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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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56.
LUMHOLTZ, CARL. Blandt Menneskeaedere fire aars Reise I Australien.
Copenhagen, O.H. Delbanco et al., 1888. First edition. $350
8vo; 3 ff, pp. x, iv, 495, (1); 13 plates, four of which are coloured
lithographs; numerous illustrations included in the pagination;
two coloured folding maps. Later half-calf and marbled boards. A
very good copy of this work.
Ferguson 11768: "The author spent four years ... travelling
in Queensland with the object of making collections for the zoological
and zootomical museums of the University of Christiania, and of
instituting researches into the then little known native tribes
inhabiting that part of the continent." The work was very popular,
and was translated into English and published the following year
as Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia
and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland.
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57.
MACGILL, THOMAS. Travels in Turkey, Italy, and Russia, During
the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806. With an Account of some
of the Greek Islands. London: Printed for John Murray ... and Archibald
Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1808. Two volumes. First edition.
$5,000
Small 8vo; pp. xii, 270; pp. viii, 240; contemporary full tree calf;
front joint of vol. II cracked, and front board shaken. Overall,
a very clean, very good set of a very scarce work.
Atabey 745; not in Blackmer; only one copy (ex-library) at auction
since at least 1955. "Apparently only edition, rare. This work
was reviewed in the Edinburgh Review, 1808, vol. 12. Macgill was
a merchant trading in the Levant. This is an account of Constantinople
and its environs, via Venice and the Greek archipelago, then overland
to Odessa. It contains interesting information on the growing of
tobacco and other products of the Levant. Macgill also wrote a Handbook
for Strangers visiting Malta, 1839, and an account of Tunis, 1811."
-(Atabey).
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58.
[MARCHE, C. G.]. Critique ou analyse des Mémoires
du comte de Bonneval: Ci-devant General d'Infanterie au Service
de Sa Maj. Imp. & Catholique présentement Reegat, &
Bacha à Trois Queües en Turquie. Amsterdam, Au depens
de la Societé de Marche, 1738. First (and only?) edition.
$1,500
Small 8vo; pp. [16], 192; 77[1] (Blank), f (Errata); contemporary
paper over boards; a very good copy of a rather scarce work.
Barbier (Anonymes) I: 825a; not found in Blackmer nor in Atabey;
three copies located in COPAC and one at BNF. Claude Alexandre,
Comte de Bonneval (1675-1747) was a French army officer who later
went into the service of the Ottoman Empire and eventually converted
to Islam, becoming known as Humbaraci Ahmet Pasha. Born into an
old family of Limousin, he joined the Royal Marine Corps at an early
age and served in both the Italian and the Netherlands campaigns.
His insolence led to a court martial in 1704, at which he was condemned
to death but escaped to Germany. He managed to obtain a general's
command in the Austrian army and fought bravely against France,
and then against Turkey. His temper again led to a court martial
at which he was banished to Venice. Whether through belief or through
pique, he professed conversion to Islam and offered his services
to the Turkish government; his aid led to Austrian defeats and the
subsequent end of the Austrian-Ottoman War, which was marked by
the Treaty of Belgrade. He rendered valuable service to the Ottoman
sultan in his war with Russia, and with the famous Nadir Shah. He
died at Constantinople in 1747. The Memoirs published under his
name (Paris, 1817 and 1885) are probably spurious. (Encyc.Brit.)
Pages [1]-77 of this work constitute Reflexions sur la Presente
Guerre contre les Turcs and is an integral part of the work.
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59. MARRYAT, FRANK S. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago,
With Drawings of Costume and Scenery. London, Longman, Brown, Green,
and Longmans, 1848. First edition. $3,150
4to; pp. viii, 232; 22 coloured and/or tinted lithographed plates,
including frontispiece and extra engraved title; 37 woodcuts in
the text; lower corner, verso, of frontispiece rubbed; faint browning
to margins of frontispiece and extra engraved title; recent full
"faux-cuir", with new endpapers; spine gilt; a fine copy,
complete with half-title.
Abbey, Travel: 549; Hill 1088; not in Robertson. A lovely copy of
this first edition. Marryat, son of the prolific author, Frederick
Marryat, served on a surveying expedition to the East Indies under
Sir Edward Belcher from 1843 to 1846. "The determination of
the British government to survey the approaches to ports laid open
by the new treaty with China led to this expedition." -(new
Hill, 105). Marryat's beautiful drawings depict the people, daily
life, buildings, scenery and ceremonies of Borneo (including Brunei
and Kuching), as well as Hong Kong, Mauritius, the Philippines,
and other important ports of Southeast Asia.
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60.
MARTINI, M[ARTINUS] (1614-1661). De Bello Tartarico Historia;
In quâ, quo pacto Tartari hac nostrâ ætate Sinicum
Imperium inuaserint, ac ferè totum occuparint, narratur;
eorumque mores breuiter describunter. Antwerp, ex Officina Plantiniana
Baltharis Moreti. M.DC.LIV (1654). First edition. $1,150
Small 8vo; pp. 156, (3); wanting small folding map; contemporary
full calf; marbled endpapers; woodcut device of the Society of Jesus
on title-page; few woodcut initials and one tailpiece; very faint
light dampstain to first and final leaves; overall, a very good
clean copy. This is not to be confused with the second edition (166
pp.), published the same year.
Cordier Sinica 1: 623; De Backer-Sommervogel V: 647: 7; not in Cioranescu
nor in Brunet; of this first edition we have located one copy at
each of the following: BNF, BL, SOAS, NYPL, and Harvard (Houghton).
The author was a Jesuit historian, cartographer amd missionary who
studied mathematics under Athanasius Kircher. He was sent out to
China in 1640, arriving in 1643, and became Superior in Hangzhou,
one of the most important cities in the Yangze delta area. He was
witness to the overthrow of the ancient Ming Dynasty by the Qing,
or Manchu Tatars, in 1643-44 and this work is one of the most faithful
and honest descriptions of this period of Chinese history. Westerners
were fascinated by information out of the East, and Martini's work
was published in many editions and in many languages - English,
French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese - within
fifteen years of this first edition. Martini was also the author
of Novus Atlas Sinensis, an important cartographical work on China
published in Amsterdam by Blaeu in 1655.
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