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Lot 111

Koldewey (Captain) The German Arctic Expedition of 1869-70, and Narrative of the Wreck of the 'Hansa' in the Ice, Sampson Low ..., 1874, four chromolitho plates, two coloured folding charts, thirty one other plates, top edge gilt, half morocco; Payer (Julius), New Lands Within The Arctic Circle, Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship 'Tegetthoff' in the Years 1872-1874, Macmillan, 1876, two volumes, chromolitho frontis, map, plates as called for, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt (3)

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 339

Phillips (John) Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast ..., York: the Author, 1829, quarto, hand-coloured geological map, nine strata plates (eight with hand-colouring), fourteen fossil plates, original printed wraps (worn), preserved in solander box

Lot 30

Back (Captain) 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. John Murray, 1836, quarto large paper copy, limited to 250, folding map, sixteen plates on India paper, top edge gilt, half morocco binding by Farrell [provenance - Franklin Brooke-Hitching #54]

Lot 129

Amedeo (Luigi, of Savoy) On the 'Polar Star' in the Arctic Sea, Hutchinson, 1903, two volumes, sixteen plates, two panoramas, five maps including two folding maps in rear pocket, text illustrations, original; cloth gilt; Glen (A.R.) & Croft (N.A.C.), Under the Pole Star, The Oxford University Arctic Expedition, 1935-6, Methuen, 1937, plates and maps as called for, dust wrapper; Mikkelsen (Ejnar), Lost in the Arctic, Being the Story of the 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912, Heinemann, 1913, folding map, plates as called for, modern cloth binding with mounted figures on skis towing a sled, slipcase; with seven others (11)

Lot 101

MacGahan (J.A.) Under the Northern Lights, [The Cruise of the Pandora], Edward Stanford, 1876, folding map, eight plates, text illustrations, original cloth gilt [note; the Brooke-Hitching copy was described as having 11 plates, all other copies found have had eight]

Lot 221

Turner (Samuel, Capt.) An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; containing a Narrative of a Journey through Bootan, and Part of Tibet, Nicol, 1800, quarto, folding map, thirteen plates, full calf

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 246

Palgrave (William Gifford) Narrative of A Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63) Macmillan, 1865, first English edition, two volumes, portrait frontis, folding map (foxed, small closed tear), four folding plans, modern half morocco

Lot 73

Fisher (Alexander) Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in his Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, in the Years 1819 & 1820, Longman Hurst .., 1821, first edition, folding chart, and a map, woodcut text illustrations, no half-title, half calf binding (rubbed);

Lot 259

Philby (H. St. J.B.) Arabia of the Wahhabis, Constable, 1928, first edition, plates as called for, large folding map, dust wrapper (priced 31/6, lengthy ownership inscription to front endpaper)

Lot 241

Buckingham (J.S.) Travels among The Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine, including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains beyond the Dead Sea and ..., Longman, Hurst .., 1825, first edition, quarto, folding frontis map, partly unopened, modern half morocco

Lot 160

Armitage (Albert B., Lieut.) Two Years in the Antarctic, Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition, Edward Arnold, 1905, folding map (foxed), plates present as called for, original cloth, modern slipcase

Lot 64

M'Clintock (Captain) The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin, John Murray, 1859, maps and plates as called for including folding map in rear pocket, modern half morocco,

Lot 211

Portlock (Nathaniel, Capt.) A Voyage Round the World; But More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in The King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon, Stockdale & Goulding, 1789, quarto, large folding map, nineteen other charts and plates (five folding), calf boards (re-backed with calf gilt)

Lot 110

Markham (Albert Hastings, Capt.) Northward Ho!, Macmillan, 1879, map and plates as called for, original cloth, basic slipcase

Lot 228

Bruce (Clarence Dalrymple, Maj.) In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. Being the Account of a Journey Overland from Simla to Pekin, William Blackwood, 1907, large folding map (repaired closed tear), twenty-five plates as called for, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt

Lot 108

Davis (C.H.) edit. Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall Commanding ..., Washington; Govt. Printing Office, 1876, quarto, plates and maps as called for, original cloth gilt; Blake (E. Vale), Arctic Experiences: containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on the Ice-Floe, A History of the Polaris Expedition ..., New York; Harper, 1874, frontis, map, text illustrations, original cloth; Healy (M.A., Capt.), Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884, Washington; Govt. Printing Office, 1889, quarto, thirty nine plates only, no charts present, recent quarter cloth (3)

Lot 20

Goodsir (Robert Anstruther) An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin, van Voorst, 1850, first edition, presentation inscription from Mary Goodsir, tinted litho frontis, folding map, original cloth, slipcase

