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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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6.
BAYARD, FERDINAND-M. Voyage dans l'intérieur des États-unis,
a Bath, Winchester, dans la Vallée de Shenandoha [sic], etc.
etc. etc. Pendant l'Été de 1791. A Paris, Chez Cocheris,
Au Cinquième de la République, (1797, vieux style).
First edition. $750
8vo;
f, pp. xvi, 336; contemporary full calf, gilt floral ornaments on
spine; marbled fore-edges; binding little worn; tiny wormholes and
paper flaws in few margins, not affecting any text; a very clean
copy, complete with half-title, and with the leaf of errata signed
by the printer.
Howes B255; Monaghan 151; Sabin 4022; Clark II:77; Streeter Sale
II: 829. The author came to the area with his wife and infant son
from France via Baltimore and endured four days of "abominable
roads, poor food and primitive taverns". Although a republican,
he was anxious to leave behind, for the summer of 1791, the rigours
and trauma of the early Revolution. His observations on life and
society in Virginia are interesting and his "social and intellectual
adaptibility and the length of his stay set his book apart from
the customary tourist-guide gazetteer". -(Clark).
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7.
BEAUVAIS, GILLES-FRANÇOIS (1693-c1733). La Vie du
Venerable Pere Ignace Azavedo, de la Compagnie de Jesus. L'Histoire
de son martyre, & de celui de trente-neuf autres de la même
Compagnie. Le tout tiré des Procès-verbaux dressés
pour leur Canonisation. Paris, Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin, MDCCXLIV
(1744). First edition thus. $2,850
8vo; pp. xliij, [5], 300; contemporary mottled calf, rebacked; spine
gilt in compartments; little rubbed at edges and corners; marbled
endpapers; neat Sulpician bookplate; small stamp on verso of title;
text is extremely clean and unmarked; with vignette on title, woodcut
headpiece at head of "Dedication" and woodcut tailpiece
at bottom of Bbij (which is mis-signed Bij).
Borba de Moraes I, p. 93; De Backer-Sommervogel I: 1080: 4; Brunet
I: 724 (note) and VI:1179, 21915; we have located copies at Cambridge,
BNF, NYPL and LC only. Beauvais was a Jesuit writer and preacher
who was born in 1693 and died about 1773. "He entered the Society
of Jesus 16 August, 1709, and taught belles-lettres, rhetoric, and
philosophy. After ordination he was assigned to preach and give
the Advent course at Court in 1744, during which year he published
his Life of Ven. Ignatius Azevedo, S.J." - (Cath. Encyc.).
An earlier edition was published in Italian in 1743 by Giulio Cesare
Cordara under the pseudonym of "Father Cabral"; Beauvais
used the Italian version as a basis for his own work, and added
several works not present in the original. Ignacio de Azevedo (1527-1570)
was a Portuguese missionary who became a Jesuit in 1548 and subsequently
served as rector of religious colleges in Lisbon and Braga. In 1566
he travelled to Brazil to serve the Jesuit missions there and, while
on a trip back to Europe to recruit new missionaries, he and thirty-nine
companions, all Jesuits, were beset upon and killed near the Canary
Islands by Huguenot privateers. These forty martyrs were canonized
in 1854.
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8.
BUCH, LEOPOLD VON. Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland. Berlin,
O. C. Nauck, 1810. Two volumes. First edition. $1,100
12mo; pp. x, 486; pp. vi, 406, (2); engraved title-pages; two (of
three?) folding maps. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards;
old round stamp at heel of titles; same reproduced in gilt at tail
of spine; small repair to upper corner of one map (no loss); light
staining to few leaves of vol. II. A very good set, with the same
two maps as the copy in the NYPL.
Vide Biblio. Norv. I: 4980 (1814 Swedish ed.). The author was a
well-known geologist. Having studied under A.G. Werner, he too was
a "Naturphilosoph", disdaining chemistry and chronology.
