{"title":"Travel and Exploration","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ernest-hemingway-the-sun-also-rises-1926-first-issue-susan-myrick-copy","title":"Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, 1926 - Susan Myrick's First Issue Copy in Morocco","description":"\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"kpjkdv\" data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"513\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003eHEMINGWAY, ERNEST. \u003cem data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"400\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises.\u003c\/em\u003e First Edition, First Printing, First Issue, 1926. Susan Myrick's Copy in a Red and Black Morocco Design Binding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"600\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHEMINGWAY, Ernest. \u003cem data-start=\"538\" data-end=\"559\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises.\u003c\/em\u003e New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eFirst edition, first printing, first issue. Hanneman A6a. Octavo. Bound in a striking full red and black morocco design binding, exquisitely crafted and richly finished in gilt. The boards are decorated with a sweeping painted and onlaid design inspired by the muleta, the red cloth used by the matador in the final act of the bullfight: its curved, flowing forms travel across both covers in dramatic contrast against panels of deep black morocco, the whole enclosed and accented with elegant gilt tooling. The spine is similarly accomplished, with raised bands, decorative gilt motifs and dark red morocco labels lettered in gilt; hand-sewn endbands and vivid red, black and gold Spanish marbled endpapers complete the presentation. With the bookplates of Susan Myrick and Aaron B. Berndt to a preliminary blank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1439\" data-end=\"1897\"\u003eAn exceptional first issue of Ernest Hemingway's first major novel, one of the defining works of twentieth-century American literature. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons in October 1926, the first printing consisted of only 5,090 copies. This copy retains the principal first-issue point: the celebrated misprint \"stoppped\" for \"stopped\" on page 181, line 26. The copyright page bears the Scribner's seal and makes no reference to later printings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"2396\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1919\"\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e follows Jake Barnes, Lady Brett Ashley and their circle of American and British expatriates from Paris to the fiesta and bullfights of Pamplona. Drawing closely upon Hemingway's own experiences in France and Spain, the novel gave lasting literary expression to the post-war generation identified in Gertrude Stein's famous epigraph as \"a lost generation.\" Its restrained, exact prose established the literary style with which Hemingway would become permanently associated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2398\" data-end=\"2973\"\u003eThe binding is particularly apposite to the novel. The bullfight provides the book with its central ritual of beauty, discipline, violence and fate, reaching its climax in the figure of Pedro Romero. Here, the repeated sweep of the red morocco across the boards recalls the movement of the matador's muleta, while the black panels and controlled gilt decoration lend the volume a sense of theatre and intensity. It is a highly accomplished visual interpretation of Hemingway's Spanish setting and of the novel's preoccupation with courage, grace under pressure and mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2975\" data-end=\"3427\"\u003eThis copy is further distinguished by its provenance, bearing the bookplate of Susan Dowdell Myrick (1893-1978), the American journalist and author who served as technical advisor and dialect consultant during the production of \u003cem data-start=\"3207\" data-end=\"3227\"\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/em\u003e. A friend of Margaret Mitchell, Myrick was recommended by her to advise the film's production on Southern speech, costume and custom. A further bookplate records the ownership of Aaron B. 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A remarkably appealing uncut set in uniform contemporary full tree calf, the boards with rich mottled figuring and gilt-ruled borders; spines ruled and ornamented in gilt, with red morocco title labels lettered “Bruce's Travels” and circular black morocco volume labels numbered in gilt. The volumes retain broad untrimmed margins, giving the set unusual presence and preserving an important feature seldom encountered in such an extensive eighteenth-century illustrated travel work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2086\" data-end=\"2707\"\u003eJames Bruce of Kinnaird's \u003cem data-start=\"2112\" data-end=\"2156\"\u003eTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great narratives of African exploration. Setting out from Alexandria in 1768, Bruce travelled through Egypt, the Red Sea and Arabia before entering Abyssinia, now Ethiopia. In November 1770 he reached the springs at Geesh, which he identified as the source of the Nile known to classical geography, now recognised as the source of the Blue Nile. His journey produced one of the most substantial eighteenth-century European accounts of Ethiopia, its court, religious traditions, languages, landscapes, natural history and political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2709\" data-end=\"3193\"\u003eBruce's account extended far beyond the question of the Nile's source. Across the first four volumes he describes Egypt, Nubia, the Red Sea, Arabia, Abyssinia and the arduous course of his travels, combining narrative adventure with geography, history, antiquities and first-hand observation. His descriptions of Ethiopia were initially received with scepticism by some contemporaries, yet the significance of his journey and the value of much of his record became firmly established.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3195\" data-end=\"3864\"\u003eThe fifth volume is especially important. Published under the separate title \u003cem data-start=\"3272\" data-end=\"3406\"\u003eSelect Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia\u003c\/em\u003e, it gathers the natural history and illustrative material arising from the expedition. The plates were based upon drawings by Bruce and his travelling companion, the Italian artist Luigi Balugani, and engraved principally by James Heath. 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A manuscript ownership inscription is present on the title page of Volume V.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5095\" data-end=\"5407\"\u003eA highly desirable complete first edition of Bruce's monumental search for the source of the Nile: five uncut volumes in contemporary tree calf, complete with its folding maps and engraved plates, and a cornerstone work for collections of African exploration, Ethiopia, cartography and eighteenth-century travel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Bruce of Kinnaird","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598265504011,"sku":null,"price":5250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20250211_090116580_iOS.jpg?v=1739283229"},{"product_id":"death-in-the-afternoon-by-ernest-hemingway","title":"Ernest Hemingway - Death in the Afternoon in Fine Red Morocco Binding with Gilt Bull","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHEMINGWAY, Ernest. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeath in the Afternoon.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York and London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932. First edition, first printing, with the Scribner’s “A” and publisher’s seal to the copyright page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge octavo. Finely bound in full burgundy-red morocco, the upper board blocked in gilt with a Spanish fighting bull, the spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt within raised bands, gilt fillet borders to the boards, hand-sewn silk headbands, hand-marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. With a colour frontispiece after Juan Gris, retaining the original captioned tissue guard, bull vignette to the title page, and extensive photographic illustrations throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHemingway’s first book-length work of non-fiction, \u003cem\u003eDeath in the Afternoon\u003c\/em\u003e is his sustained examination of Spanish bullfighting: its ritual, technique, danger, terminology and central confrontation with mortality. Published six years after \u003cem\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/em\u003e, in which the fiesta of San Fermín and the bullring already play a defining part, the book returns to Spain with a more deliberate purpose, attempting to explain both the practice of the corrida and its importance to Hemingway as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is far more than a sporting manual. Hemingway uses the bullfight as a means of considering courage, fear, grace under pressure, artistic discipline and the representation of violent death. It is also here that he gives his celebrated statement of the “iceberg” principle of writing, explaining that the dignity of a story may depend upon what the writer understands fully but chooses to leave beneath the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original first edition is exceptionally well suited to this bespoke binding. The deep red morocco recalls the colour and drama of the bullring, while the gilt bull on the upper board gives the volume an immediate pictorial presence. The elaborately gilt spine, marbled endpapers and gilt edges transform Hemingway’s Spanish classic into a striking collector’s copy, while preserving the colour frontispiece and photographic record integral to the original publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Finely bound in modern full burgundy-red morocco, with the gilt decoration bright and the binding presenting exceptionally well. The contents are clean and attractive, with light age toning. 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STC 15481; ESTC S108481.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3027\" data-end=\"3309\"\u003eA remarkable copy of one of the foundational English-language books on Africa: the first English edition of Leo Africanus' celebrated account, owned, studied and annotated by James Grey Jackson, author of \u003cem data-start=\"4157\" data-end=\"4220\"\u003eAn Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the District of Suse\u003c\/em\u003e (1809). This is a volume in which the subject matter and the provenance are exceptionally closely aligned, connecting two important writers on Morocco, Timbuktu and the geography of Africa across more than two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3027\" data-end=\"3309\"\u003eFolio. Contemporary calf boards, dating from around the time of publication, sympathetically rebacked with the spine gilt in compartments and with red morocco lettering-piece. The original printed title page is lacking and has been replaced with a carefully written manuscript title page. No folding map is present in this copy; the map does not appear to have been issued with all examples of the edition and is not invariably found in surviving copies. With the struck-through ownership inscription and extensive manuscript annotations of James Grey Jackson, including a substantial Arabic passage independently verified as being in his hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4443\" data-end=\"4889\"\u003eBorn al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Leo Africanus was raised in Fez and travelled extensively through North Africa and territories further south. His account, first printed in Italian in Ramusio's collection of voyages in 1550, offered European readers one of the earliest substantial descriptions of Morocco, the Maghreb, Timbuktu and the wider African interior by a writer formed within the Islamic and African world he described.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4891\" data-end=\"5683\"\u003eThis English translation by John Pory, published in London by George Bishop in 1600, was a landmark in the dissemination of knowledge about Africa in England. Pory added introductory geographical material and dedicated the work to Sir Robert Cecil. The book remained an important source for European readers and later travellers for centuries. The edition is credited by the OED with early English uses of the words \"hippopotamus\" and \"zebra\"; Ben Jonson referred expressly to \"Leo the African\" in his notes to \u003cem data-start=\"5406\" data-end=\"5431\"\u003eThe Masque of Blackness\u003c\/em\u003e, while its possible relationship to Shakespeare's \u003cem data-start=\"5482\" data-end=\"5491\"\u003eOthello\u003c\/em\u003e has long attracted scholarly attention. Maggs similarly describes Pory's translation as a major landmark in the spread of knowledge of Africa in England. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5685\" data-end=\"6154\"\u003eThe particular importance of this copy lies in its independently verified provenance. It was the personal working copy of James Grey Jackson, the British merchant, traveller and writer whose years in Morocco led to the publication of his influential \u003cem data-start=\"5939\" data-end=\"5973\"\u003eAccount of the Empire of Marocco\u003c\/em\u003e. Jackson's struck-through ownership inscription survives within the volume, together with extensive manuscript material demonstrating sustained engagement with Leo Africanus' text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6156\" data-end=\"6330\"\u003eOf exceptional interest is the lengthy Arabic annotation written by Jackson before the index, independently verified as being in his hand. The passage has been translated as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-start=\"6332\" data-end=\"6577\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6334\" data-end=\"6577\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Then I entered the city of Tamkhazi and the country of Tamhazi is in the country of Cathay. Travellers claim that the wall surrounding their country and their lands and the rest of their buildings takes 23 days to traverse from west to east.