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Oct. 13, 2016
Lyon, George Francis: Voyage dans l'intérieurs de l'Afrique septentrionale
Est: €280 - €400
Lyon, G(eorge) F(rancis). Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique septentrionale, en 1818, 1819 et 1820. 3-304 S. Mit einer mehrfach gefalteten Kupferstichkarte und 4 kolorierten gefalteten Aquatinta-Tafeln. 21 x 13,5 cm. Halblederband d. Z. (etwas fleckig und beschabt) mit goldgeprägtem RTitel und RVergoldung sowie kleinem goldgeprägtem Wappensupralibros der Kaiserin Marie Louise. Paris, Libraire de Gide Fils, 1822. Gay 2780. Abbey, Travel, 304 und Blackmer 1044 (Anm.). Vgl. Lipperheide Ma 14 und Colas 1920 (beide Ausgaben 1821). – Zweite französische Ausgabe. "Er gab die bis dahin beste Beschreibung von Fessan, seine Erkundigungen hatten große Teile des mittleren Nord-Afrika erfaßt" (Henze III, 318). Die große mehrfach gefaltete Kupferstichkarte (Plattengröße: 61 x 39 cm) zeigt die Route des Kapitäns Lyon "á travers la Régence de Tripoli et le Royaume de Fezzan". Die vier äußert schön kolorierten Aquatinta-Tafeln zeigen verschiedene Trachten der indigenen Bevölkerung. – Wohl ohne den Titel oder das erste w. Bl. Breitrandiges, nur minimal fleckiges Exemplar. Der schöne Einband mit dem ligierten Wappen der Kaiserin Marie Louise (1791-1847).
Bassenge Auctions
Nov. 10, 2013
LYON, GEORGE FRANCIS. 1795-1832. The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. London: John Murray, 1824. Folding map and 7 plates.
Est: -
LYON, GEORGE FRANCIS. 1795-1832. The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. London: John Murray, 1824. Folding map and 7 plates.
Bonhams
Jun. 25, 2013
LYON, GEORGE FRANCIS. 1795-1832.
Est: $600 - $800
The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla, during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry. London: John Murray, 1824. Folding map and 7 plates. [WITH]: A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay. London: John Murray, 1825. Folding map and 7 plates. [AND]: The Private Journal.... Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1824. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo. Original boards on first and last vols (rebacked), original cloth on second vol. FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FIRST TWO WORKS, together with the first American edition of The Private Journal.
Bonhams
Feb. 17, 2013
LYON, GEORGE FRANCIS, CAPTAIN. 1795-1832.
Est: $500 - $700
A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20; Accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan, and of the Course of the Niger. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to. xii, 383, [1] pp. Large folding map with routes colored and 17 hand-colored lithographed plates after drawings by Lyon. Period diced calf, raised bands, spines gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Scattered faint foxing, title page and facing plate toned, offsetting to folding map with a few tiny tears at folds, spine slightly sunned, rubbing to joints, some scuffing to boards. FIRST EDITION. Lyon and his companion, the English naturalist Joseph Ritchie, set out from Tripoli in the guise of Muslims to discover the route of the Niger river. The expedition took a tragic turn when, upon reaching Murzuq, the capital of Fezzan, Ritchie fell ill and died. Abbey Travel 304; Tooley 311.
Bonhams
Dec. 11, 2011
LYON, George Francis.
Est: $100 - $120
The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon... 8vo. folding engraved map. 6 (of 7) plates. 2 music illus. contemporary half-calf, rebacked with spine mounted, amoral bookplate of Charles William Earl Of Sefton. London: John Murray, 1824. First Edition. TPL 1289. Arctic Bib. 10531. (2)
Walker's
Dec. 11, 2011
LYON, George Francis.
