Stedman J Capt (5 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: VG+. Slipcase. First Edition This Publisher. Two volume set with minor stain to paper label of Vol I. Limited edition. Signed by editor in Vol. II. Signed by Editor. Book.

elucidating that country and describing its productions. With an account of Indians of Guiana and negroes of Guinea. Newly edited and abridged by C. Bryant. London: The Folio Soc. 1963. Roy.8vo. Or.illust.cl. X240pp. With frontisp. 11 full-page illusts. and end-paper maps. In its original slip-case. Fine. …

Leather. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Captain John Gabriel Stedman's strikingly illustrated first-hand account of his deployment to the Dutch-controlled colony of Surinam. First edition. A deluxe large paper first edition with hand-coloured plates was published in the same year. Volume 2 only.Rebacked in full calf, with personal coat of arms blind-stamped to the front board. Renewed endpapers. No half title, as issued. Bound with index, binder's directions and errata leaves to the rear.Stedman's first-hand account of an eighteenth-century Dutch colony, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves. It also contains vivid descriptions of the landscapes of Suriname, paying great attention to flora, fauna, and the social habits of indigenous, free and enslaved Africans, and European colonists.Volume II is illustrated with an engraved title page, thirty-nine striking engraved plates and a folding map. Collated, lacking plate facing p. 142.Johnson commissioned William Blake and Francesco Bartolozzi to create engravings for the work and, through their collaboration, Blake and Stedman became close friends.Published by radical figure Joseph Johnson, Stedman's Narrative became a major literary success and was eventually published in more than twenty-five different editions.Stedmandescribesthe"cruelties practiced ontheNegroes,andthemoral deterioration resulting totheir masters" which "forms oneofthemost vivid indictmentsofslavery that have been penned" (ODNB). Rebacked in full blind-stamped calf, with spine replaced. With coat of arms to the front board matching bookplate to the front paste down. Externally, with mild rubbing to the extremities. Armorial unnamed bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are marginally toned, with a few scattered spots, generally more to the plates but illustrations remain pleasing overall and largely unaffected. Bookplate of one Tess M Hope to the front free endpaper. Very Good. John Gabriel Stedman (illustrator). book.…

Reptiles, Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, & Roots; With an account of the Indians of Guiana and Negroes of Guinea. .2 vols. Massachusetts: The Imprint Society, 1971. Small 4to. Orig. quarter buckram with marbled boards and printed paper titling labels on spines. In slip-case. With 80 plates most of which are full-page, including some fold. charts. Title-page in red/black ink. Fine and complete. Limited Edition.…

Second edition, two volumes bound in one, 4to, xviii, 423, (5), iv, 419, (5) pp. Engraved title pages and 81 plates, including 3 folding maps and a folding view, the latter and one of the maps with a closed tear to a fold crease, frontispiece and volume I title with contemporary signatures and light damp stains to the top and bottom edges, some foxing throughout, volume I title cut close to the lower edge with partial loss of the imprint. Contemporary diced calf, corners worn, neatly rebacked. ".one of the most detailed descriptions ever written of an eighteenth-century slave plantation society. The heavily edited first edition distorted Stedman's views on race, slavery, and social justice, and turned them more towards a pro-slavery position. Softened or deleted in the 1796 publication were his admiration for Africanstheir institutions, morals, hygieneincluding the rebel slaves; his frank depiction of sex between European men and African women; and many of his remarks about the pervasiveness of misconduct and debauchery of European planters. Nonetheless, the Narrative had significant contemporary impact." (ODNB). 16 of the plates were engraved by William Blake, whose name also appears on the Subscriber's List. Bentley 499B.…