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Price: US$19.85 + shipping
Description: Pp. [2], broadsheet; 31.5 cm. x 19.3 cm.; white laid paper; horizontal crease at centre; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938. Cock-a-Hoop P134.ii.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$768.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbacks, two volume set. Original two-tone cloth, complete with slipcase. 32 x 20cm. 192pp; 168pp, [2]. A coloured frontis in each volume and a further eight tissue guarded coloured plates, plus line illustrations to the text. Maps on end-papers on volume 1. Number 227 of a limited edition of 300. Some rubbing to slipcase. A couple of spots to end-papers but generally a very clean set. Slightest wear only.
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$896.60 + shipping
Description: Two volumes. Folio (32 x 20.5cm). First printing. No. 241 of 300 copies printed in Eric Gill's perpetua type on Van Gelder paper, published at £8 8s. 'Up to the date of its publication the only details of the Challenger's voyage were to be found in scientific works, so that this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young Naval Officer on board, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times'- Pertelote. 'The voyage of the Challenger is now considered to be the inception of oceanography as one of the sciences'- Hill. Vol. I, pp. 192; Vol.II, pp.168,[2]. With two coloured frontispieces & a further eight coloured plates, plus line illustrations on the letterpress & map on the front endpaper. Publisher's white & blue cloth, gilt. A fine set in the publisher's slip-case which has some light rubbing. [Pertelote 134; Hill 1664; Brown 84; NMM I, 183; Howgego N5]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1938 Golden Cockerel Press, two volumes in slipcase as issued. Tight and unmarked #240 of 300. Both volumes illustrated with tissue-guarded colour plates and line drawings within the text. Vol. I also has a map as front endpapers. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
SWIRE Herbert.; THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS. The Voyage of the Challenger. , 1938.
Price: US$1152.78 + shipping
Description: A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876, by Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. With a foreword by Major Roger Swire and introduction by G. Robert Fowler. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings in Swire's journals. The plates coloured by hand. 2 vols., small folio, original blue and white buckram, gilt, fore and lower edges uncut, blue buckram slipcase. London, Golden Cockerel Press. No. 57 of 300 copies. Some foxing to the first and last few pages, spines a little browned with a small loss of the gilt on the second vol, slipcase slightly marked and worn at the extremities.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two volumes in slipcase. Very Good, with some slight yellowing to the white spines. Fore edges of cloth covered boards mildly shelf rubbed from going in and out of slipcase. Upper of tips of both volumes slightly bumped. Upper corners of slipcase bumped on one side. No. 289 of 300. (w)
Seller: Avol's Books LLC, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
SWIRE HERBERT. (Sub-Lieut.).. The Voyage of the Challenger.. 1938, 1938.
Price: US$1488.81 + shipping
Description: A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe in the Years 1872-1876. Foreword by Major R. Swire Introd. by G.H. Fowler. 2 vols. (Lond.): The Golden Cockerel Press 1938. Folio. Or.qtr.white buckram. Spines gilt. With num. full-page plates many of which are beautifully hand-col. text-illusts. and front end-paper map in Vol.I. Uncut. Ed. lim. to 300 numbered sets. Fine in slightly rubbed original slip-case. NOTE: The Expedition was commissioned by the Government for the purpose of Scientific Investigations and relates to N.S.W. New Zealand New Guinea Hawaii Sth. Africa etc.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$1488.81 + shipping
Description: Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings from his journals. Foreword by Major Roger Swire. Introduction by G. Herbert Fowler. In two volumes. Pp. 192+168+[2](colophon, blank), 10 hand coloured plates with tissue guards, numerous black & white text illustrations (some full page), upper endpaper map Volume I; tall imp. 8vo; qr. white buckram, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, blue cloth boards, a couple of fore-corners and the spine extremities of Volume II slightly bruised; within matching blue cloth slipcase, the cloth starting to lift at spine; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper endpapers, scattered light foxing; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1938. Edition limited to 300 numbered sets on Van Gelder paper. Pertelote 134. *The first publication of Swire's account of the Challenger voyage: 'this cheerful journal, kept by a high-spirited young Naval Officer on board, threw new light on one of the most important expeditions of modern times' [Pertelote, p. 31]. Spine decorations by Lettice Sandford.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia