The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages by Ronald Louis; Silveira de Braganza; Charlotte OakesReview by: Lawrence Clark PowellThe Library Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 1, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conferenceof the Graduate Library School, August 5-6, 1974. Differentiating the Media: A Focus onLibrary Selection and Use of Communication Content (Jan., 1975), p. 111Published by: The University of Chicago PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4306496 .

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REVIEWS 111

The Hill Collection of Pacfi/c Voyages. Edited by RONALD Louis, SILVEIRA DE

BRAGANZA, and CHARLOTTE OAKES. Annotated byJONATHAN A. HILL. San Diego: University Library, University of California, 1974. Pp. xv+333. $28.00.

Although the Library of the University of California at San Diego, headed by Melvin J. Voigt, is one of the newest in the statewide university system, it has already assumed a leading role in collecting and making known its research materials. This sumptuous catalog is the latest example of its service to scholars at home and abroad. Not only did the Hills give their collection to the Library, they also provided funds for its growth and for the publication of this catalog. Most of the classics prior to 1850 are here, such as Hakluyt, Drake, Pigafetta, Cook, La Perouse, Bougainville, Choris, Dana, and Melville, as well as modern accounts of them including the works of Henry R. Wagner. The Hills do not appear to have collected manuscripts, maps, and prints.

The cataloging follows Library of Congress rules. It is sometimes fuller than necessary, for example, in describing a set as boxed or a title page within double-lined borders. Space thus saved might well have been given to a subject index. Annotations are succinct and informative. Included are 10 plates of title pages and views. The format by Grant Dahlstrom's Castle Press is exemplary.

I question the inclusion of overland narratives unrelated to Pacific voyages -Parkman, for example, which the annotation describes as important mainly for its description of the Sioux Indians; or Cabeza de Vaca, Pattie, Bartlett, and Pike, all of which are out of place in a collection of Pacific voyages. Perhaps the donor fondly insisted on their inclusion. If so, it would have been better to have segregated them in a separate alphabet.

Although personal reticence is often admirable, it would have added to the volume's interest if not value to have included information about Kenneth Hill and how he entered this collecting field. Nor is the annotator identified in any way. Credit is given to the several antiquarian booksellers who helped form the collection.

Lawrence Clark Powell, University of Arizona

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