winter miscellany - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

First published in French in 1705; with armorial bookplate of Philip Lord Hardwicke
Baron of Hardwicke. - ‘Niccolao Manucci’s book, from which Catrou drew much of
his material, was not printed until 1907, when it was translated by William Irvine (the
Indian Text Society), of the Bengal Civil Service, for the reason that it had disappeared
from view until it turned up in Berlin a few years ago. Its title was Storia do Mogor
and it was written partly in Italian, partly in French, and partly in Portuguese.
Historians have long bewailed its disappearance, for hitherto they have been unable to
check the statesments of Catrou. Manucci practically spent his life in India and witnessed
so many things and records them so fully and delightfully that he is almost
second to none as an historian of Aurangzib’s reign’ (Cox I, p.285). ‘A la suite des événemens
historiques, le P. Catrou a donné, des revenus, du gouvernement et de la police
du Mogol’ (Boucher de la Richarderie V, p.67). - A fine copy.
Chadenat 6219.
SLAVERY
23 CHASE, Ezra B. Teachings of patriots and statesmen; or, the ‘founders of the
Republic’ on slavery. Philadelphia, J.W. Bradley, 1860.
Modern cloth. With steel-engraved portrait of George Washington. 495 pp. € 160,00
Memorial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress on the slave trade, 1790;
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, drawn by Madison and Jefferson; Slavery
in the district of Columbia in 1831, 1835 and 1836; Agitation of slavery in the House
of Representatives in 1839; etc.
Sabin 12174; Work p.299.
24 CINATTI, R., L. de ALMEIDA, S. MENDES. Arquitectura Timorense. (Lisboa,
1987). Folio. Cloth, with dustwrapper. With 377 illustrations. 232 pp. € 125,00
25 COBBETT, James Paul. A ride of eight hundred miles in France; containing a
sketch of the face of the country, of its rual economy, of the towns and villages .. to
which is added, a general view of the finances of the kingdom. London, Charles
Clement, 1824.
Sm.8vo. Later half calf. 202,(9),(4) pp. € 95,00
26 (COLERIDGE, Henry Nelson). Six months in the West Indies. 2nd edition, with
additions. London, John Murray, 1826.
Later half cloth. With engraved frontispiece map. (4),328 pp. € 170,00
Description of Trinidad, St.Vincent, Martinique, Madeira, Barbados, etc. ‘Contains an
unusually lucid and cool consideration of the situations of the slaves and planters,
maintaining that, all things considered, the formers’ lot was very comfortable indeed.
.. The work attracted a great deal of attention.’ (Ragatz p.221).
Sabin 14318; The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, 738.