Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/50
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1605 Ad). j24t|) PUCKEY (om). An Account‘ol.a Voyage to establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass’s Strait, on the South Coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta, in the Years 1802-3-4. 8vo. Original half calf. London, Longman, 1805. ewe: In 1802 Tuckey was appointed first lieutenant of the ‘‘ Calcutta,’’ which, in 1803 took Collins’s Expedition to make a settlement at Port Philip. While there he made a complete survey and chart of the port and an examination of the adja- cent coast, and on his return to England, in 1805, published this account. A few months later his vessel was captured by the French and he remained a prisoner of war until 1814. The ‘‘ Calcutta’’ visited Brazil both going to Australia, and on her return, and actually circumnavigated the globe in eleven months. 1806 A.D. [242] [COOK (Captain, etc.)|. WILSON (Roéert). Voyages of Discoveries round the World; successively under- taken by the Hon. Commodore Byron in 1764; Captains Wallis & Carteret in 1766; and Captain Cook 1768-1789. Compre- hending Authentic and Interesting Accounts of Countries never before explored, etc. With numerous plates. : 3 vols., small 8vo. Old original boards, uncut. London, Cundee, 1806. 258 1807 A.D. [243] LA PEROUSE. A Voyage round the World, performed in the Years 1785-8, by the Boussole and Astrolabe. With Atlas containing portrait and 69 finely engraved plates and charts. 3 vols.., 8vo, and Atlas folio. Fine copy in contemporary half calf, gilt. London, Lackington, Allen and Co., 1807. £6 6s This is termed, on the title-page, the third edition. It is in reality the third edition of the best English translation, which was first issued in 2 vols., 4to and Atlas, 1799. The Atlas is the same as in the early edition. For an account of this famous work, relating to Easter Island, Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Botany Bay, etc., see footnote to the first English edition, 1798, in this catalogue.