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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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1.
[ADAMS, ROBERT]. The Narrative of Robert Adams, A Sailor,
who was wrecked on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1810,
was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert,
and resided several months in the City of Tombuctoo. Edited by S.
Cock. London, Printed for John Murray by William Bulmer, 1816. First
edition. $1,700
4to; pp. xxxix, [1], 231, [1]; engraved folding map. Later quarter
morocco, rebacked over original marbled boards; neat stamps on first
and final blanks. A very good, complete copy.
Huntress 182C. Adams was from Hudson, New York and shipped out on
the Charles in June 1810, bound for Gibraltar. After discharging
cargo there, the crew proceeded to the African coast to trade. "Like
so many other ships, the Charles was caught in unknown currents
and was carried ashore about 400 miles north of Senegal on October
11, 1810. The whole crew reached shore, but all were made slaves
by the Arabs, and the captain and mate killed. Adams was taken far
to the eastward and visited Timbuctoo on a trading expedition; he
may have been only the second or third European or American to describe
that city. He was transferred from owner to owner, and at last reached
Mogadore where he was ransomed by Mr. Dupuis, the British Consul
there. He was sent to Cadiz and then London, where he told his story
to the editor of this book."-(Huntress).
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2.
AGASSIZ, LOUIS (1807-1873) and ELIZABETH CABOT CARY AGASSIZ (1822-1907).
A Journey in Brazil. By Professor and Mrs. Louis Agassiz. Boston,
Fields, Osgood, & Co., Successors to Ticknor and Fields, 1869.
$150
8vo; pp. xix, 540; eight full-page woodcuts, twelve others throughout
text. Half-calf over marbled paper boards; binding worn and rear
joint starting. "Seventh edition" - title verso.
Harvard; this edition not in Copac; vide Borba de Moraes 15: "This
is the narrative of the famous Thayer expedition to the Amazon under
the leadership of the Swiss-American naturalist Agassiz, professor
at Harvard." Louis Agassiz was born in Switzerland and studied
medicine and natural history in Germany. His early interest in ichthyology
came after German naturalists Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich
Philipp von Martius returned from their expedition to Brazil in
1820 with thousands of specimens of plants, birds and fish. Spix
died in 1826, and Martius selected Agassiz to research and catalogue
the fish, leading Agassiz to continue his research in central Europe,
Britain, Russia and the United States. He earned international praise
for his publications, particularly the five-volume Recherches sur
les poissons fossiles (1833-1843). He was appointed professor of
zoology and geology at Harvard in 1847 and there he met his wife
Elizabeth Cabot Cary, a naturalist in her own right. A bout of ill
health led him to sojourn in Brazil, and to resume his earlier study
of Brazilian fish. This excursion is the basis of the narrative,
first published in 1868. Agassiz' worthy achievements in natural
science were somewhat overshadowed by his pronouncements on polygenism,
which were addressed by Darwin in his Descent of Man. Elizabeth
Cabot Cary Agassiz was the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe
College. She is the author of several books on natural history,
as well as a biography of her husband.
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3.
[ANON]. The Life, Travels, Voyages, and daring Engagements
of Paul Jones, containing numerous anecdotes of Undaunted Courage,
to which is added The Life and Adventures of Peter Williamson, Who
was Kidnapped when an Infant, from his Native Place, Aberdeen, and
sold for a Slave in America. Hartford, Wm. S. Marsh, 1812. (John
Russell, jr. Printer). $650
12mo; pp. 106, [2] (Blank); recent quarter-calf and marbled paper
over boards; tiny neat repair to upper corner of title-page; light
age-browning throughout, with a little foxing; nice copy of this
popular work.
Shaw & Shoemaker 28951; vide Howes J225 (other editions); vide
Sabin [36555] (same title, date and collation, but printed in Albany);
the Williamson is not cited in Ayer, which lists numerous other
editions from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries. This popular
biography of John Paul Jones was first published in London in 1802
and published many, many times thereafter; the biography of Williamson
(pp. [50]-106 of this edition] was first published in York in 1757
(Ayer 315; Howes W500) and, again, reprinted numerous times. "Among
British readers the most popular of all Indian captivities; describes
the 1755 Oswego expedition." - (Howes).
