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Travel and Topography
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First edition, one of 1,000 copies, small 4to, xxxiv, 586 pp. Frontispiece and 50 illustrations. Cloth, d.w., spine sunned else fine. £95
Oblong 4to. Original thick card boards, lacking textured paper to upper and part thereof on lower cover, brown string ties, small label to rear pastedown stating “Copyright Edition”. 50 pages of photogravure illustrations, 4 pages with 4 subjects, 11 pages with 2 subjects and the remainder featuring a single subject. Extremities worn, lower cover perishing, occasional marginal spotting, otherwise the contents in very good condition. £150 A few of the photographs attributed with the phrase “RAF Official Photograph”, otherwise there is no other indication as to the origin of the images. One of the photographs features an illustration of the Tallisin Tower in Baghdad, the caption beneath describing how the tower was subsequently blown up by the Turks during their evacuation of the city in 1917. The photographs mostly feature Basra, Baghdad and Mosul and are an interesting mix of architectural studies and scenes of everyday life.
ALLINGHAM, Helen. The Cottage Homes of England. Drawn by... and described by Stewart Dick. London 1909. Limited edition, no. 49 of 500 copies signed by the Artist, large 8vo, xvi, 287, (1) pp, with 64 coloured plates, each with a captioned tissue, internally a very good clean copy, bound in the original gilt decorated cream cloth, browned with a few marks. £450
First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 100, [2]. Publisher’s purple cloth gilt lettered to upper board, plain yellow endpapers, presentation inscription from the author to a W. Greene dated November 1873. Spine and edges faded, otherwise very good. £60
8vo, (xii), 503, (1) pp. 55 illustrations, including a folding panorama, and 2 maps, some occasional light foxing. Later purple half cloth, marbled sides, t.e.g., spine faded otherwise very good. £100 Including 15 topographical and 6 scientific papers.
Salesman’s sample copy, 8vo, (vii)-xvi, 21-30, 275-288, 451-(466), 223/4, 413/4, (12) pp; with an engraved title and 5 engraved plates plus many woodcut illustrations from the battle of Charleston to cotton pickers, foxing to the engravings, signs of samples of the volume’s spine removed from the paste downs, gilt decorated green cloth, some minor rubbing. £125 Including 10 pages of glowing testimony from a variety of worthy sources as to the work’s validity. A scarce example of a volume of extracts which would have been carried from door to door to drum up sales.
Two volumes bound in one, 12mo, 195, (1), 223, (1) pp. 20th century signature to title page. Contemporary tree sheep, some light rubbing, gilt banded spine with a red label. £150 First published 1740. Appointed to lead a squadron of six ships intended for the Pacific, Anson suffered serious losses and arrived in South America with only a third of his crew still alive, and two of his three remaining ships damaged beyond repair. After recuperating they rounded Cape Horn and subsequently succeeded in capturing the annual merchant galleon sailing from Manila to Acapulco. Pressing on via China and the Cape of Good Hope, they eventually returned to England after a four year circumnavigation carrying half a million pounds worth of treasure.
8vo, viii, 292, (6 advertisement) pp. Two folding maps - of the north-eastern United States and the White Mountains, the former with a small closed tear, plus 3 folding plans, of New York, Philadelphia and Boston, advertisements to endpapers also. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, rather dull and marked. £100
First edition, 8vo, xx, 208 pp. 32 colour plates plus 37 black and white illustrations in the text, slight cracking of the upper hinge. Original gilt title decorative green cloth, t.e.g., d.w. with slight loss to the spine ends, spine darkened with signs of a small label having been removed, a very good copy. £125 Inman 129.
First edition, square folio, (8) leaves of text plus 45 maps, mostly coloured or coloured in outline, slight creasing to the top corner of the title page otherwise the contents in excellent condition. Original cloth covers, a little rubbed, two of the three screws which comprise the binding missing but one of these repaired with twine. £100
Small 8vo, (viii), 31 Index, (1) pp, with an engraved title and 26 maps, several double page and bound in on stubs, light marginal browning to engraved title else internally fine, contemporary green half calf, lacking upper cover, spine worn. £50 Including individual maps for each of the Tribes of Israel, plus Egypt, several maps of Canaan according to different parts of the Bible and the Travels and Voyages of St. Paul.
