TRAVEL AND ExPLORATION, INCLUDINg CARTOgRAPHY

Lots 164–210

164 (AFRICA) BAKER, SIR SAMUEL Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. Hartford: O.D. Case, 1868.

8vo, original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. With 16 plates and two maps, one fold-out. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200

165 (AFRICA) CAMPBELL, JOHN Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society. London: Black, Parry, 1815.

8vo, quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine. Second edition. With fold-out map and eight engraved plates. $100-200 166 (AFRICA) STANLEY, HENRY M. Through the Dark Continent. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First American edition. With 34 plates and nine maps, including two large fold-out maps in rear pockets. Rubbing to boards; backstrip detached from backstrip, vol. 2; scattered light foxing. [Together with:] How I Found Livingston. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1872. 8vo, 3/4 modern brown morocco over original cloth, giltlettered spine. With 29 plates and five maps, four fold-out. Wear and soiling to cloth. $200-400 167 ANSON, GEORGE A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. London: Printed for D. Browe, et al., 1756.

4to, rebound in full brown calf, spine gilt-lettered to red morocco spine label. Ninth edition. With 42 copper-plates, many fold-out. Some wear to boards; bookplate John Walker Heneage tipped to front pastedown; light offsetting from plates; light foxing affecting some plates. $400-600

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168* (ARCTIC) GREELY, ADOLPHUS Three Years of Arctic Service: An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886.

2 vols. 8vo, original color pictorial blue cloth. First edition. With 43 plates and eight maps, including one large fold-out in rear pocket of vol. 2. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

169* (ARCTIC) KANE, ELISHA KENT Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ‘54, ‘55. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856.

2 vols. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, giltlettered spines. First edition. With extra-engraved titles, 22 steel-engraved plates, numerous in-text wood-engravings, and four maps, two fold-out. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 170 (ARCTIC) NANSEN, FRIDTJOF Two books in four volumes.

Farthest North. London: George Newnes, 1898. 2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. The First Crossing of Greenland. London: Longmans, Green, 1890. 2 vols. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 blue morocco over original cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. $100-200

171 (ARCTIC) PEARY, ROBERT E. The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 Under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910.

Large 8vo, original gilt-lettered color pictorial blue cloth, t.e.g. First American edition. With fold-out color map, and numerous plates, eight colored. Light wear to boards; ends frayed and slightly bumped; scattered foxing. $200-400

172 (ARCTIC) BATES, (HENRY WALTER), ed. Illustrated Travels: A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure. London: Cassell, Peters and Galpin, n.d. [c. 1875]

6 vols. 4to, contemporary 3/4 maroon morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. $100-200

173* BRASSEY, LADY ANNIE A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam:’ Our Home on the Ocean For Eleven Months. London: Longmans, Green, 1888.

8vo, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, a.e.g. With fold-out color map and 66 illustrations by G. Pearson. [Together with:] From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands. By Alfred Edmund Brehm. London: Blackie & Son, 1897. 8vo, original gilt-decorated red cloth, t.e.g. With 83 illustrations from original drawings. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

174 BROOKES, R. The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary. London: Printed for J. Newberry, 1762.

8vo, full speckled calf, rebacked. With six fold-out maps. $100-200 175 (CANADA) ELLIS, HENRI Voyage de la Baye de Hudson. Paris: Antoine Boudet; Sebastien Jorri, 1749.

2 vols. 8vo, quarter calf over speckled boards, giltlettered spines, entirely uncut with wide margins. (2ff.), lvi, 182, (2), (blank); (blank), (2ff.), 319, (blank). First French edition of Ellis’ account of the expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, complete with 10 folding plans and plates and head- and tail-pieces. “The most important result of this voyage was that it definitely put an end to the idea that the North West Passage lay through Hudson’s Bay.” (Lande) Ellis made many valuable observations on the wildlife and people, particularly the customs of the Eskimos, which were relatively unknown up to that time. Minor splitting to the lower hinges of both vols.; some loss to spine ends; ex-libris stamps to title pages.

Literature: Sabin 22313. Lande 1162 $200-400

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177* MACMILLAN, ALLISTER Seaports of the Far East. London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1923.

