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1818109061London: John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons et al 1818–1833. Rare first edition large paper issue set of Loddiges' renowned Botanical Cabinet with 2000 numbered hand-colored plates by George Cooke. Octavos 20 volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt all edges marbled. Illustrated with 2000 numbered hand-colored botanical plates by George Cooke. In near fine condition. Armorial bookplates. An exceptional collection most rare and desirable in a complete set. Founded by Joachim Conrad Loddiges in Hackey north of London the renowned Loddiges plant nursery rose to great prominence during the early nineteenth century under George Loddiges who published in serial numbers the present Botanical Cabinet produced in connection with George Cooke one of the more highly sought after engravers of the era. The 2000 hand-colored plates catalogued the broad array of exotic plants trees shrubs ferns palms and orchids introduced into the famed nursery's hothouses and gardens from around the world. John & Arthur Arch; Hackney: Conrad Loddiges & Sons, et al hardcover
178421446London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell 1784. 4 volumes. Text: 3 vols. quarto 11 3/16 x 9 inches; Atlas: 1 vol. large folio 23 1/2 x 17 inches. Text: 1p. publisher's advertisements at end of vol.III. 1 folding letterpress table 24 engraved maps coastal profiles and charts 14 folding extra-illustrated with a duplicate folding engraved "Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia" which is also present in the atlas. Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates plans and maps one double-page one folding uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf expertly rebacked to style the flat spines divided into six compartments by double fillets enclosing a neo-classical roll red/brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment green morocco label with onlaid disc of red/brown morocco with volume number the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with stylised foliage cornerpieces around various large centrally-place tools; Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over marbled paper-covered boards the flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt uniform to the text.<br/> <br/>A fine set of the first edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage: a cornerstone among travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America Canada and Alaska. This copy particularly desirable with the plates in the atlas uncut.<br/> <br/>"The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill. "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" Hill.<br/> <br/>Beddie 1543; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography 85; Hill 2004 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Sabin 16250. W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell unknown books
1784WRCAM54194London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nichol and T. Cadell 1784. Three quarto text volumes plus large folio atlas. Text: Twenty-four engraved maps coastal profiles and charts thirteen folding; folding letterpress table. Atlas: Sixty-three engraved plates charts and maps including one folding map and one double- page map. Text: Contemporary speckled calf gilt ruled expertly rebacked in matching gilt calf with gilt leather labels all edges painted red. 20th-century bookplates on front pastedowns. Light offsetting from plates light tanning and scattered faint foxing. Atlas: Expertly bound to style in half calf and marbled boards spines gilt black morocco label. Contemporary ink inscription on verso of final plate. Marginal light foxing and dust soiling. A very good set. A lovely set of the first edition of Cook's Third Voyage with a note of presentation in the atlas volume by Captain James King: "Thomas Venables The gift of Captain King." King was the author of the third text volume in the set and the preparer of Cook's journals that comprise the first two text volumes. Venables was probably a member of an ancient Cheshire landowning family later involved in early Australian settlement. King began Cook's final expedition as the expedition's astronomer and as a lieutenant on the Resolution but by the end of the expedition had been promoted to command of the Discovery and second-in-command. "At the time of Cook's death at Hawaii 14 February 1779 King was on shore in charge of the observatory. He had with him only a few men but was reinforced by some of a boat's crew who had been rowing off the mouth of the bay before the disturbance with the Hawaiians began. This brought the number of the party up to twenty-four and fortifying themselves in a neighbouring heiau or open-air temple they succeeded in repelling the attack of the Hawaiians until they were relieved two hours later by the ships' boats" - DNB. 6/10/2019 <br> <br> "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" - Hill. <br> <br> An excellent set of one the great Pacific voyages inscribed by one of its ultimate commanders and the partial author of the present published account Capt. James King. BEDDIE 1543. FORBES 62. HILL 361. HOWES C729a "aa." LADA-MOCARSKI 37 later issue. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 223. SABIN 16250. STREETER SALE 3478. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 14. DNB online. Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nichol and T. Cadell hardcover books
178421446London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell 1784. 4 volumes. Text: 3 vols. quarto 11 3/16 x 9 inches; Atlas: 1 vol. large folio 23 1/2 x 17 inches. Text: 1p. publisher's advertisements at end of vol.III. 1 folding letterpress table 24 engraved maps coastal profiles and charts 14 folding extra-illustrated with a duplicate folding engraved "Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia" which is also present in the atlas. Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates plans and maps one double-page one folding uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf expertly rebacked to style the flat spines divided into six compartments by double fillets enclosing a neo-classical roll red/brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment green morocco label with onlaid disc of red/brown morocco with volume number the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with stylised foliage cornerpieces around various large centrally-place tools; Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over marbled paper-covered boards the flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt uniform to the text.<br/> <br/> A fine set of the first edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage: a cornerstone among travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America Canada and Alaska. This copy particularly desirable with the plates in the atlas uncut.<br/> <br/> "The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill. "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" Hill.<br/> <br/> Beddie 1543; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography 85; Hill 2004 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Sabin 16250. W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell unknown
17855000614London: Strahan & Cadell; Strahan & Cadell; H. Hughs for Nicol & Cadell 1785. In generally very good condition with the inevitable odd spot or thumbmark; chart Friendly Islands at p.225 in volume 1 of the third voyage and the folding plate of coastal profiles at p.82 both with water stains. Together eight volumes quarto and folio atlas; a good set in old half calf and marbled boards double labels. <p><p>The full series of the official narratives of Cook's voyages - the cornerstone of any collection of books relating to Australia or the Pacific. Each of the three narratives is illustrated with marvellous engravings based on the work of the official artists on the voyages including Parkinson Hodges and Webber and the series stands as the great monument to Cook's achievements.</p> <p>These were the best-sellers of the second half of the eighteenth century; very expensive when published the first editions were sold out within a few days of publication. Their popularity meant that many copies were almost literally read to pieces; as a result good uniform sets of the voyages are fairly scarce.</p> <p>This set comprises the first edition of the first voyage in its first issue form; the unchanged second edition of the second voyage; and the preferred second edition of the third voyage. Sets of the voyages are seen in many combinations of editions: this particular combination generally regarded as a good way to have the set is one of those seen with some regularity.</p> <p>For full details see our analysis online. Briefly. the set is made up as follows:</p> <p>First voyage. HAWKESWORTH John. An Account of the Voyages. for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. </p> <p>First edition first issue. Three volumes quarto 51 engraved plates and maps. London 1773.