Cook (Captain James). A Voyage to the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775... In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships, 2 volumes, 1st edition, printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777, engraved portrait frontispiece to first volume (with contemporary ownership inscription and ink sketch of a naval officer to recto, (inscribed 'James Llewellyn Lewis 1778'), 60 (of 62) engraved plates, maps and charts, with the 2 missing maps supplied in photocopy facsimile (Chart of Discoveries Made in the South Pacific Ocean & Chart of the Southern Extremity of America), some plates with old soiling and creases, occasional tears and minor repairs, a few plates cropped affecting publisher's imprint, the second volume lacking title (A1), Ccc1 with upper half of the leaf torn away and missing, text defective at end (lacking all after Eee1, page 394), contemporary tree calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to edges, joints cracked (upper joints rehinged with front endpapers renewed), 4to Hill 358. Sabin 16245. Printing and the Mind of Man 223. Cook's second voyage in search of Terra Australis, the supposed southern continent, in which he crossed the Antarctic Circle and discovered Easter Island, Norfolk Island, Tahiti, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and South Georgia. (2)
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Cook (Captain James). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, printed by H. Hughs, 1785, plus Atlas issued for the first French edition, entitled Cartes et Figures du Troisieme Voyage de Cook, Paris, 1785, Atlas volume containing 81 copper engraved plates, maps and plans only, lacking plates 36, 45, 59 (supplied in facsimile), 69 (supplied in facsimile), 75 and 76, many plates partly untrimmed, and generally in good condition, but with some creases to folding plates, minor marginal waterstains and occasional light spotting, plate 68 (Vue de Karakakooa), with some defects and loss of paper to the image, and repaired, together with 7 engraved charts only contained in the text volume 1 (plates 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 19 & 82), the text volumes generally with good margins, occasional minor spotting, bound in contemporary calf, worn with covers detached, except volume 1 and Atlas rebound in modern antique-style full calf with contrasting red and green gilt spine labels, 4to Hill 361. Sabin 16250. The first official account of Cook's Third Voyage. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (4)
Ellis (William). An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Resolution and Discovery during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in search of a NW Passage between the continents of Asia and Amercia. Including a faithfull account of all their discoveries and the unfortunate death of Captain Cook, 2 volumes, 1st edition, G. Robinson, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1782, half-titles present, folding engraved chart of the Pacific Ocean, and 21 copper engraved plates by W. Walker, J. Heath, E. Scott and J. Collyer after drawings by William Ellis, occasional light spotting and minor offsetting from plates to adjacent text leaf (contents generally in clean condition), contemporary ink signature of H. Stamford to front pastedown of first volume, contemporary sprinkled full calf gilt, rubbed and some wear with covers to second volume detached and joints to first volume cracked, second volume lacking title and volume labels to spine, 8vo Sabin 22333. Hill 555. Important account of Cook's third voyage to the Pacific between 1776 and 1780 including Cook's fatal stop at Hawaii, which preceeded the official account by two years. William Ellis was assistant surgeon to both ships, and the attractive plates based on drawings by Ellis himself, are, according to Hill, among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Northwest. (2)
Franklin (Sir John). Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, John Murray, 1824, 4 folding engraved maps, including one with outline hand-colouring, occasional very light marginal spotting, pale waterstain to lower outer corners, at front of first volume, untrimmed, original boards with printed spine labels, a little rubbed and some marks, rebacked retaining original spines, 8vo Sabin 25625. Arctic Bibliography 5195. First published in 1823 and an immediate success, Franklin's first polar expedition, also known as the Coppermine Expedition, was the first of his three attempts to discover and map the Northwest Passage. Disorganised and poorly planned, the party of 20 men had been reduced to 9 by starvation and suspected murder amongst the group, before they were rescued by native tribesmen. As a result of the public interest and appreciation of Franklin's heroic efforts on the expedition, he became known as 'the man who ate his boots'. (2)
