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Auction archive: Lot number 239

STEVENS, Captain JOHN, editor and translator . A New Collection of Voyages and Travels: with Historical Accounts of Discoveries and Conquests In all Parts of the World. None of them ever before Printed in English... For the Month of December, 1708. T...

Auction 08.10.1991
8 Oct 1991
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$18,700
Auction archive: Lot number 239

STEVENS, Captain JOHN, editor and translator . A New Collection of Voyages and Travels: with Historical Accounts of Discoveries and Conquests In all Parts of the World. None of them ever before Printed in English... For the Month of December, 1708. T...

Auction 08.10.1991
8 Oct 1991
Estimate
US$10,000 - US$15,000
Price realised:
US$18,700
Beschreibung:

STEVENS, Captain JOHN, editor and translator . A New Collection of Voyages and Travels: with Historical Accounts of Discoveries and Conquests In all Parts of the World. None of them ever before Printed in English... For the Month of December, 1708. To be continu'd Monthly. London: Printed, and Sold by J. Knapton, J. Round, [et al.] 1708. 7 parts in 2 vols., small 4to, later eighteenth century calf, covers blind-panelled, spines with nineteenth-century calf lettering-pieces and gilt lettering, edges speckled red, volume numbers lettered in ink on fore-edges, gutters perforated from former sewing, joints cracking, heads and tails of spines chipped, covers scratched, rust-hole to fol. B2 of part 2 (Cieza de Leon), affecting 6 letters, part 3 (Lawson) without the initial blank leaf, short tear to mount of folding map of part 4 (Moutte), part 5 (Teixeira) without quire A (as usual?), repaired marginal tear to fol. I2, ink stain to the map of part 7 (Almeida), obscuring part of the headline and border, hole to G1 affecting 10 letters, some foxing and browning to text and plates, especially in vol. 2, occasional minor marginal paper defects . KING GEORGE II'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this collection of seven works, ALL FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, issued in 14 installments from Dec. 1708 to January 1710, each with separate pagination and signatures, 4 with separate title-pages, vol. 2 with general (or monthly part) title "A View of the Universe: or a new Collection of Voyages and Travels... This for January 1710, begins the Entertaining Travels of the Sieur Mouette...", 5 engraved plates of which one folding, and 5 engraved maps, all but the first folding, 2-page publisher's advertisement at beginning of vol. 1 and 1-page announcement of Argensola's work on last leaf ("Lately published, in the Collections forDecember, January, February, and March"...). Contents Vol. 1: 1) LEONARDO Y ARGENSOLA, BARTOLOMÉ JUAN. The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands (1708); 2) CIEZA DE LEON, PEDRO. The Seventeen Years Travels... Through... Peru (1709); 3) LAWSON, JOHN. A New Voyage to Carolina (1709); each with its own title-page. Vol. 2 (1710): 4) MOUETTE, GERMAIN. The Travels...In the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco During his Eleven Years Captivity in those Parts; 5) TEIXEIRA, PEDRO. The Travels...from India to Italy by Land; 6) CAUCHE, FRANCIS. A Voyage to Madagascar; 7) [ALMEIDA, MANUEL DE]. The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia [attributed to Balthazar Telles]; the last only with separate title-page. John Stevens was a gifted scholar and prolific translator of Spanish and Portuguese texts. In this early publication in parts he made known to the English public several important works, including two essential accounts of America, his slightly abridged version of Cieza de Leon's Chronica del Peru (first published in 1553 in Seville), one of the most accurate and intelligent eyewitness accounts of Peruvian Indian culture before its destruction, and considered to be "one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of Spanish conquest in America" (Hill, II, p. 375, quoting Markham and Prescott); and Lawson's New Voyage to Carolina , the first history of Carolina, "the relation of a man of acute habits of observation, some intelligence, and doubtless entire veracity regarding the Indians of North Carolina at a very interesting period of their existence" (Field, 899). Lawson, who as a land surveyor "was the precursor of the settler" (ibid.) and thus hated by the subjects of his work, was captured by them in 1711 and burned at the stake. Copies of some of the parts come up separately; but complete copies of the collection are very rare. Alden 708/130; Sabin 91537 (and 13057, 39451, and 1948); Field, 316 (Cieza de Leon) and 899 (Lawson); Streeter sale II, 1114; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps , 150 (Lawson); Hill, p. 475 (Argensola). Provenance : George II, King of England, two different bookplates on both pasted

