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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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31.
BUXTON, LEONARD HALFORD DUDLEY. The Eastern Road. London:
Kegan Paul, 1924. First edition. $125
8vo; pp. xii, 268; includes frontis., and 18 full-page plates of
photographic illustrations; original publisher's cloth, lettered
in gilt on spine, text very clean and tight. A very good copy.
Asia held a particular fascination for Buxton. This is a narrative
of a journey taken in 1922 while travelling on the Albert Kahn Fellowship.
Although the award required Buxton to voyage throughout the world,
Buxton dedicated his travels exclusively to Japan and China. As
a result of former investigations, he writes with great authority
on the areas visited and has achieved a wonderful ethnographical
work.
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32.
CABOT, SEBASTIAN. De Trotsmoedige Scheeps-togt van Sebastiaan
Gaboto, ...na de Moluccos, ... door veel tegenspoeden en onkunde
aan Rio de la Plata mislukt. Benessens de Scheeps-togt van Diego
Garcia, ...gedaan langs de Kusten van America... Leyden, Pieter
Vander Aa, 1707.
8vo; pp. [2], 83, [9] ("Register" and Instructions to
the Binder); 2 fine double-page copper engravings in the text, 1
fine folding engraved map, and engraved title-vignette; later quarter-morocco
and marbled paper over boards. A fine copy, printed in Black Letter.
European-Americana 707/2; not in Sabin; not in Medina. The engraved
map is of the continent of South America, and is a very good, dark
strike; the 2 copper-engraved plates are of the natives. Sebastian
Cabot entered the service of Spain in 1512 and was appointed chief
pilot in 1518. After the return of Magellan's ship, "Victoria",
Cabot sailed in 1526 from Sanlucar de Barrameda to the Moluccas.
He spent a few years along the Plata and Parana Rivers, but returned
to Spain in 1530, having been forced, by the hostility of the natives
and by the scarcity of food, to leave South America. Vander Aa's
massive opus, "Naaukeurige Vesameling der Gedenkwaardigste
Zee en Land-Reysen na Ost en West-Indien" incorporated the
voyages and travels of all nations, primarily to the East and West
Indies and was begun in 1706 in both octavo and quarto formats.
The quarto format was set aside to allow for completion of this
smaller edition, published in 1706-1707; the large edition was not
published until 1727.
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33.
[CAMPBELL, HUGH HUME, earl of MARCHMENT]. A State of the
Rise and Progress of our Disputes with Spain. , and of the Conduct
of our Ministers relating thereto. London, Printed for T. Cooper,
1739 (misprinted MDCCXXIXX). First edition. $350
8vo; mispaginated as follows: pp. (4); 48, 41-56, 65-76; disbound.
Sabin 90630; JCB 611 (incorrect pagination); not in Bell. The author
takes issue with the government's "pusillanimity" in dealing
with Spain's demands and restrictions, and argues against letting
the Spanish privateers get away with their robbing and sinking of
English ships, and jailing of English sailors. He also points out
their hindrances towards British trade with its colonies in America,
discusses the English merchants' claims, the Asiento slave importation
monopoly, and the Spanish complaints regarding the situation in
Georgia. One of the important pamphlets issued during the "War
of Jenkins' Ear".
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34.
CARMICHAEL, Mrs. A. C. Domestic Manners and Social Conditions
of the White, Coloured and Negro Population of the West Indies.
London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1833. Two volumes. First edition.
$1,250
Tall 12mo; pp. viii, [3]-336; pp. iv, [3]-338; with half-title vol.
1; original brown boards, worn around edges, corners bumped, original
printed paper labels on spines; uncut, initial gatherings becoming
loose but holding, sporadic foxing throughout, slight browning to
edges; otherwise a good, clean copy.
Sabin 10937; Ragatz, p. 221; Cundall, West Indies, 2220. This title
was re-issued in 1834 by Whittaker & Co. in London under another
title, Five Years in Trinidad and St. Vincent. In the scope of this
study, the author discusses slave employment, and proceeds to provide
descriptions of the customs and ways of life of the inhabitants,
with particular details on the creole and black populations. Written
in the early 19th century, this personal investigation is not without
its prejudices with respect to the characterization of the native
populations; however, it remains an authentic account, in which
the author tries to correct misconceived notions of the West Indies.
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35.
CARVER, JONATHAN. Voyage dans les Parties Intérieures
de l'Amérique Septentrionale Pendant les années 1766,
1767 & 1768. Paris, Pissot, 1784. First edition in French. $850
8vo; pp. 24, xxviii, 451; 1 folding engraved map; contemporary full
sprinkled calf, spine gilt; some wear to binding; overall, a very
good, very tight and clean copy.
Not in TPL; Sabin 11188; Gagnon II:326; Barbier IV:1070; Howes C215.
This work is from the third English edition (the "best edition"-
Howes) and translated by J. Etienne Montucla. Carver left Boston
for Fort Michilimackinac, via Lake Superior. He travelled as far
west as the Mississippi, in large measure on the waterways, and
went further into the West than had any other British explorer before
his time.
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