Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 69

CANADA
MILTON (WILLIAM WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM) AND WALTER BUTLER CHEADLE. An Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia, by the Yellow Head or Leather Pass... Read before the British Assocation at Bath..., and Before the Royal Geographical Society of London, Dec. 28, 1864, FIRST EDITION, "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION", Petter and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, [1865]

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £5,250 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

CANADA

MILTON (WILLIAM WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM) AND WALTER BUTLER CHEADLE. An Expedition Across the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia, by the Yellow Head or Leather Pass... Read before the British Assocation at Bath..., and Before the Royal Geographical Society of London, Dec. 28, 1864, FIRST EDITION, "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION", publisher's green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover [Wagner-Camp 420 (note); Lande S1530; Peel/Inglis 445; Streeter VI 3734], 8vo, Petter and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, [1865]

Footnotes

EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE PRELIMINARY REPORT BY MILTON AND CHEADLE ON THEIR EXPEDITION ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. The authors had led an expedition from Edmonton, using the Fraser and Thompson Rivers to Fort Kamloops in the summer of 1863.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.

CALEPINO, AMBROGIO. 1435-1511. [Dictionarium.] Calepinus Ad librum. Mos est putidas.... Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, January 3, 1509.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. 1850-1904. [Japanese Fairy Tales.] Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith, [But Tokyo: T. Hasegawa,] [c.1931].

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. PUTNAM, SAMUEL, translator. Kiki's Memoirs. Paris: Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.