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The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books.

Hughes, Griffith London: Printed for the Author, 1750. First edition, large paper issue. Folio (15 3/4" x 10 1/2", 404mm x 260mm). With 31 engraved plates; a double-page engraved map of Barbados, and 30 engraved plates of fruits, flowers, and marine life. Bound in contemporary mottled calf. Decorative gilt border with red morocco and gilt armorial inlays at the corners. Rebacked with the original backstrip laid down. On the spine, gilt lettering and six raised bands. Dentelles inside and red speckled edges to the text block. Extremities and hinges worn, tears to the spine. Foxing and offsetting throughout. Griffith Hughes (1707?-after 1750) was a Welsh naturalist and clergyman. Hughes was sent to Pennsylvania to lead several Welsh congregations in the colony. In 1736, he was assigned to St. Lucy's parish in Barbados, where he studied plants and wildlife. Over twelve years residing on the island, Hughes developed a thorough understanding of its trees and plants. The Natural History of Barbados was the first book to describe the grapefruit, calling it the "Forbidden-Fruit-Tree" and to coin the phrase "yellow fever." The work was printed in both large and small paper copies. The volume contains a list of subscribers, including the Prince of Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke of Orleans. The position of the list of subscribers varies between copies with this one placed after the dedication leaf. Each plate is dedicated to a patron or subscriber, including a coat of arms. There is a head-engraving of Bridge-Town and woodcuts throughout. As a religious man, Hughes introduced some sacred texts in his descriptions of the flora and fauna. His cartographer was Thomas Jeffreys (1719-1771), geographer to the Prince of Wales, with engravings after art by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1710-1770). Hunt asserts that "the book is one to place beside Catesby's Natural History (1731[-47])." After returning from the Americas, Hughes received his BA from St. John's College, Oxford in 1748, and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. Although he was praised by Linnaeus and multiple sources, some have questioned his accuracy as a botanist. Hunt: 536. Nissen: 950. Pritzel: 4319. Sabin: 33582.
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The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland.

Moore, Thomas: ed. John Lindley, illust. Henry Bradbury London: Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars, 1855. First edition. Large Folio (22" x 14 1/2", 560mm x 370mm). With 51 nature-printed plates, all printed in color by Bradbury & Evans with tissue guards. Bound in brown half morocco over brown cloth boards. On the spine, gilt, five raised bands with title gilt to the second panel. Marbled endpapers. Gift inscription to the top recto of the half-title page "Julia Rar from Edward Rar 1903." Extremities and raised bands worn, with scratching and discoloration to the back board. Foxing and offsetting throughout. This is "the first English attempt at applying Nature-Printing to Botanical Sciences," according to the editor John Lindley in the Preface. Henry Bradbury (1831-1860) was the eldest son of William Bradbury of Bradbury & Evans. He learned nature-printing (the technique of taking impressions from leaves, plants, and other life-forms and making a printing-plate from this impression) while studying at the Imperieal Printing Office in Vienna. Alois Auer, the director, had patented the process with his associate Andres Worring in October 1852. Bradbury returned to London, where he patented an improved version of the process. The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was first issued in 17 monthly parts between June 1855 and September 1856. The text by Thomas Moore (1821-1887), curator of the Chelsea botanic garden and co-editor of Gardener's Chronicle, was edited by eminent botanist and horticulturalist John Lindley (1799-1865). Bradbury committed suicide at age 29. He left behind two unrealised nature-printing projects on fungi and trees.
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Desseins de Cheminées Dediez a Monsieur Jules Hardouin Mansard Conseiller du Roy en tous ses Conseits, Chevalier de l”Ordre de S. Michel, Comte de Sagone, surjntendant et Ordona general des Batiments, Arts et Manufactures de sa Majesté, Inventez par son tres humble et tres obeissant Serviteur Berain Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi.

