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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). The medal is listed in Nicholas Carlisle’s A (1924-1931), mainly photographs of his arrival in 1924. Among the loose Memoir of the Life and Works of William Wyon (London, 1837, pp. 142- photographs are two showing Red Cross parcels being packed, and then 3), which calls it a “well deserved tribute of Respect to The Venerable loaded on a cart, at Government House. President of The Royal Society … executed by Mr. Wyon from the Model of the late Thomas Wyon”. The medal was issued in both bronze and silver. 8. [Australia.] Souvenir of New South Wales Welcome to the British Naval Squadron at Sydney, 9th April, 1924. [Sydney: Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, 1924]. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. 48; extending frontis., numerous illusts. to text; very good in the original coloured pictorial wrappers, map of Australia with 3 NSW highlighted in colour to rear cover, partly split along spine. In November 1923 HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, and other naval cruisers, sailed on a round the world tour, visiting countries of the dominion in Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. On its visit to Sydney, the present booklet was printed, possibly as a form of keepsake. Effectively a guide to New South Wales, it offers information about the state, Sydney, its history, manufacturing, agricultural and other industries, flora and fauna, and similar. The booklet is uncommon, with only four copies recorded on Worldcat.

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10 9 11. Bell, Major William Morrison (1834-1900). An archive of travel diaries, notebooks, letters and drawings documenting his round the world trip, together with his published book of these travels, Other Countries. £9,500 Together 8 diaries, a further day-to-day diary for 1870, three small notebooks, all written in pen or pencil, the majority of them bound in contemporary morocco with clasps or original cloth, together with a small quantity of letters, cuttings, and approximately 60 watercolour drawings (ranging in size from 9 x 12.5 cm. to 25 x 35 cm.); and a copy of Bell’s published book Other Countries (2 volumes, Chapman & Hall, 1872), original cloth gilt in very good condition, with proof versions of the frontispiece to each volume. Major William Morrison Bell, of the 3rd Kings Own Hussars, travelled in the years 1869-1870, recording his journey in the present series of diaries, and in the published account, Other Countries, for which they formed the basis. The reasons for his travels are unclear - they seem to have been his own personal, private undertaking - but there are occasional references to his “depression of spirit” (first diary, p. 1), possibly due to some kind of run-in with the army (he records his “sorrow at leaving the Regt. & my profession”). Whatever his reasons, he preserves in these diaries a fascinating narrative of his travels through India, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, Montreal, Quebec, Saratoga, New York, and Boston (where the diaries end). The diaries comprise: Diaries 1-2: Travels through India, starting at Ahmednagar including references to Lord Napier’s Durbar at Umballah and the ceremonials; travels to Simla and on to Madras; Diary 3: Departure from India to Ceylon, and then on to Australia, with descriptions of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and surrounding areas; Diary 4: More description of Australia including Tasmania, then journey to Malaya (Penang, Singapore) and on to Hong Kong; Diary 5: Descriptions of Hong Kong, Whampoa, Canton, Shanghai, and travel onwards to Japan; Diary 6: Experiences in Japan, concluding with the continuation of his journey to California; Diary 7: A remarkable description of his time in San Francisco, from where he travelled by coach to Yosemite, San Jose, Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City (where he documents several Mormon meetings), Chicago and into Canada; Diary 8: Travels to Montreal, Quebec, and return to the United States. A ninth diary, in the form of a Letts day-to-day diary for 1870, contains MS entries by Bell from March 1869-August 1870 with details of his location and daily events, expenses, etc. Accompanying the diaries are various letters, mainly from India, but one also from Sydney and another sent from Aden (describing the topography and with a hand-drawn panoramic sketch, December 1868). An intriguing MS certificate in the archive, dated 13 May 1870, signed by the Royal Navy 4 Doctor George (Bruce) Newton, certifies that Bell, Colonel Fane and another gentleman should visit the sulphurous springs at Hanoi “for benefit to their health”. Newton established the Lock Hospital in Yokohama in 1868 to treat syphilis in Japan, which was on the increase at this time. At around this time Bell records in his diaries: “from here Dr. Newton took us on to one or two brothels, scrupulously clean, mats, separate rooms, coverings & mattresses laid down. Little girls not yet ripe. The women hang about Newton . . . women & men in bath houses” (diary 5). The published account of Bell’s travels included with the archive allows a comparison of the printed version, and the original diaries. The latter are perhaps inevitably more concise, and indeed Bell often digresses in the published work onto matters of culture, history, religion, and the like, material that pads out the narrative itself. Nonetheless, the diaries can occasionally be more fine-grained or detailed: Bell omitted sections of his travels to provide a continuous narrative, so that the diaries provide a fuller record of his experiences. In addition to the published volumes, the archive includes proof versions of the frontispiece to each volume, subsequent newspaper and journal reviews of his book, and a letter from Blanche Wyndham, wife of the 6th Earl of Mayo (Viceroy of India at the time that Bell visited the Umballah Durbar in 1869), thanking Bell for sending his published account of these travels. 12. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri (1737-1814). ‘Experiences nautiques et observations diététiques et morales proposées pour l’utilité et la santé des marins dans les voyages de long cours.’ The manuscript for an article that appeared in La Décade philosophique, littéraire et politique, 30 Vendémiaire an IX [22 October, 1800], pp. 141-5. £2,750 5 5pp. written on two bifolia in a neat clear hand, paper watermarked “PIGNON [?] VIVAT”, signed by the author at the close “De Saint Pierre” and with the note “pour la lecture publique du 15 vendemiaire an 9”, inscribed on the first leaf by Bernardin’s friend and pupil Aimé Martin “Memoires nautiques pour Bernardin dont j’ai cité une passage dans ma preface et qui est inutile” and then transversely “précieux pour la vie de Bernardin de St Pierre”, in very good condition, contained in a 19th c. paper chemise with an engraved 1828 portrait of Saint-Pierre. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is today remembered for his much reprinted novel Paul et Virginie (1787), influenced by the ideas of his friend Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His first published work, Voyage à l’île de France (1773), was based on his 2-year residence as chief-engineer on the island of Mauritius from 1768. He later published the successful Etudes de la Nature (1784), in which he first postulated the idea revisited in the present manuscript: the use of sea currents to carry empty bottles bearing notes - the so-called message in a bottle. In the article, Saint-Pierre cites three examples in which bottles were successfully sent and received, the third example being a bottle thrown into the sea just north of Mauritius that reached the Cape of Good Hope. He suggests that sailors trapped on reefs, or shipwrecked, might use such means to make contact with potential rescuers. The article goes on to recount some of his own experiences of travel by sea during his 1768 voyage to Mauritius, and Saint-Pierre recommends the need to provide sufficient water for the health of the crew, and the benefits of conversation and music for the crew’s mental health (he mentions the case of a ship which played bagpipe music for the amusement of the crew, and which reached Mauritius in a faster time than his own ship did without any incidence of ill-health among the mariners). The article closes on a poetic note: “Hommes, animaux, végétaux, métaux, éléments, tout est lié sur le globe par les chaînes de l’harmonie. Les gens de mer en sont les derniers anneaux. Par eux le genre humain est une famille dont tous les membres se correspondent et l’ocean un grand fleuve dont les sources sont aux poles.” This manuscript was consulted by Aimé Martin, Saint-Pierre’s friend who edited his Oeuvres complètes (1818); the notes by him on the front of the manuscript tell that the autobiographical information contained in the article was valuable (“precieux”) for the life of Saint-Pierre. 13. [Berne & the Bernese Alps.] Souvenir de Berne et de ses Environs. Lac de Thoune, l’Oberland etc. [so titled to upper cover]. Zürich: R. Dikenman, n.d. c. 1850s. £1,250 A collection of 16 uncoloured aquatint plates, each approx. 108 x 70mm. (overall plate size 180 x 135mm.), very good and clean in original printed paper boards, a little scuffed. A collection of plates by Dikenman, with views of Berne and the Bernese Oberland. The views in this booklet are captioned as follows: “Berne prise de l’Engi”; “Berne, vue vers le nouveau pont de Nydeck”; “Thoune vers le Joungfrau Blumlisalp et le Niessen”; “Interlaken vers le Joungfrau”; “Brienz”; “Giessbach”; “Reichenbach, chûte supérieure”; “Chûte de l’Aar à la Handeck”; “Glacier de Rosenlauy et les monts Well & Wetterhorn”; “Les Bains de Rosenlaui”; “Vue du Glacier de Rosenlaui dessiné à son pied”; “Village et glacier de Grindelwald”; “Vue de Wetterhorn, Schrekhorn, Finsteraarhorn et 6 les deux glaciers de Grindelwald”; “Glacier inférieur de Grindelwald et l’Eiger”; “Wengernalp vers l’Eiger, Mönch et Joungfrau”; “Vue du Staubbach”.