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6579\" data-end=\"7130\"\u003eThe passage appears to derive from the medieval Arabic geographical tradition associated with Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi and the work now known as the \u003cem data-start=\"6729\" data-end=\"6750\"\u003eKitab al-Jughrafiya\u003c\/em\u003e. The city rendered here as \"Tamkhazi\" is encountered elsewhere in Arabic geographical writing as Tamghach, associated with Central Asia or China. The linguistic irregularities in Jackson's Arabic add to the documentary interest of the inscription, preserving the active scholarly work of a learned non-native reader engaging directly with Arabic geographical source material.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7132\" data-end=\"7560\"\u003eThe volume retains its contemporary calf boards, dating from around the time of publication, and has been sympathetically rebacked. It shows rubbing, wear and signs of use appropriate to a book that was consulted as a working reference. The original printed title page is lacking and replaced in manuscript. No folding map is present in this copy; the map does not appear to have accompanied all copies of the edition and is not invariably encountered in surviving examples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7562\" data-end=\"7847\"\u003eAn exceptionally significant copy of the first English edition of Leo Africanus, transformed by the verified ownership and Arabic annotations of James Grey Jackson into an important document of British engagement with Morocco, Arabic scholarship and the historical geography of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leo Africanus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49676724764939,"sku":"","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20250312_104840046_iOS_a5aecfbb-dafc-4486-93a7-51a9ac92401d.jpg?v=1779779317"},{"product_id":"travels-in-the-interior-districts-of-africa-by-mungo-park","title":"Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon, printed by W. 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This work is also referenced within the important bibliographical resource, Cox I, 394-95.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBound in contemporary half mottled calf, re-backed. The interior exhibits occasional light browning, and some slight foxing is present on the plates. There is offset from the maps to facing pages. The volume comprises [xxviii], 372, xcii, [ii]pp. Contemporary half mottled calf, re-backed. Maps \u0026amp; Illustrations: 3 engraved folding maps, portrait, 5 engraved plates, 2 plates of music. 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Delayed for nearly three decades in Britain, this publication provides a raw and authentic portrayal of life in the ranks, as seen through the eyes of the legendary Lawrence of Arabia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawrence's ambition to document the lives of ordinary servicemen drove him to enlist in the RAF in 1922. He meticulously recorded his experiences, but his dismissal in 1923, due to unwanted publicity, halted the project. It wasn't until his posting to India in 1927 that he resumed work on \"The Mint.\" In 1928, he shared a refined manuscript with Edward Garnett, who circulated copies among a select group, including Air Marshal Trenchard. Trenchard's response led Lawrence to impose a publication embargo until at least 1950, ensuring sensitive content remained private.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo secure copyright, a limited edition of 50 copies was published in America in 1936. This 1955 UK edition, based on Lawrence's final revisions, was prepared by Jonathan Cape in 1948 but held back until after the death of an officer mentioned critically in the text. This trade issue was released simultaneously with a limited edition, marking the long-awaited public availability of Lawrence's candid and revealing work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"T.E. Lawrence","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51100320203019,"sku":"","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20250318_081744099_iOS.jpg?v=1742308505"},{"product_id":"cetywayo-his-white-neighbours-by-h-rider-haggard-with-authors-letter-to-lord-avebury","title":"Cetywayo \u0026 His White Neighbours by H. Rider Haggard with Author's Letter to Lord Avebury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by Trübner, 1882\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Edition, First Impression. One of only 750 copies printed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a remarkably well-preserved first edition of H. Rider Haggard's \"Cetywayo and His White Neighbours; or, Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal,\" published by Trübner \u0026amp; Co. in 1882. This is one of only 750 copies printed, a venture for which Haggard himself paid £50, largely funded by his father. The book is presented in its original green cloth, retaining its unrestored condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccompanying this rare edition is an original letter from H. Rider Haggard to Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury, dated 28th May 1903. The letter, penned from Haggard’s residence at 27 Norfolk Square, Hyde Park, London, W., expresses gratitude for a pleasant breakfast. Haggard writes, \"I trust you won't think me a great bore for trying to propagate my views. The question is really important,\" presumably highlighting the book's critical commentary on the colonial situation in South Africa. Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury (1834-1913), was a prominent polymath: a banker, politician, scientist, and writer. He was particularly well-known for his contributions to archaeology and his advocacy for public holidays. His wide-ranging interests and influence made him a significant figure in Victorian society, and Haggard clearly valued his opinion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCetywayo and His White Neighbours\" is Haggard's first book, a critical analysis of the complex political dynamics in South Africa during a pivotal period. Haggard's personal experiences in the region, initially sent there by his father to escape an ill-fated romance, provided the foundation for this work. Despite his initial successes in South Africa, the heartbreak of his failed romance led him to a period of instability, including a foray into ostrich farming, before his return to England in 1879. Upon his return he quickly married Louisa Margitson, and after a further spell in South Africa, he returned to England with new responsibilities. With his marriage and growing family, Haggard sought stability, leading him to pursue a career at the bar and to embark on his literary journey with this publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite its importance as a historical document and Haggard's first published work, \"Cetywayo and His White Neighbours\" initially met with limited success. Trübner \u0026amp; Co. agreed to publish the 750-copy edition, with the financial risk largely borne by Haggard's father. Haggard later lamented the book's \"total failure\" at the time, with only 154 copies sold nearly two years after its release. It was only after the phenomenal success of \"King Solomon's Mines\" in 1885 that public interest in his earlier work was rekindled, leading to the eventual sale of the remaining copies and subsequent editions. 