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77 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
PIRATED FRENCH EDITION OF
COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE.
692. [BOUGAINVILLE] Voyage autour du monde, par
la Fregate du Roi La Boudeuse, et La Flute L’Etoile;
en 1766-1769, [with] [Magra] Supplément Au
Voyage de M. de Bougainville; ou Journal d’un
Voyage Autour du Mond, fait par MM. Banks &
Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771.
Traduit de l’Anglois, par M. de Fréville, Second
Enlarged Edition, 20 folding maps, 3 plates, [viii] +
xliii + 336 pp. lacking hf title [ii] + 453 + [iii] pp. hf
title + xvi + 362 + iii pp. full contemporary calf, gilt
spine, some slight wear, some occasional spotting,
together 3 vols, uniform contemporary speckled calf,
spines gilt, some slight wear, Paris 1772
[10465] £1,500
Beddie 697. Toussaint D.96.
This Supplement to Bougainville, is the first French
account of Cooks first voyage, was pirated from the
unofficial account published by Becket in London a year
earlier. However this edition does contain two additions
not in the English editions. The first pp. 251-86, a letter
by Philibert Commerson who had accompanied
Bougainville. He was the naturalist who had collected a
colourful unkown plant and introduced it into Mauritius
and named it in honor of his Commander, Bougainvillaea.
He has been called the Father of Mauritian Botany. This
letter is about Madagscar, Réunion & Mauritius and
appears never to have been reprinted. The other by “M.
le B. de G. Au sujet de la possibilité d’un passage de la
mer duNord ou Océan atlantique, dans la mer du Sud ou
pacifique, par les mers septentrionales” pp. 287-362.
Beaglehole in his Textual Introduction to Cook’s First
Voyage presents from the handful of people who could
have written this Journal a remarkably tight case for
James Magra. Of the texts connected with this famous
first voyage, it is the only one that shows any animosity
towards Cook. It was recorded by Cook that he suspected
Magra of being behind an ugly prank on Richard Orton
the captain’s clerk, who one night in a blind stupor had
his clothes cut off him and parts of his ears amputated.
Cook dismissed Magra the Quarter deck “to show my
immediate resentment against the person on whome the
suspicion fell least they should not have stopped there.”
He later reinstated him.
Another pointer to the authorship is in the text referring to
New Zealand, mentions that there are “sweet potatoes,
like those of Carolina.” Magra was an American, born in
New York.
The first Becket and de Hondt edition was published in
London within two months of the return of the Endeavour
containing a flattering dedication to Banks and Solander,
but after protests this was withdrawn. The Dublin edition,
issued a year later, contains this surpressed dedication.
693. BOYAJIAN (Zabelle C.) In Greece with Pen and
Palette, ep maps, 15 coloured plates, 1938
[10788] £25
694. BOYD (Julia) Hannah Riddell An Englishwoman in
Japan, With a Foreword by HRH The Princess of
Wales, maps, plates, dw, Tokyo, 1996 [10870] £15
Riddell was a missionary to lepers in the first half of the
20th century
695. BRADNUM (Frederick) The Long Walks,
Journeys to the sources of the White Nile, ep. maps,
dw. 1969 [CF8223] £20
Burton, Speke, Grant and the Bakers.
696. BRIDGES (R.C.) & P.E.H. Hair. Compassing the
Vaste Globe of the Earth Studies in the History of
the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 With a complete list
of the Society’s Publications, 30 plates, dw, Hakluyt
Society Second Series 183, 1996 [11432] £30
697. BRIDGES (R.C.) & P.E.H. Hair eds. Compassing
the Vaste Globe of the Earth Studies in the History
of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996 with a complete
List of the Society’s Publications, maps and plates,
dw, Hakluyt Society Second Series vol 183, 1996
[10913] £24
698. BROADLEY (A.M.) The Last Punic War, Tunis,
Past and Present, with a Narrative of the French
Conquest of the Regency, map, 2 plans, portriat, &
16 plates, 2 vols hf. red morocco, upper joints a little
tender, slight wear, 1882 [CF8222] £95
699. BROOMHALL (Marshall) Our Seal Being The
Witness of the China Inland Mission to the
Faithfulness of God plates, slight wear, 1933
[10654] £40
700. BROTHERS (A.) Photography: Its History,
Processes, Apparatus, and Materials. Comprising
Working Details of all the more important methods,
24 plates, title spotted, stain on spine, 1892
[10840] £225
Brothers, the well known Manchester Photographer, was
one of the pioneers in travel photography.
701. BROWNE (James Stark) Through South Africa
with the British Association, numerous plates, some
faint spotting, spine faded, 1906 [CF7917]
£35
702. BRYANS (Robin) The Azores, map, plates, dw.
1963 [CF8225] £25
703. BULLEN (Frank T.) The Men of the Merchant
Service being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine for
Longshore Readers, FIRST EDITION, 1900
[10547] £65
704. BULLEN (Frank T.) Deep Sea Plunderings A
Collection of Stories of the Sea, third impression, 8
plates, 1901 [10548] £35
705. BUNBURY (Selina) Russia After the War. The
Narrative of a Visit to that Country in 1856, 2 vols,
small snick on the spine of vol 2, 1857 [3769] £145
Selina Bunbury was one of the intrepid women to follow
their husbands to the War in the Crimea. This visit to the
country of a former enemy came about as her husband
was escorting a band of Russian prisoners back home.