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Catalogue
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Voyages
& Travels
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111.
[TREATIES]. Several Treaties of Peace and Commerce Concluded
between the late King Of Blessed Memory Deceased, and other Princes
and States; with Additional Notes in the Margin, Referring to the
several Articles in each Treaty, and a Table. London, Printed by
His Majesties Printers, and sold by Edward Poole..., 1686.
[bound with]:
Treaty of Peace, Good Correspondence & Neutrality in America,
Between the most Serene and Mighty Prince James II. By the Grace
of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, &c. And the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV,
The Most Christian King: Concluded the 6/16th Day of Novemb. 1686.
Published by His Majesties Command. Printed by Thomas Newcomb...,
1686.
[bound with]:
Articles of Peace and Commerce Between the most Serene and Mighty
Prince James II. By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France
and Ireland, Defender of the Christian Faith, &c. And the most
Illustrious Lords, The Douletli Basha, Aga & Governours of the
famous City and Kingdom of Algiers in Barbary: Ratified and Confirmed
By Sir William Soame Baronet, His Majesties Ambassador to the Grand
Signior, On the Fifth of April, Old Style, 1686. ... [London], Thomas
Newcomb, 1687. $2,375
Small square 4to; the three works bound together in contemporary
speckled calf, neatly rebacked with corners renewed. Pp. [4], 269,
[1], f; pp. 19, [1]; pp. 24; woodcut initials throughout; complete
with final integral blank Ll[4] in the second work. A very good
copy.
Vide Davenport 57, 65 and 79; Sabin 79375; JCB, p. 165; Wing 3605;
TPL 94. The first work, "Several Treaties...", is the
second edition, comprising earlier treaties, including the Treaty
of Breda which relates largely to America, and the Treaty of Madrid
which relates to the settling of differences in America. The second
work, commonly known as the Treaty of Whitehall, relates entirely
to America, and is the second issue, with the advert on verso of
p. 19. There had been, in the preceding years, several points of
friction between the French and the English in America. In Canada
the French complained that the English were attempting to block
the expansion of their trade in furs on the north and south and,
as a result of this, a small band of French attacked and plundered
the establishments of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Nelson River
in 1682-1683; the English soon retaliated by pillaging the French
posts in the region. There were disputes over fishing between the
New Englanders and the French in Acadia and what is now Maine, and
a great deal of ill-feeling in the Caribbean islands. As a result,
an attempt was made to establish a treaty of neutrality. This was
done, but most controversial matters, including the Hudson's Bay
dispute, were left untouched and were not to be solved for some
time.
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112. [TURKISH WARS]. Hungarisch- und Venetianisches Kriegs-Theatrum,
auff welchem die höchst-glücklichen Feld-Züge, So
die Röm. Kayserl. und Venetianischen Armeen, in dem mit Gott
zurückgelegten 1716. Jahre, in Hungarn und Griechenland wider
die Türcken gethan, Das Hungarische in einer besondern Beschreibung,
und Neun nach und nach darauff erfolgten Fortsetzungen derselben,
das Venetianische aber in drey Eröffnungen, mit dazu dienlichen
curieusen Kupffern ... vorgestellet werden. Leipzig, Johann Theodoro
Boetio, 1716-1719. Five parts in one volume.
[Includes]:
Hungarisches Kriegs-Theatrum, so mit Anfang der Türckischen
Niederlage bey Carlowitz, den 5. Aug. 1716 eröffnet worden.
Parts I-IX.
[Includes]:
Venetianisch-Türckisches Kriegs-Theatrum, Auff welchen vorgestellet
wird Die Insul Corfu. Leipzig, Johann Theodoro Boetio, 1716. Parts
I-III.
[Includes]:
Vorstellung des höchst-beglückten Zweyten Feldzugs, Auff
dem Hungarisch-und Venetianischen Kriegs-Theatro. Leipzig, Johann
Theodoro Boetio, 1717. Parts I-XII.
[Includes]:
Der Höchst-erwünscht und beglückte Schlutz Dritten
Feldzugs, auf dem Hungarisch-und Venetianischen Kriegs-und Friedens-Theatro.
Leipzig, Johann Theodoro Boetio, 1719. Parts I-VI.
