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Catalogue
74
America
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21.
CAMPE [JOACHIM HEINRICH]. Voyage de Don Georges Juan et de
Don Antonio D'Ulloa, dans l'amérique méridionale,
Avec des additions tirées des Voyages de La Condamine et
Frézier. Bibliothèque géographique et instructive
des jeunes gens, ou recueil de voyages intéressants, Dans
toutes les parties du monde, pour l'instruction et l'amusement de
la jeunesse; Traduit de l'allemand et de l'angl. par M. Breton.
Orné de cartes et figures. Quatrième année.
A Paris, Chez J.E. Gabriel Dufour, libraire, rue des Mathurins,
no. 7, Et à Amsterdam, chez le même. An XIV - 1805.
[Second French edition]. Two volumes. Second series. $450
12mo; pp. 200; engraved frontis.; pp. 207; coloured, engraved map.
Original printed pink paper wrappers, little dusty; printer's waste
paste-downs; untrimmed. Title on spine little sunned, slight wear
on head and heel. Text very clean.
Vide Sabin 10305; BNF 332668446. French translation of a work in
the series "Sammlung interessanter und durchgängig zweckmässig
abgefasster Reisebeschreibungen für die Jugend." Joachim
Heinrich Campe (1746-1818), was a proponent of the Enlightenment
movement and an educator at the Philanthropinum Dessau. He believed
that learning should be a pleasurable experience for children, and
his works are meant to mirror his pedagogical philosophy. "Robinson
der Jüngere" (1779), his version of the Robinson Crusoe
story; "Die Entdeckung von Amerika" (1781-1782), and this
series of books about world explorations (1785-1793) were all written
to encourage young people to develop their reading skills. This
edition of the "Bibliothèque géographique,"
printed by l'Imprimerie de Gueffier, was sold by subscription, in
six volumes of 12 parts each. It also appeared in other languages
and editions throughout the 19th century. Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Breton
de la Martinière (1777-1852), who translated this and an
earlier edition, is the author and translator of many other historical
works, including a four-volume study of the costume and arts of
China.
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22.
CATLIN, GEORGE. The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the
North American Indians ... written during eight years travel amongst
the wildest tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-39. With Four
Hundred Illustrations, carefully engraved from his Original Paintings,
and Coloured after Nature. London, Published by the Author, at the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841 (but c.1891). Two volumes. $2,000
Royal 8vo; pp. viii, 264; pp. viii, 266; 312 [i.e. 309] coloured
plates (many are two to a sheet), including frontispiece to vol.
I, and 3 coloured maps (1 folding), including frontispiece to vol.
II; title-pages printed in black and red on heavy paper; plates
are also on heavy paper; original dark blue gilt-decorated cloth;
binding of vol. I very bright; binding of vol. II little faded;
t.e.g., others uncut; text and plates of both volumes are extremely
clean.
Howes C241; vide Wagner-Camp-Becker 84:2; vide Streeter Sale III:1805
(first edition). Although the imprint gives the date as 1841, this
edition was, in fact, published c. 1890 or 1891. The first edition
was published in 1841, and the first edition with coloured plates
in 1876. The work is a wonderful description of the indigenous peoples
of North America, based on the author's considerable time spent
among them and his careful observations of their customs and manners.
His work has become a classic in the field of literature relating
to the American Indian.
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23.
[CHINARD, GILBERT, ed.]. The Treaties of 1778 and Allied
Documents. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1928. $115
Small 4to; pp. xxv, (1), 70, folding plate. Original quarter-cloth
and printed paper over boards. A fine copy.
Cahier I of the Historical Documents of the Institut Français
de Washington.
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24.
CLAVIERE, ETIENNE & J.P. BRISSOT DE WARVILLE. De la France
et des États-Unis, ou De l'Importance de la Révolution
de l'Amérique pour la bonheur de la France ... Londres, 1787.
$1,350
8vo; pp. xxiv, xlviii, 344; contemporary full tree calf; large red
morocco label; spine gilt in compartments (one device is a royal
insignia with crown, sheaf of wheat, and "honi soit qui mal
y pense"); front joint cracked; tiny abrasion to head of spine;
otherwise an immaculately clean copy.
Not in TPL; Sabin 13516; Fay, p. 23; Howes C464; Goldsmiths 13307;
Monaghan 303; Kress B.1169; Echeverria & Wilkie 787/3. An erudite,
well-reasoned work; the writers consider in great detail the trade
and commerce of France, the newly-independent United States, Great
Britain and Canada.
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25.
CLEMENTS, J. MORGAN. Department of the Interior. U. S. Geological
Survey. Atlas to accompany the Monograph XLV on the Vermilion Iron-Bearing
District of Minnesota. Washington, 1903. $450
Folio; lithographed title; sheet of contents; legend; 16 single
coloured lithographed maps and sectional plans; 7 double-sheet coloured
lithographed detailed maps; original cloth; binding little worn,
but tight; neat institutional bookplate (no other markings).
One of the excellent works published at the turn of the last century
by the U.S. Geological Survey.
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