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CARTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL, AND EXPLORATION
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111 (ARCTIC) BACK, SIR GEORGE Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. London: John Murray, 1836.
8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, complete with folding map and 16 plates. Boards faded and rubbed; rear outer hinge split with slight separation; backstrip starting; 6-inch tear to map; bookplate tipped in front pastedown. $200-400
112 (ARCTIC) BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, Performed in His Majesty’s Ships Dorothea and Trent, under the Command of Captain David Buchanan, R.N.; 1818. London: Richard Bentley, 1843.
8vo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, with five (of six) maps, including two fold-out. Boards faded and worn with backstrip detached and hinges starting; intermittent foxing and some dampstaining to plates. $300-500 113 (ARCTIC) BYRD, RICHARD Two signed first editions.
Discovery. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth, dust jacket. First edition, signed by Byrd on the f.f.e.p. Fading and marginal chipping to jacket; ephemera tipped to endpapers. [Together with:] Alone. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket. First edition, signed by Byrd on the f.f.e.p. Toning and marginal chipping to jacket. $200-400
114 (ARCTIC) BYRD, RICHARD Discovery: The Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935.
8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered light blue cloth, dust jacket, unclipped. First edition, signed by Byrd on the f.f.e.p. Dust jacket with some edgewear; ex-libris to verso f.f.e.p.; otherwise internally fine. Property from a Private Collection $100-200
115 (ARCTIC) FRANKLIN, SIR JOHN Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22. London: William Clowes, 1824.
2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 smooth calf, gilt-tooled and lettered spines. Second edition, with three (of four) fold-out maps, including one hand-colored in outline. Some light edgewear to boards; very minor intermittent foxing. $200-400
116 (ARCTIC) HUISH, ROBERT The Last Voyage of Capt. Sir John Ross to the Arctic Regions; for the Discovery of a North West Passage Performed in the Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33. London: John Saunders, 1835.
8vo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Second edition, complete with engraved title page, frontispiece and seven engraved plates. Backstrip and upper board starting with hinges cracked; boards overall worn; intermittent foxing and some offsetting from plates. $100-200 117* (ARCTIC) A group of nine books pertaining to Arctic exploration.
[2 copies] My Attainment of the Pole. By Dr. Frederick A. Cook. New York: Polar Publishing, 1911 and 1912; The Polar World. By G. Hartwig. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869; The Arctic Rescue: How Nobile Was Saved. By Einar Lundborg. New York: Viking, 1929; The Private Journal of Captain G. F. Lyon. London: John Murray, 1824; The Rescue of Greely. By W.S. Schley. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1885; Our Lost Explorers: The Narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition. Revised by Raymond Lee Newcomb. Hartford, CT: American Publishing, 1883; The Story of Exploration and Adventure in the Frozen Seas. By Prescott Holmes. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, n.d.; Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. By William Elder. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1858. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200
117A* (ARCTIC) A group of seven titles in nine volumes pertaining to Arctic exploration.
The Open Polar Sea... By Dr. I.I. Hayes. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867; Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal. By Sherard Osborn. New York: George Putnam, 1852; A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860; Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879; The North Pole. By Robert E. Peary. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910; Northward over the “Great Ice.” New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1897, 2 vols.; On the “Polar Star” in the Arctic Sea. London: Hutchinson, 1903. 2 vols. Property from the Estate of William R. and Rachel E. Judd, West Lafayette, Indiana $100-200 118 (ATLAS) CARY, JOHN [New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys.] [London: By the Author, 1787].
Folio, rebound in modern fine quarter tan morocco over marbled boards, renewed endpapers, engraved dedication page, advertisement, list of subscribers, and 47 engraved county maps hand-colored in outline, accompanied by descriptive text and index list of road junctions to the end. First edition. Residents names supplied in a contemporary hand. Lacking title page; dedication leaf silked around edges; light overall toning; some additional minor restoration. $400-600
119 (ATLAS) DELISLE, GUILLAUME A bound collection of 28 engraved maps, handcolored in outline, largely after Delisle (Paris, 1745), but with examples by Nicholas Sanson and Robert de Vaugondy as well. Folio, contemporary plain boards. Most maps curled at the edges; a number with lower edge backed and some small tears. $200-400
120 (CANADA) DARTNELL, GEORGE R. A Brief Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Transport “Premier,” near the Mouth of the River St. Lawrence, on the 4th November, 1843. London: Jeremiah How, 1845.
4to, original blue cloth stamped in gilt and blind. First edition, with six lithographed plates and engraved title page vignette. Boards worn with loss to hinges and spine; first three leaves detached; intermittent light foxing. $100-200
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121 (CANADA) HERIOT, GEORGE Travels through the Canadas, containing a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the Rivers and Lakes ... to which is subjoined a Comparative View of the Manners and Customs of Several of the Indian Nations of North and South America. London: Richard Phillips, 1807.
4to, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, giltlettered spine. First edition, complete with folding aquatint frontispiece view of Quebec, 26 colored plates and one hand-colored folding map. Rubbing to boards; frontispiece view split at folds and reinforced on verso with archival tape, some other plates with splits at the folds; offsetting from some plates; stains to pp. 28/29; scattered light brownspotting. Literature: Abbey Travel, 618. $800-1,200 122 (CANADA) HIND, HENRY YOULE Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
2 vols. 8vo, full modern red morocco, gilt-lettered spines, renewed endpapers. First edition, with 20 plates and eight maps, including three fold-out, and numerous in-text engravings. Hinges rubbed; a few small tears to plates; some very minor intermittent foxing. $200-400
123 (CANADA, MAP) SANTINI AND D’ANVILLE Partie orientale du Canada avec la nouvelle angleterre l’Acadie, et la terre-neuve par la S. D’Anville. Venice: Paolo Santini, 1776. Engraved map with handcoloring, with a large title cartouche featuring a beaver, by Santini after D’Anville. Framed and matted. 19 x 22 1/2 inches. $200-400 124 (CANADA) [WARBURTON, GEORGE] Hochelaga; or, England in the New World. Edited by Eliot Warburton. London: Henry Colburn, 1846.
2 vols. 8vo, full modern brown morocco, gilt-lettered spines. First edition, with engraved frontispiece of “Canadian Travelling” to vol. 1. Boards rubbed; scattered light brownspotting. $80-120
125 [HARRIS, JOHN] A collection of voyages from John Harris’s Navigantium atque itinerarium bibliotheca; or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels... London: Thomas Bennet et al., 1705, comprising pp. 113-524, which includes The Voyages and Travels of Mr. John Albert de Mandelslo, (A Gentleman belonging to the former Embassy) into the West-Indies, in the Years 1638, 1639, and 1640. In Three Parts.
Folio, modern blue calf over linen boards, giltlettered spine, renewed endpapers. With four engraved plates. Light rubbing to boards at spine; scattered light foxing. $100-200
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126 JACOBS, THOMAS JEFFERSON Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Pacific Ocean... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.
8vo, publisher’s blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered and- decorated spine. First edition. With three plates, one fold-out. Wear and light dampstaining to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting. $100-200
127 (MAP) BELLIN, NICHOLAS Carte reduite du Golphe du Mexique et des isles de l’Amerique. Paris, c. 1764. Engraved map with handcoloring. Framed and matted. 21 x 31 1/4 inches. $800-1,200
128* (MAP) BLAEU, JOHANNES Ducatus Eboracensis pars Occidentalis. Amsterdam, 1645-1667. Engraved map with hand-coloring. 16 x 20 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Benjamin and Louise Pritz, Cincinnati, Ohio $100-200
129 (MAP) BLAEU, JOHANNES A group of three maps of Asian provinces from Blaeu’s Atlas Sinensis, (Amsterdam, 1655), comprising Xansi, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Secunda; Xensi, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Tertia; and Honan, Imperii Sinarum Provincia Quinta. Copperplate engraved maps, hand-colored in outline, each with decorative cartouches. 20 x 24 inches each. $600-800 130 (MAP) BLOME, RICHARD Speed’s Maps Epitomiz’d: or The Maps of the Counties of England. London: s.n., 1681.
