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Lot 286
Orwell (George) Critical Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1946, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 8s.6d.); idem, The English People, Collins, 1947, first edition, dust wrapper [two copies]; idem, Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1950, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 10/-); idem, England Your England, and Other Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1953, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 12s.6d.); idem, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volumes I-IV, Secker and Warburg, 1968, first edition, four volumes, dust wrappers (priced 50s each); with three others (12)
Lot 9
Sparrman (Andrew) A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World, but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776, Robinson, 1785, first English edition, two quarto volumes, frontis, nine plates, folding map, errata leaf, half morocco
Lot 138
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, , two volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, three folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase.
Lot 36
Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 in his Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla ..., 1824, [with] Appendix to Captain Parry's Journal .., John Murray, 1825, two volumes, first edition, quarto, frontis, thirty plates and plans, four large folding charts (creased), four folding coastal profiles, Appendix volume with another two plates, Journal bound in half morocco gilt, the Appendix in original boards with remnant cloth spine
Lot 175
Borchgrevink (C.E.) First on the Antarctic Continent being An Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900, George Newnes, 1901, first edition, portrait frontis, three folding colour maps, text illustrations including full page images, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase
Lot 297
Brewster (John) Sermons for Prisons. To Which are Added Prayers for the Use of Prisoners in Solitary Confinement, Stockton; printed by R. Christopher, 1790, sheep (re-backed with calf); Richardson (William), Remarks on Diabetes, Especially with Reference to Treatment, Lewis, 1871, first edition, original cloth (spine torn with loss) (2)
Lot 234
Hedin (Sven) Jehol, City of Emperors, Kegan Paul ..., 1932, first English edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); idem, Riddles of the Gobi Desert, Routledge, 1933, first English edition, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrappper (priced 18s.); idem, The Wandering Lake, Routledge, 1940, first English edition, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrapper (with 10/8 label over 18s.); with five others, all English first editions by Hedin (8)
Lot 312
Gibbs (James) Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture in a More Exact and Easy Manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all Fractions, in dividing the principal Members and their Parts, are avoided, Innys, Richardson et al, 1753, third edition, folio, first leaf is a blank, 63 (of 64) engraved plates, half calf (worn); Gotch (J. Alfred), Architecture of the Renaissance in England ..., Batsford, 1894, two volumes, folio, ex-library, 145 plates with stamps verso, top edges gilt, original half morocco; Shaw (Richard Norman), Architectural Sketches from the Continent, Day, n.d. [1858], folio, litho title, 100 litho plates, modern cloth (4)
Lot 249
Kennedy (Alexander B.W.) Petra, Its History and Monuments, Country Life, 1925, first edition, quarto, plates and maps as called for, Anthony Huxley's copy, lacking front free endpaper, dust wrapper; Botta (M.), M. Botta's Letters on the Discoveries at Nineveh, translated .. by C.T., Longman, Brown ..., 1850, first English edition, forty-nine plates (many folding), original cloth (library de-accession stamps to front pastedown); Volney (M.), The Ruins, or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, Johnson, 1796, third edition, frontis, two folding plates (restored and lined), modern half leather; with ten others (13)
Lot 247
Bishop (Mrs) (Isabella L. Bird) Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs, John Murray, 1891, first edition, presentation inscription from the author, two volumes, frontis to each, plates as called for, two folding maps, original cloth gilt (foxing to endpapers)
Lot 293
Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Harrap, 1935, first edition thus, twelve colour and seventeen monochrome plates, original cloth gilt; Sterne (Lawrence), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-30, numbered limited edition of 500, three volumes, fifteen engravings by J.E. Laboureur, top edge gilt, original cloth (4)
Lot 294
Sassoon (Siegfried) Single page Autograph Letter Signed, 23.8.62, in which Sassoon responds to a request for accommodation for an Irishman at Hungerford Hospital Flats (Anglican), advising that 'a Catholic would be a fish out of water, so to speak, especially on Fridays', explanatory note stapled to letter; idem, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Faber & Gwyer, 1928, first edition, original cloth; idem, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Faber & Faber, 1930, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.); with three others (6)
Lot 229
Stein (M. Aurel) Ruins of Desert Cathay, Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, Macmillan, 1912, first edition, two volumes, 'presentation copy' blindstamp, three folding maps, eight coloured plates, six folding panoramas, 334 monochrome illustrations (333 on plates) as called for, original cloth gilt (lower corner of volume I nibbled, small puncture holes through two maps, final leaves and rear board of volume II)
Lot 24
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, presentation inscription thanking Prof. W.A. Haswell for his help with the expedition, signed by the author in the year of publication, two volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, three folding maps in end pocket, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase.
