TrAVEL, ExPLOrATION AND CArTOGrAPhY, LOTS 1-36

Lots 1–36

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1 (AFRICA) BURCKHARDT, JOHN LEWIS Travels in Nubia. London: John Murray, 1819.

4to, modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, giltlettered spine, renewed endpapers. First edition, with etched portrait, three engraved maps (two fold-out). Lacking 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear; Light edgewear to boards; intermittent light brownspotting; scattered marginalia; 2-inch repaired tear to final fold-out map. $400-600 2 (AFRICA) STANLEY, HENRY M. In Darkest Africa, or The Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 navy morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. With numerous black and white plates and two fold-out maps, including one large folding map in pocket at rear of vol. 2. Light scattered foxing; bookplate tipped to front pastedown both vols. [Together with:] The Uganda Protectorate. London: Hutchinson, 1902. 2 vols. Large 8vo, 3/4 navy morocco over cloth, gilt-lettered spines, t.e.g. With numerous plates and maps, some fold-out. Some wear to boards; gilt-embossed portrait bookplate to pastedown on both vols. $200-400 3 (AFRICA) TULLY, RICHARD Narrative of a Ten Years’ Residence at Tripoli in Africa. London: Henry Colburn, 1816.

4to, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt-decorated and -lettered spine. First edition, with fold-out engraved map and five hand-coloured aquatint plates. Minor edgewear; light offsetting from plates; scattered foxing. $600-800

4* (ANTARCTIC) AMUNDSEN, ROALD The South Pole. An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910-1912. London: John Murray; New York: Lee Keedick, 1913.

2 vols. Large 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, t.e.g. First American edition. Signed by Amundsen on the f.f.e.p., vol. 1. Edgewear and ends bumped; hinges starting. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $300-500

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5 (ARCTIC) A group of two books.

Little America. By Richard Byrd. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth, photographic endpapers. First edition, signed by Byrd on the f.f.e.p. Light soiling to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting. [Together with:] My Attainment of the Pole. By Frederick A. Cook. New York, 1913. 8vo, publisher’s green-grey cloth. Third printing. Inscribed by Cook to Thomas P. Thompson on the f.f.e.p. Light wear and soiling to boards; ends bumped; ex-library copy with stamp to dedication page; ephemera tipped to endpapers; additionally inscribed by two others. $200-400

6* (ARCTIC) STEFANSSON, VILJALMUR The Friendly Arctic. The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions. New York: Macmillan, 1921.

Thick 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt, some pages uncut. First edition, signed by Stefansson on the f.f.e.p. Illustrated with numerous photographic plates and maps, six fold-out and two in rear pocket. Minor edgewear. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200 7 (CANADA) BUTLER, SAMUEL An Atlas of Antient Geography. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1843.

8vo, 3/4 leatherette over brown cloth, printed pastedown label to upper board. With 20 doublepage hand-colored engraved maps and one black and white plan. Wear to boards with bookseller’s sticker to spine; hinges cracked; toning and offsetting affecting all maps; manuscript ex-libris in pencil to title page. $100-200

8 (CANADA) MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country. London: Printed for T. Cadell, et al., by R. Noble, 1801.

4to, publisher’s drab boards backed with contemporary calf, printed spine label, edges uncut. Housed in blue cloth clamshell case, printed paper spine label. First edition of the classic narrative of the first white man to cross the North American continent and reach the Pacific, with engraved frontispiece portrait, and three large engraved folding maps. Twelve years prior to Lewis and Clark, Mackenzie’s journals recount his two expeditions undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in their attempt to break the Hudson Bay Company’s monopoly of the fur trade, and the maps are the earliest of certain parts of Canada.

Offsetting to title page from portrait; bookplate Francis O’Byrne, tipped to front pastedown; some soiling and edgewear to boards with a bit of loss to spine; intermittent very light foxing. $3,000-5,000 9 (CANADA) WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER Canadian Scenery, Illustrated. London: George Virtue, 1842.

2 vols. 4to, full brown calf stamped in gilt and blind with harbor and seaman scene to the spines and foliate frame to boards, a.e.g. With two extraengraved title pages, engraved map, and 117 steelengraved plates after drawings by William Henry Bartlett. Minor rubbing to boards; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; scattered foxing. $400-600

10 COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES AND JAMES KING A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, By the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. London: Printed by H. Hughs for J. Nicol, 1785.

