Posted on Monday 14 September 2009 407 , 1
Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration sale, which will take place this Wednesday 16th, includes a number of important manuscripts, books, and photographs worth looking up.
Chief highlight among the manuscript items is an autograph record of one of the greatest of all polar feats: Edward Wilson’s Report on the winter journey to the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, 1911. Wilson’s report has since been immortalized by Apsley Cherry-Garrard as The Worst Journey in the World (£80,000-120,000, illustrated). Alongside this item, a 34 further lots (including paintings, photographs, instruments and associated letters and ephemera), with the same family provenance will be included in the sale.
Other manuscript items include a logbook compiled by Lieutenant Arthur Bromley, assistant surveyor on the HMS Challenger expedition, 1872-1876 (£10,000-12,000), and an autograph letter signed by Shackleton (£500-700). In the printed books section, Bonhams’ offer a good set of James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790 (£2,000-3,000) and Johann Steinmann’s Souvenirs de Rio de Janeiro, [1835] (£15,000-20,000); ten photographs by Charles Royds of the National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, probably printed in Antarctica (£3,000-5,000); and a rare scrimshawed whale’s tooth from the HMS Beagle, decorated by James Bute with scenes from Charles Darwin's voyage in April 1834 (£30,000-50,000).
To view the catalogue online please click here:
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=16919
Chief highlight among the manuscript items is an autograph record of one of the greatest of all polar feats: Edward Wilson’s Report on the winter journey to the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, 1911. Wilson’s report has since been immortalized by Apsley Cherry-Garrard as The Worst Journey in the World (£80,000-120,000, illustrated). Alongside this item, a 34 further lots (including paintings, photographs, instruments and associated letters and ephemera), with the same family provenance will be included in the sale.
Other manuscript items include a logbook compiled by Lieutenant Arthur Bromley, assistant surveyor on the HMS Challenger expedition, 1872-1876 (£10,000-12,000), and an autograph letter signed by Shackleton (£500-700). In the printed books section, Bonhams’ offer a good set of James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790 (£2,000-3,000) and Johann Steinmann’s Souvenirs de Rio de Janeiro, [1835] (£15,000-20,000); ten photographs by Charles Royds of the National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-1904, probably printed in Antarctica (£3,000-5,000); and a rare scrimshawed whale’s tooth from the HMS Beagle, decorated by James Bute with scenes from Charles Darwin's voyage in April 1834 (£30,000-50,000).
To view the catalogue online please click here:
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=16919
