Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P - L15411

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Exploration And Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library Of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

19 March 2015 • London

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Sale Number: L15411

869. A Series of Fourteen Sketches made during the Voyage up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin. London: Day and Son, 1855

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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870. The Indian Alps and how we crossed them. Being a Narrative of Two Years' Residence in the Eastern Himalaya and Two Months' Tour into the Interior. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876

Estimate: 400 – 600 GBP

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871. An Historical Account of a New Method for extracting the foul Air out of Ships &c; with the Description and Draught of the Machines by which it is performed... the second edition, to which are annexed... A Discourse on the Scurvy by Dr. Mead. London: J. Brindley, 1749

Estimate: 600 – 1,000 GBP

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872. Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the north west coast of America. To which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka; observations on the probable existence of a North West Passage; and some account of the trade between the north west coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain. London: Printed at the Logographic Press, 1790, FIRST EDITION, viii, [xii], xcvi, 372, cviii pp., stipple engraved portrait of Meares by C. Bestland after W. Beechey, 10 engraved maps and charts (3 folding), 17 plates (most sepia aquatints, some double-page or folding), list of subscribers (after the preface), some offsetting of plates and maps, [Abbey, Travel 594; Hill (2004) p.195; Lada-Mocarski 46; Sabin 47260; Streeter VI 3491; Wagner, Northwest Coast, 758-766]

Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 GBP

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873. A Glance at the Interior of China, obtained during a Journey through the Silk and Green Tea Countries. London: John Snow, 1850 [but printed in Shanghai, 1849]

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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874. Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles. London: Colburn and Co., 1851

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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875. The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. London: John Murray, 1864

Estimate: 300 – 500 GBP

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876. The Last East-Indian Voyage. Containing much varietie of the state of the severall kingdomes where they have traded. London: T. P[urfoot] for Walter Burre, 1606

Estimate: 20,000 – 30,000 GBP

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877. Travels in Chile and La Plata. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1826

Estimate: 300 – 500 GBP

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878. Travels in Chaldaea, including a Journey from Bussorah to Bagdad, Hillah, and Babylon. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1829, FIRST EDITION, xvi, 334pp., 2 folding engraved maps/plans, 6 aquatint plates, illustrations, [Atabey 808]

Estimate: 500 – 800 GBP

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879. A Winter Journey through Russia, the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia; thence across Mount Zagros, into Koordistan. London: Richard Bentley, 1839

Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP

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880. Far Away Up the Nile. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1924

Estimate: 200 – 300 GBP

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