4to, original gilt-pictorial green cloth, pictorial paper wraps. Second edition. With numerous black and white photographs throughout. Boards reinforced with white masking tape on all edges and spine; wraps reinforced with tape on upper and lower edges. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

178* (CHINA) PERRY, MATTHEW CALBRAITH, Comm. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the South China Seas. Washington: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1856.

3 vols. 4to, publisher’s blind-stamped violet cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With numerous intext illustrations, 25 maps, 16 tables, and 139 plates, including the suppressed “Bath House” plate not called for in the contents. Wear and fading to boards; backstrips beginning to detach from all vols.; spines chipped; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $800-1,200 179 (COOK, JAMES) BEAGLEHOLE, J.C., ed. The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. Cambridge: Published for The Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1955.

4 vols. in five, together with portfolio. 8vo and folio, uniformly bound in publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt, blue printed paper wraps. Illustrated throughout with plates and maps, some fold-out, and with portfolio of 58 maps and charts. Soiling and marginal chipping to wraps; scattered light intermittent brownspotting. (6 total) $400-600

180 (EGYPT) KIRCHERI, ATHANASII Sphinx Mystagoga, Sive Diatribe Hieroglyphica. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1676 [Bound with:] Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu musaeum celeberrimum. Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1678.

2 works in one. Folio, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Sphinx Mystagoga with 21 plates, 10 fold-out, and numerous woodcut engravings intext throughout. Rubbing to boards; spine chipped; intermittent foxing; offsetting from some plates. $1,500-2,500 181 (EUROPE) CARR, SIR JOHN A Tour through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1807.

4to, rebound in modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. With engraved map and 20 aquatint plates. Light intermittent foxing; offsetting from plates; darkening to some leaves. $200-400

182 (EUROPE) CATTEAU, JEAN-PIERRE Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede, contenant des observations sur les phenomenes, les institutions, les arts et les moeurs. Paris: J.G. Dentu, 1810.

3 vols. 8vo, 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First edition of these observations on the history, culture, and historical figures of Switzerland.

Provenance: Duke of York (Prince Frederick, son of George III), manuscript ex-libris; Robert Brinsley Sheridan, bookplate $50-100

183 (EUROPE) KEYSLER, JOHN G. Travels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy, and Lorrain. London: A. Linde, 1756-1757.

4 vols. 4to, full speckled calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered red morocco spine labels, gilt-decorated spine. Second English edition translated from the second German edition. With engraved map and seven engraved plates, three fold-out. Minor edgewear; light offsetting from some plates; scattered foxing. $300-500

184 (EUROPE) TROLLOPE, THOMAS ADOLPHUS Italy From the Alps to Mount Etna. New York: D. Appleton, 1880.

Folio, publisher’s 3/4 brown morocco over red cloth, gilt-lettered spine, a.e.g. With 72 wood-engraved plates. $100-200 185* (EUROPE) WHYMPER, EDWARD Two works pertaining to travel and exploration.

Travel Amongst the Great Andes and the Equator. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1892. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered color pictorial green cloth. Second edition. With three folding maps (one in pocket at rear). Scrambles Amongst the Alps. London: John Murray, 1871. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Second edition. With five fold-out maps at rear. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

186 HARRINGTON, JAMES (JOHN TOLAND) The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq... London: Printed for A. Millar, 1747.

4to, full calf, gilt-lettered spine, title page in red and black. With frontispiece engraving and portrait frontispiece engraving situated at the start of “The Life of James Harrington.” Third edition. With one page autographed note laid in, undated. $100-200 187 (INDIA) MARTIN, R. MONTGOMERY The Indian Empire: History, Topography, Geology, Climate, Population, Chief Cities and Provinces... London: London Printing and Publishing, n.d. [c. 1860]

3 vols. 4to, 3/4 brown morocco over cloth, giltlettered spines. With extra-engraved title pages, engraved frontispieces, two double-page maps, one table, and 122 engraved plates. Wear to boards; scattered brownspotting; hinges starting. [Together with:] Cassell’s Illustrated History of India. By James Grant. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, n.d. [c. 1890] 2 vols. 4to, 3/4 blue calf over cloth, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines. Illustrated with two plates. Rubbing to boards at spine; intermittent foxing. $400-600

188 188 (INDIA) MOOR, EDWARD The Hindu Pantheon. London: J. Johnson, 1810.

