Catalogue 22: Travel & Exploration by Meridian Rare Books

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Travel & Exploration Catalogue 22

Welcome to the new catalogue, which contains one hundred and fifty items relating to worldwide exploration and general travel. The books, photographs, and ephemera represent only a small portion of our stock, and if you would like to receive details of other material in your areas of interest, please enquire (contact details are inside the front cover of the catalogue). Stuart Leggatt

table of contents Africa Americas Asia Central Asia Europe Middle East Mountaineering Pacific Polar

Items 1-20 Items 21-31 Items 32-50 Items 51-59 Items 60-74 Items 75-85 Items 86-109 Items 110-120 Items 121-150

africa 1. [Broadside.] For One Night Only Mr. Hoyle … has pleasure in announcing that he will give his Historical and Geographical Lecture… Entitled The War in Egypt and the Sudan illustrated by Steward’s Photogenic Lantern. A. Whitham, printer, New Street, Barnsley, n.d. c. 1890s. £95 A large broadside, approx. 16 x 76cm., printed to one side only, some browning and age-toning, but still in good condition. This fragile ephemeral item advertises the lecture by Eli Hoyle, identified on the broadside itself as the author of the “Popular History of Barnsley”. The date of the lecture has not been completed, and it is not clear whether it ever took place. The lecturer proposed to illustrate the history of the British military intervention in Egypt and the Sudan, from the bombardment of Alexandria and the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, to the death of Gordon at Khartoum. The broadside lists many of the scenes to be used for the lecture, which was to be given in three parts: a first devoted to Egypt, a second with images of unrelated statuary, and a third illustrating a tour on the Rhine. According to the information given, the programme was scheduled to last 2 hours.

2. [Doyle, Charles William.] A Non-Military Journal, or Observations made in Egypt, by an Officer upon the Staff of the British Army, describing the Country, its Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs, with Anecdotes, Illustrative of them. London: Printed for T. Cadell [etc.], 1803. £750 First edition. Small 4to. pp. [i, explanation to frontis.], 8, 8, [ix]-xv (Contents [misbound]), 9-150; extending aquatint frontis. view, three aquatint plates; some heavy foxing, Contents leaves misbound, good in contemporary half roan, gilt, worn on spine.

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Kalfatovic 0214. Doyle (1770-1842) served as an army officer during the Napoleonic wars. Attached to Lord Cavan’s brigade in the Mediterranean, he took part in the battles of Aboukir, Mandara, and Alexandria, at which he was severely wounded. Doyle considered writing a history of the Egyptian campaign, but, learning that another high-ranking officer had already undertaken this project, he instead published the present work, “having left out everything military” (Preface). The large frontispiece shows a view of the Bay of Aboukir at which the British forces landed.

3. [Du Chaillu, Paul B.; David Livingstone.] A printed lecture ticket for “Africa Under The Equator” by Paul B. Du Chaillu, with a reading of a “Letter from the Rev. David Livingstone, D. D., Zambesi River, South Africa”, at the American Geographical & Statistical Society, Clinton Hall, Astor Place. N. p. [?N.Y.], n.d. [1860]. £125 A lecture ticket, approx. 115 x 72mm., printed to one side only, in very good condition. In 1857, the American Geographical and Statistical Society elected David Livingstone a member. In February 1859 he wrote to the Society, sending them an account of his progress on the Zambesi River expedition. This letter was read out at a meeting of the Society on 5th January, 1860. The reading was followed by a lecture from Paul du Chaillu, who spoke about his own explorations in Africa and, in particular, his confirmation of the existence of the gorilla. A full transcript of Livingstone’s letter, and a notice of du Chaillu’s lecture, appeared in the New York Times for the 6th January.

4 4. [Equipment.] Joseph Tucker, Indian, Colonial and General Outfitter. The most up-to-date and approved equipment for Prospectors, Miners, Explorers, Travellers, and Residents Abroad... Press Notices and Extracts of Letters. George Plucker & Sons, London and Wealdstone, n.d. c. 1903. £125 ?First edition. Oblong foolscap. pp. 14; 3 full-page illusts. from photos., sketches of equipment to text; a little creased in the original pink printed wrappers, string tied as issued with, loosely inserted, an “Admit Bearer” flyer for the event at the Royal College of Surgeons. This is an advertising brochure for the stockist Joseph Tucker, supplier of clothing, beds, mosquito netting, and similar equipment for overseas missionaries and travellers. The text largely comprises plaudits from

various sources - missionary societies, Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society, and elsewhere - for these products, with an emphasis on the “Unique Canopy, perfect protection from Malarial Mosquitos, Sand Flies, and Chiggers”. The three large photographic illustrations show the Joseph Tucker exhibits at the Livingstone Exhibitions of 1900 and 1901, and for the 1903 exhibition at the College of Surgeon’s Hall, Victoria Embankment, London. The business was based in Newington Green Road, and appeared on a list of suppliers in Charles Harford’s Hints on Outfit for Travellers in Tropical Countries, published by the RGS in 1911.

5. [Explorer signatures.] A single leaf from a visitors’ book, bearing the signatures of Henry M. Stanley, Fridtjof Nansen, Sven Hedin, and R. E. Byrd. N.p., 1886-1926. £750 A plain sheet, approx. 8 x 7”, some time extracted from a bound volume and paginated in red at upper outer corners, signed clearly in black ink by all four explorers at different dates, minor soiling and with slight smudge to Nansen’s signature, unrelated signature to verso, otherwise in very good condition.

This extraordinary sheet contains the names of some of the foremost figures in exploration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry Morton Stanley, famed for finding David Livingtone in Africa, subsequently crossed the continent. Fridtjof Nansen attained the highest north latitude aboard his purpose built ship Fram. Sven Hedin is known for his explorations of Central Asia in a series of expeditions that brought him renown - he was the last Swede to be ennobled. Richard E. Byrd undertook Polar expeditions north and south, reaching the Poles by plane. The signatures are dated “New York Dec 2d 1886”, “New York Jan 24 98”, “April 23d 1923” and “New York June 26, 1926” respectively.

6. [Gordon, Charles George, Gordon of Khartoum.] ‘General C. G. Gordon, C.B., R.E.’ N.p., n.d. c. 1880s. £1,950 A large wooden steam-pressed portrait of Gordon, approx. 30 x 42 cm., contained as issued within a heavily ornate dark wood frame with floral designs, overall size 50 x 65 cm.; small 5mm. chip at foot of portrait, rear wooden panel encasing portrait split, else in very good condition. A full-length portrait, in wood, of Gordon in uniform, standing beside ruined walls against a background of trees and shrubs. This splendid, albeit typically Victorian, commemorative piece catered to the demand for images of the General following his death at Khartoum in 1885. Unlike many smaller pieces, this striking and large portrait would have been destined for wealthier enthusiasts, and relatively few may exist.

7. Hassanein, Ahmed. The Lost Oases. London: Thomas Butterworth, [1925]. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. 316; photo. illusts., one folding map; occasional foxing or browning, bookplates of Captain Peters and Robert Bower, else good in the original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed and marked with, loosely inserted, a programme for the Anniversary Dinner of 26 May 1924 given by the RGS to Hassanein, 4pp., printed on thick card, with 7 miscellaneous signatures from some of those present at the dinner to p. 2, two newspaper obituaries of Hassanein, and a MS autograph poem entitled ‘Aspirations’ by Edwin Hatch. In 1921, Hassanein travelled with Rosita Forbes to the Oasis of Kufra. Two years later, Hassanein made a five-month camel expedition on the first known crossing of the Libyan Desert, during which he rediscovered the lost oases of Arkenu and Uweinat. His account of the undertaking appears in the present work. The loosely inserted programme records a dinner on the occasion of the presentation of the RGS Founder’s medal to Ahmed Hassanein Bey in recognition of his achievement.

8. Headland, Emily. Brief Sketches of C.M.S. Missions; designed to provide material for Missionary Addresses. London: James Nisbet, 1890-1. £95

First edition. Three parts in one. 8vo. pp. xii, 115, [15, blanks for notes], [iii], 158 & [iii], 201, [1, ads.], [32, blanks]; errata slip at front; 3 folding maps; minor spotting, else very good in original cloth, slightly darkened on spine. This copy with numerous marginal notes occasionally throughout. An account of mission work worldwide, with part 1 devoted to Africa and the Middle East, part 2 to India, and part 3 covering the rest of Asia, New Zealand, and the North-West American missions. The MS notes in this copy offer glosses, corrections and revisions of facts and figures relating to missionaries and statistics; they include a long biographical note about three bishops of Equatorial West Africa consecrated at St. Paul’s on the 29 June, 1893 (see first blank leaf at rear of part 1).

9 9. Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London: John Murray, 1857. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 687, 8 (ads., dated November 1, 1857); folding wood-eng. frontispiece, steel-engraved portrait of the author, numerous full page wood-engraved plates and illustrations to text, one folding geological section, two folding maps including one in pocket at rear; minor dustsoiling,discolouration to endpapers, else very good in the original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt, unevenly discoloured, expertly restored to head and tail of spine. Mendelssohn vol. III, p.136; Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 389. Livingstone’s classic account of his travels alerted Victorian England to the extent of the slave trade in Central and Eastern Africa.

10. Macdonald, Alex. Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum. The Testimony of an Independent Eye-Witness of the Heroic Efforts for their Rescue and Relief. London: John Murray, 1887. £475 First edition. 8vo. pp. 16, 359, 32 (pubs. cat.); 6 maps or plans inc. 2 folding; previous owner’s inscription and date to title-page, contemporary newspaper cuttings pasted to first 15pp. of pubs. cat., very good in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat discoloured to rear board.

11. [Map. Abyssinia.] Abyssinia with Upper Nubia (Eastern Sudan). Engraved, Printed and Published by W. R. & A. K. Johnston, Limited, Edinburgh & London, 1905. £150 A coloured map, approx. 23 x 18”, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth with Stanford paper label, Stanford inkstamp to lower right margin of map, slightly soiled, else very good. Taken from Keith Johnston’s General Atlas, this map of Abyssinia was bound in pocket form by the London map seller Edward Stanford.

12. [Map. Central Africa.] Central Africa. London: E. Stanford, n.d. c. 1908. £150 A large coloured map, scale 1 inch to 100 miles, approx. 28 x 22”, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth boards with paper label (“London Atlas Map of Central Africa”), previous owner’s name (“J. G. Wilson, Durham, 1909”) to outer margin of paper label, in very good condition. The map shows the Congo Free State, flanked by Angola and East Africa (divided into two regions, the German and English spheres of influemce); Namibia appears in the lower left as a German Protectorate, and to the upper left the south east area of the British Niger Protectorate is shown.

One of the more uncommon books relating to Gordon’s final days. The author was a war correspondent with the Nile Expedition under General Wolseley, and aimed to offer a “more complete account” than previously offered. The appendices reproduce letters by Gordon, and the previous owner of this book has added further ‘appendices’ in the form of contemporary newspaper cutting concerning “The Wolseley and Stephenson Plans”, the Battle of Abu Klea, Sir Charles Wilson’s report on the expedition, and a reproduction of the paper money issued by Gordon during the siege of Khartoum.

13. Myers, Arthur B. R. Life with the Hamran Arabs. An account of a Sporting Tour of Some Officers of the Guards in the Soudan during the Winter of 1874-5. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876. £1,500 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 355, [2, ads.]; 5 mounted photographs; minor spotting, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, a few minor marks, else a very nice copy. Kalfatovic 0691 (“NOT SEEN”); Czech p. 121, African Big Game Hunting: “A surgeon in the Coldstream Guards, Myers embarked on a sporting expedition to the lands of the Hamrans, renowned as elephant hunters. In the remote regions beyond the town of Kassala, his hunting party encountered lion and elephant with Myers trying to bag the latter by moonlight. Crossing the Setit River, they enjoyed considerable sport after rhino, buffalo, hippo, and numerous engagements with lions. They also bagged bushbuck, kudu, dik-dik, and other plains game. A difficult title to locate, this also features mounted plates from photographs by Rowland Ward.”

14. Newhouse, F. The Training of the Upper Nile. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1939. £125

First edition. 8vo. pp. 102, [2, ads.]; diags. to text, 5 folding maps or diagrams; very good in the original cloth, in remains of original dustwrapper (spine wanting). The author’s own copy, with his ownership inscription to front pastedown, a 1943 letter from the secretary of The Institution of Civil Engineers about sales of the book, a 1949 signed letter from Frank Debenham thanking Newhouse for a copy of the book and an accompanying note returning another book Newhouse had loaned him, and a review of the book from The Central for June 1939. “The author surveys and illustrates with maps the course of the river and its tributaries, reach by reach; examines its sources of supply, and describes what has been done and should be done to control its waters and increase their flow for irrigation and other purposes” (dust-wrapper). This copy includes a letter from Frank Debenham, at the Department of Geography, Cambridge: Debenham was a member of Scott’s last Antarctic expedition, and subsequently founded the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge; he became Professor of Geography at Cambridge in 1931, and wrote several works on African geography.

15. Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una. Equatorial Dawn. Travel Letters from North, East, and Central Africa. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 305; port. frontis., photo. illusts., one folding map; minor spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original cloth, in original dust-wrapper, which is chipped with loss to extremities, subsequent internal tape repairs. Czech African Big Game Hunting p. 136: “A well known writer of the era, Ratcliffe travelled with her husband to Kenya where he indulged in a little big-game hunting... Most of the dialogue is travelogue in nature, but of additional interest is a conversation in the African bush with Philip Percival and Ernest Hemingway concerning dangerous game”.

16. Robinson, A. C. Three diaries relating to Robinson’s service in South Africa and Egypt, 1881-2.

£750

Together three vols., 8vo., the first containing Robinson’s entries from South Africa on 85pp., the second two with 23 and 20 pp. respectively relating to his time in Egypt, mainly in pen but occasional pencil entries, two volumes in near-uniform cloth, gilt, the third bound in leather with brass catches, handwritten labels “To be returned to Colonel A. C. Robinson” pasted in at front of each. These diaries were written by an officer in the British Army tasked with supplying soldiers in South African and Egypt. The first diary records Robinson’s time at the end of the first Boer War, including his visit to Laing’s Nek, following the British defeat there in January 1881. In Egypt Robinson set up depots and sourced mules from Constantinople and Malta, and supplied food for the army then engaged in the Battle of Tel EL Kebir. On 13 September Robinson notes “Successful attack on Tel-El-Kebr this morning - Army routed - Hope it will be the final blow - Arabi escaped but his 2 Chief Generals taken wounded - 2000 Egyptians said to be slain & we 200 casualties”. 15th September: “En route to Zag-a-Zig passed position of the scene of Wednesday’s action - Ghastly enough - dead bodies of men & animals still about - Bedouins looking to their hearts content - Large quantities of Egyptian Command Supplies captured - & an immense stock of Arms & Ammunition”.

17. [Robinson, Charles Gepp, 1805-1875.] A group of eight Admiralty Commissions, appointing Charles Gepp Robinson in various capacities, dating from 1830 to 1849. £450 Together 8 commissions, printed on vellum, approx. 32 x 28 cm. or similar, Admiralty seal affixed to each, all completed by hand and addressed to Robinson, and signed variously by John Barrow, M. F. F. Berkeley (both on four commissions), W. Gordon, Lord John Hay, H. G. Ward (all twice), Henry Hotham, T. M. Hardy, S. J. Brooke Pechell, George Eliot, W. Cowper, J. W. Deans Dundas, W. A. B. Hamilton (all once), and others. Charles Gepp Robinson entered the Navy in 1819. From 1821 to 1826 he took part in the survey of the east coast of Africa under W. F. Owen, aboard the Leven (see Owen’s account, Narrative of Voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar, 1833). In 1827 he returned to Africa, aboard the Eden under Owen again, to form a settlement on the island of Fernando Po. Both of these expeditions suffered severe losses among the crew due to disease, which perhaps left its mark on Robinson - his remaining time in the navy saw appointments to surveys around the coast of Britain. The present commissions record Robinson’s appointments to the Caledonia (1831), San Josef (1831, 1833, 1848), Gleaner (1842), Shearwater (1843), Royal William (1846), and Impregnable (1849).

18 18. St. John, James Augustus. Isis: An Egyptian Pilgrimage. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853. £375 First edition. 8vo in 12. 2 vols. pp. [xvi], 318 & [xi], 312; very good in the original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt.

Ibrahim-Hilmy II.206; Kalfatovic 0316. St. John travelled extensively in Egypt and provided the text to one of the better-known plate volumes on the country, Prisse d’Avennes’ Oriental Album. St. John himself wrote several other books on Egypt, and of the present work Kalfatovic writes: “A fascinating, if strange account by St. John of Egypt. A sort of poetic meditation on his time in Egypt, Isis moves the furthest from the realistic description St. John provided in his first book [Egypt and Mohammed Ali, 1834]. Almost a love letter to Egypt.”

