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1 Black's Colour Guides. Naples, painted by 4 Chidlaw (B.W.). Yr American; Yr Hwn Sydd Yn Augustine Fitzgerald, described by Sibil Cynnwys Nodau ar Daith o Ddyffryn Ohio I Fitzgerald, London: A & C Black, 1904, 80 Gymru Golwg Ar Dalaeth Ohio, 2nd edition, colour illustrations, occasional light spotting, Llanrwst: John Jones, 1840, 48pp, leaves bookplate, top edge gilt, original decorative toned, occasional marginal spotting, original cloth, a few light marks, 4to, edition de luxe green publisher's wrappers, spine extremities 227/250, signed by the artist, together with rubbed with loss, light spotting and creasing to Cundall (H.M.) Birket Foster R.W.S, London: A wrappers, 8vo (Qty: 1) & C Black, 1906, colour and monochrome Scarce. A work describing the Welsh Colonies in illustrations, some minor spotting, front hinge a Ohio among other places. £200-300 little tender, top edge gilt, original decorative 5 Clementi (Mrs Cecil). Through British Guiana to cloth, spine a little rubbed and toned, light the summit of Roraima, 1st edition, London: T. soiling, 4to, edition de luxe 28/500, signed by Fisher Unwin, 1920, folding map, half-tone the publisher, plus Marcus Huish's British Water- illustrations, advertisements, frontispiece Colour Art, A & C Black, 1904, edition de luxe detaching, offsetting to title, one or two closed 106/500, signed by the author (Qty: 3) £100- marginal tears, a little light spotting, original 150 cloth, spine and part of lower cover faded, 8vo 2 Atkinson (Thomas William). Oriental and (Qty: 1) Western Siberia. A Narrative of Seven Years' Neate C79. Cecil Clementi was appointed Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Colonial Secretary of British Guiana in 1913 and Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, with his wife undertook a journey through the and part of Central Asia, 1st edition, London: country to the highland region bordering Hurst and Blackett, 1858, 20 chromolithograph Venezuela and Brazil in 1915-16. £100-150 and tinted lithograph plates, folding map at end 6 Cook (Captain James). The Journals of Captain (toned with reinforcements to verso), occasional James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery, light spotting, previous owner inscription of edited by J.C. Beaglehole, volumes II-III only in Charles Cotesworth, 1858 at head of title, 3 volumes, CUP for the Hakluyt Society, 1961- endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt, rebacked 67, maps and illustrations, a little light spotting with original spine relaid, lower corners worn, a front and rear, original cloth gilt, dust jackets, little rubbed with a few stains, 8vo (Qty: 1) £150- volume II parts 1 & 2 spines slightly faded, 8vo, 200 together with the separate portfolio of The 3 Birmann (Peter, 1758-1844, publisher). Como, Charts & Views drawn by Cook and his officers hand-coloured aquatint on paper, depicting a and reproduced from the original manuscripts, view of Como with the lake and mountains, edited by R.A. Skelton, 1955 (Qty: 4) £100-150 tipped onto brown paper support with printed title and publisher's name, sheet size 190 x 270 mm (7.5 x 10.75 ins), window mounted (Qty: 1) Peter Birmann, born in Basel in 1758, travelled to Rome where he ran a printing workshop for Ducros & Volpato. When he returned to Basel in 1790, Birmann set up his own workshop, specialising in landscape prints. At times he ran the business in partnership with printmaker Friedrich Huber (between 1815-1823) and later with his son Samuel, who was also a successful artist in his own right. This view of Como is likely to have been produced by Peter Birmann in the period 1790-1815, as the imprint does not mention any business partner. £100-150 Note that charges apply, see website for details Page 1 of 84 7 De Windt (Harry). Through the Gold-Fields of 8 Dutch East Indies. Coupe des cannes a Jawa Alaska to Bering Straits, 1st edition, London: [Cutting the canes at Java], pen & brown ink and Chatto & Windus, 1898, 33 monochrome pencil on paper, depicting plantation workers illustrations, the folding map of Alaska and the cutting sugar cane and loading it onto a barge, Yukon Gold-Fields is a facsimile replacement, ink manuscript Dutch title at foot, generally some light toning, top edge gilt, publisher's lightly toned, sheet size 195 x 260 mm (7.75 x original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine slightly 10.25 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together together with: with: Aankomst op plantagie: introductie - brief Carruthers (Douglas). Unknown Mongolia, a [Arrival at plantation: letter of introduction], pen record of travel and exploration in North-West & brown ink and watercolour on paper, depicting Mongolua and Dzungaria, 2 volumes, 2nd an indoor scene of a seated man with (possibly) edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1914, 168 afternoon tea, examining a letter and the guest monochrome illustrations & 6 maps, some who