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Lot 77
A Japanese book of hand coloured engravings of the Kyoto Hotel early 20th century, depicting the hotel and its environs, the green paper covers with label reading `Kyoto Hotel`, comprising a map and twenty hand coloured engravings, together with three bound volumes of Japanese woodblock prints and two amusing volumes `Fair Japan Optimistic` and `Fair Japan Pessimistic`. (6)
Lot 251
Saxton (Christopher) and Lea (Philip) Glocester-shire, engraved map of Gloucestershire with hand-colouring, `Corrected and Amended with many Additions by P.Lea`, 1690 or later, title cartouche, scale of miles with calipers, inset town plans of Bristol and Gloucester, Royal Arms and armorials, 15½ x 19¾in. (39.5 x 50cm.).
Lot 6293
Pottier and Stymus dining suite(lot of 14) Important American Renaissance Revival dining suite by Pottier and Stymus, New York, for Alfred A. Cohen`s Alameda, California estate ``Fernside``, executed in white oak, the extension dining table having a marquetry frieze flanked by the burlwood border centering the 10 leaves, above a pedestal base having relief carved lion figural mounts, the supports having acanthus detail terminating on carved paw feet, and rising on four baluster turned legs having banded leaf detail at the shoulder terminating on casters, (retains the original servant`s bell) 29.5``h x 17`4``w (extended) x 65``d, the twelve chairs each having full relief carved lion head finials above the leather padded backs and rising on turned legs, consisting of two armchairs 43.5``h x 23.5``w x 24``d, and ten side chairs 41``h, the sideboard (table leaf cabinet) having a relief carved 15`` wild boar medallion centering the later granite top above the two drawer case having an open gallery surmounting the fold down single door opening to the slotted interior used for table leaf storage, verso stenciled 4428/Pho/Cohen. Provenance: 1957-2012 Property from the collection of Raul A. Pena, thence by family descent ``Fernside`` The Estate of Alfred Andrew Cohen and Emilie Gibbons Cohen, The Cohens Alfred Andrew Cohen was born in England, July 17, 1829. After reversals of family fortunes he left Exeter Academy and went to work for a London solicitor. He immigrated to Canada in 1843, then to Jamaica, and finally in 1849 to Sacramento, California, arriving via Panama. Settling in San Francisco he married Emilie Gibbons, daughter of former Wilmington, Delaware, residents Martha Poole and Dr. Henry Gibbons. The Cohens had four sons and three daughters. Cohen`s business activities were varied. He engaged in railroad and ferry enterprises with William Ralston and Darius Ogden Mills, two of California`s early taste-makers. In 1857 he was admitted to the practice of law by the California Supreme Court. Cohen had several dealings with Central Pacific Railroad representing both defendants and plaintiffs. It had been said he was so successful in winning cases against the railroad that the owners made peace with him and hired him as their counsel. Cohen died in 1887 in Nebraska in route from Washington D.C., where he had been representing Central Pacific before the federal railroad commission. Newspaper accounts have estimated the value of his estate to be $5 million. His widow Emilie Cohen continued to live at Fernside until her death in 1925. The Estate and House Fernside, located in Alameda, an island community in San Francisco Bay southwest of Oakland, was acquired in the mid- 1850`s. A map dated September 9, 1859, shows the estate/working farm to be 110 acres and five buildings, including the residence, a substantial Gothic Revival structure. Over the years, buildings were added to the estate, including an elaborate stable built in 1870 for prize thoroughbred horses and a bowling alley building. In 1872 buildings began for a new grand ``Italianate`` house of some 52 rooms. Wright and Sanders, the architects, were noted for their churches, institutional buildings and the San Francisco home of Mark Hopkins. On March 24, 1897, a fire began in the building`s tower and spread quickly until the house burned to the ground. When it was found there was insufficient water to save the home, firemen and volunteers concentrated on removing furnishings, decorative objects, and bric-a-brac from the ground floor of the burning building. The Interiors The insurance papers together with interior photographs by Eadweard Muybridge and the Cohen`s third son, Edgar, give an idea of the interior fittings. Furnishing took place from occupancy in 1874 to 1888 (shortly after Cohen died). The photographs and invoices tell a story of continual change and upgrading. Herter Brothers, Pottier and Stymus, W. & J. Sloan and other New York and California firms supplied items for the house. In a letter dated October 15, 1874, Cohen mentions Mr. Schastie (likely George A. Schastey) in reference to