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London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822. Laid down.. Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance. .
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Captain J. Cook
by ADLARD, H. (engraver)
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Narrative of the Shipwreck of the "Admella," Inter-Colonial Steamer, on the Southern Coast of Australia:drawn up from authentic statements furnished by the rescuers and survivors..
by [ADMELLA] MOSSMAN, Samuel
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Melbourne: J. H. Moulines and Co. for the Committee of the 'Admella', 1859. Some scattered foxing, small snag to cloth at head of spine.. Octavo, frontispiece and folding map; original blind blocked plum cloth with gilt vignette to front board bearing the slogan 'Hope to the Last.'. Only edition: the harrowing tale of the wreck of the steamship Admella, lost on the South Australian coast, published by a committee appointed to collect funds and care for the survivors: it offers a detailed account of events as they unfolded, interspersed with first-hand testimonies of some of the survivors and their rescuers. 'In terms of human suffering, the wreck of the steamship Admella is ranked by historians as one of the worst in human history' writes Jack Loney in his sweeping account of the appalling disaster which claimed the life of 89 of the 113 passengers and crew. Before dawn on the 6 August 1859, the ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Northumberland on the South Australian coast, where it violently…
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Viagem ao interior da Nova Hollanda, obra moral, critica e recreativa..
by [AGUIAR, Vasco José de]
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Lisbon: Vicente Jorge de Castro, 1841. Slight spotting.. Three volumes bound in one, small octavo; some wear to the edges of the boards and a library reference at head of spine, an attractive copy in contemporary quarter calf. Rare: an unusually good copy of this intriguing imaginary voyage to Australia in the 1830s, and a most uncommon example of any utopian fiction published in Portugal. Written at a time of unrest in the Portuguese-speaking world, and not coincidentally at a time when rumours of vast fortunes being made in Australia abounded, this story tells the detailed history of the manservant to a Lord who travelled from Liverpool to New South Wales in 1836, where he is dazzled by the beauties of nature and society alike, culminating in his visit to the utopian 'Vale da Razão' (Valley of Reason), run by a grand council of men and women 'free from the vices of the old world' (Ferguson). The author was the little-known public servant Vasco José de Aguiar (died October 1855), secretary of…
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Opera omnia in quatuor tomos legitime digesta, nativo suo decori restituta, Indice locupletissimo adaucta
by ALCIATO, Andrea
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Frankfurt: the heirs of Lazarus Zetzner, 1617. A few pages lightly spotted but generally good.. Four volumes in two, folio; contemporary sprinkled calf, spines panelled in gilt between raised bands. The complete works of the Italian jurist and scholar, here in its final edition. Competing texts of the enormous collection of work had been published in the 1570s and 1582, but this was the definitive edition. Alciato was one of the leading exponents of legal humanism, the school of thought that arose in the Renaissance based on the reverence for Roman law, in deliberate contrast to the prevailing school of so-called "Commentators" who were committed to the practices of medieval law. The humanists preferred to trust the logic of classical Roman law and to rely on its texts. Their thinking, which was mirrored in contemporary social change and religious reform with the rise of protestantism, and which honoured antiquity and stressed the eternal principles underlying classical society, had a great…
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Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe. Pouchenie na Aleutsko-Lis'evskom jazike, sochinennoe svjaschennikom Ioannom Veniaminovym 1833 goda. [Indication to the Way to the Kingdom of Heaven, in Aleut language, composed by Priest Ioann Veniaminov in 1833]
by [ALEUT LANGUAGE] VENIAMINOV-POPOV, Ivan Evseevich (Innokentii)
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Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899. Fine. Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in Irkutsk and chose a theological vocation. As a young man he was selected for the Orthodox mission to Unalaska and arrived there in 1822 with his wife and children. While some conversion had been previously successful, it was feared by the Church that Christian and indigenous beliefs had become merged. The scope of the missionary project soon expanded to include the entire Alaskan peninsula and surrounding islands, a vast and often inhospitable geographical area. For ten years Veniaminov was an intrepid traveller, often using small craft and kayaks to visit coastal settlements, and travelling on foot through rugged mountainous regions. In 1832 he was appointed…
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Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII
by STRABO (Strabo of Amasia)
