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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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46.
DIXON, Captain GEORGE. A Voyage round the World: but more particularly
to the North-West Coast of America: performed in 1785, 1786, 1787,
and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, ... London, George
Goulding, 1789. Second edition. $4,750
4to; pp. xxix, (3), 360, 47 (appendix); 15 engraved plates (1 folding);
7 folding engraved maps and charts. Full period-style sprinkled
calf, spine gilt, marbled endpapers; t.e.g., others uncut; complete
with half-title, binder's directions, and engraved sheet of Eskimo
music. This is basically a re-issue of the first edition, identical
with it in every respect. A fine, wide-margined, uncut copy.
Vide Streeter VI: 3484; Lada-Mocarski 43; Howes D365; JCB 3270;
new Hill 118; Wickersham 6574 (incomp. pagination); NMM I: 140;
Lande 960; Strathern 37i; Cowan, p. 70; Sabin 20364 (confusing the
Dixon and the Portlock accounts); TPL 593: "The accounts of
this expedition relate largely to the geography, ethnology and natural
history of the American coast from Nootka Sound northward."
Dixon, with Nathanial Portlock, set out in the King George and Queen
Charlotte with licenses from both the South Sea Co. and the East
India Co. to establish a trade in furs. After travelling together
they parted, with Portlock remaining in the area of Alaska and Dixon
heading southward. In 1789 each published his own account of their
combined and separate voyages, and each account bears the same title,
accounting for much of the confusion in the bibliographies. This
work is thought to have been written largely by William Beresford,
Dixon's supercargo, and is sometimes found under his name, but as
Dixon edited his letters, was responsible for the maps, and wrote
the lengthy introduction, we consider the work properly entered
under Dixon's name as editor.
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47.
EDWARDS, AMELIA [ANN] B[LANFORD]. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented
Valleys. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites. Leipzig, Bernhard
Tauchnitz, 1873. $100
8vo; 2ff, pp. [7]-302, f; quarter faux-cuir, marbled boards, corners
bumped; otherwise little wear, spine lettered in gilt; ex-library
copy, small blind emboss, former owner's bookplate on front pastedown;
text very clean and tight.
Neate 236; Birket, Spinsters Abroad. The author (1831-1892) was
an inveterate traveller, as well as a writer of fiction, history
and travel narratives. This work on the Dolomites, a beautiful and
yet pristine region of the Italian Alps, was her second travel narrative.
This "Copyright Edition" appeared in the same year as
the original London edition of 1873. A very popular text.
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From the Library of Grey of Fallodon
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48. EGERTON, [HARRIET CATHERINE GREVILLE, countess of]. Journal
of a Tour in the Holy Land, in May and June, 1840. With Lithographic
Views, from Original Drawings, by Lord Francis Egerton. London,
Harrison and Co., 1841. "For Private Circulation Only".
$500
8vo; 4 ff, pp. 141, f; 4 tinted lithographed plates. Original green
cloth; with the signatures of Anna Grey, dated 1841, and of Alice
Grey, dated 1881, on half-title; a very good, untrimmed copy.
Bevis, p. 64; Blackmer 536; Abbey Travel, 384; Robinson, pp. 112-113.
A rather scarce work, not issued as a commercial venture, but rather
for the benefit of the Ladies' Hibernian Female School Society.
Abbey cites the author's husband, Lord Francis Egerton, as the artist,
but in this copy only Thomas Allom's name is signed to the plates;
they were printed by Hullmandel. The author herself has some interesting
observations on the land and the peoples inhabiting it.
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Copiously Illustrated
with Fine Copper Engravings & Maps
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49. EHRMANN, THEOPHIL FRIEDRICH, Compiler & Editor. Neueste
Kunde von Asien. Prag: In der Diesbachischen Buchhandlung, 1812.
Two volumes. First edition in book form. $1,450
8vo; f, pp. 507; f, pp. 574; 9 folding, engraved maps (6 outlined
in colour) and 31 engraved plates (23 folding); there is one more
map than called for in the list of plates. Contemporary green marbled
paper-covered boards with original paper labels; binding little
worn at edges; general light foxing throughout. Overall, a very
good set.
Not in Cordier nor in Lust; Diba, p. 24. First published in parts
in Weimar in 1810. This edition, which would appear to be the first
edition in book form, is part of a collection of travels issued
over a period of years as part of a series known as Neueste Länder-
und Völkerkunde. The work covers Asiatic Turkey, Arabia, Persia,
the Holy Land, the Caucasus and Tartary, Hindustan, Ceylon, Burma,
Tibet, Siam & Cambodia, and Cochin-China. The final leaf of
the second volume announces the intention of the publication of
a third volume, which is not present here.
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50.
ELLIOTT, ROBERT. Views in India, China and on The Shores
of the Red Sea. London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson, [1835].
Two volumes in one. $1,125
4to; pp. 68; pp. 64; coloured frontispiece and 63 engraved plates,
including extra engraved titles; contemporary half-calf and marbled
paper over boards; binding expertly rebacked and re-cornered; neat
bookplate on pastedown; sporadic foxing and/or age-browning; complete
with the coloured frontispiece by David Roberts, engraved and printed
in oils by G[eorge] Baxter.
Abbey Travel, 442; Lust 219. The plates were drawn by Stanfield,
Cattermole, Purser, etc. after original sketches by Commander Robert
Elliott [1801-1875], and the descriptive text is by Emma Roberts
(c.1794-1840), who had written other works on India.
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