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The Quentin Keynes Collection: 4 Volumes Complete

London, Christies. 2004. Soft cover. Book, 2004, Very Good Condition: Vol I has a light fold in the corner of the front-cover, Softcover Catalogues Auction Catalogues PART I: Important Travel Books and Manuscripts Wednesday 7 April 2004 PART II: Natural History Thursday 8 April 2004 PART III: Modern Literature Thursday 8 April 2004 PART IV: The South Kensington Auction Wednesday 22 September 2004 Travel Books from the collection of Quentin Keynes, Explorer and great-grandson of Charles Darwin. One of the most important travel collections assembled in the 20th century and the most significant collection of travel and exploration books and manuscripts still in private hands, The Quentin Keynes Collection of Books and Manuscripts, will be offered at Christie's on 7 and 8 April 2004. A lifelong explorer, and later a wild-life photographer and film maker, Keynes spent over 60 years collecting important and rare books throughout the world, in three principle fields; travel, natural history and modern literature. Over 500 lots comprise the travel section which covers the great ages of exploration and epic voyages, from Bligh and Burton, to Livingstone and Stanley. The collection is expected to fetch in the region of £3 million. In his Natural History collections Quentin Keynes focussed mainly on Zoology and particularly African quadrupeds, to the extent of forming special collections on elephants, gorillas and even extinct species such as the Dodo. The collection includes many of the standard works by Gould, Elliot, Selby, Wolf and Curtis. Also offered are a number of legendary rarities on Australia: Bauer's Florae Hollandia, London, 1813 (£25,000-£35,000), Shaw's Zoology of New Holland, London, 1794 (£15,000-£20,000), and Smith's Botany of New Holland, London, 1793-94 (£7,000-£10,000). The third area of Quentin Keynes' book collecting, 20th-Century Literature, shows a different side to the collector, and is based around two 20th-century writers - James Joyce and Ezra Pound. Keynes was a major collector of Joyce, forming his first Joyce collection in 1941-49 (now mostly at Yale and other American university libraries). The forthcoming auction will offer some of the legendary rarities, such as The Holy Office, Pola, 1904 (£15,000-£20,000), Gas from a Burner, Trieste, 1912 (£12,000-£18,000), Joyce's own copy of Work in Progress. Volume I, New York, 1928 (£12,000-£18,000), and a portrait of Joyce by Frank Budgen, circa 1919 (£12,000- £18,000). One of the most important Joyce letters is an extraordinary one-page letter from Joyce to William Heinemann from Trieste on 23rd September 1906, offering his book Dubliners to the publisher (£20,000-£30,000). Very Good.

P.A. GallagherPrivate seller

Book number: 014816

€ 125.00 [Appr.: US$ 135.08 | £UK 105.75 | JP¥ 21221]