14. Blacker, L. V. S. On Secret Patrol in High Asia . . . With an Introduction by Major-General Sir George Younghusband. London: John Murray, 1922. £475 First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 302; illusts., 3 maps. inc. one folding and one large folding map loosely inserted; minor age-toning, large folding map neatly repaired at fold, else very good in the original red cloth, gilt, indentation scored on upper cover. Yakushi B179a. “The Story of the pursuit of German agents in Central Asia. In 1914 the author travelled from India to Russia … then he patrolled with G. Macartney from Srinigar to Chinese Turkestan through Tashkurtan, Yarkand, and Kashgar in 1918-20” (Yakushi). The book is uncommon, particularly so with the large folding map. This was issued with the book but not bound in, so that it could be removed to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. Blacker himself later piloted one of the two planes in the 1933 flight over Everest. As Younghusband writes in the final paragraph of his 2pp. introduction, those “who wish to read an enthralling tale of endurance, courage, and adventure cannot do better than follow Captain Blacker and his gallant Guides on their secret patrol”. 14 15. Bower, James Graham (1884-1968). An archive of letters written to his parents, Sir Graham and Lady Bower, dating from his school days 1897-1903, Yale University (1903-6), survey work 1908-1912 in North America (Utah, Mexico) and South Africa (Rand mines), his service in East Africa during WWI (1915-17), more survey work in Morogoro, South Africa, and the Sudan (1917-22); and letters from his service with British North African Forces in WWII (1943-4). £1250 Approximately 215 letters, a proportion of them contained in their original envelopes, mostly legible and in good condition, the majority signed “Jim” but 7 a few signed “J. G. Bower”, together with a small group of school reports, and a 7pp. MS account of Bower’s journey from South Africa to East Africa during WW1 (somewhat frayed with loss). James Bower was the son of Sir Graham Bower (1848-1933), who served in South Africa as Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Sir Hercules Robinson. The Jameson Raid occurred during his period of office, and perhaps in consequence Sir Graham Bower was appointed Colonial Secretary of Mauritius in 1898, accompanied by his wife Maude. This archive contains letters written from James Bower to his parents, beginning in 1897, when he attended schools in England (initially Cordwalles prep school in Maidenhead, then Clifton School, Bristol). From 1903 to 1906 he studied at Yale University, and he remained in New Haven after graduation to work as a stoker on the trains - though the difficult hours prompted him to give up his position. By 1907 he had taken work with the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company based in Ely, Nevada, moving on to the Steptoe Valley Smelting and Mining Company in McGill, Nevada; one of his letters from this time contains a few photographs of the plant. Many of the letters from 1898-1908 also have their original envelopes, addressed to Bower’s parents in Mauritius. In 1911 Bower spent a brief period in Mexico, but by 1912 had returned to Africa, where he worked a short time at the Crown Mines near Johannesburg. There is a gap in the correspondence at this point, which reopens in 1915, when he joins Commander Barry in Simonstown and proceeds to East Africa to participate in the war. His ship reached Zanzibar in time for them to participate in the final bombardment of the German ship Konisberg (July 1915), and two of the letters sent via Zanzibar mention the episode (one, addressed to the wife of the South African politician John X. Merriman, but seemingly undelivered, reads “We arrived here in time to be on the stage for the end of the Konigsberg - Truthfully it would have been just the same without us - However I was on the flagship for the last round, when she fired a few shells at the beach”). Bower also wrote an account of his journey from South Africa to East Africa, and this 7pp. narrative is included in the archive. Bower after this time was stationed in Nairobi, probably with the King’s African Rifles (he uses its letterhead for two letters), and some of his letters refer to fighting “the Hun” and other active service. By 1917 Bower had taken a position at the Mica mines in Morogoro,Tanzania, but returned to South Africa in 1918 towards the conclusion of the war, now in search of employment. He began work at the gold mines in Springs, East Rand, but by 1919 had moved up to Khartoum in the Sudan, and the final letters from this period were sent from Hofrat el Nahas (Bahr el Ghazal) and Kafia Kingi. There follows another gap in the correspondence, during which time his father passed away (1933). The remaining letters, now addressed solely to his mother, begin again in 1943-4, sent from Casablanca and other locations in Morocco, where Bower worked for the North African Economic Board (NAEB) under the aegis of British North Africa Forces. His first letter relates a visit to Midelt, and his work occasionally involved him travelling around the region, sometimes by air, to outlying villages; he mentions a visit to Algiers, and while the nature of his work remains unclear (due to censorship restrictions - some of the envelopes bear the inkstamp “Passed by Censor”) he often alludes to “Americans” in his letters, and in an airmail letter of June 1944 points out the change of name from NAEB to NAJEM on his letterhead (the North African Joint Economic Mission). His final letter is dated July 1, 1944. 16 17 18 19 16. Bradshaw, John. Norway Its Fjords, Fjelds, and Fosses. London: First edition thus. Tall 8vo. pp. [v], 278, 16 (Appendix, Index, Errata); port. Digby, Long & Co., n.d. [1896]. £150 frontis. of Charles Lyell; double-column text; good in contemporary half calf, worn with loss to spine and to extremities. First edition. 8vo. pp. 217, 8 (ads. dated March 1896); previous owner’s inscription at front, minor spotting or finger-soiling, else very good in the This publication collects together the various reports from the Bath original cloth, gilt. “Chronicle” concerning the speakers and papers delivered at the 1864 meeting of the BAAS. Of note from a geographical standpoint was the An early, and uncommon, guide to Norway, “intended to serve the purpose attendance of two major African explorers, David Livingstone and Richard of introducing briefly, some of the chief characteristic features of Norway Burton, both of whom spoke to the section for Geography and Ethnography. and the Norwegian, and generally to give some faint idea and impressions The text reproduces brief details of their lectures (see pp. 87-9, 198, 202-3). of a country that is fast coming to the front as a happy hunting ground The proceedings were, however, dominated by the announcement from the for tourists” (Preface). The author describes his visits to, and excursions 8 President, Charles Lyell, of the death of John Speke, made at the opening around, Bergen, Oslo (Christiania), Sondalsoren, Reiten, and elsewhere. of the section. News of Speke’s death delayed the 11 o’clock start, so that 17. [Brigg, William Anderton.] Iter Helveticum: Being a Journal “For a few minutes the meeting became impatient, and gave vent to its of the Doings of a Cabinet (so called) of Five Fellow-Travellers in impatience by sounds more often heard from the audience of a theatre than Switzerland, during the Last Three Weeks of September, 1886, with of a scientific meeting. Immediately after, Sir Roderick Murchison took his Remarks thereon, intended to be edifying, instructive, or amusing, by seat, but the only one of the three faces looked for that accompanied him, their Lord Chancellor. Keighley [England]: Privately printed for the was that of Capt. Burton, bearing, like that of the President, a mournful Cabinet by S. Billows, 16, High Street, 1887. £275 look” (p. 87). First edition. 8vo. pp. 89; very good in the original cloth, lettered in gilt to 19. [Butler, William.] Notes of a Voyage in the Orient Steamship upper cover, discoloured to extremities. Company’s S.S. “Garonne,” in the early part of the year 1891. Bristol: Wäber I.105; AC Library Cat. 1982 p. 45; not in Neate or Perret. An Allen, Davies and Co., 1892. £150 amusing narrative, written in mock high style, that recounts the experiences First and only edition. 8vo. pp. [x], 109; frontis. and 12 full-page wood-eng. of the author and his friends on what doubtless proved to be a thoroughly plates; some embrowning to endpapers, else very good in the original cloth, enjoyable visit to Switzerland. Along with amusing anecdotes of their lettered in gilt to upper board “Notes of a Voyage in the S.S. ‘Garonne,’ to doings in the towns of Zurich, Zermatt, Lausanne and elsewhere, Brigg Syria and Palestine”. also describes their ascents of the Aletsch and Findelen glaciers and of the This is a scarce account - Worldcat locates only three other copies - of Breithorn with relish. An encomium to the Matterhorn, the delights of lake Butler’s voyage with his wife and youngest daughter Ada B. Brain to the swimming, the euphoria of climbing and the joys of smoking at the end of a Middle East. Butler provides the Introduction and the first part (“Our Trip day’s travelling are just some of the episodes in this quirky book published, to the Holy Land”), his daughter the second part titled “Our Pilgrimage”. unusually, in Keighley. They describe their visits to Damascus, Baalbek, Nazareth, Jaffa, Jerusalem, 18. [Burton & Speke; Livingstone.] The British Association for and elsewhere; the illustrations show scenes in these cities, the frontispiece the Advancement of Science. Bath, 1864. Authorised Reprint of the shows the Cedars of Lebanon. Reports in the Special Daily Editions of the “Bath Chronicle.” Bath: T. D. Taylor, “Chronicle” Office, n.d. c. 1864. £175 20. Byford, Cecil, ed. The Port of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq. Published under the Authority of the Port of Basrah Directorate, 1935. [Printed by Waterlow and Sons Limited, London], [1935]. £275 First edition. Small 4to. pp. 153; two folding maps, illusts. inc. many from photos.; very good in the original pictorial papers boards, slightly browned and worn on spine. A nicely produced account of the port, with chapters on its early development, its commerce and services, and the Basrah airport. 21. [Cagni, Umberto (1863-1932).] A portrait photograph of Cagni, inscribed by him. The Bertieri Studio, c. 1903. £175 A b&w head and shoulders portrait of Cagni, in uniform, mounted as issued to the Bertieri Studio embossed card, inscribed beneath the image “Alla Principessa Della Rocca Ded Umberto Cagni Spezia gennaio [1]903”, the surname of his signature slightly weak. Umberto Cagni, an admiral in the Italian navy, became a close associate of the Duke of the Abruzzi, and captained his expedition ship the Stella Polare 20 22 during the Duke’s 1899 attempt to reach the North Pole. When frostbite left the Duke unable to lead the sledging expedition, Cagni was given command, and his four-man team reached a new farthest north of 86º 34’N, exceeding the latitude attained by Nansen & Johansen in 1895. Cagni’s achievement was celebrated on his return to Italy, and the present portrait was inscribed by him only a few years later. 22. Caviezel, M. Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Engadine. Translated from the German . . . by A. M. H. London: Edward Stanford, 1877.£225 First English edition. 8vo. pp. vii, 204, [28, ads.]; folding map frontis.; foxing to frontis., book label of William George Dawson at front, very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed, minor ink soiling to bottom of text block. 9 Wäber I.345; not in Perret. An uncommon guide to the area, with information on the topography of the region, its natural history, inhabitants, etc. According to the advertisements at the rear of the book, Caviezel was based in Upper Pontresina, where he sold dried Alpine plants as souvenirs, photographs, and copies of his guide book. 23. Chapman, F. Spencer. Watkins’ Last Expedition … With an Introduction by Augustine Courtauld. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. £250 21 First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 291; b & w photo. illusts., one folding map; slight age-toning to margins of illusts., minor foxing, else very good in the original cloth, which is slightly faded at base of spine, in original d.-w., which is browned on spine and chipped with loss at head and tail. AB 2986. An account of the final expedition of Henry ‘Gino’ Watkins, who died during the expedition at the age of 25. The remaining expedition members - the author Chapman, Quintin Riley and John Rymill - continued their survey and scientific work on the East Greenland coast. Rymill and Riley subsequently took part in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-7). 24. Compton, E. H. ‘Zermatt mit Matterhorn.’ Berlin: Hanfstaengl’s Nachfolger, n.d. c. 1909. £450 A large coloured heliogravure, approx. 23 x 31 cms. to plate mark (overall approx. 33 x 42), now mounted, framed and glazed in period frame with printsellers label of William Rodman & Co., Belfast, ownership inscription of J. K. Marsh, 1909, to label; the image in very good condition. Edward Harrison Compton (1881-1960) was the son of Edward Theodore Compton, and like his father an artist. He painted many images of Zermatt and the Matterhorn, and the present image was printed as a heliogravure for 23 24 sale. It shows the Matterhorn from Zermatt, 25. [Cook, Captain James.] A manuscript receipt, in the hand of Andrew Birrell, printmaker, 1769 – 1820, to Thomas Cadell, (1742–1802) publisher, or his son, Thomas Cadell (1773–1836). £750 A MS receipt, approx. 8 x 21cm., written to one side only, laid down on a larger plain sheet approx. 17 x 26.5cm., one word smudged and illegible, blindstamped revenue stamp to left margin of receipt. This is a receipt from Andrew Birrell to Thomas Cadell, acknowledging payment for work undertaken. It reads: “London March 30 / Recd. Of Mr Cadell the sum of five pounds / five shillings in full payment to Engraving / [smudge] to Cook’s Voyage View of Oyee [?Owhyee] Island / [signed] Andw. Birrell.” The atlas to Cook’s third voyage, A voyage to the Pacific Ocean: undertaken for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere: performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clarke, and Gore, in H.M.S. the Resolution and Discovery. In … 1776-1780, was published in 1784 and printed by W. & G. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell in 1784. We have not been able to identify the print to which the receipt refers.

26. Coolidge, W. A. B. The Range of the Tödi [Conway & Coolidge’s Climbing Guides]. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xxxi, 167, [24, blank lined paper]; very good in the original wallet-style buckram with flap lettered in gilt to front board, without the original pencil. Loosely inserted are three leaves with a previous owner’s notes and a sketch map. Neate C122; Perret 1109; Moss et al. AL023.

26 10 27. Crace, Sir John G. [chairman]. Report of the Committee Appointed to consider the Reorganisation of H.M.I. Dockyard Bombay, Jan-March 1947 No 8. [Mumbay, Technical Committee, 1947]. £850 Foolscap folio. Hundreds of leaves roneographed from typescript on one side, numerous maps, charts and tables (many folding), one folding aerial photograph of the dockyard; original half-calf with cloth boards, gilt-stamped morocco lettering- piece on front cover, some wear with loss to spine with damage, internally in good condition. Signed to the title-page by the three standing members of the Committee: Sir John Crace (chairman), J. G. Sturden, and D. Crowley (secretary). A prelude to an independent Indian Navy had been the widespread mutiny in 1946, which affected the most important dockyard in the recently independent country. Everything concerning the dockyard was put on a new regulatory footing, from payment of workers, refitting facilities, mooring of the R.I.N. (Royal Indian Navy, as it was still called), housing of staff, recruitment and training of apprentices, health and safety, and criticism of the still existing colonial structures. This volume contains extensive details of the changes implemented, in the form of reports and correspondence, both prior to and after independence. It provides a fine-grained record of the changes and reorganisation involved in the development of the dockyard, signed off by the main Committee members. Sir John Crace (1887-1968), chairman of the Committee, was commander of the Australian Squadron from 1939, and oversaw the operation of Task Force 44, leading the 1942 action off Port Moresby that checked Japanese expansion into South Pacific waters. From 1946 he superintended Chatham naval dockyard, and perhaps for this reason was involved in the restructuring of the H.M.I. Dockyard. 28. [Cuvillier, Armand.] Souvenirs de la Suisse. Lac de Genève. Chamouni [so titled to upper cover]. Geneve: Briquet & fils; Imp. Lemercier, Paris, n.d. c. 1840. £1,250 Oblong 8vo. 24 tinted lithograph plates inc. four double-page panoramas; very good in the original cloth-backed blind-stamped dark brown paper boards lettered in gilt, slightly rubbed. Cf. Nava N6; Perret 1182. This illustrated viewbook of the lake of Geneva and the valley of Chamouni was issued in various forms, with varying numbers of illustrations. The majority of the plates in this book bear the name of Cuvillier, and printers’ details of Briquet & fils in Geneva and Lemercier in Paris. The first view shows a panorama of the Alps and Lake Geneva, followed by fifteen further views of the lake. There follow eight images relating to Chamonix and Mont Blanc: ‘Chemin de la tête noire (Chamouni)’; ‘Le Mont-Blanc vu de Chamounix’; ‘Le Mont Blanc et la Vallée de Chamouni, vus du Col de Balme’; ‘Glacier et Village d’Argentière, Chamouni’; ‘La Mer de Glace, depuis le Montanvert’; ‘Source de l’Arveyron (Chamouni)’; ‘Le Mont- Blanc vu de St. Martin (route de Chamouni)’; a fine double-page panorama of the chain of Mont Blanc “prise a la Flégère (Chamounix)’. 11

