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73 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS
&OTHER CURIOSITIES ON
VOYAGES & TRAVELS
641. ABORIGINES. Report from the Select Committee
on Aborigines (British Settlements), with the
Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index 5th
August 1836, thk. folio, slight wear, REPRINT,
1968 [CF7537] £50
The aborigines are not just those of Australia but the
indigenous population of all the British Settlements.
ALABAMA WILL
642. ALABAMA. M’GRAW (Charles) AManuscript
Will Signed together with Witnesses and notes that it
has been upheld by the Court, 3 pp. 4to. remains of
seal, 21 February, 1842 [11156] £150
M’Graw of Wilcox County Alabama writes a fairly simple
will, to his sons John & David, to his daughter Eliza and
to the heirs of his dead daughter Mary, he leaves them
$10. However to his son Alexander he leaves “the
resadue of my intire Estate (after payment of all my just
depts for him tohave and hold for ever - to wit - all my
land and my negroes, my horse and mule, all my stock of
every decription myintire crop of cotton, corn and fodder,
all my household and kitchen funiture, all my farming
utensals and all money monies owing to me now due or to
becom due.”
643. ALEXANDER (Michael) Omai ‘Noble Savage’,
plates, dw. 1977 [CF10223] £30
644. ALLENBY. ABrief Record of The Advance of the
Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command
of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby July 1917 to
October 1918 Compiled from Official Sources,
Second Edition, 55 coloured maps, portrait, key
plate, sm.4to, printed boards, cloth spine, some
slight wear, HMSO, 1919 [11159] £130
The first edition was published by “The Palestine News”.
Allenby was the last Great British Leader of Cavalry. His
successful Palestine Campaign during the First World
War, recorded here, saw the end of the Ottoman
domination of the Middle East, and the liberation of the
Holy Land.
645. ALLIN. Anderson (R.C. ed.) The Journals of Sir
Thomas Allin, 1600-1678, Vol I 1660-66, Vol II
1666-78, 2 vols, a little soiled, spines a little faded,
Navy Records Society, 1939 & 40 [CF7541] £75
He engaged against the Barbary Pirates, defeated the
Dutch off the Isle of Wight, and the French of Dungeness.
He became comptroller of the Navy and was Commander
in chief of the Narrow Seas against the French.
646. AMERICANA. Review of the Speech of Harrison
Gray Otis, Mayor of the City of Boston, deliviered at
aPublic Meeting of the Friends of the Protecting
System, in that City, in the support of the
Nomination of a Friend of that system of a Member
of Congress, 40 pp. binders cloth, Boston, 1831
Sabin 70271. [CF4895] £30
VENETIAN AMBASSADOR TO PERSIA
647. ALLESSANDRI (Vincenzo degli) Relatione di
m’Vincenzo degli Alessandri al Ser.mo Principe et
Ecc. mi Signori di Venetia delle cose da sui
osservate nel Regno di Persia, manuscript in neat
scribal hand, 27 pp. some occasional foxing,
watermark of a lion bearing a fleur de lys, folio,
modern boards, late sixteenth century
[CF8208] £3,500
Allessandri was an envoy from Venice to the court of Shah
Tahmasp, the rather weak ruler, from 1571-73. He begins
his account “I have now undertaken to give an account to
your most illustrious Government of the regions and
kingdoms which are in Persia, of the produce, of the
character of the people, of the person of the king, and
qualities of his mind, the government of the Court, the
manner and custom of determining the affairs of state, of
things of importance in the administration of justice, of
the revenue and expenditure, of the number and quality of
the Sultans, who are nothing but commanders of the
soldiery, and in fine of all that may appear to me to be
worthy of your greatness.”
Knolles in his History of the Turks, 1603, mentions
Allessandri and that he was sent to Persia to try to
persuade the Shah to take up arms against the Turks to
divert their attention from the lands of the Republic.
The Hakluyt Society edition of Allessandri in 1873 by
Charles Grey, appears deficient. Our manuscript
contains two lengthy passages, one of three pages, not to
mention several shorter pieces, omitted from Grey’s
edition. They concern accounts of crimes against foreign
merchants which went unpunished or were just ignored.
“As I have said, the King takes no care or thought, and
from this it comes that throughout the Kingdom the roads
are unsafe, and great dangers are incurred even in the
houses, and almost all the judges allow themselves to be
conquered by the power of money.”
648. AMIRANASHVILI (Sh.) Gruzinskaya Miniatura
[Georgian Miniatures], numerous plates, some
coloured, text in Russian with an English translation,
slip case Moscow, 1966 [11413] £40
649. AMUNDSEN. Typescript Poem written in
Norwegian in the Antarctic [Isbarrieren] on the
“Fram” headed notepaper, 1 pp. 4to, folded, 2 filing
holes, February, 1911 [11122] £750
This is a curious relic of Amundsen’s successful
Expedition [1910-12] to find the South Pole. The poem is
evidently addressed to a supply party who had provided
some luxuries of alcohol and tobacco. Roughly translated
it reads -
“To The 14
Of the presents that you gave us we openly admit
theaveccen is our favourite, so we ask
to drink when we see fit ?
And the Havaneserroken
our noble 14 friends
which you were kind to give
we thankyou sincerely for the memories
that we can now relive.
Finally a big hurrah
we send you with the epigram
to thankyou for a wonderful day
from all of us on board the “Fram”