Lot 341

Home (Gordon) Yorkshire, Coast and Moorland Scenes, Adam and Charles Black, 1904, numbered edition de luxe limited to 200 copies, signed by the author, quarto, thirty-two colour plates, folding map, top edge gilt, original cloth; Wood (John), Town Atlas of Northumberland and Durham, 1820-1827, Frank Graham, numbered limited edition of 400, large folio, original cloth; with a large quantity of others on local history and topography (qty)

Lot 71

Simpson (Alexander) The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer, Richard Bentley, 1845, portrait frontis, folding map, modern half morocco

Lot 19

King (Richard) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of The Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834, and 1835; under the command of Capt. Back, Richard Bentley, 1836, first edition, two volumes, frontis to each, map and plate, original green cloth (spine labels worn, label scars to upper boards)

Lot 330

Bewick (Jos) Geological Treatise on the District of Cleveland, in North Yorkshire, its Ferruginous Deposits, Lias, and Ooolites; with some Observations on Ironstone Mining, John Weale & Andrew Reid, 1861, large folding geological map, two folding coloured sections, two folding tables, quarter morocco

Lot 235

Pottinger (Henry, Lieut.) Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; Accompanied by a Geographical and Historical Account of those Countries, with a Map, Longman, Hurst ..., 1818, quarto, first edition, hand-coloured frontis, large folding map - hand-coloured in outline (two minor tears at folds), contemporary calf (re-backed, new endpapers)

Lot 230

Stein (Aurel) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China, Macmillan, 1933, first edition, partly unopened, colour frontis, folding colour map, 147 monochrome and colour plates including several folding panoramas as called for, top edge gilt, dust wrapper (priced 31/6)

Lot 236

Fraser (James B.) Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822, including some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia ..., Longman, Hurst ..., 1825, quarto, folding map, errata slip, modern calf

Lot 143

Shackleton (Ernest, Sir) South, The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917, Heinemann, 1919, second impression, colour frontis, monochrome plates as called for, folding map, original cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip; with four others (5)

Lot 284

Schoolcraft (Henry R.) Narrative Journal of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States Extending from Detroit through the Great Chain of American Lakes to the Sources of the Mississippi River ...., Albany; Hosford, 1821, folding hand-coloured map (some restoration), engraved title and seven other plates (two hand-coloured), bookplate recording donation to a corporation in 1904, ref. number to engraved title, contemporary calf gilt (rebacked retaining part of original backstrip, new endpapers), binders label of Wm. Seymour of Albany

Lot 127

Mikkelsen (Ejnar) Lost in the Arctic, Being the Story of the 'Alabama' Expedition, 1909-1912, Heinemann, 1913, folding map, plates as called for, original cloth, modern slipcase

Lot 337

Garbutt (George) A Historical and Descriptive View of the Parishes of Monkwearmouth & Bishopwearmouth and the Port and Borough of Sunderland, Sunderland: the Editor, 1819, additional engraved title, folding map, folding pedigree, three plates, half sheep; Summers (Jeremiah William), The History and Antiquities of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth ..., Sunderland: Tate, 1858, two volumes in one, viii, 536, 40 pages, frontis, folding map, supplementary Memoir of the Late Major General Sir Henry Havelock, 1858, 40 pages, with separate title, portrait frontis and plate [bound with] idem, The History of the Loyal Sunderland Volunteers ..., Sunderland: Coleman, 1860, 26 pages, hole in gutter margin of C3, ink annotation [bound with] Borough of Sunderland, ....Plans to Illustrate The Improvement Act of 1867, three folding coloured plans, modern half calf; Sharp (Cuthbert), A History of Hartlepool, Durham: Andrews et al, 1816, portrait frontis, plates as called for [Upcott 612*], errata, lacking list of plates but with additional verse and poem (Saint Hilda), contemporary calf gilt (spine worn); with ten others (13)

Lot 51

M'Clintock (Captain) The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin, John Murray, 1859, maps and plates as called for including folding map in rear pocket, original cloth, slipcase

Lot 136

Lewin (W. Henry) The Great North Pole Fraud, C.W. Daniel, 1935, folding map, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.)

