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1823160859London.: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips. First English edition. 1823. Translated from German. Black and white lithograph plate 'Sepulchral Monument of a Kirgese Chief' iv 112pp Modern papercovered boards leather title label on spine edges uncut. Some foxing mainly at edges and on first and last leaves but generally clean. Published as part of Sir Richard Phillips's New Voyages and Travels. The text in this volume consists firstly of a "short extract from an account of an expedition to Kokad in what is today eastern Uzbekistan in the years 1813-14 by Mr Philip Nazaroff interpreter to the Siberian Corps employed in the expedition. <br> <br>The second is the account of an embassy to Bucharia in 1820 1821 at the head of which was Mr Negri Counsellor of State: described under the title of a "Journey from Orenbur to Bucharia" by Dr Eversmann physician to the Embassy in which we have inserted several interesting extracts from the letters of Mr P.L. Jakovlew secretary to the embassy. <br> <br>The third is the narrative of a Journey to Turcomania and Chiva Captain Mouraview who was sent on a mission to those countries in 1819-20." . Printed for Sir Richard Phillips. hardcover
19702232381970s. Collection of eight items of Chinese travel ephemera. <br> <br>A fascinating set of travel ephemera from a visit to China in the 1970s. <br> <br>Five profusely illustrated brochures of Beijing Taiyuan Dujiangyan Zhaoling and Huaching Hot Spring measuring 23 x 13cm to 26 x 12cm each. <br> <br>Pamphlet apparently from a recording of the 東方紅 The East is Red. 23 x 9.5cm. <br> <br>Two booklets: <br>"China Travel Gazette" by China International Travel Service: Map colour photographic illustrations 38pp 9.5 x 18.5cm. A very good paperback copy. <br> <br>"China Travel Guide" by China International Travel Service and Cartographic Publishing House: Profuse colour folding maps and photographic illustrations unpaginated. 25.3 x 12cm. Leaves detached closed tear along the backstrip near tail. <br> <br>China Travel Guide is completely disbound and therefore a reading copy only whereas the other items are all in good condition. . paperback
1955173072Washington D.C.: Army Map Service U.S. Army. 1955. Large colour map. 1:250000 scale. Transverse mercator projection. 23°00'N 91°30'E-22°00'N 93°00'E. Series U502 Sheet NF 46-6 Edition 1-AMS. Map measures 57.3 x 75.8cm. Slight wear creasing even light browning small closed tears on edges upper-right corner little foxed. Shows signs of use but map is clean and complete. Corps of Engineers Army Map Service map of Chittagong and surrounds compiled in 1955. Based on the British Indian one-inch and half-inch map series from 1938-43 and 1936-43 respectively. . Army Map Service, U.S. Army. unknown
189864137Bay View & La Conner WA: A. Eugene Lovell 1898. Oblong 12mo. 7 x 5.5 in. 12 pp unpaginated. thick gray card stock slotted die-cut windows for inserting photos with 11 original photographs sized 3.25 x 4.25 in. 6 albumen on thin photo paper 5 silver gelatin on matte finish photo paper 1 manuscript Christmas note presenting the album Christmas 1898 a few ever-so-faint pencil manuscript captions below. Pebbled textured black cloth silver lettering stamped on front cover minor edgewear soiling to rear pastedown minor soiling to final image still a VG- exemplar. This souvenir album opens with beautiful sunset shot across the Columbia River followed by a photo of a young woman standing in front of well-appointed home with Hops growing along the porch. These are followed by photos capturing shipping along the Columbia River with the British sailing yacht Samantha out of Liverpool tied up to the Bailey Gatzert sternwheeler; the sternwheeler Kehani which operated from Portland originally launched in 1890 and was rebuilt and renamed Ottawa in 1905; a nice front view of the passenger sternwheeler Regulator built originally in 1891 by Louis Paget for The Dalles Portland & Astoria Naviagation Co. known as the Regulator Line operating steamer service from The Dalles to the Lower Columbia River past Kalama. Other photos depict a stately Victorian hotel on pilings near the shipping channel; a shipwreck of a 3-masted schooner on its’ side buried in the sand; and Cape Horn along the River prior to construction of the rail line. The final photo captures the waterfront of Astoria in 1898 with warehouses and canneries on pilings and houses above on the bluffs. Lovell 1883-1976 moved from Illinois to Washington following the death of his father William Lovell with his mother Susan Lovell and brothers Charles & Harry Lovell who homesteaded near La Conner WA after first settling in Bay View WA in late 1898. The trip must have been prior to July 12 1898 as the Regulator sternwheeler depicted in one of the photos wrecked at the Cascade Locks July 12 1898 was salvaged and rebuilt with a larger and heavier hull launching Feb. 1899. A. Eugene Lovell, hardcover
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
126029N.d. <br /> <br /> Single leaf matted and framed.<br /> <br /> § Copperplate engraving of the crew of HMS Resolution hunting walrus which first appeared in the first folio edition of Cook's Third Voyage. The scene was recorded by John Webber RA 1751-1793 one of the expedition's artists and from his painting this engraving was made by Edward Scott. <br /> <br /> "From 11 August to 3 September 1778 Cook's ships had a harrowing time sailing through the Arctics ice covered seas and were in need of supplies. On the 19th August Cook sent two boats to hunt the large colony of walruses that had been seen from the ship. By seven that evening seven were brought on board the Resolution.<br /> <br /> "The sea horse also known as the morse is now called the walrus. Ledyard described them as between a quadrupede and a fish their heads are somewhat like those of a dog without ears except two large white tusks that project downward from the upper jaw. they have a thick skin like that of a horse. Gilbert considered the name sea horse. Why they are so called I cant imagine for they bear not the smallest resemblance to that animal." Cook Journals III i 419. unknown
