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Early books ........................... p. 3 Early voyages ........................ p. 7 Captain Cook ...................... p. 12 Later voyages ...................... p. 15 Voyage medals .................... p. 20 Hawaii ................................. p. 22 Tahiti ................................... p. 29 China ................................... p. 31 Various ................................ p. 34

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BOTERO, Giovanni. LE RELATIONI UNIVERSALI…

Small quarto; four maps, with the rare “Aggiunta” section with its 33 woodcuts; contemporary vellum. Venice, 1622-23.

One of just two editions of Botero to contain the extraordinary woodcuts, created 100 years earlier, mixing imagined creatures from the undiscovered world with depictions of exotic but real events.

Alden, 622/22; JCB, p.161 (lacks‘Aggiunta’); Lach, II/2, pp.235-52. US$45,100

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HOOGHE, Romeyn de. LES INDES ORIENTALES ET OCCIDENTALES…

With 41 double-page engravings. Leyden, 1710.

Dutch celebration of the riches of East & West Indies in magnificent engravings

by Romeyn de Hooghe, the foremost book-illustrator of his day.

Landwehr, ‘Romeyn de Hooghe’, 58 note; Landwehr, ‘VOC’, 236.

US$23,400

ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, Saint. ETYMOLOGIAE…

Folio, gothic letter; contemporary Italian calf. Venice, 1483.

Splendid copy, in its original Venetian binding, of the great medieval Encyclopedia, whose illustrations include the first map ever printed when first published (Strasburg 1472). This was the first edition printed in Italy, one of eight published in the 15th century, all rare today. The famous woodcut of the Tree of Knowledge was the first graphical attempt to organise information (illustrated on back cover); Isidore’s pioneering approach to data has led to his appointment as patron saint of the Internet.

Isidore: the world map

Campbell, Earliest Maps, 80; Goff , I 184; Shirley, 1 (1472).

US$64,400

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Strabo: the world map

STRABO. RERUM GEOGRAPHICARUM LIBRI XVII…

Folio, with the world map in fine condition; 17th-century French calf with the arms of Charles IV Duke of Lorraine. Geneva, 1587.

The important first Casaubon edition of Strabo’s Geography, with Rumold Mercator’s famous double-hemisphere world map, partly based on his father Gerard Mercator’s great wall map of 1569.

Koeman, II, 281-3, 291 (Me12); Schilder, map 11; Shirley, ‘Mapping of the World’, 157; Wagner, ‘Northwest Coast’, 146.

US$45,100

[ORTELIUS] HESIOD. OPERA…

Contemporary limp vellum. Leipzig, 1572.

Early edition of Hesiod from the library of the humanist scholar and cartographer Abraham Ortelius, with his ownership signature on the title-page.

US$6400

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EARLY VOYAGES

MENDANA Y NEYRA, Álvaro de. AÑO DE 1567. RELACION DEL VIAJE QUE HIZO ALVARO DE MENDAÑA…

Folio, 18 leaves, manuscript. Spain, 1568.

Important original account of Mendaña’s voyage across the Pacific from Peru and the discovery of the Solomon Islands in 1567-8, reproduced in 18th-century manuscript from a lost 16th-century original. Phillipps MS 16179, from the private collection of the late H.P. Kraus.

US$39,400

HACKE, William. A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL VOYAGES…

Octavo, maps and plates, contemporary calf. London, 1699.

Famous collection of English buccaneers in the Pacific, prepared by William Hacke who was himself a buccaneer who made his living selling manuscript “rutters”, atlases copied from stolen Spanish “derroteros”.

US$11,500

Hill, 741; Wing, H168.

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NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de. RELACION DEL VIAJE…

With the large folding map; contemporary vellum. Madrid, 1621.

An outstanding copy of the landmark voyage of Pacific discovery to the Straits of Magellan: the first edition, notoriously difficult to find and especially so with its correct map, and a famous rarity even in the 1860s when Sabin described it as ‘one of the rarest books of its class’.

Alden, 621/90; Church, 386; Hill, 1231.

US$151,700

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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista. DELLE NAVIGATIONI ET VIAGGI‌

Three volumes, folio, with 10 maps, woodcuts in the text; 18thcentury mottled calf. Venice, 1606.

A complete set of the greatest international collection of early travels, from the library of the Earl of Bute at Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire. Several editions appeared of each volume, with new material being added; the specific editions in this set mean that it has the fullest possible text.

