THE COLCHESTER-STREETER-BENTTINEN COPY London: for the author, 1775. First edition. Quarto (10 ¼” x 8”, 260mm x 203mm): π2 a–b4 c2 B–C4 D2 E2(–E2), 2B–K4 L2 M4 N2, +χ1 3A2 B–D2, A–D2 +2χ1 4B–D2 E2(–E2) [$half signed]. 92 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, contents, blank) 1–19 [1] (blank) 21–22, 31–88 [2] (section.....
Ex-coll. Dr. FREDERICK BAKER, CO-FOUNDER of the SAN DIEGO ZOO and the SCRIPPS INSTITUTE of OCEANOGRAPHY Paris: Panckoucke, 1791. First edition. Quarto (12 3/8” x 9”, 311mm x 232mm): π2 a4 A-K4 L2 [$2 signed]. 48 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank, title, blank) i ii-viij 1 2-83 [1] (blank).....
Portsmouth: 1902. Folio (12 1/2” x 8 ¼”, 315mm x 210mm): 91 leaves, pp. [176] (1 pp. obscured by title-page, 175 pp. log of the H.M.S. Glory) [6] (6pp. blank). With a pictorial title-page and 68 finely drawn ink and watercolor maps, track charts, and illustrations of the ship's mechanical.....
Linschoten, Jan Huygen van. Itinerarium, Ofte Schip-vaert naer Dost ofte Portugaels Indien. Inhoudende een beschrijvinghe dier Landen, Zee-kusten, havens, Rivieren, Hoecken ende plaetsen, met de gedenck-weerdighste Historien der selver, Hier zijn by ghevoeght de Conterfeytsels van de Habijten ofte Drachten, so van de Portugesen aldaer residerende, als van de in-ghebooren.....
A SHIPBOARD COPY OF THE ENGLISH PILOT USED BY AMERICAN CAPTAINS IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN GOLDEN ... Shewing The Courses and Distances from on Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary.....
Two volumes in one. London: the author; John Nourse; Thomas Payne; Peter Elmsley, 1770–1771. First edition. Quarto (10 1/16” x 8 3/8”, 268mm x 213mm): binder’s blank, π4 a–c4 B–D4 2B–D4 3B–Dd4; 2π2 4B–L4 4M2 4N–R4 5B–C4 5D2 †A4 2†A4 2†B2 *A–*E4 binder’s blank [$2 signed; –2M2, 5D2, 2†B2]. 248.....
AN UNRECORDED FRENCH EDITION PRESENTED TO THE MATHEMATICIAN ÉMILE PICARD Le Grand & Nouveau miroir ou Flambeau, De la Mer contenant la description de toutes les Costes Marines Occidentalles & Septentrionalles, desmonstrant en plusieurs Cartes tres necessaire tous les ports, fleuves, bayes Rades, profondeurs & bancs chascun tres exactement couché.....
The mariners plain scale new plain’d: or, A treatise shewing the ample Uses of a Circle equally divided, or of a Line of chords and equal Parts, Divided into Three Books or Parts. Being contrived to be had either alone, or with the other Parts.I. The first containing Geometrical Rudiments.....
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THE BAILLIE-HADDINGTON-BENTTINEN COPY London: George Goulding, 1789. First edition. Quarto (11” x 8 15/16”, 280mm x 211mm): a4 b-d4, A-Yy4, 2A-F4 [$2 signed; –B-Z2, Pp2]. 220 leaves, pp. i-v (half-title, blank, title, blank, dedication) vi-xxix, [3] (blank, errata, to the binder), 1 2-360;.....
Paris: Le Breton for Saillant & Nyon, 1771. First edition. Quarto (9 3/16” x 7 7/8”, 250mm x 189mm): 2 binder’s blanks, π4 A-Fff4 Ggg2, 2 binder’s blanks [$2 signed; +A3]. 214 leaves, pp. [8] (half-title, blank, title, blank, 3pp. dedication, blank (save catchword)), 1-417, [3] (errata, to the binder.....
Four volumes. New York: Tiebout and O’Brien for Benajmin Gomez, 1796. First expanded American edition. Octavo in 4s (8 1/16” x 4 ¾”, 205mm x 122mm).Vol. I: a2(–a1) b12 c-d4 e2(–e2), B-E4 F4(–F4) G-3A4 3B2 [$2 signed; –Z2; D2 mis-signed as “C2”, L2 mis-signed as “K 2”, Gg1 mis-signed “Ff”].....
Venice: Aurelio Pincio for Gioanbattista Pedrezano, 1554. First Italian edition, first issue. Octavo (8 3/16” x 5 7/8”, 208mm x 150mm): a8 b4 (b4 blank) A-Q8 R10(–R10 blank) [$4 signed; –a1]. 149 leaves, foll. [12] (title, blank, 4pp. dedication to King Philip of Spain, 4pp. dedication to Stephano Thiepo, 5pp.....
THE BENTTINEN COPY OF THE FINEST ISSUE ENTIRELY UNOPENED IN PUBLISHER’S BOARDS Three volumes in one. Weimar: Gebrüder Hoffmann, 1821. First edition in German, issue A. Quarto (11” x 8 7/8”, 283mm x 226mm): π2 2π1 *4 **4 **2(+χ1) 14 2-114 124(122+2χ1) 13-204 21-222; 214(±211) 22-224; 314(±311+3π1) 32-284 3292(3292+3χ1 (folding)).....
