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TrAvEl, ExPlOrATiON AND CArTOGrAPHY
Lots 178–227
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178 (ATLAS) ANONYMOUS Novo Atlas para uso da Mocidade Portugueza... Lisbon: Typografia Rollandiana, 1782.
12mo, full calf. Complete with 24 engraved folding plates [22 maps; 2 instruments]. Rare Portuguese edition of Nouvelle Atlas des Enfans, originally published in 1774. A few stains to leaves and endpapers; minor wear to boards. $100-200
179 (ATLAS) BUTLER, SAMUEL An Atlas of Antient Geography. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834.
8vo, 3/4 leatherette over marbled boards, printed pastedown label to upper board. With 20 handcolored engraved maps and one black and white plan. Hinges cracked; rubbing to boards; manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. $100-200 180 (ATLAS, FRONTISPIECES) A group of four title pages from seventeenth-century atlases, hand-colored engravings heightened in gold, framed and matted, from the following works:
(1) Title page from vol. II, Toonneel der steden [Town Book of the Netherlands, by Blaeu, Amsterdam, circa 1650, armorial border with ten armorial crests, interior blank. (2) Title page from L’Atlas, by Hondius, Paris, 1613, architectural border with personifications of the four continents, Atlas, Peruana and Magalanica. (3) Title page from Le Flambeau de la navigation, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1620, text portion laid down over engraved title page flanked by two figures and a city view of Amsterdam. (4) Title page from Mercurio geografico overo guida geografica in tutte le parti del mondo, by Domenico de Rossi, Rome, circa 1692-1723, allegorical scene featuring mythological figures against a naturalistic background. Size of largest 18 1/2 x 12 inches. $800-1,200
181 (ATLAS, FRONTISPIECES) A group of four title pages from eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury atlases, including title pages from Atlas National, by V. Levasseur (Paris, 1854), A General Atlas, by N.R. Hewitt (Edinburgh, London, Dublin, n.d.), Atlas Historique, Tome IV, by Henri Abraham Chatelain (Amsterdam, 1719), and Atlas Nouveau, Tome I, by Wandelaar (Amsterdam, c. 1761). Size of largest 14 x 18 inches. $200-400
182* (PHOTOGRAPHY, ALASKA) WILSON, VEAZIE A collection of 139 3 x 5 inch sepia-toned photographs of Alaska, circa 1895, captured by the famous Yukon photographer, Veazie Wilson, with the photographer’s name signed in the plate. In February 1894, Wilson travelled to the Yukon River to prepare a guide to the Alaska mines and returned with 200 photographs, used to illustrate his guide for Yukon miners. Tipped to thick cardboard pages, bound in folio, 3/4 morocco over boards, a.e.g. Property from the Private Library of Dr. Simon G. Stein II, Muscatine, Iowa $100-200
183* (ASIAN) HIROSHIGE ANDO [Tokaido gojusantsugi gacho] Title page: 55 Views of Tokaido. [Yokohama: Fukuda Hobun-do, n.d.]
Oblong 16mo, decorative cloth boards, accordion style booklet housed in small decorative box with pastedown illustrated label. With 55 tipped in small color reproductions of Hiroshige’s views of Tokaido. Rear board detached; some bubbling to label. Property from the Collection of David H. Gee, Chicago, Illinois $300-500
184 (ASIAN) A collection of The Arts of Asia, comprised of 30 volumes together with seven editions of Orientations. $200-400 184A* (ASIAN) Narrative of The Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, By Order of the Government of the United States. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, 1856. Vol. 2 only.
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4to, publisher’s blind-stamped grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 58 plates and maps (14 fold-out). Wear and fading to boards; chipping to spine ends; intermittent foxing; scattered brownspotting; offsetting from some plates; tears to fold-out maps.
