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Weitere BilderA Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour.WITH Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; and Accounts of their Soil and Productions; and of many Singularities in the Structure, Apparel, Customs, Manners, Policy, Manufactures, &c. of their Inhabitants. BOUND WITH: A Description of East Florida, with a Journal, Kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia,. Upon A Journey from St. Augustine up the River St. Johns, as Far as the Lakes.
[COOK - first Voyage] 1728-1779 [MAGRA James - attributed to] 1748?-1806 AND [STORK William Dr]; BARTRAM John 1699-1777
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: T. BECKET and PA De HONDT. and NICOLL W., London, in the Strand. and London: at No. 51, St. Paul's Church Yard; and T. JEFFERIES at Charing-Cross 1771
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First Published Account of Cook's First Voyage to the Pacific, complete with Dedication Leaf. A cornerstone of any Cook collection. Two works in one, bound in modern, to style, half calf over marbled boards, some blind edge tooling, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt title…s to red calf labels. Internally, Journal of a Voyage, 1771, First Edition, First Issue with the Dedication and printers instructions, plus the two 'Otahitee Vocabulary' leaves bound in at end. BOUND AFTER: Description of East-Florida, 1769, Third Edition much enlarged (2 parts in one), 3 folding engraved maps, title with small library ink-stamp & repair to fore margin, small ink correction to C3v, professional repairs to maps, some loss to the first, occasional small stain, some soiling and light browning, scattered spotting. (281*214 mm). Folding map frontis, [2] title & dedication, [1], (ii-viii); Stork - Description of East Florida, [1], 2-40, 1 folding map; Bartrams Journal, [1], (xii), 35 pp, [1] errata & binders list,1 folding map; Magra's Voyage, [1] title, [2] dedication, [1], 2-130 pp, [3] Vocabulary of the Language of the Otahitee. The 3 folding maps, engraved by T. Jefferys, are: 1.East Florida. 2.St. Augustine the Capital of East Florida. 3.The Bay of Espiritu Santo, in East Florida. (Signatures: East-Florida - 2ff, b-b4, B-G1. *G-*G2, 2ff, H-M4. Voyage round the World - 2ff, B-S1, 2ff Vocab). Public appetite for a detailed narrative encouraged a publishing race, of which this work, published less than three months after the expedition's return to England and almost two years prior to Hawkesworth's authorised version, was the winner. This first issue containing the dedication leaf was swiftly withdrawn following the publicly advertised consternation of the dedicatees, the Admiralty, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Published anonymously, the work is generally attributed to James Magra, an American mid-shipman aboard. (Hill II:1066(without dedication leaf); Hocken p9; Holmes 3; O'Rielly-Reitman 362; Sabin 4246 & 16242; DuRietz-catalogue of the Kroepelien Collection p215; Frost Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook 1995; Beddie 693/4; STC T29207). The work is a short, but interesting narrative of Cook's first voyage, which relates his visits to Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Batavia, and Rio de Janeiro. The author is noteworthy because he is one of the few to criticize Cook in any meaningful way. Despite problems with the accuracy of the text, this work will always hold the place of being the first account of that voyage and the first account in print of the Australian coast. (in translation, it also gave the French their first account of that voyage). JEFFERYS Thomas (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, in the Strand, London 1771
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In den WarenkorbZustand: A fine copy. Quarto; a fine copy in a Sangorski-style binding of half green morocco, spine panelled in gilt between raised bands. First edition of the earliest published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific: the rare first issue, with the leaf of dedication to "The Right Honourable Lords of the Admiralty, and t…o Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander" inserted by the publishers to add authenticity. This copy also has the first state of p. 90 (recently identified and to be distinguished from an amended state where text begins "quantities."). This was the first of a series of so-called "surreptitious accounts" of Cook's various voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages, naturally much slower in the press. In this case, however, legal action was taken against the publisher for using an unauthorised dedication, forcing removal of the leaf during publication. "It is accordingly of the greatest rarity, and copies of the book containing the dedication are far more valuable than those without it." (Davidson). In this large copy, the offending leaf has generous margins and retains its printed