Selected Books to Be Exhibited at the 40Th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair

Selected books to be exhibited at the 40th annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.

Open: Friday 28th October 17.00-21.00 Saturday 29th October 12.00-19.00 Sunday 30th October 12.00-17.00 Booth 423. Maggs Bros Ltd. Boston Book Fair 2016

Item no. 51. Watercolour study tipped into WALPOLE (Frederick). Four Years in the Pacific.

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Travel & Voyages ...... p.4

Modern & Irish Literature ...... p.62

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COVER IMAGE: Item no. 28. MANTE (Thomas). The History of the Late War in North-America. 2 Contact: [email protected]

THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE ISSUE 1. DAGUERRE [Louis-Jacques-Mandé]. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. Historique et Description des Procédés du Daguerréotype et du Diorama, par Daguerre, Peintre, inventeur du Diorama, offi- cier de la Légion-d’Honneur, membre de plusieurs Académies, etc., etc. First edition, 2nd issue (the first Susse Frères issue). Six lithograph plates. 8vo. Contemporary grey mottled paper-covered boards, green label with ‘Daguerre’ in m.s. to spine. Lacks original yellow wrappers, boards a little worn at extremities, intermittent foxing to interior. Overall, a very good copy. 80pp. Paris. Susses Frères. Delloye. 1839. $22,500

The contemporary or slightly later ownership of Ed Hagenbach, presumably the noted Swiss physicist and chem- ist based in Basel, and presumably titled by him on the spine “Daguerre”.

Only three copies of the true first issue are known, thus this is the first obtainable account of the invention of Daguerre’s process, a true incunable of the early literature of photography. The first issue of this pamphlet and the production of the first commercially available apparatus had been entrusted to a Giroux, Mdme Daguerre’s kins- man and Daguerre’s partner. The text was clouded in secrecy and publication was dated in 18th August to coincide with the unveiling of the first commercially produced daguerrotype cameras. All were sold within the first hours. The above Susse Freres issue was the second issue of the pamphlet published on the 14th September 1839, presumably to coincide with a new batch of equipment which they also supplied. In recent years the only extant Susse Freres camera was sold for more than $800,000, though originally slightly cheaper than the Giroux version which preceded it, far more (about 14 or so) Girouxs are known. Such was the intense interest in the invention that by the end of 1840 some 32 versions of this booklet had been published in eight different languages.

It contains, along with the official documents relating to the government‘s review of the procedure, Daguerre’s manual which includes details of its genesis, and a transcription of Nièpce’s own description of his heliographic process, submitted to Daguerre in 1839.

Copies of this issue in original wrappers have achieved strong prices at Christies in recent years, selling for $52,500 (Christies, 2012) and $122,500 (Christies, 2008).

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TRAVEL & VOYAGES

INCLUDING ACTS RELATING TO NORTH AMERICA AND SEARCH FOR THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE 2. [ADMIRALTY]. A collection of the statutes relating to the Admiralty, Navy, Ships of War and Incidental Matters; To the eighth year of King George the Third. Large paper issue with leaves measuring 29cm tall with 5cm gutter margin. Emblematic nautical device as frontispiece, title vignette of royal coat of arms. 4to. Full red morocco with banded compartments to spine, black morocco label titled in gilt, elaborate gilt tooling, some discreetly restored scuffs and bumps, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. 8, 1017. [1] pp. London, Mark Baskett, 1768. $3,125

A handsomely bound copy of the scarce large paper issue of this extensive collection of Acts of Parlia- ment pertaining to both the Royal and Merchant Navy up until the eighth year of the reign of George III.

Covering many areas of important development in legislation during this expansive and abundant period of British naval history, there is much of interest herein both on the international and domestic ends of the spectrum. The Acts included concern all areas of naval life from “penalties on common seamen for profane cursing and swearing” to Piracy, Plague, Smuggling and Articles of War “established for the navy [...] and extended to the lakes and rivers of North America”, as would have been required during the recent Seven Years War.

There are also acts concerning Greenland and Newfoundland addressing trade, settlement and whaling, and a printed iteration of the 1745 act “for giving a public reward to such person or persons, his majesty’s subject of subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson’s Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America.” This act promised the “sum of twenty thousand pounds” to the successful navigator, and thus was unsurprisingly a significant contributing factor to the resurgence of interest in attaining the Northwest Passage. In particular, this act was the impetus for James Cook’s third voyage, having been further extended and amended in 1775 to acknowledge the discovery that there was no possible passage through Hudson Bay.

ESTC locates only one of this large paper issue, at the BL.

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BLOCKADE RUNNING IN THE CIVIL WAR 3. [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR]. [CHESAPEAKE BAY]. Sailing Directions for the Coast of North America from New York to Cape Florida. Compiled from the most recent surveys. First edition. 5 illustrations to text. 8vo. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, some minor spotting. [iv], 47, [1]pp. London, James Imray, 1863. $1,875

A compact directory of sailing instructions along the east coast of America issued during the Civil War. The directions commence with a route from New York to Delaware Bay, a description of the Coast Between Delaware Bay and Chesapeake Bays (including 13pp notes on Ches- apeake Bay), and finally Chesapeake Bay to Cape Florida.

It’s more than likely that this was issued for use by blockade runners in the American Civil War. The newly formed Confederate States of America had no navy of its own to speak of and thus turned to England for the construction of its ships. The vessels were designed primarily for speed and often sailed at night to evade Union ships patrolling the length of the Atlantic coast.

The five illustrations are coastal profiles of “Little Egg Harbour”, “Bombay Hook Woods from the Main Channel”, “Bombay Hook Light from the Main Channel”, “Liston’s Point from the Main Channel”, and “Reedy Island Light ... from the Main Channel.”

Rare. OCLC locates just a single copy at Jacksonville Public Library

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ECTOR’S TEXAS BRIGADE 4. [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR]. DALBY (Green D.) Letters and Journals of a Confederate Soldier. 11 letters (A.L.s., ink, 48pp.), 3 journals (A.MS., pencil & ink, 120pp.) and 2 sets of journal entries on loose sheets (Manuscript in pencil, unsigned but very similar to Dalby’s hand) 9pp. 1862-1865. $3,125

A collection of letters and journals relating to the personal experiences of a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War.

The contents are written by Green D. Dalby (22/12/1832 - 28/12/1884) of Ector’s Texas Brigade (specifically the 32nd Texas Cavalry, which was also called the 15th Regiment), and are largely in address to his wife, Turga I. Dalby.

As Dalby soldiered throughout the conflict the material accounts for a number of significant events, such as the Battle of Chickamauga, where his regiment suffered its worst losses of the war, albeit in a victory for the Confederates. His writings also offer a window into the everyday life and concerns of a Confederate soldier: he writes about changing food rations, his brigade’s movements, his unsuccessful applications for furlough, and family matters, among other topics.

Dalby constantly reassures his wife of his good health, and in a letter from 8 February 1865 he notes that he weighs 175 pounds - “as much or more than I was at home.” Dalby professes his love for his wife so profuse- ly in each of his letters that the reader is left with an impression that, although this soldier was passionate about fighting for the Confederacy, he longed to return home to his family (a wish all the more understanda- ble for some of the horrors he describes).

Considered together, the contents of this collection give rich insight into the emotional repercussions of the American Civil War, and of the personal struggles faced by Confederate soldiers in particular.

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5. [ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL COMPANY]. Album of Iranian Oil-fields. Photograph album containing 37 mounted silver-gelatin photographs (including 3 panoramas), measuring ca. 155 by 105mm with printed captions pasted below each image. Large oblong 8vo. Contemporary cloth. 19 leaves. n.p., n.d., [but around 1926]. $4,375

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1908 in the wake of the discovery of a large oil deposit at Mas- jed Soleyman. The Abadan refinery, one of the world’s largest refinerys, was completed in 1912 and the images here show much of the infrastructure and commercial activities that developed around the refinery.

The photographs in this album are dated 1926. This group might well have been assembled with a view to celebrate the company’s twentieth anniversary in 1928. In 1954, the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. would be renamed British Petroleum (BP).

The images include: 1. Panoramic view of Abdan taken from a Tanker alongside No 1. Jetty. (3 print) 2. Knocking-off time at Abadan Refinery. 3. “British Sovereign” undergoing repairs Bawarda. 4. Pack mules crossing the ford at Godar-i-Cham on the Zurah River en route for Gach Qaraguli. 5. Persian road gang working on the Company’s road to Gach Qaraguli. 1926. 6. The Company’s Head Office buidling in Mohammer- ah. 7. The Company’s Laundry at Mohammerah. Dhobi men at work. 8. Ahwaz - The company’s store yard and sief above the rapids on the Karun. 9. Boys at drill at the Company’s school in Ahwaz. 10. Dar- i- Khazinah. Upper-River steamer alongside sief. 11. Panorama of part of the great road to the Oil-Fields where it climbs from the Tembi valley shewing the Ab-i-Gulistan and - on the horizon - the sharp peak of Tul-i-Khayyat. (two print). 12. Road and railway bridge over the Rhada River built by the Company on the great Road to the Oil-Fields. 13. Tembi pumping - Station with Power-House in background. 14. Pipe-laying gang screwing pipe-line on new section near Haddam (upper desert) 1926. 15. Panoramic view of central area at the Oil-Fields with Main Office in the centre (three print). 16. The Company’s Main Office Building at Masjid-i- Sulaiman. 17. Persian Bazaar, A corn merchant. 18. Morning sick parade at the Company’s Hospital Masjid -i- Sulaiman. 19. Persian bazaar scene making “givas”. The Native type of footwear. 20. Barber at work in the Mohammerah Bazaar. 21. Bazaar scene. Tailor smoking the qalyan.

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22. En route for Isfahan - on the Company’s main road at the Oil-Fields. 1926. 23. The old fire Temple of Masjid-i-Sulaiman. (The Throne of |Solomon) at the Oil-Fields. The smoke is from a near-by well being brought in - the oil and gas from which were being burnt off. 24. Rig of rotary-drilled well at TulBazun. Fields 1926. 25. A geologist in the field. Mr. G.M. Shaw working on a map survey near Tembiun Asmari Mountain appears in the background. 26. The main stories at M.I.S. to which supplies of all kinds are brought by rail from D.i.K. on the Karun River. The crane is unloading a motor chassi. 27. At the top of the 2,200-ft. incline on the way to Godar Landor. The figures are left to right. Mr. T.L. Jacks. (resi- dent Director). Sir Harry Brittain. M.P. and Mr. J.L. Wright. (Fields manager). 28. The Bakhtiari substitute for a ferry boat- a tribesman swimming in the Karun River supported on an inflated goat-skin. 29. “Killick” approaching the bank laden with goats. 30. Members of the company Staff being entertained at luncheon by the Kashguli Khans at their winter camp 1925. 31. A Dervish at Masjid-i- Sulaiman. 32. Types of the Persian employees dependents at the Oil/Fields. 33. Persian peasant ploughing arable land at Masjid-i-Suliaman. Note the oil-well derrick in the background. 34. Transporting cased oil by caravan in the desert. 35. The date-palm trimmer, climbing a tall palm/tree. 36. On the move. The Bakhtiari tribesman’s pantechnicon. 37. A mahala en route for Shustar on the Narum River above Dar-i-Khazinah.

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18th CENTURY BALLOONING 6. [ANON.]. [BALLOONING]. O Carneiro, o pato, e o gallo, fabula em forma de dialogo ou Viagem que fizerao pelos ares estes Animaes na Machina Aerostatica de Montgolfier. &c, &c. First edition. 8vo. A very good copy in marbled wrappers. 16pp. Lisbon, 1791. $1,190

Very rare. OCLC locates just three copies. A fictional retelling of an otherwise unrecorded voyage of the first passengers (a sheep, a duck and a rooster) in a hot air balloon on September 19, 1783. This account includes a discussion of travelling to the Americas, specifically to Philadelphia and the Amazon River.

7. [BARTLETT (S.W.)]. Photographs from the Hudson Bay Expedition 1911. 41 original photographs & 8 photo postcards measuring 76 by 135mm. 1911. $8,125

This group of images documents an expedition through the Canadian Arctic in 1911. Beginning at Forteau Bay, the party moved on to Hudson Strait, Wakeham Bay, Churchill and York.

Under the command of Capt. Frederick Anderson, the 1911 Hudson’s Bay Expedition was instructed to build on the work of the previous expedition and chart the area around Port Nelson. However, the expedition ranged as far afield as Cape Drigges, Forteau Bay, Wakeham Bay (Kangiqsujuaq) and Churchill. (A map of Port Nelson was published in 1913.) They had two ships, the Minto under Capt. John MacPherson and Chrissie C Thomey under Mr H.D. Parizue. Ice pilot was Capt. S.W Bartlett, who served as master on Windward on Robert Peary’s 1898-1902 expedition as well as the Erik. Furthermore, he was the brother of Robert Abram Bartlett, commander of the Windward on that expedition and later of Roosevelt on Peary’s 1905-06 and 1908-09 expeditions. Thomas Gushue, captain of the Chrissie C Thomey, also served with Peary in 1908-09. Of course, Anderson himself would later become Chief Hydrographer.

Minto called at Forteau Bay on the Labrador coast on July 20 to pick up the Chrissie Thomey also bound for Port Nelson, and the coaling steamer Beatrice. An image is included of Nurse Florence Bailey at Forteau Bay. She was the first nurse to take charge of a nursing station in northern Canada and at this time worked at the Grenfell mission. The caption on the verso makes her importance clear: “Miss Baillie (sic) Forteau Bay nurse, doctor, spiritual advisor, etc etc.” A third ship, Burleigh, was designated for magnetic observations. Burleigh was captained by Thomas Butler of Halifax. Burleigh’s contribution to the expedition was short-lived. She was towed into Hudson Strait on July 27 and made for Ashe Inlet and Lake Harbour to deliver supplies and land missionaries, among whom was the Rev. Edmund Peck, notable for founding the first mission on Baffin Island and producing the first Inuktitut-English dictionary.

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This collection includes not only an image of Peck but of the missionaries boarding the Burleigh. There is another image of the Revs Peck and Burleigh (“Pecks bad boy”[!]) being transferred “in an attempt to land them on the opposite side of the strait – (Baffins land).” The caption continues, outlining the fate of the Burleigh: “The schooner was later so badly crushed in the ice that she abandoned the trip and made the Labrador shore [Halifax]. The missionaries arrived later at their destination through kindness of New- foundland Government steamer.” The Chrissie C Thomey also sustained damage and entered Wakeham Bay for repairs. During this time they determined that Wakeham Bay was 17 miles out in latitude. On the 26th Minto returned to Hudson Strait, reaching Sugluk Inlet on October 1. She spent four days surveying and charting the inlet, correcting many falsely recorded locations. Alongside the Erik, the crew arrived at Halifax on October 25.