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Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707. A little wear to hinges which are strong.. Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; small blind-embossed library stamp on preliminaries; a handsome copy in contemporary vellum; spine decorated in gilt between raised bands, leather label, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device. The best edition of Strabo's enormous Geography, his kolossourgia or colossal work as he described it himself. The influential Greek geographer who travelled widely, studied under both Aristotelian and Stoic teachers, and spent some decades in Rome, wrote his work early in the first century. Along with the less-known geographers Aratus and Geminus, Strabo promulgated the idea that the torrid zone of the spherical globe was occupied throughout its length by an ocean which divided his continent from another antipodal one in the southern hemisphere. This edition is based on the critical edition by the great classical scholar…
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Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII
by STRABO (Strabo of Amasia)
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Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707. Two volumes, folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; some wear affects joints of the first volume (yet binding still firm); a very good copy in contemporary full calf with raised bands and gilt labels. The best edition of Strabo's enormous Geography, his kolossourgia or colossal work as he described it himself. The influential Greek geographer who travelled widely, studied under both Aristotelian and Stoic teachers, and spent some decades in Rome, wrote his work early in the first century. Along with the less-known geographers Aratus and Geminus, Strabo promulgated the idea that the torrid zone of the spherical globe was occupied throughout its length by an ocean which divided his continent from another antipodal one in the southern hemisphere. This edition is based on the critical edition by the great classical scholar Casaubon, here further edited with the addition of extensive notes from the best commentators,…
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Strabonis rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII
by STRABO (Strabo of Amasia)
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Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707. Fine copy.. Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; well-preserved contemporary vellum, spine elegantly lettered in ink with in gilt ornament between raised bands, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device. The best edition of Strabo's enormous Geography, his kolossourgia or colossal work as he described it himself. The influential Greek geographer who travelled widely, studied under both Aristotelian and Stoic teachers, and spent some decades in Rome, wrote his work early in the first century. Along with the less-known geographers Aratus and Geminus, Strabo promulgated the idea that the torrid zone of the spherical globe was occupied throughout its length by an ocean which divided his continent from another antipodal one in the southern hemisphere. This edition is based on the critical edition by the great classical scholar Casaubon, here further edited with the addition of extensive notes from…
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Columbus Outdone! Capt. Andrews' Cruise in the Sapolio
by ANDREWS, William
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New York: Enoch Morgan's Sons Company, 1893. Spine ends a little rubbed, front endpaper slightly chipped, very good.. Octavo, folding map and folding plate, illustrated throughout; in original illustrated brown cloth, flyleaf inscribed and signed by the author. Signed presentation copy in original illustrated cloth, detailing the audacious solo transatlantic crossing of William Andrews in 1892. Andrews has previously completed a crossing in a vessel of some twenty feet, but evidently found it too commodious - perhaps because there was enough room for his brother. This time, he set out in a considerably smaller vessel of 14 feet 6 inches christened the Sapolio. Entirely hand-made by Andrews, this delicate boat of canvas stretched upon a cedar frame began her courageous voyage from Atlantic City in New Jersey on July 21, 1892, arriving at the point of Columbus' departure in Spain some 63 days later. This book includes the journal kept by Andrews, with descriptions and illustrations of the Azores where…
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Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï
by ANGLADE, Marie Gabriel Bosseront d'
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Paris: Plon, 1893. Front wrapper chipped.. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii and writes about Honolulu and the Hawaiian royal family from personal experience. His excellent memoir of life in Hawaii has been recently translated as A Tree in Bud: The Hawaiian Kingdom 1889-1893, with one wonderful quote making it to the internet: 'Everybody in Hawaii finds the businessman a sympathetic figure, for his constant concern is to 'make money'... This is his first object and ruling passion, toward which he dedicates all his faculties. All foreigners who settle in Hawaii are - or want to be - businessmen'. .
