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1. Anon. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO, AND THE STORMING OF BUENOS AYRES... (AND) THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT MARTIAL, HELD ON GENERAL WHITELOCKE... (AND) THE TRIAL OF LIEUT. GEN. WHITELOCKE. Bath, London and Dublin n.d. (ie., 1807 and 1808). 1808. b/w frontispiece maps and frontispiece portrait. 38, 32, 257 pp. Two rare pamphlets and a book about the botched British invasions in the Rio de la Plata Basin in 1806 and 1807. As part of the Napoleonic Wars, British forces against Spain occupied Buenos Aires and Montevideo, in both cases being expelled by Spanish forces. In this incident the British General Whitelocke was defeated by a ragtag army in street fighting in Buenos Aires, and eventually pulled out of the area with his tail between his legs. Apart from its considerable effect on the Argentine independence movement, the defeat went over poorly in Britain. Whitelocke was court martialed and sacked. The first pamphlet lacks the title page but has the map of the battle scene and key as frontispiece, as called for by Sabin 51805. The second title is complete and features a wonderful frontispiece portrait of the hapless General Whitelocke. Original wrappers bound in. Both bound in half calf over marbled boards. The third title, a book, is complete and bound in later half calf over marbled boards. Three vols. VG $1500
2. Anon. PAPERS RELATING TO AMERICA. PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1809. Lon. 1810. viii, 178, (4) pp. Comprising three sections: (1) Papers relating to the encounter between Leopard and Chesapeake; (2) Correspondence between British Foreign Secretary George Canning and the U. S. Minister to Great Britain William Pinkney; and (3) Instructions from Canning to the British Minister to the United States David Montague Erskine, and the correspondence between Erskine and U. S. Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith. This copy reportedly came from Goodspeed’s Book Shop, who purchased it from the library of Robert Smith., who was secretary of the navy until 1809. There is considerable marginalia in the book including several in Smith’s hand. Rebound in full calf with original spine label. $1250
3. Bigot De Morogues, Sebastien Franois. NAVAL TACTICS; OR, A TREATISE OF EVOLUTIONS AND SIGNALS, WITH CUTS, LATELY PUBLISHED IN FRANCE, ...BY MONS. DE MOROGUES, ...TRANSLATED BY A SEA-OFFICER. Lon. 1767. b/w plates, some folding. 4to. xxvi (page xi misnumbered ix, and page xxiv mislabeled as xxvi), 152 pp. This is the first English translation of Morogues’ “Tactique Navale,” originally published in France in 1763. Morogues was the founder of the Marine Academy at Brest, and is perhaps best remembered for his able performance as Captain of Magnifique at Quiberon in 1759. See Corbett’s Signals and Instructions 1776-1794. Also, Scott, 316, and Adams & Waters 161. One folding order of Battle at Malaga, 1704, (page 95*) and eight terminal folding engraved plates of tactical maneuvers. Bound in contemporary marbled boards; rebacked in goat with leather label. Minor tanning and staining. Lacking rear end paper, but a nice wide margined copy, untrimmed. Early ownership signature of Stephen Hill on the front flyleaf. Quite a scarce book. Worldcat notes but four libraries, only one of which is in America, holding copies. $2500
4. Bourde de Villehuet, Jacques. (Chevalier de Sauseuil translator). THE MANOEUVERER, OR SKILFUL SEAMAN: BEING AN ESSAY ON THE VARIOUS MOVEMENTS OF A SHIP AT SEA, AS WELL AS OF NAVAL EVOLUTIONS IN GENERAL. - THE INSCRIBED COPY OF A VETERAN OF TRAFALGAR. Lon. 1788. b/w plates, some folding. 4to. vi, (2), viii, (8), 308 pp. (leaf containing errata, p. 309-10, bound in after translator’s preface.) “Illustrated with Thirteen Copperplates; five of which, with many interesting observations interspersed through the work, by way of notes, are the production of an English Officer.” This is the first edition in English of Le Manœuvrier, a seamanship classic compiled because of the inadequacies of existing marine dictionaries and first published in Paris in 1765. The text is divided into four parts: “On the Theory of Working Ships at Sea;” “The Theory applied to Practice;” “Various Observations on the Marine;” and “On Naval Evolutions.” Inscribed “Capt Mansfield, Navy” on the front pastedown with the address panel of an early letter loosely laid in addressed to “Captain Mansfield, HMS Minotaur.” Mansfield commanded Minotaur, a third rate 74, at Trafalgar. Her crew received Nelson’s personal tribute following the Battle of the Nile. Maggs Bibliotheca Nautica, Part IV, 2412. Adams & Waters 248. Thirteen engraved plates; seven of which are folding. Contemporary full calf, the front hinge weak but holding; internally clean. This English translation is quite scarce. $3500
