Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

MOUNTAINEERING. - Alan LYALL. The First Descent of the Matterhorn, a Bibliographical Guide to the 1865 Accident & its Aftermath. Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1997. First edition, 4to (248 x 170mm.) Original boards (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (slightly soiled). - And twenty-one other volumes relating to mountaineering. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (22).

PACIFIC ISLANDS. The Parsons Collection, Rare Pacific Voyage Books from the Collection of David Parsons. Potts Point: Hordern House, [n.d. but circa 2006]. First edition, 2 vols., 4to (270 x 205mm.) Original cloth blocked in silver, dust-jackets (lightly bumped). - And seventeen other volumes relating to the Pacific Islands, mostly Easter Island (including: Geoff QUILLEY and John BONEHILL. 'William Hodges, 1744-1797: the Art of Exploration'. London: National Maritime Museum, 2004). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (19).

PATAGONIA. - George M. TOTTEN (translator). U.S. Hydrographic Office. No. 55. Remarks of Captain M.A. Lefèvre… on the Voyage of the Vaudreuil through the Patagonian Channels and Magellan Strait. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. 8vo (247 x 150mm.) (Light browning, some light marginal soiling, marginal tear without loss to pp.11-12.) Original wrappers (chipped and torn with minor loss, slight damp staining). - And thirty-seven other volumes relating to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (including: 'Ministry of Public Works… Northern Patagonia Character and Resources Volume I'. New York: Scribner Press, 1914). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (38).

PITCAIRN ISLAND & THE BOUNTY. - [Thomas] Boyles MURRAY. Pitcairn: The Island, the People, and the Pastor; with a Short Account of the Mutiny of the Bounty… sixth edition. London: 1856. 8vo (164 x 100mm.) Engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved plates. (Browning, spotting and some soiling.) Original cloth blocked in gilt and blind (extremities bumped and scuffed, joints splitting). Provenance: Sophia Andrews (prize label from St. Helier's Parochial Sunday School dated 'Christmas 1856' to front pastedown); William Andrews (signed and dated 'Oct 26/77' to front-free endpaper). - And twenty-four other volumes relating to Pitcairn Island and the Bounty (including: Trevor LUMMIS. 'Pitcairn Island, Life and Death in Eden'. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1997). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (25).

RIVERS. - P.G. HAMERTON. The Unknown River: an Etcher's Voyage of Discovery. London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1874. 8vo (182 x 118mm.) Etched frontispiece, 7 etched plates, 2pp. advertisements at rear. (Light browning.) Original decorative cloth blocked in black and gilt, g.e. (extremities bumped and scuffed, slightly soiled). Provenance: Edward Hasell (bookplate to front pastedown). Together with a folding map of the Thames Estuary published by Edward Stanford. - And twelve other volumes relating to rivers. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (14).

ROUTLEDGE, [Katherine]. The Mystery of Easter Island, The Story of an Expedition. London: printed for the author by Hazell, Watson and Viney, [n.d. but 1919.] First edition, 8vo (232 x 150mm.) Photogravure frontispiece, photogravure portrait plate of the author, numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations, 3 maps (2 folding), 5 folding panoramas, 1p. advertisement at rear. (Browning, occasional light spotting, 1 folding panorama torn without loss.) Original cloth blocked in gilt, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, chipped to head of spine, minor wrinkling of cloth). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

SCOTLAND, HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY. - Ian LINDSAY and Mary COSH. Inveraray and the Dukes of Argyll, with a foreword by the Eleventh Duke of Argyll. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973. First edition, 4to (293 x 203mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Light browning.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed), dust-jacket (torn without loss and repaired with adhesive tape, some browning and soiling). Provenance: Michael Gilkes (bookplate to front pastedown). Note: signed by the author Mary Cosh and by the Duke of Argyll to half-title. - And nineteen other volumes relating to the historical and archaeological monuments of Scotland. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (20).

SCOTLAND. - Alan MCKIRDY et al. Land of Mountain and Flood, the Geology and Landforms of Scotland. Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2007. First edition, 4to (249 x 240mm.) Numerous illustrations. Original boards, dust-jacket. - And fifty-three other volumes relating to Scottish topography. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (54).

SCOTLAND. - John VEITCH. The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border. Glasgow: James Maclehose, 1878. First edition, 8vo (190 x 125mm.) (Light browning, occasional spotting.) Original cloth (extremities bumped and scuffed, damp stained, hinges split). Note: contains presentation note 'From the author' loosely inserted. - And a quantity of other volumes relating to Scottish topography and history (including: Patrick GILLIES. 'Netherlorn Argyllshire and its Neighbourhood'. London: Virtue & Co., 1909). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (a quantity).

SCOTLAND. Summer Tours in Scotland. Glasgow to the Highlands, the Royal Route with Timetables and List of Fares by David MacBrayne's Royal Mail Steamers, 'Columba' 'Iona' &c… new edition. [N.p.: n.d.] 8vo (182 x 114mm.) 5 maps (1 double-page), 16 uncoloured plates. (Light browning, occasional minor soiling.) Original red pictorial cloth blocked in gilt, g.e. (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly soiled and damp stained). - And one other volume of 'The Royal Route' ('Summer Tours in the Western Highlands & Islands of Scotland, Official Guide, new edition'. [N.p.:] 1921). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (2).

