Sales catalogues: Quaritch

Date:
May 1899
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/52
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogues: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    346 CRAWFURD (John) History of the Indian Archipelago, containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of the inhabitants, 3 vols. 8vo. large folding map and numerous plates; hf. russia gilt Hdinburgh, 1820 340% the same, a fine copy in whole russia extra 1820 347 ——-— A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and adjacent countries, Svo. map; cloth 1856 This remains a useful book, never to be consulted without profit. 348 CRESPEL (Emmanuel) Voiages . . dans le Canada et son Naufrage . mis au jour par . . Louis Crespel . . 12mo. in the original gilt binding ; Francfort sur le Meyn, 1742 A work almost unknown in American libraries. Crespel joined the band of mis- sionaries and went to Quebec in 1724. Afterajourney beyond Chicagou to Wisconsin, he returned to Montreal, Niagara, and Frontenac, and was thence sent to Lake Champlain where he arrived in 1735. The following year he returned to Quebec, and thence set out for France, but was wrecked at the mouth of the St. Laurence on the island of Anticosti. For severai months he and his companions were unable to get away, and most of them died, but the survivors were at last rescued and returned to Quebec, whence Crespel sailed for France in October, 1738. 348%-——— Voyage au Nouveau-Monde . . 12mo. calf extra, gilt edges Amsterdam, 17657 In this edition several explanatory footnotes are added, which render it more useful than the original of 1742. 349 CREUXIUS. HISTORIZ Cawnapensis, sev nova-rranciz LIBRI DHCEM Ad Annum vsque Christi MDCLVI, Auctore p. Francisco Crevxio, 6 Societate Iusv. Parisits, Apud SepastianvM CramMOIsyY, Et Serast MARBRE-CRAMOISY . . M.DC.LXIV. . Ato. with large folding map of Canada and 13 plates (including the very large one of Martyrdom; fine copy in green morocco extra, gilt edges by Chambolle-Duru . 1664 The condition of the plates is unexceptionable. They are splendid examples of the art of Engraving, especially the big one which is the size of a full sheet, spread out. 3590 Crevaux (T'.) Voyages dans ? Amérique du Sud, 1876-81, atlas 4to. maps and 253 woodcuts ; sd. Paris, 18838 A scientific investigator, who was killed by Indians in 1882. dol CrookanL (.) British Guiana, work and wanderings, sm. 8vo. plates ; cloth 1893 392 CUBERO SEBASTIAN (Pedro) Breve Relacion de la Peregrinacion qve ha hecho de la mayor parte del Myndo . . small 4to. gilt russia Madrid, 1686 He travelled across Europe to Moscow, from Russia through Armenia and Persia to Ormuz, thence by ship to Ceylon and Southern India, thence to the Philippines, from Manila by sea to Central America, thence through Mexico, and finally from Vera Cruz to Cadiz. 303 CUMMING (R. Gordon) Five Years of a Hnunter’s Life in the far interior of South Africa, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. map, and numerous engravings ; calf gilt 1850 354 Cumming (C. F. Gordon) At Home in Fiji, sm. 8vo. map and plates ; cloth } 1882 355 CunnincHaM (P.) Two Years in New South Wales, second edition, 2 vols. sm. 8vo. map; bds. wncut 1827 356 Curr (Kdward M.) The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing, and the routes by which it spread itself, 4 vols. —— VolLIV, roy. folio, 45 pp. of a Comparative Vocabulary, with large Map ; cloth Melbourne, 1887 Sixty-three chosen words are here given in nearly 200 Australian dialects ; and on the map the localities are indicated in which certain rites are used by the natives. 307 Curwen (Samuel) Journal and Letters of the late . . an American refugee in Hngland from 1775 to 1786 . . with biographical notices of ; American loyalists, 8vo. 2 portraits; cloth New York, 1842 398 DALRYMPLE (Alexander) An Historical Collection of the several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. 10 maps and plates ; the title soiled and mended ; calf 1770 359 ——— a fine large copy, calf | 1770 £ Wn Ss. -. —_ LO °° _ NJ 14 16 » () U Q QO
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