led an expedition to search for land reported north of Alaska” (Mills, p. 426). Mikkelsen is famed for his enforced wintering for two years in north-east Greenland during his expedition to recover the lost journals and maps of the Denmark Expedition (1906– 8), led by Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen, which surveyed north-east Greenland. Mikkelsen’s party of six men made winter quarters at Dove Bay, Shannon Island. In the autumn of 1909, Mikkelsen and the mechanic Iver P. Iversen took their first sledging excursion, penetrating as far as Lamberts Land. “Crossing the Greenland ice cap, the two men eventually arrived at Danmark Fjord, where Mylius-Erichsen’s documents were discovered inside a cairn. After a harrowing journey back, during which Mikkelsen and Iversen suffered every conceivable hardship, the two explorers arrived at Dove Bay on 25 November 1910. There they discovered that not only had their ship been crushed by ice but also that the remaining members of the expedition, who had given up Mikkelsen and Iversen for dead, had gone home on a passing sealing-vessel. Fortunately, before departing, they had erected a cabin and left a stock of food. In the event, Mikkelsen and Iversen were forced to endure another two winters on the Greenland coast, suffering great hardships, until rescued by a Norwegian sealer. By then, nearly all hope of seeing them again had been abandoned” (Howgego). The ordeal was first told in the work Lost in the Arctic (1913), and made into the film Against the Ice in 2022. 5 works, octavo (205 × 53 mm.). Uniformly bound in contemporary reddish brown half morocco, compartments decorated and lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, light brown textured endpapers, speckled edges, original wrappers bound in and 6 dust jacket front flaps loosely laid in (4 from Fra Hundevagt til Hundeslœde ). With a total of 41 half- tone photographic plates. A few small flaws to morocco, text leaves slightly shaved, original wrappers lightly creased and trimmed, one with repair to verso, occasional minor finger soiling. A very good set, bright and square. ¶ Howgego M39. William James Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers, 2003. £2,000 [156314] 136 POOLE, Joshua. The English Parnassus.
schoolmaster in Barnet. His best-known work, the book is “an aid to poetry writing, comprising lists of rhymes, epithets, and felicitous phrases alphabetically arranged” ( ODNB ). Octavo (167 × 110 cm). Late 18th-century half calf, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco label to second compartment, marbled sides, red edges, plain endpapers. Title-page printed in black and red. Edges rubbed and worn at extremities, bound without first blank (A1), closely trimmed, some marginal notes and catchwords cropped, occasional worming to lower margins, early inscriptions and pen trials in several hands to outer leaves, overall a very good copy in an unrestored binding. ¶ ESTC R468961 (variant with the title page reading “Containing / a Short Institution of that art”, no priority established); Wing P2814. £1,250 [158297] 137 POOLE, Sophia Lane. The Englishwoman in Egypt. London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844–46 a classic account of women in 19th-century egypt First edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper of volume I: “To Mrs. Holmes with the author’s love”. The book was “the first in English to describe from direct observation the life of Egyptian women, whose domestic life was still very largely unaffected by western influences” ( ODNB ). At the suggestion of her brother, the Egyptian scholar Edward Lane, Sophia Lane Poole (1804–1891) first travelled to Cairo in the summer of 1842; she was accompanied by her brother and her two sons, and lived there for seven years. Her description of her life there was serialized in Knight’s Weekly Volume . In Cairo, she learned Arabic and became an amateur ethnographer. The family lived among Egyptians in one of the older neighbourhoods, which provided her with ample opportunities to be immersed in the local culture. “A thoughtful observer generally unnoticed among those around her, Poole could enrich her factual accounts of Muslim practices with descriptions from daily life. Her discussion of Ramadan in 1842 includes not only the exact routine of praying, fasting, eating, and sleeping that was followed by her neighbours each day but depicts a street scene in which just a few choice details allow the reader to glimpse some of the challenges going without food or drink from sunrise to sunset” (Thomas, p. 331).