SCOTLAND. The Bass Rock: Its Civil and Ecclesiastic History, Geology, Martyrology, Zoology and Botany. Edinburgh: John Greig & Son, [n.d.] 8vo (201 x 115mm.) Numerous engraved plates. (Browning, some light spotting and occasional minor soiling.) Original cloth blocked in gilt and blind (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, spine slightly faded). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to Scotland, its history and whisky (including: Alfred BARNARD. 'The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom'. [Newton Abbot:] David & Charles Reprints, 1969). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (a quantity).

SCOTTISH ISLANDS. - Arthur MURRAY. St. Columba and the Holy Isle of the Garvellachs, The Whirlpool of Corrievreckan. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1950. First edition, 8vo (218 x 136mm.) Illustrations. (Some light browning.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (browned, slightly soiled, torn and repaired with adhesive tape). Provenance: Ainslie Thin (presentation inscription from the author dated 'May 1950' to front-free endpaper) A. & B. Cox (library bookplate to front-free endpaper). - And a quantity of other volumes relating to Scottish Islands (a quantity). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

SKOTTSBERG, Carl. The Wilds of Patagonia, A Narrative of the Swedish Expedition to Patagonia Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909. London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First U.K. edition, 8vo (224 x 140mm.) Portrait frontispiece, 31 uncoloured plates, 3 maps (1 folding), 24pp. advertisements bound at rear. (Light browning and spotting, folding colour map at rear with minor repaired tears.) Original pictorial cloth, spine gilt (extremities bumped and scuffed, some minor soiling and damp staining, front-free endpaper torn with loss). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

SNOW, W. Parker. A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra Del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia and in the River Plate. London: Longman et al., 1857. 2 vols., 8vo (195 x 117mm.) 4 chromolithographed plates only (of 6), 2 replacement colour plates, 3 engraved folding maps hand coloured in outline only (of 4), 1 replacement folding map. (Light browning and spotting, heavier to plates and maps, engraved folding map to vol. II torn with loss.) Original cloth blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt (extremities bumped and scuffed, minor damp stains and soiling, rear endpapers to vol. II affected by damp). Spence 1141. Note: Snow was a 'colourful' explorer and writer. After experiencing a paranormal vision of the whereabouts of the missing expedition of John Franklin, was appointed civil officer by Lady Jane Franklin on board the Prince Albert in 1850. In 1854 Snow commanded the Allen Gardiner schooner on an expedition to the Falkland Islands commissioned by the Patagonian Missionary Society. Snow was discharged due to disagreements with the society's management resulting in an unsuccessful, and lengthy, legal battle for unfair dismissal; however, Snow correctly predicted the society's methods of operation would result in a massacre by the natives leading to later reconciliation with his former employer's successor. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

SOUTH ATLANTIC. - Octave AUBRY. St. Helena… Authorised Translation by Arthur Livingston. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1937. 8vo (216 x 34mm.) (Light browning, occasional minor spotting to fore-edge.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (chipped at head and foot of spine, backstrip faded). Provenance: Oliver J. Cock (inscription dated '1937' to front-free endpaper). - And forty-three other volumes relating to islands in the South Atlantic (including: Trevor HEARL. 'St Helena Britannica, Studies in South Atlantic Island History'. London: Society of Friends of St Helena, 2013). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (45).

ST. KILDA. - Norman HEATHCOTE. St. Kilda. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo (223 x 141mm.) Numerous plates and illustrations. (Light browning and spotting, heavier spotting to plates and tissue guards.) Original pictorial green cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed). - And twenty-three other volumes relating to the Scottish Island of St. Kilda. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (24).

SUSSEX, HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY. - William ALBERY. A Millennium of Facts in the History of Horsham and Sussex 947-1947. [N.p.: Horsham Museum Society,] 1947. First edition, 4to (241 x 178mm.) Numerous illustrations and facsimiles. (Browning, occasional light spotting.) Original green cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped, some bubbling and minor soiling to cloth), dust-jacket (chipped, torn and repaired with minor loss, some browning and soiling). - And thirty other volumes relating to the history and archaeology of Sussex (including: Thomas Gordon WILLIS. 'Records of Chichester, Some Glimpses of its Past'. Chichester: T.G. Willis & Co., 1928; J. Low WARREN. 'Chichester Past and Present'. Chichester: J.W. Moore, 1901). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (31).

SUSSEX, INDUSTRY. - Godfrey HARRISON. Alexander Gibb, The Story of an Engineer. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1950. First edition, 8vo (217 x 133mm.) (Light browning.) Original cloth (lightly bumped to head and foot of spine), dust-jacket (lightly bumped, minor tear without loss, slightly soiled). Note: contains the story of the Southwick mystery towers. - And twenty-eight other volumes mostly relating to Sussex industry and railways (including: M. BESWICK. 'Brickmaking in Sussex, a History and Gazetteer'. Midhurst: Middleton Press, 2001; Ernest STRAKER. 'Wealden Iron'. Trowbridge: David & Charles Reprints, 1969). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (29).

THE ISLAND SERIES. - Norman S. NEWTON. Islay. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. First edition, 8vo (213 x 137mm.) Original boards (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket (backstrip faded, foot of backstrip lightly bumped). Note: signed by the author 'Norman S. Newton in Islay 1988' to front-free endpaper. - And sixteen other volumes from 'The Island Series'. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (17).