Forty-third thousand, large 8vo, (4), 48 Index pp. Double page folding hemispherical map, a plate of mountains and rivers and 30 double page maps hand coloured in outline, the map of Africa with some manuscript addenda, hemispherical map with a closed tear, this and several others with tears to the foot of the fold crease. Original half morocco, worn, some loss to spine ends. £75
8vo, (iv) pp, followed by 21 double page maps, coloured in outline, most of fly leaf neatly cut out, otherwise internally fine. Contemporary half calf, worn with loss to ends of spine, upper cover loose, marbled boards, paper label with price inked out on upper cover. £150 The maps have engraved vignettes of figures and scenes representing each country, for example a bull fight in Spain.
Large 8vo, 15, (1) pp, followed by 20 double page coloured maps, advertisements on endpapers, signature dated 1887 on fly leaf, original gilt titled cloth, spine ends rubbed, a very good copy. £75
8vo, (iv), 4, 47 Index, (1) pp, with 44 double page coloured maps, cracking of hinge by title else good, original red cloth, marked and a little rubbed, gilt title on upper cover. £80
4to, (iv), xiii, (i), 88 pp. 128 pages of coloured maps and plans plus plates showing flags and the time zones, upper hinge slightly cracked. Original gilt titled brown cloth, a little rubbed and marked. £75
8vo, engraved title, contents leaf and (34 Index) pp, with 21 double page engraved maps coloured in outline and tipped in on stubs, in excellent condition, contemporary red half morocco, original paper labels to upper cover and paste down, upper cover detached, extremities worn. £75
8vo, (34), 16 advertisement pp. Engraved title and index leaf plus 22 (of 23) maps, lacking the world map, some mostly marginal soiling, advertisements dated March 1839, further advertisements to paste downs. Contemporary maroon quarter morocco, marbled sides, paper label to upper cover, some wear, slight cracking to upper joint. £125
Fifth edition, 8vo, (iv), xii, 54, (2 advertisement) pp. 31 of 32 hand coloured maps, including North America and the West Indies but lacking the map of Spain and Portugal, plus a plate demonstrating cartographic projection, the latter torn with loss. Some marginal browning plus marginalia and drawings, mostly in pencil, plus each map is captioned in ink to the reverse, the map of India with some writing on the plate, strip torn from the top of the title page with loss of text. Contemporary half calf, worn, slight loss to spine. £250
Folio, (51 x 35 cm). (viii) pp. 51 double page coloured maps on stubs, each with index leaves, all in good clean condition. Original half morocco, gilt title to upper cover, upper hinge split, spine and extremities worn, piece missing to top of spine, a.e.g. £200 b - Back to top
Ninth edition, small 8vo, viii, 332, 45, (1) pp, folding maps and plans, a couple with fraying to the outer edge, some pencilled marginalia, original gilt titled red cloth, some minor rubbing. £50 Hinrichsen D428.
Eighth edition, small 8vo, ccviii, 495, (1) pp. 20 maps and 81 plans, one of the folding maps with a small closed tear. Original gilt titled red cloth, slight fading of spine, top edge of lower cover with a minor abrasion. £125
Fourth edition, small 8vo, c, 458 pp. 77 maps and plans plus a panorama of Jerusalem, small blank label stuck to title covering the last letter of “Voyageur”, ink stamp also to title and to the lower corner of a few leaves. Original gilt titled red cloth, d.w. with some small chips, an excellent copy. £225 Hinrichsen F220.
Fourth edition, small 8vo, cii, 574 pp, with 20 maps and 44 plans, some folding, small tear to fly leaf, otherwise a near fine copy in the original red cloth, marbled edges. £60 Hinrichsen D475.