the dining room of the house. The reference implies Schastey was on site at the house. Why the Cohen`s used more than one firm and the extent of the involvement of the firms is not clear. Likely, the strong personalities of both A. A. and Emilie G. Cohen were a factor. THE DINING ROOM. None of the Fernside post fire documents on the dining room are known to exist. The four photographs of the Dining Room in the VPCO`s collection at the Cohen/Bray House, give different views of the dining room. Two of the pictures likely Muybridge photo`s found in a family album show the table & chairs. A latter photo by Edgar Cohen, a noted California photographer, shows the dining room and the table leaf storage cabinet in more detail. The original upholstery is apparent in this photograph. This leather upholstery is still found on the back of the chairs. The forth picture shows the table and four chairs in the building converted to a residence for Mrs. Cohen after the main house burned in 1897. Of interest is a paragraph in a letter from A. A. Cohen to his wife Emilie Gibbons Cohen, dated October 15, 1874. I quote as follows: ``Dear Em, {in pencil added to the letter ``cover kept``} I learned this morning for the first time from Schasteys man that he sent a Red Marble slab for dinning room sideboard instead of Egyptian Green as I ordered. This is very provoking as the carpet for that room was changed to Green to suit the marble. I telegraphed to Will today to tell Schastey that I do not wan the red marble---- I do not want the red marble---- It will be out the question using a green carpet with the red marble. If the marble is retained I do not know what can be done except we change the carpet and use in the dining the carpets original intended for that room but which we afterwards concluded to use in the library. When you get this telegraph me what you think we had better do. If necessary I can get a new carpet for either library or dinning room & use the one we may put aside for the 2nd floor bed rooms. I have shipped the billiard room carpet it is intended that the [ballgrio ?] shall run across the mantel there is a nice border with it. I think now we will leave here on the morning of Nov. 3rd stopping one day at Niagara and one day at Chicago which I expect will bring us home on Nov. 12.`` [Note: these letters have been typed and numbered. FERNSIDE, SATURDAY EVE. JUNE 17, 1876] Schastey is known to have worked with Pottier & Stymus The leaf cabinet is known to have a replaced marble top when acquired by the current owners family. At president the history of the dining set after her death in 1927 is not known. An Overview of Pottier and Stymus From its inception in 1859, the Pottier and Stymus firm quickly rose to prominence as one of the nation`s most elite decorating and cabinetmaking firms. They retained their position at the forefront of American decorating firms well into the 20th century. August Pottier emigrated from France in 1847, gaining employment with the E. W. Hutchings and Son firm in New York City. During his tenure with Hutchings, Pottier apparently became acquainted with the cabinetmaker Gustave Herter, who would also become prominent in the emerging custom decorating field. In 1853, the two formed the short-lived Herter, Pottier and Company. By the end of the decade, Pottier was working with Rochefort and Skaaren as general foreman, where William Stymus was foreman of the upholstery room. Following the death of Rochefort, August Pottier and William Stymus assumed control of the business, forming their own partnership, Pottier and Stymus, in 1859. Shortly after its inception, the firm secured a number of important commissions, most notably to design and furnish the rooms occupied by the Secretary of the Treasury in 1863, and the Navy Department (1861-64). During t
Lot 821
SMITH ROSS (1892-1922) & KEITH (1890-1955) Australian Aviators, the first people to fly from England to Australia, 1919. Printed brochure signed, by both Ross and Keith Smith individually, the 4to brochure being a short story of the Ross Smith flight from England to Australia under the patronage of the Prince of Wales. Illustrated with a map of the flight from Hounslow to Port Darwin, portraits of the brothers in their flying caps and goggles and also featuring an advert for an illustrated travelogue. Signed by both Ross and Keith Smith with their names alone to light areas of the attractive cover. Some light overall age wear and minor foxing and discolouration to the cover, largely at the edges. Rare. G
Lot 565
18ct gold diamond and sapphire oval pendant , London 1992 , depicting a map of the world surrounded by approximately 72 small sapphires and 12 melee diamonds, the suspension set with a diamond approximately 1.06ct, colour: G-H, clarity: VS, on an 18ct gold heavy double link chain, 126g in total (AnchorCert report for the large diamond).