29. Cyriax, R. J. Sir John Franklin’s Last Expedition: a chapter in the history of the Royal Navy. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1939. £500 First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, 222; 4 maps including 3 folding at rear; a little spotting, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly darkened on spine. Not in AB. Cyriax’s account of Franklin’s last expedition uses published and unpublished material to examine the fortunes of the expedition. It is now uncommon, since many of the original copies were lost in a warehouse fire during the Second World War. 30. Désor, E. Excursions et Séjours dans les Glaciers et les Hautes Régions des Alpes, de M. Agassiz et de ses compagnons de voyage. Neuchatel: Kissling; Paris: Maison, 1844. £650 First edition. 12mo. pp. xv, 638, [1, errata]; port. frontis. of Agassiz, 6 plates comprising 2 views, a map, a portrait, and 2 plates of specimens; small paper flaw to one leaf (not affecting text), else fine in contemporary full calf by Seton of Edinburgh for the Northern Lighthouse Trust with their emblem in gilt to spine. Wäber 77; Perret 1313. Edouard Desor (1811-1882) studied law but after a move from Germany to Paris became interested in geology. In 1837 he met Louis Agassiz at Neuchâtel, and thereafter joined him on visits to the Alps 29 30 to study glaciers and other phenomena. Together they made an ascent of the Jungfrau in 1841 (with James Forbes), and the next year he made the first ascent of the Lauteraarhorn, as described in the present work. 31. [Edward VII.] [Funeral.] List of the Royal Family and Royal Guests who will be present at the Funeral of His late Majesty King Edward VII. [Harrison & Sons, Printers in Ordinary to His late Majesty, St. Martin’s Lane, W.C.], n.d. [1910]. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. 37 printed to rectos. only; very good in the original notebook-style purple cloth, bound to upper margins, lettered in gilt, pencil to pocket on side, elasticated strap still in place. This uncommon booklet records those due to attend the funeral of King Edward VII, who died 6 May, 1910. The funeral took place on the 20 May, and the booklet records the names of those from the Royal Household and foreign dignitaries who attended the various ceremonies. The final four leaves are headed with the dates from Tuesday 17 to Friday 20 May, and presumably were intended for the user of the booklet to enter the names of others in attendance on those days. 32. [Everest 1921.] G. H. Bullock. ‘The Everest Expedition, 1921. 31 Diary of G. H. Bullock.’ An article in two issues of The Alpine Journal, vol. 67 nos. 304-5, pp. 130-149 & 291-309, May & November 1962. £75 First edition. Together 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xviii (ads.), [ii], 211 & xiv (ads.), [ii], 213-410; photo. illusts. relating to Bullock’s diary, photo. illusts. and folding maps relating to other articles; first vol. bumped to lower outer corners, else very good in the original printed wrappers, slightly creased. S & B pp. 107 & 113. In 1960 Bullock’s widow left his 1921 Everest Expedition diary to the Alpine Club. The only complete diary kept by any of the expedition members, it provides a valuable document of the expedition. It is transcribed in the current two issues of The Alpine Journal. 12 The second issue also contains Hugh Merrick’s discussion ‘Everest: The Chinese Photographs’ (pp. 310-2) concerning the disputed Chinese 1960 ascent. 32 33. Fenwick family, of Hexton House, Hexham, Northumberland. A scrap album containing newspaper cuttings, correspondence, orders of service, and ephemera, compiled by a member of the Fenwick family, c. 1911-1933. £125 Oblong 4to. 80+ newspaper cuttings (some loosely inserted), 10 orders of service, one telegram, one dance card for the coming of age of J. C. B. Cookson (December 31st 1925), two items relating to the 1911 Delhi Durbar pasted to rear endpapers, 30 items loosely inserted in front comprising correspondence and receipts relating to Lieut. Col. Gerard Fenwick’s service in WW1; minor fraying to a few items, else in good order. Gerard Fenwick (1868-1935) was the son of George Anthony Fenwick, both members of the family that founded the Newcastle bank Lampton, Bulman, Fenwick & Pybus (later Lambton & Co.; the bank was acquired by Lloyds in 1908). This album seems to have been compiled by Gerard, or by a member of his family. It contains a varied selection of printed 33 materials that reflect: Gerard’s service in WWI (where he 35. Frank Ross & Co. Ltd. Views of Darjeeling. Calcutta: Frank was Town Major at Vieille Chapelle Ross & Co. Ltd., n.d. c. 1910. £95 in France); family matters including Oblong 8vo. [1, title-page] + 16 leaves of 32 full-page photo. illusts.; very newspaper cuttings and the telegram good in the original printed wrappers (titled “Souvenir of Darjeeling. 20 sent to Gerard about the death in 1912 Art Views and 12 Types”), minor uneven fading, bumped at foot of spine. of his father George killed when thrown from his horse during the Pythchley A nicely produced photographic souvenir, with views of the “Everest hunt, and similar material on the death of range” and Kangchenjunga, and portraits of the Dalai Lama, Bhutia and his father-in-law, Dr. William Murray, in Nepali men and women. 1920; society events such as marriages (with several orders of service inserted, and two examples of a souvenir “In Commemoration of the Marriage between Mr. Montagu Fenwick and Miss Marguerite Peacock”, 1923, printed on tissue) and funerals (notably Matthew White 2nd Viscount Ridley, and Alice Barnett née Fenwick). Also contained in the album are several printed booklets: Special Forms of Service in commemoration of His Late Majesty King Edward VII (1910, 8pp.), Empire Day. Military Service to be held at the Cathedral, Newcastle-on- Tyne, 1914 (4pp.), items for the Tercentenary of Dr. Eden’s Day, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1933, and two items from the 1911 Delhi Durbar (Delhi Durbar Polo Tournament programme, 4pp., and ‘Speech of His Imperial Majesty the King-Emperor at the Durbar’, 2pp.). 34. Fleming, Peter. News from Tartary: a Journey from Peking to Kashmir. London: Jonathan Cape, [1945]. £150 34 Sixteenth impression. 8vo. pp. 384; photo. illusts., an extending map; very 13 good in original cloth, in the d.-w., which is somewhat chipped with loss to upper panel and rather browned on spine. A presentation copy, inscribed to flyleaf “Anne [de Clerc Fowles] with much gratitude from Peter 1946”, and with a 2pp. ALS from Fleming to Anne inserted in an envelope affixed to the f.e.p. (dated 21 Dec 45), together with a typed sheet signed by Fleming and dated New Delhi, Sept. 1945, and some newspaper obituaries of him. Peter Fleming’s third book, News from Tartary, continued his style of travel writing that had begun with Brazilian Adventure. News tells of his seven month journey from Peking to India, including a crossing of the Taklamakan Desert. This copy of the book was inscribed to Anne de Clerc Fowles, and is accompanied by Fleming’s 1945 letter in which he promises her a copy of the book, but writes “I’m afraid you won’t get the book for 35 several months, as they only get enough paper to print them one at a time (I mean one title, not one volume, at a time) so News from T is waiting its time at the moment, but you’ll get it in the end”. 36. Freshfield, Douglas W. The Exploration of the Caucasus . . . With Illustrations by Vittorio Sella. London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896. £1,950 First edition. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. pp. xxiii, 278 & x, 295; photogravure frontis. to each vol., 79 full-page illustrations, mostly photogravures, 3 large folding panoramic views, numerous illusts. to text, 4 maps inc. large folding map to rear pocket of vol. II; occasional spotting, browning to map in rear pocket, else very good in the original two-tone cloth, gilt, gilt- decorated boards, t.e.g., externally an exceptional copy. Classics in Mountaineering 44; Neate F64; Perret 1759. Freshfield was an early visitor to the Caucasus, and made his first attempt on Elbrus in 1868, visiting the region again several times. In the present volumes he brought together much information on the area. The photographs, which include the well-known dramatic picture of Ushba, the “Matterhorn of the Caucasus”, were by the mountain photographer, Vittorio Sella, who made expeditions to the Caucasus in 1889. The book’s size means that copies often become worn, and the spines are prone to browning; the present set is particularly well preserved.

37. Gordon, G. Mellanby. An Iconoclast in India. Plain Tales of the Plains and other places. Told by Asmodeus Junior. The Diary of a War Voyage and A Series of Random Articles written by G. Mellanby Gordon. Calcutta, London, etc.: Butterworth & Co., 1919. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. [iv], iv, 128; frontis. and 18 photo. plates, one illust. to text; very good in the original cloth, 14 gilt, somewhat marked. A presentation copy, inscribed to frontispiece recto “To R. L. Frost: with best memories of a delightful impromptu meeting at Amritsar G. Mellanby Gordon Amritsar Nov.1.19”. The author, in December 1917, sailed to India via South Africa and Singapore. He describes his stops at Durban, Natal, and Singapore before relating his visits to several cities in India: Madras, Calcutta, Patna, Benares, Agra, Bombay, Mahabaleshwar, and Delhi. Gordon had attended the Durbar for Edward VII in Delhi in 1901, and he contrasts his experiences of India then with the situation as he found it - concluding with descriptions of the influenza outbreak that claimed innumerable victims each day of his visit.

38. Harding, H. I. Diary of a Journey from Srinigar to Kashgar via Gilgit. Swedish Mission Press, Kashgar, 1922. £2,750 First edition, “For private circulation only”. 8vo. pp. [i, presentation leaf], [i, title], [1, Table of Contents], [3]-80; one folding route map; some browning to free endpapers (as usual), else a very good copy in the original patterned cloth, small split to lower joint in centre of spine. A presentation copy, inscribed on the preprinted presentation leaf to “My dear Edith . . . Very sincerely yours H. I. Harding 28/9/27”. Yakushi (3rd ed.) H79; not in other relevant bibliographies. Harding was appointed Vice Consul at Kashgar under C. P. Skrine, and the two men met up at Srinagar before making their way to the post. They decided to travel to Kashgar in two parties, Skrine’s taking the lead but, owing to its greater numbers, spending more time en route. Harding departed five days later, and arrived shortly before Skrine’s party. The present record of his journey “is bound in a stuff of which clothes are made in Central Asia and it is the first book, if I may be forgiven for calling it a book, to be published in this part of the world in any European language” (text on presentation leaf). Only a limited number of copies of the work were produced - this is copy 130 - and this copy, like others we have seen, was personally inscribed by the author. The recipient in the present case was Lady Edith Heal, wife of Sir Ambrose 38 Heal and daughter of the Irish playwright John Todhunter. 39 40 41

