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Catalogue
78
Voyages
& Travels
History
& Natural History
Science & Technology
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66.
[NÉNY, PATRICE-FRANÇOIS, Comte de, 1716-1784].
Mémoires Historiques et Politiques des Pays-Bas Autrichiens.
Dédiés a l'Empereur. A Neufchatel, De l'Imprimerie
de Fauche, Favre & Compagnie, M.DCC.LXXXIV (1784). First edition.
$350
8vo; pp. viii, 429 [1] (blank); signatures: a8, A-2C8, 2D7. Original
paper covers, very worn; spine perished; engraved title vignette;
head-piece; accession number in lower margin of one leaf; two partial
exlibri on front paste-down; untrimmed edges; signature on title;
otherwise, a clean copy of this scarce edition.
BNF; Barbier III, 227. This history of the Austrian Low Countries
at the end of the ancien régime was written by the statesman
Patrice-François de Nény. His father, Patrick MacEneaney,
left the social and political repressions in Ireland following the
Battle of the Boyne, to continue his studies at Louvain. He had
a successful career as counsellor to Empress Marie-Thérèse,
and his son Patrice-François followed his lead. After an
education at Saint-Omers and Louvain, where he completed his studies
in law, Patrice-François de Nény held many high-ranking
offices, such as Secretary of State and Treasurer. He was well-respected
and received many honours for his services. This copy is the first
edition; a "nouvelle edition", corrected and enhanced,
was also published in 1784, in two volumes.
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67.
NOBLE, Rev. LOUIS L[EGRAND]. After Icebergs with a Painter;
A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland. New York, D.
Appleton & Company, 1861. First edition. $900
Large 12mo; pp. xiv, (2), 336, (8) (Publ. cat.); six lithographs
on heavy paper. Original cloth; original yellow endpapers; gilt
lettering on spine little dulled; bottom corner of front cover minimally
rubbed; text lightly toned; the cleanest copy we have had, and complete
with all tissue-guards and with adverts. Small paper book-label
of Jesse Duck on front paste-down.
Arctic Biblio. 12352; O'Dea 661; Sabin 55380; Smith N18; TPL 3926
(lacking three plates). A scarce work, with copious descriptions
of icebergs, of the fauna and flora of Newfoundland, Labrador, and
Nova Scotia, and of whales and whaling. The lithographs are after
paintings by the noted 19th-century artist, Frederick Edwin Church,
who accompanied Noble on this voyage.
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68.
O'CONNOR, V[INCENT] C[LARENCE] SCOTT. The Silken East: a
record of life and travel in Burma. London, Hutchinson & Co.,
1904. Two volumes. First edition. $1,350
8vo; pp. xx, 416; pp. xv, 417-842; 20 chromolithographed plates,
including frontispiece, one panoramic view, one large, folding map,
and hundreds of photographic illustrations. Original pictorial cloth,
gilt-decorated; a fine, bright, clean set, printed on glossy paper.
Cordier, Indo-Sinica: 430. A beautiful set of a fascinating work
on the social life and customs of Burma, with excellent descriptions
and details.
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69.
ORTA, GARCIA de. Aromatvm, et Simplicivm Aliqvot Medicamentorvm
apvd Indos Nascentivm Historia: Primùm quidem Lusitanica
lingua [dialogikos] conscripta, à D. Garçia ab Horto,
Proregis Indiae Medico: Deinde Latino sermone in Epitomen contracta,
& iconibus ad viuum expressis, locupletioribusq[ue] annotatiunculis
illustrata à Carolo Clvsio Atrebate. Qvarta editio, Castigatior
& aliquot locis auctior. Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana,
Apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, M.D.XCIII (1593). Fourth edition.
[with]:
Christophori a Costa, Medici et Cheirvrgi, Aromatum & medicamentorum
in Orientali Indianascentium Liber: Plvrimvm lucis adferens
iis quae à Doctore Garcia de Orta in hoc genere scripta sunt:
Caroli Clvsii Atrebatis operâ ex Hispanico sermone Latinus
factus, in Epitomen contractus, & quibusdam notis illustratus.
Altera Editio, castigatior & auctior. Antverpiae, Ex Officina
Plantiniana, Apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, M.D.XCIII (1593).[with]:
Simplicivm Medicamentorvm ex Novo Orbe Delatorvm, Qvorvm in Medicina
vsus est, Historia; Hispanico sermone duobus libris descripta à
D. Nicolao Monardis, Hispalensi Medico; Latio deinde donata, &
in vnum volumen contracta, insuper annotationibus, iconibusq[ue]
affabre depictis illustrata à Carolo Clvsio Atrbate Tertia
Editio, Avctior et Castigatior ex postrema Auctoris recognitione.
Antverpiae, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Viduam, & Ioannem
Moretum, M.D.XCIII (1593).
(with):
Simplicivm Medicamentorvm ex Novo Orbe Delatorvm, Qvorvm
in Medicina vsvs est, Historiae Liber Tertivs: Hispanico sermone
nuper descriptus à D. Nicolao Monardes, Hispalensi Medico:
Nunc vero primum Latio donatus, & notis illustratus à
Carolo Clvsio A. Altera Editio, auctior & castigator. Antverpiae,
Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, M.D.XCIII
(1593). $5,000
12mo; pp. 217, [9], 227-456, [4]. Signatures: A-Z8, a-e8, f6, [2]
(blank). Full vellum; richly illustrated with woodcut engravings
throughout text; foliated and historiated initials; title vignette
of printer's device at beginning of each section; continuous pagination;
very occasional spotting; small, neat repair to margin of first
title page, with minute notation; very small crack at top joint,
otherwise a very good copy of this scarce work.
Sabin 57666; Adams 0322; European Americana 593/47; JCB I: 330/331;
vide Ruelens & De Backer 25. This work was compiled and annotated
in 1567 by Carolus Clusius [l'Ecluse], who discovered it while travelling
in Spain. It was first published at Goa in 1563 as Coloquios dos
simples, e drogas he cousas medicinais da India. Garcia de Orta
(1501?-1568) was a Portuguese Jewish physician who specialized in
tropical medicine. In spite of having been forced to convert to
Christianity, his family was nevertheless despised as Cristaos Novos,
New Christians. In 1534, with the Inquisition in session, Orta sailed
for India and settled in Goa. It was in this port city that he met
physicians and market vendors through whom he gathered information
about how plants, spices and herbs were used for medicinal purposes.
The printer, Jan Moretus, was active in Antwerp from 1557 to 1610.
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70.
PARISOT, [VALENTIN]. Dictionnaire Géographique Universelle
de Vosgien. Totalement refondu et mis au niveau de la science moderne.
Purgé de plus de 500 doubles emplois, articles imaginaires,
etc., et augmenté d'environ 1000 articles:.... Paris, Baudouin
Frères, 1829. $350
Thick 8vo; pp. xij, 739, [1] (Additions et Corrections); seven folding
engraved maps; contemporary quarter-calf, gilt and blind-stamped;
marbled paper (worn) over boards; brown marks at corners of front
and rear endpapers; text very clean and maps pristine; complete
with all maps and with half-title.
The author (c.1805-1861) was a French author, writer and classical
scholar, who held the chair of foreign literature, first at Rennes,
subsequently at Grenoble, and finally at Douai. In this work he
attempts to systematise the science of geographical description;
first published in 1828, the work quickly became very popular.
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