly beneficial to Portuguese interests in South America. With This coincided with the arrival of the westbound galleon from Mexico, which the aid of 1500 troops, Bucareli completed the task within just three months.

SOUTH AMERICA 57 In this letter he states that he has not been fairly treated or rewarded for what Monroe to Galveston there is not a band one hundred strong in arms against the would prove the defining event of his career. Finally, in an autograph addition he Union. Utterly crushed on land, the Confederation is represented on the ocean begs to be excused for his frankness in expressing his feelings. by one solitary vessel, the Shenandoah, which was last heard of cruising about in the seas around Australia”. There is also plenty of local content, which appears at the end of each issue 52 [BRITISH GUIANA] in the Monthly Notes and Letters sections. We learn of a fire in Georgetown “the British Guiana Monthly Messenger, largest and most disastrous fire that ever occurred in this colony” which caused a magazine for the people, under the auspices an estimated million sterling’s property damage and resulted in several much of the British Guiana Missionary Union. mourned deaths. Noted is the bravery of a “native of the colony, Charles Scott,” whose efforts to rescue “valuables from the Bank” resulted in injuries from which No. 1-20. 28, 16, 45-566pp [inc. 5pp index]. Demerara, Georgetown, Printed he did not recover. The Messenger notes that the chief problem in fighting the at the “Creole” Office, America Street, May 1864 - December 1865. [With] fire was the lack of water. In other issues, we learn of the opening of the Orange Inauguration of the Missionary Jubilee Memorial in Bethel Chapel, Demer- New Chapel in Berbice, the murder of the American missionary, Rev. L. Janvier; ara, on 18th May, 1859. 11, [blank] pp. Demerara, Printed at the Creole a second fire is reported, this time in Robb’s Town, an extension to the Demerara Office, Georgetown, 1859. [And] M’ARTHUR (Revd. J.) Noah’s Curse. A railway, the arrival of Chinese immigrants, outbreaks of yellow fever and even Lecture delivered in Tabernacle Chapel, Beterverwagting, August, 1864... a report on the cricket match between a Barbados XI and Georgetown Cricket 9, [blank]pp. Demerara, Printed by L. M’Dermott, Georgetown, 1864. Club. Accompanying these, are a series of articles on education and religion, [And] KETLEY (Joseph). Noah’s Curse Vindicated; or, Hamite Impiety “things worth knowing”, advice both domestic and moral (from the first issue Rebuked... 10pp. Demerara, Printed at the “Royal Gazette” Office, 1864. alone, “Dare to do right”, “Be courteous” and “The power of love”). [Plus] M’ARTHUR (Revd. J.) A Sermon on Justification by the Rev. J.W. Appended to the 20 issues of the Monthly Messenger are four pamphlets M’Arthur, Upper Rio Berbice. March, 1863. 12pp. Demerara, Georgetown, continuing the ancient argument of Noah’s curse. The original objective of the Printed at the “Creole” Office, America Street, 1863. 8vo. Contemporary story was to justify the subjection of the Canaanites to the Israelites, but in later half calf, spine gilt, extremities rubbed, a little shelf-worn, joints cracked centuries the narrative was appropriated by some in the service of slavery. “The but holding nicely, sporadic foxing, some pages a little toned, but overall curse Noah pronounced upon his son (Canaan)” M’Arthur, a minister of African very good, with contemporary annotations in ink and pencil. £4500 descent, begins, “appears to be the very foundation upon which the system of slavery seems to rest”. Ketley reacts to M’Arthur’s tractate with “sorrowful regret... Exceedingly rare. The general aim of the Monthly Messenger was “to promote the Not to mention that the whole tract is, at best, a conglomeration of matters moral and intellectual improvement of the people of British Guiana, not losing rudely thrown together, without thought or care, connexion or congruity; not sight either of their material interests... We intend to mingle the gay with the grave to notice how entirely foreign to any thing like a digest of the ostensible theme - in their due proportions... We indulge the hope that our Magazine may prove a “Noah’s Curse;” nor to decide, from the contents of the lecture, the real from the stimulus to the minds of some of the natives of this colony who may be induced ostensible objects of the lecturer, - whether to discuss the question of colour - to to express their thoughts through its pages on matters interesting to themselves determine that of race - to define between slavery and servitude - or to elucidate and affecting the welfare of the land of their birth...” the scripture record of the curse in question...” The question of slavery dominates the volume; not only are there regular A number of articles and titles in the index to the Monthly Messenger are reports on the progress of the American Civil War, but jubilation at the enactment assigned to ‘RR’ in ms. making it possible that this is the copy of the missionary of the emancipation proclamation: “Glorious news has come from America - Robert Ricard who addressed the inaugural meeting of the British Guiana news that goes far to reconcile us even to the war. Both Houses of Congress have Missionary Union, held in Georgetown on 10th March, 1863. Ricard was stationed passed a resolution recommending to the legislatures of the several states an at a mission in New Amsterdam between January 1860 and 1866 before ill health amendment of the constitution, by which slavery shall be for every destroyed”. forced his return to Britain. He followed in the footsteps of Reverend Joseph Ketley, Furthermore, it includes the serialisation of the first ten chapters of Frederick a prominent abolitionist and missionary during the 1830s and 40s, and Reverend Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom. The issue for June 1865 reports both John Smith who died in prison after the slave uprising of 1823, arrested by white the assassination of President Lincoln (including the full text of the inaugural landowners who opposed any education or advancement of the slave population. address to his second term in office) and the surrender of General Lee, which effectively ended the war. With the subsequent surrender of General Kirby Smith, All titles, except for Noah’s Curse (Wooster College, Ohio, microform only) en- issue 16 declares that “the American civil war is completely ended; and from Fort tirely unrecorded in BL, OCLC and Copac, which records only two titles printed at the “Creole” office, dated 1864 and 1870.

SOUTH AMERICA 59 Portuguese Revolution — Cartagena De Indias

“Whaling is the most exciting, perilous 54 CARVALHO (Jorge de). and uncertain of human pursuits.” Relacao verdadeira dos sucessos do Conde de Castelmelhor, preso na cidade de Cartagena de 53 BRONSON (George Whitefield). Indias, & hoje liure ... na cidade de Lisboa. Glimpses of the Whaleman’s “Cabin.” First Edition. Small 4to. Bound by Chambolle-Duru in full red levant First edition. Three full page woodcuts illustrations & 2 vignettes. 12mo. morocco, gilt panel back, inside dentelles, a.e.g. [24]pp. Lisbon, Domingos A clean, bright copy in original limp dark brown cloth, with gilt title and Lopes Rosa, 1642. SOLD decoration in blind. Professional repairs to spine and wrapper. Housed in João Rodrigues de Vasconcelos (1593-1658) was the 2nd Count of Castel Melhor. a black solander box with labels. 96pp. Boston, Damrell & Moore, 1855. In 1640 he was part of a fleet destined for Brazil when a storm left him stranded £4500 in Cartagena de Indias, a port city on the northern coast of present-day Columbia. This whaling narrative recounts the voyage of the Aerial under the command On his arrival the Portuguese Revolution began and the Spanish authorities at of Capt. Charles G. Pettey. Departing Mount Hope Bay in search of fin-back, Cartagena subsequently arrested him, along with the other Portuguese nobles. sperm and right whales, it toured the North Atlantic whaling grounds of the A number of escape attempts were made, ranging from the bureaucratic to Azores and Cape Verde Islands and then headed south to Tristan da Cunha and the buccaneering. The new King John IV sent an emissary to argue for their St Helena (which included a visit to Napoleon’s tomb) before returning along the return and, once this was denied by the Spanish, the Count set about the task in east coast of South America. Beginning with a general introduction to whaling another way: namely, to seize four galleons full of silver and sail back of his own and comments on the existing literature, Bronson rightly remarks: “it is one thing accord (an attempt that was also foiled). The present text was published in the to look into the blubber room, another to work there...” Clearly influenced by year of the Count’s return to Lisbon, after finally regaining his freedom on 16 Hermann Melville, whom he references, he writes in a high style and produces June, 1642. Once back in his home country he appears to have been something both an account of the voyage and a meditation on whaling and life at sea. He of a favourite of John IV, who appointed him to the ‘Council of War’ and made rails against the press-ganging of men to crew whaling voyages, likening it to him Governor of Entre Douro and Minho de Armas. He was also Governor of slavery, and provides brief dissertations on “cutting-in” and “trying out”. Not in the state of Brazil from 1650 to 1654. Jenkins. OCLC locates just four copies. USTC records 16 holdings and OCLC 11 (not including multiple copies in single institutions). Only one copy in the UK at the British Library.