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Captn James Cook F.R.S.
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Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson. .
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1. Nave pel trasporto de' Deportati. 2. Approdo nel porto di Sydney de Deportati
by [TRANSPORTATION] ANON
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Italy: n.d., 1830. Very good.. Two lithographic plates, 105 x 130 mm. each, on a single sheet; disbound. A rare and unusual piece of transportation history, showing a delightful and rather fanciful depiction of two scenes from the voyages to Sydney. In both scenes there is a distinct sense of classical genre painting, and in both the vessels depicted look closer to Mediterranean brigantines than true convict ships. The first image shows the embarking of the convicts, presumably in England - although one could easily be confused by their casual Mediterranean attire. The second shows the arrival and disembarking of the transport, with the convicts still looking improbably comfortable. It is particularly intriguing that of the six people gathered at the foot of the gangplank, two appear to be naked Aborigines. As with the copy in the National Library of Australia, this print has been disbound. .
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The Lord Chief Justice Denman
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1840. Original lithograph, 195 x 166mm., mounted. Portrait of Thomas Denman, Lord Chief Justice and politician, in his judicial robes. Denman played an active role in reforming English laws so as to secure individual liberties. In 1837 he carried two bills abolishing the death penalty for forgery and other crimes, and in 1839 he supported the Custody of Infants Bill which would give wives, separated from their husbands, access to their children. Denman's life-long work in aid of the abolition of the slave trade stands as evidence of his ongoing commitment to issues of social justice. .
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Voyage Philosophique au Japon, ou Conférences Anglo-Franco-Bataves
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Pressure" (Paris?): Dans les Jardins de M. l'Ebahi, 1788. A good copy.. Octavo, half-title, woodcut vignette of a ship setting sail at start of text; neat modern quarter calf. First edition, scarce: a witty and urbane discussion of everything from the rules of Japanese society to the French Compagnie des Indes. The unknown author's reflections on religion and satirical comments on Europe, meant that the work must have been skirting very close to being censored. Presumably published in Paris, the imprint is meant to refer to l'Ebahi's stately home, the Chateau de Pressure, in a salon of which the three main characters, the much-travelled Monsieur l'Ebahi ("Mister Flabbergasted"), the Englishman "Thincker" and the Dutchman "Wurtzheim" are comfortably seated as they swap tales of their marvellous adventures not only in Japan but throughout Asia. The whole story is told with such brio that it could almost pass for actual reportage, if it were not for the knowing interjections of the author, who says at…
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The Hawaiian Islands. Paradise of the Pacific [and two other titles]
by [HAWAII] ANONYMOUS
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Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co, 1898. Touch of localised adhesion affects two of the Hawaiian plates.. Large oblong quarto, photogravure plates throughout, fine in the publisher's gilt lettered red cloth. Historical album of Hawaiian views published on the year of annexation with the United States, with 79 photogravure plates including photographs of the Royal family and their residences. The Royal photographs include formal portraits of Kalakaua I and Queen Liliuokalani, and also include a full-page plate of the deceased King Kalakaua lying in state in the throne room. Of special interest are three plates of Queen Liliuokalani at a traditional feast with her companions. The Queen's household guard is also illustrated. Other Hawaiian subjects include the Kamehameha school for boys and the Bishop School, Honolulu harbour and township, the Pali mountains, Royal palaces (and the Kings residence at Waikiki), beach scenes with bathers and canoes, US marines on guard, Honolulu prison (including a view…
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A Garland of New Songs
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Marshall, MS note dated, 1807. Excellent.. Single sheet folded to form four leaves (eight pages paginated); edges untrimmed. A well-preserved early nineteenth-century English chapbook of popular ballads and ditties. This publication of eight pages is one of a series; each part being separately issued and individually titled 'A Garland of New Songs' with a different woodblock print. Such songbooks were sold for a few pennies and capture ephemeral melodies of the era, usually nostalgic and romantic songs. This particular chapbook is most interesting as it includes a contemporary lament for Nelson who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. .