instruction to the binder "Place this next the title" (which also, interestingly, indicates that the leaf was printed quite separately from the rest of the work). The British public's eagerness for news of the voyage needed more than newspaper accounts, while the officially sanctioned narrative would be a long time coming. Published anonymously some two months after the return of the Endeavour and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's official account, the Cook scholar Beaglehole demonstrated that the sailor James Magra was the author. His illicit sale of his journal to the publishers might well have confirmed Cook's opinion of him: 'one of those gentlemen, frequently found on board Kings Ships, that can very well be spared, or to speake more planer good for nothing.'. He was a New Yorker and a loyalist. Whatever his skipper and the authorities may have thought of him, it was Magra who got the first description of the voyage into print - the earliest printed account of the east coast of Australia, published even before acceptance of the name Botany Bay, here called Sting-ray Bay as Cook originally christened it. Magra later changed his name to Matra to claim a family inheritance. As Alan Frost has shown ("The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook; American Loyalist; Servant of Empire", 1995) Matra used his experiences on the east coast of Australia to draft his 1783 proposal for a penal colony at Botany Bay. Never shy in self-promotion, he announced his hope of being made Governor. His plan, like Sir Joseph Banks's before and George Young's after him, had its effect on the planners of the First Fleet and he was called as an expert witness to the committee in charge of solving the question of transportation (see Frost, pp.113-122). His life has prompted a considerable literature, with multiple studies of his career and importance including those by G.B. Barton, George Anthony Wood, James Watson (who christened him the "Father of Australia", an accolade more often awarded to Joseph Banks), and more recently Antonio Giordano (who has him as "Australia's Spiritual Father") and Andrew Tink. .
Weitere BilderVerlag: Becket & De Hondt, London 1771
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander (quickly suppressed), and N1 in the uncancelled state]. Quarto, [ii] (title page, verso blank), ii (dedication leaf), 130, [3] ('Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee') pages. Later half bro…wn morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, edges dyed yellow; leather lightly rubbed; slight surface loss to the sides; title page slightly marked and a little dusty, with the inkstamp of the 'Northern Protector of Aboriginals' in the top corner; early notes in ink on a contemporary binder's blank; later marginal notes in pencil on about a dozen pages (but see below); an excellent copy. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. Provenance: This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and appears to have been in the collection of the notable ethnographer Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), who occupied that office between 1898 and 1906. The pertinent pencil annotations are most likely in his hand. The later bookplates of John Glasgow (designed by Paul Nash, 1908), and Donald H. Graham Jr. are mounted on the front endpaper. Wantrup 5.01; Beddie 693.
Verlag: Magra (Matra) James
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: very good. Cook, J. - (Magra, J.?). Nachricht von den neuesten Entdeckungen der Engländer in der Süd-See: oder Auszug aus dem Tagebuch des Königl. Schiffs The Endeavour, welches in den Jahren 1768 bis 1771. eine Reise um die Welt gethan, und auf derselben verschiedene bisher unbekannte Länder in der südlichen… Hemisphäre entdeckt hat, nebst einer kurzen Beschreibung dieser Länder, deren vorzüglichen Seltenheiten, Beschaffenheit der Einwohner, und einer kleinen Probe von der Sprache die in jenem Theil der Welt üblich ist. Berlin, Haude & Spener, 1772. (17:10,5 cm). Mit 1 kl. Textholzschnitt u. 1 zusätzlichen, gefalteten Manuskriptkarte. XVI, 232 S. Schlichter Pp. d. Zt., berieben. Beddie 698; Du Rietz 217; Cox I, 54 f.; Sabin 16243; Fiedler, Forster 29. - Von großer Seltenheit. Der erste gedruckte Bericht über Cooks erste Reise in deutscher Sprache, geschrieben von einem Mitreisenden und ins Deutsche übersetzt durch den Verleger Johann Karl Philipp Spener. "This volume which is the earliest printed account of Cook's voyage is an extremely important work, published two months after the return of the navigator and nearly two years before Hawkesworth's eagerly awaited account (Cox zur engl. EA 1771). Die Autorschaft ist nicht gesichert, allgemein wird davon ausgegangen, daß der Leutnant zu See James Magra (oder Matra) Autor dieses Buches ist (nicht zu verwechseln mit John Marra, der einen Bericht über Cooks zweite Reise veröfffentlichte). Der Übersetzer Spener war in seinem Vorbericht (S. VII) noch überzeugt, daß