3 vols. 4to, contemporary calf, gilt-lettered red leather spine labels. Second quarto edition, lacking atlas volume. Complete with engraved vignette on titles, and 24 engraved plates and maps (14 fold-out). Minor wear to boards; spine deteriorated, vol. 2; title page repaired, vol. 1; scattered light foxing; offsetting from some plates; armorial bookplate tipped to front pastedown all vols. $1,000-2,000

11 COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES Captain Cook’s Voyages Round the World... Glasgow: Printed by Niven, Napier & Khull, 1807-1808.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in full calf, spine stamped and -lettered in gilt, black leather spine labels. With frontispiece fold-out map and 8 (of 18) engraved plates. Minor wear to boards; light foxing and offsetting from plates. Property from the Collection of the DeBruyn Family, Holland, Michigan $400-600

12 DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Being his next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. Collated with an Unpublished Manuscript of Francis Fletcher, Chaplain to the Expedition. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1854.

8vo, rebound in quarter blue calf over original blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. First edition. With large fold-out linen-backed map and collated with the British Museum, Sloan MS 61, an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher. Minor edgewear; scattered light brownspotting. $200-400 13 FINDLAY, ALEXANDER G. A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, Etc. ... London: Printed for R.H. Laurie, 1851.

2 vols. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. Fading and wear to boards; ends and corners bumped and chipped; scattered brownspotting; hinges starting. $600-800

14 (EGYPT) KELLY, R. TALBOT Egypt. Painted and Described. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902.

8vo, publisher’s decorative blue cloth with orange lotus motif. Minor wear and soiling to boards; text block split and detached from backstrip. $100-200 15 (EGYPT) WALSH, THOMAS Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: Including Descriptions of that Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Mamorice, and Macri; with an Appendix; Containing Official Papers and Documents. London: Printed by Luke Hansard, for T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1803.

4to, diced brown calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered spine, gilt-inner dentelles. Second edition. Complete with 27 plates, (four fold-out), and 15 maps, (10 fold-out), some hand-colored. Minor edgewear; intermittent foxing and scattered brownspotting; offsetting from plates; bookseller’s sticker to front pastedown. $300-500

16 (EGYPT) EBERS, G. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque. Translated from the German by Clara Bell. London, Paris and New York: Cassell, 1884.

2 vols. Folio, publisher’s gilt-pictorial brown morocco, a.e.g. First English edition, profusely illustrated throughout in black and white. Dampstaining to upper left corner of cover, vol. 1; edgewear and corners bumped; hinges starting. $100-200

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17 (HAWAII) NEW TESTAMENT Ke Kauoha Hou A Ko Kakou Haku E Ola’I, A Iesu Kristo: Oia Ka Olelo Hemolele No Ke Ola, A na Lunaolelo I Kakua Ai. Honolulu: Ka NA Misionari Mea Pai, 1841.

8vo, full blind-stamped calf. Third edition of this New Testament translation into Hawaiian. Rubbing to boards; intermittent foxing. $400-600

18 (INDIA) IQBAL, SIR MOHAMMED Poet of the East and Chughtai. Introduction in English by S.A. Rahman. Text in Urdu. Lahor: Nisar Art Press, 1962.

Folio, original boards and illustrated dust jacket, glassine wrap, illustrated endpapers. With 37 tippedin plates by Abdur Rahman Chughtai illustrating the works of Iqbal. Some light toning to glassine. $100-200 19 (MEXICO) STEPHENS, JOHN L. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. London: John Murray, 1843.

2 vols. 8vo, contemporary 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, t.e.g. With 70 engraved plates, including folding panoramic frontispiece to vol. 1 (lacking fold-out frontispiece to vol. 2) and four maps (one fold-out). Upper boards detached and backstrips detached from text-block, both vols.; bookplate tipped to front pastedown, both vols.; scattered light foxing. $200-400

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20 (MIDDLE EAST) CARNE, JOHN Syria, The Holy Land & Asia Minor. Illustrated. In a Series of One Hundred and Twenty Views, Drawn from Nature by W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, and Thomas Allom. London: Fisher, Son, n.d. [c. 1842]

3 vols. in one. 4to, 3/4 green morocco, gilt-lettered and -decorated spine. Numerous engravings throughout. Edgewear; intermittent light brownspotting. $200-400

21 (MIDDLE EAST) QUR’AN A late nineteenth to early twentieth-century Qur’an. 8vo, rebound in full calf folding case, approximately 270ff. Wear to boards. $200-400

22 (MIDDLE EAST) SALE, GEORGE The Koran: Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg (by J. Haddon), 1844.

8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered green morocco spine label. New edition, with the addition of notes and a memoir of the translator. Rubbing to boards; spine label threatening to detach; scattered light foxing. Property from the Collection of the DeBruyn Family, Holland, Michigan $100-200 23 (ASIA) BRINKLEY, CAPTAIN F. Oriental Series: Japan and China. Boston and Tokyo: J.B. Millet, 1901-1902.