Large 8vo, 312 pp, with 22 colour and 116 black and white plates, plus 76 illustrations in the text, cloth, d.w., spine and top edge lightly browned, some chips and small tears to edges. £60
First edition, 8vo, 324 pp, with 32 photographic plates, 4 in colour, with a pencilled signature on the fly leaf above some hieroglyphics in the same hand, original cloth, spine faded, ends and corners rubbed. £50
8vo. xix, 449, (19) pp. Publisher’s bright red cloth, lettered and illustrated with a portrait of Nansen in gilt to upper board, gilt lettered to spine with an illustration of The Fram in silver, patterned endpapers. Frontispiece and 14 plates, including a map, as called for. Numerous other illustrations throughout. A few very light marks to lower edge of upper board, a few small bumps to lower board, otherwise a lovely bright example. £95
Two volumes. 4to. (ii), xvi, (vi), 690, (2); xii, 730 pp. Publisher’s gilt lettered and decorated green cloth, plain brown endpapers. Colour folding map of the county to the front of volume one, figures and tables set in text. The map somewhat foxed, otherwise a very good, bright set. £120 A monumental work of scholarship first published in 1836.
8vo, xx, 353, (1) pp, 6 plates, spotting to front and rear blanks only, marbled endpapers and edges, Dulwich College Prize label on paste down, bound by J. Larkin in contemporary blue full calf, some minor marking, College arms in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine with vignettes of a man and his gundog, green morocco label, slightly faded. £100
Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lxxii, 640 and 641-1362 pp, with 24 fine double page maps, including 12 town plans - Berlin, Cairo, Constantinople etc, some foxing, mostly of text leaves, contemporary green half calf, slight rubbing, green marbled sides, gilt spines, faded to brown, in compartments with raised bands. £225
Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1895, no. 50 of 140 specially bound copies from a total edition of 1,500, 8vo, (iv), xx, 265, (1) pp. Four coloured plates after watercolours by the Author plus a folding map. Blue quarter morocco, spine slightly sunned, slipcase, a near fine copy. £85
First edition, 8vo, vi, 322 pp. Later bookplate. Original grey cloth, spine dull, light rubbing to extremities. £85 Travels through India and China.
First edition, 8vo, 192 pp. Photographic illustrations and 4 maps, including one to the endpapers, signed by the Author on the title page. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, very good. £65 Neate 53.
Sixteenth thousand, 8vo, xiv, 575, (1) pp. Subtly hand coloured frontispiece and title vignette, 9 black and white plates and 2 folding maps plus 6 engravings in the text, some light spotting, frontispiece with a small closed tear. Original gilt titled red cloth, extremities worn, spine ends with slight loss, small hole to middle of spine. £50
8vo, (ii), 110 pp. Engraved title, 40 plates and an extending map, some foxing of plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full calf, extremities rubbed, covers with gilt ruled borders and delicately tooled corner pieces, gilt spine with a black morocco label, a.e.g. £195 First published in 1834 with later issues in the 1840s.
8vo, (ii), 110 pp, engraved title, 40 plates and a double page map, each plate with a tissue guard, plus at the end Extra Illustrated with 6 hand coloured late 18th century engravings, 3 early photographs, 3 further engravings and a newspaper cutting, all illustrative of the Isle of Wight, bound in the original blind stamped green cloth, corners a little worn, rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £225 First published in 1834 with later issues in the 1840s.
Second edition thus, 8vo, viii, xxiv, 539, (13) pp. Folding map of Greece, hand coloured in outline, plus 2 plates, armorial bookplate of Sir William Ashurst. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine lacking its label, some wear to extremities, upper joint cracked but sound. £80
Oblong folio, being xii, 72 4to pages of text followed by 69 oblong folio coloured maps, as well as a “photo-relief” map as a frontispiece. First oblong folio map with the righthand side lightly soiled, due to the format, fly leaf and front blank creased with slight loss to top corners. Contemporary half calf, a little worn and marked otherwise a good sound copy. £125
First edition, small 8vo, 40 pp. 3 plates, light spotting to early leaves. Original printed wrappers, signed by Major W.W. Grantham, who contributed a Foreword, on the upper wrapper, some light marks otherwise very good. £50 Adams served aboard a Dutch merchant fleet, and found favour with the Shogun by building him his own ships. Despite long service, he never gained leave to return home and died there in 1620.
