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To receive a full listing of books in your area of interest, please enquire. ©Meridian Rare Books 2020 Travel and Exploration Catalogue 24 With an Index Welcome to the new catalogue, which contains one hundred items relating to world- wide exploration and general travel. The books, photographs, manuscripts and ephemera represent only a small portion of our stock, and if you would like to receive details of other material in your areas of interest, please enquire (contact details are inside the front cover of the catalogue). Stuart Leggatt Recent catalogues FROM THE ALPS TO THE HIMALAYAS the polar regions catalogue twenty three 1 2 3 4 1. Addison, Herbert. Travelling with Artifex. N.p. [printed at Nile 3. Alpine Club. Rules and List of Members 1924. Printed by Mission Press, Cairo], n.d. c. 1939. £125 Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & Co., Ltd., 1924. £75 8vo. pp. 49; good in the original faux leather card wrappers, a little creased First edition. Small 8vo. pp. 38; very good in the original printed pink and worn. A presentation copy, inscribed to first leaf “Remembrances from wrappers, which are a little marginally toned. HA”, with a pencilled note at foot (“The use of maps adds to the interest of This handbook for members of the Alpine Club was issued the year that some of these sketches”), the ownership inkstamp of F. W. Dillistone, and Mallory and Irvine disappeared on Everest. The booklet contains a list of two printed newspaper articles by Addison pasted in to final leaf and inside presidents and editors of the Alpine Journal, the Rules, the Roll of Honour read wrapper. for those who died in the First World War, followed from p. 14 by the list Addison was Professor of Hydraulics at the Royal School of Engineering, of members. It offers a roll call of some of the foremost names in climbing 1 Giza, Egypt; in 1934 he published A Text Book of Applied Hydraulics. His at this time. Mallory’s name appears not only on the list, but also on the placement in Egypt provided an opportunity to visit local areas and nearby first page as a member of the Club’s committee (along with the name of countries, as well as locations in Europe, and his experiences form the basis Noel Odell, the last man to see him alive). Among other notables are: for the eleven sketches that make up this book. They include details of his C. G. Bruce, J. Norman Collie, A. L. Mumm (whose name also appears visits to Matruh, the Val D’Aosta, Kharga Oasis, the Lake of Geneva, and as Honorary Librarian), Coolidge, Curzon, Martel, Nansen, Guido Rey, the title of one - ‘Mountaineering at Suez’ - reflects what seems to have Francis Younghusband, the Duke of the Abruzzi, Bentley Beetham, been Addison’s interest in mountain regions. Conway, Howard Bury, de Filippi, George Finch, Freshfield, Marcel Kurz, Kenneth Mason, Morshead, John Noel, E. F. Norton, Somervell, P. C. 2. Allen, Harriet Trowbridge. Travels in Europe and the East: Visser, and Winthrop Young (among many others). During the Years 1858-59 and 1863-4. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, 1879. £225 4. Amory, Copley. Persian Days. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., Printed for Private Circulation. Large 8vo. pp. xv, 506; very good in the [1928]. £225 original cloth, gilt. A presentation copy, inscribed to front blank “Mrs. First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 230; photo. illusts., map front endpapers; Edward Dann with Compliments Mr. H. Allen”. previous owner’s inscription to half-title, browning to first and final leaf, Theakstone An Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Women Travellers pp. else very good in the original cloth, gilt, in the original dust-wrapper, which 5-6. Harriet Allen travelled to Europe in 1858, and maintained an extensive is slightly chipped and spotted. journal of her time in France, Monaco, Italy, Constantinople (Istanbul), Copley Amory (1890-1964), a Harvard student who graduated in 1912, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Prague, the Low Countries, the Alps saw military service in the First World War. Thereafter he joined the US (including a visit to Chamonix), and Britain. The present work comprises diplomatic corps, based initially in Tehran. He and a friend made a four an edited version of her journal, to page 426. There follow her letters from week trip “in central and south Persia” that forms the basis for the current a second trip, made in 1863, to China by way of California, and on to book, published first in the UK and in the US in 1929. Singapore, Ceylon, Suez, and Europe. Allen died in February 1877, and the book was put together by her family in accordance with her father’s wishes. 