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Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Excelente. [i.e. 1776].- // [Para pedidos desde fuera de España, por favor, consulte las condiciones de venta y envío, tipo A / For orders to be delivered outside Spain, please, let you see our sale and shipping terms, type A / Pour les commandes à livrer hors d'Espagne, s'il vous plait, voyez les conditions de vente et de livraison, type A].- // 8º, (193x121mm); XII, 516 p., [2] p. blancas; sign. a6, A-Z8, Aa-Ii8, Kk2 [Kk2, blanca]; adorno tipográfico en portada.- // Encuadernación de época en plena piel; lomo cuajado con nervios y tejuelo de marroquín rojo; filete dorado en los cantos; cofia y pie adornados; cortes tintados en rojo; conserva registro de seda roja. Leve golpe restaurado en punta superior trasera.- // Proc.: Sin datos.- // Refs.: Palau, 34229.- // Estupenda (y por ello apreciada) traducción francesa de la primera edición de la obra Introduccion a la Historia Natural y a la Geografia Fisica de España (Madrid, 1775, reed. 1782 y 1789). Bowles, abogado Irlandés, abandonó el derecho en su tierra natal y se afincó en París, dedicándose a los estudios de Historia natural. Allí le conoció el marino español Antonio de Ulloa quien, al ver los diarios científicos que había elaborado de sus viajes por Francia y Alemania, le animó a ir a España -donde vivió en Madrid y en Bilbao-, siendo al cabo contratado por el ministerio para labores científicas relacionadas con la minería y la Historia natural. La obra, además de recoger una descripción amena de sus desplazamientos por la península, es un genuino tratado de geología y minería de España, especialmente de las minas de cinabrio de las de Andalucía y el País vasco, y de la potencilidad de los antiguos volcanes. Se alternan así los comentarios de curiosidad como la descripción de la transhumancia de la mesta o la comparación de los pescados del Atlántico y del Mediterráneo ("no hace falta tener un paladar demasido fino para darse cuenta de la calidad de la textura y sabor del besugo vizcaino frente el valenciano"), con los de la composición del terreno, las industrias que podrían articularse en torno a los recursos geológicos o la mejor manera de extraer la mena de diferentes tipos de minerales, junto al hincapie en los nacederos de los grandes ríos peninsulares.

8vo. pp. 16. disbound. First Edition.

8vo. pp. 26. disbound. First Edition.