</p> <p>Second Voyage. COOK James. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. </p> <p>Second edition. Two volumes quarto 64 engraved plates and maps many folding. London 1777.</p> <p>Third Voyage. COOK James and James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.</p> <p>Second preferred edition. Three volumes quarto with 24 engraved maps and profiles; separate folio atlas containing two charts and 62 engraved plates. London 1785.</p> <p>---</p> <p>The set is made up as follows:</p> <p>First voyage</p> <p>HAWKESWORTH John. An Account of the Voyages. for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. </p> <p>Three volumes quarto 51 engraved plates and maps many folding. London Strahan and Cadell 1773.</p> <p>First edition first issue before printing of the chart of the Streights of Magellan and the "Directions for Placing the Cuts".</p> <p>Cook's great first voyage into the Pacific during the course of which he discovered and charted the entire east coast of Australia naming it New South Wales. This is in fact a compendium of four major voyage accounts to the Pacific which culminates with that of Cook's first voyage which fills two of the three large volumes giving an enthralling account of his exploration of Tahiti New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. The work was edited by the professional writer John Hawkesworth who was given the original journals of Captains Byron Wallis Carteret and Cook as well as the private journal of Joseph Banks in order to prepare it for publication a task which took almost two years. Cook himself was in the middle of his second voyage when it was finally published in London to widespread enthusiasm on 9 June 1773 Cook was actually in Cook Strait New Zealand at the time having just left Queen Charlotte Sound.</p> <p>Hawkesworth's involvement in the book was controversial and much ink has been spilt on the subject of his fitness for the task the dilettante man of letters Horace Walpole is known to have wittily criticised Cook's enthusiasm for the fishermen of 40 islands Samuel Johnson an apparent fixation with exotic insects while indignant letters to contemporary editors attacked everything from Hawkesworth's apparent lasciviousness to his godlessness but these reactions cannot distract from the fascinating story the moments of early contact and the great characters such as Banks or the Tahitian priest Tupaia. The plates charts and views are magnificent and most famously include the first astonishing engraving of a kangaroo charts of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia and the moving depiction of the Endeavour hauled on shore just north of Cape Tribulation on the north Queensland coast to fix the hole that nearly sent them to the bottom.</p> <p>Beddie 648; Hill 782; Holmes 5n; Kroepelien 535.</p> <p>Second Voyage</p> <p>COOK James. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. </p> <p>Two volumes quarto 64 engraved plates and maps many folding. London Strahan and Cadell 1777.</p> <p>Second edition: the official account of Cook's great second voyage prepared for publication by the navigator himself. The superb engravings here in fine black impressions are mostly the work of Hodges whose recording of the voyage resulted also in a famous series of oil-paintings. This was the second of four London editions of the full work there would be many abridgements and translations. Unhappy with Hawkesworth's rendering of his first voyage Cook was determined that the second would not be similarly treated: although he had the editorial help of Dr John Douglas this "is certainly Cook's book. There were to be no more Hawkesworths. 'The Journal of my late voyage' writes Cook to his friend Commodore Wilson at Great Ayton 'will be published in the course of next winter and I am to have the sole advantage of sale. It will want those flourishes which Dr Hawkesworth gave the other but it will be illustrated and ornamented with about sixty copper plates which I am of opinion will exceed every thing that has been done in a work of this kind. As to the Journal it must speak for itself. I can only say that it is my own narrative and as it was written during the voyage' ." Beaglehole. The two resulting quarto volumes with their dramatic illustrations after the expedition's official artist William Hodges 'would have given pleasure to any author' but they were never seen by Cook who had embarked on his fatal last voyage by the time they appeared.</p> <p>Early in the course of this remarkable voyage the Antarctic circle was crossed for the first time when Cook cruised as far south as possible round the edge of the Antarctic ice. His belief in the existence of a land-mass in the southern ice ring was eventually proved by the nineteenth-century explorers. In the Pacific he visited New Zealand again and either discovered or revisited many of the islands including New Caledonia Palmerston and Norfolk Islands Easter Island the Marquesas New Hebrides Tonga the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia.</p> <p>Between February and May 1773 the two ships separated and Furneaux commander of the Adventure supplied Cook with the narrative of his experiences in the Adventure printed here: they called at Adventure Bay in Van Diemen's Land and sailed up the east coast "intending to coast it up along shore till we should fall in with the land seen by Captain Cook and discover whether Van Diemen's Land joins with New Holland". Before they stood away for New Zealand Furneaux had come to the opinion that "there is no straits between New Holland and Van Diemen's Land but a very deep bay.".</p> <p>Beddie 1216; Hill 358; Holmes 24; O'Reilly-Reitman 390; Printing and the Mind of Man 223.</p> <p>Third Voyage</p> <p>COOK James and James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by Command of his Majesty for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere.</p> <p>Three volumes quarto with 24 engraved maps and coastal profiles; with the separate folio atlas containing two charts and 62 engraved plates. London H. Hughs for Nicol and Cadell 1785.</p> <p>The official artist on the voyage was John Webber and his romantic views of the islands of the Pacific published here remain the most evocative portrayals of the islands - helping to create the notion of an island paradise that so affected the European public eagerly reading the voyages of discovery being published in the eighteenth century.</p> <p>This is an example of the second edition which is preferred to the first edition for a number of reasons. The most obvious difference is the use on the title-pages of the text volumes of engraved vignettes of the Royal Society Medal in volumes 1 and 2 and of an oval medallion portrait of Captain King in volume 3. The medal was awarded to Cook posthumously by the Royal Society in 1784 shortly after publication of the first edition of this book.</p> <p>This second quarto edition was printed by H. Hughs - rather than W. and A. Strahan who had printed the first edition - with the wording of the title-pages slightly modified and the text itself entirely re-set. As Forbes points out the second edition has always been "considered typographically superior to the first edition. That this was a contemporary opinion is borne out by a presentation inscription in a set Dixson Library State Library of New South Wales from Isaac Smith Mrs. Cook's relative and on her behalf addressed to Mrs. Cook's physician Doctor Elliotson: 'Clapham 5 May 1821. I am desired by Mrs Cook. to request your acceptance of the 4 books sent herewith being her Husbands last Voyage round the World as a mark of her respect. the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press'.". It is interesting to note that the presentation on behalf of Cook's widow was made some 35 years after publication and even then Mrs. Cook chose to give a copy of the second rather than the first printing let alone the third or subsequent editions.</p> <p>The full story of the voyage and Cook's eventual murder while revisiting the Hawaiian Islands was so eagerly awaited by the English public that the entire first edition had sold out at the then huge price of four pounds fourteen shillings and sixpence within three days and copies were soon changing hands at up to ten guineas. King George III's copy of the official account preserved in the British Library is also an example of this second edition.</p> <p>Beddie 1552; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography 85; Hawaii One Hundred 5; Hill 361; Holmes 47n; O'Reilly-Reitman 434.</p> </p> . Provenance: Private collection Sydney. Strahan & Cadell; Strahan & Cadell; H. Hughs for Nicol & Cadell unknown
