antiquarian bookseller - Peter Harrington
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<strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Harrington</strong> Antiquarian Bookseller<br />
161.EYRE, Lieut. Vincent.<br />
The Military Operations at Cabul,<br />
which Ended in the Retreat and<br />
Destruction of the British Army,<br />
January 1842. With a Journal of<br />
Imprisonment in Affghanistan.<br />
London, John Murray, 1843 [39624] £250<br />
8vo. Original green embossed cloth, title gilt to spine, block<br />
of Afghans in a sangar to the upper board. Folding map.<br />
Marginally browned, a little cocked, spine sunned and chipped<br />
head and tail, a very good copy.<br />
Second Edition of a classic account, which “traces the<br />
evacuation of Kabul by the British and their subsequently<br />
disastrous attempt to retreat to India … Seriously<br />
wounded, Eyre, his wife, and child were taken prisoners<br />
by Mahmoud Akbar Khan for over eight months and were<br />
not released until September 1842 and the approach of<br />
General Pollock’s forces” (Riddick).<br />
Riddick p.34.<br />
162.FITZCLARENCE,<br />
[George, later Earl of<br />
Munster.]<br />
Journal of a Route across India,<br />
through Egypt, to England, in the<br />
latter end of the year 1817, and the<br />
beginning of 1818.<br />
London, John Murray, 1819 [33855] £2250<br />
Large 4to (320 × 248 mm). Contemporary half calf neatly<br />
rebacked with original spine laid down, red morocco label,<br />
marbled sides, edges uncut. 7 engraved maps and plans,<br />
12 plates, of which 9 are hand-coloured aquatints, 2 plain<br />
aquatints and one line engraving after drawings by the<br />
author, engraved by R. Havell. Charming woodcut book label<br />
of Coddenham Book Society; contemporary Broke family<br />
ownership inscription at head of title. A little offsetting, but<br />
an excellent fresh copy with untrimmed margins.<br />
FIRST EDITION. As his surname indicates, FitzClarence was<br />
the eldest of the ten children born to the Duke of Clarence,<br />
later King William IV, by the actress Dorothy Jordan;<br />
hence he was nephew to the Prince Regent, to whom this<br />
volume is dedicated. Although a distinguished soldier in<br />
his youth, FitzClarence had disturbed his royal relatives<br />
by agitating against his former commanding officer and<br />
was sent to India in disgrace. He returned to England via<br />
the overland route bearing the dispatches of the peace<br />
treaty signed with Maharaja Sindhia. In the long section<br />
on Egypt he describes at length his contacts with Salt<br />
and Belzoni and gives an interesting account of his visits<br />
to the Pyramids with them. This account of his travels<br />
marked the beginning of a series of scholarly interests.<br />
FitzClarence was to become a fellow of the Royal Society,<br />
and of the Royal Geographical, Antiquarian, Astronomical,<br />
and Geological societies of London, and a founder member<br />
of the Royal Asiatic Society.<br />
Abbey Travel 519.<br />
Back from India via the<br />
Pyramids<br />
163.FORREST, Capt.<br />
Thomas.<br />
A Voyage to New Guinea, and the<br />
Moluccas, from Balambangan;<br />
including an Account of Magindano,<br />
Sooloo, and other Islands; …<br />
performed in the Tartar Galley,<br />
belonging to the Honourable East<br />
India Company, During the Years<br />
1774, 1775, and 1776, … to which<br />
is added, a Vocabulary of the<br />
Magindano Tongue.<br />
London, J. Robson … J. Donaldson … G. Robinson … and Edinburgh,<br />
J. Bell, 1779 [21553] £3500<br />
4to, (300 × 233mm). Later half calf on marbled boards, red<br />
morocco label, spine gilt in compartments, slightly rubbed,<br />
upper joint repaired. With engraved portrait after Sherwin,<br />
large folding map and 30 engraved plates and plans, 23 of<br />
them folding, many featuring coastal profiles accompanied by<br />
detailed charts. Two plates rather heavily browned, some light<br />
browning else, short closed tear to the margin of the map, but<br />
internally a good, clean copy.<br />
FIRST EDITION. For some time before entering the service<br />
of the East India Company Forrest had served in the<br />
Royal Navy, in 1757 seeing action under George Pocock<br />
against the French in the Bay of Bengal. 1762 found him<br />
in command of a company ship, “from which he seems to<br />
date his experience when, writing in 1782, he spoke of<br />
himself as having been more than twenty years in “the<br />
country trade”; and as having made fifteen voyages from<br />
Hindustan to the East, and four voyages from England<br />
to India” (ODNB). In 1770 he pioneered the settlement<br />
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 4: Asia including Russia<br />
at Balembangan at the eastern tip of Borneo and from<br />
here set out in 1724 in a native prahu renamed the Tartar<br />
accompanied by two English officers and 18 Malays; “In<br />
this unlikely craft he pushed further east than any of his<br />
company predecessors, eventually reaching Geelvinks Bay<br />
on the North Coast of New Guinea. There he found one of<br />
the few nutmeg forests not under the control of the Dutch.<br />
After exploring Gilolo Passage … between New Guinea<br />
and the Moluccas, he sailed to Mindanao, where the<br />
Sultan gave him a free choice of locations for future British<br />
bases” (Howgego). On his return to Borneo he found that<br />
the Balembangan colony had been abandoned and so<br />
proceeded to the Malay peninsula where, at Kedah, his<br />
two companions refused to proceed further bringing his<br />
odyssey to an end. “The voyage was one of examination<br />
and enquiry rather than of exploration, and the additions<br />
made to geographical knowledge were corrections of<br />
detail rather than startling discoveries, but the tact with<br />
which he conducted his intercourse with the natives, and<br />
the amount of work done in a small boat, deservedly won<br />
him credit as a navigator” (Hill).<br />
Hill 623; Howgego F60.