Lot 27
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, 2 volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for (at least four plates with presentation stamps from H. J. Shepstone), three folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth gilt.
Lot 242
Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, John Murray, 1819, first edition, quarto, portrait frontis, three engraved maps (two folding, one linen-backed and worm-tracked), all edges gilt, half morocco; Belzoni (G.), Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries ... in Egypt and Nubia .., John Murray, 1820, first edition, text volume only, quarto, portrait frontis, Book Society 181* regulations to front pastedown, original boards with modern morocco spine (2)
Lot 267
Bell (Gertrude Lowthian) The Desert and the Sown, Heinemann, 1907, first edition, colour frontis, text illustrations, folding map, original cloth idem, Amurath to Amurath, Heinemann, 1911, first edition, frontis, plates as called for (one torn with unsightly tape repair), folding map, original cloth (re-backed, new endpapers) (2)
Lot 172
Cook (Frederick A.) Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899, A Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Belgica' …, New York; Doubleday & McClure, 1900, numbered 'Author's edition' of 1000*, signed by the author with additional portrait frontis, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth (faded, recased with new endpapers), modern slipcase [*Rosove believes that the number was much smaller]
Lot 174
Drygalski (Erich von) The Southern Ice-Continent, The German South Polar Expedition aboard the Gauss, 1901-1903, Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press, 1989, first edition in English, folio, original pictorial cloth; Filchner (Wilhelm), To the Sixth Continent, The Second German South Polar Expedition, Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press, 1994, first edition in English, folio, original cloth; with nine others (11)
Lot 207
Anson (George) A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, printed for the author by Knapton, 1748, first edition, quarto, large margins, subscribers list, forty-two plates, maps and charts (forty-one folding or double page) as called for (one torn without loss), calf (re-backed)
Lot 223
Younghusband (Francis) Peking to Lhasa, The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brigadier-General George Pereira ..., Constable, 1925, first edition, thirty-three plates, two folding maps, original cloth; Dainella (Giotto), Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet, Kegan Paul ..., 1933, thirty-two plates, map, original cloth; Bishop (Isabella Bird), Among the Tibetans, New York; Revell, n.d. [1894], first US edition, frontis, text illustrations (including full page, original cloth gilt; with eleven others (14)
Lot 185
Brown (R.N. Rudmose) A Naturalist at the Poles, The Life, Work and Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer, Seeley, Service, 1923, first edition, two folding colour maps, plates as called for, dust wrapper with price excised from backstrip; Levick (G. Murray, Dr.), Antarctic Penguins, A Study of their Social Habits, Heinemann, 1914, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth; with one other (3)
Lot 134
Stefansson (Vilhjalmur) The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Cape, 1926, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); Andree (S.A.), Strindberg (Nils) & Fraenkel (Knut), The Andree Diaries, being ... written during their Balloon Expedition to the North Pole in 1897 ...., John Lane, 1931, first English edition, frontis, three folding maps, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 21s.); with seven others (9)
Lot 301
Radcliffe (M.) A Modern System of Domestic Cookery; or the Housekeeper's Guide: Arranged on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families ...,Manchester; Gleave, 1823, frontis, engraved title (dated 1822), eleven plates, 19th century owners' names on fly leaf, modern half morocco; Thornton (Robert John), A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, Richard Phillips, 1810, first edition, wood engravings by Thomas Bewick after Henderson, repaired closed tear to final leaf, modern quarter morocco (2)
Lot 180
