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A BEAUTIFUL COPY 1 BAINES Thomas Explorations in South-West Africa Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. First edition. 3 folding maps, chromolithograph frontispiece & 8 other plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Fine original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, headcap expertly repaired, bookplate to front pastedown. xiv, 535pp. London, 1864. £2500

Baines was appointed official artist to the Zambesi expedition in 1858 and travelled into the interior with Dr. Livingstone before leaving in 1861 to return to Cape Town. Following a severe illness, Baines set out himself to travel from the Western Coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. Mendelssohn I, p69–70; Hosken, p9.

BY A F.R.G.S. 2 [BURTON Sir Richard F.] Wanderings in West Africa From Liverpool to Fernando Po. First edition, first issue. 2 vols. Folding map, frontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, spine gilt, somewhat rubbed. viii, [ii], 303; [vi], 295pp. London, Tinsley Bros., 1863. £3250

Extremely rare. This binding, as found on Burton’s own copy, does not give the author’s name on the spine, but merely ‘By Left, from top to bottom a F.R.G.S.’, and has ‘Tinsley Brothers’ at the foot of the spine, Cabreyra Capt. Joseph de rather than ‘Tinsley / Brothers’. Penzer remarks that he had Item 10 only seen two copies bound thus: Burton’s own, and that in Moreau de Saint-Mery, M-L-E. the British Library. ‘It apparently was Burton’s original idea Item 110 to entirely suppress his name from the above work, and in his Anson, George own copy… there is no clue given as to the author’ (Penzer). In Item 54 choosing to attribute the work to ‘A F.R.G.S.’ Burton no doubt Turnbull, John intended to afront the R.G.S. with whom he was at the time in Item 92 dispute over the source of the Nile. White, John, The work is an edited version of his journal to Fernando Surgeon-General Item 94 Po, throughout which Burton refers to himself in the third Anson, George person as ‘the Consul’. This was what would now be known Item 53 as a ‘hardship’ posting and Burton notes that: ‘There is no

5 africa africa place where a wife is so much wanted as in the Tropics, but 5 then comes the rub—how to keep the wife alive’ (vol. I, p296.) DUNCAN John Penzer, p71. Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846 Comprising a Journey from Whydah, through the Kingdom AN ASTONISHING ATTACK ON STANLEY of Dahomey, to Adofoodia, in the Interior. 3 First edition. 2 vols. Portrait folding map & 2 lithograph CHAILLE-LONG Charles plates. 8vo. Good original cloth, apart from a small hole ALS to Sir Samuel Baker affecting the spine of vol 1. xv, 304; xi, 315pp. London, 1847. Manuscript in ink. 4pp. 8vo. Fine condition. £750 Challes-les-Eaux, 23 June, 1892. £750* Duncan served on the disastrous 1841 Niger expedition which resulted in a tremendous loss of life. He returned to that part An American soldier, Charles Chaille-Long took part in the of the world just three years later on this expedition to locate battle of Gettysburg on the side of the Union in the American the Kong Mountains. This second expedition was almost as Civil War. He accepted a commission to the Egyptian army ill-fated as the first as Duncan soon ran out of money and was in 1869 and served under Charles Gordon in the Sudan and forced to rely on the notorious King Gezo for help. The map Uganda where he signed a treaty with Mutesa I of Buganda. depicts Duncan’s route from Whydah to Adafoodia. In 1874, he discovered Lake Kyoga and was the second Cardinall, 526. European to explore Lake Victoria. Having expressed regret that his arguments are popular in neither England nor America, Chaille-Long encourages 6 Baker to communicate any criticisms regarding his book HOLUB Dr. Emil L’Egypt et ses Provinces Perdu. He concludes the letter with a Von der Capstadt ins Land Der Maschukulumbe bitter attack on Henry M. Stanley: ‘I re echo heartily what you Reisen im sudlichen Afrika in den Jahren 1883–1887. say about this missionary business in Uganda. As you will see First edition. 36 parts. Numerous plates & illustrations. 8vo. in 1887 I made the attempt in the Nile Revue to expose the Original printed wrappers, some parts unopened, some shameless imposition by the fellow Stanley to give himself occasional minor spotting, with quarter morocco drop-back the reputation for sanctity which was widely accepted as box, spine gilt. Vienna, 1888. bona fide … [This has] done something to unmask the real £1500 character of this pseudo man of God…’ Holub’s account of his second expedition to South Africa. He arrived at the Cape in 1883 with the intention to traverse 4 the continent to Egypt. He crossed the Zambesi west of DALZEL Archibald Victoria falls and explored the area between it and the Kafue. The History of Dahomy However, the expedition was forced to return when it was an Inland Kingdom of Africa attacked by the Mashukulumbwe. Mendelssohn I, p733. First edition. Folding frontispiece map & 6 plates. 4to. Beautiful contemporary tree calf, gilt. xxxii, [iv], xxvi, THEY MUST LITERALLY BE 230pp. London, 1793. PACKED AS TIGHT AS IN A SLAVE SHIP £2750 7 [Niger Expedition 1841] A handsome copy. Dalzel travelled to Africa in 1763 as a ABRAHAM Dr. BUXTON T.F. & THOMSON T. surgeon. He spent three years on the Gold Coast, part of Group of correspondence regarding the Niger Expedition which time he held the position of Governor, and a further Eight ALS. Ms. in ink. 4; 3; 2; 3; 4; 4; 1; 4pp. 4to & 8vo four years as Governor of Whydah (now Ouida, Benin), before Liverpool, Deptford, Plymouth, Spitalfields, 3–30 March, 1841. returning to England in 1770. Dahomy constitutes a part of £4000 Africa that is now in Benin. The author contends that the trafficking of slaves in West Africa was preferable to the risk A fascinating, not to say ominous, correspondence between of human sacrifice. Further he contends that slavery liberated Thomas Fowell Buxton, politician and philanthropist the natives from the horror of living in Africa. (anti-Slave Trade), T.R.H. Thomson, member of the Niger

6 7 africa africa expedition (co-author of the account), and Robert Abraham, THESIGER’S COPY surgeon, of the Liverpool Journal. The letters evidently came 8 from Abraham’s as his letters are fair copies (with some pencil NORRIS-NEWMAN C.L. annotations), where the others are the originals. In Zululand With the British The 1841 expedition to the Niger is renowned for the First Edition. Original photographic & 3 other portraits, problems that beset it. The expedition’s purpose was to with 9 folding maps. 8vo. Fine original green cloth, gilt, disrupt the slave trade along the river. Although it began slightly rubbed. xv, 343pp. London, 1880. well, with the initial signing of treaties with tribal leaders £1250 prohibiting trading in slaves, it deteriorated rapidly with the onset of fever which claimed so many of the crew. Forty-one Thesiger’s bookplate to verso of frontispiece. men perished in seven weeks. In the catalogue of his books, Thesiger remarks ‘My Written prior to the expedition’s departure, the letters grandfather, by now Lord Chelmsford, commanded the relate directly to the problems subsequently suffered by British Force in the Zulu War. My grandfather’s troops the expedition. Abraham couldn’t be any clearer: ‘I say it is had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879, but I never physically impossible for even one half of them to lie down begrudge those peerless warriors their earlier annihilating side by side on the floor. If they are to sleep in this cabin vitory over a British force on the slopes of Isandhlwana.’ they must literally be packed as tight as a slave ship. I assure ‘A full account of the campaign by a war correspondent you I do not exaggerate in the slightest degree. Decency, who was well acquainted with the country, and had a good comfort, and health will be alike impracticable. They will knowledge of the natives and their language and customs. be driven to sleep on the deck and I need not tell you what The author traverses the statement so often made that the consequences of that will be under the tropic. I wish Sir Bartle Frere ‘caused the war’, and maintains that the to blame no one, but to state the fact, and if possible avert difficulty which culminated in the hostilities had existed a the consequences.’ He continues ‘I have reason to know quarter of a century before the High Commissioner arrived that several of the gentlemen who have volunteered in the in South Africa, and that later on it became abundantly expedition are exceedingly disgusted with it, and would retire evident that Cetywayo had been actively preparing for war’ if they could with honour. The prevalence of such a spirit if (Mendelssohn). Mendelssohn 2, p98. followed by the breaking out of disease, to say nothing of the deplorable loss of life, will most seriously prejudice the character of the expedition and the great cause they have at heart.’ Thomson, a member of the expedition, replied to Abraham just nine days later, hoping to clarify whether Abraham’s remarks were, in fact, warning of an impending mutiny. Buxton, one of the expedition’s sponsors, also writes to address and allay some of Abraham’s concerns. He clarifies the number of men actually on board, notes that the space of each bunk is more generous than on a man of war and takes pains to point out that the ship’s much vaunted ventilation system was operational regardless of whether the ship moved or not. Abraham makes short work of all these claims and was borne out by the gruesome outcome of the short lived expedition. This group of correspondence sheds much light on the organisation of nineteenth century expeditions and the lengths to which all parties were concerned (erroneously or otherwise) to address the well-being of the men.

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Front…’; ‘Colonel Maurice buying Camels at Assiout’; ‘The Canadians with the Nile Expedition The Manitoba Boys at Breakfast 6am’; ‘The Pioneers of the Nile Expedition leaving Sarras for Dal November 2nd 84’; ‘Making the Mudir a Pacha, Lord Wolseley’s arrival…’; ‘’El Gemai’—starting point for Expedition putting Gear into Whalers’.

WITH JEROME LOBO ON BOARD 10 [SHIPWRECKS] CABREYRA Capt. Joseph de Naufragio da nao N. Senhora de Belem feyto na terra do Natal no Cabo de Boa Esperança,& varios sucessos que teve o Capitao Joseph de Cabreyra, que nella passou à India no anno de 1633. First edition. Small 4to. Very good in period style half calf. 69, [3]pp. Lisbon, Lourenco Craesbeeck Impressor d’El Rey, 1636. £5500

Rare. Joseph de Cabreyra was Admiral of the fleet while in command of Nossa Senhora de Belem which was wrecked ORIGINAL ARTWORK FOR THE ILLUSTRATED off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope in 1635 returning LONDON NEWS REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION FOR to Portugal from India. Among the passsengers was Father THE RELIEF OF KHARTOUM Jerome Lobo, who had spent the previous nine years as a 9 missionary in Abyssinia. He was to report on the collapse PRIOR Melton of the Ethiopian mission and the subsequent expulsion Original Drawings… South Africa 1884–1885 of the clergy. Six original pencil drawings heightened with watercolour, This account relates not only the disaster but his each signed & titled, all laid down onto card, these mounted subsequent securing of provisions such as rice, biscuit and on guards in an early twentieth century full morocco album, meat, as well as despatches from the King, from the wreck spine gilt (‘J.R.W., 1932’), with printed title page. Image sizes: in heavy seas. They were advised by a previous survivor of 200 by 170mm (approx.) 1884–1885. a shipwreck of the dangers of travelling overland and so £4000 Cabrerya built two boats from material gathered on the shore. They sailed from the Natal coast in January 1936, rounding Melton Prior began working as an artist for the Illustrated the Cape successfully before reaching Luanda in Angola two London News in 1868. He gained his first assignment as a war months later. artist in the Balkans in 1873 and emerged from the Boer War OCLC locates 5 copies. No copies of this work have as the most famous of all the war artists. appeared at auction in the past 30 years. Mendelssohn, p242; He accompanied Lord Wolseley’s ill-fated relief cf Howgego I, L138. expedition up the Nile in 1884–5 — the title page for this album is misleading, it should read ‘Soudan’. The expedition WITH THE FOLDING SLAVE SHIP PLATE set out to rescue Gordon, resident in Khartoum at the time 11 of the Mahdi uprising. Wolseley chose to follow the Nile, [SLAVERY] instead of the Suakin-Berber route advocated by others, and An Abstract of the Evidence delivered before a Select just failed to reach Gordon in time. There is much contention Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790, over this, but it seems likely that had he arrived earlier, it and 1791; on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition would have only hastened Gordon’s death. of the Slave-Trade The six images, all fine examples of Prior’s work, depict First edition. Folding wood engraved plate & a folding map. the expedition in various stages, and all appeared in the 8vo. Later grey wrappers. xxvi, 155, [1]pp. London, James Above ILN in 1884 and ‘85: ‘Lord Wolseley inspecting the Guards Prior, Melton Phillips, 1791. Camel Corps at Dongola previous to their leaving for the Item 9 £1250

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This work provides an informative account of the key issues debated before the House of Commons as part of the ongoing push for the abolition of the slave trade. It includes the large folding plate of the slave ship in its wood engraved state and the folding map shows the west coast of Africa marking the key ports used by traders. Commencing with an ‘Alphabetical List of the Names of the Witnesses Examined by the Select Committee of the House of Commons’ (60 men were examined), it discusses the different methods of acquiring slaves, the manner by which Europeans encouraged African kings to cooperate with them, conditions on slave ships and their dimensions, gruesome incidents on the trans- Atlantic crossing, and then their lives on plantations in the West Indies.

UNRECORDED 12 [SLAVERY] [ANON] Prize Goods Examined Broadside. Small 4to, measuring 255 by 205mm. A fine copy. Caption and text separated by ornamental rule. Np [London?] on paper watermarked MS & C, 1807. £1250

Exceedingly rare. Published on the eve of the abolition of slavery, this lengthy broadside takes pains to expose the moral guilt shared by all parties involved in the slave trade. ‘The name prize goods is mostly given to goods taken on the seas, by armed vessels of nations at war with each other; and sold by the captors… All who purchase such goods (knowing 13 them to be prize) are parties in the business… The persons TOBIN Thomas. W. employed as captors of the human species, who drag the Sketches—Taken during a Diamond Africans from their homes, and carry them to another country Tour Through South Africa for sale, are guilty of the highest grade of felony; and the 4to. 39 pen and ink illustrations laid down, 8 with wash. captives so taken, are the highest grade of prized goods… This Cream paper wrappers, spine worn. 1871. great fountain of human blood, that hath been flowing on the £5500 continent of Africa for ages, whose streams have stained the shores of America and the West Indies; is kept in motion, and A rare survival dating from the first South African diamond supported by the consumers of the proceeds of slavery… The rush. Thomas Tobin, Secretary of the the Royal Polytechnic feasts of the luxurious may be called banquets of human flesh Institution, and three assistants were despatched by the and blood; and the partakers thereof considered as cannibals, Mayfair jeweller Edwin Streeter to undertake a thorough devouring their own species… Having demonstrated that the survey of not only only the geology but also the extant South West-India produce is prize goods, and the sale of those goods African diamond industry. is said to be equal to the thief…’ Edwin Streeter was a renowned gemstone merchand, No copies are listed on COPAC, NSTC, OCLC, NUC. jeweller and author whose publications, included Precious Not in Sabin; not in Hough. However, Brown University Stones and Gems and The Great Diamonds of the World. The holds a related item titled Objections to the Use of Prize sketch book contains a number of landscape views which Goods Examined. display robust, accurate if unromantic draughtsmanship as Above Tobin, Thomas. W. well as diagrams detailing the geological composition of the Item 13 land. A list of illustrations can be provided on request.

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author’s presentation copy Egypt, Near 15 BLYDEN Dr. Edward Wilmot & Middle East From West Africa to Palesine First edition. Frontispiece vignette. 8vo Original blue cloth, gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, small section of front free endpaper clipped. viii, 201pp. Freetown, 1873. £1750 14 ALLEN John Scarce. The presentation inscription reads: “To W.F. Regan Illustrated Diary of a Trip through Constantinople, Esq. with the Author’s regards. In remembrance of the voyage Egypt and North Africa from Liverpool to New York on board the S.S. Baltic. July Manuscript in pencil. 21 watercolours (3 double-page) & 3 1882. Blyden (1832-1912) completed this work not long after pencil drawings (1 double-page). Oblong 8vo. Original roan, a year year stint in Freetown where he edited the journal extremities rubbed, paper label to upper board, two passport Negro and led two expeditions to Fouta Djallon in addition sized photographs of Allen are loosely inserted. 146pp. to this trip to the Holy Land. He later served as the Liberian 1877–1878. ambassador to Britain and France, and is considered the £3250 founding father of Pan-Africanism. He converted to Islam and saw that the religion was much more relevant to the This beautifully illustrated account of a trip through the downtrodden poor of West Africa. North Africa and the Middle East, begins with a five page list of everyone Allen met while abroad. Departing Paris on November 26, 1877, he travelled to 16 Florence via Geneva and then Rome, whereupon he broadly BURTON Richard F. & M’QUEEN James followed the Mediterranean coast to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, The Nile Basin Palestine, Malta, Tunisia and Algeria. The entries are about Part 1. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s a page long and describe each day’s main activities, which Western Lake Reservoir... Part 2. Captain Speke’s mostly involved sightseeing, both cultural and scenic. He Discovery of the Source of the Nile. A Review. describes anything of note that occured such as a prison First Edition. 3 maps. 8vo. An excellent copy in original plum break while staying in Zante. Allen’s script is elegant and cloth, spine slightly sunned. iv, 195, 4ads.pp. London, 1864. easy to read and the entries become more vivid once he leaves £2500 Europe and enters the Middle East. The diary is of real interest because of the illustrations. “Whilst differing from Captain Speke upon almost every Some humorous, such as ‘Going to dinner in Constantinople’ geographical subject supposed to be “settled” by his and ‘Cairo, going to dinner’, the double-page view of Pera, exploration of 1860-63, I do not stand forth as an enemy of the ‘the Dardanelles’, ‘At Zagazig Station’, ‘Landing at Jaffa’ departed... the unfortunate rivalry respecting the Nile Sources Below and the double page view of ‘Camp at Jerico’ all display a Allen, John arose like a ghost of discord between us, and was fanned to superior talent. Item 14 a flame by the enmity and the ambition of “friends”.” Penzer, p74; Casada, 49.