Est: $150 - $200
A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay... 8vo. folding engraved (frontis.), 7 engraved plates (incl. diagram & 1 plate with 6 portraits). & 2 text illus. Uncut in modern bds. (taped spine & corners). ownership entry on title of Captain Beaufort. London: John Murray, 1825. First Edition. Arctic Bib. 10530. TPL 1324.
Walker's
Jan. 13, 2010
Lyon, George Francis
Est: £700 - £900
Lyon, George Francis A narrative of travels in Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19 and 20. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to, folding map frontispiece laid down on linen, 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 19th century calf gilt by Robert Seton, Northern Light Board gilt stamp at head of spine, slight offsetting to map
Lyon & Turnbull
Sep. 25, 2007
The Fountain of the Bashaw, Santa Maura, Greece
Est: £800 - £1,200
Lieutenant George Francis Lyon (1795-1832) The Fountain of the Bashaw, Santa Maura, Greece signed with initials 'G.F.L.' (lower right) and inscribed, signed and dated 'Scene at the fountain of the Bashaw Santa Maura. Drawn by G.F.Lyon Lt. R.N. May. 1817.' (lower margin) watercolor on paper 10 x 13in. (25.4 x 33cm.)
Christie's
Sep. 27, 2006
Lieutenant George Francis Lyon (1795-1832)
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
Canoes of the Savage Isles [Hudson's Strait] inscribed as titled (lower right) watercolour 7 x 9 1/8in. (18 x 23cm.)
Christie's
Apr. 07, 2004
LYON, George Francis (1795-1832). A Narrative of travels in northern Africa, in the years
Est: £700 - £1,000
LYON, George Francis (1795-1832). A Narrative of travels in northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of the Soudan, and of the the course of the Niger. London: Thomas Davison for John Murray, 1821. 4° (268 x 205mm). Folding engraved map, 17 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Lyon, by M. Gauci, G. Harley or D. Dighton, occasional small wood-engraved illustrations, extra-illustrated with a an original watercolour of two of the images from the published work, mounted as a frontispiece. (Offsetting and small tears to map, lower inner blank corner of plate facing p.98 torn away, slight spotting to five other plates, b1 with repaired tear to lower blank margin, N1 with 30mm. tear to inner blank margin, II4 and KK1 with old staining.) Half-calf with contemporary patterned embossed boards (rebacked and cornered, inner hinges repaired). Provenance: Vice-Admiral Joseph Sherer (b.1798, author's presentation inscription 'Joseph Sherer from his old friend & Captain The Author'). AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of his description of the expedition to Tripoli and Mouzouk, inscribed to Joseph Sherer who served as Midshipman (1821-1823) and Lieutenant (1824-1825) on board H.M.S. Hecla. Lyon was Commander of the Hecla from 1821 to 1823. Abbey Travel I, 304; Blackmer 1044; Gay 2780; Tooley 311.
Christie's
Nov. 30, 2001
John Jackson, R.A. (1778-1831)
Est: $10,010 - $14,300
Portrait of Captain Lyon, RN (1795-1832), half length, in a fur-trimmed coat, holding a gun oil on canvas 301/2 x 251/4 in. (77.5 x 64 cm.) PROVENANCE with Thos. Agnew & Sons. NOTES Jackson's portrait of the traveller, author, artist and naval captain George Francis Lyon in Artic dress probably dates to his return from Parry's second voyage in search of the Northwest Passage of 1821-23. Born in Chichester in 1795, the son of a colonel in the army, Lyon entered the navy in 1808, rising to flag-lieutenant to Rear-admiral Penrose on the Albion in 1815 and taking part in the battle of Algiers the following year. He travelled in Africa in search of the Niger with Mr Ritchie (secretary of the embassy in Paris) 'in the interests of the government' in 1818, heading south in disguise as a convert to Islam from Tripoli through the Sahara to the Sudan. In extreme temperatures Ritchie was taken ill and died. Lyon pushed on alone towards the southern boundary of Fezzan before struggling back to