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Catalogue
73
Voyages
& Travels
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66.
HALL, Capt. BASIL. Forty Etchings, from Sketches Made with
the Camera Lucida, in North America in 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh
and London, 1829. First edition. $1,450
Small folio; pp. [ii], iii, [20]; unpaginated; folding, coloured
map and 40 etchings on 20 plates, each plate accompanied by letterpress
description; recent half-calf and paper over boards; old neat repair
to 1 plate and 1 leaf of letterpress; usual light sporadic foxing
and generalised age-browning; overall a very good copy.
Howes H46; Clark III: 47; TPL 1488. The author was a captain in
the Royal Navy. He arrived in North America in 1827 and began his
trip down the St. Lawrence River into New England, and thence down
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. After time spent
there he travelled northeast to Savannah and from there up the east
coast back into Canada. The folding map includes the areas west
to Arkansas and Missouri and north to Canada. "... his work
contains many excellent descriptions of places and conditions that
came under his observation." -(Clark) .
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67.
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. A New Account of the East Indies. London,
The Argonaut Press, 1930. Two volumes. One of 975 copies printed.
$450
4to; pp. xxxvii, 259; pp. vi, 225, (2); 2 frontispieces; 11 illustrations
included in the pagination; 10 maps on 8 sheets (6 folding). Original
cloth binding with vellum spines; overall a fine, clean, uncut and
unopened set. The edition was limited to 975 copies of which this
set is unnumbered.
Bevis, p. 89; Cordier Indo-Sinica II: 1529 (1st ed.); Hill, p. 440:"
This extremely important work treats the whole of the Orient including
Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, India, Goa, Ceylon, Bengal, Pegu, Siam,
Malaca, Johore, Sumatra, Java, the Moluccas, Borneo, Cambodia, Viet
Nam, China, the Philippines, Formosa and Japan." This edition
is based on the original edition, published in Edinburgh in 1727,
and contains reproductions of title pages. There were also London
editions of 1739, 1744 and 1764; as well, the work was included
in Pinkerton's General Collection.
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68.
HARRIS, JOHN, ed. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca:
Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels: Consisting of
above Six Hundred of the most Authentic Writers,... London, Printed
for T. Woodward et al, 1744-1748. Two volumes. Second, and best,
edition. $16,500
Folio; 6 ff, pp. xvi, (4), 984; 5ff, pp. 1056, 11 ff; complete with
61 engraved plates, maps, charts, etc.; 1 engraved frontispiece
portrait and 1 frontispiece with a series of oval portraits; 22
engraved maps and charts (15 folding), 1 engraved plan, and 36 engraved
plates (many with 2 views)]; titles in red and black. Contemporary
full calf, somewhat worn; rebacked; text slightly age-browned; overall
a very good, complete copy of the most important compendium of travels
of the eighteenth century.
Vide TPL 140 (1st ed.); vide NMM Cat. I:34 (3rd ed.); vide Sabin
30482 and 30483 (1st and 3rd eds.); Cox I, p. 10; new Hill, 775;
Tooley, Australia, 241; Alden 744/116; Goldsmiths' 8040. "Second
edition, edited by Dr. John Campbell. This is a revised and enlarged
version of the 1705 first edition of John Harris' 'compleat collection
of voyages and travels'. The second edition, especially prized for
its maps, has been called the most complete by several authorities.
Particularly valuable is the inclusion of a printing of Tasman's
original map and two short articles printed on the map. One discusses
Quirós' voyage, while the other speculates about the possibility
of the Australian continent being colonized.... To the original
extensive collection are added accounts of voyages completed since
the first publication: Christopher Middleton to Hudson's Bay, 1741-42;
Bering to the Northeast, 1725-6; Woodes Rogers' circumnavigation,
1708-11; Clapperton and Shelvocke's circumnavigation, 1719-22; Roggeveen
to the Pacific, 1721-33; and the various travels of Lord Anson,
1740-44."
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69.
HEALY, M[ICHAEL] A. Report of the Cruise of the U.S. Revenue
Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in The Year 1884, ...
[and] Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin
in the Arctic Ocean in The Year 1885... Washington, G.P.O., 1889/1887.
Two volumes. First editions. $1,100
4to; pp. 128 and 102; 125 b/w illustrations and 6 coloured illustrations
of birds and fish; 1 map and 1 very large, folding map; later (?)
full cloth bindings; gilt-lettered on spines; neat stamps of "The
Arctic Institute of North America" and "McGill University
Centre for Northern Studies and Research", as well as of W.
C. Mendenhall, U.S. Geol. Survey, Washington, D.C. An exceptionally
clean, unfoxed pair of volumes, both first editions.
Arctic Biblio 18400 and 18401. The first work consists of accounts
of the cruise in Alaskan waters, Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in May
- October 1884, as well as the exploration of the Kobuck River and
some of the Pribilofs, with appended reports on conditions of the
natives, fisheries and deal islands. The second work again pertains
to the Bering and Chukchi Seas, giving aid to natives and shipwrecked
whalers, patroling the fur seal islands, visiting Bogoslof Island,
and completing the survey of the Kobuk Reiver, with reports as well
from other members of the expedition.
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A Very Good Copy in a Contemporary Binding
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70. HENNEPIN, LOUIS. Nouveau Voyage d'un Pais plus grand
que l'Europe Avec les réflections des entrepris du Sieur
de la Salle, sur les Mines de St. Barbe, &c. Enrichi de la Carte,
de figures expressives, de moeurs & manières de vivre
des Sauvages du Nord, & du Sud, de la Prise de Québec
Ville Capitale de la Nouvelle France, par les Anglois, & des
avantages qu'on peut retirer du chemin recourci de la Chine &
du Japon, par le moien de tant Vastes Contrées, & de
Nouvelles Colonies. Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1698. First edition.
12mo; 35 ff, pp. 389, 1 folding engraved map and 4 folding engraved
plates; title in red and black. Contemporary full calf, spine ornately
gilt; few small, expert repairs to spine; an extremely good, very
clean copy of this scarce work.
European-Americana 698/101; Streeter I: 104; Sabin 31351; Graff
1863 (2 plates only); TPL 84; Dionne II:246; Harrisse NNF 177; Howes
H407; JCB II:1537; Bell H118; Lande 424; Cox II, p. 85; Narrisse
NNF 177. A Recollet priest whose works generated much controversy
and raised many doubts, Hennepin nevertheless made invaluable contributions
to the history of this continent and the understanding of the indigenous
peoples. In this, the third and last of his works, he describes
the murder of La Salle, the customs and manners of the Indians,
and the British taking of Quebec and their treatment of the Recollet
priests and of their churches and seminaries. The four plates are
by van Vianen and include a depiction of the murder of La Salle
and the taking of Quebec by the English in 1629. Complete with the
very scarce map.
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