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Arranged together, the volumes have exceptional shelf presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3831\" data-start=\"3379\"\u003eThe three volumes of the First Voyage and the two volumes of the Second Voyage retain their earlier boards. The three text volumes of the Third Voyage, together with the folio atlas, are in sympathetic later boards bound in keeping with the period style of the set. The restoration has been carried out with considerable care, producing a visually coherent collection while retaining the earlier boards of the first two voyage accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"3848\" data-start=\"3833\" data-section-id=\"1q0q14s\"\u003eFirst Voyage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4155\" data-start=\"3850\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"3880\" data-start=\"3850\"\u003eHAWKESWORTH, John, editor.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"3883\" data-start=\"3880\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"4155\" data-start=\"3883\"\u003eAn Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4208\" data-start=\"4157\"\u003eLondon: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4251\" data-start=\"4210\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"4251\" data-start=\"4210\"\u003eFirst edition. Three volumes, quarto.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4563\" data-start=\"4253\"\u003eThe official published account incorporating Cook’s first voyage aboard HMS \u003cem data-end=\"4340\" data-start=\"4329\"\u003eEndeavour\u003c\/em\u003e, undertaken between 1768 and 1771. After observing the Transit of Venus at Tahiti, Cook proceeded to New Zealand and the eastern coastline of Australia, producing charts and observations of lasting geographical importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4815\" data-start=\"4565\"\u003eIllustrated with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Cook by J. K. Sherwin after Nathaniel Dance-Holland, together with engraved maps, charts and folding plates. 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The boards show light spotting and age-related wear, remaining attractive in presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"5341\" data-start=\"5325\" data-section-id=\"cioh6e\"\u003eSecond Voyage\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5529\" data-start=\"5343\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"5367\" data-start=\"5343\"\u003eCOOK, Captain James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"5370\" data-start=\"5367\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"5529\" data-start=\"5370\"\u003eA Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5582\" data-start=\"5531\"\u003eLondon: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5623\" data-start=\"5584\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"5623\" data-start=\"5584\"\u003eFirst edition. 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Previous owner’s signature and bookplate to the pastedowns, together with minor pencil notes. The folding map and frontispiece have received professional repairs at the original folds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"6722\" data-start=\"6707\" data-section-id=\"1nk29j9\"\u003eThird Voyage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"7054\" data-start=\"6724\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"6773\" data-start=\"6724\"\u003eCOOK, Captain James, and KING, Captain James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"6776\" data-start=\"6773\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"7054\" data-start=\"6776\"\u003eA Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere; to Determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America, its Distance from Asia, and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"7126\" data-start=\"7056\"\u003eLondon: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. 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Some offsetting within the text, otherwise a clean and strongly presented set of the narrative volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"8099\" data-start=\"8065\" data-section-id=\"mti227\"\u003eFolio Atlas to the Third Voyage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"8174\" data-start=\"8101\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"8130\" data-start=\"8101\"\u003eWEBBER, John, and others.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-end=\"8133\" data-start=\"8130\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"8174\" data-start=\"8133\"\u003eAtlas to A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"8189\" data-start=\"8176\"\u003eLondon: 1784.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"8229\" data-start=\"8191\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"8229\" data-start=\"8191\"\u003eFirst edition. 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Its plates record the landscapes, coastal views, portraits and material cultures encountered during the voyage, giving visual form to the final and most dramatic of Cook’s expeditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"8784\" data-start=\"8606\"\u003eThe atlas contains the engraved plates and maps issued to accompany the three quarto narrative volumes of the Third Voyage, and is essential to the full presentation of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"9163\" data-start=\"8786\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"8800\" data-start=\"8786\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e In sympathetic later boards bound in keeping with the period style of the set, with a richly gilt restored spine matching the eight quarto volumes. Some foxing and damp staining, with wear towards the edges of the final section. Despite these imperfections, the folio plates remain imposing and the atlas gives the set its full visual and historical scope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"9200\" data-start=\"9165\" data-section-id=\"1fnqfpi\"\u003eOverall Condition and Importance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"9746\" data-start=\"9202\"\u003eA highly decorative and substantial first edition set of the official accounts of Captain James Cook’s three voyages, complete with the folio atlas to the Third Voyage. The nine volumes are distinguished by their uniform, elaborately gilt and expertly restored spines, giving the collection considerable presence when shelved together. The earlier boards of the First and Second Voyages have been retained, while the Third Voyage and atlas are sympathetically bound in later boards in keeping with the eighteenth-century style of the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"10059\" data-start=\"9748\"\u003eFrom the exploration and charting of New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia, through the southern voyages beyond the Antarctic Circle, to Hawaii and the search for a northern passage along the northwest coast of America, Cook’s published voyages stand among the defining records of maritime exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"10226\" data-start=\"10061\"\u003eA commanding first edition set for a collection of Pacific voyages, exploration, cartography, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii or eighteenth-century travel literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"10394\" data-start=\"10228\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"10243\" data-start=\"10228\"\u003eReferences:\u003c\/strong\u003e Beddie, \u003cem data-end=\"10288\" data-start=\"10252\"\u003eBibliography of Captain James Cook\u003c\/em\u003e, 648, 1216 and 1543; Holmes, 5, 24 and 47; Sabin 30934 and related entries; Hill 782 and related entries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Captain James Cook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51140047110411,"sku":"","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20250325_103113002_iOS_4108ce00-ffbb-44f3-b76d-b47f8aca8f48.jpg?v=1742904793"},{"product_id":"william-bligh-voyage-south-sea-mutiny-bounty-first-edition-1792","title":"William Bligh - A Voyage to the South Sea: The Mutiny on the Bounty - First Edition, 1792","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"2214\" data-end=\"2555\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2214\" data-end=\"2233\"\u003eBLIGH, William.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"2233\" data-end=\"2236\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2236\" data-end=\"2555\"\u003eA Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship the Bounty; Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the Said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, from Tofoa to Timor.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2557\" data-end=\"2634\"\u003eLondon: Printed for George Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1792.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2636\" data-end=\"2923\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2636\" data-end=\"2923\"\u003eFirst edition of the full official account of the voyage of HMS \u003cem data-start=\"2702\" data-end=\"2710\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e, the mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, and William Bligh’s extraordinary open-boat voyage to Timor. With an additional eighteenth-century engraved chart of Pitcairn Island, the eventual refuge of the mutineers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2925\" data-end=\"3320\"\u003eQuarto. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain William Bligh by J. Condé after John Russell; illustrated with seven further engraved plates, charts and plans, including folding material: the plan and section of the \u003cem data-start=\"3143\" data-end=\"3151\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e showing the arrangements made for transporting breadfruit plants, the plan of the ship’s launch, the plate of the breadfruit tree and the charts relating to the voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3322\" data-end=\"3860\"\u003eBligh’s \u003cem data-start=\"3330\" data-end=\"3357\"\u003eA Voyage to the South Sea\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full published account of the expedition that gave rise to the most celebrated mutiny in maritime history. HMS \u003cem data-start=\"3482\" data-end=\"3490\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e sailed for Tahiti with the Admiralty-backed purpose of gathering breadfruit plants for transplantation to the West Indies. After months spent at Tahiti, the ship departed with its living cargo; on 28 April 1789, near the Friendly Islands, Fletcher Christian and his supporters seized control of the vessel and forced Bligh and eighteen loyal men into the ship’s launch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3862\" data-end=\"4246\"\u003eThe ordeal that followed established Bligh’s reputation as a navigator. With severely limited provisions and no chart adequate to the whole journey, he brought the crowded open boat across thousands of miles of ocean to Timor. His account is at once an official defence of his command, a major Pacific voyage narrative and one of the central books in the history of maritime survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4248\" data-end=\"4611\"\u003eThe work had been preceded in 1790 by Bligh’s shorter \u003cem data-start=\"4302\" data-end=\"4327\"\u003eNarrative of the Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e. The present volume gives the full account of the expedition, incorporating a revised version of the mutiny narrative. The text was prepared from Bligh’s journal by Captain James Burney under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks while Bligh was absent on his second breadfruit voyage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4613\" data-end=\"5189\"\u003eOf particular appeal in this copy is the accompanying loose engraved plate, “A Chart and Views of Pitcairn’s Island,” originally issued with Hawkesworth’s account of Captain Philip Carteret’s discovery of the island in 1767. Pitcairn later became inseparable from the \u003cem data-start=\"4885\" data-end=\"4893\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e story: in 1790 Fletcher Christian and the remaining mutineers reached the island and established the remote settlement in which they hoped to evade discovery. The presence of this contemporary chart gives the volume a compelling visual connection with the final chapter of the mutineers’ flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-section-id=\"7p0o7w\" data-start=\"5191\" data-end=\"5215\"\u003eBinding and Condition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5217\" data-end=\"5456\"\u003eBound in period half calf over marbled boards, the spine simply ruled in gilt and lettered “Bligh’s Voyage” in gilt. Housed in a later fitted brown leather solander box, the spine lettered in gilt “Bligh’s Voyage to the South Sea.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5458\" data-end=\"6003\"\u003eBinding rubbed and worn, with scuffing to the marbled boards and wear at the spine ends and joints, but remaining sound and attractive in character. Internally with foxing and some staining, particularly to the portrait frontispiece and title-page opening, together with occasional offsetting and age-toning to the folding plates and charts. The engraved material remains striking, especially the plan of the \u003cem data-start=\"5867\" data-end=\"5875\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e fitted for the breadfruit plants. The accompanying Pitcairn chart shows some staining and handling wear, but presents strongly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6005\" data-end=\"6365\"\u003eA highly desirable first edition of Bligh’s complete account of the \u003cem data-start=\"6073\" data-end=\"6081\"\u003eBounty\u003c\/em\u003e expedition and mutiny, enhanced by the additional contemporary engraved chart of Pitcairn Island and preserved in a fitted leather box. 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To which are added, some Particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2069\"\u003eTogether with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2735\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2109\"\u003eCOLLINS, Lieutenant-Colonel David.