19. [Stanley, Henry Morten.] ‘“H. M. Stanley arrived at Cape Town March 10th with the Emin Pacha Relief Expedition, and leaves this afternoon, timed to reach the Congo, on the 18th inst.” Birmingham Daily Post March 14, 1887.’ £200 A commemorative octagonal plate, approx. 28cm. in diameter, with a hand-coloured transfer printed scene to the front, incorporating portraits of Stanley and Emin, views of Lado and Kirri, a map of “Africa showing route from London”, wreathed by images of African vegetation and surmounting

a river scene, gilt border, maker’s mark to verso; slight abrasion to gilt border, fine surface crack to upper left, small chip to one corner on reverse, else in good condition. Stanley’s ambitious expedition to cross Africa from west to east in an attempt to relieve the beleaguered Governor of Equatoria, Emin Pasha, brought great acclaim to Stanley and his officers on their return to Britain in 1890. This commemorative plate was produced at the time of Stanley’s departure on his expedition.

20. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 18871889. c. 1890. £875 A Doulton Lambeth commemorative jug, approx. 8” high and 5” diameter (20 x 13cm), glazed in light and dark brown, front relief decorated with a portrait of Stanley within a wreath of leaves surmounting the motto ‘Out of Darkness into Light’, vignettes to either side with the words ‘Valour’ and ‘Enterprise’ respectively, each vignette surmounting the names of three officers who accompanied Stanley, numbered and stamped by manufacturer to base; in fine condition. This striking jug commemorates Stanley and certain of the officers who took part in the expedition: E. M. Barttelot, W. Bonny, A. J. MounteneyJephson, W. C. Stairs, R. H. Nelson and T. H. Parke.

america 21. [Beadle, Charles.] A Trip to the United States in 1887. Printed for Private Circulation [Printed by J. S. Virtue, London], n.d. ?1887.

£750

First edition. 8vo. pp. [vi], 210; one coloured map, extra-illustrated with five real photographs; slightly cracked at half-title, photographs somewhat faded, else very good in contemporary full calf, gilt, scuffed to extremities. A presentation copy, inscribed to front blank “Howard Beadle with best love Mar 5th 1888”. Charles Beadle was born in 1834, in Erith, Kent; according to the British census he was, at the time of his travels, a coal merchant, resident in Belvedere, Kent (the book’s preface is dated “Belvedere, September, 1887”). He travelled to North America “for two reasons, the first being that my son Charlie has now been there with his wife for two winters, and I am anxious to form my own opinion of his prospects”; he also wished “to see what our go-ahead friends on the other side of the Atlantic are like in their own country, and to pick up as much useful information as I can from them”. Travelling with his second son Frank, the author made a tour of North America that took him through North and South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah (with a visit to Salt Lake City), to San Francisco; turning north, he then returned across the continent from Vancouver via Winnipeg to the Great Lakes, where the pair visited Pullman, Detroit, Boston, and New York. Beadle concludes with some observations about the Americans, and pages devoted to the natural gas industry. The book is particularly uncommon, and this copy has been additionally illustrated by the author for presentation with a photograph of San Francisco, of an island in the Bay, and three photographs taken in Yosemite.

22. Besley, James Campbell. ‘The Amazon from Source to mouth.’ An article contained in seven instalments in two volumes of The Wide World Magazine, An Illustrated Monthly of True Narrative, Adventure, Travel, Customs, and Sport, Vols. 35-36, April 1915 to March 1916. London: George Newnes, 1915-16. £195 First editions. 8vo. pp. iv, 576 & iv, 576 (articles at pp. 523-537, 36-49, 124-137, 253-264, 322-328, 458-467 & 529-538]; illusts. relating to Besley’s article, numerous illusts. relating to other articles; very good in uniform pictorial cloth, slightly faded on spines, volume number written by hand to foot of each spine, together with six postcards b&w relating to the films of Captain Besley’s expedition to Peru, 1914. James Besley (1874-1954) made his fortune in the gold fields of Australia, the Klondike, and then established himself in Mexico with copper and silver mines. In 1913 he led an expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon in Peru, rafting 4,000 miles to the Atlantic. The expedition discovered three lost Inca cities, the remains of previous explorers, and took the first film of Machu Picchu (discovered two years earlier by Hiram Bingham). The artefacts, photographs and film footage were returned to New York, where they were stolen, and so Besley decided to rerun the entire expedition, setting off in 1914 for the purpose. On his return, with further artefacts and footage, Besley released two films, ‘The Captain Besley Expedition’ (1914) and ‘In the Amazon Jungles with the Captain Besley Expedition’ (1915). The two volumes of World Wide Magazine offered here contain Besley’s narrative of his expedition; the accompanying postcards were used for promotional purposes, and show five scenes from the expedition and a portrait of Besley from the original by E. O. Hoppé.

23. [Canadian Pacific Railway.] Diary of my voyage to Canada: Saturday [Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday]. Empress Mail. N.p. [?Montreal], n.d. c. 1913. £175 Together 5 pamphlets. 8vo. (approx. 6 x 9”). pp. [12] to each, illusts. from photos. and sketches, sketch map to final leaf of first part (Saturday), extending map showing the CPR route at rear of second part (Sunday); very good in the original printed card wrappers, coloured plate mounted to upper cover of each, upper wrappers lettered “Canadian-Pacific Empress Mail” and with the day printed at bottom right, tear to lower wrapper of one issue. These pamphlets, which were possibly distributed by the Canadian Pacific Railway to visitors, feature brief articles and illustrations relating to places and life in Canada, with an emphasis on CPR services, hotels, and the like; three of the pamphlets reproduce sheet music, and two also refer to CPR journeys to Japan and China. The two central pages of each booklet reproduces “Marconigrams”, dated consecutively July 26 to 30 1913; according to these entries, the booklets were issued for the R.M.S. Empress of Britain. We have not been able to determine whether the five pamphlets are complete in themselves, but library holdings suggest that only these were issued.

26. [Drake, Sir Francis.] A crested china statue of Drake. England: Devonia Art China, n.d. c. 1915. £75 A china statue, approx. 6” high (15cm.), comprising a figure of Drake on a plinth captioned in gilt with his name to the foot, crest of Tavistock to plinth, overall cracking to glaze, minor fading to gilt, else in very good condition. A representation of Drake produced for his home town of Tavistock, in Devon.

27. [Florida.] The Florida East Coast. Its Wonderful Railway and Magnificent Hotels. The Florida East Coast Railway, St. Augustine, Florida, n.d. c. 1912. £175

27“Pedro 24. [Chile.] Chilean Nitrate Industry Plants “María Elena” and de Valdivia” Tocopilla [so titled to upper cover]. [Teatinos: Labratorio Fotográfico Alberto Mota P.], n.d. c. ?1950s. £250 First edition. Oblong 4to. 18ll, each with two mounted photographs (36 in total), captioned in English and Spanish, book label of Le Mare y Cia Ltda., Santiago, to front pastedown, label of Alberto Mota to rear pastedown, lacking final tissue-guard, else very good in original padded rexine, lettered to upper board in English and Spanish. This albums records the saltpetre works at María Elena and Pedro de Valdivia built in 1926 and 1931 in Chile’s Tocopilla Province. The world’s largest natural reserves of saltpetre are found in Chile and Peru; the product is used for various industrial processes. This album contains images of the works themselves, concluding with views of the staff facilities (including a school and swimming pool). We can locate only one other example of the album, at the University of Michigan.

25. Dillon, A. Barrow. The Geography of British Honduras. Compiled from Various Sources. London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1922. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 39; erratum slip, one folding map; browning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth-backed boards, soiled. A brief overview of the country.

Tall 8vo. pp. [20]; illustrated throughout from photos. and sketches, fine in the original chromolithographed card wrappers, together with three large format real photographic postcards by A. M. Black of Palm Beach of a large group on the beach, a Souvenir Letter of Palm Beach with 12pp. of photo. illusts., three menus, a sheet of letterhead from the BellevueStratford, Philadelphia, a 16pp. booklet for the Niagara Falls Power Company (dated 1910), and a 8pp. information booklet for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, all contained in a plain envelope inscribed by hand “Diverse kataloger etc. från O’s Florida resa Februari 1913”. An interesting collection of books and ephemera relating to a Swedish family’s 1913 travels in the USA.

28. Hathaway, Ann. Muskoka Memories. Sketches from Real Life. Toronto: William Briggs, 1904. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 9-227; 8 plates of illusts.; very good in the original cloth, gilt, onlaid illust. to upper board, slightly rubbed. The author and her parents, originally from Stratford-on-Avon (!), emigrated to Canada in 1871, eventually taking up residence in Muskoka, Ontario. Hathaway’s book provides a record of their life, with anecdotes, in Muskoka. A slightly later inscription to the flyleaf reads “For Tom’s Mother (Mrs Walker) from his friend Mrs. E. Potts, Shottery, Port Sandfield, Muskoka, Canada, June 5th, 1915”.

8 with their original envelopes (postage stamps excised), totalling over 100 pages (approx. 14,000 words), written in a clear hand, generally in very good condition; with a map of Bolivia (Mapa general de Bolivia por Luis Garcia Mesa, 1905), and a hand-written menu for a dinner given to Richardson and his travelling companions in Santa Cruz.

29. [Map. Argentina.] The Argentine Republic, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. London: E. Stanford, [1903]. £175 A large coloured map, scale 1 inch to 83.25 miles, approx. 26 x 21”, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth boards with paper label (“London Atlas Map of The Argentine Republic”), slightly soiled, else very good condition.

30. [Panorama.] Dibble Bro’s Mammoth Palace Hall Panorama of the World! N.p., n.d. c. 1870s. £95 A large and double-sided daybill advertising the Dibble Brothers’ moving panorama, approx. 28 x 10 1/4” (71 x 26 cm.), printed to both sides within a black border, the verso with text in double-columns, inkstamp for the showing at Academy Hall, New Hartford, CT, Nov. 10, 1875 to upper left of recto, in very good condition. John P. Dibble and his brother Frank H. Dibble, with other family members, toured their panorama in the 1870s, offering their audiences “A Grand Excursion Around the World” in 200 views, captured on “100,000 Square Feet of Canvas”. The verso of this daybill contains an extensive list of the scenes displayed in this two-part show: beginning with the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, the panorama exhibited scenes from US cities and sites of interest such as the “Grand Canon”; a brief excursus to the north, with “Scenes from Dr. Kane’s Arctic Explorations”, gave way to views from Ireland, London, Scotland, and the Eddystone Lighthouse, before moving to the Continent (Alps, Paris, Waterloo Rome, Vesuvius, Venice), Russia, the Mediterranean, the Nile, and the Holy Land, closing with scenes from China (Peking, Shanghai) and Mexico. The spectacle concluded with spectral illusions and magical transformations.

31. [South America.] A series of letters from surveyor Ernest E. Richardson to his wife Beatrice, sent from New York, Jamaica, Colombia, and Bolivia, between April 1918 and February 1919. £450 Together 23 letters, many written on letterhead for hotels or shipping lines,

Ernest E. Richardson was a surveyor employed to search for and inspect ranches, plantations and mines in Colombia and Bolivia. In April 1918 he sailed to New York, rendezvouing there with his travelling companion, Ernest Dutchman. The two travelled via Jamaica to Cartagena, Colombia, and on to Soutata, where they sailed up the river Atrato to inspect a property (“Playona”). They then made their way through the Panama Canal to Callao, Peru, continuing by train to Lima and on to La Paz, Bolivia, which they reached July 1918. From here they made a series of excursions to Cochabamba, Concepcion, Totora, and elsewhere, often by mule, to inspect rubber plantations, a gold mine, and to search for mica deposits. Richardson & Dutchman spent 10 months travelling by river boats, trains, canoes, dugouts, covering 1800 miles on mules Richardson related his travel experiences in these letters to his wife, who 30 remained in England with their two young children. In them he describes the local peoples he meets, whether in New York, Jamaica, Colombia, or Bolivia, and often comments on the hardships met with: insects (mosquitoes, ants, beetles, centipedes), snakes, lion (puma), swollen rivers, poor sanitation, lack of water, saddle-soreness, altitude sickness (in crossing the Andes it was “very difficult to breathe, every minute you would be gasping for breath, with a dull aching in the lungs”). A certain weariness bedevils their progress as local river services fail to materialise, or the boats that carry them break down, and delays turns into weeks of waiting owing to the lassitude of the local inhabitants: “the people are 9 so slovenly, careless and slow, that anything will do & time is no object, “Mañana” (to-morrow) is the national spirit, which we have found out to our cost, they are very courteous so it must be the climate”. The travellers seem not to have been successful in discovering estates or mines worth their investment, but Richardson refers in the letters to other finds, such as “tiger skins”, egret feathers, a quantity of silver plates, and an “Inca stone hatchet head about 1,000 years old or more”, all for resale back in England. (The British Museum holds more than thirty items of South American provenance purchased from Richardson’s travelling companion, Ernest Dutchman, in 1914, suggesting that the 1918 trip was not Dutchman’s first.)

asia 32. Barbour, Thomas & Mrs. Rosamond Barbour. Letters written while on a Collecting Trip in the East Indies. Paterson, N.J., 1913. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. 223; very good in the original half roan, gilt, somewhat rubbed to extremities. A presentation copy, inscribed to front blank “To Uncle John and Aunt Nan with the affectionate regards of Thomas Barbour”.

Thomas Barbour (1884-1946) studied at Harvard under Alexander Agassiz, and joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 1911. In 1906, he married Rosamond Pierce, and they honeymooned from October 1906 to July 1907 in the East Indies. Their letters home, edited by Chas. A. Shriner, were collected in the present work. The Barbours travelled via India (Jaipur, Agra, Calcutta, Darjeeling with a view of Kanchengjunga), Burma (Rangoon, Mandalay), and Singapore, to Indonesia (Buitenzorg, Surabaya), from where they visited Lombok in the Lesser Sunda Islands, and islands in the Moluccas. They returned home via Indonesia to Singapore, proceeding to Hong Kong and stopping in Japan before arriving in California.

33 33. [China. Photograph Album.] A personal photograph album, containing 66 images, n.d. c. 1900s.

£850

Oblong 4to. 12 leaves, with 66 photographs laid down to 7 of the leaves, image size approx. 8 x 5 1/2 cm. (36), 13 x 9 cm. (30), numbered by hand but otherwise uncaptioned, minor fading to a few images else in good condition, the album string-tied faux leather papers boards, ticket of Helsingfors Centraltryckeri och Bokbinderi Aktiebolag, to rear endpaper. The images in this album comprise two sequences, the first apparently recording the visit of a European military detachment to an unidentified gated city in China; the images show local scenes, some of the officers with Chinese, the detachment making its way through the city, and embarkation on a train. The second sequence contains images that were probably taken locally - the majority bear Chinese captions in the negative. This second group shows more scenes of what appears to be the same city as in the first sequence, concluding with six portraits of groups of performers, and local dignitaries.

34. [China. Tsingtao 1914.] The Album in Memory of the Occupation of Tsingtao [so titled to upper cover]. Tokyo, 1915.

£750

Oblong 4to. coloured map title-page + 20ll. (photo. illusts., captioned in Japanese and English) + [1, colophon]; very good in the original string-tied printed wrappers, slightly creased and soiled. Towards the close of the nineteenth century, Germany took control of Tsingtao (Qingdao) on the east coast of China as a base for its East Asian Squadron. The potential threat prompted other colonial powers to lease bases in the same region, the British taking a base at Weihaiwei. At the outbreak of WWI, Britain approached Japan to assist in facilitating the withdrawal of German forces from Tsingtao, and when a Japanese ultimatum to this effect expired in August 1914, a force under Mitsuomi Kamio advanced against the Germans. The British sent a small force in a supportive and observational role, made up of soldiers from the South Wales Borderers, and the 36th Sikhs. After a siege of the city, the Germans capitulated on the 7th November. The episode represented the first ever engagement between Japanese and German forces, and also witnessed the first ever air-sea engagement when a Japanese seaplane attacked German ships. The present album, compiled by Otosaburo Takiguchi and Sukejiro Kasuya, shows images such as the Japanese build-up of forces, various scenes of engagement and damage inflicted by Japanese forces, the British commander Sir Bernadiston, and images of the German defence. The album is rare, with only a single copy listed by Worldcat (at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan).

36. [East India Company.] [Elphinstone, John (1807-1860).] ‘The Right Honorable John Lord Elphinstone, G.C.H., Governor and Commmander in Chief of the Fort and Garrison of Fort St. George, and Town of Madraspatnam, and of all the Forces which are, or shall be employed for the Service of the East India Company...’ N.p., n.d. [1837]. £175 An East India Company military commission, printed on vellum, approx. 12 x 10”, completed by hand for dates and personal details, signed to lower right by Elphinstone and four council members (including Peregrine Maitland), embossed Company seal to lower margin, folded and addressed to verso “Lieutenant Colin Campbell”, stain to head of text.

35. Collier, D. M. B. & C. L’E. Malone. Manchoukuo Jewel of Asia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., [1936]. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. 267, [4, ads.]; 16 photo. illusts. inc. frontis., one sketch map; very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original d.-w. which is slightly soiled faded on spine and chipped to extremities. A generally enthusiastic account of the Japanese puppet state, with chapters on its history, commerce, social conditions, and future prospects.

