Hooker, William Jackson
Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809
£875
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. Second edition ('with additions'), 2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 13cm), contemporary cloth, [8] cvi 369, [2] 391 [15] pp., half-titles, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), 3 engraved maps (2 folding; one printed in bistre), letterpress table (facing volume 2 p. 238), inscribed 'To Mrs Dennistoun, with the most respectful compliments of the author, 1826' on half-title of volume 1, spotting and offsetting;
Campbell, Walter. The Old Forest Ranger; or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles and on the Plains. London: How and Parsons, 1842. First edition, 8vo, original quarter morocco, 8 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title-page, tissue-guards, spine worn, tips bumped and showing through, spotting to endpapers and a few plates, quires I-K working loose [not in Abbey];
and 6 others (not fully collated): John Matheson, England to Delhi, 1870 (first edition, 4to, original red cloth, inscribed 'James M. Hall Esqr, with the author's compliments', front inner hinge cracked; James Young Simpson, Side-Lights on Siberia: Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System, 1898 (first edition, 8vo, original green cloth); George Milne Rae, The Syrian Church in India, 1892 (first edition, 8vo, original red cloth); Daniel Bruun, The Cave Dwellers of Southern Tunisia, 1898 (first edition in English, 8vo, original brown cloth); Sir William Andrew, Euphrates Valley Route to India, 1882 (second edition, large 8vo, original orange cloth); and a signal book for the [Royal] Northern Yacht Club, 1829 (8vo, contemporary calf, front board detached, flags added in watercolour) (9)
Footnote
Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.