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1774174257Paris.: Chez Saillant et Nyon rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais Chez Panckoucke Hotel de Thou rue des Poitevins. 1774. Engraved map on laid paper 18.5 x 31cm 25.6 x 34.4cm sheet size central fold slight marginal toning but a very good dark impression. Map of Bonthain Bay situated southeast of Macassar on the island of Celebes finely re-engraved for the French edition of Captain James Cook's First Voyage 1768-1771 "Relation des voyages.pour faire des decouvertes dans l'hemisphere meridional et successivement executes par le commodore Byron le capitaine Carteret le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook.". . Chez Saillant et Nyon, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, [Chez] Panckoucke, Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins. unknown
1786011313Geneva Switzerland: Chez Barde Manget & Comp 1786. 641pp illus with beautiful fold-out engraved plates. 19th century quarter calf gilt marbled boards. Containing De Saussure's account of the natural history of Geneva and its environs along with the record of his explorations in the area of Mont Blanc. De Saussure has been called the father of alpinism; between 1774 and 1787 he performed extensive geological investigations of the Alpine region which he saw as holding the key to a true theory of the earth. Book is tight clean and beautiful plates are in excellent clean condition with no tears. French text. 1st Edition. Quarter Leather/Boards. Very Good/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Chez Barde, Manget & Comp Hardcover
177419257Amsterdam Rotterdam E. van Harrevelt Henry Beman 1774. 4to. Bound in 4 cont. full mottled calf. 6 raised bands gilt titlelabels. Backs a little rubbed some cracking to leather along hinges but covers not detached. Corners bumped. Ocasionally somewhat brownspotted a few tears in plates no loss. A few corners dampstained. With all 4 halftitles. 8XXXII388 - 6536 - 6394 - VIII3673 pp. and 52 engraved plates mostly large and folded among these are 28 folded maps. all. <br/><br/><em> First French edition of Cooke's first travel a title-issue identical with the Paris-edition from the same year only with a different title-page and a printed Privilege in Dutch for the Dutch publisher. It is the 4to-edition not one of the 8vo -editions published the same year. - Sabin 30941. </em> hardcover
180031374ABLondon, printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. (by T. Gillet), 1800. 487 S.; S. 3?344, 105 S. (Appendix). Mit Frontispiz, 1 mehrfach gefalteten Kupferkarte und 44 Kupfertafeln. Halblederband der Zeit mit Rückenschild und Rückenprägung. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, 31374AB|31374AB_2 [2 Warenabbildungen]
17903141FBParis, Letellier Verlag, 1790. 8°. 20 x 13 cm. VII, 454, IV Seiten; [2] Blatt, 432 Seiten. Private Halblederbände im Stile der Zeit mit goldgeprägten Titeln auf roten Lederrückenschildern und marmoriertem Deckelbezug. [4 Warenabbildungen]
178960016BBParis / London, Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, Libraire / Chez Blamire, Libraire, 1789. 8°. 21 x 13 cm. XIX, 341 und 348 Seiten. Halblederbände auf fünf Bünden mit goldgeprägten Rückentiteln und Ornamenten auf Leder-Titelschildchen.
17883323Paris: Buisson Libraire Hotel de Mefrigny 1788. First edition. Leather over Original Beautiful Marbled Boards. Very Good original condition. 3-vol. pp 332 312 350. some b/w illustrations and one fold-out map. . Buisson, Libraire, Hotel de Mefrigny hardcover
1706SB-13270Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1706. 8 Bl., 387 S., 4 Bl., 247 S. Braune Original-Ganzlederbände (full leather; cuir complet) auf fünf Bünden mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel auf rotem Rückenschild sowie mit sehr reichen floralenGoldprägungen; mehrfarbig marmorierter Buchschnitt; mehrfarbig illustrierte Vorsätze. Band I mit Titelvignette sowie zahlreichen Textvignetten; Bd. I mit ausfaltbarer Weltkarte, ferner beide Bände mit zahlreichen geometrischen Illustrationen.
1767169330Amsterdam: 1767. First edition second issue of this fantastical account of an Elizabethan voyage to Australia. In Robertson's discovery of an idealized Australian society of peace and provender the work outlines a critique of the ancien régime with several pointed references to Rousseau's Social Contract of 1762. Howgego acclaims it as "a superior work in the genre which makes sophisticated use of real events to support its credibility" p. 391. Duodecimo 165 x 95 mm. Contemporary mottled calf spine with raised bands red morocco label and floral decoration in gilt marbled endpapers edges red light blue silk bookmarker. With 19th-century bookstamp of one "Granger" to initial blank and half-title. Light bumping and wear a couple of small wormholes to head of front joint small chip to lower outer corner of rear free endpaper minor toning and foxing to contents final 'I' of date partly scratched out: a very good copy. Barbier IV p. 1078; Howgego V R20; Negley 979. hardcover
17905007410Paris, chez Defer de Maisonneuve & Nantes, chez Louis 1790. 2 unpaginierte Blätter, 412 Seiten; 2 unpaginierte Blätter, 392 Seiten; mit 2 kleinen Titelvignetten und 2 Textkupferstichen, 8° (19,5 x 14 cm), Pappeinbände der Zeit mit goldgeprägten Rückenschildern.
