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17672105170283xbvkLeipzig, Offizin Gleditsch, 1767. Titelblatt mit allegorischer Holzschnittvignette (geflügeltes Pferd 'Pegasus' im Flug), Widmungs blatt 'Commilitonibus humanissimis'; 188 Seiten, (4) S. 'Index'. - Original-Halbledereinband der Zeit über 5 erhabene Bünde mit floraler Rückenvergoldung und goldgeprägtem Titel auf rotem Rückenschild mit Goldrand, grau-schwarz marmorierten Buchdeckeln und Lederecken, Rundum-Rotschnitt und prachtvoll farbig-marmorierten Vorsätzen; 8vo.(ca. 20,5 x 12 cm).
176527653Paris CHEREAU 1765 une vue d'optique en couleurs,GRAVÉE A L'EAU-FORTE ET AQUARELLÉE, format de la gravure : 42 x 30,5 cm, sans date (1765) à Paris chez CHEREAU rue St Jacques Editeur
1721P1-3H-0Paris, André Cailleau, 1721. In-8°, pleine basane époque, dos orné à 5 nerfs, pièce de titre. Frontispice – portrait, 7ff.-334pp. Illustré d’une carte dépliante et 6 planches dépliantes hors-texte. Fortes mouillures dans le bas du livre sur une centaine de pages.
1797406875Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique 1797. Tape remnants from mounting along upper edge verso some foxing overall good condition and color. Hand-colored engraving by Dequevauviler after Nicolas Marie Ozanne. 9 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches image 11 x 17 inches sheet. A fine print from 'Atlas du voyage de la Perouse' depicting the capsizing of two rowboats in Alaska during La Perouse's 1786 expedition. The wreck took place off of the Port des Francais today known as Lituya Bay in Glacier Bay National Park Alaska. <br/><br/> [L'Imprimerie de la Republique] unknown books
1794BB0447London: printed for T. N. Longman Pater-Noster-Row from 1771 1794. Early Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Fine. 8vo: xxxvi380 numbered columns381-394pp with double-page copper-engraved map as frontispiece; 4216pp. ESTC Citation No. T93564 and T93553. Finely bound to style by Fitterer in stiff beige wraps printed paper spine label. Binding and text block clean bright and unmarked save for offsetting from engraved map. A superlative copy. Fordham Road-Books pp. 27 and 29. Roscoe John Newbery A399/6. Not in Hodson. The tenth edition: with the addition of near ninety pages including considerable improvements in the direct roads many new cross roads and a great number of noblemen’s and gentlemen’s seats. Tenth Edition of the first work 1794; originally published 1771 "With the Addition of near Ninety Pages including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads many new Cross Roads and a great Number of Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Seats"; Sixth Edition 1792 improved and corrected of the second work with separate title page. Although Paterson contributed no significant innovations to the compilation of road books relying on the advances of Norden Ogilby and others he "made improvements in style and presentation and added factual detail—so much so that his name was for many years an indicator of reliability in road books and was attached to them long after he had stopped compiling them." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. printed for T. N. Longman, Pater-Noster-Row [from 1771] unknown
1763P2-7B-14Paris, Guillyn, 1763. In-12 (17x10) relié plein veau époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre, XXXVI-380pp-2ff. Illustré de figures dans le texte. Carte dépliante en déficit , un cahier mal placé (p168-192 relié p.216)
1747P1-26-3HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES VOYAGES, OU NOUVELLE COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE, QUI ONT ÉTÉ PUBLIÉES JUSQU'À PRÉSENT DANS LES DIFFÉRENTES LANGUES DE TOUTES LES NATIONS CONNUES [.]. TOME TROISIÈME(…). Paris, Didot, 1747. In-4°, (265x205mm), relié plein veau, pièce de titre, dos orné, page de titre imprimée en rouge et noir, tranches marbrées. Plats frottés, reliure défraichie, intérieur en bon état. 2ff.-VIIIpp.-648pp. numérotées 638 par erreur-3ff.(1ff. avis au relieur). Cet ouvrage est illustré de 22 planches : 9 cartes dont 7 dépliantes et 13 planches dont 7 dépliantes. Le tome 3 contient : - Livre VII : Voyages au long des Côtes occidentales d’Afrique, depuis le Cap Blanco jusqu’à Sierra Léona ; contenant l’établissement du Commerce des Anglois sur la Rivière de Gambra, vulgairement la Gambie. - Livre VIII : Voyages en guinée, à Penin, & sur toute la Côte, depuis Sierra Léona jusqu’au Cap de Lope-Consalvo. - Livre IX : Description de la Guinée, contenant la Géographie & l’Histoire Naturelle & Civile du Pays. Bon exemplaire.
