Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1937
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/43
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VOYAGES AND TRAVELS—continued. 418 Hamilton (Capt. Alex.) A New Account of the East Inpixs: being the Observations and Remarks, 1688-1723, FIRST RDITION, with folding maps, 2 vols, 8vo., cont. calf, Hdinburgh, 1727 £3 15s 419 Kolben (Peter) The Present Strate of the Carr of Goop Hope, or Particular Account of the several Nations of the Hottentots . ... Account of the Dutch Settlements at the Cape... Natural History of the Cape . . . Topographical Account of the Colonies there, &c., 2llustrated with curtous copper—plates, 2 vols, 8vo., cont. calf (neatly rebacked), 1731- 38 47 Sclater, in his ‘‘ Fauna of South Africa,” published in 1900, says that this work **Oontains the earliest list of South African animals, and there is a full account of the government of the Country, with detailed descriptions of the various settlements, and a mass of information respecting the habits and customs of the native races.” Vol. 1 is second edition. 420 Lockman (John) TRAvets of the Jesuits intu various Parts of the Wor zp, compiled from their Letters, wth folding maps, 2 yols, 8vo., cont. calf, rebucked, 1743 421 Parkinson (Sydney) JournaL of a Voyacu to the SourH Sxas in H.M.S. “The ENDEAVOUR,” first edition, portrait, map and 26 engraved plates, 4to., calf, rebacked, 1773 £3 10s 422 - JOURNAL of a VoyYAGE to the SoutrH SEAS in H.M.S. bp) the °° ENDEAVOUR second edition; to which is now added Remarks on the Preface by the late John Fothergill [and abridgments of Cook’s Second and Third Voyages], portrait, 3 maps and 26 plates, the plates BEAUTIFULLY CO- LOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, 4to., cont. calf, 1784 414 423 Paterson (Lieut. William) Narrative of Four Journeys into the CountRY of the Horrentorts and CaFrFraria, 1777-79, with a map and 19 copper-plates, second edition, corrected, 4to., cont. hf. calf, 1790 £3 10s Paterson accompanied Colonel Gordon and Jacob van Reenen on several trips to the interior. In the course of his travels he penetrated as far as Namaqualand on the West, and the Great Fish River on the South-East. 424 Phillip (Governor Arthur) The VoyAcz of, to Botany Bay, with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island . . . to which are added the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, &c., wath ' portrait, numerous maps and plates, 4to., calf, rebacked, 1789 £1 10s - Includes a twenty-page list of convicts transported to New South Wales in 1787. 425 Sparrman (Dr. A.) Voyace to the Capr of Goop Hors, towards the Antarctic Polar Cirele [with Captain Cook], and round the World, but chiefly to the Country of the Hottentots and ae 1772-76, with map and 10 plates, 2 vols, 4to., cont. russia, 1786 £3 10s
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