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1752L73F2JRXUYKAAmsterdam: Bernardus Mourik 1752. Boards covered with modern pink decorated paper which are also used as paste-downs and endpapers with a dark brown morocco spine label. 4to. With 2 etched plates the publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. Second and rare edition of an account of two fatal voyages with two ships. The first voyage was made with the French East Indiaman Le Prince and was commanded by Captain Morin. On 19 February 1752 this ship left the port of Lorient sailing for Pondicherry. However initially the voyage went well on 26 April 1752 there was a fire in Le Prince. It spread fast and it also reached the gunpowder magazine. Therefore the ship exploded as the engraving shows and only 10 persons survived.The second account concerns the seizure of the Dutch ship Rustenwerk an East Indiaman of 650-ton. On 28 June 1752 this ship was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz after mooring of Ternate. He and his companions killed 12 people on board which is depicted in the engraving. The survivors of this violent seizure by Frans Fransz reached Batavia and they sailed to Holland. Although the VOC succeeded in retaking the ship Frans Fransz. Already escaped with the valuable cargo. A more historical addition to this report is the list it includes of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters mutiny and piracy. These two ships are cruel examples of how East Indiamen could be defeated by fate. After this first edition Mourik also published a second also undated edition with the same plates. Spine slightly discoloured otherwise in very good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN 1 copy; Tiele Bibl. 1238; Worldcat 7 or 9 copies. Bernardus Mourik, hardcover
1752E51BW3BBNOWBAmsterdam 1752. 4to. Bernardus Mourik Disbound. With 2 etched plates. Further with publisher's woodcut BM cypher monogram on the title page a woodcut tailpiece and 2 woodcut decorated initials. 2 37 1 pp. The first edition of a compelling account of two fatal voyages of the French East Indiaman Le Prince and the VOC ship Rustenwerk. Le Prince commanded by Captain Morin left the port of Lorient on 19 February 1752 sailing for Pondicherry. The voyage passed quietly until fire was discovered in the ship. It spread fast and the ship exploded when the fire reached the gunpowder magazine leaving only 10 survivors. The second account relates the seizure of the ship Rustenwerk a 650-ton Dutch East Indiaman. Moored off Ternate it was taken by the pirate Frans Fransz on 28 June 1751 and some 12 passengers including the Captain were killed. The survivors reached Batavia by way of Makassar and sailed for Holland. The VOC eventually managed to retake the ship but Frans Fransz escaped with the valuable cargo. The account includes a list of 210 VOC ships lost in the period 1688-1752 through disasters mutiny piracy etc.In good condition.l Landwehr & V.d. Krogt 437; STCN 4 copies; Tiele Bibl. 1238. unknown
174331681London: Printed for Jacob Robinson 1743. First edition the first of the two issues of 1743 being the issue printed by Robinson with the author's names stated. With a number of attractive woodcut headpieces and initials. 8vo 190 x 120 mm especially well bound in very handsome contemporary full polished brown calf the boards framed with double-ruled gilt edges hatched in blind the spine finely gilt decorated with elaborate detailed tooling in five compartments between wide gilt ruled and hatched raised bands a sixth compartment with red morocco label ruled and lettered in gilt additional gilt at the tips and along the joints. With the engraved bookplate of Lord de Saumarez an admiral of the British Royal Navy notable for his victory at the Second Battle of Algeciras. Saumarez is one of the true historical figures to appear in C. S. Forester's Hornblower novels being celebrated in two of the novels. Saumarez's fictional alter-ego also plays a role in two of the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian. Now housed in a handsome green cloth clamshell box with morocco label gilt. xx 220 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy the text clean crisp and unpressed the handsome binding solid and sturdy with a some expert and accomplished restoration along the joints and a bit of touching up to the corners. In all a fine copy with excellent Naval provenance. RARE AND TRUE FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE WITH FINE MARITIME PROVENANCE OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTS OF THE LOSS OF H.M.S. WAGER; ONE OF THE MOST COMPELLING NAVAL ACCOUNTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.<br> This narrative is the exciting mutineers' side of the story of the loss of the Wager to inhospitable climate on one of the world's most remote and dangerous coastlines beyond the Straits of Magellan. When Commodore Anson set out for the Pacific in 1740 to attack the Spanish ships on the Chilean coast he took eight ships with him. The Wager was effectively a transport ship carrying stores and a force of marines; as the squadron rounded Cape Horn in fearsome weather she was unable to keep up with the rest of them and with her gear wrecked by the storm was driven ashore on the Patagonian coast. This tale of mutiny hardship and tenacity that ensued was told by the survivors especially John Bulkeley leader of those who repudiated the captain's authority. Bulkeley the ship's carpenter and Cummins led their small group of survivors until their landing at Rio de Janeiro and finally England concluding a voyage that had lasted almost two years. Another narrative was published by John Byron then a midshipman who remained with Captain Cheap. Of Cheap's group only three members Cheap Byron and one other eventually reached home but by a different overland route.<br> This voyage was the basis for Patrick O'Brian's historical work 'The Unknown Shore' written before he embarked on the Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin novels. Printed for Jacob Robinson hardcover