1747P1-26-5HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES VOYAGES, OU NOUVELLE COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE, QUI ONT ÉTÉ PUBLIÉES JUSQU'À PRÉSENT DANS LES DIFFÉRENTES LANGUES DE TOUTES LES NATIONS CONNUES [.]. TOME QUATRIÈME (…). Paris, Didot, 1747. In-4°, (265x205mm), relié plein veau, pièce de titre, dos orné, page de titre imprimée en rouge et noir, tranches marbrées. Plats frottés, reliure défraichie, intérieur en bon état. 4ff.-1 carte dépliante-648pp.-3ff.(1ff. avis au relieur). Cet ouvrage est illustré de 50 planches : 1 carte dépliante déchirée sans manque, 13 planches dépliantes, 31 planches, 1 carte et 4 cartes dépliantes. Le tome 4 contient : - Suite du Livre Neuvième, & de la Description de la Guinée. - Livre X : Contenant la description des Côtes, depuis Rio da Volta jusqu’au Cap Lopez-Consalvo. - Livre XI : Voyages dans la Guinée & au Royaume de Benin ; contenant la description du Royaume de Benin et de toute la Côte, jusqu’au Royaume de Congo. - Livre XII : Voyages dans les Royaumes de Congo & d’Angola. - Livre XIII : Description des Royaumes de Loango, de Congo, d’Angola, de Benguela & des Pays voisins. Bon exemplaire.
1756P1-26-4HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DES VOYAGES, OU NOUVELLE COLLECTION DE TOUTES LES RELATIONS DE VOYAGES PAR MER ET PAR TERRE, QUI ONT ÉTÉ PUBLIÉES JUSQU'À PRÉSENT DANS LES DIFFÉRENTES LANGUES DE TOUTES LES NATIONS CONNUES [.]. TOME 14 (…). La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1756. In-4° (265x205mm), relié plein veau, pièce de titre, dos richement orné, page de titre imprimée en rouge et noir, tranches marbrées. Plats frottés, intérieur en très bon état. 4 ff. (page de titre – Avertissements – catalogue), 500pp., 2ff. (table). Cet ouvrage est illustré de 18 planches hors-texte. Le tome 14 contient : - Suite du livre troisième, Voyages dans la presqu’isle en deça du Gange. - Livre quatrième, Voyages aux Indes orientales par le Sud-ouest. Bon exemplaire.
1756BB0491Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1756. Full Calf. Fine. Later edition of the memoirs of one of the most illustrious French corsairs including descriptions of his spectacular attacks on Rio de Janeiro. 12mo 166 x 92mm: xxxix312pp with engraved frontispiece and five of six folding plates absent plate opposite p. 120 apparently never bound in. Full mottled calf flat richly gilt spine divided into six compartments by triple rules red morocco gilt label all edges stained red marbled end papers book label of P. Gaingnot-P. au Mans. The highly accomplished engravings by J. P. Le Bas and A. Coquart include frontispiece portrait of the author view of a French man-of-war with parts labeled three of four folding views of naval engagements and the magnificent folding plan of Rio de Janeiro. Also included are lists of ships and crews under Du Guay-Trouin's command in various campaigns. Lower joint skillfully repaired else Fine with pages and plates pristine. STCN 305337807. Keynes Bibliotheca Bibliographici p. 117. Borba de Moraes 272. Gibson's Library p. 115. Sabin 29198 quoting Borba 272: "Pierre Mortier the well-known Amsterdam book dealer published several editions of the Memoires beginning 1740 continuing 1746 1748 1756 1769 and 1773 all of which contain the author's portrait five plates and the map.". First published in Amsterdam in 1730 in a pirated edition extracted from an unfinished manuscript. The first official and complete edition was published posthumously in Paris in 1740. Admiral Du Guay-Trouin noted for his exploits during the War of the Spanish Succession from 1699 to 1712 sailed American and Caribbean waters as a privateer. In 1711 he led a French expedition against Rio de Janeiro then considered impregnable and after an eleven day siege he occupied the city for some two months holding the governor for ransom and ransacking the churches and plundering their treasures. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Chez Pierre Mortier unknown
