Search Results: Authors starting with B from Bruce Marshall Rare Books

Glasgow: for the Author, R & A Foulis, 1763.
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 4to (240 x 175mm.), (vol.1) xviii, [ii], 358pp., [ii pp. adverts]; (vol.2) [ii], 426pp., [ii pp. errata], folding map, contemporary quarter reversed calf over marbled boards, black morocco labels a fine untouched copy.
A British expatriate, Bell travelled throughout Russia and the east during the years 1715-38. He accompanied the embassies of Peter the Great to Ispahan in Persia in 1715-18, travelled to Peking in China through Siberia in 1719-21, to Derbent in Persia in 1722, and to Constantinople in 1737-38. The account includes detailed descriptions of the manners, customs, geography and scenery in the countries visited. The work was reprinted in 1764 and 1788, and published in French and German editions. The engraved folding map shows the route between Moscow and Peking.
Blackmer 111; Cordier Sinica 2093; Cox I:256; Gaskell Foulis 415; see Lust 314. (2)

London: George Nicol, 1792. 4to, Contemporary tan calf, with 7 plates of plans and charts including a fine engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell, folding plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty's launch, a plate of bread-fruit, and 4 other plans and charts (3 folding)
RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS SEA TALES IN ALL OF MARITIME LITERATURE.
On their way to introduce the bread-fruit as a cash crop to the West Indies from the South Sea Island, "Bread-fruit Bligh" and eighteen of his crew were set adrift by Fletcher Christian, the master's mate of the "Bounty," and made a journey of about 4000 miles in an open boat before landing on the East Indian island of Timor. Several of the mutineers, who had settled on Pitcairn Island, were eventually captured and three were executed in England. "An extremely important book" (Hill, p. 27). Interestingly enough, Bligh was subjected to two further mutinies in his career, though only the last, in New South Wales, can… Read More

London, Published January 1, May 13 & 19, 1802 by E. Harding, No. 98 Pall Mall, for the Benefit of the Widows and Orphans of those brave men who fought and fell on that Glorious Occasion.
Image size: 17 x 24 ¾ in / 430 x 630 mm, bound in half morocco over cream boards, morocco label.
On June 13th, 1801 Rear-Admiral Comte de Linois, with a French squadron of three ships of line and a frigate, put to sea from Toulon, bound to Cadiz to join a fleet of six sail of the line. Having learnt that Cadiz was blockaded by a superior British force, Linois bore up for Algeciras and on July 4th moored off the town.
The British squadron stationed off Cadiz at this time consisted of:
Caesar (80 guns) Rear-Admiral Sir J. Saumarez & Captain J. Brenton
Venerable (74) Captain S. Hood
Superb (74) Captain R.G. Keats
Audacious (74) Captain S. Peard
Pompee (74) Captain C. Stirling
Hannibal (74) Captain S. Ferris
Spencer (74) Captain H. d`E. Darby
Thames (32) Captain A.P. Hollis
Carlotta (Portuguese) Captain C. Duncan… Read More

FIRST EDITION, (edited by Henry Gellibrand). Gouda: Pieter Rammazeyn, 1633
folio (350 x 212mm.), half-title, complete with 272 pp. of tables, contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked, half-title restored at edge.This important work has the first complete set of Trigonometrical TablesIn circa 1577 Briggs entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1581 and a master's degree in 1585. He was elected a fellow of St. John's in 1589 and a lecturer in mathematics and medicine there in 1592. While at St. John's, Briggs began research in astronomy and navigation with the mathematician Edward Wright.
In 1596 Briggs was appointed the first professor of Geometry at the newly opened Gresham College in London, and for more than two decades he was instrumental in establishing it as a major centre for scientific research and advanced mathematical instruction. Briggs also took an active part in bridging the gap between mathematical theory and practice. He instructed mariners in… Read More

London Printed by Luke Hansard, and sold by G. and W. Nicol. 1803-1817, 5 volumes, 4to (300 x 235mm) with 28 engraved maps (16 folding), and 13 engraved plates, full polished calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments
First Edition
"The most important general history of early South Sea discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the subject; collected from all sources, with the most important remarks concerning them, by Captain Burney, who was a great authority on the subject. Many of the early voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not herin collected. Burney accompanied Captain Cook on his second and third voyages. His access to the London literary world served to enhance the style of his great work, in which he carried the story of Pacific discovery from its beginnings through the period just prior to Cook's first voyage" (Hill).
Admiral James Burney (1750-1812), son of Dr. Charles Burney, the historian of music and the brother of diarist and novelist Fanny Burney,… Read More