Lot 432
Mill, Hugh Robert, a small archive
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 10 September 2014 at 12:00 BST
Description
The siege of the South Pole... Alston Rivers, 1905. First edition, 8vo, plates and maps, including large folding coloured map, green cloth gilt; [Idem] The life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. William Heinemann, 1923. First edition, 8vo, inscribed from the author's sister to the author's brother, original cloth gilt, plates, slight foxing, shelf-lean; [Idem] The record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1930. The Royal Geographical Society, 1930. 8vo, signed and inscribed by the author to his brother, dust-jacket ; [Idem] Life interests of a geographer. East Grinstead: privately issued, with publication rights reserved by author, 1945[?]. 4to, mimeograph copy with facsimile signature to title-page, original paper covers; [Idem] and another copy, with Mill's signature and 'personal copy' '6.8.45' to upper cover, lacks pp.132-133, 4to, green cloth; [Idem] Annotated lecture and pamphlets by Mill on the Asymptone Club (a lunch club); Letters 6 letters written to Mill relating to his work; Mill, W.A., brother to H.R. Mill Manuscript notebook, 8vo, dated Edinburgh 1877-1879, containing a child's 'notes and observational jottings', 63 manuscript pages with illustrations, including what the boy observed in the museum, a punch and Judy show on the Mound in Edinburgh, the evening in December 1877 when the child experienced a telephone ("...although we bellowed at the full pitch of our lungs...no sound came...except a faint humming."), and the note that on 28th May '77 "I saw a bear in the streets to-day. It was a brown one. It was led about by a man and had a muzzle on. It could shake hand and dance slowly around in a circle..."; and a small collection of other works by Hugh Robert Mill, some signed (quantity)
Footnote
Note: Hugh Robert Mill, 1861-1950, was a Scottish geographer and meteorologist, born in Thurso. In 1884, he was appointed chemist and physicist to the Scottish Marine Station and later worked at the University of Edinburgh. Whilst working with the Royal Geographical Society, as their honorary secretary and librarian, Mill became acquainted with Scott, Shackleton and William Speirs Bruce. In 1907, he became president of the Royal Meteorological Society. Mill is commemorated in the naming of the Antarctic Mill glacier.