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(203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is devoted to the , from the earliest period of European contact up to the 19th century. Most of the items included relate to the region in the age of sugar and slaves, from the mid-17th to early 19th centuries, with an interesting group of material relating to in the latter part of the 19th century. Notable items include Oviedo’s Historia General... of 1535, the first detailed description of the region; Alcedo’s magnificent atlas of the , published in 1816; one of the earliest obtainable Jamaican imprints, published there in 1757; a remarkable panoramic drawing of a plantation in , also done in 1757; and significant histories, color-plate books, personal narratives, cartography, watercolors, and manuscripts.

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On the cover: 1. Alcedo, Antonio de & G.A. Thompson: [Atlas to Thompson’s Alcedo...]. London. 1816. 1. Alcedo, Antonio de, and G.A. Thompson: [ATLAS TO THOMPSON’S ALCEDO; OR DICTIONARY OF AMERICA & WEST INDIES; COLLATED WITH ALL THE MOST RECENT AUTHORITIES, AND COMPOSED CHIEFLY FROM SCARCE AND ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, FOR THAT WORK, BY A. ARROWSMITH, HY- DROGRAPHER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE RE- GENT]. [London: George Smeeton, 1816]. Small format index leaf mounted on front pastedown (otherwise mounted on guards throughout). Five wall maps, handcolored in outline, by Aaron Arrowsmith, on nineteen double-page or folding engraved sheets, each numbered on a small early paper label pasted to the verso of each sheet (“North America” on three sheets [numbered “I”- ”III”]; “” on four sheets [“IV”-”VII”]; “” on four sheets [“VIII”-”XI”]; “West Indies” on two sheets [“XII”-”XIII”]; “” on six sheets [“XIV”-”XIX”]). Extra-illustrated with a contemporary pen, ink, and watercolor key map (sheet size: 17 x 16¼ inches) laid down on a larger sheet of blank wove paper, the larger sheet mounted on the front free end- paper. Large folio. Contemporary half diced russia and marbled boards, gilt, with the paper armorial bookplate of the Earl of Dalhousie pasted onto the center of the upper cover, spine gilt. Without letterpress title. Various small tears in folds. Very good. Provenance: George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (1770-1838, lieutenant governor of 1816-20, governor-in-chief of British North America 1820-28). [with:] Alcedo, Antonio de: THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTOR- ICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES, CONTAINING AN ENTIRE TRANSLATION OF THE SPANISH WORK OF COLONEL DON ANTONIO DE ALCEDO...WITH LARGE ADDITIONS AND COMPILATIONS.... London: for James Carpenter [and others], 1812-1815. Five volumes. 3pp. preliminary list of subscribers in first volume. Quarto. Contemporary russia, gilt, spine gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled edges. Very good. Lacks the half titles. See cover of this catalogue for map detail.

The Dalhousie copy of the most important printed atlas of the Americas of its time, containing foundation wall maps of the region by the greatest British cartographer of his generation. This important copy includes contemporary manuscript additions charting Sir John Franklin’s second Arctic expedition, possibly by Franklin himself. The atlas is accompanied by a lovely first edition set of the text of Thompson’s translation and expansion of Alcedo’s classic work on the Americas. “Aaron Arrowsmith, Hydrographer to the King of England and Geographer to the Prince of Wales, was the most influential and respected map publisher of the first quarter of the nineteenth century....His role in cartographic production was to gather the best information available from a wide variety of sources, weigh the relative merits of conflicting data, and compile from this the most accurate depiction possible of an area. Arrowsmith accomplished this synthesis better than any other commercial map maker of his day and, as a result, his maps were the most sought after and highly prized on three continents” – Martin & Martin. Arrowsmith specialized in large multi-sheet maps. These were generally sepa- rately issued and are now very scarce. His five great wall maps of the Americas were particularly well received and became “foundation or prototype maps of the area and were extensively copied by other publishers” (Tooley). These five wall maps were of North America (first published in 1795), the United States (1796), the West Indies (1803), Mexico (1810), and South America (1810). They were generally republished many times, as new information became available. Thomas Jefferson considered the 1803 edition the best map of the continent in print at the time, and it was used extensively in planning Lewis and Clark’s expedition (1805- 06). Likewise, the 1814 edition of North America (offered here) was the first map to make use of Lewis and Clark’s map of the same year, and the first to combine Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike’s data onto one map. The Atlas to Thompson’s Alcedo is quite remarkable in that it contains all five of Arrowsmith’s foundation maps for the Americas gathered together and bound into one volume. The Atlas was intended to accompany Antonio de Alcedo’s The Geo- graphical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies...with Large Additions and Compilations (London, 1812-15, five quarto volumes), i.e. G.A. Thompson’s English translation of Alcedo’s Diccionario Geográfico-Histórico de las Indias Occi- dentales Ó América: Es Á Saber: De los Reynos del Perú, Nueva España, Tierra Firme, Chile, y Nuevo Reyno de Granada (Madrid, 1786-89). The present atlas is an early version, with the following maps:

1) “A Map Exhibiting all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America...A. Arrowsmith...January 1st 1795 Additions to 1811 Additions to June 1814.” On three folding sheets, overall image area: 48 1/4 x 57 1/8 inches. Browned. This copy bears manuscript additions on the first sheet, in pencil, drawing on the discoveries made by Sir John Franklin in 1826 on the north coast between the mouths of the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers, and mark- ing the course of the Coppermine southwest towards Great Bear Lake (see below). According to Stevens & Tree, “This map was repeatedly re-issued as new discoveries came to light.” The present sixth issue is the first to include the important discoveries made by Lewis and Clark during their trans-American expedition. “This issue...remaps the entire continent west of the . The changes between this and the last edition are monumental” – Rumsey, p.12. HECKROTTE TMC 6/87. RUMSEY 32. STEVENS & TREE 48 (f ). TOOLEY MCC 68. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 313. 2) “A Map of the United States of America Drawn from a number of Critical Re- searches By A. Arrowsmith...Jan 1st 1796. Additions to 1802” [but watermarked 1811]. On four folding sheets, overall image area: 46 1/4 x 55 1/2 inches. Stevens & Tree’s fifth issue: “Many new place-names and rivers added. A copy of third issue had been observed with paper watermarked 1811 [as here].” RUMSEY 3445, 4309 (both later issues). STEVENS & TREE 79(e). 3) “A New Map of Mexico and adjacent provinces compiled from original documents by A. Arrowsmith...5th October 1810” [but watermarked 1811]. On four folding sheets, overall image area: 50 1/8 x 62 inches. First issue. PHILLIPS, p.408. RUMSEY 2032 (last issue, of ca. 1825). STREETER TEXAS 1046. (all refs) 4) “Chart of the West Indies and Spanish Dominions in North America by A. Ar- rowsmith...1803...Additions to 1810.” On two folding sheets, overall image area: 47 5/8 x 55 1/2 inches. Small tears at folds of first sheet. 5) “Outlines of the Physical and Political Divisions of South America: Delineated by A. Arrowsmith partly from scarce and original documents published before the year 1806 but principally from manuscript maps & surveys made between the years 1771 and 1806. Corrected from accurate astronomical observations to 1810...Published 4th January 1811...Additions to 1814.” On six folding sheets, overall image area: 94 x 78 inches. Offsetting, small tears to folds, the fifth sheet creased. The final sheet includes a large uncolored inset of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and the .

In addition, the above maps are preceded by a contemporary manuscript key map. This was evidently professionally prepared, and may have been produced and bound- in by the Arrowsmiths in place of the usual titlepage at the request of the owner of the atlas, George Ramsay, the 9th Earl of Dalhousie. Dalhousie was appointed lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia in July 1816. He arrived in Halifax in October 1816, equipped with “an intelligent and well-stocked mind, an exacting sense of duty, a readiness to command and an expectation of being obeyed....Conscientious and full of curiosity....With an appreciative eye for rugged scenery...he adopted the habit of making frequent trips to the countryside” (Peter Burroughs in Dictionary of Canadian Biography). Given this lively interest in his new domain, it is safe to assume that the present work was often consulted by the Lieutenant Governor. After a relatively successful period in Nova Scotia, Dalhousie was appointed governor- in-chief of North America in April 1820. His period in office (1820-28) spanned the opening burst of northwest passage by the British Navy, events which the governor would have been duty-bound to follow closely. In Montreal on Friday, August 24, 1827, one of the early heroes of Arctic Ex- ploration, Captain John Franklin, was given an audience with Dalhousie. Dalhousie recorded the meeting in detail in his journal:

On Thursday Capt. Franklin arrived about 3pm and soon after took me aside to say, that he had brought his charts of the route of the expedition with him, & was ready to describe them whenever it might be agreeable. As it was late, we fixed on next day after breakfast and a most interesting forenoon we spent over them. He had several parts on large scale, starting from Fort William on Lake Superior, & proceeding to McKenzie’s river, Anxiety and Fog island, where he was stopt & obliged to turn back. After these he shewed...his general & principal chart, which comprehends only the country explored this last year, when he started from Fort Franklin on the Great Bear Lake, S.W. corner....The charts are beautifully executed by a Mr. Kendall, a young man of whom [Franklin] speaks very highly. He went over these giving the clearest description of the relative situations of the MacKenzie & Coppermine rivers, also that of the Rocky Mountains.

The manuscript additions to the first sheet in the present atlas (“A Map Exhibit- ing all the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America”) suggest it was used during this meeting. This first sheet of the whole of North America is on a large enough scale to have allowed Franklin to put his more localized charts in context, and in three areas Franklin’s discoveries are sketched in pencil and in- scribed: “Capt Franklin 1826.” These inscriptions appear to be in Franklin’s hand. The sketched geographical features record: 1) the coast to the west of the mouth of the MacKenzie River; 2) the coast between the MacKenzie and Coppermine rivers; and 3) the approximate course of the Coppermine River southwest towards Great Bear Lake. Following the meeting Franklin continued back to Britain, ar- riving in September 1827 to universal acclaim. He was knighted in April 1829 in recognition of his achievements. LOWNDES I:26. SABIN 683 (“Copies are sometimes found with an atlas of...maps by Arrowsmith, but they are rare”). M. Whitelaw, editor, The Dalhousie Journals (, 1982), Vol. III, pp.110-11. MARTIN & MARTIN, p.113. $115,000.

Striking French Views of the American Revolution

2. [American Revolution]: Ponce, Nicolas: RECUEIL D’ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT LES DIFFERENTS EVENEMENS DE LA GUERRE QUI A PROCURE L’INDEPENDANCE AUX ETATS- UNIS L’AMERIQUE. : M. Godefroy, [1784]. Sixteen engraved plates: engraved titlepage with vignettes, twelve scenes, two maps, and a final plate celebrating the peace of 1783. Quarto. Modern marbled boards, printed paper label on front board. Third plate with minor tear at lower outer edge (far out- side plate mark, not affecting image) and with a few small blotches of blue ink. Fourth and sixth plates with minor repaired tear in lower inner margin (outside plate mark). Else internally very clean and neat. A near fine copy overall.

A very nice collection of Revolutionary views, one of the few contemporary publi- cations to illustrate scenes from the Revolution. The first leaf is an engraved title with explanatory text and vignettes of battles. The plates illustrate the tarring and feathering of a tax collector; the battle of Lexington; the surrender at Saratoga; the attack of French forces on the island of ; the surrender of Senegal; the capture of ; Galvez capturing Pensacola; the capture of ; the sur- render of Cornwallis; and three more scenes of fighting on ; with two sheets of maps, and a series of vignettes commemorating the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Howes calls this the first French book to mention the United States on the titlepage. Scarce. HOWES C576, “aa.” SABIN 68421. CRESSWELL 303-307, 333-342. OCLC 3944245. BEINECKE LESSER COLLECTION 359. $4500. Item 2.

Cuban Argument for Continued Union with

3. [Arango y Parreno, Francisco de]: REFLEXIONES DE UN HABA- NERO SOBRE LA INDEPENDENCIA DE ESTA ISLA. Habana: Oficinia de Arazoza y Soler, 1823. [4],37pp. Small quarto. Modern , titled in gilt on front board and spine. Titlepage slightly dusty, else quite clean and fresh. Near fine.

“Segunda edicion. Corregida y Aumentada por su Autor,” preceded only by a much briefer version of Arango y Parreno’s essay in the periodical, El Revisor Politico y Literario, on June 30, 1823. This is the first edition in book form, and more substantial than the earlier appearance: additional text has been added above and beyond the periodical appearance, including notes and a postscript. The conclusion of the present edition is dated September 12, 1823. Francisco de Arango y Parreno (1765-1837) was born in Cuba and educated as a lawyer. He became a prominent politician and landowner, and was a leader of reform movements on the island. A member of the Supreme , he was appointed Cuban Minister of State in 1820 and Finance Minister in 1824. He argued for freer trade for Cuba, and the increased importation of slaves to enhance agricultural production. In this work he compares Cuba to the United States and argues that the situations of the two are different, and that Cuba under Spain was in a different condition than the United States on the eve of the American Revolution. Cubans were free, allowed to trade freely, represented in the Spanish parliament, and not subject to arbitrary taxation. As such, Cuba had no need for formal independence from Spain, but existed comfortably in a relationship akin to that of Canada and England. This copy comes from the Coleccion Monclau, with their bookplate on the front pastedown. OCLC locates a total of only five copies, at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the Bancroft Library, Princeton, and the British Library. Rare, and an interesting argument against Cuban independence, by a leading politician. OCLC 26838670, 559354194, 14963922. 253238. SABIN 17804. $2500.

Benedict Arnold’s Smuggling Career in the West Indies

4. [Arnold, Benedict]: [PROTEST LODGED AGAINST THE NEW HAVEN CUSTOMS HOUSE, AFTER REPEATED SEARCHES OF THE SHIP AND REFUSAL OF ENTRY; SIGNED BY TWO MEN OF THE CREW]. New Haven. Feb. 5, 1767. [2]pp. plus integral docketing leaf. Folio. Silked. Small paper loss to top of sheet, affecting a few words of text. A few minor losses at edges. Lightly soiled. Good. In a red half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Written complaint lodged with the New Haven Customs House in which two sailors, Rutherford Cooke and Caleb Comstock, protest the treatment of their ship at port – a ship of which Benedict Arnold was captain and owner. The two men attest that the sloop Charming Sally, Benedict Arnold captain (not present), sailed for the West Indies and thence to Amsterdam, where they met Arnold on business, and then back again to the West Indies. The complaint reads:

Be it known and made manifest to all persons whom these presents shall come... before me Daniel Lyman, Esqr., one of His Majesty’s Jus[tices] of the Peace for the county of New Haven...personally came and appeared Rutherford Cooke, Mate of the good sloop Charming Sally and Caleb Comstock, mariner, and on oath depose and say that on the fifteenth of July last they sailed in sd. sloop from the island of St. Croix in the West Indies to Holland whereof was Master Benedict Arnold of New Haven where we arrived on the thirtieth of August following and having there discharged our cargo took on board a freight for sd. St. Croix on account of Mr. Daniel Cromeline, merchant at Amsterdam, at which place we left our Capt. sd. Benedict Arnold on shore on the fifth of October and from there arrived at sd. St. Croix on the fifteenth of Novemr. and after disposing our cargo sailed on the twenty-third of the same month in a sett of ballast for New Haven, where we arrived the tenth of January not having our Capt. on board. And the Dept. the Mate further says that thereupon he applied to his Maj- esty’s Custom House in sd. New Haven with the register of sd. vessel & her papers in proper office hours for entering the same, but being required he left his papers with the officers thereof for a time in which the said sloop might be searched by a waiter for that purpose, which was accordingly done; but nothing found on board or in any other place tho search has repeatedly been made; and that afterwards the sd. Mate applied to sd. office for the entry of sd. vessel & her papers but was refused tho tending to give oath as the Acts of Parliament require. And especially as the Dept. further say on the fifth of inst. February, and was denied the entry of the vessel & her papers after an attendance of near three weeks.

It is signed by Rutherford Cooke, Caleb Comstock, and Justice of the Peace Daniel Lyman. Not a great deal seems to have been known about Arnold’s early business ven- tures hitherto – the material available, for example, to Arnold’s principal modern biographer, Willard Sterne Randall, being comparatively scant. Arnold first entered business in 1761, and initially seems to have been successful. He visited London the next year, where he acquired stock on credit, then set up shop on Chapel Street in New Haven under the famous sign (still preserved at the New Haven Historical Society): “B. Arnold Druggist / Bookseller &c. / From London / Sibi Totique.” Later he also acquired a sloop and undertook trading voyages to the Caribbean and Canada. Most of these voyages, however, were devoted to smuggling rather than upstanding trade. “Benedict Arnold’s business was secret by definition. To keep accurate records would have been self-destructive, yet not to engage to some degree of smuggling was all but impossible if such a business was to survive in- creasingly stringent British trade policies” – Randall (p.42). Despite these various enterprises, Arnold went bankrupt, owing some £16,000 when his business failed in the summer of 1766. Given the smuggling activities in which Arnold was engaged, and his business failure, the Customs House may have had good reason to be suspicious of his vessel, despite the lack of supporting evidence aboard ship. It is also possible that he had made enemies of the authorities, as in January 1767 he was involved in a notorious case of beating up a colonial tax collector. Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (1991). $5500. With Fine Plates of Carib Indians

5. Barrere, Pierre: NOUVELLE RELATION DE LA EQUI- NOXIALE.... Paris. 1743. [4],iv,250,[1]pp. plus three folding maps and six- teen folding plates. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners heavily worn. Faint dampstain at top edge of a few leaves, negligible foxing. About very good.

The author, a doctor, spent three years in . This work is mainly devoted to describing the Carib Indians, and is illustrated with the finest plates of Caribs extant, showing native ornaments, boats, weapons, methods of fishing, etc. Remarkably detailed and accurate, the illustrations are of great ethnological inter- est. Also contains passages on the cultivation of coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, aloes, etc. The maps show the mouth of the Amazon, the island of Cayenne, and the harbor there. “Almost the whole of the text as well as most of the sixteen plates are descriptive of the natives of Guiana, where the author resided. He gives us many new particulars regarding the Indians” – Field. SABIN 3604. LeCLERC 119. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 743/19. FIELD 87. $1000.

Atlas of the British Possessions in the Caribbean

6. [Bellin, Jacques Nicolas]: DESCRIPTION GEOGRAPHIQUE DES ISLES ANTILLES POSSEDEES PAR LES ANGLOIS. Paris. 1758. Engraved title, xii,171pp. including nine engraved views in the text, plus thir- teen engraved maps and plans (eight folding). Quarto. Contemporary French calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, leather label. Calf scuffed and edgeworn, a few chips along spine. Leaf L3 with a small hole, affecting a few letters of text, else very clean and fresh internally. Very good.

This French publication, compiled by the distinguished cartographer, Bellin, describes the British possessions in the Caribbean. The text covers the islands of (with maps of the island, Port Royal, and Kingston and Port Antonio), Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, the , Anguilla, Antigua, the Lucayes (Bahamas), and Bermuda, with a map of each. There are also nine views in the text, mainly show- ing profiles of approaches to the islands, for the use of sailors. The text comprises sailing directions for the islands and the qualities of various bays, points, and towns. Issued during the , the volume contains an unusual French map of Bermuda, and interesting coverage of other British islands. A scarce work. SABIN 4553. PHILLIPS ATLASES 3940. JCB (1)3:1174. BELL B122. BEINECKE COLLECTION 215. $8500.

Primary Source for Early French Settlement in the Caribbean

7. Biet, Antonie: VOYAGE DE LA FRANCE EQUINOXIALE EN L’ISLE DE CAYENNE, ENTREPRIS PAR LES FRANÇOIS EN L’ANNÉE M.DC.LII. Paris. 1664. [24],432pp. Small quarto. Later vel- lum. Some foxing and browning, especially affecting title-leaf and last leaf, else very good.

One of the primary sources for the French ventures in Guiana. Biet was a French priest who went to the West Indies in 1652. The work is divided into three sections. The first part de- scribes his voyage out; the second part describes events at the for the next fifteen months; and the third part provides a description of the country and the Indians. The author also made a short journey to Barbados, Marti- nique, and Guadeloupe, and offers some useful information about those regions. The work contains a vocabu- lary of the Carib Indian language. Crouse, French Pioneers in the West In- dies, p.273. SABIN 5269. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 664/15. LeCLERC 165. HANDLER, BARBADOS HISTORY, p.5. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERI- CANA V:4336. $6000. 8. Blome, Richard: A DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF JA- MAICA; WITH THE OTHER ISLES AND TERRITORIES IN AMERICA, TO WHICH THE ENGLISH ARE RELATED, viz..... London: Printed by T. Milbourn, and sold by the book-sellers of London, and Westminster, 1672. [8],192pp. plus three folding maps. 12mo. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, gilt leather label. Text lightly foxed. Small closed tear in largest map, neatly repaired. Very good.

Rare early work on Jamaica and the other American and British Caribbean colo- nies, published by British mapmaker and bookseller Richard Blome. Three issues are indicated by ESTC, each with minor variations in the imprint. Blome added to the sparse knowledge of the times, fully describing the products, resources, and natives of British America. To do this he relied heavily on the notes of then Gov- ernor of Jamaica Thomas Lynch and the summaries of explorations described in Lederer’s Discoveries (1672). Lederer’s is a firsthand account of the explorations through , the Carolinas, and other American possessions, considered the first scientific report on those regions. The three rare folding maps are “A New & Exact Mapp of y. Isle of Jamaica” engraved by Wenceslas Hollar, who had worked on Blome’s great atlas, A Geographical Description of the Four Parts of the World (1670); “A Generall Mapp of Carolina, Describing Its Sea, Coast and Rivers,” derived from the famous Horne map of 1666; and “A Draught of the Sea Coast and Rivers, of Virginia, , and New England,” with an inset of . Fewer than ten copes located in ESTC. ESTC R7437. WING B3208B. SABIN 5966. COX II, 206. CUMMING 69. BAER, MARYLAND 71. $18,500.

Rare Plate Book of Guadeloupe Views

9. Budan, Armand: LA GUADELOUPE PITTORESQUE TEXTE ET DESSINS PAR A. BUDAN. Paris: J. Claye for Noblet & Baudry, 1863. Extra lithographic titlepage on india paper, mounted; plus eleven tinted litho- graphic plates (including large folding panoramic view) by Emile Vernier after Budan. Folio. Original green cloth, stamped in blind, gilt lettering, neatly rebacked. Text somewhat toned, but plates clean. Small old dampstain in up- per blank margin of two final plates. Overall very good. In a folding green cloth box, leather label.

An important work, with eleven fine plates of Guadeloupe scenes, and with text that covers all aspects of life in Guadeloupe. Views include picturesque sights in the countryside, scenes in the main towns (Moule and l’Anse Bertrand), and a large panoramic view of the town and harbor of Pointe-à-Pietre. Budan was born in Guadeloupe in 1827 and became an accomplished painter of portraits, historical and religious subjects, flowers, and murals. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1863 to 1867 and was responsible for the mural decoration of the chapel of St. Joseph in the cathedral at Pointe-à-Pietre. A rare series of views, and most unusual for being from this period, when the decline in the sugar industry had decreased the number of patrons available for such expensive works. SABIN 8949. $12,500.

10. [Burke, Edmund, et al (attributed to)]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA. IN SIX PARTS... The Second Edition, with improvements. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1758. Two volumes. [8],324,[10]; [12],308pp. Fold- ing frontispiece map in each volume. Contemporary calf, spines gilt. Head and foot of spine worn, corners worn, hinges reinforced. Bookplates on front pastedowns, bookplate on rear pastedown of first volume. Minor foxing and toning. About very good.

Second edition, following the first of the previous year, with corrections and the addition of summaries at the start of each chapter. The authorship of this work, at least in terms of primary credit, still remains open, with William Burke (Ed- mund’s cousin) and Richard Burke (his brother) frequently being given credit as collaborators. Burke himself told Boswell that he only “revised” it. Whoever the ultimate responsible party, the work was nonetheless extremely popular, frequently reprinted and translated. The first volume deals largely with , relating to Mexico, New Mexico, and the English claims to California, , Chile, and . The second volume describes European in the West Indies. The two frontispiece maps are general representations of North and South America. HOWES B974. CLARK I:208. TODD 4b. SABIN 9282. PALAU 37503 (1st ed). HILL 218 (note). BORBA DE MORAES, p.135 (ref ). $950.