8vo, original calf. With 34 colored maps, many foldout. Boards detached and worn; spine deteriorated; bookplate tipped to front pastedown and verso title page; intermittent foxing; some leaves detached from backstrip. $400-600
131 (MAP) DE VAUGONDY, GILLES, after Partie occidentale de la carte des anciennes monarchies. Paris, c. 1800. Engraved map with handcoloring. Framed and matted. 20 x 26 inches. $100-200
132 (MAP) DELISLE, GUILLAUME Mappemonde a l’usage du Roy par Guillaume Delisle Premier Geographe de S.M. Paris, 1742. Engraved map with hand-coloring. Framed and matted. 17 x 26 inches. $600-800
133 (MAP) HOMANN HEIRS A group of five engraved maps with hand-coloring, after Homann, comprising Circuli Westphaliae, 1761, Der OberRheinische kreis, 1786, Circuli Franconiae, n.d., Regni Galliae seu Franciae et Navarre, 1741, and Mark Brandenburg und das Herzogthumpommern, 1780. Together with Carte generale du duche de Silesie, 1741, by Covens and Mortier. (6 total) Size of largest 21 x 24 1/2 inches. $200-400 134 (MAP) LOTTER AND DELISLE America Septentrionales. Augsberg, 1760. Engraved map with hand-coloring, after Delisle. Framed and matted. 18 1/2 x 23 inches. $2,000-4,000
135 (MAP) MOLL, HERMAN A New and Correct Map of the World. London, 1732. Engraved hemisphere map with hand-coloring. Framed and matted. 22 x 38 inches. $2,000-4,000
136 (MAP) MOLL, HERMAN A New Map of the World According to Wright’s Mercator’s Projection. London, 1705. Engraved double-sheet map with hand-coloring. Framed and matted. 23 x 37 inches. $1,000-2,000
137 (MAP) ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar: Insularum descriptio. [London, n.d.] Engraved map depicting the British Isles with decorative cartouches to upper and lower right corners. French text to verso. Framed. 22 x 27 1/4 inches. $200-400
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139 (MAP) A group of 12 engraved maps, including two with hand-coloring. Size of largest 10 x 14 inches. $50-100
140 (MAP) PALAIRET, JEAN Two engraved maps with hand-coloring from Atlas methodique, by J. Palairet, (London, c. 1755), comprising Ie. Carte de l’Europe, 1754, and Ie. Carte des sept provinces unies des Pais Bas, &c. 1755. Framed and matted. Size of largest 22 x 19 inches. $100-200
141 (MAP) WELLS, EDWARD A New Map of Europe according to the Present General Divisions and Names ... Capital Cities, Chief Rivers, Mountains, &c. ... Dedicated to His Highness William Duke of Gloucester. Oxford, 1712. Engraved map with hand-coloring. Framed and matted. 14 x 19 inches. $100-200 142 (MANUSCRIPTS, NAUTICAL) A collection of nautical papers related to the Cutts family of Pepperellborough, Maine, late 18th to early 19th-century, including:
1) An Act for the Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchants’ Service, 1790. Broadside for the Regulation of Seaman with the printed names of George Washington as President, John Adams as Vice President, and Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. Fully printed to verso, and partially printed and filled out in manuscript recto with information for the ship Mercury. 16 x 19 3/4 inches; 2) Receipt for a share of the Privateer Brig Ludlow, Kennebunk, January 3, 1815. 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 3) Manuscript passport document in French signed (“Joseph Fenwick”), US Consul, for Thomas Cutts for travel in France. 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 4) Receipt to Thomas Cutts from Martin Bailey, signed (“Martin Bailey”), August 28, 1793. 3 x 7 inches; 5) New England Marine Insurance Company Document, signed (“Dominicus Cutts”). 14 x 9 1/2 inches; 6) Policy of Assurance for the Brig Liberty, 1801. 12 x 7 1/2 inches; 7) Ballast Office, Trinity House, London document, 1793 for the Brig Minerva. 10 x 8 inches; 8) Autographed letter signed (“Mary Cutts”), three pages, on lined paper, Newburyport, November 9, 1779. (8 total) $800-1,200
143 [PLAN DE TURGOT] BRETEZ, LOUIS Plan de Paris, commence l’annee 1734. Dessine et grave, sous le ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot ... Leve et dessine par Louis Vretez. Grave par Claude Lucas. Paris: s.n., 1739.