17715000651London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt in the Strand 1771. A fine copy. Quarto; a fine copy in a Sangorski-style binding of half green morocco spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. <p><p>First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue with the leaf of dedication to "The Right Honourable Lords of the Admiralty and to Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander" inserted by the publishers to add authenticity. This copy also has the first state of p. 90 recently identified and to be distinguished from an amended state where text begins "quantities.".</p> <p>This was the first of 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. In this case however legal action was taken against the publisher for using an unauthorised dedication forcing removal of the leaf during publication. "It is accordingly of the greatest rarity and copies of the book containing the dedication are far more valuable than those without it." Davidson. In this large copy the offending leaf has generous margins and retains its printed instruction to the binder "Place this next the title" which also interestingly indicates that the leaf was printed quite separately from the rest of the work.</p> <p>The British public's eagerness for news of the voyage needed more than newspaper accounts while the officially sanctioned narrative would be a long time coming. Published anonymously some two months after the return of the Endeavour and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's official account the Cook scholar Beaglehole demonstrated that the sailor James Magra was the author. His illicit sale of his journal to the publishers might well have confirmed Cook's opinion of him: 'one of those gentlemen frequently found on board Kings Ships that can very well be spared or to speake more planer good for nothing.'. He was a New Yorker and a loyalist. Whatever his skipper and the authorities may have thought of him it was Magra who got the first description of the voyage into print - the earliest printed account of the east coast of Australia published even before acceptance of the name Botany Bay here called Sting-ray Bay as Cook originally christened it.</p> <p>Magra later changed his name to Matra to claim a family inheritance. As Alan Frost has shown "The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook; American Loyalist; Servant of Empire" 1995 Matra used his experiences on the east coast of Australia to draft his 1783 proposal for a penal colony at Botany Bay. Never shy in self-promotion he announced his hope of being made Governor. His plan like Sir Joseph Banks's before and George Young's after him had its effect on the planners of the First Fleet and he was called as an expert witness to the committee in charge of solving the question of transportation see Frost pp.113-122. His life has prompted a considerable literature with multiple studies of his career and importance including those by G.B. Barton George Anthony Wood James Watson who christened him the "Father of Australia" an accolade more often awarded to Joseph Banks and more recently Antonio Giordano who has him as "Australia's Spiritual Father" and Andrew Tink.</p> </p> . Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand unknown
17716000068London 1771. Quarto autograph manuscript in ink; single page on a bifolium with address panel; on paper watermarked "LVG" <p><p>Amusing original letter from Sandwich to John Hawkesworth ghostwriter of the official account of Cook's first voyage. Sandwich writes: "That I may be certain whether you are alive or dead I shall be obliged to you if you will either come yourself or send your ghost to dine with me tomorrow. I am most sincerely yours Sandwich." This witty communication dates from the period when Hawkesworth was preparing the Cook account during Sandwich's third term as First Lord of Admiralty 1771-82; of course it was during this appointment that James Cook discovered Hawaii on his third voyage and named them the Sandwich Islands in his honour. The letter probably dates from late 1771 while Hawkesworth was at work on the journal. He died in November 1773 not long after the book's publication. </p> <p>Hawkesworth was introduced to Sandwich by Charles Burney in September 1771 when "the First Lord was casting around for someone to 'write the voyage' - that is to take Cook's journal and put it into a form suitable for the reading of the polite world; and not only Cook's journal but those of the three other circumnavigators Byron Wallis and Carteret. Cook and Banks we remember were patriotically anxious that this should be done as soon as possible and it was all the more important to get something authentic on the market. Burney recommended his friend Dr John Hawkesworth who had time and could do with the money." Beaglehole. </p> <p>Fanny Burney recorded in her diary for 15 September 1771 that "My father has had a happy opportunity of extremely obliging Dr. Hawkesworth. During his stay in Norfolk he waited upon Lord Orford who had always been particularly friendly to him. He there among others met with Lord Sandwich. His Lordship was speaking of the late voyage round the world and mentioned his having the papers of it in his possession; for he is First Lord of the Admiralty; and said that they were not arranged but mere rough draughts and said that he should be much obliged to any one who could recommend a proper person to write the Voyage. My father directly named Dr. Hawkesworth and his Lordship did him the honour to accept his recommendation. I cannot but be amazed that a man of Lord Sandwich's power &ca. should be so in ignorance of men of learning and merit as to apply to an almost stranger.".</p> <p>The money was decent: Hawkesworth earned a substantial £6000 from the publishers Strahan and Cadell and completed the first two volumes in just four months. A landmark publication this would help to cement Cook's reputation in the eyes of the public serving Sandwich's official purpose.</p> </p> . unknown
