!! !! ! "#$%&'!!(!!&)*'+#$",+-! -$".#$'!/,0"+#1!!! ! ! !!!!! "##$%!&!'()*%+,-./%!&!.0#/#1,(.0%! BERNARD! QUARITCH ! LTD !! !! ! CATALOGUE ! 1431 !! !!! MMXV ! 55219_Q_COVER.indd 1 10/02/2015 13:49 BERNARD QUARITCH LTD 40 SOUTH AUDLEY STREET, LONDON W1K 2PR Tel.: +44 (0)20 7297 4888 Fax: +44 (0)20 7297 4866 Email: [email protected] Website: www.quaritch.com Bankers: Barclays Bank PLC, 1 Churchill PlacE, London E14 5HP Sort code: 20-65-82 Swift code: BARCGB22 Sterling account: IBAN GB98 BARC 206582 10511722 Euro account: IBAN GB30 BARC 206582 45447011 US Dollar account: IBAN GB46 BARC 206582 63992444 VAT number: GB 840 1358 54 Mastercard, Visa and American Express accEpted Recent Catalogues: 1430 Philosophy, Politics, Economics 1429 Continental Books 1428 In the Scribe’s Hand: Islamic Manuscripts 1427 Travel 1426 Bindings and Illustrated Books Front cover illustration: 73 (Vietnam) Title page illustration: 28 (Dean & Co.) Polar exploration section-title illustration: 78 (PEary) Rear cover illustration: 61 (RafflEs) Items marked with an asterisk (*) are subject to VAT within the EU © Bernard Quaritch Ltd 2015 TRAVEL ( EXPLORATION NATURAL HISTORY +#%9"1 %+)#%1 *;+2#< .................. *+"7 ₁- ₇₅ @21 8@12#%+*2$ .................................... *+"7 ₇₆- ₈₃ *$&"8 ....................................................................... @%3 ₁₃₃- ₁₃₄ B$%#& Q)%#*+,- L ∙ C%+%123)" ₁₄₃₁ 7789 +-" ;2,*%+* ‡-*,- @2$;2#" 8@"&*+*2$; ˆ %#, )#,‰-%#&+, 2#$"7, "&<%# ),%; 921)7" : #%#" %#+ &*+ 7"7Š"#; 921)7" : ;,#*Š" < ;",#"+%#< 1. [AFRICAN ASSOCIATION.] Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: C. Macrae for the Association, 1790 [with] African Researches; or Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. Vol. II. London: W. Bulmer & Co. for the Association, 1802. Two volumes, 4to (279 x 225mm), pp. I: [iii]-xi, 236; II: viii, 20, viii, 162, 208, 208*, [1 (blank)], 209-215; one large folding map of northern Africa by James Rennell and 4 folding maps (one hand-coloured in outline); uniformly bound in closely-contemporary marbled calf (endpaper of both volumes with watermarked date 1801), spines gilt in compartments, contrasting gilt morocco leering-pieces in 2, board-edges roll-tooled in gilt; boards slightly scuffed, extremities lightly bumped, vol. II joints cracking, nonetheless excellent, fresh copies in a handsome binding; provenance: Sir William Young, 2nd Baronet (1749-1815, gift of vol. II to:) – Sir John Talbot (c. 1769-1851, presentation inscription on vol. II half-title, ‘The Gift to Capt. John Talbot R.N. from his Brother in Law Sr. Wm. Young Secretary of the African Society. Oct. 14. 1802’) – transcription of a resolution of the Association dated 29 May 1802 on verso of vol. II half- title – Frederick R. Jones, Torquay (bookseller’s ticket in vol. I) – Walter Harold Wilkin (b. 1876, armorial bookplates in both volumes, loosely-inserted leer to Wilkin from Edward Heawood, Royal Geographical Society, London, 30 November 1922, one page, 4to, discussing the work). £7,500 First editions of two volumes of proceedings of the African Association. The first volume, here in the rare quarto format printed for members of the Association, is usually encountered in an octavo edition published in 1791 for public sale (cf. Encyclopaedia Britannica (Edinburgh and London: 1810), XIX, p. 453). The second volume is a presentation copy, inscribed by Sir William 2 B"#$%# Q%#*+,- Young, the Secretary of the Association, to his brother-in-law the distinguished naval officer Talbot, a ‘brave and skilful captain’ (ODNB). Transcribed in a neat contemporary hand on the verso of the half-title is a resolution which begins: ‘At a meeting of the African Association held in London May 29th 1802. Resolved unanimously – That a copy of Frederic Hornemans Journal of the Travels from Cairo to Mourzouk be respectfully presented to the General Bonaparte, First Consul of the French Republic [...] Signed Moira – President / W. Young – Secretary’. Since the endpapers of both volumes are watermarked 1801, it seems very probable that both volumes were uniformly bound for Talbot shortly after volume II was given to him by Young. The African Association (later amalgamated with the Royal Geographical Society), was a non- governmental group of men of wealth, learning and influence; Sir Joseph Banks, the association’s treasurer for several years, was closely involved from the outset. Other notable members included William Wilberforce and Josiah Wedgwood. The first volume of proceedings here, published in 1790, provides a record of the Association’s activities from its inception in June of 1788 until March 1790; it contains the text of Henry Beaufoy’s ‘Plan’, as well as reports on the explorations of Lucas and Ledyard. The second volume, ‘commencing with