[Rarebooks] OFFER: TRAVEL, SOME TITLES.

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1.	BATTY, ELIZABETH FRANCES : ITALIAN SCENERY. FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN 1817. 
Rodwell & Martin, 1820. Royal 8vo.[27 cm.], AEG, [iv] + 197 Pp. + [3, list 
of plates]; engraved title, 60 engraved views and 1 engraved vignette of 
Vesuvius; First edition. A very well chosen series of views showing scenery 
from the Alps in the north to Naples in the south by the sister of Robert 
Batty. In some cases the views were made in then unimproved locations which 
now are very close to constructed views of the scene in question. The 
plates were engraved after Batty's originals primarily by Charles Heath, 
but also by Samuel Mitan, George Corbould, Edward Finden, Robert Wallis and 
others.  According to the dedication, the descriptive texts that accompany 
each view "were written by a friend of the Publisher's," but elsewhere the 
author is described as the artist's father, Doctor Batty, to whom the book 
is dedicated. Original full calf, ruled gilt lines, a lyre and paintbrush 
in gilt in the center of each board, backstrip divided into 6 boxes, four 
of which largely filled with geometric classicising pattern, the remaining 
two with original black title and author labels. Corners worn, front hinge 
professionally repaired, TP and dedication leaf barely foxed, with a very 
rare fox mark within. The plates and text are essentially pure white and 
very clean. Armorial bookplate of Robert Fowler, Signature on front blank 
of Lucy Waterhouse, dated 1823. A Very Good copy. $1600.00

2.	BEAVER, PHILIP : AFRICAN MEMORANDA : RELATIVE TO AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH 
A BRITISH SETTLEMENT ON THE ISLAND OF BULAMA, on the western coast of 
Africa, in the year 1792 : with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, 
soil, productions, &c. and some observations of the facility of colonising 
that part of Africa, with a view to cultivation, and the introduction of 
letters and religion to its inhabitants, but more particularly as the means 
of gradually abolishing African slavery / by Captain Philip 
Beaver...  London : Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1805. [5], xv, 500 p., 
[2] Pp. of plates, plans ; and a very large folded map. 28 cm[4to]. 2 
full-page engraved plans, each with a page of descriptive text.  "In the 
end of 1791 Beaver associated himself with a scheme for colonising the 
island of Bulama on the coast of Africa, near Sierra Leone, and left 
England for that place on 14 April 1792. The whole affair seems from the 
beginning to have been conducted without forethought or knowledge. The 
would-be settlers were, for the most part, idle and dissipated. Beaver 
found himself at sea in command of a vessel of 260 tons, with 65 men, 24 
women, and 31 children, mostly sea-sick, and all equally useless. When they 
landed, anything like discipline was unattainable. The party, assembled on 
shore, proved ignorant alike of law, industry, or order. The directors lost 
heart and took an early opportunity of returning to England. The command 
devolved on Beaver, and during a period of eighteen months he endeavoured, 
by unceasing toil, to keep a little order and to promote a little industry; 
but the men were quite unfitted for the work and manner of life, and the 
greater number of them died." (DNB, 2, pp. 70-1).  Allibone I, P. 151: "An 
interesting, well written work, and of which, every page bears internal 
evidence of the strictest veracity."  Cox I, 398, Gay 3196; Brunet 28440, 
Goldsmiths-Kress Lib.of Econ. Lit. 19071.  The Kress copy lacks map and 
plans.  Modern Mbld. Bds. Calf B'strip, gilt title, raised bands, new EPs. 
Map Professionally repaired, no loss, VG.  $1250.00

3.	CARLILE, LIEUT. W. O. AND LIEUT.COL. MARTINDALE :  RECOLLECTIONS OF 
CANADA / QUEBEC.  London : Chapman and Hall, 1873, Oblong folio, 27/5 x 
37.5 cm. 54 Pp. + 25 FP lithographed plates after the author's drawings and 
watercolors.  Pub. green cloth, gilt ruled lines, pictorial, Dec. gilt snow 
shoes under and above snowy words., AEG. Spine ends Prof. Repd., a Very 
Good copy.  One of the finest picture books of the 19th  century published 
on Canadian life and the majestic scenery within which it is often carried 
out. The plates include views of Quebec, Montmorenci and Chaudière Falls, 
Prescott and St. Lewis Gate, and winter scenes of sledding, tobaganning, 
skating, and snow-shoeing. Dionne II 158, Lande S412, RLIn, 2 Locs.  An 
unfoxed copy in lovely condition.  $850.00