Folio, full calf, rebacked, with gilt-stamped device of the Hindu god Ganesha to both boards, decorative gilt-stamped borders. With 103 plates. Wear to boards; title page reinforced with archival tape to verso; offsetting from plates; scattered brownspotting. $400-600

189 (JAPAN) BRINKLEY, CPT. FRANK Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese. 10 vols. [With:] The Art of Japan. 2 vols. Boston: J.B. Millet, 1897, 1901.

12 vols. Folio, each volume bound in a different color of patterned cloth. Edition de Luxe of first work, number 24 of 100 numbered and registered copies, profusely illustrated with 50 hand-colored albumen prints and 200 smaller hand-colored albumen prints by various Japanese photographers, 10 original color collotype photographs of flowers by Ogawa, and 10 mounted reproductions of Japanese paintings. Boards faded and rubbed; a few plates detached but present. $400-600

190 (JAPAN) VERENIUS, BERNARD Descriptio regni Japoniae cum quibusdam affinis materiae [Bound with:] Tractatus in quo agitur. De Japoniorum religione. Amsterdam: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649.

24mo, full vellum. With engraved illustrated title page, fold-out table to Tractatus. Lacking fold-out engraved map; soiling to boards, spine ends chipped; title page detached but present. $200-400

191* (MAP) BLAEU, JOHAN AND WILLEM Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus AngloSaxonum, praesertim durante illorum heptarchia. [Amsterdam, 1672] Engraved map with hand coloring depicting England, Scotland and Wales. With fourteen border insets featuring seven Saxon rulers on the left and seven historical events such as the betrayal and death of Peada and the assassination of Erpenwald on the right. Latin text to verso. Framed and matted. Light ghosting to verso. 18 3/8 x 22 1/8 inches. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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192* (MAP) BOWEN, EMMANUEL A New & Accurate Map of Bermudas or Sommers Islands... [London, c. 1747] Engraved map with later hand-coloring. With decorative cartouche to lower left corner. Framed and matted. 16 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Cecille Pulitzer, St. Louis, Missouri $100-200

193* (MAP) CLUVERIUS, PHILIP Indiae Orientalis et insularum adiacentum antiqua et nova descriptio. [Amsterdam, c. 1697] Engraved map with later hand-coloring. Decorative cartouche depicting a man with an elephant and a leopard to bottom right. Framed and matted. 8 5/8 x 10 5/16 inches. Property from the Collection of Cecille Pulitzer, St. Louis, Missouri $50-100 194* (MAP) MUNSTER, SEBASTIAN Anglia II. Nova tabula. [Basel, c. 1550] Woodcut map of England and Wales, with Scotland north to Edinburgh, the east coast of Ireland and north coast of France. Latin text within woodcut architectural cartouche to verso. Central vertical fold. Framed and matted. 11 1/2 x 15 inches. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

195 (MAP) ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Indiae Orientalis, insularumque adiacienti um typus. [Amsterdam, c. 1590] Engraved map with later handcoloring depicting the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, India, China, Japan, southeast Asia, the East Indies and the northwest coast of North America. With decorative cartouche to lower left and coat-of-arms to upper left corner. Latin text to verso. Framed. 17 3/8 x 22 3/8 inches. $400-600 196* (MAP) SPEED, JOHN The Province of Connaugh. [London, c. 1610] Engraved map with later hand-coloring, text to verso. With decorative cartouche, compass rose and vignette of the city of Galwaye to lower left corner. Framed and matted. Size of frame 24 7/8 x 29 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Cecille Pulitzer, St. Louis, Missouri $100-200

197 (MAP) A group of five engraved maps of Europe, some with hand-coloring, including four by Nicholas Visscher comprising, Totius regni Hungariae...; Flandriae comitatus pars media; Exactissima tabula qua tam Danubii fluvii pars inferior...; [and:] Brabantiae ducatus cum adjacentibus provinciis, and Copenhagen die konigl Danische haupt und residentz stadt in gruna rijs heraus, by Matthew Seutter. Size of largest 20 x 32 1/4 inches. $100-200

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198 [MOLL, HERMAN] Geographia Classica: The Geography of the Ancients... London: Printed for Christopher Brown, et al., 1721.

