JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821)
JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821) A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London: Luke Hansard for G. and W.Nicol [and others], 1803-1817. 5 vols, 4° (298 x 233mm.). 28 engraved maps (16 folding), 13 engraved plates. (Some browning and spotting, some offsetting to maps). Expertly bound to style by Aquarius in diced half russia, spines gilt in four compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and the third, the others with repeat pattern in gilt of massed small tools. Provenance : Charles Dickens (according to a loosely inserted book-label in vol.1, 'From the Library of Charles Dickens Gadshill Place, June, 1870', with a note that this was found under an endpaper during rebinding). FIRST EDITION OF THE 'MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL HISTORY OF THE EARLY SOUTH SEA DISCOVERIES' (Hill), bound in 18th-century leather salvaged from the wreck of the Metta Caterina , which sank in Plymouth Sound in 1786. This work contains 'practically everything of importance on the subject; collected from all sources, with the most important remarks concerning them, by Captain Burney, who was a great authority on the subject. Many of the early voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not herein collected. Burney accompanied Captain Cook on his second and third voyages' (Hill). Ferguson 372; Hill p.40; Sabin 9387; Spence 217. (5)
JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821)
JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821) A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. London: Luke Hansard for G. and W.Nicol [and others], 1803-1817. 5 vols, 4° (298 x 233mm.). 28 engraved maps (16 folding), 13 engraved plates. (Some browning and spotting, some offsetting to maps). Expertly bound to style by Aquarius in diced half russia, spines gilt in four compartments with double raised bands, lettered in the second and the third, the others with repeat pattern in gilt of massed small tools. Provenance : Charles Dickens (according to a loosely inserted book-label in vol.1, 'From the Library of Charles Dickens Gadshill Place, June, 1870', with a note that this was found under an endpaper during rebinding). FIRST EDITION OF THE 'MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL HISTORY OF THE EARLY SOUTH SEA DISCOVERIES' (Hill), bound in 18th-century leather salvaged from the wreck of the Metta Caterina , which sank in Plymouth Sound in 1786. This work contains 'practically everything of importance on the subject; collected from all sources, with the most important remarks concerning them, by Captain Burney, who was a great authority on the subject. Many of the early voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not herein collected. Burney accompanied Captain Cook on his second and third voyages' (Hill). Ferguson 372; Hill p.40; Sabin 9387; Spence 217. (5)
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