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

Autograph manuscript letter, 4pp., addressed to Etienne Laveaux, Port-de-Paix, signed "Wm Parker, Rear Admiral of the Blue Squad..." mailing folds, ink slightly toned, 330 x 200mm, St. Nicholas, Haiti, 26 April, 1795A letter between Admiral William Parker, as Commander-in-Chief of Jamaica, written during Toussaint Louverture's Haitian Revolution, to the French General Etienne Laveaux. The Letter formally discusses the release of mulattos and other prisoners.
"...respecting your former letters, and your impatience to have restored the thirty seven men of colour, of whom you have named many… You may rest assured Colonel Lewis and myself wish to be upon as amicable terms with you as circumstances will permit, and therefore send you those women you have required and the whole of the Prisoners at the Mole…" "[I] have to request that you will be good enough to send the names once more of other people of Colour, giving you assurance that if there are any in the custody of the English, and that a strict… Read More

Manuscript log book, 30pp., 3 full page illustrations, four inserts including a manuscript coastal chart of Gibraltar, marbled wrapper, folio, 29th July - 7th September 1846.
An unusual daily account by Lieutenant Augustus Phillimore, serving as mate on H.M.S. Hibernica. The work covers the sea trials the Hibernica was participating in, along with H.M.S. Rattler, Polyphemus, Raleigh, Superb, Constance, Eurydice, Spartan, St. Vincent, Queen, Vanguard, Canopus, Rodney and Albion.
The ships departed Cork in poor weather conditions, sailing in two lines to Lisbon. There are two full page plans showing the sailing formations, which are accompanied by a table recording the distance between the Hibernica and the other ships in the formation. This journal records the daily progress, wind directions and bearings, sail manoeuvres, and the signals sent to, and received from, other ships in the form of flags and gunfire during low visibility.There are many comments on the formation, or lack thereof, throughout… Read More

Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter, 1598, folio (300 x 200mm), crushed Morocco gilt by Pratt, with Engraved Title-Page, Engraved Arms of Frederick IV, 2 folding engraved maps on 3 sheets and 14 half page engraved plates.
Pigafetta's report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries, 1591 was translated into English, Latin (as Regnum Congo), French, Dutch, and German.
In it Pigafetta explains that he was ordered by Pope Sixtus V to transcribe the account of Duarte Lopez, a Portuguese trader who had spent twelve years in the Congo. Lopez's narrative gives a detailed account of his voyage on his uncle's ship, and the history and geography of the kingdom of Congo and its six administrative regions under the rule of its king (named by Lopez 'Don Alvarez'). The account demonstrates the extent of Portuguese exploration across West Africa in the sixteenth century, of which later explorers were unaware

Duarte Lopes travelled within central Africa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo and… Read More

London, J.Pine, 1739, First Edition, Folio(560 x 390mm), contemporary mottled half calf gilt, spine restored, with engraved title with allegorical historiated border, printed dedication, 2 pp list of subscribers, 23pp text, 5 double-page plates each with 2 engraved maps,double-page map of the British Isles showing the track of the Armada,
10 double-page engraved plates of the sea battles printed in green and blue, all within highly decorative allegorical borders, incorporating medallion portraits, and 2 double-page engraved maps of Devon and Cornwall and the Thames(not in the Berlin Catalogue and present in only a few subscribers copies), all engraved by Pine after Gravelot and Lempriere.
Subscribers Copy of one of the finest naval works ever produced.
After the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 Lord Howard of Effingham,
commander of the British Fleet, commisioned Robert Adams to produce a series of charts representing the various phases of the action during the battle.The Dutch artist H.C.Vroom… Read More