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Auction No 426, Category: Travel

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

Daniel Defoe "The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe", illustrated by Ernest Griset, London,1869, colour frontispiece;

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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Daniel Defoe The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, illustrated by Ernest Griset, London, 1869, colour frontispiece; Freeman Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice, Macmillan, 1881; Bernard Newman Round About Andorra 1928, signed & inscribed by the author, spine faded; Samuel Manning Italian Pictures, drawn with Pen and Pencil, RTS, c.1880, title page browned; and three others including a late-19th Century trade catalogue of furniture, printed wraps. (7)   

"The Wide World Magazine", Newnes, bound volumes for April to Sept.1899, Oct.1899 to March 1900, Oct.1907 to March 1908, April to Sept.1908,

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
UNSOLD
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The Wide World Magazine, Newnes, bound volumes for April to Sept. 1899, Oct. 1899 to March 1900, Oct. 1907 to March 1908, April to Sept. 1908, Oct.1909 to March 1910, and April to Sept.1917; the 1899-1900 volumes in fine half-morocco, the 1917 volume in poor condition. (6)

Richard Hakluyt "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation", J.M. Dent, ‘Everyman’ edition,

Lot: 100

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
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Richard Hakluyt The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, J.M. Dent, ‘Everyman' edition, set of eight vols., mostly 1926 but vol.8 from the (undated) 1907 edition. A fine set. (8)

Sailing and Voyages including Bullen "The Cruise of The Cachalot", 1899 (first U.S. edn.); Millar "Isabel and the Sea", 1948, First Edn;

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £66
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Sailing and Voyages including Bullen The Cruise of The Cachalot, 1899 (first U.S. edn.); Millar Isabel and the Sea, 1948, First Edn; Rosser The Yachtsman's Handy-Book, 1892, plates & maps; Fames Ships and Seamen of Anglesey 1558-1918, 1973; Charles Darwin Journal of Researches, 1892; Lubbock The China Clippers, 1968, in d/jkt; and others. Fair to VF (12)

Reeves "Hints to Travellers Scientific and General", Royal Geographical Society, 1906, 2 vols, neat ownership signatures dated 1914, near fine;

Lot: 104

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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Reeves Hints to Travellers Scientific and General, Royal Geographical Society, 1906, 2 vols, neat ownership signatures dated 1914, near fine; Dorothy Pilley Climbing Days, 1935, 1st Edn, faded cloth; and a selection of others on travel and mountaineering. (26)

E. Lucas Bridges "Uttermost Part of the Earth" 1948, 1st Ed., one corner bumped o/w near fine; and others on South American travel & mountaineering

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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E. Lucas Bridges Uttermost Part of the Earth 1948, 1st Ed., one corner bumped o/w near fine; and others on South American travel & mountaineering with some first editions. (9)

Polar Exploration & Whaling including modern reprints of works by William Scoresby; Shackleton "The Heart of the Antarctic", 1910,

Lot: 106

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £72
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Polar Exploration & Whaling including modern reprints of works by William Scoresby; Shackleton The Heart of the Antarctic, 1910, (tear to folding map requiring attention, panoramic plate loosely inserted); and Huntford Scott & Amundsen, 1980. Mostly VG/VF (12)

Alys Lowth "Emerald Hours in New Zealand", Whitcombe & Tombs [1906], b/w plates, and related titles including mountaineering

Lot: 107

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Alys Lowth Emerald Hours in New Zealand, Whitcombe & Tombs [1906], b/w plates, and related titles including mountaineering and reprints of classic works. Most in d/jkts. VG/VF (14)

Mountaineering and Mountain Art & Photography in two cartons including Turner "My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents", 1913;

Lot: 108

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £60
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Mountaineering and Mountain Art & Photography in two cartons including Turner My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents, 1913; Urech Bernese Oberland Descriptive and Narrative, 1926, scarce cloth-bound edition; Chris Bonington Mountaineer, 1989, signed first edn; Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil RTS, [c.1879]; Wayfarers' Journal for 1939, 1945, 1947, 1948 and 1950; and many others. Includes a few pamphlets. Some with ownership signatures or labels (not ex-library). (44)

H. W. Tilman selection with several first editions including "Mischief Goes South", 1968, "Mischief Among the Penguins", 1961, "Mostly Mischief",1966,

Lot: 109

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £50
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H. W. Tilman selection with several first editions including Mischief Goes South, 1968, Mischief Among the Penguins, 1961, Mostly Mischief, 1966, In Mischief's Wake, 1971, Snow on the Equator, 1937 (poor d/jkt), Mount Everest 1948, Mischief in Greenland 1964 (ex-library), and Nepal Himalaya, 1952.  Six with ownership label. Fair to VF. (16)

Arabian interest including Hogarth "The Life of Charles M. Doughty",1928, first edn., in scarce d/jkt; T.E. Lawrence "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", 1935,

Lot: 110

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Arabian interest including Hogarth The Life of Charles M. Doughty, 1928, first edn., in scarce d/jkt; T.E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1935, first trade edn; and Maclean Eastern Approaches, 1949, first edn. VG/fine. (4)  

Central Asia including F. Kingdon Ward "Assam Adventure", Travel Book Club, 1942, folding map; H.W. Tilman "China to Chitral", 1951,1st Edn.,

Lot: 111

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £50
SOLD £26
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Central Asia including F. Kingdon Ward Assam Adventure, Travel Book Club, 1942, folding map; H.W. Tilman China to Chitral, 1951, 1st Edn., faded cloth; and Chris Bonington Kongu: China's Elusive Summit, 1982, 1st Edn. (11)

UK Climbing & Topography, especially Scotland; including Macgregor "Searching the Hebrides with a Camera" 1933, 1st Edn;

Lot: 113

  • Auction Date: Wed 29th May 2024 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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UK Climbing & Topography, especially Scotland; including Macgregor Searching the Hebrides with a Camera 1933, 1st Edn; Murray Mountaineering in Scotland, and Undiscovered Scotland 1986; Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, 1882 with many maps (but lacking large folding map in rear pocket); Jacquetta Hawkes A Land, Cresset Press, 1951; and various others. (25)