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1707réf. BB0368Amsterdam: Chez Thomas Lombrail marchand libraire dans le Beurs-Straat 1707. Full Calf. Near Fine. First French-language Edition another French language edition was printed in Orleans but bearing a Paris imprint the same year with no priority definitively established translated from the English of the first history of the Virginia colony "and the best contemporary account of its aboriginal tribes and the life of its early settlers." Howes 12mo 159 x 92mm: 643316pp with engraved title page featuring coat of arms of Virginia14 finely executed numbered plates based on engravings from De Bry's Grand Voyages and folding table p. 433. Contemporary calf spine richly gilt in six compartments between raised bands red morocco lettering piece gilt. A handsome well-preserved copy tightly bound and clean throughout. This edition was in Thomas Jefferson's library at Monticello. Sabin 5116. Howe B-410. Church 821. JCB I 93. Goldsmiths'-Kress 4396. Geology Emerging 212. European Americana V p. 436. While in London in 1705 Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born Americanmost famously claiming "I am an Indian"he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past natural history Indians and current politics and society. Sabin calls Beverley the "best authority" affording the "most vivid comprehensive instructive and entertaining picture of Virginia at the date of his writing." 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 Thomas Lombrail, marchand libraire, dans le Beurs-Straat unknown
1807réf. 18812Paris: Imprimerie de Langlois 1807. Very good condition. One of the most attractive prints of wombats a pair of wombats with 4 offspring clambering about. This is plate XXVIII from the work illustrating Nicolas Baudin's expedition. At the time the French were the most progressive at sending teams of artists & scientists around the world with their explorers. Copper engraving with original hand color. Platemark measures 12 1/2 x 9 1/2'' with small margins. A large early representation of the infrequently depicted wombat. Imprimerie de Langlois unknown
1864réf. 54080Berlin Decker 1864-73. Lex8vo. 3 contemp. hcalf. Gilt spines and with gilt lettering. Spines slightly rubbed. XXII4352;VI4375;XI4426 pp. 24 engraved plates and 3 folded maps. Faint brownspots to margins in volume 1. First edition. The offered volumes contains the general description of the expedition which relates to Japan and China. They do not comprise the scientific parts zoology botany of the expedition and not the landscape plates published as "Ansichten aus Japan China und Siam". unknown
1861réf. 53686Wien Kaiserlich-königl. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei 1861-62. Small 4to. Bound in 3 orig. full pictorial cloth. Vol. 1 rebacked preserving orig. spine. Vol.2 with a tear in backhinge. Vol. 3 a bit loose first inner hinge weak. Small stamp on title-pages. Lithographed tinted frontispiece. X368;VI434;IX436 pp. Each vol. with Beilagen 42207 music etc. 34 lithographed folded maps in colour 42 plates mostly tinted woodcuts profusely textillustrated with woodcuts. Internally clean and fine. First edition. - Sabin 77625. hardcover
1790réf. E00534 of 6 volumes. Volume 1: i-ix-372 pages with 23 plates including frontispiece plate of Cook and 4 folding maps; Volume II lacking; Volume III: 793-1184 pages with 11 plates including frontispiece of Possession Bay and 5 fold out maps; Volume IV: 1185-1546 pages with 26 plates including frontispiece of Woman Child and Man of Van Diemen's Land and 6 folding maps; Volume V: 1547-1938 pages with 30 plates including frontispiece of A View of Huaheine and 8 folding maps; Volume VI lacking. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original full leather with red labels to spine with gilt lettering. Abridged by George William Anderson. An earlier Large folio edition by Anderson was published earlier. This edition originally issued in 80 weekly parts and also called the Large octavo edition. M K Beddie: 39 First edition of the bound edition. Captain James Cook RN was a British explorer navigator and cartographer ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and Royal Society. This notice came at a crucial moment both in his personal career and in the direction of British overseas exploration and led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. Cook charted many areas and recorded several islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. His achievements can be attributed to a combination of seamanship superior surveying and cartographic skills courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts for example dipping into the Antarctic Circle repeatedly and exploring around the Great Barrier Reef an ability to lead men in adverse conditions and boldness both with regard to the extent of his explorations and his willingness to exceed the instructions given to him by the Admiralty. Cook was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779. Condition: Lacks volume II and VI. First signature of volume one loose inner hinges cracked some interior soiling spine ends and corners of leather rubbed some scuffing to leather else a good set. Printed for A Millar, W Law, and R Cater hardcover
1749réf. E05292 volumes. 182 pages with fold out frontispiece map and three additional folding engravings; 319 pages with seven folding engravings. half-titles in each title pages improperly marked first volume as second and vice versa. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 3 1/2" bound in original publisher's full uniform contemporary French sponged calf with gilt-tooled spines. First French edition after the 1748 English edition. Henry Ellis was a traveler hydrographer and colonial governor returned from Italy in 1746 just in time to find an expedition to search for a north-west passage on the point of sailing. He appears to have been in easy circumstances; his name stands in the list of subscribers to the north-west expedition and he had sufficient interest to get attached to it nominally as agent for the committee and really as hydrographer surveyor and mineralogist the expedition consisting of two vessels the Dobbs galley of 180 and California of 150 tons left Gravesend on 20 May 1746 joined the Hudson's Bay convoy in Hollesley Bay and finally sailed from Yarmouth on the 31st. They parted from the convoy on 18 June made Resolution Island on 8 July and after a tedious passage through Hudson's Straits rounded Cape Digges on 8 August and on the 11th 'made the land on the west side the Welcome in latitude 64° N.' Bad weather drove them to the southward and prevented their doing anything more that season. They wintered in Hayes River in a creek about three miles above Fort York where a quarrel with the agent of the Hudson's Bay Company gave an unwonted piquancy to the dark and weary days. They suffered much from scurvy the prevalence of which Ellis attributes to their having got two kegs of brandy from Fort York for their Christmas merrymaking and in a minor degree to the 'governor' not permitting the Indians to supply them with fresh provisions. On 29 May 1747 the ice broke up and they were able to warp to the mouth of their creek; on 9 June they got down to Fort York. There they were allowed to get some provisions and stores and on the 24th cleared the river and 'stood to the northward on the discovery'. On 1 July each of the two ships sent away her long-boat but owing apparently to some ill-feeling between the two captains without any prearranged plan for working in concert. The consequence was that they separately went over the same ground discovering naming and examining the several creeks and inlets on the west side of Hudson's Bay the double examination perhaps compensating for the confusion arising from the double naming. Before the season closed in they had satisfied themselves that the only possible exit from Hudson's Bay on the west must be through the Welcome and that very probably there was no way out except that on the east by which they had come in. The result may not seem much; but as it served to put an end to the idea that the passage must lie through Hudson's Bay it was at least so much gain to accurate knowledge. After 21 August the weather broke and they decided in council 'to bear away for England without further delay.' On the 29th they entered Hudson's Straits passed Resolution Island on 9 September and arrived at Yarmouth on 14 Octivwe. Ellis's share in the work of the expedition had really been very slender but the reputation of it has been commonly assigned to him by reason of the narrative which he published the following year under the title A Voyage to Hudson's Bay by the DobbsGalley and California in the years 1746 and 1747 for Discovering a North-West Passage 1748; a work which with many valuable observations on tides on the vagaries of the compass and on the customs of the Eskimos a people then practically unknown mingles a great deal of speculation on the certain existence of the passage on magnetism on fogs on rust and other matters all more or less ingenious but now known to be wildly erroneous. Such as it was the book commended its author to the scientific workers of the day and on 8 February 1748-9 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Possibly in acknowledgment of his scientific labors but more probably by some family interest he was afterwards appointed successively governor of Georgia and of Nova Scotia from which employment he retired about 1770. He seems to have spent his later years as a wanderer on the continent was at Marseilles in 1775 and died at Naples on 21 January 1806. Condition: Some dark spots to spine else a very good copy. Ballard Fils hardcover
1716réf. BB0841Paris: chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon quay de Conti au coin de la rue Guenegaud au Nom de Jesus Etienne Ganeau rue Saint Jacques aux Armes de Dombes vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin Jacque Quillau imprimeur-juré-libraire rue Galande aux Armes de l'Université 1716. First Edition. A defective first edition missing one map and one plate of this classic in the literature of Pacific voyages of exploration. 4to: xiv2982pp with 35 of 37 maps plans and plates 18 of which are folding; ornamental engraved vignettes and woodcut musical notation in the text never bound in were the map of Détroit de le Maire no. v and the plate of Indiens en habits simples no. ix; plate xvi was bound in twice. Contemporary calf spine richly gilt in six compartments brown leather lettering piece gilt "Caissotti" in gilt script on upper board all edges stained red marbled end papers red silk page marker. An exceptional wide-margined copy text maps and plates fresh and clean marred only by a stain in the gutter of first three leaves. Provenance: copper-engraved bookplate "Il Cittadino / Carlo Giac. Caissotti." Sabin 25924. Borba de Moraes 328. Hill p. 115. Leclerc 1736. Palau 94964. Gibson's Library p. 128. Item #BB0841. Frézier set sail in 1712 with a French commission to assess the strength of Spanish settlements on the Pacific coast and to revise existing charts. According to Hill he "brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value" to later navigators and his account is today appreciated for its keen observations of the customs commerce and natural historyincluding the cotton and strawberry plantsof Chile Peru and Tierra del Fuego. It's interesting to note that Frezier's surname was itself derived from fraise the French for strawberry. The chapters on Indian and Creole life include descriptions of costume and architecture as well as musical instruments. The folding plans of cities visited are often enhanced by panoramic views as in the case of Callao Concepción Valparaíso La Serena Salvador de Bahía and Angra Azores. Amongst the most important plates are the general map of the expedition the Strait of Lemaire Valdivia Bahía de an Vicente Santiago de Chile Lima and Bahía de Todos los Santos. An immediate success the work was soon translated into English and German and republished several times in the eighteenth century. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition with dust jackets 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 Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Arm unknown