1785000823London 1785. Third Edition. Hardcover. Three Volume Set plus Atlas Vols. 1 and 2 written by James Cook Vol. 3 written by James King. Three volumes quarto with 24 charts and plates and a folding table large folio atlas with 2 large folding charts and 61 plates. The text Volumes in contemporary calf with red and green labels yellow edges joints of the first volume a little cracked small blemish in back board of the third volume; the atlas in contemporary half calf a bit wearing joints cracked end papers blemished with matching red label. Some offsetting on to text slight foxing. A fine set each volume with the early nineteenth-century bookplate of George Spurrell of Barking Essex. Third edition is named the best edition rare with the atlas. Size: Folio Larger than 12"/25.4 cm . Quantity Available: 1. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 000823. . hardcover
178519946London: H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell 1785. 4 volumes Text: 3 vols. quarto 11 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches; Atlas vol. of plates: 1 vol. large folio 22 x 16 inches. Text: Engraved medallion vignette on each title 1 folding letterpress table 24 engraved maps coastal profiles and charts 13 folding. Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates plans and maps one double-page one folding. Text: contemporary calf expertly rebacked at an early date incorporating the original labels; atlas: expertly bound to style in half speckled calf over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards spine in eight compartments with raised bands each band flanked by triple gilt fillets red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment green morocco in the fourth the others with simple repeat decoration in gilt<br/> <br/>A fine copy of the second and best edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage including images of and text on the exploration of Hawaii and the west coast of America Canada and Alaska.<br/> <br/>"The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill. The typography of the second edition text of the third voyage is generally considered superior to the first Hughs took over the printing from Strahan and re-set all the text. Contemporary support for this view is reported by Forbes who quotes an inscription in a set presented by Mrs. Cook to her doctor Dr. Elliotson which notes ".the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letterpress." "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" Hill pp.61-62.<br/> <br/>Cf. Beddie 1543; cf. Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography 62; cf. Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; cf. Sabin 16250. H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell unknown books
178568797London: Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol 1785. An Exhibition Set of the Second and Best Edition of Cook's Third Voyage with Atlas<br> <br> COOK Captain James. KING Captain James. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the command of His Majesty for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook Clerke and Gore in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776 1777 1778 1779 and 1780. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook F.R.S. Vol. III. by Captain James King LL.D. and F.R.S. Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The Second Edition. London: Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol 1785.<br> <br> Second edition. Complete. Three quartos volumes. 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches; 298 x 231 mm plus large folio atlas volume 21 3/4 x 15 15/16 inches; 552 x 405 mm. Three volumes: 10 prelims xcvi 421 1 blank; 14 prelims 548; 14 prelims 556 pp. Three text volumes with twenty-four engraved plates and charts thirteen of which are folding and appendix with 1 folding letterpress table facing p. 528 in Volume III. Title-pages with engraved medallion vignettes. Atlas with the remaining 63 large plates and charts. The two charts in the atlas are folding. Bound in alongside the atlas plates are twenty full-page manuscript descriptions of plates in a contemporary hand. Twenty-one plates are described on twenty sheets. No doubt this set was kept or exhibited at a museum or a library. According to Forbes this second edition was "printed by H. Hughs rather than by W. and A. Strahan with the wording of the title page altered and the three-volume text completely reset. A distinguishing feature of the second quarto edition is the addition of engraved vignettes of the Royal Society Medal to the title pages. Volume I has Cook in profile and Volume II has the verso of the same medal. The Volume III title has an oval medallion portrait of Captain King. The second edition of Cook's Third Voyage is considered typographically superior to the first edition."<br> <br> The first two volumes of this narrative were written by Captain James Cook. The third volume was written by Captain James King after Cook died during the voyage.<br> <br> Three volumes in contemporary speckled calf. Volumes appear to be rebacked but the repair is invisible. Boards tooled in gilt Spines with red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Spines elaborately stamped in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges speckled brown. Board edges and corners slightly rubbed and bumped. Previous owner's bookplate in front pastedown of each volume. Some minor toning from plates and a bit of foxing. Atlas is bound in early cloth boards rebacked in half calf. Red and black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Boards tooled in blind spine stamped in gilt. All edges dyed brown. Two previous owner's contemporary bookplates and an early ownership signature on front pastedown. Approximately twelve plates in the atlas with marginal tears professionally repaired not touching the engravings. Plates 38 and 65 with repaired tears that touch engravings but with no loss. Both folding maps in the Atlas with some reinforcement repairs to backsides no loss. Plate 77 is trimmed and mounted on newer paper no loss. Some very light occasional dampstaining to Atlas margins but generally very clean. Overall a very good attractive set.<br> <br> "The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill.<br> <br> "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage.Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver.the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later the ships returned to England under John Gore. This voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery- the Hawaiian Islands" Hill p. 62.<br> <br> "Captain James Cook was the most intrepid and resourceful navigator of the century if not of all time. Thoughtful of the health of his men just in his dealings with the natives and strict in his discipline he most amply justifed the Admiralty in their choice of him as commander of the three voyages that go under his name" Cox p. 57.<br> <br> Hill 361. Mitchell Library Cook 1543; Sabin 16250. regarding 1st Edition; Forbes 62.<br> <br> HBS 68797.<br> <br> $26500. Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol unknown
1886312762Charleston South Carolina 1886. 120 vintage albumen prints 4-3/4 x 8 inches with one measuring 7-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches mounted to stiff card album leaves most captioned in ink in a contemporary hand with an additional albumen print 4-3/4 x 8 inches mounted on card heavily worn with loss stamped "Geo. L.G. Cook photographer 265 King Street Charleston S.C.". Folio 12-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. Contemporary black morocco gilt titled in gilt on front cover "The Charleston Earthquake / August 31st. 1886 / Francis W. Dawson. Spine perished but album intact extremities worn fading to some images occasional foxing to mounts and images. 120 vintage albumen prints 4-3/4 x 8 inches with one measuring 7-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches mounted to stiff card album leaves most captioned in ink in a contemporary hand with an additional albumen print 4-3/4 x 8 inches mounted on card heavily worn with loss stamped "Geo. L.G. Cook photographer 265 King Street Charleston S.C.". Folio 12-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. An album of 120 vintage albumen photographs showing the devastation to the city of Charleston South Carolina following the earthquake of August 31 1886. Estimated to have reached a magnitude of between 6.6 and 7.3 on the Richter scale the earthquake left 60 people dead and caused substantial property damage to nearly every structure in the city. Felt as far away as Chicago and Cuba the Charleston earthquake remains the strongest recorded earthquakes on the east coast of the United States.<br /> <br /> The photographs collected in this album were taken by various Charleston photographers in the aftermath of the earthquake and document extensive property damage soil liquefaction sink holes and fissures ruptured rail lines and overturned train cars and the tent camps erected to house the newly homeless. "At least forty thousand people were 'tenting' in Charleston by September 3" Williams & Hoffius p. 53. A particular focus is placed on the damage sustained by the many Charleston churches and grand private residences. The photographers include George La Grange Cook 1849-1919 son of the prominent Civil War photographer George S. Cook 1819-1902. Cook's earthquake photographs were popular souvenir items and he offered some 200 images in his series "Cook's Earthquake Views of Charleston and Vicinity." Other identified photographers include the Irish-born James A. Palmer 1825-1896 who specialized in views of southern blacks and the English-born William E. Wilson d. 1905 who specialized in documentary photography of Mobile and Savannah. Photographs of the destruction - along with vials of "earthquake sand" - were popular souvenirs among the waves of "disaster tourists" who began arriving shortly after the earthquake to view the ruined city.