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2670\"\u003eAn Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, from its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801: with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, \u0026amp;c. of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. To which are added, some Particulars of New Zealand; compiled, by permission, from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King; and an Account of a Voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr. Bass; by which the Existence of a Strait separating Van Diemen's Land from the Continent of New Holland was ascertained. Abstracted from the Journal of Mr. Bass.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2737\" data-end=\"2938\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2737\" data-end=\"2938\"\u003eThe 1798 first edition paired with the revised and expanded second edition of 1804. Ferguson 263 and 390; Wantrup 19 and 21. Complete with all maps and plates called for in the respective editions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2940\" data-end=\"3330\"\u003eTwo quarto volumes. Finely bound as a uniform set in full tree calf, the richly mottled boards enclosed within elaborate gilt foliate borders. The spines are densely gilt in compartments with repeated scallop and star tooling, red morocco title labels and dark green morocco volume labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers and speckled edges complete a handsome and imposing presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3332\" data-end=\"3948\"\u003eAn exceptional pairing of David Collins's foundational account of New South Wales, the earliest substantial historical account of Australian settlement. Collins sailed with the First Fleet and served as Judge-Advocate and Secretary to Governor Arthur Phillip, positions that placed him at the centre of the colony's civil administration and gave him unusual access to its official life, hardships, developing institutions and earliest relations with Aboriginal communities. His account was the fullest and most detailed history of the new colony to have appeared by the time of its publication in London in 1798.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3950\" data-end=\"4612\"\u003eThe particular significance of this set lies in the presence of two distinct and complementary forms of Collins's work. The first book is the original first edition of 1798, preserving Collins's earliest published account of the settlement during its formative First Fleet years. Alongside it is the expanded second edition of 1804, a revised account extending the narrative to August 1801 and incorporating additional exploration and natural history material. Bound together in matching tree calf, the two volumes allow the collector to place the original appearance of Collins's history beside its later, expanded and more richly illustrated recension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4614\" data-end=\"5339\"\u003eThe 1798 first edition is one of the fundamental printed sources for early Australia. It records the establishment of the colony, the practical struggles of settlement and administration, questions of punishment and governance, the natural environment, and Collins's observations of Aboriginal people, their customs and ceremonies. Its engraved illustrations include early views of the colony and significant visual records of Indigenous Australian subjects, associated with drawings by the convict artist Thomas Watling. Present in this volume are the engraved portrait of Collins, maps and views including the Governor's House at Rose Hill, Parramatta, together with all other plates and maps called for by the edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5341\" data-end=\"6014\"\u003eThe 1804 second edition greatly enriches the pairing. Published after the original first-edition sequence of 1798 and 1802, it presents Collins's account in revised and expanded form, with the important narrative of the voyage undertaken by Matthew Flinders and George Bass, by which the strait separating Van Diemen's Land from mainland Australia was established. It is also particularly desirable for its illustrated natural history content, including the striking hand-coloured plate of the Menura, or lyrebird, shown here, together with the further coloured and engraved material present as issued. All maps and plates required for the 1804 edition are present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6016\" data-end=\"6588\"\u003eHaving both books together is of considerable historical and collecting interest. The 1798 first edition presents Collins's earliest and most immediate printed account of the settlement; the 1804 edition shows how that foundational narrative developed, bringing the story forward, adding the Bass and Flinders exploration material and enriching the visual record with hand-coloured natural history plates absent from the 1798 volume in this form. 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Its incorporation of material relating to New Zealand and, in the 1804 edition, the voyage of Bass and Flinders, extends its significance across the wider history of the Pacific and southern exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7196\" data-end=\"7619\"\u003eThe volumes are magnificently presented in uniform full tree calf, with densely gilt spines and contrasting morocco labels creating exceptional shelf presence. Internally, there is scattered foxing, browning and light offsetting in places, consistent with an illustrated work of this date. The maps and engraved plates retain good definition, while the hand-coloured natural history plates provide particular visual appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7621\" data-end=\"7979\"\u003eA superbly bound and complete pairing of Collins's earliest substantial historical account of Australian settlement: the first edition of 1798 accompanied by the expanded and illustrated second edition of 1804, together preserving the earliest form of the text and its later development in a set of exceptional historical, cartographical and visual interest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51141597724939,"sku":"","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20250325_104523449_iOS.jpg?v=1742918634"},{"product_id":"john-barrow-voyage-to-cochinchina-1806-first-edition-vietnam","title":"John Barrow - The First Illustrated English Book on Vietnam - A Voyage to Cochinchina, 1806 - First Edition","description":"\u003ch2 data-section-id=\"x54o38\" data-start=\"1301\" data-end=\"1459\"\u003e\u003cspan role=\"text\"\u003eBARROW, JOHN. \u003cem data-start=\"1318\" data-end=\"1344\"\u003eA Voyage to Cochinchina.\u003c\/em\u003e First Edition, 1806. The First Illustrated English Work on Vietnam, with Hand-Coloured Aquatints and Folding Maps.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"2004\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1483\"\u003eBARROW, John, Sir.