39. Harrison, James J. A Sporting Trip through India; Home by Survey of Kwangtung & Kwangsi. The report concludes with an assessment Japan and America. Beverley: F. Hall, 1892. £750 of the oil and gas found in the region. The text is printed in English and in Chinese. First edition. pp. [iii], 163; 12 illusts. from photos.; very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little faded on spine. 42. Henry, E. R. Classification and Use of Finger Prints. London: Czech p. 100 [incorrectly giving 10 plates]: “Harrison, a wealthy English Printed for HMSO by Darling & Son, 1905. £125 traveler and sportsman, recounts his hunting trips after tiger in the Central 3rd ed. (20th thousand). 8vo. pp. vi, 127; frontis., 3 folding leaves, 8 plates Provinces of India, rogue elephant in Ceylon, as well as stag and pig at rear; “Supplied for the Public Service” inkstamp to title-page, else very sticking adventures. A rather scarce work with some quite good photos of good in the original cloth. A presentation copy, inscribed to flyleaf “Arthur the author and his trophies”. Forbes from E. R. H.” 15 40. Hedin, Sven. Mount Everest och Andra Asiatiska Problem. Edward Henry (1850-1931) became Inspector-General of Police in Bengal Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Fõrlag, [1922]. £325 in 1891. He corresponded with Francis Galton concerning the use of finger prints to identify criminals, and with the assistance of two Sub-Inspectors First edition. 8vo. pp. 246, [1, index]; photo. illusts., sketch maps to text; he developed a system of finger print classification that was used initially very good in the original printed wrappers with photographic image of in Bengal, and then, after the appearance of his book Classification and Everest to the upper cover, creased on spine, inscribed by Hedin to fore- Use of Finger Prints in 1897, throughout the Raj. On his return to Britain edge of upper wrapper “Till Erik Dahlgren från gamla vännen Sven Hedin”. in 1901 he took charge of the CID at Scotland Yard, and established the Yakushi H185a; cf. Salkeld & Boyle H07 (the German edition); not in Metropolitan Police Fingerprint Bureau. His book was printed several Perret. Hedin’s survey of the various expeditions to Everest up to and more times, and this copy was presented by him to Arthur Forbes, a some including those of 1921 and 1922 appeared in his native Sweden; it was time member of the Indian Civil Service. translated into German in the following year, but no English-language edition was ever published. The Swedish edition also includes final chapters on Tibet and its people, Persia and Mesopotamia. This copy was presented by Hedin to Erik Dahlgren; this is probably Erik Wilhelm Dahlgren, the chief librarian at the Swedish Royal Library, a specialist in cartography and exploration, who also edited the works of Sven Hedin. 41. Heim, Arnold. Studies on Tectonics and Petroleum in the Yangtse Region of Tshungking. Canton, China, 1931. £95 First edition. 8vo. pp. [iii], 43, [28, 5, text in Chinese]; one coloured map, two folding sections, four plates of photo. illusts.; very good in the original printed wrappers, some wear to foot of spine, long abrasion mark across front wrapper with slight loss of text. A presentation copy, inscribed to front wrappers by the author “Herrn Geheinral Stiller mit besten Grüssen A H”. The Geological Survey of Kwangtung & Kwangsi, Special Publication no. VIII. These results are based on the first geological expedition to Szechuan by Sunyatsen University, led by the author in August 1929, and accompanied by Chang-minshao and Lee-tienchen of the Geological 42 43. Herschel, Sir John F. W. & Rev. Robert Main, eds. A Manual of Scientific Enquiry; prepared for the use of Officers in Her Majesty’s Navy; and Travellers in General. London: John Murray, 1859. £750 Third ed. 8vo. pp. xviii, 429; one folding map, large folding world map at rear; very good in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat faded on spine, expertly restored to head of upper joint. Freeman 329. This volume was published by authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with the stated intent of making scientific and medical information available to officers in a convenient and relatively accessible manner. The Manual contains fifteen chapters on such subjects as astronomy, hydrography, meteorology, ethnology, zoology, and botany, contributed by specialists of the day, including G. B. Airy, F. W. Beechey, Edward Sabine, Sir John Herschel, Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, and William Hooker. The book first appeared in 1849, and the chapters in this third edition were revised by the authors to incorporate any new information from the intervening decade. 43

44. Hinchliff, Thomas W. Summer Months among the Alps: with the Ascent of Monte Rosa. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. £750 First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, [i, list of illustrations], 312; 4 coloured lithographic plates, 3 folding maps; inscription and bookplate of J. Henry Powers jr., a very good copy in contemporary bottle-green half morocco, gilt. 16 Wäber 85; Neate H96; Meckly 092; Perret 2266 (“rare et recherché”). Thomas Hinchliff (1825-1882) was a founder member of the Alpine Club, and became its president in 1875-7. He climbed during the so-called golden age of Alpine mountaineering. The present work, his only book on the subject, includes details of his ascents during the summers of 1854, 1855 and 1856, including those of Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc. Both Hinchliff’s book and his own enthusiasm did much to foster appreciation of Alpinism, though his own climbing career was halted when he sustained a shotgun wound to his hand. An important and now 44 uncommon work.

45. [Huxley, T. H.] Julian Huxley, ed. T. H. Huxley’s Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake. London: Chatto and Windus, 1935. £125 First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 372; coloured frontis., 12 plates, one folding map; very good in the original cloth, which is a little marked, in original d.-w., which is soiled and frayed with loss to extremities, and with the letters “First Cheap Edition” printed to spine (these letters faded). T. H. Huxley travelled as medical officer aboard the Rattlesnake on her voyage to Australia, in the years 1846-50. The diary records these travels, including meetings with aborigines on the east coast of Australia.

45 46 47 46. Imfeld, X. Souvenir de Zermatt [so titled to upper wrapper]. 47. [India.] Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway, including Zurich: J. Wurster & Cie., n.d. c. 1880. £150 the Mayavaram-Mutupet, and Peralam-Karaikkal, Railways. Madras: Oblong 8vo. A small album containing two double-page views (Riffel, Higginbotham and Co., 1900. £200 Hörnli), two extending panoramas (Gornergrat, “Relief des hautes First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 466, xiii (ads.); 40 phototype plates, two folding Montagnes de Zermatt”) and two views (Hotel Mont Rose and Hotel maps inc. one in rear pocket; minor browning to endpapers, inkstamps Seiler Reiffelalp), lithographed by J. J. Hofer; original boards with printed of Wilkinson, Heywood and Clark, Ltd., to fore-edge of title-page and information to rear board relating to Imfeld’s Relief des hautes Montagnes occasionally thereafter, else a very good copy in the original decorative de Zermatt, and a lithographed coloured view of the Matterhorn with hotels cloth, minor chipping to spine ends. to the foreground; minor chipping to extremities, else very good. Intended for use by both residents and visitors, this guide incorporates not Not in Wäber or Perret. A nicely produced souvenir, containing views and only information on itineraries and descriptions of the railways, but also “a panoramas with key features identified in the upper margins. brief account of the history, manners, and religions of the various peoples 17 who have inhabited the country traversed by the South Indian Railway” (p. v). A final chapter, “Sport”, advertises the opportunities for small game in the region.

48. Inglefield, E. A. A Summer Search for Sir John Franklin; with a Peep into the Polar Basin. London: Thomas Harrison, 1853. £5,750 First edition. 8vo. pp. [i, half-title], xxi, 232; three coloured litho. plates inc. frontis., one extending litho. plate, one folding map; repairs to folds of map, extending plate with repair to one fold and slightly frayed to outer margin, else very good in contemporary full red prize calf, spine elaborately gilt, a handsome copy. AB 7716. Edward Augustus Inglefield led this 1852 search for Sir John Franklin’s expedition, whose ships Erebus and Terror were lost in the Arctic following their departure from Britain in 1845. Inglefield sailed aboard the Isabel, Lady Franklin’s private steam-yacht, collecting sledging dogs from West Greenland before proceeding to Smith Sound. The expedition charted about 1000km of new coast, and discovered Inglefield Gulf, before investigating Jones Sound, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait and Beechey Island, from this point returning to Britain. Inglefield received the RGS Gold Medal for his discoveries, and published the present account of the expedition. He later commanded one of the supply ships for Belcher’s Franklin search expedition, and went on to take part in naval operations in the Crimea. 50 49

49. Kathish, Hatashil Masha. The Ethiopia Valley. The History, 51. [Klondike. Broadside.] All About Alaska and the Klondike Religion and Customs of the People called the Dinkas, (Soudan, N.E. Gold Fields. A Grand Illustrated Klondike Lecture Entertainment. Central Africa.) . . . Edited by Wm. Engledow Harbord. Birmingham: Chicago: Sears, Roebuck & Co., n.d. c. 1898. £275 Printed by C. Caswell, n.d. c. 1906. £125 A broadside, approx. 14 x 54”, printed to one side only, central First edition. 8vo. pp. 64; photo. illusts.; previous owner’s inscription to illustration of a prospector panning for gold; a few closed tears to from blank partially offset to title-page, else very good in the original cloth, margins, else very good. lettered in gilt to upper board, a little rubbed and soiled. The 1896 discovery of gold in the Klondike, in north-western Canada’s Kathish, also known as Salim Charles Wilson, was a Dinka who was Yukon territory, prompted a rush of fortune-seekers, and sparked the interest brought to Britain in 1880 by the missionary Charles Wilson. He attended of the wider public. This broadside advertises a lecture with “Magnificent 18 school in Pavenham, Wilson’s home town, and after Wilson’s death in 1881 Photographic Views” projected on the magic lantern. The absence of a went to Nottingham to train as a missionary. He stayed in Britain, becoming lecturer’s name, and the blank spaces in the printed matter at the foot for a preacher and speaker, though made two visits to Africa in 1887-8 and the insertion of the location and price of tickets, suggest that the broadside 1893. He died in 1946. advertises a touring lecture. 50. Kaulback, Ronald. Tibetan Trek. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1934. £150 First edition. 8vo. pp. 300; b&w photo. illusts., 2 sketch maps; very good in original cloth, previous owner’s inscription at front, in the original dust- wrapper, which is a little soiled. Inscribed by the author to flyleaf “Ted Flintoff with all best wishes Ronald Kaulback October 1987”. Yakushi K77. In 1933, the author travelled in south east Tibet, northern Assam and Burma with Frank Kingdon Ward, who provides the book’s Introduction. This copy was inscribed by the author in 1987 (he died in 1995).

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52. Lane, Edward William. An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the Years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1842. £2,500 Third edition, “with large additions and improvements”. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xxiv [two leaves misbound], 472 & vi, [i, errata], 450; numerous illusts. to text; very good in contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting lettering pieces, together with proof plates for the illustrations in the two volumes, printed on fine paper and ranging in size from 8 x 6” (20 x 15cms) to 3 x 4” (7.5 x 10cms), some time loosely contained in a separate album lettered by hand to upper cover “Original India Proofs of Lane’s Drawings for The Modern Egyptians”, the proofs now contained in archival sleeves. Ibrahim-Hilmy I.355; Blackmer 949. “A remarkably detailed account of Egyptian life by the foremost Arabic Scholar of his time” (Blackmer). Lane (1801-1876) trained as an engraver, but ill health prompted him to learn Arabic and visit Egypt. Disguised as a Turk, with a keen artist’s eye, he amassed copious notes and sketches for what would become his bestselling work. Lane’s original manuscripts and drawings are in the British Library and the Griffiths Institute at the University of Oxford. This copy of the work is offered together with an almost complete set of proof illustrations for the edition: of 128 illustrations, 126 are present, together with a further two that do not feature in the book (missing are illustrations at pp. 11 and 52 of volume I). Lane is known to have sold proofs of his wood-engravings to supplement his income, and a proportion of the proofs carry pencilled prices, ranging from 7 shillings to 3 guineas. We are uncertain whether these were the prices at which he offered the individual proofs, the prices paid him by the publishers, or even prices from a subsequent period, but in any case the proofs were not inexpensive, since such versions were even at the time highly collectable: these earliest printings, on higher quality paper, were finer than those printed in the book, i.e. before the plates became worn from use. The proofs were originally contained loosely in an album with papered boards (included here, though aside from the label to the front it contains no evidence of provenance). 54. Lewin, W. Henry. Climbs. Published privately by the Author Sole Distributors: W.H. Smith & Sons, n.d. [1933]. £250 First edition, one of 250 copies signed by the author. 8vo. pp. xvii, 226; 16 plates; frontis. slightly creased to fore-edge where sometime loose (now reinserted), else very good in the original cloth, in d.-w., which is slightly frayed to head and tail of spine. Neate L38; see also Meckly A Bibliography of Privately Printed Mountaineering Books A Revision (AJ vol.96, 340, p. 202). A collection of Lewin’s articles on the subject of mountaineering and rock-climbing. His topics include the Matterhorn (notably a lecture on Whymper’s Matterhorn accident), the Rockies, and climbing in Wales. The introduction is provided by Noel Odell, a member of the 1924 Everest expedition. 55. Lithgow, William. The Total Discourse of The Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of long Nineteene Yeares Travayles from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica. 54 Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906. £275 First edition thus, one of 100 de luxe copies. 8vo. pp. xxxi, 449; 12 illusts. and reproductions; embrowning to endpapers, else very good in the original vellum-backed boards, gilt. Lithgow (1582-c. 1645) was born at Lanark, and spent several years travelling in the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere, visiting among other places the Ionian Islands, Athens, Rhodes, Cyprus, Aleppo, Damasacus, Galilee and Jerusalem. His accounts of these travels were collected in the present work, first published in 1632, and relished by many for “its baroque richness and exaggeration” (ODNB).