[Together with:] Russian Expansion on the Pacific, 1641-1850. By F.A. Golder. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1914. 8vo, cloth, title in gilt to spine, t.e.g. With numerous black and white plates. Soiling to boards; rubbing to hinges; ends bumped. Property from the Collection of Mitchell Vincent, Fairfield, Iowa $100-200
185 (AUSTRALIA) TROLLOPE, ANTHONY Australia and New Zealand. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873.
2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt to spines. With eight color maps (seven of which are fold-out). Ex-library with card holders to front pastedowns; wear to boards with spine ends chipped; tears to some maps. $200-400
186 (EGYPT) EBERS, G. AND BELL, CLARA, trans. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. New York: Cassell, n.d. [c. 1878-79]
2 vols. Folio, publisher’s gilt-pictorial brown morocco, a.e.g. Boards rubbed; spine ends and corners bumped; hinges starting; ex-library copy with bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; scattered foxing; 4-inch tear to title page vol. 1. $100-200
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187* BYRD, RICHARD Discovery. New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 1935.
8vo, blue cloth lettered in gilt, map endpapers. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs throughout. Inscribed by Byrd on the half-title, dated Oct. 22, 1947. Rubbing to boards at edges; fading to spine; hinges tender; manuscript notation to front pastedown; ephemera pasted into five pages at rear.
[Together with:] Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic: The Flight to the South Pole. New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.
8vo, blue cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and two fold-out maps. Inscribed by Byrd on the half-title, dated Oct. 27, 1947. Ends bumped; manuscript notations to front pastedown; ephemera pasted into two pages at rear. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400
188* BYRD, RICHARD Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic: The Flight to the South Pole. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.
8vo, 3/4 white over blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and two fold-out maps. Number 290 of 1,000 Author’s Autograph Edition copies. Signed by G.P. Putnam’s Sons and Byrd on the limitation page, inscribed by Byrd on the frontispiece, dated Jan 1, 1931, and on a card tipped to the front pastedown, dated June 15, 1940. Light soiling to boards; previous owner’s manuscript notations to front pastedown; ephemera laid into rear. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $200-400
189* BYRD, RICHARD Original black and white photograph of an iceberg, signed (“Richard Byrd”) in black ink. Framed. 7 x 9 inches. Property from the Collection of Nancy B. and Peter G. Kohler, Kohler, Wisconsin $100-200
190 (GEOGRAPHY) A group of four geographical maps. Size of largest 24 x 33 1/4 inches. $100-200
191 (GEOGRAPHY) PEACOCK, WILLIAM A Compendious Geographical Dictionary. London: Printed for W. Peacock, 1795.
12mo, contemporary full tree calf. Second edition. Complete with six folding engraved maps and one folding table. Spine label starting to detach; front hinge starting; corners bumped; loss to spine ends. $150-250
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193 (GLOBE) BETTS’S PATENT PORTABLE GLOBE By the Queen’s Royal Setters Patent. Betts’s New Portable Terrestrial Globe. London: John Betts, n.d. [c. 1850]
A very early edition of Betts’ collapsible 15-inch “umbrella” type globe, with the geography, political boundaries and named cities differing from the more common later edition published by George Philip & Sons; Chicago, for example, is not identified in the present edition. Lithographic printing on silk with expandable metal frame, contained in publisher’s wooden box with printed advertisements inside and “Betts’s Patent Portable Globe” on three exterior sides. $2,000-4,000
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194 (HAWAII) A group of three maps of Hawaii and the Pacific region.
