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Price: US$1283.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, 2 vols, 4to, 8 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates after Samuel Daniell, folding charts and maps, 3 of which are hand-coloured, some offsetting from maps, one map with clean split to one fold, overall internally very good, bound in full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked preserving gilt backstrips, marbled edges and endpapers.
Seller: Robert Hall Pictures, St Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$1818.41 + shipping
Description: Due volumi di cm. 27, pp. xvi (2) 427 (1); (6) 372 (2). Con 8 tavole all'acquatinta colorata nel primo volume e 9 carte geografiche più volte ripiegate nel secondo volume. Legatura strettamente coeva in piena pelle, dorsi a nervi con titoli e fregi in oro, ottimamente "rebacked". Piatti inquadrati da greca in oro, dentelles interne e tagli marmorizzati. Qualche arrossatura sparsa ed i confini colorati delle carte geografiche che rilasciano un alone alle carte confinanti. Peraltro esemplare genuino, solidamente legato ed in buono stato di conservazione. Si tratta della seconda edizione di quest'opera aumentata rispetto alla prima nel testo e nella parte iconografica.
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Benacense, riva del garda, Italy
Price: US$3178.74 + shipping
Description: Quarto, with two folding maps and 18 coloured aquatint plates after W. Alexander and S. Daniell (of 19, with Plate I, the "View of Funchal in Madeira", present in photo-facsimile only); otherwise a fine copy in contemporary sprinkled calf, flat spine banded in gilt with gilt emblem at head of spine. First edition: this handsome colour-plate voyage book is the first illustrated English work on South Vietnam, particularly the region of Da Nang and Hue: Barrow gives the first accurate description of the region and its inhabitants by an Englishman. Dampier had touched in Vietnam on his circumnavigation more than one hundred years prior to this, but his visit was largely confined to the areas around the Gulf of Tonkin. Although missing one of its coloured plates (which is supplied in good facsimile), this is how the book sat on the shelves of the Northern Lighthouses Board, the Edinburgh-based body founded in 1786 to oversee the construction of lighthouses in the northern United Kingdom, whose very good antiquarian library of travel and exploration books was dispersed in modern times. 'The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Rio de Janeiro; a description of that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da Cunha, the ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin China via the city of Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag [p. 64].' (Abbey). 'This book is the account of Barrow's voyage on the way to China and is dedicated to his travelling companion, Sir George Staunton. The detailed information on Cochin China is taken from a manuscript memoir drawn up by Captain Barissy, a French naval officer, who had the means and opportunity of collecting accurate information. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa into the then little-known territory of Bechuanaland. It is taken from a manuscript journal, originally written in Dutch by Pieter Jan Truter. Barrow continued in the service of Lord Macartney, after he became governor of Cape Colony, from 1796 to 1798.' (Hill). 'The aquatinting is of excellent quality, [plate] number 10 in particular being technically interesting, since it appears to be printed in as many as three colours, with one colour added by hand, while no. 11 is printed in green, with other colours added by hand.' (Abbey). The Northern Lighthouses Board's most famous engineer was Robert Stevenson, whose three sons followed him into the profession; together the family dynasty oversaw the building of almost all the "Northern lights" as they were known. The institution still today administers lighthouses (208 of them) and other marine navigational aids for Scotland and the Isle of Man. . Provenance: Northern Lighthouses Board (with their lighthouse motif in gilt on spine).