SOUTH AMERICA 61 A Surreptitious Account of the Byron Voyage (ODNB). A very good copy of this rare work, with the albumen frontispiece of Bernardo 55 [CLERKE (Charles).] O’Higgins. This is a Spanish translation of the A Journal of a Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty’s Ship first volume of his Narrative of services in the The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honorable Commodore liberation of Peru, Chile and Brazil... Published Byron... By a Midshipman on Board the said Ship. in the same year as the original, it was also printed in London. This was the first of several 12mo. Contemporary sheep, joints cracked but holding, traces of gilt to memoirs Cochrane penned in his later years, spine. Intermittent, but not interfering, ms. annotations to text (crosses, which helped cement his place in the national dashes etc). iv, 5-94pp. London, A. Manson, [c. 1780]. £3000 consciousness. An unsophisticated copy of this rare surreptitious account of Byron’s 1764-66 circumnavigation, which was the fastest on record at the time. This work is 57 [HOWELL (Rev. William)]. usually attributed to Midshipman Charles Clerke, who later served on all three of Cook’s voyages. He spent the final six months of the third voyage in command Some interesting particulars of the Second Voyage made and contributed to the official account. by the Missionary Ship, the Duff; which was captured It records the aspects of the Dolphin’s voyage for which it is famous: namely by the Buonaparte Privateer, in the Year 1800. an encounter with the Patagonian Giants and its claim of the Falkland Islands First (and only) edition. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, rebacked with new for Britain. As with other unofficial accounts, it takes part of its vitality from endpapers, some light foxing throughout, lower boards scuffed, discreet what are surely embellishments, none being more salient than those relating ownership stamp on title-page. 288pp. Knaresbrough, Hargrove & Sons, to the Patagonians. While Byron’s official account (first published in Part I of 1809. £1750 Hawkesworth’s Voyages) describes a relatively short meeting, Clerke’s suggests a longer stay as he comments on numerous facets of Patagonian society, such as A very good copy of this rare account of the second voyage of the Duff. education, medicine, taxation and urbanity. Another point of difference is the The Duff’s first voyage, some two years earlier in 1796, took her to Tahiti, estimation of the height of the natives, which Byron deems to be between 6.6 where 17 missionaries were landed, and Tonga, where 12 remained, and the and 7 feet, while Clerke claims their stature to extend to ‘about ten feet’. In this Marquesas. Many of these men later sought refuge in Sydney following their respect, the Midshipman’s report is fleshed out according to the body of the myth encounters with hostile islanders. The second voyage of the Duff began in 1798, and would have appealed greatly to the popular imagination back in Europe. with the aim of settling a further 26 missionaries in the Pacific. The ship was While this account appeared in a number of editions, our copy alters from the however captured by a French privateer at Rio, who mistook it for the vessel 1767 edition (believed to be the first) in that it is shorter and is not illustrated. transporting Governor King to Australia. Following its release, the Duff was The pagination links it with a 1784 edition, printed for A. Millar & J. Hodges. subsequently held by the Portuguese fleet, and forced to return to Lisbon, at which All Midshipman editions are rare and this is certainly the case for the book in time the voyage was abandoned and the participants returned to England. Not question, of which there are only 9 in OCLC. in Sabin. Only four copies in COPAC.

56 [COCHRANE (Thomas, Earl of Dundonald).] 58 [VENEZUALA] ORIHUELA (Pablo). Servicios Navales que, en Libertar al Chile y Peru de la [Autograph Letter Signed (in Spanish) to the Duchess Dominacion Espanola, Rindio el Conde de Dundonald. de Aveiro, giving her spiritual advice, and news of the Mission in Caracas, of which he was Prefect.] First edition. Original albumen photograph frontispiece. 8vo. Bright original blindstamped blue cloth, spine gilt. xiv, 312pp. London, James Ridgeway, Manuscript in ink. 4pp with an integral blank. Folio. Caracas, 20th August, 1859. £850 1688. £3500 “... like Nelson, his greatness rose above petty human failings. With his long life, Translation: - “...Madam, let us live for God alone, and dedicate all our work full range of adventures, and variety of careers Cochrane remains one of the great, to Him, our words, and all our aspirations. Do not let our hearts sigh for the if unfulfilled, biographical subjects. He was, and remains, the romantic naval hero.” things of this life, if we do not wish God to remove His Divine comfort from our

SOUTH AMERICA 63 souls, for this is very pure and is not given to those who have a taste for mundane things, for the Lord did not give the manna to the Israelites in the desert whilst they had any flour left from the land of Egypt. “You must have a great love of God to ignore the good things which are earthly, but with the help of God, all is possible. It is always necessary to live the Life Within, and there to commune with God - for if this is lacking, we then for certain come to grief over external things... Believe me that through the divine hand of God, every enterprise for the furtherance of His service will be aided ... Keep your heart and soul pure and clean, free from the dust of the earth; do not be content merely with good intentions - see that they are accompanied by pious deeds... “Give incessant thanks to the good God for having chosen you to help Him in a work of so much importance and at such a wretched time, in which He has CENTRAL AMERICA so few friends against so many adverse influences. True, that for big things it is preferable to choose the most vile and dejected in the eyes of the world - to & confound pride and worldly arrogance, but then, His Majesty also knows how to enjoy himself amid the luxuries of his palace as in the humblest cottages, because the exterior is immaterial where there are the inward adornments of humility THE WEST INDIES and meekness... “The time has come Madam, when the Lord seeks in the palaces of the Princes for one whose ardent love of Him will prompt him to defend His cause...and one of them is you, so that with your powerful patronage, great understanding, 59 COCKBURN (John). virtue and discretion, you should help these holy missions in Caracas, destitute A Journey over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the of all human comfort... Great South-Sea. Performed by John Cockburn, … “This is not due to negligence on the part of His Majesty (whom God bless) who solicits the help of priests for these parts...the fault is due to the Capuchin First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary calf skillfully rebacked, Provinciales of Valencia, of Castille, and, above all, of those from Andalusia, red morocco label to handsomely gilt spine, the Brook-Hitching copy. viii, whose duty it is to send out Religiosos, whose omission is due to the fact that 349pp. London: C. Rivington, 1735. SOLD the common enemy has sown the seeds of slander, it being stated that no good After Gage this is one of the best early English accounts of Spanish Central comes of this mission. America. It starts with the unfortunate author’s capture by the pirate Henrique the “The bearer of this is Padre Gabriel de San Lucar, who, for sixteen years, has Englishman, a.k.a. Henry Johnson, after which he and his loyal crew are marooned laboured in the work of conversion.” near Porto-Cevalo (present day Porto Barrios). They then cross Guatemala to the Pacific, navigate the Gulf of Fonseca, and journey either by canoe or on foot to Panama eventually reaching the English Factory there. It is an extraordinary account. Hill, 324; Sabin, 14095.

With the Routier for the East & West Indies

60 DASSIE (F., Sieur). L’Architecture Navale, contenant la Manière de constuire les Navires, Galères & Chaloupes, & la Définition de plusieurs autres especes de Vaisseaux. Avec Les Tables des Longitude, Latitudes & Marées, Cours & distances

SOUTH AMERICA 65 A very good copy of one of the earliest works on naval architecture. Dassie was a master draughtsman in the naval guards of Toulon and this work has added importance as a document on Louis XIV’s navy. Furthermore, it was published at a time when “French ships were looked at as models for English builders to imitate” (Fincham). Very few chapters in the first work are devoted to what we would nowadays call ‘naval architecture’. Instead, the majority deals with shipboard operations such as victualling, navigation and naval tactics. Of additional interest is the accompanying Routier, which incorporates the East and West Indies, Virginia, Florida, the Cape of Good Hope, Mombasa, Malacca and Macau. Fincham, J.; A History of Naval Architecture (London, 1851).

