Parry Three Voyages

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1562/3-1611): Discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies,

London: John Wolfe, 1598. Small folio. 3 small engraved maps on separate section titles for second, third, and fourth books, 4 woodcut maps in the text. 1 engraved title, 3 folding plates, and 9 folding maps (plus an extra Latin copy of one of the maps), extra-illustrated, with 1 engraved portrait of Linschoten from a Dutch edition mounted and bound before the general title; 1 engraved nautical plate from a Dutch edition mounted facing the titlepage of the second book; 1 hand-coloured engraved portrait of Linschoten and 1 engraved section title from a Dutch edition bound before the title of the third book, 30 double-page plates from the original Dutch edition; 1 folding plan of Goa; 1 folding plan of Angra; 1 folding double-hemisphere world map by Peter Plancius; 1 folding double-hemisphere world map by Jan Baptist Vrients (prepared for the 1596 first edition of Linschoten). (Engraved title and extra-illustrated engraved portrait before title trimmed to plate mark and mounted, some maps and plates strengthened or mounted; one of the St. Helena plates cut down with loss and mounted). Eighteenth-century mottled calf, tooled in gilt, spine richly gilt in five compartments, gilt morocco spine label in the sixth compartment. (lightly rubbed and scuffed, joints a bit tender). A remarkable copy of the first English edition of Linschoten's classic, the most important description of the East Indies in the Age of Discovery, translated from the first Dutch edition of 1596, from the library of the Earls of Macclesfield. This copy is particularly interesting for having nine of the twelve maps and plates in their earlier Latin versions, and not in the English versions. In one instance, the Island of Ascension map, both the English and Latin versions are found in this copy. This English edition is sometimes found with extra double-page plates from the Dutch edition bound in. This copy is no exception, containing an additional thirty folding plates from the original Dutch edition, as well as an extra folding plan of Goa and an extra folding plan of Angra (which are rarely found included in the English edition). The double-page plates have engraved captions in Latin and Dutch, and include printed page numbers indicating where they were to be bound in the original edition. (Many of the plates in this copy are inscribed in a later hand with additional numbers for placement in this volume.) These marvellous plates include scenes of Asia, particularly Java, China, and India. Several of the plates depict activities in Goa, including a wonderful panoramic view of the market, while other plates depict Portuguese travellers on land and on sea. Furthermore, this copy has two large, folding double-hemisphere world maps, neither of which are usually found in this English edition. One of them is by Peter Plancius, dated 1594 and separately issued, but incorporated into editions of Linschoten's Itinerarium as early as 1596 (Shirley 187). The other extra double-hemisphere folding world map is by Jan Baptist Vrients, prepared for the 1596 edition of Linschoten (Shirley 192). Linschoten travelled to Goa in 1584 as an employee of the House of Fugger. While in India he also served the Archbishop of Goa. Returning to Holland in 1592, he prepared his notes for the Amsterdam publisher Claeszoon in response to interest in the Netherlands and other European countries about commercial possibilities in Asia. As trade in the Far East was dependent on routes via America or Africa, his work eventually encompassed the entire globe, including Spanish and Portuguese activities in America. Linschoten's Itinerario, Voyage, ofte Schipvaert soon was considered the single most significant source regarding the East and West Indies and numerous editions were published in Dutch, Latin, French, German, and English. Klooster describes the work as "a magnificent panorama of pictures and maps of the non-European world. Itinerario contained so much detailed and accurate information about shipping lanes, winds, and currents, that seafarers could use it virtually as a handbook. Many of his maps were in fact copies of the excellent models of the Portuguese cartographer Fernao Vaz Dourado." This copy of Linschoten also contains a highly important map of the East Indies, known as the "Spice Islands Map". Engraved, like one of the world maps, by Peter Plancius, and is entitled Insulae Moluccae.... Based on a collection of charts and rutters which Plancius acquired in Lisbon in 1592 from Bartoleomeu Lasso, it is "one of the most fabulous [charts] ever produced of the East Indies and one of the rarest, showing the Spice Islands in a level of detail never previously seen." (David Parry). This remarkable map is not found with all copies of Linschoten, and must be considered one of the chief cartographical treasures present in this volume. This English edition was translated and published at the suggestion of the great English chronicler Richard Hakluyt. "This is the rarest of all editions of Linschoten's work" (Borba de Moraes). The volume consists of four books, each with its own title page, and was originally issued with nine engraved folding maps and three engraved folding plates. Although the maps were re-engraved for the English edition, Dutch maps were sometimes also inserted, as in this copy which includes three maps in English and the remainder in Latin and/or in Dutch (see the note above). The woodcut maps in the text are of Madagascar, Sumatra, Java, and St. Helena. To summarise: this is an important copy of this classic late 16th-century description of Asia and the Americas, with additional illustrations from the original Dutch edition, and extra-illustrated with two portraits of Linschoten, and an engraved plate and an engraved section title from a Dutch edition. From the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with their engraved bookplate (dated 1860) on the front pastedown and their blindstamp at the top of the portrait, the engraved titlepage, and the first leaf of the dedication. Eighteenth-century manuscript notes on verso of front free endpaper with double-column list of "Prints in this book [and] Maps in this book" with pages indicated; another sheet laid in with later (circa 18th century) inscription of list of maps and plates. Numerous maps and plates have early inscriptions on versos and rectos indicating where the maps and plates are to be inserted in the volume. Arents (Add.) 110; Borba de Moraes (2) 488; Church 321; European Americana 598/57; JCB (3)i:362; Klooster Dutch in the Americas p.8; David E. Parry The Cartography of the East Indian Islands pp. 85; Sabin 41374

