VOYAGES TRAVELS EXPLORATIONS— PLACES —
VOYAGES TRAVELS EXPLORATIONS
Anacharsis
in English
— Anything
But Dry!
(Imaginary Travels).
[Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques]. Travels
of Anacharsis the younger in Greece. During the middle of the fourth century,
before the Christian æra.... The first American edition. Philadelphia:
Pr. by Bartholomew Graves and William McLaughlin for Jacob Johnson & Co.,
1804. 8vo signed in 4s (22 cm, 8.625"). Vol. I: xviii, 419, [1 (blank)] pp.;
fold. map; II: [1] f., iii, [1 (blank)], 403, [1 (blank)] pp.; III: vii, [1
(blank)], 463, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title); IV: vii, [1 (blank)], 496
pp. (lacking half-title).
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the
daily life and culture of ancient Greece, primarily centered
around Athens, this lengthy work is "so written, that the reader may frequently
be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention, and
fancy" (p. iii). Footnotes citing a multitude of classical sources back up Barthelemy's
imagined journey, which is illustrated with an attractive engraved map by du
Bocage.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 5809. Recently rebound in period-style
tan cloth over light blue paper sides, spines with paper labels. Contemporary
ownership inscription to front fly-leaf in each volume. Map with light offsetting
and short tear just starting along one fold. First 20 leaves of vol. II waterstained
and last 10 foxed; scattered incidences of spotting in all volumes, pages
generally clean. 
A
nice-looking set, and still — as it always was! — a work offering
a pleasant way to absorb ancient history.
“Domestic
Life on Shipboard”
(Imaginary
Voyages). Foley, Fanny [pseud.]. Romance of the
ocean: A narrative of the voyage of the Wildfire to California. Illustrated
with stories, anecdotes, etc. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1850. 12mo
(17.9 cm, 7"). [4], [ix]–218, [2 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Sabin 24947; Wright, I, 965. Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, spine label with small scuffs, some leaves pulling away from sewing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Waterstaining (appropriately?) to inner margins of first few leaves, with lower inner margins of those leaves nicked; spotting and staining variously. (26375)
False
Imprint — 17th-Century
Americana
Interest
(Imaginary Voyages). [Hall,
Joseph]. Mvndvs
alter et idem: siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus
peregrini
academici nuperrime lustrata. Auth: Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. [London
and Hanau; sold:] Francofurti: apud hæredes Ascanii de Rinialme, [1607?].
16mo. Plt., [8] ff., 224 pp. (lacks the maps).
In this edition, the title-page is in the state with the diagonal (not vertical) shading of the pedestal; and quires and D are without catchwords on the rectos (i.e., they were printed at Hanau), while all other quires have catchwords (i.e., they were printed in London). The title-page's claim to Frankfurt printing is simply specious.
• STC (rev.) 12685.3; Shaaber, British Authors Printed Abroad, H49; Sabin 29819; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 606/61. For a detailed bibliographical study of the editions of this and their points, see: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 74 (1980), pp. 1-12. On Hall, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXIV, 75-80. Old vellum, neatly recased and hinges strengthened. Lacks the maps, but the engraved title-page and engraved plate of "writing" are present. These have light, thumbnail-sized waterstains at their foremargins, being the only leaves so marked, all others being quite clean. Priced approximately $2300 less than the last complete copy to sell at auction.
For
Books for the BUSTED
A
17th-Century English
Superhero
& ADVENTURERAMERICA
& Patagonia
(Imaginary
Travels). Lloyd, David, attrib. author.
The wonderful, surprizing and uncommon voyages and adventures of Captain Jones,
to Patagonia. London: Pr. for John Lever, 1766. Narrow 4to (21.1 cm; 8.5").
Engr. title-page, 74 pp., [1] f. (ads).