5. British Admiralty. SIGNAL-BOOK FOR THE SHIPS OF WAR. DAY AND FOG. NEW ARRANGEMENT. H.M.S. VICTORY’S SIGNAL BOOK. (Lon. circa 1793.) Hand colored illustrations of flags, b/w plates. Small 4to. (4), 14, (2), 67, iv pp & eight terminal engraved plates, three of which are folding. This is Lord Howe’s Signal Book about which Julian Corbett has much to say in “Signals and Instructions, 1776-1794.” Corbett assigns a publication date of 1793. Adams and Waters 1553A estimates a 1794 date and locates but a single copy - at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Worldcat locates an additional one in New Zealand. On the front flyleaf of this copy is the inscription, “Lieut. B. Bradby, Victory 1794,” with later additional words added to reflect that the book was given to his successor, Lieut. Pipon. A typed note with this signal book identifies Bradby as Bonamy Bradby, who was commissioned on 19 November 1790, and Pipon as Philip Pipon who was achieved post-Captain rank in 1824 and experienced a distinguished naval career. The inscription date of 1794 would mean this signal book was in Victory during Hood’s tenure off Toulon. Victory, of course, will always be remembered as Nelson’s flag ship at Trafalgar. She remains in commission today at Portsmouth much as Constitution remains in commission in the American Navy at Boston. The book is heavily annotated with hand colored manuscript drawings of individual signal flags, and with manuscript corrections and additions. One page has been added entirely in manuscript, with a colored illustration of the appropriate flag. The drawings and coloring are uniformly superb. This is a rare and historically important item on its own; its association with HMS Victory makes it unique. Bound in contemporary calf over marbled boards with a printed paper label on the front board. Front hinge weak, else an excellent copy in a beautiful state of preservation. $30000
6. Broadside. THE GOVERNOR OF HONG-KONG ACCUSING HIS PREDECESSOR OF PIRACY. Folio sheet 10 x 14 7/8 inches. “From the FREE PRESS of August 6, 1862.” In 1859 a newspaper publisher in Hong Kong was acquitted of a charge of libel in reporting the case of “one of the principal officers of the (English) Goverment” being the confederate of a convicted pirate, and of attempting to destroy evidence that proved his guilt. The publisher was defended by Hong Kong’s attorney general who should have been prosecuting the government official in question, except that he, the AG, had already been “suspended” by the Governor of Hong Kong. According to the broadside, the AG returned to England to verify the fact that the Hong Kong police were “at the disposal of a pirate.” The remainder of the broadside exposes government attempts to suppress the scandal, and to justify it as an extension of government policy during the second Opium War, 1856 - 1860. The entire affair, as spelled out in the broadside, has a tawdry, partisan cast to it, strangely reminiscent of contemporary politics. The broadside is rare, Worldcat showing only Yale holding a copy. Printed in three columns. Light edge chipping but in very good condition. $850
7. Chart. CARTE DE L’OCEANIE... PAR A.T. BRUE GEOGRAPHE. Paris. 1838. This is a 37 x 24 1/2 inch sheet divided into eighteen sections, backed on linen, depicting the entire South Pacific. With an inset showing Sydney and surrounding Australian coast, dated 1833. Continents and island groups are colored in outline. According to Tooley’s “The Mapping of Australia” this chart was first published in 1820 in a smaller form. It was then reissued in several iterations, with alterations and additions. Though Tooley notes seven editions between 1820 and 1873, this 1838 edition is not among them. See Tooley pp 36 - 37. Very good condition in original marbled slipcase. Both map and slipcase have printed label. $400
