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Catalogue
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Voyages
& Travels
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A South Seas and Arctic Classic |
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51. FANNING, EDMUND. Voyages Round the World; with selected
Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans,
China, etc., performed under the Command and Agency of the Author.
Also, Information relating to important Late Discoveries; between
the Years 1792 and 1832, together with the Report of the Commander
of the first American Exploring Expedition, ... to the Southern
Hemisphere. New York, Collins & Hannay, 1833. First edition.
$3,950
Large, thick 8vo; pp. xii, [13]-499; 5 lithographed plates (2 folding);
recent full calf; sporadic foxing throughout, but generally lighter
than in other copies we have had; few light brown spots on one leaf;
overall, a large, uncut copy of a work which has become quite scarce.
Rosove 119.A1; Ferguson 1643; Sabin 23780; Spence 454, Hill, pp.
100-101. The author, of Stonington, Connecticut, was one of the
early whalers in the Antarctic seas, whose voyages took him to Fiji,
Tonga, the Marquesas, Australia, the Cape Verde Islands, the Philippines,
the Falklands, and the desolate lands of South Georgia. Among many
of the islands that he discovered is the one bearing his name, which
lies 1200 miles south of Honolulu. Included also in this work is
an account of the first American naval exploring expedition to the
southern hemisphere, in 1829-1830, which was sponsored by the American
government under the command of Benjamin Pendleton.
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52.
FELLOWES, W[ILLIAM] D[ORSET], Paris; During the Interesting
Month of July, 1815, A Series of Letters, Addressed to a Friend
in London. London, Printed for Gale and Fenner, 1815. First edition.
$1,200
8vo; pp. v, 165, [1] (Adverts); engraved title vignette portrait
of Napoleon; engraved frontispiece portraits of five court personages,
and two engraved plates, all hand-coloured; later blue paper-covered
boards; light offsetting from plates; a very good copy.
COPAC; Harvard; Yale (Beinecke); NYPL. William Dorset Fellowes'
connections as a fringe member of the British court afforded him
a tour of Paris unlike others. His observations of both the political
and social scene following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, and
the restoration of Louis XVIII to the throne, include descriptions
of well-known locations, such as the state rooms at Versailles after
it had been vacated by its former tenants. Not mentioned is that
the month was less interesting for Fellowes' wife and daughter,
whom he abandoned for a woman he met on the trip (Burke's peerage).
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53.
FERRARIUS, PHILIPPUS. Lexicon Geographicum, Universi Orbis
Oppida, Urbes, Regiones, Provinciae, Regna, Emporia, Academiae,
Metropoles, Fontes, Flumina, & Maria Antiquis Recentibusque
Nominibus appellata, suisque distantiis descripta recensentur; In
duas partes divisum: in priori quarum antiqua nomina recentibus,
in altera recentia antiquis praeponuntur. Opus perquam utile, &
necessarium omnibus Humaniorum literarum Professoribus, Historicis,
Poetis, & Antiquariis ... Editio nova, multo quam prior accuratior
... Londini, Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, MDCLVII (1657).
[with]
Lexici Geographici Pars altera, In qua nova nomina locorum veteribus
praeponuntur. Londini, Ex officina Rogeri Danielis, MDCLVII (1657).
[with]
Tabula Longitudinis ac Latitudinis Urbium & Oppidorum per totum
Terrarum Orbem, ex Philippi Ferrarii Eptome Geographica excerpta.
Londini, Ex Officina Rogeri Danielis, Anno Domini MDCLVII (1657).
$1,850
Folio; pp. [24] (Preface, Index, Errata), 151, 150-552, [24]. Signatures:
*4, **4, A-3Z4, &ct.6, A-B4, C3. Contemporary full calf, very
worn; gilt frame with gilt-embossed arms of Harlay on upper and
lower covers; spine gilt in compartments; gilt label; hinges loose.
Woodcut head-piece, elaborate tail-pieces; initials; woodcut printer's
device on title page, with motto "Ad ardua per aspera tendo";
title page in red and black; the two other parts have separate title
pages and title vignettes; printed marginalia; body of text in double
columns; age-browning on few leaves; page numbers 150-151 repeated
in sequence. Edited by Latin scholar William Dillingham (1617?-1689),
master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who also wrote the Preface.
MS note on front fly-leaf verso, indicates provenance of Achille
de Harlay, Conte de Beaumont, and Collegio Parisiensi Societatis
Jesu, as does the small, printed ex-libris at lower edge of the
title-page.
ESTC R27360; Wing F814. Filippo Ferrari (1551-1626) was a member
of the Order of Servites who taught mathematics and astronomy at
the University of Pavia. He published works on geography and history
as well as a biography of Italian saints and a Latin-Italian dictionary.
Lexicon Geographicum, published posthumously, is an enhancement
of his earlier work, Epitome Geographicum (1605). The Collegium
Societatis Jesu in Paris, known today as Lycée Louis-le-grand,
was founded by the Jesuits in 1563. Included among its alumni are
some of France's best-known writers, artists, scientists and politicians.
The Beaumont branch of the Achille de Harlay family served as 1st
Presidents of the Parliament of Paris for three generations, from
1582-1707. Roger Daniel (1593?-1667), the printer, was active in
London and Cambridge from 1627-1666.
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A Justification of the French Discoveries in the Pacific
First English Edition, and a Large-Paper Copy
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54. [FLEURIEU, CHARLES-PIERRE-CLARET, comte de]. Discoveries
of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the South-East of New Guinea,
with the Subsequent Visits to the same Lands by English Navigators,
who gave them new Names. To which is prefixed, An Historical Abridgement
of the Voyages and Discoveries of the Spaniards in the same seas.
By M. * * *, formerly a captain in the French Navy. London, John
Stockdale, 1791. First edition in English. $3,000
4to; pp. xxiv, 323, (1) (Errata); 12 folding engraved charts; recent
quarter-calf and marbled boards; very faint waterstain at edge of
upper corner; little offsetting from the charts; complete with half-title
and, overall, a fine copy printed on large paper, with very wide
margins.
Cox II, p. 304; Ferguson I:105. This is the first edition in English,
following the original printing in French in 1790. The author surveys
the discoveries of Bougainville, Surville, and other explorers of
the island chain off the southeast coast of New Guinea, including
the Louisiade archipelago, the Solomon islands, the New Hebrides,
etc. Fleurieu's given reasons for publishing his work was to justify
and defend the French discoveries from the supposedly false claims
of the English navigators, particularly those of John Shortland.
Also included are summaries of some of the earlier voyages of the
Spaniards in the area.
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The Golden Cockerel Press
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55. [FLINDERS, MATTHEW]. Matthew Flinders' Narrative of his
Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798, preceded and followed by notes
on Flinders, Bass, the Wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c, by Geoffrey
Rawson with engravings by John Buckland Wright. [Waltham St. Lawrence,
Berkshire], The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. One of 750 copies.
$715
Small folio; pp. 100, f (Map & Colophon); original green cloth,
gilt-embossed and lettered; t.e.g., others uncut; neat bookplate;
tiny spot on penultimate leaf; otherwise, a lovely uncut copy on
hand-made paper, by the Golden Cockerell Press; one of 750 copies
printed.
Hill, pp. 106-107. "Printed from the original manuscript in
the Victoria Public Library, .... The principal feature of this
volume is the printing in full of Flinders' 1798, 'Narrative of
an expedition to Furneaux Islands [on the coast of New South Wales],'
the largest island of which is named Flinders Island. Included are
several articles relating to Flinders' interest in Australia, including
his earlier explrations of Tasmania with George Bass. An abridgement
is given of Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia.
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