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1786H14134London: Alex. Hogg 1786. Very Good. Print from James Cook's voyages as published by Alex. Hogg in 1784-86. Visible area measures 13.75 x 9.5 inches double matted framed and glazed to high archival standards; frame measures 20 x 15 inches. Light soil and two small holes along bottom edge of visible area. Alex. Hogg unknown
178529428London 1785. Copper engraved images of Tonga Tahiti & the Society Islands from the folio atlas of Cook's 3rd voyage Pacific Ocean exploration. The images illustrate the native islanders rowing out to receive Cook; a reception with warriors demonstrating their strength; a human sacrifice; famous image of Tahitian women dancing and the harbour at Huaheine with Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery in the harbor. Plate numbers included are #1314 25 28 & 31. All with very wide margin. Paper sizes 21 5/8 x 16". Some light marginal dusting overall very good condition. unknown
1784294481784. Print. Very good condition. Omai was the first Polynesian Ambassador to England. He traveled with Captain Cook as an interpreter on his 2nd & 3rd voyages and was the physical embodiment of the "noble savage" in London Society for a time. This copper engtraving is Plate XXIX published in a Dutch edition of Cook's voyages. 4 1/4 x 6 3/8" nice impression. unknown
17706000062A Londra 1770. Octavo xvi 104 pp.; completely uncut in original soft boards very worn but in original unsophisicated condition. <p><p>Extremely rare Italian translation of Bricaire de la Dixmerie's fictional letter purporting to be written by the Tahitian Aoutourou to his friends in France. Aoutourou had sailed to France in 1769 with Bougainville where he became a sensation in much the same way that Omai would become a lion of British society a few years later: not only was Bricaire de la Dixmerie's book the first full publication on Tahiti ever published but its subject and supposed author Aoutourou was still living in Paris as it came off the presses. </p> <p>Bricaire de la Dixmerie 1731-1791 published on everything from his friend Voltaire to life in Spain but took a particular interest in fantastic travel. Well-connected and well-regarded he was also a member of the famous Les Neufs Sœurs the Masonic Lodge where he would have met everyone from Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones. His description of Tahiti is known to have been based on the Lettre de M. Commerson an almost hallucinogenic account of the South Seas written by Bougainville's botanist Philibert Commerson which had been published in the journal La Mercure in February 1769 more than two years before the official account finally appeared. However the most important aspect of the present work was that Bricaire de la Dixmerie was one of the real Aoutourou's friends in Paris so there is a core of realism no matter the elaborate fiction of the letter format and it is hard not to wonder whether any of the numerous asides are based on personal observation. </p> <p>The original French edition is known to be very rare this translation of the same year even more so. Rolf Du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue noted he had been able to locate only two copies of the work and no reference to it in any other bibliography or catalogue.</p> </p> . Provenance: early owner's inscription "Girolamo Gherardini" on title. unknown
177319897London: Stansfield Parkinson 1773. First printing. Print. Very good condition. A copper engraving of a Tahitian mother and child from Captain Cook's first voyage where the 'Endeavour' expedition astronomers observed the Transit of Venus on June 3rd 1769. This is from ' A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's ship The Endeavour' by Sydney Parkinson. Thomas Chambers was the engraver after Sydney Parkinson. Full margin and platemarks faint crescent watermark in top right corner. Engraving tipped onto thin blue paper with slight show through at the top corners. The backing blue paper is from a period scrap album. 9 1/2 x 12 Stansfield Parkinson unknown
177329442London: Sydney Parkinson 1773. First printing. Print. Very good condition. This print was drawn by Sydney Parkinson on Captain Cook's first voyage where the 'Endeavour' expedition astronomers observed the Transit of Venus on June 3rd 1769. This image of ethnographical art shows basketry feather work a hatchet a wooden pillow fish hooks etc. This is a copper engraving Plate XIII from ' A journal of a voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's ship The Endeavour' by Sydney Parkinson. S. H. Grimm del;; W. Darling Sculp. 8 x 10" on 10 x 121/4" watermarked sheet. Sydney Parkinson unknown