5. Amundsen, Roald. Roald Amundsens Opdagelsesreiser [Roald Amundsen’s Explorations]. Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1928-30. £475 First collected or memorial edition (Minneutgaven) in 35 original parts. 8vo. pp. 382 [1], 371 [1], 367 [1], 281 [1]; several coloured plates, 4 folding maps, photo. illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original pictorial wrappers, part 1 in variant blue printed wrappers, minor staining to lower margins of prelims to 2 issues, staining to upper margin of front wrapper and prelims. of final issue, minor marginal tears or chips to a few margins of wrappers, which in general are a little creased, overall in very good condition. Spence 26; Rosove 8.B2. These volumes were published as a memorial edition of Amundsen’s works, following his disappearance in 1928 during the search for the Norge expedition. The set comprises the account of voyages through the Northwest Passage (vol. I), Northeast Passage (vol. III), his attempts on the North Pole (vol. IV), and his attainment of the South Pole (vol. II). The volumes were issued in parts, and buyers were able to acquire bindings for the parts, to make up a four-volume set; notifications for the bindings appear at the front of parts 10, 19, 28 and 35 (these notifications also contain instructions to the binder for the positioning of maps and illustrations, discarded in the finished, bound set). 2 6. Armstrong, D. B. The Postage Stamps of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 7. [Australia. Photograph Album.] A personal photograph album London: Bright & Son, 1912. £95 with images of Government House, Perth, Western Australia, of local First edition. Small 8vo. pp. [vi], 72, xv (ads.), [1, unused Bright & Sons scenes, and of government buildings and related images elsewhere in Philatelic Publications order form]; illusts.; very good in the original Australia (Melbourne, Tasmania), dating 1914-1924. £175 printed wrappers, minor wear to extrems. Oblong 4to. 72 photographs, each approx. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2”, fourteen of them Published as volume 1 of Bright’s Philatelic Library. captioned in pencil beneath image, mounted to sixteen leaves of an album, which is slightly shaken in the original cloth, together with a further 23 loose photographs, similar and larger formats (largest 6 1/2 x 9”), showing scenes at Government House in Perth, all captioned to the reverse. 6 These photographs derive 9. B., R. et al. Diary of a Foreign Tour 1904 by R. B., S. B. & F. B. from the archive of Major Privately Printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh, n.d. c. 1916. £45 H. A. F. Wilkinson, Aide First and only edition. Small 8vo. pp. 46; port. frontis. and 7 plates from de camp to the Governors photos.; minor age-toning, else very good in the original red cloth, gilt. of Western Australia in the 1910s and 1920s. The This booklet prints the diaries of three boys, edited by their father W. B. It album contains views of reproduces their photographs, which include views of the church and opera Government House in house at Dresden. The final illustration shows the view from 50 Palmerston Perth, Western Australia, Place, Edinburgh, presumably the boys’ home. and of similar official 10. [Banks, Joseph.] A commemorative medal by William Wyon, residences in Melbourne, [London], 1816. £1,250 Tasmania and Sydney, presumably visited by A bronze medal, diam. approx. 40mm., recto with profile bust of Banks Wilkinson at various times. There are also scenes taken around and from facing right within the words “Rt. Honble. Dr. J. Banks Bart. K.G.C.B. each of these properties, including views of the Swan and Yarra Rivers, P.R.S. &c.” and, beneath the bust, “T. Wyon Jun. D. W. Wyon S.”, reverse rural scenes, images of the coast, and beach scenes. The loose photographs showing open book bedecked with floral sprays within the letters “In document Government House under two Governors of Western Australia: Genius and Substantial Learning High”; about fine. Sir Harry Baron (Governor 1913-17), with images of him and his wife Kivell & Spence Portraits of the Famous and Infamous p. 17. A rare medal in various groups, one of which includes Dame Nelly Melba, and views struck by the Royal Mint, possibly for the Royal Horticultural Society (co- of the interior of Government House in 1914; and Sir William Campion founded by Banks in 1804).