Travel & Voyages

Cape Horn to the Pacific – Raymond Rydell – 1952

Published by the University of California Press. A first edition 1952. Octavo, 213 pages, with map. Very good condition.

Subtitled the Rise and Decline of an Ocean Highway. A chronological progression regarding the “Horn” with a focus on a US perspective.. Magellan and Cook; the Old China Trade; Whaling; Missionaries; Navy; Forty-Niners; Clipper era etc

The Horn analysed …

$30.00

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Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Published by Sierra, San Francisco in 1980. First edition, octavo, 387 pages with enpaper maps and nice illustrations, mainly coloured photographic images. A little ageing to the dust jacket, overall very clean inside.

In the summer of 1977 Charles Neider made his third trip south of Cape Horn to the Antarctic visiting Ross Island, McMudo sound, Wright and Victoria valleys etc. Also the author intermingles Magellan and Drake and their passages around the Horn and Cook and others who sailed so close and Scoot and Amundsen and the tragedy and success.

Well beyond Cape Horn

$30.00

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Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist – Frank Chapman – First edition 1908

A first edition, large octavo, 432 pages heavily illustrated as from black and white photographs. Published by Appleton, New York in 1908 a first edition. Good condition with the striking flamingo cover albeit with some pock marks to the fore and bottom edge. Internally nice, clean and tight.

Ornithology and travel have gone hand in hand since bird watching was invented and in this book travel around the greater North America has equal status with some rare feathery friends.

Frank Chapman was curator of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History and a Fellow of everything relevant. After checking out Jays, Meadowlarks and Nighthawks near to home the party visit Gardiner’s and Cobb’s Islands on the Atlantic Coast. Then to Florida and Pelican Island … the Great Blue Heron, Water Turkey, Egret and the Cuthbert Rookery. A nice trip to the Bahama and the striking Flamingo, Egg Birds and the Booby and Man-o-War bird. Off to the west and the prairie birdlife, California and the Sierras before reaching north to Western Canada and the White Pelican’s. An unusual finale in England and stroking the Eider Duck.

Birds and getting around them done in style early 20thC.

$120.00

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The Dragon and the Lotus – Crosbie Garstin

Published by Heinemann in London, a first crown edition 1930. Thick octavo, 343 pages with sketches by the author of some standard and the handy endpapers for the geographically limited.

An informative and entertaining travel account which starts at the Ritz in Piccadilly amongst Cabinet Ministers, Army Officers and American musical Comedy Stars!

It does get more serious, and Garstin takes us nicely on his journey starting in earnest in the Pacific at Oahu then on to Japan, southward to Hong Kong, Macao then in to Tonking and the “House of Marvels”. Then to Yunnan-fu and Hue and the “Funeral of a King” and the “Marble Mountains”. To Saigon and north to Angkor and the “Vat” west to Bangkok and the river to Ayuthia for a bit of leisure and on home.

Travelling in Asia in a different era …….

$50.00

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IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 39 – With R.V. Tooley Obituary

The Journal of The International Society for the History of Cartography.

Published by Imago Mundi, King College London in 1987. Small folio, 136 pages plus advertisements. Illustrated with maps, charts and diagrams. original blue cloth with gilt titling and device. Very good condition.

An annual publication and the pinnacle of cartographic research. Superbly presented.

Contents include in French … La Mappemonde du Liber Floridus .. Danielle Lecoq; Vicente Pintado Surveyor General of Spanish west Florida – The man and His Maps by John Herbert; A Mapp of the Parioch of Tranent … cartography of John Adair by Moore and Notes on Vincenzo Coronelli by Rhodes. A the delightful obituary of Robert Vere Tooley (1898-1986) … the Master Map Collector and cataloguer extraordinaire.

Extensive book reviews provided an excellent bibliography for cartography enthusiasts.

Imago Mundi cannot be improved

$50.00

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Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

One of the collectable Christies/ Bonham Polar Sale Catalogues.

Christies Travel, Science and Natural History Catalogue with a special emphasis on the Antarctic and the Scott Expeditions. Quarto, 60 pages illustrated to the expected impeccable standard.

Some exceptional travel items catalogued with a good Australian and Pacific content. Includes forty pages of unique Antarctic items that will make any enthusiast salivate.

Our favourites … Mawson’s specimen boxes, Shackleton’s sledge harness, letters from Apsley Cherry-Garrard to his mother (“I sleep under Bowers. It is going to be a very warm hut and we live very well here”), Ponting’s best photographs and Scott’s marching compass. Well we like it all really. We all missed the boat on this one!

Unique Polar items and other travel delicacies

$60.00

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Cape Horn to the Pacific – Raymond Rydell – 1952

Beyond Cape Horn – Charles Neider

Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist – Frank Chapman – First edition 1908

The Dragon and the Lotus – Crosbie Garstin

IMAGO MVUNDI (MUNDI) – Vol 39 – With R.V. Tooley Obituary

Polar Item – Scott Centenary (1912 – 2012) – Christie’s Sale

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