Antiquarian and Collectors’ Books

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste Charcot 1867-1936, No. 168. Paris: Bulletin Officiel du Yacht Club de France, 1936. Limited edition of 900 copies, this number 747, 8vo (283 x 190mm.) Numerous illustrations. (Light browning, some spotting to fore-edge.) Original wrappers (light browning, spotting to lower-cover). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

CHRISTENSEN, Lars. My Last Expedition to the Antarctic 1936-1937. Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum, 1938. 8vo (231 x 180mm.) Frontispiece, uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning.) Original boards (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed). Spence 294. Provenance: Einar S. Pedersen (signed and dated 'Desember 1947' to title-page); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

DAVIS, John King. With the 'Aurora' in the Antarctic 1911-1914. London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd, [n.d. but 1919]. First edition, 8vo (236 x 165mm.) Title printed in red and black, portrait frontispiece, 40 uncoloured plates, 5 maps, 1 folding map at rear. (Browning and spotting.) Original blue pictorial cloth blocked in gilt (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, lettering to spine faded, minor soiling, plate facing p.86 and pp.87-90 now loosely inserted). Spence 354. Provenance: Rupert Thomas Gould (presentation inscription from the author 'Lieut Commander R.T. Gould R.N. With compliments and best wishes from John K. Davis. Melbourne, April 1931' to front-free endpaper); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

DEBENHAM, Frank (editor). The Voyage of Captain Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821, Translated from the Russian. London: printed for The Hakluyt Society, 1945. 2 vols., series II, vols. XCI-XCII, 8vo (220 x 138mm.) 2 portrait frontispieces, 10 single-page maps, 10 folding maps (2 in pockets at rear), numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning and spotting, occasional minor soiling.) Original blue cloth blocked in gilt and blind (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, minor damp stains), dust-jackets (browning and spotting, chipped and minor tears). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

DESOLATION ISLANDS. - René E. BOSSIÈRE. Notice sur les Iles Kerguelen Possession Fran&#1195?aise. Paris: Augustin Challamel, 1893. 8vo (240 x 158mm.) 4 collotype plates, folding map at rear. (Light browning and spotting.) Original paper wrappers (light browning, minor soiling). Provenance: Monsieur de Douville Maillefeu (presentation inscription from the author to half-title); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

DISCOVERY EXPEDITION. - George MURRAY (editor). The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901… with a preface by Sir Clements R. Markham… Presented to the Expedition. London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901. First edition, 8vo (222 x 144mm.) Illustrations, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear. (Some marginal browning, minor marginal tear with loss to p.365, some browning and light spotting to folding maps.) Original cloth blocked in blind, spine blocked in gilt (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, spine darkened, endpapers browned, minor loss to front-free endpaper, tear to rear pastedown). Spence 829. Provenance: Robert H. Scott (signed 'Robert H. Scott' to title-page [Robert H. Scott was the Director of the Meteorological Office and researched Arctic and Antarctic climates]); James Cossar (inkstamp to front-free endpaper); The Michael Gilkes Collection (signed and dated '1945' to half-title). Note: Michael Gilkes purchased this book before embarking to serve with a whaling fleet in 1945.

DOORLY, Gerald S. In The Wake. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens Ltd., [n.d. but 1937.] First edition, 8vo (181 x 116mm.) Uncoloured frontispiece, 5 uncoloured plates. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, boards lightly browned), dust-jacket (chipped with some minor loss, creased and lightly browned). Provenance: Phil Wallis (presentation inscription from the author 'To my old shipmate and ever-kindly pal… Gerald S. Doorly… 22:9:44' to front-free endpaper); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

E. ALLOM & CO. (publishers). The Polar Book. London: [n.d. but 1930.] First edition, 8vo (212 x 130mm.) Folding colour map at rear. (Light browning, some spotting particularly to fore-edge.) Original pictorial wrappers (some browning and soiling, lightly bumped). - And a quantity of other volumes, the majority relating to Antarctica (including: S.A. DUSE. 'Bland Pingviner Och Sälar, Minnen Fran Svenska Syd Polar Expeditionen 1901-1903'. Stockholm: 1905). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (a quantity).

FILCHNER, Wilhelm. Zum Sechsten Erdteil, Die Zweite Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition. Berlin: [n.d. but 1923.] First edition, 4to (265 x 182mm.) Numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations, 1 colour folding map, 2pp. advertisements at rear. (Light browning, occasional light spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, light browning heavier to head of lower cover, minor spotting and soiling, spine faded). Spence 457. Note: Filchner launched a scientific expedition to the Antarctic in 1911 travelling south from South Georgia to the Weddell Sea. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

GOULD, Laurence McKinley. Cold, The Record of an Antarctic Sledge Journey. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1931. First edition, 8vo (215 x 140mm.) 2 colour plates, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Light browning, occasional minor spotting.) Original cloth (extremities bumped and scuffed, spine slightly faded, some soiling). Spence 517. Provenance: Ailie Cullen (presentation inscription from the author 'With happy memories of forgone days, which of course include all kinds of good wishes from the author Larry Gould, December 9, 1936' to front-free endpaper). - And forty-one other volumes relating to the Antarctic, mostly first editions (including: J. Gordon HAYES. 'The Conquest of the South Pole, Antarctic Exploration 1906-1931'. London: Thornton Butterworth, Limited, 1932. First edition, 8vo). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (42).

