BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781.
BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781. 4 o (263 x 210 mm). 2 engraved plates and 2 maps, one folding. 5 letterpress tables, one folding, and letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary calf (rebacked, original spine laid down). FIRST EDITION, including the first collected edition of Barrington's tracts. The work includes the "Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole," and a description of the important Spanish account by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle: "Journal of a Voyage in 1775, to explore the coast of America, northward of California." "The Spaniards (and not they alone) were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America, and did not, of course, publish the journal herein described. Daines Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript of this journal and translated it into English, with certain omissions... [This Journal] is the only contemporary account in English of this Spanish sea voyage" (Lada-Mocarski). The map accompanying this narrative is drawn up by Barrington, and shows the Pacific coast from Cape Corrientes in Mexico to Cape St. Elias in Alaska. Cox II:25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628 and 46951; Streeter sale IV:2445; Wickersham 6653. [ Laid in :] BARRINGTON. Autograph letter signed ("D. Barrington") to an unidentified correspondent, 8 August 1773. 3 pp., folio . FILLING THE SPANISH KING'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES. "I think it is right to inform you," Barrington writes, "that I have been instrumental in concluding a Naturalist Treaty between their Britannick & Catholick Majesties." He had asked the Spanish ambassador to London, Prince Maserano, to supply the Royal Society with samples of "the Natural Productions of S. America." Maserano "hath laid our request [to] the King his Master who hath directed that the R. S. y shall have the Natural Productions of his Colonies provided he receive in return for his cabinet the Natural productions of his Britannic Majesty's dominions..." Barrington worries that some of the "rough specimens" contemplated by some Royal Society members "will answer very well the purposes of science yet they will not be proper ornaments for a royal cabinet. He suggests instead that some duplicates from the British Museum be sent instead.
BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781.
BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781. 4 o (263 x 210 mm). 2 engraved plates and 2 maps, one folding. 5 letterpress tables, one folding, and letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary calf (rebacked, original spine laid down). FIRST EDITION, including the first collected edition of Barrington's tracts. The work includes the "Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole," and a description of the important Spanish account by Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle: "Journal of a Voyage in 1775, to explore the coast of America, northward of California." "The Spaniards (and not they alone) were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America, and did not, of course, publish the journal herein described. Daines Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript of this journal and translated it into English, with certain omissions... [This Journal] is the only contemporary account in English of this Spanish sea voyage" (Lada-Mocarski). The map accompanying this narrative is drawn up by Barrington, and shows the Pacific coast from Cape Corrientes in Mexico to Cape St. Elias in Alaska. Cox II:25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628 and 46951; Streeter sale IV:2445; Wickersham 6653. [ Laid in :] BARRINGTON. Autograph letter signed ("D. Barrington") to an unidentified correspondent, 8 August 1773. 3 pp., folio . FILLING THE SPANISH KING'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES. "I think it is right to inform you," Barrington writes, "that I have been instrumental in concluding a Naturalist Treaty between their Britannick & Catholick Majesties." He had asked the Spanish ambassador to London, Prince Maserano, to supply the Royal Society with samples of "the Natural Productions of S. America." Maserano "hath laid our request [to] the King his Master who hath directed that the R. S. y shall have the Natural Productions of his Colonies provided he receive in return for his cabinet the Natural productions of his Britannic Majesty's dominions..." Barrington worries that some of the "rough specimens" contemplated by some Royal Society members "will answer very well the purposes of science yet they will not be proper ornaments for a royal cabinet. He suggests instead that some duplicates from the British Museum be sent instead.
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