Atlas folio, contemporary gilt-decorated mottled calf, gilt-stamped Arms of Paris, fleur-de-lis corner pieces and dentelles to front and back covers, spine gilt-decorated in ten compartments with raised bands, giltlettered red leather spine label, marbled endpapers.
First edition of Turgot’s mammoth bird’s-eye view of Paris looking to the Southeast, with a key map and 20 double-page map sheets (18 and 19 with large cartouche are joined and folded); the 20 sheets joined would form a map approximately 99 x 127 inches.
In 1734, Michel Etienne Turgot, Prevot des Marchands du Paris from 1729-1740 (effectively the “Mayor”), approached Louis Bretez requesting a new map of the city. Having benefitted from relative prosperity in the Mississippi Bubble of 1719 and the Seven Years’ War of 1750, Turgot hoped the map, which was to be as accurate as possible, would have commercial benefits in promoting the city, as well as pleasing the King. The task took several years to complete; Bretez’s design was engraved by Claude Lucas. Closed repaired tears at folds of sheets 18/19 (the large fold-out sheet with the title cartouche); a few marginal brown spots and some light soiling; manuscript ex-libris to rear pastedown; loss to head and foot of spine and to part of the covers, replaced with matching calf; otherwise, internally, very good in a fine contemporary binding. $6,000-8,000 144 [PLAN DE TURGOT] BRETEZ, LOUIS Plan de Paris, commence l’annee 1734, dessine et grave sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot. Paris: s.n., n.d. [c. 1880]
Atlas folio, gilt-lettered red leather spine label, 21 sheets bound in contemporary cloth. A full-scale re-strike of the original plates from Turgot’s mammoth 1739 bird’s-eye view Paris, each plate measuring 27 x 38 1/2 inches. Bookplate tipped in f.f.e.p. $800-1,200
145 (ITALY) BIANCO, NOE Viaggio da Venezia al Santo Sepolcro et al Monte Sinai. Bassano: Spese Remondini, 1791.
8vo, publisher’s plain wraps. Illustrated throughout with numerous woodcuts of city scenes. Wraps worn with some loss to spine; intermittent light brownspotting; manuscript ex-libris to title page; small tear to title page. $100-200
146* (ITALY) MOSCHETTI, ALESSANDRO Principali vedute di Roma. Rome: Filippo Ducro, n.d. [c.1850]
Oblong 4to, quarter vellum over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label and gilt tooling to spine. With engraved title page, Pianta di Roma, and 70 engraved plates, including one duplicate, mainly by Moschetti. Wear to boards; spine label chipped; intermittent light foxing. Property from the Collection of Dan Johnson, Chicago, Illinois $400-600 147 (SPORT) VON GERNING, BARON J.J. A Picturesque Tour of the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne. London: Ackermann, 1820.
Folio, bound by Bayntun in gilt-decorated straightgrain green morocco, a.e.g., modern felt-lined slipcase. First edition, first issue with the plates unnumbered. Complete with 24 hand-colored aquatint views by R. Havell and T. Sutherland after M. Schuetz and a folding map hand-colored in outline. Minor wear and fading to slipcase; scattered light foxing; offsetting from multiple plates to tissue guards. $2,000-4,000
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148 (SPORT) ALKING, HENRY The National Sports of Great Britain. New York: D. Appleton, 1904.
Folio, 3/4 maroon morocco over cloth, giltlettered spine. New edition, complete with chromolithographed additional title and 50 plates. Rubbing to boards at edges; light ghosting to versos of some plates; otherwise good. $300-500
149 (SPORT. KENNEDY, JOHN F.) LA GRANGE, JACQUES Drama and Color in the America’s Cup Races as Told in Woodcuts by Jacques La Grange. New Brunswick, NJ: Christie Press, (1934).
Oblong folio, original brown morocco lettered in silver. Deluxe edition, number 67 of 500 copies signed and numbered by La Grange. With six original woodcuts signed by the artist and four additional woodcuts signed by Helen La Grange. President John F. Kennedy copy. A gift inscription on the f.f.e.p. reads, “To Pres. John F. Kennedy - with all good wishes, Lester Bensinger.” Additionally, a bookplate tipped to the front pastedown reads “Sotheby’s: Property from Kennedy Family Homes.” Boards detached and worn; marginal chipping to tissue guards. $600-800 150 (SPORT) LINDERT, ALBERT W. Gunmakers of Indiana. S.l.: By the Author, (1964).
