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1898rif. List2965United States and Caribbean 1898. Approximately twenty-nine pieces: logbook of eighty-four double-sided pages measuring 13 x 20 inches; eight letters seventeen documents and forms and three pieces of miscellany. Much wear and significant damage to logbook including water damage mildew and tearing; log book overall fair to good minus. Other materials good to very good. Overall good. William Higgins 1791–1872 was a farmer sea captain and owner of and investor in ships from Bowdoinham Maine. According to the Maine Maritime Museum which holds his family papers Higgins’ ships traded mainly in lumber which they took from Wilmington North Carolina to the Caribbean. Offered here is a logbook recording the travels of several of Higgins’ ships particularly the brigs Mary Jane and Llewellyn alongside related documents and personal letters. The logbook dating between 1832 and 1836 extensively documents the course wind data and weather remarks for travels of the ships between east coast US port cities and various locations in the Caribbean including Barbados St. Thomas and Martinique. The logbook also contains a copy of astronomer and mathematician Elijah Burritt’s illustration “A Plan of the Solar System Exhibiting its Relative Magnitudes and Distances” engraved by W. G Evans and printed in 1835 by F.J. Huntington. The letters and documents date from 1830 to 1867 and are also mostly business-related including an insurance document for the brig William Parrington a roll of sailors enlisted to work on a six-month journey between the Caribbean and the US in 1845 a bill of sale for ¼ stake in the brig Mary Jane and receipts and logs for items including various liquors sugar molasses casks and so on. One letter from a young man in Wilmington requests advice on how to start his own business in the style of Higgins’; other letters concern family matters. One interesting undated document is a writ addressed to the Marshal of the District of Maine concerning a lawsuit filed against Higgins and Rufus Carr master of the William Parrington by Zachrisson Nelson Co. The suit alleged that Carr acting as an agent for the ship’s owners that is Higgins had agreed to an affreightment involving shipping from Jamaica to Spain to New York but had then “wholly neglected and refused to do so”. Of interest to scholars of maritime history and trade in the mid-19th century. unknown
1667rif. PHO-2095Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1667, 2 tomes en in-4, veau brun, dos à nerfs orné avec titre et tomaison, (Reliure de l'époque), manques aux coiffes, coins émoussés, début de fente L'illustration, gravée sur cuivre, comprend 2 titres-frontispices, 3 cartes au premier tome et 14 planches au second dont la planche figurant un couple nu, la gravure des armoiries de Harlay manque
1810rif. 14534Arthus Bertrand Paris 1810 2 vol. 2 vol. in-8 de 2 ff.n.ch. XLVII 315 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata) et 2 ff.n.ch. 324 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (errata), demi veau vert empire moderne, dos lisse richement orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches jaunes.
1875rif. 8011L. Guerin et Cie Paris 1875 4 vol. 3 vol. grand in-8 de 4 ff.n.ch. XXXI 446 pp., 2 ff.n.ch. 466 pp. et 2 ff.n.ch. 502 pp. + un atlas in-folio de 1 f.n.ch. (titre) 30 feuillets 1 f.n.ch. (table), demi-chagrin de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné.
1775rif. 14603par la Compagnie Trévoux 1775 4 vol. 4 vol. in-12 de 6 ff.n.ch. (titre et préface) 394 pp. 1 f.n.ch., 1 f.n.ch. (titre) 428 pp., 1 f.n.ch. (titre) 346 pp. et 1 f.n.ch. (titre) LX 356 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (table), veau fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, pièces de titre et de tomaison, tranches rouges (certains mors restaurés et accroc à une coiffe).
1758FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS ATLAS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, published in France during the Seven Years' War (also known as the "French and Indian War".) xii, 171 pp + engraved title and THIRTEEN FINE MAPS, of which 8 are folding (complete). Also illustrated with ten headpieces, nine of which depict the entry into a major port. Includes Jamaica (with several maps), Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua, the Lucayes (now the Bahamas), and Bermuda. 4to (26 x 20.3 cm). Attractively bound in contemporary calf, with the ARMS OF KING LOUS XV OF FRANCE EMBLAZONED IN GILT ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS. Binding restored at head and tail of spine, and very solid. Small, faint marginal stain to engraved title-page, else INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH MAPS AND TEXT VERY FRESH. Sabin 4553. RARE AND IMPORTANT.
