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[Yorke (Philip, Earl of Hardwicke), Editor] Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. A New Edition, to which is prefixed a geographical index. London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 2 Vols., 4to., complete with folding map of Greece and 14 fine engraved portraits; contemp. tree calf, gilt, blue and green morocco labels, very good and
handsome
£475
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 2 Vols., 4to., complete with folding map of Greece and 14 fine engraved portraits; contemp. tree calf, gilt, blue and green morocco labels, very good and
handsome
Blackmer 1859 (imperfect). From the Gladstone library at Fasque, with bookplates.
A collection of fictitious letters describing Athens during the Peloponnesian Wars, often compared to Barthelemy's Le Jeune Anacharsis. They were written by various Cambridge academics: Philip Yorke, Charles Yorke, Dr. Rooke, Dr. John Green, Catherine Talbot, Dr. Birch, and others. It had first appeared in four octavo volumes between 1741 and 1743, in an edition limited to only twelve copies, and a second edition of only one hundred copies came out in 1781. A Dublin piracy was suppressed, but elicited this "sumptuous public production of a work which had been known in literary circles for many years." (Navari)
A collection of fictitious letters describing Athens during the Peloponnesian Wars, often compared to Barthelemy's Le Jeune Anacharsis. They were written by various Cambridge academics: Philip Yorke, Charles Yorke, Dr. Rooke, Dr. John Green, Catherine Talbot, Dr. Birch, and others. It had first appeared in four octavo volumes between 1741 and 1743, in an edition limited to only twelve copies, and a second edition of only one hundred copies came out in 1781. A Dublin piracy was suppressed, but elicited this "sumptuous public production of a work which had been known in literary circles for many years." (Navari)
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Zorgdrager (Cornelis Gisbert) Bloeijende Opkomst der Aloude en Hedendaagsche Groenlandsche Visschery. Waar in met eene geoessende ervaarenheit de geheele omslag deezer Visscherye beschreeven, en wat daar in dient waargenomen, naaukeurig verhandelt wordt. Uitgebreid Met eene korte Historische Beschryving der Noordere Gewesten, voornamentlyk Groenlandt, Yslandt, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Jan Mayen Eilandt, de Straat Davis, en al 't aanmerklykste in de Ontdekking deezer Landen, en in de Visschery voorgevallen. Met byvoeging van de Walvischvangst, In haare hoedanigheden, behandelingen, 't Scheepsleeven en gedrag beschouwt. Door Abraham Moubach. Tweeden Druk. Met aanmerkelyke zaaken vermeerdert, nevens een korte beschryving Van de Terreneufsche Bakkeljaau-Visschery. Verciert met naauwkeurige, en naar't leven geteekende nieuwe Kaarten en kunstige Printverbeeldingen. In s'Gravenhage, By P. van Thol en R.C. Alberts, 1727
LARGE PAPER COPY, demy 4to., pp.[xlii]+392+[14], allegorical engraved title (with poetical explanation on half-title verso), letterpress title in black and red, 11 engraved plates, one folding, and 6 folding maps, contents in pristine state with the plates/maps in fine dark impressions; uncut in contemp. qtr. Dutch calf, sprinkled paper boards, spine florally gilt within raised bands, red morocco label, some rubbing, spine slightly worn at head
£3,000
LARGE PAPER COPY, demy 4to., pp.[xlii]+392+[14], allegorical engraved title (with poetical explanation on half-title verso), letterpress title in black and red, 11 engraved plates, one folding, and 6 folding maps, contents in pristine state with the plates/maps in fine dark impressions; uncut in contemp. qtr. Dutch calf, sprinkled paper boards, spine florally gilt within raised bands, red morocco label, some rubbing, spine slightly worn at head
Sabin 106375; not in Staton & Tremaine. Early signature of Ro: Abercrombie on front endpaper, and gilt stamp of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses on the front board. This large-paper copy measures 245x185mm., compared to those on ordinary paper, good examples of which measure 200x155mm.
The Dutch dominated the European whaling industry for most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Cornelis Zorgdrager, a ship's commander in the Greenland fleet, has left us the most important treatise on whaling of the era. The work is not confined to the true Greenland waters, but ranges widely across the northern fisheries from the Davis Straits to the Siberian Sea (as depicted in the general map), with short histories of northern voyages of exploration. The other maps are of Iceland, Greenland (with Davis Straits and part of Iceland), Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen Island, and Novaya Zemlya; and the plates include specimens of whales, puffins, a walrus, and a seal, one depicting a taxonomy of snowflakes (twenty-eight different kinds in six generic groups), another showing cooking on a geyser, and a fine folding plate of intensive whaling in progress among the ice floes. To the main text are added detailed lists of ships and their captains, equipment, provisions, catches, etc.
This is the second and best edition, corrected, brought up-to-date, and 62 pages longer than the 1720 edition, including four extra plates and a notable account of the Newfoundland fisheries.
The Dutch dominated the European whaling industry for most of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and Cornelis Zorgdrager, a ship's commander in the Greenland fleet, has left us the most important treatise on whaling of the era. The work is not confined to the true Greenland waters, but ranges widely across the northern fisheries from the Davis Straits to the Siberian Sea (as depicted in the general map), with short histories of northern voyages of exploration. The other maps are of Iceland, Greenland (with Davis Straits and part of Iceland), Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen Island, and Novaya Zemlya; and the plates include specimens of whales, puffins, a walrus, and a seal, one depicting a taxonomy of snowflakes (twenty-eight different kinds in six generic groups), another showing cooking on a geyser, and a fine folding plate of intensive whaling in progress among the ice floes. To the main text are added detailed lists of ships and their captains, equipment, provisions, catches, etc.
This is the second and best edition, corrected, brought up-to-date, and 62 pages longer than the 1720 edition, including four extra plates and a notable account of the Newfoundland fisheries.