Lot 21

Goodsir (Robert Anstruther) An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin, van Voorst, 1850, first edition, tinted litho frontis, folding map, ex-library with stamps to title and final page, original cloth (variant to previous lot), slipcase; with a 1996 limited edition reprint of the work (2)

Lot 69

von Wrangell (Ferdinand) Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, & 1823, James Madden, 1840, edited by Edward Sabine, large folding map at rear, top edge gilt, half morocco (re-backed retaining original backstrip) [note; the 1844 edition was issued with a portrait frontis, this edition does not appear to call for one]

Lot 318

Partington (C.F.) The Builder's Complete Guide ..., Sherwood, Gilbert .., 1825, five plates as called for, boards (re-backed); Cotes (J.), The Young Surveyor's Guide; or, A Treatise on Practical Land Surveying .., Crosby, 1808, second edition, original printed paper boards (re-backed retaining fragments of original back-strip); Ormerod (W.P.), On the Sanatory Condition of Oxford, Oxford: Ashmolean Soc., 1848, unopened, folding map, original printed wraps; Fire Prevention, Resolutions of the Associated Architects; with the Report of a Committee ... to Consider the Causes of the Frequent Fires, and the Best Means of Preventing the Like in Future, n.d. [1793], 'to be adopted in all new houses built on the Duke of Bedford's Estates', unopened, wraps; City of Manchester, Housing of the Working Classes ..., Manchester: Sanitory Committee, 1904, 36 plans, elevations and photographs, cloth-backed printed papers boards (worn); Report From the Select Committee on Buildings Regulation and Improvement of Boroughs .., House of Commons, 1842, folio, seven plates, ex-library, library cloth; Humber (William), A Comprehensive Treatise on the Water Supply of Cities and Towns ..., Crosby Lockwood, 1876, large quarto, fifty double-page plates, half morocco (worn, joint partially cracked) (7)

Lot 49

Back (Captain) Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, undertaken with a view to Geographical Discovery on the Arctic Shores in the years 1836-7, John Murray, 1838, twelve plates and folding map, modern half calf, slipcase

Lot 193

Mill (Hugh R.) The Siege of the South Pole, The Story of Antarctic Exploration, Alston Rivers, 1905, plates as called for, large folding colour map, original cloth gilt; Buache (M. [Philippe]), Geographical and Physical Observations, including a Theory of the Antarctic Regions, and the Frozen Sea …, extracted from the Gentleman's Magazine, 1763, pages 32-36, with folding chart '… the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries adjoining according to the New Hypothesis of M. Buache. From the Memoirs of the Royal Academy at Paris', modern quarter cloth binding (2)

Lot 244

Lyon (G.F.) A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19 and 20; accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan, and of the Course of the Niger ..., John Murray, 1821, first edition, quarto, folding frontis map, seventeen hand-coloured plates, modern half calf

Lot 53

M'Clintock (Captain) The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas. A Narrative of the Discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin, John Murray, 1859, maps and plates as called for including folding map in rear pocket, original cloth (re-cased, original endpapers with taped hinges), basic slipcase

Lot 264

Cheesman (R.E., Maj.) In Unknown Arabia, Macmillan, 1926, first edition, plates as called for, folding map, institution bookplate, top edge gilt, original cloth (endpapers split at hinges, blank 'plate' on rear pastedown); Seabrook (W.B.), Adventures in Arabia .., Harrap, 1928, first edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 12/6); Seabrook (William B.), Jungle Ways, Harcourt Brace, [1931], numbered first edition limited to 315 copies, signed by the author with eight extra illustrations, cloth; with sixteen others (19)

Lot 142

Shackleton (Ernest, Sir) South, The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917, Heinemann, 1919, first edition, colour frontis, monochrome plates as called for, folding map (margin torn without loss), original cloth, modern slipcase

Lot 333

Hutchinson (William) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Hodgson and Robinsons, 1785-94, first edition, three volumes, quarto, three engraved titles with vignettes, fifty-three plates called for by Upcott together with at least two more, diced calf (worn, re-backed retaining original back-strips); Mackenzie (E.) & Ross (M.), An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham ..., Newcastle: Mackenzie and Dent, 1834, two volumes, quarto, folding frontis map and nineteen engraved plates as called for, half calf; Fordyce (William), The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham ..., Newcastle: T. Fordyce, n.d. [1855], first edition, two volumes, quarto, thirty five plates (possibly from various sources), may lack a map (later editions had one), modern half morocco; idem, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham ..., four volumes, quarto, thirty-one plates, engraved map, lacking title pages and preliminaries, original red cloth gilt (re-backed retaining original back-strips) (11)

Lot 338

Measom (George) The Official Illustrated Guide to the Great Northern Railway ..., W.H. Smith, n.d. [1857], frontis, two folding maps (one with loss), adverts, all edges gilt, original cloth gilt; Whellan (Francis), History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham ..., 1856, Whittaker, without map as usual, original half calf; with eight others (10)

Lot 54

Hall (Charles Francis, Capt.) Life with the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall, of the Whaling Barque 'George Henry' ..., Sampson Low .., 1864, two volumes, frontis, folding map and text illustrations, half calf gilt

Lot 50

Lyon (G.F., Captain) The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla, during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, John Murray, 1824, seven plates and folding map, half leather, modern slipcase