8. Chart. CHART OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA FROM MT. ST ELIAS TO COLUMBIA RIVER. Hand drawn and colored ink and watercolor on canvas backed paper, 13 feet 5 inches x 3 feet. “Scale 1/500000. Drawn by John Tilton McClintock in 1889.” With an outline in red of the state of New Hampshire just above Queen Charlotte sound for size comparison. McClintock was obviously an accomplished cartographer. His name shows up in Worldcat associated with several works produced by atlas publisher Geo. H. Walker & Co. around the turn of the century. This source gives his dates as 1872 - 1929. The chart is attached to wooden rollers. It is in excellent condition, with no surface flaws, and colors bright. A unique example of the mapmaker’s art - and a gigantic production. $3000
9. Charts. SIX CHARTS DEPICTING THE COLUMBIA RIVER FROM FALES LANDING NORTH OF PORTLAND TO ITS OUTLET IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Chart 1 measures 30 x 27 inches; charts 2-5 measure 33 1/2 x 29 inches. These are U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey charts, compiled from surveys made in the 1850s through the 1870s, corrected to and published in 1889-1890. They are navigational charts on heavy paper (not the folded charts on thin paper from Coast Survey annual reports), and the high quality transfer lithographs from copper engravings give enormous amounts of information on soundings, coastal features, land masses, and man made features. Each chart bears the circular stamp of Dillon & Co., instrument makers and chart sellers in San Francisco. All the charts are in excellent condition, showing only minor edge tears. The lot. $600
10. (Cooper, James Fenimore.) THE WATER WITCH; OR, THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS. A TALE. Lon. 1830. 12mo. viii, (322), (2)pp. ads; (ii), 316; (ii), 308 pp. An attractive set of the first London edition of Cooper’s work, which preceded the first American edition. (See BAL 3846.) The heroine of this most romantic of Cooper’s tales is the brigantine named Water Witch. The hero, a gallant smuggler, “Skimmer of the Seas.” Great stuff! In its original triple-decker configuration - three handsomely bound volumes, half calf over marbled boards with raised bands and spine labels. $400
11. Eldridge, George. GEO. W. ELDRIDGE’S HARBOR CHART-BOOKS. NEW YORK TO NEWPORT, NEWPORT-BOSTON, BOSTON-BAR HARBOR. (Bos.) 1907, 1909, 1909 b/w charts with spot coloring 3 folio vols. 26, 26, and 25 charts. All three of Eldridge harbor chart books for the east coast - Long Island harbors, Block Island, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, etc. Some cover spotting but the seventy-seven charts are in excellent condition internally. Very scarce as a set. $3500
12. Ephemera. CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARD. BLACK WARRIOR. Dark skin, exotic battle dress, and palm trees come together for a dynamic warrior image of a black Moor of North Africa on this 1858 clipper card. Note that this card has the Black Warrior sailing in Wells & Emanuel’s Empire Line. Wells & Emanuel cards are seen infrequently, as the company folded prior to the prime clipper card period of the early 1860s. This Black Warrior card is certainly rare - it is the only example known to exist. It measures 3 1/4 x 6 inches, and is in fine condition. $2000
13. Ephemera. CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARD. CALIFORNIA. This 1868 card for the California employs a variant of the Great Seal of California as its wreathed image, complete with a gold miner and a clipper in the background. Her Captain, Henry Barber, commanded the well-known clipper Galatea for many years. Printer George Watson, joined by his colleague Andrew Clark in issuing this card, was Boston’s premier producer of clipper ship cards. This card measures 4 1/8 x 6 5/8 inches, and is in fine condition $2500
14. Ephemera. CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARD. WILD ROVER. This 1859 clipper card presents an iconic “sail beats steam” image - an increasingly desperate illusion propagated by the clipper ship industry. A fleet horseman (representing a speedy clipper ship) outpaces and even lassos the driver of a lumbering coal wagon (symbolizing a coal-fired steamship). Alas, the voyage advertised here was anything but speedy. Four times the Wild Rover passed Cape Horn, only to be blown back and forced to try again. She finally arrived in San Francisco almost six months after leaving New York. This card measures 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches and is printed by Nesbitt & Co. of New York. Save for a minor spot of discoloration in the upper left margin, it is in fine condition.