1783réf. BB0692In Venezia Venice: Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia 1783. Original Wraps. Fine. Second Venice Edition of Antonio Pillori's translation of Robertson's standard work on the discovery of America and the conquest of Mexico and Peru. Demy 8vo 202 x 136mm: xxiv240pp with frontispiece portrait of Columbus and large folding map of Gulf of Mexico showing Florida Cuba Jamaica and farther Caribbean islands; 25-328pp with frontispiece portrait of Bartolomé de las Casas and folding map of South America; 23-359 p. 181 misnumbered "281"; p. 304 "204"1pp with frontispiece portrait of Cortés and folding map of Mexico; 42951pp with frontispiece portrait of Pizarro and large folding map of Middle America. Original paper-case bindings with yapped edges manuscript titles and volume numbers to spines text block sewn on tawed tongs vol. iv with modern replacements. Worming to upper cover portrait title page and map margins of vol. iv now expertly restored by a paper conservationist. A remarkably fresh wide-margined set in original paper-case bindings complete in four volumes eight books as issued with all four folding maps colored in outline by a contemporary hand as the John Carter Brown Library copy. Borba de Moraes p. 740-41 first edition. Sabin 71997 noting the Venice editions of 1778 and 1802 only. Originally published in two volumes in 1777 by Strahan and Cadell in London and Balfour in Edinburgh "to a very positive reception" ODNB; first Venice edition published in 1778. "Its success" according to the ODNB "was even more marked on the continent where it was considered Robertson's masterpiece . . . With its dramatic sweep of narrative combined with a provocative confrontation of two very different stages of civilization Spanish and Native American and a prose that was more flexible and evocative than that of his earlier books the History of America is often regarded as Robertson's most interesting original and even Romantic work. However it also shows the Eurocentric limits of his stadial thinking because it presents an unsympathetic account of Native Americans and glosses over Spanish atrocities." Borba de Moraes credits Roberston with writing the "first history of the discovery and Spanish conquest of America based on ample bibliographical information and documents in the Simancas archives. . . . The bibliography at the end of the second volume is remarkable for the time." Franklin D. Roosevelt owned the first Venice edition. 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. Nella stamperia Gatti a spese di Leonardo e Giammaria Fratelli Bassaglia unknown
1950réf. 34823London: John Murray. First Edition; Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Near fine but for foxing to prelims and former owner's name John RLMalholm Christchurch N.Z. 1961 inked on the ffep with other signatures on the verso of the ffep the half title page the copyright page and the dedication page. The dust jacket is good only with chips one removing the first word of the title on the spine creases and soiling to the rear wrap. The words "Seventh Printing" are printed on the spine. This later printing contains 34 ink signatures occuring on four leaves evidently gathered during the 1961-62 USARP U.S. Antarctic Research Program season. 3 distinct scientific parties are represented here: an Ellsworth Land geophysical traverse led by USGS Geophysicist John C. Behrendt; The Camp Sky-Hi ionospheric research station; and the McMurdo Station science hub. Of the 34 signatures on this book roughly two dozen tentatively can be matched to documented personnel of that era. A striking number of these names correspond to men for whom Antarctic mountains glaciers and other features have since been officially named. More information on these men is available on request. aided by Perplexity; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 219 pages . 1950. John Murray hardcover
1802réf. 72327London: A. Arrowsmith 1802. A fine and high quality facsimile of this seminal map commissioned in 2001 by renown Lewis & Clark collector Roger Wendlick. Backed on canvas and measuring 150 x 58 inches in color Wendlick commissioned the firm of Ford Graphics of Portland to make this map. Only 21 copies were made and this is the last one with a letter from Wendlick attesting to this fact. Fine. "The 1802 revision of the map of North America on display delineates the complete length of the Missouri River as well as Mackenzie's journey to the Pacific in 1793. The depiction of the Missouri headwaters which Arrowsmith studied from Peter Fidler's drawing of a map by the Blackfoot Indian Ac Ko Mo Ki shows several streams joining into two branches of the Missouri which flow almost due east. The southern branch of the Missouri appears to be the main branch of the river and connects to the Knife River; the northern branch is a good representation of the actual course of the Missouri.Although the revised map still shows a single ridge of mountains in the west a note near the southern sources of the Missouri states: "Hereabout the Mountains divide into several low Ridges." This note which was based on the reports of Fidler Mackenzie and Thompson was more encouraging to Jefferson and Lewis than the note about the Stony Mountains on the 1795 map which unfortunately turned out to be more accurate. Arrowsmith's map situates the Great Lake River on the western slopes of the mountain range and connects this river to the Columbia River with a dotted line. Since another note claims that this river can be descended to the sea in eight days the Arrowsmith map supported the erroneous belief in a convenient route to the Pacific Ocean.Both the 1795 and 1802 versions of Arrowsmith's map served as resources that Nicholas King consulted as he prepared his map for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Lewis and Clark in fact carried the 1802 Arrowsmith map along on the expedition. Thomas Jefferson owned the 1802 map as well as an 1802 edition of Arrowsmith's map of the United States. Arrowsmith's 1802 map of North America was the most comprehensive map of the West available to Jefferson and Lewis and it was probably the most important map used in the planning of the expedition." University of VirginiaAaron Arrowsmith's 1802 map was the most current and accurate cartographic representation of the American West available to Lewis on the eve of the journey. Lewis studied this edition closely during the summer of 1803 and even carried a copy on the first leg of the expedition. Among Arrowsmith's sources were Indian maps reports and manuscript maps from the British fur trade and British Navy exploration reports and charts of the Pacific Coast. But various elements in the map reinforced Jefferson's misconceptions of western geography among these were depictions of the Rocky Mountains as a single long chain and the headwaters of the upper Missouri River at the eastern edge of the Rockies suggesting those mountains were readily portaged. A. Arrowsmith unknown
