Drake, Darwin, Cook and others: 500 years of English exploration go up for auction
This week, the incredible collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching will go up for auction. It includes more than 1400 volumes by such explorers as Cook, Drake, Darwin, Raleigh and Shackleton. Sotheby's director of books and manuscripts Richard Fattorini says it is an amazing collection....
This week, the incredible collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching will go up for auction. It includes more than 1400 volumes by such explorers as Cook, Drake, Darwin, Raleigh and Shackleton. Sotheby's director of books and manuscripts Richard Fattorini says it is an amazing collection.
From fabric swatches collected by James Cook to a remaining copy of the first printed map of Australia, to the first book to be printed in Antarctica, the rare collection goes up for auction on Thursday.
Fourteen hundred volumes that chart five centuries of English exploration and discovery...From the Arctic, the Antarctic, Australia and the Pacific, the Northwest Passage, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia. Everywhere is included. -Richard Fattorini
Hear Mr. Fattorini on the details of the collection.