It was an expedition brimming with incident and, from the photographs, good cheer. In addition to the aforementioned images, there are several photos of the Minto as well as the Chrissie C Thomey, Burleigh and Erik. Crew members are featured as well as Eskimos at Wakeham Bay and Fort Churchill including two el- derly Eskimos, one about “to break camp” with all her worldly possessions on the backs of three dogs. Local topography and buildings are depicted including the Grenfell mission at Forteau Bay, York Factory, and the Police station at Churchill. There are images of the fleet at Churchill Harbour and of the Chrissie C Thomey being repaired at Wakeham Bay. The captions on the verso provide much additional detail. The envelope is inscribed “Dr Collie, J.R.M. 1911 Expedition to the Arctic.” This is almost certainly Dr John Robert Mitch- ell Collie, born in River John Nova Scotia in 1884. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 1911 and is recorded as a Medical Assistant at Nova Scotia Hospital, Halifax in April 1912. As a medical student, he served as part of the preliminary survey for Peary’s 1908-9 North Pole expedition. The photographs were possibly passed to him by Capt. S.W. Bartlett who was also on the expedition.

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8. BLIGH (Lieut William). Voyage to the South Seas, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty... First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 4 charts & 3 plates. 4to. Contem- porary half calf over marbled boards, skillfully rebacked, slightly rubbed, spine gilt, some minor foxing & offsetting as usual. x, 264pp. London, George Nicol, 1792. $11,875

“An extremely important book” (Hill). Published two years after Bligh’s own account (A Narrative of the Mutiny...) this, the official narrative, was edited by Burney under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks. Bligh, who had accompanied Cook on his third voyage aboard the Resolution, was despatched to Otaheite to procure specimens of breadfruit trees to be transported to the West Indies. Cook had noted on his first voyage to the Pacific that “Loaves of Bread, or at least what serves as a most excellent substitute growes here in a manner spontaneously upon trees...”, and it was proposed that these breadfruits be used as a foodstuff for the slaves of the West Indies.

With this in mind, the Bounty had been adapted to provide the best possible accommodation for the breadfruit plants, which meant that the cramped quarters occupied by the crew were even more confined than was normal. To return to such living conditions and the harsh discipline of ship-board life after having enjoyed the tremendous freedoms offered by several months on Tahiti, was unac- ceptable to many of the Bounty’s crew. This coupled with Bligh’s manner towards his officers result- ed in the Mutiny on 28th April, 1789, led by Fletcher Christian, when Bligh and 18 loyal members of his crew were set adrift in the Bounty’s longboat, whilst the breadfruits were thrown overboard.

In one of the greatest known feats of seamanship, Bligh managed to navigate the twenty-three foot longboat 3618 miles from the Friendly Islands to Timor without a chart. Of the eighteen men who accompanied him at the outset, twelve survived the voyage and followed Bligh home in the Dutch fleet. The mutineers themselves returned to Tahiti, whilst Christian and eight of the others subsequently took the Bounty off to Pitcairn Island, where the colony they established remained undiscov- ered until 1808.

Discreet 19th century bookplate of Peter La Touche Jun to front pastedown. Ferguson, 125; Hill, p27; Wantrup, 62a.

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9. [BRAZIL] [HUEBNER (George).] Vistas de Para Brazil. 28 photographs laid down with printed captions, one a three plate panorama. Oblong 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt Vistas de Para Brazil on the upper cover, expertly repaired. Manaos, Edicao de George Huebner, 1898. $3,125

An album of strong images by the German photographer. Showing primarily buildings, streets and ports of note, the panorama is of Porto de Bellum.

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10. BURNABY (Rev. Andrew). Travels through the middle Settlements in North America in 1759 and 1760: With Observations upon the State of the Colonies. First edition. 4to. Contemporary half calf. viii, 106, 1pp. London, T. Payne, 1775. $1,500

“Valuable as exhibiting a view of the colonies immediately preceding the Revolutionary War” (Sabin). Burnaby provides an interesting if short account of his time in Virginia and Maryland and includes a brief account of his visit to Washington’s home Mount Vernon (“most beautifully situated”) and an account of the “gallant and public spirit” of its owner. Clark II, 7; Howes, 995; Sabin, 9359.

WITH THE CORWALLIS BOOKPLATE 11. [CLINTON-CORNWALLIS CONTROVERSY] CLINTON (Sir Henry). Narrative of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, relative to his conduct during part of his Command...in North America.... iv, 115pp. London, 1783. [Bound with] CLINTON (Sir Henry). Authentic Copies of letters between Sir Henry Clin- ton and the Commissioners for auditing the public accounts... 41pp. London, 1793. [And] CLINTON (Sir Henry). Memorandums etc, respecting the unprecedented Treatment which the Army have met with respecting Plunder taken after a siege... iv, 106pp. London, 1794. [And] CLINTON (Sir Henry). Letter from Lieut’gen. Sir Henry Clinton to the Commissioner of Public Accounts relative to [implied] censure on the Late Commanders... 31pp. London, 1784. [Plus] CLINTON (Sir Henry). Observations of some parts of the answer of the Earl of Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clin- ton’s Narrative... Folding table. iv, 35, 113pp. London, 1783. 8vo. Full polished calf, gilt extra, morocco label to spine, t.e.g., otherwise uncut. London, 1783- 1794. $4,060

A single volume containing various pamphlets concerning the Clinton Cornwallis controversy that was played out in the aftermath of the Treaty of Paris, providing Sir Henry Clinton’s defence of his conduct. These Relations between Clinton and Cornwallis broken down following the former’s decision to evacuate Philadelphia and locate all British forces within New York from where intermittent and cursory assaults could be made of the surrounding country. Cornwallis was skeptical of the expediency of such a policy believing it unlikely to lead to any meaningful victories, he subsequently offered his resignation which was rejected by the King.

However a more serious and long lasting enmity would develop following the British surrender at Yorktown, each accusing the other of being culpable for the critical and ultimately decisive defeat of the campaign. Cornwallis had been dispatched to the Southern states in the hope of recruiting loyalist troops however this move would end disastrously. Cornwallis believed that Clinton should have sought to offer reinforcements with greater urgency and resented Clinton’s orders to select Yorktown. Whilst Clinton denied having con- sented to the march northward and, indeed, disputed Cornwallis’s version of events at almost every turn. This volume bears the bookplate of “Charles Cornwallis. Lord Cornwallis” and as such is Cornwallis’s personal copy of those arguments put forward by Clinton in his defence and with the implied intention of impugning Cornwallis himself.

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A HISTORY OF PORTUGAL 12. CONESTAGGIO (Girolamo Franchi di). Dell’ Unione del regno di Portogallo. First edition. 4to. Contemporary vellum, some browing here and there with toward the end of the volume some worming mostly marginal but touching the text (hardly any loss) of about 20ll. 10, 264ll. Genova, 1585. $4,060

Rare first edition of this work which Brunet calls “ouvrage curieux, qui a beaucoup de succès dans le temps”. Written to celebrate the unification of the crowns of Portugal and Castille, this comprehensive history of the Portuguese empire includes a chronology of Portuguese kings since 1090.

The first book mentions Columbus and the Portuguese settlement in Brazil and also reports on Portuguese activities in Africa and India. In addition, the role of the Jesuits is discussed at length. It also discusses China, Japan, France and the Low Countries.

Brunet believes that the name of Conestaggio was a pseudonym and that the work was written by Juan de Silva, condé de Portalegre, who had accompanied Dom Sebastian to Africa as Spanish Am- bassador. Adams C2502; Brunet II, 217; not in Borba.

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THE LIBERATOR OF HAITI 13. COUSIN ([Charles Yves] d’Avalon). Histoire de Toussaint-Louverture, chef des Noirs insurgés de Saint-Dominigue; Précédée d‘un Coup d’Oeuil politique sur cette Colonie, Et survie d’anecdotes et faits particuliers concernant de Chef des Noirs, et les Agens directoriaux envoyés dans cette partie du Nouveau-Monde, pendant le cours de la révolution. First edition. Fine engraved portrait frontispiece. Original blue decorative wrappers, some light wear to spine, large margins, edges uncut, with modern drop-back box. xii, 211pp. Paris, 1802. $2,300

The rare first edition of Cousin’s biography of Pierre-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1746-1803), liberator of Haiti, who became an icon for the newly independent countries of Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century. Born a slave, he was able to acquire a good education and was made superintendent on the plantation. When the slaves revolted against the owners of the plantations in 1791, they were trained and organised by Toussaint-Louverture into a strong army and fought off the invading French authorities. When Napoleon came to power in 1799, he sympathised with the plantation owners and planned to re-instate slavery in the French colonies, but nine months after Toussaint’s death, Haiti declared independence, forcing Napoleon to surrender his possessions in the New World. In 1796, Toussaint was named commander-in-chief of the armies of St. Domingo, and renounced the authority of France and called himself “Buonaparte of St. Domingo”, but was taken prisoner under a charge of treachery and died in prison at Joux (near Besançon), where he died in April 1803.

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EARLY VOYAGE TO THE EAST INDIES 14. COVERTE (Robert). A True and almost incredible Report of an English- man, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention, in Cambaya, the farthest part of the East Indies) travelled by land through many unknowne Kingdomes, and great Cities... the second impression newly corrected. Second edition. 4to. Full red calf, stamped in gilt & blind, leather label to spine, without blanks A1, K3, & K4, title-page soiled & repaired, with the lower right quarter supplied in facsimile, some light soiling throughout, otherwise a good copy [6], 68pp. London: N.O[kes], for Thomas Archer, 1614. $15,600

The second edition of Coverte’s account of the fourth East India Company voyage to the East In- dies, following the first edition published in London in 1612. The author was steward on board the Ascension under Capt. Sharpey. They left Plymouth with a companion vessel the Union in March 1607, and, on their voyage south, were among the first Englishmen to see the Cape of Good Hope, arriving there in July 1608. The Ascension having separated from the Union in a storm reached India, via Madagascar, Pemba Island and Socotra, where the ship ran aground while approaching Surat. Not granted permission to remain in Surat, the crew departed to various destinations. Coverte and others set out for the Moghul Court at Agra, arriving there in December 1609. He and other crew members left Agra in January 1610 “with the intention of making their way back to the Levant by the overland route. Travelling by way of Kandahar, Esfa- han, and Baghdad ... they reached Aleppo in December 1610 and from the coast of the Levant sailed for England. They subsequently arrived home in April 1611” (Howgego).

An absorbing account presented in the form of a travel diary, Penrose described the work as a “vigorous narrative...it relates its author’s reception by the Emperor Jahangir, and his tedious journey across India, Afghanistan, and Persia, and as such is one of the best examples of a travel journal that the period produced.”

As pointed out by Parker (Books to Build an Empire) “This voyage marks the lowest depth to which the company’s misfortunes sank in its early years, for the loss of the two ships nearly ruined it financially ... during these years of unprecedented English travel and trade into the east there was a great dearth of literature describing the voyages of the East India Company’s ships between 1608 and 1614 only one book appeared which described England’s new-found commerce.

An extremely popular travel account, a third London edition appeared in 1631 and German translations were printed in 1617 and 1648. The account was also included in compilations of discovery and exploration published by De Bry, Hulsius, and van der Aa.

STC, 5896; Howgego, C211; Penrose (Travel & Discovery in the Renaissance), p324.; Parker (Books to Build an Empire) p181 et sec.; Mendelssohn, p.388.

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WITH THE ROUTIER FOR THE EAST & WEST INDIES 15. DASSIE (F., Sieur). L’Architecture Navale, contenant la Manière de constuire les Navires, Galères & Chaloupes, & la Définition de plusieurs autres especes de Vaisseaux. Avec Les Tables des Longitude, Latitudes & Marées, Cours & distances des principaux Ports des quatre parties du Monde; une Description des Dangers, Edueils, & l’explication des Termes de la marine... [With] Le Routier des Indes Orientales et Occidentales: Traitant des Saisons propres à y faire Voyage: Une description des Anchrages, Profondeurs de plusieurs Havres & Ports d mer. Avec vingt- six differentes navigations. First edition. 2 vols. in 1. Eight engraved plates. 4to. Contem- porary speckled calf, spine gilt, somewhat worn at extremities, head/tail caps chipped. [x], 5-8, 285, [3]; [ii], 209, [3], [1] erratapp. Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1677. $8,125

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

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AN EARLY VIEWING OF THE DISCOVERY EXPEDITION 16. [DISCOVERY EXPEDITION]. SKELTON (Reginald). KONODY (Paul). “Discovery” Ant- arctic Exhibition. Illustrated throughout with 11 photographic plates, a map and advertisements. 8vo. A very good copy in original pictorial gilt wrappers, leaflet for the exhibition (145 by 285mm) loosely inserted. 84pp. London, Bruton Galleries [1904.] $5,625

A lavish publication celebrating the achievements of the National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04. This was the only expedition to include both Scott and Shackleton, the two mainstays of the Heroic Era.

The catalogue precedes the publication of Scott’s official account, Voyage of the Discovery (London, 1905) and therefore marks one of the earliest appearance of Skelton’s photographs. Paul Konody’s introduction provides some historical context as this was the first British exploration of the continent since James Clark Ross in 1842. He gives a brief account of the expedition itself and then some biographical details of each of the crew, including the likes of Ernest Shackleton, Albert Armitage, Edgar Evans, Louis Bernacchi, Edward Wilson, and Frank Wild.

The catalogue proper includes a list of the 484 items, featuring 150 of Skelton’s photographs, 200 watercolours and drawings by Edward Wilson, and “Articles of Interest used by Members of the Expedition”. This is augmented by the illustrated advertisements of goods relevant to the expedition, in many cases by expedition sponsors, such as Jaeger, Dundee Shipbuilders Company, and Spratt’s navy biscuits.

The plates are as follows: 1. The Meteorological Screen. 2. Nos 2 and 4 Messes at their Christmas dinner. Antarctic Christmas, 21st June, 1902. 3. Waiting to harpoon a seal - Weller, H.B. In a fish trap shelter. 4. “Discovery” just arrived in Winter Quarter’s Bay. 5. Lieut. E.H. Shackleton, RNR Commander R. F. Scott, RN. Dr E. A. Wilson. The Southern Sledge Party. 6. Start of the Southern Depot Party, 1902. Assisted for the 1st day out by the rest of the ship’s company. 7. Emperor Penguin rookery on sea-ice near C. Crosier edge of the great ice-barrier in background. 8. Head of a Ross seal. 9. The half-way tent. 10. Hummocky sea-ice near Pram Point. 11. The biologist on his daily round.

Rare. OCLC locates just a single copy at the NLA.