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
Price: US$3950.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Quarto. 215 x 280 mm. 2 volumes with the plates loose in a separate matching portfolio. Bound in elegant brown mottled goatskin with leather labels and 5 raised bands by the celebrated Russian-American binder Alexander (Sasha) Mosalov.xvi, 426; [vi], 372, [2] pp. Some of the brittle pages repaired with translucent archival tape. 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 9 folding maps and charts, 3 coloured or coloured in outline. Abbey, Travel, 322.The plates are A Boor's wife taking her CoffeeBroad tailed Sheep A HottentotPassing a KloofKaffer WomanThe GnoosA Bushman in ArmourThe African RhinocerosGeneral Chart of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.Military Plan of he Cape PeninsulaChart of Table BayFalse Bay at the Cape of Good HopeCoast of Africa from Table Bay . . . to Saldanha BayMossel BayChart of the KnysnaPlettensbergs BayAlgoa Bay
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4015.25 + shipping
Description: Sketch of the Cape Colony.2 vols. Second and best edition, with additions .London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4to. Orig. full calf with gilt borders to front & rear covers. Spines rebacked. Marbled end-papers. Inner hinges strengthened. With 8 full-page coloured aquatints by S. Daniell, 9 fold. charts of which the coloured ones show some offsetting, Direction for Placing the Plates leaf, and final advert. page at end of Vol. II. A particularly fine crisp copy. NOTE: Sir John Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney as his private secretary when he was sent out to South Africa during the first British occupation, as one of the Governors of the Cape Colony. "Lord Macartney at once sent him on a double mission-to reconcile the Kaffirs and Boers, and to obtain more accurate topographical knowledge of the colony, there being then no map which embraced on-tenth of it. In pursuit of these objects he traversed every part of the colony, and visited the several countries of the Kaffirs, the Hottentots, and the Bosjemen, performing a journey exceeding 1,000 miles on horseback, on foot, and very rarely in a covered wagon." In 1802 the Cape was evacuated and Barrow returned to England, where he was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, owing the appointment largely to the excellent work he had done in South Africa and in the production of this work. The first volume relates to his travels, and the second volume to the various parts of the colony, details regarding the inhabitants, and the importance of the country from a military and commercial standpoint.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$4015.25 + shipping
Description: Sketch of the Cape Colony.2 vols. Second and best edition, with additions .London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. 4to. Orig. full calf with gilt borders to front & rear covers. Spines rebacked. Marbled end-papers. With 8 full-page coloured aquatints by S. Daniell, 9 fold. charts of which the coloured ones show some offsetting, and Direction for Placing the Plates leaf. A particularly fine crisp copy. NOTE: Sir John Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney as his private secretary when he was sent out to South Africa during the first British occupation, as one of the Governors of the Cape Colony. "Lord Macartney at once sent him on a double mission-to reconcile the Kaffirs and Boers, and to obtain more accurate topographical knowledge of the colony, there being then no map which embraced one-tenth of it. In pursuit of these objects he traversed every part of the colony, and visited the several countries of the Kaffirs, the Hottentots, and the Bosjemen, performing a journey exceeding 1,000 miles on horseback, on foot, and very rarely in a covered wagon." In 1802 the Cape was evacuated and Barrow returned to England, where he was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty, owing the appointment largely to the excellent work he had done in South Africa and in the production of this work. The first volume relates to his travels, and the second volume to the various parts of the colony, details regarding the inhabitants, and the importance of the country from a military and commercial standpoint.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$4619.76 + shipping
Description: A good copy of the second, and best edition, of this important African travel work by a founder of the Royal Geographical Society, John Barrow. Being one of the earliest travel works on South Africa available to Europeans. This edition was the first to have the hand-coloured illustrations and coloured maps. The edition prior to this (1801-04) contained only one plate, an uncoloured aquatint. Frequently regarded as the best edition, this influential work formed an expansive survey of South Africa which draws a focus on the Cape Colony. Barrow is noted for producing the first published modern map of the southern parts of the Cape Colony which was unrivalled. Collated, with all seventeen plates, being eight hand-coloured aquatint illustrations after Samuel Daniell and nine folding maps and charts. This set has been bound without the half-title to volume II and the publisher's adverts. The publisher's adverts have been provided in facsimile and are loosely inserted. Barrow was a British geographer and proponent of arctic exploration. He penned another work on his travels to China titled 'Travels in China'. This travel work recounts Barrow's role as Lord Macartney's private secretary during his mission to the Cape of Good Hope in 1797. The expeditions include one from Cape Town to Graaf-Reinet and another to Namaqualand. The ODNB notes that Barrow 'established new standards for travel writing'. The publisher's adverts are loosely inserted in facsimile form to the rear of the second volume. In full calf bindings. Rebacked with the original spine labels and boards preserved. Externally, very smart with just some minor shelfwear. Renewed endpapers and new tissue guards loosely inserted to volume I. Modern front endpaper to volume II is detached but present. Library stamps to the title pages, 'Bibliotheque du Roi', no other stamps present. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Maps are age toned with offsetting to pages, as is usual. Hand-coloured outline to the large map of volume I has offset to the title page as is usual. Small tape repair to the rear of page 223. Tidemark to folding maps at pages 274, 285, 287 of volume II to the outer margins. Closed tear to the fold of the top right corner to the large map bound at the frontispiece of volume I. Just the odd spot to pages, which remain rather clean. Coloured plates to volume I are bright with just the odd mark. Otherwise, the plates are fresh with bright colour. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$4950.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition with the handcoloured decorations. Second and Best Edition overall with additions not found in the one volume first edition and with the handcoloured plates, charts and plans not found in the first edition. With the 8 finely coloured aquatint plates by S. Daniell in Vol. I and with 9 folding charts and plans including the large folding map and 8 other maps and charts of which three are handcoloured, in Vol. II. 4to, bound in handsome three-quarter dark calf over marbled boards in contemporary style, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, numbered in gilt in two compartments and with red morocco labels lettered in gilt. xvi, 427; (4), 372 (2, directions for placing the plates), (2 ads) pp. A very handsome copy, the text-block and plates in very nice condition. A few folds supported, the aquatint handcoloured plates all very nicely preserved. A clean and pleasing copy. A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE SECOND AND BEST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. HANDCOLOURED AQUATINT PLATES BY S. DANIELL AND HANDCOLOURED MAPS AND CHARTS ARE PRESENT IN THIS EDITION FOR THE FIRST TIME. "Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS , FRGS , LL.D was an English statesman who, through the interest of Sir George Leonard Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792-94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney. He soon acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by Sir George Staunton records many of Barrow's valuable contributions to literature and science connected with China. Although Barrow ceased to be officially connected with Chinese affairs after the return of the embassy in 1794, he always took much interest in them, and on critical occasions was frequently consulted by the British government. In 1797 he accompanied Lord Macartney, as private secretary, in his important and delicate mission to settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boers and "Kaffirs" and of reporting on the country in the interior. On his return from his journey, in the course of which he visited all parts of the colony, he was appointed auditor-general of public accounts. He decided to settle in South Africa, married Anne Maria Trüter, and in 1800 bought a house in Cape Town. But the surrender of the colony at the peace of Amiens (1802) upset this plan. His writings on his travels and studies in southern Africa are the subject matter of the book here offered. And it is one of the great early works on South Africa. He returned to England in 1804, was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, a post which he held for nearly forty years. He enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all the eleven chief lords who successively presided at the Admiralty board during that period, and more especially of King William IV while lord high admiral, who honoured him with tokens of his personal regard. In his position at the Admiralty, Barrow was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery, including those of John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross, and John Franklin. Point Barrow in Alaska is named for him. He is reputed to have been the initial proposer of St Helena as the new place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte following the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Barrow was a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1821 received the degree of LL.D from the University of Edinburgh. A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. He retired from public life in 1845 and devoted himself to writing a history of the modern Arctic voyages of discovery (1846), as well as his autobiography, published in 1847. Besides the numerous articles in the Quarterly Review already mentioned, Barrow published among other works: A Voyage in Cochinchina (1806), Travels in China (1804), Travels into the Interior of South Africa (1801-1804 and 1806, Lives of Lord Macartney (1807), Lord Anson (1839), Lord Howe (1838), The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: (1831) Its Cause and Consequences, a report about the mutiny on the Bounty.