A RARE ACCOUNT OF THE PERSIAN GULF 17 LOW Captain Charles Rathbone The Land of the Sun: Sketches of Travel with Memoranda, Historical and Geographical, of Places of Interest in the East, visited during many year’s service in Indian waters First edition. 8vo. Original cloth, slightly shaken & foxed, ownership stamp to title page. ix, 356, 16ads.(dated Oct. 1870) pp. London, 1870. £3750

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OMAN IN 1819 WITH A HISTORY OF THE WAHABI 18 MANSUR Sheikh aka MAURIZI Dr.Vincenzo History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; Together with an Account of the Countries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf particularly the Wahabees First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Full diced russia, period style, spine gilt, some minor foxing. xii, 174pp. London, John Booth, 1819. £12500

One of the rarest books in English on Arabia and the earliest extensive source on Oman. The author was an Italian, Vincenzo Maurizi ‘a native of Rome who having practised as a physician in many parts of the East, became a commander of the forces of the Sultan of Muscat, against the Geovasseon and Wahabee Pirates’. Maurizi’s is an extraordinary tale, told with a brio unusual in the travel literature of the time. It is full of incident and anecdote, intrigue and opinion, and while entertaining has much interesting material not found elsewhere. For instance his long interview with the Wahabi emissary from Saud, to whom the Sultan paid tribute, gives a colourful account of life in Derrieh, not only a description of the The rarest of Low’s works. He is best known for his histories country but also how Maurizi, as a physician, might get of both the British and Indian navies. Apart from a chapter employment and what he might expect as an infidel, togther on the Andaman Islands this book is primarily concerned with a short account of the overland journey from Katif to the with the Persian Gulf (178pp.) and the Red Sea, with a chapter Wahabi capital. The hardships of this journey put Mansur or two on the East African coasts. off the venture and it was not undertaken by a westerner The Land of the Sun originally appeared in an abridged until Sadleir made his Trans-Arabian crossing. Of particular form ‘in the columns of an old-established military magazine’ interest too, is his interview with the Nubian assassin of and it appears here for the first time in its original form. One Seyd Said’s predecessor, whose ulcer Maurizi treated at the of the strengths of Low’s work is that he adopts an atypical behest of the Sultan. Also of importance is his account of the form for the travel narrative: ‘it should be stated that as the Wahabi, (triggered, the author tells us, by the Porte’s decision places treated of in the following pages were repeatedly to condemn Abdallah-ibn-Saud to death) and their activities visited by the writer, it has appeared to him to be more in the Gulf and various military engagements with the advisable to adopt the plan of describing them in isolated Omanis. Howgego 2, 634. chapters than in the ordinary form, that of a connected narrative. It is not intended, therefore, that the volume should be classed among regular works on Travel, … but as a 19 collection of descriptive sketches of places with which he is [MUSCAT] intimate’ (vi–vii). In addition to the Persian Gulf and the Red Nine Original Photographs of Muscat Sea, there is a chapter or two on the East African coasts— Original silver print photographs laid down on thick cream including a description of the struggle to eliminate slavery card, measuring 92mm by 138mm and smaller. 1905. and the involvement of the British navy in this activity. £1250* OCLC records seven copies but only three locations in North America (McGill, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Above Rare photographs of Muscat depicting variously, ‘The Rock of Low, Captain Charles Athenaeum of Philadelphia). Only three copies of this work Rathbone Muscat’, the Al-Jalali-Fort and the Al-Mirani Fort. A number have appeared at auction in the last thirty years. Item 17 of the images are of a military bent; a torpedo being fired,

16 17 Egypt, Near & Middle East Egypt, Near & Middle East a significant cache of weapons and of troops disembarking on the shore being greeted by a crowd of civilians, from which it is possible to surmise that the photographer was an officer. Photos of Muscat from this era are exceedingly rare, especially in this condition.

PEARLS IN THE GULF 20 RAU Sebaldus Fulco Jan Specimen Arabicum continens descriptionem et excerpta libri Achmedis Teifaschii de gemmis et lapidibus pretiosis First edition. 4to. Fine contemporary Dutch red morocco, boards richly gilt, spines equally so in compartments. a.e.g. [iv], 103pp. Utrecht, A. Paddenburg, 1784. £3000

Sebald Fulco Jan Rau (1765–1807) was the son of the famous oriental scholar Sebald Rau. The present is his doctoral dissertation publicly defended in Leiden on the 17th June, 1784. It contains a partial translation and discussion of the Book of Flowery Thoughts on Precious Stones by the Egyptian gem dealer Ahmad ibn Usuf al Tifashi (also Teifaschi, 1184–1253). Divided into four parts, the first is a general survey of knowledge about pearls and gems in the Near and Middle East followed by remarks about Tifashi himself and the manuscripts which contain his treatise. In the third part Rau focuses on Tifashi’s first chapter dealing with pearls and describing five locations in the Middle East and India where they can be found, namely Serandib, Kish, Oman, Bahrein, as well as an un-named island close to Kish in the Persian sea This secret report details events concerning Koweit and (pp. 68–73). The fourth part deals with the other twenty-five the surrounding areas, beginning with a brief historical gemstones treated by Tifashi, including hyacinth, emerald, introduction followed by 40 sections devoted to events diamonds, malachite and lapis lazuli. Each is described between 1896 and 1904, added to which are several with its physical properties, origin, healing powers and revelevant appendices. commercial value. Very rare. Sinkankas (Gemology), 6556. Of particular interest is a most vivid account of Abdul Aziz’s bold march to Riadh. It was written in Arabic by the IBN SAUD CAPTURES RIADH SECRET BRITISH ACCOUNT Assistant Political Agent in Bahrein: One of only 30 copies ‘In the month of Ramzan, while at the village of Waisa 21 near Hasa, Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman devised a plan of SALDANA J.A. going to Riadh, but he did not aquaint his followers with the ‘SECRET.’ Persian Gulf Gazetteer. Part I. Historical and project. He told them that on the 5th of Shawal he would lead Political Materials. Precis of Koweit Affairs 1896–1904 a marauding expedition against the Bedouins of Nejd…. He Printed in an extremely limited edition of 30 copies only, this however left with 80 followers on the 26th Ramzan or ten days being inscribed ‘No. 4’ Folio. Original cloth-backed printed before the fixed date, for the south so as to put the people off boards, stamped on the title page Government of India the scent, and no one could sumize what would be his Foreign Office, and likewise on the upper board, and further ultimate destination. stamped British Embassy Bagdad, with an overslip pasted On the 14th Shawal, at dead of night, he arrived and declaring ‘Deputy Secretary’s Copy Calcutta and Simla.’ [vii], camped at a distance of 1 1/2 hours’ march from Riadh. Here Above 112pp. Simla, November, 1904. Saldana, J.A. he divulged the real object of his expedition to his followers… £35000 Item 21 from this camp they all proceeded on foot under the cover of

18 19 Egypt, Near & Middle East Egypt, Near & Middle East night…. The gates of Ajlan’s house and the palace face each Van de Velde, a lieutenant and surveyor, in the Dutch Royal other. When the time came for Ajlan’s return drew near they Marines had previously published views of Java and Sumatra. opened the wicket in the gates and took their horses out into He gathered the material for this work, and his Narrative… , the sun and half an hour after this Ajlan left the palace for his on a journey through the region which lasted from October house but was intercepted by Abdul Aziz. He at once retreated 1851 to June 1852. Le Pays d’Israel was limited to 300 copies making for the palace but Abdul Aziz overtook him before he after which the lithographer’s stones were destroyed. A could enter the gates and slew him on his threshold …[he] number of proof copies were also issued with the plates on then seized the gates and his followers immediately entered card and an additional map of Jerusalem. Blackmer, 1723. the palace and killed all its inmates…. Abdul Aziz then posted himself on top of the palace and announced to the people ‘OMAN A COUNTRY HITHERTO that Bin saud had re-conquered his country and vissaded all UNKNOWN TO EUROPEANS’ who professed to be pacific to give up their arms… the people 23 of Nejd, bedouin as well as settled residents are all WELLSTED Lieut. J.R., Indian Navy unanimously in favour of Bin Saud ….’ Travels in Arabia Later diplomatic correspondence reveals British Vol. I. Oman and Nakab El Hajar. [Vol. II. Sinai; Survey of the unease at the situation in Nejd, for while supporting Ibn Gulf of Akabah; Coasts of Arabia and Nubia, &c.&c.&c.] Saud through Sheik Mubarak in Koweit and with threats of First edition. 2 vols. 5 maps (3 folding) & 7 lithograph plates. intervention if the Ottomans interfer with the affairs of Nejd, 8vo. Modern half morocco gilt. xvi, 446; x, 472pp. London, 1838. it was felt that Saudi domination of the area might lead to £5000 more problems. The entire first volume relates to Wellsted’s experiences in Oman, and is the fullest account by far of this territory 22 then published, indeed he adds to the title of his Map of Oman VAN DE VELDE Charles William Meredith the comment ‘A Country Hitherto Wholly Unknown Le Pays D’Israel Collection de Cent Vues prises d’après to Europeans’. Nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine… Following two surveying expeditions between 1830 and First edition. Map & 99 tinted lithographs. Folio. Original half 1884 to the Red Sea and the coast of Arabia Wellsted obtained morocco, titled in gilt on upper board, lower joint repaired, Below leave in November 1835 to travel to Oman. Arriving in Muscat Van de Velde, Charles edges rubbed. viii, 9–88pp. Paris, Jules Renouard, 1857. William Meredith his party were kindly received by the Imam, however having £12500 Item 22 reached Sib in late January they were struck down with fever and unable to progress for a month. It was during his second attempt to explore Oman that Wellsted was taken ill and whilst delirious shot himself. The injuries he received forced him to retire in 1839 his health shattered and his mind gone. He died at the early age of 42 some three years later in England. Macro, 2282.

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24 BELANGER Charles Paulus Voyage aux Indes Orientales par le nord de l’Europe, les provinces du Caucase, la Géorgie, l’Armeénie et la Perse, suivi de détails topographiques, statistiques et autre sur le Pégou, les Iles de Java, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap de Bonne-Espérance et Sainte-Hélène, Pendant les années 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829; publié sous les auspices de LL. EE. MM. les Ministres de la Marine et de l’intérieur. First edition. 6 vols. Historique: 2 folding maps & plans, 42 lithographs (12 coloured); Zoologie: 40 coloured plates; Botanique: 31 plates (3 coloured). 4to. Original printed wrappers, fore-edges chipped, some wear to spines, some foxing, with slipcases. [4], 360; [4], 492; xxxix, 535; 192pp. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1831–1834. £15000

One of the scarcest of all French nineteenth century Grand Voyages, this is a rare survival in the original wrappers. The original plan for publication indicates that the Despite this voyage and its account, very little is known of historical section would comprise twenty livraisons and Belanger. His only other publications amount to 100 plates, the botany would feature 60 plates and seven three scientific articles over 25 years and the fullest livraisons, yet only the zoological section was published in biographical account is the obituary of him published in its entirety. Only nine of the historical livraisons saw print, La Revue Scientifique. no title page was published for the first section. The text for Belanger, an explorer and naturalist, was despatched to the first section of the botany was never published. Despite India in order to establish a botanical garden at Pondicherry. the abbreviated publication, the lithographs that are included He departed Paris in January 1825 and travelled through in each section are of enormous interest for the breadth of southern Germany, Austria, Turkey, Armenia Ukraine, and geographic, ethnographic and scientific matter covered. Georgia en route to India. The last leg was made by boat from Auction records list just four copies sold in the past 30 Bushire to Muscat and then Bombay. After three months on years. Nissen ZBI 288; Catalogue of the Library, British Museum the Malabar coast, he finally reached Pondicherry in March (Natural History), vol 2., p604; La Revue Scientifique 1826. Belanger gathered a vast collection of specimens as he (4 Feb. 1882). travelled and added to these on trips to Coramandel, Burma and Java. In addition to these excursions, he experimented STUNNING VIEWS OF MILANESE VILLAS with different crops to see which would grow best in that 25 region and climate. DAL RE Marcantonio In 1829, he returned to Paris via Mauritius and the Cape Ville di Delizia, o siano Palaggi Camparecci of Good Hope. The collection he amassed was donated to the nello stato di Milano; divise in sei tomi con espressevi Museum de Paris and he was made chevalier of the Légion le piante, e diverse vedute delle medesime, etc. d’honneur on 15 January 1832 (promoted to officier de Légion Maisons de Plaisance… d’honneur in 1878). After twenty years of near silence, in First edition. 53 engraved plates (many folding & double- January 1853 he was appointed director of the Jardin Jardin page), titles, text and captions in Italian & French. Oblong Above botanique et zoologique at St Pierre in Martinique. He held Belanger, Charles Paulus folio. Nineteenth century half calf, spine gilt. Milan, 1727. this position until his death in 1881. Item 24 £35000

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A beautiful copy of Dal Re’s ‘garden of delights,’ comprising Above Above 27 views of the eight grandest villas outside Milan. Villa detta Dal Re, Marcantonio Mottu, H. MOTTU H. Item 25 Item 27 la Simonetta, villa del Isola Borromea et Bella, villa di Swiss views Begioioso, villa di Robecco, villa d’Oreo, Merate, Cinisello, An album of 5 original gouaches & 7 highly finished hand- and villa bi Brigniana. coloured lithographs.4to. Elaborate green morocco, gilt, The plates are all remarkably strong impressions. incorporating a pictorial woven design of partridges. c.1850. Although the title states that there are six volumes, just £3500* two were published, this and the second volume in 1743. Copies are scarce on the market. Auction records list just These views include a fine large view of Montreux and small two copies in the past forty years, the last being in 1997. lithographs of Vevey, Grindelwald, and Pont St. Maurice, the remainder being, for the most part, identified pastoral or lakeside views. 26 MARMORA Andrea Historia di Corfu… 28 First edition. Engraved title, portrait, 3 double-page maps, [NAUTICAL MAGAZINE] with 5 plates within letterpress. 4to. Contemporary vellum, The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle: bookplate to front pastedown. [xv], 456, [9](index)pp. a journal of papers connected with maritime affairs Venice, 1672. 50 vols. Approx 173 maps & plates. 8vo. Nineteenth century £12000 half calf, spines gilt, red & black morocco labels. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1837–1886. A lovely copy of this scarce work. ‘The early standard history £12000 of Corfu’ (Navari). In addition to the historical content, this interesting work includes a list of all the prominent families A rare run of the Nautical Magazine in excellent condition, living in Corfu at the time. Blackmer, 1082; Atabey, 774; this is the Lighthouse Trust set with its distinctive gilt stamp Legrand & Pernot, 203. to spines. The instrument maker and Admiralty chart agent, Robert Brettell Bate, was one of the magazine’s original

24 25 europe, russia & turkey europe, russia & turkey publishers and, in addition to publishing advances in navigation, new discoveries in maritime exploration and the accompanying maps regularly made their first appearences in print here. It can be said that the Nautical Magazine functioned in a similar, complementary way to the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. This particular run includes reports of the renewed search for the Northwest Passage, improvements in knowledge of the Pacific, and despatches from other significant voyages such as the Challenger.

29 SPENCER Edmund Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary &c. Including a Steam Voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople and round the Black Sea, in 1836. First edition. 2 vols. 2 folding maps, 2 coloured lithograph frontispieces, & 2 further lithograph plates. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spines gilt. xxxvii, 355; xiii, 425, [2]ads. pp. London, 1837. £1500

Abbey, 354; cf. Blackmer, 1580 (third edition). Above The author was a member of the Russian aristocracy Svinin, Pavel Petrovich who studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts. He spent two Item 30 THE TREASURES OF TSARIST RUSSIA years in Philadelphia (1811–1813) as secretary to the Russian 30 Consul-General and later became an academic. He wrote SVININ Pavel Petrovich the first account of America by a Russian when he travelled Indicateur des Objets Rares et Precieux, through the country in 1812. He is also well known for his qui se trouvent au Musee de Moscou, watercolours of the Hudson. connu sous le nom d’Oroujenaia Palata Sole edition. Engraved frontispiece & map. 16mo. A very good copy, some minor foxing, in a very well preserved original binding of boards with printed labels to front & rear boards and the original card slipcase. [14], 148, [2]pp. St Petersbourg, Charles Kray, 1826. £2000

Extremely rare. OCLC records only the copy at New York Public Library. RLIN adds Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. KVK adds only the copy in the Herzog- August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbuttel. An excellent copy of an important work detailing the treasures of the Oroujenaia Palata in Moscow. In addition to a description of the works of art found in the museum—often including their provenances—the work describes the history of collecting by the Tsars and outlines the creation of the museum. Additionally, a table of Russian weights, measures and currency on the final two pages indicate that this work was probably published for a foreign audience.

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Not quite as scarce as the quarto first edition of Crawfurd’s India, Central Asia Journal… of the Siamese embassy published the year before. Both works were reprinted in two-volume octavo format. Cf. and Far East Abbey (Travel), 405.

‘BOOTAN …A MODERN DISCOVERY’ 31 33 BELCHER Capt. Sir Edward DANIELL William & DAVIS Samuel Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, Views in Bootan performed in Her Majesty’s Ship Sulphur, During the First edition. Oblong Folio (558mm by 442mm). Letterpress Years 1836–1842. Including details of the Naval half title, engraved pictorial title page with dedication, 6 hand Operations in China, from Dec. 1840, to Nov. 1841 coloured aquatints each with facing a page of letterpress First edition. 2 vols. 3 folding engraved maps & 19 engraved description. Grey green cloth, gilt to front cover BOOTAN . plates with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original Extremities a trifle worn, faint dampstain to upper front cover blind-stamped cloth, head caps repaired. xxviii, 387; x, 474pp. and back, bookplate to front pastedown Sir John Francis Davis London, H. Colburn, 1843. Baronet. London, Wm Daniell. 1813. £3300 £40000

Following Capt. Beechey’s being taken ill at Valparaiso, Samuel Davis had visited Bhutan with the Turner embassy Belcher took command of the Sulphur at Panama in to Tibet in 1783 and it was during this expedition that the February 1837, continuing with the survey of the Pacific. The drawings from which William Daniell made these prints expedition sailed for Hawaii, before visiting several points in have their origin. Other than those, also by Davis, who had Alaska, and then proceeding to Nootka Sound and California, illustrated the official account of the expedition published where a journey of 31 days was made up the Sacramento in 1800, these images are the first to depict Bhutan for River from San Francisco. Beginning the homeward voyage European eyes. in 1840 Belcher and his men visited the Marquesas, Tahiti, William and Thomas Daniell became friendly with Raratonga, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Guinea, reaching Davis on their three year Indian tour (begun in 1788) staying Singapore in October of the same year. From thence the with him at Bhagalpur for about a year while working up their Sulphur was ordered to China, where she ‘took an active sketches into finished watercolours before returning part in the operations against the Chinese’ (preface), before to Calcutta in 1791. beginning the voyage home at the close of 1841. Hill, p20; This work is exceptionally scarce, probably the rarest of Lada-Mocarski, 117; Sabin, 4390; Lust, 554; Cordier, 2370. all the Daniell pictorial oeuvre. In our experience it is more often than not found defective in some way, usually lacking the letterpress title or part of the text. This copy is entirely 32 complete and moreover is a family copy bearing the bookplate CRAWFURD John Sir John Francis Davis, Bart., the author’s son, who had been Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General the second Governor of Hong Kong (1844–8). of India to the Court of Ava. In the Year 1827… The last complete copy made £38,000 at the Quentin with an Appendix containing a description of fossil remains Keynes sale. Abbey Travel 434; Tooley, 176; Scenic Splendours, p51. by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift. Second edition. 2 volumes. Large folding map, 8 lithographic EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF YARKUND plates, 4 extending (no plates of fossils called for in this 34 edition), extending plan & 5 woodcut vignettes in the text. FORSYTH Sir T. D. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with cloth boards, the leather Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873; rubbed and spines darkened, gilt lettering on spine label with historical and geographical information oxidised. Athenaeum, North Devon, bookplates on front regarding the Ameer of Yarkund pastedown endpapers and with stamps restricted to title First edition. Large folding map, 102 original sepia pages. A very good clean and sound set otherwise. x, 541; photographs. 4to. Later half calf, a very good copy. xii, 573pp. viii, 319, 163 (appendix)pp. London, Henry Colburn, 1830. Calcutta, Foreign Department Press, 1875. £1750 £10500