$2500
15. Ephemera. CLIPPER SHIP SAILING CARD. WITCH OF THE WAVE. This bewitching clipper card advertises an 1859 voyage by the second of two ships named Witch of the Wave, both built in the yard of George Raynes of Portsmouth, NH. Ships departing New York in the spring of 1859 were in for difficult voyages to California; the Witch of the Wave needed 135 days to make it to San Francisco. Only two examples of this card are known to exist, and the one offered here is by far superior to the other surviving copies. It measures 6 1/2 x 4 1/8 inches. What appear to be scratches on the witch's dress and the bow of the boat are from the printing plate. Thus, we can grade this Nesbitt & Co. card in fine condition.

$2500
16. Ephemera. DIED, AT WESTPORT ON THE 7TH INST. PAUL CUFFE... n.p. n.d. Printed broad sheet 2¾ x 8 inches. “a very respectable man of color in the 59th year of his age…” Fifty-six lines of text, with ruled borders top and bottom. This broadsheet summarizes Cuffe’s life and career in very complimentary terms, particularly regarding his contributions to “the welfare of his brethren of the African race.” Paul Cuffe was a Quaker sea captain and businessman of mixed Wampanoag and Ashanti descent. He built a successful shipping business, helped colonize Sierra Leone, and founded the first integrated school in Massachusetts. In 1779, at the age of 21, he started a small cargo business to and from Nantucket. By 1800 he had accumulated sufficient capital to purchase shares in larger vessels, and soon was running a very profitable firm. After the War of 1812 he led, and partially financed, an expedition of thirty-eight black colonists to Sierra Leone. At the time of his death, two years later, he was the wealthiest African American in the country, with an international reputation as a businessman and philanthropist. This broadsheet is rare. No other copies known. Worldcat shows no libraries holding digital or hard copies. One old horizontal fold, the word “City” written in ink at the top of the sheet, else fine condition. (It has been suggested to me that this is possibly a galley proof sheet for an obituary printed in the City edition of an unknown newspaper of the day. A copy of a newspaper offered at Raynor’s auction in May 2012 contains the same text, but different type.) $2500
17. Ephemera. NORTH AMERICAN STEAMSHIP CO. OPPOSITION TO MONOPOLY. THROUGH LINE TO CALIFORNIA VIA PANAMA RAIL ROAD... Wood engraved ill. Single sheet measuring 5 x 8 1/4 inches, printed both sides in red. “Touching at Manzanillo. Sailing at Noon from Pier 46, North River.” The flyer goes on to list four steamships running the Atlantic side of the route, and four running the pacific side. Filled out in manuscript on the verso. The “Santiago de Cuba” and the “Oregonian” depart New York June 5, 1868. The “Guiding Star” and the “Nebraska” do the Pacific leg, departing June 20, 1868. Ticket prices range from $125 first class to $40 third class. With the manuscript notation, “No fever on the Isthmus now.” Old fold marks, but VG $650
18. Ephemera PLAN OF GROUND TO BE FEUD AT KINGSCROSS IN THE ISLAND OF ARRAN. THE PROPERTY OF HIS GRACE, THE DUKE OF HAMILTON, K.T. Colored lithograph of a development planned for the southwest corner of this scenic island in the Firth of Clyde. The project was proposed by the Duke of Hamilton, whose Brodick Castle is situated on the island. The project was to include several hundred new houses, three examples of which are shown, new roads, and a new ferry landing. The plan measures 30 x 39 3/4 inches and folds into twenty sections housed in boards marked “Arran Estate Feuing Plan Kingscross.” The plan is inscribed in manuscript by the architect and dated 1894. $1250