Jackson (Frederick George). A Thousand Days in the Arctic, with Preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClintock, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1899, five folding maps (few with discreet strengthening to folds), folding panorama, numerous black & white illustrations from photos, upper blank margins of both volumes with ownership signature of Albert Armitage (a member and officer on the same expedition), scattered spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth gilt, strengthend at head & foot of spines, volume 1 with small area of wear to lower joint, large 8vo Albert Borlase Armitage (1864-1943) was a Scottish polar explorer and captain in the Royal Navy. Between 1884 and 1897 he was a member, and second-in-command, of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef Land, and was involved in the 1895 rescue of explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his men. Armitage was then Robert Falcon Scott's navigator and second-in-command on the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica. The other members included Ernest Shackleton, George Mulock, Edward Wilson, Charles Royds, & Frank Wild etc. On this expedition, he became the first person to walk on the Antarctic or Polar Plateau. (2)
Kane (Elisha Kent). The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, A Personal Narrative, 1st edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853, 552,[8]pp., 3 maps & charts (including one folding), 5 mezzotint plates (including frontispiece), 8 tinted lithograph plates, one wood engraved plate and numerous wood engraved vignettes to text, 8 pages of adverts at rear, scattered spotting throughout, original cloth gilt, joints and head & foot of spine strengthened & repaired, some refurbishing to spine and corners, light cracking to joints, 8vo Sabin 36998. Very rare first edition of the classic of arctic exploration, more often found in the re-issue of 1854. 4,000 copies were originally printed and bound awaiting distribution in Harper's warehouse when a fire destroyed the building and majority of copies on December 10, 1853. The plates were stored in a vault and escaped damage. Harper's quickly printed a new edition bearing the 1854 date. Only a few copies of the 1853 edition had been issued before the fire. (1)
Kane (Elisha Kent). Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, 2 volumes, first edition, Philadelphia & London, 1856, engraved portrait frontispiece and additional engraved title to each volume, eighteen engraved plates, two folding maps & one single-page map, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, titles with contemporary ownership inscription of Conway Shipley with his bookplate to upper pastedowns, some scattered spotting, 19th century tan half calf, gilt decorated spines (browned), extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with Kane (Elisha Kent), The United States Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. A Personal Narrative, new edition, New York & Philadelphia, 1857, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map and five plates, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, scattered spotting throughout, verso of front free endpaper inscribed "Conway M. Shipley Esqr. with Lady Franklin's kind regards, New York, Oct 23. 1860", with Conway Shipley's bookplate to upper pastedown, 19th century tan half morocco, gilt decorated spine (near matching other volumes in lot), extremities rubbed and scuffed, dampstain at foot of spine, 8vo Sabin 37001 (first title). Each volume with book label 'De la Bibliotheque du Comte de Chambord (Henri V de France, duc de Bordeaux) N‚ en 1820, Acquise par Magg Bros. Ltd. de Londres' to upper pastedowns. Conway Shipley served as artist on board the Bulldog expedition of Sir Leopold McClintcock in 1860. The expedition was to survey for the purpose of a cable between Europe and North America. Lady Franklin inscribed the volume while in New York during a North American tour. (3)
Phipps (Constantine John). A Voyage Towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773, 1st edition, printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for J. Nourse, 1774, half-title present, folding engraving map frontispiece, with closed tear repaired, now linen-backed, 14 engraved plates and maps, mostly folding, 11 folding letterpress tables, some marks and soiling, several plates linen-backed, Halifax circulating library bookplates to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, rubbed and some wear, modern reback, with outer corners renewed, 4to Hill 1351. Sabin 62572. In 1773, Phipps was appointed Commander of an expedition to discover whether the Arctic Ocean might be free of ice in the open sea, and in consequence provide a route to the Pacific. His expedition proved otherwise, although his detailed scientific reports provided highly useful information, including the first European description of the polar bear and the ivory gull. On board the Carcass was a young midshipman by the name of Horatio Nelson. (1)