Oblong folio, (2) leaves, followed by 4 charts. Small piece lost from the corner of the fly leaf. Original printed boards, marked and a little worn, slight loss to foot of spine. £50
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 139, (3) pp, frontispiece and 32 black and white illustrations, original cloth, spine sunned. £65 A five month enquiry into cannibalism.
First edition, large 8vo, (x), 187, (4), 4 advertisement pp. Black and white illustrations, owner’s inscription to title page. Original gilt titled dark green cloth, some light rubbing otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 376, 24 advertisement pp. 12 plates and 5 maps plus over 100 illustrations in the text, the folding frontispiece map with marginal browning and small tears, later bookplate. Original blue cloth, spine ends and corners rubbed. £125 The first major archaeological work on the region.
8vo, (xxx), 427, (1) pp. Frontispiece and over 100 illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label to paste down. Contemporary green calf, gilt arms to upper cover, gilt spine with a maroon label, slightly sunned, a near fine copy. £75
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 240 pp. 48 plates and 7 maps, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., some light rubbing and soiling, very good. £100 Famous as the vessel which transported Captain Scott to the Antarctic, the Discovery also carried Sir Douglas Mawson’s expedition nearly three decades later.
8vo, (vi), vi, 777, (3), iii Index, (1), 192 advertisement pp. Original gilt titled cloth, some loss to the top of the spine, preserved by a previous owner’s laminated cover to the binding and endpapers. £150
BIRD, Charles & TAYLOR, John. Picturesque Old Bristol. A series of... etchings by Charles Bird, With Notes by John Taylor. Bristol: Frost and Reed 1885. No. 3 of 25 Artist’s proof copies, seventeen volumes (of 26), being parts 1-5, 10, 11, 14, 16-22, 24 and 25, folio. 35 etched plates signed by the Artist, some browning and marking to the text leaves only. Original paper wrappers with a further illustration to the upper wrappers, part 1 with the covers detached and torn otherwise all in generally good state, all but the first two parts marked “No. 3. Artist’s Proofs” and numbered in Bird’s hand to the top of the upper wrapper. £300
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 241, (1) pp, 6 folding plates - 5 of Athens and one of Palermo, some subtle repairs otherwise a very good clean copy recently bound in quarter roan, marbled sides, black morocco spine label. £450 Setting out from Palermo, Bisani travelled through Malta, Salonica and Greece to Constantinople, returning via Gibraltar, Tunisia and southern France.
First English edition, two volumes, 8vo, (xii), 476; (vi), 554 pp, frontispieces and 14 plates, booklabel partly removed from both paste downs, original dark green cloth, a little rubbed, t.e.g. £80 Perkins p56.
First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 326, (2), 4 advertisement pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and engravings in the text, some full page, plus a map, contemporary inscription to the top of the engraved title, armorial bookplate. Original gilt titled cloth with bevelled edges, spine sunned with wear to ends. £175
BLANCHARD, E.L. (Editor). Tallis’s Topographical Dictionary of England & Wales. London: L. Tallis [1860]. Two volumes, 8vo, (viii), 812; (ii), 813-1582 pp, with an engraved frontispiece and title in volume I, plus 58 coloured double page maps - “Drawn & Engraved by J. Archer”, contemporary half calf, later marbled sides, spines rubbed with slight loss to the black morocco labels. £495
Two volumes, 4to. 18 plates and numerous illustrations in the text, with a contemporary manuscript presentation inscription tipped onto both paste downs. Original gilt titled green cloth, bevelled edges, gilt vignette to upper covers, slight wear to spine ends otherwise a very good set. £80
Second edition, 8vo, xx, (ii), 534, (1 advertisement, 1) pp. A folded photograph of a map from an 1830 edition of this work has been tipped onto the paste down with the route taken picked out in red. Uncut in modern mottled calf, gilt banded spine with a red label. A handsome copy. £375 First published in the same year.