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Brandt, Anthony (Edited by): The North Pole: A Narrative History, Washington, D.C. National Geographic; Adventure Classics 2005 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0792274113
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xxii, 413 pp.; 23 cm. Tight, clean text. Corner crease/front cover, tips mildly rubbed. Contents: Introduction by Anthony Brandt; Part One, Looking North I: DIONYSE SETTLE, A True Report of Captain Frobisher, His Last Voyage into the West and Northwest Regions, 1577; JOHN DAVIS, The Second Voyage Attempted by Master John Davis, 1586; GERRIT DE VEER, The True and Perfect Description of Three Voyages, So Strange and Wonderful, Etc., 1609; ABACUK PRICKETT, A Larger Discourse of the Same Voyage...1610; Part Two, Search For The Northwest Passage Revived: WILLIAM CORESBY, A Voyage to the Whale Fishery, 1822; JOHN ROSS, A Voyage of Discovery Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, 1819; WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY, Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, From the Atlantic to the Pacific 1819-20; JOHN FRANKLIN, Narrative of A Journey to Shores of the Polar Sea; JOHN RICHARDSON, Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson; GEORGE F. LYON, The Private Journal of George F. Lyon of the H.M.S. Hecla, 1824; ROBERT HUISH, The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross to The Arctic Regions, For The Discovery of a Northwest Passage, 1829-1833; ROBERT R.CARTER, Private Journal of A Cruise in the Brig Rescue in Search of John Franklin; JOHN RAE, Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration, 1844-1855; LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK, The Voyage of The Fox In The Arctic Seas; Part Three, To The World: ELISHA KENT KANE, Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition In Search of Sir John Franklin; CHARLES FRANCIS HALL, Life with The Esquimaux; EUPHEMIA VALE BLAKE, Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tysons Wonderful Drift on The Ice-Floe; GEORGE STRONG NARES, Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea; GEORGE W. DE LONG, The Voyage of the Jeannette; JOHN MUIR, The Cruise of The Corwin; ADOLPHUS GREELY, Three Years of Arctic Service, 1881-1884; BESSIE ROWLAND JAMES, ED., Six Came Back: The Arctic Adventure of David L. Brainard; FRIDTJOF NANSEN, Farthest North: The Exploration of The Fram; SALOMAN ANDREE, Andree's Story: The Complete Record of His Polar Flight; FREDERICK COOK, My Attainment of the Pole; MATTHEW HENSON, A Black Explorer at the North Pole; ROBERT PEARY, The North Pole; Epilogue; Suggested Readings. Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van: Itinerario, Voyage Ofte Schipvaert...Naer Oost Ofte Portugaels Indien....[Bound With:] Reys-Gheschrift Vande Navigatien Der Portugaloysers In Orienten....[Bound With:] Beschrijvinge Vande Gantsche Custe Van Guinea, Manicongo, Angola, Monomotapa, Ende Tegen Over De Cabo De S. Augustijn In Brasilien....

Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1596 - 1595 - 1596. Three parts bound in one volume (parts two and three bound in reverse order in this copy). Text in double columns. [8],160; 134,[4],135-147,[8]; 82,[1]pp. plus a total of six folding or double-page maps, thirty-six folding or double-page plates, and a single-page portrait of Linschoten. Folio.Contemporary vellum, elaborately tooled in gilt, spine with gilt compartments, silk ties, yapp edges. Recased, with new endpapers. Maps and folding plates with some occasional slight chipping or splits at folds, repaired on versos in some cases. Occasional tanning or foxing. Overall, a handsome copy, brilliantly colored. In a chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A handsome copy of this important and influential work, with beautiful hand-colouring A remarkable copy of the first edition of the most important description of the East Indies in the Age of Discovery, with beautiful early hand-coloring and in a handsome contemporary vellum binding, likely a special presentation copy. Linschoten's work was of tremendous importance, as it unlocked the secrets of Asian trade routes, once the exclusive domain of the Portuguese, for the rest of Europe Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1563-1611) a Dutchman born in Haarlem in 1563, had an "avaricious thirst for knowledge which enabled him to get detailed information of land and sea as far afield as the Spice Islands and China" (Penrose). Linschoten travelled to Goa in 1583 as a clerk of the newly-appointed Portuguese Archbishop of Goa. He made a few trips into Indian, compiling notes on his experiences, gleaned information on sea routes from Portuguese sailors, and collected information from other sources as well. Linschoten left India in 1589, hired as a pepper factor for the Fugger and Welser interests, where he learned about the organization and administration of the spice trade. Returning to Holland in 1592 (after a two-year stay in the Azores), he prepared his notes for the Amsterdam publisher, Claeszoon, in response to interest in the Netherlands and other European countries about commercial possibilities in Asia. As trade in the Far East was dependent on routes via America or Africa, his work eventually encompassed the entire globe, including Spanish and Portuguese activities in America. Linschoten's practical experience lent authenticity to his work, and it remains one of the most important of all travel books. Linschoten's Itinerario... and the two other works published in 1595 and 1596 (which should properly be found together, as here) soon was considered the single most significant source regarding the East and West Indies and numerous editions were published in Dutch, Latin, French, German, and English. Klooster describes the work as "a magnificent panorama of pictures and maps of the non-European world. Itinerario contained so much detailed and accurate information about shipping lanes, winds, and currents, that seafarers could use it virtually as a handbook. Many of his maps were in fact copies of the excellent models of the Portuguese cartographer Fernao Vaz Dourado." It was the most comprehensive account of the East and West Indies available at the beginning of the 17th century. As well as including important travel accounts taken from contemporary Portuguese, Dutch, and Spanish sources, it is the first work to include precise sailing instructions for the Indies, and, according to Church (and other authorities), "it was given to each ship sailing from Holland to India." The second section, Reys-gheschrift vande navigatien..., was published in 1595, a year before the Itinerario..., and is bound last in this copy. The text gives detailed sailing directions for the East Indies, as well as for Brazil and the West Indies. The third part (bound second in this copy) gives an account of America on pages 17-82, especially the coastal regions, and includes information on the African coast as well. It is found here in its first state (see Church), and was published in 1596. The maps include van Langren's maps of the East Indies and South America (including the Caribbean and Florida), and the double-hemispherical world map of Plancius dated 1596 (Shirley 192). The marvellous plates include scenes of Asia, particularly Java, China, and India. Several of the plates depict activities in Goa, including a wonderful panoramic view of the market, while other plates depict Portuguese travellers on land and on sea. Linschoten's is an important work that served not only as a valuable record, but also as a catalyst for change in the balance of power amongst European trading nations in the east: "the navigator's vade mecum for the Eastern seas" (Penrose). When Linschoten returned from Goa to his home in the Netherlands, he did so at a time when the people of northern Europe and particularly his countrymen were especially interested in what he had to report concerning the trading activities of the Portuguese in the East. His most important and far-reaching observations concerned the gradual decline of Portuguese power in the East and her ability to protect her trade routes and monopolies. This, together with the trading possibilities he detailed, encouraged a series of Dutch, French, and English fleets to set sail for the Spice Islands, and beyond to China and Japan. Lach says that Linschoten's description of Goa is "one of the most original and reliable narratives prepared during the sixteenth century on life at the hub of Portugal's Eastern empire and still is regarded as one of the best sources for Goa's history at the peak of its glory....The original edition...contains a number of excellent maps, three of which are of great value for the study of Asia. These maps, which are much better and more detailed than earlier printed maps, were clearly derived from the latest and best Portuguese charts of the Eastern oceans and sea coats" - Lach. Parry calls Linschoten's work "a journal of human adventure and observation, an uplifting story that appeals on many levels." "Fine copies of this work with all the maps and plates are extremely rare" - Church catalogue. A work of tremendous consequence and importance, here in a handsome copy with lovely contemporary hand-coloring. European Americana 596/63 & 596/64: JCB I, pp.343-345: Shirley 192, 182; Sabin 41356; Tiele 84-87; Klooster, Dutch in the Americas, p.8 & Catalogue Item 5; David E. Parry, The Cartography Of The East Indian Islands, p.84-85; Church 252; Howgego L131; Borba De Moraes, pp.486-487; Wagner, Northwest Coast 184; Lach, Asia In The Making Of Europe, Volume 1, pp.198-204 & 482-489.

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FRANKLIN, (J.) & (W.E.) PARRY. Two famous voyages in search of a North-West passage Histoire des deux Voyages entrepris par ordre du Gouvernement Anglais; L'Un par terre, dirigee par le Capitaine Franklin; L'Autre par mer, sous les ordres du Capitaine Parry, pour la Decouverte d'un Passage de l'Ocean Atlantique dans la Mer Pacifique. Traduit de l'Anglais. Paris, Librairie de Gide Fils, 1824.
First French edition of both the accounts of the famous voyages of exploration in search of a North-West passage, one by John Franklin (1786-1847) by land along the East coast in the years 1819 to 1822, and the other by William Edward Parry (1790-1855) by sea along the Hudson Bay in the years 1821-1823. The present was Franklin's first arctic voyage, and Parry's second voyage. Parry made three in all, the third in 1824 to 1825.
Good copy, with the bookplate of Olle Norbeck.- (Binding rubbed).
Sabin 25631 Chavanne 1441 Chadenat 5070 not in Lande this translation not in NUC.

Small 8vo. Contemporary half leather. With large folding circular engraved map of the arctic regions with the route of the two voyages and their discoveries. 299 pp.

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