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134 POLAR – SCOTT, Robert F. The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’. London: John Murray, 1929 presented by the polar veteran louis charles bernacchi An attractive presentation copy of the popular “cheap” edition, second impression, inscribed by Bernacchi on the half-title: “To H. Port. with many thanks in connection with the polar expedition. L. C. Bernacchi, physician to Capt. Scott, 1901–4. July 1930”, also inscribed on the dedication leaf: “L. C. Bernacchi, physician to Capt. Scott, ’Discovery’ 1901–4”; with the publisher’s flyer for this publication loosely laid in. The Australian physicist and astronomer Louis Charles Bernacchi (1876–1942) joined Carsten Borchgrevink’s Southern Cross expedition (1898– 1900), the first to spend the winter on the Antarctic continent. Bernacchi was then employed as a physicist on the Discovery expedition, and made crucial magnetic observations. Scott and Bernacchi became close during their time in the frozen south, and Scott was the best man at Bernacchi’s wedding in 1906. The Voyage of the ‘Discovery’ , Scott’s official narrative of his first Antarctic expedition, was first published in 1905. It was the first scientific expedition to pass two consecutive winters at a high latitude in Antarctica and made the first extensive land journeys into the interior of the continent; a farthest south of 82°17’ was achieved on 30 December 1902. The trip was the beginning of
Poole offers fascinating detail when portraying the women of Muhammed Ali Pasha’s harem in their chief residence, as well as outlining current events, such as the plague in Cairo, and living conditions for slaves and religious minorities. The Englishwoman in Egypt “created something of a sensation when readers learnt that she had dressed in Turkish trousers, taken Turkish baths with the local people, and, particularly, visited some of the harems of Mehmet Ali’s family” ( ODNB ). The London Quarterly Review lauds her extraordinary experiences: “The excellent little book which results from her observations, gives us, in a few pages, more information on the grand mystery of Oriental homes that we have ever been able to draw from other sources” (p. 58). 3 volumes, octavo. Original dark green diapered cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers elaborately blind stamped. With wood- engraved frontispiece of Bab Zuweyleh, Cairo’s southern gate, in vol. I, 19 similar full-page illustrations, and 2 full- page maps, illustrations in the text. Touch of rubbing, a few marks to covers, vol. I slightly cocked with cloth split at spine ends and slight loss, also with minor neat repairs, occasional foxing or finger-soiling, contents cracked in places. A very good set in the well-preserved original cloth. ¶ Robinson, p. 305; Theakstone, p. 336. The London Quarterly Review , December 1844; David Thomas & John A. Chesworth eds., Christian- Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History , vol. 17, 2020. £2,250 [159468]
the mutual antipathy between Scott and Shackleton, partly due to Scott forcing Shackleton’s early return to England on account of illness. Octavo. Original blue buckram, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with vignette of the Discovery stamped in black, map endpapers. With photogravure frontispiece from a drawing by Dr Edward A. Wilson, 15 similar plates from photographs. A touch rubbed and cocked, spine slightly sunned, endpapers toned, occasional foxing to text and cloth, loss to lower corner of pp. vii–viii not affecting text. A very good copy. ¶ Rosove 286.D2. £2,500 [159415] 135 POLAR – MIKKELSEN, Ejnar. Complete set of his memoirs, uniformly bound, each inscribed. Copenhagen: Gyldendal: 1953–60 one of the great sagas of polar exploration First editions of the Danish explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen’s autobiographical travel narratives, each volume warmly inscribed by the author to the Danish bookseller Johannes Schou (1890–1965): “med tak for mange aars hjaelpsomhed of venskab” (“with thanks for many years of help and friendship”) and “med tak for mange aars venskabeligt samarbejde” (“with thanks for many years of friendly collaboration”). Signed copies are notably scarce in commerce. Mikkelsen (1880–1971) “was largely responsible for exploring the east coast of Greenland. [He] also founded the Inuit colony of Scoresby Sound and
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through several generations of the Penruddocke family, who owned the Wiltshire village of Compton Chamberlayne, near Salisbury. The book’s earliest owner was very likely Thomas Penruddocke ( c . 1648– c. 1695), Wiltshire landowner and politician, MP for Wilton in 1679 and 1689, with numerous ownership inscriptions and pen trials in his hand, some dated 1664. “The Penruddocks had been established as a landed family in Wiltshire since the late sixteenth century”, when they moved to the county from Cumbria ( ODNB ). The family supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War, and Thomas’s father, John Penruddock (1619–1655), was beheaded in May 1655 after raising the Royal Standard at Salisbury in what has since become known as the Penruddock Uprising. The book was later passed to Thomas’s descendant Charles Penruddocke (1829– 1899), whose Victorian armorial bookplate appears on the front pastedown with the family motto “gloria soli Deo” (“glory to God alone”). The English Parnassus was compiled by Joshua Poole ( c . 1615– c .1656) while he was working as a
London: Printed for Tho. Johnson, 1657 “all rhimes imaginable in english”
First edition of the first English rhyming dictionary, with a preface by “J.D.”, possibly John Dryden. A well- read copy, with a pleasing provenance, passed down
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