Church, I, 99; Wagner, Northwest Coast, pp. 43-45. US$68,900

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SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon. JOURNAL OU DESCRIPTION DU MERVEILLEUX VOYAGE DE GUILLIAUME SCHOUTEN…

Small quarto, maps and plates; morocco, gilt. Amsterdam, 1618.

First edition in French of the celebrated account of the Le Maire and Schouten expedition westward across the Pacific to the Indies, during which they discovered a new navigable passage south of Cape Horn.

Not in Landwehr, ‘VOC’; Tiele , 984; Tiele-Muller, 37.

US$31,600

SOLORZANO, Manuel de. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED…

Folio, 4 pp. manuscript. Agaña (Mariana Islands), 25 April 1684.

Solorzano, a Jesuit missionary in the Mariana Islands, gives news of the work accomplished, and discusses plans to explore and evangelise the southern continent. The plan is reminiscent of Quiros’ memorials 70years earlier. ‘We have been unable to trace whether this proposed expedition ever set sail’. (Maggs Bros, catalogue 491, item 52, this manuscript: £52 10s).

C.R. Boxer, “Three Unpublished Jesuit Letters on the Philippine and Mariana Missions, 1681-1689”, 434-442.

US$47,600

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SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal. HECHOS DE DON GARCÍA HURTADO DE MENDOÇA…

Small quarto. Madrid, 1613.

Mendaña and Quiros searching for the southern continent: the first issue of the first edition and always rare: Alexander Dalrymple said he had ‘not been able to procure a copy of Figueroa’ until, when his first volume was in the press in 1769, he acquired a copy ‘from Spain’ and was able to add the final section to his book.

Kelly, ‘Calendar’, 301; Kroepelien, 1260n; Palau, 323906.

US$72,200

TORQUEMADA, Juan de.

MONARCHIA INDIANA…

Three volumes, folding map; contemporary calf. Madrid, 1723.

Second and best edition of a book important for Pacific exploration and especially the Northwest coast and the Spanish in North America. The important map appears here for the first time.

Hill, 1707; Palau, 335033; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 525.

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CAPTAIN COOK

[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] MAGRA, James. A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN HMS ENDEAVOUR…

Quarto; contemporary calf. London, 1771.

The earliest published account of Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific, published two years before Hawkesworth’s official account of the voyage. This was the first of a series of so-called “surreptitious accounts” of Cook’s various voyages.

US$23,600

Beddie, 693; Hill, 1066; Holmes, 3.

[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] PARKINSON, Sydney. A JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS…

Quarto, map and plates; contemporary tree calf. London, 1784.

A superb tall copy in a fine contemporary binding of the wonderful handcoloured issue of Parkinson, the most beautiful of any of the English voyage accounts, complete with the famously rare “Gomeldon” pages. This is the most desirable form in which this great book can appear.

ILLUSTRATED OPPOSITE Beddie, 714; Holmes, 49.

US$94,300

[COOK: SECOND VOYAGE] WALES, William. REMARKS ON MR. FORSTER’S ACCOUNT…

Octavo; quarter calf. London, 1778.

One of the scarcest Cook publications; the ink correction on p.48 has been noted in all copies seen to date – it removes the words “and his son” from an accusation that Forster lied about the existence of calabashes on Easter Island. It may all seem rather anodyne now but it was a terrific quarrel then.

Beddie, 1292; Holmes, 30; not in catalogue of the Hill collection.

US$42,600

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[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] RICKMAN, John. JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN COOK’S LAST VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN…

Octavo, map and engravings; contemporary calf. London, 1781.

The first full account in English of Cook’s third voyage, differing from the official account, particularly about Cook’s death, for which this is a prime source. The frontispiece is the first representation of Hawaii in a printed book.

Beddie, 1607; Forbes, 33; Hill, 1453; Holmes, 38; Lada-Mocarski, 32.

US$17,200

[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] ELLIS, William. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN COOK…

Two volumes, chart and plates contemporary calf. London, 1782.

First edition: rare account of Cook’s third voyage: ‘an important supplement to the official account, which it preceded by two years’ (Forbes). The engravings, all after Ellis’s original drawings made on the voyage, include 8 of Hawaii, 2 of Alaska, and 3 of the Northwest Coast.

Beddie, 1599; Forbes, 41; Hill, 555; Holmes, 42; Lada, 35.

US$15,200

[COOK: THIRD VOYAGE] ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich.

