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Shapero Rare Books 3 1. AMUNDSEN, Roald. The . An account of “Amundsen’s legendary dash to the Pole, which he reached the Norwegian Expedition in the “”, 1910-1912. before Scott’s ill-fated expedition by over a month. His John Murray, London, 1912. success over Scott was due to his highly disciplined dogsled teams, more accomplished skiers, a shorter distance to the A cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the Pole, better clothing and equipment, well planned supply first expedition to reach the South Pole. depots on the way, fortunate weather, and a modicum of luck”(Books on Ice). A handsomely produced book containing ten full-page photographic images not found in the Norwegian original, First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxv, [i], 392; x, 449pp., 3 folding maps, folding plan, 138 photographic illustrations on 103 plates, original maroon and all full-page images being reproduced to a higher cloth gilt, vignettes to upper covers, top edges gilt, others uncut, usual fading standard. to spine flags, an excellent fresh example. Taurus 71; Rosove 9.A1; Books on Ice 7.1.

£3,750 [ref: 96754]

4 Shapero Rare Books 2. [BELGIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION]. Grande 3. BELLINGSHAUSEN, Fabian G. von. The Voyage of Fete Venitienne au Parc de 6 a 11 heurs du soir en faveur de Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821. l’expedition de la Belgica. 1897 Jeudi 12 Aout 1897. Translated from the Russian. Edited by ... Ratinckx Freres, Antwerp, 1897. Hakluyt Society, London, 1945.

Program for a grand fund-raising event (including gymnastic With the scarce dust wrappers. Bellingshausen and his 118 displays, fireworks, a lantern parade, and “explosion de mines”) companions belong in the front rank of early Antarctic explorers: staged just four days before the Belgica sailed from Antwerp they circumnavigated the Antarctic circle (the first since Cook for the Antarctic. A rare survival. to have done so), confirmed the existence of the South Shetland islands, discovered several new islands at high southern latitudes, 4to (24 x 18.8 cm), 4-page program of events printed in French and Flemish, and may well have been the first to sight the Antarctic continent tinted lithographed pictorial cover by R. Mols depicting the Belgica at anchor. itself. This is the first translation of Bellinghausen’s original Russian narrative (1831), complete with notes from one of £1,500 [ref: 95302] Britain’s most experienced Antarctic geographers.

First English Edition. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, XCI &XCII. 2 volumes, 8vo., 20 maps, frontispiece to each volume, 36 plates, original blue cloth gilt, original cream dust wrappers lettered in black, light toning to spines and edges, a fine example. Taurus 3; Rosove 33.A1.

£1,850 [ref: 96268]

Shapero Rare Books 5 Presentation copy

4. BORCHGREVINK, Carsten. First on the Antarctic Continent, being an account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900... Newnes, London, 1901.

Rare presentation copy. Inscribed on the half-title: “To Tho Christie / with the author’s/ compliments”.

“The book is one of the most important in the Antarctic bibliography” (Rosove).

Clements Markham opposed Borchgrevink’s venture, declaring the Norwegian explorer “incompetent, his ship rotten, and that no self-respecting member of the scientific community should have anything to do with him” (Howgego).

“Newnes not only published the book, he financed the expedition in the Southern Cross. Before it was over, Borchgrevink laid claim to a number of ‘firsts’: the first time dogs were used on the Antarctic continent, a furthest south record, the first sledge journey on the . Perhaps today he would be best remembered as having discovered the northward movement of the Ross Ice Shelf and the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier.” - Taurus.

First edition. 8vo, xvi, 334pp., 32pp. adverts, inscribed presentation copy, half-title, 3 folding coloured maps, 17 photographic plates, 182 photo illustrations in the text, original pictorial dark blue cloth, black endpapers, top edge gilt. Taurus 24; Rosove 45.A1; Conrad p91; Spence 152.

£3,000 [ref: 93839]

6 Shapero Rare Books 5. [BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION]. The Sphere 6. [BROWN, R[obert] N[eal] Rudmore; R. C. Mossman; Memorial Number of the Scott Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. J.H. Harvey Pirie]. The voyage of the “” being a record of a May 24, 1913. voyage of exploration in Antarctic seas. Blackwood, London, 1906. This issue commemorates the disastrous ending of the second Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913. Includes “An outstanding account” - Rosove. many previously unpublished photographs and other illustrations as well as diary entries, articles and a chronology Scarce variant binding. An account of the Scottish Antarctic of . Expedition 1902-1905, written for the general public by Rudmore Brown and two other members of the scientific Folio.187-220, v-x pp., photographic illustrations, original wrappers, a fine staff. The text substantiates the important events, supplies a copy and a rare survival thus. day-to-day look at life on the expedition, and describes many of the most interesting scientific findings. Included are stimulating £1,500 [ref: 95303] accounts of Funchal, Gough Island, and .

First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 375pp., 39 plate leaves containing 105 photographs and 1 map, 2 folding maps, original greyish blue-green cloth lettered in black, white endpapers, corners bumped, an excellent copy. Taurus 51; Rosove 50.A1e.

£850 [ref: 90611]

Shapero Rare Books 7 Copy inscribed by Bruce for helping the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition

7. [BROWN, R[obert] N[eal] Rudmore; R. C. Mossman; J.H. Harvey Pirie]. The voyage of the “Scotia” being a record of a voyage of exploration in Antarctic seas. Blackwood, London, 1906.

Inscribed: “A. F Whyte Esq., M. P., / With compliments from / Wm. S. Bruce / Edinburgh, / 1910.” and with a penciled note from the recipient: “Bruce gave me this book in recognition of a little action fought late at night in the House of Commons in 1910 to get a grant from the Treasury in support of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition.”

“An outstanding account” - Rosove.

An account of the Scottish Antarctic Expedition 1902-1905, under the command of William Bruce, written for the general public by Rudmore Brown and two other members of the scientific staff. The text substantiates the important events, supplies a day-to-day look at life on the expedition, and describes many of the most interesting scientific findings. Included are stimulating accounts of Funchal, Gough Island, and Cape Town. Rudmore Brown stated that Bruce was so involved in the scientific reports that he had no time (or inclination) to write an account of the expedition for general readership.

Rosove notes that the “white lettering on the spine has stood the test of time poorly and is variably lost.” He also states the variant b with purple endpapers is less common than variant “a” with blue endpapers. He further notes that it was a copy with purple endpapers that Bruce inscribed to Winston Churchill (also in Edinburgh in 1910).

First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 375pp., inscribed on the half-title, 39 plate leaves containing 105 photographs and 1 map, 2 folding maps, original grey pictorial cloth lettered in white, purple endpapers, a little light foxing as usual, spine rubbed, light wear, a very good example. Taurus 51; Rosove 50.A1b.

£2,250 [ref: 94304]

8 Shapero Rare Books Inscribed by the author

8. BULL, Henrik. The Cruise of the “Antarctic” to the South Polar Regions. Edward Arnold, London, 1896.

Inscribed: “G. R. Richmond Esq / from H. Bull / with compl. / 7/3/1900”.

“Scarce” - Rosove. “This is an attractive piece of book production, describing a sealing and voyage into the led by a Norwegian who had immigrated to Australia. Somewhat surprisingly, it produced a little scientific information as well: , deck-hand and amateur scientist, brought back the first vegetation from below the Antarctic Circle. Later he claimed his landing at Cape Adare in 1895 was the first by man on the Antarctic continent.” (Taurus).

Provenance: 1. G. R. Richmond (presentation); G. & J. Weir Ltd., Glasgow (small stamps to endpapers and half-title).

First edition. 8vo., inscribed by the author to half title, [xii], 243, [1], pp., 4 pages undated ads plus 32 pages ads (dated November 1897) at end, frontispiece by W. L. Wyllie, 11 full-page black-and-white plates by W. G. Burn Murdoch, original pictorial blue cloth, upper cover with image of ship against backdrop of ice-cliffs in silver and black, spine and cover lettered in silver, light wear to extremities, a few leaves carelessly opened, the cloth bright and fine. Rosove 55.A1c; Taurus 14; Conrad p81; Spence 210.

£1,500 [ref: 94256]

Shapero Rare Books 9 10. CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The worst journey in 9. CHRISTENSEN, Lars. Such is the Antarctic. the world. Antarctic 1910-1913. Translated by E.M.G. Jayne. Constable, London, 1922. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1935.

“The best written and most enduring account of exploits in Scarce in such fine condition. The wrap-around band is the Antarctic.” - Taurus. “It was perhaps the only real stroke of particularly uncommon. luck in Scott’s ill-fated [] expedition that Cherry- Garrard, the one survivor of the winter journey, happened to A Norwegian whale-fleet owner deeply interested in be able to describe it so effectively that the reader forgets exploring the Antarctic, Christensen personally directed how comfortable he is in his arm-chair, and remembers the three different Antarctic journeys between 1931 and 1934. tale with a shiver as if he had been through it himself.” - George Bernard Shaw. First edition in English. 8vo., [i-vi], vii-xiii, [1], 15-265, [3], pp., photographic portrait frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 44 tinted photographic plates, cartographical endpapers, original blue cloth, spine lettered in black, original First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo. lxiv, 1-300, [4] appendix, viii, 301-585pp., 6 pictorial dust wrapper, original wrap-around band, a fine copy. coloured plates, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, 3 folding, original linen- Taurus 140. backed blue boards, slightly soiled, paper labels; complete with spare labels, an excellent set. [ref: 93418] Taurus 84; Books on Ice, 6.12; Conrad p173; Rosove 71.A1; Spence 277. £1,500

£4,500 [ref: 90531]

10 Shapero Rare Books A complete set of Cook’s voyages with the plate

11. COOK, James; HAWKESWORTH, John (editor); duties, Cook sailed on to which he circumnavigated KING, James. An Account of the Voyages... for making Discoveries and surveyed, before going on to Australia where he discovered in the Southern Hemisphere... In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and and named . Both Australia and New the Endeavour. [With] A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Zealand were annexed as a result of this voyage. Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships Resolution and Adventure... [and] A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, On the second voyage Cook was sent by the Admiralty to by the command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the ascertain whether a great Terra Australis really existed below Northern Hemisphere. To determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of ; its Distance from Asia; and the the Antarctic Circle. He circumnavigated Antarctica at high Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. latitudes and captained the first ship on record to cross the W. Strahan & T. Cadell: London, 1773, 1777, 1784. Antarctic Circle. Though discovering the South Sandwich Islands and South Georgia, he did not gain sight of a Southern ‘Captain Cook’s three great voyages form the basis of any Continent. ‘Cook was a brilliant navigator and hydrographer, collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did an excellent administrator and planner, and probably the first more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern sea captain to realize the importance of preserving the health hemisphere than all his predecessors together had done. He and well-being of his crew…On his second voyage, of 112 Resolution was the first really scientific navigator, and his voyages made men on board the , which he commanded, Cook great contributions to many fields of knowledge’ (Hill). lost only one by disease - and that not - a unique achievement in his time’ (PMM). ‘As an explorer Cook stands equal to Vasco de Gama, Christopher Columbus and Magellan. Beside proving that the Southern Continent existed only within the Antarctic Circle and showing there was no practical sea route between the Pacific and the Atlantic in the Arctic, he completed with accuracy the outline map of the largest ocean and opened the way for trade and settlement. As a seaman and navigator he showed outstanding ability. As a man he was brave and determined, a leader that men could follow literally to the ends of the earth. But greatest among his qualities was his care and consideration for people, be they his men, whose health and conditions were always his close concern, or the natives that he met, whose culture and custom he was careful to respect’ (Lord Lewin writing in Capt. Navigator, NMM, 1990).

The first voyage under Cook’s command on theEndeavour was primarily of a scientific nature, the mission being to observe the transit of Venus at Tahiti. Having carried out his

Shapero Rare Books 11 Cook’s third and final voyage was an expedition in search of record of the exploration of the North Pacific as Cook’s first the with a remarkable crew including two voyages had been for the South Pacific. It is in fact one , George Vancouver, and . After of the most important English books published in the last calling at and New Zealand Cook sailed north, quarter of the eighteenth century.’ discovering Christmas Island and the Sandwich Islands, later to be named the Hawaiian Islands. Cook charted the American Second edition of first voyage, first editions of second and third voyages. 9 volumes, comprising 8 volumes 4to and 1 folio atlas (575 x 425mm). First west coast from Northern California through the voyage: 53 engraved maps, charts and views, of which 44 folding; Second before being stopped by pack ice at latitude 70° 44’. It was voyage: frontispiece and 63 engraved plates, portrait just trimmed as often; whilst wintering over at Hawaii that he was killed in a fracas Third voyage: 88 engraved plates: 24 in text volumes and 64 in atlas including Death of Cook plate & 2 charts (3 short marginal tears repaired); minor with natives over a boat. Forbes calls it: ‘arguably the single spotting, offsetting and occasional stain, nothing untoward. Modern half calf most important book on the Hawaiian Islands, this documents gilt extra by Aquarius, a very handsome set. all aspects of Hawaiian culture at the point of by First Voyage: Hill, 782; Holmes, 5; Beddie, 648; Sabin, 30934. Second voyage: Hill, 358; Holmes, 24; MLC, 1216; PMM, 223; Sabin, 1624; Taurus 1. Third voyage: Europeans. It is a magnificent summation of all the public and Forbes, 62; Hill, 361; Holmes, 47; Lada-Mocarski, 37; MLC, 1552; Sabin, 16250. private journals, logs, drawings, and other observations made during the course of the voyage and is as an important a £30,000 [ref: 90978]

12 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 13 12. DARWIN, Charles; Capt. Robert Fitzroy; Capt. Philip Parker King. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe. Henry Colburn, London, 1839.

Darwin’s first published book, also his most widely read, and the account of probably the most important of all nineteenth century voyages, for it was on this voyage that Darwin prepared for his lifework, ultimately leading to The Origin of Species.

Volume I contains King’s account of the first expedition which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He commanded this expedition in the Adventure, accompanied by the Beagle, first under Stokes and after his death by Fitzroy. The remaining volumes describe the second voyage of the Beagle which visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries along the way. Fitzroy’s account is contained in volume II with a separate appendix comprising a meteorological journal etc. Volume III is Darwin’s account. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin’s intellectual life and in the history of biological science” (DSB).