<br /> <br /> This album belonged to the English-born Francis W. Dawson 1841-1889 who in 1862 emigrated to the South to fight for the Confederacy. At the time of the earthquake Dawson was co-owner and editor of the Charleston News and Courier a photograph of the paper's damaged office is included in the album and was the city's most prominent private citizen. Despite his earlier support for the Confederacy Dawson used his influential position to urge racial tolerance and support for Reconstruction. Dawson was appointed a member of the Executive Relief Committee formed in the aftermath of the earthquake and was instrumental in spearheading and supporting the rebuilding of the city. His newspaper urged optimism and resilience in the face of mounting racial tension and the ever-present fear of another cataclysmic natural event. "Almost single-handedly Dawson was attempting to prod his fellow citizens to buck up and rebuild their city" ibid p. 93<br /> <br /> Produced between 1886 and the time of Dawson's sensational murder in 1889 the album may have been presented to Dawson as a tribute for his efforts in the rebuilding of the city. The first photograph in the album shows Dawson's home at 99 Bull Street with Dawson and family sitting on their new front porch rebuilt after its destruction during the earthquake. To the left of the family is Hélène Burdayron the Swiss au pair who was at the center of a dispute that lead to Dawson's murder. Williams & Hoffius Upheaval in Charleston 2011; Roxana Robinson "The Strange Career of Frank Dawson" The New York Times 20 March 2012 unknown
1785B6042London:: for G. Nicol Bookseller to his Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell in the Strand. c. 1785; . In near fine condition. Text and plates are clean and crisp. A handsome and attractive set. Several mispaginations with no loss: Vol I p. 263 as “173â€; Vol II p. 247 as “347â€; Vol III p. 379 as “579â€; Vol IV p. 172 as “72â€. Vol I: pp.293-297 marginal light browning. Edition: Second and superior Edition. Binding: Text vols: expertly rebacked saving contemporary full calf; spine with five 5 raised gilt bands forming six 6 gilt ornamented compartments; gilt-lettered title on red and black morocco labels on two and three; all edges red; endpapers renewed. Atlas volume: Half-calf with gilt dog-tooth roll bordering to marbled boards; spine with six 6 raised bands forming compartments of gilt ornamental design and gilt lettered titles on red and black morocco labels on two and three; edges slightly blue. Notes: Cook’s third voyage continued the centuries-old search for the North-West Passage beginning from the west. After passing Tasmania New Zealand and many islands in the South Pacific the crew sailed north and discovered the Christmas and Hawaiian Islands; onwards to their primary destination the Northwest Coast of America and the Bering Strait then returning south along the West Coast to California and back to Hawaii. It was during this second visit to Hawaii that Cook was killed and the expedition continued under the leadership of Clerke and Gore who led the crew to the eastern coasts of Siberia and finally returned to England in 1780. Cook contributed to the advancement of geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere to a degree that none of his predecessors had been capable of doing. “He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" Hill. Further he states about this work that it is “…an abridgement of Captain Cook’s third voyage… preferred by some readers because the nautical and technical parts having been deleted the work reads more like an adventure.†Hill.<br><br>Taking over from Strahan and setting out to print the second edition the present example of Cook’s third voyage Hughs re-set the text; since its typography is considered superior. Forbes refers to a book presentation inscription offered to Dr. Elliotson physician of Mrs. Cook: ".the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letterpress." <br> Size: 4to. 297x233mm Folio Illustration: Illustrated titles with vignette medallions incl. medallion portraits of the authors; as well as all 87 illustrations as listed on the table of plates: these of varying sizes: seven 7 engravings in vol I eleven 11 in vol II six 6 in vol III and 63 in the folio atlas. Volume: Three text volumes and o References: Beddie 1575; Cowan p.654-5; Cox II p.30; Ferguson p. 281; Forbes I 298; Graff 4456; Hill 2004 1753; ; Hill 362 later edition; Howes V-23; Judd 178; Lada-Mocarski 55; O’Reilly & Reitman 635; Sabin 16251 later edition; Sabin 98443; Smith 10469; S Pages: VOL I: 2 title blank contents 8 introduction i-lxxxvi To the Memory of Capt. James Cook lxxxvii-lxxxix bl. list of plates xci-xcvi; a voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1-421 3 including 7 plates; VOL II: 2 title blank contents 12 1- 548 2 including 11 plates; VOLIII: 2 title bl. contents 10 Contents Appendix bl. 1-487 bl. Appendix 489-556 with double page folding table 2; including 6 plates; Atlas VOL: 63 plates. Category: Book Pacific; Book Plate Books General; Book Voyages General; for G. Nicol, Bookseller to his Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. hardcover
1785140948368London: Printed by H. Hughes for G. Nicol bookseller to His Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1785. Second Edition. Near Fine. Second edition Four volumes consisting of three quarto text volumes and one folio atlas. Complete with a total of 87 copper-engraved plates. Bound in period-style mottled calf morocco title labels to spines ornate gilt tooling to spines and edges. Near Fine with light wear to covers; binding strong and sound. A beautiful set. <br /> <br /> <p>Text volumes: 10 xcvi 421; xiv 548; xiv 556 pp. 24 single page and folding maps and charts. Marbled endpapers all edges marbled. Ownership inscription dated 1844 to fly-leaf of each volume. Light toning to endpapers light offsetting from plates and occasional foxing. Erased pencil inscription along lower edge of Vol. I title page short tears to gutter margins of several plates tiny stain to plate facing p. 410 in Vol. II and soft crease to upper right corner of Appendix pages in Vol. III. Contents bright plate folds crisp.<br /> <br /> <p>Atlas: unpaginated no title page as issued; begins with a large folding map titled A General Chart: Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Capt.n James Cook in this and his two preceeding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command. Followed by double page map Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia explored in the Years 1778 & 1779 and 61 plates depicting people buildings landscapes artifacts and animals. Toning to marbled paper over boards light to moderate foxing to illustrated plates and very minimal foxing to maps. Short separation at fold intersection of first map lacking several tissue guards creasing to guards. Horizontal crease to final plate affecting text below illustration. The plate of the "Death of Cook" which occasionally appears in the second edition atlas but is not called for in the list of plates is not present in this copy. Holmes 19 Howes C729a Lada-Mocarski 37.<br /> <br /> <p>The second edition of the official account of Cook’s final voyage with the same collation as the first edition of the previous year. The eagerly-awaited first edition sold out within days despite its price of four and a half guineas – roughly $800 in today’s money. The books were printed with great care for George Nicole bookseller to the King and A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean is one of his finest works. John Webber was the expedition’s official artist and his evocative illustrations contributed to the book’s commercial success.<br /> <br /> <p>James Cook 1728–1779 was one of the greatest navigators in maritime history. The son of a laborer he went to sea as a teenager and worked his way up the ranks switching from the merchant navy to the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw combat in the Seven Years War and proved himself good at surveying rivers and coastlines in Canada. When the Royal Society proposed an expedition to the south Pacific to observe the transit of Venus across the face of the sun Cook was chosen to command it. He sailed for Tahiti on the Endeavor in 1768 accompanied by an astronomer botanist and two artists. Cook observed the transit and then sailed south in accordance with his secret instructions from the Admiralty: to search for the fabled “Great Southern Continent†and claim it for Britain.