Sale 2468 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, March 8, 2018

243 243 c COOK, JAMES; and FURNEAUX, [-]. A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. 64 engraved plates and maps; letterpress folding table. xl, 378; [8], 396 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 295x228 mm, modern brown leather gilt, slightly scuffed; varying toning on plates, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, short marginal clean tear in Chart of the Southern Hemisphere, small hole through pagination on 2C2, and clean tear in blank outer margin of 2P3 in Volume 1, title and last several leaves foxed in Volume 2. London:W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 [1,500/2,500] Second edition, published the same year as the first, of the official account of Cook’s second voyage. Beddie 1217. 244 c [CORTÉS OSSORIO, JUAN, S. J.] Reparos Historiales Apologéticos . . . propuestos de Parte de los Missioneros Apostólicos del Imperio de la China representando los Descuidos que se cometen en un Libro que se ha publicado en Madrid en grave Perjuizio de aquella Missión. 172 leaves. 4to, 203x149 mm, contemporary limp vellum with worn spine title in ink, lacking ties; contents toned with scattered marginal foxing, tears in F1-2 and F4 causing some text loss. Pamplona:Tomás Baztan, [1677] [400/600] Second edition of a Jesuit refutation of Fernández de Navarrete’s Tratados Históricos (see lot 248), first published the year before as Memorial Apologético. Hill 379; Palau 63422; Streit- Dindinger V, 2446. 245 c COSTA, MANOEL DA. Historia rerum a Societate Jesu in Orie[n]te gestarum. [10], 246 leaves. 8vo, 152x101 mm, 17th-century binding of limp manuscript vellum with segments of apparently unrecorded Mexican Jesuit academic broadsides as endpapers, including one with the imprint of Juan Ruyz dated 1644, binding quite worn, lacking ties and most of backstrip; dark marginal dampstaining throughout, worming in blank inner corners and split between 2 gatherings in middle of volume. Jesuit ownership inscription on title; branded ownership mark of the Seminario Conciliar de México on top and bottom edges. Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1572 [800/1,200] Second edition of a history of Jesuit missions in Asia first published the year before. Alden 572/17 (for letter on the martyrdom of Jesuits in Brazil); Streit-Dindinger IV, 956. TRAVEL, continued