has arrived with it, with two plantation spotting throughout, publisher's original uniform workers looking-on, generally lightly toned, blue cloth, boards & spines slightly marked & minor dampstaining to some edges, ink rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus manuscript Dutch title at foot, with additional ink Brehm (Alfred Edmund), From North Pole to manuscript "hiernevens ontvangt UE een groote Equator: studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Eeter", possibly meaning "herewith UE meets an Many Lands, London: Blackie & Son, circa important person who likes to eat a lot" where 1890, 83 black & white illustrations, bookplate the abbreviation 'UE' could stand for 'Uwe to front pastedown, minor marginal toning, top Edele', i.e. 'Your Honour', sheet size 210 x 255 edge gilt, publisher's original gilt decorated red mm (8.25 x 10 ins), mounted, framed and cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, and other late glazed, verso with printed information regarding 19th & early 20th-century travel reference, translations from the Dutch of the ink including Wanderings in South America Etc., by manuscript wording (Qty: 2) Charles Waterton, 1st edition, London: Thomas Provenance: From a folder of sketches including Nelson and Sons, 1903, 8vo, mostly in original studies after George Chinnery, sold at Christie's cloth, 1 volume in contemporary gilt decorated South Kensington, circa 2010. half calf, 8vo (Qty: 11) £100-150 Apparently both items are on paper produced by Honig, JH & Co. (possibly watermarks). Not examined out of frames. £150-200 9 Eyre (Lieutenant Vincent). The Military Operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842. With a journal of imprisonment in Afghanistan, 3rd edition, London: John Murray, 1843, folding lithographed plan (with a couple of short closed tears), 4 pp. advertisements at end, a little light spotting, original green cloth gilt, spine and head of upper cover faded, 8vo, together with Brace (Charles Loring). Hungary in 1851: with an Experience of the Austrian Police, 1st UK edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1852, advertisement leaf at front, textblock a little toned, original red blindstamped cloth, spine faded, 8vo (Qty: 2) £150-200 Note that charges apply, see website for details Page 2 of 84 10 Maning (Frederick Edward). Old New Zealand: 11 Mountaineering. A collection of letters & being incidents of native customs and character photographs relating to mountaineering in the old times, by a Pakeha Maori [i.e. F.E. expeditions etc., mostly early 20th c., including a Maning], 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & small selection of 28 monochrome photographs Co., 1863, occasional light spotting and few of an expedition across Norway to the Arctic with marks, original blind embossed cloth, slightly views of Mt. Newton, Mt. Irvine, view from the frayed at head & foot of spine, 8vo, together ship Temingen and images of various camps with: with expedition members Milling, Frazer & Odell Buck (Peter), The Coming of the Maori by Te (many captioned to verso, all three mentioned Rangi Hiroa [i.e. Sir Peter Buck], 1st edition, were part of the Oxford 1923 expedition to the Wellington: Maori Purposes Fund Board, Arctic), each approx. 10.8 x 8 cm, together with Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 1949, monochrome two menu cards for the Alpine Club Winter illustrations and plates, half-title inscribed 'To Dinner, 12 Dec. 1911 and the Fell & Rock Tom Skinner, from Peter Fraser with Best Climbing Club, 7th Dec. 1929, plus a 19th Wishes and the Season's Greetings, Wellington, century chromolithograph view of figures in an N.Z., 9th December 1949', original cloth in dust- alpine pass, image 54 x 40 cm, mounted, jacket, 8vo (Qty: 2) framed & glazed (70.5 x 54 cm) (Qty: -) Peter Fraser CH PC (1884-1950) was a New In the summer of 1923, Andrew Comyn (Sandy) Zealand politician who served as the 24th Prime Irvine (1902-1924), a second-year engineering Minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 student at Merton College, Oxford, took part in a until 13 December 1949. Sir Thomas Edward university expedition to Eastern Spitsbergen. He Skinner KBE (1909-1991) was a New Zealand was one of a four-man sledging party, led by politician and Trades Union leader. £80-120 geologist Noel Odell (1890-1987), with Robert Alexander Frazer (1891-1959) as surveyor. They left the expedition's support ship at Cape Dyum on the north-east coast of Central Island and traversed the unknown and mountainous mainland. After a month spent exploring, they rejoined the ship on the opposite side of the island. Both Odell and Frazer had taken part in the university's first expedition in 1921, but neither Irvine nor the fourth member of the team, his close friend Geoffrey Milling, had any previous Arctic or expedition experience. They had been recruited solely for their strength and fitness, which they owed to being oarsmen. Both rowed in the Oxford boat.