HEADLAND, Robert Keith. A Chronology of Antarctic Exploration, a Synopsis of Events and Activities from the Earliest Times until the International Polar Years, 2007-09. London: Quaritch, 2009. First edition, 4to (297 x 205mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket (lightly bumped and scuffed). Note: signed by the author to title-page. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

HURLEY, Frank. Argonauts of the South, Being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo (236 x 153mm.) Frontispiece, 2 folding maps, numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations. (Browning, some offsetting, occasional minor soiling, marginal tears without loss to pp.ix-xii, 91-92, 1 folding map torn and repaired with tape.) Original green gilt cloth, t.e.g. (extremities bumped and scuffed, minor soiling, pictorial front-free endpaper clipped with loss). Spence 615. Provenance: Capt. John F. Edgar (presentation inscription from 'Frank Garlichs, Christmas 1926' to preliminary blank); Clarence E. Ryan (inscription 'Donated to Dossin Museum' dated '1962' to preliminary blank); Dr. D.D. Wynn-Williams (British Antarctic Survey label to preliminary blank); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

JEANNEL, René. Au Seuil de L'Antarctique Croisiere du 'Bougainville' aux Iles des Manchots et des Éléphants de Mer. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1941. 8vo (252 x 161mm.) 16 collotype plates. (Light browning and spotting.) Original card wrappers (light browning, extremities chipped, stitching a little weak). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

KERGUELEN ISLANDS. - W.B. CLARKE (editor). Narrative of the Wreck of the 'Favourite' on the Island of Desolation: Detailing the Adventures, Sufferings, and Privations of John Nunn. London: William Edward Painter, 1850. First edition, 8vo (220 x 136mm.) Engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations and headpieces, 1 folding map, 16pp. advertisements at rear. (Light browning, occasional light spotting and minor soiling, marginal tear without loss repaired with adhesive tape to folding map.) Original cloth blocked in blind, spine gilt (extremities bumped and lightly scuffed, some recolouring, upper joint starting to split at head of spine). Provenance: David Commings (signed and dated 'August 3, 1877' to front pastedown); E. Smedley (signature to front pastedown); The Michael Gilkes Collection.

LEVICK, G. Murray. Antarctic Penguins, a Study of their Social Habits. London: William Heinemann, 1914. First U.K. edition, 8vo (197 x 149mm.) Numerous uncoloured plates. (Light browning, some spotting.) Original pictorial cloth (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, slightly soiled). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

MARKHAM, Clements R. Antarctic Exploration: A Plea for a National Expedition. London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1898. 8vo (246 x 159mm.) Colour folding map. (Light browning and spotting, marginal spotting to map.) Original wrappers (lightly spotted, soiled and chipped). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

MATTHEWS, [Leonard] Harrison. South Georgia the British Empire's Subantarctic Outpost. Bristol & London: John Wright & Sons Ltd., and Simpkin Marshall Ltd., 1931. First edition, 8vo (235 x 157mm.) Map to verso of half-title, numerous uncoloured illustrations. (Browning and spotting.) Original cloth, upper-cover blocked in black, spine gilt (extremities lightly bumped, spine slightly faded). Spence 770. Together with three a.l.s. by Duncan Carse addressed to Dr Gilkes, two referencing the Undine South Harbour Project in 1961 where Carse embarked on an experiment of living alone in the South Georgian cove undertaking scientific research, however, resulted in a 116 day debacle and eventual rescue by a sealing ship on September 12th. - And a t.l.s. by Edward Shackleton to Michael Gilkes dated '21st November, 1983', referring to his lecture at the Scott Polar Research Institute and an offer of a copy of his 1982 report, likely on the economics of the Falkland Islands. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

MAWSON, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. London: William Heinemann, 1915. 2 vols., 8vo (243 x 165mm.) Titles printed in brown and black, 2 photogravure frontispieces, 18 colour plates, numerous uncoloured plates, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear of vol. II. (Light browning and some spotting, preliminary blank torn with loss to remove presentation inscription to vol. I.) Original cloth blocked in silver and gilt (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, damp stain to upper-cover of vol. I). Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection.

MURRAY, James, and George MARSTON. Antarctic Days, Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton's Men. London: Andrew Melrose, 1913. 8vo (197 x 135mm.) Frontispiece, numerous uncoloured plates. (Browning and spotting, occasionally heavy.) Original blue cloth, spine gilt (extremities lightly bumped and scuffed, some damp staining and minor soiling). Spence 831. Provenance: George Marston (signed by the author to half-title); The Michael Gilkes Collection.