Bérain, J. [Paris] : Se vend chez Monsieur Thuret aux Galleries du Louvre, [ca. 1711?]. Oblong folio (13 1/4" x 16", 335mm x 405mm). With 15 engraved plates. Bound in quarter red morocco over marbled paper boards. On the spine, gilt decorative vine pattern. Title gilt to red morocco panel on the front board. Hinges worn and extremities rubbed. Jean Bérain the Elder (1640-1711) was a French draughtsman, designer, painter and engraver of ornament. Born in Austria, he was active in Paris, and was appointed royal designer to King Louis XIV in 1674. His style of light arabesques and playful grotesques was influential, used for Boulle marquetry, tapestries, furniture, costumes and festivals, leading to the European Rococo style. Each engraving has two designs for chimneys, some with a narrow, vertical wall panel in between. The plates are listed with numbers and letters, including some duplicates. They are likely a subset of a larger series of ornament designs dated 1700-1708. 11 prints are signed in the plate by Bérain, as the designer and G. I. B. Scotin (1698-1755), as the etcher. The publisher Jacques Thuret (1669-1738) was Berain's son-in-law. The dedicatee, Jules Houdouin-Mansard (1646-1708) was the celebrated architect of Louis XIV.
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A Voyage to the South Sea, undetaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in his Majesty’s ship the Bounty, Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the Mutiny on Board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the friendly islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. The whole illustrated with charts, &c.

Bligh, William THE LAIRD U. PARK, JR. COPY. London: George Nicol, 1792. First edition. Folio (11 3/4"x 9 3/8", 298mm x 240mm). With 8 engraved plates: portrait of William Bligh to the frontispiece, and 7 engraved plates of plans and charts (5 folding). Bound in modern quarter black calf over marbled paper boards. On the spine, five raised bands. Title and author gilt to tan morocco in the second panel. All edges of the text block gilt. A little faint rubbing to the extremities. Off-setting around the engravings. Foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Large closed tear in the plate of Otaheite. Vice-Admiral William Bligh (1754-1817) was an officer of the Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. The mutiny on the HMS Bounty occured in 1789 under his command. The mutineers, led by Master's Mate Fletcher Christian, set him and 18 loyal men adrift in an open launch in uncharted waters. Astoundingly, they all managed to reach Timor alive, after a journey of 3,618 nautical miles. "One of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history." (Hill) This is Bligh's official account of the mutiny, based on his journals. His original mission had been to collect bread-fruit trees from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies. They were intended to feed a growing slave population. Born in Philadelphia, LAIRD U. PARK, JR. (1922-2001) graduated from Princeton with a degree in engineering in 1947, after serving in WWII. He began his career in pharmacology and went on to manufacture laboratory equipment with Troemer, Inc. Purchased from his sale (the "Americana Library of Laird U. Park, Jr."), Sotheby's New York 29 November 2000, lot 33. Hill 135, Sabin 5910.
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A Treatise on Forest-Trees: containing not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto practised, but a Variety of new and useful Discoveries, the result of many repeated Experiments: as also, Plain Directions for removing most of the valuable Kinds of Forest-Trees, to the Height of Thirty Feet and upwards, with certain Success; and, On the same principles, (with equal Success) for transplanting Hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added, Directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of Hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five Years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh.

Boutcher, William Dublin: William Wilson and John Exshaw, 1776. First Dublin edition. Octavo (8"x 4 3/4", 205mm x 120mm) With one engraved plate. Bound in full calf. On the spine, five raised bands with author and title gilt to red morocco in second panel. Extremities worn. Hinges worn and starting at top and bottom. Stains and scratches to the boards and spine. Some toning. Engraved plate of transverse of the ditch and gripe (page 258). William Boutcher (1734-1781) was an active nurseryman and gardener, working with some of the great Scottish landowners and horticulturalists. The Treatise on Forest-Trees is a work born of real experience in the cultivation and maintenance of forests and hedges; Henrey calls it the best arboricultural book of its century. Arboreta and pineta were a great rage in the stately homes of Britain in the Georgian and Regency periods; available only to those with considerable estates. Carefully managed forests of prized specimens were ornaments of erudition surpassing a landscaped pleasure-park. Henrey 1377.
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Birds of the Bahama Islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species.