17723812970Paris: Saillant & Nyon 1772. Very slight rubbing to joints but a fine tall copy with good margin. Octavo blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf flat spine gilt in compartments red morocco label. <p><p>A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville translates the text now considered to be by Magra which - published in English in 1771 - was the unauthorised and earliest account of the progress of the Endeavour voyage. This is one of two probably simultaneous issues this one having the "Supplément" title-page; in this form the publishers intended the book to complement the octavo edition of Bougainville's voyage. The work also includes some material that did not appear in the original London edition including a 'Lettre de M. de Commerson' the famed naturalist from Bougainville's circumnavigation who remained behind at Mauritius to continue his research. </p> <p>The second supplement is equally important: the 'Lettre de M. le B. de G.' is a learned treatise on the possibility of a northwest passage written at Königsberg modern Kaliningrad and quoting from experts on the region such as Gmelin Muller and Engel. Although the identity of this scholar remains hazy it is surprising that such an interesting - and relatively early - report on the northwest passage has been largely ignored. Continuing the parade of famous explorers included in this short work the Commerson letter is said to have been conveyed to France by none other than Kerguelen promoter of the "Terre Australe".</p> <p>Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue further notes that a letter from Sir Joseph Banks to the Académie des Sciences is also quoted in the introduction said to have first been published in the Journal des Savans. Despite his best efforts to distance himself from Magra's work including having the false dedication in the London edition removed it appears that his unwilling association with the work continued on the continent. Indeed one of the attractive aspects of this copy is not only the fine contemporary French binding but the spine label which reads 'Voyage de Solander': it was not unusual for Banks to be given top-billing in the excitement of the return of the Endeavour but there cannot be too many examples that plump for Solander.</p> </p> . Saillant & Nyon unknown
18324106630Madrid: Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan 1832. Six volumes duodecimo with six engraved plates one in each volume original blue printed wrappers preserved a charming set in period Spanish quarter calf gilt. <p><p>Very uncommon first Spanish edition of Cook's first voyage published in 1832 as part of a series described as the 'New Library of Modern Voyages useful and interesting for Spanish youth.' The work has a charming series of six plates which include a scene in Tahiti featuring the Chief Mourner and two New Zealand scenes a warrior in profile the war canoe and conclude with a dramatic scene on board the Endeavour. The presence of the original printed wrappers bound-in is of more than passing interest as the back wrappers give an interesting overview of how the set was marketed being sold for 6 reales per volume as they were issued whether in Madrid or in the provinces and stressing the value of the work for the instruction of youth. Each volume would subsequently be priced 8 reales per volume.</p> <p>The translator Alvarado y de la Pena based his work on the French edition of Cook's first voyage. He also prepared at least one other work of Australian interest an edition of George Barrington published in Madrid circa 1815. Beddie listed copies in the Mitchell and National Libraries.</p> </p> . Provenance: Early owner's name on title-pages; old stamps from a Barcelona library; José Gallart Folch bookplates. Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan unknown
17973807772Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume 1797. A few leaves a little foxed; a very good copy. Two volumes octavo six folding engraved plates after Parkinson a handsome set in contemporary French mottled calf flat spines gilt double red and tan morocco labels. <p><p>First French edition first issue: the artist's account of Cook's first voyage and the discovery of eastern Australia. Translated by C. Henri from the 1784 English edition it also contains material from later voyagers updating the account including the experiences of the Forsters on the second voyage. This is the octavo issue noted by Kroepelien as preceding the otherwise identical quarto of the same year.</p> <p>Parkinson had been employed in 1767 by Sir Joseph Banks who thought so highly of his work that he arranged for the young man to join him on Cook's first voyage. When the expedition's draughtsman Alexander Buchan died at Tahiti Parkinson was called on to take over all of the topographical work completing some 1300 sketches quite apart from compiling vocabularies in Tahiti and New Holland. At the end of the voyage en route from Batavia to the Cape of Good Hope he died of a fever and after the return of the Endeavour ownership of his manuscripts and drawings was disputed: Banks considered that they were his while Parkinson's brother Stanfield claimed them under the provisions of his brother's will. When Hawkesworth learned of the impending English publication of this work he got an injunction to delay its appearance until some time after his official account and despite having used Parkinson's work extensively retaliated by deliberately omitting Parkinson's name from the narrative: even the botanical illustrations in the official account have no credit to the artist.</p> <p>Some of the bibliographical history of this work is quite complex. An extended note by Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue explains that this octavo issue although textually identical to a quarto issue published the same year by the same publisher is actually the genuine first issue du Rietz demonstrates from an error in the signatures that the quarto was re-imposed. Du Rietz knew the octavo only from the copy in the University of Oslo although no complete census of the two issues has been attempted. A note in O'Reilly-Reitman suggests - as if we needed more complexity - that the number of plates is uncertain as they examined copies with any number between five and eight; nonetheless six plates is the standard collation.</p> </p> . De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume unknown
