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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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26.
DU PINEAU, GABRIEL (d. 1644). Observations, Qvestions et
Responses svr avcvns articles de la Covstvme d'Aniov. Par Me. Gabriel
Dv Pineav, Conseiller du Roy, Iuge Magistrat au Siege Presidial
d'Angers, Maistre des Requestes de l'Hostel de la Reyne Marie de
Medicis. Plus un recueil des Parties, Chapitres & Titres des
Coustumes des autres Prouinces, & des Ordonnances Royaux, rapportées
à chascune desparties de la dicte Coustume. Auec vn autre
recueil des Articles de plusieurs Coustumes conformes à chascun
article d'icelle Coustume d'Anjou, le tout du meme autheur. A Angers,
Pierre Avril, Imprimeur & Libraire de l'Vniuersité, à
la Chaussée S. Pierre, M.DC.XLVI (1646). $850
Folio; pp. [12], 495, [1] (privilege); 62 (i.e., 60); 24 (Index).
Signatures: [2], ã4, A-3Q4; a-f4, g6; t-tt6. Contemporary
full calf, very worn; front cover detached; spine tooled in blind
in compartments; library stamp in gilt at heel; engraved title vignette;
title printed in red and black; engraved frontispiece portrait of
Du Pineau; head- and tail-pieces and initials; printer's device
at end of first section; some worming in lower margain of first
few leaves; inked notation of date in lower margin of title; staining
on one leaf affecting few letters; light waterstaining on edge of
last few leaves; errata notation in margin of one leaf; four-inch
tear in margin of one leaf, no loss of text; pp. 466-467 misnumbered
467-468; p. 33 numbered 73; pp. 49-50 of second part skipped in
sequence. Privilege dated 16 avril, 1646.
Caswell & Siplov, The Coutumes of France in the Library of Congress
(2006): 203; Harvard; BNF. Coutumes were the customary local laws
of the regions of France. "Until 1442, Anjou and Maine were
one sénéchaussée. Even after the separation,
the two regions continued to be ruled by the same coutume, which
was officially codified in 1462. Letters of April 12, 1506, however,
ordered that the coutumes of Anjou and Maine be compiled separately
and published; this was completed in 1508 ... the coutumes of Anjou
and Maine were never reformed after their original publication in
1508. As a result, the laws of the regions were rich in ancient
coutumiers and usagers." - Caswell & Siplov.
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27.
[DUBUISSON, PAUL-ULRIC]. Abrégée de la Révolution
de l'Amérique angloise, Depuis le commencement de l'année
1774, jusqu'au premier Janvier 1778. Par M. ***, Américain.
Paris, chez Cellot & Jombert, fils jeune..., 1778. First edition.
$1,100
12mo; f, pp. 452, [4] (Privilège, Errata & Blank); contemporary
full mottled calf; edges and spine little rubbed and spine extremities
chipped; a very good, clean copy of this somewhat scarce work.
Howes D528; Barbier I:31; Sabin 21037; OCLC 01550165; Monaghan 580B:
"The author frequently visited America and was frequently interested
in Santo Domingo. In the introduction to this book he states that
he was near the events he relates. Whether this is a correct statement
of facts or merely a device to assist in selling the book I am not
able to decide." The work was re-printed in Yverdon in 1779,
and translated into German that year as well. It is one of the early
French account of the American Revolution, and is a "day-by-day
account of events from Gage's arrival at Boston until French recognition."
-(Howes).
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28.
EDWARDS, AMELIA [ANN] B[LANFORD]. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented
Valleys. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites. London, George Routledge
and Sons, 1890. Second edition. $75
8vo; pp. xxiv, (25)-389; eight engraved plates including frontispiece;
numerous wood engravings included in the text; one full-page illustration
and one folding coloured map. Slightly rippled throughout, due to
light, old dampstaining, text generally very clean and tight; rebound
in institutional cloth binding, lettered in gilt on spine, minimal
wear.
Neate 236. Birket, Spinsters Abroad. The author (1831-1892) was
an inveterate traveller, as well as a writer of fiction, history
and travel narratives. This work is on the Dolomites, a beautiful,
pristine and yet rugged region of the Italian Alps. It was originally
published in 1873. This second edition includes an updated map.
Edwards went on to explore Egypt extensively and upon her return
from her travels there, she produced another popular book entitled,
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile and she worked energetically for the
Egypt Exploration Fund.
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29.
ELLIS, HENRY. Voyage de la Baye de Hudson. Fait en 1746 &
1747, pour la Decouverte du Passage de Nord-Ouest. Paris, chez Ballard
fils, 1749. Two volumes. First edition in French. $1,200
12mo; f, pp. lvi, 182, (4); f, pp. 319; 10 folding engraved plates
and one folding engraved map. Contemporary mottled calf, spines
gilt in compartments; marbled endpapers; little wear to edges of
bindings; overall, an extremely good, clean set.
Sabin 22313 (seven plates only); Leclerc 717; not in TPL. The work
commences with a survey of the voyages already made to the area
by Frobisher, Cabot, Hudson, etc., and with a brief history of the
Hudson's Bay Company. The author also provides detailed information
regarding the fauna and flora of the region, and excellent descriptions
of the customs and mode of living of the indigenous peoples. These
travels finally put an end to the theory of a Northwest Passage
from Hudson's Bay, and caused a decline of British interest in the
search for same which was not revived until 1816.
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First Publication of the Royal Society
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30. E[VELYN], J[OHN] (1620-1706). Sylva, Or a discourse of
Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber In His Majesties Dominions.
As it was Deliver'd in the Royal Society the xvth of October, [1662],
upon Occasion of certain Quæries Propounded to that Illustrious
Assembly, by the Honorable the Principal Officers, and Commissioners
of the Navy. To which is annexed POMONA; Or, An Appendix
concerning Fruit-Trees in relation to Cider; The Making and several
ways of Ordering it. Published by express Order of the Royal Society.
Also KALENDARIUM HORTENSE; Or, Gard'ners Almanac; Directing
what he is to do Monthly throughout the Year. London, Printed by
Jo. Martyn, and Ja. Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society, [Kalendarium:
Printed by J. Macock for John Martin, and James Allestry] ... MDCLXIV
(1664]. First edition. Three parts in one. $3,250
Small folio; pp. [16], 120, 4, 20, [2], 21-40, [2], 41-50, [2],
55-83, 1 (Blank), [2]; p. 111 mispaginated 112; with the requisite
three extra leaves (Animadversion, Sir Paul Neile's second paper,
and Errata); two woodcut illustrations in text; title in red and
black; engraved printers' device on title; few small seventeenth-century
manuscript notes at heel of pp. 72, 74 and 76 of the "Kalendarium";
signature H[1] of the "Kalendarium", said to usually be
a cancel, does not appear to be so in this copy; twentieth-century
name on front free endpaper, and small neat name in gutter of title;
faint dampstaining at head of text; little age-browning and few
stains; contemporary full calf, worn at edges and corners; rebacked
long ago, with most of original spine laid down. A complete copy
of this first publication of the Royal Society.
Keynes, G., Evelyn: 40; Wing E3516; Hunt Botanical Cat. 296; Pritzel
2766; Freeman 1152; this edition not in Nissen. "First edition
of Evelyn's most celebrated horicultural work. The "Pomona"
and "Kalendarium Hortense" were published separately at
later dates. The "Sylva" was written as a protest against
the destruction of trees in England which was being carried on by
the glass factories and iron furnaces; it succeeded in inducing
land-owners to start in on a much needed reforestation program that
had a lasting effect on the British economy." -(Hunt).
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