DERNIER VOYAGE DU CAPITAINE COOK…

Octavo; a fine copy in modern French calf. Berne, 1782.

The first and best French edition of this important personal account of Cook’s third voyage, and extremely scarce. This edition contains, in addition to Zimmermann’s narrative, a life of Captain Cook adapted from the Göttingisches Magazin.

Beddie, 1629; Forbes, 47; Holmes, 44; Kroepelien, 1363.

US$22,100

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LATER VOYAGES

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques. VOYAGES PITTORESQUES DANS LES QUATRE PARTIES DU MONDE…

Two volumes, maps and plates; half morocco. Paris, 1806.

The wonderful series of 160 coloured costume plates includes nine plates depicting peoples of the Pacific islands and Kamchatka derived from the published voyage accounts of James Cook.

US$6400

Colas, 1302; Forbes, 371.

KRUSENSTERN, A.J. von. REISE UM DIE WELT…

Three volumes, duodecimo, map and plates; original boards.

Berlin, 1812.

The first popular account of the first Russian circumnavigation, important for the Marquesas and Hawaii and subsequent experiences in the western Pacific and Japan. In this edition an added section, Langsdorff’s Nachricht, describes tattooing in Nuku Hiva and the Washington islands.

Kroepelien, 691; Lada-Mocarski, 61.

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LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD…

Two volumes text, folio atlas; mottled calf. London, 1799.

Official account of the great La Pérouse expedition: the best English edition, first to contain a full translation and the complete set of images of the expedition.

From the library of the Irish Huguenot Jeremiah D’Olier, Sheriff of Dublin.

Forbes, ‘Treasures’, 27; Hill, 975; Wagner, Northwest, 837-48.

US$18,500

LA PEROUSE, Jean François de Galaup de. VIAGGIO DI LA PEROUSE INTORNO AL MONDO.

Four volumes in two, plates; quarter calf. Milan, 1815.

Quite uncommon: first Italian edition of the voyages of La Pérouse, with handcoloured plates based on the images done for the official French edition.

Ferguson, 609; Forbes, 445.

US$6100

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LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich. BEMERKUNGEN AUF EINER REISE UM DIE WELT…

Two text volumes in one, and atlas of plates. Frankfurt, 1812.

Langsdorff’s account of the Krusenstern voyage to the Pacific and Japan, in its preferred form with separate atlas, with 8 plates of the Marquesas, 5 of Japan, 3 of Alaska, and 2 of California, with the earliest known view of San Francisco.

Forbes, 427; Hill, 968; Kroepelien, 706; Lada-Mocarski, 69.

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[MARCHAND] FLEURIEU, Charles Pierre Claret de. VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE…

Five volumes and atlas; French quarter calf. Paris, 1809.

The first French commercial voyage to the Northwest coast of America, and the second French circumnavigation. This is a beautiful set of the 1809 reissue of the 1798-1800 printing with the substitution of a new title-page.

Lada-Mocarski, 54 (note); O’Reilly-Reitman, 618 (note).

US$5900

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POND, Captain B.F. WRECK OF THE BARQUE “JULIA ANN”…

Octavo, original dark roan lettered in gilt. New York, 1858.

Fine presentation copy of an exceptionally rare shipwreck account. Many passengers were Mormons sailing from Sydney for San Francisco on one of the hundreds of vessels carrying Mormon converts to America between 1840 and 1890.

Remarkably, the Julia Ann was the only such vessel to be shipwrecked with loss of life. A substantial online literature relating to the voyage is growing even now.

Sabin, 63978; not recorded by the Hill catalogue.

US$11,850

VIANA, Francisco de. DIARIO DEL TENIENTE DE NAVIO…

Octavo, presentation binding. Montevideo, 1849.

One of the rarest pieces of Pacific exploration, the first account of Malaspina’s voyage to the Northwest coast in 1791 and to Australia and the Pacific up to 1793.

This fine copy was presented to Claudio Alvar-Gonzalez (1816-1896), the “Hero of Abtao”, by the victorious fleet’s Spanish pilot Travieso.

Lada-Mocarski, 134; Palau, 361688; not in Sabin.

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VOYAGE MEDALS

[ANSON] PINGO, Thomas. COPPER MEDAL FOR THE 17401744 CIRCUMNAVIGATION…

43.3 mm.; about uncirculated. London, 1747.

Commemorating Anson’s circumnavigation and his 1747 victory at Cap Finisterre.

The interim state, with the ‘H’ altered in ‘Camphel’, but not completely effaced.