Cory, Charles B. THE BRADLEY-MARTIN COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Boston: Charles B. Cory, 1880. First edition. Quarto. With 8 lithographed plates. Bound in the publisher's brown pictorial cloth gilt with beveled edges. On the spine, title and author gilt. Extremities and hinges worn. Head of spine starting. A piece of the tail lacking. Sunning to the bottom of the front board and to the spine. Two of the plates (Plumbous Thrush and Bahama Finch) laid in loose. Bookplate of H. Bradley Martin to the front paste-down. Montague Chamberlain Collection bookplate partially obliterated. Presentation inscription by the author on the recto of the second free endpaper dated 1882. "6908" in ink manuscript to the copyright (verso of the title-page). Charles Barney Cory (1857-1921), was born to a wealthy family in Boston and took up ornithology at age 16. He made many trips to the Bahama Islands studying birds and collaborating with other ornithologists. This collection presents over 140 species. Cory was appointed honorary curator of the Field Museum in Chicago in 1893. Montague Chamberlain (1844-1924) was a Canadian naturalist, ethnographer, and amateur ornithologist. In 1883, he co-founded the American Ornthological Union, to which Cory belonged. H. Bradley Martin was one of the greatest book collectors of the twentieth century, collecting broadly and the best, particularly in ornithology. Purchased at his sale, Sotheby's New York, December 12-13 1989, Part V: lot 1483.
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A Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana, the southern part of the State of Mississippi, and territory of Alabama; presenting a view of the soil, climate, animal, vegetable, and mineral productions; illustrative of their natural physiognomy, their geographical configuration, and relative situation: with an account of the character and manners of the inhabitants. Together with a map, from actual survey and observation, projected on an scale of ten miles to an inch, of the sate of Louisiana, and adjacent countries. Second edition, enlarged and improved.

Darby, William New-York: James Olmstead, 1817. Second edition. Octavo (8 3/8" x 5", 213mm x 127mm). With two engraved folding maps. Frontispiece map of Mississippi and Alabama, black and white with color tinting on borders; black and white chart of Alabama bays (opposite p. 316). Bound in sprinkled calf. On the spine, gilt with author and title gilt to black morocco in second panel. Extremities worn. Hinges of head of spine starting with head worn. Foxing and toning throughout. William Darby (1775-1854) was an American geographer and cartographer of Irish descent, born in Pennsylvania. In 1799, he settled in Missippi and ran a cotton plantation. After five years, he left plantation life to become a U. S. surveyor. During the War of 1812, he served under Andrew Jackson in Louisiana. This second addition of his description contains new information collected by the author and corrects errors from the first edition. This edition encompases Alabama and Mississippi whereas the first only covered Louisiana. Sabin 18529.
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Dictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin, Publié après L’Ordre de sa Majesté L’Empereur et Roi Napoléon le Grand

Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1813. First edition in a western language. Folio (17 3/8" x 11 1/4", 441mm x 286mm). Bound in modern quarter blue calf over marbled paper boards (re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down). On the spine, six raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel. All edges of the text-block marbled. Marbled paste-downs. Re-backed, with most of the original back-strip laid down. Extremities lightly rubbed. Ownership inscription to the recto of the third front free end paper: "Natalis Rondot. 1847." Shelfmark to the top right of the same page "1852. R. 1039." Some ink marginalia and intralinear notes, with several Chinese characters corrected or rewritten. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (1759-1845) was the son of a great orientalist, sinologist and professor of Syriac. In 1783, he was the attaché to the consulate of Canton, and spent 17 years in China. This was the most complete dictionary of its kind in Europe, as well as a master-piece of typography. It was written from the Chinese-Latin dictionary of the Franciscan Basilius a Glemona, which remained in manuscript and reprodued more than 14,000 Chinese characters from the matrices engraved under the direction of Étienne Fourmont a century earlier. Fourmont (1683-1745) was a French scholar and orientalist, who published grammars on the Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese languages. Natalis Rondot (Lyon, 1821-1900) was a French economist, art historian, and numismatist, who participated in the first commercial mission in China from 1844-1846. He negotiated commercial treaties in China, India, Indochina, Malasia and Africa, and was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1847.
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The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Plants.

