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of wear to very tips, small dent to foot of front cover, browning to endpa- pers, occasional foxing to contents and fore edge of book block, a very good, bright, copy. second and expanded edition, presentation copy, in- scribed by the author to the half-title, “To G. W. Gillman Esquire with the authors’ compliments & in acknowledgement of many kindnesses received, Scoresby Routledge, A.M. Schooner Mana ”. This revised edition details the monumental first scientific, archae- ological, and anthropological survey of Easter Island, carried out by Routledge (1866–1935) and her husband William between March 1914 and August 1915. The pair, both experienced anthropologists, travelled to the island on a 90-foot schooner, the Mana , funded by the British Museum and Royal Geographical Society. During this highly influential expedition the couple excavated over 30 moai , and recorded various legends and oral histories, including that of Hotu Matua, the “Birdman” cult. The results of their expedition are “still eminent in their field” (Robinson, p. 148). Robinson, Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers , 1990; Van Tilburg, Jo Anne, Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island , Scribner, 2003. £750 [122272]
paper renewed, half-title and rear endpapers browned, removal of label visi- ble on rear pastedown, else a very good copy. first edition of the Rossetti sisters’ pseudonymously published semi-autobiographical memoir of their experiences as teenagers in the late 19th-century anarchist underground movement in Lon- don. The narrator Isabel Meredith shuns her comfortable Victorian home for the life of a revolutionary only to eventually reject anar- chism on humanistic grounds, a move which reflects the sisters’ own disillusionment with this particular strain of radical politics. A few copies have previously appeared on the market bound in red cloth with “The Times 1783” roundel stamped in black on the lower spine; no priority or other differences have been established, sug- gesting that the red cloth copies were bound up as such for a sub- scription library or book club circulation. Olivia (1875–1960) and Helen (1879–1969) were the daughters of William Michael Rossetti, brother of Dante Gabriel and one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1891 they published and edited the anarchist newspaper The Torch , which led to the establishment of a prominent salon which counted Kro- potkin and Kravchinski among its members. Under these auspices George Bernard Shaw published the pamphlet Why I Am An Anar- chist. Return to Yesterday (1931). The Rossetti sister were cousins of Ford Madox Ford, friend and writing partner of Joseph Conrad, and their book predates and shares many features with Conrad’s The Secret Agent (1907). £675 [130071] 125 ROUTLEDGE, [Katherine] Scoresby. The Mystery of Easter Island. London: printed for the Author by Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1920 Octavo. Original green cloth, titles in gilt to spine and front cover, “bird- man” motif in gilt to front cover within frame blocked in blind, top edge gilt, others uncut, two green silk book markers. Photogravure frontispiece and portrait of the author with facsimile signature, with tissue guards, 134 half-tones, four of which are folding panoramas, 11 maps, two of which are folding, and illustrations to the text. Minor rubbing to extremities, a touch
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