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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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16.
BACKER, LOUIS DE. L'Archipel Indien. Paris, Ernest Thorin,
1874. First edition. $500
Tall 8vo; pp. [4], 546, [2], (Errata); recent quarter-calf over
original marbled paper-covered boards; marbled endpapers; faint
stamp at head of half-title and tiny blindstamp on one leaf; overall
a very good, very clean copy, complete with half-title.
The Indian archipelago, now more commonly known as Southeast Asia,
is the series of islands bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent
on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east.
In this work the author discusses at some length the origins of
the different peoples inhabiting the series of islands, their various
languages, religions, customs, law, literature, etc.
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17.
BAKER, SIR RICHARD. A Chronicle of the Kings of England From
the time of the Romans Government Unto the Death of King James.
Containing all Passages of State and Church with all other Observations
proper for a Chronicle. Faithfully Collected out of Authors Ancient
and Modern, and digested into a new Method. By Sir R. Baker, Knight.
Whereunto is now added in this Third Edition, The Reign of King
Charles, I. With A Continuation of the Chronicle To the End of the
Year M.DC.LVIII: Being a full Narrative of the Affaires of England,
Scotland, and Ireland; More especially Relating unto the Transactions
of Charles, Crowned King of the Scots at Scone, On the First Day
of January, 1650. London, Printed by E. Cotes, and sold by G. Sawbridg
... and T. Williams ..., M.DC.LX (1660). $750
Small folio; added engraved title-page, pp. [22], 96, 197-232, 133-385,
384-454, 457-504, 405-430, 433-466, 447-406 [i.e. 506], [4] (Title
and Preface to "A Continuation"), 507-528, 531-546, 457-458,
[38] (Index); contemporary full calf, worn; sporadic staining throughout;
large partially erased inscription on margin of p. 251, and contemporary
name and date (1662) on verso of last leaf crossed out; small eighteenth-century
names on title-page; erratic pagination; decorative head-pieces
and foliated initials.
Wing B504; Pforzheimer 38. Sir Richard Baker was born in Sissinghurst,
educated at Oxford, and knighted by James I in 1603. As a result
of securing the debts of his wife's relatives, his property was
seized by the Crown, and he was sent to prison. He passed his time
writing lengthy religious and historical works, as well as "mediocre
poetry." A Chronicle of the Kings of England was first published
in 1643. It was very popular and often quoted. This third edition
was edited by Milton's nephew Edward Phillips (1630-1696?), who
also edited the Continuation (DNB). It also includes "A Catalogue
of Writers ... Out of whom this Chronicle Hath been Collected",
and "A Catalogue of the Nobility of England". The printer,
Ellen [Ellinor/ Eleanor] Cotes, was active in London c.1652-1670?
She took over the business in 1652 upon the death of her husband,
Richard Cotes, and continued it for nearly twenty years.
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18.
BARCLAY, Capt. [ROBERT ALLARDICE]. Agricultural Tour in the
United States and Upper Canada, with miscellaneous notices. By Captain
Barclay of Ury. Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood &
Sons, 1842. First edition.
8vo; pp. xxiii, [1], 181, [1], [2] (Publ's cat.); original blind-embossed
green cloth; light rubbing; overall, a very good, complete, untrimmed
copy, with neat, contemporary signature on front free endpaper.
Sabin 3368; Lande 1535; TPL 2427; Howes B132. The author spent a
good deal of time in Upper Canada, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland and Virginia. He comments on the products of the regions
in which he travelled, the methods of production (eg. cotton mills),
the labour forces in the various industries, and comments at length
about the conditions of the slaves.
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19. BARRINGTON, DAINES. Miscellanies. London, J. Nichols,
1781. First edition. $3,000
4to; pp. viii, 468, 471*-477*, [1], [469]-540, 547-557, [1] (Binder's
directions and Errata); 2 maps, 5 folding charts and 2 engraved
portraits; contemporary full tree calf, rebacked long ago; original
spine, gilt, laid down; armorial bookplate; contemporary notes on
first flyleaf; usual offsetting from portraits to facing text; binding
worn at corners and rubbed at edges; a very good, very clean copy,
with the requisite extra leaves and with the hiatus between pp.
540 and 547.
Howes B173; Sabin 3628; Lada-Mocarski 34; Streeter Sale IV:2445;
Wickersham 6653; Wagner, Cartography 674; Cox II, p. 20 note. Contains,
inter alia, Barrington's essay on "The Possibility of Approaching
the North Pole Discussed," various essays on natural history
and on the Linnaean system, and the translation of the "Journal
of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, Northward of
California" by Maurelle, the second pilot of the fleet commanded
by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega, together with an engraved map
of this voyage. This expedition was a very important one, preceding
the voyages of James Cook to the same area. "This is the only
contemporary source in English of this important voyage, ... there
are a few copies known ... as a separate publication of about 67
pp. Both issues are undoubtedly from the same press." -(Streeter)
Barrington's article on the North Pole, first published separately
in 1775-76 and not published again until 1818, contains tracts relating
to reaching the Pole from Spitzbergen by means of reindeer, ice
conditions in the northern Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay, a compilation
of facts derived from the records of early navigators, etc.
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20. BARROW, JOHN. Voyages of Discovery and Research within
the Arctic Regions, from the year 1818 to the present time:under
the command of the several naval officers employed by sea and land
in search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
with two attempts to reach the North Pole... New-York, Harper &
Brothers, 1846. First American edition. $500
12mo; pp. xii, [13]-359, 8, 8 (Publ's. cat.); 1 small map and 1
large, folding map; original black cloth, gilt- and blind-embossed;
expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down; neat library lending
record on front paste-down; a very fine, uncut copy from the library
of Frank Streeter.
This edition not in Hill; TPL 2243 (1 map); Arctic Biblio. 1096:
"Contains a detailed account of the principal British expeditions
into the North American Arctic (also to Svalbard), from that of
Ross in 1818 to those of Back and Simpson, 1836-39; their scientific
achievements, and contribution towards the discovery of a Northwest
Passage."
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