Three volumes in 4 (volumes I-III and Appendix to volume II), 8vo., 9 folding engraved maps by J. Gardner and J. and C. Walker; 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy and others, original blue cloth gilt, repairs to spines and joints. Freeman 10; Hill 1, pp104-105; Norman 584; Sabin 37826.

£25,000 [ref: 95371]

14 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 15 Inscribed presentation copy.

13. DAVIS, John King. With the “” in the Antarctic 1911-1914. Melrose, London, no date, circa 1919.

Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Lieut. R. T. Gould R.N. /with compliments and best / wishes from John K. Davis. / Melbourne April 1931.”

As captain of the Aurora during Mawson’s 1911-14 expedition, Davis was able to produce one of the few first-hand accounts available in print. The book itself is a typical poorly produced war time volume rather like South.

“The 1911–1914 expedition encountered many challenges: dangerous weather, unchartered coastline, and problems with the ship including failing pumps in the engine room. In the Morning Herald of the 30th May 1929, Close writes of Davis’s crucial role in the expedition:

“...so much of its safety and success hinged upon his masterly seamanship, firm decision of mind, and courageous daring in handling the expedition ship Aurora.”

Davis, as Master of the Aurora, made several crucial voyages, establishing and relieving the wintering bases at Macquarie Island and on the Antarctic mainland, at Commonwealth Bay and the Shackleton Ice Shelf.

Davis had to make the difficult decision, whether to wait for blizzards and harsh seas to abate to collect Mawson’s party, or to relieve the second base party led by . He chose the latter” (antarctica.gov.au).

First edition. inscribed by Davis, 8vo, xxi, 183pp., 8 maps (1 folding), plan, 83 illustrations on 42 plates, maps and illustrations in text, original blue cloth gilt, gilt rather rubbed as usual, a very good copy. Taurus 101; Rosove 87.A1a.

£2,500 [ref: 94260]

16 Shapero Rare Books 14. DEBENHAM, Frank. Report on the maps and 15. evANS, Edward. South with Scott. surveys British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913. Collins, London, [1921]. Harrison, London, 1923. “A popular book for boys, it went through many editions Important scientific report from the . during its lifetime in print, most of which were heavily used. Contains detailed descriptions of the instruments used in Evans started on Scott’s Terra Nova expedition as his second conducting the surveys, surveys in the vicinity of Cape Evans, in command, but friction soon developed between the two an analysis of latitude measurements taken in the vicinity of of them. Having been close to death from exhaustion and the South Pole, surveys of the Balleny Islands, Beaufort Island, scurvy on his return journey from the final polar support King Edward VII Land., etc. camp, he was invalided home in 1912, only to return the following year as leader of the remaining party after Scott’s Provenance: Dr. Hans-Georg Strauf, Bibliothek death” (Taurus). Geophysikalischen Institutes Gottingen (stamp). First edition, first issue. 8vo., portrait, 3 folding maps, one folding plan, 6pp. First edition. 4to., viii, 94 pp., 15 folding maps in pocket at end, small stamps adverts at end, original dark blue cloth, uncut, cloth slightly puckered (as to front free endpaper, half-title, and title, original red grained cloth gilt, light often according to Rosove), very slightly rubbed, an excellent example. fade to spine, an excellent example. Rosove 293-10.A1. Rosove 117.A1 (very scarce); Spence 432; Taurus 83 (second impression).

£2,500 [ref: 96670] £1,350 [ref: 96764]

Shapero Rare Books 17 16. [FUCHS, Sir Vivian]; George Lowe, photographer. Provenance: From the estate of Roy Homard (member of Photographs from the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. the expedition team). 1957. 11 photographs taken on the 1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, by George Lowe, photographer on the expedition. All laid on The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was the first thick card, captions to verso. overland crossing of Antarctica, succeeding in the 1950’s 28,9 x 30,5 cm; “Theron” departing from Shackleton Base leaving behind the members of the Advance Party. what Sir had attempted to do in his 30,1 x 23 cm; Flat-topped mountain of great geological interest, 5000 ft. high. ill-fated expedition in 1914-1917. British Explorer Vivian 30,6 x 22,2 cm; Skeleton of the Hut at Shackleton just after the great March Fuchs and New Zealander Edmund Hilary led the expedition. blizzard. 28,8 x 29,1 cm; “Theron” at sea ice edge in the sheltered bay two miles from the I.G.Y. hut site. Previous to this expedition, George Lowe had been an 29 x 23,6 cm; Aerial photograph showing “Theron” unloading at the ice important member of the 1953 British expedition led by edge, Shackleton. 30,5 x 22,9 cm; Ice formation on the Crate after it had been abandoned. John Hunt that conquered Everest. 29 x 28,8 cm; Unloading “Theron” at ice front near site of Shackleton Base. The first “Weasel” being winched out on 31st January 1956. For the Trans-Antarctic expedition, Lowe joined the 12-man 30,6 x 29,6 cm; Roy Homard in his patched trousers settles down to read his mail. party of the expedition leader, the British explorer Vivian 30,6 x 22,7 cm; Stores dump at Shackleton with the incomplete Main Hut Fuchs, which set out from Shackleton Base on one side of beyond. the continent, while Hillary led the support party from the 28,9 x 28,9 cm; Aerial photograph showing “Theron” at the ice age. 29,1 x 23,6 cm; Small tabular icebergs in the . “Theron” sailed full Scott Base on the other side dropping supplies and speed ahead off coast of Antarctica. establishing depots. £1,850 [ref: 88769] Fuchs relied on Lowe’s expertise to spot crevasses that were, Lowe later noted, “wider, deeper and harder to detect” than any he had previously encountered, and which posed a mortal threat to the tractors, dog-teams and snowmobiles they used to get around.

In the event Hillary reached the Pole first, on January 3 1958. The teams met when Fuchs arrived on January 19, but while Hillary flew out, Fuchs continued on overland and arrived at Scott Base on March 2 after a journey of 2,158 miles.

With other members of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Lowe received in 1958 the (with Antarctic clasp). He was also commemorated in Mount Lowe, a 3,000ft peak in the .

18 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 19 17. JOYCE, Ernest E. Mills. The South Polar Trail. The Log of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill. Duckworth, London: 1929.

First edition, first impression, this copy warmly inscribed by Joyce, quoting extensively from Robert Service’s The Quitter, on the half-title: “To V. Rippon Esq., “With Every Wish” from an “Ould Antarctic Penguin”. And though you come out of each gruelling bout/ All broken beaten and scarred,/Just have one more try - it’s dead easy to die,/ It’s keeping on living that’s hard. “Kia Ora” Ernest E. Mills Joyce, London May 4th 1931”.

Service’s inspiring verse was first invoked in an Antarctic context by in his account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, where he tells how recalling the Anglo-Canadian poet’s words motivated his almost superhuman struggle for survival after a near fatal plunge into a crevasse. Joyce, “forthright, courageous, and tenacious of purpose”, here offers “the principal firsthand account of the Ross Sea shore party of Shackleton’s 1914-17 expedition” (Rosove), a tale which “is a gruesome one of failure and death … part (the part which is almost unmentioned today) of Shackleton’s planned trek across the Continent” (Taurus). A superior copy in the “very scarce” dust wrapper (Rosove), from the collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, his penciled initials to the front free endpaper.

8vo. Frontispiece and 31 other plates, “chart of the journey” to the text. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, single fillet panel in blind to the front board. With the dust wrapper, housed in blue cloth slip-case. Slight bump at the tail of the spine, light scatter of foxing to the top- and fore-edge, negligible encroachment into the margins, jacket lightly rubbed and with a few minor edge-splits, no loss, a fine copy. Conrad p.220; Howgego, III, S22; Rosove 188; Spence 642; Taurus Collection 106.

£7,500 [ref: 95935]

20 Shapero Rare Books The first crossing of the antarctic circle

18. [MARRA, John]. Journal of the Resolution’s voyage, in prompting Cook to remark later: “I know not if he might not 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On discovery to the southern have obtained my consent if he had applied for it in proper hemisphere ... Also a journal of the Adventure’s voyage, in the time.” Marra himself recounts his punishment in irons. years 1772, 1773, and 1774.... Illustrated with a chart ... and other cuts. This edition was apparently intended to form vol.5 of A F. Newbery: London, 1775. historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed

by English navigators, volumes1-4 of which, by David Henry The first published account of Cook’s second voyage and the (who edited the present account), were published in first printed account of the first crossing of the Antarctic 1773-74. Hence the number “5” on the spine. Circle. Provenance: Samuel Jones (contemporary book label with Appearing anonymously eighteen months before the official printer’s flowers). account, Marra’s Journal records many incidents omitted by Cook and gives the reasons which caused Sir First edition. 8vo., xiii,[1],328pp., folding map, 5 engraved plates, and his twelve assistants to withdraw from the expedition at contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt lettered ”5” on spine, neat repairs to extremities, modern cloth box, red morocco label, an excellent copy. the last moment. Hill 1087; Holmes 16; Rosove 214.A1; Sabin 16247.

Marra was a gunner’s mate of Irish descent aboard the £8,000 [ref: 90840] Resolution. He attempted to desert, unsuccessfully, at Tahiti,

Shapero Rare Books 21 19. MULOCK, George Francis. Map showing the explorations and surveys of the National Antarctic Expedition 1902-3-4. Royal Geographical Society, London, November 7th, 1904.

Mulock was a sub-lieutenant on the relief ship Morning, attached to Scott’s National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, transferring to the shore party in March 1903 in exchange for Ernest H Shackleton on account of his skills as a cartographer and surveyor.

Mulock was just 21 when he transferred to Discovery, In September 1903 he accompanied Lt on what was to be a ten-week southern journey to explore an inlet of the Western Mountains; weather and surface conditions drove them back soon after they had reached . The temperature fell to -67.7 Fahrenheit and Seaman Ernest E. Joyce got badly frost-bitten feet. The situation grew so serious that Barne and Mulock took turns to hold them against the pits of their stomachs and knead the ankles for several hours, saving his feet from certain amputation.

Scott had a very high opinion of Mulock’s abilities and initiative, frequently recording praise of him in his diaries. In his written account of the expedition, Captain R F Scott wrote “Mulock was then only twenty-one years of age but having a natural bent for his work, his services proved invaluable”. On the return of the expedition, King Edward VII awarded the Silver Polar Medal.

Framed and Glazed. Map dimensions: 38 x 45 cm., Relief shown by hachures, spot heights and soundings. Includes 2 insets. Shows dates and routes taken from Port Lyttelton, New Zealand to King Edward VII Land via Victoria Land on the ship of Discovery. Scale: Nat. scale 1:5 000 000. 78.90 miles = 1 in. (E 140º--W 132º/S 66º--S 84º).

£2,500 [ref: 94645]

22 Shapero Rare Books 20. MURRAY, George (editor). The Antarctic Manual for 21. MURRAY, James; George Marston. Antarctic days. the use of the expedition of 1901. Sketches of the homely side of Polar life by two of Shackleton’s Royal Geographical Society, London, 1901. men. Illustrated by the authors, James Murray and George Marston, and introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Scarce. Providing ‘easy access to information, otherwise Andrew Melrose, London, 1913. inaccessible, which was required by officers in their scientific investigations’ (preface). It includes papers and extracts “Very scarce... a fine complement to the two giants of the gathered together under various headings, including: Geography; Antarctic bibliography also emanating from Shackleton’s Antarctic bibliography; Antarctic climate; The Aurora; Geology; 1907-09 expedition, Aurora Australis and The Heart of the Instructions for collecting rocks and minerals; Zoology; Botany; Antarctic, and one of the most sought-after Antarctic titles.” Arctic sledge-travelling. The Geography section includes the (Rosove). Written with a good deal of jocularity, it gives us a first printing of the Journal of John Biscoe, the probable discoverer feeling for the personal side of Shackleton’s expedition. of the Antarctic continent.” The volume was distributed to expedition members and fellows of the Royal Geographical First edition, deluxe issue, limited to 280 numbered copies signed by the authors and Shackleton, large 8vo., [ii], xxi, 199pp., 4 colour plates mounted Society in July 1901, just before the expedition’s departure” on blue card with tissue guards, numerous photographic plates and sketches (Rosove). etc., modern dark blue niger morocco gilt, preserving original pictorial inset, top edge gilt others uncut, slipcase, a fine copy. First edition. 8vo., xvi, 586pp., 3 folding maps in the rear cover pocket, original Taurus 61; Rosove 236.A1. blue cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine extremities, spine darkened, a very good example. £5,000 [ref: 91969] Rosove 235; Spence 829; Taurus Collection 39.

£3,000 [ref: 94228]

Shapero Rare Books 23 22. nUNN, John. Narrative of the wreck of the “Favorite” on the Island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and its whale and seal fisheries. Painter, London, 1850.

“Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at Kerguelen. There the crew carried out repairs on the Royal Sovereign and also restored two shallops, the Favorite and the Frances, which had been left there from a previous voyage. Nunn and four others took to the Favorite but ran aground on Kerguelen and remained stranded there for two years and three months. They were eventually rescued by the Sprightly, an Enderby Company ship.” (Howgego).

First edition. 8vo., xx, 236pp., 16pp. adverts, folding map of Kerguelen (small repair at fold), one plate, 53 illustrations in the text, original dark blue cloth, spine gilt, yellow endpapers, an excellent example. Howgego II, K6; Huntress 371C; Sabin 56339; Spence, Antarctic Bibliography 868.

£1,250 [ref: 94263]

24 Shapero Rare Books 23. PONTING, Herbert G. The British Antarctic 24. PONTING, Herbert. Mr. Herbert G. Ponting’s Expedition 1910-1913. Exhibition of the photographic pictures cinema lecture “With Scott in the Antarctic.” of Mr. Herbert G. Ponting... Lloyds Film Agency, London n.d. The Fine Art Society, London, n.d. [1914]. Scarce ephemeral publication promoting Ponting’s An essential reference work. Scarce. cinematographic record of animal and bird life in the South polar regions whilst on the British Antarctic Expedition of First edition, 8vo, 24 pp., 8 photographic illustrations, original wrappers printed in red, ads to covers, an excellent example. 1910-1913.