11. Campbell, John: THE IN AMERICA. CON- TAINING, A SUCCINCT RELATION OF THE DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT OF ITS SEVERAL COLONIES; A VIEW OF THEIR RESPECTIVE SITUATIONS, EXTENT, COMMODI- TIES, TRADE, &c..... London. 1747. viii,[4],330,[2]pp. Antique three- quarter calf. Leaf of advertisement trimmed and pasted to verso of front fly leaf. Minor foxing. Very good.

An early English survey of Spanish discovery, conquest, and trade in America, with some material on California, New Mexico, , Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and South America in general. Also covers Spanish trade throughout the Americas, including the West Indies. Contains a chapter entitled, “Of the means by which Spain is drained of the Effects brought from the Indies.” Includes a rare, early advertisement leaf after the text. SABIN 10240. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 747/28. PALAU 41176. GOLDSMITHS 8284. HANSON 5559. $1500.

A Philadelphia Atlas of the West Indies

12. [Caribbean Maps]: Edwards, Bryan: [Humphreys, James, publisher]: [Seymour, Joseph H., engraver]: A NEW ATLAS OF THE , WITH A WHOLE SHEET GENERAL MAP OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS, AND A WHOLE SHEET MAP OF THE ISLAND OF , OR ST. DOMINGO. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1806. Two leaves of text and eleven maps (three folding). Quarto. Original marbled boards, neatly rebacked in antique calf, spine gilt, leather label. Text leaves lightly toned, scattered foxing to maps. Slight separa- tion at folds of Hispaniola map. A few small tears at edges. About very good.

A rare early American atlas, published to accompany the Philadelphia edition of Bryan Edwards’ History of the West Indies (1806), first published in London in 1793. Edwards (1743-1800) was a British politician and sometime Jamaica planter. “Ed- wards was a diligent and able writer of West Indian history. Of his literary works, the most important is his two-volume History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, published in London in 1793. According to Elsa Goveia, its scope is large, providing ‘a complete account of the British islands – their origin and progress, their political system, their inhabitants, customs, institutions, agri- culture and commerce.’ Edwards wrote that he attempted ‘to describe the manners and dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced by climate, situation, and other local causes...an account of the African slave trade, some observations on the negro character and genius, and reflections on the system of established in our colonies.’ This classic work ran into five editions, was expanded to five volumes in the last edition, which appeared in 1819, and was translated into French, Ger- man, Dutch, Portuguese, and Italian” – DNB. This production is notable as a piece of early American cartography. The first American atlas of any kind was produced in 1794 by Mathew Carey, also of Phila- delphia. James Humphreys (1748-1810) was an ambitious Philadelphia printer who began printing prior to the Revolution. His unwillingness to openly side with the American cause during the war resulted in his being labeled as a Loyalist, which had a somewhat negative impact on his later career. He left Philadelphia with the British, moving to and then later to England and Nova Scotia before returning to Philadelphia in 1797 to reestablish his press. This handsome atlas is one of the most important of his publications from his later career. The maps were engraved by Joseph H. Seymour, an American-trained engraver who began working for Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, as early as 1791. He worked for Thomas extensively until relocating to Philadelphia from about 1803 to 1822, where he continued his trade as an engraver, producing this atlas, among his other works. The maps are as follow: “A General Map of the West Indies,” as well as individual maps of Jamaica, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Christopher and Nevis, Antigua, the Virgin Islands, Tobago, and Hispaniola. The “General Map” as well as the maps of Jamaica and Hispaniola are larger, folding sheets. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 10342. DNB (online). $12,000.

Interesting Map of the Island of Antigua

13. [Caribbean Maps]: Norie, J. W.: THE ISLAND OF ANTIGUA. Re- vised by J.W. Norie, 1827. Antigua [but actually Philadelphia]: R.B. El- dridge & Co., [ca. 1860]. Lithographic sheet map, 20½ x 26½ inches. Backed with contemporary blue paper. Light foxing and toning. A few small tears in margins. Very good.

An unusual lithographic edition of Norie’s 1827 revision of this handsome chart, lithographed by Wagner & McGuigan in Philadelphia. A statement in the car- touche reads: “Presented by R.B. Eldridge, Antigua, to Captain Andrew Tyler.” The captain’s name is accomplished in manuscript. R.B. Eldridge is not listed in Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers and appears to be unrelated to publisher of charts George Eldridge. It seems most likely that he was rather an Antigua merchant who commissioned a reprint of the chart for complimentary distribution to sea captains. A handsome piece. $2500.

14. Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier: HISTOIRE DE L’ISLE ESPAG- NOLE OU DE S. DOMINGUE. ECRITE PARTICULIEREMENT SUR DES MEMOIRES MANUSCRITS DU P. JEAN-BAPTISTE DE PERS, JESUITE, MISSIONAIRE A SAINT DOMINGUE, & SUR LES PIECES ORIGINALES, QUI SE CONSERVENT AU DEPOT DE LA MARINE. Paris. 1730-1731. Two volumes. xxviii,482, [59]pp. plus eight maps (seven folding); xiv,506,[61]pp. plus eleven maps (four folding). Quarto. 20th-century half calf and marbled boards. Slight foxing. Overall a very good set.

Charlevoix was a French Jesuit who spent some time in Quebec before arriving in St. Louis and travelling south to New Orleans and thence to Domingo. This is his extensive history of , highlighted by handsome detailed engraved maps of Santo Domingo, Haiti, , and the entire Caribbean area. Covers the years from 1492 to 1724, with much material relating to the indigenous and black populations. One of the most important single histories of a Caribbean island from this early period. SABIN 12127. LeCLERC 1371. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 730/45. PALAU 67166. $3500.

Important Work on Caribbean Plants

15. Chaumeton, François Pierre: FLORE MÉDICALE. Paris. 1814-1819. Eight volumes. 425 color plates (two folding). Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Corners rubbed. Light foxing. Very good.

An interesting and beautifully illustrated series, with plates produced during the great period of French color printing. The title appears to have been loosely inter- preted, and consequently the work was expanded to include grapes, melon, palms, pineapple, pomegranates, bananas, and other interesting but non-medicinal plants. François Pierre Chaumeton (1775-1819) was a French army physician, pharma- cist, and botanist. He worked on several notable medical publications beyond this one. Fellow botanist Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755-1834) collaborated with him on this project, perhaps accounting for its wide-ranging scope, far beyond mere medical botany. The detailed illustrations were executed by Ernestine Panckoucke and Pierre Jean François Turpin, both gifted botanical illustrators. Indeed, Turpin is considered one of the greatest botanical and floral illustrators of his time. Sets often lack some of the plates, and it is difficult to find complete. A handsome and important production. PRITZEL 1676. NISSEN 349. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 2: 1091, 8115. $8000. 16. [Choiseul, E.F., compiler]: MEMOIRE HISTORIQUE SUR LA NE- GOCIATION DE LA FRANCE & DE L’ANGLETERRE, DEPUIS LE 26 MARS 1761, JUSQU’AU 20 SEPTEMBRE DE LA MÊME ANNÉE; AVEC LES PIECES JUSTIFICATIVES. A Londres. 1761. [4],60pp. Small quarto. Modern blue boards, gilt leather label. Small ex-lib. deaccession stamp on rear pastedown (no other markings). Minor soiling and foxing. A few leaves trimmed close at top, affecting page numbers. Very good.

London edition, printed the same year as the Paris first edition, of this important collection of state papers relative to the establishment of the , end- ing the French and Indian War; the cession of Canada; the limits of and its passing into the hands of Spain; the fisheries off Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Guadeloupe, etc. The work was issued at the order of the French government in an attempt to lay fault at the feet of the British for the termination of peace ne- gotiations, and it was quickly translated and printed in London the same year. A document of great importance, with a key place in the beginning of the negotia- tions which would result in securing for the British much of North America. The ESTC notes this edition may have been issued with the English text, An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of France and England..., which has the same imprint. HOWES M507. SABIN 47516. TPL 338 (Paris ed). ESTC T39115. $3500.

With the Rare Folding Map

17. Cockburn, John: A JOURNEY OVER LAND, FROM THE GULF OF TO THE GREAT SOUTH-SEA. PERFORMED BY...AND FIVE OTHER ENGLISHMEN...WHO WERE TAKEN BY A SPANISH GUARDA-COSTA...AND SET ON SHOAR AT A PLACE CALLED PORTO-CAVALO...CONTAINING, VARIETY OF EXTRAORDINARY DISTRESSES AND ADVENTURES, AND SOME NEW AND USEFUL DISCOVERIES OF THE INLAND OF THOSE ALMOST UNKNOWN PARTS OF AMERICA: AS ALSO, AN EXACT ACCOUNT OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE SEVERAL INDIANS...TO WHICH IS ADDED...A BRIEF DISCOVERYE OF SOME THINGS BEST WORTH NOTEINGE IN THE TRAVELLS OF NICHOLAS WITHINGTON, A FACTOR IN THE EAST-INDIASE. London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1735. viii,349,[3]pp. Folding frontispiece map. Mod- ern paneled calf, spine with raised bands, maroon gilt morocco labels. Hinges slightly worn. Small contemporary stamp on titlepage. Internally bright and clean. Very good.

The first edition, with the rare folding map, of this frequently printed, highly important narrative which, for many years, was assumed to be fictional due to the severity of the “extraordinary distresses and adventures.” The map depicts Central America and the Isthmus of Panama. “Cockburn and several other pirates were set ashore...at Puerto Caballos in 1730. After escaping from jail in San Pedro Sula, they crossed the Isthmus to San Salvador and thence traveled to Panama overland....The account is valuable, as few foreign observers visited Central America in the early eighteenth century” – Griffin. The Withington narrative, with its own titlepage, makes up the final eighty-five pages of this volume. FIELD 336. GRIFFIN 2530 (ref ). SABIN 14095. $3250.

A Superb Original Watercolor of Travel in South America

18. []: [Fane, Francis Augustus, Col.]: NIGHT BIVOUAC IN NEW GRENADA. [New Grenada (i.e. Colombia). January/February 1850]. Pen-and-ink and watercolor on an octagonal sheet of wove paper. Sheet size: 12¾ x 18½ inches. Corners clipped, else very good. Provenance: Sotheby’s, May 29, 1958, lot 377.

Wonderful mid-19th-century watercolor of a night scene in the jungle of New Gre- nada. Fane, from a prosperous Lincolnshire family, joined the Army and served in the West Indies and in Canada in the late 1840s. In January 1850 he left Antigua for a sojourn in New Grenada, arriving on January 19 of that year. Fane’s diary, now in the National Archives, , records the circumstances surrounding this scene: on January 24 he “Started an expedition to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with two Indian guides,” and the following day “hired donkeys and engaged an interpreter.” The present watercolor shows Fane at rest in a hammock, whilst the interpreter and one of the Indians cut wood and the other Indian tends the fire. Fane reached the “Perpetual Snow” on February 13, arrived back in Santa Martha on February 22 and at Cartagena on February 29. He returned to Antigua via Jamaica the second week in March of that year. In 1857, Fane would raise a regiment to fight in the Indian Mutiny and would become a noted diarist and watercolorist. For the above quoted diary: National Archives, U.K., Records of the Fane Family, 1 Fane 6/8/1/3. $4500.

19. [Compagnie des Indes]: DECLARATION DU ROY, PORTANT QUE LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES ORIENTALES JOUIRA PENDANT LE TEMPS QUI RESTE A EXPIRER DE SON PRIVI- LEGE, DU DIXIEME DES PRISES DAN LES PAYS DE SA CON- CESSION, APRES LEQUEL TEMPS CE DROIT APPARTIEN- DRA À L’ADMIRAL DE FRANCE. DONNEE A FONTAINE- BLEAU LE 3 SEPTEMBRE 1712. Paris: Chez la Veuve François Muguet & Hubert Muguet, 1712. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Very minor foxing. Contemporary inscription. Fine.

Royal decree by Louis XIV allowing the rights to a tenth of the value of all prizes captured, usually allowed to the Admiral of France, to the Compagnie des Indes, until the expiration of their current license, after which the “dixième” will revert again to the Admiralty. Some of these prizes were seized in American waters. Wroth cites only one copy, that in the John Crerar Library; OCLC locates only one more at the University of . Rare. This copy is from the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the , despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 79 (this copy). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 500. BELL F971 (ref ). OCLC 62617219. $1000.

Lotteries of the Compagnie des Indies

20. [Compagnie des Indes]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT DU ROY, CONCERNANT LE PRIVILEGE EXCLUSIF DES LOTERIES, ACCORDE A LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES. DU 15 FEVRIER 1724 [caption title]. Paris. 1724. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Very minor foxing. Contemporary inscription. Near fine.

A French law granting the exclusive right to organize lotteries to the speculative “Compagnie des Indes,” France’s leading West Indian commercial concern. Not in Wroth; OCLC locates only two copies, at Yale and the University of Minnesota. Rare. This copy is from the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 294 (this copy). OCLC 47646033. $1500.

Early Imprint

21. [Cuba]: CON FECHA DE 25 DE JUNIO ULTIMO ME DICE EL SENOR SECRETARIO DE ESTADO Y DEL DESPACHO DE LA GOBERNACION DE ULTRAMAR LO SIGUIENTE [manuscript caption title for printed document]. Havana. Sept. 20, 1813. [1]p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Moderately chipped and worn at edges. Lightly and evenly toned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good.

A rare printed decree from Cuba at the beginning of the 19th century, as Span- ish power in the world was waning but Spain’s grip on Cuba was still quite firm. This decree, issued by the King on June 14, 1813 and printed on September 20, announces regarding the rights to vote and to be elected to hold govern- ment positions for professors and scholars from certain universities, collegiums, and seminars. The decree forbade these rights to the Knights of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as well as members of the four military orders of Santiago, Calatrava, Alcantara, and Montesa. It is endorsed in manuscript, with the imprint and header also written in by hand. Early Caribbean imprints are rare. $1250.

Amnesty to Curry Favor

22. [Cuba]: CON FECHA DE 26 DE JULIO ULTIMO ME DICE EL SENOR SECRETARIO DE ESTADO Y DEL DESPACHO DE LA GOBERNACION DE ULTRAMAR LO SIGUIENTE [caption title]. Havana. Sept. 20, 1813. [1]p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Mod- erately chipped and worn at edges. Evenly toned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good.

A rare Havana imprint. As Spanish power in the New World was waning, its grip on Cuba was threatened by domestic and foreign intruders. This decree, issued by Fernando VII on June 17, 1813 and printed on September 20, orders the annulment of all criminal cases. This amnesty policy, extended to other areas of as well, sought to placate opposition forces. It calls on all levels of government to announce and enforce the decree. It is endorsed in manuscript. $1250.

Recruiting Colonists for Cuba, 1818

23. [Cuba]: REGLAS PARA EL DOMICILIO DE NUEVOS COLO- NOS Y SUS AUXILIOS. [Havana. March 6, 1818]. 6pp. Printed in three columns in Spanish, English, and French. Folio. Heavily tanned. Slight worm- ing, affecting a few words on each leaf. Good.

A rare Havana imprint relating to immigration to Cuba, published by the Captain General of Cuba, Jose Cienfuegos, and the Supervisor of the Finances of the Crown in Cuba, Alejandro Ramirez. It contains thirteen articles that announce new laws for colonists arriving in Cuba based on a Royal Order from October 21, 1817. The new laws were designed to increase the migration of new colonists to Cuba, espe- cially among whites. The document specifically mentions potential colonists from Germany, France, England, Ireland, and Spain. It is thanks to those new laws that in 1819 the city of Cienfuegos was founded and settled by French immigrants from Bordeaux and Louisiana led by Don Louis de Clouet. OCLC locates only three copies, at the Library of Congress, Boston Public Library, and Harvard. $1500.

Building a Railroad to the Sugar Plantations

24. [Cuba]: [ARCHIVE OF TEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS RE- LATING TO THE PROPOSED MATANZAS-SABANILLA RAIL- WAY EXTENSION TO A SUGAR REFINERY]. Havana. 1843. Ten manuscript documents, [37]pp. total. Folio and small quarto sheets. Light age toning and soiling, some ink bleed. Generally very good.

Documents relating to the building of an extension of the Matanzas-Sabanilla railway line in northern Cuba to the Ojo de Agua sugar refinery, with discussion of the difficulties, costs, benefits, etc. One of the positive effects of the railway line, as noted in the archive, is that the linkage of Havana and Matanzas could avert any attempt to invade the island and aid in the defense of the coastal area. Two railroad companies are mentioned in the archive and included in the reports and correspondence: the Empresa-Sabanilla Railway Company and the Guines Rail- way. Two of the documents are signed by Jerónimo Valdés (1784-1855), a Spanish military figure and administrator who served as governor of Cuba from 1841 to September 1843. $1250.

A Bullfighting Broadside from Cuba in 1854

25. [Cuba]: [Bullfighting]: PLAZA DE TOROS DE LA HABANA. DECIMA CORRIDA DEL PRIMER ABONO, PARA EL DO- MINGO 16 DE JULIO DE 1854, A LAS 5 DE LA TARDE [caption title]. Havana. 1854. Broadside, 12½ x 8 inches. Printed on green paper. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling, minor separation at some folds. A few contemporary notations. Very good.

Cuban broadside advertising a bullfight featuring matador Don Manuel Rodri- guez Lanza and the “8 toros de muerte.” The top of the sheet features a woodcut of a matador holding his cape out to a bull. The first swordsman for the fight is Manuel Diaz Lavi, with two alternates listed. The names of the Banderilleros and Picadores for the fight are also listed. Bullfighting was a popular entertainment in Cuba during the Spanish colonial period, though it was done away with after Cuban independence at the beginning of the 20th century. $1500. Item 25.

Map of Cuba for Use in the Spanish-American War

26. [Cuba]: MILITARY MAP OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA. PRE- PARED IN THE MILITARY INFORMATION DIVISION, AD- JUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT. [New York: Julius Bien, lithographer], 1897. Four folded sheet maps, each 37 x 27 inches. Quarto. Original brown cloth, gilt leather label on cover. Light wear to bind- ing. Each map segmented and backed with linen. Light toning. Very good.

Lithograph map of Cuba, drawn by C.H. Ourand, showing various districts and precincts, small towns, villages, telegraph stations, military trenches, railroads, high- ways, wagon roads, and even foot paths. This map was published on the eve of the Spanish-American War, wherein the United States fought for Cuban independence from Spain. This map seems also to exist in a large, single-sheet version, though this edition was clearly printed in four distinct segments, likely to show more detail at a larger resolution. $3500. A Rare Southern Des Barres Chart

27. Des Barres, Joseph F. Wallet: A CHART OF THE BAY AND HAR- BOUR OF PENSACOLA IN THE PROVINCE OF WEST FLOR- IDA SURVEYED BY GEORGE GAULD A.M. London: J.F.W. Des Barres in The Atlantic Neptune, Aug. 1, 1780. Copper-engraved sea chart with aquatint, and details heightened in original color. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 29 7/8 inches. Very good.

A very rare and highly important sea chart of Pensacola Harbor from The Atlantic Neptune, the finest marine atlas of North America’s east coast, produced during the Revolutionary War. This superbly drafted map features the magnificent natural harbor of Pensacola, on the Florida panhandle. Des Barres based this rendering on manuscript survey maps by British military engineer George Gauld. The town, with its fort and care- fully laid-out streets, is featured in the left center of the map. Another settlement, “Campbell Town,” is located further up the harbor toward the entrance of the “Scambia” (Escambia) River. The borders of various land grants are demarcated, and the countryside is elegantly detailed with aquatint features and colored in a light brown-green wash. The chart precisely captures the features of the coast, showing how the harbor is protected by two sandy bars of land, the outer being Santa Rosa Island. The chart features a great deal of quantitative hydrographic information, and instructions to mariners are written in the lower right of the map, ensuring that it was by far the most accurate and comprehensive pilot for the harbor produced in the 18th century. The present example is the second of two variants of this chart distinguished by the heightening of the townscapes in a brilliant red hue of original color. It is important to note that the very year this map was printed, the region was caught up in the dramatic action of the Revolutionary War. The Spaniards, who had just joined the war on the American side, seized the British garrison at Fort Barrancas, and remained in their possession for the duration of the war. Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was born in Switzerland, from which his Huguenot ancestors had fled following the repeal of the Edict of Nantes. He studied under the great mathematician, Daniel Bernoulli, at the University of Basel, before immigrating to Britain, where he trained at the Royal Military College, Woolwich. Upon the outbreak of hostilities with France in 1756, he joined the British Royal American Regiment as a military engineer. He came to the attention of Gen. James Wolfe, who appointed him to join his personal detail. During this period he also worked with legendary future explorer James Cook on a monumental chart of the St. Lawrence River. Upon the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, Britain’s empire in North America was greatly expanded, and this required the creation of a master atlas featuring new and accurate sea charts for use by the Royal Navy. Des Barres was enlisted to survey the coastlines of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. With these extremely accurate surveys in hand, Des Barres returned to London in 1774, where the Royal Navy charged him with the Herculean task of producing the atlas. He was gradually forwarded the manuscripts of numerous advanced surveys conducted by British cartographers in the American Colonies, Jamaica, and Cuba. The result was The Atlantic Neptune, which became the most celebrated sea atlas of its era, containing the first systematic survey of the east coast of North America. Des Barres’ synergy of great empirical accuracy, with the peerless artistic virtue of his aquatint views, created a work that “has been described as the most splendid collection of charts, plates and views ever published” (NMM). The Neptune eventually consisted of four volumes. Des Barres’ dedication to the project was so strong that often at his own expense he continually updated and added new charts and views to various editions up to 1784, producing over 250 charts and views, many appearing in several variations. All of these charts were immensely detailed, featuring both hydrographical and topographical information, such that in many cases they remained the most authoritative maps of the regions covered for several decades. Following the completion of the Neptune, Des Barres returned to Canada, where he remained for a further forty years, becoming a senior political figure and a wealthy land owner, living to the advanced age of 103. NMM, HENRY NEWTON STEVENS COLLECTION 173B. NMM III:144, p.384. SELLERS & VAN EE, MAPS AND CHARTS OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES 1663. GUTHORN, BRITISH MAPS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU- TION 46 (ref ). $22,500. 28. Dickenson, Jonathan: ONGELUKKIGE SCHIPBREUK EN YSLYKE REYSTOGT, VAN ETLYKE ENGELSCHEN, IN DEN JAARE 1696 VAN JAMAIKA IN WEST-INDIEN, NA PENSYLVANIA T’SCHEEP GEGAAN, EN IN DE GOLF VAN FLORIDA.... Ley- den: Pieter van der Aa, [1707?]. [28]pp., printed in double columns (with the actual printed foliations, totaling 50, referring to the columns). Folding map and three in-text illustrations. Folio. Modern three-quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Faint stain in upper outer corner of most text leaves. Closed tear in foremargin of leaf A1. Good.

The Frank C. Deering copy, with his gilt leather bookplate on the front free end- paper. Dickenson’s harrowing narrative was first published in Philadelphia in 1699, and in London in 1700 and 1701. All of those editions are rare, the first being exceedingly so. The next edition came out in 1707, by Dutch printer Pieter van der Aa, who produced folio and octavo versions, both of which were the first to contain illustrations. This is the scarcer folio edition. Dickenson’s story is not exactly an Indian captivity narrative, although often considered such. He and his companions were shipwrecked on the Florida coast in 1696 and walked several hundred miles north to St. Augustine and safety. Indians stole from them and harassed them, but little else. The map shows the eastern seaboard of the United States, as well as Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica. The three engravings show Dickenson’s tribu- lations at the hands of the Florida Indians. European Americana hypothesizes a 1708 publication date. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 708/36. VAIL 305. Octavo van der Aa edition: CLARK I:73. HOWES D317. AYER 74. SABIN 20017. SERVIES 262. $2500.

The Future Governor of Virginia Begins His Colonial Career

29. [Dinwiddie, Robert]: [MANUSCRIPT BRITISH ROYAL COMMIS- SION ON VELLUM APPOINTING ROBERT DINWIDDIE AS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOMS FOR THE COLONIES OF BARBADOS AND THE ]. London. March 29, 1739. Original manuscript document on vellum, 13¾ x 16¾ inches. Em- bossed paper seal of the British Customs Commissioners Office affixed to the left margin on the recto; and three small, blue, paper tax stamps (totaling 18 pence) affixed to upper margin on recto. Small paper seal of King George II affixed to verso. Old folds. Lightly soiled. Very good. Matted.