Soft cover. Very good. Original centerfold and pressmark. Size 21 x 27 Inches. A fine example of the 1780 Carington Bowles edition of the Lewis Evans map of the Middle British Colonies - one of the most important maps to emerge out of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). Essentially a piracy of a piracy, this is the Carington Bowles 1780 piracy of the 1771 Kitchen/Jefferys piracy of the 1755 Lewis Evans map - here given new relevance in the context of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). There are numerous subtle changes over earlier editions although the essential Lewis Evans chart - the finest and most comprehensive treatment of the Trans-Appalachia and the Ohio Valley from the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary period - remains the core. Pre-release editions of this map were circulated among British officers, including Major-General Edward Braddock (1695 - 1755), who consulted them during his disastrous 1755 expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley (he was killed in the effort - but not for lack of cartographic reconnaissance). The Lewis Evans Map Lewis Evans produced his 1755 map in the context of the French and Indian War. While the Ohio Valley was little traveled and only tenuously understood, it was clear that control of the vast territory was the definitive next step in expansion of colonial power in America. As described by a contemporary, James Maury, in his 1756 Huguenot Family , It is but small, not above half as large as Fry and Jefferson's, consequently crowded. It gives an attentive peruser a clear idea of the value of the now contested lands and waters to either of the two competitor princes, together with a proof, amounting to more than a probability, that of the two who shall remain master of the Ohio and the Lakes must in the course of a few years become sole and absolute lord of North America. Evans himself writes on the map, just southeast of Long Island, Were nothing at Stake between the Crown of Great Britain and France but the Lands on the Ohio we may recon it as great a Prize as has ever been contended for between two nations. For this Country is of that vast Extent Westwards as to exceed in good Land all the European Dominions of Great Britain, France, and Spain and which are almost destitute of Inhabitants. It is impossible to conceive that had his Majesty been made acquainted with its vales and great Importance the large Stride the French have been making for several years past in their Incroachments on his Dominions that his Majesty would Sacrifice one of the best Gems in his Crown to their Usurpation and boundless Ambition. Sources Evans did not personally travel to the Ohio, but he did spend time in the Pennsylvania hinterland and around the Finger Lakes as a surveyor and naturalist, and while working for Thomas Penn on the Pennsylvania-Maryland Border Dispute. In the course of that work, he befriended many travelers who had explored the Trans-Appalachia. For his map, he consulted earlier maps and dredged new data from the accounts of these explorers, military men, trappers, and traders. He relied extensively on the journals of William Franklin for the Ohio, as well as Joshua Fry (c. 1700 - 1754), and fur traders Joseph Dobson, Alexander Maginty, and. Alexander Lowery. He pulls data from William West regarding the course of the Potomac and John Davidson for the Cayúga River. These are just a few of his rich pool of sources. A Closer Look The resulting map surpassed any that preceded it and was praised by contemporaries over the great John Mitchell map, which appeared in the same year. Although embracing from the Middle Atlantic seaboard and Narragansett Bay nearly as far west as the Mississippi, and from Montreal to the Chesapeake, the map's focus is on the Ohio Valley and the Ontario-Erie corridor. Detail is at once rich and sparce. Data follows the course of the major river systems, with little content away from navigable waterways. He does, however, note the land.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp. v, [1]blank, [7]-31. disbound. [PRINTED WITH:] BOWLES, [Sir William]. A Second Letter On The Conveyance Of Troops To Canada. [At Head of Title: For Private Circulation.], pp. [15]-31. "[The first] letter [was] written by Captain, afterwards Admiral, Bowles to the First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1826, and published, by the Author, in 1837, when a large reinforcement of troops was to be sent to the army in Canada." (TPL) In the second letter, Bowles stated that England had only one war vessel available to send to Canada when news of the rebellion reached England at the end of December 1837. The 36-gun Inconstant set sail for Halifax on January 7, 1838, to be later followed by the 36-gun Pique , 74-gun Hercules , and the 26-gun Vestal on January 23, February 27, and March 3. Scarce. Lande 54. Gagnon I 555. cfTPL 5092 & 5115 (separate printings). cfSabin 7081. cfCasey I 2360.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Language: spa Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1782 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. THERE MIGHT BE DELAY THAN THE ESTIMATED DELIVERY DATE DUE TO COVID-19. Pages: 668 Pages: 668.

Very good. Wear along original centerfold. Verso repair to a fold separation. Closed margin tear professionally repaired on verso. Size 20 x 21.5 Inches. This is a c. 1780 Carington Bowles map of North America and South America. The map depicts the increasingly complex and unstable political situation following the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). It also highlights French and English ambitions for an inland Northwest Passage via Hudson Bay and speculations about a 'Sea of the West' dominating the Pacific Northwest - one of the last and greatest cartographic myths of the 18th century. A Closer Look Bowles uses color to define the colonial claims of European powers: English (yellow), French (blue), Spanish (green), Dutch (orange), and Portuguese (red). Text blocks discuss the Floridas, Quebec, colonial holdings in South America (particularly 'Buenos Ayres'), and the discovery of York Isle. North America Cities, towns, and villages, including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and Charles Town, are labeled, along with rivers, lakes, and mountain ranges. Native American nations are named throughout. Greenland appears near the top border. The British Colonies Bowles devotes considerable attention to the British colonies in North America - a point of great interest to his audience. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia stretch from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, reflecting their original coast-to-coast charters. Pennsylvania and New York appear below oversized iterations of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Southern Florida, at the time a British possession, is represented as an archipelago (the Everglades befuddled generations of cartographers). Dreaming of a Northwest Passage In northern Canada, Hudson's Bay is well mapped, with rivers, islands, and settlements illustrated. A note to the left states, 'All the Bays and Inlets on the West side of Hudson's Bay have been visited without appearance of success in the several attempt for the discovery of a Northwest Passage.' Over the preceding decades, numerous expeditions were launched to discover a Northwest Passage, long speculatively included in maps, despite never being discovered. Nonetheless, Bowles includes a suggestion of a Northwest Passage using the Port Nelson River as the gateway. This river connects with the 'L. Bourbon' which in turn connects with a 'system of great lakes' in central Canada that are tantalizingly close to the speculative Sea of the West. A river heads southwest from 'L. Ouinipique' (Lake Winnipeg) and traverses the Rocky Mountains before disappearing into the nebulously-drawn 'Western Sea'. Another enticing river system flows east from Lake Winnipeg through another 'system of lakes' to Lake Superior, suggesting a connection between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence River. The Sea of the West A magnificent inland sea appears regularly in the American Pacific Northwest on maps created in the mid to late 18th century. This massive and apocryphal body of water, generally referred to as the 'Sea of the West' or 'Mer de l'Ouest', can trace its origins to the French cartographer Guillaume De L'Isle (1675 - 1726). De L'Isle himself never published a map incorporating a 'Sea of the West' (perhaps suggesting doubt?), but a manuscript map illustrating the Sea of the West did appear in his notes. It may be that De L'Isle was inspired by a c. 1630 Thames school manuscript map, now located at Yale, that features a geographically similar body of water described as a 'Branch of the South Sea', possibly a revisionist perspective on Verrazano's Sea. The earliest printed map to include the Sea of the West was probably Jean-Baptiste Nolin's 1742 L'Amerique ou le Nouveau Continent . It has been suggested that Nolin copied the relevant cartography from De l'Isle's manuscript, but it is more likely that information about the 'sea' verbally leaked, as Nolin's sea does not resemble De L'Isle's in any significant way. The first publication of the 'Sea of.

