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Printed Books, Maps & Documents The Kenn Back Polar Library 10 MARCH 2021 PRINTED BOOKS, MAPS & DOCUMENTS THE KENN BACK POLAR LIBRARY 10 March 2021 COMMENCING 10am AUCTIONEERS Nathan Winter Chris Albury John Trevers William Roman-Hilditch Mallard House, Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 5UQ T: +44 (0) 1285 860006 E: [email protected] www.dominicwinter.co.uk IMPORTANT SALE INFORMATION: COVID-19 Please note that due to the UK government's current COVID-19 lockdown restrictions currently in place for England there will be no public viewing or bidding in person for this sale. We will continue to monitor any changes to these guidelines and publish updates on our website. All lots are fully illustrated on our website (www.dominicwinter.co.uk) and all our specialist staff are ready to provide detailed condition reports and additional images on request. 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Catalogue Produced by Photography by Jamm Design – 020 7459 4749 Marc Tielemans – 07710 974000 | [email protected] [email protected] Darren Ball – 07593 024858 | [email protected] CONTENTS The Kenn Back Polar Library 1-44 Travel & Exploration 45-86 British Topography 87-101 Natural History 102-114 Maps 115-190 Decorative Prints 191-228 The David Smith Print Collection Part IV 229-245 Military Watercolours & Prints 246-260 Napoleonic Manuscripts & Letters 261-275 Autographs, Historical Documents & Ephemera 276-353 Antiquarian Literature & History 354-395 Art Reference 396-406 General Literature 407-414 General Stock 415-436 SPECIALIST STAFF Nathan Winter Chris Albury Colin Meays Libraries, Continental Books, Manuscripts, Early Printed Books & Music Documents & Books & Bibles Photographs Bookbinding Nathan Winter Chris Albury Colin Meays John Trevers Paul Rasti Henry Meadows Maps, Atlases, Travel & Exploration, Fossils & Minerals, Decorative Prints Modern Literature, Military History & Caricatures Sports John Trevers Paul Rasti Henry Meadows Dominic Susanna Winters Helen Pedder Somerville-Brown Children’s Literature, General Cataloguer Travel & Exploration, Fine Bindings, Antiquarian Literature Textiles & Cookery Dominic Susanna Winters Helen Pedder Somerville-Brown Cover illustrations: Front cover: lot 2 Back cover: lot 57 Inside front cover: lot 62 George French Angas (1822-1886). Fourteen colour lithograph views from South Australia Illustrated, Thomas McLean, 1846-47. Wednesday 7 April 2021: Estimate £700-1,000 FORTHCOMING SALES IN 2021 Wednesday 24 March Antiques, Silver & Historic Textiles Thursday 25 March British & European Paintings & Watercolours Portrait Miniatures, Old Master & Modern Prints & Drawings Wednesday 7 April Fine English & Continental Printed Books & Manuscripts Thursday 8 April Maps & Prints, The Bookbindery of Faith Shannon MBE Wednesday 12 May Printed Books, Maps & Documents Numismatics: The Patricia Milne-Henderson Collection Coins & Historical Medals Wednesday 19 May 19th & 20th Century Photography The Photograph Collections of Dr Richard Sadler FRPS & Dr David Gruebel-Lee Thursday 20 May Military & Aviation History, Medals & Militaria Battle of Britain Memorabilia including Medals awarded to Air Commodore Peter Brothers, CBE, DSO & DFC and Bar Wednesday 16 June Printed Books, Maps & Prints, Autographs & Documents Thursday 17 June Children’s & Illustrated Books, 19th Century Literature Modern First Editions Entries are invited for the above sales: please contact one of our specialist staff for further advice THE KENN BACK POLAR LIBRARY To commence at 10am Eric Kenneth Prentice Back (1942–), a descendant of Arctic explorer Captain George Back, joined the British Antarctic Survey as a meteorologist in 1963, straight after graduating from Durham University with a degree in classics. Over the next twenty years he saw out eight Antarctic winters and served as base commander at Halley, Faraday and Rothera stations; his three-year stint on Adelaide Island (at Station T, the BAS base), recorded in meticulous detail here, was his first posting. After an extended period of travel and itinerant work in Asia, Australasia and the south-west Pacific he returned to the BAS in 1999 as team leader at Port Lockroy in the Palmer Archipelago, taking statutory retirement three years later. He is one of a select group to have received both the Polar and Fuchs medals, and lives today in Montevideo, Uruguay. 