4.	CARNEGIE, ANDREW : ROUND THE WORLD; by Andrew Carnegie.  New York, 
[Privately Printed] New York, 1879, 223 Pp. 8vo, Inscribed : Bryce Bay Jr. 
Compliments of the Author.  The first, privately printed, edition of this 
work.  The trip took place in 1878.  It was printed privately again in 1880 
and in 1884 it was commercially produced. There were many editions through 
1933. By 1884 it had grown to 336 pages. In none of the copies noted is 
there an inscription mentioned.  Apparently he rarely inscribed this 
book.  He traveled across the U.S. from the east coast, thence to  Japan 
where this book truly begins, China, Singapore, then through to India, the 
Near East, Italy, a few words on France. Most time being spent on the Far 
and Near East.  RLIn, 4 Locs [Bancroft, Cal.State Lib., Brown, Penn 
State].  Pub. cloth, black and gold stamped, corners bumped, spine above 
the book block at top lacking, OW Good.  $ 575.00

5.	CELSIUS, OLOF  AND WAHLSTEDT, JACOB J.  :  ITER IN AMERICAM, annuente 
ampliss. sen. philos. Upsaliensi,  submoderamine ... Olavi Celsii ... pro 
laurea philosophica  publico examini subjicit Jacobus J. Wahlstedt, Westm. 
In  Auditorio Gustaviano majori, die xxv. maji, anno MDCCXXV: Upsaliæ, 
Literis Wernerianis, 1725 . 48 Pp., 17 cm.   The Norse discovery and 
exploration of America taken from manuscript and printed sources in 
Icelandic and old Norse.  Only Edition. This was Wahlstedt's thesis, he 
worked under the supervision of Celsius.  OCLC, 5 Locs [NYP, LNN, HLS, MHS, 
PSV]; Howes W 15,  Sabin 106960, noting also the Hispanic Society copy. 
Sabin quotes the Brinley catalog which said " 
on the evidences of visits 
of the Norsemen to America."  Once bound in marbled wraps, now gone and it 
is as it was, only without them. It is in near Fine condition with 
contemporary ink emendations to sources quoted and corrections to the text. 
These must have been made by the first owner  "Carl J. Fries", who has 
signed his name at the bottom of the title page. $1075.00

6.	CUBBIN, THOMAS : THE WRECK OF THE SERICA : A Personal Narrative of Peril 
and Adventure.  By her Captain, Thomas Cubbin. London, Simpkin, Marchall & 
Co., Liverpool, Edward Howell, Church Street, Douglas, Mylrea & Allen, 
1870. 12mo, iv, 212Pp.  OCLC, Finding  the 1950 limited reprint only, in 30 
locations! Not in COPAC. It and the BL have only the 1950 reprint. There 
must be one other copy, since the reprint was made. But, it seems, only 
one! Not in Cox or Work. A classic of a wreck on the shores of Madagascar, 
with a good deal about Madagascar native peoples, their culture, and 
interaction with the survivors. Including an eyewitness account of a slave 
sale and other observations. It is unusual in that Cubbin, the captain was 
accompanied by his wife and children.  The experience was disastrous for 
her health. It is a very rare book of interest as a tale of the sea and as 
an account of Madagascar in the nineteenth century.  In original cloth, 
gilt and black stamped Dec. covers, a Very Good copy, and apparently only 
the second known!  $1250.00