First edition. 4to., 8 pages including 5 full-page photographs of Antarctic £900 [ref: 95095] wildlife, original yellow pictorial cover, 1 page flyer loosely inserted, a fine example.

£500 [ref: 95443]

Shapero Rare Books 25 25. ross, James. A voyage of discovery and research in nautical miles (460 km) along the edge of the low, flat-topped the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the years 1839-43. ice shelf they called the Victoria Barrier, later named “Ross Ice Murray, London, 1847. Shelf” in his honour. In the following year, he attempted to penetrate south at about 55°W, and explored the eastern The account of the first voyage to enter what is known side of what is now known as James Ross Island, discovering today as the Ross Sea, the first to sight the Admiralty and naming Snow and . It is interesting Mountains, the first to see Victoria Land, Ross Island, Mounts to note that Ross reported that Admiralty Sound (which he Erebus and Terror, and the Ross Ice Shelf, amongst other named Admiralty Inlet appeared to Ross to have been blocked momentous discoveries. Once this account became public, no by glaciers at its southern end. He was elected to the Royal one could doubt there was a great southern continent of Society in 1848 and knighted in 1844. immense proportions to be explored. Provenance: Alexander Mc Grigor (morocco armorial book label) Ross was born in London, the nephew of Sir John Ross, under whom he entered the navy in 1812, accompanying him First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, lii, [4], 366; v-x (i-iv not published), [4], 447 pp., 16 pages ads date January 1847 rear vol. i, 8 maps (3 folding, 1 full-page), 8 on Sir John’s first Arctic voyage in search of a Northwest lithograph plates (1 folding), 19 text illustrations. Original blue cloth gilt, gilt Passage in 1818. Between 1819 and 1827, Ross took part in pictorial vignettes to upper covers, decorated in blind to spine and lower four Arctic expeditions under Sir William Parry, and in 1829 cover, light fade to spines, neat repairs to extremities; an excellent example. Taurus 9; Rosove 276.A1. to 1833, again served under his uncle on Sir John’s second Arctic voyage. £3,750 [ref: 92999]

Between 1839 and 1843, Ross commanded an Antarctic expedition comprising the vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and charted much of the coastline of the continent. was second in command of the expedition and commanded HMS Terror. Support for the expedition had been arranged by , hydrographer of the Navy and a member of several scientific societies. On the expedition was , who had been invited along as assistant surgeon. Erebus and Terror were bomb vessels – an unusual type of warship named after the mortar bombs they were designed to fire and constructed with extremely strong hulls, to withstand the recoil of the mortars, which were to prove of great value in thick ice.

In 1841, James Ross discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes and Mount Terror, which were named for the expedition’s vessels. They sailed for 250

26 Shapero Rare Books Inscribed presentation set

26. sCOTT, Robert Falcon. The voyage of the ‘Discovery’. James Ross, and the interior of the Antarctic continent. Scott Smith Elder, London, 1905. made sledge journeys inland with Shackleton and Wilson. He made the first long journey towards the interior of Antarctica, An important inscribed presentation copy of Scott’s account and in addition to surveying the coast of South Victoria Land of his National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. and taking soundings of the Ross Sea, important scientific discoveries were made in the fields of zoology, magnetism, Volume I is inscribed on the half-title, “To Mrs. Schuster with and meteorology. the author’s best wishes RF Scott Oct. 12th 1905”. Mrs Schuster was the wife of Sir Arthur Schuster (1851-1934) First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., inscribed to Mrs. Schuster, 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E.A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, a physicist who knew Scott. photogravure frontispieces, 12 coloured plates, panoramas and maps, original blue cloth gilt, recased with neat repairs, well preserved in blue cloth box Scott was given the command of the National Antarctic with red morocco label. Taurus 41; Spence 1051; Conrad p121. expedition and was made Commander of the Discovery. The expedition was organized by the Royal Geographic Society £6,500 [ref: 90532] and the Royal Society and its aim was the scientific exploration of South Victoria Land and the ice barrier, discovered by Sir

Shapero Rare Books 27 Dust wrappers and good provenance

27. sCOTT, Robert Falcon. The voyage of the ‘Discovery’. Smith Elder, London, 1905.

Rare in Dust Wrappers. Scott’s account of his National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904.

In the period leading up to the First World War, the estate manager of Hooton Pagnell Hall was E. Bernard Wilson, elder brother of Edward Wilson. Edward Wilson was appointed to serve as second surgeon, artist, and zoologist on Scott’s . The owners of the Hall, understandably excited by their link to the newly explored Antarctic regions, acquired the present copy and treated it with reverence, not discarding the dust wrappers as was usual at the time.

Scott was given the command of the National Antarctic expedition and was made Commander of the Discovery. The expedition was organized by the Royal Geographic Society and the Royal Society and its aim was the scientific exploration of South Victoria Land and the ice barrier, discovered by Sir James Ross, and the interior of the Antarctic continent. Scott made sledge journeys inland with Shackleton and Wilson. He made the first long journey towards the interior of Antarctica, and in addition to surveying the coast of South Victoria Land and taking soundings of the Ross Sea, important scientific discoveries were made in the fields of zoology, magnetism, and meteorology.

Provenance: Hooton Pagnell Hall.

First edition, second impression. 2 volumes, 8vo., 260 full-page and smaller illustrations by Dr. E.A. Wilson and other members of the expedition, photogravure frontispieces, 12 coloured plates, panoramas and maps, original blue cloth gilt, original light blue dust wrappers, light spotting, an excellent set. Rosove 286.A2; Cf.Taurus 41.

£6,500 [ref: 93232]

28 Shapero Rare Books Signed by expedition members

28. sCOTT, Robert Falcon. Scott’s Last Expedition... With biographical introduction by J. M. Barrie and a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham. Murray, London, 1929.

Signed on the half-title in pencil by: T. S. Williamson (Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions); L. C. Bernacchi (Southern Cross & Discovery); H. G. Ponting (Terra Nova).

Williamson was a Petty Officer and member of the shore Party on the Terra Nova expedition. Bernacchi served as a physicist with Scott. Herbert Ponting was the great photographer of the Golden Age and was camera artist on the Terra Nova expedition.

8vo, xxvi, 521 pp., frontispiece, map, illustrations, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, spine very faded.

£850 [ref: 97646]

Shapero Rare Books 29 29. [SHACKLETON, E.H]; John Hassall (artist). Savage Charles Edward Dixon (8 December 1872 - 12 September Club house dinner Capt. R. F. Scott in the chair June 10th 1909 1934) was a British maritime painter of the late nineteenth Welcome to Lieut. E. H. Shackleton. and early twentieth centuries, whose work was highly successful 1909. and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy. Several of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum and he A scarce piece of Antarctic ephemera commemorating was a regular contributing artist to magazines and periodicals. Shackleton’s return from his British Antarctic Expedition (1907-1909), known today as the . This Pictorial printed menu on card (35. 5 x 31 cm. approx.) with scenes by John Hassall and Charles Dixon, light frame stain to outer margins, contemporary expedition proved to be the making of Shackleton, encompassing wooden frame; an excellent example. as it did, the first ascent of Mount Erebus; the first (failed) experiment with an automated vehicle in the Antarctic, and, £2,000 [ref: 89631] most importantly, the mapping of a viable route to the Pole.

This dinner was a defining event in the fraught relationship between Scott and Shackleton. In proposing his rival’s health, Scott indirectly referred to the state of near physical helplessness to which Shackleton had been reduced on the Discovery expedition by remarking: ‘If I had a hand in rocking his Antarctic cradle, I am very proud of it.’ The result was that Shackleton left abruptly after the dinner and did not return. ‘Even in the determinedly convivial surroundings of the Savage Club, Shackleton did not wish to be talked of as a baby, especially by the man against whom he had fought so hard to erase the stigma of weakness.’ (Roland Huntford, Shackleton, 1985, 1996 reprint, p. 305).

John Hassall (21 May 1868 - 8 March 1948) was an English illustrator, well known for his advertisements and poster designs. He was a member of the Savage Club.

30 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 31 30. sHACKLETON, Ernest Henry. [Nimrod Expedition] Canterbury establishment. Shackleton was presented with a Menus & Souvenir programme from the library of Henry copper salver made from bolts taken from Nelson’s ship Victory, Dunlop, Chief engineer on the Nimrod. and Bishop Julius gave his blessing at an event attended by 1907-1913. some eighty local dignitaries.

A rare opportunity to obtain a collection of signed printed [With] ephemera from Shackleton’s first Antarctic expedition (1907-1909) during which Shackleton reached ‘Farthest Menu held for the “British Antarctic Expedition” dinner held South’ and achieved the first ascent of Mount Erebus with at the Canterbury Club, Christchurch signed by Shackleton, the provenance of the Ship’s chief engineer. Wild, Edgworth Davis, and approximately 30 others, 4pp., oval photographic illustration of polar scenes on upper and lower The collection comprises: cover, signatures on inside and lower pages, punch holes at fore-edge, 8vo (15.5 x 10.5 cm.) 30 December 1907. “To Celebrate the birthdays of our Shipmates H.J. Dunlop; & W.A.R. Michell” at “Latitude 40”S. 30’/ Longitude 50”E.30’”, Nimrod arrived at Lyttleton harbour on 25 March 1909 to a manuscript menu, in red and black ink on printed card, signed heroic welcome by the New Zealand public. The “luncheon” on the reverse by Michell, Murray, Davis, Mackintosh, Mackay, held at the United Service Hotel the following day appears Dunlop and Captain , headed with the printed to have been a relatively intimate one, the menu signed by National Antarctic Expedition badge (“Nimrod” added in ink), Shackleton, all but 2 members of the Shore Party, and 3 of 8vo (15.5 x 11.2 cm.) the ship’s officers but none of the usual local dignitaries, and was apparently unreported in the press. Menu for a meal to celebrate the birthdays of four shipmates of the Nimrod, given whilst on the way to Christchurch - at this [With] point half way between South and the Kerguelen Islands. Signed by four of the ship’s officers and three of the eventual “Luncheon Menu. British Antarctic Expedition. United Service shore party. Food includes “Potage. Dominion Crême D’Unloppè” Hotel, Christchurch”, signed by Shackleton and eighteen and “Dessert. Abricot au Shackleton”. 18 October 1907. other members of the British Antarctic Expedition., 4-page menu, the upper cover colour-printed with British flags. 26 [With] March 1909.

“Complimentary Dinner Given to Lieutenant Shackleton and [With] the Scientists and Officers of the Antarctic Expedition of 1907”, menu signed by Shackleton, Bernard Day, William Roberts, and “Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. Complimentary Banquet 7 others, 4pp., upper cover printed in gilt with the “Antarctic to Lieut. E.H. Shackleton, M.V.C., the Shore Party and Officers Expedition S.Y. Nimrod 1907”. Emblem in blue, 12mo (11.3 x of the S.Y. Nimrod, on their return from Antarctica”, Signed by 8.8 cm.), Christchurch, Freeman’s Rooms. 19 December 1907 John K. Davis (Nimrod’s first officer), Henry Dunlop, and 24 Menu given for members of the Nimrod expedition by the other attendees, 4-page menu, the upper cover printed with

32 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 33 map of the South Pole (showing position reached by Discovery [With] and Nimrod), split at fold. 3 April 1909. Souvenir programme. 4to, “Sir Ernest Shackleton to give his Nimrod arrived at Lyttleton harbour on 25 March 1909 to a Popular Lecture entitled Nearest the South Pole at the Music heroic welcome by the New Zealand public. The banquet at Hall, Chester, Signed twice by Shackleton (“E.H. Shackleton”) the Philosophical Institute was a public affair, at which “a in ink on the map, once at the location of and standing ovation was given to Shackleton and loud applause once in the lower margin 4 pages, first page printed in red as he responded to the many toasts to the expedition. He and black with photographic portrait of Shackleton. 21 said that ‘They always felt dissatisfied with what might have February 1910. been done... but on that plateau, with no ‘grub’ inside them... they were forced to turn back. There had been no gentle A souvenir from Shackleton’s extensive fund-raising lecture maidens to rest their heads upon!’ This was a reference to a tour following the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9, duet that had been sung earlier in the evening and was during which Shackleton reached ‘Farthest South’ and achieved received with laughter” (The Press, 5/4/09, p.8). the first ascent of Mount Erebus. The series of talks, accompanied by lantern slides, proved hugely popular with audiences. An [With] account of a similar lecture in Edinburgh describes his charismatic style of delivery: “In the centre,” he said, “you see the South “South Polar Dinner given by John Howard Mcfadden. June Pole. Now you’ve seen as much as anybody else has ever seen.” 13 1913” large-format menu card embellished with an original Hearty laughter greeted this opening, as he knew it would. watercolour oval vignette by George Marston the Nimrod He had an orator’s gift for dramatic effect, and his humour artist of a polar scene (man, sledge and tent against snow- was timed to perfection...” (‘A born leader of men’, article, covered mountains), large penguin and decoration, signed by RSGSexplorers.com). the artist on the vignette, 28.4 x 19.4 cm. (the oval vignette c.6.8 x 9.5 cm.), Oddenino’s Imperial Restaurant. 13 June 1913. Provenance: Henry J. L. Dunlop (1876-1931), Chief Engineer on the Nimrod. Celebratory menu illustrated by George Marston. ‘One wealthy friend was so far interested as to give an Antarctic dinner at a A collection of six menus and one souvenir programme (various sizes and dates) concerning the Nimrod British Antarctic Expedition. Preserved in famous restaurant to all the available men who had been in archival sleeves within a blue morocco-backed fold-over box with chemise. the far South. The table was transformed into a picture of the Antarctic with artificial snow and real ice, where large models £35,000 [ref: 95004] of the Nimrod and the Aurora were placed at the edge of an ice-barrier thickly peopled by penguins, and Marston, the Antarctic artist, painted special menu cards. It was a gay gathering, enlivened towards the close by songs from Harry Lauder; but, alas! the rich and kindly host did not pursue his hospitality to the point of providing transportation for his guests to revisit the haunts they longed for’ (The Life of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, 1923, pp.191-2).