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THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN TO SEE THE PACIFIC OCEAN 17. [DRAKE (Sir Francis)]., NICHOLS (Philip). Sir Francis Drake Revived... Second edition. Engraved portrait vignette on the title-page. Small 4to. Modern crimson calf, old style, gilt. [viii], 80pp. London, Nicholas Bourne, 1628. $15,000

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 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 disap- pear to Ireland for several years after the event. Besides his success in plunder, on this expedition Drake became the first Englishman 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 successor, 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. European Americana, 628/87; Sabin, 20838; STC, 18545; JCB III, II:213.

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18. DUBOC (Dr Gustave). Les Nuées Magellaniques. First Part: Voyage au Chili, au Perou et en Californie a le Peche de la Baleine. Second Part: Le Requin, ou la Mer du Sud. First edition. 2 vols in 1. 8vo. Modern quarter morocco, spine gilt, original wrappers bound in. (xxv) 26-200; viii, 93pp. Paris, Amyot, 1853 - 1854. $7,440

A clean bright copy of this account of a French whaling voyage. It was on Duboc’s voyage that the first North Pacific right whale was taken by the crew of the Le Gange. Robert Lloyd Webb, translates it:

“After a chase of two or three hours … the harpooner left his oar, seized his harpoon, turned it and lanced vigorously at the animal; the iron entered deeply, but the boat was suddenly smashed by a blow of the tail; the harpooner was thrown … in the air, also one of the oarsmen, who fell back down and injured himself critically on the wreckage. One of the other boats … advanced boldly, and soon we saw it fly like an arrow, it was fast [to the whale], and the whale dashed along with it in it flight … But this frightening chase slackened little by little; the other boats … surrounded it, harassed it and wounded it with the lance; it received a mortal blow … but night arrived, and all disappeared from sight.”

Departing Le Havre, Le Gange sailed through the Channel to the Atlantic, stopping off on Porto Santo, Madeira, Tenerife, and the islands of Cape Verde and Fernando de Noronha. On reaching South Amer- ica they encountered their first whale while sailing down the coasts of Brazil and Argentina. Rounding the Cape, they proceeded north to Chile, via Lemus Island in the Chonos Archipelago and San Carlos on Chiloe Island, where he witnessed the eruption of a volcano. In pursuit of a whale the ship sails to Mocha Island, from whence Duboc travels to Valparaiso on the Chilean coast where he meets a young Araucan man, whose story he recounts. Setting sail again, the ship journeys to the Peruvian village of Paita, where he walks in the neighbouring Andes. Strong winds blow the ship past the Galapagos Islands, forcing it to begin the long sea passage to Monterrey, California. Here Duboc takes part in a festival celebrating Mexican independence before the ship takes him back down the Colombian coast, with a short stop on Paledo Island, to Valparaiso, where his travels on Le Gange come to an end.

Duboc gives us a scrupulous account of his journey interspersed with his musings on the sea and the night sky, remembrances of his childhood dreams, as well as retellings of some of the many stories he hears along the way. The second part of the book concentrates on one such tale, a picaresque love story with a turbulent conclusion. Howes, D520; Robert Lloyd Webb, On the Northwest: commercial whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967. pp 41-2.

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WITH THE IMPORTANT MAP 19. FALKNER (Thomas). A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining Parts of South America: Containing an Account of the Soil, Produce, Animals, Vales, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, &c. of those Countries; the Religion, Government, Policy, Customs, Dress, Arms, and Language of the Indian Inhabitants; and some Particulars relating to the Falkland Islands. First edition. Large folding engraved map on 2 sheets. 4to. An uncut copy in calf-backed (original) boards, spine gilt, some minor foxing throughout but a very good copy. [iv], iv, 144pp. Hereford, C. Pugh, 1774. $9,375

A classic account of the region. “The only account we have of the Indians of the Pampas” (Sir Woodbine Parrish). Born in Manchester in 1707, Falkner studied medicine in London under Richard Mead and was taught physics and mathematics by Isaac Newton. He practised as a surgeon for a time before taking advantage of an offer by the South Sea Company “which was interested in the research of Jesuit doctors in Ameri- can Indian herbal medicine. Having arrived in Buenos Aires on 7 May 1730, he headed for Chile with a caravan of slaves, through Santa Fé, Córdoba, and Mendoza, to Santiago de Chile. He returned to Buenos Aires, dangerously ill, and was treated by the Jesuit Sebastián de San Martín with such kindness that he became a Catholic and sought entry into the Society of Jesus. He became a Jesuit novice of the Paraguay province in May 1732, being ordained in 1739 and professed in 1749. Having published his treatise on Indian medicines for the Royal Society, he was sent to Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Córdoba, and Santa Fé to further his research...” (ODNB).

His knowledge both of medicine and mechanics impressed the Indians and in around 1740 he was sent to Patagonia to assist Matias Strobel’s mission at Cabo San Antonio. Falkner suggested a colony might be established at the mouth of the Rio Negro as a port between Rio and the Strait of Magellan, and in 1746 travelled further south again with Jose Cardiel where he helped found the mission of Nuestra Senora del Pilar just near Mar del Plata. Falkner’s account of the expedition includes notes on the natural history, climate and inhabitants of Patagonia, the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego. The large folding map is one of the most important of the region to that date and the work itself is so useful that Charles Darwin kept a copy of this work aboard the Beagle. Howgego, F7; Palau, 86485; Sabin, 23734; Streit, 972

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ANNOTATED 20. GERSAINT (E.F.). Catalogue Raisonné d’une collection considérable de diverses Cu- riosités en tous Genres, contenuës dans le cabinet de M. Bonnier de la Mosson, Billy & Capitaine des Chasses de la Verenne des Thilleries & ancien Colonel du Regiment Dauphin. Frontispiece (after Boucher). 12mo. Fine French contemporary marbled calf, spine richly gilt, in compartments, occasional annotations to the margins in a fine hand. [iv], xvi, 234, [2]pp. Paris, 1744. $3,000

The auction catalogue of one of the great cabinets of curiosities formed during the eighteenth century, this example ruled in red, priced with buyers and some comment, in a fine hand. Buffon bought extensively as did the King Louis XV. One of the original cabinets can be seen with material bought at this auction. [www. cabinetmagazine.org/issues/20/olalquiaga.php].

Gersaint was an art dealer and connoisseur who specalised in material such as this. Examples of his cata- logues covering shell collections and other natural history specimens are known. This catalogue, however is of considerable rarity and importance.

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21. GOWER (Richard). A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Seamanship ... by An Officer in the service of the India Company. Two plates, one folding, the other with moveable parts. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, joints cracked but holding, a little rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to rear pastedown. xii, 100pp. London, Printed for G.G. and J. Robin- son, 1793. SOLD

An excellent copy of Gower’s Treatise complete with the movable figure of a ship. This work contains chapters on most aspects of seamanship and “long remained a standard work” (ODNB). A second edition was published in 1796.

Best known as a naval architect, in 1780 Gower gained experience at sea as a midshipman on the East India Company ship, Essex. Upon returning in 1783, he took classes in navigation and rejoined the ship soon after where he was named the “young philosopher.” He was eventually promoted to the rank of captain though left the ship to pursue his interest in ship design.

The ownership inscription “F.W. Rooke Jan 7th 1798” is likely the Rooke who served on the HMS Sirius which was heavily involved in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He’s described in the Navy list as follows: “F.W. Rooke was Mid. of the Sirius at the capture of the French frigate Dedaigneuse, served in her boats in the attack on the French flotilla off Boulogne; as Lieut. Served on shore at the siege of Flushing; was actively employed, and was engaged in several gallant actions whilst in the gun-boat service at the defense of Cadiz and Tariffa in 1810.”

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22. [HAITI] FOUCHÉ (Joseph, Duc d’Otrante). Funds for Refugees from the Revolution in Haïti. 8vo. 3pp. LS to the Cashier for Miscellaneous Expenses [Payeur des Depens Divers] of the Departement de l’Alpes Mar- itimes at Nice on the stationery of the Ministère de la Police Generale, with attractive engraved vignette of La France seated in an Egyptian throne holding the Mirror of Truth and a flaming torch, attended by a prancing cockerel. Creased from old folds, but very good. Dated 4 Brumaire an 14, [1805]. $625

Docketed “Secour aux Colons refugiés”, this letter signed by Fouché as Police Minister puts in place, at the behest of “Sa Majesté Imperiale”, arrangements to recompense the Departement for money expended on the monthly support of refugees escaping the Haitian Revolution. An attractive and unusual letter.

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23. HAMILTON (Alexander). The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, written in favour of the new constitution, as agreed upon by the Fed- eral Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. First complete edition in book form. 12mo. vi, 227, [1]; vi, 384 pp. With the initial blank a1 in volume I but without the initial blank a1 in volume II. VOL. I. Small stain to the blank inner margin of the title-page, small ink stain to B5, small piece (20 x 10mm) torn from blank inner margin of C5 (no loss of text), long strip (160 x 5 mm) cut away from blank inner margin of E1 likely the consequence of a printing error (just touching the text on the verso), small verticle tear to blank inner margin of E2-E5, small piece torn away from the blank corner of F3 (no loss of text), I3 with a section of thin paper, some light occasional spotting throughout. VOL. II. Title-page lightly soiled and spotted, a3 with two large tears (no loss of text), small tear to the blank margin of A1, single worm track to lower blank margin of a1-O6 occasion- ally touching a letter or two of text, beginning with gathering P a second worm track begins in the lower blank margin, a third begins at gathering U, and a fourth briefly at Y before forming two larger wormholes and then one by the end of the volume, some light soiling and foxing throughout. Overall a very good set bound in contemporary calf and marbled boards, spine divided into six compartments by a gilt double-rule and with a red morocco label in the second compartment and volume number to the second compartment (joints cracked in both volumes but front joint of volume I is more tender, boards rubbed, edges bumped and chipped). New York, Printed and Sold by J. and A. McLean, 1788. $124,500

An excellent copy of the most important volume of political thought produced in America, one which Thomas Jefferson believed was “the best commentary on the principles of government.” The eighty-five essays included here were all originally published in newspapers of the time and, collected here, provide a staunch defense of the freshly drafted constitution of the United States. More than half were written by Hamilton, the others are by John Jay, and James Madison.

According to Evans this edition “was printed in two states -- a few copies on superfine royal writing paper, besides the ordinary paper -- and the second volume is printed on paper somewhat larger than the first volume”.

Church, 1230; Evans, 21127; Grolier American 100, 19; Howes H114, “c”; PMM, 234; Sabin, 23979.

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A GREAT RARITY WITH A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION 24. HOPKINS (Samuel). Historical memoirs, relating to the Housatunnuk Indians: or, an account of the methods used, and pains taken, for the propagation of the gospel mong the heathenish tribe. First edition. 8vo. Modern tree calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt with red morocco label, title page and first leaf expertly remargined, final two leaves chipped with no loss to text, some minor scattered foxing. [4], 182pp. Boston, S. Kneeland, 1753. $6,250

“One of the rarest books relating to New England” (Sabin).

With the ownership signature of Elizabeth Williams, dated 1763. She was the sister in law of John Sargeant, who led the mission described in this work. She was also the first cousin (once removed) of John Williams, who wrote the Redeemed Captive.

Located near where the upper Housatonic river and the Connecticut-Massachussets border intersect, Hopkins provides a detailed overview of the mission from 1734-49. In addition to recounting the methods of the missionary education, in the sometimes day by day accounts of activities on the mission, he sheds much light on relations between the whites and the Indians.

Just three copies have appeared at auction in the past thirty years. The Streeter copy lacked the title page and the final two leaves. Church, 986; Evans, 7023; Howes, H632 (“b”), Sabin, 32945; Streeter sale, 679.

25. KALM (Pieter). Reis door Noord Amerika, gedaan door den Heer Pieter Kalm, Professor in de Huishoudingskonst op de Hoge School to Aobo, en Medelid der Koln- inglyke Zweedsche Maatschappy der Wetenschappen. First Dutch edition. Two vols in one. 4 copper-engraved plates and a large folding map, also a supplementary pictorially engraved title page. 4to. Contemporary half calf with paper boards, lightly rubbed but very good. Bookplate. [xxii], 223, [vi], 240, [viii index]pp. Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven en G. van den Brink. 1772. $7,500

A handsome copy of this important account of a voyage through eighteenth century America and Canada by a student of Linnaeus. Kalm was sent to North America in 1747 in order to study and collect botanical specimens. His travels took him to Philadelphia and New Jersey, then to Albany, Lake Champ- lain and the River Richelieu. He spent a week in Montreal, three in Quebec and made excursions to the Huron village at Lorette and elsewhere, before returning to Europe in 1750.

“Kalm’s observations in his highly regarded [account] ... are detailed and reliable, and constitute some of the most important commentaries on eighteenth-century America, particularly its natural history and social organization. His description of the Swedish settlements along the Delaware River is of great importance to the study of the early history of New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania” (Howgego).

This Dutch edition was published in the same year as the first Swedish. The extra title-page includes views of Philadelphia, New York, Mont Real and Quebec. Howes, K5; Howgego, K2; Lande, 483; Sabin, 36988.

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26. LA PEROUSE (Jean Francois Gallup, Comte de). A Voyage Round the World: which was performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 by M. de La Peyrouse: abridged from the original French journal of M. de La Peyrouse, which was lately published by M. Milet Mureau, in obedience to an order from the French government. To which are added: a Voyage from Manilla to California, by Don Antonio Maurelle: and an abstract of The Voyage and Discoveries of the late Captain G. Vancouver. First Edinburgh edition. One folding map & three plates. 8vo. Early 19th century calf, sensitively rebacked with slight rebuilding to corners, red leather label to spine with gilt title and ruled compartments, endpapers replaced with contemporary paper stock, internally clean. [i-v], vi-xvi, 336pp. Edinburgh, J. Moir, 1798. $1,560

A very good copy of the Edinburgh adbridgment of this important Pacific voyage. It’s believed that the 1801 first American edition is based on this, though that was published without the map and plates. The plates are titled: “The Inhabitants and Monuments of Easter Island”, “View of Cavite in Manilla Bay” (sic), and “Massacre of de Langle Lamanon and ten others of the two crews.”

La Pérouse’s expedition departed from France in 1785 in the Boussole and the Astrolabe with orders to continue the work of exploration begun by Cook in the Pacific and on the North West Coast. Having rounded Cape Horn the two ships reached Easter Island in April of the following year, before sailing on to Hawaii, where the expedition members became the first Europeans to land on Maui. They then preceded to Alaska, surveying the coastline as instructed, before moving West to Asia, where La Pérouse charted the coast North of Macao as far as Kamchatka, and successfully navigated the Sea of Japan.

Copies of the expedition’s logs were sent home from Macao, Kamchatka (in the care of M. de Lesseps on the overland route), and Botany Bay (in early 1788). Thereafter nothing was known of the expedition’s fate until Dillon discovered the wreck of the two ships on the reef at Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz islands in 1827.