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
1800r3992London: T N Longman & O Rees. G : in Good condition. Rebound. Cover rubbed and bumped with corner and edge wear. Scattered foxing. Contents including map G. Bookplate of previous owner on paste-down with signature on volume 3. 1800. Second Edition. Brown quarter cloth on blue marbled board cover. 220mm x 130mm 9" x 5". xxxvi 630pp; 574pp; 628pp. Fold out map. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . T N Longman & O Rees 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
1790r7103aDublin: P Wogan L White P Byrne; &c. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Hinges weak. Some foxing. 1790. First edition thus. Brown hardback half-leather covers with marbled boards. 210mm x 130mm 8" x 5". xvi lxxx 381pp; vi 592pp; iv 687pp; v 775pp; v 496pp; xxiv 286pp plates. 52 b/w plates 5 fold-out 3 large fold-out maps one a later copy. Published 1790-91. Heavy set extra shipping needed for overseas. . P Wogan, L White, P Byrne; &c hardcover
1790r7103London: G G J & J Robinson. G: in good condition. Covers marked and heavily rubbed. Edge-wear. Splitting to outer hinges. Inner hinge cracking. Slight worming defunct to margin of prelims of volume I. Short tears at crease to folding maps in volume V no loss. Heraldic bookplates to paste-downs. 1790. First Edition. Brown hardback leather covers. 310mm x 240mm 12" x 9". lxxxiii 535pp; viii 718pp; viii 759pp; viii 695pp; xiv 230pp x plates. 58 b/w plates 3 fold-out maps. Volume V is entitled 'Select Specimens of Natural History collected in 'Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in Egypt Arabia Abyssinia and Nubia'. Very heavy set significant extra shipping needed for overseas. . G G J & J Robinson hardcover
177355007London: London; Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good. vii 383 pages. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 in. high. Full polished calf with 5 raised bands and a maroon leather label with gilt title 'Forster's Travels' on spine. Condition of the book is GOOD; Light wear and soiling to covers & spine front cover detached after title page front hinge repaired with clear plastic tape the rest of the binding is very tight. Slight uniform toning to paper but no foxing staining etc. No illustrations in this edition. Travel Rare RGR Case London; Edward and Charles Dilly hardcover
179513989London: London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davies 1795. First English Edition. 1795. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. First English Language Edition. 8vo. Full calf spine designed and lettered in gilt. Outer hinges are cracked some wear to spine extremities and tips very good generally. Three leaves have some damage to the lower part pages 277 / 283 / 293 two with very slight loss of text. With 9 of 10 plates lacking plate II which is a folding map of Naples. Plate VIII seashells is present in two copies. Overall an internally clean and decent copy of a scarce book. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. And W. Davies, 1795. First English Edition. Hardcover
1757c1152aLondon: A Millar; W Sandby. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and scuffed. Hinges cracked and reinforced. 1757. Second Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 350mm x 240mm 14" x 9". xviii 514pp plates & maps. 33 b/w plates 15 fold-out 14 maps. . A Millar; W Sandby hardcover
178728145London:: T. Cadell 1787. Third Edition. All four volumes rebound in Very Good brown leather with fading to the spines. William Coxe was an English historian and priest who served as a travelling companion and tutor to nobility from 1771 to 1786. He wrote numerous historical works and travel and was a comparatist in method and incorporated new material gleaned during his many tours into the various editions of his published writings. T. Cadell, hardcover
179515008London: A. Strahan. Very Good. 1795. First Edition. Hardcover. Early cloth binding is poor with soiling rubbing & splitting. However the contents are near fine to fine. All plates are present with varying degrees of foxing . The pages are not foxed at all although I do find one short closed tear on the edge of one page. Interior hinges are tight. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 311 pages . A. Strahan hardcover
1795e5320London: F & C Rivington. Worn condition. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Boards detached and spine missing on volume I. Plate II volume IV missing. Some foxing. but content in overall good condition. 1795. Second Edition. Brown hardback half-leather cover with marbled boards. 200mm x 120mm 8" x 5". xii 317pp xviii; 316pp xv; xiii 285pp xv; xxiv 293pp xvi plates. 10 of 11 b/w plates 1 fold-out. Volume I: Containing a voyage to the southern parts of Europe and to the cape of good hope in Africa in the years 1770 1771 1772 1773. Volume II: Containing two expeditions to the interior part of the country adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope and a voyage to the Island of Java; performed in the years 17731774 and 1775. Volume III: Containing a voyage to Japan and travels in different parts of that empire In the Years1775 and 1776. Volume IV: Containing travels in the empire of Japan and in the islands of Java and Ceylon together with the voyage home. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . F & C Rivington hardcover