der 2. Schiffschirurg John Perry Autor der vorliegenden Erzählung ist: "Der Verfasser derselben hat sich nicht genannt, allein es ist wahrscheinlich, daß es der 2te Chirurgus sey, der diese Aufsätze aus dem Tagebuche des ersten Schiffschirurgi, welcher auf dem Vorgebürge der guten Hoffnung starb, genommen und herausgegeben hat. Was diese Vermuthung desto wahrscheinlicher macht und fast zur Gewissheit bringt, ist, dass von der Verbindlichkeit, nichts von der Reise bekannt zu machen, die Chirurgi allein ausgenommen waren". Nur dieser deutschen Übersetzung ist als Anhang (S. 201-232) ein "Sendschreiben eines Freundes (d.i. Georg Forster) in London an den Uebersetzer" beigegeben. Er gibt u.a. eine detaillierte Vorschau auf die Route, die für Cooks zweite Reise geplant war. Ferner erwähnt Forster die erste Entdeckung des Brotfruchtbaumes und beschreibt eingehend das Känguruh, wohl die erste wissenschaftliche Darstellung dieses Tieres. Der Holzschnitt in diesem Anhang zeigt ein Mineral, dass als Ohrgehänge benutzt wird. - Etwas gebräunt u. stockfleckig, vorderer Vorsatz mit Dublettenstempel, hinterer mit längerer zeitgenöss. Anmerkung zum Werk. Es fehlt das Erratablatt. Aus der Bibliothek des sachsen-weimarschen Kammerjunkers, Schriftstellers, Agrarökonomen und Gelehrten Georg August von Breitenbauch mit seinem gestochenen Exlibris im vorderen Innendeckel und wohl seinen eigenhändigen Anmerkungen zum Text auf dem hinteren Vorsatz. Breitenbauch stand u.a. mit Georg Forster in brieflichem Kontakt. Am Schluß eingebunden eine deutsche Manuskriptkarte des Südpazifiks (Begrenzung Borneo, Australien, Teile von Südamerika) in grauer Tinte. Blattgröße ca. 28:41 cm, gefaltet. Vorbild könnte die 1776 entstandene Kupferkarte "Charte von einem Theile des Süd-Meeres." (Clancy 6.32 u. Clancy-R. 122-23) sein, die wohl Breitenbauch hier in etwas vereinfachter Form selbst zeichnete. 1793 veröffentlichte Breitenbauch sein Werk "Versuch einer Erdbeschreibung der sechs Welttheile. (Leipzig, Richter, 1793) mit 8 Karten, darunter eine Australienkarte, bei der die vorliegende Manuskriptkarte wohl Verwendung gefunden haben dürfte.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Saillant & Nyon, Paris 1772
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In den WarenkorbOctavo, blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage, and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville translates the text now considered to be by Magra, which - pub…lished in English in 1771 - was the unauthorised and earliest account of the progress of the Endeavour voyage. This is one of two probably simultaneous issues, this one having the "Supplément" title-page; in this form the publishers intended the book to complement the octavo edition of Bougainville's voyage. The work also includes some material that did not appear in the original London edition, including a 'Lettre de M. de Commerson', the famed naturalist from Bougainville's circumnavigation, who remained behind at Mauritius to continue his research. The second supplement is equally important: the 'Lettre de M. le B. de G.' is a learned treatise on the possibility of a northwest passage, written at Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad), and quoting from experts on the region such as Gmelin, Muller, and Engel. Although the identity of this scholar remains hazy, it is surprising that such an interesting - and relatively early - report on the northwest passage has been largely ignored. Continuing the parade of famous explorers included in this short work, the Commerson letter is said to have been conveyed to France by none other than Kerguelen, promoter of the "Terre Australe". Rolf du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue further notes that a letter from Sir Joseph Banks to the Académie des Sciences is also quoted in the introduction, said to have first been published in the Journal des Savans. Despite his best efforts to distance himself from Magra's work (including having the false dedication in the London edition removed), it appears that his unwilling association with the work continued on the continent. Indeed, one of the attractive aspects of this copy is not only the fine contemporary French binding, but the spine label which reads 'Voyage de Solander': it was not unusual for Banks to be given top-billing in the excitement of the return of the Endeavour, but there cannot be too many examples that plump for Solander. . Very slight rubbing to joints but a fine tall copy with good margin.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1771 1771