Third reprint, 8vo, (xvi), 474 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Lindisfarne College, Westcliff-on-Sea. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a black label, gilt arms to upper cover, some rubbing to spine and extremities. £75
8vo. xix, 492 pp. Contemporary full polished tan calf, gilt rules to edges of boards, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, black gilt lettered label, marbled endpapers, book plate of Reginald Cunliffe Smith to first free endpaper, Eton presentation plate to him on front paste down, all edges marbled. Frontispiece, folding colour printed map to rear of volume plus many illustrations to text. Upper edge of upper board slightly faded, endpapers foxed. A very good copy. £175
12mo, (ii), 186 pp, 3 plates, some slight browning to margins, otherwise an excellent copy in later blue morocco, with blind stamped borders to covers containing tooled gilt hoops, gilt title on spine, marbled edges. £195
Oblong 8vo, containing 24 engraved plates, the first one foxed else in excellent condition, brief contemporary inscription to fly leaf, original green cloth, upper cover and spine dull and stained. £100 The plates are dated between July 1858 and March 1876, with 3 undated, and include 2 views both of the Suspension Bridge and of Bristol from surrounding hills plus those of Clifton College, Bristol General Hospital and its Cathedral.
12mo, 60 pp, foxed at the beginning and end, Errata slip loosely inserted, original printed wrappers, a little soiled, loss to foot of spine. £50
First edition, 4to, viii, 88, 18, (2) pp, 22 plates, with some light foxing, 20th century cream buckram, marked and soiled but sound. £65 One of 16 “Cathedral Antiquities of England” volumes which Britton produced between 1814 and 1836.
Four works in one volume, first editions, 4to. 121 plates, including woodcut titles to the first two works and engraved ones for the last two, slight cracking of upper hinge. Later 19th century black half morocco, some minor rubbing, else a very good collection. £325 Britton published 16 volumes of cathedral history between 1814 and 1836.
Twelfth edition, 8vo, xii, (724) pp. 7 folding maps, including a world map of those of the continents. Contemporary speckled sheep, upper hinge cracked but sound, plain spine with gilt bands and “Gazetteer” written in a neat contemporary hand. £185
Fourth edition, 8vo, (x), 297, (1) pp, frontispiece and 20 illustrations, light foxing to blanks, inscription on front blank, marbled endpapers, bound by Hatchards in contemporary pea-green half crushed morocco, green cloth sides, spine sunned to brown, t.e.g., some minor rubbing else an attractive copy. £75 A personal record of Venice.
First edition, 4to, xii, 431, (1) pp, frontispiece and 78 illustrations - many full page, frontispiece spotted, bookplate, original gilt titled blue cloth, spine ends slightly worn, t.e.g. £75
Sole edition. 4to. 623 pp. Publisher’s blue leatherette, gilt lettered to spine and decorated to boards, dust jacket, housed in original matching slipcase. 32 colour photographic illustrations spread over pp. 13-32 plus numerous black and white illustrations throughout, large folding map and long folding projection loosely inserted in accompanying wallet. Dust jacket slightly creased at upper edge, in very good condition overall. £300
Memorial edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xxviii, (4), 436; xii, (4), 479, (1) pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Isabel Burton, 13 lithographic plates (5 coloured), 3 folding plans, a plate showing heads and a coloured folding map, the latter with a small marginal repair and some light creasing to the outer edges, plus further small illustrations and plans in the text, some occasional light foxing. Original gilt decorated black cloth, one crease to the upper cover of volume II, spine ends slightly worn. £325 First published 1855, these volumes originally formed part of the seven volume Memorial edition.