Kauai. Government Survey. 1878. Washington: The Morris Peters Co., n.d. The Pacific Ocean, including Oceana. Thomas Cowperthwait, 1850, with inset of Hawaii and the Sandwich Islands. A Map of the Discoveries made by Capt. Cook & Clerke in the Years 1778 & 1779... Z. Jackson, for Paynes new System of Geography. n.d., nineteenth-century, hand-colored in outline. Size of largest 24 x 31 inches. $300-500
195 (HAWAII. COOK, JAMES) A group of 17 engraved plates of Hawaii and Hawaiians from Cook’s Voyages, largely ethnographic portraits and vignettes, including the Death of Captain Cook and Masked Rowers engravings. Size of largest 15 x 9 1/2 inches. $100-200 196 (HAWAII. COOK, JAMES) A group of six engraved plates of Hawaii and Hawaiians from Cook’s Voyages, comprising Habitations and People of the Island of Atooi; Tereoboo, King og Owyhee, bringing Presents to Capt. Cook; An Inland View in Atooi, One of the Sandwich Islands; An Accurate Representation of A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, the Rowers being Masked; View of Morai, or Burial Place, of Atooi, one of the Sandwich Islands; A Flatooka, or Morai, in Tongataboo. Size of largest 17 1/2 x 11 inches. $200-400
197 (HAWAII. COOK, JAMES) A group of six engraved plates of Hawaii and Hawaiians from Cook’s Voyages, comprising View of Karakakooa Bay in Owhyhee Where Capt. Cook was Killed, (with what is likely the first representation of an individual using a long board), Tereoboo, King o Owyhee, bringing Presents to Capt. Cook, Kerkhof van Atooi, Dood van J. Cook, Vue de Huaheine, Binnengezigt van het Eiland Atooi (hand-colored). Size of largest 20 1/2 x 11 inches. $200-400 198* LA MOTTRAYE, (AUBRY DE) Travels through Europe, Asia and into part of Africa. London: Round, 1730.
Vol. 1 (of 2) only. Folio, contemporary calf, spine tooled in gilt. With 19 (of 47) plates. Boards detached with some wear; scattered brownspotting and darkening to some leaves; first 2 leaves creased; scattered brownspotting. Property from the Collection of David H. Gee, Chicago, Illinois $100-200
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199* (MAP) BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS Carte Reduite Des Isles Antilles, [Paris, c. 1758]. Hand-colored engraved map. Framed. 35 x 23 inches. Property from the Estate of Vincent Rodriguez, Miami, Florida $300-500
200 (MAP) BLAEU, (WILLEM) Asia noviter delineata, [Amsterdam, c. 1662]. Hand-colored engraved map of Asia, featuring ships and sea monsters, and bordered by panels of city views and national costume figures. French text to verso. Center crease reinforced on verso; a couple of vertical creases; some light soiling. 18 1/2 x 22 inches. $3,000-5,000
201 (MAP) BONNE, RIGOBERT Amerique Septentrionale, [Paris, c. 1787]. Hand-colored engraved map of Northern and Central America. Framed and matted. 11 x 16 inches. $200-400
202 (MAP) LE ROGUE Theatre de la Guerre en Amerique, Paris: le Rouge, 1777. Engraved map hand-colored in outline, no. 61 and manuscript title (verso). A fine Revolutionary War period map, featuring an engraved vignette of Niagra Falls, insets of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River Valley. Crease to center with some reinforcement; watermarked. Framed. 29 x 25 2/3 inches. $1,000-2,000 203 (MAP) MARTINELLI, AGOSTONO Veduta dei Piani di Magliano e dei Piani di Gallese, [Rome, c. 1672]. Engraved map. Five vertical folds; 2-inch tear at center; four small wormholes; light foxing. 14 3/4 x 22 inches. $100-200
204* (MAP) VISSCHER, NICOLAUS A group of two hand-colored engraved maps, [Amsterdam, c. 1678].