17872903123Paris: chez Buisson 1787. Good copy. Two volumes quarto with a folding map and 16 engraved plates some folding; original mottled calf binding. <p><p>Cook's second voyage and travels in South Africa by the famous Swedish naturalist. This is the first edition in French the most profusely illustrated of the early editions of the book. This is an example of the quarto version an octavo version appeared simultaneously. Sparrman professor of zoology at Uppsala University was in South Africa when Cook's second voyage called there in 1772; Forster engaged him to accompany the expedition as assistant naturalist. Though much of his book is a narrative of travels in Africa with emphasis on its flora and fauna and a remarkable series of plates on termites and their habitations he includes an interesting account of his voyage with Cook in the first volume - as Hocken notes "Hairbreadth escape from collision of the two ships not mentioned elsewhere. Shocking details as to the food on board. Described the plants which Georg Forster drew. Both interesting and amusing.".</p> <p>Sparrman published an expanded Swedish version of his account of the voyage in 1802 with a second volume in 1818 but this account in its various versions was the only eighteenth-century text by this member of the second voyage.</p> </p> . chez Buisson unknown
17875001042London: Alexander Shaw 1787. Quarto eight pages printed text followed by original blank leaves separating the 36 actual cloth specimens several full page as well as many smaller; original calf binding neatly lettered and decorated spine. <p><p>This rare and exotic publication of original Pacific artefacts is the most remarkable of the whole Cook canon: with a brief but significant letterpress introduction it mainly consists of actual specimens of eighteenth-century tapa cloth collected in the Pacific islands particularly Hawaii Tahiti and Tonga. </p> <p>In modern times the publication has become one of the great rarities of eighteenth-century Pacific exploration. This is an example of the first issue of the book with the strictly contemporary bookplate of Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley. Donald Kerrr speculates in his census that D'Avenant was likely an original subscriber on first publication. </p> <p>Published only a few years after the return of the ships from Cook's third voyage it is not recorded how many of the cloth-books were prepared and up until the recent detective work of Erica Ryan at the NLA very little was known about the publisher Alexander Shaw either. However the limited supplies of the actual cloth must have dictated a very small edition - the most recent census of known copies by Donald Kerr stood at the tiny figure of 66 recently revised by us to 68 of which 57 were held by international libraries. This count of course includes the later issues of the book which continued to be sold often with dramatically varying contents as late as 1806. </p> <p>There has in effect never been a standard collation of the book - the fascinating dedication addressed to an unnamed "Sir" is genuinely vague on numbers - not least because it is obvious that Shaw was simultaneously selling individual samples and "fine specimens of the tree with the bark" at his shop in the Strand. </p> <p>Indeed as Forbes shows in some detail in the Hawaiian National Biography and others including Ian Morrison Maryanne Larkin Erica Ryan and Donald Kerr have all confirmed in more detail no two copies of the work are identical meaning that a precise collation is needed every time. Thus while 39 different samples are listed in Shaw's introductory list and "40" are mentioned at another point in the dedication many copies have quite different collations not least because the Jamaican sample perhaps the most surprising addition was apparently dropped in the course of publication. </p> <p>In short the present example has a total of 36 separate samples including particularly fine full-page examples of many of the more famous sheets. Almost none of the sheets have been particularly affected by the late-Georgian and Victorian practice of clipping: it is well-known that many collectors constructed what have become known as 'snippet books' of the Cook tapa cloths by cutting pieces from copies of Shaw's volume and pasting them into separate books or albums. </p> <p>As a result of this clipping habit copies of the original Shaw book survive in various states of completeness sometimes with only very small fragments of the once full-page specimens remaining. In this copy with its original blank leaves in place it is quite clear that the specimens have essentially retained their original shape with only four or perhaps five showing evidence of very minor clipping as can be shown from the ancient offsetting onto the adjoining blanks. </p> <p>The production of this book reflects the genuine curiosity aroused by tapa a fascination that drove competition between collectors of 'artificial curiosities' and generated an active market for the sheets brought home by Cook's men. The preface of the book contains descriptions of bark cloth manufacture by Cook Anderson Forster and an anonymous officer titled 'one of the navigators' and is followed by the list of the specimens compiled by Shaw. The