61 HOWITT (Samuel). Jamaica at the Colonial Exhibition... First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates & a folding map. 8vo. A fine copy in original publisher’s red pictorial cloth, elaborately gilt, owner’s name stamped in gilt to upper board, some minor soiling to lower board, a.e.g., presentation inscription to title page. xii, 100pp. London, 1886. £300 This copy belonged to the Rev. Dr. Robb, chairman of the Commission at Jamaica and chairman of the board of governors. It bears the presentation inscription from honorary commissioner, C .Washington Eves: “With compliments, C Washington Eves.” The 1886 Colonial and India fair was a major event in the life of London that year. It was primarily a showcase for the commercial prospects of the colonies, the des principaux Ports des quatre parties du Monde; une advance of which was promoting closer ties through the British Empire. Jamaica Description des Dangers, Edueils, & l’expliaction des Termes being “the largest and most valuable of the West India Islands belonging to Great de la marine... [With] Le Routier des Indes Orientales et Britain” was encouraged to make the most of the “opportunity of a century” Occidentales: Traitant des Saisons propres à y faire Voyage: and C. Washington Eve’s informative preface outlines the process through which Une description des Anchrages, Profondeurs de plusieurs Jamaica’s presence at the exhibition (“Jamaica Court”) was organised. The first part of the book is an overview of the Jamaican economy - its exports Havres & Ports d mer. Avec vingt-six differentes navigations. and imports - a list of articles sent from the island and a list of those collected First edition. 2 vols. in 1. Eight engraved plates. 4to. Contemporary speckled in England. The second part is a handbook compiled for the Governors of the calf, spine gilt, somewhat worn at extremities, head & tail caps chipped. Jamaica Institute. This handbook is a neat digest of Jamaican history, with extra [x], 5-8, 285, [3]; [ii], 209, [3], [1]errata pp. Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1677. notes on natural history, government and trade. The Rev. Dr Robb has contributed £6500 an article to it: “Jamaica as a Health Resort and as a Place to settle in...”

CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES 67 62 [JAMAICA IMPRINT] The Farewell Addresses of the inhabitants of Jamaica to the Right Honorable Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Baronet, &c. &c. Governor of the Island. First edition. 8vo. Contemporary blue straight grain morocco, gilt, both boards rubbed and lightly scored by some kind of implement. Grey end-papers bear numerous instances of ms. scribbling in blue ink. Some unobtrusive ms. pencil annotation to preface ([v]-vii). Contents are largely clean, pages 87-106 stained at top-left corner, with no loss to text. viii, 106pp. Kingston, Jordon & Osborn, 1842. £750 The work is inscribed twice on the front free endpaper: “Captain Brownrigg with the Publisher’s compliments” and then in a different hand “Lord Metcalfe Godfather”. This, a solemn publication and rare Jamaican imprint, is a compilation of farewell addresses made by 39 different parishes and other groups (such as German and Eng- lish Jews, the College of Physicians and the Jamaican Society of Arts and Science) to Sir Charles Metcalfe, who was Governor 63 JAMES (Abraham). on the island from July 1839 to July 1842. Before taking up the governorship Met- The Torrid Zone. Or, Blessings of Jamaica. calfe had spent three decades distinguish- Etching and aquatint, with publisher’s watercolour (304 x 477mm). London, ing himself in a number of diplomatic William Holland. 1800. £3000 positions in India. This experience helped him to deal with the volatile situation This aquatint by Abraham James (M.D. George, British Museum Catalogue of in Jamaica, where diminishing produc- political and personal satires, London 1870-1954, vol. VIII, no. 9948) demon- tivity, depreciating real estate value and strates the deep contempt that was felt toward the dissolute colonists of Jamaica. social tension had become endemic since Its reputation as a land pervaded by sexual permissiveness, alcoholism and sloth the British Slave Emancipation Act was is clearly demonstrated. Six colonial figures, represented as being either sickly or passed in 1833. The addresses are tes- overweight, are balanced precariously on a scythe, held by ‘Yellow Fever’, that tament to Melcalfe’s success as a gover- protrudes menacingly from the “pathogenic hell” (Alan Bewell, 2003). Above nor despite the instability of the period, them leers a dead eyed devil/angel that clutches at a near empty bottle of opium. as they unanimously bemoan his depar- A scorching sun flanked by Cancer, the symbol of disease, and Leo, the astrologi- ture and celebrate his equanimity and cal symbol of the British Empire, oversees the whole engraving. appeal to all religions, classes and races on the island. Each address is followed by a reply from Metcalfe. 64 [OFFICERS OF HMS ALARM]. Rare. COPAC locates only two holding Serapaqui. From Records of some of the “Alarm’s” libraries (the National Library of Wales Officers. A short history of an Expedition and the British Library). up the River St. Juan de Nicaragua... First and only edition. 8vo. Original light blue printed wrappers. Stapled pamphlet, typical browning and minor degeneration around the staples, otherwise very good. [1]-30 pp. Bexley Heath: Thomas Jenkins. [c. 1855]. £850

CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES 69 In 1844 the British government established a protectorate over the Miskito Kingdom, a measure aimed at gaining further influence and territory in Central America. It extended the Kingdom southward to the town of San Juan del Norte, at the mouth of the San Jaun River. This had been a Nicaraguan garrison and the Nicaraguans, unsurprisingly, felt a claim to it. Resultantly Colonel Salas moved his forces there and took British prisoners. This scarce pamphlet provides a record of the British-Miksito response to the ‘outrages’ committed by Salas and his men. It is composed of the records and recollections of men from HMS Alarm, which along with the Vixen, was tasked with re-seizing San Juan del Norte and confronting the Nicaraguans at Serapaqui in February 1848. Contained therein are accounts of the Battle of Serapaqui, the teenage Miskito King George Augustus Frederic II and the death of Consul Patrick Walker. It ends NORTH AMERICA with an ‘Ex-Midshipman’s Lament’ for the deceased Captain of the Alarm, G. G. Loch, which builds on the remarkable character attested to throughout the text: “I was no credit to the service, and most Captains would have treated me accordingly, but he wanted to be friends.” 65 [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR — DRAFT RIOTS] OCLC locates just 2 copies (Cambridge and Harvard). The Bloody Week! Riot, Murder & Arson, a Full Account of this Wholesale Outrage on Life and Property... By Eye Witnesses. First edition. 8vo. Original printed pictorial wrappers, upper wrapper slightly chipped along bottom edge. 32pp. New York, Coutant & Baker, [1863]. £3000 A wonderful survival. This rare compilation of eye-witness accounts was published a day after the largest outbreak of civil disorder in American history was quelled. The Draft Riots ran between July 13-16, 1863. In the wake of the Battle of Gettysburg, Abra- ham Lincoln called for further troops to fight the Union’s cause. Yet, within a day of the second draft, he had to divert soldiers to assist the overrun New York Police Force. The first draft, held on July 11, passed without incident. Yet it became clear that the working classes were af- fected disproportionately by the draft, being largely unable to afford the $300 commutation fee to hire a substitute. The second draft was disrupted by a crowd of about 500, led by the ‘Black Joke’ Engine

CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES 71 Company 33 (volunteer firefighters). What began as an expression of working class anger soon evolved into a race riot. Free African-Americans weren’t considered US citizens and were thus ineligible for the draft. Many of the rioters were Irish immigrants who competed with free African-Americans for the same jobs. Arranged in chronological order, this report includes addresses from New York Governor Horatio Seymour and the Mayor George Opdyke (whose own house was sacked). We learn that a number of women were involved in the initial outbreak, telegraph lines were cut to prevent any calls for help and allowing the riot to continue unchecked, the military (which did not arrive until the second day) had no qualms in firing on the public, and that several policeman were killed. The extent of the destruction becomes clearer as we learn that roughly 50 buildings, including two Protestant churches and the Colored Orphan’s Asylum, were set alight and even rail tracks were torn up. Sabin, 5987.

