[Rarebooks] FS: Early North Pole, Alaska, & the first portrait of Mozart

[charles agvent]

               BARRINGTON,  Daines.  MISCELLANIES. London:  J.  Nichols
          1781. First  Edition.  Quarto  (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"),  uncut  at
          fore and  bottom  edges, bound in later green  boards  backed
          with tan  cloth  and a morocco gilt-lettered  spine  label. A
          curious  and compelling collection illustrated with two maps,
          two portraits,  and five charts. Hill p. 15; Howes B-177; New
          Howes B-173   "dd";  Sabin  3628;   Streeter  2445.  Includes
          "Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America,
          Northward  of  California,"  with map,  which,  according  to
          Lada-Mocarski  34, is the first and only contemporary account
          in English  of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan  waters.
          Also included  are the important essay on "The Possibility of
          Approaching  the  North Pole," first published separately  in
          1775-76  and  not published again until 1818, and one of  the
          earliest  accounts  in English, reprinted from a 1770  volume
          of Philosophical  Transactions, of the young Mozart  complete
          with an  engraving  of the musician at the age of seven,  the
          first published   portrait  of  the   prodigy.  Other  essays
          include  a  treatise on whether the Turkey was  known  before
          the discovery  of America as well as essays on the  reindeer,
          the bat,  the cuckoo, and botanical subjects. It is  believed
          that through  Barrington's  encouragement, Gilbert White  was
          induced  to  write  the NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.  A  Near
          Fine, large and largely unopened copy.               $3000

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