Lovecraft, H P; W Paul Cook [Editor]; Donald Wandrei; Clark Ashton Smith; Vrest Orton, et alBiblio.com
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1927140947953Athol MA: W. Paul Cook 1927. First Edition. Very Good. An association copy of the first and only issue of the legendary amateur periodical published by W. Paul Cook. Provenance: Vincent Starrett's copy with his name written on the first page. Starrett who corresponded with Lovecraft had short stories published in the earliest issues of Weird Tales and poems in Arkham House anthologies. A journalist writer and literary scholar he is best know for his pioneering works of Sherlock Holmes scholarship. <p>78 pp. Stapled sheets in publisher's original pictorial wraps illustrated by Vermont Country Store co-founder and friend of Lovecraft Vrest Orton. Very Good. Textblock completely detached from wraps old tape reinforcement to spine small faint tidemark to front cover at top edge light chipping to spine ends and corners. <p>The New England writer and publisher William Paul Cook was a friend and supporter of H. P. Lovecraft and encouraged the literary research that Lovecraft synthesized into his famous essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." The essay occupied pages 23 through 59 of The Recluse a periodical Cook began for his own amusement. The contributors who included Clark Ashton Smith Donald Wandreiand Vrest Orton were not paid and Cook never got around to publishing a second issue. Joshi I-B.ii.335a. W. Paul Cook unknown
1797132846Boston: Thomas & Andrews and D. West January 1797. The first collected edition of Cook's voyages to be published in the US First US collected edition of Cook's three voyages. Forbes notes that it "appears to be an adaptation of the text contained in Volumes VI and VII of William Mavor's Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages Travels & Discoveries" 1796. This edition is uncommon with just two copies traced institutionally in the UK. "Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilisation and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century. Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer an excellent administrator and planner and probably the first sea captain to realise the importance of preserving the health and well-being of his crew. He did everything possible to maintain their physical fitness and the cleanliness of both men and ships. He conquered the hitherto prevalent scurvy by cutting down the consumption of salt meat and by always having fresh vegetables and fruit on board" Printing and the Mind of Man. 2 vols duodecimo 170 x 95 mm. Copper engraved frontispieces and seven plates the plate "A view of the habitations in Nootka Sound" present twice though only called for in vol. II. Contemporary brown calf rebacked to style titles to red morocco label to spines. Ownership inscription dated 1952 in green ink to p. iv of both vols; ownership stamp of Vasconcellos to foot of p. 5 of volume II. Careful restoration to spine ends and tips. A couple of scuffs to covers edges toned pencil marks to pastedowns occasional worming to contents most notably at foot of gathering y in volume II tear to fore edge of p 289-90 of volume II occasional dampstains to contents offsetting to text nevertheless a very good copy. Beddie 58; Forbes 270; not in Hill; Sabin 16258. unknown
1777230013<p><strong>A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. </strong>Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure in the Years 1772 1773 1774 and 1775. Written By James Cook Commander of the Resolution In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships.</p><p>Illustrated with Maps and Charts and a Variety of Portraits of Persons and Views of Places drawn during the Voyage by Mr. Hodges and engraved by the most eminent Masters. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand.</p><p>In Two Volumes. The Second Edition. MDCCLXXVII 1777. <strong>$12000 NZD</strong></p><p>Unique Quarto 11 inches high Second Edition Set of Captain Cook's Voyages highquality rebinding 1990's with 62 engraved illustrations maps and charts.</p> W Strahan and T Cadell hardcover