the year 1792, states the transactions and correspondence of the Society, with the intelligence received; and comments thereon [...] during a period of ten years, to May, 1802’ (advertisement). The proceedings of the Society from March 1790 to 1792 are therefore not covered here. ‘Near the eastern end of Pall Mall there once stood a fashionable tavern known as the St. Alban’s. Early one summer evening in 1788 nine rich and distinguished members of a small dining club met here to enjoy one of the excellent meals provided by the establishment. During the course of the evening the conversation turned to Africa, that mysterious continent of which so lile was then known; and before the club members parted they had decided to form “an Association for promoting the Discovery of the Interior parts of Africa” in the belief that “so long as men continued ignorant of so large a portion of the globe, that ignorance must be considered as a degree of reproach on the present age [...]. Soon after the formation of the Association its Secretary, Henry Beaufoy [...] had drawn up a Plan in which he had wrien that the map of Africa was “Still but a blank, on which the geographer, on the authority of Leo Africanus and of the Xeriff Edrissi, the Nubian Author [had] traced, with a hesitating hand, a few names of unexplored rivers and of uncertain nations”. The African Association had, accordingly, resolved to cast light upon darkness [...]. It seemed that no beter start could be made in unravelling the mystery of Africa than by sending an expedition up the Niger to the city of Timbuktu which was believed to stand on its banks and was reputed to contain treasures of unparalleled richness. Money was soon raised and John Ledyard, an American adventurer who claimed to have lived for several years among Red Indian tribes, who had certainly sailed with Captain Cook and who had been arrested while aempting to walk across Russia, was instructed to make his way to Timbuktu and the Niger from Cairo. At the same time Simon Lucas, a former wine merchant who had been vice-consul in Morocco for many years [...] was asked to travel to the Niger across the desert from Tripoli’ (Hibbert, Africa Explored pp. 13-19). This set was previously in the library of the soldier and writer Major W.H. Wilkin, the author of The Life of Sir David Baird (London: 1912), Some British Soldiers in America (London: 1914), and other works. In his leter to Wilkin, Heawood, the Librarian of the RGS, discusses the differences between the two editions of volume I, writing that, although the octavo edition ‘corresponds in the main with vol. I of the 4to with the addition of Park’s and Hornemann’s journeys and Rennell’s two papers (one on each), [...] there are one or two miscellaneous items also’. ESTC P3331 (first work). B"#$%# Q#*+,- 3 2. AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE – Collection d’Estampes, représentant les événements de la Guerre, pour la liberté de l’Amérique Septentrionale. Paris: F. Godefroy and N. Ponce, [circa 1783]. 4to (271 x 234mm), engraved title and 16 engraved plates and maps by Dupuis, F. Godefroy, N. Ponce after Fauvel, Godefroy, Lausan, Le Barbier, J.-B. Le Paon, P.C. Marillier, William, all except title with original tissue guards; occasional light spoting or marking, title slightly creased; contemporary French marbled calf gilt, boards with borders of triple gilt fillets, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco leering-piece in one, others decorated with floral tools, roll-tooled gilt board-edges and turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, blue silk marker; corners lightly bumped, a lile rubbed and scuffed causing minor surface losses, short crack on upper joint, nonetheless a very good copy; provenance: manuscript [?]price on front flyleaf in an early hand – Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941, engraved armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). £3,500 %#1< ;)" ˆ -" ‘ˆ*#;+ #"$,- 22‰ ‡*+- *+1"-@%3" "$+*2$*$3 -" +%+";’ A fine collection of engravings, with all but two before numbers. The series comprises a plate showing vignetes of five important engagements in the War above a ‘Précis de cete guerre’, twelve engravings of significant events and bales in the course of the War and the years immediately preceding it, two maps, the first showing the population, political divisions, etc. of North America and the second showing British possessions ceded to France and Spain after 1783, and a ‘Précis du Traité de Paix, signé à Versailles le 3 Septembre 1783’. This copy appears to be a variant of Sabin 68422, with the same title and with the ‘Précis de cete guerre’ on the first plate, but only plates 10 and 14 are numbered at the head and the others are unnumbered; copies described