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STRYPE, John.
The Life of the learned Sir John Cheke, Kt., first Instructer, afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI.,...
London, John Wyat, 1705.
First edition of Strype’s biography of the courtier and classicist Sir John Cheke, inaugural Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge.
£450
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PURSEY, Thomas.
The last General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland.
[Edinburgh, T. Pursey, 1900.]
A photographic tour-de-force, assembling many hundreds of individual photographic portraits neatly incorporated into a painted scenario, and then reproduced as a photogravure, depicting all the attendees of the last General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, held in May 1900. Evidently a...
£2000
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ADAMS, John Couch.
The scientific Papers … edited by William Grylls Adams … with a Memoir by J.W.L. Glaisher.
Cambridge, University Press, 1896 [– 1900].
First edition of the posthumously published collected papers of the Cambridge mathematician and astronomer, John Couch Adams (1819–1892). ‘In retrospect Adams’ many mathematical and astronomical achievements pale in comparison to his analysis of the orbit of Uranus and his prediction of...
£175
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[BOLINGBROKE, Henry St John, Viscount].
Letters, on the Spirit of Patriotism: on the Idea of a Patriot King: and on the State of...
London: Printed for A. Millar … 1749.
First authorised edition. Written in 1738 for the Prince of Wales, the manuscript was then entrusted to Pope who had it printed, to Bolingbroke’s fury: he bought up the entire edition and had it burnt in October 1744 (only two imperfect copies survive, at the British Library and Princeton). He later...
£375
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LA SERRE, Jean-Puget de.
Grab-Statt der weltlichen Ergötzlichkeiten, einstens in Französischer Sprache zubereitet … anjetzt...
Regensburg, Johann Conrad Peetz und Bader, 1738.
First edition in German of Tombeau des délices du monde, by the French dramatist and historian Jean-Puget de la Serre (1594–1665).
£375
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[HALL STEVENSON, John.]
Makarony Fables …
London: ‘Printed for Circulation among private Subscribers only’, 1897.
Limited edition, numbered 172 of 300 copies, of this collection of satiric fables in verse by the poet and satirist John Hall-Stevenson (1718–1785), reprinted from the original edition of 1768. Hall-Stevenson’s reputation relies heavily on his friendship with Laurence Sterne, his contemporary...
£100
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KOLLÁR, Jan.
Díla básnická … we dwau djljch [‘A Collection of Poems … in two parts’].
Buda, no publisher, but ‘with the types Gyuriána a Bagó’, 1845.
First collected edition of Jan Kollár’s works, inscribed to fellow poet and ‘brother Slav’ Ognjeslav Utješenowić-Ostrožinski, with an additional autograph sonnet written in his honour.
£1750
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ATKINSON, Robert.
Island going. To the remoter isles, chiefly uninhabited, off the north-west corner of Scotland.
London, Collins, 1949.
First edition, complete with dust jacket. ‘In July 1935, Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie set out on an ornithological search for the rare Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel. Their quest was to last for twelve years and took them from their Oxford base to many of the remote and often deserted islands off...
£50
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DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni.
The land of the midnight sun: summer and winter journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and northern...
London, John Murray, 1882.
Third edition. Du Chaillu is best known as an intrepid explorer of Africa. ‘In 1871 Du Chaillu, ever restless, sought to explore an area of the world new to him and in stark contrast to equatorial Africa. He went to Scandinavia and began crisscrossing the peninsula from southern Sweden to the northernmost...
£175
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FORESTER, Thomas, editor.
Norway and its scenery. Comprising the journal of a tour by Edward Price, Esq. with considerable additions....
London, Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
A thorough work on Norway comprising the text of Edward Price’s Norway: views of wild scenery and journal (1834), including his handsome illustrations, supplemented with much additional material by Thomas Forester. Following an overview of ‘English travellers in Norway’, Forester devotes a chapter...
£100
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LYNAM, Charles Cotterill.