Presented to Jean-Francois Arago

66 BARBE (Jean-Francois). Des Climats en General, et plus particulierement des climats chauds... First edition. 4to. Original printed wrappers, chipped, presentation inscription to upper wrapper, a little foxed throughout & some very minor dampstaining not affecting the text. 64pp. Paris, Rignoux & Cie, 27 May, 1837. £3500 A rare copy of Barbe’s thesis presented to (and defended before) the Faculte de Medecine de Paris. The work is enhanced in being presented to Francois Arago - mathematician, astronomer and, briefly, 25th Prime Minister of France (brother of the explorer Jacques). The presentation inscription reads: “Offert a Monsieur Arago secretaire perpetuel de l’Academie. Barbe”. fever which doesn’t affect Caucasians. In discussing the diseases not affecting Although the French colonial empire began as early as 1605 with the foundation Europeans, he suggests that the symptoms of intermittent and remittent fever of Port Royal in what is now Nova Scotia, the end of the Napoleonic Wars signaled are among the most important and difficult to understand across the spectrum a second colonial era with possessions in the West Indies, North and West Africa. of these tropical diseases, referring to yellow fever, the plague and cholera, which Drawing on data collected in Saint-Domingue, Cuba and Louisiana, Barbe notes he compares broadly to typhus, and differentiates from scurvy, dysentery and the commercial imperatives that drive the primarily coastal habitation of land smallpox. Barbe then discusses the importance of acclimatisation, citing M. in the tropics. He remarks that the combination of heat, humidity and decaying Rochoux in particular. Furthermore, the work includes statistics on mortality of vegetation makes for a particularly unhealthy climate in these places. Europeans living in Bombay, Batavia and Guadeloupe. The work is divided into two parts - the first being a discussion of tropical OCLC lists seven copies, none of which are in North America. climates with information drawn from recently returned voyages by the likes of Duppery, Dumont d’Urville, Ross and Parry. The text also makes repeated references to the Prussian explorer, Alexander von Humbolt, who was close friend 67 BULLITT (Alexander Clark). of Arago’s. And, indeed, mentions Arago’s brother Jacques, who was the artist on Freycinet’s 1817 circumnavigation. Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the year 1844. In the second part, Barbe goes on to discuss diseases that are suffered by First edition. Folding frontispiece map & 6 lithograph plates. 8vo. Original indigenous populations, especially the matlazahuath, a disease similar to yellow quarter roan over brown cloth, gilt to upper board, discreet repair to map,

NORTH AMERICA 73 not affecting image, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown. xii, 9-101, [blank]pp. Louisville, Kentucky, Morton & Griswold, 1845. £600 A clean, bright copy. Originally attributed to Croghan, the cave’s owner, this work is in fact by the journalist and politician Alexander Bullitt. Coleman thought this “[o]ne of the best early guidebooks to the Cave, with references to its history, life, formations, and routes.” The six dramatic lithographs of the cave’s interior are all strong impressions and the map is by Stephen Bishop one of the cave guides. Coleman, 2461; Howes C 905.

68 HOLLAR (Wenceslaus). A Virginian Woman. Drypoint etching (6.2 x 9.2cm). After Theodor de Bry (1528-1598). Paper trimmed to the edges of the plate, somewhat unevenly at top, mild smudging caused by ink not removed from the plate when printed. [c. 1644]. £1200 A nice example of one of Hollar’s miniature costume prints. It shares the same format as the prints in the two series Theatrum Mulierum and Aula Veneris; works which share a long, twinned and confusing publishing history. In his catalogue of Although A Virginian Woman cannot be married to a specific title, her visual Hollar’s etched work Richard Pennington explains that there “exist nine states of source can be found: an illustration by Theodor de Bry to Thomas Harriot’s the title print of the Theatrum and four of that of the Aula” and that, in short, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia..., Francoforti ad the varying states cannot be “linked conclusively to the different issues” (p.295). Moenum, 1590.

NORTH AMERICA 75 United States, he claimed that such a study “cannot be compiled at once, or by one man; but it is the duty of everyone to contribute what he can towards it”. The work tends to concentrate, but not exclusively, on the flora and fauna of the American south. A careful annotation on the blank leaf next to Magnolia grandiflora records that the “Boundary line between N & S Carolina [has] the most northern settlement of M.G”. Another hand (in pencil) also appears to have ticked or marked each entry in the catalogue as they have observed it. Perhaps most surprising though are three specimens which have been carefully pressed between the leaves on which their corresponding entries appear.

With Interesting Ms. Annotations

70 MICHAUX (François André). Voyage à l’Ouest des Monts Alléghanys, dans les états de l’Ohio du Kentucky et du Tennessée, et retour à Charleston par les Hautes-Carolines; contenant des détails sur l’état actuel de l’agriculture... ainsi que des renseigmenets sur les rapports commerciaux qui existent entre ces états et ceux situés à l’est des montagnes et la Basse-Louuisiane, etc. First edition. Half title, large folding engraved map dated 1804. 8vo. Con- temporary calf-backed paper old boards, ms. annotations in pencil. [4], vi, “The First Truly Indigenous Botanical Essay 312pp. Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Compagnie, de l’imprimerie de Crapelet, Published in the Western Hemisphere” An XII - 1804. £1250 An English translation by Lambert appeared in 1805. “The zest with which 69 [MARSHALL (Humphry)]. Michaux describes some of the wonders of the West in this brief and discursive Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, or, an journal is as pleasant as his intelligent discussion of economical facts, and puritan Alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives domesticity in the East. He gave his countrymen a correct and impressive idea of the American United States [...] containing the particular of the products and promise of the great West, but more especially of Ohio distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and and Kentucky” (Thomson). Michaux (1770-1850) was a French botanist and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, silviculturalist, long resident in the USA. &c. of their several species and varieties. Also, some hints On the half title is a very interesting note in ink: “les notes au crayon qui of their use in medicine, dyes, and domestic economy. sont dans cet exemplaire sont de M. de la Haye habitant à. sont de Mr habitant a S ... et notaire au port de paix [in Haiti], refugié à qu’il a habité long- A remarkable interleaved and annotated copy of an important early American temps. Mer a ecrite[sic] pour moi à Paris”. The man referred to, A M. l’abbé botanical book. 8vo. Some minor staining to the fore-edge of the first few de la Haye, is described as priest at Dondon (again in Haiti) in Moreau de St. leaves but overall an excellent copy bound in modern green quarter calf and Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françaises de l’Amérique sous le vent, marbled boards. 174, [2] pp. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1785. £2750 Paris, [1784] i, xxiv, and this may indicate that the family was established there. An excellent copy of Marshall’s magnum opus with important evidence for its The penciled notes (which are faint) are mainly on pages 3, 8, 10, 45, 71, 76-77 use ‘in the field’. Marshall’s ‘catalogue’ sold only a handful of copies in the first and again at p. 87, with a few elsewhere, but there are small crosses marking para- few months after publication, but the work was subsequently popular in Europe graphs through the rest of the volume. That on page 10 concerns the burning of and was translated into French and German. Marshall hoped that his work would coal in Charleston imported from England: “Ce n’est pas pour l’économie, c’est spur other botanists into eventually compiling a complete botanical record of the pour luxe, car on n’en fait usage que dans la Drawing Room” (This is not done

NORTH AMERICA 77 for economy but for luxury, as it is only made use of in the Drawing Room). The Pemberton, who was opposed to the war, held these unofficial meetings at his two long notes on pp.76 and 77 concern the use of the river in Ohio. Michaux home with Iroquois leaders of the Six Indian Nations. It is assumed that he was (p. 77) writes that people abandon themselves “au fil de l’eau” without knowing the author of this scarce pamphlet. After the harmonious spirit of Penn had been where they will stop. The annotator disagrees, writing that they do not abandon evoked, Scarroyada explains the conflict “it came upon us, as if an evil spirit had themselves but make use of a large steering oar or rudder. Sabin, 48703; MacPhail, arisen from underground, and spread all over the country, and the blood was 4; Thomson, 822; Goldsmiths’-Kress library of economic literature, no. 18816.12. begun to be spilt before we had time to think...” Sabin 59612; Howes P192.