34 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 35 31. sHACKLETON, Ernest Henry; L.C. Bernacchi; Volume l (Apr. - Aug. 1902) was edited by Sir E. H. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, editors. The South Polar Times. Shackleton; Volume 2 (Apr. - Aug. 1903) by L.C. Bernacchi. Smith Elder, London, 1907-1914. These volumes were published in 1907 with a preface by Scott. Volume 3 (Apr. - Oct. 1911) issued during Scott’s last A cornerstone of Antarctic exploration. An exact reproduction expedition, was edited by A. Cherry-Garrard. of the South Polar Times magazine originally issued during the Antarctic expeditions of Robert F. Scott. First edition. 3 volumes, 4to. Volumes 1 & 2 limited to 250 copies and volume 3 to 350 copies for sale. Printed on one side of leaf only, illustrated with 3 frontispieces, 2 folding maps, numerous illustrations, many full-page, “Once the sun goes down in the Polar Regions, you’re in it many coloured, original blue cloth gilt with pictorial insets to upper covers, a for the long haul: five months of darkness, nothing to do and very attractive set. Taurus 42 & 79; Rosove 287.A1 & 291.A2; Conrad p.121; Spence 1094. mercury the wrong side of 40. Besides winding the gramophone, giving lectures and, that British staple, dressing £12,500 [ref: 94265] up as girls, the explorers of the heroic age published their own newspapers.

It was a tradition established on Arctic expeditions and enthusiastically taken up by Scott on his first trip south in 1902, when he appointed his team-mate Ernest Shackleton editor of the South Polar Times... After a well-lubricated banquet featuring noisettes d’agneau Darwinian and charlotte russe glacée à la Beardmore, Cherry presented the South Polar Times to Scott with everyone gathered around the table and a Christmas tree made from ski poles. The captain read most of it out loud, interrupted by uproarious laughter and indignant barracking” (Sara Wheeler, writing in The Telegraph, 2012).

“It has always seemed churlish to list this title under Shackleton, who only edited the first of the three volumes, for the publication arose during Scott’s two expeditions. On the first of these, Shackleton was invalided home before its completion, while he was most decidedly not a member of the second Scott effort. Still, this should not detract from the publication, a lithographed facsimile of typescripts produced by members of Scott’s party during three bleak Antarctic winters spent in his company” (Taurus).

36 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 37 32. sHACKLETON, Sir Ernest Henry. The Heart of the Antarctic Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. With an introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. an account of the first journey to the by Professor T. W. , F.R.S Heinemann, London, 1909.

Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-9. Known today as the ‘Nimrod’ expedition, this proved to be the making of Shackleton, encompassing the first ascent of Mount Erebus, the first (failed) experiment with an automated vehicle in the Antarctic and, most importantly, the mapping of a viable route to the Pole.

First edition. 2 volumes, royal 8vo., 3 maps, panorama in rear pocket, 12 coloured and 257 black and white plates, numerous illustrations and diagrams, original blue pictorial cloth, front covers stamped in silver, spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, light fade to spines as usual, an excellent example in crisp, fresh condition. Taurus 58; Rosove 305.B1; Spence 1098.

£1,100 [ref: 96669]

38 Shapero Rare Books “Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell...”

33. [SMITH, W. Campbell, editor]. Report on the 34. [TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION]. The Peoples tribute geological collections made during the voyage of the “” on to the heroes of the Antarctic. Penny contribution to the Lord the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the South Atlantic and Mayor’s Fund. Weddell Sea in 1921-1922. February 4th 1913. By order of the Trustees of the British Museum, London, 1930. Scarce ephemeral publication to raise money for the Lord Mayor’s Fund for the dependents. The text contains Scott’s “Uncommon” - Rosove. moving last message.

The bulk of the published scientific results from Shackleton’s First edition. Landscape 8vo, 4 leaves, stapled as issued, Ponting photograph to upper cover, map of the expedition, portraits of the “heroes”; a fine last expedition. example.

First edition. 8vo., xii, 1261 pp., frontispiece, 21 sketch maps (5 full-page), 2 £300 [ref: 95442] plates, 3 text figures, 2 graphs in text, original maroon cloth gilt faded to tan, most of original tissue wrapper preserved, an excellent example. Rosove 313.A1; Taurus 113.

£495 [ref: 96741]

Shapero Rare Books 39 “The true starting point for an Antarctic collection”

35. WEDDELL, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude: and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. To which is added, much useful information on the coasting navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands. With charts of harbours, &c... Longman, London, 1827.

Weddell (1787-1834), a officer, following the Napoleonic Wars found himself in need of an income. To this end he went on three sealing expeditions between 18221 and 1824The first of these was to the South Shetlands; the second to the South Orkneys; and the third, in 1823, to a new “Farthest South”, exceeding Cook’s 1774 record by almost three degrees.

“With the immense benefit of benign weather, Weddell managed to sail further south than any man before him, and was rewarded by his discovery of the entire Weddell Sea. Even when sail ships were replaced by steam ships, and wooden hulls by metallic ice-cutters, his explorations were difficult to duplicate. It will be argued by many enthusiasts that the first edition is the true starting point for an Antarctic collection” (Taurus).

First edition. 8vo., pp. iv, 276, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (offsetting from title), 4 engraved plates, 9 maps and charts, 7 folding (hemisphere maps with captions cropped at top as often), 2 folding lithographic panoramas and errata slip, occasional light foxing and offsetting, contemporary diced calf, red and black morocco labels, neat repairs to joints, an excellent example. Taurus 5; Rosove 345.A1; Books on Ice 6.1; Conrad p31; Spence 1248.

£3,750 [ref: 94341]

40 Shapero Rare Books From “The old barnacle”

36. WORSLEY, Commander Frank Arthur. Shackleton’s Worsley served on Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Boat Journey. Expedition of 1914–1916, as captain of the Endurance. After Philip Allan, London n.d. the Endurance was trapped in ice and wrecked, he and the rest of the expedition sailed three lifeboats to Elephant Island, Rare inscribed copy with two autograph letters by Worsley. off the . From here, he, along with Shackleton Inscribed on the front free endpaper: Captain J. B. Armstrong / and four others, sailed the 22.5-foot (6.9 m) lifeboat James from The Old Barnacle / F. A. Worsley / March 1937. Caird some 800 miles (1,300 km) across the stormy South , eventually arriving at their intended destination, The two letters are both to Captain Armstrong. The first letter South Georgia. His navigation skills were crucial to the safe dated 1st February 1937 is a straightforward thank you letter arrival of the James Caird. Shackleton, Worsley and Seaman for an invitation. The second letter, dated 8th March 937 is far then hiked and climbed through snow and ice more interesting as it concerns Worsley’s failed attempt to across mountainous South Georgia in a 36-hour march to find a copy of Worsley’s Endurance book, published in 1931. fetch help from Stromness whaling station. He and Shackleton A scarce book now, it seems to have always been thus, probably returned to Elephant Island aboard the Yelcho, a Chilean naval published in a very small edition. ship, to rescue the remaining members of the expedition, all of whom survived. The present book is taken largely from Worsley’s earlier publication and is the first-hand account of the miraculous First edition. 8vo, inscribed by the author with 2 autograph letters, 192 pp., James Caird original blue cloth gilt, light wear. voyage of the little across the South Atlantic in Rosove 361.B1; cf. Taurus 108 (the later Hodder edition). the middle of winter. £4,000 [ref: 93841]

Shapero Rare Books 41 37. WRIGHT, C. S.; R. E. Priestley. British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Glaciology. Harrison and Sons, London 1922.

Remarkable photographic record of the Terra Nova Expedition.

Charles Wright was part of ’s last expedition, the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-1913. This expedition of exploration and scientific discovery resulted in several publications on a variety of subjects.

The present work is remarkable on account of the large number of photographs from the major photographers on the expedition. It is the most illustrated work of all the Terra Nova publications, and includes numerous photographs by Herbert Ponting. These photographs, as well as documenting this spectacular expedition, stand as landmarks of modern . Many of these photographs only appear in this work.

Intended for a specialized readership, this book would have been produced in a small run. Scarce.

First edition, 4to (31.2 x 24 cm), xx, 581 pp, 47 plate leaves with 291 photographs by Ponting, Wright, Priestley, and others, 1 folding map, numerous maps and illustrations in text, the complete set of 15 folding maps in rear pocket. Original red cloth gilt, spine worn and faded, a very good copy. Rosove 293-8 A1, Taurus 89.

£3,000 [ref: 95709]

42 Shapero Rare Books The Arctic

Shapero Rare Books 43 Amongst the earliest known surviving imprints

38. [ALASKA. PLOVER EXPEDITION]. [Three In the entry for Thursday October 22nd 1852, Maguire broadsides printed on board H. M. S. Plover on the Franklin writes: “Mr. Jago has been arranging our Printing press, and Search expedition, 1852]. getting a place established for it in the cabin”. The entry for October 28th is largely taken up with an account of a visit by Three broadsides, printed at Point Barrow, Alaska, the fifty or so natives who were prevailed upon to dance. This northernmost tip of the United States, and predating the Native dance is the one mentioned in the first broadside earliest known book printed in Alaska. “which will take place on board Her Majesty’s Ship Plover, at Point Barrow, on Thursday next, the 28th Instant between the 1. Great Novelty!! It is intended to Open the Season with a Native hours of 4 & 8 o’clock p.m”. Dance. 23.8 x 18.5 cm. white machine laid paper, horizontal chainlines, lower and right-hand edge smooth, top and left rough, The entry for Friday 29th of October 1852, is pertinent to watermarked 1837, n.d. but the week before 28th [October, the second broadside. Maguire writes about plans to extend 1852]. Hoag P4 (3 copies: Duke University (2) & BL). information along the eastern coast, through the Natives: “As a preparation in this way. We had a number of Notices printed 2. Arctic Expedition in Search of Sir , 11 x 16.5 cm, blue today, that I intend asking them to distribute along the coast”. machine laid paper, horizontal chainlines, lower and right-hand Our edge smooth, top and left slightly rough, watermark “185-”, printed broadside gives the location of the Plover “two miles S. E. (true) on board H. M. S. Plover, on the 29th of October 1852. Hoag of Point Barrow, called by the natives Noo-Wook”. It was P5 (6 copies: Duke University (3 copies); BL; RGS; Private collection). hoped that the natives would pass them on until they reached the Enterprise or Investigator. 3. Arctic Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 20 x 16 cm., white machine laid paper, horizontal chainlines, top and right Maguire’s entry for July 4th 1853, details how he distributed hand edges smooth, others rough, watermark 1851, on the notices among the eastern Esquimaux, “Each person charged verso in brown ink is written “ Her Majestys Ship Plovr (sic)”, with the papers also received a present of tobacco, some buttons printed on board H. M. S. Plover on the 4th July 1853. Hoag with the names of the ships engaged in Arctic search engraved on P14 (3 copies: Duke University; BL; Public Records Office). them, & other small trifles to keep them in mind of their charge”. This notice corresponds with our third broadside dated 4th In 1845 Sir John Franklin’s expedition left England, searching July 1853. for a northwest passage and vanished in the Arctic. In 1848 H. M. S. Plover’s was the first departure of twenty-one expeditions Together these broadsides are not only remarkable survivals, sent in search of Franklin. The Plover’s voyage of 1848-54 was but they bear testimony to one of the great quests in maritime the first constant presence of Europeans in the western Arctic history and the perseverance and determination of those and a very early example of interaction with the Eskimos of engaged in the search. northern Alaska. See: Elaine Hoag, Shipboard Printing on the Franklin Search Expeditions: A became captain of the Plover in 1852 and Bibliographical Study of the Plover Press, in Papers of the Bibliographical his journal (Hakluyt Society, Second Series, nos. 169-170) society of vol 38 # 1 (Spring 2000). provides a thorough account of the two years spent at Point £36,000 [ref: 97551] Barrow, Alaska.

44 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 45 Original drawings for Back’s Terror Expedition

39. BACK, George. Narrative of an expedition in H. M. S. 40. [TERROR EXPEDITION]; Lieutenant William Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Smyth, artist. A pair of drawings of H.M.S. Terror in Arctic ice, Arctic shores, in the years 1836-37. The Crew of H.M.S. Terror Breaking a Passage in the Ice, and Murray, London, 1838. H.M.S. Terror Nipped in the Ice in ’s Channel.

This expedition, under the auspices of the British Admiralty, Two original drawings from the second voyage of exploration was intended to complete the coastal survey from the west in the Canadian Arctic undertaken by Captain coast of Hudson’s Bay to Point Turnagain on the Kent Peninsula. in command of H.M.S. Terror. The first had been in 1834, later However his ship was severely damaged by ice and stuck fast known as the Back River Expedition, which had originally been for ten months before being forced to return home. intended as a rescue mission to find the Arctic explorer, John Ross, of whom nothing had been heard since 1832. By the time First edition. 8vo, viii, 456pp., 12 pages ads dated July 1838 at end, folding the expedition was ready, and Back had set off across Hudson engraved map, 12 lithographed plates, original dark blue blindstamped cloth, recased with new endpapers, a very good copy. Bay towards the Great Fish River, word was received that Ross Hill 44. was safely home, but that the voyage should continue with the revised objective of clarifying Ross’s survey of King William £2,250 [ref: 97528] Land as far as Point Turnagain, discovered by Back’s erstwhile commander, Sir John Franklin. Great Fish River was renamed Back River, and the mission, which became known as the Back River Expedition, was recounted in Back’s Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition, 1836.

The second voyage, which these two drawings illustrate, is a classic tale of heroism and endurance in the cruel face of nature. H.M.S. Terror was a converted , designed for coastal bombardment by mortars rather than cannons, and launched in 1813 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars. Her sturdy design rendered her suitable for enduring the rigours of the Arctic. She was manned by a crew of around sixty, most of the officers and all of the men being volunteers. The captain was again George Back 1796-1878), the 1st lieutenant was William Smyth (1800-1877), and the 2nd lieutenant was Owen Stanley (1811-1850). All three were competent artists, particularly the first two. That these two drawings are by the same hand is clear, and the first we know is Smyth’s as there is the identical illustration, lithographed by Louis Haghe, in the published account of the voyage, Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror, issued in 1838. In 2006, Christie’s

46 Shapero Rare Books sold a very similar composition to the second drawing, in their case by Owen Stanley, showing the vessel firmly embedded in ice. But the quality and detail of that drawing does not bear comparison to one offered here.