<br /> <br /> <p>The mythical continent was not uncovered but the Endeavor completed the outlines of Australia and New Zealand confirming that they were unconnected to any other landmass. Cook took possession of the Australian eastern coast he had charted in the name of King George named it New South Wales and upon returning to England in 1771 was promoted to commander.<br /> <br /> <p>The newly minted commander wanted another stab at finding the Great Southern Continent this time supported by an additional ship. The Resolution and Adventure sailed out in 1772 and the Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic circle. After sweeping the southern Pacific and charting and naming a number of islands Cook finally decided that the only continent south of Australia was the uninhabitable mass that likely existed beyond an ice barrier he could not cross. Nonetheless the voyage was scientifically significant and filled in many barren spaces on British maps. Cook was promoted yet again when he returned to England in 1775 by this time an international celebrity.<br /> <br /> <p>The following year Cook set out on his third voyage with the Resolution and Discovery. The mission was find a northern sea passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic and although that too was a failure the expedition accomplished a great deal else. The crew members were the first Europeans to make contact with the inhabitants of the Hawaiian Islands which Cook called the Sandwich Islands after one of his patrons. The captain surveyed 4000 miles of the Pacific Northwest coastline and the fine engraved plates in the Voyage’s atlas provide a valuable record of the people and places he encountered along his long journey.<br /> <br /> <p>That journey was to be his last. Cook had been well received when he first wintered in Hawaii but the reception was less warm when he returned after a storm damaged one of his ships. Hostilities between the Hawaiians and Europeans came to a head when the Discovery’s cutter was stolen and Cook came up with an ill-advised plan to hold Chief Kalani’opu’u-a-Kaiamamao as hostage against the boat’s return. An angry crowd confronted him on the shore and he was killed in the fracas along with four marines. The survey of Hawaii was completed by Cook’s replacement Captain Clerke and after another unsuccessful hunt for an Arctic passage the ships turned homeward.<br /> <br /> <p>Captain Cook’s violent death made the renowned navigator into something of a saint. One of his first lieutenants was James Burney beloved brother of the novelist Frances Burney and her reaction upon hearing the news was typical:<br /> <br /> <p>“How hard after so many dangers so much toil – to die in so shocking a manner – in an island he himself had discovered – among savages he had himself in his first visit to them rendered kind and hospitable and in pursuit of obtaining justice in a cause in which he had himself no interest but zeal for his other captain! He was besides the most moderate humane and gentle circumnavigator who ever went out upon discoveries; agreed the best with all the Indians and till this fatal time never failed however hostile they met to leave them his friends.â€<br /> <br /> <p>The gentleness of James Cook is up for dispute but the accuracy and impact of his work is not. His voyages of discovery considerably advanced the fields of geography astronomy ethnography and natural history. He laid the groundwork for the expansion of the British Empire changing the lives of millions of people around the world – for better and for worse. This account of his last and most important journey is a cornerstone of Pacific exploration literature and an essential historical resource. Printed by H. Hughes, for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand unknown
1771169427London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt 1771. The first published account of Cook's first circumnavigation First edition published two months after the return of the Endeavour and preceding Hawkesworth by two years. This copy has the leaf addressing the Lords of the Admiralty Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Written by Cook's mutinous midshipman "this was the first in a series of so-called 'surreptitious accounts' of Cook's various voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages naturally much slower in the press" Parks. This account was formally attributed to a host of figures including Banks Hawkesworth and even Cook himself. Arnold Wood in his Discovery of Australia 1922 was the first to suggest that the author was the American midshipman James Magra later Matra - subsequently a leading proponent of establishing a convict colony at Botany Bay - and this attribution supported by the editor of Cook's journals James Beaglehole is now widely accepted. Magra neglects to mention his unsavoury conduct on the voyage. "In May 1770. suspecting that Magra was implicated in the drunken cropping of his clerk's ears Cook suspended the midshipman from duty noting that he was 'one of those gentlemen frequently found on board Kings Ships that can very well be spared or to speake more planer good for nothing'" ADB. Magra was also likely the ringleader of an attempted mutiny at Tahiti which only failed because of a wave of venereal disease. Copies were sold with or without the leaf addressing the Admiralty "which has been misdescribed as a dedication. It is nothing of the kind but rather a provocative and brazen attempt to rebut an official notice which called into question the authenticity of the work and which is breathtaking in its temerity and even insolence. Because a relatively small number of copies of the book have survived with this additional leaf it is clear that the Admiralty responded by demanding the removal of this offending leaf" McCourt p. 145. The presence of the leaf is not conclusively indicative of first issue. This copy also has McCourt's uncancelled state of leaf N1. Quarto 269 x 211 mm pp. iv 130 3 1 blank. Nineteenth-century half calf green spine label spine ruled in gilt marbled sides edges sprinkled red. Binding refurbished abrasions where bookplate removed from front pastedown worming in upper margin but text unaffected couple of closed tears: very good. Beddie 694; ESTC T29208; Hill 1066; Holmes 3; Parks 6; Sabin 16242; Spence 229; Streeter 2405. James McCourt "A Second Cancel Leaf in A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the Years 1768 1769 1770 and 1771" Script & Print vol. 46 no. 3. 2022. unknown
17842022London: printed for G. Nicol bookseller to His Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell 1784. First edition. Three quarto volumes 11 7/16 x 9 inches; 290 x 230 mm. plus large folio atlas volume 21 3/4 x 15 15/16 inches; 552 x 405 mm. 8 xcvi 421 1 blank; 12 549 1 blank; 12 558 1 advertisement 1 blank pp. Volume III bound with the final leaf of advertisements for Cook's First and Second Voyages. Three text volumes with twenty-four engraved plates and charts thirteen of which are folding and appendix with 1 folding letterpress table facing p. 528 in Volume III. Sixty-three large plates and charts one folding one double-page in the folio atlas volume eighty-seven total. With tissue guards. The text volumes bound in contemporary tree calf. Spines each with two black leather spines labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped and ruled in gilt. A bit of rubbing and flaking to leather. Volume one rebacked with the original spine laid down. Each volume with some minor offsetting. Trivial foxing generally to preliminary leaves. Charts occasionally causing some offsetting. Publisher's advertisement in volume three with lower corner torn but not affecting text. Overall text is extremely clean. Atlas in contemporary marbled paper boards. Rebacked and recornered with half polished calf. Spine tooled in gilt. Generally the plates are exceptionally clean. Overall a very good set with beautifully clean text and plates. <br/><br/>"Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return the islander Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh James Burney James Colnett and George Vancouver. John Webber who was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society Islands the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice" Hill. printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell unknown books
