Lot 76
Travel & exploration
A collection
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1897. 2 volumes, first U.S. edition, 4 folding maps contained in pastedown pocket, original cloth with nautical gilt decoration to front boards, gilt title to spines, 16 colour illustrated plates from the author's sketches, further black and white plates and in-text illustrations, top edges gilt the others uncut, owner's plates to pastedowns, occasional foxing, edges and corners of boards rubbed;
Atkinson, Thomas Witlam. Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and The Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860. First U.S. edition, 8vo, original cloth with gilt illustrations and title to spine, publisher's advertisements to rear, frontispiece, folding map, further black and white illustrations within text, bookplate to front pastedown, ink and pencil notes to front pastedown and free endpaper, remains of label previously pasted to rear endpaper, boards sunned and rubbed;
Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Lost in the Arctic. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First U.K. edition, 4to, later binding in quarter morocco and new endpapers, 69 black and white plates, fold-out map attached to p. 397, blind presentation stamp to title page, top edge gilt, pencil note to front pastedown, ink inscriptions to half title and title, ink inscription and line drawing to dedication page, occasional foxing, map with short tear;
Küttner, Charles Gottlob. Travels through Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Part of Italy. In 1798 & 1799. Translated from the German. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1805. 8vo, i-iv 200 pp., with recent paper wrapping attached (no boards), fold-out map facing title-page, pages yellowed, some damp-staining, short tear to map;
Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. First edition, 8vo, 20 illustrated plates including frontispiece, further in-text illustrations, 4 maps including 2 fold-out maps and one folding map contained in rear pastedown pocket, original cloth with gilt decoration and title, pencil notations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers, text block starting to detach, some occasional foxing; together with Supplementary Appendix. London: John Murray, 1891;
Together with approximately 80 similar works (these not collated), including: Hakluyt Society, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz Del Castillo … From the only exact copy made of the original manuscript. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1908-12 (5 volumes including map case, imperfect, one map missing); Fridtjof Nansen, In Northern Mists. London: Heinemann, 1911 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original cloth, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed); ibid., The First Crossing of Greenland, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original illustrated cloth, owner's name in ink and pencil note to endpaper vol. I, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed, foxing); H. Swainson Cowper, Through Turkish Arabia. London: W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, 1894 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, presentation label to pastedown, boards scuffed, edges and corners rubbed, dampstaining, no maps or plates); Donald B Macmillan, Four Years in the White North, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1918 (first edition, 8vo, later quarter calf, top edge gilt the others uncut; A. Henry Savage Landor, Tibet & Nepal Painted and Described … London: A. & C. Black, 1905 (first edition, 8vo, original decorative gilt tooled cloth, remains of label and pencil notation to front pastedown and pencil inscription to free endpaper, pencil notations to front pastedown and front and rear endpapers, joints and head of spine rubbed); Ibid. Across Widest Africa, London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907 (2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership labels to front endpapers, pencil notations to front pastedown and endpaper vol. I, uncut on 2 edges, dampstaining); R. H. H. Macaulay, Trading into Hudson's Bay., Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1934 (4to, original wrappers); and approx. 50 further Hakluyt Society volumes;
sold as seen and not subject to return (90+)