list is indeed rich in fascinating details; for example we learn that the various uses of the tapa: 'wore sic by the people in the rainy season' or 'used at the human sacrifice'. Some of the notes in the list are longer and doubtless arise from tales told by the mariners who collected the tapa in the first place as boasted on the title page. </p> <p>Each island group used designs unique to its culture and the interest of Europeans in this material equalled the passion aroused by the extraordinary wood-carvings and exotic shells brought back by Cook. </p> <p>The Shaw Catalogue is of great significance as a repository of unique original tapa but it also speaks of the time when Cook's sailors were spreading their stories of the alluring South Seas while drawing-room chatter throughout the land luxuriated in descriptions of the new exotic. The publication forms a tangible link between these narratives the indigenous cultures of the South Pacific and Hawaiian islands the myriad personal and trading relationships that developed between the islanders and mariners and the genteel world of gentleman collectors and their cabinets of curiosities.</p> </p> . Provenance: Norton J. Whitmont collection; Kelton Foundation Los Angeles; original owner Sir Corbet D'Avenant 1752-1823 Baronet of Stoke and Adderley with armorial bookplate. Corbet d'Avenant was the son of Anne Corbet daughter of Sir Robert Corbet c.1670-1740 4th Bt of Stoke upon Tern. Upon the death of Anne's brother rector of Adderley from 1735 Sir Henry Corbet the seventh baronet on 7 May 1750 the baronetcy became extinct and the family estates passed to his nephew Corbet D'Avenant who assumed the name of Corbet and was created a baronet on 27 June 1786. Upon his death on 31 March 1823 the second baronetcy also became extinct. Alexander Shaw unknown
17835001095Hartford Connecticut: Nathaniel Patten 1783. Small octavo lacking the map as do virtually all known copies top four lines of title-page in well prepared facsimile; as always a little browned throughout but generally in rather better condition than most copies; in the original dark calf binding. <p><p>Highly important personal account of Cook's third voyage: the first American account of Cook's third voyage and thus the very earliest American account of the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands later to become the fiftieth state of America. This rare and significant book is notoriously hard to find in good shape. </p> <p>Ledyard one of several Americans on the voyage and the only one to publish an account of the expedition sailed as a corporal of marines. It is now generally acknowledged that he got hold of a copy of Rickman's narrative which he used to help him compile this account after his return to America. He himself describes the sealing of all diaries drawings memorandums and charts of all officers and crew aboard ship at Canton. However the narrative contains considerable information not available elsewhere including the first published description of the Russian presence on Unalaska the first permanent Russian settlement in northwest America only Ledyard Samwell and Edgar visited the settlement. The chart supposed to have been issued with the book which seems to have been an almost direct copy of the Rickman map is missing in almost every copy known and in view of the erratic nature of American eighteenth-century publishing it is nowadays accepted that it was not generally issued.</p> <p>Ledyard's description of his stay at Hawaii his expedition inland and the death of Cook occupies sixty-four pages of the text. The account of New Zealand and Australia is short but includes his observation that 'the island of New-Holland for its boundaries are now ascertained is by much the largest known and most eligably sic situated on the map of nature. even the Empress of Russia might be gratified with such a portion'.</p> </p> . Nathaniel Patten unknown
17843611651London 1784. Engraving 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. <p><p>Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the St Peter and Paul ostrog as seen during the expedition's first visit to Avacha Bay.</p> <p>This wonderful panorama of St Peter and St Paul with Cook's ships at anchor in the bay would later appear as plate 74 in the atlas to the official account of the third voyage. Webber's image depicts the small Kamchatkan settlement with its inhabitants fishing in front of their distinctive dwellings all in an untouched landscape with wooded coastline and distant snow-covered mountains. It offers an arcadian vision of the place wildly at variance with what it would become: modern Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky now a major commercial port and the home of Russia's nuclear submarine fleet. It was at St Peter and St Paul that the battered vessels called in late April 1779 and here that Major Behm agreed to take the news of Cook's death overland to St. Petersburg.</p> <p>This is an early state of the print before letters. The temporary credits here scratched into the plate are differently worded to the final version that would appear in the publication: here there is no caption identifying the view and the image is identified as "Drawn from Nature by J. Webber" and "Engraved by B.T. Pouncy". In the finished version these would be differently expressed as "J. Webber del." and "B.T. Pouncy sc.". The proof engraving is printed on a noticeably different paper and its inking is distinctly finer than the examples of the finished version with which we have compared it. The result is a greater tonal quality.</p> <p>Joppien and Smith discuss the Kamchatkan visit at some length in both text and catalogue volumes of their study of the art of Cook's third voyage. In their description of the related watercolour view now in the Dixson Library in Sydney they note that the original version has probably been lost and that the Dixson watercolour is probably related to the engraving process. </p> <p>This is a desirable and rare version of one of Webber's most successful images from Cook's third voyage. `</p> </p> . unknown