1771008201London in the Strand. and London: at No. 51 St. Paul's Church Yard; and T. JEFFERIES at Charing-Cross: T. BECKET and PA De HONDT. and NICOLL W. 1771. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. JEFFERYS Thomas. The First Published Account of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific complete with Dedication Leaf. A cornerstone of any Cook collection. Two works in one bound in modern to style half calf over marbled boards some blind edge tooling spine with raised bands gilt tooling gilt titles to red calf labels. Internally Journal of a Voyage 1771 First Edition First Issue with the Dedication and printers instructions plus the two 'Otahitee Vocabulary' leaves bound in at end. BOUND AFTER: Description of East-Florida 1769 Third Edition much enlarged 2 parts in one 3 folding engraved maps title with small library ink-stamp & repair to fore margin small ink correction to C3v professional repairs to maps some loss to the first occasional small stain some soiling and light browning scattered spotting. 281214 mm. Folding map frontis 2 title & dedication 1 ii-viii; Stork - Description of East Florida 1 2-40 1 folding map; Bartrams Journal 1 xii 35 pp 1 errata & binders list1 folding map; Magra's Voyage 1 title 2 dedication 1 2-130 pp 3 Vocabulary of the Language of the Otahitee. The 3 folding maps engraved by T. Jefferys are: 1.East Florida. 2.St. Augustine the Capital of East Florida. 3.The Bay of Espiritu Santo in East Florida. Signatures: East-Florida - 2ff b-b4 B-G1. G-G2 2ff H-M4. Voyage round the World - 2ff B-S1 2ff Vocab. Public appetite for a detailed narrative encouraged a publishing race of which this work published less than three months after the expedition's return to England and almost two years prior to Hawkesworth's authorised version was the winner. This first issue containing the dedication leaf was swiftly withdrawn following the publicly advertised consternation of the dedicatees the Admiralty Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Published anonymously the work is generally attributed to James Magra an American mid-shipman aboard. Hill II:1066without dedication leaf; Hocken p9; Holmes 3; O'Rielly-Reitman 362; Sabin 4246 & 16242; DuRietz-catalogue of the Kroepelien Collection p215; Frost Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook 1995; Beddie 693/4; STC T29207. The work is a short but interesting narrative of Cook's first voyage which relates his visits to Tahiti New Zealand Australia New Guinea Batavia and Rio de Janeiro. The author is noteworthy because he is one of the few to criticize Cook in any meaningful way. Despite problems with the accuracy of the text this work will always hold the place of being the first account of that voyage and the first account in print of the Australian coast. in translation it also gave the French their first account of that voyage. <br/> <br/> T. BECKET and PA De HONDT. and NICOLL W. hardcover
1950156756Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1950. Final Draft script for the 1951 film dated October 18 1950. Although the front wrapper and the first distribution page identify the script as Part I the script presented here is the complete Final Draft divided into four parts Parts I-IV each with its own distribution page. Laid in are twelve call sheets dating from October 31 1950 through December 23 1950 with all but one heavily annotated in manuscript pencil.<br /> <br /> Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel. A Hitchcock classic following a psychotic socialite and tennis pro who meet on a train and promptly form a partnership to "exchange murders." The plan seems infallible until one person shirks his end of the deal. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in New York Los Angeles Washington DC and Connecticut.<br /> <br /> Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 115 dated OCT. 18 1950. Four distribution pages present one for each Part with the first receipt removed all others intact. 158 leaves with last page of text numbered 153. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated variously between 10/30/50 and 11/20/50. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with edgewear and a closed tear to the center left front wrapper bound with two gold brads.<br /> <br /> Call sheets: 8.5 x 11 inches. Near Fine overall.<br /> <br /> Grant US. Selby Masterwork. Silver Classic Noir. Spicer US. Warner Brothers unknown
1783310851Hartford: Nathaniel Pattern 1783. First edition lacking the map as in almost all copies. 208 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep over boards finely rebacked with period spine to style. Highest quality conservation repairs to edges of first four leaves of text and to corner margins on last two leaves. Very good copy in a handsome binding. First edition lacking the map as in almost all copies. 208 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare. "This is not only the first American book on the Northwest Coast but also the first American book on Hawaii" Streeter. <br/><br/>Ledyard is distinguished in many respects he was the only American to sail on Cook's third voyage which explored Alaska and discovered Hawaii. He was also in the boat that carried Cook ashore on the morning of his death. Indeed this work contains a detailed account of Cook's death "distinguished by its evident authority" Hill.<br/>The purpose of Cook's third voyage was twofold. Ostensibly it was to return Omai to his homeland in French Polynesia but the main purpose was to search for the Northwest Passage. The Resolution and Discovery departed Plymouth in 1776 and made their way via the Cape to New Zealand and Tahiti. It was from there that Cook discovered Hawaii which he regarded as his greatest achievement. The boats then proceeded to the Pacific Northwest and commenced their search for a route to the Atlantic. They returned to Hawaii for the winter of 1778-9. Their initial warm welcome soon wore off and tensions between the Hawaiians and the British resulted in Cook being killed on the shore of Kealakekua Bay on February 14 1779. Charles Clerke assumed command of the expedition and proceeded north once again to pursue the voyage's objective. The two ships returned to England in 1780.<br/>A Connecticut native after the voyage Ledyard remained in England until 1782 when he was posted to the North American station - the Revolutionary War was ongoing. He promptly deserted and returned to Hartford where this account was published. This work preceded Rickman's by a matter of months though in fact Ledyard made "liberal use of the first English edition of Rickman's account in his own narrative" Hill. This is not to deride Ledyard unnecessarily; in addition to his account of Cook's death his keen observations on the fur trade in the Pacific northwest are of great value.<br/><br/>Ledyard's account is one of the rarest works on Cook's third's voyage and Hill confirms that "only a few copies still have the map." It was wanting in both the Streeter and Brooke-Hitching copies. Beddie 1603; Evans 17998; Sabin 39691; Forbes 52; Hill 991; Howes L-181 "d"; Lada-Mocarski 36; Smith 5797; Streeter Sale VI:3477 Nathaniel Pattern unknown books
H219Berlin bey Haude und Spener 1772. XVI 232 pp. Without the errata leaf. Decorative contemporary full calf spine richly gilt. Lacks lettering piece. Foxing and brownspotting throughout but else a very good copy! Extremely rare and important - the very first printed account to have been published on one of Cook's voyages written by one of Cook's crew and published almost 2 years before Hawkesworth's book! - This volume 'which is the earliest printed account of Cook's voyage' is an extremely important work . published two months after the return of the navigator and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's eagerly awaited account' Cox. - Authorship of this anonymously published work has never been definitely clarified. It is generally assumed that the book was written by James Maria Magra Matra. The assumption made by some that it might have been Banks' or Solander's work was called 'flamboyantly absurd' by Beaglehole. The translator of the work was convinced that the book was written by William Perry the second surgeon 'who took this account from the diary of the first ship's surgeon who died at the Cape of Good Hope. What makes this all the more probable and nearly certain is the fact that the surgeons were the only persons excempt from the prohibition to publish reports on the voyage' transl. - A 'Letter to the translator from a friend in London' Sendschreiben eines Freundes in London an den Uebersetzer pp. 202-232 was included in the book. It includes a very detailed preview of the route planned for Cook's second voyage preparations for which were at that time just being made. Banks and Solander are still mentioned as natural scientists to accompany the voyage. In addition mention is made of the first discovery of the breadfruit tree by Anson and the kangaroo is described - most probably for the very first time the animal was mentioned in any book. Du Rietz 217 Cox I 54 Beddie 698. unknown