12 vols. 8vo, red morocco elaborately gilt-decorated with floral design to boards, gilt-tooled and -lettered spines, green morocco doublures with gilt-floral border, gilt-inner dentelles, white silk endpapers, t.e.g. Fujiyama edition, number 22 of 100 copies. With frontispiece watercolor on silk in each volume and numerous illustrations throughout. Light edgewear with ends chipped on some vols.; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

24* (ASIA) CONSTANT, SAMUEL VICTOR Calls, Sounds and Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. Peking: The Camel Bell, n.d. [1936]

Oblong 8vo, original color silk, printed paper cover label, decorative slipcase. Text in English with some Chinese characters. First edition, “submitted to the California College in China in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts.” Complete with 60 full-page color illustrations, each in two parts, showing the peddler facing his tool, 16 tipped-in black and white plates from photographs, and one mounted paper pattern cut-out. Slipcase worn and broken; contemporary inscriptions to front pastedown and f.f.e.p.; light smudge marks to some leaves. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $800-1,200 25* [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 $100-200

26 (ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY) The Gazetteer of the World. London: Thomas C. Jack, 1887.

3 vols. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth re-backed with green calf, gilt-lettered leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. With numerous steelengraved plates and color maps. Together with six other works. $150-250

27* (TRAVEL GUIDES) A group of nine early 20th-century travel guides, including six by Karl Baedeker (Northern France, Southern France, London, Northern Germany, Northern Italy and Central Italy) and three others (Belgium, Holland, Satchel Guide to Europe). All small 8vo, publisher’s red gilt-lettered cloth. Property from the Collection of Harold Hartshorne, Jr., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin $100-200

28* (TRAVEL GUIDES) A group of seven travel guides published by Karl Baedeker, including London, Switzerland, Southern Germany, Northern Germany, Mediterranean, Rhine, and Belgium/Holland. All small 8vo, publisher’s giltlettered red cloth. Property from the Collection of Harold Hartshorne, Jr., Lake Geneva, Wisconsin $150-250

29 (MAP) BLAEU, JOHANNES Iura Insula. The Yle of Iura, one of the Westerne Iles of Scotland. (Amsterdam, c. 1650). Engraved doublepage map with later hand-coloring and decorative cartouche framed by winged sea nymphs. Framed and matted. Size of frame 24 3/4 x 29 3/4 inches. $100-200

30 (MAP) BARACZA, P.A. Mapa dziesieciu guberni krolestwa Polskiego. (Warsaw: Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1901). Linen-backed folding lithographed color map of Poland. Bound in 8vo cloth-backed boards. $100-200 31 (MAP) BLAEU, JOHANNES Asia Noviter Delineata... (Amsterdam, c. 1638). Handcolored engraved map of Asia, featuring ships and sea monsters, and bordered by panels of city views and figures in national costume. French text to verso. Matted. 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches. $2,000-4,000

32 (MAP) BRAUN & HOGENBERG Duacum, Catuacorum Urbs... and Tiena, Brabantiae Opp... A pair of hand-colored engraved French and Belgian city maps from Civitates Orbis Terrarum. (Amsterdam, c. 1588). Framed and matted. Size of frame 18 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches. $200-400

33* (MAP) DE L’ISLE, GUILLELME Graeciae Antiquae Tabula Nova. (London, 1725). Double-page hand-colored engraved map. With decorative cartouche to lower left corner. Framed and matted. Size of frame 25 x 30 inches. Property from the Collection of Harry and Pola Triandis, Urbana, Illinois $200-400

34* (MAP) HOMANN HEIRS Regnum Bosniae, una cum finitimis Croatiae, Dlmatiae, Slavoniae, Hung. et Serviae, partibus, adjuncta praecipuorum in his regionibus munimentorum ichnographia. (Nuremberg, c. 1738). Engraved map with later hand-coloring. Framed. Size of frame 24 x 26 1/2 inches. Property from the Collection of Harry and Pola Triandis, Urbana, Illinois $100-200 35* (MAP) JANSSON, JAN Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio. (Amsterdam, c. 1664). Engraved map with hand-coloring of China, Korea and the islands of Formosa and Hainan. With decorative cartouche surrounded by Chinese scholars, a scale bar flanked by mer-babies, and showing the Great Wall of China to the north, in red. Framed and matted. Size of frame 25 1/4 x 27 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Millard Grauer, Evanston, Illinois $1,000-2,000

36* (MAP) STOOPENDAAL, DANIEL Werelt Caert. (Amsterdam, c. 1680). Double-page engraved hand-colored double-hemisphere world map depicting California as an island. With corner vignettes depicting allegorical representations of the four continents and two spheres illustrating the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems. The design of the map is after the second world Bible maps produced by Nicolaas Visscher, Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata... Dutch text to verso. Framed and matted in double-sided glass frame. Size of frame 19 1/2 x 25 1/4 inches. Property from the Collection of Millard Grauer, Evanston, Illinois $1,000-2,000

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