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DENDROBIUM FYTCHIANUM & BAMBUSICOLA FYTCHII 35 FYTCHE Lieut.-Gen. Albert Burma Past and Present with Personal Reminiscences of the Country First edition. 2 vols. Folding map, 2 portraits, 10 chromo- lithograph & 3 other plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Particularly fine original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, some very light occasional spotting (as usual). xv, 355; ix, 348pp. London, Keegan Paul, 1878. £1200

The author landed in British India in 1839 and spent the majority of the next thirty-two years in Burma, where he rose to the post of Chief Commisioner of British Burma, responsible to the Governor-General of India. He dedicated his account of Burma (Mayanmar) to his cousin Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Poet Laureate. Included amongst the fine colour plates are the mountain bamboo partridge: ‘Bambusicola Fytchii’, and the orchid ‘Dendbrobium Fytchianum’, both named after Fytche himself. One of the most attractive of the small-flowered Dendrobium, this orchid is found in Burma and Malaysia where it grows on trees at elevations of 50 to 600 meters, it is used in the cut-flower This report is both an extremely rare book and one of very Above trade due to the longevity of the flowers. great importance. While there is no proof that its issue was Forsyth, Sir T. D. Fytche’s experiences of Burma and its people are Item 34 limited, its scarcity and the expense of printing the 102 followed by seven official reports at the end of volume two, photographs for each copy (work carried out by a commercial including accounts of a military expedition into the hill firm Bourne and Shepherd) imply that publication must have country, a Mission to Mandalay, and a Letter of Apology been very restricted. As to importance, the book recounts the from the Emperor of China (with regard to the murder of a exploits of the first official British mission to Yarkand, and British subject). its ruler Yakub Beg, and is practically the earliest first hand account of the country in English. The journey there and internal explorations are exhaustively covered, together with 36 many detailed specific reports, for example one listing all GERVAISE Nicolas the goods offered at a provincial market and another giving An Historical Description of the Kingdom all the meteorological data collected by the Trigonometrical of Macasar in the East Indies… Survey Pandits. Apart from the foregoing, mention must Of the Situation of that Country, the Product and Principal be made of the photographic illustrations which appear Towns in it…The Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, in the book. The wet plate apparatus needed to produce their Government, Trade, Recreations, Habits and these images was cumbersome and the two officers who Marriages… The ancient Idolatry of the Macasarians… had responsibility for the work were much applauded by Together with a particular account of the Arts and Cruelties their commanding officer. The results do much to enhance used by the Batavians… the book, lending it an immediacy seldom found in official First edition. Folding engraved map and plan. Modern reports of this period. One of the photographers, Captain panelled calf old style. viii, 159pp. London, J. Stockdale, 1701. Chapman, gives, in chapter ten, a short resume of his £1500 cameras and chemicals together with their mode of transport and some comment on suitability of all the The 1st Earl of Roseberry’s copy with his signature ‘Rosberie photographic equipment. 1703’ at the head of front free endpaper.

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37 GRAY John Edward Illustrations of Indian Zoology; Chiefly selected from the Collection of Major-General Hardwicke, F.R.S. Portrait frontispiece and 202 hand coloured illustrations (about thirty of which have some waterstaining), one or two clearly supplied from a shorter copy, mostly lithographs but some of the small animals engraved. This copy with a further 13 variants and unissued plates. Front and back wrapper to the first part containing on the back an elaborate prospectus. Folio. Modern half morocco. vi; vipp. London, Adolphus Richter, 1830–34. £18000

A very good copy of this important work on Indian zoology. The ninety ornithological plates are particularly impressive. The plates here are engravings after General Hardwicke’s drawings in the field. He spent the better part of forty years in India. Gray agreed to produce this work without any form of renumeration but on condition that the drawings themselves (and any remaining specimens) were donated to the British Museum. Members of the India company accounted for nearly half of all subscribers. The General’s death complicated production somewhat and the work was issued without any text, which it appears was only to be a short description of each plate. Fine Bird Books, p.79; Nissen I B 391, ZBI 1694; Wood, p.368; Zimmer, p.268.

‘PEN PENCIL AND SWORD COME ALIKE TO THE HAND OF THIS ACCOMPLISHED BRITISH OFFICER’ 38 GRINDLAY Capt. Robert Melville Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India Later Edition. Folio (428mm by 334mm). Engraved title page with coloured aquatint vignette, 37 further coloured aquatints. Title, verso blank; Introduction, verso blank; Contents [i-iii], [blank]; Text [1]–26, [27–101]pp. Half green morocco, marbled boards, decorate gilt to spine Grindlay’s Indian Scenery, marble endpapers, extremeties slightly rubbed, a.e.g. London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1838 [but 1851 or later]. £9500

Captain Grindlay’s book is one of the most appealing of the many colour plate books that depict the scenery of India. Grindlay’s work and life are discussed at some length by Left Gray, John Edward Pauline Rohatgi in India and Pageant of Prints (pp177–194) Item 37 London 1989. Abbey Travel, 442.

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39 Exceedingly rare. Auction records list just a single copy HEATH William in the past forty years. Sketchs [sic] by Travellers. Plate 2 The charming plates illustrate both platoon and manual Coloured engraving measuring 250 by 365mm. London, exercises which the publisher contends ‘exhibit[s] to the McLean, c.1828. officer not only the uniform and characteristic distinctions £600* of the different regiments, but the various positions corresponding with the word of command; by which it is Published under the pseudonym of Paul Pry, this is the hoped that the younger branches of the Service may be second plate in a series of at least six images. The caption at induced to a more particular consideration of this important, the bottom of the plates reads: ‘India is the finest country in if not vital, part of an Officer’s duty.’ the world for a keen Sportsman—Game is so plentiful you don’t know which to pop at first—lest any of them chance to A FINE COPY pop at you besides if you escape the animals you are sure to 41 get a fever—or at any rate a stroke of the sun.’ OUSELEY Sir William Travels in various Countries of the East; more particularly Persia 40 A work wherein the Author has described, as far as his JAMES Capt. Abraham own Observations extended, the State of those Countries The Military Costume of India in an exemplification in 1810, 1811, and 1812; and has endeavoured to illustrate of the manual & platoon exercises for the use of the native many sujbects of Antiquarian Research, History, Geography, troops and the British army in general Philology and Miscellaneous Literature, with extracts from First edition. Frontipiece, lithograph title page & 34 hand- rare and valuable Oriental Manuscripts. coloured plates. Large 8vo. Late nineteenth century half First edition. 3 vols. 4 folding maps & 82 plates (several calf, morocco labels to spine, gilt, marbled boards, t.e.g. viii, folding, many double page one of these hand coloured). 2–35pp. London, T. Goddard, 1813. 4to. Very fine contemporary tree calf, backs richly gilt, some £2250 minor damp staining to a few of the plates in the second volume. xxviii, 455; [iv], 544; [iv], 600pp. London, for the Author, Printed by Priscilla Hughes of Brecknock, 1819, 1821 & 1823. £12000

A respected orientalist in his own right, the author landed at Bushire in March 1811 with his younger brother Sir Gore Ouseley, as a member of the latter’s diplomatic mission to Persia. Sir William had failed over the previous ten years to procure a post as envoy to an eastern court, however he was finally able to achieve his ambition to travel to the East with his appointment as private secretary to his brother. In order to prepare for the mission, he spent several months in the house of the Persian envoy in London, learning the language and becoming acquainted with the customs of the country. Whilst the mission was held up in Shiraz during the summer of 1811 awaiting the birth of Sir Gore’s child, Sir William, along with other members of the mission, were despatched to discover as much as possible about the history and current state of the land. Other material is included in the three volumes, garnered from travels in both the North and the South of Persia as well as from his journey through Left James, Capt. Abraham Armenia and Turkey to Smyrna and Constantinople. Item 40 Wilson, p164.

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THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS EVER PUBLISHED 42 PURCHAS Samuel Purchas His Pilgrimes In Five Bookes. The first, Contayning the Voyages and Peregrinations made by ancient Kings, Patriarkes, Apostles, Philosphers, and other, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne World:.. The second, a Description of all the Circum-Navigations of the Globe. The third, Navigations and Voyages of English-men, alongst the Coasts of Africa, to the cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, Indian, Shoares… The fourth, English Voyages beyond the East Indies, to the Islands of Japan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinae… The fifth, Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries, of the English Nation in the Easterne parts of the World… First edition. 5 vols. Engraved title (dated 1625) & 7 engraved folding or double page maps with 81 further engraved maps in the text. Folio. Early nineteenth century diced russia, gilt spine rebacked, repairs to cornerpiece, some staining. London, William Stansby, 1625 & [vol. V] 1626. £75000

Purchas’s Pilgrimes is a continuation and enlargement of Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations and arguably the greatest collection of travels and voyages ever published. It is of great importance for several reasons: the work includes a wealth of new material relating to the English voyages to and colonisation of North America, while at the same time giving much prominence to the eastward expansion of British trade routes. Purchas was a tireless promoter of what he perceived as the tremendous commercial potential of establishing relations with the various trading nations of the Far East. Due to this emphasis, Purchas was to compile within his work the most complete and exhaustive printed account of England’s earliest relations with Japan. It is here for instance that Capt. John Saris’s narrative of the East India Society’s earliest commercial voyage to Japan (1611–1614) is first printed, as is the even earlier narrative of William Adams (1598 to 1611). Also included are many of the earliest letters from contemporary European publications material on the respective religions of Japan and China regarding Japan at a time when trading activity was at its from Trigault. height. In all, the Japanese material amounts to some 99-odd The fifth volume of the Pilgrimes is a supplement to all pages, not counting, of course, the substantial material about the preceeding parts and as usual it is taken from the second Eastern trade in general and England’s rivalries in the East issue of the fourth edition of the Pilgrimage. Indies and China Seas with the Portuguese and Dutch. The maps and engraved title here in fine fresh As well as the more up to date narratives Purchas unrestored condition. Cox I, 6; Church, 401A; Sabin 66682–6; Right includes the first English translation of Mendez Pinto, the Purchas, Samuel Hill, 1402/3; Arents 158; JCB (3)II: 196–97; European Americana first translation of Ramusio’s version of Marco Polo, and item 42 625/173.

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43 SCHIFF Friedrich ESKELUND Paula Squeezing through. Shanghai Sketches 1941–1945 First and only edition. Numerous illustrations (several photographic). Oblong 8vo. Original decorated boards (minor staining to top right corner), some browning throughout due to poor paper quality, several marginal tears, overall just a good copy. Unpaginated. Shanghai, Hwa Kuo Print. Co., 1945. £1500

Friedrich Schiff (1908–1968) was an Austrian of Jewish descent who emigrated to China around 1935. Here he worked as a caricaturist for several newspapers, designed postcards, illustrated books, and even painted murals for several public buildings and clubs in Shanghai. His style and humour are instantly recognisable and the present is his last book published in Shanghai before he left for Argentina. The present is Schiff ’s last publication from Shanghai: ‘This little book is an attempt in all modesty to set down in words and pictures an account of what good and evil was characteristic of daily life in Shanghai during the war years 1941–1945.’ (Foreword). Exceedingly rare. Only 3 copies in OCLC.

44 [SECOND AFGHAN WAR] [ANON] Officer’s Sketch Book Containing 20 watercolours, 1 pen & ink drawing and 18 pencil sketches. Oblong 4to. Above The Second Afghan War began once the British Modern quarter morocco over cloth. 38ll. Officer’s Sketch Book diplomatic mission to Kabul was stopped in September 1878. Item 44 Afghanistan & India, 1880. The first phase of the war resulted in the ceding of Afghani £2000* foreign affairs to the British. A year later, mutinous Afghan troops murdered the British Resident in Kabul, Sir Pierre The images here are in a superior amateur’s hand and Cavagnari, initiating the second phase of the war. British concern themselves mostly with life on the move. ‘Camp troops were brought in to restore Abdur Rahmen Kahn to at Chakrata June 1880’; ‘Lallah Rooke’s Tomb’; ‘Palace of the throne. After defeating Afghan troops in Chariasab, they Alexander the Great’, ‘2 marches from Rawal Pindi’; ‘Tomb marched into Kabul on 13 October. of Brucephalus’ (Alexander’s white horse); ‘an Officer of the Black Watch and soldiers wearing busbies’; ‘Tents at army camp’; ‘Guard Tent at Lawrencepur Sept. 1880’. 45 Although the artist in unidentified, judging by the flag STAUNTON Sir George Leonhard represented in Guard Tent at Lawrencepur, he might have An Authentic Account of an Embassy from been part of the 63rd Foot Regiment which moved to India the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China in 1870 and was briefly involved in the Second Afghan War, Including cursory observations made, and information occupying Kandahar and being awarded the Battle Honour obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, ‘Afghanistan 1879/80.’ The regiment remained stationed and a small part of Chinese Tartary. Together with a relation on the border the following year during an inter-tribal war. of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty’s (There is also an image of Glengarriff, Ireland—a number of ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India men enlisted in the 63rd were from Ireland, our artist may be Company’s Service to the Yellow Sea and Gulf of Pekin … one of them). Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the

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Earl of Macartney, Knight of Bath, His Majesty’s With a presentation inscription to the noted classical Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the archaeologist and numismatist Percy Gardner on the Emperor of China… half title. The foreward notes ‘To Dr Percy Gardner, I am First edition. 2 vols. 4to. with 2 engaved frontispieces. Very indebted for most competant guidance and respect of good, clean copies in boards. [xxxiv], 518; xx, 626pp. Together the subjects of classical art in my collection and for much with elephant-folio atlas with 44 maps and plates, half- encouragement besides.’ calf (rebacked using original spine, minor wear to boards), Narrative of Stein’s first expedition to Central Asia in occasional light dust-staining and foxing, but overall a very 1900–01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered good copy. London, G. Nicol, 1798. Chinese Turkestan, and explored the sand-buried ruins of £9500 Khotan and their surroundings. Yakushi, S328a.

The first British Embassy to China generated much interest and excitement: for over a century China had influenced 47 European fashion and habits and there was a strong THOMAS Captain George Powell expectation that the visit would usher in a new era of Anglo- Views of Simla Sino relations (‘The following sheets were composed in First Edition. Folio (558mm by 383mm). Pictorial Title page, obediance to the public voice’). The embassy’s principal aim 24 tinted lithographic plates. Title (rather foxed), [blank], was the establishment of bi-lateral trade links with China, Dedication, [blank], [1]–11, [blank]; Description of Plates, as well as a permanent diplomatic presence in Peking. To iipp. Half red morocco, repaired,with red cloth, spine gilt, this effect they carried presents of British technology and embossed decorative gilt to front cover Simla/By/Capt.. G. P. artifice worth £14,000. Staunton (1737–1801) provides a solid Thomas, headcap worn. London, Dickinson & Co., 1846. eye-witness accounts of the situation of China in general £4000 and life at the Imperial court in particular. Macartney had originally planned an a much larger work with contributions Not a rare book, but nevertheless an interesting visual from all the scientific, medical, and commercial advisors of account of Simla some years after its establishment as the the expedition, however this project was never carried out. official summer retreat of the Governor General. Captain Aeneas Anderson (dates unknown), Macartney’s personal Thomas affords the reader an alphabetical account of Simla attendant, published an unauthorised account in 1795. and population industry, and social practices, including a This put the pressure on Staunton, secretary to the embassy, hair raising account titled ‘Infants, practice of putting them to publish the ‘Authentic Account’ as soon as possible. The to sleep with their heads under running water’: ‘I have seen atlas includes a large map of China showing the exact route a child cry at being placed upon its watery bed, and yet ere it of the embassy, coastal, scenic (chiefly along the Grand had been there many seconds it was asleep.’ Abbey, 470. Canal), and architectural views, as well as the Imperial summer residence at Yehol. The engravings were executed after sketches taken on the spot by the official draughtsman, 48 William Alexander (1767–1816). C.f. Lust 545 ( first edition); TRONSON John M. Cordier, 2382. Personal Narrative of a Voyage to Japan, Kamatschatka, Siberia, Tartary, and Various Parts of Coast of China; PRESENTATION COPY TO in H.M.S. Barracouta PERCY GARDNER First edition. 3 large folding charts (1 with tear, repaired), 46 2 further folding charts & 8 lithographs (4 hand-coloured), STEIN Sir Aurel with 2 illustrations in the text. 8vo. Faultless original green Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan Personal Narrative cloth, gilt, a.e.g. [xv], 414,pp. London, 1859. of a Journey of Archaeological & Geographical Exploration £1750 in Chinese Turkestan First edition. Large folding linen-backed map, A very fine copy of this rare narrative. Tronson undertook frontispiece, & numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. several voyages between 1854 and 1856. He describes many of Original pictorial cloth, gilt, lightly dust soiled. xliii, the growing centres of foreign trade in the Far East and also 524pp. London, 1903. gives an interesting account of Korea which was still closed to £2750 foreigners at the time. Cordier, 543.

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49 Above WILLIAMSON Captain Thomas, HOWITT Samuel Williamson, Captain Thomas and Oriental Field Sports Howitt, Samuel First Edition. Oblong Folio (471mm by 602mm). Stencilled Item 49 pictorial frontispiece, title pages, 37 coloured aquatints, 2 stipple engravings with aquatinting & one soft-ground plate with aquatint. Title, [blank]; Dedication, [blank]; Preface, ii; Text, 146, [147–149 index]; List of Plates [150]pp. Full diced calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt dentelles, spine gilt Wild Sports in the East, a.e.g., Bookplate to Frontispiece Charles Tennant/The Glen. London, Edward Orme. 1805–7. £12,500 A substantial run covering the last three years of this famous satirical magazine. Charles Wirgman (1832?–1891) came A very nice copy, and beautifully clean, of this well known to Japan in 1857 as correspondent and illustrator for the work, ‘one of the finest sporting books ever put together’ Illustrated London News. He settled in Yokohama and (Prideaux, Aquatint Engraving p. 282). Abbey 427. founded the Japan Punch in May 1862 aiming at the foreign community. Readership must have been very limited in 1862 and the magazine ceased publication for several years 50 before commencing again in August 1865 to continue for WIRGMAN Charles, editor over 20 years until March 1887. All issues comprise 11 leaves Japan Punch (incl. title) except for January & February 1886 issues which First edition. 36 issues. Lithograph illustrations throughout. have 10 leaves (incl. title). Initially issues appear to have Folio (250 by 350mm). Contemporary red half sheep been printed from carved woodblocks however by the ‘80s (minor restoration to top of spine), slightly rubbed edges. the publisher Meiklejohn used a lithographic reproduction Original titlepages bound in. Occasional marginal pencil process. The content focuses on political affairs of the day as annotations in a contemporary hand, overall a very good well as commenting on cultural relations between foreigners copy Unpaginated. Yokohama, R. Meiklejohn, March 1884– and Japanese. A previous owner has identified some of the Right March 1887. Wirgman, Charles ‘victims’ in our copy in pencil making this a particularly £12000 Item 50 interesting copy.