1928réf. 000893SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA CA. Good. 1928. On offer is a fascinating vintage collection autograph materials an ALS clippings and maps of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Admiral Richard Byrd's First Antarctic Expedition 1928-30. Included are original newspaper clippings from The New York Times including a full page from May 19 1929 headline "What Byrd's Men Do In The Antarctic Night" with photographs of one of Byrd's planes his two ships the Headquarters Hut the setting sun and radio equipment and antennas. Also included; an 8pp rotogravure section from May 4 1930 illustrating "Admiral Byrd's Great Adventure in the Antarctic" with numerous photographs of Little America including the expedition members landscapes polar life and much more; also a column-length article relating to his second expedition headlined "Byrd's Ship Bear To Sail Tomorrow" 1933-35; two color maps approx 28"x20" one a 1930 Geographic Society detailed lithograph of the "Antarctic Regions" with insets of "Byrd's South Pole Flight" "King Edward VII Land" "Part of Marie Byrd Land" and "Antarctic Archipelago" indicating routes of various explorers including Admunsen and Shackleton; and the other a 1933 "Little America Aviation and Exploration Club Map Used by Admiral Byrd exclusively on both of his Antarctic Expeditions" courtesy of "The Tide Water Oil Co." Also present is letterhead of the Freeport NY Order of Elks signed by eight members of both the first and second expeditions with second page penned in another hand adding further information; plus an ALS by expedition member ARTHUR B. CREAGH San Pedro CA Sep 28 1930 to Albin Johnson "Part Exalted Ruler" of the Order of Elks in Freeport. Creagh thanks him "for the wonderful time you and your brother Elks gave us that night at Freeport Long Island on our return from the Byrd's South Pole Expedition " accompanied by original mailing envelope. Lastly a lengthy printed Washington Bureau biographical printed pamphlet 4pp 7"x8½" by Ruth Robertson entitled "A Brief Account of Read Admiral Byrd's Flights Over the North and South Poles and Other Achievements". The newspaper clippings are generally toned and brittle the photogravure in particular is fragile. All evidence usual folds with occasional partial fold separations with only small paper loss. Letter is in excellent condition. All have been preserved in large vintage envelope. This period collection of historic content remains an important reflection of the early exploration of Antarctica by America's foremost explorer of the time. G.; English; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION TRAVEL CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR EXPLORER AMUNDSEN SHACKLETON ELKS HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL PERSONAL HISTORY RELIGION ROYALTY NOBILITY CALLIGRAPHY PAPAL VATICAN CATHOLIC ROMAN CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento Manuscrito . unknown
1843réf. E01482 volumes. xxxvii23878 ad pages with frontispiece woodcuts in text and 7 steel-engraved plates; vi2474 pages with frontispiece woodcuts in texts and 10 steel-engraved plates. Royal octavo 9¼x5½" in publisher's original green cloth spine lettered in gilt covers decorative blind stamped. First Edition. In 1825 Edward Belcher accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific and Bering Strait as a surveyor. In 1836. he commanded a surveying ship on the north and west coasts of Africa and in the British seas. Belcher took up the work which Beechey had left unfinished on the Pacific coast of South America. He was on board the bomb vessel HMS Sulphur which was ordered to return to England in 1839 by the Trans-Pacific route. Belcher made various observations at a number of islands which he visited having been delayed by being dispatched to take part in the war in China in 1840. On 26 January 1841 the then Commander Belcher landed on Possession Point at the north shore Hong Kong Island and made the first British survey of Hong Kong harbor. After the war's end in 1842 he reached home and for his services was made a Knight Bachelor in the following year. He was then engaged in HMS Samarang in surveying work in the East Indies the Philippines Geomun-do Port Hamilton and other places until 1847. In 1852 Belcher led the last and largest Admiralty expedition to rescue Sir John Franklin. He was also to look for his former surveying officer in Hong Kong Richard Collinson and Robert McClure whose ships had not been seen after entering the Bering Strait. He did a great deal of sledge exploration rescued McClure and abandoned four of his five ships in the ice. He had five ships: Assistance Belcher Resolute Henry Kellett second mate George Nares the steam tenders PioneerSherard Osborn and Intrepid Leopold McClintock and the depot ship North Star William Pullen. Belcher and one tender were to enter Wellington Channel where Franklin was thought to be while Kellett was to go west to Melville Island and look for Collinson and McClure. North Star was to stay at Beechey Island as a supply base. He left the Nore in April 1850. By early winter Assistanceand Pioneer were frozen in at Northumberland Sound to the north of Wellington Channel while Resolute and Intrepid were frozen in off Melville Island Arctic—the first ships this far west since William Edward Parry in 1819. A great deal of exploration was done by man-hauled sledges. In April 1853 Leopold McClintock and others left the Resolute on sledges and returned 105 days later having covered 1400 miles and discovered Prince Patrick Island. Another party went west and discovered Robert McClure whose ship was frozen in at Mercy Bay. Belcher went north by sledge and found a channel at the northern tip of Devon Island hinting that Franklin might have used it to escape to Baffin Bay. When the ice broke up that summer he pushed his ships up Wellington Channel and became trapped again. By February 1854 Belcher was becoming increasingly worried about the safety of his ships and men. In April he ordered Kellett to abandon his ships and return by sledge to North Star. Belcher abandoned his two ships in late July. Aided by two ships that showed up at Beechey Island Phoenix and Breadalbane the whole party returned to England. Belcher went through a court martial which was automatic for any captain who had lost a ship. He was exonerated but his sword was returned to him 'without observation'. He never again received an active command. Curiously Resolute broke free of the ice and drifted all the way to Davis Strait where it was picked up by an American whaler. Condition: Some staining and wear to covers spines a bit faded ends chipped and worn rear joint of Vol. I with chipping and loss; hinges repaired at endpapers some light foxing and occasional mostly marginal damp staining within the three folding maps which should be loose in a pocket not present; overall good uncommon in the original cloth. Henry Colburn hardcover
