Caronna Estate Sales presents an exceptional Rare Books, Exploration & Illustrated Works auction spanning the 17th–20th centuries.

Highlights include the complete Captain James Cook Voyages (8 volumes + atlas with 60+ engraved plates and maps), alongside Athanasius Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus (1678) with engraved and folding plates.

Illustrated and natural history works feature Carroll Tyson’s 20 Birds of Mount Desert Island (extra-large folio) and the Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio edition of Birds of America by Roger Tory Peterson.

Literary rarities include a limited edition (520 copies), signed by Arthur Rackham, of Irish Fairy Tales (1920); an original 1870 complete parts set (1–6) of The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens; Don Quixote; and a deluxe 1979 edition of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Americana and historical works include Indian Tribes of the United States (3 vols), an early two-volume 1852 printing of Uncle Tom's Cabin with the 1853 Key by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Obed Macy’s History of Nantucket.

Maritime highlights include a Captain Cook portrait after John Webber and a signed William Gilkerson whaling portfolio depicting American whalers in the Western Arctic.

A refined selection of rare, early, and illustrated works from important collections.