X
Forgot Password

Forgot Password?
(Enter your email below.)


Cancel

Not a member?
Create your account today!

Search from over 100,000 items available at auction now


Advanced
Search
Learn how to bid

Christie's: The Frank S. Streeter Library: Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography, Science : Lot 548

No photo available
Total Views: 29

Estimated Price:

   $   

Realized Price:

   $   
pricesVerified

What is this symbol? This symbol indicates that this auction hose has verified this price result.

Login or subscribe to view price data

[PRESS BOOKS]. GILBERT, William. On the Magnet, Magnetick Bodies Also, and On the Great Magnet the Earth, a New Physiology, Demonstrated by Many Arguments and Experiments . London: The Chiswick Press, 1900. - Notes on the De Magnete of Dr. William Gilbert . London: Chiswick Press, 1901. 2 parts in one, 2 o. 1 folding plate, numerous figures, vignettes and woodcut initials in text. Original limp vellum. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies. -- BLIGH, William. Bligh's Voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia . Introduction and notes by Owen Rutter. London: Golden Cockerell Press, 1937. 2 o. Wood engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 171 of 350 copies. -- BLIGH. The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch . Introduction by Owen Rutter. London: The Golden Cockerell Press, 1934. Small 4 o. Engravings by Robert Gibbings. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 64 of 300 copies. -- MEYERS, William H. Naval Sketches of the War in California Reproducing Twenty-eight Drawings Made in 1846-1847 . Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox and introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for Random House, 1939. 2 o. Facsimile drawings by Meyers. Original leather-backed boards; dust wrapper. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. -- MEYERS. Journal of a Cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands . Edited by John Haskell Kemble. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. 2 o. Original leather-backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 400 copies. -- MEYERS. Sketches of California and Hawaii . Introduction and notes by John Haskell Kemble. [San Francisco:] The Book Club of California, 1970. 2 o. 21 plates. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 450 copies. -- FLINDER, Matthew. Narrative of his Voyage in the Schooner Francis: 1798 . London: Gold Cockerell Press, 1946. Small 2 o. Engravings by John Buckland Wright. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 698 of 750 copies. -- DAMPER, William. Voyages and Discoveries . Introduction and notes by Clennell Wilkinson. London: The Argonaut Press, 1931. 4 o. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 975 copies. This copy is out-of-series. -- JANE, Cecil, Translator. A Spanish Voyage to Vancouver and the North-West Coast of America . London: The Argonaut Press, 1930. 4 o. Folding map and illustrations. Original quarter vellum. LIMITED EDITION, number 360 of 525 copies. -- HUSSEY, John A., Editor. The Voyage of the Racoon. A 'Secret' Journal of a Visit to Oregon, California and Hawaii, 1813-1814. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1958. Small 2 o. Original leather-backed boards. -- WINSHIP, George Parker, Editor and translator. The Journey of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado 1540-/1542 . San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. 4 o. Original cloth. LIMITED EDITION, one of 550 copies. -- ROBERTSON, John W. Francis Drake & Other Early Explorers along the Pacific Coast . San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1927. 4 o. Frontispiece. Original vellum-backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 copies. -- TEMPLE, Richard Carnac. The World Encompassed and Analogous Contemporary Documents Concerning Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the World . London: The Argonaut Press, 1926. 4 o. Original quarter-vellum. LIMITED EDITION, number 381 of 975 copies. -- SMITH, Buckingham, Translator. The Discovery of Florida, Being a True Relation of the Vicissitudes that Attended the Governor Don Hernando de Soto and some Nobles of Portugal in the Discovery of Florida . Introduction by George P. Hammond. San Francisco: Printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club of California, 1946. 2 o. Original cloth-backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, one of 280 copies. -- SKELTON, R.A. and John SUMMERSON. A Description of Maps and Architectural Drawings in the Collection made by William Cecil First Baron Burghley now at Hatfield House . Oxford: The Roxburghe Club, 1971. Large 2 o. 24 facsimile plates. Original quarter morocco. -- Together 15 volumes, condition varies. (15)

Additional Upcoming Lots

Catalog Information

Auction House

Christie's

Location

USA

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

View realized price and lot details for Lot 548: from Christie's's The Frank S. Streeter Library: Important Navigation, Pacific Voyages, Cartography, Science . See additional auction price results for lots from this auction on the Christie's profile page.

  • Sign Up For Free Email Updates

Thank you!
Why not register for a
FREE account today?