7.	FREDERICK [NEUHOFF, FREDERIC DE']  : THE DESCRIPTION OF CORSICA, with an 
Account of its Union to the Crown of Great Britain : Including the life of 
General Paoli, and the memorial presented to the National assembly of 
France, upon the forests in that island. With a plan highly beneficial to 
both states, illustrated with a map of Corsica ... / By Frederick, son of 
the late Theodore, King of Corsica.  London : Printed for G.G. and J. 
Robinson ..., 1795.[iii]-viii, 211, [1] p., [1] folded leaf : ill., map ; 
22 cm. (8vo). The original appeared under the title "Memoires pour sevir a 
l'histoire de la Corse [DNB]." One of the earliest complete accounts of the 
island, historically, geographically and politically. It is preceded by 
perhaps three works in English including Frederick's 1768 work of 170 Pp. 
It deals not only with the political and military history of the island, 
but also with its resources and economic circumstances and potential, 
economically for the future. Cox I, 165, Lowndes P. 748. The Corsica 
described, is that on which Napoleon lived before he chose the army as a 
career. Its circumstances shed life on his character since it deals with 
the very period while he was growing up on the island.  RlIN finds 3 
copies, OCLC, 15 Locs. But paper copies are lacking in many major research 
libraries. Ownership signature of Wm. M. Bushell, 1828, on TP. Original 
calf, Mro. label, gilt, minor hinge repairs, a Very Good copy.  $675.00

8.	[FULBERT]: DIX ANS DANS L'INDE.  Saigon: Imprimerie Rey & Curiol 
(1887).  [ii] + 118 pp.  9 inches tall, in pale green wraps. The author 
spent his time in Pondicherry usefully. He became acquainted with Indian 
religion and literature, customs and its economy. He begins with a 
historical sketch of Pondicherry under the French. Later with Hindu 
religion and literature as well as the caste system. He describes life in 
Pondicherry, for example, spending a chapter on the Bazaar and its 
importance in local life. He ends with his consideration of "The Men and 
Women of the East." Because of our author's serious consideration 
of  Indian theology and the attributes and character of  its gods and 
heros, and of the caste system, his consideration of individual men and 
women is more important and worth reading, both for its biases and its 
clarity. No copy found in OCLC, COPAC,BL, Cc de F. BN, KVK. A very rare 
account of the last years of French administered Pondicherry. Near Fine, 
with the backstrip chipped. $750.00

9.	INNES, EMILY : THE CHERSONESE WITH THE GILDING OFF. London, Bentley, 
1885. 2 Vols., plates and other illustrations. This is a riposte to Isablla 
Bird's "The Golden Chersonese and the way thither," of 1883, which just 
loved the Malays and their home. Innes was the wife of "The Magistrate and 
collector for the Malay native states." They lived at Langsat and she tried 
to maintain a British Victorian establishment using Malays as servants and 
lviing in the tropics with her husband and children.  She hated it all. 
Could not stand and did not try to understand how Malays lived, went to 
market, bought and sold, treated each other and other people. She thought 
it was all just so awful and is full of the specifics of the whole "mess". 
It is the kind of book which unwittingly shows the difference between Malay 
manners, customs and prejuduces and those of the British, which are front 
and center, of course. It is the book you love to hate if you are a Malay 
or happen to know them "at home" and love them. There are 16 copies noted 
in OCLC, but it is rare on the market. In original green cloth, gilt, near 
Fine copies. $875.00

10.	MARTIN, BARNARDIN :  VOYAGES FAITS EN DIVERS TEMPS EN ESPAGNE, EN 
PORTUGAL, EN ALLEMAGNE, WN FRANCE, et ailleurs: Amsterdam : George 
Gallet,1699. [6], 295 p., [13] leaves of plates[Etchings] : ill. ; 16 cm. 
Signatures: 4 A-M12 N4, Title page printed in red and black.  A very well 
illustrated book in the mannerist style. Two plates contrasting bull fights 
in Spain and Portugal are included.  Other significant plates include one 
of a procession through the streets in Spain, and others of landed estates. 
Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.), 153564; OCLC: 34354194 no locations of this First 
Edition, but 5 of the second of 1700, 2 in the US [HHG, CUS] and 3 at [QE2, 
ERL, EQO]in Europe and Canada.  KVK, unnoted except for the BL, but there 
is a second copy at the BN. Original full calf, complex Dec. gilt, spine, 5 
raised bands, ruled and crible` lines, fleurettes in each box except for 
the red Mro. title label, gilt. A near fine copy. $1375.00

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