1787E00402 volumes: 576xv pages; 499xv pages. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition 1781 which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 Madrid. Sabin 36805 First French edition.<br /><br />Antonio de Ulloa 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 was a Spanish general explorer author astronomer colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator led by Pierre Bouguer. He remained there from 1736 to 1744 during which time the two Spaniards discovered the element platinum. In 1745 having finished their scientific labors Ulloa and Jorge Juan prepared to return to Spain agreeing to travel on different ships in order to minimize the danger of losing the important fruits of their labors. The ship upon which Ulloa was traveling was captured by the British and he was taken as a prisoner to England. In that country through his scientific attainments he gained the friendship of the men of science and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In a short time through the influence of the president of this society he was released and was able to return to Spain. He published an account of the people and the countries they have met 1748 which was translated into English as A Voyage to South America. He became prominent as a scientist and was appointed to serve on various important scientific commissions. He is to be credited with the establishment of the first museum of natural history the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain and the observatory of Cadiz. In 1758 he returned to South America as governor of Huancavelica in Peru and the general manager of the quicksilver mines there. He held this position until 1764. He arrived on 5 March 1766 in New Orleans to serve as the first Spanish governor of West Louisiana. The French colonists refused to recognize Spanish rule and de Ulloa was expelled from Louisiana by a Creole uprising during the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768. For the remainder of his life he served as a naval officer. In 1779 he became lieutenant-general of the naval forces. As a result of his scientific work in Peru he published Madrid 1784 Relación histórica del viaje á la América Meridional which contains a full accurate and clear description of the greater part of South America geographically and of its inhabitants and natural history. In collaboration with the Jorge Juan mentioned above he also wrote Noticias secretas de América giving valuable information regarding the early religious orders in Spanish America.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Sever worming to spines exterior hinges cracked point chipped library stamps to title pages else a good copy of a scarce item. Chez Buisson hardcover
1790P1-3J-0PARIS (LEROY) 1790. 2 volumes In 8° (200 x 130) relié plein veau époque. Faux titres, titre frontispice XXIV - 381 pp. Faux titres, titre 399 pp. illustré de 12 planches dont le Hottentote à tablier. Bon état, peu de rousseurs.
1772P2-6B-aPARIS (Durand) 1772. 7 volumes 12 (17x10 cm), reliure plein veau dos lisse orné, charniers faibles à 2 volumes. Mouillure à un coin. [12]-522, [4]-413-[1 bl.], [4]-458, [4]-440, [4]-430, 480, 444 pp. Cet ouvrage connut un grand succès.
1756BB0568London: Printed by H. Woodfall 1756. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition "printed for presentation only and not sold." DNB. The more common second edition published in octavo appeared the following year. 4to: 62015203-3611pp with engraved frontispiece and engraved plate opposite the divisional title to the Essay on Tea both by Thomas Major after Samuel Wale. Modern quarter-calf over plain paper-covered boards flat spine in six compartments between decorative gilt bands red morocco lettering piece gilt; all edges stained red end papers renewed. Title page and preliminaries lightly foxed but contents otherwise clean and bright the binding tight and firm. A splendid wide-margined copy. ESTC Citation No. T127188. Gibson's Library p. 144. Goldsmiths'-Kress 9083. Cox I p. 19. Hanway was both a widely traveled merchant with connections to the Russia Company and a philanthropist whose causes included foundlings prostitutes and the climbing apprentices of chimney sweeps. His mother's death in 1755 prompted him to return to Portsmouth where she was buried that sojourn served as inspiration for this his second book to which he appended An Essay on Tea. Hanway describes many of the places he visited including Salisbury with its great cathedral and Stonehenge with digressions on tombstones sacred music and oratorios divine poetry temperance lapdogs false grief the ruling passion of women and much else. His Essay on Tea indicts the beverage for causing everything from insomnia weak nerves and scurvy to bad teeth and proposes 'Herbs of our own growth in lieu of tea.' Oliver Goldsmith Samuel Johnson and other ardent tea-drinkers criticized these eccentric views in The Idler and other publications. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Printed by H. Woodfall unknown