This manuscript British royal commission appoints Robert Dinwiddie to the posi- tion of inspector general of Customs for the Colonies of Barbados and the Leeward Islands. It was issued near the beginning of a long career as a colonial administrator that saw Dinwiddie ardently root out financial corruption in the British colonies in the Caribbean, and would eventually culminate in his appointment as lieutenant governor of Virginia. As Virginia’s acting governor he would play a crucial role on the colonial frontier in the early years of the French and Indian War. Dinwiddie came from a family of traders and merchants, and in 1727 he was made collector of customs for Bermuda. In 1738 his purview was expanded, and he was appointed surveyor-general of the Royal Customs for the Southern Part of America, which included , Jamaica, and the American colonies from southward. The present commission was issued just a year later, and appoints Dinwiddie as inspector general of duties for Barbados and the Leeward Islands, including investigating the “Dutys of Four and a half percent payable to His Majesty.” Dinwiddie had uncovered customs frauds in Barbados and the Lee- ward Islands in 1738, and this commission officially invests him with powers “for examining into the behavior and conduct of the Surveyor General, the Collectors, the Comptrollers, Searchers, and all other officers, clerks and persons appointed or employ’d in the managing charging or collecting the said Dutys according to such orders and instructions as we have already or shall hereafter give to the said Dinwiddie for that purpose.” In this office he would charge several customs of- ficials, including Edward Lascelles, with false entries, fraudulent sales, and cor- ruption, and dismiss them from office. Dinwiddie was praised and criticized for his activities in Barbados, and the royal customs commissioners later characterized his work as proceeding with “more zeal than prudence” (see ANB). His greatest fame in the American colonies came with his appointment as lieutenant governor (and de facto acting governor) of Virginia. In 1753 he sent George Washington to push French commissioners south of the Great Lakes to abdicate lands claimed by Virginia. Dinwiddie’s demand and the French rejection of it was one of the precipitating factors in the French and Indian War, and he was a significant early patron of George Washington’s military career. The present customs appointment is signed in manuscript by Lord Thomas Fairfax (1693-1781), proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia, as well as three of his colleagues in the Customs Commissioners Office, including John Evelyn and R. Corbet. Descended by his mother of the Culpeper family, which had for genera- tions been intimately involved with Virginia affairs, Fairfax played an active role in the colony’s frontier development, first venturing there in 1735, then permanently residing in Virginia from 1747 until his death in 1781. In 1754, at the request of Gov. Dinwiddie, Fairfax assumed duties as a lieutenant in Virginia’s frontier militia. “[Dinwiddie’s] career as colonial administrator was marked by vision, strength, at- tention to detail, and untiring energy. As the man who precipitated the struggle which brought about the downfall of , he is a figure of first importance in the early history of the American continent” – DAB. DAB V, pp.316-17. ANB 6, pp.620-21. $2850.

30. [Drake, Francis]: [Teixeira, Jose]: A TREATISE PARAENETICAL, THAT IS TO SAY: AN EXHORTATION. WHEREIN IS SHEWED BY GOOD AND EVIDENT REASONS, INFALLIBLE ARGU- MENTS, MOST TRUE AND CERTAINE HIS- TORIES, AND NOTABLE EXAMPLES; THE RIGHT WAY & TRUE MEANES TO RESIST THE VIO- LENCE OF THE CASTIL- IAN KING: TO BREAKE THE COURSE OF HIS DESSEIGNES: TO BEAT DOWNE HIS PRIDE, AND TO RUINATE HIS PUISSANCE. London: Wil- liam Ponsoby, 1598. [16],28,37- 160pp. Small quarto. Early 20th-century polished calf, re- backed with original gilt spine laid down, leather label, raised bands, a.e.g. Contemporary ownership signature at top edge of titlepage, partially trimmed. Top edge of text trimmed a bit close, occasionally just affecting page num- bers. Very good.

First edition in English of this anti-Spanish treatise, and an early account of Sir Francis Drake’s 1589 Lisbon campaign. The Leconfield-Penrose copy, with Boies Penrose’s bookplate on the front pastedown. Penrose, a noted collector of works on travel and , wrote the landmark history, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance 1420-1620; his books were sold in London in 1970. “Contains references to Sir Francis Drake, Brazil, the West Indies, etc. The STC suggests that this is an earlier edition of ‘The Spanish Pilgrime,’ by José Teixeira, translated by W. P., London, 1625” – Sabin. SABIN 96752. PALAU 328878. STC 19838. $2750.

The Greatest Early Work on the French in the Antilles

31. Dutertre, Jean Baptiste: HISTOIRE GENERALE DES ANTIL- LES HABITÉES PAR LES FRANÇOIS.... Paris: Chez Thomas Jolly, 1667-1671. Four volumes bound in three. [20],593,[3]; [16],539; [16],317,[8]; [6],362,[13]pp., plus eighteen plates (many folding) and five folding maps. Extra engraved titlepage in first and second volumes. Plate of arms in first, third, and fourth volumes. Contemporary calf, leather labels, spines gilt extra. Minor rubbing, some light edge wear. Final text leaf in first volume torn but no loss. Overall a fine, particularly fresh set in the original bindings.

The best edition, after the original abridged edition of 1654. This extensive work is full of detailed descriptions of life in the French Antilles, including natural his- tory, slavery, plantation activities, and the like. The fine engraved plates depict sugar plantation work, slaves manufacturing indigo, animals, spiders, land and naval battles between the French and British in the Caribbean, etc. The maps are of St. Christopher, Guadeloupe, St. Croix, Marigalande, and . “This volu- minous account of the French settlements in the West Indies contains numerous passages which indicate the importance of tobacco in the political economy of the islands” – Arents. According to Rich, Dutertre was forced to publish the original 1654 edition before the work was complete: “The first edition of Father Du Tertre’s History of the Antilles, or rather the project of that work, which the Rev. Father was obliged to put to press in haste, because he understood that some other person was about printing it under some other name, thereby depriving him of the credit of it.” SABIN 21458. JCB (3)III:154-155. ARENTS 299. HANDLER 7. EUROPEAN AMER- ICANA 667/37. RICH 299. $24,000.

The of Jamaica

32. [Edwards, Bryan]: THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNOR AND ASSEMBLY OF JAMAICA, IN REGARD TO THE MA- ROON NEGROES....TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRO- DUCTORY ACCOUNT, CONTAINING OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISPOSITION, CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND HAB- ITS OF LIFE, OF THE MAROONS, AND A DETAIL OF THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THOSE PEOPLE AND THE WHITE INHAB- ITANTS. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1796. iv,lxxxix,[2],109pp., plus [1]p. of advertisements. Frontis. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt red morocco label. Joints expertly repaired, corners and edges worn, chipped at spine ends. Very clean internally. Very good.

An important account of the Second Maroon War, which was waged on Jamaica in 1795-96 between the black Maroons and the British colonizers. The Maroons were the descendants of a band of runaway slaves, and their presence on Jamaica unnerved the slave-owning planters, who feared they might inspire other slaves to revolt. Added to long simmering tensions was the flogging of two Maroons for stealing a pig in July 1795. The punishment was inflicted by a black overseer in front of some of the slaves that Maroons had helped to recapture and return to their masters. Violence ensued that lasted for several months. In the end more than 500 Maroons were transported to Nova Scotia, and in 1800 they were sent to the newly established African colony for freed slaves, . Bryan Edwards, a West Indies planter and merchant, is best known as the author of The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, first published in 1793. In the long introduction to the present work Edwards gives a detailed description of the rebellion of the Maroons and background on the ori- gins of the conflict. He was a supporter of slavery and favored regulation (but not abolition) of the slave trade. He was also quite critical of the French treatment of African slaves on Haiti, no doubt fearing the being fomented on French-ruled Haiti might migrate to British-controlled Jamaica. Ragatz notes that Edwards’ introductory account of the Maroon rebellion is not included in the original edition of the proceedings of the governor and assembly, printed the same year in St. Jago de la Vega. Those proceedings give further information on the conflict, the names of many of the Maroon participants, and the resolution of the fighting, which was hastened by the importation of fierce hunting dogs from Haiti. The frontispiece is a nicely executed portrait of Leonard Parkinson, a captain of the Maroons, shown striding purposefully and carrying a rifle. The advertise- ment page at the end is for the second edition of Edwards’ History..., published by Stockdale in 1794. CUNDALL 76. RAGATZ, p.198. SABIN 21893. ESTC T72528. GOLDSMITHS 16687. $2250.

33. Edwards, Bryan: AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE FRENCH COLONY IN THE ISLAND OF ST. DOMINGO: COMPRE- HENDING A SHORT ACCOUNT OF ITS ANCIENT GOVERN- MENT, POLITICAL STATE, POPULATION, PRODUCTIONS, AND EXPORTS; A NARRATIVE OF THE CALAMITIES WHICH HAVE DESOLATED THE COUNTRY EVER SINCE THE YEAR 1789.... London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1797. [6],xxiii,[1],247pp. plus large folding map. Quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Front hinge cracked but holding, extremities lightly worn. Bookplate pasted over on front pastedown. Negligible foxing and soiling. Very good.

An important and informative work on the history of Santo Domingo, intended to be a complement to Edwards’ extensive writings on the British West Indies. Born in England in 1743, Edwards was a wealthy West Indies planter, merchant, and member of the colonial assembly. Much of this history of Santo Domingo deals with the slave revolts of the early 1790s and the conditions of the local blacks; and though Edwards did not favor the abolition of slavery, he was in favor of a regula- tion of the slave trade. Several tables give statistics for imports and exports for the island. “The author condemns the French settlers’ treatment of the negroes and passes severe judgment upon the former’s conduct toward the English who came to aid from Jamaica in 1793. Edwards was opposed to the island’s passing under British control and thus competing with the old sugar colonies in the home market” – Ragatz. SABIN 21894. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA 1210. JCB (1)III:3870. BIS- SAINTHE 5642. RAGATZ, p.164 (later ed). HARMSWORTH TRUST SALE 1797. $1000. 34. Entick, John: THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR: CONTAINING IT’S [sic] RISE, PROGRESS, AND EVENT, IN EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA. London. 1763-1764. Five volumes. [4],495,[2]; 464; 480; 469,[27]pp., plus eight maps and forty (of forty-one) portraits. Lacking the portrait of Lord Bute, but supplemented by the addition of a portrait of Lord Anson, two naval plates, and a map. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt labels. Calf dry and chipping; boards generally worn, especially at spines. Clean internally. Overall very good.

A survey history of the French and Indian War, with considerable material on the war in North America and the Caribbean. A long and detailed work, with extracts from original source material and journals of the time. Includes many excellent en- graved portraits of military leaders and folding maps of the British North American colonies, the West Indies, etc. HOWES E165a, “aa.” SABIN 22667. $3500.

Classic Work on Pirates of the Caribbean

35. Esquemeling, Alexander: BUCANIERS OF AMERICA: OR, A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE MOST REMARKABLE ASSAULTS COMMITTED OF LATE YEARS UPON THE COASTS OF THE WEST-INDIES, BY THE BUCANIERS OF JAMAICA AND TOR- TUGA, BOTH ENGLISH AND FRENCH. London: William Crooke, 1684. [12],115,151,[1],124,[11]pp. plus four engraved portraits (including frontispiece), four engraved plates (two folding), and double-page engraved map of Panama. Small quarto. Early 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Minor edge and corner wear, spine gilt rubbed. Inner margin of first two leaves strengthened, one plate trimmed and mounted, light foxing. Overall, a clean copy. Very good.

The first English edition of the first extensive account of the pirates of the West Indies, with all plates and map present. A fourth part was issued separately the following year. One of the most engaging examples of early British Americana, this work has served as the basis for countless novels, stories, and dramas, as well as establishing the popular legends of many famous pirates. One buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, followed a very modern course and sued the author for defamation. He was awarded £200 for damages. CHURCH 689. SABIN 23479. STEVENS, HISTORICAL NUGGETS 1002. EURO- PEAN AMERICANA 684/54. WING E3894. HILL 578. BEINECKE LESSER ANTIL- LES COLLECTION 82. $8500.

With a Handsome Map of St. Barts

36. Euphrasén, Bengt Anders: BESKRIFNING OFVER SVENSKA VESTINDISKA ON SR. BARTHELEMI, SAMT OARNE ST. EU- STACHE OCH ST. CHRISTOPHER. Stockholm: Anders Zetterberg, 1795. [8],207pp. plus folding plate and folding map. Contemporary three- quarter calf and speckled boards. Spine worn and rubbed. Later ink ownership signature on front pastedown. Internally bright and clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

The first edition of Euphrasén’s description of the flora and fauna of St. Barts, St. Christopher, and St. Eustachius, which includes the large folding map of St. Barts. Sabin records a 1798 German edition, which was not issued with plates. The work is divided into sections by island and is presented as a series of brief descriptions rather than a cohesive narrative. The author was for many years the pastor of the church at Lorient in St. Barts, and this book is one of the primary sources for the island in its Swedish period, as well as containing the first map of that vaunted refuge of jet-setters. An attractive early scientific investigation of the Lesser Antilles region. Scarce. OCLC locates a total of ten copies. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 470. BELL E161. SABIN 23107 (another ed). OCLC 12245731, 186869671. $6000. Rare Views of the West Indes and Bermuda

37. [Fanshawe, Edward Gennys, Sir, Vice Admiral]: [FORTY LITHO- GRAPHIC VIEWS, MOSTLY OF THE WEST INDIES AND IN- CLUDING A FEW OF NORTH AMERICA]. [Halifax or Bermuda? early 1870s]. Forty lithographic views, some on two joined sheets. Various sizes from 2¾ x 7½ inches to 7½ x 21 inches. Almost all with printed titles, two with titles in pencil. All mounted at corners onto album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary album of embossed cloth, rebacked and recornered in calf, gilt-lettered leather label (“West Indies”) on front board. Some light spotting, but in very good condition. In a folding box, leather label.

An album of exceedingly rare lithographic views of scenes in the West Indies and North America. Though unattributed, these lithographs are after original draw- ings by Vice Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe of the British Royal Navy. The drawings were made by him while he was Commander in Chief of the North American and West Indies Station from 1870 to 1874, and we believe the litho- graphs to have been made about the same time. Vice Admiral Fanshawe (1814-1906) was the son of a distinguished general and the grandson of naval commander Robert Fanshawe, who served with Admiral John Byron. Fanshawe attended the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and entered the navy in December 1828. He served in the Mediterranean, India, and in the home and Lisbon stations. In 1841 he was promoted to commander and was sent to the East Indies, where he earned acclaim for reducing a pirate stronghold at Borneo. He then served in the Pacific, in the Baltic during the , and again in the Mediterranean. In 1863 he was promoted to Rear Admiral, and two years later was made a Lord of the Admiralty. In 1870, Fanshawe was promoted to Vice Admiral and was appointed Commander in Chief of the North American and West Indies Station, a position he held until 1874. Following that he was president of the Royal Naval College, then Commander in Chief at Portsmouth until his retirement in 1879. Vice Admiral Fanshawe was an accomplished artist who painted and sketched throughout his long career in the navy. The National Maritime Museum in Green- wich holds several paintings by Fanshawe, as well as an album of lithographic views after his sketches in the West Indies, North America, and Borneo (presented to the Museum in 1951). When Fanshawe was appointed Commander in Chief of the North American and West Indies Station in September in 1870, he sailed with his family for Halifax, Nova Scotia. Joining him was his son (a future Admiral of the Fleet), Arthur Fanshawe, as his flag lieutenant. The Fanshawes mainly lived at Ad- miralty House, Halifax in the summer and at Clarence Hill, Bermuda in the winter. During the winters Fanshawe took regular cruises around the West Indies to show the flag, visit British stations, and conduct fleet exercises. Among the places visited were Demerara, , St. Vincent, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Jamaica (a yearly occurrence), and Cuba. He also visited the United States and Canada, taking his flagship, the Royal Alfred, to Annapolis and meeting with President Grant in Washington, as well as visiting Quebec, Ottawa, and Niagara Falls. Nearly all the lithographs in the present album match the lithographs as captioned and described in the Fanshawe album of views in the West Indies, North America, and Borneo at the National Maritime Museum (NMM). In their cataloguing of that album of lithographs, the NMM states: “It can only be assumed [Fanshawe] made the drawings that are the basis of the West Indian and American lithographs: who turned them into prints and when is unknown. It is not impossible he did so himself later but perhaps unlikely: his son Evelyn might be another possibility, since he was also an amateur photographer.” We surmise the lithographs were created from Fanshawe’s drawings while he was Commander in Chief in North America, and that they were likely made in either Halifax (where he summered) or Bermuda (where he wintered). In all there are forty views in the present album, including depictions of Bermuda, Jamaica, St. Kitts, Antigua, Trinidad, Tobago, and elsewhere in the West Indies. A few of the views are of North America and include views of Niagara Falls and the St. Lawrence River. The views included in the album are as follow:

1) “From Signal Hill, – Bermuda.” 2) Untitled, showing a coastal fortress with sailboats and a canoe circling it. 3) “St. Salvador.” Captioned in pencil. 4) “Court House. Berbice.” 5) “Bocca Grande Trinidad.” 6) “Rockly Bay. Tobago.” 7) “Forte King George Tobago.” 8) “U. Point of Man of War Bay.” 9) “Man of War Bay. Tobago.” 10) “Courtam. Tobago.” 11) “Fort George. Grenada.” 12) “Grenada.” 13) “Bay of Cariacou Grenadines.” Captioned in pencil. 14) “Dorsetshire Hill. St. Vincents.” 15) “Berkshire Hill and Kingstown. St. Vincents.” 16) “From Marne Fortune St. Lucia.” 17) “Pigeon Island.” 18) “The Pitons St. Lucia.” 19) “Roseau. Dominica.” 20) “Dows Hill. Antigua.” 21) “From Shirley Heights. Antigua.” 22) “Freemans Bay.” 23) “Falmouth Bay. Antigua.” 24) “Basse terre. St. Kitts.” 25) “Entrance of the Harbour of St. Thomas’s.” 26) “Kingston Bay from Ft. Nugent – Jamaica.” 27) “Off Morant. Jamaica.” 28) “Kingston Bay. From near Port Royal. Jamaica.” 29) “Port Antonio – Jamaica.” 30) “Rio Bueno. Jamaica.” 31) “Staten Island.” 32) “7 Miles West of Gannequis.” 33) “Falls at Montmorenci.” 34) “Lake St. Peters. St. Laurence.” 35) “Falls of Niagara.” 36) “Riviere de Loup.” 37) “Looking up Niagara River from near Fort George.” 38) “Iceberg.” 39) “St. Ann’s Church.” 40) “Near By Town.” Apparently Ottawa.

An outstanding album of rare and accomplished lithographic views in the West Indies and North America, by the British commanding Admiral of the North American and West Indies Station. Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, G.C.B.; A Record, Notes – Journals – Letters (London, 1904), especially chapter 17. Royal Museums Greenwich: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/552947.html. DNB (online). $18,500.

38. Federmann, Nicolas: [Ternaux-Compans, Henri]: NARRATION DU PREMIER VOYAGE DE NICOLAS FEDERMANN LE JEUNE, D’ULM. [Contained in:] VOYAGES, RELATIONS ET MEMOIRES ORIGINAUX POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE DE LA DECOU- VERTE DE L’AMERIQUE. Paris. 1837. [4],227pp. Original pink wrap- pers. Spine mostly perished, soiling and wear to covers. Text clean. Good. Unopened.

The narrative of Nicolas Federmann, a German and early explorer of Venezuela and Colombia between 1529 and 1531. Part of Federmann’s claim to fame is that he took part in a second expedition to search for the legendary golden city of El Dorado. This work, which is complete on its own, is first published here. It is one of the impressive collections of early histories of Mexico, , Peru, Florida, and South America assembled by Henri Ternaux-Compans, the first major collector of Americana. The scion of a French family who had made a fortune in the wool trade, Ternaux-Compans collected vigorously in the two decades after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. $1500.

A Classic Work on Cuban Trees

39. Fernandez y Jimenez, José María: TRATADO DE ARBORICUL- TURA CUBANA Y LLEVA AGREGADA LA DE ISLA DE PINOS Y PUERTO-RICO.... Havana: Imprenta y taller de encuadernacion “La Fortuna,” 1867. 225,[1]pp. plus [4]pp. of publisher’s advertisements. Later half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Spine ends chipped, joints cracked, other extremities worn. Else very good.

A scarce and significant Cuban agricultural imprint cataloguing nearly 700 trees and shrubs found in Cuba, the Island of Pines, and . Spanish and Latin names are provided for all of the plants, together with their physical specifi- cations, descriptions of and uses for their wood, and for many species, discussions of their cultivation and medicinal properties. Various informative lists and tables accompany the main text, and an “Almanaque Rural” concludes the volume with a series of monthly instructions on arboreal propagation and care. OCLC lists a total of eleven copies. PALAU 88992. $1000.

A Havana Imprint Attacking Napoleon

40. Figuera de Vargas, Francisco: LA UNION INDISOLUBLE. AVISO Á LOS INCAUTOS AMERICANOS CONTRA LA SEDUCCIONES DE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, Y MAXÍMAS DE LOS NUEVOS FILOSOFOS. Havana: Don Esteban Joseph Boloña, 1811. [6],28pp. Quarto. Half modern polished calf and linen-covered boards, spine gilt. Minor in- stances of light foxing at edges of first and last printed leaves. Lower corner of rear fly leaf torn. A very good copy.

An extremely rare early 19th-century Havana imprint defending the monarchy and Spanish sovereignty on the Peninsula and in the New World against Napoleon and the negative influences of other contemporary philosophies. Issued during the , Figuera de Vargas’ pamphlet was intended to promote the continued union of the Spanish realm in both hemispheres and to serve as a warning against the “seductive” elements of the French invasion and other pernicious influences. Due to a combination of climate and often poor paper quality, colonial-era Cuban imprints are rare. Not recorded in OCLC or Palau. $3500. No Duty on Goods Shipped to the French Antilles

41. [French Colonies in America]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT, DU VINGT-CINQUIEME NOVEMBRE 1671. PAR LEQUEL IL EST ORDONNE QUE LES MARCHANDISES QUI SERONT CHARGEES EN FRANCE, POUR ESTRE PORTEES DANS LES ISLES DE L’AMERIQUE, SERONT EXEMPTES DE TOUTS DROITS DE SORTIES...[caption title]. [Paris. n.d., but 1671]. 3pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Some light foxing. Contemporary inscrip- tion. Very good.

In an attempt to encourage the commerce of the early French colonies in the West Indies, this act declares that no export duty is to be charged on goods shipped to America, as long as the merchants bring back within six months certificates showing these have been landed in America. The certificates are to be signed by the “Sieur Pelissier, l’un des Fermiers de Sa Majeste, ou du Sieur du Ruau Palu, Agent de la Compagnie de Indes Occidentales.” This is a variant of Wroth 132, of which only one copy is known. OCLC locates just one copy, at the University of Oxford. Rare. From the library of Cardinal Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727- 94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 132 (ref ). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 25. OCLC 57209437. $2500.

The Signet Library Copy

42. Gage, Thomas: THE ENGLISH-AMERICAN HIS TRAVAIL BY SEA AND LAND: OR, A NEW SURVEY OF THE WEST-INDI- AS [sic], CONTAINING A JOURNALL OF THREE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED MILES WITHIN THE MAIN LAND OF AMERICA.... London. 1648. [10],220,[12]pp. Small folio. 18th-century speckled calf, gilt stamp on front board, expertly rebacked in antique matching calf, boards re-gilt, leather label, spine gilt. Binding a bit worn at corners and edges. Faint stain on leaves B2 and B3. A few contemporary notes in text, some later pencil notes in margins. Very good.

The Signet Library copy, with their gilt stamp on the front board. One of the most celebrated travel books of its day. Gage was an Englishman raised in Spain. He entered the Dominican Order and set out for the New World, traveling by way of the Philippines and across the Pacific. He spent most of the next twelve years in Central America, the West Indies, Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama. When he finally returned to England and converted to the Church of England, he wrote this book to urge British seizure of the Spanish empire in America. Since the Spanish had jealously guarded foreign access to their dominions, this was the first detailed description to reach Europe of the regions visited by Gage, and it was widely reprinted and translated. HILL 665. PALAU 96480. STREETER SALE 193. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 648/68. JCB (3)II:369. SABIN 26298. WING G109. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 38. $5800.

