collection voyages travels now first von churchill awnsham john (12 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE LORD CARLETON -- BARLOW COPY. First edition, large paper copy. Folio in 4s (15 1/16" x 10", 381mm x 254mm). [Full collation available.] With 207 engraved plates, of which 79 are folding and 98 are integral to the text; and 11 woodcut illustrations integral to the text. Bound in contemporary speckled calf panelled in cat's-paw (re-backed, with the original backstrip laid down). Gilt supralibros of Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton. On the spine, six raised bands. Panels gilt. Title and number gilt to red morocco in the second panel. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Re-backed, with the original backstrip laid down. Fore-corners rebuilt. A triangular fill to the front board of vol. I. Scuffed generally, with some wear at the edges. Internally quite a clean copy with excellent margins. An old repaired tear to I.Xxx3, not affecting the text. Closed tear to III.S3. Passages of tanning at III.Aaa2-3 and III.Vvvv2-3. An early MS notation to III.Mmmmm1. Armorial bookplate of Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow to the front paste-down of each volume. Awnsham Churchill (1658-1728) with his brother John undertook to publish a vast collection of travel-accounts, both those for the first time translated into English and those which "for their Excellency and Scarseness deserve to be Reprinted" as the title explains. The process was laborious, since they had to commission those translations, amass the otherwise scarce works, and assemble the numerous copper plates in order to illustrate the travels extensively. After a 1694 Act of deregulation, Parliament passed the East India Company Act (1697; 9 Will. c. 44 s. LXIX), which overturned nearly a century of precedent. The Act, in effect, removed the Company monopoly on trade with the East Indies, and allowed any firm to trade so long as the Company had no presence in a given port. This created a rush of what the Company termed Interlopers: those who had for decades been barred from any trade with Asia. John and Awnsham Churchill, then Stationer to the King, sought to satisfy that new craving for accounts of previous travelers, which, once purely academic, now had real value to speculators and entrepreneurs to whom Asia and India in particular were now open. By gathering together nearly two centuries of voyages, the Churchills appealed to the newly-burgeoning market of those interested -- materially -- in the prospects of exploration. The Collection included voyages as near as the Ukraine and the Holy Land and as far afield as Chile, America, Africa and throughout Asia and the Pacific. Many appear in English for the first time, and most are augmented by engravings. The collocation of these works allows for a conspectus of what had been learned not just globally but over time as well. The binding owner of the volumes was Henry Boyle (1669-1725), who was an MP for Cambridge University and then for Westminster (in the same Parliament to which Awnsham Churchill was elected in 1705). Boyle -- elevated to the Peerage as Baron Carleton in 1714, providing a terminus post quem for the binding -- had a distinguished political career. He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1701-1708 (in which role the present work was doubtless of nonpareil interest) and, after his ennoblement, Lord President of the (Privy) Council. The set eventually came into the possession of Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (1826-1889), the New York lawyer famed for removing Jay Gould from the Erie Railroad and reconciling the feud between Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Henry Aspinwall. He was a formidably wealthy bibliophile and collector; the 1890 sale of his library contained 2,784 lots (the present item was lot 515), including nearly all of the great voyages. Sabin 13015 (which reports a mere 51 plates and 4 maps).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Awnsham Churchill (English, 1658-1728) and John Churchill (fl. circa 1700). Book edition published 1732, A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. Complete volumes 1-6. Early leather bound, with gilt decoration on sides. Originally published in 1704; this 1732 edition includes two additional volumes. Complete with 28 engraved arms 161 engraved plate and maps, some double paged, many engraved illustrations in text. Voyages to America, China, Turkey, Ceylon, Persia, India, Africa, and more.

6 volumes. Second, enlarged edition of this important and profusely illustrated collection of travel reports, with accounts of voyages to every part of the globe. Many of them appeared here in English, or even in print, for the first time. The work is noteworthy because it included the original, unedited accounts. While the first edition, published in 1704, consisted of four volumes, this second edition consists of six, and includes many important accounts not present in the first edition.Compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, the work includes the narratives of Martin Baumgarten (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria), Thomas Roe, Philipp Balde and Johan Nieuhoff (East Indies, including a detailed account of the north-eastern coast of Arabia), Giovanni Gemelli Careri (Turkey, Persia, India), Nicholas Rolamb (Constantinople), John Barbot (West Africa, with a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran"), as well as of Yemen and various journeys to China, Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, North and South America (including Columbus). The introduction of Churchill's work is attributed to John Locke (1632-1704).The timing of publication of the Collection was not a coincidence. After a 1694 Act of deregulation, Parliament passed the East India Company Act in 1697. This removed the Company monopoly on trade with the East Indies, and allowed any firm to trade so long as the Company had no presence in a given port. Other companies rushed in and interest for travelling grew. Travel accounts, once purely academic, now had real value to speculators and entrepreneurs to whom Asia and India in particular were now open. By gathering together nearly two centuries of voyages, the Churchills appealed to the newly-burgeoning market of those interested in the prospects of exploration.The work has been re-backed, with the original spines laid down. The end papers are somewhat browned, the first few leaves are slightly foxed. Otherwise in very good condition.l Borba de Moraes, pp. 181-5; Hilmy I p. 135; Hill 295; Sabin 13016. Contemporary gold-tooled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine. With 164 engraved plates (folding, double-page and full-page), 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 engraved titles, numerous illustrations in text, and engraved arms of 28 named subscribers.