Books: William Nicholson - London Types, published William Heinemann, 1898, first edition, with twelve coloured plates CONDITION REPORT Binding is quite deteriorated, spine mising, cover detached, scuffs and deterioration to boards. Interior content is generally ok, prints in reasonable order, a little time staining
PUNK/GARAGE CLASSIC LPs - A fine collection of 4 x LPs featuring some absolute belters. Titles/artists are: Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (PL 12488, original UK issue from Sep 1977, orange RCA Victor labels, price code HH sleeve, Ex/Ex) and The Idiot (PL 12275, UK first edition with orange RCA Victor labels, Ex/Ex); The Ramones - Live at Roxy 1976 (private pressing on 'cat n dog' labels, Ex/VG+); and, The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned (SEEZ 1, original UK pressing, Ex+/Ex+).( VINYL RECORDS )
ROCK 7" RELEASES - Seven records here with 2 x Monster Magnet, 4 x Queens of the Stone Age and 1 x Probot. Monster Magnet are Lizard Johnny/Freak Shop USA (CIRCA 7001) and Murder (SCREE 2). QotSA are No One Knows (497 812-7 limited edition coloured vinyl), The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret (497 387-7), First It Giveth (981 050-6) and Little Sister (988 067-1). Probot is Centuries of Sin (SUNN30.5). COndition is all Ex+/Ex+.( VINYL RECORDS )
MADONNA SIGNED SEX BOOK - a rare chance to own a signed 1st edition Madonna Sex book (0903081). Autograph on first page, in black marker, dedicated 'To Charlie, Madonna'. Includes original pictorial outer foil and cd in foil. Authenticity has been confirmed by Roger Epperson for entry to this sale.
SINISTER LEGENDS - C150 first edition copies of the book Sinister Legends by Kris Guidio. Soft cover book published by Savoy Books in 1988 features b/w and colour art, comic strips and drawings of The Cramps. Kris pays tribute to his punk heroes and heroines, Patti Paladin, Johnny Thunders, Lou Reed, Marc Almond (Aubrey Beardsley-style) and others.
CD'S - These high quality CD lots continue here with this great collection of around 340 x CD albums with box sets. Artists/titles include Carrillo - Rings Around The Moon, Frehley's Comet - Second SIghting, First Shot, Jay Ferguson, Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening, Crawler, Alessi, Keith Gordon, The Ataris, Nelson, Coldplay, Heat, Journey, In Faith, Feeder, Hubrid Ice, The Madden Brothers, Bon Jovi, Grateful Dead , The Fray, Mr. Big, The Gaslight ANthem, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Killers - Live From The Royal Albert Hall, Van-Zant, Def Leppard inc. Pyromania (both deluxe editions), Weezer, Martin Briley, Madcats, RUssia, Fotomaker, B.E Taylor Group, Pink Floyd inc. The Wall (Experience Edition), Jeff Cosco, King Of Hearts, Slammer, Manic Street Preachers, Queen and Luley. Condition is generally excellent.( VINYL RECORDS )
INDIE/NEW WAVE/ALT 7" RELEASES - A broad and fine range of 8 x 7" releases. Artist/titles include Death in June - State Laughter/Holy Water (SA 30 6 34), Pussy Galore/Black Snakes - Penetration of the Centrefold/One Shot World (AGN2), Greeting No. 4 - Photos (eat 2), Fuck - Blind Beauty (dial 001), Otto's Chemical Lounge - Otto's Chemical Lounge (REF H), Drooler - Sichert Die Volks-Gemeinschaft (MR-47), Wolf People - Storm CLoud/Cotton Strands (BOR005) and Spare Snare - Super SLinky (CHUTE 001, handpainted first edition of 110, numbered 48, sleeve Ex). Unless stated, condition is Ex+/Ex+.( VINYL RECORDS )
Books - Snaffles: A Half Century Of Memories pub Collins 1950 and 'Osses and Obstacles pub. Collins 1935 Lionel Edwards: Sketches in Stable & Kennel pub. Putnam & Co 1936 George Lambton The Hon.: Men and Horses I have known pub Thornton Butterworth 1924 John Masefield: 1922 Booted and Spurred edit. and illus. Peter Biegel first edition pub. Adam & Charles Black 1949 Francis Burnand:Roger Longrigg: The History of Horse Racing, The Benson & Hedges book of racing colours Scrope's days of salmon fishing pub. John Murray 1854 (8) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Ford, Ford Madox (Editor). The Transatlantic Review a Collection of 7 Issues of (only 12 published) Vol. 1. No. 1. January - Vol. 1. No. 4. April & Vol. 2. Nos 1, 5 & 6 July, November-December 1924. London & Paris: Duckworth & Three Mountains Press, 1924. First Edition. Royal 8vo. Among the contributors & those with extracts from works in progress are E.E. Cummings, A.E. Coppard, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, Braque, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce April issue pre-publication extract from a work in Progress: Finnegan's Wake, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Ford Madox Ford, Havelock Ellis. Only 12 issues were published. This collection lacks 2 issues of vol. 1. & 3 of vol. 2. Covers worn, stained, & nicked.
