Parry, William Edward
Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
£630
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: John Murray, 1824. First edition, 4to, [6] xxx [2] 571 pp., 20th-century calf-backed marbled boards, 31 plates (aquatints or engravings), 8 engraved folding charts and coastal profiles at rear, tissue-guards;
Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for (including the 3 folding charts and folding plate of coastal profiles in end-pocket), bindings rubbed and marked, spines sunned and nicked, volume 1 with stain to rear board and markings to a few plates;
Telfer, J. Buchan. The Crimea and Transcaucasia. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1877. Second edition, inscribed ‘A. G. Murray Esq. of Dollerie, a remembrance from the author, September 1885’ on the half-title of volume 1, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 13 plates, 2 folding maps, mottling to covers, volume 2 prelims clumsily opened, rest of volume unopened;
and 3 others (8)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.