This commission, signed on the 31 December 1837 by Elphinstone in his capacity as Governor of Madras, appointed Colin Campbell to the rank of Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Light Cavalry. The son of Mountstuart Elphinstone, John Elphinstone was appointed Governor of Madras by Lord Melbourne “in order to dispel a rumour that the young Queen Victoria had fallen in love with him” (ODNB). He became one of the first Britons to explore Kashmir. The commission is also signed by Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777-1854), a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars who served at Waterloo, and commanded the Madras army from October 1836. The recipient of the commission, Colin Campbell (1816-1895), later became a major in the Madras Cavalry.

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37. [East India Company.] [Pottinger, Sir Henry (17891856).] ‘The Right Honorable Sir Henry Pottinger, G.C.B., Governor

and Commmander in Chief of the Fort and Garrison of Fort St. George, and Town of Madraspatnam, and of all the Forces which are, or shall be employed for the Service of the East India Company...’ N.p., n.d. [1849]. £225

An East India Company military commission, printed on vellum, approx. 12 x 10”, completed by hand for dates and personal details, signed to lower right by Pottinger and four council members (including Daniel Eliott), embossed Company seal to lower margin, folded and addressed to verso “Captain Colin Campbell”, minor soiling. This commission, signed on the 8 May 1849 by Pottinger in his capacity as Governor of Madras, appointed Colin Campbell to the rank of Captain of a Troop in the First Regiment of Light Cavalry. Henry Pottinger first travelled to India in 1803, and in 1810 undertook a journey with Charles Christie to explore the region between India and Persia (published as Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, 1816). He subsequently became assistant to Mountstuart Elphinstone, and conducted several missions to Sind. In the first Opium War he led a force against Nanking, prompting the Chinese to sign the Treaty of Nanking; in recognition of his achievement Pottinger became the first British Governor of Hong Kong. He served as Governor of Madras from 1848-1851. The commission is also signed by Daniel Eliot (1798-1872), a Member of the Indian Supreme Legislative Council. The recipient of the commission, Colin Campbell (1816-1895), later became a major in the Madras Cavalry.

38. Elmslie, Margaret & W. Burns Thomson. Seedtime in Kashmir: A Memoir of William Jackson Elmslie... Late Medical Missionary, C.M.S., Kashmir. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1875. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. [vii], 288, 16 (pubs. list dated June 1874); mounted photo. port. frontis.; minor spotting at front and rear, a little shaken in the original cloth, rubbed and soiled.

Yakushi B634. Elmslie (1832-1872) was a Scottish Presbyterian doctor working in Kashmir and the Punjab for the Church Missionary Society. He opened Kashmir’s first dispensary, in Srinigar in 1865, later expanding it into a small hospital. He also published the first ever Kashmiri-English dictionary (A Vocabulary of the Kashmiri Language, 1872). In 1872 he married Margaret Duncan, but died not long afterwards when on his way from Srinagar to Amritsar after becoming trapped in snow. His wife continued work in Amritsar, and assisted by their friend William Thomson wrote the present life of her husband.

39. Enriquez. Major C. M. A Burmese Arcady. An account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland & of their engaging characteristics and customs, &c. &c. London: Seeley, Service & Co., Limited, 1923. £495 First edition. 8vo. pp. 282, [6, ads.]; photos. illusts., one folding map; very good in the original cloth, in the original dust-wrapper which is slightly darkened on spine. Colin Metcalfe Enriquez (1884-1969) joined the Indian Army in 1905, and served initially on the North West Frontier. During a year of leave he toured the world, and took a position with the Military Police in Burma, learning Burmese and marrying a Burmese woman, with whom he had two children. Both before and after his retirement from the Police he wrote a number of books, many on the subject of Burma, beginning with his A Burmese Enchantment (Calcutta, 1916). The present work, his first account of travels in Burma to be published in Britain, “is devoted chiefly to the Kachins, who... belong to the Tibeto-Burman Group... The Kachins are a hill-people, who now occupy the north-east frontier of Burma and the terrotory in Yünnan immediately adjacent” (p. 12). The book is uncommon in the original dust-wrapper.

40. Finn, James. The Jews in China: their Synagogues, their Scriptures, their History, &c. London: B. Wertheim, 1843. £950 First edition. Small 8vo. pp. viii, 86, [2, imprint]; half title printed in Chinese characters, diagram to p. 86; ownership inscription of Miss H. Roberts to title-page, hinges cracked, good in the original cloth with Chinese characters in gilt to upper board, spine cocked, minor wear to extremities. Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica p. 1356; Lust 786. James Finn (1806-1872) was British Consul in Jerusalem from 1845 to 1862, and an indefatigable campaigner for the resettlement of the Jews in Israel. This is the first of his two books on Chinese Jews in Kai-feng-fu, the capital of the Honan province. News of this isolated Jewish community first reached Europe in the writings of Jesuit missionaries. In 1605, Matteo Ricci met Ai T’ien, a Chinese Jew who recounted the long history of the Kai-feng-fu community, dating back to the twelfth century with the first arrivals from India and Persia. The first synagogue was built in 1163, but, by the time of Finn’s investigations, the community had preserved only a rudimentary knowledge of Judaism and its customs.

41 41. [Goa.] Aquino dos Remedios Furtado. The Rome of the East. An Illustrated Guide to Goa. With a brief life of St Francis Xavier. [Printed by Ranchhod Manchharam at the Cole Printing Works... Bombay and Published by A. R. Furtado, Merces-IlhasGoa], 1922. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ii, title-page], iii, vii, 210; one folding map, a few photo. illusts.; very good in the original printed wrappers, a little wear to foot of spine. Descriptions of the various parts of Goa, its churches and other buildings, with appendices on its natural springs, castes, and sundry matters.

42 42. [India.] East Indian Railway. The Land of Sunshine and Surprise. N.p. [Printed by Jas. Truscott & Sons, London], n.d. c. 1910. £95 Slim 4to. pp. [i, title], 38; 2 coloured plates from sketches, 9 coloured plates from photos., photo. illusts.; very good in original printed wrappers with sketch map of the EIR inside rear cover, some fraying to margins of wrappers. This booklet contains a description of the East Indian Railway, and of the various cities that it serves: Benares, Gya, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Agra, Jaipiur, Delhi, Simla. The booklet is uncommon, with only one other copy located on Worldcat.

45 44. [Manchuria.] Concise Album of Manchoukuo. ?Tokyo, n.d. c. 1920s. £175 Small oblong 16mo (approx. 4.5” x 3.5”); pp. [64]; b&w illusts. throughout, captioned in English and Chinese; very good in the original rexine. A small view book of the Japanese puppet-state, showing sites of interest, street scenes, and the like. No copies found on Worldcat.

45. Miller, Archibald T. Indian Waters: being some Remarks on the Coasts and Ports and Peoples of Hindostan. Liverpool: Printed by Lee and Nightingale, 1901. £75

First edition. 8vo. pp. 90; one single-page map, one sketch map, 6 illusts.; some browning to free endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, minor fading to spine, cloth a little marked.

43. [Manchuria.] Manchoukuo A Pictorial Record. Le Mandchoukouo Chronique Illustrée. [Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1934]. £395 First edition. Small 4to. pp. [vi], 320; b&w photo. illusts. throughout, map endpapers; text in English and French; very good in the original sandy cloth, boards slightly discoloured, with loosely inserted a pamphlet entitled Das Gesetz über die staatliche Klassifikation der wichstigsten Agrarprodukte in Mandschukuo Dezember 1937 (27pp., published by the Gemeinschaft zur Förderung des Mandschurischen Geschäftes, Hamburg, original wrappers). Manchoukuo (or Manchukuo) was created in February 1932 after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Effectively a puppet state, the region remained effectively under Japanese control until 1945. This work, according to the preface, is the first attempt “to portray the life of the Manchoukuo people in all its phases without the slightest tinge of political bias”. The pamphlet that accompanies this copy is particularly scarce, and concerns the law on State classification of the most important agricultural products in Manchoukuo.

Miller commanded the Cadet School Ship H.M.S. Conway for 22 years, and these remarks are based on lectures given to the cadets. Miller himself travelled to India, and published articles on his experiences in the Mercantile Marine Service Association “Reporter”; these form the basis for the present work. Chapters are devoted to Arabia, Gujerat, Elephanta, Bombay, the Malabar Coast, Ceylon, and the Coromandel Coast.

46. [Missionary.] The Life of the Rev. Christian F. Swartz, Missionary of Trichinopoly, and Tanjore, in India. Religious Tract Society Published and Sold at the Depository... by James Nisbet...and other booksellers, n.d. c. 1830. £50 First edition. 12mo. pp. 72; very good in contemporary roan-backed marbled boards with paper label to spine, bookplate of the Tabernacle Chapel Sunday School Library, Aberystwyth, to front pastedown, boards slightly creased. Christian Friedrich Schwartz (1726-98), inspired by the Royal Danish Mission, arrived in India in 1750 and learnt Tamil and Urdu. He eventually became involved with the mission at Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly), and gained the confidence of the British community and Indian dignitaries - the British in fact appointed him a special peace envoy to Hyder Ali. This brief life of the Prussian missionary appeared in the RTS ‘Christian Biography’ series.

William Wharton Cassels joined the China Inland Mission in 1885, and became known as one of the Cambridge Seven. In 1895 he became Bishop of Western China. This letter, written in his capacity as Bishop, was one of several that he sent to Callum via messenger “to open up communication and … to exchange brotherly greetings”. He asks for Callum’s address, so that he can visit him, and informs him that nineteen Christians recently received confirmation, “our first confirmation”. In his post-script, Cassels adds that the messenger will go via Men-Cheo to find Mr. Horsburgh, and asks Callum to give the messenger money “on my account” if required.

48. Perckhammer, H. von. China and the Chinese. 63 Pictures. London: George Routlegde & Sons, Ltd., n.d. [1931]. £150 47

47. [Missionary.] Cassels, Bishop W. W. (1858-1925). A letter from Cassels to “My dear Callum” [possibly Rev. D. A. Callum], Paoning, March 9th, 1896. £125

First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi + 64 of illusts. ine. one double-page; very good in the original printed boards with paper label, in original d.-w., which is slightly chipped. Heinz von Perckhammer (1895-1965) was an Austro-Hungarian captured at the siege of Tsingtao in 1917 by the Japanese; he became a prisoner of war, and remained in China after his release. His photographs of Macao and Beijing street scenes were first published in book form in Berlin, and the present selection offers a nice sample of his work.

8vo. 6pp., written on two bifoliums of China Inland Mission, Hankow, China, letterhead, in a clear hand, signed W. W. Cassels Bishop, PS dated March 11th, folded, else in very good condition.

49. [Renneville, Contantin de.] A Collection of Voyages Undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of Trade and Navigation. Containing an account of the several attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their Discoveries in the East-Indies, and the South Seas. Together with an Historical Introduction, giving an account of the Rise, Establishment, and Progress of that great Body. Translated into English, and illustrated with several charts. London: Printed for W. Freeman..., 1703 £2,750 First English edition. 8vo. pp. [32], 336; 10 maps inc. 8 folding; tear with loss to lower outer margin of pp. 101-2 but not affecting text, otherwise very good in contemporary panelled calf, wear to joints, head of spine chipped with loss, rubbed to corners. Library pressmark to front blank [from the library of Sir William Earle Welby Gregory, first baronet (d. 1815), of Denton Manor, Lincolnshire]. Sabin 14401; Cox I.9; cf. Maggs Voyages & Travels II.1252. Renneville (1650-1723) was a French Protestant who moved to the Netherlands in 1699; he returned to France, but was imprisoned in the Bastille, and only released through the intervention of Queen Anne of England. His Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi à l’Etablissement et aux Progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales first appeared in Amsterdam in 1702, itself based on an earlier work by Isaak Commelin. This is the only English edition of the important collection, which contains accounts of the earliest voyages of the Dutch to China and the East Indies, a description of Siberia, the voyage of the five Rotterdam ships which sailed in 1598 to the Strait of Magellan, and an account of Hudson’s first attempt to find the Northwest Passage. The maps show Novaya Zembla, Spitsbergen, the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Java, St. Helena, and Mauritius.

50. Wallace, Alfred Russel. Island Life: Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates. London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. £750 First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 526; 2 maps to text inc. frontis.; very good in contemporary three-quarter morocco by Tout, spine gilt, t.e.g., minor rubbing. In the Preface to his book, Wallace describes Island Life as “a popular supplement to and completion” of his earlier The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876), though it is, he continues, “a complete work in itself”. Wallace examines the variation of species using the evidence of islands to explain the probably causes of variation.

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51. Burrard, S. G. Completion of the Link connecting the Triangulations of India and Russia 1913 (Records of the Survey of India Volume VI). Dehra Dun: Printed at the Office of the Trigonometrical Survey, 1914. £1,500 First edition. Folio. pp. [xi], 121, [7, List of Survey of India Publications]; 23 plates including several photogravures and two charts, one further chart and two folding maps at rear; a little bumped, else good in later quarter morocco with remains of original upper wrapper laid down on upper board, ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward. Neate M63; Yakushi B640. An account of surveying along the Russo-Afghan border: The British Survey of India team worked up from the South, whilst a team of Russian surveyors, under the leadership of Colonel Tcheikine, worked down from the north. The chapters are contributed by K. Mason, R. W. G. Hingston, and others. Neate: “Mason went to the 17,000 ft survey stations on the Sino-Russian frontier and worked southwards over the Taghdumbash Pamir”.

the “Anglo-Japanese Alliance; Russo-Japanese War: and Younghusband’s Expedition to Tibet”, “Tibet since Younghusband’s Expedition”, and the “Washington Conference and Tibet”. The book is held by the British Library, SOAS, and libraries in France and Berlin.

53. Holbrook, Frederick. Through Turkestan and the Caucasus. A Letter from Frederick Holbrook to his wife. Brattleboro, VT. Press of E. L. Hildreth & Co., 1916. £375 First edition, copy no. 105. 8vo. pp. 61; 27 leaves of photo. illusts. inc. frontis.; very good in the original cloth, paper labels to upper cover and spine, label to spine a little browned.

52. Das, Taraknath. British Expansion in Tibet. Calcutta: N. M. Raychowdhury & Co., n.d. c. 1927. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. [viii], 137; some foxing, embrowning to endpapers, small section torn from outer margin of rear free endpaper, else very good in the original cloth-backed boards, somewhat rubbed and discoloured. Yakushi D62. An uncommon work, dedicated by the author “to the memory of Late Dr. Sun Yat Sen”, with chapters on “Curzon’s Forward Policy”,

Not in Neate, Yakushi, or Perret. Holbrook (1861-1920), grandson of Frederick Holbrook, Governor of Vermont during the Civil War in America, worked on railroads in America, and during the early years of the First World War visited Russia, probably with a view to developing the railways there. The present privately printed work, which takes the form of a letter to his wife Grace, is based on his travels during the months of April and May 1916. He visited Samarkand, Bokhara, Tiflis, Baku, and crossed the Caucasus range. The account is well illustrated from photographs, which include scenes in the major cities and views of Mount Kazbek in the Caucasus. Holbrook and his wife are otherwise known as the buyers of Rudyard Kipling’s Vermont home Naulakha, where he and his wife lived from 1892-6 and where he wrote The Jungle Book; the house is today owned by the Landmark Trust.

54. Markham, Clements R., editor. Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. Edited, with Notes, and Introduction, and Lives of Mr. Bogle and Mr. Manning, by Clements R. Markham. London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, 1876. £1,500 First edition. 8vo. pp. clxi, [2, part title], 354; errata slip tipped-in at p. xxi; steel-engraved frontis. of Warren Hastings, 6 wood-engraved plates of views, 2 wood-engravings to text, one folding reproduction of a letter, 4 folding maps; slight foxing to frontis., inner hinges partly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, faded on spine, slight wear to head of lower joint. Yakushi (3rd ed.) M185a. The names of Bogle and Manning are remembered as those of the first Britons to enter Tibet. George Bogle (1746-1781) joined the East India Company in 1769, and in 1774 Warren Hastings appointed him to act as envoy to the Lama of Tibet. Bogle more than succeeded in his mission to open communications between England and Tibet: the friendship that developed between him and the Teshu Lama continued by correspondence once Bogle had returned to India. Thomas Manning (1772-1840) “was considered the first Chinese scholar in Europe” (ODNB). His desire to penetrate to the heart of the Celestial Empire took him to Canton in 1807 and on to Calcutta in 1810. The following year Manning proceeded with a single servant and without official government sanction to Parijong on the Tibetan border, where he was met by a Chinese general with troops. Manning used his medical skills to treat some of the troops for illness, and was allowed to travel in their company as a doctor. By this means, he finally reached Lhasa, where he remained for several months. Not only did Manning thus become the first Briton to visit Lhasa, but also the first to obtain interviews with the Dalai Lama. It seems incredible that the accounts of these two men remained unpublished for so long. Clements Markham’s editing of their surviving manuscripts gains from the lengthy introduction which prefaces them. In it Markham offers an authoritative description of Himalayan geography, an historical sketch of Tibet and its relations with the outside world, and biographical portraits of Bogle and Manning. The preface is also important for reproducing, at p. lxi, D’Anville’s 1733 map of Tibet, which features the first recorded mention of Mount Everest in Western literature (here named ‘Tchoumour Lancma’).