1 Amundsen (Roald). “The North West Passage”, being the titles gilt to spine, polar bear vignette to front board, 8vo, Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Gjöa” 1903-1907, 2 Sverdrup (Otto). New Land. Four Years in the Arctic Regions. volumes, 1st US edition, New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, Translated from the Norwegian by Ethel Harriet Hearn, 2 volumes, 1908, frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), illustrations throughout, one 1st edition in English, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904, folding map loose, tape residue to free endpapers, top edges gilt, half-titles, frontispieces, numerous illustrations (mainly original dark blue pictorial cloth gilt, short split to head of volume photographic, including many full-page ‘plates’ counted in 1 front joint, 8vo, together with: pagination), 40 pp. advertisements, 3 folding maps (2 in end- Nordenskiöld (Adolf Erik). The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and pocket), text-blocks toned, browning to half-title and final text-leaf Europe, with a Historical Review of Previous Journeys along the of each volume from endpapers, volume 1 inner hinges cracked, North Coast of the Old World. Translated by Alexander Leslie, 2 volume 2 inner hinges neatly repaired, original blue cloth, vignette volumes, 1st edition in English, London: Macmillan and Co., 1881, of the Fram to front boards in silver, library markings effaced from half-titles, 5 steel-engraved portrait plates including frontispieces, spines, headcaps refurbished, 8vo, 10 lithographic folding maps, one map (no. 10) with closed handling and 4 others, all in original cloth (not collated): Nansen, In Northern tear, numerous wood-engravings (many full-page), bookplate of Mists, 2 volumes, 1st US edition, New York, 1911, Farthest North, 2 Kenn Back, original green decorative cloth, 8vo, volumes, 1st edition in English, London, 1897, Farthest North, 2 Mikkelsen (Ejnar). Conquering the Arctic Ice, 1st edition, London: volumes, 1st US edition, New York, 1897; and Mikkelsen, Lost in the William Heinemann, 1909, half-title, frontispiece, folding map, 2 Arctic, 1st edition in English, London, 1913 maps and numerous further illustrations in text, Signet Library Arctic Bibliography 12443 (Nordenskiöld, misdating the translation 1882), plate and inscription to front pastedown, manuscript call number 11421 (Mikkelsen, Conquering the Arctic Ice), 17322 (Sverdrup); cf. Arctic to title-page verso, bookplate of Kenn Back to front free endpaper, Bibliography 402 (Amundsen, first UK edition, Constable, 1908). tape residue to free endpapers, top edge gilt, original grey cloth, (14) £300 - £500 5 3 Back (Eric Kenneth Prentice, ‘Kenn’, 1942–). ‘A Record of the Climate and Inhabitants of Adelaide Island, Antarctica’, 1963- 6, manuscript log in black ink on ruled paper, approximately 280 pp., illustrated with 45 original photographs (most in black and white, a few in colour; most mounted on tipped-in leaves of india paper with Back’s manuscript captions), 7 manuscript maps (on india paper, tipped in), 1 large folding manuscript diagram (titled ‘Baratic analysis, 1200 G.M.T. 11 August 1964’), and 9 barograms or hygrograms, with frequent additional notes, tables and newspaper clippings tipped in, contemporary tan cloth binding with custom green cloth jacket stitched over, folio (32.2 x 20.3cm), together with Kenn Back’s manuscript log of his secondment to McGill University’s Knob Lake subarctic research laboratory at Schefferville,