Lot 269

Bell (Gertrude Lowthian) The Arab in Mesopotamia [and] Asiatic Turkey, Basrah; The Superintendent, n.d. [c1917], map frontis, two title pages but continuous pagination, original cloth (replacement endpapers); Bell (Gertrude), The Letters of Gertrude Bell, edited by Lady Bell, Ernest Benn, 1927, first edition, two volumes, plates as called for, folding map, modern half morocco; idem, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, Heinemann, 1928, dust wrapper (priced 5s.); idem, Persian Pictures, Ernest Benn, 1928, first edition thus, original cloth; with six others (11)

Lot 32

Snow (W. Parker) Voyage of The Prince Albert In Search of Sir John Franklin, Longman, Brown ... , 1851, first edition, four coloured plates, folding map, original cloth with gilt vignette (crudely re-cased), preserved in modern slipcase

Lot 99

Sverdrup (Otto) New Land, Four Years in the Arctic Regions, Longmans, Green, 1904, two volumes, full page plates as called for, folding geological map, four maps on two folding sheets in rear pocket, original cloth; Jackson (Frederick George), The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra), Narrative of a Winter Journey, Across the Tundras and a Sojourn Among the Samoyads, Macmillan, 1895, frontis, three folding maps, original cloth; Keely (Robert N.) & Davis (G.G.), In Arctic Seas, The Voyage of the 'Kite', with the Peary Expedition, together with a Transcript of the Log of the Kite, Hartranft, 1892, folding map, plates as called for, original cloth (4)

Lot 255

Woolley (C. Leonard) & Lawrence (T.E) Palestine Exploration Fund Annual 1914-1915, The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report), [1915], first edition (second issue), quarto, thirty-seven plates, two maps, original quarter cloth over printed boards, glassine dust wrapper; Hall (L.J., Lieut.Col) & Hughes (R.H.W., Brig.Gen), The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, Constable, 1921, first edition, folding map frontis, plates as called for, four folding tables/charts, folding plan, original cloth; The Palestine News, A Brief Record of The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under ...Allenby, Cairo, 1919, first edition, quarto, portrait frontis, fifty-six plates (maps), original cloth (3)

Lot 202

Wright (C.S.) British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, Physiography of the Beardmore Glacier Region, Harrison, 1923, quarto, plates as called for, folding map in rear pocket, original printed card wraps; Lyons (H.G.), British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913, Miscellaneous Data, Harrison, 1924, quarto, folding plan in rear pocket, original printed wraps [two copies] (3)

Lot 232

Hedin (Sven) Through Asia, Methuen, 1898, first British edition, two volumes, frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, text illustrations, two folding chromolitho maps, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt; idem, Central Asia and Tibet, Towards the Holy City of Lassa, Hurst and Blackett, 1903, first British edition, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, colour and monochrome plates as called for, text illustrations, four chromolitho maps and one litho map (on four folding sheets), top edge gilt, original cloth gilt; with three others (7)

Lot 46

Barrow (John) A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West, or Polar Passage ..., John Murray, 1818, folding frontis map, three woodcuts, half calf

Lot 340

Phillips (John) Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire; or a Description of the Strata and Organic Remains of the Yorkshire Coast ..., York: the Author, 1829, quarto, hand-coloured geological map, nine strata plates (eight with hand-colouring), fifteen fossil plates (numbered I-14, with additional variant plate I), modern half morocco

Lot 61

Back (Captain) 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, John Murray, 1836, sixteen plates and folding map, original cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip, new endpapers), basic slipcase

Lot 68

'An Officer of the Expedition' Letters Written During the late Voyage of Discovery, Richard Phillips, 1821, frontis map, three plates, half calf (re-backed)

Lot 65

Hooper (W.H., Lieut.) Ten Months Among The Tents of the Tuski, with Incidents of an Arctic Boat Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin ..., John Murray, 1853, plates as called for (including four tinted lithos.), folding map, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase [provenance - Franklin Brooke-Hitching #644]

Lot 47

Ellis (Henry) A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the Years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North-West Passage ..., Whitridge, 1748, folding frontis map, nine plates (five folding), calf (re-backed retaining original faded backstrip)

Lot 226

Ward (F. Kingdon) The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges, Edward Arnold, 1926, first edition, twenty-one plates and folding map as called for, original cloth

Lot 253

Sackville-West (V.) Passenger to Teheran, Hogarth Press, 1926, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth; idem, Twelve Days, An Account of a Journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia, Hogarth Press, 1928, first edition, plates as called for, original cloth [two copies, with variant cloth]; Sykes (Ella C.), Through Persia on a Side Saddle, John Macqueen, 1901, folding frontis map, eight plates, original pictorial cloth; Villiers (Alan), Sons of Sindbad .., Hodder & Stoughton, 1940, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 20/-); with three others (8)

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