17794011311Avignon and Paris: Froulle 1779. Spine label chipped but in fine condition otherwise. Octavo with an engraved frontispiece view of Tahiti; a fine copy in original speckled half calf. <p><p>First edition: the very scarce and earliest separate serious work on Tahiti predated only by the Omai-based fictions and the poetical satires on Joseph Banks; it is based for its facts on the reports of Wallis Bougainville and Cook and for its philosophy on Montesquieu and Rousseau. "Taitbout's pamphlet is of interest not for the originality of its ideas but because it reveals how notions of geographical control deriving from Montesquieu and applied by the Forsters to the islanders of the Pacific could provide a rational explanation for the soft primitivism with which Bougainville Hawkesworth Banks Diderot and others had endowed the peoples of the Society Islands and add point and fire to a revolutionary pamphlet." Bernard Smith European vision and the South Pacific 1985 p. 87.</p> <p>Tahiti was much discussed in Europe from the early 1770s and various voyage accounts were in print during that decade. The Tahitian Aotourou had travelled back to Paris with Bougainville in 1769 while Omai had reached London with Cook in 1774. "After its successive discoveries by Wallis Bougainville and Cook Tahiti came to symbolize a living social and political experiment in the minds of many European philosophers: a primitive paradise that became spoiled and tainted by Western decadence. In this little work often attributed to Bougainville - perhaps because it borrows extensively from his narrative and the earlier accounts of Cook and his accompanying naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander - Taitbout speculates on the fundamental differences between the 'homme sauvage' and the 'homme civilizé' drawing from the example of Tahiti. He suggests that societies like Tahiti that evolved in isolation could offer political lessons to European nations but acknowledges that the arrival of Europeans on their shores will deal them a death blow. Taitbout's purpose in his own words translated is revolutionary: 'to assist in bringing about the much-desired general revolution to which the human spirit will one day owe the free complete and perfect union of all men'." online resource at princeton.edu.</p> <p>Barbier notes that the book - published anonymously but now attributed to Taitbout - was in the past sometimes attributed to Bougainville. A German translation appeared in 1783.</p> <p>This copy has an additional work bound at the end P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais Le voeu de toutes les nations.dans l'abaissement et l'humiliation de la Grande-Bretagne 1778 Sabin 4178.</p> </p> . Froulle unknown
1774PHO-1217Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774. 4 volumes in-4, 2 ff., xviii, 1 ff., xxxii, 388; 3 ff., 536 ; 3 ff., 394, 1 ff.; 1 ff., viii, 367, veau marbré, triple filet doré, dos orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison , tome 1 , reliure différente (demi veau) , défauts de reliure ( charnières fendues , manques ,coins usés , coiffes absentes , etc),illustré de 47 planches et cartes (52), la plupart dépliantes , 1 planche déchirée avec manque , plusieurs déchirées sans manque , quelques feuillets détachés.
179919378Lonbdon: T. Chapman 1799. Map. Very good. Single page engraved12 by 16 inches the image being 11 by 15 inches and matter in a 16 by 20 inch mat. Engraved by T. Foot. Later hand-coloring. Several flattened folds as published closed marginal tear affecting the outside border but stopping short of the image of the island else a very good copy. T. Chapman unknown books
1785PHO-1570Paris, Moutard, 1785. 3 volumes in-8, demi veau époque, dos à nerfs, charnières fendues, coiffes absentes, coin et coupes usés, 3ff.-viii-519pp., 2ff.-591pp., 2ff.-477pp., quelques rousseurs.
1778PHO-2169Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 1 vol. in-4 (Sur 4) 255x195mm, XLIV-460 pp., basane époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, charnières fendillées, petit manque au dos, coiffes arasées, coins et coupes émoussés, etc. Illustré de 12 gravures sur 17 dont une détachée avec manque.
1778PHO-434Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 6 volumes in-8, veau marbré, dos lisse orné , pièce de titre et tomaison , tranches rouge (rel. de l'époque) avec son ATLAS (260x220mm) , relié demi cuir (reliure moderne) illustré de 65 planches H.T., nombreuses dépliantes,bords brunis , déchirure à une carte sans manque. Traduction française par Suard du récit du deuxième voyage de Cook (1772-1775), depuis l'Angleterre jusqu'aux îles de Pâques. Les Observations de Forster forment les deux derniers tomes. Ex libris C. Du Mesnil.
17772663A AMSTERDAM ET SE TROUVE A PARIS. CHEZ PISSOT, LIBRAIRE. NYON, LIBRAIRE. 1777. IN-8 (13 X 20 X 4,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE (4) + XIX + (1) ET 546 PAGES, RELIURE D'EPOQUE PLEIN VEAU MARBRE, DOS A CINQ NERFS ORNE DE CAISSONS A FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN ROUGE, TRANCHES ROUGES. SANS LA CARTE. PREMIERE RELATION FRANCAISE DU SECOND VOYAGE DE COOK, PUBLIEE DIX-HUIT MOIS AVANT L'EDITION OFFICIELLE, ET CONTENANT DES DETAILS QUI NE SERONT PAS REPRIS DANS LES EDITIONS POSTERIEURES. L'AUTEUR DE CETTE RELATION, JOHN MARRA, CANONNIER A BORD DU VAISSEAU "LA RESOLUTION", AVAIT DU PUBLIE SON OUVRAGE ANONYMEMENT, LE REGLEMENT DE L'AMIRAUTE INTERDISANT AUX MEMBRES DES EXPEDITIONS D'UTILISER LE JOURNAL DE BORD A LEUR PROFIT PERSONNEL. PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS, DONT MORS INFERIEUR, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
177820121Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 5 volumes in-4 de XLIV-460; VIII-432; VIII-374; VIII-413-[3]; XII-510-[2] pages, demi-basane brune à coins, dos lisses ornés de filets dorés, pièces de titre et tomaison beiges.