1592rif. 026339Frankfurt am Main 1591 1592. Original Antique Map . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Laid Paper. Size: Image And Border Approximately 17 7/8 Inches X 1M.5 Inches 45.2 Cm X 36.75 Cm. Debry Printed His Voyage To Virginia In 1590 As Part I Of His Works But Burden Mapping Of North America Provides No Record That A 1592 Printing Exists. This Map Has No Center Fold But Contemporary Engravings Exist Of The Offices Of The Great 17Th Century Cartographic Publishers With Row Upon Row Of Flat Drawers For Storage Of Single Maps; It Would Be Unreasonable To Believe That None Of These Unbound Maps Survived. This Appears To Be One Of Them Although The Consensus Of Modern Dealers Is That No Unfolded Large Map First Published In A Book Can Exist. Although We Have Been Unable To Locate A 1592 German Edition Of Debry We Believe This Is A Map As Issued In The 1592 German Edition Of De Bry Which Was First Published In 1591 And Subsequently Reprinted In 1592 And 1594 And In The Seventeenth Century. Small Cartouche At Lower Left Monogram With Text "Caesavece Matis. Privilegio Mdxcii" In The Plate Added After Original 1591 Printing. This Is An Unfolded Sheet Which Was Never Bound In A Book; A Strong Impression Without Damage And With Old Light Partial Coloring. Once Quite Aged Then Professionally Cleaned De-Acidified And Mounted Loosely With Archival Materials By A Museum-Experienced Conservator In About 2000. Scarce. And Now 430 Years Later It's Depicting A Hangout For Orangutans. unknown
1655rif. 5394Paris: Chez S. Cramoisy & G. Cramoisy 1655. SOLE EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy in its original binding of 17th c. mottled French calf spine gilt and with red morocco label minor wear to the spine. Fine and fresh with just the occasional small rust spot. Engraved arms of the dedicatee Nicolas Fouquet on the second leaf. First edition of this rare relation describing the Jesuit missions in the Caribbean and on the South American mainland providing one of the earliest systematic accounts of the Lesser Antilles and Guiana. Much of the book is based on the author's firsthand experiences. He describes the foundation of churches the conversion of enslaved Africans and Indigenous nations Indigenous culture the moral and physical trials of evangelization and the natural history of the islands and mainland. Of special importance is the third part of the work: the author's grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language one of the earliest printed studies of a South American Indigenous language. Pelleprat explains the purpose of understanding Galibi: "I have composed a small grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language so that our Fathers who shall come after me may speak to these peoples in their own words and more easily win their souls to God." In 1651 Pierre Pelleprat was sent from France to the Antilles joining Fathers Denys Mesland François Gueymeu and Guillaume Aubergeon. The Jesuits served the indigenous Amerindians enslaved Africans and Irish and French settlers. Two years later Pelleprat and Mesland sailed for the mainland where they established a mission on the Guarapiche River near the Gulf of Paria. After Mesland's departure was Pelleprat remained alone continuing his missionary work and studying the local language. Illness forced him to return to the islands in 1654. He petitioned to return to Europe but was denied and instead lived out the remainder of his life in Mexico dying at Puebla de los Angeles in 1667. The preface outlines the establishment of the Jesuit mission in the French Caribbean following the founding of Martinique and Guadeloupe in 1635. Pelleprat recounts the arrival of the Jesuits and their efforts to learn the native languages in order to communicate doctrine record confessions and translate prayers. His descriptions of the climate geography and local governance of the islands are accompanied by remarks on Indigenous customs domestic life and religious beliefs. Pelleprat portrays the Indigenous inhabitants with clarity and sympathy. They are "without guile or malice. and capable of every good doctrine. They are neither cruel nor treacherous as some have claimed; rather they are generous and easily moved to affection when treated with kindness." He notes the Galibis skill in painting and weaving: "They take great care in painting their bodies and in making their cotton cloths which they dye with beautiful colors." The author records local fishing and hunting practices the use of pirogues canoes along the coasts and the construction of dwellings raised above ground: "They live by fish and roots in houses built upon poles to guard against the waters and the reptiles." He marvels at the beauty and richness of South America: its landscape flora and fauna: "the trees of these islands bear fruit twice a year and the soil is