Captain Back and his crew set off from England in June, 1836, with provisions for 18 months. H.M.S. Terror had to be towed by steamer to the Orkneys before sailing across the North Atlantic to . Unfortunately, by late August she was beset by ice, east of the aptly named Frozen Strait. The expedition was then icebound for the next 10 months, the sturdiness of their vessel being tested to the maximum as extreme pressure from the surrounding ice even squeezed the linseed oil out of the hull’s planks, with no option but to be transported with the floe, at one point being elevated 40 feet up a cliff face by the supporting ice. It took until July the following year, 1837, for the ship to be float free and be able to traverse the Atlantic again. But, even then a lot of ice still clung to the hull, to the extent that when a large chunk came adrift on one side, the sudden imbalance tipped her dangerously to the other side, and such was the state of her that she was eventually beached on the Irish coast.

Although this proved to be Back’s last Arctic adventure, H.M.S Terror was refitted and used by Ross on his expedition from 1839 to 1843, and then again, including the addition of iron cladding and auxillary steam engines, for Franklin’s famously fateful attempt to find the Northwest Passage in 1845. She was believed to have been finally lost with all hands, along with the other ship on the voyage, H.M.S. Erebus, in 1848, though the wreck of Terror was rediscovered by Canadian marine archaeologists, in a remarkable state of preservation, in September 2016.

2 pencil drawings on grey paper heightened with white chalk, each c.10.5 x 17 cm. hinged into mounts.

£7,500 [ref: 96792]

Shapero Rare Books 47 41. BACK, George. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition 42. BAFFIN, William. The Voyages of , to the mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of 1612-1622. Edited, with Notes and an Introduction by Clements the in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835. R. Markham. Murray, London, 1836. Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1881.

Scarce in original cloth. “One of the finest travel books of Hakluyt Society, First Series, no. 63. the nineteenth century.”(Howgego). From narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Back, a British naval officer and accomplished artist, first served Fotherby, and others, with Baffin’s letters, journals, and other in the Polar Regions under John Franklin during the unsuccessful observations, and various treatises on the probability of a expedition of Captain David Buchanan in 1818. He served again North-West Passage. under Franklin on further Arctic explorations in 1819-1822 and 1825-1827. This, his fourth expedition, which he commanded, 8vo., lix, 192 pp., portrait frontispiece, 8 maps, original blue cloth gilt, pictorial gilt vignette to upper cover, light fade to spine, an excellent copy. was tasked with searching for Captain John Ross, but the news of Ross’s safe return allowed the party to travel into £575 [ref: 95546] the Great Slave Lake and discover the Great Fish River, or Back River, and to map as much as possible of the coast. He travelled 7,500 miles, 1,200 of them over unknown territory.

First edition, 8vo., x, [ii], 663, [i]pp., 12 pages ads at end dated May 1836, folding map, 16 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, original cloth gilt, a fine example. Wagner-Camp 58b; Field 64; Hill 42; Lande 935; Arctic Bib. 851; Sabin 2613; TPL 1873.

£1,250 [ref: 96925]

48 Shapero Rare Books 43. BARRINGTON, Daines; Colonel Beaufoy. The 44. BARRINGTON, Daines; Colonel Beaufoy. The possibility of approaching the asserted. possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted [...] A New Printed For T. and J. Allman, London, 1818. Edition, with an Appendix, containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on a North West Passage. This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under Charles Wood for T. and J. Allman, London, 1818. the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers were originally published This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the in pamphlet form. Colonel Beaufoy, who published these command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government papers, also added his own appendix on the same subject to of the day. These papers were originally published in pamphlet this volume. Daines Barrington, by profession a lawyer, was form. Colonel Beaufoy, who published these papers, also added always fascinated with the Arctic regions. A scarce title. his own appendix on the same subject to this volume. Daines Barrington, by profession a lawyer, was always fascinated with First edition. 8vo, xxiv, 257 pp., engraved title-page, folding map before title- the Arctic regions. page, contemporary half calf, neat repair to spine, an excellent example. Sabin 3629. Provenance: J. Raymond Edinger, Jr. (bookplate to upper £1,250 [ref: 95501] pastedown).

Second edition. 8vo, xxiv, 258 pp., with a woodcut vignette to title, folding map as frontispiece; frontispiece spotted, offsetting to title, very small marginal hole to page 21, otherwise internally bright; contemporary half calf with marbled sides, borders roll-tooled in gilt, skilfully rebacked, spine gilt in compartments, contemporary gilt red morocco lettering-piece relaid in one, others with gilt centre-pieces, marbled edges and endpapers, inner hinges strengthened; rubbed at extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Sabin 3629.

£475 [ref: 97559]

Shapero Rare Books 49 45. BARROW, John, editor. The geography of Hudson’s 46. BARROW, Sir John. A chronological history of Bay: being the remarks of Captain W. Coats, in many yoyages to voyages into the Arctic regions; undertaken chiefly for the that Locality, between the Years 1727 and 1751. With an purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage appendix containing extracts from the log of Capt. Middleton on between the Atlantic and Pacific: from the earliest periods of his voyage for the discovery of the North-West Passage in Scandinavian navigation, to the departure of the recent H.M.S. “Furnace,” in 1741- 2. expeditions, under the orders of Captains Ross and Buchan... Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1852. Murray, London, 1818.

Hakluyt Society, First Series, no. 11. “The cornerstone of his [Barrow] campaign for renewed . With his power to appoint officers for 8vo., x, 147, pp., original blue cloth, gilt ship device on upper board, spine such ventures, he was able to send thirteen expeditions to browned, extremities rubbed, head of spine chipped, blind stamp, bookplate, and spine label of Royal United Service Institution. the north over the next thirty years under such legendary as John Ross, , John £150 [ref: 67072] Franklin, George Back, John Richardson, , Thomas Simpson, and Frederick Beechey. This volume began the long partnership of the firm of John Murray and the Admiralty, which gave Murray a near monopoly on Arctic publications of the Royal Navy and most of the Arctic Blue Books” (Books on Ice).

First edition. 8vo., vi, 279, 48pp., large folding engraved map, 3 woodcut illustrations at end, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards and edges, Hill, 67; Lada-Mocarski 76; Books on Ice 2.4.

£1,350 [ref: 97529]

50 Shapero Rare Books British Navy’s last attempt to sail to the North Pole.

47. BEECHEY, Frederick William. A Voyage of Discovery First edition. 8vo, [2 (half-title, blank)], ix, [1 (list of illustrations, errata, directions towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty’s Ships Dorothea to binder))], 352 pp., with frontispiece and 5 lithographic plates (including 2 and Trent, under the Command of Captain , R.N.; folding panoramas), all but one with tissue guards, folding map in front pocket; short tear to crease of first panorama, occasional spotting, plates lightly foxed 1818; to which is added, a Summary of All the Early Attempts to with a few light waterstains; publisher’s blue cloth, blocked in blind, spine Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole. By Captain F.W. Beechey, lettered directly in gilt, rebacked preserving spine, endpapers renewed; R.N., F.R.S., one of the Lieutenants of the Expedition. sunned, bumped, a little rubbed, a good copy. Books on Ice 2.11; Hill 97. Richard Bentley, London, 1843. £1,250 [ref: 97557] Scarce. “An abortive attempt to reach the Bering Strait via the North Pole. Sir John Franklin was deputy leader of the expedition... with Beechey as his lieutenant. The second part of the work relates the various voyages of Barents, Hudson, Baffin, Tschitschagoff, and Phipps” (Hill).

Provenance: J. Raymond Edinger, Jr (bookplate to upper pastedown).

Shapero Rare Books 51 item 48 - BRADFORD, William. The Arctic regions.

52 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 53 Early Arctic photography on a monumental scale: one of 36 located copies

48. BRADFORD, William. The Arctic regions, illustrated sketches and also to explore the region. He hired for the with photographs taken on an art expedition to . expedition the photographers John L. Dunmore and George S. Low, Marston Low, and Searle, London, 1873. Critcherson from Boston, who had traveled with Bradford before, and the noted Arctic explorer Dr. Isaac Hayes also ‘Not only a major monument of photography but also of joined the party. The three month summer trip was a great nineteenth century book making’ (Books on Ice). success; Bradford produced a large number of sketches and Dunmore and Critcherson took hundreds of photographs A notorious Arctic rarity, one of only 36 copies located (Bradford is now believed to have taken a number of the (George LeBordais, Tracing the Arctic Regions). photographs himself). The remarkable photographs, made under extremely harsh freezing conditions, are a tribute to The present copy with the penultimate plate, Homeward the skill and fortitude of the photographers. Once back in his Bound, in the earlier of two states with a ship on the horizon studio, Bradford used the sketches and photographs to create (LeBordais). many fine, finished paintings. In 1871 and 1872 Bradford exhibited the paintings and sketches in England to great This voyage aboard the Panther in the summer of 1869 was acclaim, and attracted the patronage of . one of seven trips to and Greenland that Bradford This prompted Bradford to plan publication of an album of sponsored or participated in during the 1860’s, all early examples photographs, and when Queen Victoria and other members of what might be called ‘eco-art tourism’. Artist William of the royal family added their names as subscribers (at a cost Bradford was not the principal photographer for this book. of 25 guineas apiece), the “album” was transformed into a lavish His assistants, John L. Dunmore and George Critcherson publication, with a text combining sober scientific observation took most of the photographs whilst Bradford sketched the with romantic hyperbole. Three hundred copies were proposed same scenes. (some sources say 350), although it is thought that significantly fewer were actually published. The publisher, Marston, had Of the photographs, Martin Parr writes: ‘they also contributed already some experience with photographic books: he had just to, indeed largely invented, that staple of arctic expedition published the Valley of the Grisly, also by a painter, Bierstadt, photography, the tiny ship struggling through towering sheets with photos by Watkins. of ice - the classic, but nevertheless compelling cliché of man against the elements’ (The Photobook: A History, 2004). ‘The most beautiful photographic book on the Arctic region’ (Coron, BnF). William Bradford (1823-1892), a painter of the School, is known for his paintings of ships and Arctic seascapes. First edition. Large folio (64 x 52 cm. approx), half-title, title in red and black, dedication leaf, 141 mounted albumen photographs (116 mounted in the In 1869, having secured the sponsorship of a wealthy patron in text and 25 mounted as inserted plates, including one double-page plate), Le Grand Lockwood (to whose memory the book is dedicated, mounted on guards throughout, original brown morocco gilt by Leighton he having passed away in 1872), Bradford chartered the steamship Son and Hodge with gilt pictorial vignette by G. Littlejohn to upper cover, neatly rebacked preserving spine, light fading to photographs, a very good The Panther, and set off for Greenland, to set the frozen north copy of one of the most remarkable books on the Arctic. to pen and paper. The aim was to venture as far as ice would Books on Ice 10.11; Gernsheim Incunabula of British Photography 570; permit, deep into Melville Bay in Greenland, primarily to make Grolier, Truthful Lens 24; A. Coron, Des Livres rares depuis l’invention de l’imprimerie, exhibition BnF 1998, #67.

£140,000 [ref: 90711] 54 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 55 56 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 57 49. CLUTTERBUCK, Walter. The Skipper in Arctic Seas. 50. CONWAY, Sir W. Martin, editor.Early Dutch and Longmans, London, 1890. English voyages to in the seventeenth century, including Hessel Gerritsz. Histoire du pays nomme Spitsberghe, Scarce account of a party of amateurs setting out on an 1613, translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby... and Jacob Segersz. Van der Brugge Journael of dagh expedition in the Spitzbergen area. Hunting and dining seem register, Amsterdam, 1634, translated into English, for the first to be their major concerns in between bouts of sea-sickness. time, by J. A. J. de Villiers... On the five month voyage they killed over eight hundred Hakluyt Society, London 1902. seals, as well as reindeer and a polar bear.

First edition. 8vo., viii, 271 pp., folding map and 39 illustrations, contemporary Hakluyt Society, Second Series, no. 11. red half morocco gilt, a fine example. 8vo., cxi, 250 pp., 3 maps and 3 illustrations, contemporary red half calf gilt, a very handsome example. £1,250 [ref: 95766]

£475 [ref: 95544]

58 Shapero Rare Books 51. COXE, William. Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America; to which are added the Conquest of and the history of the transactions and commerce between and China. Cadell, London 1780.

Coxe endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to the area subsequent to Bering’s 1741 expedition with which Gerhard Müller had concluded his account of the first Russian navigations. ‘He also succeeded in securing additional material: for instance the narrative & maps of Krenitzin and Levashev”s “secret” expedition, the first official Russian government expedition since Bering’s second expedition of 1741. He was able to secure this particular information, not widely known at the time even in Russia, from Dr. Wm. Robertson, who in turn obtained it through his friend Dr. Rogerson, first physician to the Empress Catherine II.” (Lada-Mocarski 29).

This work includes the main Russian discoveries made in north- western America in their attempts to open communications with Alaska and the . The work contains also valuable information on the fur trade between Russia and China: ‘an interesting work, not merely from the particular subject which the title indicates, but also on account of the sketch it contains, concerning the conquest of Siberia and of the Russian commerce with China.’ (Lowndes).

Second edition. 4to., xxiii, [iii], 344, [xiv] index, [2] ads pp., folding plate and 4 folding maps, slight spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label, a very good example. Hill, 391; Lada-Mocarski 29; Sabin 17309; Cordier Sinica 2447.

£2,750 [ref: 97214]

Shapero Rare Books 59 Important for supplement on Captain Cook

52. COXE, William. Account of the Russian Discoveries of latitude and longitude. The most important feature of the between Asia and America. To which Are Added, the Conquest of third edition, however, is the inclusion of the supplement on Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Captain Cook titled: A comparative view of the Russian between Russia and China. discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke; and a J. Nichols for T. Cadell, London, 1787. sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future navigators.