17843712595London: Stockdale Scatcherd and Whitaker Fielding & Hardy 1784. A few spots and stains but a good set. Four volumes octavo with two folding maps and 49 plates in a smart modern binding of polished half calf with gilt labels edges rough-trimmed only with the often discarded half-titles present. <p><p>First octavo edition of the third voyage account with a large chart of the world as discovered by Captain Cook and a finely engraved folding map of the Hawaiian Islands. Intense public interest in the fabulous discoveries of the third voyage and widespread consternation over the death of England's beloved mariner resulted in copies of the quarto edition selling out quickly. The demand prompted two London octavo editions of 1784-1785 including this set printed for John Stockdale and a group of entrepreneurial publishers. The text was abridged omitting some technical and navigation details and as a result reads more like an adventure than the official quarto edition. The list of subscribers is considerable indicating the fervent public interest and a modest price considerably reduced from that of the expensive quarto edition.</p> <p>In addition to the two impressive maps the plates have been re-engraved for the smaller format. Aside from the large chart accompanying the first volume showing the progress of the expedition the two folding plates are noteworthy. The first depicts the death of Cook and was engraved after the original by Dodd. It ignominiously depicts the last moments of the great navigator here shown lying face down and clutching the shore whilst dragged by the calves by a Hawaiian warrior in a tapa cape. The second folding plate is a map of the Hawaiian Islands with a separate chart of Karakakooa Bay marked with soundings details of native villages and areas under cultivation - and the location 'Here Capt. Cook was killed' duly noted.</p> <p>This edition was originally issued in weekly parts with printed wrappers; half-titles for this edition seem to be usually absent though this set includes those for volumes 2 to 4 none is called for in volume 1. The title pages are dated 1784 although the span of publication passed into the following year.</p> </p> . Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Fielding, & Hardy unknown
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
1931LLV2250London:: Macmillan & Co. 1931-32. 1931. 3 issues. Small 4to. pp. 1053-88; 181-216; 413-448. Original self-wraps. Very good. Macmillan & Co.), 1931-32. paperback
1648ABC_50157Amsterdam: printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for Joost Hartgers 1648. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum with the manuscript title on the spine remnants of ties. 4to. With an engraved general title page for the whole collection a typographical general title page with a woodcut illustration of ships at sea each part of the collection has its own title page in some cases two with a woodcut illustration the majority the same as on the general title page. Further with 11 folding woodcut illustrations several woodcut tailpieces and woodcut decorated initials throughout. 13 works in 1 volume. Comprising:1 VEER Gerrit. Verhael van de eerste schip-vaert der Hollandische ende Zeeusche schepen door 't Way-gat by noorden Noorwegen Moscovien ende Tartarien om na de coninckrijcken Cathay ende China. Met drie schepen uyt Texel gezeylt in den jare 1594. Hier achter is by-ghevoeght de beschrijvinghe van de landen Siberia Samoyeda ende Tingoesa. Seer vreemt en vermaackelijk om lesen.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.2 HOUTMAN Cornelis. Eerste schip-vaert der Hollanders naer Oost-Indien met vier schepen onder 't beleydt van Cornelis Houtman uyt Texel t' zeyl ghegaen anno 1595.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.3 NECK Jacob van en Wybrand van WARWIJCK. Waerachtigh verhael van de schip-vaert op Oost-Indien ghedaen by de acht schepen onder den Heer Admirael Jacob van Neck en de Vice-Admirael Wybrand van Warwijck van Amsterdam gezeylt in den jare 1598. Hier achter is aen-ghevoeght de voyagie van Sebald de Weert naer de Strate Magalanes.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.4 NOORT Olivier van and Jacob van NECK. Wonderlijcke voyagie by de Hollanders gedaen door de Strate Magalanes ende voorts den gantschen kloot des aertbodems om met vier schepen: onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort uytghevaren anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede voyagie van Jacob van Neck naer Oost-Indien.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.5 SPILBERGEN Joris van and Steven vander HAGEN. Historis journael van de voyage gedaen met 3 schepen uyt Zeelant naer d'Oost-Indien onder het beleyt van den Commandeur Joris van Spilbergen sijn eerste reyse. Inden jare 1601 1602 1603 1604. Als meede beschryvinge vande tweede voyage ghedaen met 12 schepen na d'Oost-Indien onder den Admirael Steven vander Hagen.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.6 MATELIEF Cornelis. Journael ende historische verhael van de treffelijcke reyse ghedaen naer Oost-Indien ende China met elf schepen. Door den manhaften Admirael Cornelis Matelief de Jonge. Uyt-ghevaren in den jare 1605. En wat haer in de volghende jaren 1606 1607 ende 1608 weder-varen is. Een seer vreemde en wonderlijcke reyse.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.7 BROECKE Pieter van den. Wonderlijcke historische ende journaelsche aenteyckeningh van 't ghene Pieter van den Broecke op sijne reysen soo van Cabo Verde Angola Gunea Oost-Indien: waer in hem soo in schip-breuck als in 't door-reysen van 't landt seer veel vreemde dingen ontmoet zijn soo van religie manieren zeeden en huys-houdingen der volckeren: en andere eyghenschappen der landen en kusten die sy bezeylt hebben.