1774réf. 32872NY: James Rivington. Good with no dust jacket. 1774. Hardcover. 18th Century; Maritime; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 2 17 1 4 2 260p pages; A New Voyage Round The World In The Years 1768 1769 1770 And 1771; Undertaken by Order of his present Majesty performed by Captain James Cooke In the Ship Endeavour Drawn up from his own Journal and form the Papers of Joseph Banks Vol I of 2. Contemp leather. Covers scuffed edgeworn lacking eps and both plates though small part of folding map is present. Foxed some stains. Upper blank margin of 2nd leaf roughly removed list of subscribers losses to printed area of pp67-68 amounting to a dozen words the normal tears to printed area of a few dozen leaves pencil sketches to rear flyleaf and inside of rear cover. Various old ink markings to title page. JCB Annuel Report for 1931 pp. 12-15; Sabin 30936; Evans 13324 Mitchell Library Cook 656; Holmes 9. 2 . Withal a rare and important American edition of Cook's first voyage. Rivington pirated this American edition to undercut the price of the London First Edition in the American market. . James Rivington hardcover
1787réf. E0052Two volumes: xv462 pages with two folding maps; xv430 pages with three folding plates. Octavo 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" bound in original full leather with black and red labels to spine lettered in gilt. translated from the French by an English gentleman who resided in America at that period ; with notes by the translator. Translated by G. Grieve Watt and Sabin ascribe the translation to J. Kent. Sabin 12229 First Irish edition. Chastellux was a military officer who served during the War of American Independence as a major general in the French expeditionary forces led by general Comte de Rochambeau. Being on general Rochambeau's staff for the duration of the war Chastellux acted as the principal liaison officer between the French commander in chief and George Washington. However the Chevalier de Chastellux was also widely recognized at the time of his campaigns in America as a highly talented man of letters and a member of the French Academy. After arriving in America in July 1780 Chastellux participated to the American Revolutionary War as Major General in the French expeditionary force led by general Rochambeau. During the following year he was third in command of the French forces engaged at the decisive Siege of Yorktown in 1781 where the British were ultimately defeated. Major General de Chastellux was fluent in English and with his strong ideological support of the American cause he served the alliance well. During the latter part of the campaign he was the principal liaison officer between George Washington and French general Rochambeau. Thereafter Chastellux remained a personal friend of George Washington for life. Furthermore the College of William and Mary and the University of Pennsylvania also awarded Chastellux with honorary degrees. After his return to France Chastellux also remained in contact with Thomas Jefferson now the American representative in Paris whom he had previously visited on his Virginia estate at Monticello. Condition: Title page clipped at top corner first fold out map repaired map edges repaired hinges repaired previous owner's names on front paste downs and content pages else a good set. Printed for Messrs. Colles, Moncrieffe, White, H. Whitestone, Byrne, Cash, Marchbank, Heery, and Moore hardcover
1717réf. E01353559index pages 36 of 37 maps and copper cuts of the coasts harbor cities plants and other curiosities comprising: 14 plates 3 folding 22 maps charts or plans 14 folding. title page printed in red and black. Printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. Lacks the frontispiece map. Royal octavo 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" bound in leather with raised spine bands and red label with gilt lettering. Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement commerce and riches of the Jesuits in Paraguay. Palau 94965 Sabin 25926 Nissen ZBI 1433 Hill p117 First English edition. Frézier was educated in Paris and served as lieutenant of infantry from 1702 til 1707 when he entered the engineer corps. In 1712 the government sent him to examine the condition of the Spanish colonies in America. After visiting the principal points in Peru Chili and Brazil he returned to Marseilles. He pointed out several mistakes in the "Relation" of Father Feuille and this led to a bitter controversy between the two travelers. Frézier introduced the large Chili strawberry into France. First published in France in 1714. The first edition into English is preferable to the French original "because it contains Halley's. postscript which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier" Hill. "The first part of this book gives an interesting account of the voyage from France around Cape Horn. The second part relates to the voyage along the coasts of Chile and Peru describing the chief towns and cities. Frézier a man of observation brought back information of considerable geographical and scientific value. Much data is included about the native inhabitants. Condition: Rebacked with original spine label laid down; lacking frontispiece map and binder's leaf free endpapers renewed intermittent foxing else a very nice copy. Jonah Bowyer hardcover
