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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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1.
AA, PIETER VAN DER. De Gedenkwaardige West-Indise Voyagien,
Gedaan door Christoffel Columbus, Americus Vesputius, En Lodewijck
Hennepin. Behelzende een naaukeurige en waarachtige Beschrijving
der eerste en laatste Americaanse Ontdekkingen, Door de voornoemde
Reizigers gedaen, met alle de byzonderee voorvallen, hen overgekomen.
Mitsgaders een Getrouw en Aenmerkelijk Verhaal van de Opperhoofden
der Spanjaarden onderlinge oneenigheden doenmaals in America, als
ook de onmenschelijke Wreedheden door haer aen d'Inidanen gepleegd.
In't Italiaans Beschreeven door Hieronymus Benzo, Milanese.... Leyden,
1704. $1,100
Small 4to; pp. [3]-86, [9] (Index); extra engraved title and 5 large,
folding engraved plates; engraved tail-pieces; later marbled paper
over boards; spine perished; text in Black Letter, with annotations
in Roman; light age-browning throughout; some light spotting in
margins of plates.
JCB I (3):54; Sabin 4806; vide European-Americana 704/17. Although
this copy collates precisely with the JCB and Sabin citations, it
would appear to be the first part of the two parts cited in European-Americana;
i.e. it contains the four voyages of Columbus, Benzoni's work on
the Spaniards and the natives of the New World, and Vespucci's four
voyages; it does not have Hennepin's work, which is listed on the
title page and which would form the second part of these accounts.
This is the first separate printing by Van der Aa; it was also contained
in his massive Naaukeurige versameling der gedenkwaardigste Reysen
naar Oost en West-Indien.... published in 1707. A scarce work.
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2.
[ADAMS, ROBERT]. The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor,
who was wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1810,
was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert,
and resided several months in the City of Tombuctoo. Edited by S.
Cock. London, Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer, 1816. First
edition. $1,700
4to; pp. xxxix, [1], 231, [1]; engraved folding map. Later quarter
morocco over original marbled boards; neat stamps on first and final
blanks. A very good, complete copy.
Huntress 182C. Adams was from Hudson, New York and shipped out on
the Charles in June 1810, bound for Gibraltar. After discharging
cargo there, the crew proceeded to the African coast to trade. "Like
so many other ships, the Charles was caught in unknown currents
and was carried ashore about 400 miles north of Senegal on October
11, 1810. The whole crew reached shore, but all were made slaves
by the Arabs, and the captain and mate killed. Adams was taken far
to the eastward and visited Timbuctoo on a trading expedition; he
may have been only the second or third European or American to describe
that city. He was transferred from owner to owner, and at last reached
Mogadore where he was ransomed by Mr. Dupuis, the British Consul
there. He was sent to Cadiz and then London, where he told his story
to the editor of this book."-(Huntress).
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3.
ANDERSEN, KNUD. Med "Monsunen" Paa Atlanterhavet.
Copenhagen, Nordiske Verlag, 1931. One of 6000 copies printed. $100
4to; f, pp. 221; 56 illustrations on 11 sheets; 1 full-page map
included in the pagination. Half-leather and marbled boards. A very
good copy.
An interesting account of a voyage that criss-crossed the Atlantic,
and the adventures that accompanied it. The NUC cites only the copies
at New York Public and the Library of Congress.
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4.
[ANON]. An Account Of the Late Great Victory, Obtained at Sea,
against the French: By their Majesties Fleet, Commanded in Chief
by Admiral Russell; and the Dutch Commanded by Admiral Allemond,
near the Cape of Barfleur in May 1692. London, Printed for John
Rawlins, 1692. $225
Small 4to; 2 ff, pp. 24; removed; some soiling; bottom corner of
leaves curled; contemporary notations on blank portion of final
page.
Wing A310; no citations in the ESTC. There is the catch-word on
the final page "A True"; this refers possibly to Wing
T2724 (A True History of the French Fleet...., printed in the same
year), as the author mentions in his last paragraph here that he
"shall next proceed to mention the Names and Strength of such
of the French Fleet that have been destroyed since the beginning
of this Great Action...".
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5.
[ANON]. Considerations on the Approach of War, and the Conduct
of His Majesty's Ministers. London, J. Debrett, 1791. $975
8vo; f, pp. 40; recent paper-covered boards; faint dampstaining
to text; otherwise clean.
Not in Sabin. The unknown author here mounts an attack on Pitt for
his intended war with Russia and her allies, in order to maintain
the balance of power in Europe. On page 20, the author refers to
the fact that Pitt had known of "a gross and outrageous insult
[that] has been offered to the British flag by a Spanish officer
at Nootka Sound" but had done nothing about it, because he
claimed that "the complaint had been communicated to him at
the time, but not the particulars of aggravation". This is
quite possibly a reference to the dispute between John Meares and
the Spaniards, which led, in 1790, to the Nootka Agreement.
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