Fine copy of this English edition of an early Russian Third edition. 8vo., [4], xxviii, 454, [2] pp., 4 folding maps by T. Kitchin and 1 folding plate by I. Cheevers; contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco label, monograph on China and Asian exploration. an excellent example. Provenance: 1. Mrs. P (book label); 2. Robert Hayhurst (bookplate). The present edition has appendices (not in the earlier editions) Forbes 134; Hill 392; Holmes 107; Lada-Mocarski 29; Sabin 17309. giving a list of the principal charts representing the Russian discoveries, a specimen of the Aleutian language, and tables £750 [ref: 95791]

60 Shapero Rare Books 53. DE VEER, Gerrit. The three voyages of William 54. DE VEER, Gerrit. A True Description of three Voyages Barents to the Arctic regions, 1594, 1595, and 1596. First by the North-East towards Cathay and China, undertaken by the edition edited by Charles T. Beke...1853. Second Edition, with an Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596, by . introduction, by Lieutenant Koolemans Beynen... Published at Amsterdam in the Year 1598, and in 1609 Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1876. translated into English by William Phillip. Edited by Charles T. Beke, Phil.D., F.S.A. Hakluyt Society, First Series, no. 54. Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1853.

Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz) (c. Hakluyt Society, First Series, no. 13. 1550 – 20 June 1597) was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, 8vo. cxlii, 291pp., 12 illustrations and 4 maps, original blue cloth gilt, ship and Arctic explorer. He went on three expeditions to the far device on upper board, spine faded, top of spine worn, a very good copy of north in search for a . During his third a scarce title. expedition, the crew was stranded on for almost a year. Barentsz died on the return voyage in 1597. In £400 [ref: 95543] the 19th century, the Barents Sea was named after him.

8vo., clxxiv, 289 pp., 12 illustrations, 2 maps as called for, original blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, a very good copy.

£325 [ref: 94065]

Shapero Rare Books 61 55. [FRANKLIN SEARCH EXPEDITION]; Horatio Thomas Austin. Captain Austin’s expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. Intrepid. Resolute. Assistance. Pioneer. [circa 1850].

A rare and highly decorative piece of memorabilia commemorating a chapter in the best known of arctic searches.

The broadside describes and illustrates the hydrogen balloons: “Should the wind prove favourable on arriving at the edge of the ice, these natural messengers will be sent up to announce the approach of the searching expedition.”

In 1850, Austin (1801-65), was appointed leader of the British Naval Franklin Search Expedition, 1850-51, serving as captain of HMS Resolute, sent by the Admiralty to search for Sir John Franklin’s missing Northwest Passage expedition by way of and . During the expedition, discovered the first evidence that Franklin had in fact reached the Canadian Arctic. The expedition also conducted extensive coastal surveys and observations of topography, geology, fauna and meteorology.

Sotheby’s recently (30th September 2014) sold a copy of this broadside, described by them as “unrecorded”, for £9375 as part of the Franklin Brooke-Hitching collection.

Provenance: Christopher Lennox-Boyd.

Linen broadside (50 x 36 cm) produced on the departure of the Austin Search Expedition, printed in red, large pictorial image with text and portrait vignette beneath, decorative border, light fold marks, framed and glazed (overall dimensions 65 x 50 cm), an excellent example.

£6,500 [ref: 89382]

62 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 63 A mutineer’s account

56. GODFREY, William C. Godfrey’s narrative of the Last 57. GOSH, C. C. A. [Editor]. Danish Arctic Expeditions, Grinnell Arctic Exploring Expedition, in search of Sir John 1605 to 1620. In Two Books: Book I the Danish Expeditions to Franklin, 1853-4-5. With a Biography of Dr. Elisha K. Kane, from Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607; To which is added Captain the Cradle to the Grave. ’s Voyage to Greenland in 1612. Book II the Expedition Lloyd, , 1857. of Captain to Hudson Bay in search of a North-West passage in 1619-20. Godfrey’s account of the second Grinnell Expedition under The Hakluyt Society, London, 1897. Elisha Kent. Whatever the scientific accomplishments of the voyage, Kane’s second expedition was ill-starred from the Hakluyt Society, First Series, No. XCVI. start with a largely inexperienced crew. The Advance was stuck in the ice for twenty-one months and half of the crew First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, with 9 maps, 3 of which folding, 7 folding charts and illustrations, original blue cloth pictorial gilt, spines lightly faded, a very deserted, only to be forced back by the atrocious conditions. good set. Godfrey was a ringleader in all of this and the present work is his justification. £300 [ref: 95865]

First edition. 8vo., 267 pp., 5 pages ads at end, wood-engraved frontispiece, portrait, 13 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in text, original grey blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt to upper cover, an excellent copy. Arctic Bibliography 5383.

£950 [ref: 97531]

64 Shapero Rare Books 58. GREELY, Adolphus W. Three years of Arctic service. 59. HAKLUYT, Richard. The principal navigations voyages An account of the Expedition of 1881-84 and traffiques & discoveries of the English nation; Made by sea or the attainment of the . over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Bentley, London, 1886. earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres. James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1903-1905. This United States expedition explored the north coast of Greenland from Cape Bryant to Cape Washington, the Hakluyt Society, Extra Series, nos. 1-12. interior and west coast of Grinnell Land (northern ), and extended the mapping of Hayes Sound. Includes The text is an exact reprint of the 1598-1600 edition with a chapter on Polar ice. the exception of the letters i, j, u, and v being used according to modern custom, and the various contractions have been First U.K. edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxv, 428; xiii, 424 pp., 9 maps (2 very large) extended. In addition the twelfth volume contains Professor repairs to splits, numerous illustrations, many full-page, a little light spotting and staining, handsomely bound in modern blue polished half calf gilt, red Raleigh’s essay on the life and work of Hakluyt as well as a morocco labels, a very good set. complete index.

£950 [ref: 96836] Bookplate to each upper paste-down of Annie Cowdray (died 1932), wife of Weetman Peason, 1st Viscount Cowdray; showing Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, leased by Lord Cowdray in 1907 and then purchased by him in 1912.

12 volumes, 8vo., maps, plans, and charts, later half morocco gilt by Bumpus, slight fading to spines, spotting to fore-edge (edge of text block) with a few encroaching into margins, otherwise and excellent set.

£2,500 [ref: 96468]

Shapero Rare Books 65 Franklin rarity

60. KING, Richard. The Franklin expedition from first to last. John Churchill, London, 1855.

Very rare.

Inscribed on title page; Dr. Norton Shaw MD / With the Regards / of the Author / Richard KIng.

“King took great interest in Franklin’s expedition and was one of the first to raise the alarm when he failed to return. He insisted, at first on very slender evidence that Franklin’s party would be found near the mouth of the Great Fish River. His opinion was discounted and in 1847 and 1856 his offer to lead a search party was refused. His loud and continued insistence on the need to search his favoured site increased the animosity of the Admiralty, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the Royal Geographical Society, who were also irritated by popular journals which took up King’s point of view. Matters were not helped by King’s Franklin Search from First to Last (1855) [i.e. this work] which set out his own convictions and dwelt on the obduracy of those who would not listen to him. Franklin’s party was finally found by M’Clintock in 1859 in the spot King had suggested eleven years earlier. The delay, however, probably made no material difference since, even if his advice been taken immediately, it would probably have come too late to save any of Franklin’s men” (ODNB).

Provenance: 1. Norton Shaw (presentation inscription; 2. Beryn B Horton (inscription to front pastedown and Preface.

First edition, 8vo, Inscribed presentation copy, xxxviii, 3-224 pp., 3 charts (one in text) and 2 plates, original green blindstamped cloth gilt, light wear and fading, ads to endpapers, an excellent example. Sabin 37797; Staton & Tremaine 3571.

Sold [ref: 97216]

66 Shapero Rare Books 61. [KRUZENSTERN]; Charlotte Bernhardi. Memoir 62. lyon, Captain G. F. A brief narrative of an of the celebrated Admiral, Adam John de Krusenstern: the first unsuccessful attempt to reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Russian circumnavigator. Rowe’s “Welcome”, in His Majesty’s ship Griper in the year Longmans, London, 1856. MDCCCXXIV. John Murray, London 1825. Rare. The first English edition of Kruzenstern’s memoir, translated by his daughter Charlotte. At the opening of the Lyon’s official account of a search for a Northwest Passage 19th century, Kruzenstern had commanded a brilliant corps by Hudson Bay. The narrative of the voyage as far as Wager of officers—including Lisiansky, Rezanov, Langsdorff, and Inlet and Repulse Bay also contains information about Kotzebue—on the first Russian circumnavigation of the Southampton Island and the Eskimos of the region, with globe. This posthumous memoir is his first published whom Lyon was on excellent terms. biography. First edition. 8vo., xi, 198, [i] pp., engraved folding map, 6 engraved plates, uncut in original drab boards, rebacked with calf, new endpapers, a very First edition. 8vo., [iv], ii, 75 pp., engraved frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, good example. lettered in gilt on upper cover, a little worn, small waterstain to lower blank Hill 1055; Sabin 42851. margin of frontispiece, text clean and fresh, a very good copy. Howes B-386; cf. Lada-Mocarski 143; Tourville 537; Wickersham 5727. £650 [ref: 97537]

£2,950 [ref: 97648]

Shapero Rare Books 67 63. M’CLINTOCK, Sir Francis Leopold A Narrative of 64. M’CLURE, Robert. The discovery of the North-West the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Passage by H.M.S. “Investigator,” by Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, Companions. 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854. Edited by Commander ... John Murray, London, 1859. Longman, London, 1856.

M’Clintock had served on two earlier expeditions in search The first traversal of the Northwest Passage. of Franklin, under Ross in 1848 and under Kellett and Belcher in 1852. This expedition, financed by Lady Franklin, was Even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin conducted from 1857 to 1859. He found the log book, survivors, and (by explicit orders) not a voyage of discovery, diaries, relics, etc. left by the Franklin expedition on King its men were the first to travel all the way through the passage. William Island. An important book with an extensive The Investigator was abandoned in June 1853 and the men geological account in the appendix. rescued at Melville Island by H. M. S. Resolute. In 1855 the captain and crew of the Investigator were granted the £10,000 First edition. 8vo, 2 folding maps (1 with tear repaired), 16 wood-engraved Parliamentary award for crossing the Northwest Passage. plates, including folding facsimile, other illustrations in text, light waterstains to title and plate corners, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled sides and edges, a very good copy. M’Clure was appointed commander of the Investigator as part of the Bering Strait Franklin Search expedition commanded £450 [ref: 94650] by Captain Collinson aboard H. M. S. Enterprise. The two ships separated early in the voyage and whilst pursuing parallel paths for almost half of the five years duration of the search, never actually met again.

First edition. 8vo., xvii, 405pp., 28 pages ads dated March 1856 at end, folding coloured chart, 4 lithograph plates after Cresswell, original blind-stamped dark blue cloth gilt, ads to pastedowns, a fine copy. Books on Ice, 3.15; Hill 1122; Lada-Mocarski 145; S & T 3451 (later edition).

£3,500 [ref: 96334]

68 Shapero Rare Books 65. M’CORMICK, Robert. Voyages of discovery in the 66. MARKHAM, Albert Hastings. A whaling cruise to Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and round the world: being personal Baffin’s Bay and the . And an account of the narratives of attempts to reach the North and South Poles; and rescue of the crew of the “Polaris.” of an open-boat expedition up the in search Sampson Low, London, 1875. of Sir John Franklin and Her Majesty’s ships “Erebus” and “Terror,” in Her Majesty’s boat “Forlorn hope,” under the An account of a voyage in the Dundee whaler, the Arctic, with command of the author. an account of the rescue of the crew of the ill-fated U.S. Sampson Low, London, 1884. expedition under Captain Hall in the Polaris to reach the Pole

by way of Smith’s Sound. This was Hall’s third Arctic venture “Very scarce” - Rosove. and his last for he died after claiming to be poisoned by the expedition’s German doctor - a claim seemingly justified by This work, published when the author was eighty-four, was the discovery of arsenic in his body during a modern autopsy. based upon his diaries and covers three expeditions: Ross’ Antarctic expedition, on which McCormick was surgeon with Second edition. 8vo., xxxi, 307 pp., frontispiece, 7 full-page plates, numerous the botanist Joseph Hooker as assistant surgeon; Parry’s 1827 illustrations in text, coloured folding map at end, original blue cloth gilt, North Pole expedition; and the voyage to Wellington decorated in gilt and black, pictorial vignette to upper cover, a very good copy. Channel in search of Franklin in 1852-53, including the boat £200 [ref: 97062] expedition under his own command.

First edition. 2 volumes octavo, xx, 432; xii, 412 pp., with 16-page “publisher’s memorandum” and “opinions of the press,” not present in all copies, 62 full-page plates (5 folding), 2 maps (1 folding), illustrations in text, modern blue half morocco gilt, original upper covers bound-in, a very handsome set. Rosove 221.A1; Spence 747.

£2,750 [ref: 96899]

Shapero Rare Books 69 With dust wrappers

67. nANSEN, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists. Arctic exploration in early times. Translated by Arthur G. Chater. Stokes, New York, 1911.

First edition in English, published the same year as the Norwegian original, rare in the dust jackets. Nansen wrote the book at the request of the Royal Geographical Society: “this book owes its existence to a rash promise made some years ago to my friend [the geographer] Dr. J. Scott Keltie”. It is an historical survey of the opening of the Arctic from classical antiquity to Cabot and the Portuguese discoveries in the north-west, and includes an account of the Viking discovery of America.

2 volumes, 4to., xviii, 384; xiii, 420 pp., Tipped-in coloured frontispieces (with tissue guards), numerous wood-engraved illustrations and maps in the text. Original blue cloth gilt, original grey dust-wrappers (short chips and minor defects), a fine set. Arctic Bibliography 11993.