17854401834Paris: Hôtel de Thou 1785. Fine. Five quarto volumes including the final atlas volume containing a total of 88 engraved maps and plates; uniform full calf armorial bindings of the period. <p><p>A superb set of the desirable first French edition of the official account of Cook's third voyage in outstanding contemporary French bindings bearing the arms of the Ruolz Montchal family and the motto "Toujours pret". A smaller edition in octavo was published at the same time but this larger and handsome version is or course greatly preferred. It is illustrated in the manner of the English publication and has a version of the famous "Death of Cook" plate based on the original drawing by John Webber not all copies of the French quarto edition include this plate. Furthermore the fourth and final volume of the text is complete with all seven appendices including the folding vocabulary table.</p> <p>The full story of Cook's great third voyage and his eventual murder while revisiting the Hawaiian Islands that he had discovered earlier during the voyage was almost as eagerly awaited by the European as by the English public: the approximately forty ediitns that appeared befpre 1800 included vesion sin Fench Dutch Geman ruswsian Swedish and Italiqan. This French version is th emost handsome of all the 4editiins ager the English official account.</p> <p>Bligh Burney Colnett Vancouver and Riou - all later to command important voyages of their own - were all members of the expedition which set out to return Omai to Tahiti and to search for a northwest passage. They called at Kerguelen Island Tasmania the Cook Tonga and Society Islands turned north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands and went on to chart the northwest coast of America from Northern California to 70o 44' where they were stopped by pack ice. On their retrn to Hawaii Cook was killed.</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 public eagerly reading the voyages of discovery being published in the eighteenth century.</p> <p>The Ruolz-Montchal family derived from the Ardèche. but moved in the 18th century to the Lyon area where they held the property of Le Chatelard in Francheville until the early 20th century. Their most famous member was Henri-Catherine-Camille de Ruolz-Montchal 1808-1887 the French industrial chemist composer and comte a friend of both Balzac and Alexandre Dumas.</p> </p> . Provenance: Ruolz Montchal family large gilt coat-of arms on all covers. Hôtel de Thou unknown
H1007London Alexander Hogg 1780. Titel S. 593-1172 2 Bl. =der Appendix über Cooks 3. Reise 11 S. Index 1 S. directions to the bookbinder 2 Bl. Subskribentenliste. Mit zahlreichen Tafeln und Karten. Dekorativer Ganzlederband der Zeit mit 2 Rückenschildern und auf Bünden. Gelenke gebrochen berieben. Der Ba enthält auf den Seiten 1117–1156 eine umfangreiche Beschreibung von Cooks zweiter Reise. Was ihm jedoch weit größere Bedeutung gibt ist der fast immer fehlende 4seitige Appendix über Cooks dritte Reise und seinen Tod. Dieser wird in größeren Teilen Ellis und Rickman zugeschrieben. Jedoch enthält er auch Passagen unbekannten Ursprungs. Hierzu Forbes: "Although in great measure extracted from William Ellis' 'Authentic Narrative…' London 1782 this little-known account of Cook's stay at Kealakekua and of his death also contains frequent unacknowledged passages from the anonymously authored account 'Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage' London 1781 by John Rickman. There are however comments and embellishments to this text that appear in neither the Rickman nor the Ellis account. Though of unidentified authorship as most of the account is from Ellis he was probably the compiler. This appendix is very rare. Holmes says that 'of the eight copies he examined but one … contains the 4 p appendix.'" Das 2-bändige Werk erschien ursprünglich in 100 wöchentlichen Lieferungen die ersten davon bereits 1778 noch zu Lebzeiten Cooks. Die beschriebenen Inhalte reichen bis 1780 die letzten Ausgaben erschienen vermutlich 1782. Alle großen frühen Reisen werden beschrieben: Cook Columbus Drake Dampier Bougainville Byron etc. etc. - Forbes 42 Holmes 103 Beddie 751. unknown
177342375London: for W. Strahan & T. Cadell 1773. 4 volumes 4to. 11 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches. Vol. I: xx xxxvi 4 138 '139-360' 361-676 pp. Vol II: xv 1 410 pp. Vol III: vi 411-799 pp. With the 'Preface to the Second Edition' the earliest state of Vol. I text and continuous pagination sequence in Vols. II-III. Complete with 52 plates maps and charts 18 folding 24 double-page including the large folding 'Chart of the Streights of Magellan.' The maps and charts are here contemporaneously bound in a separate atlas volume. Contemporary full calf spines with raised bands forming seven compartments red and green morocco lettering pieces in the second and third compartments<br/> <br/> A fine copy of the second and best edition of Hawkesworth's account of all the most important mid-18th century English voyages of exploration to the southern hemisphere: including the official account of Cook's first voyage. A fascinating narrative intended to 'embellish England's prestige as a maritime power' Hill and describing events that were to be major factors in the shaping of the subsequent history of the region. This copy with the map of the Straits of Magellan not generally issued with the first edition of the same year and all maps and charts bound in a unique fourth volume at the time of publication.