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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. Contents: Travel & Voyages . p.4 Modern & Irish Literature . p.62 Maggs Bros. Ltd. 46 Curzon Street, London W1J 7UH Telephone: ++44 (0)20 7493 7160 Email: [email protected] Bank Account: Allied Irish (GB), 10 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6AA Sort code: 23-83-97 Account Number: 47777070 IBAN: GB94AIBK23839747777070 BIC: AIBKGB2L VAT number: GB239381347 Access/Mastercard and Visa: Please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number by mail or telephone. EU members: please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until the price has been discharged in full. 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, pre- sumably 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). 3 Maggs Bros Ltd. Boston Book Fair 2016 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 peri- od 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 whal- ing, 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. 4 Contact: [email protected] 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 descrip- tion 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 5 Maggs Bros Ltd. Boston Book Fair 2016 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. 6 Contact: [email protected] 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.
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