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"1484\" data-end=\"1938\"\u003eA Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: Containing a General View of the Valuable Productions and the Political Importance of this Flourishing Kingdom; and also of such European Settlements as were Visited on the Voyage: with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhabitants. To which is Annexed, An Account of a Journey, Made in the Years 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation.\u003c\/em\u003e London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1806.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2478\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2478\"\u003eFirst edition, first impression. Quarto. Illustrated with 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after William Alexander and Samuel Daniell, engraved by Thomas Medland, including a folding panoramic view of Rio de Janeiro, together with two folding engraved maps: a hand-coloured plan of the harbour and town of Rio de Janeiro, and a chart of the southern extremity of Africa with the route marked in red. Abbey, Travel 514; Cordier, Sinica 2390-2391; Mendelssohn I, p.89; Tooley 86; Hill 66.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2480\" data-end=\"2916\"\u003eAn exceptionally attractive copy of a major early illustrated account of Vietnam, described by Hill as the first illustrated English work on the country. Barrow's narrative arose from the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China, during which he travelled by way of Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Tristan da Cunha, the Cape of Good Hope and Batavia before reaching Cochinchina, now southern and central Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2918\" data-end=\"3476\"\u003eThe book's importance lies equally in its text and its remarkable suite of illustrations. Its hand-coloured aquatints record landscapes, buildings, maritime scenes, natural history and local life encountered across a voyage spanning the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. Among the most striking are the folding panoramic views of the land surrounding the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, the finely detailed plan of the town and harbour, and the richly coloured scenes including a wounded shark beside a fishing canoe and the Calvinist Church at Batavia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3478\" data-end=\"3924\"\u003eBarrow's account of Cochinchina draws substantially upon the manuscript memoir of Captain Barissy, a French naval officer who had served the King of Cochinchina and had acquired detailed knowledge of the region. At a time when English readers had access to very little reliable visual or descriptive material concerning Vietnam, the publication offered a significant early account of its geography, products, political importance and inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3926\" data-end=\"4590\"\u003eThe work is also of considerable interest for Brazil and southern Africa. Barrow's description of Rio de Janeiro is accompanied by some of the most appealing images in the volume, including the folding harbour panorama and hand-coloured plan. Annexed to the voyage is an account of an expedition made in 1801 and 1802 to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, now more commonly referred to in relation to the Tswana peoples. 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It is Churchill in a particularly revealing phase - still full of youthful appetite for danger and spectacle, but already thinking like a minister about railways, administration, public health, commerce and the future of British East Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1783\" data-end=\"2245\"\u003eThe book is especially prized for its breadth. Churchill writes of the Uganda Railway, District Officers, the landscapes of East Africa, the promise and contradictions of colonial development, the problem of sleeping sickness, and the drama of big game hunting, including rhinoceros. Few of his early books combine so naturally the public and private Churchill: the sportsman, the traveller, the journalist and the politician all appearing in the same narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2247\" data-end=\"2554\"\u003eThis copy is particularly attractive in the original decorated cloth, the red boards remaining unusually bright. The endpapers are clean, with no inscriptions. 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McCullough’s journey takes him through Ceylon, Karachi, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, Honolulu and America, with chapters including “Atomic Economy,” “Problems of Victory,” “Point of No Return” and “Freedom from Work.” Lord Portal’s own wartime and post-war career was deeply bound up with air power and the atomic age: he served as Chief of the Air Staff during the Second World War and later as Controller of Production, Atomic Energy. This is therefore not merely a social presentation copy, but one whose themes of global air travel, post-war Japan and atomic modernity touch closely on Portal’s world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2228\"\u003eIllustrations are by Fougasse, the pen-name of Cyril Kenneth Bird, celebrated \u003cem data-start=\"2073\" data-end=\"2080\"\u003ePunch\u003c\/em\u003e artist and creator of the famous wartime “Careless Talk Costs Lives” poster campaign. 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In January 1958 Hillary reached the South Pole overland; Fuchs followed later that month, and the expedition completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, in March 1958.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"943\"\u003eSigned by Vivian Fuchs on the half-title: “V. Fuchs \/ 1958.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1431\" data-end=\"1719\"\u003eThe book belongs in the same collecting field as Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen and Hillary’s Everest literature: a twentieth-century polar landmark, written by the two men most closely associated with the achievement. Signed copies dated in the year of publication are especially desirable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very good copy in a very good original dust jacket. The cloth is clean and bright, the silver lettering sharp, the contents clean and well preserved. The jacket is notably presentable, with some toning, light marking, rubbing and small chips to the extremities, but retaining strong impact and the original printed price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fuchs, Sir Vivian, and Hillary, Sir Edmund","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53185090748683,"sku":null,"price":650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20260616_072238971_iOS.jpg?v=1781603114"},{"product_id":"e-m-forster-a-passage-to-india-signed-landmark-novel","title":"E. M. Forster - A Passage to India - Signed Copy of a Twentieth-Century Masterpiece","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"160\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFORSTER, E. M. A Passage to India. London: Edward Arnold \u0026amp; Co., 1924.