Travel & Exploration Lots 225-245 225 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ANSON, George (1697-1762). A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748. 4to (255 x 198 mm). 42 engraved folding plates and maps. (Lacking leaf (b)2, 2pp. of list of subscribers torn across with old repairs, a few other leaves with tears to folds occasionally repaired, some minor staining, “Directions to Binder” leaf remargined.) Contemporary marbled calf gilt, edges stained yellow (rebacked to style, endpapers renewed). FIRST EDITION of the official account of one of the landmark 18th-century circumnavigations, rare issue with the plates bound separately at a contemporary date. “This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” (Hill). Bibliographies call for 42 maps and plates, but this copy has 43 including the general route map in the text volumes. Both the National Maritime Museum copy and the Hill copy have 17 preliminary pages, whereas this copy has 33 pages to include the List of Subscribers. Borba de Moraes, p. 38; Cox Vol. I, p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill, pp. 317-18; Sabin 1625. $3,000-4,000
*226 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ANSON, George (1697-1762). -- WALTER, Richard, editor. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1749. 4to. (245 x 200 mm). 42 engraved folding plates and maps. (Light spotting and toning to a few leaves.) Modern leather gilt. Provenance: E. Donnelly, M.D. (bookplate); W. S. Kerruish (bookplate); The Gilded Leaf 2008 (bookseller’s label) Fifth edition of Anson’s circumnavigation of the world “with the same date and collation as the second” (Sabin 1626). ESTC T74545; Cox Vol. I, p. 49; Hill 1820. Property from the Collection of Clarke Otten, Atlanta, Georgia $500-700
227 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ARMITAGE, Albert Borlase (1864-1943). Two Years in the Antarctic: Being a Narrative of the British National Antarctic Expedition. London: Edward Arnold, 1905. 8vo. With folding map, 16 photographic plates, and text illustrations. (Folding map with a few short tears repaired verso, spotting to a few leaves, Original publisher’s green pictorial cloth (spine soiled; slight dampstaining to front cover). Provenance: J. H. Donaldson (bookplate); Steve Fossett (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Armitage sailed as navigator and Second in Command under Scott on the Discovery Expedition of 1901-04 to Antarctica. His account, which exposes some of the lighter and more anecdotal sides of the expedition, often comments on the men’s characters. One of the few first-hand accounts of Scott’s Discovery expedition to have been separately published. Conrad, p 110; Renard 50; Rosove 17.A1.c; Spence 67; Taurus 43. $300-400
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