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.8 SPILBERGEN Joris van. Oost- en West-Indische voyagie door de Strate Magallanes naer de Moluques met ses schepen onder den commandeur Joris Spilbergen .Including: SCHOUTEN Willem Cornelisz. and Jacob le MAIRE. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de wonderlijcke reyse ghedaen door Willem Cornelisz. Schouten van Hoorn. In de jaren 1615 1616 1617. Hoe hy bezuyden de Straet Magellanes eenen nieuwen doorganck gevonden heeft streckende tot in de Zuyd-Zee met de verklaringe van de vreemde natien volcken landen en avonturen die sy gesien ende haer wedervaren zijn. Hier is nog achter by-gevoeght eenighe zee-vragen ende antwoorden wijnde seer nut ende geheel dienstigh alle schippers stirmans ende zeevarende maets.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.9 HEREMITE Jacques l' and Gheen Huygen SCHAPENHAM. Journael vande Nassausche vloot ofte beschrijvingh van de voyagie om den gantschen aert-kloot gedaen met elf schepen: onder 't beleydt van den Admirael Jaques l'Heremite ende Vice-Admirael Gheen Huygen Schapenham inde jaren 1623 1624 1625 en 1626. Noch is hier by gevoegt een beschrijvinge vande regeeringe van Peru door Pedro de Madriga geboren tot Lima. Als mede een verhael van Pedro Fernandez de Quir aengaende de ontdeckinge van 't onbekent Austrialia sijn grooten rijckdom ende vruchtbaerheyt. Oock mede eenige discoursen de Oost-Indische vaert en de coopmanschap betreffende.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.10 BONTEKOE Willem Ysbrantsz. Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinge van de Oost-Indische reyse van Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn. Begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en ghevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in weder-varen. Begonnen den 18. December 1618 en vol-eynd den 16. November 1625 .Including: RAVEN Dirck Albertsz. Journael ofte beschrijvinge van de reyse ghedaen by den Commandeur Dirck Albertsz. Raven na Spitsberghen in den jare 1639 ten dienste vande E. Heeren Bewindt-hebbers van de Groenlandtsche Compagnie tot Hoorn. Waer in verhaelt wort sijn droevige schip-breucke sijn ellende op 't wrack en sijn blijde verlossinghe. Met noch eenige gedenckweerdige geschiedenissen. Alles waerdigh om te lesen."Sardam Willem Willemsz. 1648." = Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.11 PELSAERT François and Jeremias van VLIET. Ongeluckige voyagie van 't schip Batavia nae Oost-Indien. Uytgevaren onder den E. Francois Pelsaert: ggebleven op de Abrolhos van Frederick Houtman op de hooghte van 28 1/2 graet by zuyden de linie aequinoctiael. Vervatende 't veronghelucken des chips en de grouwelijcke moorderyen onder 't scheeps-volck op 't eylandt Bataviaes Kerckhof; nevens de straffe der hantdadighers in den jare 1628 en 1629. Nevens een treur-bly-eynde ongheluck des compagnies dienaers in 't jaer 1636 weder-varen in 't Konincklijcke Hof van Siam in de Stad Judia onder den E. Jeremias van Vliet. En de groote tyrannye van Abas Koninck van Persien anno 1645 begaen aen sijn grootste heeren des rijcks in sijn konincklijck hof tot Espahan.Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.12 TWIST Johan van. Generale beschrijvinge van Indien. Ende in 't besonder kort verhael van de regering ceremonien handel vruchten en geleghentheydt van 't Koninckrijck van Gusuratten staende onder de beheerschinghe van den groot-machtighen Koninck Cajahan: anders genaemt den grooten Mogor. Uyt verscheyden autheuren ende eyghen onder-vindinge vergadert ende byeen ghestelt .Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648.13 CARON François. Beschrijvinge van het machtigh coninckrijcke Japan. Vervattende den aert ende eygenschappen van 't landt manieren der volckeren als mede hare grouwelijcke wreedtheydt teghen de Roomsche Christenen .Including:- GYSBERTSZ. Reyer. Historie der martelaren die in Japan om de Roomsche Catholijcke religie schrickelijcke ende onoverdragelijcke pijnen gheleeden hebben ofte ghedoodt zijn.- KRAMMER Coenraad. Verhael van de groote pracht die daer gescheidt ende gebruyckt is op den feest ghehouden in de stadt van Meaco alwaer den Dayro zijn Keyserlijcke Majesteyt van Japan quam besoecken voor ghevallen op den 20 october 1626. Beschreven door Coenraet Krammer als doen wegen de vereenighde geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie deser vrye Nederlanden en den gemelde Keyserl. Majesteyt ghecommitteert die sulckx alles sefs! gesien heeft.- Translaet van een Japansche brief van Siragemondonne burgemeester in Nangasacqui aen den Gouverneur Generael &c. door den Opper-Koopman Jan van Elzerach overgesonden dato den 28 October 1642.- CAMPEN Leonart. Kort verhael van 't profijt dienst ende nuttigheydt dat de Oost-Indische vereenighde Nederlandtsche Compagni in Japan soude genieten by so verre sy den Chineesen handel bequaemen.- SCHOUTEN Joost. Beschrijvinghe van de regeeringe macht religie costuymen traffijcquen ende andere remercquable saken des Coninghrijcx Siam. Gestelt inden jare 1636 .Amsterdam Joost Hartgers 1648. First edition an exceptionally rare collection of Dutch Voyages to the East Indies here housed in its contemporary binding and with the complete complement of engraved views and maps. These early voyages of discovery and expeditions in the late 16th and early 17th centuries laid the foundation for the Dutch expansion and successful trading activities in the Far East and the establishing of the Dutch seaborne empire. This collection of voyages brought together by the Amsterdam publisher Joost Hartgers in 1648 ranks among the best albeit not the earliest collections printed in the first half of the 17th century. This collection contains amongst many important travels the journals of Bontekoe & Raven and Pelsaert ads 10 and 11 on Australia.All parts have separate title pages and individual pagination and could be sold separately which is why it is extraordinary to find them together. Copies complete with the preliminaries frontispiece general title introduction and index are very rare. A proposed second part remained unpublished.The binding is slightly soiled some manuscript inscriptions on the front pastedown and recto of the first flyleaf occasional marginal manuscript annotations. The typographical general title page has been restored along the fore-edge slightly affecting the woodcut illustration very slightly browned throughout occasionally slightly foxed occasional marginal water stains. Otherwise in very good condition.l Cox I p. 30; Landwehr VOC 251; STCN 089914589 6 copies incl. 2 incomplete; Tiele 1179; Tiele Mem. pp. 7-8; cf. Boxer Dutch merchants and mariners in Asia 1602-1795 1988. [printed by Adriaen Hermansz. Roest for] Joost Hartgers, hardcover