réf. PD27Oblong Quarto album ca. 22x30 cm. 32 thick paper leaves. With 130 mounted original gelatin silver photographs with smaller ones from ca. 71x5 cm 2 ¾ x 2 in to ca. 36x3 cm 1 ½ x 1 ¼ in larger ones from ca. 163x103 cm 6 ½ x 4 in to 85x14 cm 3 ¼ x 5 ½ in and the rest of the photos ca. 76x11 cm 3 x 4 ½ in; with a mounted folding printed map showing the route of the expedition ca. 21x67 cm and a hand-drawn map of the expedition base camp ca. 20x282 cm. Most photos with period ink captions in Russian on the mounts. Several photographs with dates indicated. Period grey patterned full cloth album with blind-tooled decorations with industrial motif on the front board fastened with a string; dried flower specimens mounted to the inner side of the rear board. Binding slightly worn with mild damp stains on the right margin of the front board one page detached several photos age-toned and with mild silvering but overall a very good album with strong interesting photos. Historically significant album of rare original gelatin silver photographs taken and collected during the Nordvik-Khatanga Soviet Oil Exploration Expedition in 1939-1940. The compiler took part in the expedition together with his wife “Sonkes” who according to the photographs was head of a tailor's workshop at the expedition base camp in Nordvik. Neither reports nor official photographs from the expedition were found through our research of digital archives and libraries. The expedition organized by the USSR’s Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route at the onset of WWII aimed to study the oil potential of Nordvik Bay. A team of polar explorers set sail from Arkhangelsk on a steamship accompanied by a cargo convoy and powerful icebreakers. Navigating through the Yugorsky Shar Strait the expedition made several stops at Dixon Melyuskin and Vstrechny Islands before establishing its base in Nordvik Bay. Despite extensive operations drilling at Nordvik over the next seasons proved largely unsuccessful revealing only small oil pockets with little commercial value. The album contains 130 lively vernacular photographs from the 1939-1940 expedition including eight well-executed photos of the expedition base camp and its premises the general view of the settlement main street local bathhouse and canteen. About ten photographs portray construction works as the team members attempted to build rotor No. 2. The images depict the site of the rotor “the beginning of the work” workers pulling out a tankette from snow digging and using special equipment. There are also about a dozen photographs showing the general view of rotor No. 1 - “the first in the world in Arctic conditions” “a boiler room for rotor No. 1” “a rotor drilling rig No. 1 with machinery room” “steam winch 250 hp for rotor No. 1” “oil drilling rigs” “general view of a coal mine” etc. At least forty lively candid photographs show the expedition members mostly the compiler and his wife sewing at a tailor’s workshop resting after work feeding dogs and posing by a tankette on sleds in tents at a meteorological station by the storage room near the assembly crane etc. Especially interesting are five photos of a fire at a local hospital documenting the funeral of deceased polar explorers and the compiler standing solemnly beside the victims’ camp. There are also about ten candid individual and group portraits of local Yakuts showing “Sonkes with a young Yakut woman” “Yakut Family and Sonkes” “Yakut Man with a Purchase” young Yakut women in a school reading books and Yakut fishermen posing by their camp. The other interesting photos portray the expedition members at the October and May rallies with “Sonkes” clearly visible in the crowd four and two-engine seaplanes at Cape Kosisty “bird market on Vstrechny Island” steamships “Stalingrad” “Dixon” etc. and icebreakers “Ermak” “Litke” etc. from the expedition etc. The album closes with the general views of the bank of the Khatanga River the town Igarka and the Krasnoyarsk pillars. Overall historically important collection of 130 original gelatin silver photographs documenting the 1939-1940 Soviet Oil Exploration Expedition to Nordvik Bay. hardcover
1896réf. 58059Adelaide: C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Adelaide C.E. Bristow Government Printer 1896. Foolscap folio 32 pages including Appendix B: Report of the Physical Geography of Central Australia by Professor R. Tate and J.A. Watt plus 24 plates on 13 leaves printed rectos only and a folding meteorological chart 2 folding maps a topographical map of Mount Watt and a Survey of Hermannsburg Mission Station and a very large folding colour map 1210 × 1210 mm. Modern cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; blank bottom margin of the main map slightly creased with one tiny tear expertly sealed; a fine copy. South Australian Parliamentary Paper 19 of 1896: only 650 copies printed. Winnecke was the leader of the expedition and in 'the natural order of things these journals and maps should have been published in connection with the scientific and other records of the Horn Expedition as both supplementary and complementary to them'. After a financial disagreement with W.A. Horn the organiser and backer of the venture this did not occur and this first edition was published under the auspices of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in conjunction with the Department of the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Survey Department. McLaren 16973; an octavo edition was published the following year see McLaren 16969 - not noting the very large map. C.E. Bristow, Government Printer hardcover
1918réf. 880611918. SIBERIAN EXPEDITION. Teikoku Gunjin Kyoiku-kai editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHO. Tokyo Taisho Tsushinsha Taisho 7 1918 Oblong folio bound western-style in cloth gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army in which the Japanese played a prominent role. 4 page folding panorama of Vladivostok harbor and views of the cities the countryside troops inhabitants diplomats war preparations etc. etc. One can feel the Winter coming. Very good condition throughout. Very scarce. unknown