Letters from an Ex-Governor of Bermuda

72 RICHIER (Isaac). [Collection of manuscripts, including letters from Isaac Richier, regarding his time as Governor of Bermuda in the late 17th century.] 14 letters and manuscripts in ink (incl. 4 ALS from Richier re Bermuda, dated 1701). Folio, 4to and 8vo. Almost all in exceptionally good condition (one 1701 letter suffers from minor loss to the right-hand margin); handwriting generally wholly legible. Various places including St. Germain, Rennes and Paris. 1701 - 1784. For a full list of contents please contact [email protected] £4500 A collection of manuscripts in French, concerning the life of Isaac Richier, who was the Governor of Bermuda from 1691 to 1693. Four autograph letters, from Richier to his uncle, are significant as they deal with his brief spell as Governor of the colony. In doing so, they provide a rare and thrilling insight into what was a tumultuous period for inhabitants of the islands. The rest of the material concerns Richier’s later life, family and finances. The historian David H. Mabb describes the period from 1670 to 1700 as “Bermuda’s generation of anarchy”, and not without just cause. The islands were thrown into three decades of chronic instability by a number of factors. They were: an outbreak of yellow fever in 1692, a series of increasingly explosive disagreements between governors and local political institutions and the liquidation of the Bermuda Company by Charles II in 1684. This last factor was decisive, as Quakers Attempt to make Peace during the French and Indian War it shifted Bermuda’s economic dependence from autonomy to reliance on support from the Kingdom. While Stuart centralization had an authoritarian effect on 71 [PEMBERTON (James).] other parts of English America, the result in Bermuda was a complete removal Several Conferences Between some of the principal People of control, as the newly required support never came (during the period of the amongst the Quakers in Pennsylvania, and the Deputies from Glorious Revolution no official communication was made for over a year). In the Six Indian Nations, In Alliance with Britain; In order the midst of that vacuum stepped men such as Richier — as representatives of to reclaim their Brethren the Delaware Indians from their an absent monarch they rarely proved popular. Defection, and put a stop to their barbarities and hostilities. The first two letters from 1701 show exactly how unpopular Richier became. Written during his convalescence in England and France, he tells a sympathetic First edition. 8vo. Sewn as issued, thread broken, otherwise very good. 28pp. relative of how he was ousted from his position and subsequently thrown (here Newcastle Upon Tyne, I. Thompson, 1756. £4750 in translation) “into a public dungeon among scoundrels, murderers, thieves and

NORTH AMERICA 79 St. Germain, Richier reports a visit to Louis XIV, mentions his sympathy for James Stewart and expresses great sadness at seeing James II fall ill during Mass. Such ties suggest that the accusations made against him in Bermuda, as “a Frenchman, a Papist and a Jacobite” (letter 1), were not without cause and aggravation. His ideological bearings could not have been taken well on a colony with a strong history of nonconformist and antimonarchist tendencies. Taken together, these letters help to describe some of the causes and charac- teristics of the civil unrest on Britain’s second oldest colony in the 17th century. They also provide an unwitting self-portrait of a man who tried to ‘govern’ the chaos. In a letter to the Board of Trade, an inspector who visited the colony in 1699 described Richier and a later governor (Samuel Day) as “broken Linnen’ Drapers, of worse morals”. cf. Richard S. Dunn, “The Downfall of the Bermuda Company: A Restoration Farce” in The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Oct., 1963), pp. 487-512.

sorcerers” where he was imprisoned for two and a half years. He makes it clear that he was overthrown by a popular revolt spearheaded by his successor John Goddard, but does not mention any specific claims made against him. As sixty- one depositions were sent to the Lords of Trade, it is unlikely that they were all, as Richier would have one believe, “lies strengthened by perjuries”. The third and fourth letters, written in late July and August of the same year, act to weaken some of the sympathy one might have for Richier, as they point toward the ways in which he was unsuitable for the role. Written from Paris and

NORTH AMERICA 81 I 74 [BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] te m 7 4 [Magic Lantern Slides.] The “Indcol” Coloured Optical Lantern Slides. 12 numbered chromo- lithographed lantern slides, each bordered with black paper and measuring 82mm square. One slide (no. 12) cracked with lower right corner missing. Box somewhat ragged and split along hinges, but holding together, “arctic expedition” in ms. on label. [London?], [c. 1880]. £2000 Lantern slides were invented in 1849, just a decade after the advent of the photograph. The ability to project an image onto a wall or a screen enabled these images to be shared with large audiences. Companies such as Indcol produced many different 12 slide sets. This set ALASKA & illustrates the 1875 British Arctic Expedition, led by Capt. Sir G. S. Nares. It captures the drama of that endeavour and includes the iconic image of HMS THE POLAR REGIONS Alert run aground on the ice. [see illustration across]

Inscribed by Apsley’s sister Edith

75 CHERRY-GARRARD (Apsley). The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. First edition. 2 vols. 5 maps (4 folding) & 6 colour plates, with numerous other illustrations including several panoramas. 8vo. A very good copy in original linen-backed pale blue boards (these very slightly foxed), with printed paper labels, with the spare labels tipped in as issued. Slightly worn at edges. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 310-585pp. London, 1922. £3800 The renowned narrative of Scott’s Last Expedition: from departing England in 1910 until its return in 1913. Cherry- Garrard was invalided out of the Great 73 [? BARTLETT (S.W.).] War in 1916 and used his long convales- [Photographs from the Hudson Bay Expedition 1911.] cence to write The Worst Journey in the World: “A War is like the Antarctic... there 41 original photographs & 8 photo postcards measuring 76 by 135mm. A is no getting out of it with honour as long few slightly chipped and torn at extremities. 1911. £6500 as you can put one foot before the other”. This group of images documents an expedition through the Canadian Arctic in The inscription reads: ‘Mrs Hooke, 1911. Beginning at Forteau Bay, the party moved on to Hudson Strait, Wakeham with best love from Edith Cherry Garrard. Bay, Churchill and York. June. 1926.’ Mrs Hooke was Principal Among the original photographs are portraits of Nurse Florence Bailey, of Ridgelands Bible College where Edith who managed mission stations throughout the area for nearly twenty years and was a student. Reverend Mr. Peck, the founder of the first mission on Baffin Island. The captions and numbering on the verso of most images are not only informative but provide a sense of continuity. [see inside back cover]

ALASKA & POLAR REGIONS 83 First edition. 2 vols. Three maps (one folding), numerous lithograph & woodcut plates, with illustrations in the text. Tall 8vo. Fine contemporary calf, spine richly gilt, a prize binding, some damp staining affecting lower edge of vol. I, upper boards of both vols. slightly warped, but a handsome copy nonetheless. xx, 432, xii, 412, 16pp. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. £2200 The author had “the good fortune to be engaged in three of the most memorable expeditions of the present century: with Parry, in his attempt to reach the North Pole, in the year 1827; with Ross, in his Antarctic voyage during the years 1839-43; and having had command of a boat expedition in search of Franklin in 1852-53...” The Ross expedition occupies most of the first volume, with only the final 50 or so pages concerned with the Parry voyage of 1827. Volume two includes material on the 1852 Franklin search expedition where McCormick made a distinguished boat journey (the narrative of this adventure was actually published separately at the time). Rosove mentions that this work was published in an edition of 750 copies, in the autumn of the author’s life; he gives a total of seven variants, the last three of 76 MAWSON (Sir Douglas). which contain “Memorandums and Opinions of the Press” (16pp). This copy is The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the the variant “f”. McCormick was eighty-four when he published these memoirs; Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. they are handsomely bound volumes and very well illustrated, but five years First edition. Numerous folding maps, plates, panoramas etc. Large 8vo. Very after publication less than 375 copies had sold. We know from the variations in good original blue cloth, gilt. xxx, 349; xiii, 338pp. London, 1915. £2000 the bindings recorded by Rosove, that the binding work was done in batches, and one may reasonably assume that many remaining copies were never bound. Mawson, a noted Australian geologist, had travelled to the Antarctic with Had there been a “remainder” of perfect copies, one would expect to see a high Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition in 1907. When Scott later invited him to join proportion of fine copies, whereas the reverse is true. Rosove, 221. A1. his ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, Mawson declined, organising his own, to the Australasian Antarctic in 1911. This expedition was aimed at conducting scientific and geographical research in King George V Land and Adelie Land, and also to 78 NORDENSKJOLD (A.E.) et al. chase a chief prize of the Heroic Age: a visit to the South Magnetic Pole. Svenska expeditionnen till Spetsbergen och Jan This book gives a vivid account of that endeavor, which, as the sole survivor, Mayen, utforda under aren 1863 och 1864. only Mawson could give. It is beautifully and varyingly illustrated, with images of frostbitten faces, animal life and the somber cross, erected in remembrance of First edition. Frontispiece map, 8 plates (2 coloured, 1 double-page). Large Mawson’s lost companions Ninnis and Mertz. 8vo. Original decorative plum cloth, gilt, spine sunned. [iv], 262, [4]pp. Stockholm, 1867. £850