This is in fact, a very neat compendium of voyages to the North Pacific at the end of the eighteenth century. Although merely a precis, this is one of the earliest appearances of Vancouver’s voyage in print, the same year as the first London edition. Furthermore, Maurelle served as pilot to Bodega y Quadra on their voyage to California and Alaska. Ferguson, 333; Forbes, 331; Hill, 976; Kroepelien, 1331; Sabin, 38966.

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27. LAS CASAS (Barthaolomaei). Istoria ò brevissima relatione Della Distruttione dell’ Indie Occidentali... con la traduttione in Italiano di Francesco Bersabita. Third Italian translation, printed in double column with the Spanish and Italian texts side by side. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, headcap chipped, extremities rubbed. (viii), 150, (2), 118, (2), (12), xvii, 31-184, 155, (3)pp. Venice, Marco Ginammi, 1643, 1636, 1644 & 1640. $3,750

At the age of twenty-four Las Casas sailed on Columbus’s third voyage to the New World in 1498. He became the first Catholic priest to be ordained in America, but is remembered for the nine tracts written in defence of the native Indian peoples of Spanish America. This translation, ascribed to Giacomo Castellani, is one of the first and most famous of these tracts attacking the cruelties of Spanish rule in the Indies, including Jamaica, Trinidad, Florida, Rio de la Plata and Peru. “Written in 1540, and submitted to the Emperor and council in MS... [it] remains to-day almost unparalleled in the vigor of its composition and the nobility of its design” (Field). Sabin, 11242; cf. Field, p215/6; Howgego, L68.

WITH AN EARLY MAP OF TEXAS 28. LOPEZ DE VARGAS MACHUCHA (Tomas). Atlas Geographico de la America septen- trional y meridional. First edition. Engraved portrait, 31 maps (1 foldng) & 7 plans. 16mo. A fine copy in contemporary calf, gilt. 1758. $10,600

A lovely copy of this atlas by one of the most important eighteenth century Spanish cartographers. In addition to the folding map of the Americas, it includes maps of California, Florida and an early map of Texas, “Pays de los Teguas.”

The work is an update of the Spanish-American Empire and each of the maps are augmented with information regarding the natural resources of the area depicted. The information was compiled from surveys completed by the relevant parishes. Lopez trained under the renowned French mapmaker, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’An- ville, and two years after this publication became the official cartographer to the King.

This work is of additional interest for being compiled during the French and Indian War, the consequences of which involved France ceding nearly her entire holdings in America and Spain gaining all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi.

Medina (BHA) IV, 3859; Palau 140284; Sabin 41999.

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THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. GENERAL PARKER’S COPY 29. MANTE (Thomas). The History of the Late War in North-America, and the Islands of the West Indies, Including the Campaigns of MDCCLXIII and MDCCLXIV Against His Maj- esty’s Indian Enemies. First edition. 18 folding engraved maps, charts and battle plans. 4to. Contemporary tree calf, back richly gilt. [iv], viii, 542, [1]pp. London, 1772. $87,500

A fine copy with the rare errata slip. This is the most comprehensive and best illustrated contemporary account of the French and Indian War, and perhaps also the rarest. Its relative scarcity is all the more sur- prising given the expense involved in producing the beautiful and finely engraved maps, many of which are extremely large. The author, Mante, was Assistant Engineer during the Siege of Havana, and a Major of Bri- gade in the Campaign of 1764. He therefore played no part in the earlier campaigns in the war. Nevertheless as Field comments he made “good use of his opportunities to gain information...[and] describes with great detail the Campaigns of Washington and Braddock, of Generals Abercromby and Amherst, and of Colonels Bradstreet and Boquet”. The introduction gives an account of Washington’s escape from an attempted assas- sination by his Indian guide.

Sabin notes, “Copies with all the maps are scarce. It is probable that but few were printed, though the large and beautiful plans and military maps (which gave it so great a value), must have made its production a work of much expense.” The maps are as follows: 1. “Fort Beau Sejour, & the adjacent Country Taken Possession of by Colonel Monckton” 2. “Lake Ontario to the Mouth of the River St. Lawrence” 3. [Map of Lake George and its environs] 4. “A Plan of Fort Edward & Its Environs on Hudsons River” 5. “Communication Between Albany & Oswego” 6. “Attack on Louisbourg” [by Amherst & Boscawen] 7. “The Attack of Ticonderoga” [by Major General Abercromby] 8. “Plan of Fort Pitt or Pittsbourg” 9. “Guadaloupe” 10. “Attack on Quebec” [by Wolfe & Saunders] 11. “A Sketch of the Cherokee Country” 12. “The River Saint Lawrence from Lake Ontario to the Island of Montreal” 13. “A Plan of the Attack upon Fort Levi” 14. “River St. Lawrence from Montreal to the Island of St. Barnaby & the Islands of Jeremy” 15. “A View of the Coast of Martinico Taken by Desire of Rear Adml Rodney” 16. “Part, of the West Coast, of the Island of Saint Lucia” 17. “Plan of the Retaking Newfoundland” [by Colville & Amherst] 18. “Attack of the Havanna” [by Albemarle & Pococke].

This copy was owned by Hon. Lt-General George Lane Parker was the son of the Second Earl of Macclesfield. Having attended Herford College (Oxford), Parker joined the First Foot Guards as a Lieutenant in 1749. It’s uncertain whether he served in the Seven Years War, but emerged from it with the rank of captain and became colonel of the 20th Foot in 1773. In 1774-5, Parker was considered too senior (he was 50) to accompany his regiment to America, and “remained at home helping the government prepare for an ever larger war. He was one of a few general officers who regularly inspected infantry regiments, and in 1779 he proved an in- novative commander of the forces assembled for training at Warley” (Gruber). He also served as the MP for Tregony. As is clear from the number of books in the Macclesfield library bearing his bookplate, Parker was a noted bibliophile. He is further known to have been active in the sale of a General Officers library in June 1773, where he purchased eight books: “Parker bought only books on war, books of the kind needed only by a discriminating officer who was fluent in French and who was rounding out his library” (Gruber).

Sabin, 44396; Field, 1003; Church, 1092; Howes, M267 (c); Streeter, 1031; Gruber, I. Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution (Washington, 2010), pp112-4.

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REFLECTING ON REVOLUTION: AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT 30. MASERES (Francis). Reflèxions d’un Réfugié En Angleterre Manuscript in ink in several hands. Engraved portrait frontispiece (dampstained). Folio. Old cloth, pages toned in places, but very good. 102pp. [Surrey, nd but c. 1795.] $5,950

A wonderful survival, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by the former attorney general of Quebec: reflecting on the effects of revolutions in France (which shed its monarchy) and England (which lost America). Although written in a clerk’s hand, the corrections and notes are almost certainly by the Maseres himself.

Maseres was known for his sympathy toward French refugees and might well have used them as a pretext for this work, which combines his political and moral concerns. Divided into sixteen chapters, plus a conclusion, the manuscript commences with an entreaty to weigh the ramifications of the revolutions in both England and France. It takes a religious turn as he invokes the holiness of life when discussing the refugees’ patience, modesty, charity. The manuscript ends with a “conclusion, A Mrs. Les Réfugiés” and a “Prière Pou les Réfugiés.”

AN EXCELLENT COPY 31. MELVILLE (Herman). Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. First American edition. 8vo. Green cloth variant in first state binding with sides stamped in blind with heavy ruled frame and publisher’s circular device at centre, orange-coated endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown. Skilfully recased. [i-xxiv], [1]-[635], 6ads pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1851. $25,000

The American first edition of 2,915 copies of Moby-Dick was published on 14th November 1851, less than one month after the first English edition of 500 copies in three volume sets, bearing the alterna- tive title The Whale. This slight staggering of publication was in order to take advantage of the better protected English copyright laws. Melville had experienced a lapse in popularity after his early career successes, and due to a sizeable debt owed to his publishing house, paid for the setting of his own proofs. This did however enable him to make further textual edits right up to the wire, giving academ- ics plenty to work with in terms of decrypting the authorial intent and bibliographic primacy between the two first editions. The general consensus is that although the first English contains some later authorial edits and amendments (Melville had an extra six weeks with the English proofs after the American plates had already been set); away from Melville’s obsessively keen eye, the London pub- lishers thoroughly bowdlerised the text to avoid offending the Victorian sensibilities of their readers. Sexual, political and religious references were neutralised or expunged, the grammatical irregularities and nuanced wordplay was conservatised, and the final epilogue was omitted entirely. This omission was almost certainly an error rather than a deliberate decision, as this closing chapter contains the key to Ishmael’s fate, and without it undermines the whole narrative voice of the English edition, essen- tially rendering the story from the perspective of a dead man. The American edition did not sell out in Melville’s life time, making it one of his least commercially successful books. It was not until 1930 when it was finally reprinted by Lakeside Press that it began its ascent to the podium of great works of American literature.

This copy bears the bookplate of the Newberry Library’s Melville collection, and was withdrawn as a duplicate in 1993. BAL 13664; Grolier American 60.

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EXCEEDINGLY RARE WORK ON AFRICA 32. MEROLLA DA SORRENTO (P. Girolamo). PICCARDO (Angelo). Breve Relazione del Viaggio nel Regno di Congo Nell’ Africa Meridionale. First edition. With an engraved frontispiece, engraved armorial plate with arms of Cardinal Acciaioli and twenty other engraved plates. Small 8vo. Beautiful period Italian style crimson very elaborately gilt tooled full morocco with a black gilt label. Several expertly removed library stamps, otherwise a very good copy. [xxiv], 466, [39] pp. Napoli, Per Francesco Mollo, 1692. $5,950

First edition of this important account of African life, natural history and customs. The work is often, indeed generally, catalogued under Merolla’s name, but the title makes it quite clear that the book is ‘written’ and put into narrative form by Piccardo. Girolamo Merolla was “a Capuchin from Sorrento who went to Africa in 1682. Between 1684 and 1688 Merolla worked largely in the region of Songo, about 150 miles northeast of Luanda. His Viaggio del Regno di Congo provides an interesting picture of life in seventeenth-century Angola and is often cited for its anecdotal observations. He was possibly the first to note the use of drums for military signalling. During a confrontation with an English slaver who was attempting to trade under the pretext that the Duke of York, the president of the Royal African Company, was a Catholic, Merolla infuriated the captain by suggesting that he would send a complaint about the behaviour of the English to his countrywoman Mary of Modena, Duchess of York. Apparently the King of the Congo did trade privately with the English, behind the back of the Capuchins” (Howgego).

The author, who “comments upon the influence of the Portuguese in the Congo, describes in detail the life of the people and the natural resources of the region..., his narrative contains some interesting pictures of the life there and presents a good account of the superstitions of the natives” (Cox). The modesty of the Capuchins’ mission to the Congo (they never had more than ten missionaries at one time) meant that their efforts were marginal at best and instruction was generally limited to the elite in political centres such as Sao Salvador, Mbamba, and Soyo. They employed a group of former slaves to assist in their tours of the country, stopping for days in each location so as to administer sacraments to as many people as possible.

Very rare. There are no copies of this first edition located on OCLC. A second edition was published in 1726. Cox I, p373; Howgego, M151 .

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33. MEYNDERT DER KINDEREN. Veertiende Vervolg van de Alphabetische Naam- Lyst der Groenlandsche en Straat-Davissche Commandeurs, voor ’t Jaar 1785. Uitge- geeven door de Makelaar Meyndert der Kinderen Te ZAANDAM. Single sheet folded in four. [Zaandam, np,] 1785. $315

A rare piece of ephemera listing the commanders of ships in Greenland and Davis Strait. It appears to be a separately issued index to a larger work.

PRINTED IN PHILADELPHIA. WITH THE RARELY FOUND MAP 34. MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY (M-L-E.) Description Topographique et Politique de la Partie Espagnol de L’isle Saint-Dominigue; Avec Observations generales sur le Climat, la Population, les Productions...First edition. 2 vols. Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary French tree calf, elaborately gilt. 8, 307, [1errata]; 311, [1]pp. Philadelphia, Imprimé chez l’Auteur, 1796. $21,900

This is an extremely fine copy of a most uncommon Philadelphia imprint. It bears the engraved book label “Decrés” being that of the French Admiral who became Napoleon’s last minister of the Navy. Moreau de Saint-Mery issued four works concerning Hispaniola, this one, which uniquely describes the Spanish part of the island is significantly rarer and very seldom appears complete with its map.

Moreau-Saint-Méry was born at Port Royal, Martinique, in 1750. At the age of 19 he went to Paris, where he became a Counsellor of State, and a great advocate of reforms in the French colonies & in the better treatment of the blacks. Hearing that Robespierre intended to have him arrested he fled from France and in 1793 went to the United States. Having lost all his property he turned his attention to business and established himself at Philadelphia as a bookseller and printer. In 1798 he was able to return to France, where he finally died in 1819. His works on the Island of Santo Domingo & other parts of the West In- dies, are of great interest.

Evans, 30817; Sabin, 50570.

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35. [NEW YORK] KEYE (Otto). Otto Keyens kurtzer Entwurff von Neu-Niederland und Guajana: Einander entgegen gesetzt / Umb den Unterscheid zwischen warmen und kalten Landen herausz zu bringen / Und zu weisen Welche von beyden am fuglichsten zu bewohnen / am behendesten an zu bauen und den besten Nutzen geben mogen... First and only German edition. Small 4to. In 20th century paper boards, these a little soiled, contents excellent. (xx), 144, (vii - index)pp. Leipzig, Ritzschischen Buchladen, 1672. $3,125

First published in Dutch in 1659, this German translation constitutes the only other edition of this very scarce title. This is a comparative work of the Dutch colonies of New Amsterdam (later New York) and Guiana. He was largely in favour of New Amsterdam, which he felt offered more opportunities to the prospective settler.

The Leizpig edition follows the first Dutch of 1659, published when both New Amsterdam and Guiana were still under Dutch control. New Amsterdam was sold to the British in 1667 under the auspices of the Treaty of Breda. Sabin, 37675.

THE FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK BY A NATIVE AMERICAN 36. OCCOM (Samson). A Sermon, Preached at the EXECUTION of Moses Paul, An INDIAN, Who was executed at New Haven, on the 2d of September 1772, FOR THE MURDER OF Mr MOSES COOK...Second edition. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, small tear to rear wrapper affecting five lines of text, faint contemporary ownership inscription to front wrapper. 24pp. New London, T. Green, 1772. $3,125

The scarce second edition (printed about two weeks after the true first New Haven edition), with the page long biography of Moses Paul on the rear wrapper. This was an immensely popular publication which went through 19 separate editions published in the US and England between 1772 and 1827.