19. Ephemera. SHIPPING ARTICLES AND CREW LIST FOR THE HAWAIIAN BARK WM. B. GODFREY. FEB. 18, 1888. Folio printed sheet, 17 x 14 inches, accomplished in manuscript. Headed “Hawaiian Shipping Articles,” and printed in English and Hawaiian. The Captain and fourteen crew were bound for San Francisco. Advances and wages are specified, as are those crewmen who were to be discharged in San Francisco. Signed by each member of the crew, and by one A. Fuller “Agent for Shipping & discharging Native Seamen.” Short tears on old folds, otherwise in good condition. $400
20. Excursion View Company. EXCURSION VIEWS OF NARRAGANSETT BAY AND BLOCK ISLAND. Providence, RI. 1878. Two chromolithographed strips, each 30 feet in length and 3 3/4 inches wide. Contained in a double sided glazed walnut box measuring 5 x 6 x 13 1/2 inches. During the 1870s excursion tours around Narragansett Bay were such a popular attraction that the Excursion View Company commissioned an artist to sketch the complete trip just as a passenger would see it. The drawings were transferred to lithographic stones and printed in color on a continuous roll which could be viewed in a wooden box by turning the knobs and moving the roll. This charming device uses two of these panoramic strips to take the viewer on a trip from Providence to Block Island and back again. The first scroll starts at Fox Point in Providence and travels south passing Squantum Point, Silver Spring, Pomham Rocks Light, Riverside, Sabin Point Light, Annawanscut, Nayatt Point Light, Warren, Hog Island, and Bristol. It then proceeds around Bristol Point and heads northward into Mount Hope Bay, passing Church’s Cove, to Fall River, Mass. and then southward again passing Globe Village and Bristol Ferry to Newport. The end of the first scroll shows Benton Reef at the southern tip of Newport Island and the Atlantic. The second scroll starts at Southeast Light on Block Island and travels northward along the coast to New Shorham (Old Harbor). The viewer then passes Clay Head and Black Rock, Fort Dumpling and Jamestown on the eastern shore on Conanicut Island, Rose and Gould’s Islands, then around to the western shore of Conanicut Island into the West Passage heading south. Next, past Dutch Island and Beaver Tail lighthouses, Point Judith Lighthouse and north again to Narragansett Pier, Bonnet Point, South Ferry, Wickford, Quonsett Point, East Greenwich, Buttonwood, Warwick Lighthouse, Rocky Point, Conimicut Point Lighthouse, and Pawtuxet. This second scroll ends at the old Sassafras Point Lighthouse in Providence. Both strips show and identify many of the leading shoreline hotels of the day, private homes, rivers, industries, rocks, forts, and sailing vessels of all kinds. Many important paddle steamers are shown including the Bay State, Florence, City of Newport, Rhode Island, Canonicus, Bristol, Bay Queen, Empire State, and Providence. Strips and box are in excellent original condition, with only the wooden scroll turners having been restored to match. $15000
21. (Hanway, Jonas.) PROPOSAL FOR COUNTRY NAVAL FREE SCHOOLS, TO BE BUILT ON WASTE LANDS. GIVING SUCH EFFECTUAL INSTRUCTIONS TO POOR BOYS AS MAY NURSE THEM FOR THE SEA SERVICE. TEACHING THEM ALSO TO CULTIVATE THE EARTH... (Lon. 1783) Eight engraved b/w plates (five double page, two folding), an engraved folding table, and two engraved vignettes (one on the title page and the other on the first page of the dedication). Folio. iv, (1), x-xxii (lacking pp. v-viii, as do all known copies), (2), 90, (4), 91-112, (engraved title page for Songs), (blank), 115-120, 120*, (1), 121-141, (blank), 47 pp. of engraved music scores, (three blank pages), engraved title, (blank), v, (blank), (2), 67 pp. Hanway was an eccentric British merchant and a tireless worker for the betterment of mankind. Probably his most lasting contribution to society is the umbrella, which he is