1793000559Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross P. Wogan L. White P. Byrne A. Grueber J. Moore J. Jones W. Jones W. MKenzie and J. Rice. 1793. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 2 vols. Vol. I. pp. Vol. II. pp. With 3 maps one of which is colored. First printed in 1792. According to Cox this Dublin 1793 printing was probably a pirate edition. The official second edition appeared a year later. Re-bound in modern half calf with gilt spine labels and marbled boards. An ink shelf number is handwritten on the verso of both titles with miniscule bleed through on the title of volume II. A shelf number is also written on the bottom margin of p. 101 in both volumes and on the final blanks in volume II. The map in volume II is re-hinged and contains a tear professionally sealed along the inner margin and crossing one printed corner tip. The interior shows some marginal foxing mild staining and age-toning. Pages 431-432 folio 3I4 in volume II contain a manufacturing tear through a large part of the leaf. The tear is carefully sealed; however due to paper slippage during printing some words of text near the tear are skewed out of place. Arthur Young 1741-1820 was one of the foremost British agriculturalists in his day. According to Edward Coxs bibliography Young " is unexcelled in relating personal adventures in observations of the agricultural situation and in descriptions of the many friends he met. He was near enough to the outbreak of the French Revolution to perceive that something unusual was astir and even experienced some personal contacts with the disordered state of affairs." See Cox Ref. Guide to the Lit. of Travel I p. 161. De Tocqueville said that Youngs book "is one of the most instructive works which exist on the former state of society in France See De Tocqueville "On the state and society in France " London 1888. p. 84. ESTC T121339; Cox I p. 161; Brunet V 1510; Lowndes p. 3020; Graesse VII p. 496 . <br/> <br/> Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, W. MKenzie, and J. Rice. hardcover
1791g3814Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute; G G J & J Robinson; G Nichol. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and scuffed with edge-wear. Slight foxing. 1791. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 180mm x 110mm 7" x 4". xiv 266pp. . Bell & Bradfute; G G J & J Robinson; G Nichol hardcover
17965000964Philadelphia: Dobelbower Key and Simpson 1796. Rather age-toned and spotted a few small tears and chips but a good sound set. Eight volumes octavo engraved title pages 49 plates a couple closely trimmed includes list of subscribers in the final volume; contemporary marbled sheep bindings spines ruled in gilt and with red leather lettering and blue oval numbering pieces. <p><p>A good complete set of this early collection of voyage accounts rare when complete and in reasonable condition as here. This is the first American edition of these collected voyages from the Great Age of Exploration extensively illustrated. "The Philadelphia edition generally follows the text of the London edition published by T. Carman and F. Newbery 1769-1790 20 vols. though much abridged in content" Forbes. Individual volumes appear for sale but complete runs of the work are the exception rather than the rule.</p> <p>The first volume is devoted to the early discovery of America from Columbus to Pizarro; the second English French and Dutch settlements in America and the circumnavigations of Schouten and Le Maire and Dampier's voyages. The third volume is almost entirely East Indian voyages while the fourth includes an account of the Rogeveen voyage in search of Terra Australis Thomas James' and the Ellis voyages in search of the North West passage and voyages to the Middle East including the Thevenot voyage to the Levant. Volumes five to seven include voyages to East Asia Africa the Middle East Europe and Scandinavia. </p> <p>The final volume is dedicated to Cook's Third and final voyage to the Pacific including A Chart of the Southern Hemisphere Shewing the Tract of Capt. Cooks Last Voyage a finely engraved map filled with comments describing important details such as the northernmost position of the expedition before their progress was blocked by ice and some amusing yet less important notations pointing out the location of floating tree trunks and seaweed clusters. </p> <p>This was just the second map of the Pacific Ocean printed in America the first having been the extremely rare map which accompanied a very few copies of John Ledyard's Journal 1793 and on which it may have been based though some details suggest that it was also made in consultation with the "General Chart" from the official voyage account. Despite its title it shows all of the Pacific Ocean from 70° south to 70° north and from China in the East to the coast of North America in the West. The South Pacific and its islands are represented in detail as are the Alaskan and Asian coasts with Cook's route traced. It includes an early notice of Hawaii with the note 'Owhyhee here Capt Cook was killed 1779'.</p> <p>An additional six nicely engraved views are also featured including The Death of Captain Cook and several portraits of native inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands. </p> <p>---</p> <p>An interesting point is that unlike a set described some years ago which had 26 pages of subscribers listed the present set has specific subscribers' lists for Baltimore and New York the pages of which are numbered from 27 to 38. </p> <p>Not in the catalogue of the Hill collection.</p> </p> . Provenance: New York merchant and subscriber Charles Watkins' copy with his signature; Daniel Sylvester Tuttle 1837-1923 Bishop of Montana with his manuscript inscription in the final volume "Daniel S. Tuttle 1886". Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson unknown
