A wall <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Iberia by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas+De+Fer&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas De Fer</a>, published soon after the accession of Philippe V to the throne of Spain in 1700.<ul><li>Nicolas De Fer (French).</li><li>Espagne Triomphante sous le Regne de Philippe V.</li><li>Bottom left is a plan of Madrid; bottom right is a view of the Escurial Palace.</li><li>Colored.</li><li>Four sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The accession of Philippe V to the throne of Spain gave the French reason to celebrate as Philippe was grandson of the French king Louis XIV (the 'Sun King'), meaning a closer connection between the two thrones. In the huge ornamental border are medallion portraits of Philippe and his wife, Marie Louise of Savoy, and 81 medallion portraits going back to the Visgoth king Athaulf (410-5). Not all of Europe was as happy as France to have Bourbon kings on the throne of both Spain and France, and soon the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) broke out, with Charles of Austria being the rival claimant. During the war Spain lost both Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain.

French Map of Spain | Early Spanish Succession

A French <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%252C%2520Botanicals%2520and%2520More" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of California as an island, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas+de+Fer&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas de Fer</a>.<ul><li>Nicolas de Fer (French).</li><li>La Californie ou Nouvelle Caroline, Teatro de los Trabajos Apostolicos De Compa.e. Jesus en la America Sept. Dressé sur celle que le Viceroy de la Nouvelle Espagne...</li><li>Paris: 1720. </li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The largest representation of the island of California on a single-sheet map. It is an enlarged version of Fer's map of 1700, allowing the 314 names in the original key to be moved onto the map. In place of the key is a text telling the history of California up to 1695, and four vignettes. Bottom left is a cartouche, illustrated with creatures including a Spoonbill and an armadillo, which seems to be lacking extra text. Most of the detail in the Mexican interior comes from the work of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711), an Italian Jesuit. It is interesting that it was Kino first claimed California was joined to the mainland, as early as 1702.

French Map of California

De Fer's two-sheet world map.<ul><li>Nicolas de Fer (French).</li><li>Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale de la Terre. divisée en deux Hemispheres suivant la Projection la plus commune ou tous les points principaux sont placez sur la observations de m.rs de l'Academie Royale des Siences.</li><li>Paris: 1705.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> A large-format map of the world engraved by Henrick van Loon after a four-sheet map he and de Fer issued in 1694, but with updated geographical features. California is shown as an island and Australia and Tasmania appear in different hemispheres, with Cape York connected to New Guinea. The borders have vignettes of a volcano, tides, eclipses and meteorological events such as lightning, with the French Royal Arms in the upper cusp. The text boxes contain estimates of the diameter of the Earth and lists of the definition of a "foot" in different countries.

French World Map

Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana. Part 2

Torre Farfan, Fernando de la Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitana. Seville: En Casa de la Viuda de Nicolas Rodriguez, 1671 Folio (297 x 200 mm). Text in double-ruled borders, title with large woodcut border, portraits, folding plates, engravings; some repairs to a few leaves and minor marginal tears to (count) folding plates, lightly foxed, otherwise clean and crisp. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, fore-edges speckled red; recased, repaired boards, soiled with tears to lower boards and foot of spine, endpapers renewed. First edition of a seventeenth-century Spanish festival book with elaborate engravings of the Cathedral of Seville. Canonized by Pope Clement X in 1671 and praised by Pope Gregory as an “athleta Christi” (champion of Christ), King Ferdinand III of Castile and Leon achieved great territorial gains from Islamic control within the Iberian peninsula and a strengthening of domestic institutions with a deeply religious undertone. Produced to celebrate his canonization, Fiestas features several plates of the Cathedral of Seville—the former Mosque converted into the city’s cathedral by Ferdinand III. One plate depicting emblems and devices was engraved by Lucas Baldes—then only 11 years old. “The best illustrated Iberian book, by all odds, contained in the Harvard Collection” (Hofer). REFERENCES Palau 335597; Hofer 86; Praz 397; Campa, Emblemata Hispanica Z29; El Libro de Arte en España nº 82; Escudero 1736; Vindel 2987; Simón Díaz, Impressos del siglo XVII 1304; O’Callaghan, Joseph F, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain, 160

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torre farfan, fernando de la | first edition of this celebratory text of king ferdinand iii

Peron, Francis, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, and Nicholas Baudin