<br/> <br/> One of the standard works of Pacific voyages giving an account of English voyages of the 1760s in the first volume and of Cook's first voyage in the second and third volumes. The first volume includes an account of John Byron's voyage to the Tuamoto Islands and the Gilberts as well as Capt. Wallis' voyage of discovery to Tahiti and Moorea. Captain Carteret's discovery of Pitcairn Island is also told. The majority of the book is devoted to an account of Cook's first Pacific voyage. "The first voyage under Captain Cook's command on the Endeavour was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition was to sail to Tahiti in order to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun to determine the earth's distance from the sun and also to carry on the geographical discovery that John Byron had started. Entering the Pacific around Cape Horn Cook reached Tahiti in 1769 and carried out the necessary astronomical observations.Leaving Tahiti in July Cook discovered named and charted the Society Islands and then heading southwest explored New Zealand then headed towards Australia and discovered and charted the eastern coast for 2000 miles naming the area New South Wales. Both Australia and New Zealand were annexed by Britain as a result of this voyage which began in 1768 and ended in 1771" Hill.<br/> <br/> Beddie 648; cf. Hill 2004 782; Holmes 5; Sabin 30934. for W. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown
1812550272Philadelphia 1812. Softcover. Very Good. Manuscript notebook. Small quarto 6½" x 7¾". Contains 85 manuscript pages written in ink on the rectos and versos in two separately paginated parts. Each part or "volume" consists of two lectures: Lecture 4 - Mortification pp. 1-12 and Lecture 5 - Wounds pp. 13-42; Lecture 6 - Wounds continued pp. 2 1-24 and Lecture 7: Ulcers pp. 24-42. Original marbled paper wrappers with a bookseller's printed paper titling label: "Sold by T. Desilver 220 Market and 152 South 6th St." mounted on front cover. The label is titled in manuscript: "Notes on Surgery Volume 3d - per Silas C. Cook . ." Laid-in is a folded octavo sheet titled: "Recipe for Pills" which lists the ingredients of cough and digestive pills. One page in the notebook also contains a recipe for "Cathartics Emetic." The wrapper is torn at head of spine with some loss spine and left edge of front cover mended with old strips of clear tape minor toning and scattered short tears and nicks very good overall.<br /> <br /> A remarkable notebook documenting early American diagnosis and treatments of "mortification" defined as "the certain destruction or death of any part of the body"; and of multiple types of wounds including: punctured lacerated and penetrating wounds; wounds of the face and abdomen etc. as well as gun shot wounds. Also included is a final lecture on ulcers. Celebrated today as the "Father of American Surgery" Philip Syng Physick was among the few doctors who remained in Philadelphia to care for the sick during the city's devastating Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. A surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital 1784-1861 and professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Physick was one of the most sought-after medical lecturers of the 19th century. His lectures prepared a generation of surgeons for service throughout America including Dr. Silas Cook.<br /> <br /> Born in 1791 Silas Cook was raised in Morristown New Jersey and pursued his medical studies under the guidance of Dr. Lewis Condit a leading Morris County physician. He attended Physick's medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania during the winters of 1812 and 1813. Licensed to practice in 1813 he conducted a successful practice throughout New Jersey until 1842. From 1842 until 1857 he was located at Easton Pennsylvania where he was rated as one of Easton's most skillful and successful physicians. In 1857 he returned to Hackettstown New Jersey and continued in practice until his death in 1873.<br /> <br /> An important notebook documenting contemporary surgical procedures and the education of an early American doctor in the early 19th Century. unknown