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 266 x 212 mm). xviii, [2], 447, [1, blank] pp. With twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates and maps, two of which are double page and one which is folding. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving original spine. Boards tooled in gilt. Spine with two morocco spine labels, lettered and stamped in gilt. Board edges stamped in gilt. Edges speckled red and green. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some toning from plates. Small hole to leaf G2, barely touching a letter. Small tear to bottom margin of leaf P2, not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. "This is the first illustrated English work on what was then called Cochin China, now southern Vietnam. The work is described as being 'Illustrated and embellished with several engravings by Medland, coloured after the original drawings by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Daniell.' In the Paris edition of 1807, the plates were published in a separate atlas folio. The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Rio de Janeiro; a description of that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da Cunha, the ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin China via the city of Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest, as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. This book is the account of Barrow's voyage on the way to China as a member of Lord Macartney's embassy and is dedicated to his traveling companion, Sir George Staunton. The detailed information on Cochin China is taken from a manuscript memoir drawn up by Captain Barissy, a French naval officer, who had the means and opportunity of collecting accurate information. A supplementary article, 'An account of a journey to Leetakoo, the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation' (p. [361}-437), covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa into the then little-known territory of Bechuanaland. It is taken from a manuscript journal originally writ- ten in Dutch by Pieter Jan Truter, one of the Commissioners of that expedition, which had been ordered by the Cape government. The supplement is accompanied by a fine map of the country and four handsome aquatints from drawings by Samuel Daniell. Barrow continued in the service of Lord Macartney after the latter became governor of Cape Colony, from 1796 to 1798." (Hill, 66). "As a writer Barrow is best known for his Mutiny on the Bounty (1831) but, during his lifetime, his accounts of his travels in eastern Asia and southern Africa, published between 1801 and 1807, were better known and more influential. These established new standards for travel writing. In all, he wrote or edited seventeen full length books. His interests ranged widely, but the great bulk of his output had a geographical focus, usually with an underlying imperial theme and a belief in progress and the superiority of British civilization. He wrote extensively about Asia, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific, the eastern Mediterranean, and Africa." (Oxford DNB). Abbey, Travel 514. Hill 66 HBS 68671. $5,000.
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Description: 4to., (10 4/8 x 8 2/8 inches). 19 color-printed aquatint plates with additional hand-coloring, including one folding, by T. Medland after Samuel Daniell and W. Alexander, and two folding engraved maps, the first a hand-colored plan of the harbor and town of Rio de Janeiro, the second a "Chart of the Southern Extremity of Africa" (short tear to second map, maps and folding plate strengthened on fold versos, marginal repairs to 2 leaves of prelims, occasional soiling, a few very light spots.) Contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners (rebacked preserving original spine, extremities rubbed, endpapers renewed). Provenance: Note with a presentation inscription from the author laid down on the front paste-down "From the Author"; a few faint contemporary marginal annotations; Quentin Keynes (1921-2003) Collection of Important Travel Books and Manuscripts. First edition of the first illustrated English work on southern Vietnam, and is an account of Barrow's voyage to China with Lord Macartney's unsuccessful embassy to China. "The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Rio de Janeiro; a description of that city and of Brazil in general is given. Touching at Tristan da Cunha, the ship rounded the Cape and eventually reached Cochin China via the city of Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's "Resolution" transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag" (Hill). The work is dedicated to Sir George Staunton, who was also on the voyage, and who wrote his own account in 1797. The supplementary article "An account of a journey to Leetakoo, the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation" "covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa into the then little-known territory of Bechuanaland, translated from a manuscript journal by Pieter Jan Truter, one of the commissioners of the expedition" (Hill). Barrow continued in Lord Macartney's service after he was appointed governor in 1796 of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. He married a South African Boer, purchased a house in Cape Town, and intended to settle there permanently, but was forced by the surrender of the colony at the peace of Amiens to return to England in 1804. Abbey "Travel" 514; Borba de Moraes I, p. 88; Brunet, I, p. 672; Cordier, "Indosinica", 2424; Cordier, "Sinica" 2390; Hill 66. 6.4F.24ECatalogued by Kate Hunter
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.