Lot 273
H.A. Turner, H.F. Turner, H.G. Turner, Circa 1835-1857 An interesting album of mainly watercolour views of Grenada, Mauritius, Barbados, Jamaica, St Helena and Gibraltar, also views in Great Britain. The artists, H.A. Turner circa 1835-1852, H.F. Turner circa 1856/7, H.G. Turner circa 1853, are thought to be ancestors of one Colonel H.F. Turner, a staff officer of the British Force, Cairo & Egypt around 1889. Empire & British Views Governor’s Residence Grenada 1850, Mount Rouet Grenada, The Beau Bassin Mauritius, Bay of The Riviere Noire Mauritius, Sketch from Hospital Hill Grenada 1852, Sketch of Beau Champs Sugar House Mauritius, Garrison Library Gibraltar 1834, Sketch of the Signal Mountain Port Louis Mauritius, waterfall near Redout Mauritius, Napoleon’s Tomb St. Helena, Pilgrim-the Governor’s residence Barbados 1852, landscape Grenada 1851, Tamarind Bay Mauritius, Views of St.Helena, Port Royal Kingston Jamaica from HMS Vulcan 1853 by HG Turner aged 13 years. Newark Castle 1844, copies after Copley Fielding, view of St.Helier Jersey 1843, Falmouth 1835, view near Woolwich, view in Derbyshire, Military camp Aldershot, Dawlish Regatta 1880, R.M.A. Academy 1856. most images are signed and inscribed and dated sizes vary between 17 x 22cm to 27 x 38cm, and two panorama folded map format album size 43 x 32cm. Illustrated opposite: Beau Basin Mauritius Sugar House Mauritius Newark Castle 1844 Sketch of Beau Champs Sketch from Hospital Hill Grenada 1852
Lot 3003
LYON, George Francis. The Private Journal. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition, 8vo (210 x 129mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, engraved folding map. (Plates and surrounding leaves spotted, lightly browned and damp-stained.) Contemporary calf (extremities scuffed, rebacked, endpapers replaced).
Lot 3004
BACK, George. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition, 8vo (210 x 127mm.) 14 engraved plates only (of 16), engraved folding map bound at rear. (Some minor creasing, one plate torn without loss but affecting the image area, 3 plates shaved with loss of titles, light browning.) Near contemporary half-calf (rubbed, spine scuffed, with loss to foot, front-free endpaper torn with loss.)
Lot 3005
BARROW, John. A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions. London: John Murray, 1818. First edition, 8vo (205 x 125mm.) Folding engraved map. (Map slightly offset, some spotting to first few leaves, light browning.) Contemporary half-calf (extremities somewhat rubbed). Provenance: C.H. Butler Clarke (armorial bookplate).
Lot 3008
KOLDEWEY, Karl. The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the “Hansa” in the Ice. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. First edition in English, 8vo (235 x 154mm.) Numerous plates (4 chromolithographed), lithographed chart and folding map at rear, numerous illustrations. (Light spotting, browning or soiling.) Original green decorated cloth (extremities bumped, touches of recolouring to head of spine). Provenance: W.C. Belcher (bookplate to front pastedown).
Lot 3009
NANSEN, Fridtjof. “Farthest North”, being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96. London: George Newnes, 1898. 2 vols., 8vo (227 x 182mm.) Frontispieces, plates (1 chromolithographed), 1 folding map at rear of vol. I, illustrations. (Occasional spotting, p.127 to vol. II torn with minor loss to margin.) Original decorated cloth, g.e. (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). Provenance: Stephen Kingsley Morell (prize certificate to front pastedown).
Lot 3012
TROMHOLT, Sophus. Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis: in the Land of the Lapps and Kvaens… original edition… edited by Carl Siewers. Boston: 1885. 2 vols., 8vo (219 x 137mm.) Lithographed frontispieces, plates, numerous illustrations, folding map at rear of vol. I. (Minor marginal browning.) Original decorated cloth (extremities slightly bumped). Provenance: Laurence J. Di Stefano Jr (bookplate to front pastedown of vol. I).
Lot 3013
ASTRUP, Eivind. With Peary near the Pole… translated… by H.J. Bull. London: 1898. 8vo (220 x 136mm.) Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations, folding map bound at rear. (Light browning.) Original cloth blocked in gilt and blind, t.e.g. (extremities bumped, spine faded). Provenance: Capt. C.E. Salvesen (signature, dated ‘India, June 1898’ recto of frontispiece).
![[ADAMS, William Henry Davenport.] The Arctic World [illustrated]: its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena, with a Historic](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2857428/3017-201274104915_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3017
[ADAMS, William Henry Davenport.] The Arctic World [illustrated]: its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena, with a Historical Sketch of Arctic Discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. London, Edinburgh & New York: [n.d. but circa 1876.] 4to (320 x 237mm.) Lithographed map, numerous plates and illustrations. (Some spotting, tissue guard adhered to map.) Original decorated cloth, g.e. (extremities slightly bumped).