177341891London: for W. Strahan & T. Cadell 1773. 3 volumes 4to. 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches. 52 plates maps and charts 18 folding 24 double-page. Contemporary full calf spines with raised bands forming six compartments red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth compartments other compartments tooled gilt.<br/> <br/> Second edition of Hawkesworth's account of all the most important mid-18th century English voyages of exploration to the southern hemisphere: including the official account of Cook's first voyage. A fascinating narrative intended to 'embellish England's prestige as a maritime power' Hill and describing events that were to be major factors in the shaping of the subsequent history of the region.<br/> <br/> One of the standard works of Pacific voyages giving an account of English voyages of the 1760s in the first volume and of Cook's first voyage in the second and third volumes. The first volume includes an account of John Byron's voyage to the Tuamoto Islands and the Gilberts as well as Capt. Wallis' voyage of discovery to Tahiti and Moorea. Captain Carteret's discovery of Pitcairn Island is also told. The majority of the book of course is devoted to an account of Cook's first Pacific voyage. "The first voyage under Captain Cook's command on the Endeavour was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition was to sail to Tahiti in order to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun to determine the earth's distance from the sun and also to carry on the geographical discovery that John Byron had started. Entering the Pacific around Cape Horn Cook reached Tahiti in 1769 and carried out the necessary astronomical observations.Leaving Tahiti in July Cook discovered named and charted the Society Islands and then heading southwest explored New Zealand.then headed towards Australia and discovered and charted the eastern coast for 2000 miles naming the area New South Wales. Both Australia and New Zealand were annexed by Britain as a result of this voyage which began in 1768 and ended in 1771" Hill.<br/> <br/> Beddie 648; cf. Hill 2004 782; Holmes 5; Sabin 30934. for W. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown
178427732London: W. Byrne No. 79 Titchfield Street & J. Webber No. 312 Oxford St. 1784. First printing. Print. Very good condition. The separately published image by Webber of one of the iconic images of the 18th century. Cook already a successful navigator was immortalized after his death at the hands of Hawaiian natives at Karakakoa Bay. Cook had spent two months on the Big Island in 1779 and was well received the natives believing he was a god. When he was forced to return due to a damaged mast he was viewed as a mortal who had already sorely stretched the supplies of the Hawaiians. It is also thought that his handling of the natives was uncharacteristically brusque leading to conjecture that this consummate traveler's judgment was somehow impaired. Copper engraving published as the Act Directs 1st Jan. 1784 by J. Webber No. 312 Oxford Street and W. Byrne No. 19 Titchfield Street London. 22 3/4 x 18 1/4" image size. A very crisp impression on laid watermarked paper. With the impression mark. A very nice bright clean copy of an important separately published engraving. Some cracking of edges outside the impression mark restored and the print is laid on archival paper. W. Byrne, No. 79 Titchfield Street & J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford St. unknown
177721449London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777. 2 volumes 4to. 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Engraved portrait of Cook by J. Basire after Wm. Hodges 63 engraved plates maps and charts 1 folding letterpress table. Expertly bound to style in half eighteenth century russia over period marbled paper covered boards spine with raised bands in six compartments red and black morocco lettering pieces in the second and fourth the others with a repeat decoration in gilt<br/> <br/> Cook's second voyage describing his attempt to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search for a southern continent.<br/> <br/> "Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century" Printing and the Mind of Man p.135. "The success of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition described in the present work which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents . the men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island the Marquesas Tahiti and the Society Islands Niue the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands. Rounding Cape Horn on the last part of the voyage Cook discovered and charted South Georgia after which he called at Cape Town St. Helena and Ascension and the Azores . This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude and improved techniques for preventing scurvy" Hill p.123 "This the official account of the second voyage was written by Cook himself . In a letter dated June 22nd 1776 to his friend Commodore William Wilson Cook writes: - "The Journal of my late Voyage will be published in the course of the next winter and I am to have the sole advantage of the 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 the 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 ."' Holmes pp.35-36.<br/> <br/> Beddie 1217; cf. Hill 2004 358; cf. Holmes 24; cf. Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A2; cf. Sabin 16245. W. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown
17778604<p><strong>Cook's Second Voyage</strong></p><p><strong>Maps and plates bound in a separate volume.</strong></p><p>3 volumes; 2 volumes of text 1 volume of plates. Frontis i-xxxvi 378pp 8396pp 63 plates. Collated complete. Quarto. 11½ x 9 inches. Original brown leather boards professionally rebacked with the original spines laid down. General wear and scuffing to each volume particularly at the corners. Frontis portrait of Cook trimmed close with lower portion of text shaved. Bookplates. Very minimal foxing bright and clean throughout.</p><p>Second edition published the same year as the first. 3 volumes; aside from the frontis portrait of Captain Cook in the first volume all of the other plates and maps called for are published separately in a third volume. The official account of Cook's second voyage and his first as commander of the Resolution 1772-1775. The success of Captain James Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men on this expedition were the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island The Marquesas Tahiti and the Society Islands Niue the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands. Beddie: 1217; Hill: 358; Sabin: 16245.</p><p>Bookplates of G. C. Bainbridge and Charles Savile Roundell. Charles Savile Roundell 1827–1906 was an English cricketer lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1895.</p> Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand hardcover
#[12736]Leyden Amsterdam 's Hage Honkoop Allart en van Cleef 1795-1803. 13 volumes index volume. Contemporary half calf top of spines of 3 volumes sl. dam. with morocco labels to spines. With engraved portrait 13 engraved title-pages 52 folding engraved maps by C. van Baarsch and 134 engraved plates mostly folding by J.S. Klauber. First Dutch edition; with bookplate of B.J. van Dongen. - First collected accounts of the three great voyages by James Cook 1728-1779 the first really scientific navigator providing 18th century Europeans with their first virtually complete insight into the previously more or less unexplored region of the Pacifc. Volume I-III contain the life of Cook and his first voyage 1768-1771. The expedition sailed aboard HMS Endeavour to Tahiti then sailed to New Zealand.where he mapped the complete coastline. He was the first European in New Zealand since Abel Tasman in 1643. Cook then voyaged west reaching the southeastern coast of Australia near today's Point Hicks on 19 April 1770 and in doing so his expedition became the first recorded Europeans to have encountered its eastern coastline. Cook returned to England via Batavia. Volume IV-VII contain his second voyage 1772-1775. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at an extreme southern latitude becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. On his return voyage to New Zealand in 1774 Cook landed at the Friendly Islands Easter Island Norfolk Island New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Volume VIII-XIII contain his third voyage 1776-1780. On his last voyage Cook again commanded HMS Resolution while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery. On this expedition he became the first European to begin formal contact with the Hawaiian Islands. From the Sandwich Islands Cook sailed north and then northeast to explore the west coast of North America north of the Spanish settlements in Alta California. He charted the majority of the North American northwest coastline on world maps for the first time. Cook returned to Hawaii where he was killed in a fight between his men and the natives of Hawaii in 1779. 'Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations up the 19th century. Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer an excellent administrator and planner and probably the first sea captain to realize the importance of preserving the health and well-being of his crew' P.M.M. p.135. - James Cook contributed much to European knowledge of the Pacific several islands were encountered for the first time by Europeans and charting of large areas of the area was a major achievement. - Some volumes sl. waterstained. - A fine set. Tiele 268; Cat. NHSM I p.140; Beddie 52. unknown
190343363London.: George Allen. 1903 - 1912. Contemporary burgundy half-morocco by W. J. Mansell with his stamp to front free endpapers verso marbled boards and endpapers banded spines with gilt titles t.e.g. others uncut. 39 vols. Large 8vo. 250 x 176 mm. Monochrome and colour plates and text illustrations throughout. The complete literary works of John Ruskin.This edition remains the only collected edition of Ruskin limited to 2062 copies and produced to a very high standard at the Ballantyne Press. George Allen. hardcover