To Norway and the North Cape in ‘Blue Dragon II’ 1911-1912 ... Illustrated in colour, and with photographs,...
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1913.
First edition of this richly-illustrated account by Lynam (1858-1938), the popular and progressive headmaster of the Dragon School in Oxford. ‘As a yachtsman Lynam had a touch of genius. His cruises in Blue Dragon I, II, and III up the west coast of Scotland and across the North Sea to Norway...
£100
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MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.
A polar reconnaissance being the voyage of the “Isbjörn” to Novaya Zemlya in 1879 ... With maps...
London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.
First edition of this attractively illustrated account by the Arctic explorer Sir Albert Hastings Markham (1841-1918). ‘Markham went back to the Arctic in 1879 aboard the Isbjörn with Sir Henry Gore-Booth, as a guest on a private British sport-hunting expedition to Novaya Zemlya, returning with animal,...
£200
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MELVILLE, George Wallace.
In the Lena Delta. A narrative of the search for Lieut.-Commander DeLong and his companions followed...
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892.
Later edition (first 1884) by the American explorer and engineer Melville (1841-1912), survivor of George Washington De Long’s tragic North Polar expedition.
£100
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PAIJKULL, Carl Wilhelm.
A summer in Iceland ... Translated by Rev. M.R. Barnard ...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1868.
First edition in English of this account of Iceland by the Swedish geologist Paijkull (1836-1869), translated by the Scandinavian scholar and clergyman Mordaunt Barnard (1828-1906). ‘Iceland is a country abounding with legends and myths, which tradition and the hand of nature have each done their part...
£100
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PONTOPPIDAN, Erich.
The natural history of Norway containing a particular and accurate account of the temperature of the air, the...
London, for A. Linde, 1755.
First English edition, a nice copy, albeit without two of the original plates to the first part, of this remarkable account of Norway’s natural history by the Danish theologian and antiquary Pontoppidan (1698-1764), whose accounts of sea monsters influenced both Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Jules...
£1250
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SHEPHERD, Charles William.
The north-west peninsula of Iceland: being the journal of a tour in Iceland in the spring and summer...
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867.
First edition, with two attractive chromolithographs showing ‘I’sa-Fjördr Town’ and ‘Goda-Foss’. ‘My principal object in making a second journey to Iceland, which country I first visited in company with Mr Holland in 1861, was to explore the North-West Peninsula and the Vatna Jökull. I...
£150
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SMITH, (Robert) Angus.
To Iceland in a yacht ... Not published.
Edinburgh, privately printed by Edmonston & Douglas, May 1873.
First edition of this privately printed account by the chemist and environmental scientist Angus Smith (1817-1884) recording his trip to Iceland aboard the ‘Nyanza’ in 1872 in the company of the chemist James ‘Paraffin’ Young (1811-1883) and Agnes Livingstone, daughter of the explorer, among...
£275
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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
Lives of missionaries. Greenland. Hans Egede. Matthew Stach, and his associates.
London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1860s].
A nicely illustrated account of the travels to Greenland undertaken by the Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede (1686-1758) and by the Moravian missionary Matthäus Stach (1711-1787).
£75
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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.
Ice-bound on Kolguev. A chapter in the exploration of Arctic Europe to which is added a record of the nartural...
Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895.
Third edition. The explorer and naturalist Trevor-Battye (1855-1922) reached Kolguyev Island in northern Russia in June 1894 aboard the steam yacht Saxon. ‘Along with his assistant Thomas Hyland ... and his spaniel, Trevor-Battye was left with supplies and an agreement to be collected by the vessel...
£75
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TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn.
A northern highway of the Tsar ... With map and illustrated by the author.
Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1898.
First edition, presentation copy from the publisher, of this account of Trevor-Battye’s ‘journey through the tundras and forests of high Northern Russia’ (p. vii). ‘Travelling by one of the high northern trails is easy enough in summer ... is delightful in winter ... but in Rasputnya it is not...
£50