said to have popularized. His most important contemporary contribution was the Marine Society, an institution which taught young Britons to be sailors and outfitted them for sea. According to the DNB this institution sent nearly 5,500 boys into the Royal Navy between 1756 and 1762. Hanway summarizes his ideas in the present work, which was published just a few years before his death. In it he proposes a school for underprivileged youngsters, where they could learn farming and other trades. As a result the book concerns itself equally with farming, education and maritime matters. Its main goal, however, was to train boys to be seamen, and for this purpose a realistic replica of a man of war was to be erected on dry land. The book is notable for its large folding plates of a first rate man of war, and for forty-eight engraved plates of music, intended for “moral and instructive amusement.” In addition to the Proposal, the book contains Songs, and Moral Advice for Students, each with its own engraved title. See DNB vol. XXIV, p. 312. Adams and Waters, 1981. A near fine copy in twentieth century half calf in contemporary style with six raised bands, vellum corners and red leather label. $3000
22. Hussey, Josiah. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY JOSIAH HUSSEY, ESQ. AT THE NEW SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING HOUSE, IN NANTUCKET; ON SUNDAY EVENING, THE 9TH OF JUNE, A.D. 1822. BEFORE THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PLEYEL SOCIETY IN THIS TOWN. AND A LARGE AND RESPECTABLE AUDIENCE. Nantucket. 1823. 10 pp. This is a very early Nantucket imprint. Macy speaks of a newspaper being started in 1816, which soon failed for lack of support, so we know that type and printing equipment were on Nantucket by at least that date. The year prior to that, an organization called The Social Library was formed; Josiah Hussey, author of this pamphlet, was its president, suggesting that he was a force in the cultural life of the Island. Aside from its early date and rarity, the interesting thing about this pamphlet is that it is not a sermon. Hussey talks about the benefits of music, both sacred and secular, and he goes on to praise the accomplishments of the Pleyel Society, which “was established in this town about eighteen months past. It was instituted by a few young gentlemen for the purpose of introducing among us a better kind of music...” Then he makes his pitch. “They have no musical instruments which belong to them... nor have they any Room or Hall of their own.” The Society hopes to raise money by putting on concerts, and Hussey urges his readers to support their effort. Pleyel, less known in this day than in the 18th century, was a student and friend of Haydn’s. Presumably, Nantucket’s Pleyel Society was similar to Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society. In fact, Hussey invokes those composers in his text - “Haydn, Handel and Pleyel have uttered strains that Angels might stoop from heaven to hear.” Pleyel’s work was very popular at the time this pamphlet was written. Several of his tunes appeared in shape note hymnals, and two of them in the famous musical anthology, The Sacred Harp. The pamphlet is well set and printed, suggesting a certain level of competence. It is stab sewn with a plan paper wrapper on the front of which Hussey has written “Presented by Josiah Hussey to his friend Wm. H. Copeland.” Not in Crosby. Worldcat shows only a single library holding a copy. Scattered foxing. $1250