Tripoli with a slave caravan and returning to London in the summer of 1820. Lyons' account of the journey ( A Narrative of Travels in North Africa in the years 1818, 1819 and 1820, accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan and of the Course of the Niger ) was published in 1821, illustrated with plates from the author's own drawings. In the same year the admiralty promoted him to commander and appointed him to the discovery ship Hecla under the orders of Captain Parry. Parry and Lyon took their barque rigged strengthened bomb vessels HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, accompanied by a transport across the North Atlantic, to continue the search for a passage through to the Pacific via Hudson Strait. They were ordered to map the northern limits of the American continent in tandem with Franklin's concurrent first overland exploring journey along the northern American coast. Parry's ships were provisioned for three years. Improvements, gleaned from experiences on his first Artic voyage, included a stove which circulated warm air to the living quarters, kiln dried flour which supplied crew with fresh bread rather than hard tack, and casks of squeezed lemon juice, their anti-scorbutic, topped up with rum to hinder freezing. Parry and Lyon charted 600 miles of coastline before Christmas and overwintering by the Winter Island. Lyon took charge of entertainments throught the winter which featured musicals, theatre and schooling for the seamen (all of whom could read and write by the time they returned home). They all met and enjoyed civilised intercourse with the neighbouring Eskimos at Igloolik and entertained them on the Hecla, the dogs and Lyon's black cat amusing the children, and the seamen and Eskimos exchanging songs. Parry would include an Eskimo vocabulary and an appendix concerning their habits and customs in his Narrative. The two ships sailed north after the first winter, pushing as far as the ice allowed into Fury and Hecla Strait. They returned to Igloolik for a second winter and Lyon undertook a modest sledging journey overland, before they sailed for England in the autumn of 1823. Lyon was prompted to the rank of captain in November 1823 and published The Private Journal of Captain G.F Lyon of HMS Hecla during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry (including plates after his sketches) in 1824. In January 1824 he had been appointed to the Gripper, a gun brig strengthened for Artic work with orders to get to Repulse Bay and examine the coast beyond Franklin's recent overland farthest west. With a ship od 'lubberly, shameful construction' (Parry), Lyon lost his sea anchors off a lee shore and was forced to return to Portsmouth in November. He was subsequently dismissed by John Barrow. An account of the unsuccessful attempt was published in 1825. He married Lucy Louisa, the daughter of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in September, 1825 and set out for Mexico the following year as a commissioner of the Real del Monte Mining Company. His packet was wrecked at Holyhead on the voyage home in January 1827. He lost his collections and papers in the wreck and landed to find his wife had died four months earlier. Lyon published an account of his Mexican residence and tour in 1828 before setting forth again, to Brazil on mining business. He died on his way home from Buenos Aires in 1832. Lyon was portrayed in his African garb by R.J. Lane (National Portrait, Gallery, London), for which see F. Fleming, Barrow's Boys, London, 1998, Section 2, figure 4. He was described at a dinner given by Franklin and his wife on 24 March 1824 (the same time as he would have sat for Jackson) by a fellow guest, Jane Griffin (later Lady Franklin): 'Capt. Lyon was the next object of interest - he is a young man of about 30, of good height & gentlemanly looking - he has large, soft grey eyes, heavy eyelids & good teeth & is altogether very pleasing.' (quoted in F. Fleming, op. cit., p. 157).