55. Orme, Eve. Mountain Magic. Rich & Cowan. n.d. [1945]. £50 First edition. 8vo. pp. 80; illustrations from photographs, map endpapers; a very good copy in the original cloth and d.-w., which is a little faded on spine and chipped to extremities. Yakushi (3rd ed.) O76; Czech p. 155. The author’s narrative of a journey in 1926 to the Chang Chenmo Valley in Ladakh, accompanying her husband on a shooting trip.

56. Ottley, W. J., Brevet-Major. With Mounted Infantry in Tibet. London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1906. £275 56 55

First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 275, [4, ads.]; port. frontis., photo. plates, one plan; good in the original cloth, gilt, soiled on spine and with indent to cloth on spine partly obscuring author’s name. Yakushi O92a. This is an eye-witness account of the 1904 Younghusband expedition to Tibet. Ottley served with the 1st Mounted Infantry, specially formed for the expedition.

57. Rennie, David Field. Bhotan and the Story of the Dooar War. including Sketches of a Three Months’ Residence in the Himalayas, and Narrative of a Visit to Bhotan in May 1865. London: John Murray, 1866. £1,250 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiii, [i], 408, 32 (pubs. list); frontis. and three plates, illusts. to text, one folding map; very good in the original cloth, gilt, bookplates removed from fixed endpapers, two nicks to cloth in head of spine, now preserved in a purposemade leather-edged slipcase. Ownership inscription and bookplate of Michael Ward.

Yakushi R179. In 1864 Ashley Eden headed a British mission to Bhutan to negotiate a treaty, and declared war when the Bhutanese failed to accept. After an initial defeat, British forces overcame the Bhutanese, and agreed the Treat of Sinchula, signed in November 1865. Rennie served as surgeon to the 80th Regiment during the war, and provides here an overview of the country, of Eden’s mission, and of the war.

58. Swayne, Major H. G. C. Through the Highlands of Siberia. London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1904. £775 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 259, [9, ads.]; illusts. from photos., one folding map, one folding plan of stalks; very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed to extremities, marked to upper board, with Rowland Ward ‘zebraskin’ endpapers, in the original dust-wrapper, which is neatly restored, slightly chipped. Czech p. 209. This is a classic account of a shooting trip from Moscow across the Urals to the Altai Shan. The author relates his hunting experiences, largely for sheep and ibex, using Demidoff’s After Wild Sheep in the Altai and Mongolia as guide, but he also provides much information concerning the country through which he and his companion travelled.

59. Tyacke, R. H. In Quest of Game. A Sportsman’s Manual for Game Shooting in Kulu, Lahoul and Ladak to the Tso Morari Lake … With Notes on Shooting in Spiti, Bara Bagahal, Chamba and Kashmir, and a Detailed Description of Sport in More than 130 Nalas. Calcutta & Simla: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1927. £275 “Revised edition”. Small 8vo. pp. vx, 202; 8 folding maps; very good in the original cloth, slightly faded to spine.

Czech p. 217 (1893 edition); not in Yakushi. Tyacke’s “valuable pocket book” (Czech) contains much information on hunting areas and the game of the region. Interspersed with anecdotes of sporting episodes, the book is also well served with maps indicating the best routes of the day. The book first appeared in 1893, and was reissued again in 1898, 1907, and this 1927 edition. In his Preface, Tyacke writes: “Since the ‘Guide’ was first written, so many changes have taken place, owing to altered conditions of travel, the issuing of new rules by government, and by residents in native states, that I have thought it well to bring it up to date”.

europe

61 60 60. Bartholomew, John. Orographical Map of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co., n.d. c. 1900. £75 A large coloured map, approx. 30 x 23”, laid down on linen and folding into original cloth boards with paper label; minor creasing to map, browning to a few folds on verso, slight splitting to paper endpaper inside boards, else in very good condition. A colour-coded map of the mountains of mainland Scotland and the Hebrides.

61. [Caucasus.] Souvenir du Caucase [cover title]. L. Alexandrovich Kislovodsk, n.d. c. 1910. £350 Oblong 8vo. pp. 100, each with a photographic illustration captioned beneath in Russian; somewhat browned and soiled, pencilled translation into German of first few illustrations, gift inscription in German to prelims. (dated 1913), good in the original cloth boards, coloured photo. illust. onlaid to upper board, somewhat rubbed and soiled. This is a view book of the Caucasus, probably dating from the early twentieth century. The images show scenes in various towns (Kizlowodzk, Pyatigorsk, Essentuki, Zheleznovodsk, etc.), the Sukhumi Military Road running from Abkhazia, and views of various mountains including Elbrus. We have not located any institutional copies of the work. The publisher also produced postcards of the region.

62. [Crimea. Edward Goulburn, 1816-1887.] Three personal letters from Goulburn to his fiancée Miss Tower, headed “Camp before Sebastopol”, December 1, 22 & 29 1855. £195

of the “inclement frightfully cold” weather - “we have repeated cases of frost bite & some men frozen to death even in their huts not in the Guard but in the army”. The same letter reveals that “you never see a woman of any sort. The only one I have seen is a certain Mrs. Seacoal... I am happy to say she had a kettle for sale which I could not get anywhere else & which I rode home with with my belt through the handle rather in the style of John Gilpin & his stone bottles”. The final letter gives a brief description of the harbour at Balaklava, before going on to describe insouciantly the fire that nearly engulfed his hut - “The only bore has been that for three days I could have no fire & the burnt compartment being up the rats preferred passing the night in my hut to the cold outside”. On his return to England from the Crimea in 1856, Edward and his fiancée were married.

63. Laurie, Peter G. My Recollections of the Crimea, and the Siege of Sebastopol. Brentwood: Printed for Private Circulation, 1900. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. 36; frontis.; text-block cracked at pp. 2-3, else very good in the original blue cloth, gilt. The author, two of whose brothers served in the Crimea, worked for a prominent shipowner and in this capacity accompanied a detachment of Land Transport Corps to the theatre of war. He visited the British camp before Sevastopol between spring 1855 and early spring 1856, and kept a journal. The present work is based on a lecture he gave forty-five years after the events described, and copies are uncommon.

Together three letters, 8vo, respectively 4pp., 8pp. & 8pp., each signed by the writer, folded and contained in the original envelopes, in very good condition. Edward Goulburn served with the Grenadier Guards in the Crimea from 1855-6. These letters were written to his fiancée, Maria Louisa Tower (1827-91). The content relates largely to their recent engagement, but Goulburn makes occasional references to his situation, mentioning in his first letter the Russian guns that can be heard. In his second letter he writes

64. Lindemann, A. J. Sketches from my Travels in Continental Europe. N.p. [Milwaukee], n.d. c. 1922. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. [viii, inc. blank leaf], 115; photo. illusts.; slightly shaken, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, with the author’s compliments of the season card loosely inserted.

The author visited Europe in 1922, travelling to Paris, the French Riviera, the Italian Lakes, Switzerland (including Grindelwald, the Jungfrau, Lucerne and elsewhere), Oberammegau, and the Rhine. The book was published as a keepsake for friends, as was also true of the author’s later book, An Alpine Tour up Mt. Jungfrau (1924).

65. [Macmillan, Malcolm Kingsley.] Selected Letters of Malcolm Kingsley Macmillan. London: Privately Printed, 1893. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. [v], 314; port. frontis.; minor spotting, else very good in original cloth, gilt. Macmillan (1852-1889) was the son of Alexander Macmillan, the publisher. He “had no head for business” (ODNB), and instead took an interest in literature and the arts. In July 1889 he and a friend were hiking on Mount Olympus when he disappeared; his body was never recovered. The present work selects from his letters, mainly written in Britain, but including those written from Rome and Constantinople shortly before the time of his disappearance.

66. Macpherson, R. B. Under the Red Crescent: or, Ambulance Adventures in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1885. £450 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 213; map frontis., 21 wood-eng. plates; minor marginal age-toning, slightly shaken in the original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed. A personal account of the Russo-Turkish war, during which the author served as a surgeon with the Turks.

67. [Map. The Balkans.] The States & Provinces of the Balkan Peninsula shewing the Boundaries as determined by the Treaty of Berlin. London: Edward Stanford, 1885. £150 A large folding coloured map, approx. 26 x 22”, laid down and sectionalised on linen, text summarising the Treaty of Berlin to lower right corner, folding into original cloth boards with lettering piece, VG.

The 1878 Treaty of Berlin, made in the wake of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-8, recognised the independence of the principalities of Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro, which are shown on this map, as well as Bulgaria, Rumelia (Rumili) and Macedonia.

68. Mill, Hugh Robert. The Record of the Royal Geographical Society 1830-1930. London: The Royal Geographical Society, [1930]. £125 First edition. pp. xvi, 288; illusts., one folding chart; spotting to endpapers, slight age-toning, else very good in original cloth, gilt, in original d.-w, which is a little rubbed and soiled, ownership inscription and book label of Ann Savours Shirley. Neate M101; Yakushi M191; Spence 798; Renard 1075; Rosove 1216. This volume celebrates the RGS’s first one hundred years of promoting exploration, and contains details of discoveries and expeditions to all corners of the globe, with a chapter devoted to ‘The Revival of Polar Exploration, 1892-1905’.

69. [Nelson.] In Aid of the Save the “Victory” Fund Loan Collection of Nelson Relics. Catalogue with a Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Callender. London: Messrs. Spink & Son, Ltd., 1928. £250 First edition. 8vo. pp. 47; very good in the original black paper wrapper with label to upper wrapper, minor chipping to extremities. An exhibition catalogue of Nelsoniana, listing 182 items mostly from private collections. The profits from the exhibition were earmarked for restoration of Nelson’s ship H.M.S. Victory, which in spite of the Admiralty’s plans for scrapping her had been preserved due to popular protests. By the 1920s she was in a serious state of disrepair, but work on restoration did not reach completion until 2005.

71 72 70 70. [Nightingale, Florence.] ‘Model of Florence Nightingale Statue.’ Longton: Willow Art, n.d. c. 1920s. £75

sets of images records visits to Holland (Amsterdam, The Hague), and Ireland (Killarney, Connemara).

A china statue, approx. 5” high (13cm.), comprising a figure of Nightingale on a plinth, representation of the ‘Seal of Matlock’ to front of plinth, captioned in black to reverse of plinth, manufacturer’s details inside of base, gilt edges, lamp tipped in gilt; very good.

72. [Switzerland.] The Swiss Tourist; or, An Interesting Guide through the Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of Switzerland, accurately describing The Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, but more particularly exhibiting to the notice of the Stranger all of the Natural Curiosities of the Country, together with a Minute Detail of the Principal Routes, and the intricate Passes with which the Country abounds. Also, A Description of the Glaciers and their singular Phenomena. Carefully Compiled from M. Bourret, Reichard, Cambry, and Catteau. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1816. £750

Florence Nightingale lived for the first few years of her life at Lea Hurst, near Matlock in Derbyshire, England. The family moved to Hampshire, but kept Lea Hurst as a summer home.

71. [Photograph album.] A personal photograph album recording holidays to the Alps, Scandinavia, Holland and Ireland in the years 1936-8. £175 Oblong 8vo. approx. 330 snapshot photographs, many captioned by hand, seven hand-drawn vignettes of mountains, two large hand-drawn panoramas from the Eggishorn and the Schynige Platte accompanying handmade photographic panoramas of the same; contained in the original plain black rexine album. This anonymous album contains snapshots taken on holidays to the Alps in July-August 1936 and March 1937, a tour of Sweden and Spitsbergen in July-August 1937, a visit to Holland in April 1938, and to Ireland in September that same year. The Swiss sections show views in Lucerne, others taken on the St. Gotthard railway, high level images taken on the Eggishorn, the Blumisalp, the Schynige Platter, the Brienzer-Rothorn , and Berne; the later visit comprises images taken in Zermatt, with a few shots of the Matterhorn. The Scandinavian photographs illustrate a journey from Stockholm to Lake Torneträsk in Swedish Lapland (20 images record the local people and landscape), to Trömso via North Cape to Spitsbergen (68 snapshots show Kings Bay, Magdalena Bay - where the compiler went ashore - Fowl Bay, and Red Bay), returning to Stockholm, The final two

First edition. 12mo. pp. iv, 184, xx (Index), [8, [pubs. list]; folding map frontis.; ownership inscription of Sir Andrew Agnew, BT, to front pastedown (dated London 3 August 1816), tear to fold of map at inner stub, else very good in contemporary sheep, lettered in gilt to upper board, some wear with loss to head and tail of spine. Wäber 56; not in other bibliographies. This early guide seems not to have been known to Coolidge, who makes no reference to it in his Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide-Books. The book comprises selections from previous authors, but its appearance so soon after the opening up of the Continent to British travellers following Waterloo in 1815 gives it great importance. According to Coolidge, Samuel Leigh “seems to have been the great publisher of Continental guide-books” (Swiss Travel and Swiss GuideBooks, p. 185), and indeed Leigh published the first English version of Ebel two years later.

Arvid Filip Trybom (1850-1913) was a Swedish zoologist who took part in several major expeditions, including A. E. Nordenskiöld’s 1876 expedition to the Yenisei river. This collection of calling cards reveals the wide network of contacts he made in Sweden and abroad. The names on the card include Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and Polar explorer; Frans Kjellman (two different cards), Swedish botanist and member of the Vega Expedition under Nordenskiöld 1878-80; Herman Sandeberg, with whom Trybom made an expedition to the Kola Peninsula in 1877; Andreas Hovgaard, Lieutenant in the Danish Navy who in 1882-3 led the Dijmphna Expedition to the Kara Sea; Yngve Sjöstedt, the Swedish naturalist who led expeditions to East Africa; and two examples of Trybom’s own calling card. The other miscellaneous items include a ticket to the Zoological Society of London for 1907, made out to Trybom and signed by the secretary, and an ‘At Home’ invitation to Trybom from Hugh R. Mill, adviser to several British Polar expeditions (and a supporter of Ernest Shackleton).

74 73 73. [Trybom, Filip, Swedish zoologist.] A collection of calling cards and similar items, presented to the Swedish Zoologist F. Trybom. £125 Together 58 calling cards, varying in size, occasionally with a brief note from the donor, plus 8 other miscellaneous items (invitations, menus, tickets), mainly in very good condition though with occasional creases.

74. Ward, Colonel John. With the “Die-Hards” in Siberia. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., [1920]. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 278; port. frontis., illusts. from photos.; browning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original d.-w., which is slightly frayed with minor loss to lower margin of rear. An account, by its leader, of the 25th (Navvies) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in the Russian Intervention, at the end of the First World War. Ward’s Battalion went to the assistance of Admiral Koltchak’s White Russians in 1918-19, the only British unit to do so.

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Blackmer 63; Theakstone p. 15. Mrs. Baillie and her daughter, in the company of a few friends, spent two months in Turkey. A large proportion of the book is given over to her two week stay in Constantinople, with a few chapters on Smyrna, and places visited en route.

76. [Constantinople.] The “District Railway” Illustrated Guide to Constantinople and Revels of the East at Olympia, with Plan of Olympia, Map of London, &c. &c. Boot, Son & Carpenter, 24, Old Bailey, E.C., 1894. £200 8vo. pp. 58, [6, ads.]; folding map of London, double-page plan of Olympia, illusts. to text; good in the original printed wrappers, which are a little worn, tear to head of upper wrapper, previous owner’s inscription to front wrapper, with, loosely inserted, a 4pp. flyer titled ‘Constantinople and the Golden Horn. Grand Panorama. (Painted by Mr. W. Telbin.) As seen from the Tower of Galata at Olympia’.

75. Baillie, Mrs. [E. C. C.] A Sail to Smyrna: or, An Englishwoman’s Journal; including Impressions of Constantinople, a Visit to a Turkish Harem, and a Railway Journey to Ephesus. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. £475 First edition. 8vo. pp. iv, 253, [1, ad. leaf]; frontis. and 5 plates after the author’s sketches; a little spotting, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, minor rubbing.

The Constantinople show at London’s Olympia in 1894 was based on a drama by Joseph Lyons and Horace Lennard, realised on a spectacular scale by Bolossy Kiralfy. Bolossy and his brother Imre were responsible for many great entertainments in North America and Europe. Constantinople, or the Revels of the East opened on Boxing Day, 1893, and attracted 32,000 visitors on its first day. The site at Olympia was given over to realisations of golden-domed buildings, galleries, and waterways where Arab boatmen rowed their caiques. This guide, issued for the event by the District Railway, contains details of how to reach Olympia by train, descriptions of the exhibition and the various galleries, and sections on various notable sites and events in Constantinople itself, concluding with a paragraph on how to reach the city.