77 M’CORMICK (Dept. Inspector General R.). A lovely copy. This was the first of Nordenskjold’s own expeditions to Spitsbergen. Sponsored by the Swedish Academy of Science, he sailed from Tromso on Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, June 15, 1864 and spent two and a half months doing “reconnaissance for an and round the world: being personal narratives of arc measurement in Spitsbergen and to investigate the islands to the east of the attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and of archipelago ... He returned with a vast collection of scientific, geographical and an open boat-expedition up the Wellington Channel biological data” (Howgego). in search of Sir John Franklin and Her majesty’s Spitsbergen is one of three islands forming the Svalbard archipelago in the north Ships “Erebus” and “Terror” in Her Majesty’s Boat Atlantic and is the northernmost point of Norway. Jan Mayen was first discovered “Forlorn Hope” under the command of the author. in 1624 and was used as a base for Dutch whalers in the early seventeenth century. To which are added an Autobiography, Appendix... Howgego III, N29.

ALASKA & POLAR REGIONS 85 prepared by a native Greenland artist, must rank among the rarest and most extraordinary of exotic imprints. Although ephemeral pieces had been printed on a small hand press in Greenland as early as 1793, the first real press was brought there by the enthusiastic Danish Crown Inspector for Southern Greenland, Hinrich Rink, in 1857. He began his career as an administrator based at the Moravian mission at Godthaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland, and used the press to produce both official notices and literary works. Rink was determined to collect legends and folktales of Greenland natives and publish them, an ambition achieved in these four volumes published over a five- year span. All of the letterpress was printed in a small, unheated workshop next to Rink’s house, mostly executed by Lars Moller. Rink collected oral tales from throughout Greenland, although mainly in the southern area he administered. The remarkable oral tradition of the Eskimos, polluted by few outside influences, stretched back to the early Middle Ages. Many of the stories, especially in the first volume, describe the clashes between the Norse and the Eskimo. Rink recognized that some of the tales existed in the realm of pure myth, but that others represented recollections, passed from one generation to the other, of events of many centuries earlier. In the preface to the third volume Rink sets out his theories on the tales, laying the foundation for scholarship on the Greenland Eskimo. All of the text is given in both Greenlandic and Danish.

A Classic Greenland Imprint with Extraordinary Woodcuts by a Greenlander

79 RINK (Hinrich) ed. Kaladlit Okalluktualliait... [Legends from Greenland]. First Edition. Four vols. V1: Coloured woodcut vignette on the title, 12 woodcuts and 8 lithographed plates of music. V2: Woodcut vignette on the title and 18 woodcuts (all bar 6 of these coloured, either by hand or printed) & two folding maps. V3: Woodcut vignette and 12 [of 14] lithographs (2 of these coloured and loose possibly from a slightly shorter copy). V4: Woodcut vignette 3 woodcut plates & eight woodcuts in text. Original printed boards, one volume rebacked. The whole in a blue morocco box. [8], 136, [2]; [8], Another important aspect of these books are the illustrations. In the first two 111; [6], 136, [1]; [6], 123pp. Noungme [Godthaab, Greenland: Printed at volumes these were supplied by an Eskimo named Aron of Kangeq, a sealer and the Inspectorate Press by L. Moller], 1859 - 1863. £25,000 walrus hunter who lived at the Moravian mission at the small trading station of Kangeq. Aron was stricken with tuberculosis (which was epidemic in Greenland in This series of volumes of collected Greenlandic folktales, printed on the first this era), and confined to bed. Having heard of his raw artistic talent, Rink supplied permanent press to operate there, and illustrated with remarkable woodcuts

ALASKA & POLAR REGIONS 87 him with “paper, coloured pencils, and the necessary tools for woodcutting.” Thirty of these, about half of them coloured (by hand and by woodblock), appear in the first two volumes. Oldendow describes this achievement superbly, writing, ‘With his fertile imagination Aron drew men in violent motion... he depicts the legendary world of the Greenlanders with insight and ability... He makes us understand the vastness, loneliness, and weirdness of the majestic Greenland landscape and evokes the soul of the country as the ancient Eskimos have known it...” Indeed, Aron created pictures of remarkable power, all the more extraordinary for the circumstances of their production. In the third volume Lars Moller, the printer, supplied a series of illustrations of Greenland life created on the first lithographic press in Greenland. This set is notable for containing two folding maps not regularly issued with the set, but published to be distributed separately. Both were prepared by S. Kleinschmidt, and SLAVERY are lithographic maps showing the fjords around Godthaab, with accompanying letterpress text. These maps are extremely rare in their own right. Needless to say, Rink’s volumes were produced in small editions, and the attrition of the Greenland Author’s Presentation Copy climate could not have aided their survival. They are today of the greatest rarity. An imprint and ethnographic document of stellar importance. cf. Knud Oldendow 80 CLARKSON (Thomas). (The Spread of Printing... Greenland), Amsterdam, 1969, pp39-44. Strictures on a Life of William Wilberforce. Second edition. 8vo. Original boards, slightly worn at edges, top-left corner of upper board chipped, printed label to spine. Author’s inscription on title- page. xii, iv, 136pp. London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838. £750 Inscribed by Clarkson on the title page: “May 1st 1839 To Lucilla Powell with Author’s Kind Regards. Thomas Clarkson.” Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Suppression of the Slave Trade in 1787. In May of the following year their efforts met with some success when a bill was passed regulating the number of slaves carried in ships in proportion to their tonnage. In 1789 he went to revolution-struck Paris to persuade the French government to abolish the slave trade. Along with William Wilberforce, he was one of the driving forces behind the abolitionist movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this work, Clarkson defends himself against accusations by Wilberforce’s sons who were in the process of writing a biography of their father. They imply that Clarkson, in his History of the Abolition…, undervalued the role of their father in the abolitionist movement. This work is Clarkson’s refutation of their claims.

“The First Piece of Abolitionist Propaganda” (ODNB)

81 FALCONBRIDGE (Alexander). An Account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.

ALASKA & POLAR REGIONS 89 The first edition of a detailed and influential “insider’s” account of the slave trade by a ship’s surgeon who witnessed its atrocities first-hand. Generations of abolitionists world-wide referred to Falconbridge’s Account as an important source of information on the slave trade and it is cited not only by abolitionists in Great Britain but also by those in Denmark and France among others. Between 1780 and 1787 Falconbridge took part in four slaving voyages to the west coast of Africa as a surgeon before leaving the trade due to moral objections. In the spring of 1787, Thomas Clarkson met Falconbridge in Bristol while he was there gathering evidence against the slave trade. Clarkson immediately recognized that Falconbridge not only possessed powerful experiences but, more importantly, he was willing to testify publicly to them. After giving evidence to a Privy Council committee, Falconbridge, with the aid of an abolitionist lawyer Richard Phillips, sifted through his thoughts and experiences and distilled them into a powerful, gritty account of the slave trade. Falconbridge writes in his preface that his Account outlines “the hardships which the unhappy objects of it [the slave trade] undergo, and the cruelties they suffer, from the period of their being reduced to a state of slavery, to their being disposed of in the West India islands” (iii). He writes vividly and with great detail in order to bring the reader on board the slave ship as a witness to what the sailors and slaves experience. For example, when Falconbridge describes the slave quarters one begins to imagine the cruel and dehumanized conditions that both the slaves and sailors lived in: “The deck, that is, the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of human imagination, to picture itself a situation more dreadful or disgusting” (25). He further describes the diet of slaves, the medical conditions that afflicted them, and the interactions between slaves and sailors. Here he is very direct when discussing the relations between sailors and female slaves: “the common sailors are allowed to have intercourse with such of the black women whose consent they can procure ... The officers are permitted to indulge their passions among them at pleasure, and sometimes are guilty of such brutal excesses, as disgrace human nature” (24). Much like his friend John Newton, Falconbridge decries the slave trade for its effect not only on slaves but also the seamen who worked on the slave ships. He writes in his introduction to An Account that he will also “treat of a subject, which appears not to have been attended to in the manner its importance requires; that is, the sufferings and loss of seamen employed in this trade which ... occasion the destruction of great numbers annually” (iii). Thomas Clarkson discusses the novelty of this observation when he recounts his initial meeting with Falconbridge in Bristol: “There was one circumstance of peculiar importance, but quite new First edition. Title-page and recto of last leaf heavily foxed and soiled in to me, which I collected from the information which Mr. Falconbridge had given places, otherwise a very clean and crisp copy with two edges uncut and me. This was, that many of the seamen, who left the slave-ships in the West-Indies very generous margins recently bound in quarter calf and marbled boards, were in such a weak, ulcerated, and otherwise diseased state, that they perished antique style. 55, [1] pp. London: J[ames] Phillips, 1788. £1250 there. Several also of those who came home with the vessels, were in the same deplorable condition” (Clarkson, 142-43).