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51 YOUNGHUSBAND Lieut. G.J. Australia Eighteen hundred miles on a Burmese Tat through Burma, Siam, and the Eastern Shan States & the Pacific First edition. Folding map & 13 plates (1 folding). 8vo. Original red cloth, fine & bright apart from the spine which is faded and a bit worn. vi, 162, 46ads.pp. London, Allen, 1888. AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY £1200 52 ANSON George Although well represented in libraries world wide, this title A Voyage Round The World is rare in commerce. in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV Younghusband, a self-styled ‘ordinary British subaltern’, First edition. Large paper copy. 42 engraved maps, charts & alond with servant and interpreter began their jouney at plates. 4to. Contemporary red morocco, gilt. London, Maulmein proceeded north to Kiang Tung then headed south Printed for the author, 1748. reaching the Me Nam river at Muang-sa and the following £20000 the river south to Bangkok. Ostensibly a sporting and exploration venture, there was nevertheless an intelligence Presented to George Grenville, who was secretary of gathering element to his journey, on his return he prepared state for the Navy at the date of publication and became a secret report on the Shan States. It is an entertaining read, Prime Minister. by an engaging and able young officer who, as did his brother ‘This account is the official one. It is a model of what Francis, rose to the rank of Maj-General and a knighthood. such literature should be’ (Cox I, 49). Anson’s voyage commenced at a time of crisis in Anglo- Spanish relations. The prospect of a short war seemed unlikely and so Walpole and first lord of the Admiralty Sir Charles Wager adopted a strategy of harrassing the Spanish colonies. A large fleet was sent to the Carribean, while Anson’s smaller one was sent to the Pacific. He was to be ready to attack Panama should the larger force gain sufficient foothold on the other side. If the opportunity arose, he was also charged with capturing the annual galleon, linking Mexico and the Phillippines. After long delays, a squadron of eight ships departed in 1740. They managed to elude the Spanish ships, who had learned of their objectives, off the coast of Patagonia and then rounded Cape Horn. Assembling at Mas-a-Tierra in the Juan Fernández Islands in mid-June, they eventually learned that only four ships remained—the Wager being wrecked and two others forced back in to the Atlantic. This was an unmitigated disaster, the squadron emerged with insuffucient men to man even the Centurion properly and was very quickly reduced to just two ships. In a committed act of leadership, Anson pursued his stated objectives as best he could and took small prizes. The Centurion then limped across the Pacific to Macau, where the ship was repaired and he was able to recruit more men. This coincided with the arrival of the westbound galleon from Mexico, which Anson successfully intercepted and captured. This one act, heavy in symbolism, redeemed the voyage and Anson returned to England as the hero of the hour. Hill I, 317–318; Sabin, 1626; Cox I, p49.

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RARE Rare. OCLC locates just four copies. Although the title page UNAUTHORIZED ACCOUNT bears no date of publication, watermarks on the paper have 53 given rise to two different dates. Ferguson cites the copy [ANSON George] in Maggs Voyages and Travels Vol. 4 Part III, no. 269 which An Authentic Account of Commodore carried a dated watermark ‘1802’ on page 17. He therefore Anson’s Expedition: dates it at ‘circa 1803’. Garvey describes the book thus: ‘A later Containing All that was Remarkable, Curious and reprint of the Barrington’s Voyage produced in Manchester by Entertaining, during that long and dangerous Voyage… Alice Swindells. taken from a private Journal ‘Both of the ML copies have a watermark date ‘1809’ First edition. 8vo. Period style half calf, title page a on one of their leaves (see pp. 41–42). This is the same text little dusty, untrimmed. 60pp. London, M. Cooper, 1744. as previously used in AB11, AB13, AB15 and AB16. The £8500 ornament on the title page is the same as found in AB13, AB15 and AB16’ (Garvey). This copy has a dated watermark ‘An extremely rare and unauthorized account, published of ‘1809’ on page 9, which possibly implies the Maggs copy four years before Richard Walter’s official narrative of the Ferguson cites was simply made with different paper stock. voyage…’ (Hill). Just three copies have appeared at auction Ferguson, 363b; Garvey, AB46 in the past thirty years. Hill, 39; Sabin 1630.

ANOTHER 56 UNAUTHORIZED ACCOUNT BARRINGTON George 54 An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales [ANSON George], THOMAS Pascoe —with—The History of New South Wales including A True and Impartial Journal of a Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney and all its Voyage to the South Seas, and Round the Globe, Dependencies from the Original Discovery of the island in His Majesty’s Ship the Centurion Under the with the Customes and Manners of the Natives and an Command of Commodore George Anson… Account of the English Colony and its Foundation to the Together with some historical accounts of Chili, Present Time by… Superintendent of the Convicts Peru, Mexico, and the empire of China First edition by M. Jones, the first volume being 1803, the First edition. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, second volume 1802. 2 vols. Folding hand-coloured plan of old spine laid down, some light wear to edges. [xvi], N.S.W., stipple engraved portrait of Barrington, engraved 347, 39pp. London, 1745. titles with coloured vignettes & 23 hand-coloured plates £2500 (lacking the plate of an eagle and one of the plates having two images), with a further woodcut. 8vo. Victorian stippled calf, Pascoe Thomas’s Journal precedes the official account with red morocco title labels. No foxing, & with the plates of Anson’s voyage by three years. In addition to providing exceptionally fine. [x], 467, [v–index]–&–[xxxviii], 505pp. a detailed account of this important circumnavigation, London, M. Jones, 1802–1803. the work also invcludes an appendix listing the treasure £1100 taken from the Nuestra Signora del Buono Carmella. Hill, 1693; Sabin, 95437. Barrington occupies a unique position in the history of early Australia, being the most famous of all the transported convicts, with a near heroic status in England. He travelled 55 with the Third Fleet in 1791 and, given the greed of BARRINGTON George publishers, chapbooks were issued almost immediately in his Barrington’s Voyage to New South Wales: name. Although none of the books were written by Barrington with a Description of the Country, the Manners, himself, ‘the 1795 Voyage and the 1800 Sequel, in their Customs, Religion &c. of the Natives in the numerous guises, do provide some details of events in Vicinity of Botany Bay New South Wales not elsewhere available’ (Wantrup). 8vo. Modern half calf, untrimmed. 48pp. Garvey AB29a-b. Manchester, [c.1810]. £950

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57 and curious Observations… [BLACKBIRDING] First edition. 8vo. Later speckled sheep rebacked to style. License for the Carriage by Sea of Native Laborers xx, 220pp. London, 1743. Schedule (B) £2500 Single sheet printed document completed in manuscript. Folio. [Victoria, 1880s.] The first of several books concerning the loss of the Wager, £650 one of Anson’s fleet, and the subsequent adventures of her crew. Bulkeley and Cummins, respectively the gunner and A rare example of a blackbirding licence in fine condition. carpenter of the doomed vessel, led the mutinous faction This one allows Thomas Hepple Robson, the captain of the which refused to accompany Capt. Cheap, Lieut. Byron and Delmira ‘to carry not more than eighty (80) Kanaka laborers others northward after the shipwreck, preferring instead to from the Island of Nui to Malden Island and to reconvey from head back through the Straits of Magellan. After marooning Malden Island to Nui one hundred (100) Kanaka laborers.’ several of their number they managed to reach safety at This was a part of the process of kidnapping Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil from whence they returned to Melanesians in order to work the sugar cane fields in England. In the second edition Bulkeley states that they were Australia and Fiji. The captured men were often forced to financially induced to publish this account and ‘money is a work longer than the three years stipulated in their contracts great temptation to people in our circumstances’. Sabin, 9108; and many never returned to their native islands. Sailors often Hill, p38; cf. Borba, 133/4 (2nd edition). went to elaborate lengths to disguise their true intentions, offering to show treasures onboard, taking a free cruise or PRESENTATION COPY even impersonating the head of the Melanesian mission, 60 Bishop Patterson. The practice began in the early 1860s and CAMPBELL William the deportation of this labour was an early task of the newly The Crown Lands of Australia: federated Australia in 1901. The Delmira was wrecked off Being an Exposition of the Land Regulations, and of the Cape Palliser en route to Malden Island in 1896. Claims and Grievances of the Crown Tenants… Together with a Few Hints Upon Emigration & the Gold Fields First edition. 8vo. Original green blind-stamped cloth, spine 58 faded, with half title. xvi, 3–61, 190, [2]pp. Glasgow, 1855. BRITTON H. £475 Fiji in 1870: being The Letters of ‘The Argus’ Special correspondent, with a Complete Map and Presentation copy inscribed ‘With the author’s compts.’ Gazetteer of the Fijian Archipelago on the upper margin of the title page, the first part of the First edition. Folding map. 8vo. Original printed wrappers, inscription having been erased. Ferguson, 7918. a little dusty. 88pp. Melbourne, Sam Mullen, 1870. £500 AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY 61 These thirteen letters were rushed into print with very little CARNEGIE The Hon. David revision and recount Britton’s 64 day voyage through the Spinifex and Sand Fijian islands. Accompanied by the gazetteer, this work A narrative of Five Years’ Pioneering and provides a comprehensive overview of life in Fiji at that time. Exploration in Western Australia First edition. 4 folding maps (2 in rear pocket). 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine. xvi, 454pp. London, 1898. 59 £3250 BULKELEY John & CUMMINS John A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740–1 The presentation inscription reads: ‘Gus and Abel from their Containing a faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty’s affect friend David. Jan 1899.’ Ship the Wager on a desolate Island in the Latitude 47 South The youngest son of the Earl of Southesk, Carnegie Longitude 81:40 West: With the Proceedings and Conduct of (1871–1900) left Ceylon, where he had been a tea planter, in the Officers and Crew…incredible Hardships…one thousand 1892 to join the gold rush in Western Australia. With money Leagues in a Long-Boat; Interspersed with many entertaining raised at home in England by his fellow prospector Lord

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Left Right Carnegie, The Hon. David Conant, W.G. Item 61 Item 62

Percy Douglas, Carnegie set out in 1894 on his first expedition in which he covered some 850 miles. Despite having had to abort another expedition due to ill health, Carnegie set off in 1896 on his most important journey during which he explored the deserts of the interior covering some 3000 miles, carrying out work which earned him the Royal Geographical Society’s Gill Memorial medal (Wantrup). Ferguson, 7960; Wantrup, 196a. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and is listed as UNRECORDED such in attending the annual meeting of the Board in 1871. 62 The hymn was apparently well received. On June 2, CONANT W.G. 1821, The Religious Intelligencer (no.1, vol vi), in a published A Christmas Hymn extract of one of the female missionaries journal, reproduced Composed for the 25th of Dec. 1819… and sung by the Conant’s hymn in full. It is likely that this handbill was Missionaries on their way to the Sandwich Islands. published in the same year. In correspondence with the Printed broadside with decorative border measuring 202 Missionary Society, David Forbes speculates that given the by 117mm. Some pale dampstains, mounted. np [but possibly broadside’s similarity to 456 and 532 in vol 1 of the HNB (they Boston, J Seymour], c.1821. all share the same typographic border design) it may have £2750 been the same Boston printer, J. Seymour. No copies on OCLC. Not in Forbes; not in Sabin An incredible survival. This small handbill reprints a hymn sung on the Thaddeus en route to the Sandwich Islands. WITH THE RARE MAP OF THE WORLD Departing Boston in October 1819, the ship transported the 63 first missionaries to Hawaii, including Hiram Bingham. COOK James & KING James The actual singing of the hymn by passengers is A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; recorded in the ship’s official journal: ‘The hymns sung for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere were, ‘Angels song’, by Watts ‘10 of W’s select’, ‘Epiphany’ an Four vols. Frontispiece, 45 plates (1 folding) & two folding original humn from Matt. 2.2., composed for the occasion by maps. 8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco labels to spine, W.G. Conant, a serious youth of liberal education, mate of gilt, some dampstaining and occasional foxing. xii, xxxiv, 3 the Brig Thaddeus and considerabley [sic ] interested in the 70; xii, 360; x, 400; xii, 310, [ii], 40pp. New York, Benjamin object of our mission.’ It appears Conant’s interest was such Gomez, 1796. that he was later made an honorary member of the American £7500

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Right A very good copy of the most extensively illustrated book Earle, Augustus published in eighteenth century America. This is a reprint of and Burford, Robert the London 1784 octavo edition, originally issued in 24 parts, Item 66 and includes the large folding map, A General Chart which, according to Forbes, is frequently missing as well the Life of Cook which is also not present in all copies. Beddie, 1579; Sabin, 16251; Forbes HNB, 259; Evans, 30274; Not in Hill.

64 COULTER John Adventures in the Pacific; with observations on the natural productions, manners and customs of the natives of the various islands; together with remarks on Missionaries, British and other Residents, etc. etc. First edition. 8vo. Fine contemporary style half calf, marbled boards. xii, 290, [2], 32ads.pp. Dublin, Wm. Curry, Jun. & Co., 1845. 66 £850 [EARLE Augustus] BURFORD Robert Description of a View of the town of Sydney, New South ‘The Pacific Ocean has of late excited great interest… in Wales; the Harbour of Port Jackson, and surrounding consequence of the political transactions occurring at the country, now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester Square Polynesian islands, particularly ‘Tahiti’. The aggressions Sole edition. Folding frontispiece with key. 8vo. Later marbled of the French have caused England to be on the watch, and wrappers. 12pp. London, Adlard, 1829. Queen Pomare’s remote but beautiful islands have and £2250 are likely to produce differences between those two great powers’ (Preface). ‘Earle’s importance in the history of Australian art and in the Coulter not only visited Tahiti, but the Galapagos, the development of lithographic art in Australia is such the every Society Islands and the Marquesas (where he was tattooed, serious collection should have some example of his work. assumed the native costume and joined in a tribal war). [This pamphlet] may be the only representative example a Hill, 385. collector will ever find…’ (Wantrup). A charming publication promoting an exhibition of a view of Sydney. "At the time of publication one of the sights of 65 London was the Panorama in Leicester Square, where views DELANO Amasa of famous cities, etc., were exhibited with lighting effects" A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and (Ferguson). Half of the twelve pages of text are devoted to Southern Hemispheres: comprising Three Voyages Round the a brief history of the fledgling city, the remaining six pages World; together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery, in the describe different marked locations on the frontispiece: areas Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands. such as Wolloomoolloo, Cockle Bay, Point Piper, and Botany First edition. Folding map & 2 portraits. 8vo. Contemporary Bay; buildings include New Gaol, Catholic Chapel, Bank of marbled sheep extremities rubbed. 597, [i(errata)] pp. New South Wales, Governor’s House, the Military Barracks; Boston, 1817. and there is also a very derogatory description of the natives £1500 and their customs, as well as King Boongaree. The panorama was based on a series of eight paintings An important work, not least for the information contained by Augustus Earle which he produced in 1827 and sent to on the Bounty mutineers. Delano travelled to the Hawaiian, Burford. Earle created a similar series of images of Hobart the Palau and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; same year (published in 1831). A second edition of this work New Guinea and Australia; and Chile and Peru. Sabin, 19349; on Sydney was published the following year. Ferguson, 1248; Ferguson, 672; Hill 2nd ed, 463; Forbes HNB, 463. Wantrup, 221.

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67 [ELDER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION EXPEDITION] Handbook of Instructions for the Guidance of the Officers to the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition to the Unknown Portions of Australia 8vo. A fine copy in original blue printed wrappers. Adelaide, W.K. Thomas, 1891. £300

The Elder Scientific Exploration Expediton was probably the most ambitious of all nineteenth century Australian expeditions. Led by David Lindsay, the year long expedition covered nearly 7000 kilometres. This handbook provides a real insight to the priorities, objectives and protocols of the expedition. It includes notes on photography, meteorology and the collection and preservation of natural history specimens. There is also a guide to pronunciation of Aboriginal dialiects and a list of 81 words for which the Aboriginal translation was to be sought in every instance. Ferguson, 9409.

Above in stock by the same artist and so believe he was a HMS Calypso hove to for 68 member of the crew. a Pilot outside the reef [ENGLISH SCHOOL] A.C. Item 68 Although in a similar style, the smaller watercolour of HMS Calypso hove to for a Pilot outside the reef. Kealakekua Bay is possibly in another hand (the caption on Honolulu, Oahu Sandwich Islands the back is certainly is and is initialled “B.P.U.”). Kealakekua Watercolour measuring 250 by 355mm. October 9, 1858. Bay is now inextricably linked with Capt. James Cook, [With] Stump of a cocoa nut tree marking the spot where who first anchored there in January 1778, thus markingits Captain Jas. Cook fell. Watercolour measuring 140 by 195mm. European discovery, and died there a year later. [Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii], 1859. £10000 THE SPANISH IN TAHITI 69 The image of the HMS Calypso is inscribed on the verso ‘B.B. ESTALA Pedro Presbitero ed. from A.C. Wishing him a Happy Near Year and many happy Reisen der Spanier Nach der Sudsee returns. Jan 1 1859.’ First edition. Folding map by Bratring. 8vo. Paper covered Launched in May 1845, the Calypso was a 20 gun sixth boards, extremities a little worn, joints cracked. xx, 238, [2]pp. rate Royal Navy Ship based at the Pacific station. It fell Berlin, Friedrich Maurer, 1802. under the command of Captain Frederick Byng Montresor £2000 in November, 1857. In August 1858, Montresor was ordered to take the Calypso to Esquimalt on the southern tip of A very good copy of a work that has appeared just once at Vancouver Island) to deal with unrest between American auction in the past 30 years. miners and the Nlaka’pamux near Fraser River, which was This work begins with a comprehensive overview of in the midst of a gold rush. Alarm was caused by reports that Tahiti and the Society Islands—discussing their people, 42 miners had been murdered by the native indians. This flora, fauna, government, culture and religion as well as brief number was later disputed, however a short livedwar broke accounts of the eighteenth century explorers who visited the out. Though generally overlooked by historians this was an islands—Wallis, Bougainville, Cook, Bligh, Vancouver, Wilson important event in the establishment of British Columbia. et al. The folding map at the rear is dated 1801 and depicts Montresor was later promoted to Admiral and Commander- the Society Islands. The central section of the book is devoted in-Chief of the East Indies and Cape of Good Hope station. to the two Spanish voyages to Tahiti. Kropelien, 412; O’Reilly- We have another image of the Calypso (in a different location) Reitman, 518, 532; Engelmann, p242.

