Forbes Travels

FORBES, HENRY O. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, a narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883. -, 1885.

A chromolithographic frontispiece of Mrs. Forbes' Honey-Eater, 21 plain plates, 6 maps (3 are colored; 3 are folding) and 65 text-engravings. 8vo, pp. xx, 536, [4 pp. - adv.], original gilt-and-black teal-green cloth (light rubbing to corners; 2 light stains near upper corner of front cover; some creasing to front flyleaf & blank; a very good copy with bright covers), first American edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. "An account of the author's travels in the East Indies, to the Cocos- Keeling Islands, Java, Sumatra, Timor-Laut, the Moluccas, Buru, and Timor" - Wood.

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FORBES, VERNON S. AND JOHN ROURKE, EDITORS. Paterson's Cape Travels 1777 to 1779. -, 1980.

A colored portrait of Paterson, 62 colored plates and 8 maps. Square 4to, pp. 202, (1), green cloth, d.j., Johannesburg: The Brenthurst Press, 1980. One of 850 unnumbered copies. "William Paterson, the twenty-one-year-old son of a Scottish village gardener, set out for the Cape in 1777: as the protege of the young bluestocking, the Countess of Strathmore, he was commissioned by her to add to her collection of plants. A variety of new plant species was discovered on his four journeys which embraced a grand sweep of 1500 kilometres from the mouth of the Orange River in the west to the banks of the Keiskamma River in the east" (the dust jacket).

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Arago, Jacques Etienne Victor. (1790-1855) - Presented To Casimir Delavigne. Promenade Autour Du Monde (pendant Les Annees De 1817, 1818, 1819 Et 1820, Sur Les Corvettes Du Roi L'uranie Et La Physicienne, Commandees Par M. Freycinet). - In (2) Two Volumes. [ FIRST EDITION - PRESENTATION COPY Given to French Dramatist, Poet, and Satirist, Mr. CASIMIR DELAVIGNE (1793-1843) - SIGNED by AUTHOR - JS. ARAGO ]. Paris: 1822.
FIRST EDITION - PRESENTATION COPY - SIGNED by AUTHOR - given to French Dramatist, Poet, and Satirist, Mr. CASIMIR DELAVIGNE (1793-1843) -- Jacques Arago was draughtsman and artist to one of the most important voyages of exploration of the early 19th century under the command of Captain Louis Freycinet. Arago wrote the account of the voyage (1817-1820) in a very witty and amusing style. Its success was great, and it was printed countless times with and without the illustrations, complete or abridged. It was translated into several languages" (Borba de Moraes). Arago wrote much of Narrative of a Voyage Round the World "in the form of letters to a friend, possibly his brother" (Forbes) , the astronomer Francois Dominique Arago. --- After completing his formal education, Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) began a series of travels to ever-farther destinations. In 1817, a circumnavigati on was undertaken by Captain Louis Claude de Saluces de Freycinet in the corvette Uranie under the auspices of the French government and Academy of Sciences, the principal purposes of which were "the investigation of the figure of the earth, and of the elements of terrestrial magnetism" (p. I). Arago "obtained from the government permission to board the Uranie in the capacity of draftsman. A man of art and of study, Mr. Jacques Arago thought only with pleasure of undertaking a great voyage of circumnavigation, from where he would undoubtedly bring back some discoveries, and where his activity would find, in any case, the fuel it needed. All the passengers of the Uranie, and especially captain Freycinet, who commanded it, gave this honorable testimony concerning Mr. Jacques Arago, that no one showed himself to be more patient, or more bold, or more intelligent, either to face the storms, or to endure the cruelest deprivations. He took part in the disaster of the Uranie, which ran aground in the Falkland Islands, and did not return to France until 1821" (Tr. From Nouvelle Biographie Universelle). Despite the loss of the Uranie, the expedition brought back a wealth of magnetic, hydrographic, meteorologi cal, zoological, botanical, geological and ethnographic observations and specimens from such ports of call as Rio de Janeiro, the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Guam and the Marianas Islands. --- Two Volumes Bound in Original Red Calf Leather with marbled boards. The Spine is gilted with designs and lettering. Interior is quite clean with red marbled endpapers, gilt leaf edges, and text leaves clean and crisp with minimal foxing. On a front endpaper in contemporary brown ink reads in a fine hand Inscription by the Author, "A Mr. Casimir Delavigne comme un faible temoignage l'estime et de consideration.. Js. Arago" - Extremely Rare Copy. ; 8vo; (4), XXX, 452; (4), 506 pages; Signed by Author.

First Edition, Half Calf Leather,

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Forbes, Rosita: THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA: KUHARA, New York George H Doran Company 1921

Hardcover Very Good Binding not tight; Noted author Forbes travels and camps with the Bedoins. Introduction by Sir Harry Johnston; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 356 pages

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