SLAVERY 91 The impact of Falconbridge’s Account was immediate. It was read and cited effectual laws restraining such dominion” (i) and that the claims, contained in the by many on both sides of the slave trade argument. For example, an engraving following two reports, of Jamaican assembly that they were producing legislation of the iconic slave ship the Brooks produced by the London Committee for the “for securing more impartial trials and better treatment to slaves” (6) were in Abolition of the Slave Trade included a lengthy quotation from Falconbridge’s fact a “wilful deception” (5). Account, and his work was even mentioned by Danish abolitionists for helping ESTC attributes the commentary to Stephen Fuller (1716-1808), a merchant and to inspire a slave trade bill in 1792, which abolished the slave trade beginning the English agent for the Jamaican assembly. “With his brother [he] did much to in 1803 (see: Black, 407). further the Jamaica interest, being the author of several pamphlets, notably on Clarkson recruited Falconbridge to head an expedition to Sierra Leone to slavery” (ODNB). The Fuller family held large estates in Jamaica. reestablish a colony of free black settlers but the plan was marred with difficulties. Falconbridge’s wife, Anna Maria, would later write that the expedition was “a premature, hair-brained, and ill digested scheme”. Falconbridge took heavily to “ ... An inexhaustible fund of drink and spent the last years of his life in near permanent intoxication before wealth and naval power to this nation” dying in December of 1792 in Freetown. Literature: Clarkson, Thomas. Abolition of the Slave-Trade, by the British 83 POSTLETHWAYT (Malachy). Parliament. Augusta (Maine): P.A. Brinsmade, 1830. Black, Jeremy (ed.). The The National and private advantages of the African Atlantic Slave Trade, Vol. III, Eighteenth Century. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. trade considered: being an enquiry, how far it concerns the trading interest of Great Britain. Effectually to support and maintain the forts and settlements in Africa; “... How deeply power corrupts the human heart ...” belonging to the Royal African Company of England ... 82 [FULLER (Stephen).] First edition (a second edition was published in 1772). With a large (395 x Notes on the two reports from the committee of the 460mm) “New and correct map of the coast of Africa” dated 1746 (small Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica, appointed to tear, smaller than one inch, to the inner folded margin). The map is not examine into, and to report to the House, the Allegations found in all copies i.e. both copies at the British Library, National Library and Charges contained in the several Petitions which of Scotland and University of Minnesota. 4to. A few blank corners folded have been presented to the British House of Commons, over and a little bit dusty and browned in spots but otherwise a very good on the Subject of the Slave Trade, and the Treatment copy with generous margins, recently bound in calf and marbled boards, of the Negroes, &c, &c. &c. By a Jamaica Planter. antique style. [4], 128 pp. London: printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1746. £5000 Only edition. 8vo. Half-title and title-page lightly spotted, three small holes along gutter of half-title and title-page from original sewing. Recent modern First edition of an important pro-slavery economic work often cited by abolitionists half calf, antique style. [4], 62 pp. with the half-title and final blank leaf, D8 and written by “a commentator too frequently neglected in histories of British Antislavery thought” (Brown, 269). Written in support of the Royal African and two edges uncut. London: Printed and sold by James Phillips, 1789. Company, The National and Private Advantages offers mercantilist arguments for £750 greater direct British involvement in Africa. “Few before the American Revolution Only edition of a critique of reports issued by the assembly of Jamaica in response went further than Postlethwayt in imagining West Africa as a future seat of British to “applications of the people in Britain to the House of Commons, for the power” (Brown, 271). abolition of the African Slave Trade” (5). The work examines the so-called legal In the first chapter of The National and Private Advantages, Postlethwayt protection afforded to Jamaican slaves and argues that the legal restraints on outlines the “triangular trade” and its benefits to Great Britain. He explains further slave holders are ineffectual - in short it is the system that breeds cruelty and that the slave trade is self-sustaining in that nine-tenths of slaves “are paid for malice. In the “Advertisement” to the reader, the anonymous editor argues that in Africa with British produce and manufactures only; and the remainder with “the habitual exercise of that arbitrary dominion which the master possesses over East-India commodities. We send no specie or bullion to pay for the products the slave, communicates an involuntary bias, even to well disposed minds, against of Africa, but ‘tis certain, we bring from thence very large quantities of gold; the just claims of humanity, and that it is difficult, if not impossible, to interpose and not only that but wax and ivory” (3). Later he advocates a plan for trading

SLAVERY 93 governmental support, in the form of official investment, and regulation would mean “throwing the slave trade into the arms of European competitors ... Whereas France kept the purchase price of slaves low by restricting the number of French ships on the African coast, British merchants drove up their own costs through reckless bidding wars on each cargo. Only the Royal Africa Company, Postlethwayt insisted, could discourage such free-for-alls by negotiating for all British traders a set price from African suppliers” (Brown, 271). Postlethwayt’s The National and Private Advantages outlived the occasion that necessitated its publication and was read by later abolitionists. “The first abolitionists leaned heavily on those authorities like Malachy Postlethwayt who had envisioned radically different ways of organizing the African trade. Anthony Benezet drew his portrait of Africa from a variety of sources, most of which he generously cited. In tone and substance, though, key passages seemed to owe an unacknowledged debt to the work of Postlethwayt, the erstwhile propagandist for the Royal African Company” (Brown, 323). Malachy Postlethwayt (c.1707-1767) wrote other works on economics in the 1740s and 1750s. His best-known work was The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, which appeared in installments between 1751 and 1755. “It has been argued that he was a paid agent of the Royal Africa Company in whose interests he published three separate pamphlets. In the first of these, The African Trade the Great Pillar and Supporter of the British Plantation Trade in America, appeared in 1745, followed by another in 1746” (ODNB). “The content of Postlethwayt’s work on the African slave trade provided Eric Williams with compelling evidence for his thesis in Capitalism and Slavery (1944)” (ODNB). Dr. Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, argued in Capitalism and Slavery that the British abolition of the slave trade was motivated primarily by economics. The last copy to appear at auction made £450 in 1979 (Christie’s 31 October, lot 304). Literature: Brown, Christopher Leslie. Moral Capital: foundations of British abolitionism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Defining the Anti-Slavery Agenda

84 RAMSAY (James). An Essay on the treatment and conversion of African slaves in the British sugar colonies. First edition. 8vo. With the final advertisement, often lacking, and errata leaf, the latter bound after the former and not after p. xx as specified by ESTC. Title-page with a few spots and stained along inner gutter, repaired tear to p. iii, and some occasional foxing and light spotting, otherwise a directly with Africa with the protection of forts and under the aegis of a trading good copy bound in contemporary speckled calf (recently rebacked, corners company - specifically the Royal African Company. He believes that a lack of lightly worn). xx, 298, [4] pp. London: James Phillips, 1784. £1750