[Includes]:
Das Hungarisch-und Venetianische Kriegs-Nunmehro/ Gott Lob! mit
bessern Fug so zu nehmende Friedens-Theatrum. Leipzig, Johann Theodoro
Boetio, 1718. Parts I-III. $3,500
4to; )(4, Part I: pp. 1-6, 9-20, [1], [21]-37/38, 54, 53-65 (ie:
56), [57]-106, [4], 107-156, [2], [157-182], [4], 155-222. Signatures:
A-B4, C2, D3 (ie: D4), E/F4, G-H4, I2, K-[Q1], [2], Q2-X4, Y2, Z3
(ie: Z4), 2A4-2B4, 2C2, 2D3 (ie: 2D4), 2E-2G4, 2H2, 2I-2M4, 2N2;
Part II: pp. 1-22, [4], 23-28, [2], [33]-72. Signatures: A-C3, [2],
C4, D2; E-I4; Part III (2nd Campaign): pp. [8]-136, [4], 137-158,
[4], 159-196, [4], [197]-210, [4], [211]-246. [2]. 247-250, [4],
[251]-316. Signatures: )(4, A-R4, S3, [2], S4-T1, [2], T2-T4, U2,
X4, [2], Y4-Z4, 2A1, [1], 2A2-2A4, 2B4-2D1, [1], 2D2-2D4,2E4, 2F3
(ie: 2F4), 2G4-2K4, 2L3 (ie: 2L4), 2M3 (ie: 2M4), 2N4-2R4, 2S3 (ie:
2S4), 2T4-2U4. Part IV (3rd Campaign): [10], 138, [149]-204 (ie:
194). Signatures: )(4 (Register), A3 (ie: A4), B-N4, O2, P-Y4, Z2,
2A-2B4, 2C2. Part V (Treaty of Passarowiz): pp. [7], 5-6, [4], 7-46,
[4], [47]-82, [1], [83]-88, [4], 89-110. Signatures: [A2]-A3 (ie:
A4), [2], B-F4, [2], G-K4, L2, M3 (ie: M4), N-O4, P3. Half vellum
over paper-covered boards; head and tail pieces; decorative woodcut
initials; each part has separate title page; title page of four
sections in red and black; 33 title vignettes, mainly of city views,
showing fortifications; 7 double-page maps and illustrations, some
folded; 41 pages of tables, six double-page; 10 frontispieces, other
illustrations in text. One double-page plate defective at lower
margin, affecting a small portion of the image; MS title on spine;
front and rear hinges reinforced; MS signature on lower front fly
leaf, dated 1785; small perforation on one leaf; minimal worming
in gutter of few leaves; crude repairs to bottom corners of final
two leaves, not affecting text; erratic pagination; one vignette
(Corfu) inverted; wanting portion of one illustrated page.
BL; GBV; Pohler (Bibliotheca historico-militaris) I, 602/603 (separate
parts). The eighth war between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic
of Venice was initiated by Charles VI (Karl VI), King of Bohemia
and Hungary and Holy Roman Emperor, and was fought in the Peloponnese
(Morea) in 1714-1718. The early battles took place at sea and along
the coast where the Venetians had built fortifications. The Venetians
lost several positions, including the stronghold at Corfu, until
Austrian troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) arrived
in 1716 to support Venice. The Turks were defeated at Peterwardein
in 1716, and in the same year the last Turkish possession in Hungary,
Temesvar, also fell. In 1717 Eugene defeated the Ottomans at Belgrade.
Accounts of these battles and others are included in this work,
as are the details of the Treaty of Passarowitz, signed on July
21st, 1718, when the Ottomans ceded territories in Serbia and Bosnia
to Austria. Very scarce, with all the parts together in one volume.
We have not located any holdings with as many parts of these works
as are in this volume.
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"a free passage by land
from the Atlantic to the South Sea"
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113. WAFER, LIONEL. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus
of America, Giving an Account of the Author's Abode there, ... With
Remarkable Occurrences in the South Sea, and elsewhere. London,
James Knapton, 1699. First edition.
8vo; 4 ff, pp. 224, (16) (Index and Adverts); 1 folding engraved
map and 3 folding engraved plates. Recent full calf in period style;
ex-library, with faint stamp; neat repairs to margins of title-page.
Sabin 100940; Field 1617; Hill, pp. 313-314; Wing W193. Wafer, a
British surgeon and subsequently a buccaneer, was associated with
Dampier and others in expeditions to the Isthmus of Panama, to the
western coast of South America, to the West Indies, etc. Injured
while with Dampier on the Isthmus, he stayed behind with the Indians
whom he impressed with his medical knowledge. He became intimate
enough with them to allow him to write knowledgeably and with great
detail about their ways, as is shown in this work. It is also in
this work that he makes his strong appeal to the government of England
to encourage the settling of the Isthmus, which would have the advantage
of providing "a free passage by land, from the Atlantic to
the South Sea, ...which would be of the greatest consequence to
the East India trade." His views were later used by the Scottish
proponents of the ill-fated "Darien Scheme".
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114.
WHITE, ALMA (Mrs.). My Trip to the Orient. Bound Brook, N.J.,
The Pentecostal Union, 1911. First edition. $125
Small 8vo; pp. 215, [1], (8) (Adverts); frontis. portrait and numerous
illustrations included in the text. Original gilt-decorated cloth;
binding rubbed; text clean and tight; inscription on front free
endpaper dated 1914.
An interesting work, if one can ignore the proselytizing. The author's
descriptions of the Holy Land, the Turkish suzerainty, the plight
of the indigenous Jews and Arabs, etc. are well-drawn. Her thesis
that Jews must have their own land before they can accept Jesus
and spread his word was not and is not new.
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115.
WHITWORTH, Lord CHARLES. An Account of Russia as It was in
the Year 1710. Printed at Strawberry Hill, England, 1758. First
edition. One of seven hundred copies printed. $1,350
8vo; pp. xxiv, 158, (1) (Errata); engraved vignette on title. Early
19th-century half-calf and marbled paper over boards; armorial bookplate;
two light spots of foxing on title-page; otherwise, a very good,
very clean copy.
Hazen 5; Nerhood 75; Rothschild 2060; Cox I, p. 195: "The author
served as Minister at the courts of Poland and St. Petersburg."
The work was printed in an edition of 750 copies only, by Horace
Walpole's Strawberry-Hill Press, and the introduction (pp. [iii]-xxiv)
was written by Walpole. A very good copy of a scarce little book,
with the bookplate of the noted Boston book collector Edward A.
Crowninshield.
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