Magnae Britanniae Tabula, with engraved cartouche featuring Hercules slaying Cerberus to the right and an armorial to the left; Comitatus Zelandiae novissima delineatio, with engraved cartouche of Triton. Both framed and matted. 19 x 22 inches each. Property from the Estate of Charles P. Wood, Chicago, Illinois $200-400
205* (MAP) VISSCHER, NICOLAUS Tabula nova Provinciae Ultrajectinae, [Amsterdam, c. 1690]. Hand-colored engraved map showing the areas between Amsterdam, Gouda, Arnheim and Zutphen, including Utrecht and Amersfoot, with many towns and natural landmarks, large engraved cartouche with coat of arms. Framed and matted. 19 x 34 inches. Property from the Estate of Charles P. Wood, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 206 (MAP, ASIA AND PACIFIC) A group of five maps of Asia and the Pacific including Japan, Australia, and Saudi Arabia. Size of largest 15 x 19 inches. $100-200
207 (MAP, FRANCE) A group of four maps of France and French regions. Size of largest 13 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches. $100-200
208 (MAP, ITALY) A group of nine maps of Italy. Size of largest 13 1/2 x 17 inches. $100-200
209 (INDIA) THE JOURNAL OF INDIAN ART AND INDUSTRY Volume 1, nos. 1-16. London: W. Griggs; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1886.
Folio, 3/4 morocco over cloth boards, a.e.g. Original wrappers have been removed. With 168 prints, including numerous chromolithographs. Some rubbing to boards; hinges tender; some light scattered soiling. $300-500
210 (INDIAN MINIATURES) A pair of Indian miniatures in the Mughal style, gouache, depicting a princess and her attendants in one and a group of men in another. Framed and matted. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches each. $1,000-2,000
211 (INDIAN MINIATURES) An Indian miniature in the Mughal style, gouache, depicting a man holding a falcon. Framed and matted. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. $600-800
211A (INDIAN MINIATURE) An Indian miniature on paper, featuring an erotic Mughal-style tableau in a landscape, framed by numerous couples and various animals in erotic positions, manuscript to verso. 9 1/4 x 13 3/8 inches. $150-250 212 (MIDDLE EAST) COMMISSION IMPERIALE ARCHEOLOGIQUE Les Mosquees de Samarcande. Facsicule I: Gour-Emir. St. Petersbourgh: Expedition pour la Confection des Papiers d’Etat, 1905.
Disbound, comprising title page and 11 (of 18 plates) color plates. Center fold to each plate reinforced; some small tears around the edges. 31 x 21 inches each. $600-800
213 (MIDDLE EAST) QUR’AN An illuminated leaf from a Qur’an, nineteenthcentury, illuminated in gold, blue and red. Framed and matted in a double-sided window frame. 4 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches. $200-400 214 (MIDDLE EAST) QUR’AN A group of three illuminated leaves from a Qur’an, nineteenth-century, matted, with gilt inset in border of each leaf. 9 1/2 x 6 inches each. $200-400
215 (MIDDLE EAST) QUR’AN A collection 20 leaves from a Qur’an, nineteenthcentury, illuminated in gold, blue, red, green and shades of pink. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches each. $200-400
216 (MIDDLE EAST) QUR’AN An illuminated leaf from a Qur’an, nineteenth-century, text interlineated in black and red, bordered in gilt, blue and green. 9 1/2 x 6 inches. $40-60
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217 (MIDDLE EAST) A group of three leaves from a Persian work of Natural History, with depictions of exotic birds, animals and flowers, and ornate naturalistic borders. Gouache on paper. 14 x 9 inches each. $200-400
217A (MIDDLE EAST) A group of two leaves from a Persian work of Natural History, with depictions of exotic birds, animals and flowers, and ornate naturalistic borders. Gouache on paper. 14 x 9 inches each. $200-400
218 (SOUTH AMERICA) BREWER, HENRY AND ELIAS HERCKEMAN A Voyage to the Kingdom of Chili in America. Frankfort upon the Maine: s.n., 1649.
Folio, contents bound in later cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, 35 pages, numbered from 505 to 539, with title page and four in-text copper engravings, three of which are maps. Extracted from A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First, by Churchill. Some rubbing to boards; browning to leaves. $200-400
219 (ANGLING) [CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW] “PAUL FISHER” The Angler’s Souvenir. London: Charles Tilt, 1835.
