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1800097754London: The Committee 1800. Book measures 66x51.cm. Complete with 21 plates double page or folding largest plate measures 183x64.cm 6 plates partially coloured. Bound in period quarter calf marble board. Binding heavily worn both boards detached. Internally small library stamp on title page small library stamps on verso of plates i.e. not stamped on engraved side a few plates creased on edges. Generally plates in very good condition. A good copy with good clean plates. . Good Plus. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. The Committee hardcover
1800016157London: The Committee 1800. Book measures 67x51.cm. 1pp list of 21 plates this copy has an extra 3 plates so 24 double page folding plates in all of which 5 are partailly coloured. Bound without original wrappers. Bound in red calf both boards in-set with red cloth gilt lettering. Binding rubbed scuffed some loss on edges and corners. Internally contents becoming loose a couple of plates creased 1 plates with loss of margin not encroaching onto engraved area some surface wear to a couple of plates some light spotting. Generally plates in good clean condition. A good copy.F. Hardcover. Near Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. The Committee Hardcover
1799B5768T. Chapman publisher; T. Gillet printer Salisbury-Square c. 1799. A fine and handsome example with plates and text clean and crisp. . Edition: Second Edition. Binding: Expertly rebacked contemporary full calf preserving mottled calf boards gilt dentelled borders flanked by single and double filleted ruling; spine with five raised bands compartments with central gilt marine motifs and gilt lettered title on red morocco label on two; all edges uncut. Notes: Captain James Wilson 1760–1814 commanded the British ship Duff which the London Missionary Society contracted in 1797 to convey a team of missionariesto their posts in Tahiti Tonga and the Marquesas Islands. Wilson surveyed locations of numerous islands in the Pacific including Vanua Balavu Fulaga and Ogea Levu in Fiji Mangareva in the Gambier Islands Pukarua in the Tuamotus and Satawal Elato and Lamotrek in the Caroline Islands. Three years after the establishment of the British mission in Tahiti the directors of the Society appointed a committee to consider a suitable memorial for presentation to Wilson for his services in helping to establish the first mission in the South Seas. He published an account of his voyage: A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean in 1799.<br>“This voyage was undertaken by the London Missionary Society for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti. A settlement of twenty-five persons was formed. The king of the Islands befriended them but they met with continual difficulties from the civil wars and finally had to flee to Australia returning however in 1815 to Tahiti…. Includes many valuable details regarding Tahiti the Fiji Islands the Marquesas etc. A new group of islands was found among the Santa Cruslands and named the Duff Group…. The account is of extraordinary interest for its fresh and sometimes naïve viewpoint and for its descriptions of customs passed over by the nautical and geographical explorer.†Cox II:307. “Almost certainly two printers were employed by Chapman in order to speed up the job of publishing this quarto. This edition printed by Gillet is sometimes called the second edition; however the terms ‘coarse-paper’ ‘small-paper’ or ‘laid paper edition’ would be more correct. One may refer to them as the Gosnell edition and the Gillet edition. The text in both printings is the same but the list of subscribers in each is completely different the Gosnell edition having twelve pages and the Gillet edition having only seven which are not alphabetized. A careful study of these lists gives the distinct impression that the Gosnell edition is the earlier and the more expensive volume. As in the Gosnell edition the Advertisement to this edition also states: ‘The body of the journal is the composition of Mr. William Wilson from the captain’s papers his own and the missionaries’ reports.’†Hill 1895 “The anonymous editor of this book was Dr. Thomas Haweis one of the founders of the London Missionary Society. The long “preliminary discourse†was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison one of the pardoned ‘Bounty’ mutineers. Morrison’s manuscript was also the source for the extensive appendix on Tahiti. Indeed William Wilson and James Morrison may be called co-authors of this book.†Hill 1894 Size: Large quarto 285x220. Illustration: Complete with 13 plates maps and chart all detailing the geography and scenery of South Pacific islands. All plates and maps are present but in an order differing from the book’s table of plates. References: National Maritime Museum I:632; Hill 1894-95; Cox II:307. Pages: P: title bl. dedication 2 Advert. bl. list of prints bl. contents 4 1-312 Append. 313-395 bl. subscribers’ names 7 bl. preliminary discourse i-lxxxvii bl. letter of instructions lxxxix-c. Category: Book Voyages General; Book Asia South East T. Chapman, publisher; T. Gillet, printer, Salisbury-Square, hardcover