1777BB0796London: printed for T. Durham at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly at No. 46 in Fleet-Street 1777. First Edition. Quarter-bound Leather. Near Fine. First Edition in English of this novelized first-person account of a young English lord's debauched sojourn—prostitutes gambling horse-racing drink—in the French capitol. Crown 8vo 206 x 121mm: 2x222pp. Contemporary leather spine in six compartments between raised bands recent red morocco lettering piece gilt marbled sides and end papers. Joints skillfully reinforced marbled sides heavily rubbed top of title page including word 'The' supplied in excellent facsimile. Internally a Fine bright copy pages fresh and free of foxing browning and stains. ESTC Citation No. N31079 distinct from ESTC T131522 which Durham and Kearsly brought out the same year in duodecimo and which does not have the following note below the date on the title page present in our copy: "This work may be had of the above booksellers in French printed from the Paris edition which was suppressed in that country.". Translated by the author from his La quinzaine angloise à Paris first published the previous year. Rutledge was the grandson of an Irish Jacobite who settled in France and son of Walter Rutledge a banker and ship owner at Dunkirk who assisted the Pretender in his expedition of 1715 and in consequence was named a baronet. "This sketch which depicts the rapidity with which a ‘plunger’ may be reduced to destitution by the harpies of Paris and purports to be a posthumous work by Sterne to whose works it bears no sort of resemblance . . . The writer states that attempts had been made to suppress the work in Paris. A species of sequel entitled ‘Le Second Voyage de milord ——’ appeared in 1779." DNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. printed for T. Durham, at Charing-Cross; and G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street unknown
1796P2-6DParis, Jansen, 1796. 2volumes in-4° (270x220mm), cartonnage d’attente d’époque, manques au dos , plat du tome 2 détaché. TOME 1: 9ff., 224pp., manque pp. 224-228, illustré de 7 planches Hors-Texte dont 4 dépliantes. TOME 2 : 373pp., 1f., 18 planches. Exemplaire non rogné, bon état intérieur, page de titre du T.2 effrangé. Rare édition in-4 du second voyage de LEVAILLANT.
1755P2-1C-2Londres, le Breton, Desaint, pissot, Lambert, 1755. In-12, veau blond, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, endrement, filets d’or sur les plats, reliure de l’époque, tranches marbrées. XXIV-336pp. Très RARE. London, Le Breton, 1755. 12mo, XXIV-336pp. Complete with half title. Woodcut headpiece & initial. Contemporary calf, gilt back, red label. First edition of this popular work on the history of British commerce with the east coast of America written from English sources by a member of the controller-general’s staff in Paris. Included are chapters on Newfoundland, Acadia, and Hudson’s Bay. The author contends that England’s American colonies are the major source of her power and wealth. Nice copy.
1789100092317Maradan 1789 in4. 1789. Relié. iconographie en noir et blanc nombreux documents illustrations cartes dépliantes 498 pages de texte + 46 pages d'appendices eux aussi agrémentés de tableaux et illustrations + 2 pages: approbation privilège du Roi
1748P2-1B-2Paris, Nyon, 1748. Complet en 2 volumes in-12 (170x100mm), 4(f)-CVIII-505pp-Errata + XXXVI-484pp-Errata, reliure plein veau marbré d’époque, dos à 5 nerfs à caissons ornés, pièces de titre et de tomaison en maroquin rouge et vert, tranches rouges. Première Édition française traduite de l’anglais par Auguste-François Jault. Ex-Libris, armes non identifiées. Très bel exemplaire. 2 vols in-12°, Paris, 1748, full contemporary calf. Very nice set.
