CLIVE FARAHAR Catalogue 60

120. PARKER (E.H.) The Chinese Puzzle, 1917 6 pp. Offprint Asiatic Review, [CF4999] £15
FIRST VOYAGE TO ARCTIC
121. PARRY (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage
from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty’s Ships Hecla
and Griper, under the orders of William Edward Parry R.N., F.R.S., and Commander of of the
Expedition with an Appendix, Containing the Scientific and other Observations, 1821 xxix +
310 + clxxiv pp. 5 maps some folding, 11 uncoloured aquatints & 4 line engravings, some
occasional light spotting, 4to, original hf.calf, upper joint cracked, holding, [11645] £850
CLAIMANT OF THE NORTH POLE
122. PEARY. A Fine Porcelain Portrait Jug of Robert Peary inscribed “PEARY”, Germany, c. 1910
finely coloured, 5 ins. high, indistinctly signed on the back, [11273] £575
Robert Edward Peary had made many trips to Greenland, “on leave” from the Navy, but it wasn’t until
April 6th. 1909, that he achieved the North Pole. On his return home his success was overshadowed by
a former colleague, Cook who claimed to have reached it a year earlier. This claim was later
disproved. Having travelled to Greenland since 1886, and having made many well publicised attempts
on the Pole, the Peary Industry was well established. This jug is one of its more charming creations
123. PERNETY (Dom [Antoine Joseph]) The History of the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, Made
in 1763 and 1764, Under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a Settlement
there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians:
1771 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 16 maps and plates, 1 small tear expertly repaired, 1 plate
cropped to just within the image, full contemporary calf, a little scuffed, lacking label, with
some contemporary ink markings on the upper and lower boards [11628] £1,250
124. PITOT (Geneviève) The Mauritian Shekel The Story of the Jewish Detainees in Mauritius
1940-1945, Port Louis, Mauritius, 1998 numerous illusts, x + 259 pp. 8vo, original printed
wrappers, [12693] £25
The extraordinary story of European Jewish Refugees who were refused entry in 1940 by the British
into the Promised Land, and were deported to Mauritius and imprisoned until the end of the war.
FINELY BOUND ALDINE PRESS BOOK.
125. PONTANUS (Johanness Jovianus) Opera. Vrania, siue de Stellis libri quinqu. Meteororum
liber unus. De Hortis hesperidum libri duo. Lepidna sive postorales pompae septem. Item
Meliseus. Maeon Acon. Hendecasyllaborum libri duo. Tumulorum liber unus. Neniae
duodecim. Epigrammata duodecim, Aldus, Venice, 1513 title a little browned, slight staining
on 2 pp. marginal worming not affecting the text of 37 pp.signatures a-g ,h-i ,k-u, x-z ,aa-ii, 255
ll , 8vo, pictorial brown morocco signed binding by Morley of Oxford, with a half clothed
woman on the front board surrounded by stars titled Astrologia, and a naked woman showing
herself to her richly dressing gowned lover titled Amor, the spine decorated in compartments
with hearts and stars titled Pontani Carmina, and Aldus 1513, with some slight fading, gilt
dentelles, [12681] £2,400
A revised and enlarged edition of the 1505 edition. A note in ink on the front free endpaper states sums
the contents up “Here is Astrology and an Episode of Love. C.S. Stewart. London, May 1919”.
126. PORTER (George Richardson) The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane; with Practical
Directions for the Improvement of its Culture and the Manufacture of its products... with an
additional chapter on the Manufacture of Sugar from Beet-Root, 1842 Second Edition, xiv +
240 pp. 6 plates, 3 folding, 3 text illusts. original cloth, recased with new endpapers, spine laid
down, [10956] £250