Occom (1723-92) was a Mohegan who spent four years studying under Eleazer Wheelock and was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in August 1759. Despite enduring an inequality of wage with his white colleagues, along with Nathaniel Whittaker, Occom travelled to England in 1766 to raise funds for Wheelock’s church, where he gave around 350 sermons and raised £12,000. Upon his return, he fell out with Whittaker learning that he’d broken his promise to care for Occom’s family in his absence. However, he still remained active as a clergyman and founded the Brothertown Indian tribe in New York, which was the first to relinquish their tribal sovereignty and accept US citizenship. The tribe later moved to Wisconsin where it still exists today. Two years later, Occom followed this publication with a pamphlet of Songs and Hymns and also produced a ten page manuscript account of his life.

There was plenty of interest in the case of a white man being murdered by an Indian, not least as Paul was the first criminal to be executed in New Haven since 1749. Paul invited Occom to deliver the execution sermon, making this the first execution sermon preached by a Native American. As a result, the large crowd was as interested in Occom’s sermon as it was in the execution itself.

Occom is seemingly aware of the significance of this publication. In the preface he compares his own writing style to that of other published sermons, “it is common, plain, every-day talk - little children may understand it; poor Negroes may plainly and fully understand my meaning... Again, it may in a particular manner be serviceable to my poor kindred Indians - as it comes from an uncommon quarter, it may induce people to read it because it is from an Indian.”

Evans, 12493; Sabin, 56635; Connecticut Journal and New Haven Post Boy, 4 September 1772.

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AN AMERICANUM NOT IN ALDEN 37. OCHOA DE LA SALDE (Juan). Primera parte de la carolea inchiridion, que tra- ta de la vida y hechos del invictissimo emperador Don Carlos Quinto de este nombre, y de muchas notables cosas en ella sucedidas hastael año de 1555, [etc.] First edition. Folio (291 x 200mm.). Contemporary Spanish limp vellum, without the last blank leaf, damage to title and prelims, with modest loss of text on 4 leaves, repaired at an early date, some marginal damp-staining towards beginning. ff.[ 6], 451, [1] arms of dedicatee on title-page (privilege in Portuguese on verso), last leaf of prelims. and final leaf blank, colophon on f. 444 verso. [Lisbon: impresa... por Marcos Borges, Antonio Ribero, e Anton Alvarez a costa de su mismo author, 20 December 1585.] $10,000

An interesting and very uncommon work on the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.

The work is an annalistic account, set out year by year, beginning in 1500, of the reign of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, born at Ghent in that year, who ruled the Habsburg domains until he withdrew into a monastery at Yuste, where he died in 1558. The work begins with the birth of Charles, the grandson of Maximilian and son of Archduke Philip, and ends with his abdication, and more precisely his renunciation of the crown of Spain in favour of Philip II (‘Renunciacion de los estados de Flandes en el Rey Don Philipo’). Born eight years after Columbus discovered America, the life of Charles V coincided with European and transatlantic happenings of the greatest importance in both religious and political terms, in all of which he paid a huge part. From his betrothal at the age of eight to Mary, daughter of Henry VII of England, his every act and decision, his speeches, his wars, were documented in print, and indeed he is amongst the first monarchs who was able to make use of the printing press to establish his rule. A review of the Biography Separate Events heading Charles V in the British Museum Library catalogue (GK3 revised) shows this very clearly, and it may be seen also in the chronological and subject manner in which this work is set out, from affairs in Europe and the Mediterranean involving both the Ottoman empire and the rulers of the Maghrib, to the affairs of the New World.

There are summaries of the activities of Hernando Cortes, Magellan, Gonzalo Pizarro, and others connected with Spanish possessions in South America and Mexico, which are treated at length (e.g. discovery of Rio de la Plata in 1512 f. 70, accounts of Cortes, f.102v-106v & 111, Magellan (106 and 111r-112v, 118v-120v, Molucca islands 140r-142r, 158r, Pisarro & Peru 151v-152v.195-197, 203), Peru 184-185,192, 250, 271v- 275, 277-279, 315-320, 346-358). There is a lengthy account of 9 pages of the ‘Successos en el Peru al Doctor de la Gazca’, i.e. Pedro de la Gazca (1495-1567), who overcame, by diplomacy joined to force, the rebellion of Goncalo Pizarro in 1548. The Portuguese activities in India are also discussed. The fairly detailed treatment accorded throughout to the Ottoman empire and its rulers, even quotes in Spanish translation some verses written by Korkut, the brother of Sultan Selim II, before he was put to death, which made Selim weep (f.73). This story must come from Giovio’s Commentarius rerum turcicarum. Ochoa also tells the story of the story of the friend and counsellor of the sultan Tuman of Egypt, Algazeli (‘here called ‘el Gazela’), which comes from the same source.

Each page has, beneath the running title which is the date in words, 3 lines with the name of the pope, the emperor and the kings of France, Portugal and England, each with regnal year, so that the reader can easily see exactly where he is. There is also an alphabetical table of contents at the end.

The importance to dynastic power of historiography had for long (since the time of Alfonso X ‘el sabio’) been realised in Spain and annals of the kingdom had been kept, but Morel-Fatio (Historiogra- phie de Charles-Quint. Première partie [no more published], Paris, 1913) sees a more public attitude

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to annals develop under Charles V, and a distinction between the two sorts of ‘cronistas’ responsible, and in the only part of his work to be published, gives a very interesting account of the period, and indeed prints the account (in Portuguese) written by Charles V himself of part of his reign. A number of works were written and published in the sixteenth century, the most famous names being those of Mejía, Sepulveda, and Ocampo, but there were many others, some of them like Giovio (on the Turks), Ulloa, and the ubiquitous Lodovico Dolce, writing in Italy and in Italian or Latin. One imagines that Ochoa must have drawn on these, as on Spanish works such as the Chronica de los Barbarrojas.

One account which remained unpublished until the 19th century was the brief relation of Gomara, edited in 1912 by Merriman, who says that Sandoval must have had access to it: Prudencio de Sandoval’s Historia de la vida y hechos del emperador Carlos V in which a similar approach year by year is taken, and which is based on a wide variety of sources, was first published in 1604-06 in Valladolid (we have used the 1955 edition in the Biblioteca de autores españoles). The particular story of 1502 found briefly in both Gomara and Sandoval of the ‘joust’ between eleven picked French and six Spanish fighters, and used by Merriman to ‘prove’ Sandoval’s use of Gomara, is here also related at some length by Ochoa (‘Desasio de onze Españoles con otros tantos Franceses’ f.17v onwards; see R.B.Merriman Annals of the Emperor Charles V , Oxford, 1912 p xliii, & his text añno de 1502, ll. 21-40 on pp.167-168).

Ochoa’s book may be referred to in Don Quixote, part 1 chapter vii, although it is more likely that the reference is to a somewhat tedious poem by Jeronimo Sempere, also called La Carolea, published in 1560.

The author, who also translated from Portuguese into Spanish Barletius’ book on Georg Castriot, known as Scanderbeg (Seville 1583, Lisbon 1588, Madrid 1597) is described on the title as Perpetual Prior of St. John Lateran, the great basilica in Rome, but apart from that, there are no biographical details. What is interesting is that the book was published at the author’s cost and in his house (‘su propria posada’).

Of this uncommon book we have located 11 definite and findable copies: London BL (594.g.15), Edin- burgh NLS (G.13.b.1, lacking title), Oxford Bodley (H.7.4 Art, lacking prelims.), New York Hispanic Society of America, Paris BNF, Vienna ÖNB (38.A.2), a copy in the Hague (KOB) and at Groningen University Library (both listed in OCLC), two copies (one imperfect) in Universidad Complutense of Madrid (which also has the book on Scanderbeg), and one copy in Madrid BN. In addition there are two copies in Portugal mentioned by Anselmo, and that in King Manuel’s library. We know that copies were exported to Peru in the sixteenth century (see I. A.Leonard ‘On the Lima Book Trade’ in Hispanic American Historical Review 33, 4 (Nov.1953), p.521), JUST A SINGLE COPY IN THE USA.

Palau 198795; Anselmo 378 ; King Manuel 189; Vindel Manual vi, 247; Vindel Cat. general 4.511; Heredia 7328 (the Salva copy, Salva 3092); Catalogo colectivo del patrimonio bibliografico español S. XVI O. 52

Provenance: Don Pedro de Celestin (17th cen.); R.B. dated 14 March 1790 with reference to Giuseppe Baretti’s Tolondron; Thomas Stainton, Jan.28 1871 with inscription in ink on f.1 Bought by Maggs in Hodgson’s Rooms in July 1946 £3/10s.

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38. PAGAN (Count Blaise Francois de), HAMILTON (Wm.) trans. An Historical and Geographical Description of the Great Country & River of the Amazones in America. Drawn out of divers Authors, and reduced into a better forme; with a Mapp of the River, and of its Provinc- es, being that place which Sr. Walter Rawleigh intended to conquer and plant, when he made his Voyage to Guiana. First English edition. Folding map. 12mo. Attractive unrestored contemporary mottled calf, slightly worn at extremities. [xxx], 153, [1], [6]pp. London, John Starkey, 1661. $9,060

In the dedication of the original French edition Pagan calls on Cardinal Mazarin to “take possession of the Amazon and establish several colonies. He proves that it would not be a difficult enterprise and large armies and many pieces of artillery would not be necessary. The map drawn by Pagan is of great importance as a proof of the French ambitions in the Amazon regions...” (Borba). However, in the English edition here, the translator William Hamilton urges the Kind of England to take the same action in his “Epistle Dedicatory”. It is accompanied by the same map as found in the first edition. “This translation is rare...” (Borba). Borba II, p646.

THE FIRST CATHOLIC SAINT IN THE AMERICAS 39. [PERU] HANSEN (Leonard). Vita Mirabilis et Mors Pretiosa… Venerabilis Sororis Rosae de S. Maria Limensis, es Tertio Ordine S. P. Dominici, ad Sanctissimum D. N. Alexandrum VII. Pontificem Max. excerpta & collecta. First edition. 4to. A clean copy in modern vellum, a.e.g. [viii], 360, [iv]pp. Rome, N.A. Tinassi, 1664. $3,125

Account of the life of Rosa de S. Maria, a Dominican nun in Peru. Born Isabel Flores de Oliva, the name Rose was a nickname bestowed on her as a child. She was famed for her asceticism, modelling herself on Saint Catherine.

Beatified by Pope Clement IX in 1667, and canonized four years later by Pope Clement X, she became the first Catholic saint in the Americas. Of additional interest this work includes a description of making chocolate, which is noted as being good for both stomach and heart, but which Rose naturally refused.

Medina (BHA), 1452; Sabin, 30249; Palau, 112196; European Americana, 664/89.

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AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY 40. PHELPER (Ben). Kriegie Memories. Sole edition. 286 images. Small 4to. Original pictorial blue pebble-grain cloth, gilt. [62pp.] For the author [Barker Printing Co., Aurora Illinois], 1946. $940

Presented to Holly “my little English friend” on the second preliminary. Printed in small numbers as a keepsake for friends, family and fellow soldiers, one might expect that all copies were signed. A remarkable memento from the Second World War, dedicated to “all our bud- dies killed in action, by civilians or in the prison camps.”

The photographs in this remarkable account were all taken while interred. Phelper must have gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal his camera (almost certainly a Box Brownie). The text remains light-hearted throughout and we learn of many of the pranks played on German guards, hiding British pilots, complaints about the food and laundry, an account of the “Card- board Playhouse”, the improvised theatre organised in camp. (Phleper notes in an aside that “some of the lads sure did look good when they made up as a girl. One had to look again to be sure they were in the right place.”) As the war drew to a close the Germans allowed music to be played a couple of hours a day and in January 1945 screened a couple of films. More typical events are recorded such as roll call, Germans puncturing tins brought in with Red Cross parcels, funerals for dead POWs, air raids, and as Allied gains continued, we learn of the constant fears of retaliation by the Germans. The camp was evacuated on 8 April, and prisoners were led through the Danube valley until the 25th when they established another camp at the fork of the Inns and Salzach rivers and stayed there until they were liberated a week later on May 2nd.

Phelper enlisted in September 1942 and rose to the rank of Staff Sergeant. His capture was first reported by the Red Cross on August 17, 1943 when he was listed among POW’s at Stalag 17B near Krems, Austria. He spent nearly two years at the camp before liberation. He published two other memoirs of Stalag 17B, “Shot Down” (1947) and “The Sweat Box” (1961). Kriegie Memories precedes both and is the scarcest of his works.

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AN ARCTIC EXPLORER PROMOTES STEAM SHIPS 41. ROSS (Sir John). Considerations on the Present State of Navigation by Steam First edition. 8vo. Modern quarter navy morocco, spine gilt, pages washed and reinforced, but text entirely legible. 30pp. Stockholm, L.J. Hjerta, 1843. $2,500

Dedicated to Sir George Cockburn, in this article Ross resumes his advocacy of steam navigation first outlined in Blackwoods Magazine in 1827. That article follows these “considerations” which survey developments in the field, include naval tactics at war for said vessels, and moots potential harbours of refuge at Stranfer and Loch Ryan.

Ross produced this work during his stint as consul to Stockholm, which he held from 1839-46. By this time, he had already achieved lasting fame for his two expeditions in search of a North-West Passage. His commitment to steam ships was proven in 1829 when he controversially opted to take the steam vessel Victory on yet another voyage to the Arctic.

Very rare. OCLC lists a single copy at the National Library of Sweden, no copies appear on ABPC or Rare Book Hub.

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PRESENTED BY PARRY 42. SABINE (Sir Edward) editor. The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle. First edition. 4to. Later straight-grain cloth, spine gilt, some minor spotting but otherwise fine. xii, 132pp. London, John Murray, 1821. $2,800

Inscribed by Parry on the half-title: “Wm Sturges Bourne with Capt Parry’s best compliments.”

Having sailed under John Ross in 1818, Parry was given command of the Hecla and instructed to continue the search for the north-west passage. Parry’s party made their way through Lancaster Sound, into Barrow Strait, and as far west as Cape Providence. They spent the winter to 1819-20 in a cove on Melville Island where “Parry did everything possible to keep his crew occupied. There was constant activity, plays were acted at the ‘Royal Arctic Theatre’ and Sabine edited a periodical journal, The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle” (Howgego).

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43. SAINTE MARTHE (Claude de) (1620-90). De la piété des chrestiens envers les morts [an anthology of the Mass and Office of the Dead in French and Latin and works in French by Gregory the Great, St. Bernard, St John Chrysostom, St. Cyprien, and ‘Le Purgatoire’ by St. Catherine of Genoa.] Second edition. Ruled in red throughout, woodcut title vignette and other head- and tail-pieces, engraved portrait at p. 307 of St. Catherine of Genoa, 12mo. Contemporary French polished black calf, gilt ‘skull and cross bones’ on covers, spine gilt with similar motif, gilt edges (rebacked with original spine, some leaves slightly soiled). [20], 411, [1]pp., Paris: C. Savreux, 1665. $625

First published in 1665 this work by a noted Jansenist and confessor to the nuns of Port-Royal was several times reprinted up to 1699 by the Jansenist printer Desprez. It is uncommon in any edition outside French libraries, the only copy of any in England being at Durham (Ushaw IV.D.8.33). The only copy of this 1665 first edition listed by SUDOC is highly imperfect.

