Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

hout the plate list). - Beddie 1546; not in Kroepelien. - First Dublin edition.
Rare Dublin edition; with the armorial bookplate of John Clements. - 'James Cook is
not merely the most significant British seafarer and explorer, he is also one of the
world's greatest researchers of all time. The length of his scientific voyages on three
oceans by far outstripped those of his predecessors, and his ethnographic studies of
the peoples of the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia provided eighteenthcentury
Europeans with their first virtually complete insight into this previously more
or less unexplored region of the Pacific. Vasco da Gama had conquered the Indian
Ocean for Portugal; Cook conquered the Pacific for Britain' (Salentiny, Encyclopedia
of world explorers, p.134). - A very attractive set.
38 COXE, William. Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and
America. To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions
and commerce between Russia and China. 3rd edition, revised and corrected.
London, T. Cadell, 1787.
Later half brown morocco, rebacked with the spine laid down. With engraved folding
plate depicting the Chinese frontier trading town Mai-ma-chen near Kiakhta and 4
engraved folding maps (1 tear rep.). XXVIII,454,(2) pp. € 975,00
'The first and second editions of Coxe's book on the Russian discoveries were dated
1780. In 1787, he published this third edition, which has appendices (not in earlier
editions) giving a list of the principal charts representing the Russian discoveries, a
specimen of the Aleutian language, and tables of latitude and longitude. The most
important feature of this third edition is the inclusion of the supplement on Captain
Cook, titled: 'A comparative view of the Russian discoveries with those made by
Captians Cook and Clerke; and a sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future
navigators' (Hill 392). 'Mr. Coxe book contains many curious and important facts
with respect to the various attempts of the Russians to open a communication with
the New World' (Sabin 17309). This book was for many years the most comprehensive
source of information on Russian early voyages, including i.a. the accounts of
Michael Nevodsikoff, captain Krenitzin and lieutenant Levasheff and observations on
the fur trade between the Russians and the Chinese. - (Small libr. stamp on title; agebrowed).
- A fine copy.
Cordier, B.S., p. 2447; Lust 170; Lada-Mocarski 29.
39 COXE, William. Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark.
Interspersed with historical relations and political inquiries. 3rd edition. London, T.
Cadell, 1787-91.
5 volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, with red and green labels to
spines (1 hinge sl. cracked). With 6 folding tables, 14 folding engraved maps and
plans and 14 engraved plates and portraits (including 2 engraved portraits in the text).
€ 1.250,00