1773310853London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson 1773. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. Complete with frontispiece and 27 engraved plates including 1 map. xxiv 22 212 2 pp. Imperial 4to. Contemporary tree calf finely rebacked with gilt spine to period style. Fine. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. Complete with frontispiece and 27 engraved plates including 1 map. xxiv 22 212 2 pp. Imperial 4to. First edition of this important account of Cook's first voyage based on the journal of Parkinson who had been engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to serve as natural history draughtsman aboard the Endeavour. Parkinson died of dysentery on the homeward voyage and his account was transcribed and published by his brother Stanfield Parkinson who was forced by injunction to delay publication until Hawkesworth's official account appeared. "Parkinson made numerous drawings of botanical and other subjects including landscapes and portraits of native chiefs . Banks spoke highly of his 'unbounded industry' in making for him a much larger collection of drawings than he anticipated. His observations too were valuable and the vocabularies of South Sea languages given in his journal are of great interest" Hill. <br /> <br /> This copy includes the rare "Explanatory Remarks" by John Fothergill a Parkinson family friend who mediated an agreement between Stanfield Parkinson and Banks both of whom laid claim to the journal which would allow for the publication of the book. When Stanfield Parkinson included a scurrilous preface attacking Banks and misrepresenting his actions an offended Fothergill purchased the remaining copies inserting into them these 22 pages of remarks which sought to set the record straight. In 1784 he brought out a new edition of Parkinson's account which included the remarks but copies of the first edition which include them are scarce on the market. Beddie 712; Hill 1308; Holmes 7; Howgego C173; Du Rietz 944; Sabin 58787 Printed for Stanfield Parkinson unknown
178422657London: G. Carter 1784. Proof. A notable rarity in a proof edition with scratched text below the image after letters of the most beautiful depiction of the death of Captain James Cook. <br /> <br /> The artist George Carter was not an eyewitness to the events in Hawaii but his imagery and care in reconstructing the event places it as the most moving depiction of the event. Long a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and an accomplished portrait and historical painter the tragedy of Cook's death on 14 February 1779 was an ideal subject for his talents. His depiction is vivid showing Cook standing on the shoreline facing his attackers holding his rifle as a club. The detailed portraits of the Hawaiians and the English seaman are done with great intensity and variety and number more than 30 individuals. In this effort he was aided by John Hall who engraved the portrait of Cook and the other figures were engraved by I. Thornthwaite. The landscape was engraved by S. Smith. <br /> <br /> Carter painted the image in 1781 and helped to produce the print with the print makers Sayer and Bennet in 1784. The publishing line reads "London Published as the Act Directs by G. Carter of Margaret St. . Cavendish Square and Messrs. Sayer & Bennet in Fleet St." The artist and engravers line while somewhat indistinct follows this - "G. Carter pinxit; S. Smith engraved the Landscape; J. Hall engraved the Portrait of Captain Cook; the figures by I. Thornthwaite."<br /> <br /> We believe this image to be a proof for the following reasons- the simplified design of type used in the engraving of the title; the text of the publishing information matching that of the 1st edition but without the date of Jany. 1st 1784; the text of the artist/engravers line matching that of the 1st edition but appearing very faintly; the intensity of the image and a faint "Pr." in the bottom right margin of the print.<br /> <br /> The style of type used for the title is distinctly different than the first edition which was published "Jany. 1st 1784." In this edition the engraving of the title is quite unsophisticated and differs from the first edition significantly which is more highly decorated with four or five hatch marks on the letters DEATH JAMES and COOK. The style of this print's title matches that of a copy held in the British Museum. Call #Oc2006Prt.140. Unfortunately the BM print is missing the publishing line and much of the bottom margin. The State Library of New South Wales holds the first edition with the publishing line identical to this print with the publishing date of Jany. 1st 1784 Call # a1528432. The copy held by the National Library of Australia PIC Drawer 7452 #U3051 NK4835 erroneously states that their print is a first edition; the publication line reads "Published 18th April 1791 by ROBT. SAYER No. 53 Fleet Street London.<br /> The presence of a faint "Pr." in the bottom right margin confirms our suspicions. <br /> <br /> Beddie lists 5 issues of the print. These vary slightly in the size of the printed image and publication dates. This copy of the image measures 16 7/8 x 23 1/4". However slight variations in measuring devices could account for some of these differences and we don't regard the measurements as definitive of one edition over another. <br /> Beddie 2566 Jany 1st 1784 16 3/4 x 23 3/8"; <br /> Beddie 2567 Feby 1 1784 17 x 23 1/2"; <br /> Beddie 2568 as 'another' measuring 16 3/4 x 23 1/4; <br /> Beddie 2569 'The Same' publish'd 12 May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle 16 15/16 x 23 7/16"; Beddie 2570 'The Same' Proof before letters 16 15/16 x 23 7/16".<br /> <br /> Image size 16 7/8 x 23 1/4". Small margins trimmed within the plate mark laid on archival tissue some small sections of margin on the right side added but not affecting the printed surface title engraved in an unsophisticated style the publication line a bit rubbed and trimmed close the artist/ engravers line indistinct but not rubbed. No publication date listed after Fleet St. the 1st edition was published with the date Jany. 1st 1784 after "Fleet St.". <br /> <br /> A proof copy of a print that is a notable rarity. G. Carter unknown
17831851Hartford CT: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten 1783. First edition. Octavo in fours 6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches; 169 x 111 mm. 1-208 pp. Map absent as is almost always the case see note. Contemporary full brown sheep. Red morocco spine label lettered in blind. Original stab holes present indicating that this copy was once in original wrappers with seemingly original endpapers. Boards with some rubbing and edges bumped. Inner hinges with some minor professional repairs. Date "1783" in blue ink on title-page. Front free endpaper with old ink notes. A bit of toning and staining however considerably clean and bright unusual for an American book of this period. In a custom oatmeal cloth clamshell. Overall a very good copy. <br/><br/>The first American book on the Northwest Coast and likely the first American book on Hawaii written by a significant figure in the history of American contact narratives in the South Seas. This edition "preceded publication of the official London narrative by more than a year. The author a corporal of the marines aboard the Resolution was one of several Americans on the voyage but the only one to publish an account. As all hands were ordered at Macao to ‘deliver up their journals and every writing remark or memorandum on pain of the severest punishment in case of concealment' for forwarding to the Admiralty. Ledyard relied in great part on a copy of the Rickman narrative in drawing up this account. He however includes details of the voyage not available elsewhere. The account of his stay at Hawaii including his inland expedition and the death of Captain Cook at Kealakekua Bay occupies 64 pages of the text" Forbes. An enthusiastic and detailed account of Cook's voyage.<br/><br/>Concerning the absence of the map we read in the Hawaiian National Bibliography: "The map is particularly rare and is almost always lacking even in otherwise very good copies. Due to the erratic nature of American printing of the period it may well be that the map was not produced until the work was well under way or that it cost extra to purchasers as some copes show no evidence that it was ever present as is the case with this copy. In the American Antiquarian Society copy the map is bound on a stub at page 161 the beginning of Part III. This appears to be added evidence that the map did not appear until the last part of the publication was issued" 44. <br/><br/>Evans 17998. Hawaiian National Bibliography 52. Hill I pp. 176-177. Sabin 39691. Lada-Mocarski 36. Kroepelin 717. Howes L-178. Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten unknown books
