Adams - Bartoli
Bayard - Cardenas
Carpon - Charlevoix
Chiang - Columella
Cox - Drake
Du Pineau - Evelyn
Ferrand - Geuffroy
Great Britain - Huc
Isabelle - La Perouse
Lami - Le Turc
Leavitt - Long
Lumholtz - Martini
Martony - Murray
Nény - Parisot
Parkman - Pradt
Quensel - Robertson
Roth - Sabine
Salmon - Siebert
Slovenia - Stoker
Strabo - Thomson
Thornton - Walton
Watson - Wilson

81. ROTH, HENRY LING. The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. Based chiefly on the MSS. of the late Hugh Brooke Low, Sarawak Government Service. London, Truslove & Hanson, 1896. Two volumes. One of 700 copies printed. $2,950

Large 4to; extra engraved title, pp. xxxii, 464; pp. iv, 302, ccxl (Appendices); one large, folding map, one folding plate and numerous illustrations in the text. Original green textured cloth, gilt-lettered and t.e.g.; the Preface is by Andrew Lang; complete with the extra-engraved title, and with the slip of "Additional Subscribers" laid in. Without question the finest set we have ever had.

Brown & Amplanavar 324: "This work is based chiefly on a collection of very incomplete manuscripts by 'an eccentric young gentleman named Hugh Brooke Low' (1849-87), the son of Sir Hugh Low, secretary to the governor of Labuan and later Resident in Perak. It provides the most detailed account of the Borneo natives under British authority: including their physique; marriage; religion; feast, festivals and dancing; daily life, fire, food and narcotics; agriculture, land tenure, and domestic animals; head-hunting; human sacrifices and cannibalism; music; and languages".

82. [ROUSSELOT DE SURGY, JACQUES PHILIBERT]. Histoire Naturelle et Politique de la Pensylvanie [sic], et de l'Etablissement des Quakers, dans cette contrée. Paris, Chez Ganeau, M.DCC.LXVIII (1768). First edition in French. $1,500

12mo; pp. xx, 372, [4] (Approbation & Privilège); one folding engraved map; contemporary full mottled calf, spine gilt; marbled endpapers; small nineteenth-century name on first blank; a very fine copy, complete with half-title, of a work that has become quite scarce.

Howes R471; Sabin 73490. An excellent source on the natural history and the politics of Pennsylvania, its association with William Penn, and the establishment of the Quakers there. The travel narrative is a translation primarily of the German author, Gottlieb Mittelberger's, Reise ... of 1756, and the Swedish author, Pehr Kalm's, En Resa ... of 1753-1761.

83. RUTHERFORD, Sir ERNEST. The Structure of the Atom. N.p., March 1914. $500

8vo; pp. [488] - 498; original printed paper wrappers; sewn as issued; offprint from the Philosophical Magazine for March 1914. Presentation copy.

We have located a copy only at the Pierpont Morgan Library; vide PMM 411 for his later (1919) work on atoms. Rutherford (1871-1937), a native of New Zealand, spent a good part of his professional life at McGill University as physics professor, before moving on to the University of Manchester and then Cambridge. "In 1911 ... Rutherford formulated the hypothesis of of the nuclear construction of the atom which is the basis of all subsequent work in atomic physics and chemistry."- (PMM). He received the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908, was knighted in 1914, and raised to the peerage in 1931.

84. RUTTLEDGE, HUGH. Everest 1933. London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1934. First edition, first issue. $500

Tall thick 8vo; pp. xv, 390; four maps (three folding), 59 full-page sepia plates done from the original photographs, three diagrams in the text; original dark blue cloth binding, gilt-lettered on spine; wanting dustwrapper; faint library stamp on fore-edges and remains of shelf-number at heel of spine; small discreet deaccession stamp on rear endpaper; withal, a very good, extremely clean copy, with the signature of J. W. A. Hickson on front free endpaper.

Neate R99; Yakushi R213a. Hugh Ruttledge led this expedition, which was one of the first to attempt the climb of Mount Everest. Ruttledge's team included Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, Wyn Harris and L. R. Wager, and it was the latter two who managed to reach 28,200 feet in their attempt to determine the possibility of climbing the northeast ridge. Their decision was that the ridge could not be climbed and they were forced to traverse the face instead. This work is a classic in the history of the climbing of Mount Everest, a feat finally accomplished twenty years later by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal. John William Andrew Hickson was a contributor to the Canadian Alpine Journal, and a president of the Alpine Club of Canada. He took an active interest in mountaineering during the early years of the twentieth century, as well as climbing in the Alps, and did thirty ascents of major peaks in the Rockies and Selkirks over a period of seventeen years. A peak is named after him in Banff National Park, Alberta.

85. [SABINE, EDWARD] editor. The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle. London, John Murray, 1821. $800

4to; pp. xii, 132. Later half-calf and paper-covered boards; spine tooled in gilt and blind; minimal light foxing; a very good, untrimmed copy complete with half-title.

Vide TPL 7066 (Amer. ed); Arctic Biblio. 12547. This weekly newspaper, edited by Edward Sabine and written by members of the first Parry expedition (1819-20) while at their winter quarters at Winter Harbour on Melville Island is, even today, quite hilarious. It was circulated among the men in manuscript and, upon their return to England, was published by Murray. Scarce.