Very good. Light wear along original centerfold. Small area of infill in upper left corner below illustration of Europe. Margin infill to upper left corner. Size 15.25 x 28.25 Inches. This is the 1780 Carington Bowles double hemisphere map of the world. Divided into the 'Western Hemisphere or the New World' and the 'Eastern Hemisphere of the Old World', Bowles illustrates the age of exploration and discovery. A Closer Look The Old World appears much as one would expect. Europe's major powers are illustrated in some detail, with capitals and other major cities identified. Africa is a contradiction since its coastline had been relatively well mapped, but the interior remained relatively unknown. Bowles thus leaves Africa mostly blank, absent of illustrations and conjecture. Personifications of the four continents occupy the corners, with Europe appearing as a well-dressed noble astride a horse, and the illustrations for America, Asia, and Africa emphasizing exoticism. Asia Intriguing cartography abounds in Asia. A reasonably accurate mapping of the East Indies underlines their continued importance to international trade. Dashed lines trace the routes of Anson, Bougainville, and Cook across the Indian Ocean, through the East Indies and the Philippines, and east into the Pacific. De Gama Land Also of interest is Bowles' mapping of 'the Companies' Land' of Terre de Compagnie, just to the south of Siberia, also known as Gamaland. Gama or Gamaland was supposedly discovered in the 17th century by a mysterious figure known as Jean de Gama. Various subsequent navigators claim to have seen this land, but it was left to Bering to finally debunk the myth. In 1729, he sailed for three days looking for Juan de Gama Land but never found it. At times it was associated with Hokkaido, in Japan, and at other times with the mainland of North America. Bowen clearly does not give up on the idea. The truth of Gama is most likely little more than a misinterpretation of the Aleutian Archipelago as a single body of land. It continued to appear in maps for about fifty years following the Bering's voyages until the explorations of Cook confirmed the findings. Hokkaido The mapping of Hokkaido (here identified as Yedso) joined to Sakhalin refers to the cartography of Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen, who explored this land in 1643 in search of the gold and silver-rich islands mentioned in a Spanish legend. Vries and Coen were the first Europeans to enter these waters, which were little known even to the Japanese. They mapped the Strait of Vries and they believed this strait to separate Asia from America, of which Compagnies Land formed part, thus elucidating its magnificent proportions. They were also the first European navigators to discover Sakhalin and map its southern coastline. Apparently, the Castricum was mired in a heavy fog as it attempted to explore these seas and thus Vries and Coen failed to notice the strait separating Yedo (Hokkaido) from Sakhalin, initiating a cartographic error that would persist well into the 18th century. Despite their many successes, the expedition ultimately failed to discover islands of silver and gold, thus proving definitively to Van Diemen that indeed, no such lands ever existed. North America The English Colonies (which were fighting the American Revolutionary War at the time) the colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida all stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River reflecting this historical coast-to-coast charters. New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland appear as well. Canada is concentrated around the St. Lawrence River, but reflects claims to Great Lakes. Louisiana lacks defined borders. New Mexico is contained within Louisiana with dotted borders akin to those separating the rebellious American colonies. An intriguing inlet along the west coast of North America, potentially illustrates the Columbia River underscores the European.