8vo, contemporary full morocco with elaborate gilt tooling, a.e.g. First edition. Complete with engraved title, frontispiece and 31 plates by H. Beckwith and Topham. Additionally, each page within wood-engraved pictorial border. Presentation inscription from G.P. Heathcote to R. F. Stratton to front pastedown. Some foxing; lacking some tissue guards. $200-400 220 (ANGLING) A collection of books pertaining to trout fishing, including Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis. By Howell Raines. New York: William Morrow, (1993). The Way of the Trout. By M.R. Montgomery. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. The Longest Silence. A Life in Fishing. By Thomas McGuane. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Flywater. By Grant McClintock and Mike Crockett. New York: Lyons and Burford, (1994). America’s Wild and Scenic Rivers. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, (1983). Winslow Homer. Artist and Angler. By Patricia Junker. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, (2003). With 10 others. (16 total) $200-400
221 (ANGLING) A collection of 35 guide books pertaining to trout fishing, including America’s 100 Best Trout Streams. By John Ross. Guilford, CT: Lyons, (2005). Hook, Line, and Sinker. The Complete Angler’s Guide to Terminal Tackle. By Gary Soucie. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1982). Fly-Fishing Handbook. By Dave Whitlock. New York: Lyons & Burford, (1984). Wisconsin Trout Streams. Madison, WI: Dept. of Natural Resources, n.d. The Complete Fly Fishing Guide for the Roaring Fork Valley. By Michael D. Shook. Carbondale, CO: Shook, (1995). Nymphing. A Basic Book. By Gary A. Borger. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, (1979). The Classic Guide to Fly-Fishing for Trout. By Charles Jardine. New York: Random House, (1991). With 28 others. (35 total) $200-400
222 (ANGLING) BERGMAN, RAY Trout. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.
8vo, publisher’s cloth, dust jacket unclipped, pictorial endpapers. Sixth printing. Signed on the frontispiece photograph. Previous owner has traced the pencilled autograph with pen; dust jacket with some tape marks. $100-200
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223 (ANGLING) JENNINGS, PRESTON J. A Book of Trout Flies. New York: The Derrydale Press, (1935).
8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped green cloth, slipcase, t.e.g. Limited edition, one of 850 numbered copies. Soiling to slipcase with edges rubbed; otherwise fine. $200-400
224 (ANGLING) MARBURY, MARY ORVIS Favorite Flies and Their History. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth. First edition. Inner hinge starting; wear to spine ends and corners. [Together with:] A History of Fly Fishing for Trout. By John Waller Hills. London: Philip Allan, 1921. Field Book of Fresh-Water Angling. By John Alden Knight. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1944. Third impression. The Complete Fly Fisherman: The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon. Edited by John McDonald. New York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947. (4 total) $200-400 225 (ANGLING. FORE EDGE PAINTING) WALTON, IZAAK The Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing. London: Nattali and Bond, 1860.
2 vols. 8vo, in signed Bickers binding of full green morocco, decorated and lettered in gilt, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Each with fine fore edge paintings of angling scenes. Very light rubbing to boards; some foxing and light offsetting from plates. [Together with:] An English mahogany fore edge display press. $1,500-2,500
226 (SPORTING) EVANS, GEORGE BIRD Recollections of a Shooting Guest. Clinton, NJ: Amwell, n.d. [1978]
8vo, publisher’s green mottled buckram, slipcase. Limited edition. Signed by members of the National Sporting Fraternity, including Evans, Gordon Allen and Jim Rickhoff. $100-200 227 (YACHTING) POOLE, BURNELL Yacht Etchings. S.l., n.d.
Oblong folio, full black morocco lettered in gilt with title and name of previous owner. A bound collection of etchings by Burnell Poole, assembled for C. Hayward, bound by James Macdonald, with additional free mounts at the end for additional prints. A printed index counts 15 plates dated between May 1929-July 1930, edition 28/35, from the Original Series; four plates signed and titled, unnumbered, from Proof Series; and three plates dated August 1932-February 1933, largely signed and dated, from the 1930 America’s Cup Series. 22 etchings total. Size of each image 8 x 12 inches. $200-400