The treatise on Purgatory of St. Catherine [Fieschi Adorna] of Genoa (1447 -1510) was first published in Italian in 1551 in Genoa (Libro de la Vita mirabile et dottrina santa, de la beata Caterinetta da Genoa. Nel quale si contiene una utile et catholica dimostratione et dechiaratione del purgatorio). She was translated into French and published in 1598, and from the early 17th century her works were frequently reprinted (often with her life). In the 1850s an English version with a preface by Cardinal Manning was published, and Baron von Hügel (1852-1925) published a highly important study of her and the role of mysticism in religion. The Commentary of St. Gregory the Great in the nine lessons of the dead are taken from his Mor- alia in Jobum and translated into French, as are the other patristic works.

Claude de Sainte-Marthe, according to Racine, ‘le plus saint homme qu’il [Nicole] ait vu á Port-Royal’ to whom this work is attributed, wrote a number of works for the Port Royal community (see Book V of Sainte-Beuve’s Port-Royal (Pléiade edition ii, 799-807).

Provenance: Olivier 1676 & 1691 (names on title-page).

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THE HOLSTER ATLAS 44. SAYER (Robert). BENNETT (John). The American Military Pocket Atlas being an approved collection of correct maps, both general and particular, of the British Colonies, especially those which are now, or probably may be, the theatre of war. First edition. 6 folding engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, maps soiled & frayed at edges, some discoloration at folds, rebacked. London, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, [ 1776]. $21,900

Published at the behest of Governor George Pownall, the advertisement clarifies its purpose: “Surveys and Topographical Charts being fit only for a Library, such maps as an Officer may take with him into the Field have been much wanted. The following Collection forms a Portable Atlas of North America, calculated in its Bulk and Price suit the Pockets of Officers of all Ranks.” The six maps here represent a distillation of what the British high command saw as the most pertinent topographical information for soldiers and, being issued at the war’s outset, provides keen insight into how the British envisioned the war unfolding. As with this copy, the atlas was usually folded down to octavo size. Not quite small enough to fit in a pocket, it was generally carried in a soldier’s holster and soon was referred to as the holster atlas.

The six maps are:

1. DUNN (Samuel). “North America, as Divided Amongst the European Powers. By Samuel Dunn, Mathe- matician.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 13 1/2 by 18 1/4 inches. London, printed for Robt. Sayer, Jan. 10, 1774. Engraved for Dunn’s A New Atlas, London, 1774.

2. DUNN (Samuel). “A Compleat Map of the West Indies, Containing the Coasts of Florida, Louisiana, New Spain, and Terra Firma: with all the Islands.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 inches). London, Robt. Sayer, Jan. 10, 1774. Engraved for Dunn’s A New Atlas London, 1774.

3. “A General Map of the Northern British Colonies in America. Which comprehends the province of Que- bec, the Government of Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-England and New-York. From the Maps Pub- lished by the Admiralty and Board of Trade, Regulated by the Astronomic and Trigonometric Observations of Major Holland and corrected from Governor Pownall’s Late Map 1776.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 20 3/4 by 26 3/4 inches. London, Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennet, Aug. 14, 1776. A very good copy, here in its first state. The map also issued separately and was re-issued in 1788 with an updated title.

4. EVANS (Lewis). “A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America. containing Virginia, Mary- land, the Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. with the addition of New York, and the greatest part of New England, as also of the bordering parts of the Province of Quebec, improved from several surveys made after the late war, and corrected from Governor Pownall’s Late Map 1776.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 20 1/2 by 26 3/4 inches. London, R. Sayer & J. Bennet, Oct. 15, 1776. Based on the 1755 Lewis Evans map, with subsequent corrections.

5. ROMANS (Bernard). “A general map of the Southern British Colonies, in America. comprehending North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, with the neighbouring Indian countries. From the modern surveys of Engineer de Brahm, Capt. Collet, Mouzon & others; and from the large hydrograph- ical survey of the coasts of East and West Florida. By B. Romans.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 20 3/4 by 25 5/8 inches. London, R.Sayer & J. Bennett [sic.], 15 October. 1776. Based on charts and maps by Roman and others.

6. BRASSIER (William Furness). “A Survey of Lake Champlain including Lake George, Crown Point and St. John, Surveyed by order of ... Sr. Jeffery Amherst ... by William Brassier, draughtsman. 1762.” Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline measuring 29 1/8 by 21 5/8 inches. London, Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennet, 5 Aug., 1776. Also issued as the first separately published map of Lake Champlain, this chart was based on a survey made during the French and Indian War, but not published until the Revolution. Included is an inset illustrating America’s first naval battle, in which General Benedict Arnold, though forced back down the lake, was able to delay the British attempt to descend to the Hudson for that year.

Howes, A208; Nebenzahl Atlas of the American Revolution pp.61-63; Phillips Atlases, 1206; Sabin, 1147; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, 190.

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TRADE IN THE WEST INDIES & THE LEVANT 45. [SLAVERY] Memorials Presented, by the Deputies of the Council of Trade in France, to the Royal Council, in 1701. Being the Year after the establishment of the said Council of Trade by King Lewis XIV. Concerning the Com- merce of that Nation to their American Islands, Guinea, the Levant, Spain, England, Holland, and the North; the raising nominally the Value of the granting of Monopolies; the erecting of exclusive Companies; and other chief Points of Trade. First edition. French & English text on facing pages, with duplicate pagination. 8vo. Fine twentieth-century half morocco, spine gilt. viii [ie xvi], 120 [ie 240], [1]pp. London, J.& P. Knapton, 1737. $1,000

The first of these (pp.1-20) looks at the Guinea Company, the French colonies in America, and the French West Indies, including Martinique, Grenade, Guadeloupe, St. Croix, St. Kitts (half of which was owned by the English). Looking at the Guinea Company the Deputies discuss the trade in sugar and tobacco as well as the slave trade, comparing the different approach of each of the Western powers and remark that “the States of Holland have no need of Negroes to augment their Colonies, and cultivate their Ground... Their Traffick in Negroes is only to sell them to the Spaniards, and under that Pretext to introduce their Manufactures into the West-West Indies”.

Looking further on the third Memorial discusses trade with the Levant, over which Marseilles alone had control: “Experience teaches us that the English carry on the Trade of the Levant with much greater advantage than our Nation...” In his reply, in the fourth Memorial, the Deputy of Marseilles claims that to allow the rest of France to trade with the Levant would be “against the Good of the general Trade of the Kingdom.” However, his argument is based mainly on the idea of “If it’s not broken don’t fix it”: “’Tis will known what Cardinal Richelieu said... and what was done by M. Colbert... How can Men, after this, think of procuring any Change...?” Sabin, 47744.

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WITH A CHAPTER ON THE 1831 SLAVE REBELLION 46. [SLAVERY] DUNCAN (Rev. Peter). A Narrative of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission To the Island of Jamaica From its commencement in the year 1789 To the 1st of August 1834. Manuscript in ink. 386pp. Folio. Half calf over marbled boards. c. 1840. $7,500

A wonderful survival. The original manuscript draft of the Rev. Peter Duncan’s history of the Wesleyan Mission in Jamaica. He was a much esteemed Wesleyan missionary who spent twelve years (1821-32) in Jamaica and was thus well-placed to produce this account.

He was present during the 1831-2 Baptist War, an eleven day slave rebellion led by the black Baptist preacher, Samuel Sharpe, and the work devotes an entire chapter to it. Duncan wastes no time in trying to defend the Wesleyan Mission, “as the most strenuous endeavours were made to inculpate the Mission- aries, and as the subsequent history of the Mission has been affected by what took place.” He takes aim at - among others - the local press, the white population of Jamaica, and colonial agents.

This work was published in 1849 with the title A Narrative of the Wesleyan Mission to Jamaica with Occa- sional Remarks on the State of Society in that Colony. This manuscript clearly precedes the published account and, in addition to the corrections, deletions and insertions, there are marked differences between it and the final published work. The manuscript is an important resource for further research into the final throes of slavery in the British Empire, which did not fully conclude until 1833.

47. [SLAVERY] SAMWELL (David). The Negro Boy, To Mr Skinner and On Visiting the Grave of Sterne in Roach’s Beauties of the Poets, No. XII. Bound as vol. 3 with Nos. IX-XI. 4 frontispieces & 4 title vignettes. 8vo. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed with some minor browning. 60; 60; 60; 60pp. London, Printed by and for Roach, 1794. $625

Rare. David Samwell served as surgeon’s mate on Cook’s Third Voyage. He is well known for his pamphlet A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook... and observations respecting the introduction of the vene- real disease into the Sandwich Islands (1786), and for having completed the first written record of the Maori language. An accomplished poet in both Welsh and English, Samwell claimed that composing poetry helped alleviate the tedium of life at sea. This small selection includes what is likely his best known work, The Negro Boy (pp45-7), which recounts a sailor’s regret having purchased an African slave for the cost of a pocket watch. Records do not indicate whether Samwell was involved in any way with the abolitionist movement, but the sentiments expressed in this piece are clearly sympathetic.

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AN ASSOCIATION COPY WITH EXTRA MATERIAL FROM THE FAMILY 48. [SLAVERY] WHITTIER (John Greenleaf, et al.) Tributes to William Lloyd Garrison, at the Funeral Services, May 28, 1879. First edition. Lithograph frontispiece portrait from a bust of Garrison by Anne Whitney. 8vo. Original brown cloth, bevelled edges, gilt ornate title to front board with black rules. [iii-vi], 7-56pp. Boston, Houghton, Osgood, 1879. $940

A fine copy of this memorial to the abolitionist leader, editor of The Liberator, and Massachusetts native.

This volume is inscribed to James Clephan by Garrison’s youngest son, Frank, and has been used by the recipient as a personalised memorial book, much enriched with ephemera connecting him to the Garrison family. This includes:

Albumen print of Wendell Phillips Garrison (another son of William), dated June 1880 pasted to verso of front free endpaper.

Publisher’s address label to James Clephan Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne affixed to front pastedown, with armorial bookplate of his son Robert Colman Clephan to recto of front free endpaper.

Printed memorial card also to front pastedown, bearing the quotation “My Country is the World; my Country- men are all Mankind.” This taken from Garrison’s ‘Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Conven- tion’, originally printed in The Liberator in 1838.

6pp. ALS from Fanny Garrison Villard to Mrs. E. P. Nichol of Edinburgh. Boston, May 27 1879. Containing an intimate conveyance of WLG’s final days: “His great buoyancy of spirits, his intense interest in the welfare of others, and the industry with which he used his pen to the last in behalf of that race for whose redemption from indescribable outrage and suffering he had devoted his whole life, blinded us somewhat to his failing strength.”

Single bifolium printed on 1v and 2r only, 65 x 97mm, pink paper stock. Titled ‘William Lloyd Garrison / Chapter 1 / Ancestry’ on 2v is the manuscript notation (in the hand of the recipient) ‘“One of 50 copies, only, of a little memorial of my father’s Biography. My boys have a little printers’ outfit, with type, press, &c.; and I engaged them to set up the opening paragraph of the Life, to distribute among the grandchildren as an earnest of the approaching publication” Letter of Wendell P. Garrison, May 28, 1884.)’ Other clipped advertisements for the upcoming Life also included.

2 albumen print cabinet photographs of Helen Villard, Garrison’s grandchild pasted to recto and verso of the rear free endpaper. Tipped in, an ALS from Helen Villard to Mr. Clephan, dated ‘New York, March 10th. 1880.’ With references to her painting classes, a keepsake floral book-mark of charmingly rendered violets was included in the letter, and is stuck as a corner-foil on the dedication page of this volume.

The recipient, James Clephan (1804-1888), was a journalist of humble origins, writing for various North of England newspapers including the Leicester Journal, Gateshead Observer, and Newcastle Daily Chronicle. He was a Unitarian, staunch Liberal and reformer. Presumably Garrison and Clephan’s mutual interest in reform would have drawn them together on one of Garrison’s visits as mentioned in his daughter’s letter. She cites “Am I in England?” as his final words.

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THE AUTHOR’S COPY 49. SURTEES (William Edward). Recollections of North America, in 1849-50-51. Part I. [Part II]. Offprint from the New Monthly Magazine. 8vo. Contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. 53pp. [London, 1852]. $315

The author’s copy. With his ownership signature and bookplate, on the front pastedown along with a pencil note identifying the single page of manuscript notes bound in at the front of the volume. In addition, a can- celled book plate to the rear pastedown identifies the volume as being from the Surtees Library at Taunton Castle, presented by Lady Chapman. Surtees “made what appeared to be an extensive circle tour from Washington through the South to New Orleans and then northward by way of the Mississippi and Ohio river to Louisville. Although the evidence is confusing, he seems to have returned by retracing his steps” (Clark). Clark III, 421.

A MAJOR WORK PROMOTING NOVA SCOTIA, WITH A SIDELIGHT ON MARYLAND 50. VAUGHAN (William). The Golden Fleece Divided into three parts, under which are discovered the errors of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome and lastly the wayes to get Wealth and top restore Trading so much complayned of, transported from Cambrioll Colchos, out of the Southernmost part of the land commonly called Newfoundland. First edition. Folding map in facsimile. Small quarto. Contemporary speckled calf, stamped and ruled in blind, gilt morocco spine label, raised bands. Bookplate on front pastedown, some ink notes on front endpapers. Wormhole in lower outer margin throughout, most pronounced in first twenty-five leaves. Early manuscript marginalia (in English and Latin) and underlining. A good copy. [xxviii], 149, [1], 105, [1], 96pp. London, Printed for Francis Williams, 1626. $8,750

This copy with the bookplate of Thomas Hay (1710-87), eighth Earl of Kinnoull. Hay was a classical scholar, a member of Parliament, and in 1746 was made a lord of trade and plantations. “He took a prominent part in the efforts to improve the condition of Nova Scotia” (DNB).

The anonymous author, William Vaughan (1575 or 1577-1641), was a Welsh poet and colonial promoter who saw Newfoundland, with its rich fisheries, as a source of revenue for England and of employment for its people. This work, in the form of a literary fantasy, is meant to extol the riches and gains to be had in Newfoundland. “Cambrioll,” mentioned in the title here, was the name Vaughan gave to his settlement on the island. Vaughan actually spent time in Newfoundland from 1622 to 1624, an experience which greatly adds to the accuracy of this promotional work, and despite the fantastical nature of the text much early information on Newfoundland is to be gleaned here. “This work is one of the earliest contributions to English literature from America, and was intended to advertise Vaughan’s colony. It is a queer fantasy in prose and verse, in which a succession of historical characters present complaints against the evils of the age in the Court of Apollo, and finally find the Golden Fleece in Newfoundland” (Baer). The text contains brief references to Lord Baltimore (a partner in Vaughan’s Newfoundland enterprise) and Captaine Wynne, hence the Maryland interest. Vaughan also criticizes the social use of tobacco, bringing his work to the attention of Arents.

