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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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61.
GASS, PATRICK. Lewis and Clarke's Journal to the Rocky Mountains
in the Years 1804, - 5, - 6; as Related by Patrick Gass, One of
the Officers in the Expedition. New Edition with Numerous Engravings.
Dayton, Published by Ells, Claflin, & Co., 1847.
12mo; pp. xii, 238. Complete with frontispiece, 2 portraits, fourteen
other engravings, and one leaf of adverts; recent cloth; some light
spotting and/or soiling throughout; still a very good copy.
Wagner-Camp-Becker 6:9; Beckham, Erickson 3.9. A later edition of
Gass' work, but still within his lifetime. The engravings, in many
cases, "are recycled out of the 1840 surreptitious item from
the same publishers."- (Beckham, Erickson).
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62.
GOODRIDGE, CHARLES MEDYETT. Narrative of a Voyage to the
South Seas, and the Shipwreck of the Princess of Wales Cutter, with
an Account of Two Years [sic] Residence on an Uninhabited Island.
.. Exeter, Printed by W. C. Featherstone, and Sold by the Author,
1843. "Fifth" edition. $450
12mo; pp. [38], [11]-172; 3 plates, including frontispiece; tipped-in
printed note ascertaining that the Queen had been given a copy;
two extra tipped-in lists of "Subscribers and Patrons",
the first to January, 1845 and the second to August 12th, 1845;
errata slip at rear of book; frontis. signed in ink "Charles
Medyett Goodridge"; inscription on verso of title from Anne
Henslowe to her great-nephew, Patrick I. F. Henslowe; recent full
red morocco; some waterstaining to prelims. There were obviously
some vagaries in the printing of this edition, as indicated by Ferguson.
This copy collates with one of the two copies he cites in the National
Library, Canberra, with the two added lists of subscribers, and
with the reprinted p.[xxxiii] with the two testimonials dated January
4, 1844.
Vide Spence 516 (earlier ed.); Ferguson III: 3606; vide Huntress
297C (other eds.): "This is one of the liveliest and best of
the shipwreck narratives, and almost the only one with a happy ending."
The ship was wrecked in the Crozet Islands after having done some
sealing. A good deal of the wreck was saved, and there was plenty
of food in the area - birds, seals, sea lions, fish, and penguin
eggs - so the men survived and were rescued after two years and
brought to Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land). The author spent eight
years in and around Hobart Town, returning finally to England to
marry. There is also a Newfoundland connection; a later hand has
included a manuscript family tree of the Goodridges, which indicates
that the younger brother of the author was a merchant and mariner,
and that most of the successive generations of this family lived
in St. John's. Another, rather amusing, addition, is a clipping
from a late eighteenth or early nineteenth century magazine which
is a portrait titled "Mary March, one of the last of the Beothics
in Newfoundland." In ink on the reverse, someone has written,
"This girl bears a quite striking resemblance to the Goodridge
family."
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Presentation Copy, Signed by the Author
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63. GREELY, ADOLPHUS W[ASHINGTON]. Three Years of Arctic
Service. An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84
and the Attainment of the Farthest North. New York, Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1886. Two volumes. First edition. Presentation copy, signed
by the author. $1,100
Large thick 8vo; pp. xxv, 428; pp. xii, [2], 444; engraved frontispiece
portrait, 41 plates, 2 folding facsimiles, 9 maps (4 folding, 1
coloured, and 1 in rear pocket of vol. II) and numerous illustrations
in the text; original blue cloth, decorated in red, grey and gold,
and lettered in silver; lower edge minimally rubbed (shelfwear);
neat bookplates; as clean and bright a set as we have seen.
Arctic Biblio. 6118; vide NMM: I:971. This American expedition of
1881-1884 was based in Lady Franklin Bay on the eastern coast of
Ellesmere Island; from here it explored the north coast of Greenland,
the west coast and the interior of Grinnell Land and Hayes Sound
on Ellesmere Island. The trip was excruciatingly difficult, and
all but seven members of Grinnell's party had perished of starvation
by the time the survivors managed to get to Cape Sabine at Smith
Sound, where they were rescued.
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64.
GROTIUS, HUGO. Annales et Histoires des Troubles du Pays-Bas.
Amsterdam, Jean Blaeu, 1662. First edition in French. $1,100
Folio; pp. [11], engraved frontispiece, pp. 676, (18) (Table). Contemporary
full mottled calf, worn; joints cracked; text lightly age-browned;
overall clean and tight. The frontispiece, done of Grotius in 1632,
is by D. Delff after M. Miereveld.
The author (1583-1645) was a renowned Dutch jurist and humanist;
this work is considered the authoritative account of contemporary
Dutch political affairs, and was translated from the first [Latin]
edition of 1657.
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Large-Paper Copy, With Plates on India-Paper
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65. HAKEWILL, JAMES. A Picturesque Tour of Italy, From Drawings
Made in 1816-1817, by James Hakewill, Arch.t. London, John Murray,
1820. First, and Large-Paper, edition.
Folio: ff. 5, extra engraved title, 63 engraved plates, and corresponding
letter-press; large-paper copy (37 cm x 27 cm), with all engravings
on india paper and mounted; contemporary full hard-grain morocco,
beautifully rebacked; panel design, tooled in gold, on front and
back; spine gilt in compartments; inner dentelles; marbled endpapers;
a.e.g.; edges of binding minimally rubbed; light foxing and little
offsetting; large armorial bookplate of George Prideaux. A very
good copy of a scarce work in Large-Paper format.
BL; Oxford; Harvard. As an architect, James Hakewill (1778-1843)
attracted controversy over his proposal to redesign and relocate
London's central abattoirs, based on the Paris model. He was much
more appreciated for his illustrated publications, which were engravings
made from views sketched during his extensive travels. In the preface
to this work, Hakewill states that the plates are arranged "according
to the line of route traced out in Eustace's Tour." John Chetwode
Eustace's A Tour Through Italy (London, 1813), was the literary
travelling companion for anyone venturing a Grand Tour in the 19th
century. Text from Eustace's work is included with landscape paintings
by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) made from Hakewill's sketches, as well
as drawings of museum interiors by Harry Moses (1782-1870). Hakewill
engaged notable engravers to produce the plates, including: George
Cooke (1781-1834), Thomas Milton (1743-1827), John Landseer (1769-1852),
Samuel Middiman (1750-1831) and John Scott (1774-1828).
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