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THE KING AND QUEEN OF HAWAII AT THE 71 THEATRE IN LONDON 1824 HILL Samuel S. 70 Travels in the Sandwich and Society Islands GEAR J.W. First edition. Engraved folding map. 8vo. Contemporary calf, Their Majesties King Rheo Rhio and Queen Tamehamelu; school crest gilt to uper board. [2], xii, [1], 2–428, 2pp. London, Madame Poki; of the Sandwich Islands and Suite. As they Chapman & Hall, 1856. appeared at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, June 4th 1824. £1000 Lithograph with original hand colouring. Measuring 290 by 370mm. London, 1824. Arriving in Honolulu on Christmas Eve, 1848, Hill gives £5500 a good description of Honolulu, Lahaina, Kawaiha and provides a general history of Hawaii since the death of Cook ‘The visit to the England of the Hawaiian King and his young (of course, he visits Kealakekua Bay). 300 pages of this work wife attracted much popular attention. Sadly a month after are devoted to Hawaii, the remainder covers his time in their visit to the New Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, both Tahiti, the Society islands and Valparaiso. The appendix contracted measles, and the twenty-two year old Queen, includes a transcription of the Hawaiian Declaration of Kamamalu (translated as Tamehamalu at the time) died on Rights and, of greater interest, ‘Mutiny and Massacre at Sea’ July 8th, 1824. The King succumbed shortly afterwards. Only a five page account by Robert McNally on the Schooner weeks before the King had commanded that the Royal Box Amelia relating the murder of the first mate by three men. should be made available for their visit to the theatre, and the Forbes, 2175; O’Reilly and Reitman, 1143. publicity handbills trumpeted the event’ (M. Graham Stewart. Below About Strange Lands and People pp 45–6). Gear, J.W. A most uncommon image, here a coloured version. Item 70 72 JACOBS Thomas Jefferson Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean, or the Islands of the Australasian Seas, during the Cruise of the Clipper Margaret Oakley, under Capt. Benjamin Morrell… First edition. Frontispiece, large folding plate of Canton & another plate, with map & further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth, headcap repaired, some very light staining to boards, occasional light spotting. xii, [13]– 372pp. New York, Harper & Bros., 1844. £500

‘No other quarter of the globe would a trading and colonizing expedition, fitted out under proper auspices, and with care and skill, be more sure of a speedy and lucrative return than in this the Pacific.’ Jacob’s account documents the fifth and sixth voyages of Benjamin Morrell aboard the Margaret Oakley. The voyage included a sojourn at Port Jackson, which is recounted over 12 pages. Hill, 876; Ferguson, 3844; Howes, J38; Sabin, 35506.

RARE LAHAINA IMPRINT 73 [LAHAINA IMPRINT] Consulate of the United States of America for Lahaina Islands Woodcut American eagle vignette. Single sheet. Folio, completed in manuscript. Lahaina, March 27, 1865. £1500

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Left Lahaina Imprint THE MOST GORY MUTINY IN PACIFIC HISTORY Item 73 (A. Grove Day) 75 LAY William & HUSSEY Cyrus M. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the Journal of a Residence of two Years on the Mulgrave Islands; with Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. First edition. 12mo. Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked, edges lightly rubbed, some browning throughout as usual. x, 11–168pp. New-London, Wm. Lay & C.M. Hussey, 1828. Signed by the US consul, Elias Verhuis, this remarkable £1600 document links Hawaiians to the American Civil War, whaling and even African American history. Nearing Fanning Island, Samuel Comstock, a.k.a. ‘the Built by the African American shipwright and former terrible whaleman’, boat steerer and harpooner, led the slave John Mashow at Dartmouth (near New Bedford, Ma.) uprising on the Globe, which resulted in the murder of the in 1853, the whaler Jireh Swift measured 122 feet and 454 ship’s four officers. Subsequently several mutineers were tonnes. The ship’s captain was Thomas Williams. Williams killed by the natives of Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was a notable figure in the American whaling industry, not whilst Comstock himself was killed by his fellow mutineers. least for being accompanied by his wife on voyages. Part of the crew escaped to Valparaiso in the ship, and The Jireh Swift was on her third voyage to the Pacific organised a rescue expedition led by ‘Mad Jack’ Percival in when she stopped at Lahaina for new recruits. On 22 June, the Dolphin which found Lay and Hussey to be the only 1865, less than two months after this document was signed, survivors left on the atoll. she was captured in the Arctic by the Confederate raider There is quite a literature on the Globe mutiny. Shanendoah. Although she was burned, there was no loss of The best modern treatments are by A. Grove Day, in Rascals life. Presumably, the crew were taken as prisoners of war. in Paradise, New York, 1957, and Edwin P. Hoyt, The Mutiny on the ‘Globe’, London, 1975. THE FIRST ENGLISH-HAWAIIAN DICTIONARY 74 [LAHAINALUNA IMPRINT] 76 He Hoakakaolelo no na Huaolelo Beritania, LINDT J.W. i mea kokua i na kanaka Hawaii e ao ana ia olelo Picturesque New Guinea With an Historical First edition. 8vo. Period quarter morocco over marbled Introduction and Supplementary Chapters on the boards, some occassional spotting. x, 184pp. Lahainaluna, Manners and Customs of the Papuans Mea Pai Palapala o ke Kulanui, 1845. First edition. 49 (of 50) full-page autotype plates several £2500 with more than one image. Large 8vo. Contemporary blue half calf, spine a little rubbed. xviii, 194pp. London, 1887. [O]ne of the most important publications of the Lahainaluna £800 Press’ (Forbes).A very good copy of this rare work. Printed in an edition of 600 copies, several people contributed, primarily In the preface the author of this uncommon work decries the the Reverends John S. Emerson, A. Bishop, W.P. Alexander lack of photographic illustration in works of travel, and in and the Lahainaluna graduate Samuel M. Kamakau. particular that scientific expeditions had hitherto made little Modelled after Webster’s abridgement, it was compiled use of the ‘black art’. in order to promote both the learning of English among Hawaiian youths and to teach new missionaries the This is a beautifully illustrated work and, along with local language. Thomson’s China and Its Peoples, is one of the first to use This copy confirms to those that Forbes notes with autotypes as illustrations. The author acccompanied Sir Peter regard to the better stock used for the final forty pages and Scatchley who had been appointed High Commissioner in the varying type and signatures. Forbes, 1551. the newly aquired territory in 1885.

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from Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’s papers. Mitchell was an early patron of Martens and at one point employed him as drawing-master for his children. This scene was completed during the most successful phase of Martens’ career and is similar to the identically titled image held by the Mitchell Library, which was drawn on May 24, 1838. Martens remained in Australia for the rest of his life. Initially, he lived in The Rocks before moving to St Leonards on Sydney’s North Shore. He was perhaps the most accomplished artist to have worked in mid-nineteenth century Australia. Kerr, (Joan) Dictionary of Australian Artists (Melbourne, 1992); Smith (Bernard) European Vison and the South Pacific 1768–1850 (London, 1960).

78 MOERENHOUT Jaques-Antoine Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan, Contenant des Documents Nouveaux sur la Géographie, Physique et Politique, La Langue, La Litterature, La Religion, Les Moers, Les Usages et Les Coutumes de Leurs Habitants’ et des Considerations Générales sur Leur Commerce, Leur Histoire et Leur Gouvernment, depuis les temps le plus reculés jusqu’a nos jours. First edition. 2 vols. Folding map & 4 lithograph plates. Modern half calf, red morocco labels to spines, some sporadic light foxing, paper repairs to ‘Table des Matières’ (pp.i–v, FROM THE PAPERS OF Below vol. II), bookplate to front pastedowns. xv, 576; vii, 520pp. Moerenhout, THOMAS LIVINGSTONE MITCHELL Jaques-Antoine Paris, 1837. 77 Item 78 £4750 MARTENS Conrad Pass of Mount Victoria Pencil drawing heightened with white, two small tears not affecting image. Measuring 215 by 330mm. [New South Wales, c. 1838]. £4,000*

A lovely example of Martens’ work, which is becoming increasingly scarce. Martens had the good fortune to meet Robert FitzRoy in Montevideo in 1833 and was promptly engaged as artist on the HMS Beagle, replacing Augustus Earle. In this capacity he worked closely with, and befriended, Charles Darwin and remained on board until October 1834, when he sailed to Sydney via Tahiti. Within six months of his arrival he’d travelled into the Illawarra, the Blue Mountains and Broken Bay. Mount Victoria is on the edge of the Blue Mountains and the Pass was constructed by convicts under the supervision Above of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1832. Indeed, this image Martens, Conrad was one of a group of assorted views of New South Wales Item 77

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The Frank Streeter copy. This notoriously uncommon book was written by a Belgian trader who settled in Tahiti in the late 1820s. The author made four principal voyages thoughout the South Pacific, and his book is packed with interesting detail, arranged island by island. He had a particularly keen eye for the customs of the Polynesians and collected valuable historical information as he travelled. For instance there is a fascinating account of a conversation with Adams on Pitcairn in 1829 three months before his death, together with a long description of the island and its inhabitants. Moerenhout was also a good artist and one of the portraits in the book is that of the last remaining Bounty mutineer. Some of his drawings were used to illustrate Tahiti in the Atlas Pittoresque for Dupetit-Thouar’s voyage of the Vénus.

79 MORESBY Capt. John New Guinea & Polynesia Above 81 New Zealand Discoveries in New Guinea and the D’Entrecasteaux [NEW ZEALAND] [ENGLISH SCHOOL] Item 81 Islands A Cruise in Polynesia and Visits to the Pearl- An officer of HMS Acheron surveying Shelling in Torres Straits of H.M.S. Basilisk. the plains near Bluff, New Zealan First edition. Frontispiece, 3 plates & 4 maps (1 coloured, Watercolour on two sheets measuring 334 by 755mm. 1 large folding). 8vo. A very good copy in original pictorial The verso bears the following inscription: ‘Bluff, New cloth, gilt, extremities slightly rubbed. (xx), 328, 32ads.pp. Zealand. HMS Acheron 1849, Plains near—showing London, John Murray, 1876. R.B’s surveying work with tent etc’. Mounted. c.1849. £750 £12000

An excellent account of one of the most important New This beautiful watercolour was executed on the surveying Guinea voyages. In 1871, Moresby captained the HMS voyage of the HMS Acheron under the command of John Basilisk on an expedition to survey the south east coast Lort Stokes. of New Guinea. He discovered the China Strait and Port Stokes served on several voyages of the Beagle: under Moresby, naming the latter after himself. Ferguson, 12801. Pringle Stokes, Philip Parker King, Robert FitzRoy and John Clements Wickham. He was on board throughout Darwin’s time on the ship and, when Wickham was invalided home, 80 was appointed in command. Stokes spent the better part of [MORTLOCK LANGUAGE] LOGAN Robert William eighteen years on board the Beagle, surely making him the Aritmatik: kapas an make tu iteitan peirak kana, longest serving officer of that ship. pual apat, me aimu, me alean fengeni, me inet Having completed his Discoveries in Australia, with an Sole edition. Original printed wrappers, spine renewed. account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during 8vo. 46pp. [Honolulu, Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical the voyage of the Beagle, 1837–1843, Stokes once again set sail, Association, 1887]. this time in command of the steam vessel HMS Acheron. £350 The voyage took four years to complete its coastal survey of New Zealand, during which time her officers made inland Rare. OCLC locates just three copies. Born in Ohio in 1843, expeditions to North Canterbury, ascended Mount Grey, Rev. Robert Logan was the first American missionary in and traced the Oreti and Makarewa Rivers. The first overland Micronesia. This mathematics primer for the Mortlock expedition from Invercargill to Dunedin was also completed Islands is one of the very few works to have published by crew members. The ship was refitted twice at Farm in Mortlock. cove, Sydney.

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SURGEON ON COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE 82 PERRY Surgeon William Above 83 ALS to Mr Best placing an order for wine Prout, John Skinner PROUT John Skinner Item 83 Manuscript in ink. Single page laid down on a pale Cliffs at Point Puer Port Arthur V.D.L. blue sheet with an elaborate floral border. 8vo. Hillingdon, Watercolour measuring 200 by 315mm. Titled at the bottom 21 August, 1822. left with the artist’s monogram on the bottom left corner. £1750* Laid down on thick cream card. Van Diemen’s Land, c. 1845. £4500* A rare letter from a member of Cook’s crew. Perry was only twenty when he sailed on Cook’s John Skinner Prout was ‘the first itinerant painter in first voyage as surgeon’s mate and, following the death of the colonies whose work ceases to be dominated by the Munkhouse at Batavia, succeeded him. Beaglehole credits requirements of topographical accuracy’ (Smith, European him as being hardworking, conscientious and systematic. Vision in the South Pacific). After four years in Sydney, He produced a valuable report on the health of the ship and depressed economic circumstances forced Prout to move to scurvy, detailed coverage of which can be found in Snell’s Van Diemen’s Land in 1844 where he remained until 1848, ‘Captain Cook’s surgeons’. He doubtless made a contribution having secured the patronage of Governor Sir John Franklin. to Cook’s theory of eradicating scurvy via cabbage and Bearing his distinctive signature, this is a lovely example of maltwort, which proved so successful on his second voyage. his work from that time. Having also served with Cook on the Scorpion in 1771 just prior to the departure of the second voyage, Perry was later on the Dispatch, Salibury and Superb. Here he places a 84 long and detailed order for wine, displaying a marked ROSS Capt James interest in port, sherry and Constantia, a South African ALS to Lord Palmerston asking for the dessert wine. Beaglehole, J.C. ed; Voyage of the Endeavour Governorship of Van Diemen’s Land Left 1768–71 and Snell, W.E.; ‘Captain Cook’s surgeons’ in Perry, Surgeon William Manuscript in ink. Folio. 4pp. 1840. Medical History, vii, 1963, p46. Item 82 £1500*

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Right A little known overture by Ross in search of the governorship Slocum, Capt. Joshua of Van Diemen’s Land in 1840. The post was open due to Item 86 Franklin having been removed from office. At this time Van Diemen’s Land was the principal penal colony in Australia. Ross’s letter reads, ‘Having learnt that Sir John Franklin has given in his resignation as Governor of Van Diemens land which had been bestowed on him as a reward for services of the same kind as have been performed by me, I have laid my claims before Lord Melbourne [the Prime Minister] for that appointment, confident that from the success I have always had in maintaining harmony, wherever I have been employed, I shall give unqualified satisfaction to the Colonists and to Government . . . my present appointment is much less than I expected, when I accepted it, and will never enable me to get out of my Difficulties, which were caused by my exertions in the Service of my Country for 30 years . . .’ His application for the post of Governor was unsuccessful; Palmerston has annotated the verso of the integral leaf in pencil: ‘Sorry I cannot interfere P’. Sir John Ross was a major figure in Arctic exploration, whose second expedition of 1829–33 in search of the Northwest Passage located the north magnetic pole. His career was unfortunately marred by many quarrels, both professional and personal, despite the assertion he makes here of always maintaining ‘harmony wherever I have been employed.’ At this time Ross was serving as consul at Stockholm, a post which he held until 1846. He returned early A FINE COPY to London in 1845 having heard that Franklin was mounting 86 an expedition in search of the North-West Passage. The two SLOCUM Capt. Joshua men are of course linked in other ways. Ross’s final voyage to Sailing Alone Around the World the Arctic in 1850 was in search of Franklin and his party. First edition. Numerous illustrations. 8vo. A bright copy in original two-tone pictorial silvered cloth. xviii, 294pp. New York, 1900. 85 £950 SHILLIBEER Lieut. J. A Narrative of the Briton’s Voyage, to Pitcairn’s Island; Captain Slocum set out from Boston in his small sloop Spray including an interesting sketch of the state of the Brazils on 24th April, 1895, at the age of 51, and after a passage of and of Spanish South America 46,000 miles returned to Newport Rhode Island on 27th June, Second edition. 16 engraved plates, one in bisque, several 1898, thereby becoming the first person to sail around the folding. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, nicely rebacked. vii, world single-handed. Not in Ferguson. 179pp. London, 1817. £1250 AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY 87 The first edition was printed in Taunton. The illustrations, SLOCUM Capt. Joshua which are the same as those in the first edition, are etchings Voyage of the Liberdade made by the author and they include a folding panorama Second edition. Frontispiece & 5 photographic plates. 8vo. of Rio. The Marquesas, Juan Fernandez and the Galapagos Original pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, some were also visited during the cruise and Shillibeer describes occassional editorial annotatons in pencil. 160pp. Boston, the descendants of the Bounty’s crew at Pitcairn, giving a Roberts, 1894. charming portrait of Friday Christian. Borba, p796; Hill, p274. £950

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Right Wonderfully inscribed, ‘You haven’t been out two days The King of Tonga on out when the duff it don’t seem to please. It hasn’t the board HMS Porpois richness of rasins and sickness and we ups and we mutinies. Item 89 Joshua Slocum. Boston Dec. 29th, 1902.’ This second edition contains three more plates than the first. In the wake of his disastrous voyage and wreck on the Aquidneck, Slocum took the unusual step of building a new craft to sail home from what could be salvaged from the old ship. The Liberdade spent 55 days at sea. In 1895, Slocum began the first solo circumnavigation in the Spray. The journey took him three years and his fame continues to this day.

88 [SUWARROW MURDERS] What Befell on Suwarrow 1858 Privately typed for the Polynesian Society by William Churchill Late Consul-General of the United States for Samoa and Tonga. Carbon typescript. 32pp. New York, 1901. [Bound with] Detailed ms. Depositions by Samuel Sustenance, Tairi, d’Entrecasteaux Islands, Tonga, Nieuw, 1888–1900. [PLUS] Mautuhu giving three accounts of the murder of three white THOMSON (Basil). Essays 1889–Basil Thomson. [So labelled men at Suwarrow atoll in the Cook Islands. Manuscript. 16pp. on spine.] Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary half calf over Blue legal folio, Upola, Harbour of Apia [Samoa], December, marbled boards, Thomson’s book plate to front pastedown, 17, 1858 & 11 November 1858. 8vo. postcard loosely inserted. 78pp. London, 1889. Half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered cover label £20,000* ‘What Befell at Suwarrow’. 1901. £1250* Basil Thomson’s wide-ranging career included service as a policeman, intelligence agent, prison governor and colonial A fascinating account of a murderous episode in the Pacific. administrator. In 1884, he learned both Fijian and some Joseph Bird, an Englishman, and Thomas Charlton, an Tongan while acting as a cadet in the service of the Fijian American were accompanied by about 18 Penryhn Islanders governor, William Des Voeux. He worked as a stipendiary and their women. They encountered a Frenchman, Jules magistrate, before he contracted malaria and was invalided Tirel, who’d arrived a few days prior, and subsequently the back home in 1887. three of them disappeared. Later it proved that they had been The following year, Thomson was asked to accompany murdered. The depositions are by the owner of the schooner Sir William MacGregor, the first administrator of British Dart, who brought the men to Suwarrow to pearl dive; two New Guinea, on an expedition to the east of New Guinea Penryhn islanders; and the Missionary teacher. as well as the d’Entrecasteaux Islands and the Louisiade Archipelago. Keenly observed — ‘We reached Inpuselie — a tonga becomes a british protectorate South Sea Venice about 3’ — the journal includes notes on 89 the wildlife, crocodiles, wallabies, hunting for Caron eggs, THOMSON Basil reports on inter-tribal murders and compares Papuans New Guinea 1888 & Journal of a Mission singing to the Fijians and Tongans. Thomson comments on Undertaken by Basil Thomson to Tonga and Niue the duties of assisting the governor. He makes ethnographic as Envoy Plenipotentiary in 1900 notes on different tribes including the Stula, Kalo and the Two vols. ‘New Guinea’ in ms. & ‘Tonga’ in typescript. Kerepunn. There are further notes on missionary life: ‘Now 70 mounted photographs captioned in ms., a full page pen if you want to lose the respect of natives you have only to lose & ink sketch, an ms. map of Catherine Island, some ms. your temper with them… self-restraint is amply repaid by the pencil annotations to text. 11–156pp; 70ll. New Guinea, enormous influence you gain over them by quiet firmness.’