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4.
BARRY, CHARLES, Sir (1795-1860). The Travellers' Club House
by Charles Barry, Architect: Illustrated by Drawings made by Mr.
Hewitt, and Engraved by Mr. J.H. Le Keux. Accompanied by An Essay
on the Present State of Architectural Study and the Revival of the
Italian Style, by W. H. Leeds. London, John Weale, MDCCCXXXIX (1839).
First edition. $350
Folio; pp. viii, 35, [1]; nine (of ten) engraved plates; 2 pp. publisher's
adverts. Publisher's quarter green roan, printed paper boards reading:
"The Travellers' Club House Designed and Executed by Charles
Barry, Architect. London, John Weale, 1839." Covers and spine
soiled and worn; front joint cracked four inches; gilt spine reads:
The Travellers' Club House. On front paste-down: label laid down
(George Browne, Architect); remains of bookplate; erasure in margin
of one leaf; small blind-embossed stamp in margin of one leaf; ownership
signature (G. Browne Architect) in upper margin of title. Wanting
print no. 3; title includes series name.
RIBA; CCA; several copies in COPAC. Series: Studies and Examples
of the Modern School of English Architecture (no more of this series
was published). Includes information about The Travellers' Club
and its members. Founded in 1819, the Club membership was limited
to 700, with one of the rules being, "that no person be considered
eligible who shall not have travelled out of the British Islands
to a distance of at least five hundred miles from London in a direct
line." Sir Charles Barry was a highly respected English architect
who designed public buildings and country homes. He was influenced
by the Italian Renaissance school, which he adopted after a tour
of Italy, and is best known for the design and reconstruction of
the Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament) in London,
after the fire of 1834. From the library of George Browne, highly-regarded
Montréal architect.
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5.
BARTOLI, DANIELLO (1608-1685). Missione al Gran Mogor del
P. Ridolfo Aqvaviva della Compagnia di Giesv. Sua Vita e Morte,
E d'atri quattro Compagni vccisi in odio della Fede in Salsete di
Goa. Milan, Lodouico Monza, 1664. First Milan edition. $9,950
12mo; pp. [4], 193, [3] (2-pp note to the reader, and colophon with
Jesuitical device); contemporary pasteboard binding, paper spine
label with manuscript lettering; wanting free endpapers; front hinge
cracked; manuscript title on lower fore-edge; old Jesuitical stamps
on lower portion of title; text minimally toned; leaves A and [H12]
would appear to be cancels. An extremely scarce work, preceded by
the Rome edition published a few months earlier; a Bologna edition
followed.
De Backer-Sommervogel I, 975: 13; Diz. Biog. degli Ital. VI: pp.
563-571; not in BL (It.); copies located at Oxford, Bibl. Naz. Cent.
di Firenze; not in BNF, which has 21 other titles by this author,
not in WorldCat, which locates the 1663 ed. at Ill. and Ohio; not
in NYPL; LC; or JFB. Bartoli was an Italian Jesuit priest who was
born at Ferrara and entered the Society of Jesus in 1623. He was
fascinated by the zeal and ordeals of the missionaries, but was
discouraged by the General of the Order from missionary work. He
was a scholar, a learned writer and, by all accounts, a distinguished
and charismatic preacher. This work on the Jesuits in Goa, then
a Portuguese colony, was first published as an independent work
and later incorporated into the author's massive, six-volume history
of the Society, which was published numerous times well into the
nineteenth century. Bartoli deals specifically here with the activities
and martyrdom of P. Ridolfo [sic] Acquaviva, active in missionary
work in Goa from 1574 until 1580, in which year he was sent to the
court of the Mogol Emperor Muhammed Ahkbar. Upon his return in 1583
he and four colleagues were martyred on the island of Salsette.
Bartoli's account is one of the earliest and scarcest of Jesuitical
activities in Goa and southeast Asia.
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