Lot 43

GATONBE, John. "A Voyage into the North-West Passage." Extracted from: CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels. [L, ca 1732?]. RARE. [With:] Another extract from A Collection of Voyages and Travels. L, [1744?].

Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023 10:00AM CT
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Lot Description
GATONBE, John. "A Voyage into the North-West Passage. Undertaken Anno 1612." Extracted from: CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VI, pp. 241-256. [London, ca 1732?]. 


Folio (319 x 202 mm). Copperplate engraved map, 3 copperplate engraved illustrations, in-text woodcut illustrations. Modern cloth. Provenance: Collector's bookplates, a few pencil marks. An extract presumably from the second edition of Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels, including information about Captain James Hall's fourth expedition to Greenland.  Captain Hall was killed by the Inuit on the west coast of Greenland during the voyage. That expedition was the first recorded voyage of William Baffin, who served as chief pilot. RARE. 

[With:] JAMES, Thomas, Captain. "Captain Thomas James’s Strange and Dangerous Voyage in his intended Discovery of the North-West Passage into the South Sea, in the years 1631 and 1632..." Extracted from: CHURCHILL. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, pp. 407-466. London: for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, [1744?]

Folio (356 x 220 mm). Modern wrappers. Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. James's voyage was an early attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. He "wintered unhappily and to little purpose in the extreme southeastern dip of (Hudson's) Bay, and the account of the voyage is verily a 'book of lamentation and weeping and great mourning" (Mirsky, To the Arctic, p. 64). Sabin 13017; Sabin 35711 (for the first edition of 1663).

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