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Outrageous
in extremis, this has as its proximate target Captain John Smith, who is satirized
while references to Florida and America fly left and right, including, for example
on p. 5, a poem “engraven on a Pillar of Gold, in the famous City of Chiapa”
that purports to be in Maya! — this with, “by the assistance of
Mr. Gage,” a translation helpfully given below it.
The title-page better than a cataloguer summarizes this work: “Relating his adventures to sea. His first landing, and strange combat with a mighty bear. His furious battle with his six and thirty men, against an army of eleven kings, with their overthrow and deaths. His relieving of Kemper Castle. His strange and admirable sea fight with six huge galleys of Spain, and nine thousand soldiers. His being taken prisoner, and hard usage. His being set at liberty by the king's command, in exchange for twenty-four Spanish captains, and return for England. A comical description of Captain Jones's ruby nose. Part the second. His incredible adventures and atchievements [sic] by sea and land, particularly his miraculous deliverance from a wreck at sea, by the support of a dolphin. His several desperate duels. His combat with Bahader Cham, a giant of the race of Og. His loves with the queen of No-Land, and basely leaving her. His deep employments, and happy success in business of state. All which, and more, is but the tythe of his own relation, which he continued until he grew speechless and died. With his elegy and epitaph.”
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of Frank L. Hadley
Searches of WorldCat and ESTC locate only four copies in U.S. institutions.
• Sabin 41685; ESTC T116640. 20th-century half tan calf with tan linen sides. Booksellers' catalogue entry pasted to the front free endpaper. Engraved title-page closely trimmed at left edge, costing a sliver of the image. (25940)
Beauties
ofthe
Thames IllustratedIreland, Samuel. Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity. London: T. & J. Egerton, 1792. 4to (25 cm, 9.8"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xvi, 209, [3] pp.; 1 map, 27 plts., illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., viii (incl. t.-p.), 258, [4] pp.; 1 map, 25 plts., illus.
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52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland, 2 maps, and
a number of in-text cuts. 
This supplies both handsome, interesting pictures and good, now quaint reading.
Pre–Civil
War Railroad
Map of“the
West”Especially
the MID-West
J.H. Colton, Co. Colton's new railroad map of the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska & Kansas. Showing the township lines of the United States surveys. New York: J.H. Colton, 1860. Atlas folio folded to 12mo.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's brown textured case, stamped in gilt on front cover; binding worn, and front cover no longer strongly attached to rear one except via the cloth of the spine. Map with fold tears. (26669)
FromNew England to the NILE[Justel, Henri, ed.]. Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l’Amerique, qui n’ont point esté encore publiez.... Paris: Louis Billaine, 1674. 4to (23.7 cm, 9.4"). á4ã4A–Z4Aa–Hh4 Ii2Kk4Ll21§–4§45§2 **A–**C4 a2b–g4 *A–*K4L2; [8] ff., 262, 35, [1 (blank)] 23, [1 (blank)], 49, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., 81, [1 (blank)] pp., 3 fold. plans, 4 maps (3 fold.), 9 plts.
Some of both the voyages and the maps make their first published appearances here—among them the New England map depicting the Maryland and Virginia coastlines, engraved by R. Michault after one contained in Richard Blome’s Description of the Island of Jamaica, part of which work appears here translated into French. Altogether, a volume notable both for its strong African and North American content and for the aesthetic appeal of its plates and pleasingly ornamented typography.
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• Sabin 36944; Alden & Landis
674/159; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 68; Baer, 17th-Century Maryland, 78. Recent 17th-century style mottled calf with covers framed in a gilt roll and double-panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons,; spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and gilt-stamped decorative devices. Several pages (not including title) and the versos of a few plates stamped by a now-defunct institution. Paper slightly embrittled. Light waterstaining to a number of leaves and plates, mostly in margins; the first map with two repairs. One leaf (blank?) prior to Colonies Angloises excised; lacking the folding map of the Nile. A good copy, in a handsome binding of recent vintage and contemporaneous style.
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