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BROOKE, JAMES.MareMagnum

Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, down to the Occupation of Labuan: From the Journals of James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and Governor of Labuan. Together with a Narrative of the Operations of H.M.S. Iris. By Captain Rodney Mundy. With numerou...

PRADT Dominique Dufour deMareMagnum

Des colonies et de la Révolution actuelle de l'Amérique [Suivi de] Les trois derniers mois de l'Amérique méridionale et du Brésil

- Chez F. Bechet & A. Egron, Paris 1817, In-8 (12,5x20,5cm), 2 volumes reliés. - Editions originales de ces deux ouvrages. Au verso des pages de titre, signatures manuscrites de l'éditeur. Reliure en plein veau blond raciné d'époque. Dos lisse orné de 2 fleurons et de caissons à la grotesque de vagues. Pièce de titre et de tomaison en cuire de Russie rouge. Roulette d'encadrement aux étoiles sur les plats. Petite zone grattée sur le plat inférieur du premier tome, quelques pâles rousseurs, sinon, très bel exemplaire. Sans conteste l'ouvrage le plus important de l'auteur, l'oeuvre est un traité des politiques économiques des colonies européennes (Portugal, France, Espagne, Hollande, Angleterre) en Amérique, en Afrique et en Asie, d'un point de vue historique, théorique et pratique. De ce fait, discutant des politiques commerciales dans les colonies, Pradt établit également une histoire de l'esclavage et des révolutions. On notera un chapitre très important qui clot le livre intitulé : Que deviendront les Etats-unis. Cette étude est établie d'après des statistiques et s'avère prémonitoire. Si l'auteur reconnaît l'importance de l'ouvrage de Raynal sur les colonies, il avoue également que la vision de ce dernier sur les colonies est en 1817 totalement surannée, en raison des événements qui se sont passés depuis. Les trois derniers mois de l'Amérique méridionale et du Brésil reviennent sur les événements chaotiques qui se succèdèrent à cette époque au Brésil et par les guerres menées par le Brésil, et à cet égard, de la nécessité d'un congrès international sur les colonies. La pensée de Pradt est une pensée positive. En discutant des événements qui ont fondé les colonies et de la manière dont elles ont été administrées, il parvient à expliquer par les causes les effets, et à expliquer ainsi la situation présente et à venir. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Librairie Feu Follet · Paris, FR1 265,00 €

Fremont, John Charles.MareMagnum

Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 [and to] Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44. Baltimore, Weber & Co., [1845].

On 36 leaves (each ca. 20.5 x 14.5 cm, total ca. 134 x 82.5 cm), mounted on cloth and folded. Interesting and beautifully lithographed map of previously almost entirely uncharted parts of America still inhabited by the Utah, Sioux and Pawnee Indians, considered one of the most important maps of the western United States issued in the first half of the 19th century. Wheat noted that "John Fremont's map of 1845 represented as important a step forward from the earlier western maps of the period as did those of Pike, Long, and Lewis and Clark in their day". - At the top is an inset of a "Profile of the route from the Mouth of the Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J. C. Fremont in 1843" (horizontal scale: 1:3,000,000). - The map includes parts of the States of Oregon and California in the West, via parts of Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, to parts of Nebraska and Kansas in the East; from the west coast the mouth of the Columbia River, Fort Vancouver (Portland) in the Northwest, via San Francisco to St. Barbara, Ventura and the outskirts of today's Los Angeles in the Southwest, through the Rocky Mountains, the areas of the Utah, Sioux and Pawnee Indians, in a kind of triangle to the Missouri River and Fort Leaverwood near today's Kansas city and Westpoint in the East (an area of approximately 1,300 x 2,600 km). - The map is from Fremont's "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains", which includes the first accurate depiction of the Great Salt Lake. "Though the Oregon Trail and the Spanish Trail had been regularly used for a few years there were no dependable maps. For other parts of Fremont's route, much of the recording of his map was new, including the whole extent of the Sierra Nevada Range, the California rivers from the American River south, and the three Colorado rivers" (Streeter). It is therefore hard to overestimate the influence of this map, which left only minor areas unmapped or unexplored with the exception of the Great Basin. Wheat states that it "radically and permanently altered western cartography". - John Charles Fremont (1813-90) was a young and ambitious lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. Together with the Frenchman Joseph N. Nicollet he completed the first truly scientific survey of the interior during 1838-39. He was the son-in-law of the powerful Senator Thomas Hart Benson from Missouri and under his influence he undertook three further expeditions to the west. Arriving in the United States in 1834, Fremont hired Charles Preuss as a cartographer and draughtsman. Preuss would go on to draw both of Fremont's other highly important maps of the west. - Some soiling and spotting, otherwise in good condition. Howes F370. Philips, List, p. 642. Sabin 25845 (cf. 25838-43). Storm, C. 1436. Wagner & Camp 115:1. Wheat I, (TM) 497 & II, 194-200.