1787E00402 volumes: 576xv pages; 499xv pages. Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" bound in 3/4 period leather. Translated from the first German edition 1781 which includes a chapter entitled: "Observations and additions to by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider". Translated with additional notes and reviews by Jean Baptiste Lefebvre Villebrune. First Spanish edition published in 1772 Madrid. Sabin 36805 First French edition.<br /><br />Antonio de Ulloa 12 January 1716 – 3 July 1795 was a Spanish general explorer author astronomer colonial administrator and the first Spanish governor of Louisiana. He was born in Seville the son of an economist. Ulloa entered the navy in 1733. In 1735 he was appointed with fellow Spaniard Jorge Juan a member of the French Geodesic Mission a scientific expedition which the French Academy of Sciences was sending to Ecuador to measure a degree of meridian arc at the equator led by Pierre Bouguer. He remained there from 1736 to 1744 during which time the two Spaniards discovered the element platinum. In 1745 having finished their scientific labors Ulloa and Jorge Juan prepared to return to Spain agreeing to travel on different ships in order to minimize the danger of losing the important fruits of their labors. The ship upon which Ulloa was traveling was captured by the British and he was taken as a prisoner to England. In that country through his scientific attainments he gained the friendship of the men of science and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. In a short time through the influence of the president of this society he was released and was able to return to Spain. He published an account of the people and the countries they have met 1748 which was translated into English as A Voyage to South America. He became prominent as a scientist and was appointed to serve on various important scientific commissions. He is to be credited with the establishment of the first museum of natural history the first metallurgical laboratory in Spain and the observatory of Cadiz. In 1758 he returned to South America as governor of Huancavelica in Peru and the general manager of the quicksilver mines there. He held this position until 1764. He arrived on 5 March 1766 in New Orleans to serve as the first Spanish governor of West Louisiana. The French colonists refused to recognize Spanish rule and de Ulloa was expelled from Louisiana by a Creole uprising during the Louisiana Rebellion of 1768. For the remainder of his life he served as a naval officer. In 1779 he became lieutenant-general of the naval forces. As a result of his scientific work in Peru he published Madrid 1784 Relación histórica del viaje á la América Meridional which contains a full accurate and clear description of the greater part of South America geographically and of its inhabitants and natural history. In collaboration with the Jorge Juan mentioned above he also wrote Noticias secretas de América giving valuable information regarding the early religious orders in Spanish America.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Sever worming to spines exterior hinges cracked point chipped library stamps to title pages else a good copy of a scarce item. Chez Buisson hardcover books
1761E6754xxxiii270215148xix1 pages 14 of 18 engraved plates maps many folding and index. Quarto 10 1/4" x 8 1/4" in original leather binding. First edition.<br /><br />Richard Owen Cambridge was a British poet. He was educated at Eton and at St John's College Oxford. Leaving the university without taking a degree he took up residence at Lincolns Inn in 1737. Four years later he married and went to live at his country seat of Whitminster Gloucestershire. In 1751 he removed to Twickenham where he enjoyed the society of many notable persons. Horace Walpole in his letters makes many jesting allusions to Cambridge in the character of news-monger. His chief work is the <i>Scribleriad</i> 1751 a mock epic poem the hero of which is the Martinus Scriblerus of Alexander Pope John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift. The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic in which he avows Cervantes as his master. The satire shows considerable learning and was eagerly read by literary people; but it never became popular and the allusions always obscure have little interest for the present-day reader. He made a valuable contribution to history in his <i>Account of the War in India on the Coast of Coromandel from the year 1750 to 1760</i> 1761. He had intended to write a history of the rise and progress of British power in India but this enterprise went no further than this one work as he found that Robert Orme who had promised him the use of his papers contemplated the execution of a similar plan. The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge includes several pieces never before published. It contains an <i>Account of his Life and Character</i>by his Son George Owen Cambridge 1803 the Scribleriad some narrative and satirical poems and about twenty papers originally published in Edward Moore's paper The <i>World</i>. His poems are included in Alexander Chalmers' English Poets 1816.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Previous owner's name in neatly written dated 1806 on front end paper with his book plate on front past down with his library stamp. Lacks rear free end paper. Front hinge separated back hinge cracked. Lacks the Mongol on horse back plate map of Maratta County view of the attack on Geriah and view of Surat. Front worn spine ends and corners reinforced and repaired new spine label else about very good. Printed for T Jefferys hardcover books
1785BOOKS0033095 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition. First published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover books
1779BOOKS0003374282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition.<br /><br />Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. <br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.<br /> F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover books
1785BOOKS0033095 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables 479 pages 587 pages 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo 8" x 5" bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals Hill page 358 First Dublin edition.<br /><br />A London man of letters Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X including his own noble Scottish ancestors the Campbells. A memoir of him was inserted by Andrew Kippis in this same work. Campbell was an expert on the histories of Spain Portugal France and the British and the Dutch. In 1765he was appointed the royal agent for the province of Georgia and held that office until his death. There are many interesting references to him in James Boswell's Life of Johnson. John Kent published only tow editions of his compilation; this one and one published in London in 1776-1777.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br /> New spines with original leather boards. Volume one closed page edge tears with occasional page edges chipped only affecting margins. volume two damp stain to title gutter some occasional foxing. Some pages stained else a good to very good set Printed for J Williams hardcover
1779BOOKS000337<p>4282 pages lacking the map. Small quarto 10" x 7½" rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Sabin 22572 First edition.<br /><br />Rare account of travels into the arctic most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Lausanne 1765. <br /><br /><strong>Condition: </strong>Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.</p> F Sanuel Fetscherin hardcover