First edition, 8vo, (iii)-xl, (ii), 648 pp, bound without the half title. 4 fine coloured lithographs and 2 maps, the frontispiece with repair to the inner margin, light marginal browning to the text throughout, the plates with some minor marginal marks. Modern black half morocco, marbled sides, gilt spine. £1000 A famous account of Burton’s journey to Harrar in Somalia, disguised as an Arab merchant. Lacking Appendix IV as is common, which due to its discussion of female circumcision was omitted during the print run. Penzer pp60-63.
[BUSBECQ, O.G.]. BUSBEQUIUS, A.G. Travels into Turkey: Containing the most accurate Account of the Turks, and Neighbouring Nations, Their Manners, Customs, Religion, Superstition, Policy, Riches, Coins, &c. Translated from the Original Latin of... London 1744. Second English edition, 12mo, (iv), 290 pp. Later armorial bookplate. Contemporary calf, edges rubbed with slight loss to spine ends, gilt spine with remains of a maroon label. £950 Appointed Austrian Ambassador to the Ottoman Court in the mid-16th century, Busbecq’s popular work is one of the most important accounts of its kind, complete with a wide range of observations on natural history as well as political and cultural issues. First published in 1581, and in English in 1694.
First edition, 8vo, (x), 341, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 16 black and white photographic plates. Original blue cloth, spine sunned with some light marks otherwise very good. £350 Embarking from Venice, Byron travels to Cyprus and visits Jerusalem, Syria and Iraq before reaching Iran, ending up in India via Afghanistan. c - Back to top
Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Over 1,700 illustrations, including 46 coloured plates with tissues, upper hinge of volume II slightly cracked. Original gilt titled red cloth, gilt arms to upper covers, t.e.g., tiny hole to the upper joint of volume II otherwise a very good bright set. £200 First published 1911.
Two volumes, 4to, with 310 photographic plates, some in colour, and 13 folding maps and diagrams, cloth, some slight rubbing, plus a 4to cloth case, containing 4 large folding maps, the latter still with its paper wrapper. £60
Oblong 4to. Fasicules 1, 2 and 4 only (of 8). Original printed beige wrappers tied with thin light blue ribbon, printed list of fifteen “additional” subscribers tipped in to the first part appended with a further seventeen names written in manuscript. 18 black and white lithographed views - 6 to each part, the plates themselves uncaptioned, but listed on the front of each part. Upper wrapper of the first part torn with loss, the contents of the first two fasicules clean and in very good, the fourth slightly soiled and with a dampstain to the lower edge. £350 The upper cover of the first two fasicules state “To be completed in eight numbers, with additional letter-press to subscribers”. The first issue with four pages of text describing the contents of the first four fasicules, it is headed “Part First”. The issues present here feature six views each of the Clyde, Loch Lomond and Loch Fyne. Seemingly quite scarce, four copies of the work only on Copac (two in the NLS, one in Cambridge and one in the Victoria and Albert Museum).
Second edition. 8vo. (2), 32 pp. Original pink card covers backed with dark green cloth, old ownership inscription of a “R.N. Mirza” to the upper cover. Folding colour printed plan of the town and fort in a brown paper pocket to rear, dissected into eight sections and mounted on linen. Light wear to spine, a few wormholes to lower board, the map slightly browned, otherwise very good. £110 Uncommon. The first edition published in 1919, of which only two copies have been traced, in the British Library and National Library of Scotland.
First edition, 8vo, xx, (ii), 257, (1) pp, signed by the former President on the fly leaf, small bookseller’s label to foot of fly leaf also, cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £100
First edition, two volumes, large 8vo, (volume I) advertisement, engraved title, dedication, 3 List of Subscribers, Contents leaves plus 17 pp of Directions at the end; (volume II) 45 description leaves; the text being folded once and stubbed in sideways. 47 double page maps hand coloured in outline, the West Riding of Yorkshire being over two sheets, one of which is bound in upside down. Endpapers with some foxing otherwise a generally good clean set. Contemporary half calf, rather worn, spine ends with some loss, joints a little cracked but sound. £2000 The first printing of Cary’s popular atlas - Chubb listing 10 editions over the next 45 years. “The maps of Cary are usually marked by the excellence of their workmanship as well as by a standard of accuracy far in advance of that attained in England before his time...” (from F.P. Sprent’s introduction to the reprint of Chubb’s bibliography). Chubb CCLX.
