Lot 78
Travel
Large collection of mainly American travel & history, 19th-early 20th century
Auction: Other Properties | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 63 to 255
Description
including: Thomas Simpson, Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America. London: Richard Bentley, 1843 (first edition, 8vo, with one folding map only (of 2), map repaired to central fold, original brown cloth gilt, rebacked retaining some elements of original spine, bookplate of John R. Anderson and ownership signature of J. Hackett to pastedown); C. Wyville Thomson, The Voyage of the Challenger, The Atlantic, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 42 plates including fold-out charts, paste-downs detaching, some foxing, boards rubbed, heads and tails of spines worn); Paul B. Du Chaillu, The Viking Age, London: John Murray, 1889 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth); Hakluyt Society, George Vancouver, a Voyage of Discovery, 1984 (4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth dust jackets); Department of the Interior, Canada, Atlas of Canada, 1906 (large folio, front inner hinge loose, prelims creased; Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California [being volumes xviii-xxiv of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft] San Francisco: The History Company, 1886-1890, 7 volumes, 8vo, diagrams within text, contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked with modern spines, ibid., History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 [volume 25 of his Works], 1890. 8vo, original cloth gilt, neat ownership stamp of James E. Hicks; ibid. History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845-1889 [volume 31 of his Works], San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1890, 8vo, original cloth gilt, hinges splitting; Reuben Gold Thwaites, Early Western Travels, Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1904-1907. 31 volumes (of 32, volume 25, atlas volume?, lacking), set number 340 of 750 signed copies, red cloth gilt, bookplates of the Plainfield Public Library; and others (approx. 80)