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In den WarenkorbFirst edition, published two months after the return of the Endeavour and preceding Hawkesworth by two years. This copy has the leaf addressing the Lords of the Admiralty, Joseph Banks, and Daniel Solander. Written by Cook's mutinous midshipman, "this was the first in a series of so-called 'surreptitious accounts' of Cook's vari…ous voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages, naturally much slower in the press" (Parks). This account was formally attributed to a host of figures including Banks, Hawkesworth, and even Cook himself. Arnold Wood, in his Discovery of Australia (1922), was the first to suggest that the author was the American midshipman James Magra (later Matra) - subsequently a leading proponent of establishing a convict colony at Botany Bay - and this attribution, supported by the editor of Cook's journals, James Beaglehole, is now widely accepted. Magra neglects to mention his unsavoury conduct on the voyage. "In May 1770. suspecting that [Magra] was implicated in the drunken cropping of his clerk's ears, Cook suspended the midshipman from duty, noting that he was 'one of those gentlemen, frequently found on board Kings Ships, that can very well be spared, or to speake more planer good for nothing'" (ADB). Magra was also likely the ringleader of an attempted mutiny at Tahiti, which only failed because of a wave of venereal disease. Copies were sold with or without the leaf addressing the Admiralty, "which has been misdescribed as a dedication. It is nothing of the kind, but rather a provocative and brazen attempt to rebut an official notice which called into question the authenticity of the work and which is breathtaking in its temerity and even insolence. Because a relatively small number of copies of the book have survived with this additional leaf, it is clear that the Admiralty responded by demanding the removal of this offending leaf" (McCourt, p. 145). The presence of the leaf is not conclusively indicative of first issue. This copy also has McCourt's uncancelled state of leaf N1. Beddie 694; ESTC T29208; Hill 1066; Holmes 3; Parks 6; Sabin 16242; Spence 229; Streeter 2405. James McCourt, "A Second Cancel Leaf in A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771", Script & Print, vol. 46, no. 3., 2022. Quarto (269 x 211 mm), pp. iv, 130, [3], [1] (blank). Nineteenth-century half calf, green spine label, spine ruled in gilt, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red. Binding refurbished, abrasions where bookplate removed from front pastedown, worming in upper margin but text unaffected, couple of closed tears: very good.
Weitere BilderSupplement au Voyage de M. de Bougainville; ou Journal d'un Voyage au [COOK, JAMES]. du Monde, Fait par MM Banks & Solander, Anglois, en 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771
COOK, James], (Banks, Joseph; Daniel Solander. Usually attributed to James Magra)
Verlag: Paris. chez Saillant & Nyon, libraires. 1772 1772
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In den Warenkorb8vo., 19.3cm, the First edition in French, xvi,362,[3]p., (approbation & privilege)., in contemporary full mottled calf, raised bands, gilt borders and decorations in the panels, double leather labels, original marbled endpapers, hinges expertly restored, complete with half title, in attractive contemporary binding, a fine copy.… (cgc). Cox I- p55. JCB 1815. Sabin 6867. Not in Hill. (cd, Hill 1066 for 1st English edition). Beddie 697 .' "same edition as no. 696. cf, Homes, Captain James Cook. p20. O'Reilly-Reitman 365. Kroepelien 219. ~ The supplement was compiled and translated from an anonymous account of Bank's and Solander's voyage with Captain Cooke (sic) in the Endeavour" [Journal], issued with a new title and half-title", and was published as a supplement to the second edition of Bougainville's "Voyage autour du monde" (Paris, 1772). This, the first French edition of the anonymously-published "Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour", London, 1771, and usually attributed to James Magra, contains the Lettre de M de Commerson (pp. 251-286) and Lettre de M le B. de G. (pp. 287-362), neither of which appears in the English edition. Commander of the "Endeavour", Cook was sent by the British Admiralty to observe the passing of Venus across the sun, and had with him on board Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, naturalists; Sydney Parkinson, botanical and natural artist; and Charles Green, astonomer. The expedition remained in Hawaii and Tahiti for several months, and the French title of the work derives from the fact that it added a great deal of information to the record of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, whose circumnavigation had taken place in 1766-1769 and had covered similar ground. A very good copy of this surreptitious account. Additional points" - The first French book on the east coast of Australia. Translates the text published in English in 1771. It was the unauthorised and earliest account of the progress of the Endeavour voyage. It is one of two probably simultaneous issues, this one having the "Supplment" title-page. The publishers intended the book to complement the octavo edition of Bougainville's voyage. - Lettre de M. le B. de G." pp287-362, is a learned treatise on the possibility of a northwest passage.
