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107 M'CLURE, Robert John Le Mesurier. The discovery of the North-West passage by H.M.S. 'Investigator' Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854. Edited by commander Sherard Osborn from the logs and journals of Capt. Robert le M. M'Clure. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1856. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With folding coloured map and 4 tinted lithographed plates (sl. waterstained). XIX,405 pp. € 850,00 First edition. - 'M'Clure set out in company with Collinson in Enterprise, but the two ships became separated in the Straits of Magellan. Having passed through the Bering Strait, the Investigator penetrated both the Prince of Wales and M'Clure Straits, thus making the first discovery of a North-West Passage (October 26, 1850). Investigator was abandoned in Mercy Bay in June 1853, where M'Clure's party, suffering from scurvy, were rescued by Captain Kellet in the Resolute. M'Clure was knighted on his return to England and received the £ 10.000 award as the discoverer of the North- West Passage' (NMMC I, 916). - A fine copy. Abbey, Travel, 647; TPL 3451; Sabin 43073; Chavanne 1538. Item 108 108 MELTON, Eduward. Zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land- reizen; door Egypten, West-Indien, Perzien, Turkyen, Oost-Indien, en d'aangrenzende gewesten; behelzende een zeer naauwkeurige beschrijving der genoemde landen .. aangevangen in den jaare 1660, en geëndigd in den jaare 1677. Vertaald uit d'eigene aanteekeningen en brieven .. Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, 1681. 4to. Old half vellum (new endpapers). With engraved allegorical title-page, portrait of Francois Lolonois and 18 engraved plates (5 folding) by Jan Luyken and J. Harrewyn (2 bottom-margins cut short without loss of images). (8),495,(13) pp. € 1.850,00
First edition. - This book is claimed to be translated from the papers of an English nobleman but according to Tiele it was composed by G. Broekhuizen. ' G. van Broekhuizen, a seventeenth-century translator and publisher from Amsterdam, had read enough travel accounts to be able to compose one himself. Edward Melton's voyage to Egypt, the West Indies, Persia, Turkey, The East Indies and neighbouring regions is pure fiction, but van Broekhuizen inserted enough curiosities to make his book interesting' (Koster, To Hellen's noble land, 32). Muller, at the other hand states ' this description is rendered still more important by the circumstance, that Melton was at New-York in 1668, in the height of the quarrel between England and Holland on the possession of the country, so that he uses the names New York and New- Amsterdam indiscriminately'. 'Exactly who he was, wether he really existed, or if Melton was his real name remains an unsettled problem' (Howgego p.701). The first part is dealing with Egypt. A very detailed description is given in the second part of New Netherland, based on Adriaen van der Donck and Arnoldus Montanus, Virginia, Florida, Cuba, Haiti, Panama and Jamaica; also relating to the buccaneers in the West Indies. The third part is dealing with Persia and Turkey, the fourth with Asia and South Africa. Van Broekhuizen showed a morbid interest in oriental tortures, which he described in detail and of which Jan Luyken presented some vivid illustrations. 'Several of the plates are by the celebrated Jan Luiken and are among his best productions' (Asher 16). - A fine clean copy. Tiele 738; Cat. NHSM I, p.118; Sabin 47472; European Americana IV p.82; Muller, America, 960; Weber 324; Not in the Blackmer or Atabey Collection; Van Eeghen-Van der Kellen 42. – See illustration. 109 METEREN, Emanuel van. Historien der Nederlanden en haar naburen oorlogen tot het jaar 1612. Amsterdam, Jan Jacobs Schipper, 1663. Folio. Contemporary calf over wooden boards (new endpapers), with later clasps (spine rep., brass cornerpieces and central ornament missing). With engraved title and 55 often full-page or three-quarter-page engraved portraits, including many fine equestrian portraits. (6),629,(11) lvs. € 695,00 The first edition was published in 1599 and was followed by many enlarged editions. Very important Dutch history starting with the 14th century up to 1612. It contains also valuable material for the history of the East- and West Indian Companies, and includes details on a Dutch boatsman who stayed for many years in Japan. Emanuel van Meteren (1535-1612) was consul in London for 30 years. - (Some waterstaining). Haitsma Mulier & Van der Lem 333. 110 MILNER, John and Oswal W. BRIERLY. The cruise of H.M.S. Galatea, captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1867-1868. London, W.H. Allen and Co., 1869. Original blue cloth, nautical motifs on upper boards, spine gilt (sl. soiled). With photographic frontispiece tipped in, folding map, 4 tinted and 8 chromolithographs and some woodengravings. XII,487,(1);24 pp. € 375,00
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