77. Forbes, Henry O., ed. The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el Kuri : being the report upon the results of the conjoint expedition to these islands in 1898-9 by Mr. W.R. Ogilvie-Grant, of the British Museum, and Dr. H. O. Forbes, of the Liverpool Museums, together with information from other available sources, forming a monograph of the island. Liverpool: Free Public Museums, Henry Young & Sons; London: E. H. Porter, 1903. £2,500 First edition. Large 8vo. pp. xlvii, 598; 34 lithographic plates (including a map and 24 chromolithographs after original sketches by P. Smith, H. Gronvold, J. Green and others); some spotting or foxing to plates, previous owner’s armorial bookplate, generally very good in the original green buckram, somewhat faded and marked on spine. This rare work, published as a “Special Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums”, offers results from the joint British Museum-Liverpool Museum expedition to Socotra (Sokotra) in 1898-9. The island, the largest in the eponymous archipelago, lies off the Horn of Africa south by about 240 miles from the Arabian peninsula, and 120 miles east of the coast of Africa. Politically controlled from Aden for much of its recent history, Socotra’s relative isolation in the Arabian Sea means that it contains a high proportion of endemic species. The present work provides a narrative of the journey as an opening chapter, followed by more technical chapters on the mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibia, insects, and concluding with a section on the geology. The contributors include foremost experts of the day, and the illustrations display work by some of the finest natural history artists of the period.

78. Heyerdahl, Thor. The Tigris Expedition. In Search of Our Beginnings. London: George Allen, [1980]. £45 First edition. 8vo. pp. 333; illusts., sketch maps; very good in original cloth, in d.-w. which is slightly faded on spine. Inscribed by author to front blank.

79. [Kars.] A. A. Lalayants. Des Vues de la Ville de Kars et celles du Gouvernement de Kars. N.p. [?St. Petersburg], 1901. £150 Oblong 8vo. pp. [i, title-page] + 32 photo. illusts. on 16ll. (captioned in Russian, Armenian and French) + [1. ad]; some occasional foxing, particularly to tissue-guards, soiling to fore-edges, good in the original printed wrappers, rather worn.

79 78

This is a viewbook of photographs, attributed on the upper cover and the title-page to A. A. Lalayants. The illustrations show scenes of Kars, the town in eastern Turkey close to the border with Armenia, with images also of the churches and the cathedral, forts, and the ruins of Ani. We can find only a single other example of the viewbook, held by the National Library of Armenia.

80. [Lawrence, T. E.] St. Paul’s Cathedral. Form of Service used at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Thomas Edward Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia. Wednesday, 19th January, 1937 at 5.30 P.M. [London:] R. E. Thomas & Newman, Limited [for the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Committee], 1936. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. [8]; port. illust. of Lawrence from Kennington’s bust; light foxing, minor soiling, small closed tear to foot of first leaf, else good, stapled in self wrappers, slightly creased.

O’Brien E093. The service, at which the Viscount Halifax unveiled the Memorial in the Crypt, was accompanied by “music of which T. E. Lawrence was particularly fond” (Purcell, Bach, Beethoven). This Form of Service reproduces from a photograph Kennington’s bust of Lawrence, and the text prints the hymns and prayers used during the service.

81. Limmer, Raymond. Reminiscences of a Year’s Captivity in the Hands of the Turks. [Parkstone], n.d. c. 1919. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. 46; very good in the original printed card wrappers, slightly worn, partly split to upper joint. The author, of the Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry, was taken prisoner by Turks while on service in Palestine. His Reminiscences print the journal he kept to while away the tedium of life in captivity. The booklet is scarce.

82. Mackintosh, Mrs. [Mary]. Damascus and its People. Sketches of Modern Life in Syria. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1883. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 296; full-page illusts. from sketches; occasional light spotting, minor age-toning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, neatly restored to head of spine. Theakstone Victorian and Edwardian Women Travellers p. 265. Mrs. Mackintosh spent seven years in Syria with the British Syrian Schools, a Christian though otherwise non-denominational group of women who became closely involved with care, schooling, and mission work following the massacres of the 1860s. Mackintosh describes the various groups of the region, their ways of life, and notable towns and sites such as Palmyra, and Beirut.

83. Meulen, D. van der & H. von Wissmann. Hadramaut Some of its Mysteries Unveiled. Leyden: E. H. Brill Ltd., 1932. £475 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxvi, 248; extending map frontis., photo. illusts., large folding map in rear pocket; first and final leaf heavily embrowned (as usual), occasional foxing, mostly to fore-margins, good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original dust-wrapper, which is worn and frayed, old tape repairs to several tears including a large tear vertically along the spine. Daniel van der Meulen studied at the University of Leiden, where he attended lectures by the Arabist Christiaan Hurgronje. After an appointment as an inspector in the Dutch East Indies, in 1923 van der Meulen became consul at Jeddah, and he made various excursions from this base. He visited the Hadhramaut on the south east coast of Arabia, with the German geographer Hermann von Wissman, and the present work relates their journeys through the region.

84. Philby, H. St. J. ‘The Recent History of the Hijaz’ Reprinted from the Journal of the Central Asian Society, Vol. XII, Part 4, October 1925. £250 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 17; fine in original printed wrappers, a little soiled. A transcription of Philby’s Burton Memorial Lecture given before the Royal Asiatic Society in June 1925, the first in the series of Burton Memorial Lectures. At the lecture, Philby received the Burton Memorial Medal, and went on to give a history of the Hejaz and the expulsion of the Turks. Notable explorers of the region, as well as T. E. Lawrence, are mentioned throughout.

85. Stark, Freya. ‘Some Pre-Islamic Inscriptions on the Frankincense Route in Southern Arabia.’ Offprint from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July, 1939. £50 First separate edition. 8vo. pp. [479]-498; sketch map of the Hadhramaut as frontis., 13 photo. illusts. on 8 plates; near-fine in original printed wrappers. Stark first visited the Hadhramaut, on the southeastern coast of Arabia, in 1935, and returned in 1937-8 with Gertrude Caton-Thompson for an archaeological expedition sponsored by the RGS and Lord Wakefield. According to her ODNB entry, “While others worked diligently Stark mostly stayed in bed, and the partnership ended acrimoniously. Stark returned on her own, riding a camel through the desert”. The results of the expedition appeared in the RGS, but Stark was invited to lecture on the subject at the Royal Asiatic Society, and she chose as her topic the ancient inscriptions discovered in the Hadhramaut.

mountaineering

86. Agassiz, Louis. Etudes sur les Glaciers. Neuchatel: Jent et Gassman [Atlas: H. Nicholet], 1840.

£4,250

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo & folio (text/atlas), a matched set. Text vol.: pp. [iv, title, dedication], v, 346, [1, errata]; ex-library copy with blindstamps to prelims.; some occasional browning, good in contemporary half calf, worn; Atlas: 18 finely executed lithographic plates, one with two illustrations, the first fourteen plates with accompanying ‘key’ plates; plate 6 spotted to verso, but otherwise in very good condition, bound with the original upper wrapper in modern period-style half calf with old boards retained, preserved in a purpose-made cloth slipcase. PMM 309; Meckly 1; Perret 19 (“Ouvrage fondamental sur la théorie des glaciers … très rare”). Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) studied in several areas of science, but his enduring contributions were those in the study of glaciers. The first proponent of the idea that the earth had been subject to a past ice-age, Agassiz joined a succession of theorists, including H.-B. de Saussure, who regarded the glaciers of the Alps as special objects of study. In the late 1830s Agassiz made many visits to Alpine glaciers, and indeed for a short time he stayed in a specially constructed hut on one of the Aar glaciers to investigate glacial movement. His important Etudes sur les Glaciers represents the culmination of this period of his studies. The work not only propounds his views on glaciology, which among other ideas suggested that in the past Switzerland had been covered by an ice-sheet of which the present glaciers are remnants; it also offered some of the most exactly executed illustrations of Alpine glaciers, after originals by Joseph Bettannier. The work immediately brought Agassiz to the attention of the international scientific community, and remains a cornerstone of both scientific and Alpine literature.

von F. L. Bertuch. Weimar: Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1811. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. 383, [1, index; articles at pp. 130-1, 137-168 & 3702]; 3 portraits relating to other articles; very good in recent cloth-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt [“Meyer - First Ascent of Jungfrau 1811”].

87 87. [Alps. Jungfrau.] ‘Erste Besteigung des Jungfrau-Gletschers in der Schweiz’, ‘Reise auf den Jungfrau-Gletscher und Ersteigung seines Gipfel, durch die Herrn Rudolf Meyer und Hieron’, & ‘Weitere Nachricht über die Reise der Gebrüder Meyer auf den JungfrauGletscher.’ Three articles in Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben

This volume contains notices, by the two Meyer brothers, of the first ascent of the Jungfrau. “The first to climb a Swiss mountain above 4000m were two brothers of the Meyer family of Aarau, sponsors of the first Swiss maps, and outstanding among the Swiss pioneers of mountaineering. Johann-Rudolf II and Hieronymus, with two chamois hunters, Alois Volker and Josef Bortis, reached the north summit of the Jungfrau (4089m) on 3 August 1811” (Braham, When the Alps Cast their Spell, p. 15). The south peak of the mountains was reached by Rudolf’s son the following August. The brothers’ account of the first ascent appeared in a separately published pamphlet of 1812, but it is preceded by this article for the Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

88. Auldjo, John. Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. £2,250 First edition. Large 4to. pp. xi, 120; 7 lithographs on India paper, 11 other lithographs (1 folding panorama), 4 maps and charts (3 folding, 2 coloured); a little foxed or spotted throughout, otherwise a very good copy in contemporary half calf, gilt. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Eyre Coote, with two relevant pencil annotations at pp. 8 & 88 regarding him; later book label of Rollo Hammet. Cox Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering 8; Neate A75; Nava F/1; Meckly 008; Perret 0183. Generally considered to be one of the most important publications in the history of Alpine literature. The narrative of the 15th ascent of Mont Blanc by the Scottish climber, John Auldjo (1805-1886), contains not only a fascinating record of the climb but also some magnificent plates, including a long folding panorama of the Mont Blanc Chain. Auldjo actually reached the summit by being hauled to the top by his guides, having been overcome by exhaustion. He nonetheless received the Gold Medal of Civil Merit from the King of Prussia and several other awards for his efforts. A landmark in mountaineering narratives and an important title for any collection of mountaineering books, this copy once belonged to Sir Eyre Coote, mentioned by Auldjo on page 88 of the book, and who according to an anonymous pencilled annotation is identified as the “one who was at all willing to accompany me … though a promise interfered with his desires” (p.8). An important association copy.

89. Ball, John. Ball’s Alpine Guides. Central Tyrol including the Gross Glockner. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ii], 139-314, [1, ad.]; 2 folding maps, one folding panorama, key map front endpapers; minor embrowning to free endpapers, hinges slightly cracked, ownership inscription of Archibald James, 1875, to title, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities. Neate B21; Perret 0236; cf. Moss et al. AL012.

27 90. Boeck, Kurt. Himalaya-Album. Bilder aus den indischen Alpen. Baden-Baden: Verlag von Friedrich Spies, [1894].

£2,950

First edition. Folio. pp. [16]; 20 photogravures, each with tissue-guard; minor staining to margins of several plates, else very good, and loosely contained as issued in the original cloth portfolio with pictorial upper board, minor marks. Yakushi B436; Perret 0514. Boeck (1855-1933) first travelled in the Himalayas, India, and Nepal in the 1890s. He attempted to reach Nepal on several occasions, and succeeded in 1898. The present album publishes some of the images he took on his earliest expeditions, and subjects include portraits of the local peoples of Sikkim and Kumaon, and views of the snow peaks - including images of Everest, Kangchenjunga, and Nanda Devi. The album is rare, with only 8 copies listed by Worldcat; the last copy at auction was in 2000 (Christies).

91. Burdsall, Richard L. & Arthur B. Emmons. Men against the Clouds. The Conquest of Minya Konka. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1935]. £250 First UK edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 272; photo. illusts., sketch maps, map endpapers; good in the original purple cloth, in original d.-w., which is frayed with some loss to head and tail of spine, cloth beneath consequently sunned.. Neate B213; Yakushi B296. “This Chinese Peak (24,892 ft) at the extreme eastern end of the Himalaya was climbed by a small American party in 1932 and was the second highest peak ever climbed at that date. It remained the highest peak climbed by Americans until 1958” (Neate).

92. Conway, Sir William Martin. Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894.

£1,750

First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. (Text/Scientific Reports). Text: pp. xxviii, 709, [1, ad.], with numerous illusts. from drawings by A.D. McCormick, one folding map; Reports: pp. viii, 127, with a photogravure frontis. of Conway, and two maps contained in pockets at front and rear; inner hinges of text vol. cracked, near-fine in the original cloth, gilt, pictorial vignettes to upper covers and spine of text vol., t.e.g., small ink spot to upper cover of Reports vol.

Neate C103; Yakushi (3rd ed.) C336a; Cox Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering 43; Perret 1088. “This work describes the first major British expedition to explore and climb in the Himalaya, one of the greatest of all mountain explorations. It accomplished a number of firsts and laid the groundwork for later explorations. Conway, who organized and led the expedition, climbed a 23,000-foot peak and traversed three great glaciers - the Hispar, Biafo, and Baltoro…” (Cox). The expedition included Charles G. Bruce, later to lead the 1922 Everest climbing expedition. The second volume of scientific reports, often lacking, contains essays on geological, zoological, botanical and medical aspects of the expedition by A. G. Durand, Conway, Bonney, and others.

93. [Cuvillier, Armand.] Souvenirs de la Suisse. Chamouni [so titled to upper cover]. Geneve: Briquet & fils; Imp. Lemercier, Paris, n.d. c. 1840. £1,750 Oblong 8vo. Title leaf (“Souvenir de Chamouni”) + 17 tinted lithograph plates inc. one double-page panorama; fresh and clean in the original clothbacked blind-stamped dark brown paper boards lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed, bookplate of Arne Lindenbaum (1892-1964), Swedish actor, librarian at the Royal Theatre and print collector. Cf. Nava N6; Perret 1182. This illustrated viewbook of the valley of Chamouni was issued in various forms, with varying numbers of illustrations. The majority of the plates in this book bear the name of Cuvillier, and printers’ details of Briquet & fils in Geneva and Lemercier in Paris. This copy, in addition to the fine double-page panorama of the chain of Mont Blanc, contains: ‘Chemin de la Tête Noire (Chamouni)’; ‘La Via Mala (route de Splugen)’; ‘Cascade de l’Arpenas (Chamouni)’; Le Mont-Blanc vu de St. Martin (Chamouni)’; ‘Source de l’Arveiron (Chamouni)’; ‘ Cascade de Chède (Chamouni)’; ‘Chamounix et le Mont blanc’; ‘Glacier des Bossons (Chamouni)’; ‘Le Mont-Blanc: vue du Jardin’; ‘Mer de Glace: vue du Montanvert’; ‘Glacier et Village d’Argentière (Chamouni)’; ‘La Barberinne, chemin de la Tête Noire (Chamouni)’; ‘Chemin de le Tête Noire (Chamouni)’; ‘Le Mont Blanc et la Vallée de Chamouni, vus du de Balme’; ‘Pas de Gonde (Simplon)’; ‘Hospice du Simplon et le Mont Leone’.

94. Fellowes, Air-Commodore P.F.M., et al. First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933. London: John Lane, [1933]. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xix, 279; port. frontis. of Lady Houston, 64 photo. illusts. including “An Anaglyph from Vertical Photographs Taken Over Everest. Made to Appear in Stereoscopic Relief” (with accompanying 3-D spectacles in pocket at rear), 3 double-page photo. panoramas, maps inc. 2 folding, one folding table; very good in the navy cloth, lettered in red, in original d.-w., which is worn with some loss to head of spine. Neate F17; Yakushi F40a; Perret 1604; S & B F08. The first, and successful, flight over Everest using two Westland P.V. 3 aircraft. The superb images were later to provide information for the successful southern approach to and ascent of Everest in 1953.

95. Freshfield, Douglas W. Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan including Visits to Arafat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. £1,250 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 509, [2]; chromolithographic frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 4 wood-engraved plates, wood engravings to text; very good and partly unopened in the original cloth, gilt, rubbed. Provenance: Bookplate of William Cecil Slingsby, Alpine Club member, with a loosely inserted 2pp. black-edged A.L.S. from Freshfield to Slingsby dated 9.7.03, and three small photographs of the Caucasus. Neate F71; Perret 1757. This book records Freshfield’s journey from Bashan (northern Jordan and southern Syria) into the Caucasus, with stays in Tiflis (Tblisi), Pyatigorsk and ascents of peaks there. Freshfield writes in the hope that “the record of our adventures in the mountain fastnesses may prove of sufficient interest to draw the attention of our countrymen to a range surpassing the Alps by two thousand feet in the average height of its peaks, abounding in noble scenery and picturesque inhabitants, and even now within the reach of many ‘long-vacation tourists’”. This copy belonged to William Cecil Slingsby (1849-1929), the ‘father’ of Norwegian mountaineering. The book also includes a letter between the two men, in which Freshfield asks for advice on “a first visit to Norway … taking 2 daughters and a nephew who can climb. We shall probably cross to Bergen go N first thro’ the fjords how far? & what next. What is the finest possible bit of scenery & where the finest mountains?”