The Capture of Pensacola During the Revolution

43. Galvez, Bernardo de: DIARIO DE LAS OPERACIONES DE LA EXPEDICION CONTRA LA PLAZA DE PANZACOLA CON- CLUIDA POR LAS ARMAS DE S.M. CATOLICA, BAXO LAS ORDENES DEL MARISCAL DE CAMPO D. BERNARDO DE GALVEZ [caption title]. [Madrid. 1781]. 48pp. Dbd. Faint spotting on the first leaf, else clean and bright. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box, morocco label.

An important document of the American Revolution in the South, with important ramifications for the . In 1779, Spain joined France in aiding the Americans against the British in the Revolution; however, Spanish goals were mainly self-serving, and she particularly wished to regain Florida, lost to Britain in the Peace of 1763 which concluded the French and Indian War. With this in mind, the energetic Bernardo de Galvez organized an expedition from Havana against the British base at Pensacola, the capital of the Province of West Florida (including the present Florida panhandle, southern Alabama and Mississippi, and Louisiana as far as the Mississippi River). The expedition set out in November 1780, but was scattered by storms and was launched again in February 1781. The Spanish secured Baton Rouge, Natchez, and Mobile before turning on Pensacola. Despite difficulty in coordination (the Spanish admiral was not under Galvez’ direct command and at first refused to run the bar at Pensacola under the British guns), Galvez was able to land his forces and effect a siege, resulting in British capitulation on May 9, 1781. The loss was a major setback to the British in the South and insured that the were returned to the Spanish in the Peace of 1783. Spanish control of the Floridas was a thorn in the side of the United States until they were sold to the U.S. under the conditions of the Adams-Onìs Treaty of 1819. This account is Galvez’ detailed report of the entire expedition, with the last part dated at Pensacola on May 12, 1781. Also included is the treaty of capitulation and a schedule of troops involved. Medina believed this pamphlet was published first in Havana and later in Madrid. We have compared two copies which we believe confirms this. While the same in pagina- tion, and indeed with the same text per page, the line settings within each page vary considerably. One is crudely printed and looks like Spanish colonial printing; the other, with a different type face, is much more elegantly printed. The present copy matches the lat- ter description, which we believe to be the Madrid printing. The easy way to tell the two apart is the first (of many) different paragraph settings: on page 3 the first para- graph at the top has five lines in the Havana edition and only four in the Madrid edition. Accompanied by a copy of Jose Porrua Turanzas’ (editor) Diario de las Operaciones Contra la Plaza de Panzacola 1781... (Madrid, 1959). SABIN 26475. PALAU 96980. MEDINA (HAVANA) 68 (ref ). STREETER SALE 1191. HOWES P59, “b.” $7500.

First Edition of an Important Navigational Treatise

44. García de Cespedes, Andrés: REGIMIENTO DE NAVEGACION Q[UE] MANDO HASER EL REI NUESTRO SEÑOR POR OR- DEN DE SU CONSEIO REAL DE LAS INDIAS A ANDRES GARCIA DE CESPEDES SU COSMOGRAFO MAIOR. Madrid: Juan de la Cuesta, 1606. Two parts bound in one volume. [4],184 leaves in- cluding letterpress titlepage for second part plus engraved titlepage for first part and engraved folding map (5¾ x 11 inches). Woodcut diagrams through- out. Folio. 20th-century vellum and pastepaper boards, boards and spine gilt. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Moderate dampstaining in first dozen leaves (including engraved title), occasional instances of light dampstaining and light foxing in remainder of volume. Clean tear in lower right corner of map repaired. Later pencil marks and some marginalia in Spanish, small contemporary ink inscription in margin of map. Overall, a very good copy.

First and only edition of this early 17th-century Spanish navigation manual, complete with an engraved world map. García de Cespedes, who served as Royal Cosmog- rapher to Felipe III and held the chair of cosmographer at the navigators’ school in , relied on some information on navigation and mathematics attributed to Pedro Nuñez, but the work is substantially his own. The volume consists of separate sections, each with its own titlepage, devoted to navigation and hydrogra- phy, and woodcut illustrations of diagrams and instruments are found throughout. The final chapter provides instructions for navigation in the Americas with sailing directions for the West Indies, , and Havana, as well as from Spain to Rio de la Plata, the Straits of Magellan, and the Pacific coast of South America. The text also includes documents relating to the dispute between Spain and Portugal regarding the line of demarcation between those countries’ territories in the New World as initially created by papal decree in 1493. The folding engraved world map consists of twelve gores and is “without title or decoration other than four compass roses. The lines of demarcation between the Spanish and Portuguese sectors of influence are shown. The gores are probably not intended to be more than illustrative although the west coast of South America has been noted as being surprisingly accurate for the time” (Shirley). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 606/50. SABIN 11718. MEDINA (BHA) 515. JCB (3) II:39. JCB MARITIME HAND-LIST 68. PALAU 98619. WAGNER NORTHWEST COAST 244. SHIRLEY 256 (map). $55,000.

Important Cuban Book Illustrated with Original Mounted Photographs

45. Gelpi y Ferro, Gil: ALBUM HISTORICO FOTOGRAFICO DE LA GUERRA DE CUBA DESDE SU PRINCIPIO HASTA EL REI- NADO DE AMADEO I. Havana. 1872. 413pp. plus folding map and twenty-four mounted albumen photographs, each 7 x 10 inches. Half title. Folio. Original printed wrappers bound into half leather and cloth, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, front hinge starting. Lower corner of front cover and half title torn away, repaired with tissue. Minor foxing. Very good.

Illustrated work on the Ten Years’ War, the bloody civil war between Spanish loy- alists and rebels fighting for Cuba’s independence, with twenty-four photographs by Leopoldo Varela y Suarez, comprised of images of notable citizens and views of Cuba. This is a history produced by the loyalist forces, dominated by the large plantation owners. The ten large albumen views, each with a printed caption on the mount, show various buildings and panoramas of Havana during the Ten Years’ War (1868-78), the first of three civil wars of the late 19th century. Of note is the striking image of the “Vista de la Calle del Comercio Despues Del Incendio,” showing the devastation brought on by this conflict. Describing the war up to 1872, this book includes views of the Teatro de Tacon y Del Louvre, the impres- sive Morro Castle, and a handsome composite photograph of the various officers of the First Volunteers of Havana. The photographer, Leopoldo Varela y Suarez, was one of a small group of foreign and Cuban photographers to photograph and publish images of this war. $7500.

46. [Gentleman of Elvas]: Smith, Buckingham, translator: NARRATIVES OF THE CAREER OF IN THE CON- QUEST OF FLORIDA AS TOLD BY A KNIGHT OF ELVAS AND IN A RELATION BY LUYS HERNANDEZ DE GIEDMA FACTOR OF THE EXPEDITION.... New York. 1866. xxviii,324pp. plus portrait, plate, and map. Half title. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, raised bands, t.e.g. Corners slightly bumped, boards worn at edges and spine ends. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Very clean internally. Very good.

The handsome first edition of this translation, issued by the Bradford Club as number five in the “Bradford Club Series.” The Buckingham Smith edition of this famous narrative, a basic source for the De Soto expedition. This is designated “Club Copy No. 50,” from an edition limited to 125 copies, and bears a contem- porary inscription from prominent New York book collector William Menzies to James Lawson on the half title. SERVIES 4959. $1000. Written by a Friend of Columbus

47. Geraldini, Alexandri: ITINERARIUM AD REGIONES SUB ÆQUI- NOCTIALI PLAGA CONSTITUTAS...OPUS ANTIQUITATES, RITUS, MORES, & RELIGIONES POPULORU, ÆTHIOPIE, AFRICÆ, ATLANTICI OCEANI.... Rome: Guilelmi Facciotti, 1631. [16],284,[36]pp. Extra engraved titlepage. 12mo. Contemporary limp vellum, yapp edges, manuscript title on spine, later library shelf label. Lower half of rear hinge broken. Light toning throughout. Overall very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A primary account of the earliest period of American discovery, first published here more than a hundred years after it was written. Taken from a manuscript origi- nally written in 1523 by this friend and companion of Columbus, this is one of the earliest written descriptions of the discovery and condition of the West Indies. It was Geraldini’s support of Columbus’ argument for a spherical globe that enabled Columbus to be heard by the official council charged with evaluating his proposed voyage. Later, Geraldini himself went to Santo Domingo as the new see’s first bishop, and the present text also includes an account of his voyage and a description of the island. He writes that the native race has nearly been extinguished and that he is sending back to Europe two turkeys. His original manuscript was composed in 1523, thus his work precedes that of Oviedo and supplants the great explorer as the first European writer to mention the . “A very scarce and curious volume on the discovery of the West Indies...” – Sabin. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 631/43. SABIN 27116. MEDINA (BHA) 890. STREIT II:1600. JCB (3)II:236-37. Appleton’s Cyclopædia II, p.628. $12,500.

48. [Gonzalez Barcia, Andres]: ENSAYO CRONOLOGICO, PARA LA HISTORIA GENERAL DE LA FLORIDA.... Madrid: Nicolas Rodri- guez Franco, 1723. [40],366,[56]pp., mostly printed in double-column format. Without the folding table. Titlepage printed in red and black. Folio. Con- temporary limp vellum, manuscript title on backstrip. Vellum soiled, backstrip darkened. Front free endpaper torn in foredge and near gutter. Scattered foxing and soiling. Still very good.

The author edited this work under the pseudonym of Gabriel Cardenas y Cano. The text covers the early exploration of North America north of Mexico and ex- tending to the Pacific Ocean, including the French, British, and Spanish colonies. A considerable portion of the content is devoted to the explorations of Cabeça de Vaca, Coronado, De Soto, and La Salle. Howes calls this work “the principal au- thority on Florida itself during its two centuries of undisputed Spanish supremacy, 1567-1763.” “It is filled with the most valuable material relating to the Indians who once inhabited the vast territory claimed by the Spaniards under the title of Florida” – Field. In the introduction the author cites a number of manuscript references which are no longer extant. SERVIES 291. FIELD 80. GRAFF 181. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 723/10. HOWES B130, “b.” PALAU 105049. WAGNER SPANISH SOUTHWEST 84. STREETER SALE 1177. SABIN 3349. DOHENY SALE 190. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLEC- TION 143. $2500.

A Rare Grenada Printing

49. [Grenada]: [Treaties of Paris]: A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE THE THIRD...TO ALL OUR LOVING SUBJECTS OF OUR ISLAND OF GRENADA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, AND TO ALL OTH- ERS WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL OR MAY CONCERN... [caption title]. [St. George’s, Grenada? 1784]. [3]pp. on a folio sheet folded once to quarto size. Quarto. The two leaves detached from each other. Quite worn and chipped around edges. Toned. Good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

An extremely rare Grenada imprint, this is the royal proclamation by King George III announcing that with the Treaty of Paris ending the war of the American Revo- lution, the islands of Grenada, the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Kitts, Nevis, and Montserrat have now become possessions of Great Britain. Aside from its recognition of the independence of the United States, the Treaty of Paris had far-reaching effects on the Americas, as the status of several islands in the Carib- bean and the West Indies were affected as well. In this proclamation the British monarch announces that Grenada, which was captured from the British by the French in 1779, has been returned to British control. Lieutenant General Edward Mathew is appointed captain-general and governor in chief of Grenada and the Grenadines, and a General Assembly of the freeholders and planters of the islands is called. British laws in force before the French seizure would be restored and judges would resume their positions. The proclamation further calls on any notaries who recorded legal contracts during the French occupation to report all such agreement to the island’s “Register’s Office” within fifteen days of the proclamation, which is dated Jan. 10, 1784. Though bearing no formal imprint, this proclamation states that it was “given at our town of St. George’s” in Grenada, and is signed in print by Gov. Mathew and Deputy Provost Marshal William Gilloch. It was almost certainly printed at St. George’s, Grenada, most likely by a printer named John Spahn. This supposition is based on a comparison of typefaces and ornaments used by Spahn on a similar document from the same period. Printing on Grenada began as early as 1765 and continued through the French occupation of 1779-83. No copies of this proclama- tion are located on OCLC, nor are any items with a 1780s Grenada imprint. Due to the humid climate in the area, 18th-century imprints from the West Indies are virtually unobtainable. A very rare and desirable item, carrying important news about the shifting balance of power in the West Indies in the wake of the American Revolution. $6000.

A Remarkable Panorama of a St. Domingue Sugar Plantation, 1757

50. [Haiti]: Potier de Baldiva, Jacques: [LARGE PANORAMIC PEN AND INK DRAWING SHOWING A SUGAR PLANTATION]. [Saint Domingue. ca. 1757]. Pen and ink with wash. Eight joined sheets measuring a total of 76½ x 8¼ inches. Minor soiling and wear. Some light foxing. Very good.

A sweeping panorama showing a sugar plantation on Saint Domingue, drawn by French military officer, engineer, and draftsman Jacques Potier. Potier spent seven years in Saint Domingue (1755-62) at the behest of the Duke of Orleans. Potier’s task was to build new fortifications and to essentially turn the colony into a naval base in order to protect France’s sugar trade. He returned to France after being wounded in a skirmish with the British, and was later made a knight of the Order of St. Louis and continued to advise the Duke of Orleans on military engineering until shortly before the Haitian revolution in 1789. This epic panorama, measuring over six feet in length, shows a typical sugar plantation, with the fields surrounding the master’s residence, slave cabins, and the mill and sugar-house, all of which are well-executed by Potier. The slave cabins occupy just over a quarter of the image at the far left side, showing several thatched huts with pigs running wild and three slaves (one of them a child) sitting and talking in the foreground. The plantation house itself is next, set on a hill in the background, providing a large expanse of open ground between it and the foreground. To the left of the house and slightly closer in perspective are the sugar buildings, with slaves carrying canes and smoke billowing from the chimneys. The cane fields are on the right edge of the drawing. [Detail]

What distinguishes this work from much landscape art, however, are the four figures in the center of the image. The artist has drawn a slave wearing a runaway’s collar, complete with iron prongs to further inhibit mobility. The slave is led by three men, one holding him by a rope, the other brandishing a whip, and a third well-dressed white man, possibly the plantation owner. As a further social com- mentary, a naked child brandishes a whip over his playmate at the right edge of the scene. It is impossible to look at this extraordinary image without considering the outraged sensibility of the artist which is so clearly expressed, and to reflect on the inevitable consequences which would result in the revolution that erupted later in the colony. Virtually no images of sugar plantations survive from this early date, and those that do are idealized and orderly, presenting an imagined order rather than the starkly realistic scene of squalor and degradation shown here. Likewise, other surviving images from the 18th century are, at the largest, individual prints. We have seen nothing on the scale of this panorama. This drawing was sold in an Old Masters sale at Christie’s London in 1991. A remarkable depiction of West Indian slavery and plantation life. $45,000.

51. [Haiti]: EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DES DÉLIBÉRATIONS DE L’ASSEMBLÉE PROVINCIALE DU NORD DE SAINT- DOMINGUE [caption title]. [Cap Français]: De l’Imprimerie de l’Assem- blée Provinciale du Nord, May 17, 1790. 4pp. Folded quarto sheet. Minor soiling. Near fine.

An extract from the proceedings of the Assemblée du Nord of Saint Domingue, concerning a conflict over whether or not the provincial assembly meeting at Saint- Marc had the authority to create legislative decrees. Royalists argued that the only recognized legislative body was the national assembly. All early printing from the 18th century Caribbean is rare. We can locate one copy, at the John Carter Brown Library. $2250. Item 51.

18th-Century Caribbean Imprint

52. [Haiti]: EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DES DÉLIBÉRATIONS DE LA PAROISSE DE LA CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, PARTIE DE L’OUEST DE SAINT-DOMINGUE [caption title]. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de Mozard, May 30, 1790. 4pp. Folio, on a folded sheet. Minor soiling. Near fine.

Rare imprint from Port-au-Prince, which provides a very local but very enlightening contribution to the debate in the Assemblée between Saint-Marc and the other parts of the island. The Parish Assembly decided to reject the address of May 17, 1790 emanating from the Assembly of Saint-Marc. This document provides a nine-point argument and a commentary on the national decree of March 8 of the same year, which created the colonial assemblies. All early printing from the 18th-century Caribbean is rare, and this local imprint at Port-au-Prince even more so. Not in the John Carter Brown Library, which has the largest collection of imprints from revolutionary Saint Domingue. $4500. Item 52.

The Dictator Who Lasted the Longest: Portrait of the Most Successful Strongman of Haiti, 1818-43

53. [Haiti]: [Boyer, Jean-Pierre]: [WATERCOLOR OF GENERAL JEAN-PIERRE BOYER, PRESIDENT OF HAITI]. [Port-au-Prince? ca. 1825]. Watercolor, 6½ x 5 inches. Matted and framed to 10 x 8 inches. A few faint spots of foxing. Colors bright and fresh. Near fine.

A handsome watercolor of Haitian general and president Jean-Pierre Boyer (1776- 1850), who reigned over Haiti from 1818 to 1843. Boyer, a free , was born in Port-au-Prince but educated in France. One of the leaders of the Haitian Revo- lution, he fled to France when Toussaint’s uprising turned against the mulattoes as well as the whites, returning with LeClerc in 1802. After independence Haiti split into two states, north and south, and Boyer served as the right hand of Alexandre Petion, who established himself as president of the southern state. Boyer was ap- pointed by Petion to be his successor, in 1818, while Henri Christophe still ruled in the north. After Christophe committed suicide in 1820 and his young son was killed ten days later, Boyer succeeded in reunifying the two states of Haiti. In late 1821, Santo Domingo became independent from Spain and Boyer swiftly moved to invade, uniting the island under his rule by early 1822. In 1825, after agreeing to an indemnity, he obtained official French recognition of the country for the first time since the revolution. At first Boyer’s rule looked like a new start for the war-ravaged country, and many free blacks from the United States considered settling there; but Boyer preferred to maintain a semi-feudal government, and little was done to improve the situation. He stayed solidly in power until an earthquake was followed by an insurrection in 1843. Santo Domingo rebelled and won its independence back in 1844. Boyer fought back for over a year before fleeing first to Jamaica in 1845 and then to France, where he died in 1850. He succeeded in lasting as president longer than any other Haitian ruler, just edging out “Papa Doc” Duvalier for the honor. In this portrait, which shows Boyer in three-quarter profile facing left, he is dressed in his full regalia as general and president, wearing a blue military coat trimmed in gold braid and a white cape with a red lining. This likeness closely resembles an engraving by Raban, dated 1825, which is probably based on it. He is at the height of his achievements, having just solidified his power by obtaining recognition from France. The portrait is signed with the initials “B.C.” written in reverse in the bottom corner. An outstanding image of Haiti’s fourth president. $9500.

First English Edition

54. Herrera, Antonio de: THE GENERAL HISTORY OF THE VAST CONTINENT AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA, COMMONLY CALL’D, THE WEST INDIES, FROM THE FIRST DISCOVERY THEREOF...TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY CAPTAIN JOHN STEVENS. London. 1725-1726. Six volumes. Complete with three folding maps and fifteen plates (twelve folding). Contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt spines laid down, leather labels. Corners repaired, light wear to boards. Minimal foxing and soiling, generally quite clean internally. Overall, very good.

The first edition in English of one of the primary accounts of the early Spanish conquest of the New World, originally published in Madrid in 1601-15. Herrera was the official historian to Philip II and was able to examine many documents which were later destroyed, making his work a primary document in its own right. It is one of the most basic New World histories. “These volumes are important for the history of the conquest, colonization, and progress of the Spaniards in America” – Hill. HILL 804. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 725/195. WAGNER, SPANISH SOUTH- WEST 12i. BORBA DE MORAES, p.399. PALAU 114314. SERVIES 295. ESTC N1037. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 146. $6000.

The British Seize Jamaica

55. [ Jamaica]: A BRIEF AND PERFECT JOURNAL OF THE LATE PROCEEDINGS AND SUCCESS OF THE ENGLISH ARMY IN THE WEST-INDIES, CONTINUED UNTIL JUNE THE 24th 1655 TOGETHER WITH SOME QUERES INSERTED AND ANSWERED. London. 1655. 27pp. Small quarto. 19th-century cloth and marbled boards. Worn and rubbed. Titlepage stained, with some loss to upper outer margin (repaired), affecting four characters of text (provided in holo- graphic facsimile). Foxing throughout, moderate tanning, contemporary ink notations on verso of final leaf. A good copy.

An important 17th-century pamphlet detailing the expedition commanded by Admiral Penn, father of William Penn, and General Venables, under Cromwell’s orders to seize the Spanish West-India islands. The present pamphlet, penned anonymously (some authorities identify the author as James Shirley), outlines the events of Britain’s unsuccessful naval attacks on Hispaniola and questions the moti- vations of the expedition. The author, citing several reasons for failure, specifically mentions the severe heat and the ill-preparation of the soldiers with Spanish lances: “The Spaniards also (by often use and practice) become more expert in the use of these weapons.” After the shameful defeat of Cromwell’s ten thousand strong army at Hispaniola on April 25, 1655, the British fleet turned their attention to Jamaica, with Penn commanding the Swiftsure, and landed on the 10th of May. The author notes the paucity of Spanish defenders upon their arrival: “onely three or four small and slight Brest-workes, with some few Guns, and seeing so numerous an Army in readiness to Land, made not many shot, but fled in haste to the town of Oristano....” By the 17th the entire island surrendered, and only one month later Penn returned to England with the principal part of the fleet. The author also includes a brief description of their newly seized island, comparing it to Hispaniola: “it is no lesse fruitfull, and altogether as plentifull in Fish, Fowle, and Cattell of all sorts....” Owing to its sugar crop, Jamaica would become one of the most profitable and valuable English spoils and a central point for the development of the slave trade. European Americana lists two issues: one with “successe of the English army” in the title and thirty-nine lines of text on page 6; the other is listed with “success of the English army” and forty lines on page 6. The present copy is a further unnoted variant, having “success” on the titlepage but with thirty-nine lines of text on page 6. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 655/27. SABIN 7854, 74616. EBERSTADT 131:708. DNB XV, p.754. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 44. $2250.

A Spectacular Early Jamaican Imprint on Economics

56. [ Jamaica]: AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE TRADE, COM- MERCE, AND POLICY OF JAMAICA, RELATIVE TO THE SCARCITY OF MONEY, AND THE CAUSES AND BAD EF- FECTS OF SUCH SCARCITY PECULIAR TO THAT ISLAND... TO WHICH IS ADDED A SCHEME FOR ESTABLISHING A PUBLIC BANK. St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica: Printed by C. Brett and Co., 1757. [4],88pp. Contemporary ink manuscript note on p.2. Tall square octavo printed in fours (likely in half-sheets). Antique-style three-quarter calf and old marbled boards. Titlepage with closed tears, repaired on verso; printer’s advertisement leaf with a closed tear in the center, but with no loss. Titlepage and advertisement leaf a bit foxed, but otherwise fairly clean internally. A very good copy.