Folio (245 x 362 mm). 6 vols. (12), LXXII, (4), 668, (1) pp. (4), 743, (1) pp. 793, (1) pp. (2), IV, 5-780 pp. (4), 708 pp. 824, (104) pp. Title printed in red and black. With 187 engraved plates (many folding) and 9 engravings in the text (showing maps, plans, views, costumes, flora, fauna, scenes, portraits etc., including 2 bound as frontispieces), as well as numerous woodcuts in the text (showing arms, seals, devices, coastal views, details, machinery etc.). Uniform full calf with red labels to spine (gilding oxydized). Third and best edition of this important and profusely illustrated collection of travel reports, compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, based on Hakluyt and Purchas. It includes the accounts of Martin Baumgarten (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria), Thomas Roe, Philipp Balde and Johan Nieuhoff (East Indies, including a detailed account of the north-eastern coast of Arabia, with a description of pearl fishing in Bahrain and mentioning Julfar, Qatar, Sir Bani Yas, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah, Amalgavine, and other places of interest along the coastline), J. Gemelli Careri (Turkey, Persia, India), Nicholas Rolamb (Constantinople), John Barbot (West Africa, with a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran"), as well as of Yemen and various journeys to China, Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, North and South America (including Columbus). - "This is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts [.] The third edition is considered to be best because of its greater inclusiveness and its copious index" (Hill). Two further volumes were issued separately in 1745, republished in 1752. - The count of the illustrations is notoriously complicated: the "List of the Copper Plates" counts 305 illustrations and maps, of which as many as four are placed on a single plate, and some are placed within the text. Compared to this list, the present set lacks 52 illustrations, or ca. 20 plates, whereas the first volume contains 5 additional plates not called for in the List. Three of the maps (Africa, Asia, America) which the List announces for the first volume are in fact bound in volumes IV-VI. The introduction, a "History of Navigation from its Original to this time", is likely one of the final works of the philosopher John Locke, whose publisher and financial manager Awnsham Churchill had been (while the attribution has been called into question, the text was included in Locke's Complete Works). - Provenance: Byrdie McNeill, Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska (her stamps). Bindings professionally repaired. Some browning; some edge defects, tears and paper flaws, but generally well-preserved. - Cox, I, 10. Hill 295. Sabin 13017. Shirley G.CHUR-1d. Alden/L. 744/62. Borba de Moraes I, 158. Landwehr, VOC 260 (note). Cf. National Maritime Museum Cat. I, 33.

Second, enlarged edition of one of the great voyage collections, originally issued by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill in four volumes in 1704 with the advice and encouragement of the philosopher John Locke. Hill describes it as "a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts". The list of subscribers runs to some 102 names, headed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Perhaps the most notable addition here, not present in the 1704 edition, is the account of West Africa (1678-82) by the French Huguenot slave trader Jean Barbot (1655-1712), A Description of the Coasts of North and South-Guinea, which includes a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran. the cities of Medina and Mecca, and Mahomet's tomb; and of the Arabs" (vol. V, pp. 63-72). This is the first appearance of Barbot's narrative as he had failed to find a publisher in France - he fled to England in 1685, following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - and was working on an English version at his death in 1712; "it was this version that was eventually published - probably as Barbot had left it but possibly with some editorial revision - by the Churchill brothers of London in 1732" (Law). Volume II opens with a fine portrait of the Dutch adventurer Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672), who served as an official of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil and East India Company (VOC) in China and India. His narrative of the East Indies includes a section devoted to the Arabian Gulf (pages 193-209), including such principal locations as Bahrain (Baharen), Sharjah (Sarba), Dubai (Dibei), Ras Al-Khaimah (Rasaelchimes), Muscat (Muskate), and a virtual track chart of locations along the coasts of Oman and the UAE. Among the most important of the many accounts printed here are those of Martin von Baumgarten on Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Syria, including his important description of the ruins at Baalbek, all undertaken at the beginning of the 16th century; the Dutch missionary Philippus Baldaeus on Sri Lanka (1656-65); Giovanni Franceso Gemelli Careri on Turkey, Persia and India (1683-98); Thomas Roe on India and Turkey (1615-19); Captain Thomas Phillips of the Royal African Company, who in 1693-94 commanded the company ship Hannibal to Guinea, "on a trading voyage. for elephants teeth, gold, and Negro slaves" (cited in Conrad, p.12); Domingo Fernandez Navarrete's account of the Empire of China during his work as a missionary from 1646-1673; Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chile in 1642 and 1643; Captain John Monck's voyage in 1619 and 1620 to Hudson Bay, to discover a passage between Greenland and America; and Michele Angelo Guattini's "curious and exact" account of his travels to the Congo (1666-67). Provenance: gilt stamp of the Northern Light Board to head compartment of spines, showing a lighthouse surmounted by a banderole bearing the company motto "in salutem omnium" (for the safety of all); established in 1786 with headquarters at Edinburgh, the Northern Lighthouse Board was formed to oversee the construction and operation of four lighthouses around the coastline of Scotland. Borba de Moraes, pp. 181-5; Conrad, Robert Edgar, In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001; Hilmy I p. 135; Hill 295; Robin Law, "Jean Barbot as a Source for the Slave Coast of West Africa", History in Africa (Vol. 9, 1982, pp. 155-73); NMM 33; Sabin 13016. 6 vols, folio (351 x 216 mm). Engraved arms of 28 named subscribers in vol. I (the list of which runs to some 102 names headed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty), portrait frontispieces of Johan Nieuhof and Philippus Baldaeus, engraved titles to vols. II and III, 164 plates and maps, vignettes and woodcuts throughout; printed in double columns. Contemporary mottled calf skilfully rebacked in the early 19th century, spines with six raised bands, decoratively gilt tooled in compartments, pale brown morocco labels, sides with double gilt fillet border, gilt edge roll, red edges. Professional small repairs to spines and joints, some craquelure to covers, burn hole through 4X1 in vol. IV affecting some nine lines, occasional minor dust-marking and foxing otherwise a very good set that presents handsomely on the shelf.