TRAVEL & EXPLORATION Peter Harrington london Peter Harrington london catalogue 120 TRAVEL & EXPLORATION GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX References are to item numbers. A more detailed index is given at the end of the catalogue. 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Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday Illustration above from Fanny Parks’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim, item 137. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 www.peterharrington.co.uk All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 1 1 responsible for the sections on mollusca and crustacea in col- laboration with Lovell Reeve (autodidact conchologist, natu- ADAMS, Arthur (ed.) The Zoology of the Voyage of 1 2 ral history dealer, author and publisher of the monumental H.M.S. Samarang; Under the Command of Captain Sir Conchologia iconica, who was also the publisher of the present Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London: work) and Adam White (assistant to the Keeper of the Zoologi- the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848–50 cal Department of the British Museum, and author of the 1847 Harrison and Sons, 1892 6 parts, folio. Original green cloth-backed green card printed wrap- List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection), respectively. The 2 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark pers, rebacked. Housed in a green morocco-backed book-style drop- section on fishes was written by Sir John Richardson, who had blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain and vol. II watered), spines back box by Newbold and Collins of Sydney. With 55 tissue-guarded accompanied Franklin on his first two expeditions, was with gilt in compartments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled plates: 52 lithographs and 3 engravings, of which 35 (32 of the lith- John Rae on his search for Franklin in 1847, and who has been red. Occasional blindstamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly ographs and all the engravings) are hand-coloured. The transfer to described as “eminent in medicine, exploration, and natural rubbed overall, extremities bumped, vol. II sunned along head of plates was undertaken by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, James De history” (ODNB); the commentary on the vertebrata is provid- front board, spotting to endleaves of vol. I, a few pages finger-marked Carle Sowerby, and C. W. Wing. Ex-library copies from the Boston So- ed by John Edward Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department in the margins not affecting text. A very good copy. ciety of Natural History, with library blindstamp to titles, some wrap- at the British Museum. first edition, one of 500 copies printed, a printed issue-slip pers and occasionally to the margins of plates, bookplates to verso tipped in at the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that of front panels of the wrappers recording purchase from the Courtis The front panel of the wrappers of Mollusca Part I is inscribed: a maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first in- Fund, apart from the final part which has a plate which records pres- “Dr. Gould with Lowell Reeve’s regards” and Part II, probably stance, with six copies only now traced in libraries worldwide. entation from the E. R. Mayo library, inked accession inscriptions to secretarially, “With the Author’s Compts.” An excellent set of This handbook for British sailors was published in light of the the front panels dating from 1849, except the last which was obtained this elusive and important work. Extremely uncommon, just in 1891; externally slightly browned and soiled, a little chipped at the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90 and significantly four sets at auction in the last 50 years, no other copy retaining extremities, contents lightly browned, a very good set. in the same year as the Exclusive Agreement, the last in a series the wrappers traced at sale. first edition of the official publication of the zoological re- of 19th-century treaties agreed between the various Gulf sheik- sults of Belcher’s extensive surveying voyage in the Malay Ar- Abbey 529, for the official account of the voyage, this zoological record noted doms and the British, for whom the suppression of slavery and but not described; Hill 105, present work not noted; Howgego, II, B25; Nissen piracy provided a useful pretext for the protection of Indian chipelago. The report was edited by Arthur Adams, assistant ZBI 289; Sabin 28400. surgeon on board the Samarang, who acted as scientific officer shipping routes. Reproduced here in full are the texts in each for the voyage. “The desire shown by the Commander of the £30,000 [96702] treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the Gulf sheik- Expedition to afford every facility in the pursuit of science, en- doms from 1820 to 1847. abled me to bring together numerous observations, to collect The emergence of the modern Gulf states £7,500 [104970] specimens, and make sketches and drawings of many of those 2 more rare and evanescent forms of life which it is my hope may help to advance the Zoology of that part of the globe” (Pref- (ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her ace, p. vi). Adams was himself an accomplished malacologist, 1 Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of 2 3 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 The earliest reference in history to a language named after the Arabs 3 (AGATHARCHIDES, et al.) [Title in Greek letters.] Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone exerptae historiae, Appiani Iberica. Item de gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1557 Octavo (161 × 106 mm). 18th-century speckled calf, title gilt to spine within double fillet panel in second compartment, similar panels containing flower and vase tools to the other compartments, double fillet panel to boards. Greek types. Erosion on boards from the sprin- kling now stabilised, restoration to head- and tail-caps and joints, light toning, mild damp-stain to the upper, inner quadrant of the text from the rear, overall very good. editio princeps of these five Greek histories, including Pho- tius’s recension of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agath- archides. “Agatharchides’ original text is lost, but extracts and digests of it are found in three later authors: Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and the collection of extracts made by the Byzantine 5 theologian Photius in the ninth century ad … Of these three witnesses … the Photius text is considered closest to the origi- 5 nal” (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 295): Diodorus extensively ALDAMER, Shafi; Richard Mortel; Humberto da altered the text to fit his “distinctive literary style”, whereas Strabo’s immediate source was not Agatharchides at all but Silveira. The Visit of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of the lost geography by Artemidorus of Ephesus (Burstein, Aga- Athlone and the Earl of Athlone to the Kingdom of Saudi tharchides of Cnidus, p. 38). Photius’s version is unique in refer- Arabia 25 February–18 March 1938, With a Summary ring to an aromatic plant “which in Arabic (arabistii) is called of Saudi-British Relations. Riyadh: King Abdulaziz Public larimna”, a passage found at p.