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53. [Lansdell, Henry.] “The author of “Russian Central Asia, including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva, and Merv” in native costume with presents from the Emir of Bokhara.” N.p., n.d. c. 1880s. £150 A full-length portrait photograph of the Central Asian traveller, pasted as issued on a card with caption printed beneath, verso blank; age-toning to mount, surface marking to image but otherwise sound. Lansdell travelled through Turkestan in 1882, the first English writer to do so after Eugene Schuyler in 1873. He travelled along the northern border of the Tien Shan mountains and visited Samarkand in addition to the cities of the title.

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56. [Longitude. John Harrison.] Anno Tertio Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XVI. An Act for the Encouragement of John Harrison, to publish and make known his Invention of a Machine or Watch, for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea [drop title] in: Anno Regni Georgii III Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Nineteenth Day of May, Anno Dom. 1761, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third … And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Twenty fifth Day of November, 1762; being the Second Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great Britain. London: Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty; and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett, 1763. £2,950 First edition. Folio. pp. [ii], 359-363, [1, blank]; eng. crest to title-page, decorative initial to p. 359; minor age-toning, else very good in self- wrappers, recently resewn, now contained in a purpose made cloth portfolio with acid-free hand-made paper fold-ins, leather lettering piece to upper board, ribbon ties. First edition of the 18th century British Parliamentary Act encouraging publication of the details of any mechanical machines for the discovery of longitude at sea, and limiting financial rewards to inventor John Harrison. The problem of longitude - the means to determine the westward or eastward path of a ship during its voyage - became increasingly acute during the development of maritime trade and exploration up to the 18th century. In 1714, the British Parliament offered £20,000 to the person who devised a means of accurately determining longitude at sea. John Harrison, a clockmaker without formal education, developed friction-free mechanical clocks that were unaffected by changes in temperature or movement, and which were extremely accurate. The first of Harrison’s devices was successfully tested in 1735 and three other more accurate models were created over the next four decades. Though his device was clearly accurate and sea-worthy, Harrison was awarded only half of the promised prize; this present Act, and an Act published two years later, were the closest Harrison came to official Parliamentary recognition of his singular contribution to navigation and cartography. This copy is from the Sessional Volumes of Parliament, the earliest official printing available. Acts printed prior to 1796 are uncommon, since the maximum number printed “only slightly exceeded 1,100 copies,” and those were distributed solely to Members of the Houses of Parliament, the great officers and offices of state, and the judiciary (see Report of the Committee for the Promulgation of the Statutes, 1796). 57. [Longitude.] Anno Quadragesimo Sexto Georgii III. Regis. An Act for continuing the Encouragement of Persons making Discoveries for finding the Longitude at Sea, or other useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation, and for making Experiments relating thereto; and for discharging certain Debts incurred by the Commissioners of the Longitude in carrying the Acts relating thereto into Execution. [3d July 1806.] [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1806]. £50 Small folio. pp. [709]-711; disbound, somewhat creased, small worm-hole to centre of text, else good. This act confirms the authority of the Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude to draw on the Treasury in making its awards for useful discoveries. 58. [Malaya.] The State of Johore Malaya. An Illustrated Outline of Johore’s History, Government, Industries and People. Singapore: The Advertising and Publicity Bureau Ltd., 1939. £175 57 58 First edition. 8vo. pp. 76; frontispiece map of Johore, five coloured plates mounted to card, numerous b&w illusts. from photos.; stapled as issued with slight tearing to first and final blanks, else very good in the original printed wrappers with yap edges, slight wear to extremities. A nicely illustrated guide to the state, with portraits of the Sultan and the Crown Prince, and scenes of the people and their country. 59. [Map.] Scarborough’s Map of the World. London, England . . . Indianapolis, Ind.: The Scarborough Company, Copyright 1906, 1907, 1908 & 1910. £75 22 A large map, approx. 41 x 39” (104 x 99cm..), printed to both sides on linen, folding and contained in original roan slipcase, gilt, minor wear to extremities of slipcase, the map in very good condition. This excellent double-sided map shows the Western hemisphere - i.e. the Americas - on one side, and the Eastern hemisphere on the other, with a scale of 1:25,000,000. The features displayed include major roads and railroads, canals, sailing routes, caravan routes, telegraph lines, ocean currents, etc. 59 60. [Map.] J. Arrowsmith. Sweden and Norway. London: Edward Stanford, n.d. c. 1890. £95 New edition. A large map, approx. 26 x 22” (67 x 56cm.), inset continuation of map to North Cape, sectionalised on linen and folding into original cloth boards, printed label to upper board; browning to one panel of map, else very good. 61. [Markham, Clements R., et al.] Arctic Geography and Ethnology. A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology. Reprinted, and presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society. London: John Murray, 1875. £175 First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 292; 2 folding maps, one or two illustrations or diagrams to text; spotting and dust-soiling to one map, minor spotting to text, else very good in the original blue cloth, gilt, darkened on spine, neatly restored to extremities. AB 14929. As a prelude to the Nares-led British Arctic Expedition to Greenland, the RGS reissued articles published in its own Transactions 60 and Proceedings “for the use of the expedition” (Preface). The articles collected include Robert Brown on Greenland’s geology, von Wrangell on the attainment of the pole, Dr. Rink on Kane’s discoveries, Irminger on the Arctic current around Greenland, and Collinson on the Behring Straits. Ethnological papers on the Eskimo include those by Clements Markham, Drs. Rink, Simpson, and others. Another, separate volume on scientific subjects was also issued. 62. McDonald, Bernadette. Winter 8000. Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season. Sheffield: Vertebrate Publishing, 2020. £35 First edition, one of 250 numbered and signed copies. 8vo. pp. [viii], 286; illusts.; new in the original cloth, d.-w. An account of the Polish mountaineers who developed winter climbing on the 14 8000+m peaks, with a chapter devoted to each of the peaks. 63. Middleton, W. C. A Collection of Letters written home during a Tour to and from Egypt, up the Nile to the First Cataract [bound with] 61 62 A Winter Tour in Spain. Printed for Private Circulation by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, Stamford Street and Charing Cross, 1883. £175 First edition thus. 8vo. pp. vii, 199, viii, 120; frontis. to first work, folding map; foxing at front and rear, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, a.e.g. A presentation copy, inscribed “With the Writer’s Compliments & best wishes” to front blank. Kalfatovic 0755: “ In a staccato, journal/letter-style [William] Middleton describes his journey from Alexandria to Luxor. Sailing up the Nile in the Behera, he gives a basic account of the sights”. The book is rare, with only three institutional copies shown on Worldcat, yet all seem to be a reprint: according to the “Apology for this edition” at the start of the text, “the first 23 edition of these letters was very limited, and quickly exhausted . . . I have rushed recklessly into a reprint”, adding to it his account of Spain. 64. [Missionary collections.] A small group of letters, address and donation lists, relating to Miss G. Gladstone, c. 1884. £50 63 Together 6 items, comprising: 2 original ALS (2pp. & 4pp.), two MS address lists (4pp. & 3pp.), a MS list of members of the North China Associates (1p.) and a MS list of funds raised (2pp.), small hole to centre of three items (not affecting legibility), else very good. These items include two letters addressed to Miss Gladstone from Sophy Joiner and Caroline Philips. The latter mentions the resignations from the “Collectorship of the Missionary Guild” of various members, and includes instructions on handling of funds (“enclose the money in an envelope directed to D. A. Bevan Esq. Treasurer”); the letter itself encloses a list of collectors for St. Peter’s Mission Guild, and the third page provides details of “Miss Gladstone Collection 2” - a sum of £10. The second list of addresses, for “St. Peter’s Foreign Missionary Guild” contains some of the same names as the first, and similarly for the list of “North China Associates”. The funds raised in this way were distributed, according to the lists, to missions in Kaffraria, North China, Bloemfontain, Nyapore, Grahamstown, and Newfoundland.

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66. [Moravians.] The Moravian Missionary Atlas containing An Account of the Various Countries in which the Missions of the Moravian Church are carried on, and of Its Missionary Operations. London: The Moravian Church and Mission Agency, 1908. £150 New Edition. Slim 4to. pp. 18; 18 coloured maps inc. 8 double-page; browning to title-page, minor staining to first map and adjacent text-leaves, else good in the original cloth, somewhat worn to extremities. 24 The Moravian Church originated in Bavaria and Moravia in the 15th century, but following suppression in their native countries the members took refuge on the estate of Count Zinzenford in Saxony. From the early 18th century the Church sent out missionaries, and this Atlas records the extent of their operations in Labrador, Alaska, California, the West Indies, the Mosquito Coast, Guiana, South Africa, Nyassa, the Western Himalaya, and Australia. The first map shows the world with the Moravian missions marked, the remaining maps shows the region in which the missions were 67 based. The Atlas is scarce, and we can find only one institutional copy (University of Manchester). 65. [Mont Blanc.] A handbill for a lecture to the Bridgnorth Society, 67. Morris, James [later Jan.] South African Winter. Faber and entitled “Six Weeks among the Glaciers of Mont Blanc and Monte Faber, [1958]. £150 Rosa” by the Rev. W. Purton. Rowley, printer, Bridgnorth, 1861. £75 First edition. 8vo. pp. 196; illusts., one sketch map; good in the original A small handbill, approx. 9 x 5 1/2” (22 x 14 cm.), printed to one side cloth, in original d.-w., which is rather frayed with some loss at the head only, small puncture holes to left of sheet (where one time bound in to a and tail of spine. Signed by the author to title-page (“James Morris”) and volume?), else VG. with the contemporary ownership inscription of George Lowe to flyleaf, William Purton (1833-1891), the Curate of St. Leonard’s, Bridgnorth, with the George Lowe bookplate. in Shropshire, was, like his father (also William Purton, a friend of the James Morris and George Lowe both took part in the 1953 Everest painter John Constable) an amateur artist. He published two books, one of Expedition (Morris as The Times correspondent). which - The Dunce’s Dessert (1861) - contains illustrations by him. The present handbill advertises his lecture before the Bridgnorth Society for the Promotion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, given November the 21st, 1861. According to information on the handbill, Purton illustrated his lecture with “numerous drawings from sketches taken on the spot”, suggesting that he had visited the region, though we can find no mention of his visit in the literature, nor do these illustrations appear still to exist. 68 69 70

