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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000 -
Bonhams, June 16-24: KELMSCOTT PRESS. RUSKIN. The Nature of Gothic. 1892. $1,500 - $2,500Bonhams, June 16-24: ASHENDENE PRESS. The Wisdom of Jesus. 1932. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-24: CHARLOTTE BRONTE WRITES AS GOVERNESS. Autograph Letter Signed, 1851. $15,000 - $25,000Bonhams, June 16-24: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. BRONTE, Emily. New York, 1848. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: IAN FLEMING ASSOCIATION COPY. You Only Live Twice. London, 1964. $7,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-24: DELUXE EDITION WITH ORIGINAL PAINTING. BUKOWSKI, Charles. War All the Time. 1984. $3,000 - $5,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN'S MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT ON THE ATOMIC BOMB. Original Typed Manuscript Signed, "On My Participation in the Atom Bomb Project," 1953. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, June 16-24: EINSTEIN ON SCIENCE, WAR AND MORALITY. Autograph Letter Signed, 1949. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. WASHINGTON, George. Engraved document signed, 1786. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: AN EARLY CHINESE-MADE 34-STAR U.S. CONSULAR FLAG. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-24: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF LINCOLN WITH HIS SON TAD. 1864. $60,000 - $90,000Bonhams, June 16-24: MALCOLM X WRITES FROM KENYA. Postcard signed, 1964. $4,000 - $6,000
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Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - August - 2008 Issue
Voyages and Travels from Reg and Philip Remington
By Michael Stillman
A new catalogue was recently issued by Reg and Philip Remington, of Truro, the UK. Its title is Voyages & Travels Catalogue No. 38. This catalogue includes primarily 17th and 18th century voyages (most trips were voyages as they went by sea), and also numerous books on the lands visited. Many of these works are natural histories of these lands rather than accounts of trips. Additionally, there are books not so much about travel as about topics related to it, such as the slave trade. Anyone interested in exploration and discovery from a time when much of the world was still new to Europeans will find this catalogue most intriguing. These are a few of the works being offered.
John Byron was hardly of age when he set off on George Anson's 1740 trip around the world. They were supposed to harass Spanish shipping along the coast of South America, some privateering for profit. However, the voyage turned into a terrible disaster. Five of Anson's six ships were either shipwrecked or forced to return, and most of his sailors died. Eventually, Anson completed the circumnavigation in his last boat, captured a treasure-laden ship near the end, and achieved great wealth. Byron was not so lucky, though more fortunate than most as he survived. His ship, the Wager, was wrecked off the coast of Patagonia. The survivors split into two groups. Byron's group finally made its way to Rio, after being imprisoned by the Spanish, and eventually made it back to England six years later. You can read this harrowing tale in The Narrative of The Honourable John Byron ...Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia... Item 6, published in 1768. Priced at £950 (roughly $1,884 in US dollars).
Byron would be placed in command of his own expedition in 1764. It did not make many notable discoveries, but did set a speed record, circumnavigating the globe in just 22 months, a record at the time. Six years before the publication of the official account, an unofficial version was published: A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Ship the Dolphin, Commanded by Commodore Byron. The unnamed author is believed to be Charles Clerke, who later sailed on all three of Cook's expeditions. Clerke briefly took over the final Cook expedition when the latter was killed by natives in Hawaii, but he was already very ill and did not survive long enough to make it home. In this book about the Byron voyage, Clerke (or whoever) reinforced the old legend about the Patagonian giants, first reported by Magellan's expedition. They had shrunk from earlier claims of twelve feet to nine, but that was still spectacular enough for this book to arouse quite a stir. However, the later official account reduced them to 6 1/2 feet, and the reality was about 6 feet, quite tall for the era, but hardly giants. Item 8. £1,800 (US $3,570).
Items 35 and 36 pertain to regulating the British slave trade in the late 18th century. The first is An Act for Regulating...the Shipping and Carrying of Slaves in British Vessels, published in 1798. It limits the number of slaves to be carried on a vessel, requires the keeping of a journal, and that a surgeon be present on each voyage, etc. Requirements concerning food and pay for the crew are also promulgated. £450 (US $892). The second is An Act for Better Regulating the Manner of Carrying Slaves, in British Vessels, from 1799. Among the requirements are letters, painted in white or yellow on the stern, at least four inches tall, saying 'Allowed to Carry Slaves' and the number of them on board. Parliament outlawed the British slave trade in 1807, though it was another 26 years before slavery itself was outlawed in all British territories. £350 (US $694).