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Exploration and Travel, Featuring Americana and the Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration Exploration and Travel, Featuring Americana And the Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration New York | September 25, 2018 Exploration and Travel, Featuring Americana And the Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration New York | Tuesday September 25, 2018, at 1pm BONHAMS LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS INQUIRIES CLIENT SERVICES 580 Madison Avenue AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE New York Monday – Friday 9am-5pm New York, New York 10022 Please email bids.us@bonhams. Ian Ehling +1 (212) 644 9001 www.bonhams.com com with “Live bidding” in Director +1 (212) 644 9009 fax the subject line 48 hrs before +1 (212) 644 9094 PREVIEW the auction to register for this [email protected] ILLUSTRATIONS Friday, September 21, service. Front cover: Lot 54 10am to 5pm Tom Lamb, Director Inside front cover: Lot 55 Saturday, September 22, Bidding by telephone will only be Business Development Inside back cover: Lot 146 12pm to 5pm accepted on a lot with a lower +1 (917) 921 7342 Back cover: Lot 81 Sunday, September 23, estimate in excess of $1000 [email protected] 12pm to 5pm REGISTRATION Please see pages 166 to 169 Monday, September 24, Darren Sutherland, Specialist IMPORTANT NOTICE for bidder information including +1 (212) 461 6531 10am to 5pm Please note that all customers, Conditions of Sale, after-sale [email protected] collection and shipment. All irrespective of any previous activity SALE NUMBER: 24897 with Bonhams, are required to items listed on page 169, and/ Tim Tezer, Junior Specialist complete the Bidder Registration or marked W next to the lot +1 (917) 206 1647 CATALOG: $35 Form in advance of the sale. The number will be transferred to [email protected] off-site storage, if not removed form can be found at the back of every catalogue and on our BIDS by Wednesday September 26, Mary-Kate Grohoski, website at www.bonhams.com +1 (212) 644 9001 2018 by 5pm. Administrator and should be returned by email or +1 (212) 644 9009 fax +1 (917) 206 1608 post to the specialist department [email protected] [email protected] or to the bids department at Additional Americana will be To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] offered in a week long online- Los Angeles www.bonhams.com/24897 only sale starting September Dr. Catherine Williamson To bid live online and / or 25. Please see bonhams.com Vice President, Director Please note that telephone bids leave internet bids please go to for details. +1 (323) 436 5442 www.bonhams.com/auctions/24897 must be submitted no later than [email protected] 4pm on the day prior to the and click on the Register to bid link at the top left of the page. auction. New bidders must also Rachel Zimmerman, provide proof of identity and EVENTS Administrator address when submitting bids. +1 (323) 436 5506 Public Lecture by [email protected] Please contact Client Services Rob Stephenson with any bidding inquiries. “Collecting Antarcticana— San Francisco Some Highlights from the Joe Fitzsimmons Collection” Adam Stackhouse, Senior Specialist Monday, September 24, 2018 +1 (415) 503 3266 Bonhams, New York, 6:30 pm [email protected] © 2018 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Principal Auctioneer: Matthew Girling, NYC License No. 1236798-DCA DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD We open our Fall 2018 sale season with our annual Proceedings for the court-martial of General Charles Lee, Exploration and Travel, Featuring Americana sale, beginning which Streeter called “one of the most dramatic narratives with the Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration. of rare Americana,” and which has not appeared in the Joe has built a remarkable and comprehensive library auction record since his first sale (lot 297). Also from the over the past twenty years with the support of antiquarian estate are two very rare pamphlets agains the Excise Tax booksellers, bibliographers and friends. The indisputable of 1754, both rarely appearing on the market and these crown jewel of his collection is Shackelton’s Aurora copies still unbound and uncut from the library of Nathaniel Australis, the first book to be printed in the Antarctic (lot 55). Sparhawk, whose bootlegging (with his father-in-law The covers of this book were fabricated in situ from William Pepperrell) was partially responsible for the issue the explorers’ actual shipping crates and are illustrated (lots 210 & 211). The section includes a manuscript by a at the beginning and end of the catalogue’s opening Pennsylvania paper maker (lot 247), and a monument of section. Important books featured in this collection are American printing in contemporary binding with beautifully by Amundsen, Borchgrevink, Barney, Cook, Nordenskjöld, decorated American endpapers (lot 140). Also in this Scott, and many others. section is Colden’s book on the completion of the Erie Canal which includes