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

953. The Anatomy of the Human Body... Designed (chiefly) for the Use of Naval Practitioners, and by Way of Supplement to a Work, entitled, The Marine Surgeon [i.e. The Marine Practice, see lot 954]. London: T. Becket, and P.A. De Hondt, 1772

Estimate: 200 – 300 GBP

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954. The Marine Practice of Physic and Surgery, including that in the Hot Countries. Particularly useful to all who visit the East and West Indies, or the Coast of Africa. London: W. and J. Richardson for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1770

Estimate: 800 – 1,400 GBP

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955. An Act for giving a Publick Reward to such Person or Persons, His Majesty's Subject or Subjects, as shall discover a North West Passage through Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America. London: Thomas Baskett, 1745, pp.481-486 [i.e. 6pp.]

Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP

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956. The Impracticability of a North-West Passage for Ships, impartially considered. London: [Privately printed], 1824

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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957. Report from the Committee Appointed to Inquire into the State and Condition of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, and of the Trade carried on there. [London], 1749

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP

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958. Report Relating to the Finding a North-West Passage. [London: House of Commons, 1742]

Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP

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959. A Short View of the Countries and Trade carried on by the Company in Hudson's-Bay; shewing the Prejudice of that exclusive Trade, and Benefit which will accrue to Great-Britain, by opening and extending that Trade, and settling those Countries. [London, c.1748]

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

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960. A Journal of a Voyage to, and Residence in, the Island of Jamaica, from 1801 to 1805. By Maria, Lady Nugent. London: [Privately printed by T. and W. Boone], 1839

Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP

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961. A Journal from the Year 1811 till the Year 1815, including a Voyage to and Residence in India. London: [Privately printed by T. and W. Boone], 1839

Estimate: 700 – 900 GBP

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962. Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation: detailing the Adventures, Sufferings, and Privations of John Nunn; an Historical Account of the Island, and its Whale and Seal Fisheries. London: William Edward Painter, 1850

Estimate: 400 – 600 GBP

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963. Journal of Travels into Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the Aborigines. Philadelphia: Thomas H. Palmer, 1821

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP

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964. Matabele Land and Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881

Estimate: 400 – 600 GBP

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