![[BERNACCHI, L.C., and others.] The Polar Book. London: E. Allom & Co. Ltd., [n.d. but 1930.] 8vo (211 x 131mm.) Folding m](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2857428/3018-201274104917_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3018
[BERNACCHI, L.C., and others.] The Polar Book. London: E. Allom & Co. Ltd., [n.d. but 1930.] 8vo (211 x 131mm.) Folding map bound at rear. (Light spotting.) Original thin card pictorial wrappers (slightly spotted and browned). Note: issued for the British Polar Exhibition of 1930. Spence 125.
Lot 3019
BILBY, Julian W. Among Unknown Eskimo. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1923. First edition, 8vo (215 x 135mm.) Plates, 1 folding map at rear. 8pp. advertisements at rear. (Light spotting or browning.) Original cloth (head and foot of spine lightly bumped). – And six others of related interest, including one signed by the author (Harry Whitney, ‘Hunting with the Eskimos’, New York: 1911, 8vo, signed presentation at rear of book) (7).
Lot 3021
FIALA, Anthony. Fighting the Polar Ice. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1907. First U.K. edition, 8vo (157 x 173mm.) Title in red and black, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, large folding map at rear. (Map torn without loss, light browning or spotting to first few and occasional other leaves.) Original buckram (extremities bumped).
Lot 3022
RASMUSSEN, Knud. Greenland by the Polar Sea, the Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup… translated… by Asta and Rowland Kenney. London: William Heinemann, 1921. First English edition, 8vo (253 x 184mm.) Title printed in brown and black, 8 coloured plates, numerous illustrations, folding map at rear. (Occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth blocked in silver (head and foot of spine bumped). – And one other first edition by Rasmussen (‘The People of the Polar North, a Record’ London: 1908, 8vo.) (2).
Lot 3023
TILMAN, H.W. Mischief in Greenland. London: Hollis & Carter, 1964. First edition, 8vo (214 x 135mm.) Frontispiece, map, illustrations, a few full-page. (Occasional minor spotting or soiling.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (minor scuffs and browning to dust-jacket). Note: signed by the author to title-page and dated ‘25.2.64.’ – And seven other first editions by Tilman, including three others signed by the author. (‘Mischief among the Penguins’. London: 1961. 8vo, original cloth, dust-jacket; ‘In Mischief’s Wake’, London, etc.: 1971, 8vo. original cloth, dust-jacket; ‘Mischief Goes South’, London, etc.: 1968, 8vo, original cloth) (8).
![EVANS, Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. London & Glasgow: Collins, [n.d. but circa 1921]. 8vo (220 x 134mm) Frontispiece,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2857428/3028-201274104929_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3028
EVANS, Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. London & Glasgow: Collins, [n.d. but circa 1921]. 8vo (220 x 134mm) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, folding map bound at rear. (Minor spotting mostly to fore-edge.) Original cloth (spine darkened). Spence 432. Provenance: Joan Johnson (presentation inscription signed by the author and dated 1940 to front free endpaper).
Lot 3035
SHACKLETON, Ernest H. South, the Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition. London: William Heinemann, December 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo (249 x 152mm.) Coloured frontispiece, full-page uncoloured illustrations, folding map. (Light browning and spotting, light creasing to first few leaves, occasional minor marginal tears.) Original dark blue cloth blocked in silver (head and foot of spine slightly bumped).
Lot 3048
LINDSAY, Martin. Sledge, the British Trans-Greenland Expedition 1934. London, Toronto, etc.: 1935. First edition, 8vo (232 x 152mm.) Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, folding map at rear. (Minor spotting.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (torn with slight loss). – And twenty-seven others, the majority relating to Greenland (28).
![HUC, [Evariste Regis.] Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the Years 1844-5-6… translated… by W. Hazlitt,](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2857428/3056-20127515253_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3056
HUC, [Evariste Regis.] Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China during the Years 1844-5-6… translated… by W. Hazlitt, reprint edition. Chicago: 1898. 2 vols., 8vo (198 x 131mm.) Folding map, numerous illustrations. (Occasional minor browning.) Original decorated cloth, t.e.g. (extremities bumped). – And five other volumes (7).
Lot 3058
McCLINTOCK, Frederick Leopold. The Voyage of the ‘Fox’ in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. London: John Murray, 1859. First edition, 8vo (220 x 140mm.) 14 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps on a single folding leaf, folding map in pocket at rear. (Light spotting, first few leaves affected by damp.) Original cloth (extremities bumped, neat repair to head of spine). Provenance: Henry Percy Gordon (presentation inscription verso of front-free endpaper); A.J. Wilmott (blindstamp to front-free endpaper). – And four others (5).
![TOLKIEN, J.R.R. [The Lord of the Rings… Readers Union edition.] London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1960. 3 vols., 8](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10123/2857428/3079-20127515336_468x382.jpg)
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