CALLANDER, John, editor (d. 1789). Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries... With a preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1766-1768.
CALLANDER, John, editor (d. 1789). Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries... With a preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. 3 volumes, 8 o (204 x 131 mm). 3 engraved folding maps. (Minor marginal worming to a few pages at end of vol. I, short tape repair to tear to fold of folding map in vol. II, 3X1 with marginal chip affecting a few letters in vol III.) Contemporary calf (minor wear to joints, spine ends and corners). Provenance : William Maxwell (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS OF EARLY VOYAGES TO THE PACIFIC, a work that is "valuable both for its narratives and for its editorial comments" (Hill). It contains accounts of voyages beginning with Vespucci's "Voyages to Magellanica, 1501" to an account of Byron's voyage in 1764. "The main source of this work is the French collection of voyages by Charles de Brosses [see lot 72]... As de Brosses had proposed that the French settle Australia with her unwanted inhabitants, so Callander advises that the foundation of a colony be made on the island of New Britain as a suitable spot for the further exploration and settlement of the vast continent of New Holland, or Australia. He claimed that Australasia must fall to Great Britain because of her possession of sea power. Some of the forty-one narratives appear for the first time in English" (Hill 240). See Sabin 8387; Spence 240. (3)
CALLANDER, John, editor (d. 1789). Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries... With a preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1766-1768.
CALLANDER, John, editor (d. 1789). Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries... With a preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed. Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1766-1768. 3 volumes, 8 o (204 x 131 mm). 3 engraved folding maps. (Minor marginal worming to a few pages at end of vol. I, short tape repair to tear to fold of folding map in vol. II, 3X1 with marginal chip affecting a few letters in vol III.) Contemporary calf (minor wear to joints, spine ends and corners). Provenance : William Maxwell (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS OF EARLY VOYAGES TO THE PACIFIC, a work that is "valuable both for its narratives and for its editorial comments" (Hill). It contains accounts of voyages beginning with Vespucci's "Voyages to Magellanica, 1501" to an account of Byron's voyage in 1764. "The main source of this work is the French collection of voyages by Charles de Brosses [see lot 72]... As de Brosses had proposed that the French settle Australia with her unwanted inhabitants, so Callander advises that the foundation of a colony be made on the island of New Britain as a suitable spot for the further exploration and settlement of the vast continent of New Holland, or Australia. He claimed that Australasia must fall to Great Britain because of her possession of sea power. Some of the forty-one narratives appear for the first time in English" (Hill 240). See Sabin 8387; Spence 240. (3)
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