Christie's
Sep. 25, 2001
John Jackson, R.A. (1778-1831)
Est: $17,520 - $26,280
Portrait of Captain Lyon, RN, (1795-1832), half length, in a fur-trimmed coat, holding a gun oil on canvas 301/2 x 251/4in. (77.5 x 64cm.) PROVENANCE: with Thos. Agnew & Sons. Colonel Norman Colville, MC (1893-1974). Jackson's portrait of the traveller, author, artist and naval captain George Francis Lyon in Arctic dress probably dates to his return from Parry's second voyage in search of the Northwest Passage of 1821-23. Born in Chichester in 1795, the son of a colonel in the army, Lyon entered the navy in 1808, rising to flag-lieutenant to Rear-admiral Penrose on the Albion in 1815 and taking part in the battle of Algiers the following year. He travelled in Africa in search of the Niger with Mr Ritchie (secretary of the embassy in Paris) 'in the interests of the government' in 1818, heading south in disguise as a convert to Islam from Tripoli through the Sahara to the Sudan. In extreme temperatures Ritchie was taken ill and died. Lyon pushed on alone towards the southern boundary of Fezzan before struggling back to Tripoli with a slave caravan and returning to London in the summer of 1820. Lyons' account of the journey ( A Narrative of Travels in North Africa in the years 1818, 1819 and 1820, accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan and of the Course of the Niger ) was published in 1821, illustrated with plates from the author's own drawings. In the same year the admiralty promoted him to commander and appointed him to the discovery ship Hecla under the orders of Captain Parry. Parry and Lyon took their barque rigged strengthened bomb vessels HMS Fury and HMS Hecla, accompanied by a transport across the North Atlantic, to continue the search for a passage through to the Pacific via Hudson Strait. They were ordered to map the northern limits of the American continent in tandem with Franklin's concurrent first overland exploring journey along the northern American coast. Parry's ships were provisioned for three years. Improvements, gleaned from experiences on his first Arctic voyage, included a stove which circulated warm air to the living quarters, kiln dried flour which supplied the crew with fresh bread rather than hard tack, and casks of squeezed lemon juice, their anti-scorbutic, topped up with rum to hinder freezing. Parry and Lyon charted 600 miles of coastline before Christmas and overwintering by Winter Island. Lyon took charge of entertainments through the winter which featured musicals, theatre and schooling for the seamen (all of whom could read and write by the time they returned home). They met and enjoyed civilised intercourse with the neighbouring Eskimos at Igloolik and entertained them on the Hecla, the dogs and Lyon's black cat amusing the children, and the seamen and Eskimos exchanging songs. Parry would include an Eskimo vocabulary and an appendix concerning their habits and customs in his Narrative. The two ships sailed north after the first winter, pushing as far as the ice allowed into Fury and Hecla Strait. They returned to Igloolik for a second winter and Lyon undertook a modest sledging journey overland, before they sailed for England in the autumn of 1823. Lyon was promoted to the rank of captain in November 1823 and published The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of HMS Hecla during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry (including plates after his sketches) in 1824. In January 1824 he had been appointed to the Griper, a gun brig strengthened for Arctic work with orders to get to Repulse Bay and examine the coast beyond Franklin's recent overland farthest west. With a ship of 'lubberly, shameful construction' (Parry), Lyon lost his sea anchors off a lee shore and was forced to return to Portsmouth in November. He was subsequently dismissed by John Barrow. An account of the unsuccesful attempt was published in 1825. He married Lucy Louisa, the daughter of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in September, 1825 and set out for Mexico the following year as a commissioner of the Real del Monte Mining Company. His packet was wrecked at Holyhead on the voyage home in January 1827. He lost his collections and papers in the wreck and landed to find his wife had died four months earlier. Lyon published an account of his Mexican residence and tour in 1828 before setting forth again, to Brazil on mining business. He died on his way home from Buenos Aires in 1832. Lyon was portrayed in his African garb by R.J. Lane (National Portrait Gallery, London), for which see F. Fleming, Barrow's Boys, London, 1998, Section 2, figure 4. He was described at a dinner given by Franklin and his wife on 24 March 1824 (the same time as he would have sat for Jackson) by a fellow guest, Jane Griffin (later Lady Franklin): 'Capt. Lyon was the next object of interest - he is a young man of about 30, of good height & gentlemanly looking - he has large, soft grey eyes, heavy eyelids & good teeth & is altogether very pleasing.' (quoted in F. Fleming, op. cit., p.157).
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