A remarkably early, rare, and significant Jamaican imprint, known in only three other copies, and providing an informed analysis of economic and banking issues on that important Caribbean island. Any printing from the Caribbean area from this period that survives should be considered a black tulip – incredibly rare and desir- able. This is the second earliest Caribbean imprint that we have ever encountered in the market, and the earliest from Jamaica. It contains an important analysis of the island’s economy, and a call for the development of a bank on Jamaica. This detailed economic work is divided into several sections, discussing the nature and properties of currency and the causes of its scarcity in Jamaica; the bad effects of such a scarcity and the sums of money needed to reinvigorate the local economy; an analysis of inland and foreign trade in Jamaica; and a proposal for a bank to be developed on the island. The draining of Jamaica’s currency by North American and European traders was a perpetual problem for the island’s economy. The author writes that a major cause of the scarcity of money “is the illicit trade frequently carried on by the French and Dutch colonies and traders, with whom money has been chiefly exchanged for their commodities, most of them only supplies to our luxury and debauch” (p.11). The proposal for an insular bank is a very early call for such an institution, and it was not until 1836 that the first Jamaican bank was established. The author devotes twenty pages to the discussion of the bank, and he considers the effects of lawsuits on the economy. There is also a discussion of the value of Blacks to the island’s economy, and the imports needed to sustain them. Printing in Jamaica dates to 1718, beginning with the newspaper, The Weekly Jamaica Courant. The first forty years of printing on the island consisted largely of newspaper work, very few examples of which survive. Curtis Brett, who printed the present work, was born in Dublin in 1720 and apprenticed with printers in London before leaving for the West Indies in 1748. He worked at various clerical jobs before taking up as a printer in St. Jago de la Vega in 1756, assisted by Charles White, a former secretary in the island government. Very little of Brett’s print- ing survives, and this Inquiry Concerning the Trade, Commerce, and Policy of Jamaica is his only surviving book-length work, the rest being almanacs and issues of his newspaper, the St. Jago Intelligencer. Roderick Cave attributes authorship of the present work to Curtis Brett’s partner, Charles White, though this is the only place where we have seen that attribution. Brett himself gives no hint of the tract’s authorship in the “Printer’s Advertise- ment” (the date of which has been corrected from 1747 to 1757 in this copy in a contemporary hand) when he writes:

The manuscript of this Inquiry wrote in the year 1751, falling into our hands, and finding it contained many interesting remarks relative to the trade, com- merce, and policy of this island; we flattered ourselves an edition from the press would be acceptable to the public, and meet with sufficient encouragement to defray the charge of printing, by the sale of a small number of copies, which we have accordingly struck off.

This 1757 first edition is not listed on OCLC or in Goldsmiths, Kress, Black, or the Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection at Hamilton College. Cundall locates a copy in the West India Reference Library at the Institute of Jamaica, and we can locate only two other copies, at the British Library and the Bodleian Library at Oxford. NUC locates a copy at Columbia University, but Columbia’s online catalogue indicates that they have only a microfilm. Remarkably rare and very important. SABIN 35590. CUNDALL, PRESS AND PRINTERS OF JAMAICA PRIOR TO 1820, p.13. CUNDALL, HISTORY OF PRINTING IN JAMAICA FROM 1717 TO 1834, p.37. CAVE, PRINTING AND THE BOOK TRADE IN THE WEST INDIES, pp.212-17. KRESS 5785 (London, 1759 ed). HIGGS 1742 (citing a 1758 St. Jago de la Vega edition, of which we can find no other record, and likely an error). $57,500.

A Remarkable Collection of 18th-Century Jamaican Imprints

57. [ Jamaica]: ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, FROM THE YEAR 1681 TO THE YEAR 1769 INCLUSIVE. Kingston, Jamaica: Printed by Alexander Aikman, 1787. Two volumes bound in one. [2],31,262,[2],[2],15,82pp. [bound with:] AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE LAWS OF JAMAICA, IN MANNER OF AN INDEX.... Kingston: Aikman, 1787. [4],29pp. [bound with:] AP- PENDIX: CONTAINING LAWS RESPECTING SLAVES. Kingston: Aikman, 1787. [4],32,5pp. Large folio. Old calf, rebacked. Internally near fine. [with:] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA; FROM 1770, TO 1783, INCLUSIVE. Kingston: Printed for James Johnes, Esq. by Lewis and Eberall, 1786. v,31,[3]-424pp. [bound with:] AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE LAWS OF JAMAICA.... Kingston: Lewis and Eberall, 1786. [4],40pp. Quarto. Old calf, rebacked. Fine. [with:] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, FROM THE YEAR 1784 TO THE YEAR 1788 INCLUSIVE. Kings- ton: Printed by Alexander Aikman, 1789. xvi,300,iv,[4],23pp. Quarto. Old calf, rebacked. Near fine.

All together, an extraordinary collection of 18th-century Jamaican printing, combin- ing six separate imprints (one of them consisting of two volumes) in three bound volumes, all printed between 1786 and 1789 by two different printers in Kingston, Jamaica. The texts retrospectively cover the Acts of the Assembly from its beginning in 1681, up to date with the last printing in 1788. Also included are two separate publications containing abridgements of the various acts, and a further separate publication combining all of the slave statutes in one place. As anyone who has sought them knows well, all 18th-century Caribbean imprints are rare, most extremely so, and these laws are no exception. Furthermore, most Carib- bean printing is fairly slight, not substantial volumes such as these. Printing began in Jamaica in 1718. It was the first British colony south of Maryland to have a printing press, and except for several items printed in Havana by a press briefly established there, this was the first press in the Caribbean; however, only a handful of fugitive pieces survive from the 1770s. In that period the economic importance of Jamaica was supple- mented by an influx of Loyalists, including printer Alexander Aikman, who seems to have invigorated the cultural and publishing life of the colony, while the British govern- ment liberalized its colonial policy to avoid a repetition of the problems of the American Revolution. In that climate, these retrospec- tive and current laws of the local colonial government were printed. Of all early Caribbean printing, that of Jamaica is best documented through the early and thorough work of Frank Cundall. His bibliog- raphies illustrate both the rich variety of material printed on Jamaica, and its rarity. Following are the NUC locations and citations of the laws offered herein:

1) Acts of Assembly, 1681-1769. Kingston, 1787. Not in the NUC. CUNDALL, p.52. 2) Abridgement of Laws. Kingston, 1787. Not in the NUC or Cundall. 3) Laws Respecting Slaves. Kingston, 1787. Not in the NUC or Cundall. 4) Acts of Assembly, 1770-83. Kingston, 1786. The NUC locates DLC, MH, RPJCB, MChB, NN. CUNDALL, p.52. SABIN 35617. 5) Abridgement of Laws. Kingston, 1786. The NUC locates NN. Not in Cundall. SABIN 35617. 6) Acts of Assembly, 1784-88. Kingston, 1789. The NUC locates DLC, RPJCB. CUNDALL, p.53.

In all, a remarkable assemblage of Caribbean printing. $9500.

A Jamaica Sale of Slaves, No Longer Slaves, at the End of Slavery

58. [ Jamaica]: CONVEYANCE AND ASSIGNMENT OF ONE THIRD PART OF CERTAIN PLANTATIONS ESTATES AND HER- EDITAMENTS IN JAMAICA AND OF MONEYS CHARGED THEREON UPON TRUSTS [manuscript docket title]. London. Aug. 1, 1837. Nine large vellum sheets, plus seven folio sheets. Old folds. Some light soiling. Very good.

Extensive legal document transferring ownership rights for a one-third share of three plantations in Jamaica belonging to James Irving. Irving’s family settled in Jamaica in the 1750s and became prominent plantation owners there. Irving himself spent much of his time living in London, where this document was compiled. The plan- tations in question are Irving Tower in the parish of Trelawny, and the plantations Ironshore and Hartfield in the parish of St. James. The document reads, in part:

In consideration of two thousand one hundred pounds...all that one undivided third part or share and all other part share and interest then or late of the said James Irving....And of and in all and singular the lands held with the said three several plantations or sugar works or thereunto respectively belonging and of and in all houses outhouses edifices erections and buildings mills millhouses curing houses stills still houses and works on the said three several plantations....

The deed continues, outlining claims to land and all other accoutrements of the plantations, including the animals, utensils, equipment, “and in all and every the negro and other slaves male and female upon and belonging to the said several plantations or any of them and the future increase issue and offspring of the females of the said slaves and also of and in all and singular other the plantations or estates lands tenements slaves hereditaments cattle stock and appurtenances whatsoever in the said Island of Jamaica to which the said James Irving became entitled as therein mentioned....” Also included is a document with a “List of slaves on Hartfield Estate belong- ing to the heirs of James Irving the Elder esquire deceased 1st January 1833.” The list delineates men and women, as well as children from six to eighteen and those under six years of age, both groups divided by male and female. There are ninety-one named slaves altogether, and thirty-two head of cattle noted. “Increase of Stock” for 1832 is also outlined. The age groupings are significant, given the laws regarding slavery at that time. The Emancipation Act of 1833 effectively ended slavery in the , though several of its provisions allowed for a gradual emancipation. Beginning in August 1834 all slaves under the age of six years were declared free, as were any children born to slaves after that date. Slaves over the age of six were to begin an apprenticeship period after that date – akin to indentured servitude – which would last from four to six years. After August 1840 all slaves in Jamaica were officially freedmen. This may indeed have been impetus for Irving to sell and settle the Jamaican estates, since free labor was essentially at an end on the island. Without its slaves, a plantation was less profitable; with the new laws in effect, the slaves at these plantations were only bound there for one to three more years at best by the time this deed was executed. Indeed, it was already archaic to refer to any of them as slaves, although the practical chances of any of them leaving were quite limited. A wonderful documentary record of one landholder’s plantations in Jamaica, at the end of slavery on the island and in the British Empire. $2250.

A Beautiful Map of St. Thomas

59. Keulen, Gerard Van: [Saint Thomas]: [Dutch West Indies]: NIEU- WE EN ALDEREERSTE AFTEEKENING VAN T’EYLAND ST. THOMAS. MET ALLE DESSEFS HAVANEN, ANKER PLAATSE EN GELEEGONT HEDEN, IS GELEEGEN BEOOSTEN I. POR- TO RICO IN WEST INDIE.... [Amsterdam]. 1719. Sheet map, 22½ x 38½ inches. Modern color. Old fold lines, some minor wear. Very good. Handsomely matted and framed.

Large and handsome chart of St. Thomas, now in the U.S. Virgin Islands but then a Dutch colony, made by the famed Van Keulen cartography firm. This map was originally published as part of a 1720 edition of Van Keulen’s De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas..., a significant work containing one hundred maps and charts (see Phillips). The chart shows the entire island on a very large scale, with its topographical features and harbor depths, as well as the forts and settle- ments. Two insets on the right show a detailed view of the harbor of St. Thomas and the harbor of the neighboring island of St. John. Along the bottom are five profile elevations, showing the island from different angles. The map is one of the handsomest maps of the island made in the colonial period. Johannes van Keulen enrolled in the Dutch booksellers’ guild in 1678 and began publishing sea charts and atlases. That same year his son, Gerard (1678-1726), was born, and he would go on to become a skillful engraver and a significant asset to the firm. “This son was endowed with talent. He was a skillful engraver and proficient in mathematics and navigational science. Gerard was responsible for establishing the scientific basis of the firm of Van Keulen” – Koeman. Gerard van Keulen took over the family business in 1704 and would go on to become the hydrographer for the East India Company in 1714, a prestigious and important office. His son, Johannes, took up the family business upon his death in 1726. PHILLIPS ATLASES 5693. KOEMAN, KEU 31. $7500.

With an Important Series of Maps

60. Laet, Joannes de: NOVUS ORBIS SEU DESCRIPTIONIS INDIAE OCCIDENTALIS LIBRI XVIII.... Leiden: Elzevier, 1633. [32],690,[18] pp. plus fourteen double-page maps by Hessel Gerritsz. Sixty-eight woodcuts in text. Half title. Engraved title with elaborate emblematic and architectonic border. Folio. Contemporary calf, covers with double-fillet border in blind, spine in seven compartments with raised bands, the bands flanked by pairs of fillets in blind, painted figure “4” carefully painted in an attractive early calligraphic hand in white paint in the uppermost compartment, red-stained edges, expert restoration to head and foot of spine. In a modern cloth chemise, and red half morocco and cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt on the spine.

An exceptional copy of the first Latin edition of “arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century” (Burden). The maps include the first to use the names Manhattan, New Amsterdam (for New York), and Mas- sachusetts, and “one of the foundation maps of Canada” (Burden). This work is one of the most important 17th-century New World histories. It is a cornucopia of early knowledge of the Americas and was compiled by de Laet, a director of the newly formed Dutch West India Company, with access to all the latest geographic knowledge. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, writing in the 18th century, noted that the work as a whole “is full of the most excellent and curious details of the natural history, and the character, manners, and customs of the American aborigines, derived from the reports of the European mission es- tablishments in America.” The present first edition in Latin was preceded by two editions in Dutch (the first of which was published in 1625). De Laet continued to add to and improve the work throughout his lifetime: the present edition contains fourteen maps as opposed to the ten in the 1625 edition, and the text has been considerably expanded. This copy is unusual in two respects: firstly, its outstanding condition; and secondly, for the early, certainly 17th-century, annotations by an English-speaking owner who appears to have had some contact with the Americas, or at least with the products of the region. The front free endpaper includes an accomplished small ink drawing of a plant labeled “Cassavi” with a two-line note beside it: “Mammo- saporta / a Jamaica fruite.” The second blank includes a reference to an important scientific work by Mario Bettino first published in 1645, Marii Bettini Apiarium Mathematicum. The index of the subjects of the woodcuts on the page preceding the first page of the main text includes two references which correctly identify “a Kinge Crab. novis Anglis” and a pineapple as a “Queene Pine.” The maps are by Hessel Gerritsz and are some of the very best to appear up to that time. Gerritsz had trained under Willem Blaeu, but had been chosen in preference to his old master when the appointment of cartographer to the Dutch West India Company was made. The charming in-text illustrations are chiefly of biological or botanical specimens and are generally surprisingly accurate for their time, and each of the eighteen constituent books is turned over to the consideration of a different region of the New World. The quality of the maps can be gauged from the fact that they served as a prototype for the mapping of America, with a number of them being reused in various later 17th-century atlases. The maps are titled as follows:

1) “Americae sive Indiae occidentalis tabula generalis.” Burden 229: “The best west coast delineation to date.” 2) “Maiores minoresque insulae. Hispaniola, Cuba, Lucaiae et Caribes” 3) “Nova Francia et regiones adiacentes.” Burden 230: “One of the foundation maps of Canada.” 4) “Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia.” Burden 231: “The first [map] to use the names Manhattan and N. Amsterdam. It is also the earliest to use...Mas- sachusets [sic].” CUMMING 35. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.105. 5) “Florida. et regiones vicinae.” Burden 232: “Its influence was quite considerable.” CUMMING 34. 6) “Nova Hispania, Nova Gallicia, Guatamala.” Burden 215: “The delineation of the coastlines here was the most accurate to date.” 7) “Tierra Firma item Nuevo Reyno de Granada atque Popayan” 8) “Peru” 9) “Chili” 10) “Provinciae sitae ad fretum Magellanis itemque fretum Le Maire” 11) “Paraguay, o prov. de rio de la Plata: cum adiacentibus Provinciis, quas vocant Tucuman, et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra” 12) “Provinciua de Brasil cum adiacentibus provinciis” 13) “Guaiania sive provinciae intra rio de las Amazonas atque rio de Yviapari sive Orinoque” 14) “Venezuela, atque occidentalis pars Novae Andalusiae”

BORBA DE MORAES, p.451. SABIN 38557. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 633/65. STREETER SALE 37. STREIT II:1619. JCB (3)II:246. TIELE 628. BELL L33. VAIL 84. RODRIGUES 1352. ASHER 3. WILLEMS 382. ALDEN II:337. BRUNET III:741. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 31. $30,000.

Las Casas Records Spanish Cruelty to Indians

61. Las Casas, Bartolomé de: HISTOIRE ADMIRABLE DES HOR- RIBLES INSOLENCES, CRUAUTEZ, & TYRANNIES EXERCEES PAR LES ESPAGNOLS ES INDES OCCIDENTALES...FIDELE- MENT TRADUITE PAR JAQUES DE MIGGRODE. [Geneva: Ga- briel Cartier], 1582. [16],222pp. 12mo. 18th-century calf, spine and board edges finely gilt, rebacked with original backstrip preserved. Binding slightly worn. Occasional minor foxing, light age toning. A very good copy.

Las Casas, the first great historian of the New World, arrived in Cuba in 1502 and spent most of the ensuing years in the Caribbean and Mexico until his return to Spain in 1547. An early critic of Spanish policy, he nonetheless rose to be Bishop of Chiapas. He witnessed firsthand the appalling destruction of the American Indian population at the hands of the Spanish, something he continually fought against as a priest. After his return to Spain and throughout his old age, he launched a series of attacks on Spanish policy towards American Indians. The first and most influential of these tracts is Brevissima Relacion de la Destruycion de las Indias, which describes the numerous wrongs inflicted upon the Indians, mainly in the Antilles. Written in 1539, it was first published in Seville in 1552, and editions in French, English, and German appeared before 1600. The present work is one of two French editions printed in 1582, following the initial 1579 Antwerp publication of this French translation by Jacques Miggrode. As with many later editions published outside Spain, this printing helped promote Protestant attacks on the Spanish crown, perpetuating the “Black Legend” of Spanish destruction of the Indians. A rare French translation of Las Casas’ most famous work on the Indies. European Americana records five U.S. locations plus the Bibliothèque Nationale. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 582/23. SABIN 11268. MEDINA (BHA) 1085n (Vol. II, p.471). PALAU 46961n. JCB (3)I:291. $11,000.

French Scientific Survey of Louisiana, 1720

62. Laval, Antoine F. de: VOYAGE DE LA LOUISIANE, FAIT PAR ORDRE DU ROY EN L’ANNEE MIL SEPT CENT VIGNT.... Par- is: Chez Jean Mariette..., 1728. xxiv,304,96,191,[9]pp. plus twenty maps and charts (some folding), and eleven tables (mostly folding). Quarto. Contem- porary calf, spine gilt, raised bands, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down and corners repaired. Old ownership inscription on titlepage, old library stamp on verso of titlepage. Overall, very good.

This large and impressive book was a product of the first detailed survey made of Louisiana by the French government, in the course of a scientific expedition under the command of Vallette Laudun in 1720, three years after the founding of New Orleans and at the height of enthusiasm over John Law’s Mississippi Company. Despite considerably reduced expectations for Louisiana by 1728, the survey still achieved this handsome publication. Laval, the author, was “Professeur Royal de Mathematiques.” The book “de- scribes at great length the physical geography of the French dominions in Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley, with particular reference to the ports of New Orleans, Pensacola, and others” – Clark. The excellent maps are the most accurate carto- graphical renderings of the Gulf Coast produced to that time. The expedition also visited Martinique and Haiti, and some of the maps and text relate to those colonies. A quite rare work, seldom met with, and one of the first major publications relating to Louisiana. HOWES L147, “b.” SERVIES, FLORIDA 302. CLARK I:114. BELL L113. SABIN 39276. STREETER SALE 1178. $10,000.

63. [Leeward Islands – Laws]: ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE CHARIBBEE LEEWARD ISLANDS. FROM 1690, TO 1730. Lon- don. 1740. 5,24,[4]pp. Folio. Modern brown cloth, spine gilt. Corners bumped. Minor foxing. Very good.

After consolidating their power over most of the Leeward Islands in the late 17th century, the British set about instituting a uniform code of laws. This volume contains the segment of laws from 1690 to 1705. Most of the laws were passed on and pertain to Antigua, the largest island in the group and the British colonial headquarters in the Leeward Islands. A handful of acts refer particularly to Nevis. The entire gamut of judicial, economic, and social intercourse is covered, including the establishment of a legal system, rules governing servants and laborers, weights and measures, agriculture, trade, and the local militia. Several acts address the is- sues of religion, regulating against Jews and Catholics. ESTC T72511. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 163 (ref ). EURO- PEAN AMERICANA 740/176. $1250. 64. M’Callum, Pierre F.: TRAVELS IN TRINIDAD DURING THE MONTHS OF FEBRUARY, MARCH, AND APRIL, 1803, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO A MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. Liverpool: Printed for the author, 1805. [vii]-xvi,[9]-354,[2]pp. plus folding frontispiece map, 15¾ x 19½ inches. Original plain paper boards, spine neatly repaired with matching paper, paper label. Ex-New-York Historical Society, with their early ink stamps on the titlepage and final two text pages (one of them a “with- drawn” stamp). A few neat repairs to maps folds. Light, even toning. A few leaves with small closed tears. Very good, untrimmed.

Great Britain took Trinidad from the Spanish in 1797, and this is an early and lengthy English report on the state of affairs there. M’Callum’s letters originally appeared in a Liverpool journal and cover a wide range of issues relating to Trini- dad, such as slavery, the experiences of white settlers on the island, natural history and topography, exports, agriculture, hints to future immigrants, etc. Beyond this, much of the text describes the administration of Governor Thomas Picton, whose administration was noted as harsh and whom M’Callum apparently hated. “Es- sentially not a travel work at all but rather a vicious attack on Governor Picton by a low-minded, scurrilous writer specializing in casting foul aspersions. M’Callum had been deported from Trinidad on Picton’s order for having attempted to seduce the militia from its duty” – Ragatz. A scarce and tumultuous account of Trinidad. RAGATZ, p.212. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 589. SABIN 42981. $1500.

65. MacQueen, James: THE COLONIAL CONTROVERSY, CON- TAINING A REFUTATION OF THE CALUMNIES OF THE ANTICOLONISTS; THE STATE OF HAYTI, SIERRA LEONE, INDIA, , COCHIN CHINA, JAVA, &c. &c.; THE PRO- DUCTION OF SUGAR, &c. AND THE STATE OF THE FREE AND SLAVE LABOURERS IN THOSE COUNTRIES.... Glasgow: Printed by Khull, Blackie, & Co., 1825. 223pp. Dbd. Very clean internally. Near fine.

Inscribed on the titlepage: “Messrs. Yates Brothers & Co. from the West India As- sociation.” Yates Brothers & Co. of Liverpool was a commercial firm specializing in the West Indies. The Glasgow-based West India Association was a leader in the fight against England’s anti-abolition campaign. Early in his life James MacQueen (1778-1870) was manager of a sugar planta- tion in Grenada and travelled throughout the West Indies. By 1821 he settled in Glasgow and was editor of a newspaper there; he used his columns to defend the rights of British plantation owners in the West Indies. The DNB describes him as “mostly remembered as a staunch defender of imperial commercial interests and their extension, particularly into , not least as he was one of the first to advocate the extension of legitimate commerce as the way to overcome the slave trade in Africa.” Despite the DNB’s assertion, MacQueen was one of the most outspoken critics of the anti-slavery campaign in Britain in the 1820s and ’30s. In these letters, addressed to the Earl of Liverpool and to Zachariah Macaulay, he defends the actions and methods of British colonizers in the West Indies, Africa, India, and Asia, at the expense of the rights of the locals and slave laborers. While well represented in institutional holdings, this work is rather scarce in the market, and we can find no copies at auction in the past thirty-five years. SABIN 43641. RAGATZ, p.527. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 725. $900.

Early Martinique Imprint

66. [Martinique]: RELATION AUTHENTIQUE DES EVENEMENS QUI SE SONT PASSES AU FORT-BOURBON DE LA MARTI- NIQUE [caption title]. St. Pierre: Imprimerie de P. Richard & le Cadre, 1790. 8pp. on a folded sheet. Toned. Very good. In a half morocco clamshell case, cloth chemise.

A very early Martinique imprint, which refers to the horrors of the slave revolt there and gives a play-by-play account of the events that unfolded at Fort Bourbon. The first recorded printing on the island listed by Swan is in 1784, but we have handled a newspaper from 1780 and have seen in commerce an imprint from 1762. As with so much else to do with early Caribbean printing, the story of the press on Marti- nique is shrouded in mystery. Only one copy in OCLC, at Columbia University. SWAN, CARIBBEAN PRINTING, p.32. OCLC 123200325. $3000.

The “Lost” First Cortés Letter

67. Martyr, Peter: DE NUPER SUB D. CAROLO REPERTIS INSULIS, SIMULQ[UE] INCOLARUM MORIBUS. Basel: [Adam Petri], 1521. 43pp. (pp. 20 and 21 misnumbered). Woodcut title border. Small quarto. Later vellum boards. Boards lightly rubbed, endpapers torn. Old faint institutional ink stamp on front free endpaper, titlepage, and verso of final text leaf; small neat ink number on front pastedown and titlepage. Slight toning in some text margins, early ink marginalia and neat underlining on pp.32-33. Overall, a very good copy. In a brown half morocco and cloth box.

