Lancaster: Lancaster Guardian Limited. 8vo., pp.135,v, printed paper-covered boards, b/w portrait of author; mildly ex library, with 2 inkstamps to front paste-down endpaper (o/w unmarked), watermarking to front board, light wear to extremities, contents clean, a very good copy.

York: James Schofield. First edition, 8vo., pp.viii,192, unlettered leather-backed blue paper-covered boards; prelim blank edgeworn, spotting to title, amateur leather strip repair to front inner-hinge, toning and light occasional foxing throughout, extremities rubbed and worn, marking to boards, a good, sound copy.

London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. First edition, 8vo., pp. x, 447, b/w illustrations throughout, 2 colour folding maps, terracotta cloth, gilt embossed decoration, gilt top edge, uncut; slight foxing and darkening to endpapers, small tear to front endpaper, soiling to extremities, some wear and darkening to spine, o/w a very good copy with bright contents.

London: John Tallis. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., pp. xx, 596, xi, 556, 89 b/w illustrations, 5 full page engravings (including frontispieces), 12 double page maps, 56 b/w illustrations, half-calf boards; p3-4 torn with loss, p.504-44 missing from vol i, duplicate pp.501 from Cook’s voyage to the pacific ocean vol ii, pp. 412-420 missing from vol ii, pp. 417-424 duplicate vol i Cook’s second voyage round the world. Defective copy but maps and engravings complete. Please email for fuller description of maps.

London/Leeds: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co./J. Buckton, 1859. 4to., pp.312, uncut, textured green-brown cloth with decorative blindstamped borders, engraved frontispiece, b/w engraved plates; light foxing, small engraved heraldic ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, small dashes marked to margins of text, with occasional pages with underlining, rubbing to extremities, with split to cloth for 2.5cm at head of upper joint, partial sunning to cloth, overall very good.

Leeds: The Apsley Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vii),132, green cloth lettered in black, 29 monochrome illustrations, plus pictorial adverts; light foxing to edges and endpapers, lower corners of front board just lightly bruised, a very good copy, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is worn to extremities, with creasing and small areas of loss, and has 4.5cm closed tear to foot of front flap-fold, and 1cm closed tear to head of rear flap-fold, good+ and now in a protective cover.

Printed for the Society by John Whitehead and Son Ltd., Leeds. 8vo., pp.ix,516, cloth-backed card wrappers, printed paper label to spine, b/w plates; occasionally pencil-marking to margins, o/w very good.