Peron, Francis, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, and Nicholas Baudin Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes Execute par ordre de sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les Corvettes le Geographe, le Naturaliste, et la Goelette la Casuarina, pendant les annee 1800, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, 1807, 1811, 1816 2 text volumes, 4to (304 x 222 mm) plus atlas folio (344 x 255 mm). Text: Volumes with half titles, an engraved frontispiece portrait in volume 2, and typographic tables; uncut, very mild to moderate spotting, a few leaves faintly toned. Atlas: Volume with 2 parts in 1; part 1 with engraved title, 4 pp. "tableau general des planches," 40 engraved plates, including map, five colored coastal profiles, fourteen ethnographic plates (eight colored), eight other views (one of which is colored, and two folding, including Lesueur's view of Sydney), eleven natural history plates (nine colored) and one technical plate; part 2 with engraved title, 3 pp. contents (1 p. blank), and fourteen engraved maps, of which two are folding; light spotting, mostly to the first title, several small paper repairs in the plates, the first folding map with creasing and a tear next to the stub, the tear passing through the neatline, and various closed tears and infills mostly around the edges, the second folding map also with closed splits and tears, but minor, both maps tissue backed. Uniformly bound to style in half calf, with 19th-century marbled boards, spines gilt, morocco lettering pieces; rubbing to boards, a few spots of wear along the extremities, mostly to the Atlas volume's joints. The rare account of the Baudin-Freycinet expedition, one of the most important early explorations of Australia. The expedition was sent out by the French government in 1800 with orders to complete the cartographic survey of the Australian coast. Commanded by Nicolas Baudin, the expedition left France in 1800 and sailed via Mauritius to the Australian coast in the region of Cape Leeuwin, arriving in May 1801. Peron sailed as naturalist on the expedition and Freycinet as cartographer. The vessels, Geographe and Naturaliste, sailed north from Cape Leeuwin, surveying the coast and making observations on the natural history and inhabitants, until they crossed to Timor. After three months the two ships set out for Tasmania, continued making detailed surveys, and went on to Sydney. The group then undertook a complete survey of the southern coast and an examination of the northern coast before returning to Mauritius where, near the end of 1803, Baudin died. It was a celebrated voyage that brought back to France the most important collection of natural history specimens in the history of the French Museum, as well as a wealth of geographical and other information. The narrative of the expedition was begun by Peron, and completed by Freycinet after Peron's death. A tacit agreement between Peron and Freycinet, both of whom disliked Baudin, kept the commander's name mostly absent from the present official account of the expedition. Flinders completed his survey of the Australian coast before Baudin, but his imprisonment by the French in Mauritius for seven years resulted in the French exploration account being published first. Consequently, the Baudin-Freycinet narrative includes the first complete and fully detailed map of the Australian continent. It is justly one of the most famous depictions of Australia ever produced, with virtually the entire southern coast labeled "Terre Napolean," indicating possible French colonial ambitions. The Atlas contains a group of beautiful color plates, mostly of natural history specimens, many of which depict what the French saw during their important visit to Tasmania. REFERENCES Ferguson 449, 536; Dunmore, French Explorers in the Pacific II, pp. 9-40; Wantrup 78a,79a; Hill, pp. 229-30 (narrative volumes only); Davidson, Book Collector's Notes, pp. 108-10; Sharp, Discovery of Australia, pp. 232-39; Plomley, The Baudin Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802

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peron, francis, et al. | account of one of the most important early explorations of australia