These travels forced him to reconsider, to some extent, his pure
Werneristic philosophy, and in trying to explain "Silurian
strata in Sweden and the Baltic, he had recourse to the non-Wernerian
principle of metamorphism. Stratigraphy and palaeontology became
his chief concern after 1824." - (DSB) His descriptions in
this work of his travels through Norway and Lapland are excellent.
A very good set of a scarce work.
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With an Interesting Provenance
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9. BURGOYNE, Lieut-General [JOHN]. A State of the Expedition
from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons ... and verified
by evidence; with a Collection of Authentic Documents ... London,
J. Almon, 1780. First edition. $11,000
4to; pp. viii, 140, lxii (Appendix), f ("Advertisement");
six folding maps and plans; contemporary half calf and marbled paper
over boards; expertly rebacked, with original spine, gilt, laid
down; from Newby Hall library, with the Grantham bookplate on front
paste-down; maps are wide-margined; and are complete with requisite
onlays on two of them, and with routes and encampments shown in
colour. A very good, large copy of this fine work.
Howes B968 (calling for five maps only); JCB 2620; Sabin 9255; Streeter
II:794; Lande 69; Vlach 125; Gephart 6179; vide TPL 503, Melzack
0465 and Gagnon I:61 (2nd ed.). Following the disastrous northern
campaign of 1777, which led to Burgoyne's capitulation at Saratoga,
the author was forced to defend his actions against severe and mounting
criticism. He claims, in this work, that his army was too small
and that it was poorly provided for. "The work is one of the
best sources on the campaign." -(Streeter). The maps, which
give exact and detailed information about the campaign, are by William
Faden. Newby Hall, in Ripon, Yorkshire, was built by Sir Edward
Blackett in the late seventeenth century. Styled after Sir Christopher
Wren, it remained the core of the building as it evolved over the
next two hundred and fifty years, when it sold to William Weddell
who added large wings to it. When Lord Grantham inherited the building
in 1792, he converted the dining room into a magnificent library
to house his large collection of books.
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10.
CARDENAS Z. CANO, GABRIEL DE, pseud. [i.e. ANDRES GONZALEZ DE
BARCIA CARBALLIDO Y ZUÑIGA] (1673-1743). Ensayo Cronológico
Para la Historia General de la Florida. Contiene los descubrimientos
y principales sucesos acaecidos en este gran Reino á los
españoles, franceses, suecos, dinamarqueses, ingleses, y
otras naciones entre si, y con los indios; cuyas costumbres, genios,
idolatria, gobierno, batallas y astucias se refieren; y los viages
de algunos capitanes y pilotos por el mar del Norte á buscar
paso á Oriente, ó union de aquella tierra con Asia,
desde el año 1512 que descrubrió la Florida Juan Ponce
de Leon hasta el de 1722. Escrito Por D. Gabriel de Cardenas Z Cano.
Neuva Edicion. Madrid, Imprenta de los Hijos de Doña Catalina
Piñuela, calle del Amor de Dios, núm. 14, 1829. Two
volumes. $1,500
16mo; pp. [4] 508, one folded leaf; [4], 512 (including one folded
leaf). Quarter calf over mottled paper boards, little chipped; paper
covers partially detached from boards in vol. I; marbled endpapers;
gilt spines; some age-browning in both volumes; water-staining on
few leaves of vol. I, not affecting text; corners worn; few pages
misnumbered.
Sabin 3349; Rebiun; BL. Despite its title, this work comprises historical
information about the entire American continent north of Mexico;
it includes New Mexico, Sinaloa, Quivira, Canada, New York, Virginia,
etc. Especially interesting is the account of the competition between
the French and the Spanish for control of Florida in the last half
of the sixteenth century, and the descriptions of the exploits of
Coronado, Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, La Salle, Ponce de Leon, and
others. It is "...the principal authority on Florida itself
during its two centuries of undisputed Spanish supremacy..."-(Howes
B130). Ensayo Cronológico was first published in 1723. The
volumes in this Spanish edition are Tomes VIII-IX of the nine-volume
series Conquista de América.
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