
Lot of 9 Limited Editions Club travel volumes
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Title: Lot of 9 LEC Travel volumes
Author: **
Description: With: Douglas. South Wind. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. with vignettes by Carlotta Petrina. 11x7¾, buckram, raised spine bands, leather spine label. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Elmer Adler & printed by the Pynson Printers, [1932]. * Komroff, ed. The Travels of Marco Polo. 2 vols. Illus. by Russian artist Nikolai Lapshin. 8vo. Black coarse cloth, gilt-lettered orange cloth labels. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Judd & Detweiler, 1934. * Dana. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of a Life at Sea. Intro. by William McFee. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. 10½x6¾, linen. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Richard W. Ellis, 1947. * Nordhoff & Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty. Appendix by Peter Heywood. Illus. with color plates & drawings by Fletcher Martin. 9¼x6, full dark brown leather with pictorial stamping & lettering in gilt. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Garamond Press, 1947. * Doughty, Charles. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Ed. by Edward Garnett. Intro. by T. E. Lawrence. Illus. with collotypes after drawings by Edy Legrand. 10½x7½, pictorial linen bound in the Islamic style. 1 of 1500 copies planned by George Macy & printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press, 1953. * The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of his Own Journals, 1768-1779. Ed. by A. Grenfell Price. Illus. by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (signed). 11x7¾, ¼ calf & tapa cloth, slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Douglas Dunstan (signed) at the Griffin Press in Australia, 1957. * Journals and other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Translated & edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. 12x9, blue buckram with embossed bust of Columbus set into front cover, leather spine label. 1 of 1500 copies from the typographic design of Lewis F. White & printed by the Connecticut Printers, 1963. * Bligh, William. A Voyage to the South Seas…conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in…Ship Bounty...including an Account of the Mutiny on Board…". Illus. with 3 watercolor plates & numerous line drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (signed) frontis. port. of Bligh from painting by John Smart, 1797. 14x9½, pictorial linen, leather spine label, glassine. 1 of 2000 copies designed by Douglas A. Dunstan (signed) & printed at the Griffin Press, South Australia, 1975. Together, 9 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases."
Heading: Each signed by the illustrator and/or designer.Place Published: zzc(Travel and Exploration)
Publisher: New York, et al.
Date Published: Limited Editions Club
Author: **
Description: With: Douglas. South Wind. Intro. by Carl Van Doren. Illus. with vignettes by Carlotta Petrina. 11x7¾, buckram, raised spine bands, leather spine label. 1 of 1500 copies designed by Elmer Adler & printed by the Pynson Printers, [1932]. * Komroff, ed. The Travels of Marco Polo. 2 vols. Illus. by Russian artist Nikolai Lapshin. 8vo. Black coarse cloth, gilt-lettered orange cloth labels. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Judd & Detweiler, 1934. * Dana. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of a Life at Sea. Intro. by William McFee. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller. 10½x6¾, linen. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Richard W. Ellis, 1947. * Nordhoff & Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty. Appendix by Peter Heywood. Illus. with color plates & drawings by Fletcher Martin. 9¼x6, full dark brown leather with pictorial stamping & lettering in gilt. 1 of 1500 copies printed at the Garamond Press, 1947. * Doughty, Charles. Travels in Arabia Deserta. Ed. by Edward Garnett. Intro. by T. E. Lawrence. Illus. with collotypes after drawings by Edy Legrand. 10½x7½, pictorial linen bound in the Islamic style. 1 of 1500 copies planned by George Macy & printed by Irvin Silvers at the Garamond Press, 1953. * The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific, as Told by Selections of his Own Journals, 1768-1779. Ed. by A. Grenfell Price. Illus. by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (signed). 11x7¾, ¼ calf & tapa cloth, slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies printed by Douglas Dunstan (signed) at the Griffin Press in Australia, 1957. * Journals and other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. Translated & edited by Samuel Eliot Morison. Illustrated by Lima de Freitas. 12x9, blue buckram with embossed bust of Columbus set into front cover, leather spine label. 1 of 1500 copies from the typographic design of Lewis F. White & printed by the Connecticut Printers, 1963. * Bligh, William. A Voyage to the South Seas…conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies in…Ship Bounty...including an Account of the Mutiny on Board…". Illus. with 3 watercolor plates & numerous line drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (signed) frontis. port. of Bligh from painting by John Smart, 1797. 14x9½, pictorial linen, leather spine label, glassine. 1 of 2000 copies designed by Douglas A. Dunstan (signed) & printed at the Griffin Press, South Australia, 1975. Together, 9 volumes. Original bindings, slipcases."
Heading: Each signed by the illustrator and/or designer.Place Published: zzc(Travel and Exploration)
Publisher: New York, et al.
Date Published: Limited Editions Club
Condition
1932-75
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Lot of 9 Limited Editions Club travel volumes
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