réf. 41Smith Elder London 1914. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition: Number 35 of a limited edition of 350. Original covers page edges gilt no dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: Pages 16 3342434493125 and 148 are PHOTOCOPIES. Contents clean. Volume 1 & 2 were Scott's 1st "Discovery Expedition" whilst Volume 3 is from his 2nd "Terra Nova" Expedition. Although often sold as a set Volume 3 is a complete book in its' own right. The original broadsheets were produced at Cape Evans to amuse the men on the 'Terra Nova' Expedition. It was designed to be published separately from Volume 1 & 2. Cherry-Garrard was the Editor and typist and Wilson the main illustrator. The 1st issue was presented on Midwinter's Day 1911 the 2nd on 8th September and the 3rd on 15th October. Content included poetry humorous articles illustrations of sledging flags and caricatures. Includes Wilson's moving poem 'The Barrier Silence'. Copiously illustrated drawings in the text and full-page plates from sketches and paintings by E. Wilson H. Ponting and others. Spine shaken gutta-percha binding delicate some pages loose as is usual with the 1st Edition. This copy is still bright and handleable with care Gutta Percha was used as the binding glue in many early books it is not a difficult job to remove and reback using modern glues The South Polar Times was a magazine written and printed by the members of Antarctic Expeditions during the various voyages they undertook and forms what is perhaps the most personal of the printed documents to have come out of that most remarkable of periods of Antarctic adventures revealing so many often contradictory aspects of these men's various personalities. It contains a diary of the events of each month a record of the proceedings of the local Debating Society a monthly acrostic humorous notes besides articles of a more solid nature as well as stories sketches of various kinds and poems. One of the corner stones of an Antarctic collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 5 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 41. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Smith Elder hardcover
1823réf. 040517John Murray. Good with no dust jacket. 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover. Brown leather boards with gold design at board edges. Title in gold over black leather label on gold decorated spine. Boards are noticeably scuffed and worn. Frayed edges some sunning. Marbleized edges match marbleized endpapers. Occasional foxing throughout. 4 maps 30 plates of which 11 are hand colored. All are in nice condition some light foxing/soil. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; B/w Illus; 4TO . John Murray hardcover
1695réf. E0561xxiv21612 pages with frontispiece folding map and eight engraved costume plates. Duodecimo 6 ¼" x 3 ½" early full calf later spine label. First Edition in English. First published in French the prior year which was published without the plates. François Pidou de Saint Olon was a French diplomat under Louis XIV. In 1682 he was nominated as the first French resident envoy to the Republic of Genoa following the Bombardment of Genoa. He was then sent as an envoy to Madrid. In 1689 François Pidou was appointed ambassador to the court of Sultan Moulay Ismail for the signing of a commercial treaty and to release prisoners now slaves of Barbary corsairs of Salé for 233 including 29 bedridden Moroccan prisoners held by the French. His mission was not successful however he continued to stay more than three weeks more in Morocco. The book gains particular interest through its author's position as ambassador giving him access not always voluntary to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. There are detailed descriptions of Moroccan dress and the book is beautifully illustrated with eight engraved plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume. Condition: With the fine copper engraved frontispiece of the overall state of Morocco which is quite rare and is often found missing in most copies. Joints cracking spine chipped at edges; foxing else very good. R. Bently hardcover
1913réf. 84790May 24 1913. The Sphere. London. 1913. May 24. The Complete Magazine including original coloured cover and all adverts. Folio. Pagination: Coloured front cover iv 1 - b/w second cover with portrait of Scott publishing details of this issue - see second photo. 182 182a - 220 v- xxii. Includes double page photo 182b-183 of Captain Scott in his Antarctic Home by Herbert Ponting taken at Cape Evans. This famous portrait shows the space allotted to Scott and you can see all the photos of Lady Scott and baby Peter that he put up on the wall above his desk. This issue contains very good prints of many photographs not previously seen and also of a much higher quality than when reproduced in future publications. There are also diary entries. This publication predates the Strand Magazine which used some of the same photos. Front cover creased and worn and lacks small portions along spine. Close tears to edges of rear cover. VERY SCARCE. unknown
1831réf. E01322 volumes. xxi472 pages with three maps two folding and one double page figures and 13 plates; iv452 pages with 10 plates some folding tables and appendices. Octavo 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" Bound in contemporary half leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ferguson 1418; Hill I p. 19; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347. Second edition published after quarto edition of the same year. Frederick William Beechey 17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856 was an English naval officer and geographer. He was the son of Sir William Beechey RA and was born in London. 1806 he entered the Royal Navy and saw active service during the wars with France and America. In 1818 he served under Lieutenant afterwards Sir John Franklin in David Buchan's Arctic expedition of which at a later period he published a narrative. In the following year he accompanied Lieutenant W. E. Parry in HMS Hecla. In 1821 he took part in the survey of the Mediterranean coast of Africa under the direction of Captain afterwards Admiral William Henry Smyth. He and his brother Henry William Beechey made an overland survey of this coast and published a full account of their work in 1828 under the title of Proceedings of the Expedition to Explore the Northern Coast of Africa from Tripoly Eastward in 1821-1822. In 1825 Beechey was appointed to command the HMS Blossom. His task was to explore the Bering Strait in concert with Franklin and Parry operating from the east. In the summer of 1826 he passed the strait and a barge from his ship reached 71°23'31" N. and 156°21'30" W. near Point Barrow which he named a point only 146 miles west of that reached by Franklin's expedition from the Mackenzie river. The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific