21st Aug, 2026 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Dalrymple (Alexander).
A Collection of Charts and Memoirs.
[General introduction and eight parts in one volume, with five folding engraved charts and diagrams, comprising:]
1. General Introduction to the Charts and Memoirs. London: 1772, xl, [2, errata] pp.
2. Essay on the Most Commodious Methods of Marine Surveying. London: 1771, [ii], 21 pp., folding sheet of engraved diagrams.
3. Memoir of a Chart of the China Sea. London: 1771, [ii], 11 pp.
4. Memoir of the Chart of Part of the Coast of China, and the Adjacent Islands Near the Entrance of Canton River. Containing Observations n the Schooner Cuddalore In 1759 and 1760. And in the ship London. 1764. With Several Views of the Lands. London: 1771, [iv], 60 pp., 2 folding engraved charts, faint damp-stain to upper outer corner of 8pp., finger-soiling mark on pp. 21.
5. Journal of the Schooner Cuddalore, Oct. 1759. On the Coast of China. London: 1771, [iv], 16 pp., folding engraved chart.
6. Journal of the Schooner Cuddalore on the Coast of Hainan, 1760. London: 1771, [vi], 38 pp., folding engraved chart.
7. Memoir of the Chart of the West Coast of Palawan, or Paragua. Containing the Journal of the Schooner Cuddalore, in December, 1761. London: 1771, [iv], 28 pp.
8. Memoir of a Chart of the Southern Ocean. [1769], 8 pp., no title-page (drop-head title on p.1).
9. Memoir of a Chart of the Bay of Bengal, Published at the Expence of the United East-India Company. London: 1772, [ii], 8, [2] pp., terminal leaf includes a dedication and page of adverts.
Quarto, 20th century quarter calf, paper boards. Some light age-toning and dust-soiling, but generally very good/fine, fore and bottom edges stained yellow.
An excellent volume of Dalrymple's Charts and Memoirs. These charts are relatively rare at auction, particularly as bound volumes.
"Dalrymple was cumulatively a private publisher of nautical charts and plans (from 1767), the ''examiner of ships' journals'' and chart publisher for the East India Company (from 1779), and Hydrographer to the Admiralty (from 1795)" (Cook). "Between 1769 and 1771 Dalrymple published charts and navigational memoirs, chiefly from his 1760s voyages, to support his plan for a trading settlement at Balambangan, but he was dismissed in March 1771 from the East India Company's planned expedition after a disagreement over its composition." (ODNB)
[Cook A22, A14, A13, A15, A16, A17, A18, A6, A23]
£3,000 - £5,000
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Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 21st Aug, 2026
The sale is set to contain an interesting and varied mix of Books, Maps and Manuscripts, including a rare near-complete run of "The Wipers Times", the newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War. In early 1916, the 12th Sherwood Foresters found an abandoned printing press in the town of Ypres. A sergeant who had been a printer in peacetime, brought the press to life and The Wipers Times was born.
Further highlights include an excellent record of early 19th century St Petersburg in the form of an 1815 first edition of A Picture of St. Petersburgh, Represented in a Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City, the Sledges and the People… illustrated by Mornay with hand-coloured aquatints. Lots with naval interest include alate 18th century Collection of Charts and Memoirs privately published by Alexander Dalrymple, a publisher of nautical charts, ‘examiner of ships’ journals’ for the East India Company and Hydrographer to the Admiralty, and a Manuscript Logbook/Journal written between 1747-1750 by a J.S. Lowell documenting the proceedings of the naval ship Chester on her voyage to the East Coast of India where she took part in the Siege of Pondicherry.
Amongst the fiction in the sale is a first edition, first impression of George Orwell’s iconic dystopian novel Nineteen-Eighty Four.
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