18th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
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Greely (Adolphus W.). Three Years of Arctic Service, 1st edition, 1886, & 7 others
Greely (Adolphus W.). Three Years of Arctic Service, an Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the Farthest North, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, steel-engraved frontispieces, 42 wood-engraved plates, 9 maps (of which one folding in end-pocket), together with 7 others (all in original cloth; not fully collated), including: Adolphus W. Greely, Three Years of Arctic Service, 2nd UK edition London: Richard Bentley, 1886 (2 volumes, gilt-stamped 'second edition' on spines); R. E. Peary, Northward Over the "Great Ice", 1st UK edition, 1898 (2 volumes, old manuscript library labels to front covers, volume 1 spine nicked); idem, Nearest the Pole, 1st UK edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907 (title-page blind-stamped 'with the publisher's compliments' and with ink-stamp of Manchester Guardian Library, spine-ends worn, old manuscript library label to front cover); idem, The North Pole, 1st UK edition, 1910 (folding map loose, photogravure plate facing p. 153 absent); and similar (qty: 11)
Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 18th May, 2022
Over 180 lots to include a broad selection, from early antiquarian books to modern first editions, alongside illustrations, private press, manuscripts, maps and atlases, early photographs, and historic documents. Amongst the highlights is a group of Victorian ephemera including a Paper Peepshow of the Thames Tunnel, and a very unusual leaf-cut picture of workers around a derelict tower and trees. Of North-East interest is a collection of approximately 240 19th and early 20th century photographs, and an outstanding archive of early drawings and plans relating to Radcliffe and Broomhill Collieries.
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