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Catalogue
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The Americas
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111.
[PERIODICAL]. The Handbook of Jamaica for 1898: Published by
Authority, Comprising Historical, Statistical and General Information
Concerning the Island. Eighteenth Year of Publication. Compiled
from Official and Other Reliable Records, by T.L. Roxburgh and Jos.
C. Ford (of the Jamaica Civil Service). London, Edward Stanford,
26 and 27 Cockspur Street. S.W.; Kingston (Jamaica), Government
Printing Office, 79 Duke Street, 1898. $125
8vo; pp. vii, [1], 560, x. Red and gold publisher's cloth, with
Jamaican coat-of-arms on cover and title; marbled endpapers, one
corner clipped; front paste-down worn; small blind-embossed stamp
of library on one leaf; spine chipped at head and heel. Without
map mentioned in some other copies. Published annually, beginning
with No. 1, 1881.
Cundall, Bibliographia Jamaicensis 914; LC. One area of particular
interest is the section on Public Gardens and Plantations.
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112.
PORCACCHI, THOMASO. L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo descritte
da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino e Intagliate da Girolamo
Porro Padovano. Con l'Aggiunta di molte Isole All' Illre. S Conte
Georgio Trivltio ... In Venetia, Appresso Simonn Gaglignani &
Girolamo Porro, MDLXXVI (1576). Second, and enlarged, edition. $9,500
Small folio; pp. [24], 201, [1] (Colophon); 47 copperplate maps.
Later full vellum; title-page lightly sprinkled with tiny inkspots;
some very light, sporadic age-browning in text; a very good, large,
complete, untrimmed copy of this enlarged edition, with 17 more
maps than that of the first edition of 1572.
Shirley, The Mapping of the World 127; The World Encompassed 87;
Phillips (Atlases) 167; European Americana 576/35; Sabin 64149;
JCB I, p. 263-264; Adams P1905. This is one of the most beautiful
works of its kind produced in the 16th century, and is the first
to have maps engraved on copper rather than on woodblocks. "The
popularity of Bordone's Isolario brought forth a successor, which
from both the cartographical and topographical point of view was
far more distinguished. Porcacchi's description of the "most
famous islands of the world" included the areas represented
in the other atlas, and devoted the third book to islands of the
New World, of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean." Among the
maps are two world maps, which were engraved by Girolamo Porro of
Padua, who was a well-known book illustrator of his day. "The
first world map is a finely-executed reduction of Camocio's large
world map of 1567, one of the last in the long line of derivatives
from Gastaldi's prototype of 1546. The success of Porcacchi's venture
was immediate ..." - (Shirley). The work was reprinted in Venice
several times to 1713.
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The Classic Work on the Seven Years' War
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113. POUCHOT de MAUPAS, PIERRE. Memoire sur la derniere guerre
de l'Amerique Septentrionale, entre la France et l'Angleterre. Suivis
d'observations, dont plusieurs sont relatives au théatre
actuel de la guerre, & de nouveaux détails sur les moeurs
& les usages des Sauvages, .... Yverdon, 1781. Three volumes.
First edition. $9,500
12mo; pp. xli, [3], 184; pp. [4], 308; pp. [4], 379, [1]; three
folding, engraved maps and plans; all volumes with prerequisite
half-titles; in vol. II p. 234 mispaginated 134; text and maps printed
on heavy paper; original paper wrappers (vol. I dark marbled green;
vols. II and III light marbled green), lined with printers' waste;
contemporary manuscript paper labels on spines; wrappers; ex-libris,
with name of institution printed on front covers; blind-emboss in
margin of each half-title, and small bookplate at foot of each half-title
(bookplate in vol. I partially removed); very clean and totally
uncut. A very good set of a work that has become very scarce.
Howes P513 (calling the author "François" rather
than "Pierre"); Bell P370; Streeter Sale II: 1033; TPL
6586; Lande 716; JCB II:2724; Sabin 64707; Vlach 599; Dionne II:849.
The author was a professional French engineer and soldier, who came
to Canada in 1755, as the troubles between the French and the English
in North America were becoming very serious. He laid out the entrenchments
of Fort Frontenac, where he was stationed, which so impressed Governor
Vaudreuil that the latter entrusted him with the job of rebuilding
the defences of Fort Niagara. Vaudreuil then appointed Pouchot commander
of said Fort, which was thought to be virtually impregnable, but
the French, under Pouchot, were forced to surrender it in 1759 to
the greater strength and capability of the English forces under
Sir William Johnson. Pouchot and his men were taken by the British
but Pouchot was part of an exchange of prisoners, and returned to
Montreal. In early 1760 he was given command of Fort Lévis
(near Ogdensberg, New York); unfortunately for him that fort also
fell to the British, under General Amherst, in mid-1760. Again taken
prisoner, he was able finally to return to France after the fall
of Montreal. There he was accused of being part of the corruption
that was rumoured to have contributed to France's loss of her North
American colonies; this work was no doubt written largely to defend
himself against those charges. It has become very scarce; there
was no edition printed in English until 1866.
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114.
PULTENEY, WILLIAM. Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs
with America, and the Means of Conciliation. London, J. Dodsley
and T. Cadell, 1778.
$225
8vo; f, pp. 102; sewn as issued; uncut; lacking [A1] (initial blank
or half-title); this is the fourth edition, published in the same
year as the first three editions, and with the same collation.
Howes P649; Sabin 66647. The author was Member of Parliament for
Shrewsbury. In this work he displays an unwarranted optimism for
the reconciliation of Britain with her rebellious colonies, despite
the various acts, bills and battles which had already ensued.
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115.
RAMEL, [JEAN-PIERRE], General (1768-1815). Narrative of the
Deportation to Cayenne, of Barthélemy, Pichgru, Willot, Marbois,
La Rue, Ramel, &c. &c. in consequence of The Revolution
of the 18th Fructidor, (September 4, 1797) containing a variety
of important facts relative to that revolution, and to the voyage,
residence, and escape of Barthélemy, Pichegru, &c. &c.
From the French of General Ramel, Commandant of the Legislative
Body Guard. London, Printed for J. Wright, 1799. First edition in
English. $575
8vo; pp. [4], 215; recent half-calf and marbled paper over boards;
complete with half-title; generally age-toned throughout, with some
sporadic light soiling; contemporary signature of "John Jardine"
on half-title and notation on first blank.
Cundall, West Indies, 1758; Sabin 67630. An account of a group of
Royalists exiled after the Revolution to Cayenne in French Guiana.
The work is a description of their travails, and of their escape
to Paramaribo, Berbice and Demerary, where they found passage on
a ship that took them to England.
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