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level, special edition and Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996, first US edition. Spirit Level, 1996, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition thus. in slipcase by with audio cassettes of the poet reading; Opened Ground, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition. 8vo, in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on spine. (2)
Mitchell, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin. 1966, Dublin: Allen & Figgis, First Edition. 4to, green cloth gilt. Illustrated with 50 full page colour plates by the author. Many of the 600 copies of this book have subsequently been broken up for the prints which were then sold individually. Other editions remain in public and special collections, thus Vanishing Dublin is a highly rare and desirable collectors' item.
Heaney, Seamus. Faber & Faber first editions. New Selected Poems, 1966-1987, 1990; Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, 1998, slip case; Beowulf: A new translation, 1999, slip case; Electric Light, 2001; Human Chain, 2010; also Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (Eds), The School Bag, London, Faber and Faber, 1st trade edition, dust jacket and The Rattle Bag, 1982. (7)
Defoe, Daniel. The Life And Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Written By Himself. 1862, Dublin: Printed For the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society By Alexander Thom, First Edition. Royal 8vo. Edited in the original Irish from Mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and Introductory Dissertations. Original light brown cloth.
O'Donovan, John (Ed.) The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh O'Huidhrin. 1862, Dublin: Printed For the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society By Alexander Thom, First Edition. Royal 8vo. Edited in the original Irish from Mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and Introductory Dissertations. Original light brown cloth.
Hobson, Bulmer, A Short History of The Irish Volunteers, signed presentation copy to Eimar Ultan O'Duffy. Dublin, The Candle Press, 1918. .first and only edition. Volume 1 (all that was ever published) 12mo, IX, 205 pages, with a preface by Eoin MacNeill.green cloth gilt. Inscribed by Bulmer Hobson 'Eimear O'Duffy from his friend Bulmer Hobson'. John Bulmer Hobson (1883- 1969) was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) before the Easter Rising in 1916. Though he was a member of the IRB which had planned the Rising, he opposed its being carried out, and attempted to prevent it. He swore Patrick Pearse into the IRB in late 1913. Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volunteers, reacted by sending messengers around the country to call off the manoeuvres which were the cover for the Rising, and advertising in newspapers to cancel them.
Heaney, Seamus. First editions, published by Faber and Faber. New Selected Poems, 1966-1987. 1990, first UK edition; Sweeney's Flight, 1992, in custom-made slip-case; The Redress of Poetry, 1995, in custom-made slip-case; The Spirit Level, 1996; North, 1996, first edition in Faber; Opened Ground, 1998; Beowulf: A New Translation, 1999; Electric Light, 2001, first paperback edition; also The Haw Lantern, 1987; and The Cure at Troy: A version of Sophocles' Philoctete, 1990, first paperback editions. (10)
Mitchell, Flora. Vanishing Dublin. Allen and Figgis, Dublin, 1966. First edition. A glimpse of old Dublin with fifty full colour plates and an introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Quarto; original green cloth with gilt titled spine and dust jacket. Many of the 600 copies of this book have subsequently been broken up for the prints which were then sold individually.
Hall, Rev. James. Tour Through Ireland: Particularly the interior & least known parts, containing an accurate view of the parties, politics, and improvements, in the different provinces; with reflections and observations on the union of Britain and Ireland; the practicability and advantages of a telegraphic communication between the two Countries and other matters of importance. London, 1813, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, vi, 340, [4 index]; iv, 324, [6 index], folding map, rebound quarter green calf, gilt and marbled boards.