23. Kemp, Dixon. YACHT ARCHITECTURE. Lon. 1897. Color and b/w plates, most folding. xi, 548 pp. Atlas with 107 folding plans. Third and best edition of Kemp’s important work, and the final one as well. This edition is sufficiently rare that neither Toy nor Morris and Howland list it. Toy, speaking of the second edition says, “His work is of great historical importance.” Kemp discusses theoretical and practical aspects of design, laying off, building and rigging. He also has two chapters on steam yachts and their own particular design considerations. The 107 folding plates include lines of many classic yachts of the day. Edges of some plates dusty or chipped. All images clean and fresh. Both vols. bound in blue polished calf bearing the gold stamped logo of the University College School - an acorn and “U.C.S. Paulatim,” Bindings scuffed but tight. Backstrips laid down. Two vols. $850
24. Lillingston, Luke. REFLECTIONS ON MR. BURCHET’S MEMOIRS: OR REMARKS ON HIS ACCOUNT OF CAPTAIN WILMONT’S EXPEDITION TO THE WEST-INDIES. Lon. 1704. (xviii) 171 pp. Very nice copy of a scarce book documenting a cat fight between a British naval officer and his army counterpart. Robert Wilmot’s 1695 expedition was sent to Jamaica to protect British interests against the French. Lillingstone’s regiment of about 1200 soldiers accompanied the expedition, which attacked the French at Hispaniola. Although the venture was poorly planned and a number of Lillingstone’s men were sick and ineffective, they somehow managed to capture considerable loot. However, this became the cause of a quarrel between Wilmot and Lillingstone, who were already on poor terms. The entire force, ravaged by yellow fever, retired; Wilmot sailed for England and died of the same disease on the way home. When Lillingston returned to England he published a scathing attack on Wilmot. In reply, Josiah Burchett, Secretary of the Admiralty, published an account of the affair which did not reflect well on Lillingston. This is Lillingston’s answer to Burchett’s critique. Thanks to the tortured train of attacks and counter-attacks, this work is a detailed summary of the events that took place on the expedition, and is an important document in the War of the English Succession. A clean fresh copy bound in mottled calf, rebacked to match, with original spine label laid down. $1750
25. “M. A ***. (Andre, Jean Francois.) HISTOIRE DES FLIBUSTIERS. (VOL. I)- ROC-DE-LA-ROCHE, GOUVERNEUR DE LA TORTUE, PREMIER CHEF; BRAS-DE-FER, LA TERREUR DES ESPAGNOLS, IIME CHEF; L'OLONAIS, FAMEUX ET CELEBRE CAPITAINE, IIIE CHEF; MONTAUBAN, LE COURAGEUX, IVE CHEF. (VOL. II) - MORGAN L'INCOMPARABLE...VE CHEF; MONBARS, L'EXTERMINATEUR...VIE CHEF; LAURENT LE PRUDENT, VIIE CHEF; GRAMONT LE GRAND, DERNIER CHEF. b/w engraved frontispieces. Paris (1812-1813) Two vols. 24mo (5 1/4 inches). Various paginations. First edition of a rare collection of narratives of pirates in the West Indies. Each narrative has its own title page and frontispiece. These were originally published separately under the individual titles, then were gathered in two volumes forming the Histoire des Flibustiers. According to a note in Worldcat accompanying the first title, the work is “attributed to Jean-François André by Barbier./ Quérard's Supercheries littéraires.” As far as I can determine this is the only recorded complete set of all eight biographies. According to Worldcat the Clements Library has a two volume set but is lacking “Monbars, l’exterminateur...VIe.” Bibliotheque National also has seven of the eight parts, British Museum three, New York Public Library three, and a smattering of other libraries including Library of Congress and Tulane own a single part each. Not in Polak, Sabin, National Maritime Museum, or the Driscoll sale. No copies at auction in at least twenty-five years. Bound in 1/4 black morocco with red spine labels over marbled boards. First title page and two frontispieces (I & IV) remounted with loss (of between 1/3 and 1/4 of page). Otherwise an excellent copy. $2750
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