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The photographs are wide ranging and show, among others, These record many of the official encounters with the king, a staged shot of an expedition member poised to shoot a including a shot of him aboard the HMS Porpoise, ‘the Papuan brandishing a spear. Approach of the Royal Party’, ‘the Hoisting of the Flag, April The second journal commences with two of Thomson’s 21, 1900. Their Majesties take their seats’ the destruction at letters. Written from Samoa, the first gives news of Robert Neiafu, making kava, naval manoeuvres, Ball’s Pyramid at Louis Stevenson, the second was composed en route to Fiji. Lord How Island. It’s also interesting to see several of the Written as a series of letters to his wife, they report on his photographs carry ms. annotations specifying that they be efforts to secure the King of Tonga’s consent to establish used in Thomson’s autobiography. It should be pointed out a British Protectorate. At that time Tonga was the last that The Scene Changes (London, 1939) was unillustrated. independent state in the Pacific and an Anglo-German Both volumes seem to have been compiled and bound treaty had just been signed allocating territory to each. It after Thomson’s return and the care he’s take with the order was imperative the British acted before either France or the of photographs is evident in the captions on the verso. The United States stepped in. Despite the setbacks reported here, essays in the accompanying volume are all byproducts a Protectorate was established in May 1900. This was this of the expeditions recounted in the journals. action that ‘catapulted Thomson to eminence’ (ODNB). 1 THOMSON Basil. ‘A Court-Day in Fiji’ in Thomson is clearly aware of the importance of his [Unknown Magazine]. Vol XIII.—No. 76, mission and, with the odd exception, his tone is sober N.S. 381–388pp. throughout. He describes in some detail the King of Tonga 2 WATERHOUSE Charles O. ‘Descriptions of two new (‘a great overgrown schoolboy’) and his efforts to encourage Rhynchophorous Coleoptera from the Louisiade him to sign the treaty. As negotiations continued, Thomson is Archipelago.’ in Annals and Magazine of Natural forced to revise his initial impression of the king to something History, November 1889. much more favourable. The key concern expressed by the 3 TRISTRAM H.B. ‘On a small Collection of Birds from King is over the nature of the term ‘protectorate’ and the the Louisiade and d’Entrecasteaux Islands.’ in The Ibis. potential ceding of sovereignty ‘the burden of the king’s October, 1889. 553–558pp. complaint was that we were taking his country away from 4 THOMSON Basil. New Guinea: Narrative of him’. He had to hold strong as the king asked if they could an Exploring Expedition to the Louisiade and delay this until he made a trip to England so he could speak d’Entrecasteaux Islands. Offprint from the Royal to Lord Salisbury himself. Geographical Society Proceedings. 11 October, 1889. Thomson leaves the king and commences a tour of the 18pp. Folding map. island. He sails to Neiafu, which had been mostly destroyed 5 THOMSON Basil. Narrative of an Exploring by a hurricane. He instructed the bluejackets to ‘chain out the Expedition to the Eastern Part of New Guinea. German boundary… the poor natives who used it as thei tax (Read at Meeting of British Association, 1889.) lands looked on ruefully , until I explained we were disposed Reprinted from the Scottish Geographical Magazine to give part of it back to them: then they brightened up.’ They for October 1889. 15pp. then surveyed the harbour for an appropriate site for a fort. 6 Another copy of 3 TRISTAM above. The ship moved on to Feletoa and Vauvau, where he hoped to 7 Another copy of 5 THOMSON above. visit as many villages as possible. The bulk of the negotiations were carried out in early May, which Thomson describes in great detail as he and 90 the king both vied for influence over the Tongan cabinet. [TICHBORNE CLAIMANT] ONLSOW Guildford ed. The king sent a letter agreeing to all clauses of the treaty, Tichborne: Reasons why he should have barring the first (which established the Protectorate), on had the Benefit of the Doubt May 2 though he spent the subsequent fortnight seeking to First edition. 8vo. Original printed pictorial wrappers. add ammendments to a treaty he’d not yet actually signed. 16pp. London, ‘Englishman’ Office, [1877]. It gradually became clear that the king was trying to play £850 England against France and thereby maintain Tonga’s independence. Thomson’s frustration throughout is evident Rare. OCLC locates a single copy at the British library. in the direct language he was forced to use and the treaty was The British Library copy is listed as having 32pp, but this is eventually signed in the early hours of Friday May 18th. clearly complete at the length stated above. This journal also has original photographs laid down. Refusing to accept the loss of her son, Sir Roger Charles

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Doughty Tichborne, Lady Tichborne made enquiries across A rare and enthralling account of an Englishman who the globe for his whereabouts. In 1865 she received a letter was transported to the colony of Australia three times from a Sydney solicitor advising that her long lost son between 1801 and 1829. His first offence was for stealing was actually working as a butcher in Wagga Wagga. This a handkerchief worth eleven pence, his second for robbing pamphlet reprints the evidence and affadavits used by a jeweller, and on the third occasion he was convicted Arthur Orton in his claim to the Tichborne estate. of larceny. The Tichborne claimant is one of the most famous and One of the most intriguing convicts, during his first stint audacious of all criminal cases, it generated a significant in Sydney, Vaux earned a spell on a road-gang for forging amount of publicity in Victorian England as well as ephemera Governor King’s initials on commisariat orders, yet was on such as this. good terms with the Parramatta chaplain, Samuel Marsden, Not in Ferguson. and later King himself, ‘who agreed to take him home in the Buffalo in 1807. Vaux was employed on board in writing King’s log and in teaching his and Marsden’s children’ (ADB). 91 Composed whilst Vaux was confined at Newcastle TURNBULL John these two slim volumes are held to be amongst the best early A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, accounts of Sydney and the first autobiography written 1803, and 1804: In which the Author visited Madeira, the in Australia. Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, the English Settlements of At the end of the second volume is Vaux’s extensive Botany Bay and Norfolk Island; and the principal Islands in Vocabulary of the Flash Language—the language of the the Pacific Ocean. With a Continuation of their History to underworld. Amongst the terms are various in common usage the Present Period. today, such as ‘Cadge—to beg’; ‘Chum—a fellow prisoner’; Second & best edition. 4to. Contemporary red morocco gilt, ‘Floor—to knock down any one’; ‘Snitch—to impeach, or with a little restoration. xvi, 516pp. London, 1813. betray your accomplices’; ‘Swag—…a term used in speaking of £3000 any booty you have lately obtained’ &c.&c. Ferguson, 770.

This voyage was conceived as a commercial expedition THE SPECIAL COLOURED ISSUE but was not a great success as such, although they visited 94 numerous South Sea Islands including: Norfolk Island, WHITE John, Surgeon-General Tahiti, Huaheine, Ulitea, the Sandwich Islands, Eimeo, and Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales the Friendly Islands. The Appendix gives a short account of with sixty-five Plates of Non Descript Animals, Birds, New Zealand, whilst about half the work relates to Tahiti. Lizards, Serpents, curious Cones of Trees and other Natural The first edition (3 vols. small 8vo) was issued in 1805, but did Productions. First edition. Engraved calligraphic title with not contain the appendix and other details concerning New vignette and 65 hand-coloured plates. 4to. Contemporary calf, South Wales. r [xvi], 299, [36]pp. London, 1790. It is most unusual to find this book in such a fine £10000 binding. It may have been bound to match a series of quarto voyages, as the binder has exagerated the size of the copy, Originally issued in two states, with the engraved plates which is rather short by using wide overhangs, we are uncoloured in the ordinary issued or hand-coloured with the confident though that this is not a remboitage. Ferguson, 570; plates printed on special paper as with this copy. Du Reitz, 1306; Forbes, 438; Hill, 1728. Despite the title of the book only the first one hundred or so pages relate to the voyage itself, a further section, THE FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHY WRITTEN IN AUSTRALIA also of a hundred pages, continues White’s journal down 92 to October 1788. This is followed by an appendix relating to VAUX James Hardy the natural history speciments sent back with the journal Memoirs… and so beautifully illustrated here. White’s position as the First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. A very good copy in nineteenth Surgeon General of the colony kept him from devoting as century green half morocco, spine richly gilt in much time as he would have liked to natural history compartments, with marbled boards, extremities slightly pursuits, but of the First Fleet narratives his gives the fullest rubbed. xx, 248; viii, 228pp. London, W. Clowes, 1819. account of the various new species discovered. Ferguson, 97; £1500 Wantrup, 17.

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Lady Burton herself saw the work through publication, writing a particularly interesting preface in which she gives vent to her personal feelings with regard to her husband’s views on religion and polygamy, begging the ‘fair or gentle 95 reader’ to bear in mind that her husband is writing ‘from a [BRAZIL] HUEBNER George high moral pedestal’! Penzer, p78–80; Casada, 33. Vistas de Para Brazil 28 photographs laid down with printed captions, one a three A RARE ACCOUNT OF CHILE plate panorama. Oblong 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered 97 in gilt Vistas de Para Brazil on the upper cover, expertly CARRILLO DE OJEDA Fr. Agustin repaired. Manaos, Edicao de George Huebner, 1898. Senor. Obligacion….. Reyno de Chile £2500* Sole edition. Folio. Modern half morocco. 22ll. Madrid? or Lima, 1659. An album of strong images by the German photographer. £3500 Showing primarily buildings, streets and ports of note, the panorama is of Porto de Bellum. A very rare account of Chile by a friar who had resided some 46 years in the colony. Addressed to the King, it gives a valuable digest of the geography, topography and natives. 96 Each principal city is given a separate chapter. Leclerc notices BURTON Richard F. this publication, (Bib. Am n492) which citation is repeated by Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil… Medina, however it it not recorded by Sabin nor Palau, and With a Full Account of the gold and Diamond Mines. Also, has not come on the market in recent years. Worldcat records Canoeing down 1500 Miles of the Great River Sao Francisco… two copies one in Madrid the other JCB. First edition, first issue. 2 vols. Folding map, pictorial half titles & frontispieces. 8vo. Very fine original green pictorial cloth, gilt. xii, 443; viii, 478, [2]ads.pp. London, 1869. 98 £5250 [COLOMBIA] COLPOYS Vice-Admiral Edward Griffith ALS to Sir James Graham respecting the A faultless copy apart from remnants of small paper labels revolution in Colombia and the protection of on the backs. British interests there Posted as Consol at Santos, Sao Paulo’s port in 1865, Manuscript in ink. 12pp with integral blank. 4to. Left Burton sailed to Rio de Janeiro before travelling into the Huebner, George Winchester at Sea, 10 May, 1831. interior and down the Sao Francisco by raft. Item 95 £1250*

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A fascinating report on British military operations in the on the Le Gange in the early 1850s. Departing Le Havre, he wake of the Colombian revolution. sails through the Channel to the Atlantic, heading south. Colpoys gives a quick survey ‘For naval protection Stopping off on Porto Santo, Madeira, Tenerife, and the against the apprehended violation of their person & property, islands of Cape Verde and Fernando de Noronha, the ship by the military chieftains who are in arms against the then crosses the Atlantic. On reaching South America he provisional government in Bogota… I may observe … that encounters his first whale while sailing down the coasts of Venezuela under General Paez has been the least subject to Brazil and Argentina. He rounds Cape Horn and proceeds commotion, but even there, insurrectory movements have north to Chile, via Lemus Island in the Chonos Archipelago taken place in the vicinity of Barcelona & Cumana, which are and San Carlos on Chiloe Island, where he witnesses the not yet quelled—in Sta Martha, since the death of General eruption of a volcano. In pursuit of a whale the ship sails Bolivar, the party styling itself Liberal has gained the to Mocha Island, from whence Duboc travels to Valparaiso ascendency, with little bloodshed.’ on the Chilean coast where he meets a young Araucan He goes on to detail activities in Maracaibo (where he man, whose story he recounts. Setting sail again, the ship stationed ‘a small vessel of war’) and Cartagena (‘the most journeys to the Peruvian village of Paita, where he walks in formidable insurrection’) before addressing the protection of the neighbouring Andes. Strong winds blow the ship past the British interests in what he terms the ‘most important port on Galapagos Islands, forcing it to begin the long sea passage to the Colombian coast’: ‘The British residents with such part of Monterrey, California. Here Dubroc takes part in a festival their property, as they could themselves embark, but no on celebrating Mexican independence before the ship takes him any account, to land armed men of take part in what was back down the Colombian coast, with a short stop on Paledo happening on shore between the contending parties.’ He Island, to Valparaiso, where his travels on Le Gange come to makes special notice of General Luque’s activities in the an end. quelling of the fighting at Cartegena and subsequent naval Duboc gives us a scrupulous account of his journey and diplomatic maneouvres, which also affected both French interspersed with his musings on the sea and the night sky, and American subjects. remembrances of his childhood dreams, as well as retellings Edward Griffith Colpoys was born into a naval family of some of the many stories he hears along the way. The and was able to use his connections to rise rapidly through second part of the book concentrates on one such tale, a the ranks. In 1797, with his uncle, John Colpoys, he was on picaresque love story with a turbulent conclusion. the HMS London in the Spithead mutiny. He later A clean bright copy of this account of a French commanded a squadron off the coast of Maine in the war of whaling voyage. 1812 and was appointed commander of the base at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he remained until 1821. He spent the following nine years at home with his 100 family before returning to Halifax to resume his old HAWKSHAW John appointment. This letter was written in the same month as Reminiscences of South America: his elevation to Knight commander of the order of Bath. From Two and a Half Years’ Residence in Venezuela Colpoys died the following year. First edition. 12mo. Original blind-stamped cloth, expertly repared. xii, 260, [8], 8ads.pp. London, 1838. £600 99 DUBOC Dr Gustave Hawkshaw’s personal account provides an interesting Les Nuées Magellaniques First Part: contrast to Humboldt’s, the latter having been written when Voyage au Chili, au Perou et en Californie a the country was still a Spanish colony. Sabin, 30947. 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 101 gilt, original wrappers bound in. (xxv), 26–200; viii, 93pp. O’HIGGINS Bernardo Paris, Amyot, 1853–1854. Military Order from the Chilean Revolutionary leader £5950 Manuscript in ink. Single sheet. 8vo. Very good with two old folds. 22 January, 1818. A rare copy of Duboc’s wistful account of a whaling voyage £850*

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A signed, unpublished military order written by the first 103 leader of modern Chile, Bernardo O’Higgins. SCOLES Revd. Ignatius Composed just a few weeks before the Chilean Sketches of African and Indian Life in British Guiana Declaration of Independence, O’Higgins sets out the limited Second edition. One woodcut plate & three woodcut resources in his stronghold, ‘Provincia de Concepcion’. illustrations. Small 8vo. Cloth-backed printed boards, Despite these apparent shortages, within just a few months some light wear and soiling. [iv], 109pp. ‘Argosy’ Press, O’Higgins achieved the final defeat of the Spanish colonial Demerara, 1885. forces occupying Chile. O’Higgins has signed his name with £550 a flourish at the foot of the document. There is a blue pencil ‘Reservado’ in a different hand in the top left corner of the Printed at Georgetown. Whilst slavery was abolished in page and the number ‘164’, top right. British Guiana in 1807 full emancipation for the black Bernardo O’Higgins, who was of Irish and Basque population did not occur until 1838 at which time they left descent, is seen as one of Chile’s founding fathers. the plantations to set up their own settlements on the coast. Documents in his hand are scarce. The plantation owners then began to make use of indentured Indians, and once they had earned their freedom they too moved to the coast and set up their own communities as the 102 Africans had done before them. ROUSSIN Baron, Contre-Amiral The first edition of this charming work sold out in just Le Pilote du Brésil, ou Description des Cotes de l’Amérique two weeks. The woodcuts in this second edition, printed in Méridionale, Entre l’ile Santa Catarina et celle de the same year as the first, appear for the first time. Maranhao; Cartes et Plans de ces Cotes, Instructions pour naviguer dans les Mers du Bresil; … AN EXTRAORDINARY First edition. 15 engraved plans. Large folio. 2 parts in one SURVIVAL volume, as issued, though here rebound in smart quarter calf, 104 spine gilt. [iv] 40; [iv]. Paris, de l’Imprimerie Royale, 1826. [TOBACCO] FOVEAUX Franz £13500 Catalogue d’etiquettes… Approx 112 tobacco labels.Woodcut, letterepress and A very fine clean copy of this classic Pilot. Drawn from engavings, a variety of printing method mostly anotated material gathered by Roussin on his 1819–20 hydrographic with prices ?. 12mo. Mounted in a small purpose made album expedition, the large maps of Brazil depict the coast in of stamped calf, this rebacked. Frankfurt, approximately considerable detail and includes instructions for navigators. 1755–1850. Borba de Moraes II, p.753; Sabin 73498. £5850