£1,500 [ref: 97121]

70 Shapero Rare Books 68. [NARES EXPEDITION]. Arctic Expedition, 1875-6. ship. In April 1876, three separate sledge parties set out but Journals and proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6, under the men showed serious signs of scurvy and several the command of Captain Sir George S. Nares, R.N., K.C.B.... members died. Nares was forced to abandon the expedition Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her and returned to England in September that year. Majesty, 1877. H. M. S. O., London 1877. Despite the difficulties faced by the expedition, it did produce

important scientific results including a study of dog disease One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration and a volume of physical observations. in . The Nares expedition is one of the best documented Arctic The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George expeditions, with eight Parliamentary Blue Books alone Nares (1831-1915), sailed in two ships, HMS Alert and HMS devoted to it between 1875 and 1878. Arctic explorer Discovery, in late May of 1875, in quest of the North Pole. wrote “[The Arctic Blue Books] are The ships reached Lady Franklin Bay on North Ellesmere beyond comparison the most important tool of knowledge Island and the Alert went on to reach the extreme north of in this field...” the island, the highest latitude that had yet been reached by a First edition. Folio, viii, 484pp., 16 folding maps, 16 plates, illustrations in the text, contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards, lightly faded, neat restoration to extremities, an excellent copy.

£3,000 [ref: 89390]

Shapero Rare Books 71 69. [NARES EXPEDITION]. MOSS, Edward. Shores of the Polar Sea a narrative of the Arctic expedition of 1875–6. London, M. Ward, 1878.

A “sumptuous volume” (Books on Ice), illustrating Nares’s British Arctic Expedition 1875–6. Moss was naval surgeon aboard Nares’s flagshipAlert “but also served as artist for the expedition.” Moss places the emphasis on his pictorial efforts – which offer some of the classic images of the heroic era of polar exploration.

The sketches are not designed to illustrate the progress of the expedition, or any stirring events in its history, so much as the appearance of the strange and desolate country by the shores of which the ships slowly steamed, the wonderful phenomena of the sky, and the effects of light and shade produced by a midnight sun, or a midday moon, on the ice-bound rocks which form the scenery of the region.

Encouraged by the reports of the American expeditions of and C. F. Hall, which had “revived the belief in an and suggested that land extended far to the north, west of Robeson Channel” (ODNB), the Nares expedition was intended to reach the pole via . A sledge party under Commander Markham of the Alert did reach “83°20’ N, a heroic achievement considering that the pack ice was extremely rough, and also drifting south almost as fast as they were travelling northwards.” But both ships were severely affected by scurvy and Nares made the courageous decision to return home.

First edition. Folio (49 x 35.5 cm), vi, 83 pp., Title page in red and black, coloured map frontispiece, 16 mounted chromolithographs mounted on card as issued, 28 vignettes in text. Original publisher’s blue cloth, elaborately blocked in black and gilt on the spine and upper board, panels in blind to the lower board, all edges gilt, a fine example. Books on ice IV.7; Howgego, IV, N6.

£4,000 [ref: 94818]

72 Shapero Rare Books 70. [NARES EXPEDITION]. [Broadside] The five flags were hampered by inappropriate clothing and equipment. hoisted at 83° 20’ 26’ N. on May 12th, 1876. Nares wintered at Fort Conger during the winter of 1875.[1] Pettitt and Co., Lithographers, London, n.d. [1876]. Realising that his men could not survive another winter in the ice, Nares hastily retreated southward with both his ships Rare broadside commemorating the new record for farthest in the summer of 1876. north set by Commander Markham, showing the various flags of the expedition. Lithograph, printed on paper, flags printed in colour, framed and glazed, overall dimensions 31 x 63.5 cm.

The five flags hoisted were: Lieut. Parr’s standard; White £2,250 [ref: 92199] Ensign; Capt. Nares’ flag; Capt. Markham’s flag; and Capt. Markham’s standard. In addition, the broadside gives the various flags of H. M. S. Alert, Autumn Travelling, 1875; Spring Travelling,1876, extended parties, auxiliary parties, and dog sledges; and H. M. S. Discovery, Spring Travelling, 1876. In addition to the flags the various personnel and details of the parties’ achievements are given.

The British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Sir George Strong Nares, was sent by the British Admiralty to attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound. Two ships, H. M. S. Alert and H. M. S. Discovery (captained by Henry Frederick Stephenson), sailed from on 29 May 1875. Although the expedition failed to reach the North Pole, the coasts of Greenland and Ellesmere Island were extensively explored and large amounts of scientific data were collected.

On this expedition, Nares became the first explorer to take his ships all the way north through the channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island (now named in his honour) to the . Up to this time, it had been a popular theory that this route would lead to the supposed Open Polar Sea, an ice-free region surrounding the pole, but Nares found only a wasteland of ice. A sledging party under Commander set a new record Farthest North of 83° 20’ 26”N, but overall the expedition was a near-disaster. The men suffered badly from scurvy and

Shapero Rare Books 73 71. nieDIECK, Paul. Cruises in the Bering Sea. 72. osBORN, Sherard. Stray leaves from an Arctic Rowland Ward, London, 1909. journal; or, eighteen months in the Polar Regions, in search of Sir John Franklin’s expedition, in the years 1850-51. Scarce. Account of a summer cruise in 1906 from Japan to Longman, London, 1852. the east coast of Kamchatka, across the Bering Strait to Nome then southward to the Kenai Peninsula. “In his voyage to the “In 1849, when public attention was turned to the fate of Sir Bering Sea, Niedeck split his time between Kamchatka and John Franklin, Osborn entered into the question with enthusiasm Alaska. Landing at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatkan coast, his and energy, and in 1850 was appointed to command the steam party proceeded inward, bagging bear along the shores of tender Pioneer, in the Arctic expedition under Captain Austin Betchevinskaya Bay. He also collected Ovis nivicola in the in the Resolute. Considered as a surveying expedition, it was surrounding hill country, walrus and sea lion before turning eminently successful, and proved that Franklin’s ships had not his attention to Alaska” (Czech). Includes information on the been lost in Baffin’s Bay. Much of the success of the voyage mining and fishing industries in Alaska. was due to the steam tenders, which, during the summers of 1850 and 1851, held out new prospects for Arctic navigation. First edition in English. 8vo., xv, 252pp., 4 pages ads at end, frontispiece, 71 The way in which the Pioneer or Intrepid cut through rotten plates, folding map in rear pocket, illustrations in the text, original grey cloth gilt, corners just bumped else fine. ice, or steamed through the loose pack in a calm, led directly Czech, Asian p150. to the employment of powerful screw-steamers in the whaling fleet. On his return to England in 1851, Osborn urged the £750 [ref: 82943] renewal of the search for Franklin” (ODNB).

First edition. 8vo., vii, 320pp., 4 tinted lithographs, large folding map coloured in outline, contemporary red polished calf gilt, spine in six compartments, green morocco label to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, marbled edges, a fine copy. Sabin 57760. Abbey Travel 640.

£1,350 [ref: 88453]

74 Shapero Rare Books Set of Parry’s voyages

73. [PARRY, SET OF THE VOYAGES]. PARRY, William ice. Parry’s narratives are important for the full descriptions he Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West gives of every part of the expeditions, not only the discoveries Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years made but the preparations made, crew entertainment, and 1819-20 in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper [WITH] accurate descriptions of Arctic phenomena. Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years Provenance: Northern Light Board with small stamp to title 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla [WITH] versos and gilt stamp to spines. Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years First edition of voyages 2-4, second edition of first voyage, four volumes, 4to. 1824-25, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Fury [WITH] First work with 16 engraved and aquatint plates and 4 folding charts; second Narrative of an attempt to reach the North Pole, in boats fitted work with 31 engraved and aquatint plates and 9 folding charts; third work with 11 engraved plates and charts (2 folding); fourth work with 6 engraved for the purpose, and attached to His Majesty’s ship Hecla, in plates and 1 folding chart; some light foxing. Uniformly bound in nineteenth the year 1827. century calf gilt, a very handsome set. John Murray, London, 1821-24-26-28. Sabin 558860; 58864; 58867; 58868.

£5,500 [ref: 82612] An excellent complete set of Parry’s three voyages in search of the North-west Passage together with his fourth voyage to the North Pole.

Parry did not get as far as the Bering Straits in his expedition, but he reached Melville Island, a point which even 75 years later, with the aid of steam, had not been passed. It was not until 1852 that McClure, coming from the opposite direction, and reaching a point on the north of Banks Land, which Parry had seen and named, was able to connect the two positions by passing on foot across ice, showing positively that the North West Passage was not blocked by land.

The second and third voyages were not as successful as the first, but the second voyage contains important information on Eskimo life, and the third voyage collected additional scientific information about the Arctic region of North America.

Parry’s fourth voyage was important for its use of sledge- boats in attempting to reach the North Pole via Spitzbergen, as recommended by , Jr. Rather than use dogs Parry experimented with reindeer, only to find them unable to move his very heavy sledge boats across difficult

Shapero Rare Books 75 74. [PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. , editor 75. [PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. FISHER, Alexander. A The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle. journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Murray, London, 1821. Majesty’s ships Hecla and Griper. Longman, London, 1821. The printed record of a weekly newspaper devised by Sabine to uphold morale amongst the crew of Parry’s first voyage Fisher, an officer on the expedition, gives especially useful whilst frozen-in during the Arctic winter. It consists of remarks on natural history and ice conditions. humorous essays, poems, etc. written by the crew and submitted anonymously. Provenance: Heirloom John Brymer (old neat stamp to title).

First edition. 4to, xii, 132 pp, lacks errata slip, modern grey over blue paper First edition. 8vo, [iii]-xii, 320 pp.,2 engraved maps (1 large folding), boards,in the style of the original binding, a very good copy. contemporary half calf gilt, neatly rebacked, a very good copy. Books on Ice 2.10; Sabin 55714. Hill 605 (second edition); Sabin 24453; Staton & Tremaine 1193.

£400 [ref: 97548] £475 [ref: 97536]

76 Shapero Rare Books With the rare supplement

76. [PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20... With an appendix, containing the scientific and other observations [WITH] A supplement to the appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage... containing an account of the subjects of natural history. Murray, London, 1821 & 1824.

The Hecla and Griper, May 1819-October 1820, sailed up Baffin Bay, through Lancaster Sound and Barrow Strait to the south side of Melville Island where they wintered before returning to England. The expedition discovered and penetrated a short distance into Prince Regent’s Inlet, discovered Banks Island, and surveyed the south shores of Barrow Strait. Parry’s narrative gives a full account of the expedition including preparing the ship for wintering and keeping the crew in good health.

The rarely found supplement makes good the omissions from Journal in respect of natural history and contains papers by Sabine, Kirby, Gray, Brown, and Konig.

First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 310, [ii], clxxx pp., errata slip at end, 20 engraved or aquatint maps and plates; [viii], [clxxxi]- cccx pp., half-title, 6 engraved plates, contemporary diced calf gilt rebacked preserving spine, rubbed, large chart with tear repaired, offsetting from plates to title and text, light spotting etc. to plates, a very good copy. Books on Ice 2.8; Hill (2004) 1311; Sabin 58860 & 58861; Staton & Tremaine 1205.

£2,850 [ref: 97549]

Shapero Rare Books 77 Both works inscribed by Parry

77. [PARRY FIRST VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward. A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry’s Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, in 1819-20. Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History [BOUND WITH] The North Georgia Gazette and winter Chronicle. John Murray, London, 1821 & 1824.

Both inscribed on the title-pages to Acheson Maxwell, the first “A. Maxwell Esq. with Captain Parry’s best regards”, the second “Acheson Maxwell Esq. with Capt Parry’s best regards”. Acheson Maxwell, was a friend of Parry’s father, and also of John Barrow, and through whom Parry obtained the commission to lead his first Arctic expedition.

The first work makes good the omissions relating to natural history from Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North- West Passage. The second was written by way of entertainment by members of Parry’s expedition for “relieving the tedium of an Arctic Winter” (preface), and was not originally intended for publication.

First editions. 2 works in one volume, 4to., [viii], [clxxxi]-cccx pp., both copies inscribed by Parry, half-title, 6 engraved plates; xii, 132pp., both works complete with half-titles, contemporary calf, spine panelled in gilt and blind, raised flat bands, double green labels, covers bordered in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers I. Sabin 58861; Staton & Tremaine 1205. II. Sabin 55714; Books on Ice 2.10.

£6,500 [ref: 95089]

78 Shapero Rare Books Inscribed copy

78. [PARRY SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward. Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1821-22-23. John Murray, London, 1824.

Inscribed to Acheson Maxwell, “A. Maxwell Esq / with the Author’s kind regards”. Acheson Maxwell, was a friend of Parry’s father, and also of John Barrow, and through whom Parry obtained the commission to lead his first Arctic expedition.

In 1821 Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, explored Repulse Bay and thence east and north to Lyon Inlet. After wintering sat , he discovered and spent a second winter at before the deteriorating health of his crew forced him to return to England.

First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 572pp., inscribed by Parry on the title page, 31 engraved or aquatint maps and plates, 4 folding engraved charts, contemporary calf, spine panelled in gilt and blind, double green labels, covers bordered in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers and edges, occasional offsetting of plates. Hill (2004) 1312; Sabin 58864; Staton & Tremaine 1295.

£3,750 [ref: 95090]

Shapero Rare Books 79 79. [PARRY SECOND VOYAGE]. PARRY, William 80. [PARRY SECOND VOYAGE]. LYON, Captain G.F [PARRY THIRD VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward. Edward. Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a The private journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla during Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a North-West North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed the recent discovery under Captain Parry. Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the years in the years 1821-22-23. John Murray, London, 1824. 1824-25. John Murray, London, 1824. Murray, London, 1826. Lyon discusses the second Parry expedition to Canadian In 1821 Parry sailed through Hudson and Frozen Straits, Arctic waters, including the outward voyage to Winter Island Parry sailed for Canadian Arctic waters in May 1824, with a explored Repulse Bay and thence east and north to Lyon Inlet. () in 1821 and the voyage north through the plan to penetrate southward into Prince Regent Inlet beyond After wintering sat Winter Island, he discovered Fury and Hecla to Igloolik Island in 1822. Contains a detailed his previous record made on his first voyage. Ice conditions Strait and spent a second winter at Igloolik before the deteriorating account of the Eskimos of southern and Melville in Baffin Bay forced him to winter at Port Bowen. During the health of his crew forced him to return to England. Peninsula and of the natural history and ice passage through summer the Hecla and Fury explored the Inlet in difficult . conditions before he was forced to abandon the Fury. First edition. 4to., [viii], xxx, [ii half-title], 572pp., 31 engraved or aquatint maps and plates, 4 folding engraved charts, contemporary half calf, rebacked, First edition. 8vo, xiv, 468 pp., 7 engraved plates and 1 engraved folding map, Provenance: Board of Trade Library (old stamp to title and green labels (1 renewed) occasional light foxing, some wrinkling from damp contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very good copy. but no staining. Lande 1291; Smith 6166; Hill I, p.186 contents leaf). Hill (2004) 1312; Sabin 58864; Staton & Tremaine 1295. £750 [ref: 97538] First edition. 4to., xxvii, 152pp., [ii pp. list of plates], 11 engraved maps and £650 [ref: 97539] plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco label, corners worn, old stamp to title, a very good copy. Hill (2004) 1313; Sabin 58867; Staton & Tremaine 1362.

