[Rarebooks] FS: First Published Portrait of Mozart & First Spanish Voyage into Alaskan waters, 1781

[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.                                                         $3000.00

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