Betts, 382; Eimer, 38; Hawkins and Grueber, 325.

US$2800

[COOK] PINGO, L. SILVER ROYAL SOCIETY COOK MEDAL…

43 mm.; very good (“extremely fine”). London, 1784.

The Royal Society’s formal memorial to the great navigator. The final minting figure was probably 22 gold, 322 silver and 577 bronze medals. Beddie, 2790; Betts, 553; Klenman, K5; Milford Haven, 734.

US$7900

[COOK] SMITH, F. PORTRAIT MEDALLION OF COOK.

42 mm., a fine example. Paris (?), 1823.

Commemorative portrait medal in the “Series Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium”. Klenman, K6; not recorded by Beddie.

US$1700

[COOK] BRASS MEDAL FOR CENTENARY OF THE FIRST FLEET.

Approx 35 x 45 mm, with suspension loop. Sydney, 1888.

Scarce medal commemorating the centenary of first settlement of Australia, but honouring James Cook, though his discovery of the east coast of Australia was 119 years earlier. Beddie, 2827-9; Gullick, ‘Australian medals’, p.71. US$280

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[COOK] GREATER BRITAIN EXHIBITION. BRASS MEDAL.

31 mm. Melbourne, 1889. Celebrating the voyages of Cook and Victoria as a separate colony, struck at the Exhibition in Melbourne. Klenman, 13. US$490

[DUMONT D’URVILLE] BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE ASTROLABE VOYAGE.

50 mm., extremely fine. Paris, 1826.

Commemorating the departure on of the first voyage of the Astrolabe to the South Seas, under the command of Dumont d’Urville. Milford Haven, 190.

US$4000

[DUPERREY] BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE COQUILLE VOYAGE.

50 mm, extremely fine. Paris, 1822.

For Duperrey’s first voyage to the

Pacific, which left Toulon on 11 August 1822. Milford Haven, 189.

[DUPERREY] SILVER MEDAL FOR THE COQUILLE VOYAGE.

50 mm, very fine. Paris, 1822. medal. Milford Haven, 189.

US$3400

The rare silver issue of the Duperrey US$6200

[FREYCINET] BRONZE MEDAL FOR THE URANIE VOYAGE.

41 mm, fine. Paris, 1817.

For the sailing of the Uranie for Australia and the Pacific in 1817 under Louis de Freycinet. Milford Haven, 188.

US$4100

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HAWAII

ANDREWS, Reverend Lorrin. A VOCABULARY OF WORDS IN THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

Octavo, contemporary marbled boards. Lahainaluna, 1836.

The first comprehensive printed vocabulary of the Hawaiian language.

US$4500

Forbes, ‘Hawaiian National Bibliography’, 983.

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CHORIS, Louis. VOYAGE PITTORESQUE AUTOUR DU MONDE…

Folio, 104 coloured lithographs; half morocco. Paris, 1822.

A superb copy of this “spectacular and early lithographically illustrated travel account that has always been considered one of the most beautiful and important colour plate books of the Northern Pacific. It contains more early coloured views of Hawaii, Alaska and California than any other work of the period…” (Forbes).

Forbes, 541; Hill, 290; Lada-Mocarski, 84; Sabin, 12884.

US$184,500

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CHORIS, Louis. VUES ET PAYSAGES DES REGIONS EQUINOXIALES…

Folio, 24 coloured lithographs; half morocco. Paris, 1826.

First edition of Choris’s superb second book of views, including scenes in Brazil, Chile, Hawaii and other Pacific islands, Kamchatka, the Marianas, Manila, the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena.

Forbes, 632; Lada, 90; Sabin, 12885; not in the Hill catalogue .

US$69,700

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HAYTER, John (after). TAMEHAMEHA [AND] TAMEHAMALU OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS…

Pair of lithograph portraits, china paper mounted. London, 1824.

Moving pair of portraits depicting the handsome Hawaiian monarch and his queen during their visit to London in 1824 – the first Hawaiian royal visit overseas.

Nan Kivell & Spence, Portraits of the Famous and Infamous, p. 274. US$7800

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GEAR, J.W. THEIR MAJESTIES KING RHEO RHIO, QUEEN TAMEHAMALU, MADAME POKI‌

Fine coloured lithograph. London, 1824.

The Hawaiian royal family at the theatre, Drury Lane. Their visit to England attracted much popular attention. Sadly, a month after their visit to the New Theatre Royal, both contracted measles. The 22-year old Queen, Kamamalu died on 8 July, 1824, and the King shortly afterwards.

