| |
|
|
|
|
|
Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
|
|
|
|
|
21.
BARTOLI, DANIELLO. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo
Aqvaviva della Compagnia di Giesv. Sua Vita e Morte, E d'atri quattro
Compagni vccisi in odio della Fede in Salsete di Goa. Milan, Lodouico
Monza, 1664. First Milan edition. $11,500
12mo; pp. [4], 193, [3] (2-pp note to the reader, and colophon with
Jesuitical device); contemporary pasteboard binding, paper spine
label with manuscript lettering; wanting free endpapers; front hinge
cracked; manuscript title on lower fore-edge; old Jesuitical stamps
on lower portion of title; text minimally toned; leaves A and [H12]
would appear to be cancels. An extremely scarce work, preceded by
the Rome edition published a few months earlier; a Bologna edition
followed.
De Backer-Sommervogel I, 975: 13; Diz. Biog. degli Ital. VI: pp.
563-571; not in BL (It.); copies located at Oxford, Bibl. Naz. Cent.
di Firenze; not in BNF, which has 21 other titles by this author,
not in WorldCat, which locates the 1663 ed. at Ill. and Ohio; not
in NYPL; LC; or JFB. Bartoli was an Italian Jesuit priest who was
born at Ferrara and entered the Society of Jesus in 1623. He was
fascinated by the zeal and ordeals of the missionaries, but was
discouraged by the General of the Order from missionary work. He
was a scholar, a learned writer and, by all accounts, a distinguished
and charismatic preacher. This work on the Jesuits in Goa, then
a Portuguese colony, was first published as an independent work
and later incorporated into the author's massive, six-volume history
of the Society, which was published numerous times well into the
nineteenth century. Bartoli deals specifically here with the activities
and martyrdom of P. Ridolfo [sic] Acquaviva, active in missionary
work in Goa from 1574 until 1580, in which year he was sent to the
court of the Mogol Emperor Muhammed Ahkbar. Upon his return in 1583
he and four colleagues were martyred on the island of Salsette.
Bartoli's account is one of the earliest and scarcest of Jesuitical
activities in Goa and Southeast Asia.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
22.
BARTRAM, WILLIAM. Travels through North and South Carolina,
Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive
Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country
of the Chactaws. Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Products
of those Regions; together with Observations on the Manners of the
Indians. Philadelphia: Printed by James and Johnson, 1791; London:
Reprinted for J. Johnson, 1792. First English edition.
$7,250
Thick 8vo; half-calf with marbled paper over boards, neatly re-backed;
complete with engraved frontispiece portrait, 7 engraved plates,
and 1 folding engraved map; a very good copy.
Howes B220; Sabin 3870; Pilling, Iroquoian, p. 10; de Renne I, p.
250n; William Bartram (1739-1823) was a renowned naturalist and
son of John Bartram, the noted botanist. His father's good friend,
Peter Collinson, the English naturalist, thought William's sketches
and drawings to be "elegant performances" and showed them
to Dr. John Fothergill, a botanist and, like William, a Quaker,
who extended his patronage to the young Bartram. At Fothergill's
expense Bartram spent the years 1773-1777 exploring the southeastern
part of America; although he was meant to send back to Fothergill
drawings, journals, seeds, specimens, etc., many of his writings
and gatherings never reached England because of the war, and Bartram
finally made his way back to Philadelphia in January of 1778. This
work, describing the natives of the region, the plants, seeds, products,
and animals, was enormously successful, and was considered "a
work of high character well meriting its wide esteem." -(Howes).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23.
BEAUVAIS, GILLES-FRANÇOIS. La Vie du Venerable Pere
Ignace Azavedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'Histoire de son martyre,
& de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même Compagnie.
Le tout tiré des Procès-verbaux dressés pour
leur Canonisation. Paris, Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, MDCCXLIV
(1744). First edition thus. $2,850
8vo; pp. xliij, [5], 300; contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt
in compartments; binding rubbed at edges and corners; joints cracked;
marbled endpapers; neat Sulpician bookplate; small stamp on verso
of title; text is extremely clean and unmarked; with vignette on
title, woodcut headpiece at head of "Dedication" and woodcut
tailpiece at bottom of Bbij (which is mis-signed Bij).
