Set Reminder2022-10-20 12:00:002022-10-20 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-including-americana-21941 Our fall book sale will be a major high spot for the department this year. We are offering several items that are only found institutionally including a presentation copy of the Bodley Head Ulysses signed by Joyce and a book owned by Ernest Shackleton that was taken by him on the Nimrod Expedition.
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[HUNTING]. DAS NEVES, D. Fernandes. A Hunting Expedition to the Transvaal. London: George Bell and Sons, 1879. 8vo. Half?title, 24pp. publisher?s ads at end. Original gilt?decorated red cloth, black coated endpapers (spine a bit rolled, front hinge tender). FIRST EDITION of this exceedingly rare work. Mendelssohn I:416?417. ?? [With:] TYACKE, R.H. How I Shot My Bears; or, Two Years? Tent Lift in Kullu and Lahoul. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1893. 8vo. Folding map frontispiece, several illustrations from photographs and drawings. Original gilt?decorated plum cloth, green coated endpapers (front hinge partially cracked, spine slightly rolled). Provenance: Mercantile Library New York (rubberstamp on title?page). FIRST EDITION. ?? Together, 2 works in 2 volumes.