JAMES, Thomas (ca 1593-1635). The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. Wherein the Miseries indured both Going, Wintering, Returning; and the Rarities observed, both Philosophicall and Mathematicall, are related in this Journal of it. London: Printed by John Legatt for John Partridge 1633.
JAMES, Thomas (ca 1593-1635). The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. Wherein the Miseries indured both Going, Wintering, Returning; and the Rarities observed, both Philosophicall and Mathematicall, are related in this Journal of it. London: Printed by John Legatt for John Partridge 1633. 4 o (177 x 142 mm). Large engraved folding map "The Platt of Sayling for the discoverye of a Passage into the South Sea" (306 x 398 mm) (backed with linen repairing a tear along the left edge, slightly cropped at head). (Lacking A1 and Q4 blanks, last two leaves with upper corners renewed catching a few letters, a few headlines shaved.) 19th-century mottled calf gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance : C.V.H. Sotheby (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's London, 24 July 1924, lot 116); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 122, illustrated). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE SCARCE MAP. James's explorations in search of a Northwest Passage were confined principally to the southeastern part of Hudson Bay, where the crew wintered on Charlton Island. The narrative covers the period from 2 May 1631 to 22 October 1632. It appeared the same year as Foxe's important book on the Northwest Passage (see lot 197). "James sailed under the auspices of a group of Bristol merchants, but like so many of the North West Passage voyages it proved to be a commercial failure... Unfortunately he could not round C Monmouth owing to unfavorable winds and could not disprove the double bay on Gerritsz's map published in 1612. The resulting peninsula endured into the eighteenth century... The map is largely accurate and includes a more detailed inset of James Bay, and a portrait of Captain James. Many of the placenames given by him remain today, and its immediate influence was on the maps of Hondius and Blaeu. The original manuscript map after which this is taken survives today in the British Library (Burden 238). Alden & Landis 633/62; Church 423; JCB (3) II:246; Sabin 35711; STC 14444.
JAMES, Thomas (ca 1593-1635). The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. Wherein the Miseries indured both Going, Wintering, Returning; and the Rarities observed, both Philosophicall and Mathematicall, are related in this Journal of it. London: Printed by John Legatt for John Partridge 1633.
JAMES, Thomas (ca 1593-1635). The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James in his intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea. Wherein the Miseries indured both Going, Wintering, Returning; and the Rarities observed, both Philosophicall and Mathematicall, are related in this Journal of it. London: Printed by John Legatt for John Partridge 1633. 4 o (177 x 142 mm). Large engraved folding map "The Platt of Sayling for the discoverye of a Passage into the South Sea" (306 x 398 mm) (backed with linen repairing a tear along the left edge, slightly cropped at head). (Lacking A1 and Q4 blanks, last two leaves with upper corners renewed catching a few letters, a few headlines shaved.) 19th-century mottled calf gilt (lightly rubbed). Provenance : C.V.H. Sotheby (bookplate; his sale Sotheby's London, 24 July 1924, lot 116); Boies Penrose (bookplate; his sale part I, Sotheby's London, 7 June 1971, lot 122, illustrated). FIRST EDITION, WITH THE SCARCE MAP. James's explorations in search of a Northwest Passage were confined principally to the southeastern part of Hudson Bay, where the crew wintered on Charlton Island. The narrative covers the period from 2 May 1631 to 22 October 1632. It appeared the same year as Foxe's important book on the Northwest Passage (see lot 197). "James sailed under the auspices of a group of Bristol merchants, but like so many of the North West Passage voyages it proved to be a commercial failure... Unfortunately he could not round C Monmouth owing to unfavorable winds and could not disprove the double bay on Gerritsz's map published in 1612. The resulting peninsula endured into the eighteenth century... The map is largely accurate and includes a more detailed inset of James Bay, and a portrait of Captain James. Many of the placenames given by him remain today, and its immediate influence was on the maps of Hondius and Blaeu. The original manuscript map after which this is taken survives today in the British Library (Burden 238). Alden & Landis 633/62; Church 423; JCB (3) II:246; Sabin 35711; STC 14444.
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