Catesby London: W. Innys, R. Manby, and F. Hauksbee, 1731-1743. Two volumes. Folio (20 3/8" x 14"). First edition. Text in English and French, title-pages printed in red and black, dedication leaves in both volumes, "Preface" bound in at the beginning of volume one, first issue of list of "Encouragers" with 154 names bound in at the beginning of volume II, page numbers of 20 pages of text at the beginning of volume II corrected by hand as usual (bound without the Index, or the 44-page "Account"). With 200 hand-colored engraved plates heightened with gum arabic (vol. I, pll. 23 & 24 heightened gilt), and a double-page engraved map. Bound in contemporary mottled calf (re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down) with the armorial supra-libros gilt of the 1st Duke of Sutherland within the Order of the Garter to the front board. On the spine, 7 raised bands, title gilt to morocco in the second panel, volume gilt to the third. Re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down. Extremities and hinges worn, bands rubbed, covers scuffed. Some foxing and off-setting throughout. Engraved bookplates of the Marquis de Cortanvaux on the front paste-down of each volume, and his ink library stamps on each title-page and the verso of the last leaf in each volume. Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was an English naturalist, who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. He drew and engraved most of his illustrations himself for accuracy and economy. He writes in the preface that he believes the illustration to surpass the description in importance, and it is those illustrations that made the Natural History popular enough to go into two further eighteenth-century editions as well as continental piracies. Catesby's style might seem naïve, but they considerably surpass the stiff -- heraldic, even -- illustrations -- especially of birds -- that had come before. His juxtaposition of fauna against flora, bringing a sense of landscape as well as behavior, was groundbreaking, and of great influence on his successors, especially Audubon. Originally issued in parts, with the preliminary leaves, including the dedication leaves, the Preface, the list of "Encouragers", the map, the Index to the whole work, and the 44-page "Account" of the country, all issued in 1743 with the last part. It is often the case that some of these leaves are absent, or that they are found bound within the second volume, as is the case with the list of "Encouragers" here. Francis Caesar de Tellier, Marquis de Courtanvaux (1718-1781), came from an aristocratic French family and joined the army at age 15. He became a scientist, and later assembled a library of travel accounts, including his reviews. The present item is listed in his library of 1782, as item 676. The supra-libros is that of George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland (1758-1833), Knight of the Garter from 1771. He was a British politician, diplomat and patron of the arts.
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The Wonders of the Heavens, being a Popular View of Astronomy, including a full illustration of the Mechanism of the Heavens; embracing the Sun, Moon, and Stars, with descriptions of the Planets, Comets, Fixed Stars, Double Stars, the Constellations, the Galaxy or Milky-Way, the Zodiacal Light, Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, Meteors, Clouds, Falling Stars, Aerolites, &c. Illustrated by Numerous Maps and Engravings.

Bradford, Duncan Boston: American Stationers Company, 1837. First edition. Large quarto (12 3/4" x 10 1/2", 325mm x 270mm). With 14 engravings; 2 frontispieces of a telescope and the zodiac, 6 showing phases of the moon, and 6 folded, hand-colored zodiac signs and celestial charts. Quarter black sheep (re-backed, with the back-strip replaced by grey cloth) over marbled paper boards. On the spine, title and author on a paper label. Marbled endpapers. Wear to the extremities, with some scuffing to the boards. Foxing and offsetting throughout. Damp-stains to fore-edge, though largely not affecting the text. Pressed leaves between pages 30/31. Ownership signature in pencil "A. J. Copeland/ 1842" on recto of second free endpaper. In this early American guide to astronomy, Duncan Bradford sought to make the topic more approachable to the average reader. Although he drew from complicated, existing treatises, he used simple language and interesting information to appeal to a broader audience, including beautiful illustrations of the zodiac and phases of the moon.
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Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le journal historique d’un Voyage fait part ordre du Roi dans l’Amérique Septentrionnale. Par le P. De Charlevoix, de la Compagnie de Jesus.

Charlevoix, Pierre François Xavier de, P(ére) Paris: Chez Nyon Fils, 1744. 6 vol. Second edition in this format. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 3 3/4", 164mm x 95mm). Title-pages in red and black. With 28 folding engraved maps and 44 folding engraved botanical plates. Bound in 20th-century polished tan calf with triple gilt filet borders. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel, author and number gilt to red morocco in the third. Publication date gilt to the tail. Double gilt fillets to the edges of the boards. Gilt inside dentelle. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block gilt. A few spots to the covers. Light off-setting around the engravings. The French government sent the French Jesuit priest, traveler and historian Father Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761) to explore the New World. After the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, ending the War of Spanish Succession, the French dispatched Pere Charlevoix to recommend boundaries for Arcadia (present day New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Island roughly). The particular division of territory had important ramifications on trade and tribal politics. To that mission was added the Duc d'Orléans's quest for a maritime connection between the Great Lakes and the Pacific (the mythical "mer de l'Ouest"). These twin pursuits led Charlevoix through America, southward along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers until he reached New Orleans in 1722. In the great Jesuit tradition, Charlevoix was careful in his work, gathering and citing primary documents and objects. The great number of his observations are first-hand, or at most second-hand. The maps are no exception; most were drawn by Nicholas Bellin (1703-1772), and reflect discoveries right up to 1743. Bellin was a French hydrographer, geographer, and later chief cartographer to Louis XV. (Parke-Bernet 2717-43 5/29/68. PBA Galleries 752-17, 10/29/2015. Howes C307. Sabin 12136.
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world; in which the coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and acurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command, principally with a view to ascertain the exisitence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver

