BARRINGTON, Daines ([?]1727-1800). Miscellanies. London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1781. 4to (269 x 208mm). Woodcut device on title, engraved portraits of Mozart and Sir John Wynne, folding engraved "Map of Europe for the Illustration of King Ælfred's Anglo-Saxon translation of Crosius" and "North Part of the Great Sea Pacific Ocean" including California, engraved music, tables, including one folding (variable mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (joints split, rubbed and scuffed, upper cover nearly detached). Provenance: James Brodie of Brodie (armorial bookplate); from the Collection of Lt. Cdr. Andrew David (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this diverse, and diverting, collection of essays by an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist. Their titles include "Tracts on the Possibility of reaching the North Pole", "Whether the Turkey was known before the Discovery of America", "On the sudden Decay of several Trees in St. James Park", "Account of Mozart, a very remarkable young Musician", "Some Account of Little Crotch" [the English musical prodigy William Crotch (1775-1847) who would have been five- or six-years-old at the time of writing] and "Journal of a Spanish Voyage in 1775, to explore the Western Coast of N. America." Bell B61; Cox II, 25; Hill 56; Howes B177; Sabin 3628; Wagner Northwest Coast 674; Streeter IV, 2445; Wickersham A Bibliography of Alaskan Literature 1724-1924 6653.