£900 [ref: 97550]

80 Shapero Rare Books 80. 81. [PARRY THIRD VOYAGE]. PARRY, William Edward. 82. [PARRY FOURTH VOYAGE]. PARRY, Captain Journal of a third voyage for the discovery of a North-West William Edward. Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the years Pole; in boats fitted for the purpose, and attached to his 1824-25. Majesty’s ship Hecla, in the year MDCCCXXVII. Murray, London, 1826. John Murray, London, 1828.

Parry sailed for Canadian Arctic waters in May 1824, with a Parry’s fourth and final Arctic journey. Notable for its use of plan to penetrate southward into Prince Regent Inlet beyond sledge-boats to reach the North Pole via Spitzbergen. Parry his previous record made on his first voyage. Ice conditions experimented with using reindeer rather than dogs to pull in Baffin Bay forced him to winter at Port Bowen. During the the sledge-boats but the reindeer were unable to move summer the Hecla and Fury explored the Inlet in difficult them over the difficult ice. conditions before he was forced to abandon the Fury. First edition. 4to., xx, [ii], 229 pp., engraved frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 2 of which maps, uncut in original boards, rebacked, light marginal foxing and Provenance: Board of Trade Library (old stamp to title and dampstaining, a very good copy. contents leaf). Books on Ice 2.9.

First edition. 4to., xxvii, 152pp., [ii pp. list of plates], 11 engraved maps and £900 [ref: 97541] plates, contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco label, corners worn, old stamp to title, a very good copy. Hill (2004) 1313; Sabin 58867; Staton & Tremaine 1362.

£900 [ref: 97550]

Shapero Rare Books 81 83. PHIPPS, Constantine John. A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty’s Command 1773. W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, London, 1774.

“This expedition of the Racehorse and Carcass, undertaken for the purpose of discovering a route to India through the northern Polar Regions was blocked by pack ice north of Spitzbergen. The valuable appendix gives geographical and meteorological observations, zoological and botanical records, accounts of the distillation of fresh water from the sea, and astronomical observations. The voyage is perhaps better remembered for the presence of a young Horatio Nelson, as midshipman aboard the Carcass, and his encounter with a polar bear” (Hill).

Provenance: A few neat marginal annotations in an early hand – William Brodie of Brodie (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown).

First edition. 4to, viii, 253 pp., with 11 folding tables (included in the pagination) and 15 double-page or folding engraved plates (including 3 maps), bound without directions to binder; occasional foxing, uneven top-edge to page 95, a little marginal worming pp. 245-253 (pp. 251-253 repaired); contemporary British mottled calf, skilfully rebacked in modern calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering-piece in one, others with anchor-motif centre-tool in gilt, borders and board-edges recently roll-tooled in gilt; a few small scuffs and marks, nonetheless a very good copy. Books on Ice, 1.10; Hill, 207.

£3,000 [ref: 97560]

82 Shapero Rare Books 84. PORTLOCK, Nathaniel. , but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America performed in 1785,1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, by Captains Portlock and Dixon. John Stockdale, London, 1789.

The principle account of the first commercial voyage to the Northwest Coast and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain Cook. Captain Portlock was a veteran of Cook’s third voyage and was sent with Dixon to the Northwest Coast to investigate reports of the lucrative fur trade there. This volume contains a general map of the Northwest Coast and five maps of particular harbours along the coast. This survey was the most important result of the voyage. The book includes vivid descriptions of encounters with American Indians and several Indian vocabularies are given.

Provenance: Sir Edward B. Baker, bookplate.

First edition. 4to (3o x 22.7cm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 folding maps and charts, 13 plates. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, plates somewhat offset onto text, S2 with short marginal repaired tear, a very handsome example. Forbes, 177; Hill, 239; Howes P497; Lada-Mocarski, 42; Sabin 64389; Zimmer 495.

£4,750 [ref: 96783]

Shapero Rare Books 83 A new era in Arctic research

85. [ROSS, Captain John]. Formula for inserting the 86. ROSS, John. A Voyage of discovery, made under the names of subscribers to A Voyage of Discovery to, & Residence in orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and the Arctic Regions, during the years 1829, 1830, 1, 2, and 1833, Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin’s Bay and by Captain John Ross... inquiring into the probability of a North-West Passage. Office of Publication, London, no date, [circa John Murray, London, 1819. 1834-1835]. First edition of Ross’s famous first voyage. Scarce invitation to subscribe to the publication of Ross’ account of his second voyage during which he spent four Ross, along with William Parry, James Clark Ross, and Edward winters in the Arctic. Sabine (who would all become famous explorers in their own right) attempted on their journey to proceed westward 21.5 x 13 cm, printed in blue, signed by Vice-Admiral (later Admiral) Charles through Lancaster Sound. Deceived, quite possibly by a mirage, Rowley, fine condition. Ross described the passage as barred by a mountain range £650 [ref: 97673] that he named the Croker Mountains. He then returned to England, losing his only possibility of penetrating the Northwest Passage. His observations were initially accepted as conclusive, and he was promoted to post rank on 7 December 1818. Controversy would soon follow, as Sir John Barrow, furious that the attempt to find the open polar sea had failed, vented his anger in person to Ross, and the Admiralty, having learned that there were some doubts as to the existence of the Croker Mountains, dispatched another expedition under the command of Parry. Edward Sabine, in his account of the voyage, claimed that Ross was the only person to have seen the Croker Mountains and that he had misrepresented some scientific results of the voyage. Parry’s return in 1820 brought further proof that Ross’s assertions had been incorrect, and, despite his willingness to make another voyage, Ross was not given another opportunity to lead an Arctic expedition until 1829.

First edition. 4to, xl, 252, cxliv pp., 7 maps and charts (6 folding), and 25 aquatint or engraved plates and coastal profiles (15 coloured and 7 folding), period calf-backed marbled boards, raised bands, gilt spines, marbled endpapers. Several plates foxed, a few creases, some offsetting to folding plates and to title, bindings rubbed; an attractive example. Abbey Travel 634; Arctic Bibliography 14873; Books on Ice, 2.5; Hill 1488; NMM 818; Sabin 73376; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 1152.

£4,500 [ref: 86486]

84 Shapero Rare Books Shapero Rare Books 85 87. royAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A selection of 88. RUNDALL, Thomas. Narratives of Voyages towards papers on Arctic geography and ethnology. Reprinted, and the North-West, in search of a passage to Cathay and India. presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the president, 1496 to 1631. With selections from the early records of the council and fellows of the Royal Geographic Society. honourable the and from Mss. in the British Murray, London, 1875. Museum. Hakluyt Society, London 1849. In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage Hakluyt Society, First Series, no. 5. between Greenland and Canada. This collection of papers was published in 1875, with the aim of being ‘useful to the 8vo, 8, 4, vi, xx, 259 pp., 3 maps (2 of them folding), original blue cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, light fading to spine, a very good example. officers of the [British Arctic] expedition’ leaving later that year. The book is divided into two sections: geographical £450 [ref: 95864] observations by the likes of Admiral Collinson, who led the 1850 expedition in search of John Franklin, and ethnographic observations, including accounts of the Inuit and their language.

First edition. 8vo, xii, 292 pp., 2 folding maps (1 in colour), original blue cloth gilt, a fine copy.

£400 [ref: 90557]

86 Shapero Rare Books 89. sAUER, Martin. An account of a geographical and astronomical expedition to the northern parts of Russia, for ascertaining the degrees of latitude and longitude of the mouth of the River Kovima, of the whole coast of the Tshutski, to East Cape, and of the islands in the eastern ocean, stretching to the American coast. Performed, by Command of Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the second, Empress of all the , by Commodore , In the Years 1785, etc. to 1794. For T. Cadell, London 1802.

Joseph Billings had served on Cook’s last voyage as an able seaman and assistant astronomer. In 1783 he transferred to the Russian navy, and undertook this expedition at the behest of . “The expedition’s main tasks were to map the area from the mouth of the River Kolyma in north- east Siberia along the east Siberian sea shoreline to the Bering Strait; to chart the Chukotka peninsula inland from the Bering Strait as far as Cape Shelagsky; and to provide accurate maps of the chain of Aleutian Islands and others lying between Kamchatka and the American coast” (ODNB).

Provenance: William Philip, Earl of Sefton (armorial book plate).

First edition. 4to xxvi, [i], 332, 58 pp, large folding map, 14 engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, neat repairs to joints, a fine copy. Hill (2004) 1528; Lada-Mocarski, 58; Streeter 3499.

£4,000 [ref: 95768]

Shapero Rare Books 87 90. sHILLINGLAW, John Joseph. A narrative of Arctic 91. snoW, William Parker. Voyage of the Prince Albert discovery. With the details of the measures adopted by Her in search of Sir John Franklin. Majesty’s Government for the relief of the expedition under Sir Longman, London, 1851. John Franklin. William Shoberl, London 1850. Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have Rare. Shillinglaw was only about 20 when he published this had a paranormal vision of the whereabouts of the missing history of Arctic exploration going back to the Viking, Eric the Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin and immediately wrote Red. It is perhaps an homage to his father, who was librarian to Lady with a plan for a search. This was largely at the Royal Geographical Society. based upon the premise that if Franklin was in difficulty, he would have realised that the Admiralty would send a rescue First edition. 8vo, xx, 348 pp., leaf of ads before title dated April 1st 1850, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding lithographed maps in upper cover pocket. expedition and therefore his best course of action would be Publisher’s blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light wear, a fine example. to guide the relief party to him by means of leaving evidence Arctic Bib. 15909; Sabin 80488; TPL 5460. at one of the Arctic “beacons”. Consequently, Lady Franklin made him the civil officer of her expedition on board the £2,850 [ref: 97535] ketch Prince Albert that explored the Boothia Peninsula for any sign of the missing expedition between June and September 1850, without success. On his return Parker Snow wrote the present work which Lady Franklin used to promote further expeditions.

First edition. 8vo, xvi, 416 pp., 4 coloured lithograph plates. Folding lithographed map, original pictorial dark blue cloth gilt, occasional light spotting; an excellent example. Sabin 85560.

£2,750 [ref: 95503]

88 Shapero Rare Books 92. sUTHERLAND, Peter C. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin’s Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851, performed by H.M. Ships “Lady Franklin” and “Sophia,” under the Command of Mr. William Penny, in Search of the Missing Crews of H.M. Ships Erebus and Terror: with a Narrative of Sledge Excursions on the Ice of Wellington Channel; and Observations on the Natural History and Physical Features of the Countries and Frozen Seas visited. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1852.

Sutherland was a Scottish physician on board the Sophia, one of the ships on a Franklin Search expedition under the command of William Penny. The expedition was charged with searching Jones Sound and the Wellington Channel, as well as Barrow Strait. Blocked by ice in several places, the ships joined Austin’s Resolute and Assistance at , and went on to winter in Assistance Bay, close to Sir John Ross’s Felix and Mary expedition.

Provenance: early pencil marginal annotations – J. Raymond Edinger, Jr (bookplates to upper pastedowns).

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, I: lii, 506, [2 (publishers’ advertisements)], 32 (publishers’ advertisements), II: vii, [1 (blank)], 363, [1 (blank)], ccxxxiii, [1 (imprint)] pp., in all 6 lithographs (of which 4 in colour), 2 hand-coloured folding maps, and numerous woodcut topographical sketches in text, with an additional illustration facing p. 70, vol. II; maps torn at creases, a few short creases or tears to corners; modern calf-backed boards with marbled sides, spines gilt in compartments, gilt red morocco lettering-pieces in one, gilt green morocco lettering-pieces in another, others with gilt centre-pieces, dated directly in gilt at foot; a very good copy. Books on Ice 3.13; Sabin 93963.

£1,850 [ref: 97556]

Shapero Rare Books 89 Inscribed

93. tATE, Thomas. Notes on a voyage to the Arctic Seas in 1863. Reprinted from the “Alnwick Mercury.” Printed at the Mercury Office, by H. H. Blair, Alnwick, 1864.

Inscribed on front free endpaper: Professor Allman / University of Edinburgh / with the author’s / respects.

A voyage from Peterhead to Spitzbergen. Typical Arctic journey - fog, storms, stuck in ice, seals and seal hunts etc.

The author was probably Thomas Tate (1807–1888), mathematician, born at Alnwick. He was elected fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 14 March 1851.

Tate made many original and valuable researches in mathematical and experimental science and was the author of numerous educational works on mathematics, mechanics, drawing, and natural science, all tending to promote intellectual methods of instruction (ODNB).

“Professor G. J. Allman (1812–1898), naturalist, a surgeon by profession, his interests lay in natural science—especially marine zoology. Allman’s first scientific paper—on Polyzoa— appeared in 1843; it was followed by one on Hydrozoa in 1844. On 1 June 1854 he was elected FRS, and in the following year he was appointed regius professor of natural history and keeper of the natural history museum in the University of Edinburgh. In 1883 he wrote one of the zoological reports for the (Zoology 20 XX: Report on the Hydroida. First Part: Pluminaridæ).” (ODNB).

First edition. 8vo., inscribed presentation copy, 50 pp., original green ribbed cloth, original paper label to cover, light wear, an excellent copy of a very scarce provincial imprint.

£4,500 [ref: 97645]

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