4to, publisher’s gilt-lettered imitation calf. Limited edition, revised. Signed by the author on the f.f.e.p and copyright page. Ends lightly bumped; previous owner’s inscription to front pastedown; otherwise fine. $100-200
151 (SPORT) British Sports and Sportsmen. Breeding, Agriculture, Country-Life Pursuits. London: Sports and Sportsmen, n.d. [1908]
Folio, original gilt-lettered red morocco, a.e.g. Number 556 of 1,000 limited copies. Illustrated with 12 photogravure plates. Rubbing to boards, ends bumped. $100-200
152 (S.S. TITANIC) BEESLEY, LAWRENCE The Loss of the SS. Titanic. Its Story and Its Lessons. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, (1912).
8vo, original cloth lettered in gilt, custom clamshell box with inlaid black and white photograph of the Titanic. First edition. With numerous technical drawings and plans of the ship. Previous owner’s manuscript notations to f.f.e.p.; minor wear to boards; otherwise fine. $100-200
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153 (ARCHAEOLOGY) GELL, SIR WILLIAM AND J.P. GANDY Pompeii: Its Destruction and Re-Discovery, with Engravings and Descriptions of the Art and Architecture. New York: R. Worthington, n.d. [c. 1880]
4to, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt and black, a.e.g. With frontispiece and numerous engravings throughout. Wear to boards; ends and corners bumped; hinges reinforced with brown tape; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from some plates. $100-200
154* (ARCHAEOLOGY) ROBERT, DAVID Two engravings with hand-coloring from The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia, London, [1842-1849]. Both half-sheet, comprising Ruins near Tyre and Circular Temple at Baalbec. 10 x 14 inches. Property from the Collection of Dan Johnson, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 155 (MIDDLE EAST, MSS) QUR’AN An illuminated Qur’an, likely 19th-century, ruled in red, with some use of gilt and blue, numerous floral marginal illuminations, two leaves with elaborate frames in gilt and blue. 12mo, rebacked retaining original gilt-ruled calf boards, renewed endpapers, approximately 300ff. $600-800
156 (MIDDLE EAST, MSS) Two illuminated miniatures, both depicting court scenes, gouache on paper with elaborate borders. Framed. 13 x 9 inches each. $100-200
157* (MIDDLE EAST, MSS) A manuscript leaf, comprising a poem within a foliate border, attributed to Fath-all Khyat. 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. Property from the Estate of Benjamin and Louise Pritz, Cincinnati, Ohio $50-100
158 (JAPAN) KOIZUMI, K. AND S. TSUCHIOKA Paintings of One Hundred Birds & Flowers in Japan. Miji-Shobo: Chorui-Shasei-Zufu, n.d.
2 vols. Portfolios, plates loose as issued in original light green cloth boards with plastic clasp closures, titles in Japanese to paper labels pasted to upper boards. With 84 (of 100) color plates. Some soiling and brownspotting to boards. $200-400
159 (JAPAN) TESHIGAWARA, SOFU Selected Arrangements of Moribana and Heikwa. New York, Boston, and Chicago: Yamanaka, 1933.
3 vols. Oblong 8vo, red, grey and purple cloth, cloth ties. With numerous color plates illustrating various styles of Japanese flower arrangements. Light wear to boards. $80-120 160 (CHINA) WANG, LUIDWIG AND MEERSCHEIDTHULLESSEM, FREIDRICH VON In und um Peking. Wahrend der Kriegswirren 19001901. Berlin-Schoneberg: Meisenbach Riffarth, 1902.
Oblong folio, original decorative cloth, cardboard slipcase. With engraved portrait and numerous plates of black and white photographs, and fold-out map of Peking. Wear to slipcase; light soiling to boards; ends bumped; map detached but present, with 5-inch tear and marginal chipping; light foxing; some fingerprint smudges to edges of some plates. $300-500
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