1907216093London.: George Newnes Limited. First Edition. July1907. Decorated covers black & white illustrations throughout some soiling to covers head & tail of spine chipped and a repair to the lower corner still a clean and firm copy. 24 x 18cm. This issue's contents include: A Beetle Hunter in the Amazon; Across Unknown Bhutan - II; A Tragedy of Solitude; Kangaroo Farming; From India to England Overland - I; The Boy Who Ran Away; With a Survey Party in the Field; On Board the "Luciline"; A Maori "Canoe Poi"; The Lost Explorers; A High Climb in Himalaya; The Eye of the King; Our Cruise on the Friesland Meers and more. . George Newnes, Limited. unknown
1932176499London.: Royal Geographical Society. 1932. Twenty one loose maps with tissue guards printed on sheets 49.5 x 63.5 cm in the original folio title-wrappers the maps with some edge wear and toning but on the whole in very good condition the wrappers browned and stained torn with minor loss at the foot of the title wrapper small closed edge tears now re-enforced with archival material and sound. Lacking the introductory notes by Edward Heawood. The complete suite of maps: an impressive production. The first map is a general map of England and Ireland by an unknown author 1594; nineteen county maps; and a final sheet of miniature county maps printed as a deck of playing-cards. The county maps proper vary in date from Saxton's “Southamtonia” of 1575 to John Speed's version of Norden's map of Sussex dated 1610. A contemporary reviewer dubbed it " a rich cartographical feast" allowing easy access to rare and valuable maps and comparison of maps by different cartographers for the same county. <br>The county maps reproduced include five by Christopher Saxton three by John Norden Philip Symonson's map of Eastern Kent published in 1596 a series of seven maps dating from the early years of the seventeenth century two maps prepared for Camden and two published by John Speed. . Royal Geographical Society unknown
176736492London: Printed by J. Knox 1767. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo. Volume III only. 2 520 pages. Illustrated with fold out chart map of the southern section of South America and a chart map of the Pacific Ocean. Binding in poor condition. Marbled paper covered boards are detached. Text block split into two sections. Spine is dry and cracked with no title label. Boards extremely worn. Text is untrimmed. Light staining and fading to the the title page. Previous owner ink name stamp on page 1. A persistent brown stain in the upper gutter of the text partly affecting the Pacific Ocean fold out map in the margins. Page 214 torn in the margin with no loss of print. Some doodles in the margins of a few pages. Light toning to the contents. A poor copy. <br /> <br /> Contents include voyage accounts of Captain William Dampier Captain Woodes Rogers and Anson's voyage around the world The Pacific Ocean map shows California and parts of the Philippines. The map has some brown stains in the margins. Printed by J. Knox hardcover
183635304New York: Harper and Brothers 1836. Harper's Stereotype Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. 2 373 pages 1. Folding frontispiece map. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Light wear and fading to the cloth. Light toning and scattered foxing to the text. Bookplate of "Athens Georgia Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association located on the front paste down. Harper and Brothers hardcover
184635386London: Wiley and Putnam 1846. First English edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. iv 5-324 pages. Illustrated with large folding map backed by linen two frontispiece engravings and two engraved plates in text. Green cloth hardcover ruled in blind on the covers with blind stamped eagle and shield illustration on the front cover. Gilt title and blind stamped decorations on the spine. Cloth lightly chipped head of the spine and edge worn base of the spine. Corners bumped. A few light repairs made to this copy including a front hinge repair and a tissue repair to the title page. A very small puncture on the title page. A few pages with very brief pencil notes or underlining. Light foxing to the blank verso of the linen backed map. Armorial bookplate of "Sir G. E. Hammond Bt. K.C.B." on the front paste down. A good copy. <br /> <br /> Howes 370 Notation for entry reads - "Eng. ed. with omissions and different pls 'a' Contains his first and second expeditions"; Reference Graff 1433 Syracuse edition. Wiley and Putnam hardcover
185735540New York: D. Appleton and Company 1857. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. 1 vii viii blank 624 pages 1. Fine binding. Brownish marbled paper covered boards with brown leather corners and spine. Gilt title decorations and raised bands on the spine. Marbled end papers. Marbled text edges. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving steel engravings illustrated plates in text illustrations and 11 folding maps. Text maps and illustrations in very good condition. Occasional light foxing to a few of the steel engravings and the protective tissue. Light rubs to the board edges with light shelf wear to the covers. Binding is very sturdy and uniform. First edition in three volumes was published in 1856. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
