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BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: J. Nichols, 1781. 4° (263 x 210 mm). 3 engraved portraits, 2 maps, of which one folding, 5 letterpress tables, of which one folding, and letterpress tables in the text. (Portrait of Thomas Britton cut-down and mounted, very short marginal tear to Y4, light stain in gutter of Nn4 and Oo1.) Modern sprinkled calf by Bayntun. Provenance: contemporary ink classmark to flyleaf.
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, p.25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628 and 46951.
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, p.25; Hill 56; Howes B-177; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628 and 46951.
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