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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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56.
FRANCHERE, G[ABRIEL]. Relation d'un Voyage a la Cote du Nord-Ouest
de l'Amerique Septentrionale, dans les années 1810, 11, 12,
13, et 14. Montréal, C.B. Pasteur, 1820. First edition.
8vo; pp. 284. Original roan binding; usual age-browning throughout;
bound without half-title, as is common. A very good copy, with contemporary
signature at head of title ("L-F Gagne?").
Sabin 25431; Eberstadt 111:685; Streeter VI:3691; TPL 984; Graff
1402; WCB 16:1; Peel 70; Howes F310; Monaghan 705; Hill, p. 110;
Strathern 194; Lande 1179. Franchère gives the only first-hand
account of the massacre of the crew of the Tonquin on the Northwest
coast, as related to him by the native interpreter who was the sole
survivor, and who had escaped after being held captive by the Indians
for two years.
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57.
FRANKLIN, JOHN. Narrative of A Journey to the Shores of the
Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London, John Murray,
1823. First edition, first issue. $4,250
4to; pp. (iii)-xvi, 768; 30 plates (11 coloured); 4 folding maps;
errata slip; lacks half-title. Full blind-stamped calf, blind- and
gilt-ruled; rebacked long ago; marbled endpapers and fore-edges;
binding minimally rubbed. A fine, clean copy belonging originally
to Captain Sir Henry Duncan, with his bookplate and pictorial ownership
stamp. A Presentation Copy to Sir Henry from the Rev. Dr. Hood "as
a small token of gratitude, for his great kindness to his two sons,
Lieutenants Robert and George Hood, R.N., to whom, indeed, they
are indebted for everything, ...".
TPL 1248; Sabin 25624; WCB 23:1; Field 560; Graff 1406; Peel 80;
Arctic Biblio. 5194. The story related here is one of a most devastating
and frightful journey of 5,500 miles in northern Canada. One of
the objects of the expedition was to determine the longitude and
latitude of the northern coast of North America. The members of
the expedition travelled both overland and by canoe, and were decimated
by murder, hunger and cold. Robert Hood, midshipman with this expedition,
had first served under Duncan on the Imperieuse in the Adriatic,
during the Napoleonic Wars, and had made his name as an artist there
when he presented his private logs to his superiors. When the British
Admiralty turned its efforts to finding a Northwest Passage, Hood
joined Franklin's ship and was responsible for many of the paintings
from which the plates in this work are done. Also, he "had
been the first to conduct a careful magnetic survey of the northwest"
and his journal "describes the flora, fauna, and geography
of the land, and records observations on the climate, magnetic phenomena,
and aurora borealis." - (DCB, vol. VI, pp. 327-329) Hood was
one of the eleven men to die on this expedition. Exhausted, starving,
and dehydrated, he was murdered by one of the Iroquois voyageurs
who was subsequently executed by John Richardson. An interesting
and important association copy.
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58. FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W. The Exploration of The Caucasus.
London and New York, Edward Arnold, 1896. First edition. $3,500
Large 4to; pp. xxiii, (1), 278; pp. x, 295, (1); 74 plates, including
two frontispieces; three large, folding panoramas, one folding photographic
illustration; four folding, coloured maps; numerous illustrations
and vignettes in the text. Full red morocco bindings by Parker of
Oxford, gilt-lettered spines and gilt supra libros on covers; t.e.g.
and others uncut; a fine, large, clean copy.
Neate F64: "A magnificent work, compiled and illustrated by
Freshfield and his friends." Freshfield was a lawyer and mountaineer,
president of the Alpine Club from 1893-1895, and editor of the Alpine
Journal. A great mountaineer, he is especially known for his climbs
in the Caucasus. The striking photos are by alpine photographer
Vittorio Sella. The Alpine Club, founded in 1857 by a group of British
Mountaineers, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2007.
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59.
FREZIER, [AMÉDÉE FRANCOIS]. A Voyage to the
South-Sea, And along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, In the Years
1712, 1713, and 1714. .. London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717. First edition
in English. $4,750
4to; 7 ff, pp. 335, [9] (Index); 13 engraved plates (1 folding);
24 maps and plans (17 folding). Contemporary full calf, expertly
restored and rebacked; new endpapers; little sporadic foxing and
few small stains; neat repair to tear in two margins (no loss);
overall, a very good copy.
Sabin 25924; Hill, p. 115; Borba de Moraes, pp. 328-329; Cox II,
p. 267; NMM Cat. I:324. Frezier, an engineer, was sent out by the
French government to help the Spaniards with their forts, under
construction to defend their holdings in South America against the
Dutch and English. He also spent considerable time charting the
coasts, the major cities, and the harbours of South America for
his own government. In giving a history of the French navigators
who came to the area of the Falkland Islands, and of the earlier
British explorers to those islands, he laid a base for the British
claims that followed. This work contains the same engravings as
the French edition, but is preferable to the latter as it contains
Edmund Halley's post-script, which corrects some geographical errors
made by Frezier. The interesting material on the Jesuits in the
final chapter also appears here for the first time, as does the
frontispiece map which was engraved for this edition. Also present
is Plate IX, widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a form
of golf. "This English edition is much searched for, and preferred
over the French 1716 edition because of Halley's postscriptum."
- (Borba de Moraes).
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60.
GARCILASSO de la VEGA, el Inca. Histoire des Yncas, rois
du Perou; Contenant leur Origine, depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac,
leur Etablissement, leur Idolâtrie, leurs Sacrifices, leurs
Loix, leurs Conquêtes; les merveilles du Temple du Soleil;
& tout l'Etat de ce grand Empire, avant que les Espagnols s'en
rendissent Maîtres. Avec une Description des Animaux, des
Fruits, des Minéraux, des Plantes, &c. Traduite... par
Jean Baudoin. Amsterdam, Jaques [sic] Desbordes, 1715. Two volumes.
Second French edition. $1,450
12mo; pp. [19] (Preface, Remarques, Table), [11] (Publ.'s Cat.),
512; pp. [14] (Avertissement, Table), 492, [36] (Table); 2 engraved
titles, as frontispieces, 1 folding engraved map, and 3 engraved
plates (1 folding); contemporary full sprinkled calf; rebacked in
period style; text lightly toned; a very good set.
Sabin 98752; vide Hill, pp. 121-122; JCB 3, I:205; this edition
not in Medina BHA. This is the French translation of the Primera
parte de los Commentarios Reales (The Royal Commentaries of Peru)
first published in Lisbon in 1609, and contains an interesting chapter
entitled De la connoissance qu'ils avoient des plantes médicinales.
The author of this work was descended from both the conquerors of
Peru and from the conquered, and was very proud of both his heritages.
While he assumed the Spanish name of his father, he was also insistent
upon acknowledging his Inca background derived from his mother.
This work is an excellent chronicle and assessment both of the Spanish
ascendancy in Peru and of the Incan destruction.
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