68. Morris, Jan. Hav comprising Last Letters from Hav; Hav of the part; some embrowning to paper of ads., else good in the original printed Myrmidons. faber and faber, [2006]. £75 wrappers, some fraying to margins of wrappers, else in good condition. First edition thus. 8vo. pp. viii, 301; one sketch map; very good in the AB 11983. Nansen’s narrative of the Fram expedition (1893-96) appeared original cloth, d.-w. Inscribed by Jan Morris to the title-page “For George in a first English edition in 1897. The book was subsequently issued by and Mary! With affection Jan Morris 2006”, with the George Lowe George Newnes in 20 parts, appearing every fortnight. An option was given bookplate at front. to purchase bindings for these parts, not present here; examples of the second edition can be found which have been bound up from the original First published in 1985, Last Letters from Hav was reissued in this expanded parts. However, complete sets of the work in its original parts rarely come edition. Morris presented this copy to her friends George and Mary Lowe on to the market. (George and Jan took part in the 1953 Everest Expedition). Noble, Algernon. Siberian Days. An Engineer’s Record of Travel Murray, Sir John, & Dr. Johan Hjort. The Depths of the 71. 25 69. and Adventure in the Wilds of Siberia. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, Ocean A General Account of the Modern Science of Oceanography 1928. £125 based largely on the Scientific Researches of the Norwegian Steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic. London: Macmillan and Co., First edition. 8vo. pp. 223; photo. illusts.; very good in original cloth, gilt. Limited, 1912. £375 Czech Asian Big Game Hunting p. 150. The author conducted mining First edition. Large 8vo. pp. xx, 821, [2, ads.]; frontis. port. of Murray, operations and prospected for gold and other deposits in central and port. of Hjort, illusts. to text, 4 folding colour maps, 9 coloured plates eastern Siberia, north of Lake Baikal. His recollections include details of fish; a little shaken, else very good in the original green cloth, gilt, of hunting experiences, mostly for wolves, boars, deer and wapiti in the minor discolouration to the boards, small snag to cloth at head of spine. Amur river region. A presentation copy to “E. R. G. R. Evans, From The Authors 1924” and signed beneath by Johan Hjort. The Norwegian steamer Michael Sars undertook a series of oceanographic expeditions in the North Atlantic, beginning in 1900; among those who participated in the various voyages were the Polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and the British oceanographer John Murray, who funded the researches conducted in the 1911 season. The present work offers an overview of the work carried out aboard the Michael Sars, with chapters devoted to the steamer itself, the voyages, and findings in oceanography, botany, fauna, and the like. The recipient of this copy, E. R. G. R. Evans, was second-in- command on Captain Scott’s second Antarctic expedition, later becoming Evans of the Broke. 70. Nansen, Fridtjof. “Farthest North”. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1898. £395 [Second edition.] 20 original parts. 8vo. Port. frontis. to part 10, black and white frontis. to vol. II, numerous b&w illusts, 1 coloured plate, 1 coloured folding map, advertisements with illustrations at front and rear of each 71 72. [Panorama.] An Account of the Family of Laplanders; which, with their Summer and Winter Residences, Domestic Implements, Sledges, Herd of Living Reindeer; and a Panoramic View of the North Cape, (from a Drawing lately made on the spot by Capt. Brooke,) are now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. London: Printed for W. Bullock, n.d. [?1822]. £750 8vo. pp. [iv], 33, [1]; folding litho. frontis. showing the Laplander family; untrimmed in the original printed wrappers, which are soiled, and worn with a little loss to spine. William Bullock (1773-1849) traded as a jeweller, income from which allowed him to indulge his passion for collecting. He founded a museum for his collection of natural curiosities in Liverpool, and when he moved to London in 1809 built the Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly to house it. In 1821 Bullock travelled to the north of Scandinavia, possibly intending to import herds of reindeer; he returned to London with a small number of the animals, and en route via Stavanger hired a Sami herder, Jens Holms, and his family, to tend the reindeer. The Holms family, and the reindeer, were exhibited at the Egyptian Hall from January 1822. The exhibition featured a large panorama of the North Cape, before which were displayed reindeer skins, and Sami artefacts. The present booklet was sold at the exhibition, and contains Bullock’s summary of his expedition to Scandinavia, details of the family, and extensive quotations from published literature concerning “Laplanders”. The final leaf contains a list of the Sami artefacts on show. The exhibition continued until the summer of 1822, when it was closed, and Bullock returned with the Holms family to Scandinavia.

73. Parkinson, C. E. A Note on the Burmese Species of the Genus Dipterocarpus. Rangoon: Superintendent, Govt. Printing and Stationery, Burma, 1932. £75 First edition. Small slim folio. pp. [ix], 35; frontis. and 18 plates from photos. or sketches of specimens, 11 sketch maps of distribution; minor foxing, else very good in original cloth-backed boards, a little soiled and 26 abraded. Burma Forest Bulletin no. 27 (Botanical Series no. 4 - published in 1931). One of 365 copies. “This bulletin is one of a series of handbooks drawn up to help Forest Officers to recognise and name plants of forest importance in the field”. The book contains a section by C. W. Scott ‘Note on the Timbers of Burma in and kanyin’. 74. Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific: Performed in 73 the Years 1819-1820, in his Majesty’s Ships Hecla and Griper. London: John Murray, 1821. £975 First edition. 4to. pp. [iv], [iv], xxi, [i], 310, clxxix; errata slip to first leaf of Introduction; 20 plates, maps, and charts; some heavy offsetting from plates to adjacent text, good in contemporary half calf, gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down (lettering piece mislabelled). Provenance: ex dono Henry Grier Bryant to the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, with 74 bookplate to front pastedown. AB 13145; Sabin 58860. Parry made five Arctic expeditions, the first under John Ross in 1818. In 1819 he undertook his first expedition as leader, and successfully sailed through Lancaster Sound to Barrow Strait and Melville Island, both of which he named. This copy of Parry’s account of the expedition once belonged to Henry Bryant, a member of the Peary Arctic relief expeditions in the 1890s, who bequested it to the Geographical Society of Philadelphia. 75 76 77

75. Pissis, Pierre Joseph Aimé. ‘Mémoire sur la Position géologique 76. Reeve, D. C. A Guide to Rock Climbing in Hong Kong. [Set and des Terrains de la Partie australe du Brésil, et sur les Soulevements qui, printed by Everbest Printing Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 1968]. £75 à diverses époques, ont changé le Relief de cette Contrée.’ An article First edition. 8vo. pp. 253; coloured and b & w illusts.; slightly bumped to in Mémoires présentés par divers Savans a l’Académie des Sciences de extremities, else a very good copy in the original pictorial boards. Signed l’Institut national de France, Sciences mathématiques et physiques, by the author at front. vol. 10, 1848, pp. 353-413. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1848. £250 Not in Neate. An uncommon guide to climbing in Hong Kong, with details First edition. 4to. pp. vii, 764; 2 folding geological maps and 5 folding of some 400 climbs. charts relating to Pissis’ article, 13 folding plates or folding maps relating to other articles in this volume; a little browning at front and rear, mild 77. Ridley, William. Snapshots from the North Pacific. Letters age-toning to folding maps of Pissis’ article, else very good in the original written by Bishop Ridley, of Caledonia. Ed. Alice J. Janvrin. London: 27 wrappers, printed paper label to spine, some chipping to foot of spine. Church Missionary Society, 1903. £50 Pissis (1812-1889) was a French geographer and cartographer, who First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 192; one sketch map, illusts.; very good in the spent five years in Brazil before presenting his findings to the Academie original blue cloth, gilt, marked on spine. des Sciences in 1842. His ‘Mémoire’ offers an account of his geological Caledonia is the northernmost diocese of British Columbia in America’s findings in the Bahia region which, as Pissis points out in his introduction, northwest. William Ridley was consecrated as its first bishop in 1879, had been overlooked by Humboldt and other scientists (who focussed on and the present book offers selections from his letters relating to life and the more northerly regions of the country). Pissis’ article is accompanied by work among the Indians of the region. Based in Metlakatla, Ridley also a fine hand-coloured map of the southern part of Brazil, showing the region undertook missions along the coast and inland up the Stikine river. In 1899 from Rio da Janeiro to “Bahia” (Salvador). This volume also contains he also superintended work at Lake Bennett during the Klondike goldrush. Édouard Biot ‘Catalogue général des Étoiles filantes et des autres Météores observés en Chine pendant vingt-quatres Siècles, depuis le VIIe Siècle avant J.C. jusq’au milieu du XVIIe de notre Ère’ (with a folding chart); Jean Jacques Coste ‘Nidification des Épinoches et des Épinochettes’ (with a fine hand-coloured plate of sticklebacks); H. de Collegno ‘Sur les Terrains tertiaires du nord-ouest de l’Italie’ (with three coloured maps including the region of Lake Como); and several others. 78. Rink, H. Grønland geographisk og statistisk beskrevet. Kjøbenhavn: Andr. Fred. Høst, 1857. £975 First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. pp. [i, general title-page for vol. I], [i, title-page to part 1], [vi], 202, [2, index], [i, title-page to part 2], 218, [2, index] & vi, 416, 172; 10 litho. plates and 4 folding maps; minor spotting, upper hinge to vol. I tender, good in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, rubbed, creased on spine of vol. I, previous owners’ inscriptions to front endpapers. Lauridsen Bibliographia Groenlandica II.152. Rink, a Danish scientist and traveller, spent several years in Greenland, latterly as Royal Inspector for the Danish Government. During his initial time in Greenland he lived among the local people, and spent his time in geological and glaciological studies. He wrote extensively about the country and its people, but the present work - which translates as ‘Greenland geologically and statistically described’ - was 28 his most important account of the region, and the first since the work of Hans Egede in the previous century.

79. Ross, M. J. Ross in the Antarctic. The Voyages of Captain James Clark Ross in Her Majesty’s Ships Erebus & Terror 1839-1843. Caedmon of Whitby, 1982. £25 First edition. 8vo. pp. [xii], 276; illusts., 2 folding maps in rear pocket; very good in original cloth, d.-w., creased to margins of wrapper. A presentation copy, inscribed to flyleaf “Ann Shirley From the author, October 1982”, and with Ann Savours Shirley’s bookplate to front pastedown. The author, a great-grandson of Ross, describes the first expedition officially to sight the Antarctic continent.

79 80. [Royal Danish Naval Academy.] A manuscript book of course work kept by Naval cadet C. Købke in the years 1823-25. £3,950 Folio. pp. [193] in Danish longhand with calligraphic chapter headings, all pages ruled in black, about 70 smaller illustrations in ink and watercolour, c. 12 half-page illustrations, 34 full-page and one double page cross section of a ship, all meticulously and beautifully executed; contemporary half-calf, red morocco label with C. Købke in gilt to front cover; binding a little worn to extremities. This manuscript was the work of the cadet C. Købke, during his training at the Royal Danish Naval Academy. The book is laid out in eight sections, beginning with a first dissertation on mathematics as applied to artillery, and with following sections on cannon, cables, muskets, mortar, fortification, workshop or laboratory instruments. Each section contains finely executed illustrations of the subjects, usually interspersed in the text but with some full-page examples. A ninth and final section is devoted to Land Artillery. The final page to each section has been signed off by an examiner, and these are dated from 1823 to 1825. 29