Inlibris · Wien, AT1 250,00 €

SPRUCE, RichardMareMagnum

A Collection of Nine of His Papers including Notes of a Visit to the Cinchona Forests on the Quitenian Andes; Expedition to Procure Seeds & Plants of the Cinchona; the Mountains of Llanganati. . . Quitonian Andes, etc

8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; includes 9 original papers by Spruce, folding partly colored map, plate of Utricularia Peltata, Spruce, from Linn. Society Journal Botany Vol. IV, 1845. contemporary half calf, with gilt title lettering 'Opuscula; R. S.' on leather spine label, marbled boards rubbed, contents of papers listed hand-written on endpaper, initials RS in ink on margin of first paper, marginal notes & corrections, very good. A The papers by Richard Spruce included here are: The Musci and Hepaticae of Teesdale, Trans. Bot. Society of Edinburgh, 1844 (pp 65-89); On Several Mosses new to the British Flora, London Journal of Botany, 1845 (pp1-27); On Five New Plants from Eastern Peru, Linnaean Society, 1859 (pp191-204); On the Mode of Branching of Some Amazon Trees, Linn. Soc., 1861, (pp 3-51); Notes of a Visit to the Cinchona Forests on the Western slope of the Quiteian Andes, Linn Journal, 1859, (176-192); On the Mountains of Llanganati in the Eastern Cordillera of the Quitonian Andes, offprint (?, or possibly earlier printing, has a few hand corrections) from Royal Geographical Society of London, 1861 (1-21, with folding engraved map, partly colored showing his routes); On the River Purus, a Tributary of the Amazon, no publisher stated, June 13, 1864 (1-13); Notes on the Valleys of Piura and Chira in Northern Peru and on the Cultivation of Cotton Therein, London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864 (pp 1-81). In addition there is only part of his paper, Report on the Expedition to Procure Seeds and Plants of the Cinchona Succirubra, or Red Bark Tree, London 1861, pages 85-112 only, the rest being removed but pages 104-111 being a note by Spruce on Cinchona Succirubra, Pavon and allied species, dated 1861 and pages 111-112 being a note by Clements R. Markham , respected author who wrote two books on obtaining Cinchona seeds and plants for planting in India to develop a cure for malaria. There is also a paper by Daniel Oliver, 'Descriptions of New Species of Utricularia from South America, 1859 (pp 169-176). Mark Honigsbaum in his book Valverde's Gold, 2004, on the exploration in eastern Ecuador for Incan gold, refers extensively to Spruce's work, especially that on Llanganati Mountains and he reproduced Spruce's map described above in his book but in much reduced size. The manuscript notes in parts of this work may be in Spruce's hand but this is not verified. Spruce was one of the great plant hunters of the Amazon region, collecting over seven thousand botanical specimens, many of which were previously unknown. Spruce was in the Amazon region at the same time as Bates and Wallace, and all three lived on the earnings from specimens sent back to England. In 1860, Spruce collected some 600 cinchona plants and thousands of seeds in Ecuador for raising in India for the production of quinine as a cure for malaria. The Royal Geographical Society elected him an honorary fellow in 1866 for his fine work. The Linnaean Society also made him an associate. Spruce was a great influence on the work of Darwin, Wallace, Richard Schultes and others. The author's 'Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes; being records of travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries, the Trombeta, Rio Negro, Uapes, etc. . to the Orinoco, the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador and the shores of the Pacific during 1849-1864' was published in 1908 after his death, by Alfred Russell Wallace, and remains a classic work of travels in South America and especially Amazonia.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA1 222,07 €

BARROW JohnMareMagnum

Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique ; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798

- Dentu, Paris 1801, In-8 (12,5x20,7cm), xvj, 403pp. (1) et (4) 326pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés. - Edition originale française illustrée d'une très grande carte dépliante rehaussée en couleurs, d'un tableau dépliant des bois d'Afrique du sud, et d'une figure d'une unicorne (sorte de gazelle avec une seule longue corne sur son front). Traduction par L. Degrandpré Reliures en pleine basane brune flammée d'époque. Dos lisses ornés de 2 fleurons et de 2 caissons à la grotesque, et de multiples roulettes. Pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, pièces de tomaison en maroquin vert. Frise d'encadrement sur les plats. Epidermures sur les plats, près des bordures externes. Frottements, notamment en coiffes et mors. Papiers de garde changés dans le second volume. Les tranches du tome 2 sont jaunes, blanches pour le premier, l'éditeur ayant certainement mélangé 2 tirages. Bon exemplaire, d'une bonne fraîcheur. John Barrow fut un des premiers explorateurs de l'Afrique australe et il a rédigé la meilleure relation de ces contrées. Doué d'un grand pouvoir en tant qu'auditeur de la chambre des comptes, de solides connaissances en botanique, en géographie et en histoire naturelle, d'un style limpide et simple, Barrow a pu explorer avec sagacité de nombreuses régions. Après avoir donné une description du cap et discuter de l'importance de cette place en tant que port baleinier, Barrow conte 5 expéditions ou voyages différents : Voyage depuis le Cap-de-bonne-espérance jusqu'au district de Graaff reynet, en passant par le Karoo ou désert aride ; Voyage au pays des Cafres ; Voyage au pays des Boshismans ; Voyage depuis le district de Graaff jusqu'à la ville du Cap, en longeant la mer ; Voyage au pays des Namaaquas. Intéressante préface du traducteur, lui-même auteur d'un voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]

Librairie Feu Follet · Paris, FR1 150,00 €

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