The map of Newfoundland, here present in expert facsimile, was drawn by John Mason for Vaughan’s exceedingly rare Cambrensium Caroleia, published in 1625. According to the Church catalogue, quoting Rich, the Mason map is not always found with The Golden Fleece - as in the Toronto Public Library copy, which is in a similar contemporary binding but lacks the map.

A significant early and interesting New World promotional, with a Maryland association. Arents, 161A; Baer, 12; Bell, V36; Church, 409; European Americana, 626/143; JCB (3)II:204; Lande, S2269; Sabin, 98693; STC, 24609; TPL, 6302. For the Mason map: Burden, 216; Kershaw, p.86; World Encompassed, 216.

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THE DISCOVERY OF SPITZBERGEN AND A FIRST ARCTIC WINTERING 51. VEER (Gerrit de). Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de Sini, doue scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla, Et un Paese nell’Ottantesimo grado creduto la Groenlandia.... First Italian edition. Engraved vignette on the title-page, engraved full page compass rose, and 31 half page plates (including 4 maps one of which is repeated) the prints good dark impressions. 4to. Old calf, rubbed. [iv], 78ll. Venice, Jeronimo Porro, 1599. $7,500

A French and a Latin edition were published in 1598. Both follow the original Dutch edition, (as does this version), an oblong quarto issued by Claesz without a date, but it is assumed in November or De- cember of 1597, as the third expedition did not return to Amsterdam until the 1st November of that year. In this edition the plates are re-engraved in a smaller format and as a consequence, it being their first appearance, are extremely fine dark impressions.

Gerrit de Veer here gives us an account of William Barent’s three voyages made to find the North East Passage in 1594, 1595 and 1596. The idea for the voyage was enthusiastically promoted by Oliver Brunel who had made a land journey through the Samoyed territory to Siberia, before making a coasting voyage as far as the river Ob.

As Boies Penrose remarks: “Brunel’s travels led to the fitting out of a fleet in 1594, headed by Willem Barents, who ranks in history as one of the greatest Arctic navigators. With Barents went Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, the celebrated traveler to the East. Their first venture took the Dutch the whole length of Novaya Zemlya, to its northern tip, after which Barents retraced his course to Vaigatz, and passed through the Kara Sea as far as the latitude of the Ob.

The relative success of this voyage led to another the following year (1595), like the first commanded by Barents with Linschoten as supercargo. The high hopes placed in this undertaking were not real- ized, for the ships could not fight their way through the straits between Vaigatz and the mainland, and were obliged to return to Holland, victims of the unusual severity of a season which had kept the straits packed with ice through the summer.

Barent’s third and last was his greatest, ranking among the hardiest achievements of all Polar Explora- tion. Sailing in 1596, he set his course neither by the Northeast nor the Northwest Passage, but boldly ac- cross the Pole. In this wise he discovered Spitzbergen, but as he could not penetrate the pack-ice beyond, he abandoned his original idea, and steered once more for Nova Zemlya. After passing the farthest point of his 1594 voyage, Barents rounded the northern tip of the island, where his ship was crushed in the ice and he and his men were forced to spend the winter in great misery. The following spring the survivors set out on open boats and after incredible difficulties reached Russian territory. Barents perished during the passage, and with him the driving force of Dutch exploration in this quarter, but his indomitable spirit had enabled a party of men for the first time to winter far within the Arctic Circle, suffering from all the hardships inseparable from such a first experience” (Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance p174). Tiele Mémoir, 95; Alden, 598/113

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THE AUTHOR’S COPY 52. WALPOLE (Frederick). Four Years in the Pacific in Her Majesty’s Ship “Colling- wood” from 1844 to 1848 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spines gilt, housed in individual slipcases, bookplates to front paste- downs, annotated in ink by the author with assorted ephemera (letters, drawings, newspaper clippings) tipped in. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. $7,500

The Hon. Frederick Walpole’s own copy, extensively annotated, with additional manuscript material including seven drawings illustrating the voyage. His annotations amount to half a page in some instances and contain his clarifications, corrections, and additional detail not included in the published work. There are several printed reviews of the book clipped from newspapers and so in a single copy of this work, we have its critical reception by both the author and the press.

Sailing on HMS Collingwood, Walpole (1822-76) made stops at “Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Juan Fernández, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Mexico, California, the Hawaiian Islands, and Samoa ... The Collingwood arrived at Monterey a few days after the American flag had been raised there by John Drake Stoat” (Hill). The Collingwood was the flagship of Admiral Sir George Seymour, commander-in-chief in the Pacific, “where ‘the tact, ability, and decision’ he showed during the strained relations with France over the ‘Pritchard affair’ and the negotiations with the United States about the fisheries, were formally recognized by the government.” (ODNB).

Much of Walpole’s time was spent at Hawaii. The Collingwood anchored at Hilo and a trek to the volcano of Kilauea as well as a hunting expeditions for boar on Oahu at Ewa and the mountains behind Honolulu. He was active in Honolulu society too and describes the official audience with the king and his subsequent visit to the Collingwood, and a ball given by Robert Wyllie, the Minister of Foreign Relations. Furthermore, he describes Honolulu, remarks on the attractiveness of the native women, and briefly describes the native religion and some of the Catholic missionaries.

“The author of the present two volumes is evidently a man who not only has his eyes and his ears constantly open, but his hand and head and his heart both in the right places. His ‘notes’ abound with shrewd remarks, and with vivid descriptions of what he heard and saw, couched in a pleasing, unaffected style, which draws the reader on to follow him, as much for amusement as for instruction.” - John Bull, 18 Aug. 1849, p. 519.

Later Provenance: Ron Fiske, Morningthorpe Manor, Norfolk, sale, G. A. Key, Aylsham, 9/9/2016, lot 1600.

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The extra material includes:

Vol. 1 “Memos” 4pp MS in ink. 3 letters from Sir George Francis Seymour: Admiral of the fleet in 1866, but on the Pacific station 1844-8. MS. warranty in Spanish for Walpole’s horse, bought in Chile. Pencil sketch of “HMS Collingwood leaving Spithead Septber 7th 1844.” 110 by 150mm. ALS James Damcet. 4pp. 4to. London, January 2, 1840.

Vol. 2 Pencil sketch “Centre of crown rocks Tahiti Wotawan”. 118 by 75mm. Ink drawing of women dancing onboard the Collingwood. 115 by 215mm. Pencil drawing of village. 125 by 175mm. LILULIKO, (Alexander, son of governor). ALS to Walpole. 2pp. 8vo. np, nd. Colour pencil drawing of Elekeke measuring 175 by 115mm. Pencil drawing of dancers. 115 by 215mm. Pencil sketch. “The little blue girl Tahiti. HMS Collingwood. November 1845.” 135 by 120mm

Borba de Moraes, p.933; Forbes, 1757; Hill, 1815; Howes, W62; O’Reilly & Reitman 1093; Palau, 373766; Sabin, 101142.

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PRESENTATION FAMILY COPY 53. WEDDELL (James). Observations on the Probability of Reaching the South Pole. 2 lithographed maps, 8vo., [iv], 36pp. London, Longman Rees et al, 1826. [bound after] A Voyage Towards the South Pole […] Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea. 8 charts (6 folding), 1 folding diagram, 2 folding aquatint plates of coastal profiles and 5 aquatint plates, one hand coloured (frontispiece). 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines panelled with gilt tooling, black morocco label with gilt lettering. [iv], 276, 16 ads.pp. London, Longman, Rees et al, 1825. $68,750

A great Antarctic rarity, inscribed to “James Weddell Esq. Sen with affectionate regards, from his cousin the Author” and “To Mrs. J. Limmond, from her affectionate cousin, the Author.” Later incorporated into the second edition of Voyage Toward the South Pole, Weddell’s Observations was a review of geographical knowledge of both the north and south polar regions, urging for a new Antarctic expedition.

In 1822 James Weddell was sent by a whaling firm in command of a two year sailing expedition to the southern seas with the objective of finding untapped rookeries of fur seals. With his brig Jane and cutter Beau- foy they visited and described the Cape Verde Islands, the Southern Orkneys, South Shetlands and South Georgia. After stopping for repairs on the Falkland Islands they resumed the voyage south, and due to the exceptionally mild weather in the summer of 1823, they were able to achieve the southernmost latitude of any ship at that time of 74”15’S, in waters that were later named after the commander. In spite of Weddell’s plea to the scientific community for further expeditions to this area, it was another 16 years before James Clark Ross set sail in command of an official exploring voyage to the Antarctic, and Weddell’s record was not beaten until William Filchner in 1911.

Extremely scarce - one copy of the pamphlet has come up at auction in the last 40 years, which made £40,000. Sotheby’s, The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching part 4, 30 September 2015. Worldcat finds 4 copies of the pamphlet: Cambridge, Edinburgh, Harvard & NLA. Provenance: by direct descent through inheritance.

Rosove 345.A1, 346; Hill 1843, not in Hill; Spence 1246, Spence 1247; Sabin 102431, 102430.

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AMERICAN WHALERS IN FRANCE 54. [WHALING] Pêche Francaise de la Baleine dans le Mers du Sud, en 1829. Offprint from Le Navigateur, journal des naufrages et de autres evenements nautiques. September 1829. Frontispiece & a folding lithograph plate. 8vo. Fine in quarter calf over old marbled boards, spine gilt. [ii], 56pp, Havre, Hue, 1829. $4,375

A crisp, clean copy of this rare offprint. The work includes the two relevant plates from the original publication of Le Navigateur, a journal which is only held at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The frontispiece illustrates the Cachelot and Baleine Franche whales. The folding plate, Peche de la Baleine, is by Brochy after Precourt and depicts a whaling scene.

The timing of this publication is interesting. In December 1829, the French government sought to encour- age whaling by awarding each ship bound for the northern seas 90 francs per man and those that travelled further afield 180 francs per man, regardless of their catch. It’s only too likely that this offprint was issued as a result of this ordnance.

Much of the information in this article is drawn from the accounts of M. Venard and M. Descarrieres captains of the Franco-American whalers George and Albert and the l’Entreprise. The work includes a description of different types of whales, discusses migration routes (referencing the North-West Passage) and natural enemies (the killer whale and sharks), harpooning techniques, mooring dead whales, and the importance of having a surgeon on board. The author is clearly concerned about safety onboard and much of material relates to this.

However, of real interest is the account of tensions onboard the ships between the French and American sailors - the French were upset by what they perceived as breaches of protocol by American sailors and their lack of formal training. The Americans in turn aggrieved by the unsympathetic attitude of the French and this quickly led to a violent confrontation. The matters were brought to a naval tribunal on the return to France which saw the vindication of the American complaints. This did not, however, prevent a second voyage departing almost immediately. Almost certainly, these whalers were a part of the fleet first established by William Roch, Sr at Dunkirk. His South Sea Fishery routinely sent whalers into the Southern Atlantic and, by the time of publication, the South Pacific. This work also discusses the effect of the Revolutionary War on whaling. Information on the Franco-American whaling fleet is rare.

We have only been able to locate two copies at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the University of Glasgow.

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MODERN & IRISH LITERATURE

55. ACKER (Kathy). New York City in 1979; to Jeanne’s insulted beauty. photocopy of typescript with one page original typescript bearing tipp-ex correction and holograph number, that page taped to verso of letterhead, 60 pp. printed on recto only, stapled at top right corner with neat tape reinforcement over staple on title page. Light wear to title page and final sheet, tail edge of two oversized sheets rubbed. With four published items featuring the story. [New York, n.p. 1979.] $3,750

A pre-publication copy of Acker’s own corrected typescript for the story ‘New York City in 1979’, which went on to win the 1979 Pushcart Prize, making it her first critically acclaimed work. This document gives key insight not only into Acker’s writing methods, but also raises interesting questions about the intended structure of the finished story, and highlights the mutable interpretations regarding the published presentation of her prose writing, four differing versions of which are included herein.

In terms of form, the most marked difference between the typescript copy and the published editions which followed is the way in which the text is divided into a series of passages or episodes, numbered at the head of the page. These can be full paragraphs or single sentences, or, for example, the word “syphilis” which has an entire page to itself. This deliberate distribution of whitespace surrounding the single word (which in later editions is returned to the conventional layout of a sentence) adds nuance and valence to the story which is arguably altered in transcription.

Included with this document are four published editions of the story. The first, although not always credited thus, was in International Times vol. 5 no 5. (January/February 1980). Run as “New York City ’79” over the centerspread, this version is closest to the typescript form. There is persuasive indication that the editors of I.T. were working from a similar photocopy, and whether instructed thus by Acker or not, they took the cut-up style of the piece at face value and ran it as a series of fragments differentiated from one another by the use of typefaces, and with no cohesive order. Probably due to space constraints, this version is also heavily abridged, however the notable omissions of the three statements about lesbians suggests that there was also a degree of selective censorship at work here.

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The first publication of the complete text followed in July 1980 in the pages of San Diego magazine Crawl Out Your Window Issue 7. Here, the sentences which run over multiple pages in the typescript are conventionalised into standard lines. There are also slight textual differences with a couple of additional sentences added. The first stand alone publication came in Top Stories 9 (1981) which incorporated photographs by Anne Turyn. These images again mutate the text and raise further questions about Acker’s editorial intention; the typescript title-page bears the uncompleted subheading “Photographs by”, but gives no further allusions to this content. The final example is the 1991 Semiotext(e) collection Hannibal Lecter, My Father, which shows further textual edits.

This copy was sent by Acker in late 1979 to friend and fellow experimental writer Paul Buck. The pages have clearly been xeroxed on several different machines with different paper stock and print qualities evident in different sections, and pp. 29 is an original typescript passage (with visible tipp-ex correction and numbered in holograph in Acker’s distinctive hand) which has been taped onto the verso of a sheet of letterhead for “Performing Artservices Inc., 463 West St NY”, an organisation that provided manage- ment and administrative services to avant-garde artists.

In the key collection of Acker Papers at Duke University, there is a comparable copy described thus in their catalogue: “60-page photocopied typescript, corrected in the photocopy, with original note on the title page, My Copy, by Acker”. We have not been able to locate an original typescript, suggesting that this format with Acker’s holograph corrections in the copy is as primary a resource for this text as is currently known.

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dust jacket. 56. BALLARD (J.G.) Vermilion Sands. 57. BALLARD (J.G.) The Drowned World. First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth, dust jacket. London, First edition. 8vo., original red cloth, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. 1973. $940 Gollancz. 1962. $1,875

Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in A fine copy in dust jacket, only slightly nibbled at the head and tail of the spine.

