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Catalogue
74
America
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11.
[ANON]. The Late Occurrences in North America, and Policy
of Great Britain considered. London, Printed for John Almon, M.DCC.LXVI.
[1766]. $950
8vo; f, pp. 42 [i.e. 41], [1] (Adverts]; page 41 misnumbered 42;
marbled paper wrappers; a very good copy.
Howes L114; Sabin 39156; Adams, American Controversy 66-32 [variant
spelling "Occurances"]; Bell L120: "A well reasoned
and clearly written analysis of the causes of mutual distrust between
Britain and her American colonies." Howes claims that the work
has been ascribed to Edmund Jenings.
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12.
BARBAROUX, C.O. Résumé de l'Histoire des États-Unis
d'Amérique. Paris, Lecointe et Durey, 1824. First edition.
$75
16mo; 2 ff, pp. 374; original quarter-calf and marbled paper over
boards; binding worn but tight and secure; complete with the half-title
and the dedication [to Lafayette].
Sabin 3298. The author, the son of a French revolutionary who was
guillotined in 1794, was a lawyer, and a member of the Convention
de Paris. It was very popular as a school textbook, and was reprinted
several times in the first half of the nineteenth-century.
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13.
BARBÉ-MARBOIS, [FRANÇOIS, Marquis de]. Histoire
de la Louisiane et la Cession de cette Colonie par la France aux
États-Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale... Paris,
Firmin Didot, 1829. First edition. $1,500
8vo; pp. 485; 1 folding, engraved, hand-coloured map. Original printed
rose paper covers, uncut; lower cover and first four leaves little
nibbled; in red cloth protective box with spine lettered in gilt.
Howes B111; Streeter Sale III:1599; Sabin 3306. "Barbé-Marbois
represented France in the preliminary negotiations with the United
States on the Louisiana purchase and his book is one of the main
sources on that subject. It shows that in the claim by the United
States in the negotiations with Great Britain, the northern boundary
of Louisiana included the area now comprised in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho was without foundation. The important map in the first
edition indicated the 110th meridian as the western extent of Louisiana."
- (Streeter).
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14. BARRINGTON, DAINES. Miscellanies. London, J. Nichols,
1781. First edition. $3,000
4to; pp. viii, 468, 471*-477*, [1], [469]-540, 547-557, [1] (Binder's
directions and Errata); 2 maps, 5 folding charts and 2 engraved
portraits; contemporary full tree calf, rebacked long ago; original
spine, gilt, laid down; armorial bookplate; contemporary notes on
first flyleaf; usual offsetting from portraits to facing text; binding
worn at corners and rubbed at edges; a very good, very clean copy,
with the requisite extra leaves and with the hiatus between pp.
540 and 547.
Howes B173; Sabin 3628; Lada-Mocarski 34; Streeter Sale IV:2445;
Wickersham 6653; Wagner, Cartography 674; Cox II, p. 20 note. Contains,
inter alia, Barrington's essay on "The Possibility of Approaching
the North Pole Discussed," various essays on natural history
and on the Linnaean system, and the translation of the "Journal
of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America, Northward of
California" by Maurelle, the second pilot of the fleet commanded
by Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega, together with an engraved map
of this voyage. This expedition was a very important one, preceding
the voyages of James Cook to the same area. "This is the only
contemporary source in English of this important voyage, ... there
are a few copies known ... as a separate publication of about 67
pages. Both issues are undoubtedly from the same press." -(Streeter)
Barrington's article on the North Pole, first published separately
in 1775-76 and not published again until 1818, contains tracts relating
to reaching the Pole from Spitzbergen by means of reindeer, ice
conditions in the northern Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay, a compilation
of facts derived from the records of early navigators, etc.
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15.
BARROW, JOHN. Voyages of Discovery and Research within the
Arctic Regions, from the year 1818 to the present time: under the
command of the several naval officers employed by sea and land in
search of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
with two attempts to reach the North Pole... New-York, Harper &
Brothers, 1846. First American edition. $500
12mo; pp. xii, [13]-359, 8, 8 (Publ's. cat.); 1 small map and 1
large, folding map; original black cloth, gilt- and blind-embossed;
expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down; neat library lending
record on front paste-down; a very fine, uncut copy from the library
of Frank Streeter.
This edition not in Hill; TPL 2243 (1 map); Arctic Biblio. 1096:
"Contains a detailed acount of the principal British expeditions
into the North American Arctic (also to Svalbard), from that of
Ross in 1818 to those of Back and Simpson, 1836-39; their scientific
achievements, and contribution towards the discovery of a Northwest
Passage."
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