CALLANDER, John

A Collection of Voyages to the Southern Hemisphere... [long list of voyages]...

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for the editor, London, 1788. Two volumes, octavo, early bookplate; contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked with the original gilt spines laid down, double red morocco labels, a little rubbed. A very rare version of Callander's famous "Terra Australis Cognita", better known in its three volume form published between 1766 and 1768; there is a copy of this version in the British Library, and it is recorded by Sabin, the bibliographer of Americana, but the only record that we have found of a copy for sale is the entry in Maggs Bros. Voyages and Travels vol. IV part VIII of 1956. This is the only copy of this form of the book that we have ever seen, here handled by us for the second time. It is not recorded by Ferguson, Davidson, Hill, Petherick, Kroepelien, Edge-Partington, or any of the other standard references consulted.

This is evidently a re-issue of remainder sheets of the work, which the publisher has camouflaged with new title-pages and by roughly cancelling the number of the chapter that starts each volume to reduce it to "I".

Based on the De Brosses account which had appeared ten years earlier, Callander's collection in this form contains 41 narratives, some for the first time in English, generally prefaced by a general summation and short biography of the narrator. Included are the voyages of Hawkins, Quiros, Spilbergen, Le Maire and Schouten, Jacques l'Hermite, Pelsaert, and Tasman among many others.

The presence of the final section, "Advantages from the forming of Colonies in the Terra Australis", which was first published in 1768 and has been described as "the fundamental proposal for the first European settlement of the Southern Continent", is particularly interesting in this version which was published in the year of first settlement of Australia.
Hill, 240 (noting the Edinburgh edition); Sabin , 10053 (note).

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