10th Jan, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

The Roger Casson Collection

 
  Lot 99
 

99

Sverdrup (Otto) New Land, Four Years in the Arctic Regions, Longmans, Green, 1904, two volumes,...

Sverdrup (Otto)
New Land, Four Years in the Arctic Regions, Longmans, Green, 1904, two volumes, full page plates as called for, folding geological map, four maps on two folding sheets in rear pocket, original cloth;
Jackson (Frederick George)
, The Great Frozen Land (Bolshaia Zemelskija Tundra), Narrative of a Winter Journey, Across the Tundras and a Sojourn Among the Samoyads, Macmillan, 1895, frontis, three folding maps, original cloth;
Keely (Robert N.) & Davis (G.G.)
, In Arctic Seas, The Voyage of the 'Kite', with the Peary Expedition, together with a Transcript of the Log of the Kite, Hartranft, 1892, folding map, plates as called for, original cloth (4)

Sold for £280
Estimated at £150 - £200


 

New Land - Frontis titles, half titles and tissue guards foxed. Foxing to the edges but contents generally clean. Gift inscription in pencil, hinge weak after endpapers. Cloth rubbed, bleached spot to upper board (less than 1cm diameter). Frozen Land - Some light foxing in places, no inscriptions, generally very good. Arctic Seas - pencil inscription to front end paper. Clean book, contents near fine. Cloth in good shape.

 


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Auction: The Roger Casson Collection, 10th Jan, 2019

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