and an excellent harbor near Cape Prince of Wales. In July 1826 he named the three islands in the Bering Strait. Two were the Diomede Islands that Vitus Bering had named in 1728: "Ratmanoff Island" Big Diomede and "Krusenstern Island" Little Diomede. Beechey called the uninhabited third islet "Fairway Rock" which is still its contemporary name. One of his crew Petty Officer John Bechervaise gave a detailed account of the voyage in his Thirty Six Years if a Seafaring Life by an Old Quartermaster published privately in 1839. In 1831 there appeared his Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions 1825-1828. In 1835 and the following year Captain Beechey was employed on the coast survey of South America and from 1837 to 1847 carried on the same work along the Irish coasts. He was appointed in 1850 to preside over the Marine Department of the Board of Trade. In 1854 he was made rear-admiral and in the following year was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Beechey Island where Sir John Franklin wintered is named after him. Condition: Name neatly excised from head corner of titles small inconspicuous stamp to last pages. Inner hinges beginning marble to boards rubbed some stains to map. some toning to some plates some plates not bound in order to the printer but are all accounted for corners gently bumped else about a very good set. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover
1790réf. 029884London: J. Johnson 1790. Volume I: folding map xvi 283 pages; volume 2: viii 408 pages. De Lesseps accompanied La Perouse on the first part of his attempted circumnavigation of the globe. After investigation of the west coast of North America La Perouse sent de Lesseps overland to take the journals and maps of the expedition to Paris. La Perouse and his ships subsequently were lost after they left Australia and the journals carried by de Lesseps assumed great historical significance when published. Even more scarce than those records today are de Lesseps' report of his own overland travels through the Kamtschatka peninsula. The report also includes 25 pages of vocabulary translating common English words into Russian Kamtschadale Koriac Tchouktchi and Lamont languages. Internally clean with only minor foxing the two volumes in 3/4 leather over marbled paper covered boards have recently been sympathetically rebacked original title and volume patches retained. Very attractive example of a quite scarce title. Howes L269 Howes & Hartley rate this item dd "superlatively rare". First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. J. Johnson hardcover
1733réf. E05532 volumes. 8xxiv616471 pages with 4 maps ad view one folding and 3 plates one folding; 2693892 pages with 1 map and 6 plates. Quarto 10 1/4" x 10 1/4" bound in half leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Borba de Moraes page I:453; European Americana 733/146; Sabin 38591 First edition. Joseph-François Lafitau was a French Jesuit missionary ethnologist and naturalist. He is best known for his use of the comparative method in the field of scientific anthropology the discovery of ginseng and his writings on the Iroquois. Lafitau was the first of the Jesuit missionaries in Canada to have a scientific point of view. Lafitau is considered the first of the modern ethnographers and a precursor of scientific ethnology for his work on the Iroquois. He developed a model of studying peoples that involved describing existing cultures on their own terms—not in comparison to European society. He distinguished generic and specific traits transforming the "generic savage" into specific tribal groups. He explained that "only from specific identities can genetic relations be inferred." Furthermore he was the first to declare "contemporary primitive cultures throw light upon the culture of ancient people and vice versa. Lafitau is remembered for applying the comparative method with a greater level of competency than any of his contemporaries. Through original field observations he was able to critique the works of earlier writers on Primitive peoples. By using the Comparative Method Lafitau rejected all theories of social and cultural change and instead used his study to demonstrate the similarities in customs practices and usages of the Native North Americans with diverse peoples from different continents and centuries. He consistently relied on the doctrine of degeneration: all men originally shared one religion with one God but over time as people migrated to separate margins of the earth where they then lost touch with the values and traditions of this one true religion and culture. Therefore Lafitau believed in the "psychic unity of mankind" and the doctrine of primitive monotheism. His major work written in French was first published in 1724 in Paris. It is entitled Customs of the American Indians Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times Moeurs des Sauvages Amériquains Comparées aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps and is 1100 pages in total. In 1974 William Fenton and Elizabeth Moore made the first translation into English available. Lafitau published two other works. One Histoire de Jean de Brienne Roy de Jérusalem et Empereur de Constantinople Paris 1727 was released before he returned to Canada; it is little known and seldom seen. A two-volume Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dons le Nouveau Monde . . . 1733 appeared after he came home to France. Frequently found in libraries it is not just a compilation of original sources but an attempt to make available to French readers a story of exploration and adventure otherwise denied to them; in the chronicles he sees a long development of customs hitherto unnoticed such as he had reported in the Mœurs; from them understood only he says in the original languages of the people who practice them he builds his "system" or philosophy of history and once more he is concerned too with the relation between custom and natural history or ecology. Condition: Beautifully rebound in half leather. Faint dampening to second volume; early owner's signatures on title pages inked stamps of St Charles Borromeo Seminary on front paste-downs and first title page lacks frontispiece else a very good to fine set. Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Chez Saugrain pere, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavee, a la hardcover