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58. BANVILLE (John). The Ark. Hand-coloured illustrations by Conor Fallon. First edition. Oblong 4to., original quarter blue cloth lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked and gilt after a design by the artist. Loughcrew, The Gallery Press for The Ark, Dublin. 1996. $565

Number 97 of 200 copies signed by the author and the illustrator, from a total edition of 260. Thirty black-and- white illustrations by Conor Fallon and three further hand-coloured drawings. Printed in two colours on Palazzo Castile Ivory and hand-bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts in Dublin. A fine copy in gold-blocked slipcase.

59. BARRIE (J.M.). RACKHAM (Arthur). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. First edition thus. Illustrated throughout in black and white, and tipped in colour plates by Arthur Rackham. Small 4to., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited. 1912. $1,250

First published in a limited and trade edition in 1906. This edition includes a new frontispiece and seven extra full-page plates. Cloth slightly spotted with age, otherwise a near fine copy in the exceedingly scarce white pictorial dust jacket, which is in similarly fine condition, but for a short closed tear at the head of the spine. Contained within the original card presentation box.

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60. DONLEAVY (J.P.). The Ginger Man. 61. FARRELL (J.G.). A Man from Elsewhere. First edition. Small 8vo., original olive green printed paper First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, wrappers. Paris, The Olympia Press. 1955. $625 New Authors Limited. 1967. $3,440

The author’s first book. First issue, with the ‘1500 Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “For Francs’ price on the lower cover. An excellent copy, faint- Alan, poet and gentleman, from his friend Jim Farrell ly rubbed at the extremities. December 1968”. The author’s first book.

The recipient was the Concrete poet Alan Riddell, whose own first collection was published the same year as the inscription by Hutchinson, whose imprint was New Authors Limited. Riddell was a leading light of Concrete poetry, editing the influential anthology ‘Typewriter Art’ in 1975. A fine copy in dust jacket, modestly rubbed at the extremities.

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One of the highpoints of the Fin de Siècle 62. GRAY (John). Silverpoints. [Cover, initials, colophon and typographical design by Charles Ricketts.] One of 250 numbered copies. Narrow 8vo, green decorated cloth, stamped in gilt. London, Elkin Mathews and John Lane. 1893. $3,560

A book justly celebrated for its design by Charles Rick- etts. It is instantly recognisable by its format, which is roughly that of a large cheque book. Its cover design consists of a field of feather or willow leaf devices, arranged on a background of wavy gilt rules: while the arrangement is regular, the angles at which they are placed is irregular, giving an appearance of lightness and of motion. The text pages are a miracle of margins, in which Gray’s rather slight poems, heavily influence by Verlaine, Mallarmé and Dowson appear almost as an afterthought. Gray came from a lower middle-class South East London background to become the darling of Chelsea’s salons, lending his name to Wilde’s Dorian Gray, before throwing it in for a life of Catholic chastity in Edinburgh.

An exceptionally good copy with only two very small ink dots (the size of a needle point) on the spine to mar its perfection. Attractive small pencil monogram and small booklabel of John Gere, at one time keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum and nephew of C.M. Gere, artist, and with the earlier armorial bookplate of one George Herbert Wailes, apparently a phycologist.

Nelson 1893.5, Van Capelleveen A 3a.

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63. HARRIS’S PICTURE LIBRARY. Wonders! 64. HEANEY (Seamus) contributes to. 32 In Art and Nature. Counties. Photographs of Ireland by Donovan 16 hand-coloured copper-engraved plates, no title as issued, Wylie. list of other Harris’s Library publications pasted onto the First edition. 4to., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, rear wrappers. Sm. 8vo, contemporary Dutch style stiff paper Secker and Warburg. 1989. $1,250 wrappers, a superb copy. [London, J. Harris & Son, July 1, 1821 or 1834.] $720 Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the contributors, this copy marked ‘out of series’. With a black-and- The Wonders of the World pictured here, often very im- white photographic print, signed by the photographer, aginatively, include St. Michael’s volcano, pyramids and loosely inserted within pocket on front pastedown. The the sphinx, the Giant’s Causeway, Ice Mountains, Great impressive list of contributors includes John Banville, Wall of China, St. Winifred’s Well, Stonehenge, Cleop- Michael Hartnett, Seamus Heaney, Desmond Hogan, atra’s Needle, Fingal’s Cave, The Colossus of Rhodes and Michael Longley, Frank McGuinness, John McGahern, the Pont du Gard. Most of the leaves have a footer stat- Brian Moore, Paul Muldoon, Edna O’Brien, Francis Stu- ing “published July 1st 1821 by J. Harris & Son, corner of art and William Trevor. A fine copy in dust jacket within St. Paul’s” but a few of the leaves are watermarked 1834. black protective slipcase. Brandes & Durkan B98b. Unlike the copy in Moon’s check-list in that it has no separate title page, as often, and that her copy only has 26 Harris coloured books listed in the advertisement leaf whereas ours has 60 items. Moon 992.

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65. HUGHES (Ted). The Iron Man. A Story 66. JAMES (P.D.). Cover Her Face. in Five Nights. Illustrated by George Adamson. First edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, First edition. 8vo., original decorated boards, dust jacket. Faber and Faber. 1962. $4,700 London, Faber and Faber. 1969. $1,250 The author’s first book. An excellent copy in dust jacket, Sagar & Tabor A17a.1. A fine copy in dust jacket. slightly frayed and nicked at the extremities.

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67. JOYCE (James). Ulysses. 68. JOYCE (James). Finnegans Wake. First English trade edition. Small 4to., original green cloth, First UK edition. 4to., original rough red cloth, lettered in spine lettered in gilt, gilt Homeric bow on upper cover. Lon- gilt, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber. 1939. $3,125 don, John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1937. $1,875 Published in America on the same day. A fine copy in An unusually fine copy in a similarly fine dust jacket. dust jacket, just a trifle nibbled at the head of the spine. Slocum & Cahoon 23, note.

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69. KAFKA (Franz). The Castle. 70. KAVANAGH (Patrick). Collected Poems. Translated from the German by Willa and Edwin Muir. First edition. Tall 8vo., original quarter green sheep, paper First edition in English. 8vo., original blue cloth lettered in covered boards. London, MacGibbon & Kee. 1964. $3,750 gilt, dust jacket. London, Martin Secker. 1930. $3,750 Number 41 of 110 copies signed by the author. An unu- An excellent copy in dust jacket, nicked at the extremi- sually excellent copy, the delicate sheep being commonly ties with some closed tears. rubbed and worn, but not in this instance.

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71. LARKIN (Philip). XX Poems. 72. LARKIN (Philip). Jill. First edition. Small 4to., original white wrappers printed in First edition. 8vo., original dark blue buckram, dust jacket. black. [Belfast]. privately printed for the author. 1951. London, The Fortune Press. 1946. $5,940 $7,500 Bloomfield A2.a. An excellent copy in a slightly rubbed, Larkin had moved to Belfast in 1950 to be a sub-Librari- price-clipped, dust jacket, with minuscule loss at the an at Queen’s University and had this collection printed extremities, presented in a black cloth-backed protective by the local printer, Carswell’s. Larkin wrote to a friend box. that: “... a Mr. Hennessey saw me about it, saying they would print it in 10p Old Face Roman and the copies arrived on 27th April 1951”.

One hundred copies were printed and privately circu- lated by the author, who famously underestimated the cost of posting them and, consequently, many of the recipients would have been faced with the excess charge. Small stain on upper cover, otherwise an excellent copy. Bloomfield A4.

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73. LEE (Spike). Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It. Illustrations. First edition. 8vo., original pictorial wrappers, 75. MILLER (Henry). BRASSAI. Quiet Days in preserved in a folding box. New York, Simon & Schuster. Clichy. 1987. $315 28 photographs by Brassai. First edition. Small 8vo., original printed wrappers with a design by Tajiri in yellow, grey, Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author, white and black. Paris, The Olympia Press. 1956. $940 ‘To David Puttnam Thanks for everything. I appreci- ate it. Fuck Columbia!!! love, Spike Lee’. Puttnam was Originally written during 1940, it was rewritten by president of Columbia Pictures during the filming of Miller some sixteen years later and is considered one his School Daze and a strong supporter of the film. When more risque works, capturing Miller’s youthful adven- Columbia merged with Tri-Star and Puttnam left, Lee tures during his Paris years and perfectly complemented felt the film had lost backing and fell out with the com- by Brassai’s sensual black-and-white photographs. A pany. Loosely inserted is a newspaper cutting review of near fine copy of a most delicate binding. Kaleem Aftab’s biography of Lee. A fine copy except for one crease in the spine.

74. MADOX FORD (Ford). Parade’s End [Tetrology]. Four volumes. First editions. 8vo., original cloth, dust jackets. London, Duckworth. 1924-1928. $4,375

An excellent set in equally bright dust jackets, with minimum wear.

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77. [O’NOLAN (Brian)]. “Flann O’Brien”. The 76. NORTON (Mary). The Borrowers. With Third Policeman. Illustrations by Diana Stanley. First edition. 8vo., original brown cloth, gilt. Dust jacket. First edition. 8vo., original pale blue cloth, dust jacket. 1952. London, MacGibbon & Kee. 1967. $675 $1,500 A near fine copy in dust jacket. Top edge dusty, otherwise a near fine copy in dust jacket, just slightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine.

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78. ROSSETTI (Dante Gabriel). Poems. 79. ROTH (Philip). Goodbye Columbus. First edition. 8vo., original dark green cloth, lettered and First UK edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. decorated in gilt, all edges uncut. London, F.S. Ellis. 1870. London, Andre Deutsch. 1959 $625 $3,125 A fine copy in an equally fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title: “Eirikr Magniisson, from his friend, William Morris”. Magniisoon taught Morris Norse and they became close friends, later collaborat- ing on the translation of a number of Icelandic sagas, including the first English translation of the Volsunga Saga, published the same year as the Rossetti. Magniis- son would offer a strict translation, which would then be embellished by Morris.

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80. THOMAS (Dylan). Two Epigrams of Feal- 81. WAUGH (Evelyn). The Loved One. An ty [together with] Galsworthy and Gawsworth. Anglo-American Tragedy. Two volumes. First edition. 16mo., original wrappers. Lon- Eight full-page illustrations and decorated chapter initials by don, Privately printed for Members of the Court. 1953. Stuart Boyle. First edition. 8vo., original apple-green buck- $1,550 ram, lettered in gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. London, Chapman & Hall. 1948. $940 Each number 17 of 30 copies, printed by John Gawsworth. A fine copy, housed in a blue cloth Solander Number 231 of 250 copies signed by the author and the box, lettered in gilt on a matching blue morocco label illustrator. An excellent copy. inset on the upper cover and ruled in gilt.

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82. WELLS (H.G.) The Invisible Man. A Gro- 83. WILDE (Oscar). De Profundis. tesque Romance. First edition. Large 8vo., original limp vellum, with gilt de- First edition. 8vo., title printed in black and red, the final sign on upper panel by Charles Ricketts, printed on Japanese leaf of advertisements present, original red cloth, spine vellum, uncut, t.e.g. London, Methuen. 1905. $3,750 lettered in gilt, upper cover with the depiction of the Invisible Man seated in his dressing gown. London, C. Arthur Pear- One of 50 copies on Japanese vellum. Wilde’s final work son Limited. 1897. $2,200 of English prose: “On the other side of the prison wall there are some poor black soot- besmirched trees which First printed serially in “Pearson’s Weekly” of June and are just breaking out into buds of an almost shrill green. July 1897. Wells 11. An excellent copy. I know quite well what they are going through. They are finding expression”. A near fine copy. Mason 390.

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84. YEATS (W.B.). The Poems of W.B. Yeats. 85. YEATS (W.B.). The Tower. First “definitive” edition. Two volumes. 8vo., olive-green Binding designed by T. Sturge Moore. First edition. 8vo., buckram with bevelled boards, monogram of author’s initials original green cloth gilt, uncut, dust jacket. London, Mac- inside circle stamped in gilt on upper cover, lettered in gilt on millan and Co. 1928. $1,875 spine, t.e.g., others untrimmed. London, Macmillan. 1949. $3,750 One of 2000 copies printed. Wade 158. A near fine copy in dust jacket, minimally nicked at the edges. Number from a total edition of 375 copies, printed on Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid paper, and signed by the author, of which 350 were for sale. Published ten years after the author’s death. Near fine copies in the original acetate dust jackets, within a matching slipcase. Wade 209 and 210.

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86. YEATS (W.B.). The Winding Stair and 87. YEATS (W.B.). Poems. Other Poems. First edition. 8vo., original cream cloth, with design and First edition. 8vo., original blue cloth, with design by lettering in gilt on spine and covers by Althea Gyles, top edge T.Sturge Moore stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on trimmed. London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1895. $2,200 upper cover, dust jacket. London, Macmillan. 1933. $1,875 Yeats’s beautifully produced first collection of previously A near fine copy in dust jacket, with a handful of tiny published poems, many of which were substantially nicks to the extremities. revised for publication. It would undergo 14 further revisions by the poet’s hand over the coming decades, and become his most commercially successful volume. Wade 15. An excellent copy.

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88. YEATS (W.B.). Poems. First edition. 8vo., original full decorated vellum, with the design and lettering by H. Granville Fell in gilt on spine and covers, top edge trimmed. London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1895. $18,750

Number 6 of 25 copies signed by the author. An exceptional copy of Yeats’s beautifully produced first collection of previously published poems, many of which were substantially revised for publication. It would undergo 14 further revisions by the poet’s hand over coming decades, and become his most commercially successful volume.

A near fine copy, the front free endpaper slightly creased, with the splendid decorative bookplate of the engraver and art critic John Lumsden Propert, designed by Aubrey Beardsley and protected within a cloth chemise, with a full dark green morocco slipcase, lettered in gilt. Wade 15.

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89. YEATS (W.B.). Poems of W.B. Yeats. 90. YEATS (Jack Butler). The Treasure of the Selected and Introduced by Helen Vendler & Garden. Coloured by the Author. With Six Etchings by Richard Diebenkorn. First edition. 4to., original blue wrappers, lettered in black, First edition. 4to., original quarter red morocco, lettered and with hand-coloured drawing of pirate on upper cover. Lon- decorated in gilt. San Francisco, The Arion Press.Co. 1990. don, Elkin Mathews. [1902]. $2,500 $1,875 With the cover drawing and seven further full-page Number 286 of 426 copies, signed by the artist. A fine plates hand coloured by the author. Although all copies copy in matching slipcase. were supposedly all coloured, as stated, the majority we have encountered have not been coloured. An excellent copy, housed in a quarter brown morocco solander box, lined in felt and lettered in gilt on the spine. A near fine copy.