Sean Scully, Prints, Catalogue Raisonné 1968-1999, signed and Paintings, Pastels, Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien, 1999. First Edition. 4to, 151 pp. Fine cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Text in English, French & German. Catalogue raisonne of the prints of Sean Scully, signed by the artist. together with Sean Scully, Paintings, Pastels, Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000. Richter Verlag, 2001, printed boards. (2)
Cusack, Cyril. Timepieces, signed with intimate inscription. 1970, Dublin, Dolmen Press, first edition, 8vo. printed wrappers, 'For Maureen Hurley There was a time when time stood still for us in Grafton Street, round five (Some might have deemed we'd missed the bus). But you and I we fully understood what time it should be & how very good it was to be alive. From Cyril Cusack Feb. 1975.'
Samuel Beckett, How It Is, limited advance edition, signed. London: John Calder, 1964. First edition, limited issue, of Beckett's translation of 'Comment C'est', 36/100 numbered copies in series 'B', hors commerce, signed by the author. Large 8vo. Tan morocco, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, in publisher's slip case.
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray and The Haw Lantern and The Government of the Tongue, first editions. 1983, Derry, Field Day, first edition, 8vo, grey cloth, illustrated front cover, dust jacket; together with Sweeney Astray, 1984, London, first Faber and Faber edition, boxed in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on spine; also The Haw Lantern, 1987, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo, red cloth gilt, dust jacket; The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987, 1989, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo, papered boards, cloth spine gilt, dust jacket; (4)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals and an autograph signed letter. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1894. 2 volumes, 12mo, brown morocco, gilt embossed to the front with the badge of St Columba's College, marbled edges, endpapers and pastedowns; together with a signed autograph letter, May 5, 1900, from Lecky, on Atheneum notepaper. William Edward Hartpole (1838-1903) was educated at Kingstown, Armagh, at Cheltenham College, and at Trinity College, Dublin.In 1861 he published Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, containing brief sketches of Jonathan Swift, Henry Flood, Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell, originally anonymous, republished in 1871; the essay on Swift, rewritten and amplified, appeared again in 1897 as an introduction to an edition of Swift's works. Two surveys followed: A History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe (2 vols., 1869), and A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (2 vols., 1869). Lecky then concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols. i. and ii. of which appeared in 1878, and Vols. vii. and viii., which completed the work, in 1890. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century can be regarded as the first attempt at an objective history of the age.
Heaney, Seamus. Hedge School, signed limited edition. 1979, Salem, Janus Press, first edition of "Sonnets from Glanmore" with coloured woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet, 8vo, letterpress printed on hand made paper for Charles Seluzicki, signed to the endpaper in pencil by Heaney and Van Vliet and numbered 56 of special limited numbered edition of 285. Boxed in custom-made slip-case, title etc, in gilt to spine. Rare.
Yeats, W. B. The Tower. First American Edition. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1929. first American edition, 8vo, 110 pages, illustrated cloth with gilt lettering and ornaments after a design by Sturge Moore. The Tower was a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public. The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored in 1917. Yeats Gaelicized the name to Thoor Ballyllee, and it has retained the title to this day. Yeats often summered at Thoor Ballylee with his family until 1928. The book includes several of Yeats' most famous poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children." All of the poems included in The Tower had previously appeared elsewhere in print collections and periodicals. Many of the poems featured in Seven Poems and a Fragment, The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, and October Blast released by Cuala Press. Other poems had been collected in A Vision. Yeats commissioned Thomas Sturge Moore to create the cover for the volume in 1927. The gold wood-cut style image depicts Thoor Ballylee and its reflection in waters below the tower all on a light green background. The poet praised Moore's artwork, noting that the cover was both a true representation of Thoor Ballylee and a successful symbolic design for the collection. Moore's work on The Tower and other collections solidified Yeats's modern image in both American and English print editions. Many of the poems in The Tower demonstrate Yeats's disillusionment with the limitations of the physical world and his withdrawal from ordinary life. The poet seeks to transcend the conflicts between the dichotomies of mind/body and thought/action by allowing poetry to exist in the world of vision rather than the world of reality.
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