81. Russell-Killough, Count Henry. Seize Mille Lieues à travers l’Asie et l’Océanie. Voyage executé pendant les années 1858-1861. Paris: L. Hachette et Cie., 1864. £675 First edition. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. [iv], 428 & [iv], 428; folding map to vol. I, folding engraved view of the Himalaya seen from Darjeeling to vol. II; some foxing, tears to inner folds of map and plate repaired, else very good in contemporary quarter calf, gilt, for the Société de Lecture, Besançon, with their inkstamps at front and rear of each vol. and to the lower outer corner of the two plates; slightly chipped to head of spine of second volume. Perret 3820; not in Yakushi. Russell (1834-1909), also known as Russell-Killough, was a pioneer climber of the Pyrenees. In 1858 he departed the Pyrenees for an extended voyage that took him to Russia, Siberia (including the Gobi Desert), China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India. His account of this journey contains descriptions of climbs in New Zealand (among the earliest such attempts), and of his visit to Darjeeling with its views of the Himalaya - the second volume contains a striking engraving of the snowy range from Darjeeling. This book was said to have influenced Jules Verne in writing his novels. in various wars. He was an ambulance surgeon in the Turco-Serbian war of 1876, and in the Russo-Turkish campaign in 1877-8; he was present at the fighting at Shipka Pass, and served on Baker Pasha’s staff during his retreat across the Rhodope Mountains. In 1883 he went to Egypt to combat a cholera epidemic, and acted as vice-director of the Public Health Department of the Egyptian Government until 1885. He was then appointed professor of medicine in the Egyptian Government Medical School, and physician to the Kasr-el Ainy Hospital, Cairo. In 1900 he became senior physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria, and served throughout the South African war. He was the author of Medical Diseases of Egypt and Egypt as a Winter Resort, and when he settled in London maintained his keen interest in tropical diseases”. He died while recuperating after acting as consulting physician in Egypt to the Eastern Mediterranean Force in the First World War. 83. Scott, Kathleen, Lady Kennet. Homage. A Book of Sculptures 82 by K. Scott (Lady Kennet) with a commentary by Stephen Gwynn. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1938. £125 83 First edition. 4to. pp. [xii] + 40 photo-type plates, each with title leaf facing and descriptive text; very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., in the 82. [Sandwith, Gladys.] A Short Record of the Life of Fleming original d.-w., which is somewhat darkened on the spine. Mant Sandwith. By G. S. Glasgow: Privately Printed at the University Not in the usual bibliographies. Lady Kennet, formerly the wife of Captain Press, 1930. £125 Scott, married Edward Hilton Young in 1922. She died in July, 1947. This beautifully produced record of her works in sculpture includes those of T. First edition. 8vo. pp. [i], 157; port. frontis; very good in the original cloth, E. Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, and Fridtjof Nansen, culminating in lettered in gilt to upper board, slightly rubbed, discoloured to upper board. the statue of her husband, Captain Robert F. Scott. Gwynn, who provided Sandwith (1853-1918) trained at St. Thomas’ Hospital. According to his the text for the book, also authored a biography of Captain Scott. obituary in the British Medical Journal, “he saw a great deal of service 30

84. [Scott, Robert F.] National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904. Album of Photographs and Sketches with a Portfolio of Panoramic Views [Album only, lacking the Portfolio]. London: Royal Society, 1908. £1,500 First edition. One volume only [without the Portfolio of Panoramic Views]. 4to. pp. xvi, 303; numerous photographic illustrations throughout, including 20 photogravures and 11 folding plates, 6 meteorological plates and 7 plates of aurorae from drawings by E. A. Wilson; minor foxing, mainly to areas adjoining folding plates, accession number to corner of title-page verso, overall very good in later quarter morocco with marbled boards, gilt. Denucé 2612; Spence 838; Renard 1129; Rosove 288-7.A1. “This glorious and most popular work among the reports of [Scott’s] Discovery expedition is a large scale photographic and illustrative study of Antarctic landscapes and wildlife . . . The quality of photographic reproduction - and especially that of the sepia plates [photogravures] - is very high. Some of the pictorial material was used in the scientific reports, but the Royal Society considered the material so worthy and complete as to justify publication as a separate work” (Rosove). This Album was issued together with a portfolio of 24 folding panoramas, listed in the contents of the present volume, but the Album is offered here without the portfolio. 87 85 86 85. Serette, Nina. The Golden East. Sketches of a Visit to Greece, images for the new show, ‘From Mont Blanc to China’, which opened Palestine, and Egypt, in the Spring of 1905. [Leicester, 1906]. £95 in late 1858. The show failed to entertain audiences in the manner that his Swiss performances had, and in 1859 Smith revamped the show to First and only edition. 8vo. pp. 204; illusts. inc. two full-page; upper hinge emphasise the ‘China’ element. The present booklet could be obtained at partly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, somewhat abraded to these performances, either in a short version without the frontispiece, and a head of spine. more expensive version, as here, with additional matter and the frontispiece “Nina Serette” was the name used by Annie Street, a Burton-based founding of “Howqua’s Garden, near Canton”. The text, containing Smith’s narrative member of the local NUWSS section. She had visited Egypt and Palestine of his time in China, concludes with an advertisement for performances of previously, in 1898, and returned in a tour organised, as with the previous “Mr. Albert Smith’s China”. visit, by the Rev. J. W. Miller, of Leicester. The group visited Athens, Constantinople, Beirut, Lebanon, Damascus, sites in the Holy Land, and 88. Smith, Michael. An Unsung Hero. Tom Crean - Antarctic 31 the Pyramids. The book seems to be uncommon. Survivor. Cork: The Collins Press, 2000. £150 First edition. Square 8vo. pp. 341; illusts., sketch maps; very good in the 86. Shipton, Eric. Upon That Mountain. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, [1943]. £125 original cloth, dust-wrapper, a little chipped and soiled. Inscribed by the author to the title-page, and subsequently signed by him at head of title- First edition. 8vo. pp. 222; 31 b & w photo. illusts., four sketch maps to page. text; very good in the original cloth, in the original dust-jacket, which is The first biography of Crean, a member of Scott’s and Shackleton’s slightly worn to extremities with loss to foot of upper joint. Antarctic expeditions. The Irish edition preceded the UK and other editions. Neate S68; Yakushi S433a; Perret 4044; S & B S23. Shipton’s account of his climbs in the Alps, his ascent of Nanda Devi and Mount Kenya, and of the Everest expeditions of 1933, 1935, 1936 and 1938. Copies of the first edition in dust-jackets are becoming uncommon. 87. Smith, Albert. To China and Back: being a Diary kept, out and home. Published for the Author, and to be had of Messrs. Chapman & Hall . . . at the Egyptian Hall, n.d. [1859]. £375 8vo. pp. [i, title-page], [ii, Preface], [5]-72; coloured frontis.; staining to upper margins (not affecting text), final leaf heavily browned; good in contemporary roan-backed boards, worn on spine. In 1851, Albert Smith and the scene-painter William Beverley made a successful ascent of Mont Blanc, and their experiences formed the basis for a panoramic show entitled ‘The Ascent of Mont Blanc’ that opened in March 1852, at the Egyptian Hall on London’s Piccadilly. The show ran for over 2000 performances, and became a sensation. In 1858, seeking a new theme, Smith sailed to Hong Kong, gathering experiences and 88 89 90 91

89. Smith, Michael. Tom Crean. An Illustrated Life. Unsung Hero First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. lii, 518, [2, ads.] & xii, 542, [2, ads.]; port. of the Scott and Shackleton Expeditions. Cork: The Collins Press, frontis. of Spruce to vol. I, numerous illusts., 7 maps inc. 4 folding; very [2006]. £95 good in the original cloth, gilt, slightly darkened on spines, volume two with remains of original dust-wrapper. With the ownership labels to each First edition. Oblong 4to. pp. x, 193; illusts., sketch maps; as new in the vol. of botanist W. B. Turrill. original cloth, dust-wrapper, signed by the author to the fly-leaf. Spruce (1817-1893) was an important botanist and traveller who in the Smith’s biography of Crean (see previous item) was followed by the mid-19th century mapped parts of the Amazon system, collecting some present work, illustrated with images of Crean and his colleagues on the 7000 flowering plants, and detailing numerous Amazonian languages. In various Antarctic expeditions in which he took part. the course of his travels he met H. W. Bates and Alfred Wallace, assisting 32 90. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Cambridge the latter when he succumbed to malaria. Spruce’s notes of these travels Mission to Delhi. A bound volume containing 18 issues of the joint were collected and edited after his death by Wallace, and reveal the Missions’ Occasional Papers, and 9 of its Short Papers. Cambridge, at extensive additions to knowledge that Spruce made. This set belonged the University Press [Occasional Papers] and St. Albans: Printed by to the botanist William Bertram Turrill (1890-1961), Keeper of the Kew Gibbs & Bamforth [Short Papers], 1885-1904 & 1897-1905. £150 Herbarium and Library. Mixed editions. Together 27 pamphlets bound as one, Occasional Papers 92. Stanley, Henry Morton (1841-1904). A cabinet photograph bound without, and Short Papers bound with, original wrappers, MS Index by Walery of Regent Street, London. c. 1890. £150 at front, text paginated separately by hand as one continuous volume (218 A fine photographic head and shoulders portrait of Stanley, approx. 4 x 6 leaves in total); some browning to original wrappers, else very good in 1/2” (105 x 162mm), back plain, the image slightly faded. contemporary blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine (“Occasional Papers. Mission to Delhi”). An image of the explorer, probably taken shortly after his return in 1889 from the Emin Pasha Relief expedition. This volume contains an incomplete series of the SPG & Cambridge Mission to Delhi Occasional Papers (nos. 8-11, 18-31), and of their subsequent Short Papers (Nos. 1-3 and 5-10, nos. 6, 9 & 10 being first printings). The papers include such topics as: Rev. H. C. Carlyon ‘Account of Work’; Rev. A. Haig ‘Mission Work in the Rohtak District’; Carlyon ‘Work among the Játs of the Rohtak District’; Rev. C. Foxley ‘Reminiscences of Two Years at Delhi’; Rev. G. A. Lefroy ‘Women’s Work’; Mrs. Joly ‘Zenana Work in Delhi’; Dr. Mildred Staley ‘Medical Work in the Delhi Mission’, and others by the Bishop of Lahore, Rev. S. S. Allbutt, etc. 91. Spruce, Richard; Alfred Russel Wallace, editor. Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and its Tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the Cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes, of Peru and Ecuador, and the Shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. £875 92 93. [Stanley, Henry Morton.] An illuminated Diploma awarding Stanley the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen. 1890. £500 A large vellum sheet, approx. 38 x 47 cm., written in calligraphic hand with black ink by Taylor and Henderson of Aberdeen, capitals highlighted in gilt, blue or red ink, hand-coloured decoration to upper left, signature of William Gordon to foot of document, medallion with an elaborately tooled crest of Aberdeen secured by a ribbon to the lower left, medallion size approx. 4 cm. diameter; the whole laid down on board, slightly bowed, minor stain to lower right affecting two words, else in good condition. On his return from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley was welcomed with both private and civic celebrations. In June, 1890, he toured Scotland, and on his visit to Aberdeen the city’s Council granted him the Freedom of the City. The present Diploma, produced for the occasion, was the document presented to Stanley and kept by him as a record of the award.

94. [Sweden. Photograph album.] An album of 46 photographs, including 8 bearing the inkstamps to verso of Gustaf Heurlin, dated between 1916 and 1919. £225 Oblong 8vo. 46 photographs including 16 photographic postcards, various sizes from 9 x 14 cm. to 12 x 17 cm., one large image 17 x 23 cm. (slight damage to upper margin), many captioned to verso in pencil, 8 with the inkstamp of “G. Heurlin Stockholm 1916 [1917 or 1919]”; slight fading to a few images, one photograph creased and frayed, photographs tipped-in or mounted to leaves in a contemporary album with patterned papered boards, string tied, minor wear to the extremities. Gustaf Heurlin (1862-1939) was a Swedish photographer, who took images throughout Sweden. Eight of the images in this album bear his 33 studio stamp, and it is likely that some if not all of the others are due to him. The photographs are in a variety of media, the first 20 or so showing country views; there follow images of railroads and stations, a small ferry, an indigenous man, a printed and postally used postcard captioned ‘“Kafferast” Läppar från Oviksfjållen Jåmtland’, a large photograph of an indigenous group, some rural images including Götgalan and people on their way to church. The penultimate image shows a children’s marching band, captioned to the verso “Barnens pilflagga”. 95. Taylor, Griffith. Douglas Mawson. Melbourne: OUP, [1962]. £50 First edition. Small 8vo. pp. [ii], 30; illusts., sketch maps; very good in the original card wrappers, ownership inscription of William E. Davies to upper cover. Spence 1187; Renard 1581; Rosove 1317. “A brief biographical sketch, by his academic colleague and Antarctic explorer” (Rosove). The author, fellow Australian Griffith Taylor, had been a member of Scott’s Terra Nova Antarctic expedition. This copy has the ownership inscription of William Davies, a US geologist and polar explorer, after whom the Davies Escarpment in Antarctica is named.