Martyr’s 1521 Basel letter, which contains information from the lost First Cortés Letter. This is a key work for the New World from 1516 to 1520, including the conquest of Mexico and a description of Cuba. “This is Martyr’s first narrative of the discovery made by Grijalva and the expedition of Cortes to Mexico, added to a fuller account of Cuba than was contained in his three decades already printed. Harrisse called this work an extract from the Fourth Decade, but it is evidently a much more important work, Stevens and other authorities defining it as a substitute for the lost first Cortes letter. This work supplements, rather than overlaps other narratives by the author” – Streeter. According to the Church entry on the famous Cortés Letters addressed to Emperor Charles V:

The first of these, known as the Lost First Letter, is supposed to have been written at Vera Cruz, July 10, 1519. Whether it was actually lost or suppressed by the Council for the Indies, at the request of Narvaez, is unknown....As this Letter is mentioned by Cortes in his Second Letter and by other contempo- raneous writers, there can be no doubt of its having been written. Extensive researches made by later historians have, however, failed to bring it to light. A publication by Peter Martyr, entitled De Nuper Sub D. Carolo Repertis Insulis, published at Basel in 1521, is usually substituted for it.

A remarkably important piece of Americana, recounting to Europe for the first time the exploits of Cortés at the beginning of the Conquest. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 521/1. JCB (3)I:79. SABIN 1553. STREETER SALE 8. BORBA DE MORAES, p.530. MEDINA (BHA) 62. STEVENS NUGGETS 1802. HARRISSE 110. CHURCH 47 (ref ). JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 521/1. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 1. $65,000. Important Collected Edition of Martyr

68. Martyr, Peter: ...DE REBUS OCEANICIS & ORBE NOVO DE- CADES TRES: QUIBUS QUICQUID DE INVENTIS NUPER TERRIS TRADITUM, NOVARUM RERUM CUPIDUM LEC- TOREM RETINERE POSSIT, COPIOSE, FIDELITER, ERU- DITEQUE DOCETUR. EIUSDEM PRAETEREA LEGATIONIS BABYLONICAE LIBRI TRES.... Basel: Joannes Bebelius, 1533. [12],92 leaves. Folio. Bound to style in old vellum. Some very light dampstaining in margins. Discreet contemporary marginal annotations throughout. Very good.

This esteemed early Americanum con- tains Martyr’s initial three Decades, first published in 1516, supplemented in this edition by an abridgement of the fourth Decade. Martyr, a native of Italy, served the Spanish court in numerous capacities: soldier, priest, courtier, chaplain, teacher, historian, and ambassador. “In 1520 he became secretary to the Council of the Indies and later was appointed by emperor Charles V as the first official chronicler of the Indies. Although Martyr never set foot in the New World, he used his privileged position as a courtier to gather a great wealth of information from documents and through personal interviews. Following the model of the Latin historian Titus Livius, the Decades are volumes written in Latin divided into ten books each. They cover all aspects of the New World – the geography, the natural world...the natives, and all major events after the discovery” – Delgado-Gomez. Based on firsthand information the author was able to access through his posi- tion on the Council of the Indies, the Decades include accounts of the discoveries of Columbus, Vespucci, Cabot, and Cortés. In addition there is information con- cerning the conquest of Mexico and details regarding Spanish settlements in the New World including Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Caribbean. Included in this edition, as in the 1516 printing, is Martyr’s account of his embassy to Egypt in 1501 on behalf of King Ferdinand. A nice copy of this fundamental text by the first Spanish historian of the New World. HARRISSE 176. CHURCH 65. SABIN 1557. MEDINA (BHA) 92. MAGGS BIBLIO- THECA AMERICANA VII:4923. BELL A213. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 533/1. JCB (3)I:108. DELGADO-GOMEZ, SPANISH HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD 3 (1516 ed). JCB GERMAN AMERICANA 533/1. $16,500.

The Collected Peter Martyr

69. Martyr, Peter: DE REBUS OCEANICIS ET NOVO ORBE...ET ITEM DE REBUS ÆTHIOPICIS, INDICIS, LUSITANICIS & HISPANICI.... Cologne. 1574. [48],655,[30]pp. Contemporary vellum, tooled in blind, contemporary manuscript on spine. Light wear and soiling to vellum. Several owner- ship inscriptions on front endpapers. Light toning and foxing. A few contemporary notations in text. Very good.

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

70. [Moll, Herman]: A VIEW OF THE COASTS, COUNTRIES AND ISLANDS WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE SOUTH-SEA-COM- PANY...THE WHOLE COLLECTED FROM THE BEST AU- THORS, AS WELL MANUSCRIPTS AS PRINTED.... London. 1711. [4],220pp. plus folding map. Contemporary paneled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges neatly repaired. Contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown, signature on fly leaf. Map worn with some separation at central folds. Lightly foxed. Very good.

An important work on the geography of South America and the Caribbean, issued as part of the aggressive commercial policy of England at the time. Such studies were directly relating to the half trading, half privateering adventures of Dampier, Woodes Rogers, and others. This work is highlighted by a handsome map, executed by Herman Moll and entitled “A New & Exact Map of the Coast, Countries and Islands within ye Limits of ye South Sea Company, from ye River Aranoca to Terra del Fuego, and from thence through ye South Sea, to ye North Part of California &c. with a View of the General and Coasting Trade-winds. And perticular [sic] Draughts of the most important Bays, Ports &c. According to ye Newest Observations,” 19 x 17½ inches. All of South America is shown, north through Florida, New Mexico, and part of the Gulf of California, with insets of “The Port of Acapulco,” “The Gulf of Amapalla or Fonesca,” “The Gulf of Nicoya or Gulf of Salinas,” “The Galapagos Islands,” “The Island of Juan Ferdinando,” “A Map of the Isthmus of Darien the Bay of Panama &c.,” “Peypses or Pepys I[sland],” and “A Map of ye Straits of Magellan &c.,” all represented in painstaking detail. SABIN 99553. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 711/141 KRESS S1301. GOLDSMITHS’ 4721. ESTC T50766. $4500. One of the Most Interesting Iconographic and Cartographic Sources of Early Americana

71. Montanus, Arnoldus: DE NIEUWE EN ONBEKENDE WEERELD: OF BESCHRYVING VAN AMERICA EN ‘TZUID-LAND.... Am- sterdam: Jacob Meurs, 1671. Engraved titlepage, [8],585,[27]pp. plus seven portraits, thirty-one engraved double-page plates, large folding hemispheric map, and fifteen engraved double-page maps. Seventy engraved in-text illustra- tions. Small folio. Early 20th-century half mottled calf and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco label. Very good. Provenance: J.J.A. Poley (bookplate on front pastedown).

Correctly called “a classic book on America” by Borba de Moraes, Montanus’ narra- tive contains a wealth of interesting maps and illustrations on both North and South America. The work was later translated into English, with various alterations, by John Ogilby, but this Dutch edition is the true first. The North American section of Montanus contains notable versions of the Blaeu map of New England and , as well as versions of the John Smith Virginia and Carolina maps. Among the engravings in the text is one of the first engraved views of New York (the very first, the Van der Donck view, appeared twenty years earlier). There is also a detailed map of Bermuda, and numerous engraved views of cities and scenes in Mexico and the Caribbean. Much of the second half of the volume is devoted to Brazil, where the Dutch were deeply involved for decades in the 17th century, illustrated with numerous maps and views. The large double-sheet views are excellent and much copied in later publications, but, as Church comments: “The finely executed engravings of this work are especially brilliant in this, the original edition.” Howes states that the portrait of the Prince of Nassau, present herein, only appears in the first issue. The large map, credited here to “Gerardum a Schaden,” as stated in Borba de Moraes, is also sometimes credited to “Jacobum Meursium,” the publisher of the book. CHURCH 613. HOWES M733, “b.” ASHER, NEW NETHERLAND 14. SABIN 50086. SERVIES 200. MILES & REESE, AMERICA PICTURED TO THE LIFE 29. $22,500.

From New York to New Orleans and Havana

72. Montlezun, Baron de: VOYAGE FAIT DANS LES ANNEES 1816 ET 1817, DE NEW-YORCK A LA NOUVELLE-ORLEANS, ET DE L’ORENOQUE AU MISSISSIPPI.... Paris: Gide Fils, 1818. Two volumes. 372; 408pp. Half title in each volume. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Overall internally quite clean. Very good.

The author arrived in Virginia in 1816. After visiting Madison and Jefferson he sailed to New York, then went by sea to New Orleans, where he spent several months. He then went to Havana for three months before going to Charleston for a month to complete his American sojourn. A veteran of the French Army during the American Revolution, his strong Royalist sentiments led to many criticisms of American democracy, as well as a conviction that the sale of Louisiana by Napoleon was illegitimate. This is the only edition. Rare. HOWES M749, “aa.” MONAGHAN 1083. CLARK II:222. $1500.

The Poorhouse of Santo Domingo

73. Moreau de Saint-Méry, Médéric Louis Élie: ÉLOGES DE M. TURC DE CASTELVEYRE ET DE M. DOLIOULES, FONDATEURS DES DEUX HOSPICES APPELÉS MAISONS DE PROVIDENCE, AU CAP FRANÇAIS, ISLE SAINT-DOMINGUE.... Paris: De l’Imprimerie de G.A. Rochette, 1790. 40pp. In French. Half title. Dbd. Fox- ing and light dampstaining on half title, light scattered foxing throughout, else very good.

Moreau de Saint-Méry’s biographies of two 18th-century humanitarians of Saint- Domingue, Louis Turc de Castelveyre and François Dolioules, both founders of homes for the poor in Cap-Français (now Cap-Haitien, Haiti). Turc de Castelveyre, “Frère Chrétien,” was the better known of the two, a French Hospitaller monk who had worked with orphans in Canada before moving to Saint-Domingue in 1735 and founding an orphanage and home for the elderly and infirm in Cap-Français called Maison de Providence. Soon after Dolioules, the chief mason of Cap-Français, began working with the Sisters of Saint Mary to establish a home for poor girls and “pauvres femmes honteuses,” which eventually became known as “la Providence des femmes” and fell under common administration with “la Providence des hommes.” In the course of the women’s home becoming associated with the men’s, Dolioules’ efforts were conflated with those of Brother Christian, and Dolioules was forgotten by the public, a fact that Moreau hoped to correct in the present work. Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819) was born on Martinique in 1750. After studying law in France, he lived in Cap-Français for a decade, where he researched colonial law and discovered Columbus’ tomb, which he restored at his own expense. In 1783 he returned to Paris and, from 1784 to 1790, published an exhaustive work on laws in the Caribbean colonies. In the meantime he became involved in politics, and as President of the Electors of Paris he was handed the keys to the Bastille after it was stormed. In 1794 he fled France one jump ahead of Robespierre and the guillotine, and settled in Philadelphia, where he established himself as a well-respected bookseller and publisher in both émigré and native intel- lectual circles. OCLC locates four copies of Éloges, at the American Philosophical Society, Brown, New York Public Library, and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Germany. Scarce. DAB XIII, pp.156-57. $1850.

One of the Rarest Works on Drake: His Caribbean Raid of 1572

74. Nichols, Philip: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE REVIVED: CALLING UPON THIS DULL OR EFFEMINATE AGE, TO FOLLOW HIS NOBLE STEPS FOR GOLD AND SILVER. BY THIS MEMO- RABLE RELATION, OF THE RARE OCCURRENCES (NEVER YET DECLARED TO THE WORLD) IN A THIRD VOYAGE, MADE BY HIM INTO THE WEST-INDIES, IN THE YEERES 72. AND 73. WHEN NOMBRE DE DIOS WAS BY HIM AND FIFTIE TWO OTHERS ONELY IN HIS COMPANIE SURPRISED.... Lon- don. 1628. [6],80pp. Small quarto. Modern tooled calf in contemporary style by Middleton, leather label. Titlepage in expert facsimile. Some dust soiling and toning. Else very good.

The second edition, after the first of 1626, of this account of Francis Drake’s highly successful raid against the Spanish in Panama in 1572-73, one of his early Caribbean raids of plunder and harassment. Sabin states of this edition: “It differs from that of 1626 in having had the advantage of the incorporation of the errata of the latter date under the personal superintendence of the nephew of the great voyager. The last four leaves are larger than the rest of the book.” The expedition of fifty-two Englishmen attempted to seize the Nombre de Dios but were repulsed when Drake was wounded in the shoulder. After many reversals and hardships the British managed to waylay an entire pack train of Peruvian silver, bringing home a fortune. Drake’s bold move was approved by Queen Elizabeth, who shared in the plunder, but the politics of his raid on Spain during a period of ostensible peace made it necessary for him to disappear to Ireland for several years after the event. Besides his success in plunder, on this expedition Drake became the first English- man to see the Pacific Ocean. The book was originally written in a manuscript account of the expedition given to Queen Elizabeth on New Year’s Day 1593. In his letter of presentation which serves as the introduction to the book, Drake suggests that, while it is pleasant to think of past victories, he would rather be undertaking new employment of the same sort. The opportunity soon presented itself, with more raids in the West Indies; and just over three years after giving the manuscript to the Queen, the intrepid Drake died at sea off Puerto Rico during a raid on Spanish shipping. Thirty years after Drake’s death, courtier Philip Nichols reworked and published the manuscript. The timing of publication of the first edition is significant. James I, Elizabeth’s succes- sor, had been eager to conciliate the Spanish, and no publication so openly lauding raids on Spanish property would have been tolerated under his reign. James I died in 1625 and Sir Francis Drake Revived was published the following year. A most important piece of Drakeiana. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 628/87. SABIN 20838. STC 18545. JCB (3)II:213. $4500.

A Basic Work on British America

75. [Oldmixon, John]: THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, CON- TAINING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY, SETTLE- MENT, PROGRESS AND STATE OF THE BRITISH COLONIES ON THE CONTINENT AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA.... London. 1741. Two volumes. xxiv,[2],567,[1]; [2],478pp., plus eight folding maps. Bound to style in speck- led calf, gilt, spines gilt, leather labels. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

“Second edition, corrected and amended,” with the history brought down to the date of publica- tion, and including for the first time the story of William Penn and the Indian princess, as told by Penn to the author. A basic 18th-century reference work on British America. This is the second edition, considerably enlarged and expanded from the first edition of 1708. The first volume is devoted to the North American colonies and includes maps of North America, the islands of Canada, New England, Virginia and Maryland, and Carolina and Bermuda. The second volume covers the British colonies in the West Indies and contains maps of Barbados, Jamaica, and St. Kitts and Antigua. An important contemporary work which probably would have been the first point of reference for any Englishman at the time. Oldmixon’s name is signed to the dedication of the first edition only, and Sabin suggests authorship be attributed to Moll, who produced the maps. HOWES O61. SABIN 57157. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 741/164. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 191. $8500.

The First Great Chronicle of the New World, with Some of the Earliest Images of New World Natives and Plants, Signed by the Author

76. Oviedo y Valdes, Gonzalo Fernandez de: LA HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS INDIAS. Seville: Juan Cromberger, 1535. 197 leaves as follow: title-leaf, folios +1-3, folios 1-193; plus in-text woodcuts. Marginal notes in at least three hands. Titlepage printed in red and black. Quarto. 17th-century vellum, yap edges, manuscript title on spine; recased, with edges (especially upper edge) of the binding repaired, new endpapers. Titlepage repaired along edges, with upper and lower blank margins replaced. Unevenly trimmed, of- ten affecting the foliation or the chapter number in the upper margin, or the manuscript marginalia. Repaired tears in leaf 105, with a dozen words in facsimile; several other leaves repaired at edges, affecting a few words of text. Overall, a very good copy. In a morocco clamshell box, spine gilt.

This famous work is the most extensive book on the New World written up to the time of publication, and is one of the chief sources to this day for many of the facts relating to the early history of the Spanish conquest of the New World. The colophon leaf is signed by Oviedo, as is found in some copies. Oviedo was a wit- ness to that history from the beginning, having seen, as a young page at the Spanish court, the return of Columbus in 1493. In 1505 he went out to the Indies himself as an official, and subsequently served in a number of important administrative posts. Over the next three decades he kept extensive notes on the history of the Spanish in the New World and all he observed there, especially natural history and the Indians he encountered. He also interviewed all of the Spanish explorers to whom he had access. In 1526 he published a short work on the natural history of the Indies, followed nine years later by the present work. His industry provides an extraordinary description of the period, one that his high offices and education gave him a unique ability to record. Oviedo’s work is illustrated with numerous woodcuts, which are the earliest extant reliable pictures of things in the New World. These include a number of botanical sub- jects including prickly pear, as well as artifacts including the hammock, and natives, the most famous of which depicts Indians panning for gold. Oviedo was the first writer to gather detailed and accurate information on the natural history of the New World. Over half of La Historia General... is devoted to natural history, especially focusing on plants and trees. Books 8 and 9 are entirely devoted to trees and plants, while books 10 and 11 cover plants with medicinal qualities. The illustrations which accompany these chapters are the earliest illustrations of American plants drawn from nature. Book 7 is entirely devoted to agriculture in the New World, describing cultivated fruits and plants raised for food by the Indians. Books 12, 13, 14, and 15 describe water animals (including his famous manatee description), birds, insects, and mammals. The first edition of Oviedo’s book publishes the first nineteen parts of his his- tory. The twentieth part appeared as a part of Ramusio’s Viaggi... in 1551, and the remaining thirty were not published until 1851. This first edition is one of the outstanding early books on the New World, a foundation work regarding the period of the initial Spanish conquest. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 535/12. HARRISSE BAV 207. CHURCH 71. ARENTS, TOBACCO 4. MEDINA (BHA) 4. NISSEN ZOOLOGY 3032. JCB (3)I:118. REESE & MILES, CREATING AMERICA 10. SERVIES, p.1. $225,000. The First Book of Any Importance Printed in Cuba

77. Parra, Antonio: DESCRIPCION DE DIFERENTES PIEZAS DE HISTORIA NATURAL. LAS MAS DEL RAMO MARITIMO, REPRESENTADAS EN SETENTA Y CINCO LAMINAS. Havana. 1787. [2],4,195,[5]pp. plus seventy-five copper plate engravings (two folding, one [plate 49] in facsimile). Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Light wear to extremities, boards slightly scuffed. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

A most important book of Caribbean natural history and an outstanding example of Cuban book printing. In addition to being the first scientific work published in Cuba, Parra’s book stands as the first example of Cuban printing illustrated with copper plates, and Trelles goes so far as to call it the first book of any importance published in Cuba. As an example of Caribbean book printing, it is hard to imagine a book of greater interest. The work’s status as an early Havana imprint alone makes it important, but the original scientific content combined with the exquisitely detailed engravings make it nothing short of extraordinary. The plates, drawn and engraved by the author’s son, Manuel, illustrate all manner of crabs, fish, sponges, corals, etc., discovered by Parra along the Cuban shoreline. Each species is illustrated in conjunction with a physical description. Concerning the lobster, Parra writes: “The meat is edible and most scrumptious with oil and vinegar.” The first two folding plates depict elaborate specimen cabinets containing crustaceans and netted fish. The last three plates illustrate an unfortunate black man afflicted with hydrocele. Parra was born in Tavira, Portugal and arrived in Havana in 1766 on commission by the Spanish government to collect specimens for the museum of natural history in Madrid. In addition to the present work, he produced a descriptive catalogue of the fish and crustaceans native to the island, which is also excessively rare. The collation recorded by the NUC, which locates seven copies, is wrong, as is that in Sabin. A magnificent example of early Caribbean book production. Rare. SABIN 58835. PALAU 213307. NISSEN ZBI 3094. TRELLES, BIBLIOGRAFIA CU- BANA, pp.149-50. MEDINA (HAVANA) 90. Appleton’s Cyclopædia IV, p.658. LeCLERC 1354,1355. $13,500.

Tales of Buccaneering in the New World

78. [Pirates]: NOUVELLES DE L’AMERIQUE, OU LE MERCURE AMERIQUAIN. OU SONT CONTENÜES TROIS HISTORIES VERITABLES ARRIVÉES DE NOSTRE TEMPS. Cologne [actually Amsterdam]: Jean L’Ingenu [i.e. Holland], 1678. 248pp. [bound with:] de la Roche-Guilhen, Anne: ALMANZAIDE NOUVELLE.... Paris: Claude Barbin [i.e. Holland], 1676. 96pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain paper boards, spine renewed to style. Light wear to extremities. Very good.

Evidently the first edition of this scarce work, offer- ing three fictional tales on the theme of buccaneering and in the Americas: “Histoire de Don Diego da Rivera,” “Histoire de Mont-Val,” and “Le destin de l’homme, ou les aventures de Don Bartelimi de la Cueba, Portugais.” Significantly, these fictional tales of piracy appear in the same year and place as the greatest classic on Caribbean pirates, Alexander Esquemeling’s De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, translated into English in 1684 as The Bucaniers of America. The tales here are drawn from Esquemeling and illustrate the endless appeal of piracy tales. Bound in after is an early edition (1676) of the novel, Almanzaide..., first printed in 1674. Set in Morocco, this was the first of approximately twenty popular romances produced by female novelist Anne de la Roche-Guilhen (1644-1710). Another edition was printed in 1678 at Rouen. Perhaps the earliest pirate fiction, drawn from the first edition of the greatest classic in the genre. SABIN 56094. $4250.

Biographies of the Conquistadores

79. Pizarro y Orellana, Fernando: VARONES ILUSTRES DEL NUEVO MUNDO. DESCUBRIDORES, CONQUISTADORES, Y PACI- FICADORES DEL OPULENTO, DILATADO, Y PODEROSO IMPERIO DE LAS INDIAD OCCIDENTALES. SUS VIDAS, VIRTUD, VALOR, HAZAÑAS, Y CLAROS BLASONES. ILUS- TRADOS...CON SINGULARES OBSERVACIONES POLITI- CAS, MORALES, IURIDICAS, MISCELANEAS, Y RAZON DE ESTADO; PARA MAYOR AUTORIDAD DE LA HISTORIA, Y DEMONSTRACION DELLA, Y SU UTILISSIMA LECCION. Ma- drid: Diego Díaz de la Carrera, 1639. [36],427,72,[32]pp. including half title with full-page approbation. Half title. Folio. 18th-century polished speckled calf, gilt, spine gilt. Boards and spine slightly worn, outer joints tender. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with 1860 engraved bookplate on front pastedown, blind pressure stamp on halftitle, titlepage, and first leaf of text. Contemporary inscription of title (“Varones Ilustres del Nuevo Mundo”) on front fly leaf, contemporary ownership inscription at bottom of half title. Text browned with light foxing throughout. Printed notes at bottom of leaves Nn1 verso and a2 recto trimmed, affecting some text; paper flaws in text of final printed leaf with slight loss. A very good copy.

A collection of biographies of Spanish discoverers, , and other figures involved in the early explo- ration and colonization of the New World, composed by a great grandson of . Pizarro y Orel- lana, who held office in the Supreme Council of Castile, composed the work with the aim of simultaneously defending his ancestors Francisco, Juan, and Gonzalo Pizarro and laying claim to rights and grants due their descendants. “In order to hide this intention he cleverly included in his work biographies of other prominent discoverers such as Columbus, who by then was almost forgotten, Hernán Cortés, , and Diego García de Paredes. All the biographies are written in the same elevated tone of admiration, the narration being constantly enhanced with numerous erudite notes and comments in which the deeds of the subjects are favorably compared to those achieved by the great heroes of antiquity. In sharp contrast to the others, the biography of , the Pizarristas’ great foe during the civil wars, is characterized by a poorly disguised tone of condemnation, his actions being shown as the tragic result of his personal shortcomings” – Delgado-Gomez. A fine mid-17th-century biographical compendium, providing extensive infor- mation about several key figures in the discovery and conquest of Spanish America. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 639/93. SABIN 63189. MEDINA (BHA) 999. PALAU 227687. JCB (3)II:276. DELGADO-GOMEZ, SPANISH HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT THE NEW WORLD 59. $6000.

80. Plumier, Charles: NOVA PLANTARUM AMERICANARUM GEN- ERA. Paris: J. Boudot, 1703. [8],52,[4],21,[1]pp. plus forty engraved plates. Titlepage vignette. Quarto. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine richly gilt, raised bands, gilt leather label, a.e.g. Spine rubbed with some gilt flaking, spine ends expertly repaired. Old stain in fore- and upper edge of text and plates. Some foxing. A good copy.