A COOK FAMILY SET THE COMPLETE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN COOK “THE BASIS FOR ANY COLLECTION OF PACIFIC BOOKS” First Voyage: Hawkesworth, John. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Willis, Captain.....
Tre Navigationi fatte dagli Olandesi, e Zelandesi Al Settentrione nella Norvegia, Moscovia, e Tartaria verso il Catai, e Regno de’ Sini, dove scopersero il Mare di Veygatz, La Nuova Zembla, Et un Paese nell’ Ottantesimo grado creduto la Groenlandia. Con una descrittione di tutti gli accidenti occorsi di giorno in.....
Six volumes. Paris: Didot jeune, An X (i.e., 1801/2). Second edition in French. Octavo (7 11/16” x 4 ¾”, 196mm x 121mm).Vol. I: π6 1-218 224 (224 blank) [$1 signed; 1 mis-signed “2”]. 179 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, booksellers, title, blank) i ij-viij, 1 2-341, 3 blanks (224 pasted to.....
SARTINE’S AMERICAN COASTAL ATLAS AT THE DAWN OF INDEPENDENCE EX-COLL. DEPÔT DE LA MARINE, DESCOTES, RABUT & de LAVIS-TRAFFORD [Paris: Dépôt des Cartes, 1778–1780.] First edition. Broadsheet folio (25 7/16” x 19 5/8”, 646mm x 499mm): with an engraved title-page and 26 engraved charts, of which 5 (two of the.....
THE LANGLÈS–DUCHESSE de BERRY– BORLUUT de NOORTDONCK–JACQUES LEVY COPY London: Thomas Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and William Daniell; 1810. First edition, early issue. Folio (13 7/8” x 10 3/16”, 351mm x 259mm): 52 leaves, pp. [2] (title, blank), i ii (2pp. introduction), [100] (blank, text following.....
WITH MANUSCRIPT CORRECTIONS IN THE AUTHOR’S HAND PERHAPS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE DAUPHIN de FRANCE (LOUIS XVI) EX-COLL. LORD WARDINGTON The West-India Pilot: containing Piloting directions for Port Royal and Kingston Harbours in Jamaica, in and out through the Kays, &c. Morant Harbour, Morant Kays, Blewfields Bay, Manteca Bay, and.....
THE de REDÉ–ROTHSCHILD COPY Paris: Lattré, [1762]. First edition. Duodecimo (4 15/16” x 3”, 125mm x 77mm): with an engraved title-page, engraved dedication, 2pp. engraved preface, 2pp. engraved contents, 16pp. engraved text (paginated 31-46), 4pp. engraved publisher’s advertisements at the end and 30 double-page engraved maps, of which the.....
“THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THE TOTAL DOMINANCE OF DUTCH SEA ATLAS PRODUCTION... ARGUABLY THE MOST SUMPTUOUS EVER PRODUCED." Florence: Francesco Onofri, 1646. First edition of the first four books. Folio (12 15/16” x 9 1/8”, 327mm x 233mm): π2 A-O2, 2A-T2, 3A-O2, 4A-K2 [$1 signed]. 116 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, blank.....
London: Mount and Page, 1785. Verner 20, penultimate edition. Folio (20” x 12 15/16”, 509mm x 330mm): 2 binder’s blanks, π2 A2 B-E2 χ-2χ2 I2 (I2 blank) [$1 signed]. 18 leaves, pp. [4] (blank, engraved title, title-page in red and black, blank), 1-3 (dedication, preface, text) 4-30, 2 blanks. With 45.....
Three volumes. Weimar: Gebrüder Hoffmann, 1821. First edition in German, mixed issue (I: issue C, II-III: issue B; though see below). Quarto (vol. I: 10 3/8” x 8 5/16”, 263mm x 211mm; voll. II–III: 11 ¼” x 8 15/16”, 284mm x 226mm).Vol. I: π2 14 2-114 124(123+χ1) 13-204 21-222 [$1.....
A SUPERLATIVELY RARE 1802 RUSSIAN MAP OF THE BERING STRAIT THE HECKROTTE COPY, ex coll. SIR WILLIAM STUART КАРТА МОРСКИХЪ ОТКРЫТІЙ РОССІЙСКИМИ МОРЕПЛАВАТЕЛЯМИ НА ТИХОМЪ И ЛЕДОВИТОМЪ МОРЯХЪ ВЪ РАЗНЫХЪ ГОДАХЪ УЧИНЕННЫХЪ. ПРИ СОБСТВЕННОМЪ ЕГО ИМПЕРАТОРСКАГО ВЕЛИЧЕСТВА ДЕПО КАРТЪ СОЧИНЕНА И ПО НОВѢЙШИМЪ НАБЛЮДЕНІЯМЪ ИНОСПІРАННЫХЪ МОРЕХОДЦОВЪ ВЫПРАВЛЕНА И ГРАВНРОВАНА 1802РО.....
A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATIONFROM THE FIRST U.S. NAVAL MEDICAL HERO Providence, 28 June 1839. Single sheet of writing paper (folded: 9 15/16” x 7 13/16”, 252mm x 198mm). Blind-stamped at the upper left. Written on the recto of the first folium, directed on the verso of the second folium.....