96. [Hawes, William & Charles Fellows.] Benjamin Hawes. A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows. Printed, for Benjamin Hawes, Junior, by Arthur Taylor [London], 1828. £3,500 First edition. Slim 4to, a tall copy. pp. 35; diagram frontispiece, one folding facsimile certificate; bookplate of Joseph Prestwich, very good in early quarter calf with plain papered boards, minor wear to extremities. Pencilled note in William Hawes’s hand to flyleaf “No. 54 W. H. 1828”. Neate H55; Nava G/2; Meckly 089; Perret 2186. Hawes (1797-1862) and Fellows (1799-1860) accomplished the eighteenth ascent of Mont Blanc on the 25th July, 1827. Small avalanches in the upper Ancien Passage induced them to follow a new route via the Mur de la Côte, a route followed just two weeks later by John Auldjo on his ascent. Fellows published his own account of the ascent, but it was left to Hawes’s brother Benjamin to write up William’s version, based on materials he had supplied. Copies of the book vary between those with, and those without (as in this case), lithographic plates, which show scenes from the ascent of Mont Blanc by de Saussure. According to Perret, “le nombre et la nature de ces vues sont variables; les rares examplaires dont nous avons une description en comptent de 0 à 4, dont, parfois, des vues de l’ascension de Saussure (Regards sur les Alpes, p. 145). William Hawes’s note on the flyleaf suggests that this is copy 54 of a limited number printed for the author.

97. [Mont Blanc.] Journal de Genève. A complete run of the weekly journal, from Saturday 4 August, 1787, to Saturday 30 July, 1791. [Geneva: Jean Pierre Bonnant for Jacques Paul], 1787-1791. £3,500 First edition. 4to. 209 issues, forming 5 yearly parts, plus 9 supplements (of 20 recorded by Rivoire); 1787: pp. 1-78, ‘97’-110; 1788: pp.1-94, 8, 95-212, 8, 213-216, 4, 217-228; 1789: 1-40, 6, [2], 41-62, 4, 63-116, [2], 117-170, 7, [1], 171-218 (pp. 215-8 “Table des Matières” bound at opening of year); 1790: 4 [Numero 1 duplicated], 64, 4, 65-178, 177-211; 1791: 120; one wood engraved illust. to text, 3 eng. plates (one folding); ms annotation to one leaf and to rear free endpapers (noting the various Tables des Matières), contemporary papered boards with paper lettering piece, some surface wear to boards and to most of label (now illegible), else good, the contents in clean and untrimmed condition. Rivoire Bibliographie historique de Genève au XVIIIe siècle, 3304; Montagnier ‘A Bibliography of the Ascents of Mont Blanc from 1786 to 1853’ Alpine Journal 25, pp. 613 & 616-7; Montagnier ‘A Further Contribution to the Bibliography of Mont Blanc’. AJ 30, pp. 120ff. The Journal de Genève originated in the Comité général de la Société des Arts of Geneva; edited by Jacques Paul, it functioned partly as an official journal, carrying notices from the authorities, details of baptisms, marriages, deaths, etc., but also as a scientific almanach - the first page of each issue prints meteorological tables compiled by Marc-Auguste Pictet and Frédéric-Gillaume Maurice. Among those writing for the Journal was Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, and perhaps for this reason several numbers for the years 1787 and 1788 carry notices relating to Mont Blanc. Most significantly, the Journal printed in its second issue of the 11 August 1787 a notice announcing Saussure’s ascent of Mont Blanc: “Le mercredi premier Août M. le Professeur De Saussure partit de Chamouny pour essayer de parvenir au sommet du Mont-Blanc”. Saussure made his ascent the year following its first ascent by Paccard and Balmat, and as Freshfield wrote in his life of Saussure, “De Saussure lost no time on his return in giving to the public an account of his ascent. A brief preliminary note in the second

number of the newly-founded Journal de Geneve was followed within a week by the carefully drawn up Relation Abregee, subsequently incorporated into the Voyages. Geneva, which seems to have paid little attention to the conquest of the mountain by the two Chamoniards in the previous year, was thrilled by the success of its illustrious Professor” (The Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure, p. 237). The third issue of the fledgling Journal (18 August) carried an expanded 2pp. account of Saussure’s ascent (‘Rélation du voyage de M. le Professeur De Saussure au Mont-Blanc’). Subsequent issues continued to print material relating to the subject, most notably ‘Lettre de M. Bourrit, addressée aux Rédacteurs. Voyage au Mont-Blanc le 3 Août 1788’ (23 August, 1788, and continued in the following number). This letter records Bourrit’s final attempt on Mont Blanc, with a party that included “Jacques Balmat, dit le Mont-Blanc” (whose name appears in the list of guides Bourrit gives at the end of the articles), and also the Englishman Woodley and Dutchman Camper, both of whom made the ascent (Bourrit failed to do so). Other numbers print further articles by de Saussure and Bourrit, as well as letters by Henri-Albert Gosse (concerning a route from Chamonix to Courmayeur via the Tacul), by the Chamonix guide Jean-Michel Cachat to Saussure (15 November 1788), and by Bourrit expressing surprise at a woman, Madame Harsberg of Hamburg, ascending to the Montanvert in winter (3 January 1789). In addition, the Journal contains articles on unrelated subjects by Saussure, Bourrit, Senebier; it prints the ‘Lettre du Docteur Francklin sur les Sauvages du nord de l’Amérique’ (4 April, 1789), a translation of Benjamin Franklin’s Remarks concerning the Savages of North America (Passy, 1784); and reproduces correspondence to and from Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Copies of the Journal de Genève are uncommon, and complete copies more so. The present example features only 9 of the 20 supplements recorded by Rivoire; it perhaps also lacks one plate (of a meteor) recorded in a copy listed by the online resource Dictionnaire des journaux, 0645, though Rivoire does not call for it and the brief letter on the subject at this point in the Journal does not refer to a plate. Other examples we have found are also incomplete (for instance, the set at Harvard, and Yale, which has only 4 supplements). Apart from a few references in Freshfield’s life of Saussure, and a couple of mentions in Brown and de Beer’s The First Ascent of Mont Blanc, the Journal de Genève seems only to have attracted attention from Henri Montagnier, who discovered it during his Mont Blanc researches in the libraries of Berne and described it as “a curious little quarto sheet, scientific rather than political, which appeared every Saturday from 1787 to 1792 [recte 1791]”. Montagnier reproduced the sections of Bourrit’s attempt on Mont Blanc in his second article for the Alpine Journal.

99. Noel, Captain J. B. L. Through Tibet to Everest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1927. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. 302, [2], 16 (ads.); b & w photo. illusts., 4 illusts. to text; some occasional spotting, previous owner’s inscription to front blank, else good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, boards slightly bowed, with the remains of the original dust-wrapper (most of front panel and a large portion of the spine). Neate N22; Yakushi (3rd ed.) N139a; Perret 3211; S & B N13. Noel, the photographer with the 1922 and 1924 Everest expeditions, here offers his own account of the first three expeditions to Everest and of the 1913 Reconnaissance in which he participated. The dust-wrapper on the book is exceedingly uncommon, albeit in this instance largely defective.

98 98. Murray, W. H. The Story of Everest. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, [1953]. £195 First edition. 8vo. pp. ix, 193; photo. illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original cloth, in d.-w., which is rather frayed with minor sellotape repairs to corners. Signed to the title-page by the author. Neate M188; Yakushi M288a; Perret 3163; S & B M57. Murray, a member of the 1951 Everest Reconnaissance, wrote this history of Everest 1921-52 shortly before the British attempt in 1953. The closing pages discuss the likelihood of British success in 1953.

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reconnaissance led by Eric Shipton; Tilman, a member of that 1935 expedition and mentioned in this chapter, signed this copy of the book.

First edition. Royal 8vo. pp. xvi, 295; port. frontis. of expedition members, b & w photo. plates, 2 large folding maps to rear; previous owner’s inscription to flyleaf, spotting to leaves adjoining maps, else very good in the original cloth, in the original d.-w., which is somewhat frayed and browned with minor loss to extremities. Signed “H. W. Tilman” to half title.

101. Shipton, Eric. The True Book About Everest. London: Frederick Muller, 1955. £475

Neate R100; Yakushi R414; Perret 3831; S & B R30; Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering 35. The 1936 expedition, the fifth to Everest and the second under Ruttledge’s leadership, a first-class party. It was plagued by an early monsoon and stricken with weather problems from the beginning. Ruttledge’s account of the expedition includes a chapter on the previous year’s

First edition. 8vo. pp. 142; illusts.; very good in the original cloth, in original d.-w., which is browned on spine. Signed to half title by John Hunt, Ed Hillary, Mike Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and George Band. Neate S67; Yakushi S436a; S&B S25; not in Perret. A history of Everest written for a teenage readership, this copy signed by Ed Hillary, the first man to climb the mountain, by Hunt who led the 1953 expedition, and by four other members of the team.

102. [Smith, Albert.] The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc. London: A. N. Myers & Co., n.d. c. 1850s. £2,500 A lithograph Game Sheet “From C. Adlers Printing Establishment Hamburg”, with additional hand colouring and gum arabic, 54 vignettes illustrating the ascent of Mont Blanc, sectionalised in eight parts on linen approx. 54 x 40 cm., with accompanying rules booklet The Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc (Third Edition) printed by Myers, pp. 15, cloth-backed printed wrappers, slightly chipped and soiled; without the original box, counters and teetotum, now contained in a purpose-made blue cloth flapcase. Cox Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering 11; Nava I/2; Le Montagne per Gioco 1. The craze for Mont Blanc generated by Albert Smith’s show at the Egyptian Hall in the 1850s offered huge marketing opportunities. For sale in the Hall were all sorts of merchandise, including examples of the present game, which uses the principles of ‘snakes and ladders’ for an ascent of Mont Blanc. Several variants of both the game and its accompanying rule book are known, but all are rare.

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103. [Smith, Albert.] Mr. Albert Smith’s China (New Edition) and Mont Blanc Revisited is now open every evening... N.p. ?London, n.d. c.1860. £425 Square 8vo. pp. 8; soiled, creased and slightly frayed, good in self-wrappers. This apparently unrecorded pamphlet contains summaries of Albert Smith’s show at the Egyptian Hall on London’s Piccadilly. Smith climbed Mont Blanc in 1851, and from 1852 had staged his Mont Blanc spectacular; he introduced the China performance a few years later. This joint bill contains a note that “The new illustrative views for 1860 have been painted by, or under the direction of, Mr William Beverley”, who had accompanied Smith on his 1851 ascent of Mont Blanc. A plan of the stalls is followed by a description of the room, and next comes a list of scenes for the two shows. The Mont Blanc show appears to be a different version from the one with which Smith made his name, and indeed only two scenes relate specifically to it: ‘The Road up to the Flegère, looking towards Mont Blanc’, and ‘The Tete Noire’ (which mentions “Pringle the Feeble” who “has a daring ambition to belong to the Alpine Club and write in the next series of “Peaks, Passes and Glaciers,” only he has never been up anything”!). We can find no bibliographic references to, or institutional holdings for, this pamphlet.

104. [Smith, Albert] ‘ALBERT SMITH’S EGYPTIAN HALL PICCADILLY 1859. CHINA’. £95 A brass farthing, approx. 22mm. in diameter, with the bust of Albert Smith to one side, legend in six lines to the other, edge plain, in very good condition. Cf. Audisio ed. Albert Smith. Lo Spettacolo del Monte Bianco e Altre Avventure in Vendita, p. 214 for other tokens issued by Smith. Smith did much to popularise mountaineering with his show on Mont Blanc, based upon his ascent of 1851. In 1858 Smith visited Hong Kong, and later that year he began another entertainment at the Egyptian Hall in London’s Piccadilly, ‘Mont Blanc to China’. This small medallion was probably distributed by Smith at the Hall as a form of keepsake of the show.

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A brass farthing, approx. 22mm. in diameter, with the bust of Albert Smith to one side, legend in four lines to the other, edge plain, slightly darkened, else in good condition. See Audisio ed. Albert Smith. Lo Spettacolo del Monte Bianco e Altre Avventure in Vendita, p. 214. This small medallion was probably issued to commemorate Smith’s death in 1860.

106. Smythe, Francis S., Frank (1900-1949). ‘Mount Everest. The Full Story.’ An article in Kodak Magazine, February 1934, pp. 17-24, together with Smythe’s original autograph manuscript of this article, titled ‘The Mount Everest Expedition 1933’. £475 Published version: small 4to. pp. 17-40; numerous illusts. inc. to Smythe’s article; a little spotting, else VG in the original wrappers with a cover image of Everest from Smythe’s photograph, ownership inkstamp of J. E. Archbald to upper cover. MS version: 25 lined notebook leaves, written in Smythe’s hand in pencil to rectos only, the first leaf headed ‘The Mount Everest Expedition 1933 by F. S. Smythe’; occasional corrections, some leaves a little frayed (particularly the first and final ones), paperclip marks to first and final leaf. These two items, the autograph and printed versions of the same article, were contributed by Smythe to the monthly Kodak Magazine in February 1934. Smythe had taken part in the 1933 Everest expedition under the leadership of Hugh Ruttledge, and he published a fuller account of it in what is considered to be his best book, Camp Six (1937). The published article is illustrated by 11 of Smythe’s photographs; sadly the originals of these are no longer present. The magazine and autograph version of Smythe’s article both once belonged to J. E. Archbald, an associate of the Royal Society of Photography, who also contributes some photographs of a theatre show to this issue (p. 31).

107 107. Tenzing Norgay. Man of Everest. The Autobiography of Tenzing told to James Ramsey Ullman. London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., [1955]. £250 Reprint (same year as UK edition). 8vo. pp. 320; 4 coloured plates, photo. illusts., 2 sketch maps; good in the original cloth, sunned on spine, stain to rear cover, in d-w. which is worn with some loss, internal sellotape repairs to head and tail of spine. Signed by Tenzing to half-title.

Neate U05; Yakushi U24a; Perret 4563; S & B T06. Tenzing joined his first Himalayan expedition in 1935, Shipton’s Everest expedition. 18 years later he and Hillary stepped onto the summit of Everest, the first men to do so. His autobiography was published in the USA as Tiger of the Snows.

108. Tilman, H. W. Snow on the Equator. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1937. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 265; errata slip, 20 plates from photographs, 4 maps; bumped to upper outer corners at rear, else very good in the original plain wrappers with original dust-wrapper, slightly chipped to extremities. Neate T47. Tilman’s account of life in post-war Kenya includes details of

109 108 his climbing with Eric Shipton on Mount Kenya, Kilimandjaro, and the Ruwenzori. Tilman also relates a remarkable 3,000 mile bicycle journey across Africa from Uganda to the French Cameroons. This was Tilman’s second book, and this copy is unusual in being some form of paperback edition - perhaps a proof copy but incorporating the correct contents and illustrations, and with the silver-flecked dust-wrapper found on the more usual hardback version.

109. Wignall, Sydney. Prisoner in Red Tibet. Hutchinson of London, [1957]. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. 264; photo. illusts., map endpapers; some spotting, else good in the original cloth, in original d.-w. which is a little browned. A presentation copy, inscribed to title-page “To John Ormond with sincere good wishes from Syd Wignall”. Yakushi W153a. An account of the Welsh Himalayan Expedition 1955, led by the author, to the Saipal range in north-west Nepal. Members of the expedition were arrested by Chinese soldiers when they camped on the undemarcated Nepal-Tibet border, and interrogated as spies for two months before their release.

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110 110. [Australia.] George Baxter, colour printer. ‘Australia: News from Home’ [and] ‘News from Australia’. G. Baxter, [1853] & 1854. £225 A pair of Baxter process colour prints, each approx. 6 x 4 1/2” (image size), mounted on original card with embossed Baxter crest and picture caption (8 1/8 x 7”); mounts heavily browned, the prints slightly muted in tone. Mitzman: George Baxter & the Baxter Prints 257; Ball & Martin 195 & 196. These attractive Baxter prints were not issued together, but relate closely by theme. The first shows pioneers in a rough wooden shack in the Australian outback, one of whom reads a letter, another a newspaper, from Britain (the newspaper features details of the Great Exhibition). The second image depicts a young woman reading a letter to her parents, her father clutching a £100 note (presumably sent by Australian prospectors!); on the wall behind them a notice announces “Emigration to Australia, the Ship Hope …’.

111. Barker, Lady Mary Anne. Travelling About over New and Old Ground. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [1883]. £75 Reissue of the 1872 edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 353; frontis., 5 wood-cut plates, 5 single-page maps; previous owner’s bookplates to front pastedown, very good in contemporary half calf, gilt. Mary Anne Barker married her husband, George, in 1852, staying in England while he served in India and the Crimea. She joined him in India in 1860, but he died the following year, and in 1865 she married Frederick Broome, a New Zealand sheep farmer, and travelled with him to New Zealand. The present work offers an overview of exploration by notable travellers in different parts of the world.