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"194\"\u003eFirst edition, first impression. Octavo. Original red cloth, upper board and spine lettered in black. Housed in a handsome custom red morocco-backed folding case, the spine lettered in gilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"846\"\u003eOne of the landmark novels of the twentieth century, and Forster’s final, greatest and most culturally enduring work. Published in 1924, \u003cem data-start=\"492\" data-end=\"512\"\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e reshaped the literary treatment of empire, friendship and misunderstanding, bringing extraordinary psychological delicacy to the charged atmosphere of British India. Its central question - whether true human connection can survive the pressures of race, class, empire, religion and fear - gave the novel a force that has never faded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"848\" data-end=\"1303\"\u003eForster was one of the finest English novelists of the modern period, and his achievement lay in making private feeling carry immense public meaning. In \u003cem data-start=\"1001\" data-end=\"1021\"\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"1023\" data-end=\"1036\"\u003eHowards End\u003c\/em\u003e and above all \u003cem data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1071\"\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e, he turned tact, hesitation, sympathy and moral courage into art of the highest order. This was the novel for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and it remains one of the essential books of modern English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1633\"\u003eThe dedication to Syed Ross Masood, Forster’s close friend and a profound personal influence on the book, gives the novel further resonance. At once political, spiritual and deeply human, \u003cem data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1513\"\u003eA Passage to India\u003c\/em\u003e became a defining cultural text, later reaching an even wider audience through David Lean’s celebrated film adaptation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1773\"\u003eWith a mounted signed slip to the front pastedown: the printed name “E. M. Forster” has been struck through and signed by Forster beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1775\" data-end=\"2043\"\u003eThe original red cloth remains attractive and characterful, with clear black lettering to the upper board and spine. The binding is firm, the text complete and well preserved, with the expected spotting and toning to the early leaves and preliminaries. 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Scotland, Switzerland, Algiers, England, the Arctic and Italy, chiefly 1870s-1900s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOblong album. Contemporary half morocco, dark cloth boards, ruled in gilt. Containing approximately 100 original watercolour views, mounted to album leaves, many captioned and dated in pencil. The subjects include Algiers, the Matterhorn, Riffel, Gornergrat, Belalp, Findelen Glacier, Rigi, Andermatt, Engadine, Cademario, Monte Generoso, Lake Como, Magdalena Bay, London, Wells, Harrogate, Devon, and a substantial sequence of Scottish Highland, western coastal and island views, including Ben Nevis, Loch Shiel, Glen Shiel, Loch Coruisk, Loch Duich, Strathpeffer, Glencoe, Ballachulish, Loch Etive, Loch Hourn, Glen Affric, Appin, Oban, Mull and Loch Creran.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA remarkable family-provenance album of original watercolours by Victoria, Lady Welby-Gregory (1837-1912), Queen Victoria’s goddaughter and cousin, former Maid of Honour to the Queen, philosopher of language, author, musician and watercolour artist. Born Victoria Alexandrina Maria Louisa Stuart-Wortley, she was one of the more original women intellectuals of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. Her later reputation rests chiefly on her development of “significs,” her theory of sign, meaning and interpretation, and on her correspondence with many of the leading thinkers of her age, including Charles Sanders Peirce.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe album should be seen in the context of Welby’s lifelong relationship with travel. After the death of her father, she travelled widely with her mother through Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, publishing A Young Traveller’s Journal of a Tour in North and South America during the Year 1850 while still a girl. That early life of movement, observation and recording shaped her education outside the usual formal structures available to women of her class. 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The Alpine views are particularly attractive, while the Algerian and Arctic subjects give the album a wider topographical interest. We have traced no original artwork by Lady Welby in the auction record or currently available market. This substantial family-provenance album therefore appears to be an exceptional survival: a rare visual record by a figure better known for her writings on language, meaning and signs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA highly unusual and desirable survival: a substantial album of approximately 100 original watercolours by Victoria, Lady Welby-Gregory, philosopher of meaning, Queen Victoria’s goddaughter and former Maid of Honour, acquired directly from the Welby family and internally attributed to her within the album.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acquired directly from the Welby family by the present owner. The attribution is further corroborated within the album: the reverse \/ tissue guard associated with the Matterhorn view is inscribed in pencil, \u003cstrong\u003e“The Matterhorn from the Riffel \/ by Victoria Lady Welby.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WELBY, Victoria, Lady Welby-Gregory.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186984870155,"sku":null,"price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/7848\/9355\/files\/20260616_152400337_iOS.jpg?v=1781675070"},{"product_id":"the-malay-archipelago-wallace-s-landmark-journey-through-evolution-s-island-world","title":"The Malay Archipelago - Wallace’s Landmark Journey Through Evolution’s Island World","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"999\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"759\" data-end=\"786\"\u003eWALLACE, Alfred Russel.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"787\" data-end=\"920\"\u003eThe Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-Utan, and the Bird of Paradise. 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Its pages contain orang-utans, birds of paradise, insects, peoples, forests, volcanoes and islands, described with the close observational power of a scientist who was also an exceptional writer. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2233\" data-end=\"2619\"\u003eThe printed dedication to Charles Darwin is particularly moving. Wallace offers the work both as a token of personal esteem and friendship and as an expression of his admiration for Darwin’s genius. It records one of science’s great intellectual friendships, while asserting Wallace’s immense, independent contribution to the understanding of life. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2621\" data-end=\"3267\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThe original boards, richly patinated with age, have been retained and carefully conserved. 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