First edition, 8vo, iv, 54, (2) pp. 14 plates, 7 photographic, Errata slip tipped in, slight cracking of hinge by title. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spine ends and lower joint a little worn. £65
First edition, 8vo, xxii, 489, (3 advertisement) pp, 17 coloured illustrations on 14 plates by W.H. Riddell, 21 monochrome plates, 2 extending maps and illustrations in text, a few light spots on front blanks and half title, otherwise a very good copy in the original green cloth, spine ends bumped, t.e.g. £65
Limited edition, one of 975 copies printed on japon vellum, this copy unnumbered, small 4to, xxx, 287, (3) pp, with 2 facsimile title pages, 3 plates and 3 further illustrations, small inscription on fly leaf verso, mostly unopened in the original quarter vellum, cloth sides with some minor marks, t.e.g., a near fine copy. £100 First published in 1686, with this edition taken from the 1720 translation. A jeweller by trade, Chardin’s two visits to the East proved popular with the public and were reprinted in several different editions.
Second edition, 8vo, 184 pp. Some light foxing, top edge of a few leaves cut close with loss to the headlines, later signature to fly leaf. Later boards, maroon spine label. £250 Arranged by county, Childrey’s observations are largely based upon previous authorities, but do include his own experiences in part. First published the year before, it was also translated into French. Wing C3871.
Two volumes, 8vo. Portrait frontispiece and a folding map, very light marginal browning. Original gilt titled green cloth, spines sunned. £60
16mo, 431, (1) pp. Engraved title showing a bird’s eye view of Venice, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine slightly worn. £350 A Venetian diplomat, Contarini was made a Cardinal in 1535 despite being of a decidedly secular bent. The second Elzevir edition. Willems 293. First published 1543.
8vo, x, 370 pp. Frontispiece and 2 plates, contemporary and slightly messy inscriptions to title, further manuscript at the beginning and end, lacking free endpapers. Contemporary tree calf, subtle repairs to the joints and spine ends, red label. £300 Not in the Mitchell Library catalogue. ESTC lists only 3 copies of this issue, in the British, Irish and New Zealand National Libraries.
COOK, Albert R., Sir. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). With a Foreword by The Right Honourable Lord Lugard. Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, limited edition, number 280 of 750 copies. 4to. xv, (1), 415 pp. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, illustration of two crossed spears and a shield, the emblem of the Buganda Government according to the preface, in gilt to the upper cover, signed by the original owner, S. Forrest, on the first free endpaper. Also inserted into pocket three autograph letters with stamped, addressed and postmarked envelopes addressed to “Dr. S. Forrest”, two from the author and another from a “G. Carmichael Low”. Frontispiece and sixty-three black and white illustrations, plus three maps including one large folding map inserted into pocket at rear. Spine slightly darkened, a few very trivial marks, otherwise in very good condition. £325 Albert Ruskin Cook (1870-1951) originally went out to Uganda with the Church Missionary Society, going on to found two hospitals, Mulago and Mengo. He achieved much else in his long career in Uganda, his wife Kathrine played an important part in his work and features regularly in the photos within the book. He was twice President of the British Medical Association branch in the country, was made an OBE in 1918 and was knighted in 1932 The envelopes are addressed to Dr S. Forrest in Uganda. Two of the letters, one of those from Cook and the Carmichael Low letter, are dated November 1928. They refer to previous correspondence from Forrest regarding a case of Loa Loa (also known as African Eyeworm amongst other synonyms). The third letter dated May 15 1938, wherein Cook expresses gratitude to Forrest for the gift of a booklet written by him and for asking after his wife. Sadly Cook can only report of her ill health and impending demise. At the close of the penultimate chapter of the book, Cook writes of her contracting malaria in the spring and of her passing on May 17th. George Carmichael Low (1872-1952) was a specialist in tropical diseases, in 1899 he joined the London School of Tropical Medicine and three years later headed an expedition to Uganda on behalf of the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness. Later on Low became a senior physician at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London and was subsequently appointed as a director at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Ofcansky 2693 - “a classic”.