US$4500

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[HAWAII] BIBLE IN HAWAIIAN: NEW TESTAMENT. KE KAUOHA HOU A KO KAKOU HAKU E OLA’I, A IESU KRISTO…

Small octavo, original reverse calf. Oahu, 1835.

Rare and important: a landmark in missionary publishing in Hawaii: the first complete edition of the New Testament in the Hawaiian language, printed entirely by the Mission Press.

US$7400

Forbes, 949; Judd, 125.

[HAWAII] BIBLE IN HAWAIIAN. KA PALAPALA HEMOLELE…

Thick octavo, later half calf. Oahu and Honolulu, 1843.

The first full Hawaiian language Bible: the single volume incorporates both Old and New Testaments.

Forbes, 1416; Hunnewell, pp.24-25; Judd, 265.

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[HAWAII] KALAKAUA I, King. ROYAL ORDER OF KALAKAUA I: KNIGHT GRAND CROSS, BREAST STAR.

Breast star, blue and white enamel on silver. Paris, 1874.

Rare and splendid: the Grand Officer Star of the Royal Order of Kalakaua I, which existed for just 17 years, and was awarded to a total of 49 recipients.

US$6900

Medcalf-Russell , 2RO-4.

[HAWAII] KALAKAUA I, King. ROYAL ORDER OF KAPIOLANI: COMPANION (KNIGHT) CROSS.

Red and white enamelled silver badge. Paris, 1884.

The Companion (Knight) Cross of the Royal Order of Kapiolani, awarded only during 1884, and given to a total of just 60 recipients: used by Hawaii Post as the illustration for the $5 postage stamp in 2003.

Medcalf-Russell , RO-13.

US$5300

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TAHITI

[TAHITI] ADAMS, Henry. MEMOIRS OF ARII TAIMAI E MARAMA…

Quarto, map, (? original) glazed cloth. Paris, 1901.

Extremely scarce privately-printed history of Tahiti based on the testimony of Arii Taimai, a surviving member of the Tahitian aristocracy. ‘Very few copies were printed, and these are now mostly to be found in public institutions’ (Rolf du Rietz).

Dening, ‘Mr Bligh’s Bad Language’, pp. 277-279; Kroepelien, 4; not in the catalogue of the Hill collection; O’Reilly-Reitman, 6593.

US$3600

[TAHITI] AUTOUROU (purported author). HISTOIRE DES REVOLUTIONS DE TAITI…

Two volumes in one; contemporary French calf. Paris, 1782.

First edition, cancel title for 1782: intriguing contemporary study of Tahiti, purporting to be by Autourou, the Tahitian brought back to Paris by Bougainville.

Kroepelien, 1054; O’Reilly-Reitman, 9296.

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[TAHITI] DAVIES, John. A TAHITIAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY…

Octavo, contemporary marbled sheep. Tahiti, 1851.

First edition: a beautifully produced book, printed by the missionaries in Tahiti.

The first complete dictionary of Tahitian, this was the third dictionary printed in the Pacific (preceded by Andrews, Hawaiian Vocabulary, printed at Lahaina in 1836; and a Tongan dictionary of 1841).

Kroepelien, 1016; O’Reilly-Reitman, 5761; Taylor, p.298.

US$5900

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CHINA

GONZALEZ de MENDOZA, Juan. THE HISTORIE OF THE GREAT AND MIGHTIE KINGDOME OF CHINA…

Octavo, period style speckled calf; calf box. London, 1588.

Rare and desirable: the first book on China printed in England, and the first work in English devoted exclusively to China; from the famous library of Charles Boxer.

Lowendahl notes the book’s impact on the European imagination of China: ‘The reading public was small, and it is probably no exaggeration to say that Mendoza’s book had been read by the majority of well-educated Europeans by the end at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Its influence was naturally enormous.’ The first major survey of China, 33 editions have been identified of the book in the thirty years following its first publication: this English edition was by far the most significant. It happens to be an exceptionally rare book today.

Alden, 588/39; Church, 134; Cordier, 13; Lowendahl, 13 (Rome), 23 (Paris); Sabin, 27783 (“so rare that we have never seen it”).

US$109,900

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JIANG, Guozhang. CHUAN XING BI DU XIA JIANG TU KAO.

Two volumes; 97 pp. panorama; original case. Shanghai, [1889].