1773310853London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson 1773. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. Complete with frontispiece and 27 engraved plates including 1 map. xxiv 22 212 2 pp. Imperial 4to. Contemporary tree calf finely rebacked with gilt spine to period style. Fine. First edition with the very rare "Explanatory Remarks" by Fothergill and postscript. Complete with frontispiece and 27 engraved plates including 1 map. xxiv 22 212 2 pp. Imperial 4to. With The Rare Explanatory Remarks by Fothergill. First edition of this important account of Cook's first voyage based on the journal of Parkinson who had been engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to serve as natural history draughtsman aboard the Endeavour. Parkinson died of dysentery on the homeward voyage and his account was transcribed and published by his brother Stanfield Parkinson who was forced by injunction to delay publication until Hawkesworth's official account appeared. "Parkinson made numerous drawings of botanical and other subjects including landscapes and portraits of native chiefs . Banks spoke highly of his 'unbounded industry' in making for him a much larger collection of drawings than he anticipated. His observations too were valuable and the vocabularies of South Sea languages given in his journal are of great interest" Hill. <br/>This copy includes the rare "Explanatory Remarks" by John Fothergill a Parkinson family friend who mediated an agreement between Stanfield Parkinson and Banks both of whom laid claim to the journal which would allow for the publication of the book. When Stanfield Parkinson included a scurrilous preface attacking Banks and misrepresenting his actions an offended Fothergill purchased the remaining copies inserting into them these 22 pages of remarks which sought to set the record straight. In 1784 he brought out a new edition of Parkinson's account which included the remarks but copies of the first edition which include them are scarce on the market. Beddie 712; Hill 1308; Holmes 7; Howgego C173; Du Rietz 944; Sabin 58787 Printed for Stanfield Parkinson unknown books
024160W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773;W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777; G. Nicol and T. Cadell. 1785. Quarto & Folio. In nine volumes; eight quarto volumes plus folio Atlas volume with the Death of Cook plate and the Chart of Magaellan. First Edition of the First Voyage first edition of the second voyage in which the pagination in these two volumes is continuous rather than separate pagination. And second edition of the third voyage. On laid paper marked GR. All together containing 204 Maps Plates Plans or Views most folding and as mentioned includes Webber's Death of Cook Plate in Atlas volume. Davidson pp. 53-54: "The importance of the work cannot be overstated as it is not only the first published account of the voyage but it is also an interesting narrative of the expedition. It will always be a highlight of any collection." Bookplate: The Hon. George Baillie Esq. One of the Lords of the Treasury 1724 in all eight volumes while atlas volume contains the bookplate of Henry Goodwin Rooth 1861-1928 who was a West India merchant and ship-owner barrister Metropolitan Police Court Magistrate 1917-1928. All the 8 volumes with very early rebacking with original spines laid down without disturbing the endpapers. There are internal repairs but most are marginal without penetrating any plates with the exception of a corner or two and again masterfully done. Some occasional foxing or offsetting to facing pages of plates plates may exhibit minor oning but mostly clean. Atlas volume had been rebacked and re-cornered and the plates in this volume are quite fresh with only one plate with a bit of foxing or off-setting. Each volume has been carefully collated and full disclosure of collation and condition upon request. Hocken pp. 10-11; Spence p.9; Rothchild 668. W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773;W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777; G. Nicol, and T. Cadell. 1785 unknown
178853641London 1788. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Large quartos. All volumes finely bound in uniform brown leather with blind-stamped ruling tooling and lettering on front covers and spines. Raised bands. Volumes with in continuous Roman numerals across all nine spines. Top edges of book blocks in gilt. Blind-stamped dentelles.<br /> <br /> This collection is most notable for the fact that the plates usually included in the atlas volume which was issued to accompany the third voyage publication have been instead bound into the three volumes of third voyage bringing the total to 85 plates. The total number of plates/maps across all volumes in the collection is 200. There is an additional engraved portrait of Cook as a frontispiece in his biography. The collection is complete and contains the most desirable editions of each of the respective voyages:<br /> <br /> The First Voyage<br /> Hawkesworth John. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and successively performed by Commodore Byron Captain Wallis Captain Carteret and Captain Cook in the Dolphin the Swallow and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders and from the papers of Joseph Banks Esq. IN THREE VOLUMES 51 PLATES IN TOTAL. London Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell. 1773 Second edition. Vol.1: xxvi 456pp. 20 plates Vol.2: xiv 410pp. 22 plates Vol.3: 395pp. 9 plates.<br /> <br /> The Second Voyage<br /> Cook James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in his Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure In the Years 1772 1773 1774 and 1775. To Which is Added Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. IN TWO VOLUMES 64 PLATES IN TOTAL. London. Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell. 1777. Second edition. Vol.1: xl 378pp. 37 plates Vol.2: 396pp. 27 plates.<br /> <br /> The Third Voyage<br /> Cook James; James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cooke Clerke and Gore. In his majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776 1777 1778 1779 and 1780. IN THREE VOLUMES. 85 PLATES IN TOTAL. London Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell. 1785. Third edition. Vol.1: xcvi 421pp. 24 plates Vol.2: 548pp. 40 plates including 1 unlisted Vol.3: 564pp. 22 plates including 1 unlisted and missing 3.<br /> <br /> WITH<br /> <br /> Kippis Andrew. The Life of Captain James Cook. London Printed for G. Nicol and C.G.J. and J. Robinson. 1788. First edition. xvi 527 1pp.<br /> <br /> For many reason's these works are considered of some the greatest travel and exploration literature and are significant in western history. Not as often mentioned is that fact the the second volume of the first voyage contains a wonderful image of a kangaroo first sketched by artist Sydney Parkinson 1745-1771 who traveled and died on Cook's first voyage. Parkinson was the first western artist to encounter the animal and his original sketch served as the basis for both this engraved image an the painting "The Kongouro from New Holland" 1772 by George Stubbs. That painting along with a companion piece is considered the first artistic image of Australian animals by a Western artist and is quite acclaimed. The engraved image included here can therefore be considered the first image of an Australian animal to have ever been published.<br /> <br /> Some light rubbing to extremities and scratches to a few of the bindings. A few volumes with starting at the gutter of the interior front cover or front endpapers although book blocks in the set are overall quite tight. There are a few instances throughout the collection of sporadic minor to light foxing but text and images are overall quite clean. Bindings in very good- to very good condition overall. Interiors in very good condition overall. The second volume has one listed plate at p.367 titled "A Man of Prince William Sound" which in our copy is actually a double plate also showing "A Woman of Prince William Sound". A plate of the same name depicting the same woman as a larger full fold-out is located right after p. 369 and listed in the table of plates. Similarly a larger fold-out version of the man is present as an additional unlisted plate located at p.69. <br /> <br /> The third volume includes an additional unlisted plate "Three Views of Arched Point of Kerguelen's Land" on p.488. and is missing three plates: "A Young Woman of the Sandwich Islands" p.125 "A Man of the Sandwich Islands with his Helmet" p.126 and "Views on the coast of Kamtschatka" p.312. hardcover
182961486Berlin, Joachim Pauli bzw. (nur ?Mineralien?) Frankfurt-Leipzig, auf Kosten der Verlags-Casse, 1771-1829. 8°. Mit zus. 32 kolor. Titelkupfern, 64 gest. kolor. Titelvignetten, einer gefalt. Tabelle, 2 gefalt. kolor. Kupferkarten u. 2161 (davon 2 gefalt. u. 2149 kolor.) Kupfertafeln. Zus. ca. 20.700 S., HLdr.-Bde. d. Zt. a. 5 Bünden m. etw. Rückenverg., je 2 goldgepr. Rückenschildern u. dreiseitigem Farbschnitt.
LCS-2714La première critique gastronomique adressée aux anglais par un français. « Des plaisirs de la table chez les anglais… ». L’exemplaire finement relié pour Madame de Pompadour, la protectrice de l’auteur. Amsterdam (Paris) 1751. 3 tomes en 3 volumes in-12 de : I/ (1) f.bl., (2) ff., lvi pp. de préface, 346 pp., (1) f. de fautes à corriger, (1) f.bl. ; II/ (1) f.bl., (2) ff., 380 pp. (1) f.bl. ; III/ (1) f.bl., (2) ff., 412 pp. (1) f.bl. Reliés en plein maroquin rouge de l’époque, large roulette richement dorée encadrant les plats, armes frappées or au centre, dos lisses ornés de fleurons dorés, pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin havane, filet doré sur les coupes, roulettes intérieures dorées, tranches dorées. Reliures de l’époque. 165 x 96 mm.