An important work of American botany by one of the outstanding early investi- gators of Caribbean plants. Father Charles Plumier (1646-1704) was a monk of the order of St. Francesco di Paula. Called “an important botanical traveller” by Hunt, he was a close friend and associate of the great botanist, Tournefort, before turning his attention to the Caribbean. He made at least two trips to the French Antilles and in 1693 published Description des Plantes de l’Amerique. The present work is the result of his third American trip overall, when he visited Guadeloupe, Martinique, and the coast of Brazil. Plumier describes and names 106 new genera of American plants herein for the first time. The finely detailed engraved plates depict the palm tree, magnolia, guanabanus, and scores of other tropical fruits and flowers. After Plumier’s death in 1704, all of his drawings passed to the Cabinet des Estampes de Roi and served as the basis for the Plantarum Americanarum Fas- ciculus X (Amsterdam, 1715-60), in which he described hundreds of plants for the first time, including the Begonia. HUNT 407. NISSEN 1546. CLEVELAND BOTANICAL COLLECTION 313. SABIN 63457. PRITZEL 7214. Coats, The Plant Hunters, p.332. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 8067. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 703/120. PALAU 229150. JCB (1)III:42. STIFTUNG FUR BOTANIK SALE 607. $5000.

The Best Atlas of the Navigation of Saint Domingue

81. Puységur, Antoine-Hyacinthe de Chastenet de: LE PILOTE DE L’ISLE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE ET DES DEBOUQUEMENS DE CETTE ISLE.... [with:] DETAIL SUR LA NAVIGATION AUX COTES DE SAINT-DOMINGUE ET DANS SES DEBOUQUE- MENS. Paris. 1787. Atlas volume plus text volume. [2],18pp. plus seven maps and charts (three double-page); [4],81,10pp. Large folio atlas in antique-style half calf and patterned boards, spine gilt, leather label. Light scattered foxing. Quarto text volume in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label, stamped with the arms of France on both covers. A few scattered spots of foxing. Last ten pages of text lightly browned. A very good set.

A rare and beautifully produced atlas recording the results of an official French coastal survey of the island of Hispaniola, with the full complement of seven maps and plates. Only three copies of this rare marine atlas are recorded as having sold at auction in the past thirty years, and all had only six maps and plates. The text starts with an explanation of the methods the Comte de Puységur used during the survey, as well as his acknowledgment of the help given by various individuals (the coastal profiles, for instance, were drawn up from drawings by M. Ozanne, “Ingénieur-constructeur de la Marine”). This introductory text is followed by de- tailed notes on the observations made of the positions of the various locations used as a base for the construction of the maps, and by notes on the available anchor- ages around the island. The text finishes with “Détails du mouvement” of marine chronometers number “28” and letter “A” that were used during the survey. The maps and plates are as follow:

1) “Carte réduite de l’Isle de St. Domingue . d’après les observations faites sur la Corvette Vautour en 1784 et 1785.” A double-page map of Santo Domingo with four integral coastal profiles at the top. 2) “Carte réduite des débouquements de St. Domingue . d’après les observations faites sur la Corvette Vautour en 1784 et 1785.” A double-page sea-chart of the and part of the northern coastline of Santo Domingo. 3) “Plan de la Baye de l’Acul; Baye de Dame-Marie; Le Port François; Plan du Môle St. Nicolas; Baye des Irois.” One page with charts of five anchorages on the coast of Hispaniola. 4) “L’Anse a Chouchou; Le Port Paix; Mouillage de Jean-Rabel; La Baye Moustique; Baye de Tiburon; Baye des Gonayves; La Baye du Fond de la Grange; Port a l’Écu; rade de la Basse-Terre.” One page with charts of nine anchorages on the coast of Hispaniola. 5) Coastal profiles of seventeen locations on a single page. 6) Coastal profiles of nineteen locations on a single page 7) “Carte De La Gonave dressée sur les opérations géométriques faites en 1787 . par M. de Lieudé de Sepmanville.” A double-page sea chart of Gonave Island and the Port Au Prince Bay area.

The accompanying text volume gives details for navigating the coasts of the island. Rare, with only seven copies of the atlas and fewer than twenty copies of the accompanying text located in OCLC. A lovely set. SABIN 62864. PHILLIPS ATLASES 2716. $13,500.

82. [Rochefort, Charles de]: HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET MORALE DES ILES ANTILLES DE L’AMERIQUE.... Rotterdam. 1665. En- graved title, title-leaf, [32],583,[13]pp. plus three folding plates. Forty-four copper plate engravings. Quarto. Old vellum. Vellum dust soiled, small portion of spine lacking. Occasional light foxing or toning. Bottom margin of one folding plate trimmed, slightly affecting explanation. Another folding plate neatly detached. Overall a very nice copy.

The second French edition. This copy contains the armorial bookplates of Mathew Wilson and Frances Mary Richardson Currer. Currer (1785-1861) was a renowned British book collector who occasionally had privately printed catalogues of her collection produced. Her library, said to have been comprised of some 20,000 fine books, was sold through Sotheby’s in 1862. “The books were all in choice condi- tion, many with fine bindings....The books contain an heraldic book-plate, and are generally noticeable for their fine condition” – DNB. Mathew Wilson was Currer’s grandfather or father (both were of the same name), of Eshton Hall, Yorkshire. This important work on the islands of the Caribbean, with interesting information on Florida, , and the Eskimos, was originally published in French in 1658, its main purpose being the encouragement of Huguenot emigration to America. Its greatest contribution was the impressive marshalling of contemporary information on the Caribbean islands, especially the French and British colonies developing as sugar plantations. However, Rochefort also includes a long account of an “Apala- cite” kingdom of Indians said to exist in Florida and present-day Georgia, fanciful in its overall picture, but with some basis in fact. Besides this excursion, there is also a brief account of Greenland Eskimos, and one of the illustrations provides perhaps the best contemporary graphic image of both Eskimos and their garb. It is the Caribbean section, however, which is most significant, and therein are found detailed descriptions of the European settlement of the islands and their natural history, in perhaps the most useful single source of the century. Everett Wilkie has published a detailed article concerning this book, which supplies a wealth of detailed discussion of the book, its authors and text. Wilkie, “The authorship and purpose of the Histoire Naturelle et Moral de Iles Antilles, an early Huguenot emigration guide” in Harvard Library Bulletin New Series Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1991, pp.26-84, 1666.2. CLARK I:142. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 665/173. JCB (3) III:136. SABIN 72316. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3345. DNB V, p.340. SERVIES 194 (1666 English ed). $2500.

Item 83. Hungarian Plate Book on America

83. Rosti, Pál: UTI EMLÉKEZETEK AMERIKÁBÓL. Pest: Kiadja Heck- enast Gusztav, 1861. [6],198,[2]pp. printed in double columns, including in- text illustrations, plus twelve tinted lithographs, one engraved plate, and one colored plate. Frontis. Half title. Folio. Original blue publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners bumped and worn, spine lightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedown and fly leaf. Some light foxing, but generally clean and fresh. Very good.

A rare Hungarian account of a tour through the Caribbean, Mexico, and , lavishly illustrated with lithographs. Pál Rosti (1830-74), a Hungarian naturalist and pioneering photographer in Latin America, visited the Americas be- tween 1856 and 1858, retracing the steps of Alexander Humboldt. His experiences are recorded in this wonderfully illustrated account. Rosti’s observations contain useful documentation on social history, natural sciences, and ethnology. His visit to Venezuela was the first photographic register of the country. Humboldt visited Rosti to see the first photograph taken of the Samán de Güere and exclaimed that the tree was the same as when he and Bonpland had seen it some sixty years earlier in 1800. Humboldt died a few days later. The plates include a scene in the Plaza de Armas in Havana, a fine view of Caracas, Venezuelans at rest in the rain forest, the small village of San Juan de los Morros, and bamboo plants in Trinidad. The Mexican illustrations include the Plateau of Puebla, the Ravine of Santa Maria with the Orizava volcano in the distance, a large cathedral in , Mount Popocatepetl, and the village of Pachuca. The several in-text illustrations add much in the way of details of the flora and fauna of the region, as well as local dress and customs. Rare and informative, with wonderful plates. PALAU 279201. $9500.

With a Profusion of Interesting Plates and Maps

84. Russell, William: THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, FROM ITS DIS- COVERY BY COLUMBUS TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE LATE WAR. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN AC- COUNT OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE PRESENT UNHAPPY CONTEST BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. Two volumes. iv,596; 629, [1]pp., plus forty-six (of fifty-one) maps and plates (some folding). Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked to style. Some scattered foxing and offsetting from plates. Last leaf of first volume torn and repaired. Still, a good copy.

A comprehensive history of America for the time, issued in the midst of the American Revolution, covering the period from the conquest through the settlement and divi- sion of America. It is likely that the book was inspired by the war, and the second half of the second volume is devoted to events from the French and Indian War up to the American treaty with France in February 1778. Illustrated with a profusion of nicely engraved maps, plans, portraits, and plates depicting South American Indians, scenes of European conquest, Florida Indians, Esquimaux, seaport views, and the like. While some of the views seem to have been cribbed from the usual sources, such as De Bry’s Grand Voyages, many seem unique to this work. The early maps are after Bellin, the later ones after Jefferys. SABIN 74383. HOWES R539. BELL R432. SERVIES 549. ESTC T114880. BEI- NECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 319. $5000.

Trying to Turn the Tide of Emancipation

85. [St. Domingue]: ADRESSE DE LA JEUNESSE DU CAP-FRAN- ÇOIS, ISLE SAINT-DOMINGUE [caption title]. [N.p., but possibly Cap Français. 1790]. 7pp. Loose sheets, stitching perished. Minor soiling. Very good plus.

Scarce and interesting pamphlet arguing against the emancipation of slaves in Saint Domingue. It is signed at the end: “les 4,000 J.G. du Cap, de la secte d’Emmanuel.” Imprints from the Caribbean in the 18th century are all fairly scarce. Only four copies located in OCLC, all of them in European institutions. $3850. Item 85.

86. [St. Domingue]: ARRÊTÉ DU CONSEIL SUPÉRIEUR DE SAINT- DOMINGUE. EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DU CONSEIL SU- PÉRIEUR DE SAINT-DOMINGUE [caption title]. Port-au-Prince: Bourdon, 1790. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Minor wear and soiling. Very good.

Edict issued by the Council of Saint Domingue at Port-au-Prince but lacking the ratification of the King or the National Assembly. This is another piece in the conflict between the independence of the white planters of Saint Domingue and the will of France to keep control of her colony. While the French Revolution raged in Europe, the people of Saint Domingue struggled with their own notions of independence and revolution. 18th-century Caribbean imprints are rare. $2750.

Important Saint Domingue Imprint

87. [St. Domingue: PREUVES DE LA FAUSSETÉ DE LA RELATION IMPRIMÉE DE M. MAUDUIT, COLONEL DU RÉGIMENT DU PORT-AU-PRINCE [caption title]. [Cap Français?­­ 1790]. 11pp. Quarto. Gathered signatures, stitching perished. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. Untrimmed.

Document relating Colonel Mauduit’s testimony of the events of the night of July 29 to 30, 1790, in Port-au-Prince, together with the Captain General’s report on the district. Thomas-Antoine de Mauduit du Plessis (1753-91), a French officer who had served in the American Revolution, was posted to Saint Domingue in 1787 as the commandant of the Port-au-Prince regiment. Opposed to the French Revolution and the emancipation of the slaves in the colony, Mauduit and others worked against the royal orders during the Haitian Revolution. This report gives Mauduit’s version of events of July 29-30, when the governor general sent soldiers out to arrest seditious persons in the middle of the night. Mauduit was the com- manding officer, and the officers under him are all listed in the document. Due to his harsh tactics and unpopularity with the revolutionary elements, he was murdered in an uprising on the island in March 1791. $6500. Item 86.

Detailed Manuscript on Tobacco Cultivation in Cuba, 1849

88. Salazar, Tomas de: APUNTES SOBRE EL CULTIVO DEL TABACO EN LA YSLA DE CUBA Y MEJORAS QUE PUEDEN HACERSE ESPECIALMENTE EN LA PARTE OCCIDENTAL O VUELTA DE ABAJO. Escritos por el Teniente Coronel retirado D. Tomas de Salazar [manuscript title]. Pinar del Rio, 1849. [4],122pp. Folio. Contempo- rary blue wrappers. Spine perished, gatherings loose. Light foxing to wrappers and outer leaves of text. Very good.

A significant manuscript about the cultivation of tobacco in Cuba, discussing all aspects of cultivation, harvesting, drying, and preparation, as well as processes and possible improvements. The work focuses mainly on the Vuelta Abajo district in the Pinar del Rio province of Cuba. The Vuelta Abajo region was first planted with tobacco in the 1700s. The increased European demand for Cuban cigars that began in the 1820s led to widespread planting there in the 1830s in a successful effort to upgrade the quality of what was being produced on the island. This was a significant period in cigar history, so this work, written just a decade or so later, is an important record of that time and place. The tobacco grown in Vuelta Abajo is considered by many tobacco enthusiasts to be the best tobacco in the world (this is where Cohiba cigars come from). The present work is apparently the original manuscript of the book, Cartilla Agraria para el Cultivo del Tabaco, y Apuntes Sobre Su Estado y Mejoras..., published in Cuba in 1850. The text is very similar, the most noticeable difference being that the manuscript has twenty-four chapters while the 1850 book has twenty- one, the final three chapters having been omitted in the printed version. Also, the manuscript contains seven pages of “notes” on the last pages that contain additional information for each of the chapters. Beyond that, the text is nearly identical, with only a word or two here and there changed or missing. We believe it is fair to say the manuscript is not a copy of the book but rather predates the published version. OCLC locates only two copies of the 1850 Havana printing (Harvard, University of Miami), two copies of an 1851 Manila printing (National Library of Spain, Florida International University), and one copy of an 1850 Puerto Rico printing (National Agriculture Library in Maryland). $9500.

89. Sauvalle, Francisco A.: FLORA CUBANA. ENUMERATIO NOVA PLANTARUM CUBENSIUM VEL REVISIO CATALOGI GRISEBACHIANI, EXHIBENS DESCRIPTIONES GENERUM SPECIERUMQUE NOVARUM CAROLI WRIGHT, (CANTA- BRIDIAE) ET FRANCISCO SAUVALLE, SYNONYMIS NOMI- NIBUSQUE VULGARIBUS CUBENSIS ADJECTIS. Havana. 1873. [4],324pp. Extra titlepage. 19th-century three-quarter olive green morocco and marbled boards. Old shelf label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, library pocket on rear pastedown. A fresh, clean copy internally. Very good, with the ink stamp and bookplate of the Horticultural Society of New York noting Kenneth K. Mackenzie’s bequest of the book.

Sauvalle, a United States-born botanist of French descent, settled in Cuba in 1824 as a merchant and industrialist. He was actually more editor than author, as the new taxa described herein are to be attributed to Charles Wright. Originally pub- lished in the Annales de la Academia de Sciencias Medicas de la Habana (1868-72). This separate book publication was issued in parts and is consequently quite rare. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 10371. $1000.

Spectacular Images Recalling the Siege and Capture of Havana in 1762

90. [After Serres, Dominic]: TO MARIOT ARBUTHNOT...THIS PERSPECTIVE VIEW, OF LANDING THE CANNON, BOMBS, PROVISIONS, AND WATER, FOR THE ARMY, JUNE 30th BE- TWEEN 6 AND 7, IN THE EVENING; THE ORFORD MAK- ING SIGNALS TO THE COMMODORE; WITH THE DRAG- ON, CAMBRIDGE, & MARLBOROUGH, LYING WITH THEIR HEADS TO THE SEA, FOR THE STIRLING CASTLE, TO GET TO THE WESTWARD OF THEM: IS MOST HUMBLY IN- SCRIBED BY ONE OF HIS LIEUTENANTS...P.O.R. SBRIDGE. [with:] [After Serres, Dominic]: TO THE HONBLE. AUGUSTUS JOHN HERVEY...THIS PERSPECTIVE VIEW, OF HIS MAJES- TY’S SHIP DRAGON COMMANDED BY HIM, CAMBRIDGE WM. GODFREY...& MARLBOROUGH THOS. BURNETT... ATTACKING YE MORO JULY 1, 1762. ALSO SHEWING THE DISTANCE THE STERLING CASTLELANDING THE CAN- NON, BOMBS, PROVISIONS, AND WATER, FOR THE ARMY, JUNE 30th BETWEEN 6 AND 7, IN THE EVENING; THE OR- FORD MAKING SIGNALS TO THE COMMODORE; WITH THE DRAGON, CAMBRIDGE, & MARLBOROUGH, LYING WITH THEIR HEADS TO THE SEA, FOR THE STERLING CASTLE CAPT. CAMPBELL;...WAS DURING THE ATTACK, LIKEWISE SHEWING THE LAND ATTACK; IS MOST HUM- BLY INSCRIBED BY...P.O.R. SBRIDGE. [N.p., but London. n.d., but ca. 1762]. Copper engraving by Canot, after Serres from a drawing made “on the spot.” Sheet size: 18 1/2 x 25 5/8 inches. Expert marginal repairs. Very good.

A fine pair of views from a series illustrating events during the capture and reduc- tion of Havana by a force under the command of Sir George Pocock (1706-92). In February 1762, Pocock “was appointed commander-in-chief of ‘a secret expedition’... which sailed from Spithead on 5 March....On 26 April it arrived in Martinique, sailed again on 6 May, and...landed...the troops six miles to the eastward of Havana on 7 June....The siege-works were at once commenced. A large body of seamen were put ashore, and ‘were extremely useful in landing the cannon and ordnance stores, manning the batteries, making fascines, and supplying the army with water’ (Beatson) [these preparations are shown in the first of the present plates]....By the 30th the batteries were ready, and on 1 July opened a heavy fire, supported by three ships of the line, under the immediate command of Captain Hervey of the Dragon [this incident is pictured in the second plate]. The Moro was engaged, but after some six hours, the ships were obliged to haul out of action, two of them – the Cambridge and the Dragon – having sustained heavy loss and much damage...the English batteries gradually subdued the enemy’s fire...the Moro was taken by storm on 30 July, and on 13 Aug. the town...surrendered by capitulation. The money value of the prize was enormous. The share of Pocock alone, as naval commander- in-chief, was 122,697l. 10s. 6d.” (DNB). Dominic Serres “was born in 1722 at Auch in Gascony, and was educated in the public school there....His parents intended him for the church, but, this not suiting his taste, he ran away from his native town, and made his way on foot into Spain. He there shipped on board a vessel for South America as a common sailor, and eventually became master of a trading vessel to the Havannah, where he was taken prisoner by a British frigate and brought to this country about 1758. After his release he married and lived for a time in Northamptonshire. He had received some instruction in drawing, and commenced life in England as a painter of naval pieces, for which the wars of the period furnished an abundance of subjects. He received some assistance from Charles Brooking, and soon established a position. In 1765 Serres became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and ex- hibited with them for two years. On the establishment of the Royal Academy in 1768 he was chosen one of the foundation members, and was a constant contribu- tor up to the time of his death. Between 1761 and 1793 he exhibited eight works at the Society of Artists, twenty-one at the Free Society, and 105 at the Royal Academy....Serres was a good linguist. In 1792 he succeeded Wilton as librarian to the academy. He was also appointed marine-painter to George III, but he did not long hold these offices. He died in 1793, and was buried at St. Marylebone Old Church” (DNB). $7500. German Travels in the Caribbean and New England

91. Simler, Johann Wilhelm, editor: VIER LOBLICHER STATT ZU- RICH VERBURGERTER REISS BESCHREIBUNGEN: GESCHE- HEN 1. DAS GELOBTE-LAND. 2. DIE INSUL JAMAICA. 3. DIE CARIBES INSLEN, UND NEUW ENGEL LAND, IN AMERICA. 4. DIE LANDTSCHAFFT FETU IN AFRICA. Zurich. 1677-1678. [16],192,174pp. plus engraved titlepage and four plates (one folding). Con- temporary calf, spine gilt. Boards scuffed, foot of spine chipped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing. Very good.

The first collected edition of these travel accounts by citizens of Zurich, containing the first editions of three of the titles: H.J. Zeller and H. Huser’s “A new descrip- tion of the island of Jamaica”; Felix-Christian Spori’s “American travel account to the Caribbean Islands and New England”; and Hans-Jacob Zur Eich’s [i.e. W.J. Muller] “African travel journal to Fetu on the African Gold Coast.” The first work by Hans Jacob Amman, “Narrative of a trip to Palestine,” had been published in 1618 and 1630. Several of the plates are unusual images of Africans on the Gold Coast. Only a handful of copies on OCLC. SABIN 99534. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 677/185. JANTZ 2342. FABER DU FAUR 452. PALMER 405. BAGINSKY 197. JCB (3)II:44. $3000.

Importing Slaves to France from the West Indies

92. [Slavery]: [French Colonies in America]: EDIT DU ROY, CONCER- NANT LES ESCLAVES NEGRES DES COLONIES. DONNE A PARIS AU MOIS D’OCTOBRE 1716. [Paris. 1738]. 7pp. Quarto, on folded folio sheets. Contemporary inscription. Fine.

The second printing of this law, expanded after its original appearance in 1716. A scarce French law concerning the oft-overlooked importation of slaves into France from the West Indies. “Wroth 573 [see below] records one copy only, that in the New York Public Library. This edict lays down the conditions under which slaves may be brought to France” – Maggs. Though the majority of the French slave trade involved bringing slaves from Africa to the West Indies, some slaves accompanied colonial raw materials (such as sugar) back to France. OCLC locates only one other copy besides that in the NYPL. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727- 94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 88 (this copy). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 573. OCLC 45041116, 316862623. $2500. An Early American Tourist in the Caribbean

93. Smith, James: THE WINTER OF 1840 IN ST. CROIX, WITH AN EXCURSION TO TORTOLA AND ST. THOMAS. New York: Printed for the Author, 1840. 124pp. 12mo. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Cloth rubbed, corners bumped. Hinges loosening, with wear at top and bottom of hinges. Front free endpaper neatly split horizontally. Foxing throughout. Good.

Smith, of Sing Sing, New York, sailed to the Caribbean from New York in Decem- ber 1839 and spent several months in St. Croix, as well as Tortola and St. Thomas. His privately printed book is one of a handful of 19th-century American travel accounts to those islands. He describes social and religious life in the islands, the influence of Danish culture, the economy and markets, etc. He also discusses the condition of blacks on plantations, observing that “in this island slavery exists in its mildest form” and notes that whippings are restricted to the shoulders for men and through two layers of clothes for women. Slavery, its morality, and the poten- tial ramifications of emancipation are also discussed. Not in the catalogue of the Beinecke Lesser Antilles collection at Hamilton College, or in Smith’s bibliography of American travellers abroad. Quite uncommon in commerce. SABIN 82784. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40-6165. $1500.

94. [Stephen, James]: THE CRISIS OF THE SUGAR COLONIES; OR, AN ENQUIRY INTO THE OBJECTS AND PROBABLE EF- FECTS OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO THE WEST IN- DIES; AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH THE COLONIAL INTERESTS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED, SKETCHES OF A PLAN FOR SETTLING THE VACANT LANDS OF TRINIDADA [sic]. London: J. Hatchard, 1802. vii,[1],222,[1]pp. Self-wrappers. Moderate foxing, old library stamp on title- page. Very good.

An exposition by a leading British abolitionist on the impact of increased French activity in the West Indies on the colonial designs of Great Britain, with much on the treatment of blacks, their potential as a labor force, and their attitude towards whites. A good overview of the colonial West Indian economy, just before the two countries would go to war over the sugar colonies in question. “Holds that the French were seeking to reestablish slavery in the West Indies” – Ragatz. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 568. RAGATZ, p.327. KRESS 4606. GOLDSMITHS 18487. SABIN 17530. $500. Superb Suite of Plates of Antigua

95. Stobwasser, L.: ANSICHTEN VON MISSIONS=NIEDERLAS- SUNGEN DER EVANGELISCHEN BRUDER=GEMEINDE. VUES DES ETABLISSEMENS MISSIONAIRES FONDES PAR LA COMMUNAUTE EVANGELIQUE DES FRERES-UNIS. Basel. [1835]. Four aquatint engravings, 12½ x 18 inches. Laid into original printed wrappers. A very slight bit of soiling or a faint fox mark along edges, but the images are crisp and clean. Near fine, in original condition. In a folding case, gilt morocco label.