17295AMEMBY35BNQSiena 1729. Folio ca. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. 3 ink wash and aquatints drawings on paper each drawn on one side showing the designs of the fireworks. Original designs for 3 sets fireworks all erected on the world famous shell-shaped piazza in Siena. They were designed erected and set off to celebrate the creation of the following cardinals: Francesco Scipione Maria Borghese 1697-1759 titular archbishop of Traianopoli who received the red hat and the title of Pietro in Montorio on 3 August 1729 drawing 1; Vincenzo Bichi 1668-1750 who was born in Siena and created cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 September 1731 drawing 2 and Pietro Maria Pieri 1676-1743 also born in Siena who was created cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 March 1734 drawing 3.List of the drawings numbered 38 39 and 40 respectively:1. Macchina de Fuochi Artifiziali in onore del Cardinale Francesco Borghesi reppresentati nella Piazza di Sienna il di 2 Octobre 1729.2. Disegno della Macchina de Fuochi artifiziali representati nella Piazza de Sienna il 25 Novembre 1731 in onore del Cardinal Vincenzo Bichi significante l'Odio et l'Invidia . del Merito inalzato dal Tempo al Tempo delle Glorie with eight laudatory inscriptions in Italian and Latin that were written not for this drawing but for the Macchina on the next leaf.3. Disegno della Macchina di fuoci artifiziali representati nella Piazza di Sienna il di 25 maggio 1734 in onore dell' esaltatione alla Porpora del Card. le Pier Maria Pieri da Piano Castagnaio dello Stato di Sienna.In good condition. unknown
1784ABC_46946The Netherlands 1784. Large folio 52 x 33.5 cm. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco over boards sewn on 8 supports each board with a round gold-tooled green morocco inlaid centre piece gold-tooled board edges 2 pairs of green cloth ties gilt edges and block-printed paste-paper endpapers in red and yellow. The spine is also richly gold-tooled with 2 different rolls to frame the compartments and underline the leaf and flower stamps. The front and back boards match except for the gold lettering: on the front board "konst tekeningen" and on the back board "anno 1784". The tooling shows 4 different rolls used for multiple frames and numerous stamps of leaves flowers vases birds and other decorative elements. With 18 large beautifully hand-drawn and coloured illustrations of birds. 90 ll. Splendidly bound drawing book containing 18 unsigned detailed watercolour and gouache drawings of birds. The colourful birds appear to be drawn after the plates in Edward Donovan's The natural history of British birds first published in instalments between 1794 and 1819. If so the present drawings must have been added to the drawing book at least 10 years after it was bound.The blank drawing-book was bound according to the gold lettering on the back board in 1784 and the tools identify it as the work of the most important and arguably the best bindery in the 18th-century Netherlands dubbed the First Stadholder Bindery by Storm van Leeuwen. Since the names of the binders remain unknown the name now used alludes to the fact that it produced many bindings by order of the Stadholder Willem V and presumably his father Willem IV. Its great importance rests on the number of its surviving bindings the diversity of the work it produced the quality of the tooling the exceptionally large number of binding tools it must have owned and the length of time it must have been operating from at least 1722 to 1793 Storm van Leeuwen. The paper is laid with no watermark and appears to be quite consistent.Occasional minor foxing but otherwise internally fine and clean. The binding shows only slight signs of wear so both the album and the binding are in very good condition. A sumptuously bound album of attractive illustrations of British birds.l For the binding: Jan Storm van Leeuwen Bookbinding 18th century IIA pp. 67-101; for images of the rolls etc.: Jan Storm van Leeuwen De achttiende-eeuwse Haagse boekband pp. 388-395. ABE CAT Art History hardcover