SLAVERY 95 “The abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 probably owed more to James “This enabled him to see the conditions under which slaves laboured, the brutality Ramsay’s personal integrity, ethical arguments, and constructive proposals than of many owners and overseers, and the mutilating punishments and cruel injustice to any other influence” and it was his Essay on the treatment and conversion meted out to them” (ibid). This firsthand experience provided Ramsay with the of African slaves that was “the most important event in the early history of the material that he would use later in his many abolitionist publications when he anti-slavery movement” (in J. Watt’s biography of Ramsay in the ODNB). returned to the Britain. In An Essay Ramsay “reviewed the status of slaves in history, their moral rights, their ill treatment in British colonies, and the influence of nutritional deficiency, overwork, and mutilating punishments upon morbidity, mortality, and output, Ramsay’s Reply to Harris with examples of the enlightened management” (ibid). He also perceived the problems related to immediate emancipation and “proposed a programme of 85 RAMSAY (James). preparation which would encompass education, Christian teaching, the inculcation Examination of The Rev. Mr. Harris’s Scriptural of family and social values, and the passing of equitable laws. The book received Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade. immediate acclaim but was followed by a flood of vituperation from the planter community in anonymous letters to national and colonial newspapers” (ibid). First and only edition. 8vo. An excellent copy bound in modern half calf “The Essay differed from previous commentaries on Caribbean slavery in and marbled boards, antique style. With the final advertisement leaf. 29, [3] several ways. First there was its scope and ambition. The volume stretched over pp. London: James Phillips, 1788. £750 three hundred pages ... Secondly, there was its authority. The product of nearly two An excellent copy of Ramsay’s reply to Raymund Harris’s Scriptural Researches decades of living, writing, and thinking in the West Indies, the author possessed an which defended the slave trade on scriptural grounds. In Ramsay’s “Advertisement” unusual command of his subject. Many British men and women who published to the reader, he acknowledges the effect that Harris’s work has had on the public: antislavery sentiments in the eighteenth century had never seen plantation slavery “But on coming up to town, and understanding that Mr. Harris’s reasoning had for themselves. Ramsay not only had lived in the Caribbean, he was himself a produced effects on certain people ... it has been judged proper to give it [his work] former slaveholder, like many Anglican clergy who had lived in the West Indies. at once to the publick” (3). At once Ramsay strikes at one of Harris’s strongest These experiences allowed Ramsay to describe the mores of British Caribbean arguments, namely that when an act or behavior is not condemned in the Old society in detail, to dispense with the moving but generic narratives established and New Testament, then it is given tacit approval. Ramsay argues that “there by the legends of stock characters such as Oroonoko or Inkle and Yarico. He are many things ... that pass without censure, and are seemingly allowed there, replaced those fictional archetypes with concrete examples of how the enslaved which we know to be forbidden to us, and which will not apply to the improved men and women lived, how sugar plantations functioned, what West Indian society state of mankind ... The drunken incest of Lot is not censured. It was the means was like. Third, there was the effusive praise from the critics. When published in of producing two mighty nations; from which, according to the author’s manner 1784, the Essay received special treatment from the press” (Brown, 364-65). For of reasoning, he ought to conclude it was approved of; yet I suppose he will not a cogent discussion of the metamorphosis of Ramsay’s Essay from manuscript recommend the imitation to any person in these days” (5). He also addresses to print see pp. 244-253 of Christopher Brown’s Moral Capital: Foundations Harris’s claim that Abraham and Joseph received God’s approbation to own slaves. of British Abolitionism, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Ramsay argues, not so convincingly, that “the keeping of slaves, which the author Much like the reformed slave-trader John Newton, James Ramsay experienced constantly calls ‘the slave-trade,’ was a custom then generally prevalent over the a dramatic conversion to the cause of abolition. On 27 November 1759 the world. Neither were masters or slaves prepared for a general manumission. The Arundel intercepted the British slave ship Swift and Ramsay along other ship spirit of Christianity was suffered gradually to undermine the mass of oppression, mates boarded the vessel. “Ramsay found over 100 slaves wallowing in blood and and wherever the gospel has prevailed, it has in fact abolished it” (24). excreta, a scene of human degradation which remained forever in his memory and so distracted his attention that, on returning to his ship, he fell and fractured his thigh bone. It was the more serious of two such accidents and he remained lame 86 SAUGNIER (F.) & BRISSON (P.R. de). for life” (ODNB). This scene that Ramsay observed on the Swift altered the course Voyages to the Coast of Africa... containing an of his life. After the conclusion of his service in the Royal Navy, Ramsay returned account of their shipwreck on board different vessels, to Britain and sought ordination in order to work among slaves. The bishop of and subsequent slavery, and interesting details of London ordained Ramsay in November of 1761. Soon after his ordination Ramsay the manners of the Arabs of the desert, and of the departed for the West Indies where he worked as surgeon at several plantations. slave trade, as carried on at Senegal and Galam.

SLAVERY 97 First English edition. Large folding map. 8vo. Contemporary calf, front hinge slightly cracked but firm, rear board stained, spine gilt. viii, 500pp. London, Robinson, 1792. £750 A clean, bright copy of this interesting and unusual account of shipwreck and subsequent slavery. Saugnier and Brisson were shipwrecked within a year of each other in the Spanish zone of Rio del Oro in the mid-1780s. This first-hand account not only depicts their ordeal, but also includes a lengthy, detailed breakdown of the expenses incurred in the slave trade.

The First Attempt at Abolition

87 SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (London yearly meeting). The Case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the legislature of Great-Britain, by the people called Quakers. Second edition. Disbound. Uncut and unopened. Some light marginal soiling but otherwise a very good copy with large margins. 15, [1] pp. London: James Phillips, 1784. £350 Second edition of the first petition to parliament to abolish the slave trade. Initiated by the Quakers, the petition brought the inhumanities of the slave trade to the attention of British MPs, members of local government and others in positions of authority. Often attributed to Anthony Benezet, this pamphlet is in fact “written by William Dillwyn and John Lloyd on behalf of the Society of Friends’ Meeting for Sufferings” (ESTC). Dilwyn and Lloyd were members of the Quaker Abolition Committee - a predecessor of the Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade. “On June 16 [1783], 273 Quaker men signed a petition to the House of Commons that declared the ‘suffering situation’ of ‘the enslaved Negroes’ ‘a subject calling for the humane Interposition of the legislature’ and asked members to Wilberforce Printed for the Irish consider an abolition of the slave trade. The politicians surprised Friends with 88 WILBERFORCE (William). their response. ‘Favourably received,’ a relieved David Barclay told the London Meeting for Sufferings several days later. ‘Well received,’ William Dillwyn recorded A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of in his diary ... the politicians had few reasons to speak ill of the Quaker petition. Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes The Society of Friends gave them an opportunity to voice their support for liberty in This Country Contrasted with Real Christianity. and humanity ... it is true, the Friends’ petition made no impact on parliamentary Third Edition, but the first one printed in Ireland. 8vo. This copy includes politics or government policy ... But Friends experienced these events as a step nine un-paginated leaves consisting of an index and advertisements called forward, and a spur to action, rather than a setback” (Brown, 422-23). for but not always present. A few leaves curled at corners but overall a very fresh and unsophisticated copy bound in contemporary Irish calf, spine divided into seven compartments by a single gilt filet, red morocco label to spine (covers lightly chipped, label chipped and slightly rumpled). X, [2], 354, [18] pp. Dublin: Robert Dapper for B. Dugdale ..., 1797. £950

SLAVERY 99 This edition, the first edition printed on Irish soil, was preceded by two London editions. The work appeared in 18 English editions before 1830 and was translated into French and Spanish in the same period, which testifies to the enduring popularity of the work. A fresh unsophisticated copy of the first Irish edition of “Wilberforce’s own personal testimony” (ODNB). The immediately successful work is an important exposition of the principles driving evangelical Christians many of whom, like Wilberforce, worked tirelessly for abolition. In the Practical view, “Wilberforce expounded his interpretation of New Testament teachings as a basis for a critique of the lukewarm and inadequate practice of Christianity he observed around him. He called for religious revival as an essential means of reversing national moral decline. Despite its unfashionable theme and diffuse and discursive style, the book was extensively read and very influential ... It was both ‘the manifesto of the evangelical party of the time’ and Wilberforce’s own personal testimony, which provided a powerful rationalization of his philanthropic and political exertions over the preceding decade ... One of the key reasons for the success of the Practical view was that it’s call for national spiritual and moral renewal could be read in broad Anglican as well as specific evangelical terms” (ODNB). Provenance: 1. Sam W. Handy, signature dated 17 April 1790 to the head of the title- page. 2. Dorthea W. Th[?], early signature to the title-page.

Item 73, Bartlett, p.82

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