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96. [Utah.] Salt Lake City. In Photo-Gravure from Recent Negatives. 99. [Wegg-Prosser, Francis Richard (1824-1911).] A New York: A. Wittemann, 1893. £175 manuscript journal kept during Wegg-Prosser’s visit to the Holy Land, Oblong 8vo. pp. [i, title-page] + [1, text] + 40 leaves of photo. illusts. 1886. £175 printed to rectos only; age-toning to first and last leaf, else very good in the A small 4to notebook, with 100ll., completed by hand to 79pp. on rectos. original pictorial boards with string ties. only; very good in the original limp roan, worn to head of spine, stain to An attractively produced viewbook of the capital city of Utah, which lower inner margins of endpapers with some adhesion damage. includes portraits of the presidents of the Mormon Church, exterior Francis Haggitt inherited the estates of his great-uncle Dr. Prosser in 1839 and interior images of the Mormon Tabernacle, views of the city and on condition that he took the surnames of Prosser and his wife, Sarah Wegg; illustrations of its major buildings. in 1849 he assumed the surname Wegg-Prosser, a name unique to him and his descendants. In 1850 he converted to the Catholic Church, and in 1859 Naar onbekend Midden-Azië tusschen Kara-korum 34 97. Visser, Ph. C. donated land for the consecration of a Benedictine monastery at Belmont, en Hindu-kush. Rotterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1926. £175 near Hereford; the abbey still exists today. Wegg-Prosser and his family First edition. 8vo. pp. 255; six sketch maps, 60 photo. illusts. on 30 leaves; - he married Harriet Somers Cocks in 1850, and the couple had two sons very good in the original cloth, gilt, remain of upper cover of dust-wrapper and two daughters - seem to have taken regular holidays on the Continent loosely inserted. A presentation copy from the author to Willam Beucker and farther afield, and the present journal records Wegg-Prosser’s visit Andreae, inscribed on the half-title. to the Holy Land in 1886. The journal opens “On the morning of Friday Yakushi V99a. The author led four expeditions to the Karakorum. This, the 12th February, I left Victoria Station, London, at 10.35, for the purpose of narrative of the 2nd, explored the Batura, Hispar and Shimshal glaciers. making an expedition to the Holy Land, which for many many years has His wife Jenny Visser-Hooft accompanied him on all four expeditions, and been the dream of my life”. The subsequent daily entries list his itinerary: her own account of the expedition appeared as Among the Kara-Korum from Paris by train and steamer to Port Said, then on to Jaffa, Haifa, Glaciers (London, 1926). Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, the Dead Sea, Nablous, Nazareth, Tiberius, Damascus and Baalbec, Beirut, and then home via Cairo with a visit to the 98. Waring, George E. Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps. New York: Pyramids. On his return to Europe, he travels with Mr. and Lady Constance Harper and Brothers, 1880. £225 Bellingham, and together they reach Rome on April 7th for an audience First edition. 8vo. pp. 171, 4 (pubs. list); frontis. and other wood-eng. with the Pope: “The Pope having been told . . . that I had formerly been a illusts. inc. some full-page; occasional browning to inner margins where member of the English Parliament, asked me whether I was of Gladstone’s plants inserted (one still present at pp. 16-17) with pencilled note to p. 11 party or of that of Salisbury. I got his blessing for my family, and for the “Flowers picked in the Oberalps, June 96”, good in the original pictorial Prior & Community of the Benedictine Monastery at Belmont”. cloth, gilt, slight wear to extremities, a little darkened on spine. Not in Neate or Perret. George Edwin Waring (1833-1898) was an American agriculturalist and sanitary engineer - he became head of the New York Sanitation Department. His visit to the Tyrol is described in the present work, though his reasons for visiting are not clear. Avowedly not a mountaineer, he nonetheless makes some high level walking tours, quotes Ball (presumably Ball’s Alpine Guide) and in one chapter - ‘The Ascent of Monte Tofana’ - recounts taking on a guide, Giuseppe Ghedina, and successfully reaching the summit. The book seems uncommon. 100. [Wegg-Prosser family.] A collection of journals, diaries, and sketch-books kept by members of the Wegg-Prosser family on visits to Europe, North Africa, India, Kashmir, and Ladakh, 1864-1898. £2,250 Together 11 journals or notebooks and three sketchbooks, comprising: 35 1. ‘History of our journey abroad [Italy] in the year 1864, 1865’ 2 notebooks, Nov. 10 1864-May 16 1865, 86pp., and June 15-16, 4pp., and with a further 6pp. relating to a June 1868 visit to Lucerne; 2. ‘Germany, Denmark, Sweden & Russia 1873’, 125pp.; 3. ‘Italy 1875’, 102pp.; 4. ‘Scotland 1878 - Belgium & France 1898’, 14pp. & 60pp. respectively; 5. ‘Spain, Portugal & Morocco 1880’, 2 notebooks, 128pp. & 33pp.; 6. T. J. & J. Smith’s Pocket Diary for 1886, printed diary with MS entries, the longer entries dating from 16 June (“Rejoined 3 R.R.B. at Warley”), with 10pp. at rear “Notes in France Sept. 1886” (two pages with adhesion damage); 7. ‘India & Cashmere &c. March to July 1889’, ‘Ladakh, Baltistan, Cashmere, India, From 17th July 1889 to 16th November 1889’, ‘India From 6th Septr. 1890 to 18th Febr. 1891’, together three journals with daily entries, 182pp., 104pp., and 76pp.; 8. Large oblong 8vo Winsor & Newton sketchbook, 34 full-page pencil sketches dated 1881 to 1889, showing locations in Poona, Britain, Tangier, Zante, Corfu, Rhonda, Durban, Cashmere and Leh (Ladakh, 1889), some of the images badly oxidised and the album worn with upper cover detached; 9. two smaller oblong 8vo sketchbooks, one with 31 sketches including some of Germany (dated 1844), the other with 34 sketches including some of France; 10. A carte de visite of a man in military uniform - possibly John Wegg-Prosser - by J. Egan, London. The Wegg-Prosser family name was created when Francis Haggitt accepted the names of his great-uncle and great-aunt as a condition of his inheritance; he assumed the name in 1849. In 1850 he married Harriet Somers Cocks, and they had four children: Cecilia Lucy (1851-1905), John Francis (1854-1948), Charles Edward (1859-1925) and Catherine Mary (1863-1919). The majority of this collection of journals and sketchbooks appears to be the work of one or other of the Wegg-Prosser children, but from references to “Charlie”, “Cecilia” and other names in the journals it is most likely they are largely due to John Francis. The earliest journals record his stay, aged 10, with his family in Italy and elsewhere on the continent in 1864-5. Later journals record his visits to other parts of the Continent, one of the more notable of these describing his experiences of the fair at Nijni Novgorod in Russia in August 1873. Many of the entries record visits to churches, galleries, and similar sites, usually in larger cities and towns. Both John and Charles Wegg-Prosser served in the Rifle Brigade, and spent time in Africa and India. The three journals for 1889-1891 contain John’s account of his leave from service for a 5-month hunting trip to Kashmir and Ladakh. The first of these journals contains a recently inserted map showing his journey from Srinagar to Astor in Kashmir, near to where he hunted ibex, markhor, sharpoo and bear. He subsequently continued his journey along the Indus valley to Ladakh, staying in Leh, and returning from there via Kargil to Srinigar; he returned to his army base at Jullundur (Jalandhar) in August 1889. The two journals that describe this trip are the most expansive of the collection. John describes in detail his daily experiences, relaying the most significant occurrences of each day, his meetings with local rulers and other Europeans in the field; he provides information about the Baltis, Ladakhis and other local people that he encounters, gives long accounts of his stalks and shooting forays, praises or complains about his sirdar and other members of the camp. His time in the valleys and on the passes of the Western Himalaya - the “snowy range” - affords him spectacular views of Nanga Parbat and Masherbrum, and he observes at one point “black snow, piled up to a height of quite 100ft. - I think this must be the lowest extremity of the mighty Baltoro Glacier” (28th June). John meets and learns of other officers who have headed up into the snowy range for sport, and indeed there is some urgency in his march north so as to arrive at a suitable ‘nullah’ before it is occupied by a rival. His visit to Leh, the chief city of Ladakh, is partly recorded in the sketches of the town that are contained in the larger album of sketches, which contains his illustration of the town made on 12 July, and is followed by an image of the “Monastery & village of Lamayiuru, Ladakh” (16th July). Arguably the most memorable encounter in these journals comes on the 18th July, as John returns from Leh: “On the way between Phyang & Nima passed a long string of baggage ponies, and at the end of it no less a person than Mrs. Bishop (late Miss Bird, of popular fame) - I had heard from Ramsay that the plucky old lady was travelling by herself on the road to Leh . . .I was not however prepared for the sight I saw, which in its way was one of the most remarkable I have almost ever seen - Preceded by two attendants on foot, the old lady was riding astride her pony, dressed in a short brown coat with loose brown breeches, and wearing long brown riding boots with spurs - On her head she had a round straw hat (the only thing about her that had the least feminine appearance) but from the straw hat hung down a white calico curtain that went completely round her head and neck leaving two holes in front for the eyes - On a desert road two Europeans who meet generally speak, so I passed pretty close to her pony and took off my hat to give her the opportunity of pulling up if she wanted to speak and ask me any questions about Leh where I had obviously just come from - however, she returned my bow and my servants’ salaams with a rather majestic wave of the hand from her hat, (like a General on a Field Day returning the salute of his troops) and went on her way without reining in her pony - the quaintest and most original sight of the many strange sights to be seen on the desert tracks of the Ladakh roads!”

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Africa 1, 6, 15, 18, 37, 49, 52, 55, 59, 63, 64, 66, 67, 82, 85, 86, 92, 93, 100 Alps 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 44, 46, 54, 65, 86, 98 Americas 2, 11, 15, 39, 51, 59, 64, 66, 77, 91, 96 Antarctic 5, 69, 79, 83, 84, 88, 89, 95 Arctic 5, 21, 23, 29, 48, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 78, 83 Asia 2, 11, 14, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 47, 50, 58, 59, 64, 66, 73, 75, 76, 81, 87, 90, 100 Australasia 7, 8, 11, 25, 27, 45, 66, 81, 95 Big Game 39, 47, 71, 100 Central Asia 14, 32, 34, 35, 38, 50, 53, 97, 100 China 2, 11, 41, 64, 75, 76, 81, 87 Egypt 1, 52, 55, 63, 82, 85, 99 Ephemera 25, 33, 51, 64, 65, 93, Europe 1, 2, 31, 33, 36, 43, 59, 66, 75, 80, 81, 85, 94, 98, 100 Everest 3, 32, 35, 40, 62, 67, 68, 86 Germany 2, 9, 100 Himalaya 3, 32, 34, 38, 40, 50, 62, 66, 81, 86, 97, 100 India 11, 27, 33, 35, 37, 39, 42, 47, 90, 100 Italy 1, 2, 98, 99, 100 Manuscript 11, 12, 15, 25, 64, 80, 99, 100 38 Map 59, 60, 66 Maritime 12, 20, 27, 43, 45, 56, 57, 80 Middle East 1, 2, 4, 19, 20, 55, 59, 85, 99 Military 7, 15, 33, 80, 82, 100 Missionary 49, 64, 66, 77, 90 Mountaineering 1, 3, 13, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 40, 44, 46, 54, 62, 65, 76, 81, 86, 87, 97, 98, 100 North America 2, 11, 15, 51, 59, 64, 66, 77, 96 Norway 16, 60 Pacific 7, 8, 10, 11, 25, 45, 56, 57, 91 Photographs 7, 21, 53, 84, 92, 94 Polar 5, 21, 23, 29, 48, 61, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 78, 79, 83, 84, 88, 89, 95 Science 10, 18, 30, 41, 42, 43, 45, 56, 57, 69, 73, 75, 91 Signed 1, 2, 11, 12, 15, 21, 25, 27, 34, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 50, 54, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 76, 79, 88, 89, 97 South Africa 15, 37, 64, 66, 67, 82 South America 59, 66, 75, 91 South East Asia 2, 11, 37, 58 Sudan 6, 15, 49 Sweden 60, 94, 100 Switzerland 1, 2, 13, 17, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 44, 46, 54, 100 10

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