The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin

John Dickinson Lettres d'un fermier de Pensylvanie, aux habitans de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Traduites de 'l Anglois [by Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg]. Amsterdam [but Paris], Aux Dépens de la Compagnie, 1769 8vo (166 x 103 mm). Woodcut headpiece, numerous woodcut tailpieces, with terminal blank R2; occasional very light browning. Contemporary French mottled calf, smooth spine gilt in compartments with green morocco title label, endpapers and edges marbled en suite; extremities a bit worn. Half red morocco slipcase, chemise. First edition in French of John Dickinson’s seminal work, with distinguished provenance. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies was the first serious study of the legal rights of the British colonists in America. Dickinson’s letters first appeared in twelve successive issues of William Goddard’s Pennsylvania Chronicle, and Universal Advertiser, Nos. 46–57, 2 December 1767–15 February 1768. Goddard evidently recognized the immediate significance of Dickinson's letter-essays: eight of the dozen letters are printed on front pages. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were collected and reprinted as a pamphlet by Hall and Sellers in Philadelphia in 1768, and by the next year, at least eight editions—including the present—had been issued in the colonies and abroad. Dickinson was one of the leading colonial statesmen to advocate a peaceful reconciliation with—or separation from—Great Britain, but in this series of essays he first admitted that force of arms in the quest for liberty might be both necessary and justified. His evolving position on the relationship between the mother country and her North American colonies closely paralleled Benjamin Franklin’s own considerations on the matter, although Franklin became a much more radical voice. Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in having Dickinson’s work published in London and, in French translation, in Paris. He wrote the preface to Almon’s London edition, which is translated in the present: “When I consider our Fellow Subjects in America as rational Creatures, I cannot but wonder that during the present wide Difference of Sentiments in the two Countries concerning the Power of Parliament in laying Taxes and Duties on America, no Application has been made to their Understandings, no able learned Pen among us has been employed in convincing them that they are in the wrong, proving clearly that by the establish’d Law of Nations, or by the Terms of their original Constitution, they are taxable by our Parliament tho’ they have no Representative in it. … It is to that End I have handed the following Letters (lately published in America) to the Press here. They were occasioned by the act made (since the repeal of the Stamp-act) for raising a revenue in America by duties on glass, paper, &c. The Author is a Gentleman of Repute in that Country for his Knowledge of its Affairs, and it is said speaks the general Sentiments of the Inhabitants. How far these Sentiments are right or wrong I do not pretend at present to judge. I wish to see first what can be said on the other Side of this Question. I hope this Publication will produce a full Answer if we can make one. If it does, this Publication will have had its Use. No Offence to Government is intended by it, and it is hoped none will be taken” (Papers, ed. Willcox, 15: 110–112). Franklin had a copy of the English edition sent to his friend Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, who had often translated Franklin’s own writings into French. Barbeu-Dubourg made the present translation and had it printed with a false Amsterdam imprint. The Snider copy belonged to Franklin—almost certainly the gift of the translator and perhaps specially bound by him—and his shelfmark (C69 N23) appears on the front free endpaper, probably added by his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache. Edwin Wolf 2d and Kevin J. Hayes include Lettres d'un fermier de Pensylvanie in their catalogue, The Library of Benjamin Franklin (no. 860), noting that this copy was “acquired by William Reese for his private collection, 2001.” After Franklin’s death in 1790, most of his books were sold to Nicholas Dufief, a Philadelphia bookseller. In about 1802, Dufief, perhaps unable to sell a French-language work in Philadelphia, gave the book to John Dickinson, acknowledging his authorship in an inscription on a front blank leaf: “This French translation of an original work of General Dickinson is respectfully presented to him by his most abdt. sevt. N. G. Dufief.” This volume links two of the most crucial Founders and demonstrates their mutual respect despite frequent disagreements on the best methods of reconciling the colonist’s grievances with Great Britain. Indeed, Frankin arranged for Dickinson’s Letters to be reprinted even though he did not fully agree with their position. At the time, as noted by William Willcox in the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, “Dickinson accepted Parliament’s power to regulate commerce by duties; he distinguished it from the power to raise imperial revenue, which he denied that Parliament had. [Franklin] was moving hesitantly toward a realization that these two aspects of power were inseparable, and hence toward a denial of parliamentary jurisdiction in toto.” PROVENANCE Benjamin Franklin (shelfmark C69 N23 on front free endpaper; likely the gift of the translator); sold by his estate to — Nicholas G. Dufief, Philadelphia bookseller, who gave the volume to — John Dickinson (shelfmark J Q A L on front free endpaper) — William S. Reese (booklabel; Christie’s New York, 25 May 2022, lot 42)

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john dickinson | benjamin franklin's copy

Fernandes, Pedro Petri Ferdinandi in doctrinarum Scientiarum que omniu comendatione oratio a apud universam Conimbrica Academiam habita Calen. Coimbra: Joannes Barrieus & Ionnes Aluarus, 1550 4to (220 x 150 mm). Dedication leaf in italic type, typographical vignettes, woodcut initial; front endpaper with minor tear at margins and lightly soiled, toned and lightly foxed throughout. Late nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century half vellum over marbled boards; binding soiled and lightly foxed. First and rare edition of this early example of Latin oration recited at Coimbra University before Dom João III of Portugal. After a six-year study in Paris and a degree in foreign law, King D. João III summoned Pedro Fernandes back to Portugal to join the faculty at Coimbra University, where he delivered this oration. Urging his audience of students to focus on their studies, Fernandes's oration featured classical quotations in Greek and Latin and traversed through numerous subjects such as poetry, history, arithmetic, medicine, and theology. REFERENCES Anselmo 275 (citing two copies only, at the Biblioteca Municipal do Porto and the Biblioteca Municipal de Évora); Barbosa Machado III, 576; Nicolau Antonio Nova, II, 152; Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Distrital de Évora, Livros impressos no século XVI: I Tipografia portuguesa, 389 PROVENANCE Guilherme J.C. Henriques (pencil notations to front pastedown, "este exemplar perteneceu a / Guilherme J.C. Henriques) — José Rodrigues Pires (bookseller's ticket to front pastedown)

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