Lot 41
£756
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, deluxe issue, out-of-series copy from the edition of 500, signed by Robert E. Peary and R. A. Bartlett, 4to, later tan half calf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 112 tipped-in photographic plates, limitation leaf spotted and marked, tide-mark to index leaves;
Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to, contemporary half roan (spine and front board detached), 31 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured or printed in colours, one folding), errata leaf, engraved plates spotted, tear to folding map, sigs. 3Z and 4A transposed [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381];
Franklin, John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22. London: John Murray, 1824. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter cloth, 4 folding maps, Board of Trade ink-stamps to title-pages;
Cook, James. An Abridgment of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. London: G. Kearsley, 1788. Sixth edition, 12mo, modern cloth, iii 1-430 pp. (apparently 448 pp. called for but text ends on p. 429, the remaining leaves presumably advertisements), 8 engraved plates (some trimmed along fore edge);
Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), damp-staining (diminishing towards centre of volume), half-title discarded, marginal extensions to title-page, pp. v/6 and final leaf, maps and folding plates laid on linen, first map with extensive closed tear and pertaining section consequently lifting from linen, short closed tear to second map;
and 10 others (these not collated), including: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations ... in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1856 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth); M. A. Healy, Report on the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885, 1887 (first edition, 4to, original cloth); Francis McClintock, The Voyage of the 'Fox' in Arctic Seas, 1859 (first edition, contemporary half calf, lacking folding map); and similar