Auction archive: Lot number 239
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

STEVENS, Captain JOHN, editor and translator . A New Collection of Voyages and Travels: with Historical Accounts of Discoveries and Conquests In all Parts of the World. None of them ever before Printed in English... For the Month of December, 1708. To be continu'd Monthly. London: Printed, and Sold by J. Knapton, J. Round, [et al.] 1708. 7 parts in 2 vols., small 4to, later eighteenth century calf, covers blind-panelled, spines with nineteenth-century calf lettering-pieces and gilt lettering, edges speckled red, volume numbers lettered in ink on fore-edges, gutters perforated from former sewing, joints cracking, heads and tails of spines chipped, covers scratched, rust-hole to fol. B2 of part 2 (Cieza de Leon), affecting 6 letters, part 3 (Lawson) without the initial blank leaf, short tear to mount of folding map of part 4 (Moutte), part 5 (Teixeira) without quire A (as usual?), repaired marginal tear to fol. I2, ink stain to the map of part 7 (Almeida), obscuring part of the headline and border, hole to G1 affecting 10 letters, some foxing and browning to text and plates, especially in vol. 2, occasional minor marginal paper defects . KING GEORGE II'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of this collection of seven works, ALL FIRST ENGLISH EDITIONS, issued in 14 installments from Dec. 1708 to January 1710, each with separate pagination and signatures, 4 with separate title-pages, vol. 2 with general (or monthly part) title "A View of the Universe: or a new Collection of Voyages and Travels... This for January 1710, begins the Entertaining Travels of the Sieur Mouette...", 5 engraved plates of which one folding, and 5 engraved maps, all but the first folding, 2-page publisher's advertisement at beginning of vol. 1 and 1-page announcement of Argensola's work on last leaf ("Lately published, in the Collections forDecember, January, February, and March"...). Contents Vol. 1: 1) LEONARDO Y ARGENSOLA, BARTOLOMÉ JUAN. The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands (1708); 2) CIEZA DE LEON, PEDRO. The Seventeen Years Travels... Through... Peru (1709); 3) LAWSON, JOHN. A New Voyage to Carolina (1709); each with its own title-page. Vol. 2 (1710): 4) MOUETTE, GERMAIN. The Travels...In the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco During his Eleven Years Captivity in those Parts; 5) TEIXEIRA, PEDRO. The Travels...from India to Italy by Land; 6) CAUCHE, FRANCIS. A Voyage to Madagascar; 7) [ALMEIDA, MANUEL DE]. The Travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia [attributed to Balthazar Telles]; the last only with separate title-page. John Stevens was a gifted scholar and prolific translator of Spanish and Portuguese texts. In this early publication in parts he made known to the English public several important works, including two essential accounts of America, his slightly abridged version of Cieza de Leon's Chronica del Peru (first published in 1553 in Seville), one of the most accurate and intelligent eyewitness accounts of Peruvian Indian culture before its destruction, and considered to be "one of the most remarkable literary productions of the age of Spanish conquest in America" (Hill, II, p. 375, quoting Markham and Prescott); and Lawson's New Voyage to Carolina , the first history of Carolina, "the relation of a man of acute habits of observation, some intelligence, and doubtless entire veracity regarding the Indians of North Carolina at a very interesting period of their existence" (Field, 899). Lawson, who as a land surveyor "was the precursor of the settler" (ibid.) and thus hated by the subjects of his work, was captured by them in 1711 and burned at the stake. Copies of some of the parts come up separately; but complete copies of the collection are very rare. Alden 708/130; Sabin 91537 (and 13057, 39451, and 1948); Field, 316 (Cieza de Leon) and 899 (Lawson); Streeter sale II, 1114; Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps , 150 (Lawson); Hill, p. 475 (Argensola). Provenance : George II, King of England, two different bookplates on both pasted

Auction archive: Lot number 239
Auction:
Datum:
8 Oct 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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