Cook (Frederick A.) Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899, A Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Belgica' …, Heinemann, 1900, colour and monochrome plates as called for, original pictorial cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip, library stamp to final page); Amundsen (Roald), My Life as an Explorer, Heinemann, 1927, frontis, dust wrapper (priced 10s.6d., worn and faded); idem, The South Pole, An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912, John Murray, 1912, first English edition, two volumes, plates and maps as called for (one folding map torn without loss), top edge gilt, modern red cloth (4)
Lot 322
Longstaffe (W. Hylton Dyer) The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick, Darlington and Stockton Times .., 1854, first edition, large paper copy, ten (of twelve) plates, all edges gilt, full morocco gilt; idem, The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington, in the Bishoprick, Darlington and Stockton Times .., 1854, first edition, twelve plates, all edges gilt, morocco gilt; with four others (6)
Lot 308
O'Connor (John) Canals, Barges and People, Art and Technics, 1950, first edition, twenty four colour illustrations, dust wrapper (priced 10s 6d) Rolt (L.T.C.), Green and Silver, George Allen .., 1949, first edition, dust wrapper; idem, Red for Danger, Bodley Head, 1955, first edition, dust wrapper; with twenty-two others (25)
Lot 227
Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, The Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c., John Murray, 1854, first edition, two volumes, twelve coloured litho plates (one folding), wood engraved plate, two folding maps (one torn without loss), errata slip in each volume, adverts dated January 1884, some gathers loosening, original cloth gilt (rebacked retaining original backstrips), modern slipcase
Lot 273
Stark (Freya) The Valleys of the Assassins ..., John Murray, 1934, first edition, plates and maps as called for, map endpapers, modern quarter morocco, slipcase; idem, The Southern Gates of Arabia .., John Murray, 1936, first edition, plates as called for, two folding maps (one torn and taped), modern quarter morocco, slipcase; idem, Seen in the Hadhramaut, John Murray, 1938, map, illustrated throughout, modern quarter morocco; with two others (5).
Lot 257
Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, Cambridge; University Press, 1888, first edition, two volumes, partly unopened, folding map in rear pocket, original cloth gilt (endpapers split at hinge, 13mm tear to spine head of volume II), preserved in two quarter morocco book-form slipcases [provenance - H. Bradley Martin]
Lot 12
Franklin (John) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22, John Murray, 1823, first edition, first issue, quarto, xvi, 768 pages, thirty plates (eleven coloured), four large folding charts (dated March 1823, one with title variant as usual), errata slip, early owner's name to half title, modern half calf binding
Lot 208
Bougainville (Lewis de) A Voyage Round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, In the Years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769, Nourse and Davies, 1772, first English edition translated by John Reinhold Forster, quarto, five folding maps, folding plate, contemporary calf gilt (joints cracked in places with some restoration)
Lot 7
Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 in his Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla ..., John Murray, 1824, [with] Appendix to Captain Parry's Journal .., John Murray, 1825, two volumes, first edition, quarto, frontis, thirty plates and plans, four large folding charts, four folding coastal profiles, Appendix with a further two plates, contemporary armorial calf gilt (some restoration to joints)
Lot 237
Alexander (James Edward) Travels from India to England; Comprehending a Visit to the Burman Empire, and a Journey through Persia, Asia Minor, Eropean Turkey, &c. in the Years 1825-26, Parbury, Allen, 1827, first edition, quarto, portrait frontis, two maps, fourteen plates (five coloured), modern calf
Lot 163
Ponting (Herbert G.) The Great White South, Being an Account of Experiences with Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition and of the Nature Life of the Antarctic, Duckworth, 1921, plates as called for, original cloth; Hurley (Frank, Capt), Argonauts of the South .. being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, Putnam's, 1925, first edition, two folding maps, monochrome plates as called for, top edge gilt, original cloth (at least four pages crudely opened with torn margins) (2)
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