Vancouver, George London: G. G. and J. Robinson; and J. Edwards, 1798. 3 volumes (of 4; lacking the atlas). First edition. Quarto (11 5/8" x 9", 295mm x 230mm). With 17 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary half tree calf over marbled boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Author and title gilt to orange morocco in the second panel, number gilt to circular orange morocco in the fourth. All edges of the text-block marbled. Rubbed, with patches of wear at the extremities. Hinges starting. Faint foxing throughout and offsetting around plates. Remnants of a bookplate to the front paste-down of each volume. Manuscript shelf-marking ("N/II-11., -12., -13.") to the front paste-down of each volume. The voyage of Vancouver ranks with those of Cook (with whom he sailed) and of La Perouse and became one of the most important made in the interests of geographical knowledge. The H.M.S. Discovery was commissioned in 1790 with George Vancouver (1757-1798) in command. He had sailed with Cook on his second and third voyages (1772-1774 and 1776-1780) and was made commander of a grand-scale expedition to reclaim Britain's rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention, at Nootka Sound. He thoroughly examined the coast south of 60 degrees North latitude in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic, and to learn what establishments had been founded by other powers. His assignment was both diplomatic and exploratory. Purchased at Bonham's New York, 10 December 2014, lot 58. Hill 1753; Howes V 23; Sabin 98443.
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Voyage de Découvertes, a L’Océan Pacifique du nord, et autour du monde, Entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté britannique; Exécuté, pendant les années 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 et 1795, par le Capitaine George Vancouver; Traduit de l’anglais par P. F. Henry; Et accompagné d’un Atlas composé de diverses planches et de cartes géographiques

Vancouver, George Paris: Didot Jeune, 1802. Octavo. (8 3/8" x 5 1/2," 215mm x 140mm). 5 voll. lacking vol. 4. French octavo edition. Complete atlas volume with 17 views and 9 maps of which 8 fold out, all engraved by Tardieu. Bound in marbled paper wrappers. On the spine of vol. I, author to a paper label on volume; number in red crayon to all volumes. Armorial bookplate to the front paste-down of each volume. Extremities worn, with some splits to the hinges. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Very little foxing, except for the atlas volume. Plate IX bound in upside-down. The voyage of Vancouver ranks with those of Cook (with whom he sailed) and of Lapérouse and became one of the most important voyages made in the interests of geographical knowledge. The H.M.S. Discovery was commissioned in 1790 with George Vancouver (1757-1798) in command. He had sailed with Cook on his second and third voyages (1772-1774 and 1776-1780) and was made commander of a grand-scale expedition to reclaim Britain's rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention, at Nootka Sound. He thoroughly examined the coast south of 60 degrees North latitude in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic, and to learn what establishments had been founded by other powers. His assignment was both diplomatic and exploratory. The voyage was initially published in English, Vancouver being a British citizen and acting on behalf of the crown. Lapérouse was French and so, despite the ongoing conflicts between the English and French, the market in France for the results of his explorations was robust enough to justify a translation. Bonham's 25263-58 (2019). Sabin 98441
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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world; in which the coast of North-west America has been carefully examined and acurately surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command, principally with a view to ascertain the exisitence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery Sloop of War, and Armed Tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver

Vancouver, George London: G. G. and J. Robinson; and J. Edwards, 1798. 3 voll. (lacking the atlas). First edition. Folio. (11 1/2" x 9 1/8", 295mm x 230mm ) With 18 engravings: 17 landscapes and one map. Bound in straight-grained red morocco gilt. Borders and fleurons gilt to the boards with gilt inside dentelles. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel, number gilt to the fourth. All edges of the text-block gilt. Green marbled end-papers. Red marking ribbon. Armorial bookplate of Arthur Scott of Rotherfield, to all three front pastedowns. Extremities and hinges worn. Skinning to the edges of the boards. Foxing and offsetting around the engravings. The H.M.S. Discovery was commissioned in 1790 with George Vancouver(1757-1798) in command. He had sailed with Cook on his second and third voyages (1772-1774 and 1776-1780) and was made commander of a grand-scale expedition to reclaim Britain's rights, resulting from the Nootka Convention, at Nootka Sound, to thoroughly examine the coast south of 60 degrees North latitude in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic, and to learn what establishments had been founded by other powers. His assignment was diplomatic and exploratory. The voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge. Hill 1753; Howes V 23; Lada-Mocarski 55; Lande 1495; Sabin 98443; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 688; Wagner I, pp. 239-50.
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  • $15,000