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Etat présent des Indes Hollandaises, contenant une Peintre vraie et Fidelle du Gouvernement, de l'Administration, et la Conduite des Hollandais dans les Indes-Orientales..
by [VOC] ANONYMOUS
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Batavia (but Amsterdam?): n.p., 1780. Spine repaired, title page and A2 neatly remounted, very good.. Octavo, 96pp., booksellers label to inner front cover, engraved vignette on the title; uncut in contemporary patterned wrappers fashioned from a booksellers catalogue, handwritten title-label to upper cover. A remarkable eighteenth century pamphlet detailing the political, economic and military conditions in the Dutch East Indies. Although anonymous, the work was written by an evidently well-informed author who provides sensitive strategic insights into the weakness of Dutch interests in the region, stressing their vulnerability to British and French aggression. Translated from a simultaneously issued Dutch edition (Nederlandisch India), the report was written either shortly before or at the beginning of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784). The unknown author's frank and candid discussion of the weaknesses of the VOC generally and Batavia particularly, has led to much speculation about the…
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Copper Medal in commemoration of his 1740-1744 Circumnavigation and 1747 defeat of the French at Cap Finisterre
by [ANSON] PINGO, Thomas
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London: Thomas Pingo, 1747. Copper medal, 43.3 mm., with Anson crowned by Victory at right, on the reverse Victory on hippocamp, the names of Anson's officers around; CAMPHEL issue with 'B' faintly visible on 'H', about uncirculated, a few minor blemishes to the rims. An excellent medal, commemorating Anson's circumnavigation and his 1747 victory at Cap Finisterre off the coast of Spain. The huge prize-money brought back after the capture of the Manila treasure galleon, followed by the magnificent defeat of the French navy, were achievements which spoke enormously to popular feeling. This medal, to commemorate Anson's great successes, was commissioned from Thomas Pingo (1692-1776), then assistant engraver at the Royal Mint. On the obverse is a bust of the admiral crowned with a laurel by Victory and the caption 'Vict. Mai III MDCCXLVII'. The reverse bears the legend 'Circumnavigation' and the names of other officers on the famous journey, themselves famous names in the British navy: Keppel, Saumarez,…
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Inauguration de la Statue de François Arago a Paris Le Dimanche 11 Juin 1893
by ARAGO, Francois
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Paris: Chamerot et Renouard, 1893. Some edge wear.. Quarto, 64 pp.; a very good unopened copy in the original grey titling wrappers. Publication commemorating the inauguration of the statue erected to honour the eminent French physicist and astronomer François Jean Dominique Arago (1786-1853). The bronze statue was built on the meridian line of the Paris Observatory, of which he had been director, but sadly it was melted down for the war effort in 1942. This collection of seven articles discusses not only Arago's scientific discoveries but also his political and humanitarian achievements which included the abolition of slavery in French colonies. François Arago was one of nine children. His younger brother Jacques Étienne Victor Arago (1799-1855) was the official artist on the French circumnavigation in the Uranie under the command of Louis de Freycinet, which spent considerable time in Hawaii as well as New South Wales and Western Australia. .
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Ile Ombai: Armes et Ornements
by [FREYCINET] COUTANT (engraver) after Jacques ARAGO
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Paris, 1822. Engraving, 240 x 320mm (proof state before plates numbered). Weapons and armour recorded by French explorers from inhabitants of the north coat of Timor, bordered by the Ombai Strait; this is a rare example of a proof impression, printed before plate number has been added, of an engraving from the Louis de Freycinet account of the voyage of the Uranie. It was ultimately published as plate no. 35 in the Atlas Historique, Voyage autour du monde. .
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