8vo, contemporary quarter calf, title page in red and black. Third edition. With 28 (of 29) maps, one color, one fold-out. Boards detached and worn; exlibris Patrick Hume to front pastedown; first blank detached; scattered light foxing. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $200-400

199 HARMON, DANIEL WILLIAMS A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interior of North America. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1820.

8vo, original calf, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, portrait frontispiece, partial map of North America only. Wear to boards; foxing; offsetting from frontispiece; scattered dampstaining. $200-400

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201* MORSE, JEDIDIAH The American Universal Geography. Boston: Thomas and Andrews; Young and Etheridge, 1793.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt-decorated and -lettered spines, red morocco spine labels. New edition, corrected and enlarged. With one plate and 10 engraved fold-out maps. Wear to boards; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from some plates; map on pp. 308/309 torn from page but present. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

202 (RUSSIA) GOSSIP, ROBERT Turkey and Russia, Their Races, History, and Wars. Embracing a Graphic Account of the Great Crimean War and of the Russo-Turkish War. Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, 1879.

4to, 3/4 brown morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered and -decorated spine, a.e.g. Illustrated with 24 lithographed plates and two fold-out maps. Minor wear and soiling to boards; scattered brownspotting. $200-400 203* (RUSSIA) PALLAS, PETER SIMON Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Years 1793 and 1794. London: John Stockdale, 1812.

Vol. 2 (of 2) only. 4to, contemporary speckled calf stamped in gilt, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Second edition. With 26 engraved color plates, 17 fold-out. Light wear to boards; offsetting from plates; scattered foxing. Property from the Collection of Marion P. Church, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

204 (RUSSIA) TYRELL, HENRY History of the War with Russia. London: London Printing and Publishing, n.d. [c. 1856]

3 vols. 4to, 3/4 blue calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spines. With 40 engraved plates and eight maps. Rubbing and fading to boards; intermittent foxing; light offsetting from plates. [Together with:] The Russian War. London: London Printing and Publishing, n.d. 3 vols. bound in two. 4to, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. With 56 engraved plates and seven maps. Wear to boards; intermittent foxing. The History of Russia. London: London Printing and Publishing, n.d. 3 vols. 4to, 3/4 blue calf over cloth, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g. Wear to boards, backstrip detached from text block, vol. I. $300-500

205 SAVAGE-LANDOR, A. HENRY Across Unknown South America. London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, (1913).

2 vols. 4to, modern 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, renewed endpapers. Profusely illustrated with plates and maps. Fine with maps in fine condition. $100-200 206 (SPAIN) HERRERA, ANTONIO DE Historia general de los hechos, de los Castellanos, en las islas y tierra firme del mar oceano. Madrid: Rodriguez Franco, 1726.

Volumes 3-4 (of 8) only, bound in one. Folio, contemporary tree calf, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Second edition. With engraved title pages, initials and head-pieces. Minor edgewear; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns; light offsetting from bookplates. $400-600

207 STEPHENS, JOHN L. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. London: John Murray, 1841.

2 vols. in one. 8vo, contemporary mottled tree calf, rebacked with modern spine, renewed endpapers. Illustrated with plates and plans throughout. [Together with:] Travels in West Africa. London: Macmillan, 1897. 8vo, rebound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. With numerous plates. $100-200 208 THE STORY OF NATIONS London: T. Fisher Unwin, (1899).

19 vols. 8vo, uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines, a.e.g. $100-200

209 WANLY, NATHANIEL The Wonders of the Little World: Or, a General History of Man. In Six Books. London: Printed for T. Basset, et al., 1678.

Folio, rebound in 3/4 tan calf over brown cloth, giltlettered spine. First edition. Light soiling to boards; renewed endpapers; marginal chipping to some leaves; first 10 leaves reinforced with clear tape at margins; scattered brownspotting. $200-400

210 WHYMPER, F. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. London: Cassell, n.d.

4 vols. 4to, 3/4 blue morocco over decorative cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Numerous illustrations throughout, some color. $100-200

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