Borba de Moraes I, p. 93; De Backer-Sommerfogel I: 1080: 4; Brunet
I: 724 (note) and VI:1179, 21915; we have located copies at Cambridge,
BNF, NYPL and LC only. Beauvais was a Jesuit writer and preacher
who was born in 1693 and died about 1773. "He entered the Society
of Jesus on 16 August, 1709, and taught belles-lettres, rhetoric,
and philosophy. After ordination he was assigned to preach and give
the Advent course at Court in 1744, during which year he published
his 'Life of Ven. Ignatius Azevedo, S.J.'" - (Cath. Encyc.).
An earlier edition was published in Italian in 1743 by Giulio Cesare
Cordara under the pseudonym of "Father Cabral"; Beauvais
used the Italian version as a basis for his own work, and added
several works not present in the original. Ignacio de Azevedo (1527-1570)
was a Portuguese missionary who became a Jesuit in 1548 and subsequently
served as rector of religious colleges in Lisbon and Braga. In 1566
he travelled to Brazil to serve the Jesuit missions there and, while
on a trip back to Europe to recruit new missionaries, he and thirty-nine
companions, all Jesuits, were beset upon and killed near the Canary
Islands by Huguenot privateers. These forty martyrs were canonised
in 1854.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24.
BÉL, MÁTYÁS. Hvngariae Antiqvae et Novae
Prodromvs, cvm Specimine, Qvomodo in Singvlis Operis Partibvs Elaborandis,
Versari Constitverit, Avctor Matthias Belivs Pannonivs. Norimbergae,
Sumtu Petri Conradi Monath, Bibliopolae, MDCCXXIII (1723). $2,250
Folio; pp. [22], 204. Signatures: )(4 - )( )( )( )( 2, [1] (half
title), A-P2, [1] (half title), Q-Zz2, Aaa2-Eee2; 1 folding map;
6 engraved illustrations, 1 folding. Elaborate head and tail pieces;
historiated and foliated initials; title vignette. Contemporary
full calf, worn; spine blind-stamped in compartments; spine label
chipped; worming at head and heel of spine, front and back hinges
and first few leaves, touching one letter; a one-inch strip has
been excised from bottom of title-page; front free endpaper wanting;
there is a contemporary ownership signature on recto of title with
small deaccession stamps on verso. Archival tape repair to tear
in map and in folding plate, with no loss.
Graesse I: 323; Brunet I: 741; BNF; copies located at Oxford, Yale
and Univ. of Michigan. Mátyás Bél (1684-1749)
was a scholar, educator and Lutheran minister whose works spanned
almost every aspect of Hungarian history. This work describes Hungary's
early history as well as its 18th century geographical attractions,
such as hot springs for medical treatments, vineyards and caves.
The illustrations are by Samuel Mikoviny (1686-1750), a mathematician,
mining surveyor, military engineer and cartographer, who studied
engraving in Nuremberg. He also produced maps for Bel's multi-volume
work Notitia Hungariae. The map included here, Terrae sev Comitatvs
Scepvsiensis, was engraved by Johann Georg Puschner (1680-1749),
a globemaker and copper-engraver who worked on both celestial and
terrestrial globes with J. G. Doppelmayr (1677-1750). Puschner also
engraved music for J.S. Bach. The publisher, Peter Conrad Monath,
was active in Nuremberg from 1713 to 1739.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25.
BIDDLE, NICHOLAS, and PAUL ALLEN, eds. The Journals of the
Expedition Under the Command of Capts. Lewis and Clark to the Sources
of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the
River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years
1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States. New York;
The Heritage Press, 1962. Two volumes.
4to; xlv, 231; xviii, 233-547; folding map, 4 ports., 17 plates
(some coloured); quarter cloth over pictorial boards, spines lettered
in gilt, in red slipcase.
Beckham, Erickson, p. 242. A fine reprint of the 1814 edition which
was edited by Nicholas Biddle, with an introduction by John Bakeless.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