early lithographs printed in New Moving into exploration, for nearly two centuries Ptolemy’s York and is bound in one of the finest American morocco 1513 world atlas with maps by Waldseemueller has been bindings of that time (lot 153). Rounding out the Americana the most important printed atlas available. We offer a section is a very important letter from Mark Twain, the most wide margined example of this book annotated in two American of American authors, offering a sustained account contemporary humanist hands and bound in a superbly of his philosophy of writing (lot 197), and a beautiful set restored contemporary binding (lot 81). This is followed of Twain’s Writings, bound in the mosaic-style by Adams, by Don Alonso de Arleano’s manuscript copy of the and illustrated with over 500 watercolor and pen-and-ink description of the first East-West crossing of the Pacific illustrations by the famed French poster artist PAL (lot 200). from the Sir Thomas Phillipps‘ (lot 82). The world travel section of our sale also includes a compilation of travel We invite you to join us for a lecture by Rob Stephenson accounts by Purchase described by Sabin as “one of the on the Fitzsimmons collection on Monday, September 24. fullest and most important collections of early voyages … The sale is followed by a week-long online only sale of in the English language.” You will also find classics of world Americana -- you will find more details regarding that sale travel by Veer, Bligh, Dumont d’Urville as well as amazing in the back of the catalogue. Please do not hesitate to early photographs of China, India, Egypt and Palestine. contact the department with any questions you may have, or to arrange a private viewing. The Americana section is rich in rarely seen manuscripts, broadsides and books spanning pre-revolutionary Ian Ehling beginnings until modern day America. A few highlights Director come from a private collection out of New England, Bonhams including most importantly the very rare printed Books and Manuscripts IMPORTANT NOTICES Subject to the Limited Right of Rescission regarding Authorship, lots advertisements; damage to bindings, stains, tears, foxing or other are sold with all faults and imperfections. However, if on collation cosmetic defects, unless resulting in loss to text or illustration; any printed book in this catalog is found to be materially defective in defects to atlases, manuscripts, music, periodicals, and items sold text or illustration, the same may be returned to Bonhams within 20 as collections, archives, association copies, extra-illustrated copies, days of the sale; the undisclosed defect must be detailed in writing. or bindings. The following shall not constitute the basis for a return under the Items indicated in the catalog as “framed” have not been examined foregoing provision: defects stated in the catalog or announced out-of-frame, unless specifically stated. at the time of sale; un-named items, blanks, half-titles, or ORDER OF SALE: 1 - 80 The Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration 81 - 121 World Travel 122 - 305 Americana Lot 23 Additional Americana will be offered in a week long online-only sale starting September 25. Please see bonhams.com for details. The Joe Fitzsimmons Library of Antarctic Exploration I remember going with my parents and grandparents to Boston in May, 1941 and waiting on the dock as the expedition returned from Antarctica. I am shown with my parents, grandfather, and two uncles, including Roy, in the accompanying photo holding a wooden fish from Pitcairn Island that Uncle Roy brought back as a gift, and incidentally, I still have that wooden fish. Shortly after returning to the States, Roy joined the U.S. Air Force and because of his meteorology expertise, he was assigned to North Africa to assist in organizing bombing raids over Europe during the war. Alas, Roy died during the war. However, it was after his death, that Admiral Byrd on one of his subsequent explorations to Antarctica honored him by naming a mountain after Roy in the Rockefeller Range. So many decades had passed since I thought about Uncle Roy, and as I wandered into the West Side Book Shop my interest was rekindled and I set out to find as much as I could about his trip and Admiral Byrd. I realized that in that time, the Antarctic was the last frontier and represented the last Golden Age of earth’s exploration, as important as the way we have felt about Space Exploration. Beginning with Uncle Roy’s expedition, I continued on to collect books about the other Byrd explorations, and since I Joe, age 6 with family members upon Roy’s return from Antarctica. am a completist by nature, I went on to the other explorations — Shackleton, Amundsen, Scott, Mawson, Charcot, etc. In the fall of 1997, the University of Michigan had won the NCAA As the former President of University Microfilms International National Football Championship and Ann Arbor celebrated with a (UMI) in Ann Arbor, I had a hand in microfilming many of the parade in January.
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