Catalogue: Voyages - Literature - History
Spring 2022: 18 items.
A collection of items including: Cary’s translation of Dante in the very rare first issue of 1814; an uncommon early biography of John Franklin with an interesting John Arrowsmith map; the first edition of Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s L’an deux mille quatre cent quarante (1771), the first utopian novel set in the future; and a moving letter written on board the missionary ship Duff as it prepared to sail in 1796.
The catalogue can be downloaded here.