so rich that it needs only to be turned over to yield harvests beyond expectation". The Galibi Language Pelleprat's introduction to the Galibi language is one of the earliest printed attempts to describe and translate a South American Indigenous language. He explains the purpose of understanding Galibi: "I have composed a small grammar and vocabulary of the Galibi language so that our Fathers who shall come after me may speak to these peoples in their own words and more easily win their souls to God." Pelleprat opens by justifying his study as a means to conversion writing that "the barbarous nations. are so docile and so well disposed to receive the Gospel that they await only its preaching." His goal is not philological in the modern sense but practical: to prepare future missionaries to communicate Christian doctrine. Even so his careful observations show an emerging recognition of linguistic structure. He notes that "this language has its own rules its order and its way of composing words" an acknowledgment that Amerindian languages were coherent systems rather than the "corrupted" or "primitive" speech often imagined by Europeans. The Introduction proceeds systematically identifying letters pronunciation and basic grammar before offering a brief bilingual vocabulary. Pelleprat outlines nouns pronouns and verb forms and includes everyday expressions drawn from conversation. The vocabulary reveals the priorities of the missionary encounter pairing religious and material terms: "God" and "Devil" "soul" "heaven" and "earth" alongside "river" "house" and "friend." Through such juxtapositions the work translates the Christian world into the idiom of local experience. Pelleprat also recognizes the limits of his own learning admitting that he "has gathered what he could learn from the natives themselves" and that the book is only a "first attempt." The Islands of America Pelleprat opens with the Jesuits' first arrival at Martinique and he describes the founding of chapels the teaching of catechism and the first baptisms. When the mission expanded to Guadeloupe and Saint Christopher St Kitts he wrote: "we carried with us neither gold nor silver but the Cross of Christ and a heart desirous only to win souls. With this we founded our first church on the edge of the sea the waves serving us for organ and bells." p. 17 Pelleprat relates the successful conversion of enslaved Africans: "for although they have been reared in brutishness many become so chaste and honest when they are Christians that they would rather die than commit the least indecency." p. 33 Irish Catholics who had been exiled by the English sought out the Jesuits for Mass and confession and Pelleprat recounts the secret ministry carried out among them and the extraordinary virtue of an Irish girl raised in disguise to preserve her chastity. "I cannot omit the victory that a young Irish girl won over the weakness of her sex. This girl had come very young to America and her father to protect her had disguised her and raised her in the dress of a boy." pp. 49-50 Pelleprat explains how conversion altered conduct during epidemics and famine and the devoutness of the newly converted: "In the time of pestilence when even the air seemed to breathe death our new Christians came in great numbers to confession and communion choosing rather to die reconciled to God than to live without His grace." p. 47 The Mainland of South America The second section records numerous observations on the geography and natural history of Guiana: "I saw serpents with wings like bats and fish that fly above the water; trees whose leaves close at night as if they slept and others that exude milk when cut." p. 88 "The rivers here are broader than many seas their waters dark as ink under the forest's shadow. The land breathes a perpetual spring; trees bear fruit without ceasing and the air is so temperate that one would think Nature had chosen this region for her rest." p. 60 Pelleprat records the manners dwellings and ceremonies of the Guianese nations: "They are of good stature well-formed their countenance open and agreeable. Their huts are made of palm leaves their hammocks of woven cotton their vessels of baked clay painted with strange figures . . . When we entered their villages they offered us cassava bread and the drink of their country pressing us to sit in their hammocks which they esteem as the greatest courtesy." p. 67-69 Chapter VI outlines the political and moral order of Indigenous societies. Government Pelleprat notes is communal and tempered by reason: "Their government is gentle; they obey the oldest or the bravest and all decisions are taken in council with much shouting but little injustice." p. 92 "When one dies they burn his hammock and his weapons believing that he will find them again beyond the river of souls." p. 93. Chez S. Cramoisy & G. Cramoisy hardcover
