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Dalrymple, Alexander
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
A Collection of Voyages Chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean. London: Printed for the Author, sold by J. Nourse, P. Elmsly, Brotherton & Sewell, Jefferys & Faden, 1775
4to (10¼ x 8 in.; 260 x 203 mm). Contents leaf, 2 engraved folding maps and one engraved topographic profile; lacks half-title, repair to marginal tear on D4, section title for the "Journal of the Winds and Weather ... of the Falkland Islands" browned with offsetting from map. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, the spine in 6 compartments gilt (one reserved for green morocco lettering piece), brown endpapers; some minor staining from leather balm.
4to (10¼ x 8 in.; 260 x 203 mm). Contents leaf, 2 engraved folding maps and one engraved topographic profile; lacks half-title, repair to marginal tear on D4, section title for the "Journal of the Winds and Weather ... of the Falkland Islands" browned with offsetting from map. Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled boards, the spine in 6 compartments gilt (one reserved for green morocco lettering piece), brown endpapers; some minor staining from leather balm.
Provenance
Lord Colchester (armorial bookplate) — Constitutional Club Library (bookplate, gift of Lord Colchester, 1887) — Frank S. Streeter (bookplate and sale, Christie's New York, 16–17 April 2007, lot 136
Literature
Bell D13; Sabin18336; Spence 335
Catalogue Note
First edition. The need for Dalyrmple's proposed exploration of the southern Atlantic for terra australis incognita was obviated by Cook's return in 1775 and report of his discoveries during his second voyage. The present work contains the accounts of the voyages of Edmund Halley (in 1698, 1699, and 1700), Ducloz Guyot de St. Malo (in 1753), Lozier Bouvet (in 1738 and 1739), and John McBride (in 1766–1767).