A lovely suite of four aquatint plates depicting scenes on Antigua, in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies. The engravings were made from original work by L. Stobwasser, with the first plate engraved by Hegi and the following three by Hür- liman. The entire project was commissioned by the Moravian Church as a way of promoting their work on the island. The first plate shows slaves at rest before the Moravian mission house in the capital of St. Johns, and the other three show scenes of field workers, plantation houses, and the Antiguan landscape. The plates are as follow:

1) “Vue de l’Establissement des Missions a St. Johns dans l’Isle d’Antigon aux Indes occidentales.” A group of seven Antiguans, young and old, male and female, sits around a large tree in the courtyard of the Moravian mission complex. Other islanders are seen walking into or past various buildings. 2) “Vue de Gracehill dans l’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales.” A lovely land- scape with a plantation house situated in the background. In the foreground a female field worker and her three children carry sticks and provisions past the well dressed plantation owners, who carry umbrellas and wear top hats. 3) “Vue de Gracebay dans l’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales.” Two plantation workers – a man carrying a hoe and a woman holding an infant – walk uphill as goats forage and romp nearby. Grace Bay and mountains are seen in the background. 4) “Vue de Cedarhall dans l’Isle d’Antigoa aux Indes occidentales.” Another view of plantation life on the island. In the foreground a male worker sits beneath a tree smoking a pipe and speaks to a woman who balances a basket on her head. In the middle ground workers hoe a field and cattle graze. Two large homes are seen in the background, situated on rolling hills before larger mountains.

An accomplished group of scenes showing agricultural labors and social interaction among the blacks of Antigua, beautifully engraved and taking full advantage of the fine shadings and tones afforded by aquatint. Not in Abbey. OCLC locates only two copies, at Hamilton College and Oak Spring Garden Library. Very rare. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 820. OCLC 15434253. $13,750.

96. [Sugar Trade]: THE CASE OF THE BRITISH SUGAR-COLONIES [caption title]. [London? 1731?] 3,[1]pp. Folio. Vertical fold reinforced with tissue. Very light foxing and wear. Very good.

A protest against a bill to restrain the northern colonies from trading with the French and Dutch sugar islands. One of two editions published. Only four cop- ies located by ESTC: British Library, Bibliothèque National, John Carter Brown Library, and University of Minnesota. ESTC T20672. HANSON 4222. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/39. $1350.

Flowers and Fruits of America

97. Titford, William Jowit: SKETCHES TOWARDS A HORTUS BO- TANICUS AMERICANUS; OR, COLOURED PLATES (WITH A CATALOGUE AND CONCISE AND FAMILIAR DESCRIPTIONS OF MANY SPECIES) OF NEW AND VALUABLE PLANTS OF THE WEST INDIES AND NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1812. xiv,xiii-xvi,viii,132,[cxxxiii]-cxxx- vii,[4]pp. plus eighteen handcolored plates of trees, seeds, flowers, and fruits (several figures to a plate), with accompanying letterpress text explanations (with separate pagination) for each plate. Quarto. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Titlepage slightly soiled, minor age toning. Contemporary gift inscription on first page of preface. Old repaired tear in bottom margin of first page of preface, touching a few lines of text. Very good.

This copy bears a contemporary gift inscription on the first page of the preface: “The gift of Warwick Pearson Esq. of Kirky, Lonsdale, Westmoreland to Tho. Warwick Syndman, Antigua.” Titford was a Jamaica-born physician who lived on that island for many years, travelled extensively in the United States, and described himself as a corresponding member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. Otherwise little is known about him, excepting this work, for which he made all of the original drawings for the beautiful handcolored plates. Titford’s only known publication, the volume was originally issued in six parts, and editions appear with titlepages dated 1811 and 1812. These factors may account in part for the variations in pagination between extant copies, supporting Ian MacPhail’s comment in his “Titford’s Hortus Botani- cus Americanus...” that “the cataloguer who is faced with the bewildering collation of J.W. Titford: Sketches Towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus, London, 1811, is likely to throw up his hands in despair.” An exquisite color plate botanical work, one of the earliest to depict American plant species, here with a fine contemporary Caribbean provenance. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 14606. PLESCH, p.436. PRITZEL 9370. DE BELDER SALE 356. MacPhail, “Titford’s Hortus Botanicus Americanus” in Huntia 1, pp.117-35. CLEVELAND BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS 757. ARNOLD ARBORETUM LI- BRARY CATALOGUE, p.692. GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, p.144. NISSEN 1968. BEI- NECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 638. $6000. 98. [Tobacco]: MEMOIRE SUR LE TABAC D’ESPAGNE [manuscript caption title]. [La Rochelle? ca. 1685]. [3]pp. manuscript on a folded folio sheet. A bit soiled in upper margin. Very good.

A contemporary manuscript copy of a short, candid description of Spanish tobacco. The author describes sources of Spanish tobacco, methods of storage, preparation, and how it is taken. It reads, in part and in translation: “The best is from Havana; the greater part comes in powder by fleets & gallions; it is not very fine; the Span- ish use it as it is without a second sifting and believe that, in the quantity in which they take, it would do them harm if it were much finer.” Michel Bégon (1638-1710), among whose papers this manuscript was found, was a French civil servant and colonial administrator who served for a while in Canada, and then in the Caribbean at Martinique. In the 1680s he became intendant at Santo Domingo, and was later sent to Martinique for official duties. Later he was intendant at the port of la Rochelle and heavily involved in French intelligence activities. $900.

Item 99. A Survey of the Island of Tobago, with Maps

99. [Tobago]: [Magnitot, Louis-Maurice Le Rat de]: MEMOIRE SUR LA COLONIE DE TOBAGO. EN 1803. AN XI [manuscript title]. [N.p., but probably Tobago]. 1803. [68]pp. plus two folding manuscript plans. Approximately 14,500 words. Folio. Folded sheets, stitched together. Stitching loose, some sheets loosely laid in. Spine chipped. Titlepage lightly soiled, some small chips and tears around the edges. Some light soiling and dampstaining to outer leaves, else clean and bright. Written on the right half of each page, with some additional notes or corrections on the left. Near fine.

An important document, in French, detailing the functions of the island of Tobago, written by Louis-Maurice Le Rat De Magnitot (1757-1823), colonial prefect of Tobago and Saint Domingue. Tobago changed hands many times during the 18th century, and the island was briefly in French possession again in 1802-03 before being captured by the British in June of 1803. In this document Magnitot summarizes the situation of the newly reclaimed island. The first four sections of his Memoire deal with military matters. In the first section, “Troupes,” he lists seventy-seven men garrisoned on Tobago, noting that the garrison is a varied blend of men. He includes details on discipline, causes of sickness and mortality among the men, and uniforms. The second section, “Artillerie,” provides details of the number of guns and munitions at Tobago. The third section, “Fortifications,” includes two plans of Man of War Bay, complete with soundings, observations, and important locations marked. This is followed by a section entitled “Marine,” in which he details the condition of the ports and harbors. In the next four sections Magnitot gives details about the civil operations of the island: Laws, Police, Agriculture, and Commerce. The section on the law is very detailed, giving the organization of the courts, civil and criminal. The section on police is perhaps the most interesting, in which he gives not only information on keeping the public peace, but on the public itself. Magnitot delineates, in several separate points, policing among the black populace, the conduct of masters toward slaves, and the condition of roads and the means of their maintenance. In the last of these points he gives numbers on both the European and colored populace. The “population blanche” numbers no more than 600, while the “population noire” at the time of the assessment numbers 17,485. Breakdowns within each group are also given, dividing rural from urban and free from slave. In the seventh section, “Agriculture,” Magnitot declares Tobago’s agriculture to be flourishing. He lays out the reasons for that success before going into specific crop information detailing production of coffee, cotton, rum, and sugar. The final section, “Commerce,” is the most extensive. It lays out details of Tobago’s trade with France and reasons for variation on the of commerce, as well as discussing the cost of national trade versus trade with other nations. Clearly the French administrators hoped Tobago would become a productive colony, but Napoleon’s entire American strategy collapsed in 1803, with the loss of Saint Domingue to the freed slaves, the sale of Louisiana, and the choking off of Caribbean commerce by the Royal Navy. First colonized by the Dutch in the early 17th century, over the next two hun- dred years Tobago changed hands thirty-three times among the Spanish, Dutch, English, and French, all of them rival colonists. In 1763, Tobago was ceded to Britain, captured by the French in 1781, and then recaptured by the British in 1793. In 1802, Trinidad was ceded to the British through the , and Tobago returned to the French. Britain re-captured it in 1803 when the peace broke and the Napoleonic Wars resumed. At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, in 1814, Britain gained formal possession of Tobago with the Treaty of Paris. A fascinating and detailed document illuminating this last brief period of French rule on the island of Tobago, a small part of Napoleon’s strategy to build a French empire in America. $7500.

The Spanish-British Treaty of 1630: Opening the Caribbean to British Trade

100. [, 1630]: ARTICLES OF PEACE, ENTERCOURSE, AND COMMERCE, CONCLUDED IN THE NAMES OF THE... KING OF GREAT BRITAINE...AND...KING OF SPAINE, &c. IN A TREATY AT MADRID.... London: Robert Barker, 1630. [35] leaves. Initial leaf A1 with letter “A” surrounded by a woodcut, verso of leaf A4 with woodcut coat of arms. Small quarto. Modern calf in antique style, gilt morocco label. Trimmed a bit close, but with no loss. Single small worm hole at the end of a line of text throughout, but with no loss. Near fine.

The Treaty of Madrid, here in the first edition, made peace between Spain and Britain. Its main importance to the New World was its guar- antee that British traders could move freely and do business in America and the East Indies, except those parts of the West Indies, and Central and South America where the Spanish had settlements. Thus, it still kept England out of the Carib- bean but gave free rein to trade with the North American colonies, and for the British to pursue their plantings of colonies in unoccupied parts of the Americas. The preface states that this printing of the treaty was authorized to better inform merchants conducting overseas commerce. An important treaty, with substantial economic consequences. Scarce. Not in European Americana, Sabin, or Kress. DAVENPORT 35. PALAU 339953. STC 9251.3. GOLDSMITHS 603. $1250.

Spain Recognizes England’s Right to American Colonies and Trade, 1667

101. [Treaty of Madrid, 1667]: TRATADO PARA LA CONTINUACION, Y RENOVACION DE PAZ, Y AMISTAD ENTRE LAS CORONAS DE ESPAÑA Y LA GRAN BRETAÑA. Madrid: Con licencia de los Seño es del Consejo de Estado, 1667. 20 leaves. Small quarto. Later plain wrappers. Old stain in lower outer corner of a few leaves; some old, scattered annotations in text. Very good. In a half morocco clamshell case.

The important Treaty of Madrid was made between a strong England and a badly weakened Spain, and was wholly favorable to the British. It was of major New World and American importance, since by it Spain recognized for the first time the right of Great Britain to have colonies in America and to trade with the New World. It also opened Spain to British shipping and to direct British imports from the East Indies, furthering her commercial might. Not in European Americana. OCLC lists only a single copy, at Arizona State University, and Palau adds a copy at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. Rare. DAVENPORT 55. PALAU 339227. OCLC 18177724 $3500.

Attractive Views of the U.S. Virgin Islands

102. [U.S. Virgin Islands]: [COLLECTION OF SIX LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF ST. CROIX, ST. JOHNS, AND ST. THOMAS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS]. [Copenhagen: Emilius Baerentzen, 1856]. Six tinted lithographs, 11½ x 14½ inches. Six broadsheets of text, one for each image. Minute dust soiling in margins. Bright and clean. Near fine. Matted to 13 x 16 inches. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Six lovely views of the islands which would become the U.S. Virgin Islands, done while the region was still part of the . A note indicates that two of the images were lithographed from daguerreotypes. The views are:

1) “Christianssted. (St. Croix).” A panoramic view of the harbor, showing a large church and Danish fort. 2) “St. Jan. (Parti af det Indre).” A wide view of the lush landscape, showing settlers cooking over an open fire in the foreground. 3) “Cruxbay. (St. Jan).” A pastoral scene of activity just outside the settlement walls. 4) “Parti af St. Thomas.” A cityscape of the port of St. Thomas, displaying the city’s impressive architecture. 5) “Parti ved Frederikssted. (St. Croix).” A river scene, showing five men in a rowboat trolling for fish and a large Danish fort to the far right. 6) “St. Thomas. (Parti af Byen og Havnen).” A close-up view of the harbor, showing a bustling downtown area and a full port, including an early steamer.

An attractive and rare set, excerpted from Baerentzen’s lithographic tour of the Danish empire, published in 1856 under the title Danmark. There are very few visual images of the U.S. Virgin Islands from this early date. OCLC locates only three copies of Danmark. OCLC 40745391 (ref ). $7500.

Rare Account of the French Scientific Survey of Louisiana, 1720

103. [Vallette Laudun, M. de]: JOUR- NAL D’UN VOYAGE A LA LOUI- SIANE, FAIT EN 1720. Paris: Chez Musier, Fils, & Fournier, 1768. 8,316,3pp. Half title. Original plain wrappers, later manuscript paper label. Wrappers moder- ately worn. Very light occasional foxing. Else near fine. In a half morocco and cloth box.

A rare account by the commander of the 1720 French scientific expedition to Louisiana, the , and the Gulf of Mexico. Vallette Laudun led the first detailed survey made of Louisiana by the French government, three years after the founding of New Orleans and at the height of enthusiasm over John Law’s Mississippi Company. “Vallette was the commander of the Toulouse, which sailed from Toulon in March, 1720, and reached Dauphin Island, on Mobile Bay, early in July” – Clark. The text consists of 132 letters to an unnamed French lady, which collectively provide a vivid picture of Vallette Laudun’s voyage, the French dominions in Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley, and the things Val- lette Laudun saw there. The same voyage is described in Laval’s sumptuous work of 1728. Not in Servies but should be, as the author led the survey described by Laval, which Servies does include. One of the rarest early publications about Louisiana. HOWES V12. CLARK I:164. BELL V14. SABIN 98393. $6500.

Spanish Manual on Indian Fighting, 1599

104. Vargas Machuca, Bernardo de: MILICIA Y DESCRIPCION DE LAS INDIAS. Madrid: En casa de Pedro Madrigal, 1599. [15],186,[21] leaves, lacking portrait facing p.1 and final leaf with printing ornament. Small quarto. Early mottled calf, spine gilt, leather label. Minor wear to hinges and corners. Some soiling and wear on lower corners of last few index pages. Earlier library ink stamps. Very good.

One of the most important Spanish works on the Indies and New World military organization in the 16th century. It is a tactical manual by a Spanish veteran of the colonial South American frontier and the brutal wars against rebellious native Americans, as well as a rich source of ethnographic and mili- tary detail. “The first manual of guerilla warfare ever published....he advocated for the Americas the creation of commando groups to carry out search- and-destroy missions deep within enemy territory for up to two years at a time” – Parker. This work served as both a guide to aid new arrivals in con- quest, as well as a sometimes testy address to King Phillip II detailing Vargas Machuca’s many services to the Crown, whom he felt never recognized him adequately for his service. The text is divided into four books, followed by a description of the Indies. The parts cover the following subjects: the qualities needed to lead, the preparation of soldiers and neces- sary materials, the duty of the soldier, and the settling of the land after conquest. It includes significant chapters on military medicine and natural history, though the real significance lies in the fact that “scattered throughout Milicia Indiana are unwitting fragments of indigenous and rural Spanish colonial history. Perhaps the main gap that this book helps to fill, if only partially, is the story of early and unconquered ‘backcountry’ New Granada” (Lane). Bernardo Vargas Machuca (ca. 1555-1622) was a Spanish soldier, born in Si- mancas. He took part in several campaigns in Old Granada and Italy before setting off for the Caribbean in 1578 to help chase down the famed pirate, Francis Drake. His first services in the New World are obscure, until he arrived in New Granada, present-day Colombia, in 1585, one of many re-conquistadors still hoping to find the golden city of El Dorado. While settled in New Granada he participated in many campaigns against rebellious natives, becoming known for his ruthless and quick-striking tactics, explained in this text. These included campaigns in present- day Peru and Bolivia, and Colombia. In 1595 he returned to Spain, hoping to capitalize on his service to obtain promotion. Despite his best efforts, including the publication of this book, Vargas Machuca was unable to secure an or any other titles or appointments from King Phillip II. What positions he did manage to secure were in out-of-the-way locations relatively ignored by the Crown: one as paymaster of the three forts of Portobelo in Panama and later as governor of in the Caribbean. Both appointments were short-lived and ill- starred, and in the end, Vargas Machuca, both broke and indignant, made his way to court once again to seek another appointment. In keeping with his bad luck, he died suddenly in Madrid of an unknown illness, shortly after being appointed governor of Antioquia, one of New Granada’s declining gold districts. The Milicia Indiana is thus a manual of Indian warfare, an appeal for promo- tion based on services, and a picture of the colonial New World at a time far less documented than the original conquest. The multiple bankruptcies of the Spanish Crown and the decline of bullion production from the Americas were leading the New World empire into a long, slow decline. It is this period of entropy, balanced by violent frontier conflict, that Vargas Machuca documents. The book is also a proposal: the Indian uprisings in , long a thorn in the side of the Spanish, had broken out again, and he hoped to be appointed governor-general there, to suppress the rebellion with the tactics described in the book. He did not get the appointment. Besides this book Vargas Machuca wrote Compendio y Doctrina Nueva de la Gi- neta, Secretos y Advertencias de Ella, Senales y Enfrenamientos de Caballos, su Curacion y Beneficio, a manual on horsemanship printed in Madrid in 1619; and Defensa de las Conquistas de las Indias, an attack on Las Casas, which only survives in manuscript. This is the only copy of the present work to appear for sale since a copy sold at auction in 1967; Maggs asked £250 for a copy in 1927. As is usually the case, the final leaf with printing ornament is lacking, as is the portrait. A rare and interesting work on early warfare tactics against the natives of South America. Accompanied by the modern scholarly translation. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 599/89. MEDINA (BHA) 402. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 9. PALAU 352445. SABIN 98604. MAGGS BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA 496:407. Geoffrey Parker, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West (Cambridge, 1996), p.120. Appleton’s Cyclopædia VI, p.260. Kris Lane, ed., The Indian Militia and Description of the Indies (Durham, 2008). $22,500. 105. Veitia Linaje, Jose de: THE SPANISH RULE OF TRADE TO THE WEST=INDIES: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE CASA DE CONTRATACION, OR INDIA-HOUSE; ITS GOVERNMENT, LAWS, ORDINANCES...TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TWO COM- PLEAT LISTS: ONE OF THE GOODS TRANSPORTED OUT OF EUROPE TO THE SPANISH WEST-INDIES; THE OTHER OF COMMODITIES BROUGHT FROM THOSE PARTS INTO EUROPE. London: Samuel Crouch, 1702. [24],367,[9]pp. Contemporary paneled calf, gilt leather label. Text lightly toned. 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Very good.

An abridged, English, translation of Veitia Linaje’s Norte de la Contratacion de las Indias Occidentales (Seville, 1671). A most detailed account of Spanish trade practices in the West Indies, describing the organization of the courts, administration of the Armada, work of the missionaries, and the slave trade, as well as general information on the state of commerce in the West Indies through the 17th century. Translated from the original Spanish by Capt. John Stevens, who states in the preface: “I have not, in the Englishing of this work, confin’d my self to the Rules of Translation, which would oblige me neither to add or diminish, for I have done both....” Following the preface, Stevens has inserted extensive lists of commodities exported to Europe from the , as well as items imported from Europe to the colonies. One of the interesting manuscript inscriptions on the first preface page reads: “This Book was given me by Joseph Sever- ance in the Bay of Honduras on ye Last day of July and in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and forty – who was his friend & well wisher – David Nickerson.” SABIN 98782. PALAU 356809. GOLDSMITH 3887. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 702/195. KRESS 2325. HANSON 168. BELL V62. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 105. JCB (1)III:28. $1750.

106. [West Indies]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ARRAIGNMENTS AND TRYALS OF COL. RICHARD KIRKBY, CAPT. JOHN CONSTA- BLE...FOR COWARDICE, NEGLECT OF DUTY, BREACH OF ORDERS, AND OTHER CRIMES, COMMITTED BY THEM IN A FIGHT AT SEA, COMMENCED THE 19th OF AUGUST, 1702, OFF OF ST. MARTHA...BETWEEN THE HONOURABLE JOHN BENBOW, ESQ; AND ADMIRAL DU CASSE WITH FOUR FRENCH SHIPS OF WAR.... London: Printed for John Gellibrand; and are to be sold by A. Baldwin, 1703. Title-leaf, 10pp. Folio. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Text lightly age-toned. Very good.

Kirkby and the other naval officers were court-martialed at Port Royal in Jamaica for their disgraceful behavior in Benbow’s encounter with the French in August 1702. The whole action is detailed, especially regarding the officers who refused to fight, deserted the line of battle, etc. A well-known mutiny, cited as a precedent in other British naval cases. SABIN 37982. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 703/84. CUNDALL 94. JCB (1)III:29. DNB XI, pp.207-8. $1000.

107. [West Indies]: A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DE- SCRIPTION OF THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTS OF THE PRES- ENT WAR IN THE WEST-INDIES. viz. CARTAGENA, PUERTO BELLO, LA VERA CRUZ, THE HAVANA, AND SAN AUGUS- TIN. SHEWING THEIR SITUATION, STRENGTH, TRADE, &c. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANY SIEGES THEY HAVE UNDERGONE TO THE PRESENT TIME...TO WHICH IS PREFIX’D AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE WEST-INDIES ADAPTED TO THE WORK. London. 1741. [8],192pp. plus single- page map and folding frontispiece map (colored in outline). Antique-style three-quarter calf and contemporary marbled boards. Light toning and foxing. Folding map backed on linen. A profusion of pencil marginalia and underlin- ing. Still very good.

A thorough review of Anglo-Spanish rivalry in the West Indies and Americas, from Sir Francis Drake in 1585 to General James Oglethorpe’s expedition against St. Augustine in 1740. The folding map of the West Indies is “drawn from the best Spanish maps” and shows European possessions from Louisiana south through Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the northern coast of South America. The folding map also has insets of the harbor of St. Augustine and Cuba’s Bay of Honda. The single-page plan shows Puerto Bello harbor as it was in 1601. ESTC T40779. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 741/94. SABIN 26973. HOWES G103. SERVIES 360. $2500.

The Treasury Considers the Stamp Act

108. [Whately, Thomas]: THE REGULATIONS LATELY MADE CON- CERNING THE COLONIES, AND THE TAXES IMPOSED UPON THEM, CONSIDERED. London. 1765. [2],114pp. Half title. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Minor toning and soiling. Very good. In a tan half morocco and cloth folder.

Although sometimes attributed to George Grenville, this was actually written by one of his secretaries, Thomas Whately. An important Stamp Act pamphlet, setting forth the views of the Ministry relating to its rights to taxation in the American colonies, and arguing that the American colonies are “virtually represented” in Parliament. Interesting for the conflicting response from Caribbean and North American colonies to proposed taxes. HOWES W311. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 65-27a. BEINECKE LESSER AN- TILLES COLLECTION 259. $1000.

With the First Color Plate Published in America

109. Winterbotham, W.: AN HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, COM- MERCIAL, AND PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLE- MENTS IN AMERICA AND THE WEST-INDIES. New York. 1796. Four volumes. vi,[2],590; [4],493; [4],519; [4],516,[19]pp., plus twenty-five (of twenty-six) plates (one in color). Contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine richly gilt, morocco labels. Hinges slightly worn, corners bumped. Contemporary manuscript note on front fly leaves. Scattered foxing, lightly toned. Very good. Lacks the elusive “Plan of Washington” called for in the third volume but usually not with the set.

First American edition, although Howes lists an edition of 1795-96, in thirty-three weekly numbers bound in four volumes. He calls the present, enlarged edition the “best.” Winterbotham was prosecuted for sedition for two sermons he preached in 1792. He was found guilty and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of £100 for each sermon. He wrote the present work while serving time in New- gate Prison. It treats the discovery and early settlement of America, the American Revolution, each of the states of the Northeast and South, the Northwest Terri- tory, Canada, and settlements in South America and the West Indies. Most of the handsome plates illustrate birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles found in the West Indies. The color plate represents the tobacco plant (third volume, opposite page 427), and is the first color plate regularly published in an American book, here present in a very good impression, “Publish’d by Smith Reed and Wayland New-York.” HOWES W581, “b.” DNB XXI, pp.693-94. EVANS 31647. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 487. $3000. Frequently Cited References

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