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A collection of cigar bands, bale marks and printed ephemera Central America all relating to the celebrated German tobacconist, Franz Foveaux, mostly with vignettes or if woodcuts with pictorial & West Indies content of some kind. Dating from about 1780 (possibly earlier) to c. 1850 this unique collection gives a wonderful ANTIGUA AQUATINTS overview of the tobacco trade during the period not least 106 because of the extraordinary diversity of design and media, [CLARK William] ranging from relatively simple woodcut stamps and labels Ladies’ Society Book for Promoting (presumably the shipping marks for the importation of the Early Education of Negro Children the tobacco) through to high quality and highly decorative Six aquatints. Folio. Twentieth century morocco, title gilt to labels representing the retail effort of the company. Many of upper board. 12ll tipped onto stubs, the last leaf in facsimile. these typographical curiosities with ms. information, and London, Edward Sutter, 1833. some extremely flimsy and highly unlikely survivors. This £22000 collection, may have been formed by an enthusiastic amateur of the time, but it would seem much more likely to have been Rare. The six aquatints originally appeared a decade earlier formed as an internal historical record of prices and offerings in Clark’s Ten Views in the Island of Antigua. However, he within the firm of Foveaux, which was founded in the middle makes no mention of their subsequent appearance here, nor of the eighteenth century, and thrived for well over 150 years. does it appear in Abbey’s Education. More commonly referred to as the Ladies’ Negro Education Society, it began as a result of the abolition of 105 slavery and was partly dependent on government funding. WAWRA Dr. Heinrich (von Fernsee) Botanische They operated largely by supporting existing schools in the Ergebnisse der Reise seiner Majestat des Kaisers von West Indies (rather than by establishing their own) and their Mexico—Maximilian I. nach Brasilien (1859–60) main aim was ‘to assist whatever means of education may Auf Allerhochst dessen Anordnung, beschrieben und already be at hand’. herausgegeben von Dr. Heinrich Wawra. Large folio. The plates here are titled: 1. Holeing the Cane-Piece; 2. 2 volumes in 1. (iv), iv, xvi, 234pp. & (ii) including list Planting the Sugar Cane; 3. Cutting the Canes; 4. The Cane of plates, with 104 plates (32 of these being coloured Mill; 5. The Boiling House; 6. Shipping the Sugar. There no chromolithographs). Original printed paper boards, foxed, copies of this work listed on OCLC and we can only locate soiled and worn. Interior excellent. Carl Gerold’s Sohn, two copies at Brown and the University of Virginia. cf Abbey Vienna. 1866. Travel, 690. £3000 SECRET & CONFIDENTIAL This important book on the flora of Brazil identifies 107 several new species. The specimens were collected by ELLIOTT Sir George Franz Manly and are beautifully illustrated with plates ALS to Vice Admiral Sir Edward Griffith by J. Sebroth. Colpoys regarding slavery and the West Indies Wawra served as surgeon on the Elisabeth which sailed Manuscript in ink, secretarial hand with some contemporary to Brazil in 1859 with Maximilian I on board. He commenced pencil annotations. Small folio. 4pp. 16th August, 1832. work on the book upon their return the following year, £850* though the publication of this work was delayed as Wawra accompanied Maximilian I to Mexico for his coronation as A fascinating memo from the Secretary to the Admiralty Emperor. Borba de Moraes I, p. 937. to the commander of the North American station, written on the eve of the publication of evidence taken before the ‘Committees of both Houses of Parliament on the subject of slavery in the West Indies.’ In the early nineteenth century the slave population on islands such as Jamaica outnumbered white colonials by a ratio of twenty to one. A number of rebellions had already occured and the publication

80 81 central america & the west indies central america & the west indies of evidence was considered likely to further enflame the Rare. The author was a planter on the north side of the situation. This memo directs Colpoys to deploy his fleet in a island and a member of the superior council. At the time show of force so as to pre-empt any further slave mutinies. of publication, productio in Saint Domingue and Haiti ‘You will therefore prepare to concentrate your Squadron accounted for 60% of the global coffee market. This extensive before the first Week of November in the West Indian treatise on the production of coffee was written for the benefit Seas, proceeding thither with your Flag with Winchester of fellow British coffee planters on Jamaica. The plates all and calling in your Ships from Halifax, Bermuda and the illustrate the machinery used in the process from extracting Northern part of your Station. You must so divide your the beans to grinding them. Force as to protect Jamaica and at the same time to cover The 145 page appendix is also of interest providing the Leeward Islands… [T]he fact should be well known that much detail on the area under British control during the a Naval Force is at hand to overpower any insurrectionary Haiti revolution, the sole successful eighteenth century anti- movement and to afford protection to the Lives and Property slavery revolution. Divided into ten sections, they describe of British Colonists.’ the government, law and constitution, judiciary, the ‘different This copy produced for Sir George Cockburn, who orders of inhabitants and the population’, taxation, culture, succeeded Colpoys as commander of the North American commerce, religion, the military and, lastly the revolution. station in 1833. Dated March 1, 1797, this final section is thirty pages long. Just a single copy appears on auction records COFFEE & THE HAITI REVOLUTION (Swan 1978). Coffee: A Bilbiography, p839; Sabin, 38430. 108 LABORIE P. J. The Coffee Planter of Saint Domingo; 109 with an Appendix containing a view of the constitution, MAUDSLAY Anne Cary & MAUDSLAY Alfred Percival government, laws and state of the Colony, previous to the A Glimpse at Guatemala, and some notes on the year 1789. To which are added some hints on the present Ancient Monuments of Central America state of the island, under the British Government. First edition. Folding coloured map, 42 uncoloured plates, First edition. 22 plates (on 21 sheets, 18 folding). 8vo. 2 chromolithographed plates, 21 maps & plans. 4to. Full tree calf, recased, spine elaborately gilt. Contemporary Original quarter cloth, extremities rubbed. 290pp. London, ink marks at top of title and ownership inscription to first John Murray, 1899. and final pages of text. xii, 198, 145, [4]pp. London, £1500 T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1798. £3000 A profusely illustrated account in very good condition. Alfred Maundslay was a diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. Having served as consul at Tonga and Samoa, he left the foreign service in order to pursue his interest in archaeology. He travelled to Central America in 1881, arrived at Belize from where he travelled to Guatemala to work among the Mayan ruins. During this time he made six expeditions in total and was the first to describe Yaxchilan. His archaeological findings were published as Biologia- Central Americana and prints were shown at the 1893 Columbian exhibition in Chicago. Maundslay made a seventh expedition to Guatemala which included two weeks work for the Peabody Museum. This trip also served as a honeymoon for himself and his new bride and co-author. This work is an account of the seventh expedition though includes vast amount of achaeological and ethnographic detail. Howgego IV, M38.

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AN EARLY FOURTH BOOK PRINTED IN PHILADELPHIA. 111 WITH THE RARELY FOUND MAP MOUNT Richard & William & PAGE Thomas 110 Fourth Book of the English Pilot Describing West-India MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY M-L-E. Navigation, from Hudson’s-Bay to River Amazones… Description Topographique et Politique de la Partie The whole being very much enlarged and Corrected, with Espagnol de L’isle Saint-Dominigue; Avec Observations additions of several New Charts and Charts, not before generales sur le Climat, la Population, les Productions… published… Verner’s 7th edition. Part 1 with 23 engraved First edition. 2 vols. Folding map. 8vo. Contemporary charts double page except which are folding with in addition French tree calf, elaborately gilt. 8, 307, [1errata]; 311, [1]pp. 2 engraved charts in the text. [With] The Fourth Book with Philadelphia, Imprimé chez l’Auteur, 1796. 21 engraved charts, of which 7 are folding, 10 double page and £17500 4 single sheet, with in addition 4 engraved charts in the text. The whole of both works further illustrated throughout the This is an extremely fine copy of a most uncommon text, with numerous woodcut coastal profiles and small Philadelphia imprint. It bears the engraved booklabel ‘Decrés’ anchorage charts. Folio. Early boards retaining remnants being that of the French Admiral who became Napoleon’s last of seventeenth century panelled calf, early paper repair to minister of the Navy. Moreau de Saint-Mery issued four works edges and back, housed in a modern drop back half morocco concerning Hispaniola. This one, which uniquely describes box. 1721. the Spanish part of the island is significantly rarer and very £65000 seldom appears complete with its map. Moreau-Saint-Méry was born at Port Royal, Martinique, The Fourth Book of the English Pilot was a work intended for in 1750. At the age of 19 he went to Paris, where he became practical navigators, and as such its contents were under a Counsellor of State, and a great advocate of reforms in continual review with charts added and discarded when the French colonies and in the better treatment of the improved hydrographical information became available, blacks. Hearing that Robespierre intended to have him thus the contents vary from edition to edition. Though arrested he fled from France and in 1793 went to the United many copies must have been in circulation the punishing States. Having lost all his property he turned his attention environment in which it was used has led to few to business and established himself at Philadelphia as a examples surviving. bookseller and printer. In 1798 he was able to return to This is particularly so with the above edition of France, where he finally died in 1819. His works on the Island Above Above which we can find only one other copy (Library of Congress). Moreau de Saint-Mery, Mount Richard & of Santo Domingo & other parts of the West Indies, are of M-L-E. William & Page Thomas Evidence that this copy belonged to a navigator is supplied by great interest. Sabin, 50570. Item 110 Item 111 two contemporary ms. leaves one titled ‘A table of the North

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Stars Declination …calculated in the year 1720’ and another AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY small chart ‘The Virgins Rocks on the Bank Newfoundland 113 East of Cape Raze 85 miles’, a dangerous underwater feature [TRINIDAD] COLLENS J.H. in a great cod-fishing area on the Grand Banks. Guide to Trinidad The 1721 edition has only one chart not found in earlier A Hand-Book for the use of Tourists and Visitors… versions, (though related to a much earlier survey), this is Original photograph laid down to frontispiece & a folding Cyprian Southi[a]cke’s ‘The Harbour at Casco Bay’. Relatively map. 8vo. Original printed boards. 240, [2index, 6 business new charts include: the anonymous ‘A new Survey of the directory, 20ads] pp. Trinidad, 1887. harbour of Boston in New England’ dating from c.1706; £1500 Edmund Halley’s New and Correct Chart, our example is the first published issue is extremely fine and has, as required, The inscription reads: ‘For ‘Eltic’ with the author’s love. the two appended thin sheets of letterpress explanatory text. Trinidad. 2.4.87.’ Collens had been a resident of Trinidad This first appeared in the pilot in 1707; John Gaudy’s ‘A chart for nine years before compiling this guide book in response Shewing the Sea Coast of Newfoundland from the Bay of to the increasing number of people arriving on Trinidad’s Bulls, 1715; Moll’s A New General Chart of the West Indies; shores. Begining with an history of the island, it provides M&P’s. ‘A General chart of the Western Ocean’ first issued a comprehensive overview of the island’s agriculture, with the pilot c.1716 or here in 1721. The final two charts entomology (‘small pests’) mud volcanoes, infrastructure. both appear after 1713 and may too have been included in the 1716 edition or alternatively are issued here first. They KIDNAPPED FOR SERVICE IN JAMAICA are the Anon. ‘Draught of the Coast of Guiana from the 114 River Orinoco’ and ‘A new and Correct large draught of WILMORE John the Tradeing part of the West Indies’. The Thornton Chart The Case of John Wilmore Truly and Impartially Related: (Burden 667) ‘Virginia Maryland Pensilvania’ is in Verner’s or a Looking Glass for all Merchants and Planters that are fourth state. Most of the remaining charts conform to the concerned in the American Plantations originals found in the earliest Seller/Thornton edition of 1689. First edition. Folio. Late nineteenth century full polished calf, These include Burden’s: 622, 528, 529, 661, 662, 663, back richly gilt. ii.19pp. London, Edw. Powell, 1682. 664 and 749. £5500

THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE Wilmore was put on trial for kidnapping a minor and sending 112 him as an apprentice to Jamaica. In his defense, he paints [ST KITTS ALMANACK] himself convincingly as a benefactor to the young John An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1815… Civiter. The latter had presented himself on the dockside as a Calculated for the median of St Christopher: destitute orphan, desperate to seek his fortune in the colonies. And serving with little or no Variation, For All Despite his stated misgivings, Wilmore had an apprenticeship the Leeward Islands. indenture drawn up and signed by a magistrate in Gravesend. 12mo. Contemporary marbled wrappers, rubbed, the first Unexpectedly, Civiter’s parents then emerge to make a claim 12pp are interleaved with blanks which bear contemporary against Wilmore using an agressive Catholic barrister named annotations all of which are clipped at the top corner, not Vavasor who attempts to extract compensation. affecting text. 62pp. St Christopher, Richard Cable, 1815. Wilmore paints an interesting picture of the life of a £1850 white servant in Jamaica. There a law requiring a household to employ one white servant to every ten black slaves had Propably the only surviving copy of this work. We have been been passed because of a worry that a large black population unable to trace any material printed by Richard Cable other might, in rebellion, overwhelm the colonial government. As than a single copy of the 1811 Almanack at the BL. a consequence white ‘servants’ were much in demand, and This almanack follows the usual form offering a Wilmore details their good treatment and diet compared to calendar of future events. There follows about twenty pages the Blacks ‘who have little more for their food than the earth devoted to material in one way or another relating to St. Kitts, produceth…. I dare boldly say no White servant in Jamaica, including lists of all Officers and Court Officials in the various works near so hard as many of our husbandmen in this Leeward Islands, average shipments of sugar, information country or does much more than half the work of a black.’ concerning taxes, conversion rates, packet boats etc. Wing, W2883; Sabin, 104573.

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115 [ANON] The ‘Leviathan’ of the Great Eastern Steam Ship Folio broadside measuring 510 by 760mm. Two woodcut images of the ship, the smaller showing a ‘longitudinal section’. London, T. Goode, c. 1859. £1250

A fine copy of this rare broadside. No copies of it are recorded on OCLC. Originally built to capitalise on immigration between Britain and the United States, the Great Eastern is most famous for being the ship used to lay the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable in 1865–66. At the time of construction it was easily the world’s largest ship, ‘it was 18,000 tons larger than any other ship in the world … more than double the length of the of the new United States’ screw-frigate Niagara.’ It wasn’t surpassed until the launch of the RMS Oceanic in 1899. This broadside provides a full list of its dimensions as Below well as an account of its first departure on 7 September The ‘Leviathan’ 1859 and the accident it suffered just two days later. Item 115 THE WILD MEN OF BORNEO 116 [BARNUM P.T.] What We Know About Waino and Plutano, Wild Men of Borneo with Poems Dedicated to Them Frontispiece & two illustrations to text. 16mo. Original blue pictorial wrappers. 16pp. [New York?, 1880]. £450

Rare. Circus-related chapbook describing the remarkable feats of Waino and Plutano. Far from being Wild Men of Borneo, Hiram and Barney Davis were two disabled brothers from Conneticut. Discovered in 1850, their act consisted mostly of lifting audience members and wrestling each other. In 1880, they were taken under the wing of P.T. Barnum whose promotional skills saw their act gain vast popularity which they enjoyed over the next 25 years. This charming little pamphlet lays out their fabricated back story, starting with their discovery by a Captain Hammond on Borneo in 1848. Citing Alfred Russell Wallace, he identifies them as Negritos and compares them unfavourably to their neighbours, the Dyaks and the Bugis. A physical description of Borneo is also included along with a description of their many feats.

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117 118 CAMPBELL Patrick CARTWRIGHT George Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts A Journal of Transactions and Events, during a Residence of North America of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador; In the Years 1791 and 1792 in which is given an account of the Containing many Interesting Particulars, Both of the manners and customs of the Indians, and the present war Country and its Inhabitants, not Hitherto Known. between them and the Federal states, the mode of life and First edition. 3 vols. Portrait frontispiece & 2 large folding system of farming among the new settlers of both Canadas, maps the second of these on two sheets. Contemporary New York, New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; marbled boards with new leather spine, uncut. xxi, 287; x, 505; interspersed with anecdotes of people, observations x, 248, 15pp. Newark, 1792. on the soil, natural productions, and political situation of £4000 these countries. First and only edition. Portrait frontispiece tinted in Cartwright made six voyages to Newfoundland and Labrador watercolour (as issued), and two further plates (one folding) between 1770 and 1786. His principal objectives were to & a folding table. 8vo. Original marbled boards, upper joint collect information regarding the fisheries and hunting cracked, a lovely copy of this rarity. Edinburgh, 1793. grounds and as Field comments ‘ every fox and bear’s £11500 cup which fell a victim to his skill is immortalized by a paragraph…’. Nevertheless the same bibliography considers Patrick Campbell was at one time Head Forester of the Royal that ‘among the great mass of details of a fur hunter’s life, Forest of Mamlorn near Auchalader, later becoming a farmer which these immense quartos afford us, some particulars of and merchant at both of which he was successful, so much so the Aborigines of the Peninsula of Labrador may be gleaned that he was able to indulge an urge to travel. In 1791, with his which are not elsewhere available.’ Sabin, 11150 (wrongly servant and dog, he embarked at Greenock and later arrived calling for 5 maps); Field, 245; Lande, 106. in New Bruswick in the summer of 1791 spending almost a year and a half in North America. He visited Quebec, Montreal and from thence to 119 Kingston and Niagra. Here he made a couple of excursions, CHAMPNEY Benjamin firstly to the Grand River then to the Genesee County. A Sketch of W.A. Barnes after the wreck of the He tells the hair raising story of his fellow Scot and guide Anglo Saxon, wrecked off Duck Island, Nova Scotia, David Ramsay the frontiersman and fur trader. Campbell Saturday Evening May 8th 1847 continues to New York and New Jersey, and after his return to Lithograph. Measuring 365 by 295mm. Scotland he adds two chapters one ‘An account of the action Boston, Lane & Scott’s, c. 1847. between the States of America and the conferate Indians on £600 4th November 1791’, the second ‘reflections on the British Provinces in America, with regard to their throwing off their allegiance to the Mother Country and their falling into the hands of the Federal states’. Campbell’s entertaining work, which must have been produced in a very small edition is rare, indeed only two or three copies have circulated in the last thirty or so years: the same copies reappearing at auction. This particular copy has an early inscription (1801) declaring it to be the property of Donald Campbell of Balliecolan, presumably a kinsman. It appeared in Rosenbach’s 1950 catalogue at $575 (‘a superb copy’), in 1951 it was bought by Dr. Siebert and was sold (1999) for $17,200. We purchased the book when it again came under the hammer (2010) for $9150.

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Right A lovely lithograph showing the rather desolate figure of W.A Espinosa Y Tello, José Barnes with the wreck of the Anglo Saxon in the background. Item 121 The ship was on voyage from Boston to Liverpool, Merseyside when it ran aground. The Boston Athenaum has a copy printed on silk.