112. [Bligh.] Golden Cockerel Press. Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia together with the log of his subsequent passage to England in the Dutch packet Vlydt and his remarks on Morrison’s journal. All printed for the first time from the manuscripts in the Mitchell Library of New South Wales, with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter, & engravings on wood by Peter Barker-Mill. Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, 1937. £425

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One of 350 copies printed in Caslon on Van Gelder paper. Folio. pp. 160; 6 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, facsimiles of Bligh’s own map and of pages from the Log; previous owner’s bookplate, very good in the original blue and white ‘sail-type’ binding, gilt, rubbed, a very good copy. NMMC I.625a; Pertelote 120. The first appearance in print of Captain Bligh’s Voyage in the Resource, with details of the events following the mutiny on the Bounty during the taxing journey to Batavia, and the return to Britain.

113. Burton, Sir Montague. Globe Girdling … Being the Impressions of an Amateur Observer. [Leeds and London: Petty & Sons (Leeds) Ltd., 1936 & 1938]. £125 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. ix, 344 & x, 575; numerous photo. illusts.; very good in the original roan, gilt, split to head of upper joint on vol. II, in the original dust-wrappers. Sir Montague Burton (1855-1952) emigrated from Lithuania to England in 1900, and over the next thirty years established the chain of clothing shops that bear his name. This success led to his selection to accompany various overseas trade delegations, with visits to North America, New Zealand, the USSR, and elsewhere. In the 1930s he also travelled round the world four times. His diaries of these trips are published in the present two volumes. “These diaries reveal Burton’s immense pride in his Jewish ancestry and his optimism for Palestine despite the worsening international situation” (Oxford DNB). The diaries also record his visits to the Continent, India, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, the West Indies, Egypt and Palestine, Norway, Tristan da Cunha, and North and West Africa.

114 114. Butler, Samuel. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1863. £350 First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 162, 32 (pubs. ads.); folding map frontis.; very good in the original plum cloth, gilt, faded on spine. A presentation copy “From the Editor”. Hoppe 2. Butler’s first book, edited by his father from the son’s letters from New Zealand in 1859, where briefly he had become a sheep farmer. Butler himself always disliked the book, and never allowed a reprint, despite its out-of-print popularity in his lifetime.

115. Chichester, Sir Francis. The Lonely Sea and the Sky. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1964]. £75 First edition, deluxe version. 8vo. pp. 352; photo. illusts., sketch maps, plans of Gipsy Moth; presentation copy with Francis Chichester signed bookplate and typed inscription to Baron A. Hoyningen-Huene pasted to flyleaf, subsequent browning to flyleaf verso, else very good in the original full faux-leather gilt, a.e.g, slightly marked with, loosely inserted, a first day cover commemorating Chichester’s Round the World voyage, also signed by Chichester.

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Chichester’s autobiography, with details of his solo flights and voyages, including the flight across the Tasman Sea between New Zealand and Australia, and the first solo circumnavigation from west to east aboard Gipsy Moth IV.

116. Dahlgren, Erik W. Were the Hawaiian Islands Visited by the Spaniards before their Discovery by Captain Cook in 1778? A Contribution to the Geographical History of the North Pacific Ocean Especially of the Relations Between America and Asia in the Spanish Period. [Cover title: The Discovery of the Hawaiian Islands.] Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1916. £250 First edition. 4to. pp. 220, [2]; 6 folding maps, one coloured; very good in the original printed wrappers, minor wear to extremities. Dedication on upper cover to Eugène Lewenhaupt. Kungl. Svenska Vetenskapskademiens handlingar. Band 57, no. 4. Dahlgren’s conclusion is that there is no evidence of European contact with the Hawaiian Islands before Cook. This copy is a dedication between the Swedish librarians Dahlgren and Lewenhaupt, from the Royal library in Stockholm to the University library of Uppsala.

117. Hacke, William. A Collection of Original Voyages : Containing I. Capt. Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. II. Captain Sharp’s Journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and Expedition into the South Seas, Written by himself. III. Capt. Wood’s Voyage thro’ the Streights of Magellan. IV. Mr. Roberts’s Adventures among the Corsairs of the Levant his Account of their Way of living ; Description of the Archipelago Islands, Taking of Scio, &c. London: Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1699. £5,750 First edition. 8vo. pp. [16], 45, [2, blank], 100, 53, [3, printer’s book list]; five folding maps, one single-page map, two illusts. to text; some spotting or browning, affecting several maps, marginal embrowning to endpapers, else good in contemporary panelled calf with private library shelf mark in gilt to foot of spine, a little wear, lettering piece renewed, ownership inscriptions of J. Foley, 1703, to prelims. Sabin 29473; NMMC I.32; Hill 741: “This work is original source material for the history of the buccaneers. Hacke, who edited these voyages, had himself been a buccaneer before settling down to the somewhat more respectable work of publishing the journals of his former comrades. Ambrose Cowley was well known for his harassing ventures against the Spaniards in the West Indies. In his voyaging into the Pacific, he sailed further south than any of his predecessors, and he named some of the Galápagos Islands. Bartholomew Sharp, the elected leader of the buccaneers, plundered and looted all along the west coast of South America and weakened the Spanish domination in those seas by capturing some important maps in 1680, from which Hacke later made several highly important manuscript atlases. John Wood served on Narborough’s expedition to the west coast of South America and gave an account of the Patagonians. Roberts adventured with Greek pirates, escaped from them, and was then involved with the Venetian fleet at the battle of Scio”.

118 118. [New Zealand.] In Memoriam. Thomas Alfred Sneyd Kynnersley, Lieut. R.N., Late Commissioner of the Nelson South-West Gold Fields, and Member of the Nelson Provincial Council for the Grey Valley. Born 14th June, 1839, Died at Nelson, New Zealand, 1st February, 1874. For Private Circulation. Birmingham: Printed by Hall and English, n.d. c. 1874. £65 First edition. 8vo. pp. [3]-18; minor age-toning, else very good. This memorial pamphlet for Thomas Alfred Sneyd Kynnersley, printed in Birmingham, England, not far from his place of birth in Uttoxeter, reproduces reports of his death from New Zealand newspapers, and letters from officials which tell of some of his achievements in New Zealand.

119. Vason, George. Life of the late George Vason of Nottingham; One of the Troop of Missionaries first sent to the South Seas by the London Missionary Society in the ship Duff, Captain Wilson, 1796; with a preliminary essay on the South Sea Islands by James Orange. London: John Snow, 1840. £250 First edition thus. 12mo. pp. vii, [ix]-236; eng. frontis., title page engraved; very good in the original cloth, endpapers renewed with signs of armorial plate beaeath the front pastedown, minor wear to extremities.

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120. Wilkinson, Hugh. Sunny Lands and Seas. A Voyage in the S.S. ‘Ceylon.’ Notes made during a Five Months’ Tour in India - The Straits Settlements - Manila - China - Japan - The Sandwich Islands - and California. London: John Murray, 1883. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 324, [1, Table of Distances]; folding map frontis., 11 plates, illusts. to text; hinges partly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, rubbed. A presentation copy, inscribed to title “With the author’s compts. to J. Burn Esq.” Wilkinson - described on the title-page as of Lincoln’s Inn - spent six months on a voyage round the world, and spent nine days in Hawaii.

polar time rebacked with original spine laid down, inner hinges rather ragged. A presentation copy, inscribed to the flyleaf “with the author’s Christian regards” but with the name of the recipient inked out. Sabin 5693. Blackley was born in Canterbury in 1808. He studied for the medical profession, during which time he organised with several other students a voyage to Greenland, in 1826. Blackley subsequently devoted himself to the church, but, according to Newsam’s The Poets of Yorkshire (1845), “clerical duties never obliterated the vividness of the impressions which his imagination had received in those forest [sic] regions, where he formed a friendship with the devoted chaplain Kijer, of Holsteinberg; hence, in 1839, appeared “the Greenland Minstrel, a Poem in Six Cantos”…” The book is scarce, with copies located only at the BL, LofC and Alberta.

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121. Blackley, Rev. Frederick R. The Greenland Minstrel, a poem in six cantos: with an introductory narrative: illustrated from drawings taken on the spot, during a voyage to Greenland in the year 1826. London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1839. £375

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122. [Bruce, William S.] Life in the Antarctic. Sixty photographs by Members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. London & Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, Ltd., 1907. £100 First edition. Small 8vo. pp. [viii, ads.], 67, [5, ads.]; numerous photo. illusts.; very good in the original parchment wrappers which are browned to margins (as often), overall very good. Denuce 1010; Spence 202; Renard 210; Rosove 53.A2. This small brochure was issued “to advertise the sale of photographs that were available by enquiry to the director of the Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory in Edinburgh” (Rosove).

123. [Cherry-Garrard, Apsley.] Jacob Vanierius, or Jacques Vanière. Prædium Rusticum. Nova Editio Auctor et Emendatior. Tolosæ [Toulouse]: Petrus Robert, 1730. £675 First collected edition. 12mo. pp. [viii], 320, [6, index]; eng. frontis., 16 eng. plates; paper flaw to pp. 11/12, else very good in contemporary full calf, spine gilt, joints partly cracked. With the annotation to the flyleaf “This is the Lamer copy, saved by me Apsley Cherry-Garrard”. Cherry-Garrard took part in Scotts’s last Antarctic expedition, and based on his experiences wrote one of the most compelling accounts of Antarctic exploration, The Worst Journey in the World (1922). After the Antarctic, “The rest of Cherry-Garrard’s life was anticlimax” (Oxford DNB), and in some ways his time in the great white south haunted him throughout his life. He gave up many of the interests from his life before the expedition, though he collected books, with a preference for first editions. CherryGarrard’s family home was Lamer Park in Hertfordshire, but by 1947 tax demands, and ill health, led him to sell the house, which was demolished. This small volume was one of the books that he retained at this time. The author, Jacques Vanière (1664-1739), was a Jesuit, who eventually settled in Toulouse. His Prædium Rusticum is a series of sixteen books in praise of the countryside, in the manner of Virgil’s Georgics. First published in ten books (Paris, 1682), the complete edition of sixteen books appeared first in the present form.

124. [Danenhower, John Wilson.] Lieutenant Danenhower’s Narrative of the “Jeannette”. Boston: James R Osgood & Company, 1882. £675 First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 102; port. frontis., one plate showing the Jeannette, one double-page sketch map; very good in the original printed wrappers, neatly restored to spine, stain to upper cover. AB 3643. The 1879 American expedition aboard the “Jeannette” attempted to sail for the north pole via the Behring Sea, with Lieut. George DeLong as leader. The ship was crushed by pack ice in the sea north-west of Wrangel Island, and the crew made for the Lena Delta, but only a few men, including a party under George Melville, reached safety. Danenhower was one of the survivors, and his narrative offered the first published account of the expedition.

125. De Veer, Gerrit. A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596. Edited by Charles T. Beke. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1853. £675 First edition thus. 8vo. pp. 8 (list of Society members), [vi], cxlii, [iv], 291; 4 folding maps, 12 double-page plates; mild foxing, inscribed to the title page “from the Editor” but with the recipient’s name inked out, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, lightly sunned to spine, but overall a very good copy. Holland Arctic Exploration pp. 23-5 & 536. This, one of the earlier publications of the Hakluyt Society, reprints the 1609 English edition of de Veer’s account of the voyages of Willem Barentsz in the search for a northeast passage to China. The Dutch discovered Bear Island, made the “first certain discovery of the Svalbard archipelago” (Holland), and overwintered on Novaya Zemlya. Barentsz and several other members of the expedition died from scurvy.

126. Duse, S. A. Bland Pingviner och Sälar. Minnen från Svenska Sydpolarexpeditionen 1901-1903. Stockholm: Beijers, [1905]. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 269; 82 plates of photos. illusts. and sketch maps inc. frontis.; previous owner’s inkstamp to flyleaf, else very good in the original printed pictorial wrappers, image of penguins to spine, some creasing on spine, rubbed, minor wear to foot of upper joint, else a good copy and not often found in the original wrappers.

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127. Fleischmann, Max C. After Big Game in Arctic and Tropic. A Sportsman’s Note-Book of the Chase off Greenland and Alaska; In Africa, Norway, Spitzbergen, And the Cassair [i.e. Cassiar]. Cincinnati, Ohio: The Jennings and Graham Press, 1909. £1,500 First edition, one of 100 copies. Large 8vo. pp. 248; photo. illusts.; fine in the original decorative cloth, gilt, small snag to upper joint. Czech Africa p. 58: “A famous American business magnate, Fleischmann had this sumptuous work privately printed and distributed”. The book reproduces from his journal descriptions of hunting expeditions to Spitsbergen via Norway, Greenland, British Columbia, and Alaska, illustrated with his own photographs. The book was intended for presentation by the author, and in other copies the preprinted leaf bound at the start of the book was completed with the author’s dedication; in this copy the leaf has not been completed. There are also variants of the binding, the two versions we have seen including the present version, and an ornate leather binding often in poor condition.

130. Howgate, Henry W. Polar Colonization. Memorial to Congress and Action of Scientific and Commercial Associations. Washington, D. C.: Beresford, n.d. c. 1878. £575 First edition. 8vo. pp. 143; folding map, 2 plates; very good in the original printed wrappers, chipped with minor loss to head of spine, creased to upper wrapper. Presented by the author, with “Compliments of H. W. Howgate U.S.A.” to upper wrapper (probably an inkstamp).

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128. Harrison, Alfred H. In Search of a Polar Continent 1905-1907. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 292, 16 (publishers’ ads.); photo. illusts., one folding map; minor embrowning to endpapers, previous owners’ inscription to front endpapers, else a very good copy in the original red cloth, gilt, slightly soiled.

AB 7454. Howgate (1834-1901) became Chief Disbursing Officer in the United States Army Signal Corps, and in this capacity became involved, from the late 1860s until the early 1880s, in Arctic exploration. By the mid-1870s, Howgate had commissioned the ship Florence for Arctic exploration, commerce and scientific experiment. It was in this respect that he proposed his “Polar Colonization”, suggesting Discovery Bay as a base for further expeditions. The present work has two photographic plates showing the Bay in summer and winter, and the map shows its location. The Florence expedition, and a subsequent voyage of the Gulnare, were preludes to Howgate’s involvement with the International Polar Year. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881 to 1884 under Adolphus Greeley was the result, but Howgate’s fraudulent involvement with Signal Corps funds resulted in his 1881 arrest. He escaped his captors, and was finally re-apprehended only in 1894, and imprisoned until shortly before his death.

AB 6693. Harrison’s private expedition aimed to explore as far into the Arctic north as possible, with a view to discovering any unknown land in the Arctic ocean. He reached Banks Island and explored the Mackenzie River delta area. The book provides information about the Eskimos of the region.

129. Hart, Ian. Pesca. The History of Compañia Argentina de Pesca Sociedad Anónima of Buenos Aires. An Account of the Pioneer Modern Whaling and Sealing Company in the Antarctic. [Salcombe, Devon:] Aidan Ellis, [2001]. £450 First edition. 8vo. pp. 548; illusts., maps; previous owner’s inscription to flyleaf, else near-fine in the original cloth, in dust-wrapper. A comprehensive and scholarly account of the subject, with 269 black and white photographs, maps, drawings and graphs.

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131. Jackson, Frederick G. A Thousand Days in the Arctic … With a Preface by Admiral Sir F. Leopold McClintock. London and NY: Harper & Brothers, 1899. £1,500 First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xxii, 551 & xv, 580; numerous b & w illusts. from photos., one folding panorama, 5 folding coloured maps; near-fine in original cloth, gilt, t.e.g. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to each flyleaf “To F. W. Frohawk from the Author May 18th 1899”. AB 7943. Frederic Jackson, who led the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition in 1894-97, sailed to Franz Josef Land, wintering at Cape Flora. This became the expedition base for the next three years, sled journeys being made through the archipelago for survey work and scientific collections. On the 17th June, 1896, an expedition member sighted a man out on the ice. It was Nansen, on his return from the highly successful, but extremely hazardous, Fram expedition. Jackson’s meeting with Nansen and his companion Hjalmar Johansen forms just one of the notable episodes in this narrative of the expedition. This copy was presented to F. W. Frohawk, the ornithologist, who provided an appendix to the book (”Notes and Descriptions of the eggs collected by Frederick G. Jackson and the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition in Franza Josef Land, 1894 to 1897”, vol. II, pp. 389-96). AB 8185. The author’s account of the first Fram expedition. Johansen accompanied Nansen on the sledge journey towards the pole, reaching 86º 13.6’N. They wintered over on Franz Josef Land in 1895-6 before returning on the Windward, the ship of the Jackson-Harmsworth expedition.