17855001066Florence 1785. Small folio original quarter calf and boards a fine copy. <p><p>Rare eccentric but beautiful elegy for Cook. This prose essay honouring the life and voyages of the navigator in florid style would have greatly embarrassed him. Describing his achievements in purple tones "this prodigy of nature" is lauded for his mapping of the St Lawrence to which the author ascribes much of General Wolfe's successes. Each of the three voyages of discovery is described in some detail while Cook like many sailors a non-swimmer is given powers that he never possessed: "From his infancy he was accustomed to the useful practice of swimming and could cleave the waves of the Ocean with the facility of its inhabitants".</p> <p>Although the poem exhibits a particular interest in the exotic islands of Tahiti and Hawaii as well as the sometimes violent interactions in New Zealand the work does include a particularly attractive passage on Cook's grounding on a reef and subsequent beaching at Endeavour River.</p> <p>This is a beautifully printed book in the best Italian eighteenth-century tradition much in the style of Bodoni using elegant roman and italic types classically composed within ruled borders. The dedication is to Sir Horace Mann then English ambassador to the Court of Tuscany.</p> <p>Gianetti was professor of anatomy at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova and well-known as a dilettante poet and friend of English poets such as Hester Lynch Piozzi. The English translation is signed R.M. that is the English poet Robert Merry who wrote under the pseudonym Della Crusca and was the great English literary figure in Tuscany at this time. This work could be compared with Merry's own Ode on Rodney's defeat of De Grasse in the West Indies 1782 which appeared accompanied by a French translation by Sir Wogan Browne and an Italian translation by Gianetti himself Brian Moloney 'The Della Cruscan Poets' MLR January 1965 p. 50.</p> </p> . unknown
17796000075London: J K Sherwin 1779. Engraving artist's proof copy 275 x 235 mm mounted and framed. <p><p>A proof impression before title date and some letters of the first issue of the first separately published engraving of Captain Cook.</p> <p>This famous portrait of the navigator was published in the year of his death though news of the events at Kealakekua Bay did not reach Europe until the following year. Now the trademark image of Cook as a result of its very many subsequent versions Beddie lists an astonishing 284 entries for the Dance group it was considered the best likeness at the time and is known for example to have been distributed to friends by his widow Elizabeth. It is a conspicuously rare portrait in this first version. The engraving is based on Nathaniel Dance's original portrait commissioned by Joseph Banks for which Cook sat for Dance in 1776 before sailing on his third voyage. The painting is today in the National Maritime Museum Greenwich. Dance one of the greatest of British history painters and a founding member of the Royal Academy shows Cook wearing captain's full-dress uniform and holding his own chart of the Southern Ocean: the caption "New Holland" can clearly be discerned in the engraving.</p> <p>This extremely rare proof was pulled before the image had been titled and dated and before the usual pinxit and sculpsit notes had been added to the artists' names; this state corresponds with an example in the Mitchell Library where it is item 3 in an 18th-century connoisseur's album entitled "Three voyages round the world" while a subsequent state with the addition of the title is held in the Dixson Library Beddie 3379. An earlier less-developed form where the shape of Cook's body has been simply blocked out is held by the National Library Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK10914/A and /B.</p> </p> . J K Sherwin unknown
238712London Printed for Alex Hogg 1784-86. Folio 385 x 235 mm. 655 5 pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait 1 folding engraved map and 155 engraved plates maps and views. Portrait title preface folding map and the last two pages with neatly repaired marginal tears. A few plates and pages with minor marginal waterstaining. 1 plate with tear in lower margin. Finely bound in modern half morocco with red leather label and six raised bands Baythun Bath. . hardcover