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In den WarenkorbA Paris, Chez Saillant & Nyon, 1773. 288 S. (einschl. Vortitel und Titel). Dekorativer Ganzlederband der Zeit mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. 8°. Ein gutes, attraktives Exemplar der zweiten franzöischen Ausgabe von Marras Bericht über Cooks erste Reise! Bereits zwei Monate nach Rückkehr aus der Südsee veröffentlichte Magra seinen…Bericht über Cooks Reise unter dem Titel "A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour" (1771) ? dt. 1772 unter dem Titel "Nachricht von den neuesten Entdeckungen der Engländer in der Süd-See?" erschienen. Es war dies der erste Bericht schlechthin, der über Cooks Reisen erschien. Magra verstieß damit gegen das Veröffentlichungsverbot der Admiralität und musste das Buch anonym herausgeben. Es konnte bisher kein eindeutiger Beweis über die Urheberschaft des Berichts erbracht werden, jedoch deuten alle Zeichen auf Magra hin. Eine zweite Auflage von Magras "Journal?" erschien 1772 in Dublin, im gleichen Jahr folgte die deutsche und auch die französische Ausgabe, wobei der französichen 1773 eine weitere Edition folgte. Letztere erschien zum einen separat unter dem Titel "Journal d'un voyage autour du Monde, en 1768, 1769, 1770, & 1771; contenant les divers événements du voyage?", (die hier vorliegende Ausgabe) zum anderen als Ergänzungsband zur zweiten (d. h. der Oktav-) Ausgabe des Bougainville unter dem Titel "Supplément au Voyage de M. de Bougainville: ou Journal d'un voyage autour du monde, Fait par M.M. Banks & Solander, Anglois? Traduit de l'Anglois, par M. de Fréville.".
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In den WarenkorbBerlin, bey Haude und Spener, 1772. XVI, 232 pp. Without the errata leaf. Decorative contemporary full calf, spine richly gilt. Lacks lettering piece. Foxing and brownspotting throughout, but else a very good copy! Extremely rare and important ? the very first printed account to have been published on one of Cook's voyages, writ…ten by one of Cook's crew and published almost 2 years before Hawkesworth's book! - This volume ?which is the earliest printed account of Cook?s voyage? is an extremely important work . published two months after the return of the navigator and nearly two years before Hawkesworth?s eagerly awaited account? (Cox). ? Authorship of this anonymously published work has never been definitely clarified. It is generally assumed that the book was written by James Maria Magra (Matra). The assumption made by some that it might have been Banks' or Solander's work was called ?flamboyantly absurd? by Beaglehole. The translator of the work was convinced that the book was written by William Perry, the second surgeon, 'who took this account from the diary of the first ship's surgeon , who died at the Cape of Good Hope. What makes this all the more probable and nearly certain is the fact that the surgeons were the only persons excempt from the prohibition to publish reports on the voyage' (transl.) ? A 'Letter to the translator from a friend in London' (Sendschreiben eines Freundes in London an den Uebersetzer pp.) (202-232) was included in the book. It includes a very detailed preview of the route planned for Cook's second voyage, preparations for which were at that time just being made. Banks and Solander are still mentioned as natural scientists to accompany the voyage. In addition, mention is made of the first discovery of the breadfruit tree by Anson and the kangaroo is described ? most probably for the very first time the animal was mentioned in any book. Du Rietz 217, Cox I, 54, Beddie 698.