1774PHO-1976Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774. 4 volumes in-4, 2 ff., xviii, 1 ff., xxxii, 388 ; 3 ff., 536 ; 3 ff., 394, 1 ff.; 1 ff., viii, 367, demi veau et coins , dos lisse orné avec titre et tomaison ,tranches bleues, supra libris aux premiers plats ,cachets de bibliothèque, illustré de 43 planches et cartes (52), la plupart dépliantes, 5 planches détachées, quelques planches courtes en marges, mouillure sur une dizaine de feuille (tome 1) , petites rousseurs , plats ,coins et coupes frottés,
1785PHO-2103Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785, 1 volume in-4 (20x26cm), reliure d’attente, frottements, manque au dos, à grandes marges, tel que paru, sans les planches qui n’ont pas été relié dans cet exemplaire
1774PHO-1685Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774, 1 volume in-4 (sur 4)26x21,5cm, 3ff.-536pp.,reliés plein veau tacheté époque, dos à nerfs ornés, pièce de titre et de tomaison, triples filets aux plats, tranches marbrées, quelques usures et frottements, petit manque au dos, coins et coupes usés, mouillure très claire sur 5 feuillets , mouillure angulaire, quelques feuillets légèrement brunis, bon exemplaire. Illustré de 16 gravures dépliantes, les 5 premières planches ont été remplacés par les 5 dernières du tome 1.
1774PHO-2066Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774, 1 volume in-4 (sur 4)26x21,5cm, 3ff.-536pp.,reliés plein veau tacheté époque, dos à nerfs ornés, tranches rouges, manque les pièces de titre et de tomaison, quelques usures et frottements, coiffes arasées, coins usés dont un enfoncé, , début de fentes Complet des 16 gravures, dont certaines dépliantes,
1774PHO-2167Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774, 1 volume in-4 (sur 4)26x20cm, 3ff.-394pp.,relié plein basane tacheté époque, dos à nerfs orné d’ancres et fleurs de lys avec pièces de titre et tomaison, tranches rouges, frottements, coiffes arasées, coins usés, début de fentes, 2 feuillets détachés dont 1 ébarbé, supra libris retirés aux plats. Illustré de 3 gravures (n°9/11/15) sur 16
1774PHO-2168Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774, 1 volume in-4 (sur 4), 3ff.-536pp., relié basane marbré époque, dos à nerfs orné d’ancres et fleurs de lys avec titre et tomaison, tranches rouges, usures et frottements, coiffes arasées, coins et coupes très usés, fentes, cachet retiré au titre Illustré de 9 gravures, dont certaines dépliantes,
1774PHO-2388Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, Hôtel de Thou, 1774-1785, 14 vol. in-8 (20x12,5cm). Basane porphyre poque, dos à nerfs avec pièces de titre, date du voyage et tomaison maroquin vert, triples filets aux plats, tranches cailloutées bleues. Coins usés, coiffes arasées, frottements, etc…, petite mouillure au t1. 2 tableaux dépliants au tome 3 du 3ème voyage.
1778PHO-2171Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 1 vol. in-4 (Sur 4) 255x195mm, XLIV-460 pp., basane époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec titre et tomaison, triples filets aux plats, charnières fendillées, petit manque au dos, coiffes arasées, coins et coupes émoussés, épidermures. Illustré de 6 gravures sur 7.
1756PHO-4862 Volumes in 4°de 1 titre ,XIV pp, 463 pp, 4pp pour le tome I et 1 titre ,513 pp, 2pp, veau marbré époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec pièce de titre et de tomaison ,tranches rouges, coins usés,charnières fendues Édition originale. UN DES RARES EXEMPLAIRES CONTENANT LES 7 FEUILLETS SUPPLEMENTAIRES (437*- 450*) dans le premier volume intitulé Découvertes des Hollandois dans l'Australasie.
1790PHO-2072Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1790. In-4 de (4)-XVI-309-(3)pp., illustré de 11 cartes dépliantes et 1 gravure, basane mouchetée, dos lisse avec pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, large filet doré aux plats, filets aux coupes, frottements et épidermures, bel exemplaire
1793PHO-2399Paris, Maradan, 1793. 2 vol. in-8 (19,5× 12,5 cm), 2ff.-280pp. & 2ff.-272pp., demi-basane fauve mouchetée, dos lisses ornés, pièces de titre rouges et de tomaison vertes (reliures de l’époque). Plats frottés, petites taches et rousseurs