17974505245Leipzig vol. 1 and Berlin 1797. Six volumes small octavo two large folding engraved maps of North America a folding plate of the breadfruit and 19 other plates; in period bindings probably German of half calf and marbled boards flat spines gilt in compartments light brown leather labels and green diagonal numbering-pieces; a very attractive set. <p><p>A fine set of the first collected edition of the works of Georg Forster. The first volume was revised and edited by Forster himself who died before the remaining volumes were published and was the only volume to be published in Leipzig it was reprinted later in Berlin; the subsequent volumes were published in Berlin between 1794 and 1797. Some sets are therefore found with the second Berlin rather than the first Leipzig edition of the initial volume. As the title implies this set prints an important selection of Forster's shorter pieces. A great number of the essays printed here relate to Pacific voyaging reflecting Forster's enduring interest in the region. Fittingly the first essay is his important and long-overlooked memoir of Captain Cook 'Cook der Entdecker' first published as the introduction to the German edition of Cook's third voyage and only recently translated into English for the first time.</p> <p>Any number of the essays are of tremendous interest not least Forster's 1787 article on the British Colony in New Holland an essay on Tahiti and another on the breadfruit with folding plate the Latin preface to his Dissertatio de Plantis Esculentis insularum oceani australis of 1786 and his article on the red Bee-eater of Hawaii first printed in the Göttingisches Magazin in 1781 and recognised as the first major natural history article relating to the Sandwich Islands see Forbes 13. There are also two major essays on the Northwest coast of America both accompanied by excellent large folding maps the first with notes on the fur-trade and the map by Carl Gäck the Berlin cartographer 1791 and the second accompanied by another large folding map by Gäck but on this occasion based on an Arrowsmith chart of 1789. The two large folding charts were published for Forster's own German translation of Cook's third voyage but were included in some copies of his Kleine Schriften as here.</p> <p>Otherwise the essays show Forster's wide-ranging interests including pieces on English literature the Comte de Volney and his memoirs of the tumultuous year 1790 with many plates including a portrait bust of Benjamin Franklin.</p> </p> . Provenance: Original manuscript purchase inscription in vol. 1 dated 1797. unknown
149944San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1998. First edition of this multidimensional visual portrayal of women’s lives. Quarto original publisher's cloth illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy with a lengthy autograph notecard inscribed by the photographer Mariana Cook to Ruth Bader Ginsburg laid in. The recipient American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020 and was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. Nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She was popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a moniker she later embraced. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of American lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Photographic and literary exploration of the relationships between women across different generations. The book features intimate black-and-white portraits of grandmothers mothers and daughters accompanied by personal narratives that reflect on themes of heritage identity and familial bonds. Through these stories Cook captures the complexities of womanhood emphasizing both the shared experiences and the individuality of each subject. Chronicle Books hardcover
1903510064George Allen 1903. Leather. NEAR FINE. With an Autographed Letter Signed by John Ruskin tipped into volume 1. Lacking the index volume but complete otherwise. 9.5 x 6.5' bound in sumptuous Sumac burgundy morocco goatskin with ornate gilt and blind stamping gilt rolled dentelle b/w and sepia plates of Ruskin's manuscripts and original drawings. Some light fading to the spines as typically seen occasional very trivial rubbing and bowing; else FINE with entirely clean fresh and crisp text. Edition limited to 2062 copies an elaborate production carried out over nearly a full decade by Ruskin's publisher and personal friend George Allen being completed after his death in 1907. Ships professionally with utmost care in double-walled boxes. International and expedited shipping will require additional fees. George Allen unknown
BIB 2CADELL Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Second Cook Voyage - A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. In which is included Captain Furneauxs Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships First edition of Cook's second voyage. Two volumes quarto Complete with frontispiece in Volume I by Hodges and 683 plates charts and folding maps. Contemporary linen spine with leather label over marbled boards. CADELL Hardcover