First edition of the first comprehensive survey of the ‘Three Gorges� of the Yangtze River, with a splendid 97-page panoramic pictorial birds-eye map of the river from its lower part to the upper reaches. This was the first comprehensive survey of the Three Gorges and records a section of the Yangtze which can no longer be visited since the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in 2008 closed the river to small craft navigation and obliterated entire settlements. The hugely controversial project flooded archaeological and cultural sites, displaced some 1.3 million people, and is causing significant ecological changes.

US$13,800

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SEMEDO, Alvaro. THE HISTORY OF THAT GREAT AND RENOWNED MONARCHY OF CHINA‌

Quarto, contemporary speckled calf. London, 1655.

First English edition of this important study of China, the first detailed information and the best-known description of the Manchu conquest available to Europeans during the seventeenth century.

Cordier, 25; Lowendahl, 95, 134 (other editions); Lust, 72.

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[CONCHOLOGY] ALBUM OF ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS OF SHELLS…

Watercolour drawings; original album morocco. 1825.

An exquisite album from the high-watermark of shell collecting in Europe, with over 100 fine watercolours of exotic shells, an impressive number from Indo-Pacific waters. The lettering on the spine suggests that it is a record of an individual collection assembled by one “G.C.B.”.

US$18,500

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[LONGITUDE] GREAT BRITAIN: PARLIAMENT. AN ACT FOR PROVIDING A PUBLICK REWARD…

Folio, bound with 22 other acts for the session. London, 1714.

The important first publication of the Longitude Act, here in its context in the full printing of the twenty-three Acts of the first session of parliament in 1714.

US$11,900

Horblit, 42a; Norman, 2.

[LONGITUDE] [HARRISON, John and James SHORT] A NARRATIVE OF THE PROCEEDINGS RELATIVE TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE LONGITUDE…

Octavo, a tall untrimmed copy. London, 1765.

Rare: John Harrison’s self-published pamphlet defending the success of his elegant chronometer H-4, and staking his claim to be awarded the full “Longitude Prize” of £20,000. An exact copy of H-4 would be carried on Cook’s second voyage, Cook calling it ‘our faithful guide through all the vicissitudes of climates’.

Adams & Waters, 2017; Baillie, p. 274; Crone, 557.

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US$48,000

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NADASDY, Ferencz III, Count de. MAUSOLEUM POTENTISSIMORUM AC GLORIOSISSIMORUM REGNI‌

Folio, 59 portraits; contemporary vellum. Nuremberg, 1664.

Handsome work on the Hungarian monarchy with a wonderful series of full-length heraldic portraits of kings and nobles of Hungary, sometimes with detailed views in the background of battles, landscapes, or cities. Further editions appeared in 1667 and 1758, and a modern critical edition was published in Budapest in 1991.

Apponyi, 863; Graesse, IV, 643; Lipperheide, EA 11.

US$3400

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[PORTLAND MUSEUM] SKINNER AND CO., Auctioneers. A CATALOGUE OF THE PORTLAND MUSEUM…

Quarto, annotated throughout in manuscript. London, 1786.

The most annotated copy known, including many purchasers’ names not known from the printed record of the sale. The collection is of great interest for its many hundreds of natural history lots, including an enormous collection of shells, many collected during Cook’s first voyage, and presented by Banks and Solander in person when they visited the Duchess of Portland in 1771.

Chalmers-Hunt, ‘Natural History Auctions’, p. 62; Forbes, 116.

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RUMKER, Charles (“Stargard”). PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE OF FIXED STARS…

Quarto, original cloth binding. Hamburg, 1832.

Very rare, and a foundation work of Australian science: the first Australian star catalogue, this copy inscribed by the author to the King of Hanover and Duke of Cumberland, Ernest Augustus.

Ferguson, 1588.

US$28,300

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[VOC] YK, Cornelius van. DE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPSBOUW-KONST OPEN GESTELT…

Quarto, engravings; contemporary vellum. Amsterdam, 1697.

One of the great 17th-century shipbuilding manuals and a remarkable companion to the maritime history of the VOC and the Dutch voyagers, showing how the vessels sailed by Pelsaert, Tasman and de Vlamingh were built. As the wealth of the VOC grew throughout the seventeenth century, Dutch shipbuilding thrived and won widespread acclaim. .Netherlands Scheepvaart Museum, p. 745; Cruising Association Library, 44; Landwehr, ‘VOC’, 1109.

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