133. [Kinsey, Sir Joseph.] George Seaver. Edward Wilson of the Antarctic. Naturalist and Friend... With an introduction by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. London: John Murray, [1933]. £275 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxxiv, 299; plates (mostly from Wilson’s originals), sketch maps; very good in the original blue cloth, white leather label to spine, which is a little worn. A presentation copy, inscribed to title-page “To Patsy with love (stet) from Sir Joseph Kinsey ‘Warrimoo’ Christchurch, N.Z., 29th Jany 1936”.

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132. Johansen, Hjalmar. With Nansen in the North. A Record of the Fram Expedition in 1893-96... Translated from the Norwegian by H.L. Braekstad. London: Ward, Lock and Co Limited, 1899. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 351, [8, ads.]; 16 plates including two ports. and a map, illusts. to text; embrowning to endpapers, previous owner’s inscriptions at front, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed.

Spence 1080; Renard 1418; Rosove 295.A1. The first of Seaver’s titles on the members of Scott’s final expedition. This copy was presented by Sir Joseph Kinsey, a New Zealand businessman who acted as agent for several Antarctic expeditions including those of Scott and Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition. In 1914 he received the Scott Medal in recognition of his contributions, and in 1917 he was knighted. Kinsey is mentioned on p. 205 of the book.

134. Laws, Richard M., “Dick” Laws (1926-2014). A collection of ship’s plaques and similar items belonging to Dick Laws. £325 Together 12 items, each approx. 20 x 16 cm., comprising 9 ship plaques with die-cast badges and scrolls mounted as issued on wood, one item mounted on onyx with metal plaque honouring Laws, a further item with a presentation plaque to Laws from “all aboard R.R.S. James Clark Ross voyage 10-2000”, and a similar plaque for St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, all in very good condition.

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Richard Laws trained as a zoologist before joining the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (later the British Antarctic Survey) in 1947 under Vivian Fuchs. He spent two years on Signey island in the South Orkneys, studying the biology of the southern elephant seal. He returned south several more times, eventually taking over as director of BAS in 1973. On retirement in 1987 he became master of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. This collection of plaques, which once adorned Laws’s office, includes badges for several of the BAS research ships, others presented to him from US, German, Italian and Argentine Antarctic research institutes, a commemorative plaque for Captain Cook, and one for St Edmund’s.

135. Lyon, Captain G. F. The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon, of H.M.S. Hecla, during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry [With] A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe’s “Welcome”, in His Majesty’s Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV. London: John Murray, 1824 & 1825. £1,250

Together 2 vols. First eds. 8vo. pp. xiv, 468 & xvi, 198, [1, List of Plates]; 7 engraved plates inc. frontis. and 1 folding map to first work, folding engraved map frontis., 6 engraved plates & 1 engraved diagram to second work; minor offsetting from plates to text, else very good in contemporary uniform half calf, raised bands to spines with gilt to compartments, lettering piece to one compartment, a handsome set. AB 105530 & 10531; Sabin 42851 & 42853. Lyon accompanied the second Parry expedition in search of a North West Passage as captain of Hecla (1821-23; Parry commanded the Fury). His Private Journal of the voyage supplemented Parry’s own, official account of the voyage. The expedition proved of importance for the successful co-operation between the Europeans and the Eskimo encountered; indeed, by the aid of a sketch map of the area Parry discovered a potential route from one of the Eskimo. Lyon observed closely the habits and character traits of the different tribes of Eskimo and the Private Journal offers an excellent description of them. Lyon sailed with Parry again in 1824, this time to attempt a crossing of the Melville Peninsula. Lyon’s narrative of the voyage as far as Wager Inlet and Repulse Bay contains information about Southampton island and the Eskimos of the region.

136. Markham, Albert Hastings. The Great Frozen Sea. A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the “Alert” during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1878. £375 First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 440, [6, pubs. ads.]; wood-eng. plates and illusts., two double-page plates of sleding flags, one sketch map, one folding map; some heavy foxing at front and rear, occasional spotting, neat paper repair to fold of map, bookplate of Benjamin Foyle, inner hinges neatly repaired to style, else very good in original blue cloth, gilt. AB 10926. Markham was the commander of H.M.S. Alert, one of the two exploring ships of the Nares Arctic expedition. He led the two-sledge party that attempted to reach the North Pole, and his chapter 23 describes “The Most Northern Point Ever Reached by Man”.

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137. Mikkelsen, Ejnar. De Østgrønlandske Eskimoers Historie. København: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1934. £125 First and only ed. 8vo. pp. 202, [2, ads.]; frontis. and 8 other plates with photo. illusts., one folding map; minor foxing, else VG in original printed wrappers, photo. of Eskimo mounted to upper cover, creased and browned on spine, slight wear to head and tail of spine. A presentation copy, with a signed inscription from the author on the flyleaf to Krojer Kielberg, dated Juni 1939. AB 11433. A history of the Eskimos on the East Coast of Greenland, a region with which Mikkelsen had had a long association.

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138. Moss, Edward L. Shores of the Polar Sea. A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.

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First edition. Folio. pp. 83; 16 mounted chromolithographs, one coloured map, illustrations to text; minor restoration to fore-edge of map, minor occasional foxing but overall clean in the original decorative cloth, gilt, a.e.g., rebacked with original spine retained, a little uneven discolouration to spine. Not in AB; Stam Books on Ice 4.7 (a “sumptuous volume”). Moss was the surgeon and artist on the Nares’s Arctic expedition ship Alert. His book presents a vivid personal description of the expedition, illustrated with superb chromolithographs from his original sketches. First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 80, 577-610, vii (contents and index to Vol. II), xii-xx; illusts. and one large folding coloured map to Murray’s article; somewhat bumped to corners and creased in the original printed wrappers, the map in good order.

139 139. Murray, John. ‘The Renewal of Antarctic Exploration.’ An article in the entire issue of The Geographical Journal, Vol. III, no. 1, January 1894, pp. 1-42. London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1894. £150

Denucé 2107 & 1523 (map); Spence 2376. Murray, a member of the Challenger oceanographic expedition, reviewed the history of the exploration of the Antarctic, and of current scientific theories concerning the “sixth continent”, and summed up: “Within the past few months I have been in communication with geographers and scientific men in many parts of the world, and among them there is complete unanimity as to the desirability, nay, necessity, for South Polar exploration . . . This exploration should be undertaken by the Royal Navy” (pp. 23 & 25). The discussion that followed Murray’s lecture included comments by Sir Joseph Hooker, Sir George Nares, and W. S. Bruce. The article concludes with a bibliography on the subject.

140. Nansen, Fridtjof. “Farthest North” Being the record of a Voyage of Exploration on the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Month’s Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup Captain of the Fram. London: George Newnes, 1898. £175 [Second edition]. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xv, 480 & viii; 456; one coloured plate, numerous plates and illusts., one folding map; tear to fold of map neatly repaired, some occasional foxing, else near-fine in the original highly decorative cloth, gilt, a.e.g.

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AB 11983. Nansen’s extraordinary expedition aboard the Fram, 1893-96, attempted to attain the North Pole by drifting in the ice with the currents northwest from the New Siberian Islands across or near the pole. The Fram was purposebuilt to withstand the grip of the ice. In the event, the drift carried the expedition south of the pole, and Nansen and Johansen attempted to reach the pole on foot. They attained a new “Farthest North”, and eventually made their way back to Spitsbergen, where they were rescued by the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition. This second British edition of Nansen’s account is distinguished from the first by the finely and elaborately decorated binding.

141. Nares, Captain Sir G. S. Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in H.M. Ships ‘Alert’ and ‘Discovery’... With Notes on the Natural History edited by H. W. Feilden. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. £1,250 First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. xl, 395 & viii, 378, 32 (advertisements); 6 mounted real photographs, 7 full-page illustrations, numerous woodcut illustrations to text, 2 folding maps; minor occasional spotting, very good in the original cloth, gilt, a handsome set, now contained in a purpose-made slip-case. AB 12026A. Nares’s British Arctic Expedition, aboard the ships Alert and Discovery, was the first major British expedition since the Franklin searches of the 1850s. Sent out by the Admiralty to attempt the North Pole by way of Northwest Greenland, the expedition was equipped for a wide range of scientific studies. The Alert attained a new farthest north (82º, 28’N), and some of the sledge parties that went out from the ships travelled even farther (83º 20’ 26”N). However, the expedition as a whole was severely affected by scurvy, and within a short time it was forced to return. Nares’s official account of the expedition is also distinguished by the 6 real photographs of Polar scenery.

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143. [Nares, George S.] The Arctic No. of The Graphic. London: The Graphic, Nov. 8, 1876. £225 First edition. Folio. pp. 32; 28 wood-eng. illusts. inc. 10 full-page and one large double-page, one sketch map; very good, unopened and loosely contained as issued in printed wrappers with colour illust. to front, minor loss to foot of spine. Not in AB. This special issue of The Graphic newspaper was one of several such supplements charting the progress of the 1875-6 British Arctic expedition. This particular number provided an overview of the expedition, illustrated from sketches made on the spot, and the text bears the title: ‘The Arctic Expedition of 1875-76: a Narrative of the Endeavours made to reach the North Pole by Officers and Crew of H.M.S. “Alert” and “Discovery,” under the command of G. S. Nares, R.N., and Capt. H. F. Stephenson, R.N.’

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Denucé 862. Perry, a Jesuit astronomer based at Stonyhurst, took part in the Government Transit of Venus Expedition of 1874 to Kerguelen. The present work collates meteorological observations from this expedition, and offers similar treatment of results from James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition aboard the Erebus and Terror (which visited Kerguelen in 1840), and from the Challenger expedition, which visited the islands in January, 1874.

146. [Perry, Stephen Joseph.] A. L. Cortie. Father Perry, the Jesuit Astronomer. London: The Catholic Truth Society, 1890. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. 113; port. frontis. (tissue-guard slightly frayed), 7 plates, one sketch map, a few illusts. to text; minor spotting, contemporary inscription at front, front hinge slightly cracked, else good in the original cloth, gilt, faded on spine, chipped to extremities. Not in Denucé. Perry (1833-1889) attended various colleges before taking up a position at Stonyhurst, where he also ran the observatory. He took part in several scientific expeditions, undertaking meteorological, magnetical, and astronomical work in France, Spain, the West Indies, Kerguelen (to observe the 1874 transit of Venus), and the Iles du Salut off French Guiana, where he died of fever. He published several reports on his findings, all of them rare, and the present work - which provides an overview of his life and work - is also uncommon.

144. Nordenskjöld, Otto. K Jižní Točně. Dva Roky ve Sněhu a Ledu... Překlad redigoval Dr. Jiří Guth. J. Otty v Praze, 1909. £350 First Czech edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xx, 331 & [vi], 373; port. frontis. to each, illusts. and sketch maps, folding map at rear of each vol.; very good in the original cloth, penguin in an icy scene blocked on front of each vol., a little darkened on spines. Rosove 239 footnote 5. An uncommon translation of Nordenskjöld’s Antarctica, his account of the Swedish Antarctic expedition of original published in Sweden in 1904.

145. Perry, Rev. Stephen Joseph. Report on the Meteorology of Kerguelen Island. London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, and sold by J. D. Potter, 1879. £375 First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], 52; frontis., 11 diags. at rear; some spotting at front and rear, else very good in the original paper-backed printed boards, rubbed, inkstamp of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to front board and to title-page.

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147. Saunders, Alfred. A Camera in Antarctica. London: Winchester, [1950]. £95 First edition. 4to. pp. 160; b & w photo. illusts.; ownership inscription of Ann Savours with her bookplate, very good in the original cloth, in original d.-w., which is frayed with some loss to extrems. Signed and dated by the author to the title-page.

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Spence 1029; Renard 1344. The author took part in expeditions to South Georgia and the South Atlantic aboard the Discovery in the 1920s and 1930s, and his recollections and photographs appear in the present work.

148. Scott, Captain Robert F. The Diaries of Captain Robert Scott. A Record of the second Antarctic Expedition 1910-1912. Tylers Green [England]: University Microfilms Ltd, 1968. £675 First edition. 6 vols. 4to & 8vo. Spotting to endpapers, else very good in the original blue cloth, gilt. Library labels, accession and deaccession stamps of the National Maritime Museum to front endpapers of each volume, bookplates to each vol. of Ann Savours Shirley, and her ownership inscription and note to flyleaf of first vol, “A duplicate set presented on my retirement from NMM on 4.xi.1987”.

Spence 1078; Renard 1411; Rosove 294.A2. A facsimile of Scott’s original diaries from his last expedition, the originals of which are in the MS collection of the British Library. Volume IV comprises a reduced, unabridged version of The South Polar Times vol. III. The final two volumes in the set, which are smaller in size than the others, contain reproductions of Scott’s sledging diaries, recovered from his tent. This set was presented to Ann Savours, author of The Voyages of the Discovery and other Polar works, on her retirement from the National Maritime Museum. Her annotated slips appear in the second volume.

149. Speaight, Richard N. Spitsbergen. Camera Pictures... Exhibited by the courtesy of The Northern Exploration Company Ltd. London: Speaight Limited, November 1919. £225 First edition. 8vo. pp. [12]; frontis. and 2 plates after photos. by Speaight; minor foxing, else very good in the original printed wrappers.

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Speaight (1875-1938) was a portrait photographer, who from the late 19th century photographed members of the British Royal family. In August 1917, Speaight visited the Arctic on behalf of the Northern Exploration Company with Sir Harry Brittain and other Company members. The present item offers a catalogue for the exhibition of Speaight’s photographs held at his Bond Street galleries; it lists 38 titles, reproducing three of them. Speaight devoted a chapter of his Memoirs of a Court Photographer (1926) to Spitsbergen, revealing there that he was accompanied by Herbert G. Ponting (photographer on Scott’s last expedition), and met Frank Wild, the seasoned Antarctic explorer.

150. [Tristan da Cunha.] A group of 32 letters sent from inhabitants of the island of Tristan da Cunha, to Molly Jose of the Vicarage, Lamberhurst, Kent, dating from 1920 to 1939. £1,250 8vo., various paginations mainly 2pp. & 4pp. but a few longer letters, some 100pp. in all, addressed to “Mrs Jose”, “Molly Jose” or “Madam”, one letter incomplete, all without the original envelopes, together with i) an 8pp. summary (probably in Jose’s hand) describing the background to the letters, ii) a letter and envelope sent to Jose from Victoria Forester on Buckingham Palace letterhead and dated 25 Nov. ‘35, thanking her for sending the Queen letters from “two women in Tristan da Cunha”, iii) a single issue of the Tristan da Cunha News Letter for 1932, and two magazine cuttings. In 1919 Mary Jose, who with her husband and children lived at the Vicarage in Lamberhurst, Kent, responded to an appeal in The Times “to send things to the Islanders [of Tristan da Cunha] as for the first time for 2 or 3 years a ship was going... I did up a big parcel of things - soap, matches, needles, hair pins, chocolate, tea, tape, etc. - & I wrote a long letter & addressed it to ‘An Inhabitant of T. da C.’ I enclosed an addressed envelope & papers & said I should so like to get a letter”. The resulting correspondence continued for the next 20 years, with Mary Jose sending gifts to the Islanders, and they replying and occasionally sending back gifts of their own. The present collection comprises some of the letters received by Jose in those years, written by members of the small Tristan community - Mrs. R. F. Glass and her children Clement, Mary and Lillian, Frances Repetto (descended from an Italian shipwrecked on the island), Mr and Mrs Arthur Rogers, and their daughter Martha Rogers. The correspondence gives an idea of the hardships faced on this small island in the heart of the South Atlantic, and speaks of the difficulties faced when potato harvests failed, when the weather closed in, or when supplies ran short. Infrequent visits by passing whalers and passenger liners presented the Islanders with opportunities to write to their benefactor, and the letters contain descriptions of the frenzied activity that followed the call of “Sails Ho!” when a ship stove into view. Several of the writers described for Jose their forays to the neighbouring Inaccessible and Nightingale islands, where sea birds were gathered and fat prepared for the winter months (“the dripping & fat as we call it his [sic] very good for frying fish or potatoes” - letter from Martha Rogers, April 11, 1935). References appear in the letters to the research ship Discovery, to the Empress of France and other similar vessels, and to a Norwegian whaling factory and other Norwegian visitors, all of which put in near to the island for provisions and to offload mail and stores - which included on one occasion window panes sent by the King, and a gramophone from the Queen. The Islanders also send news of the various missionaries based on the island, with references to the one-time residence of Mr. Rogers, and to the contemporary stays of Mr. Pooley, Mr. Lindsey, the Rev. Partridge, and the Rev. Wilde. During the period a storehouse and hospital were constructed, the church expanded, several new houses built, and the population increased from c. 150 islanders to nearly 200. At some point Mary Jose sent a group of the letters she had received from some of the Islanders to Queen Mary, and the correspondence includes a reply sent from Buckingham Palace thanking her for sending them (it is not clear whether they were returned to her). The infrequency with which mail left Tristan da Cunha means that letters from the island are relatively scarce, and the present correspondence provides a fascinating insight into the lives of some of the remotest subjects of the British Empire.

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