1782310848London: G. Robinson J. Sewell and J. Debrett 1782. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern morocco. Faint foxing occasional toning neat repair to bound edge of title and half title a few small neat repairs to folding map with small tape ghost to bottom edge of same some mostly marginal worming at middle of vol 2 very good. First edition. Engraved folding map and 21 engraved plates. x 358 2 pp; 6 347 pp. Half-title volume 1 instructions to binder at end of volume 1. 2 vols. 8vo. First edition of this account of Cook's final voyage. "Ellis was a surgeon's mate during Cook's third voyage first on the Discovery and later on the Resoultion and gives quite a good history of this expedition. This account was published two years before the official narrative . It appears that needing money Ellis sold his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. The fine plates are among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands Alaska and the Northwest" Hill. The plates include eight of Hawaii two of Alaska and three of the Northwest Coast. Beddie 1599; Forbes 41; Hill 555; Howes E-122; Sabin 22333 G. Robinson, J. Sewell, and J. Debrett unknown
1785151486London: Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol Bookseller to His Majesty in the Strand; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1785. Finely bound example of Cook's Third Voyage "one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. considered typographically superior to the first edition" Forbes. Quarto three volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt nautical gilt stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands engraved medallion vignette to each title page illustrated with engraved maps and charts mostly folding folding letterpress table without 63 of the plates that the publisher instructed booksellers to issue separately in a folio volume not present. Beddie Mitchell Library 650 1216 1543; Forbes 62; Hill 782 358 361; Holmes 5 24 47; PMM 223; Rosove 77.A2; Sabin 30934 16245 16250. Second edition. In near fine condition. An attractive example of this important work which significantly advanced European understanding of the geography and peoples of the Pacific. For his last Voyage Cook was ordered to seek a North-West Passage and to return Omai to Tahiti. From Cape Horn they sailed to the Kerguelens named Desolation Island by Cook Tasmania and New Zealand charting and mapping all the way then north discovering the Hawaiian Islands which Cook considered his most valuable discovery and Christmas Island. Cook charted the American West Coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait to 70 deg. 44’ N. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an "unhappy skirmish" with the natives over a boat. Also on board were James Burney William Bligh James Colnett and George Vancouver who all made their own great contributions to navigation and discovery. The present work resulting from their voyage is “arguably the single most important book on the hawaiian islands that documents all aspects of Hawaiian culture at the point of discovery by Europeans… and is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century†Forbes. “Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to Western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century†PMM. Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand hardcover
190348572London: George Allen 1903. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1903-1912. 8vo. Library edition limited to 2062 of which 2000 are for sale complete in thirty-nine volumes. Numerous plates some chromolithographed others monochrome sepia or aqua and black and white in-text illustrations. Bound in half red morocco leather over red cloth with a red ribbon spines ribbed and gilt stamped tops gilt. Several volumes with light wear or rubbing to the leather at the edges or joints some joints stressed most of the boards a little bowed a few with heavier bowing. Vol. XVII stressed at the hinges and weak resulting in some surface cracking to the leather of the front board. The books clean throughout each with bookplate to the front paste-down. The edition includes all Ruskin's letters privately circulated publications and scattered writings and all published works then known in print and out. This is an extraordinary presentation of Ruskin's fantastically broad range of work a corpus which influenced figures as divergent as Proust and Rossetti. George Allen hardcover
199951882BLANVALET LOTHAR 05/1999. 1. softcover. Schwarze Schar Die BLANVALET, LOTHAR paperback
199651775GOLDMANN WILHELM 11/1996. 1. softcover. Rätsel von Karenta Die Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung! GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
