VOYAGES TRAVELS EXPLORATIONS— PLACES —
VOYAGES TRAVELS EXPLORATIONS
Anacharsis in English — Anything But Dry!
(Imaginary Travels). [Barthelemy, Jean-Jacques]. Travels of Anacharsis the younger in Greece. During the middle of the fourth century, before the Christian æra.... The first American edition. Philadelphia: Pr. by Bartholomew Graves and William McLaughlin for Jacob Johnson & Co., 1804. 8vo signed in 4s (22 cm, 8.625"). Vol. I: xviii, 419, [1 (blank)] pp.; fold. map; II: [1] f., iii, [1 (blank)], 403, [1 (blank)] pp.; III: vii, [1 (blank)], 463, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title); IV: vii, [1 (blank)], 496 pp. (lacking half-title).
the daily life and culture of ancient Greece, primarily centered around Athens, this lengthy work is "so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention, and fancy" (p. iii). Footnotes citing a multitude of classical sources back up Barthelemy's 
imagined
journey, which is illustrated with an attractive engraved map by du Bocage.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 5809. Recently rebound in period-style tan cloth over light blue paper sides, spines with paper labels. Contemporary ownership inscription to front fly-leaf in each volume. Map with light offsetting and short tear just starting along one fold. First 20 leaves of vol. II waterstained and last 10 foxed; scattered incidences of spotting in all volumes, pages generally clean. Nice-looking set, and a relatively painless method of absorbing ancient history.
Fly
Me to the Moon
— On
a Magic Horse!
(Imaginary
Travels). [Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
de.] The second part of the history of the valorous and witty
knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes...now
translated into English. London: Pr. [by Eliot’s Court Press] for Edward
Blount, 1620. 4to. [8] ff., 276, 279–504 pp. (without engr. t.-p., final
blank; pp. 503–04 in pen and ink “facsimile”).
Click the interior images for enlargements. Shelton's part I was reissued in 1620 in a new edition as a logical companion to this part II; the original Spanish editions had also been issued separately over a period of time, part I in 1605 and part II in 1615.
It is extremely noteworthy that this translation was entered into the Stationer’s Register on 5 December 1615, although not printed until five years later. That is, it was entered the same year that part II appeared in Spanish!
The printer’s name is taken from the STC, and as in all other reported copies, B4 is a cancel.
Provenance: On p. 280, “Rowland Greene . . . July y.e 8 1678.”
A sophisticated copy: Pp. 403 to end supplied from a different copy, and one leaf in facsimile.
• ESTC S107642; STC (rev. ed.) 4917; Pforzheimer 140; Rius, I, 607; Palau 52462 . Later 17th-century English calf (ca. 1670?), each board with center panel formed by a blind-tooled double fillet and having blind-stamped corner devices inside and outside; spine tooled in gilt, somewhat dulled/flaked, and with small circular paper shelfmark label (private) at bottom. See above about sophistication: Without the engraved title-page and final blank, last 50 leaves from another copy, and final leaf of text supplied in neat 18th-century pen and ink block lettering. Closely trimmed affecting running heads and some sidenotes (these with some loss of letters); marginalia, not substantive, sometimes lined or scribbled through. Overall age-toning and some soiling; supplied section at end with tattering in some margins. Far from an ideal copy but an interesting one, priced with faults most in mind. (23815)
Adeline
Trafton's Europe
(Imaginary
Travels). Trafton, Adeline. An American girl abroad.
Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872. 8vo.
Frontis., 245, [1], [6 (adv.)] pp.; 6 plts.
• Wright, II, 1496. Publisher's green cloth, illustrated in gilt on the front cover. Spine a bit cocked, light rubbing, cloth starting a little on front joint. Rear hinge (inside) cracked. Penciled ownership signatures on front fly-leaf. Good+. (23543)
False Imprint — Early 17th-Century Americana Interest
(Imaginary Voyages). [Hall,
Joseph]. Mvndvs
alter et idem: siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus
peregrini
academici nuperrime lustrata. Auth: Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. [London
and Hanau; sold:] Francofurti: apud hæredes Ascanii de Rinialme, [1607?].
16mo. Plt., [8] ff., 224 pp. (lacks the maps).
In this edition, the title-page is in the state with the diagonal (not vertical) shading of the pedestal; and quires and D are without catchwords on the rectos (i.e., they were printed at Hanau), while all other quires have catchwords (i.e., they were printed in London). The title-page's claim to Frankfurt printing is simply specious.
• STC (rev.) 12685.3; Shaaber, British Authors Printed Abroad, H49; Sabin 29819; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 606/61. For a detailed bibliographical study of the editions of this and their points, see: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 74 (1980), pp. 1-12. On Hall, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXIV, 75-80. Old vellum, neatly recased and hinges strengthened. Lacks the maps, but the engraved title-page and engraved plate of "writing" are present. These have light, thumbnail-sized waterstains at their foremargins, being the only leaves so marked, all others being quite clean. Priced approximately $2300 less than the last complete copy to sell at auction.
For
Books for the BUSTED
Beauties of
the Thames IllustratedIreland, Samuel. Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity. London: T. & J. Egerton, 1792. 4to (25 cm, 9.8"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xvi, 209, [3] pp.; 1 map, 27 plts., illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., viii (incl. t.-p.), 258, [4] pp.; 1 map, 25 plts., illus.
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52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland, 2 maps, and
a number of in-text cuts. 
This supplies both handsome, interesting pictures and good, now quaint reading.
FromNew England to the NILE[Justel, Henri, ed.]. Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l’Amerique, qui n’ont point esté encore publiez.... Paris: Louis Billaine, 1674. 4to (23.7 cm, 9.4"). á4ã4A–Z4Aa–Hh4 Ii2Kk4Ll21§–4§45§2 **A–**C4 a2b–g4 *A–*K4L2; [8] ff., 262, 35, [1 (blank)] 23, [1 (blank)], 49, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f., 81, [1 (blank)] pp., 3 fold. plans, 4 maps (3 fold.), 9 plts.
Some of both the voyages and the maps make their first published appearances here—among them the New England map depicting the Maryland and Virginia coastlines, engraved by R. Michault after one contained in Richard Blome’s Description of the Island of Jamaica, part of which work appears here translated into French. Altogether, a volume notable both for its strong African and North American content and for the aesthetic appeal of its plates and pleasingly ornamented typography.
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• Sabin 36944; Alden & Landis
674/159; Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 68; Baer, 17th-Century Maryland, 78. Recent 17th-century style mottled calf with covers framed in a gilt roll and double-panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons,; spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and gilt-stamped decorative devices. Several pages (not including title) and the versos of a few plates stamped by a now-defunct institution. Paper slightly embrittled. Light waterstaining to a number of leaves and plates, mostly in margins; the first map with two repairs. One leaf (blank?) prior to Colonies Angloises excised. A good copy, in a handsome binding of recent vintage and contemporaneous style.
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