Daines Barrington (1727-1800)

Lot 75
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Lot 75 | Daines Barrington (1727-1800)
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Daines Barrington (1727-1800)
Miscellanies by the Honourable Daines Barrington. London: J. Nichols, 1781.
The first edition of Barrington’s collected essays, including 'Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole'. It also includes 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.

Quarto (270 x 207mm). 2 engraved plates, 2 engraved folding maps, 5 genealogical tables (tiny worm track affecting first 4 leaves, very short tear at gutter affecting first 2 leaves, gatherings 3G and 3N lightly browned, leaf 3N3 with small marginal chip, otherwise a fresh copy). Contemporary calf (upper joint splitting and front board almost detached, extremities lightly rubbed).
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