THE RARE FIRST EDITION 120 DEXTER Elisha Narrative of the loss of the whaling brig William and Joseph, of Martha’s Vineyard and the Sufferings of her Crew for Seven Days on a Raft in the Atlantic Ocean First edition. Illustrations to text. 8vo. Disbound in a custom slipcase, a little dusty, small tears repaired not affecting text. 8vo. 54pp. Boston, Samuel N. Dickinson, 1842. £2950 121 Exceedingly rare. The William and Joseph departed Holmes’ [ESPINOSA Y TELLO José] Hole on August 2, 1840 in search of sperm whales. After Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana some early success, they stopped briefly at the Azores and en el Año de 1792 Para Reconocer el Etrecho de Fuca; Capre Verde islands, both of which Dexter describes in some Con una introduccion en que se da Noticia de las detail—the geography, soil, climate and inhabitants. The crew Expediciones executadas anteriormente por los Españoles then made for the West Indies where they restocked the ship en Busca del Paso del Noroeste de la América and spent time recuperating. In September 1841, they made First edition. Folding table in text; atlas with title & list of for home with just 200 barrels of oil. plates, with 9 finely engraved charts (4 of these large folding), They encountered poor weather on October 20, which as well as 2 large folding aquatint views, and six engraved continued to press into the following morning, it stripped the plates of which three are portraits of named Nutka natives. sails and kept the ship ‘about one third over’ before it finally 8vo. & small folio. Extremely fine matching period style half capsized and, ten minutes later, righted itself with the loss of green morocco, gilt backs, with classical motifs. [xvi], clxviii, both masts. Two men were lost 185, [1]blankpp. Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1802. Dexter’s narrative is interspersed with informative, and £24000 amusing, asides—‘I will here observe that nine-tenths of the time this ‘hard luck’ is nothing more than bad management. This work includes a long and important digest (167pp.) of The excuses are endless…[b]ut a good whalemen is known by all the Spanish exploits on the West Coast of North America his having few excuses.’Huntress, 357C; Jenkins, p94. prior to the voyage of the ships Sutil and Mexicana in 1792. Though not credited in the text this was written by Martin Fernandez de Navarette. This of course includes much on the Spanish position with regard to the detention of the English ships which occassioned the Nootka controversy in 1789, indeed the preface is a justification of Spanish claims. The second half of the narrative concerns the voyage of the Sutil (Lieut. Galiano) and Mexicana (Lieut. Valdes). Their mission, directed by Malaspina, was to survey the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the surrounding shores. Arriving in April 1792, they began work and completed the charts for the Strait of Georgia, as well as making the first continuous circumnavigation of Vancouver Island. Later that year in June they met Vancouver at Esquimalt and were invited Left Dexter, Elisha by the British officer to join forces in further exploration Item 120 northward. Their Mexican built ships, however, were too slow

92 93 north america north america and the bi-national expedition was dispersed. Contemporary half calf, rebacked & re-cornered over early The atlas to this work gives on the first three sheets a marbled boards, uncut. vii,344,4(ads).; vii,356; vii, 347pp. chart of the west coast from Unalaska to Acapulco with the London, Longman, 1823. central section centered on Vancouver Island in larger scale. £3750 This work is uncommon, particularly so the text. Howes, G18(dd); Streeter, 2458; Sabin, 69221; Lada-Mocarski, 56. The London edition was preceeded by the first which was printed in Philadelphia. This copy has two frontispieces in A GREAT RARITY WITH A WONDERFUL ASSOCIATION original colour. 122 Although achieving neither of its aims, having failed to HOPKINS Samuel find the sources of either the Platte or Red rivers, the Long Historical memoirs, relating to the Housatunnuk Indians: expedition covered a vast stretch of country from Colorado, or, an account of the methods used, and pains taken, for the camping at the site of what is now Denver, through to New propagation of the gospel mong the heathenish tribe. Mexico and Texas. First edition. 8vo. Modern tree calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, Each volume bears the engraved armorial bookplate of gilt with red morocco label, title page and first leaf expertly Vincent Stuckey, once William Pitts’s secretary and later a remargined, final two leaves chipped with no loss to text, noted Bristol merchant and banker. Sabin 35683. some minor scattered foxing. [4], 182pp. Boston, S. Kneeland, 1753. VANCOUVER SETS SAIL £5000 124 [NOOTKA CONTROVERSY] ‘One of the rarest books relating to New England’ (Sabin). Convention between his Britannick Majesty With the ownership signature of Elizabeth Williams, dated and the King of Spain signed at the Escurial, 1763. She was the sister in law of John Sargeant, who led 8th October, 1790 the mission described in this work. She was also the first First edition. Small 4to. Text in English and Spanish. Later cousin (once removed) of John Williams, who wrote the wrappers. 8pp. London, 1790. Redeemed Captive. £4750 Located near where the upper Housatonic river and the Connecticut-Massachussets border intersect, Hopkins ‘This is a significant document under which Spain formally provides a detailed overview of the mission from 1734–49. relinquishes her claim to the exclusive sovereignty over the In addition to recounting the methods of the missionary Western Coast of North America, though not in those words. education, in the sometimes day by day accounts of activities It follows the preliminary agreement made on July 24th 1790 on the mission, he sheds much light on relations between and states that settlements already made by subjects of either the whites and the Indians. nation for carrying on commerce with the natives shall not Just three copies have appeared at auction in the past be disturbed. England agrees to prevent the rights so granted thirty years. The Streeter copy lacked the title page and the to her subjects from being used to carry on illicit trade with final two leaves. Church, 986; Evans, 7023; Howes, H632 (‘b’), the Spanish settlements. Vancouver was then sent by the Sabin, 32945; Streeter sale, 679. English to Nootka to work out the details of this with the Spanish envoy…’ (Streeter). Streeter, 3488; cf. Sabin, 16197 LONG’S EXPEDITION (Spanish edition). 123 JAMES Edwin Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the 125 Rocky Mountains performed in the year 1819, 1820 [RAND Silas Tertius] By order of the Hon. J.C.Calhoun, Secretary of war, under A First Reading Book in the Micmac Language: the Command of Maj. S.H.Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. comprising the names of the different kinds of Beasts, Compiled from the notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Birds, Fishes, Trees, &c. of the Maritime Provinces of other Gentlemen of the party. Canada. Also, some of the Indian Names of Places, First London edition. 3 vols. Two coloured frontispieces, and many Familiar Words and Phrases, translated literally a coloured ‘Indian map’, 5 further aquatint illustrations, into English. a large folding map & a smaller profile map also folding. 12mo. Contemporary quarter calf over plum pebblegrain

94 95 north america cloth, a little faded. 108pp. Halifax, Nova Scotia Printing Company, 1875. [Bound with] RAND (Silas Tertius). Alaska & the Poles Pela Kesagunoodumumkawa tan tula uksakumamenoo westowoolkw Sasoogoole Clistawit ootenink… 126pp. Chebooktook [Halifax, Nova Scotia Printing Company], 1871. 127 £650 [ANON.] Mount Erebus discovered by Sir James Clark Ross, R.N. Two works by the Canadian Baptist clergyman. Born in Early chromo-lithograph. Titled in pencil beneath. 155 by Halifax he only received limited schooling, yet began 230mm. Mounted. c. 1843. teaching at the relatively early age of 21 and converted to £1250 Christianity in 1833 and became a minister the following year. He founded the Micmac Missionary Society and from 1853 The ships Erebus and Terror are seen making their way lived in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, where he continued his work through small bergs in the Ross Sea with Mount Erebus among the Micmac. Bound with Rand’s translation of the spouting a plume of fire in the near distance. Gospel of Matthew, which includes a key to pronunciation Having been a member of Parry’s 1819 and 1827 Arctic on the verso of the title page, this Reading Book includes wide expeditions, Sir James Clark Ross made the discovery of ranging vocabularies throughout. Darlow & Moule; 6788; the North magnetic pole whilst serving under his uncle Pilling, J.C. Bibl. of the Algonquian languages (1973 ed.), p. 420. Sir John Ross in 1831. Following his return to England he carried out a magnetic survey of the United Kingdom and ‘ONE OF THE FINEST NARRATIVES OF THE GOLD RUSH’ was subsequently given command of an expedition to locate (Kurutz) the South magnetic pole in 1839. With his two ships the 126 Erebus and Terror Ross first crossed the Antarctic Circle SHAW William on 1st January, 1841, before penetrating the Ross Sea three Golden Dreams and Waking Realities; days later. The expedition went on to discover Victoria Land Being the Adventures of a Gold-seeker in California and Mount Erebus, and having wintered in New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands returned to chart part of the coast of Graham Land. He was First edition. 12mo. Original embossed blue cloth, gilt, knighted on his return to England and published his account rebacked, contemporary gift inscription to front free of the voyage as A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the endpaper. xii, 316, 16ads.pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1851. Southern and Antarctic Regions in 1847. £650

Scarce. After an unsuccessful stint in Australia, Shaw 1792 MANUSCRIPT CHART SHOWING THE BUCARELI departed Adelaide in 1849. En route to the Californian BAY IN THE ALASKAN PANHANDLE gold fields he stopped at San Diego before disembarking 128 at San Francisco. CAAMANO Jacinto ‘The keen observations vividly told by a Britisher who, Plano dela Entrada de Bucareli situada en la like most of his class, professed to suffer from his contact Lattdn de 99°79’ Longd. 28°56’ al Dette Sn Blas with Californian society. His work is entertaining, and his Descubiento pr. Dn Juan Franco. dela Bodega y Quadra el description of the venerable Mission Dolores is peculiarly año 1775. Reconocido por el mismo el de ‘79. y Examinado edifying, of which he says that ‘one wing had a decidedly en etteel Canal de Ulloa por Dn. Jacimbo Caamano. ecclesiastical appearance, the other wing formed a separate Manuscript map. Sheet size: 570 by 460mm. Possibly at sea establishment, having been converted into a tavern.’ abord the Aranzazu at Ullou Channel in Bucareli Bay, He had ample opportunity to observe the places, for from Alaska, 1792. its landlord he received work which lasted some months’ £25500* (Cowan & Cowan). Shaw returned to Australia, Sydney, this time, via A beautiful ms. chart carried out with the utmost care on fine Hawaii and Samoa. Three years later, Shaw published, The eighteenth Whatman century paper, [pre 1794 as there is not Land of Promise, or, My impressions of Australia. Cowan and dated countermark] the shoreline delicately shaded. This Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, p 580; Kurutz, chart is evidently a work in progress or at least an early copy 572; Forbes, 1835; Sabin, 79971; Howe 351; Ferguson, 15619a. as a preliminary title in a basic entableture has been defaced

96 97 Alaska & THE poles Alaska & THE poles and replaced below with an almost identical title, lacking only little known geographical journal. The appendix the date of Caamano’s visit in 1792. Why the author sought to contains an extremely useful digest of geographical suppress this information is unclear. news and publications. Eighteenth century ms. charts of the North West www.archive.org/stream/vskhromchenkosco64khro/ coast of America are obviously extremely rarely found on vskhromchenkosco64khro_djvu.txt the market. This chart is closely related to one that was offered for sale by H.P. Kraus in his catalogue 144 item 26 PUBLISHER’S PRESENTATION (1976, $4500). The Spanish were in the habit of making ms. COPY TO RUDMOSE-BROWN copies of charts so that a stricter control could be kept on 130 hydrographical information. Notwithstanding this jealousy, DOORLY Capt. Gerald S. Caamano exchanged information with Vancouver and is The Voyages of the ‘Morning’ several times mentioned in Vancouver’s work, including a First edition. Folding map, 16 photographic plates & 4ll. dinner engagement in Nootka Sound. The original intention music. Small 8vo. Fine original pale blue pictorial cloth gilt, of the expedition had been to explore the coastline from with blind stamp to upper margin of title: ‘PRESENTATION Bucareli Bay (on the Pacific coast of Prince Edward Island) COPY’. xx, 224pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1916. to Nootka Sound and especially to test Colnett’s proposition £2750 that Bucareli Bay led to the fabled Da Fonte route to a Northwest passage. Very attractive copy of this rare book, the binding of which Caamano was a seasoned veteran of these coastal waters is very often badly faded and rubbed. With the characteristic and his diary was printed in the British Columbia Historical ex-libris stamp of the noted polar expert R.N. Rudmose- Quarterly 2(3)pp. 189–222; 2 (4) pp. 265–300 edited by Wagner. Brown on the front free endpaper, along with that of the See also Hayes Historical atlas of the Pacific Northwest p.76 & Royal Scotish Geographical Society. Robert Neal Rudmose- Wagners Maps of the North West Coast n. 803 and pp233–35. Brown (1879–1957), trained in biology before taking a post as assistant to the Professor of Botany at University College, Dundee. In 1902 he sailed as naturalist on board the Scotia, 129 a converted Norwegian whaler, with the Scottish National CHROMCHENKO Vasili Stepanovich Antarctic Expedition, which surveyed the unexplored Hertha [Bruchstucke aus dem Reise-Journal des Herrn Antarctic seas. Chromtschenko, gefuhrt wahrend enier Farht langs Doorly joined the crew of the Morning as third officer den Kusten der russischen Niederlassung in Nordwest- following the intervention of Edward Evans with whom he Amerika…] had gone to sea as a cadet on the training ship Worcester. Second edition. (the only contemporary translation) The Morning under the command of Capt. Colbeck, carried Frontispiece portrait, folding plate & 4 folding maps. 8vo. out the successful Relief Expedition to Scott’s 1902–1904 Nineteenth century half cloth, spine gilt, library stamps. 736, Discovery Expedition. On their return Evans was encouraged 134pp. Stuttgart u Tubingen, Cotta, 1825. by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to publish an account of the £3250 voyage, however having asked Doorly to join him in this venture other commitments prevented him from beginning Cromchenko’s journals were publish in an abridged form over the project, leaving Doorly to publish his own work some several issues of a St. Petersburg Jounal, Severnyy Arkhiv, ten years later. in 1824. This is the only other publication of the period to have reissued the material for a wider European readership, PRESENTED BY A MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION though not that wide for the Journal ‘Hertha’ was short lived 131 and cannot have enjoyed a extended circulation. MAWSON Sir Douglas This was an importantant expedition funded by the The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story Russian America Co.’s resources. Command of a two vessel of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914 campaign was given to Chromchenko, one of Kotzebue’s First edition. Numerous folding maps, plates, panoramas etc. young officers. They explored much of the Alaskan coastline Large 8vo. Original blue cloth, somewhat rubbed & soiled, especially the coast of Norton Sound. Chromchenko was the with upper section of original printed pictorial wrapper to vol. first to visit Golovnin Bay, which he named. I. xxx, 349; xiii, 338pp. London, 1915. The jounal occupies 62 pages of this remarkable and £2250

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Right With the following inscription on the front free endpaper of Murray, George Vol. I: ‘Mr. & Mrs. Tait / Happiest memories, kindest tho’ts / Item 133 and best wishes / from / Eric Webb / 1919.’ and in Vol. II: ‘Mr. & Mrs. Tait / In remembrance much kindness / from / E Webb / 1919’. Eric Norman Webb served as the chief magnetician on the Mawson’s expedition and accompanied the southern sledging party. Cape Webb is named after him.

BY A MEMBER OF SCOTT’S CREW 132 MCKENZIE Edward A. ‘Mac’ Model of an Antarctic sledge being led by an expedition member and pony Model measuring approx. 120 by 600mm in a contemporary glass case measuring 275 by 200 by 760mm. c. 1930. £5000*

Of the 8000 who applied to join Scott’s last expedition only 65 were chosen. McKenzie was one of the 33 men comprising the ship’s party, and served as the leading stoker. He apparently lied about his age to enter the navy and so was still a teenager when he went to the Antarctic. An expert model maker, McKenzie completed this replica sometime in the 1930s, likely as part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the expedition. Armitage was Scott’s navigator and second-in-command ON BOARD THE DISCOVERY on the Discovery expedition. He distinguished himself in 133 leading a party of twelve on a 52 day round trip reaching the MURRAY George summit plateau of Victoria Land which stood 9000 ft above The Antarctic Manual for the use of the Expedition of 1901 sea level. Interestingly, most of the rumours of animosity First edition. Numerous illustrations in text, maps at rear. between Scott and Shackleton generate from Armitage’s 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt and blind-stamped, worn, a little account of the voyage in his autobiography, Cadet to shaken. xvi, 586pp. London, 1901. Commodore, published in 1925. £7500 This work includes a translation of Dumont-D’Urville and the first publication of Biscoe’s journal of the discovery Albert Armitage’s copy. His inscription on the half-title of Enderby Land. There is also an excellent bibliography. Below reads: ‘Albert Armitage 31st July, 1901 Antarctic Exploring McKenzie, Edward A. ‘Mac’ Spence, 829. Ship “Discovery”.’ Item 132

134 OSBORNE Lieut Sherard & MC DOUGALL George F. Facsimile of the Illustrated Arctic News Published on board H.M.S. Resolute: Captn. Horatio T. Austin, C.B. In Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin… Lithographed facsimile of the newspaper. Folio. Original cloth, rebacked, gilt Arctic scene on upper cover. [iv], 57pp. double column. London, Ackermann, 1852. £4350

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Left Right Osborne, Lieut Sherard Shackleton, Ernest Henry & Mc Dougall, George F. Item 136 Item 134

136 SHACKLETON Ernest Henry South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition First edition, first issue. Coloured frontispiece, 87 photographic illustrations on 45 plates (42 double sided) A light-hearted newspaper; the Illustrated Arctic News was and a large coloured folding map. 8vo. Original pictorial produced during the ‘long night of an Arctic Winter’. Five cloth, crease to bottom front hinge. [xxii], 376pp. London, issues appeared between October 31st, 1850, and March 14th, William Heinemann, 1919. 1851. This reproduction includes several attractive hand- £3000 coloured lithograph vignettes after McDougall’s drawings, together with one or two printed colour illustrations. A very good copy. The South Pole having been attained Abbey Travel, 640. by Amundsen in 1911, there remained one final Antarctic journey to attempt: crossing the continent via the Pole, a PRESENTED TO MCKENZIE BY PONTING journey of roughly 1800 miles. 135 Having approached the continent from the Weddell Sea, PONTING Herbert George the Endurance was beset by pack ice and drifted for around The Crew of the Terra Nova nine months before being crushed on October 27, 1915, 200 Original sepia photograph, mounted on board. miles from land. The expedition quickly changed its goal Measuring approx, 330 by 455mm. c. 1910. from that of traversing the continent to mere survival. The £9000* expedition reached Elephant Island by sledge and camped for a short time before realising that a rescue party was unlikely A wonderful piece from McKenzie’s collection. On the to find them there. Shackleton then determined to reach lower right of the image Ponting has written, ‘To Mac from South Georgia and, with five companions, made the 800 mile H.G.Ponting’. journey, which included crossing the hitherto unexplored This picture captures the entire crew en route to the interior of South Georgia, to a Norwegian whaling station. Antarctic, when spirits were high and the crew fresh and It took three attempts to rescue the remaining party. eager. It appears opposite page 2 in the first edition of Scott’s Printed directly after the war, when good quality paper Last Expedition. McKenzie stands proudly in the foreground, was unavailable, the entire first impression was produced on centre left wearing a cap. low grade stock. Rosove, 308.A1; Spence, 1107.

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THE LAST MEN TO SEE SHACKLETON 137 WILD Commander Frank Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the ‘Quest’ First edition. Coloured frontispiece & 100 other plates. 8vo. Fine original pictorial cloth, gilt. xvi, 372pp. London, Cassell, 1923. £2750

A beautiful copy with the signatures of John Rowett, Frank Wild, James Marr, Frank Worsley, Leonard Hussey and Dr Alexander H. Macklin. These were, in fact, the last men to see Shackleton alive. The voyage of the Quest marks the end of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Led by Ernest Shackleton, this account includes extracts from the diary he kept from 24–28 September, 1921 and 1–4 January, 1922, as well as a poem. Furthermore, there is the official narrative of the Quest expedition drawn from the diaries of Alexander Macklin and James Marr. The scientific results all appear in the appendices. Wild and Worsley were two of the most important members of Shackleton’s Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17, and Wild takes the opportunity to remark on that, Above especially concerning the trek across Elephant Island. Wild, Commander Frank Rosove, 349.A1. Item 137

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