Oblong folio, (31 x 46 cm). Nineteenth century black half morocco over green cloth boards, spine flat with double gilt rules and brief title in gilt, red speckled edges. Engraved title with vignette and 62 black and white engraved views of Rome, mostly by or after Cottafavi. The first plate being a panoramic view of the city with forty-eight of the principal buildings numbered in accordance with a key beneath the illustration. Spine with slight loss to head and foot, joints starting but holding firm, occasional light foxing, otherwise a decent copy. £1250 There doesn’t appear to be a standard collation for the work, other copies traced in auction records vary significantly in their plate counts. This example has more plates than is usual.
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 337, (1), 24 advertisement pp, with 2 fine tinted lithographs, showing Florence and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, one gathering loose, later bookplate, original salmon pebbled cloth, upper cover and spine darkened. £80
Second edition, two volumes. 464, 464 pp. Publisher’s red blindstamped cloth, gilt lettered to the spines. Old ownership inscription to first free endpapers. Folding map of Arabia and 10 illustrations including title vignettes. Sometime expertly recased, marks to cloth and one small patch repaired, small tear to map with old tape repair, otherwise good. £150
8vo. x, [ii], 207, [1] pp. Original brown cloth, recased and rebacked preserving original spine, original paper label, plain endpapers. Slight loss to cloth at head and foot of spine, paper browned throughout but more pronounced at front and rear of volume. £775 Scarce. Edward Curr arrived in Tasmania, from England, in 1820, subsequently becoming an agent for the Van Diemen’s Land Company. Wantrup states that the text was compiled from Curr’s memoranda and notes by George Daniel. Ferguson also notes that a copy in the NLA belonging to Daniel bears a manuscript note declaring himself the editor and the principal author of the work. Ferguson, 938. Wantrup, pp. 124-5. d - Back to top
[D’ARNOUX, Charles Albert]. The Communists of Paris 1871. Types - Physiognomies - Characters. By Bertall... Paris: Buckingham and Co [1874]. 4to, (88) pp, with 40 coloured plates showing the costumes of the various participants, some light marginal browning and marks, ribbed moiré endpapers, original gilt titled dark green cloth, dull and soiled, rebacked retaining much of the original backstrip. £75
Tall 8vo, (x), 121, (3) pp, signature of Frederick Loftus Dashwood dated March 1869 to fly leaf recto, original gilt titled red cloth, joints worn but sound, a.e.g. £50 Listing Royal connections with the county as well as the M.P.’s, Judges, Barristers and Clerks.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Volume II with a bookplate and a Library of Congress cancel stamp to the front endpapers. Original gilt titled red cloth, some rubbing and fading. Very scarce. £100 A third volume was also published.
Limited edition, no. 286 of 500 copies, large 8vo, 128 pp. Portrait frontispiece, map endpapers with a small abrasion to both paste downs. Original green quarter morocco, spine sunned, t.e.g. £150 Cockalorum 155.
First English edition, 8vo, xiv, 465, (1) pp. Frontispiece with some light spots, advertisements at both ends, slight loss to the outer edge of the first two leaves of advertisements, signature of Sir John Glubb “Pasha” to paste down. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt titled spine, a very good copy. £50 Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), popularly known as “Glubb Pasha”, Commander of the Arab Legion 1939-1956 and Author of many books and articles on the middle east.
First edition, 8vo, x, 384 pp. Frontispiece and 13 plates plus 15 illustrations in the text, limp morocco endpapers with a blind stamped bookplate to fly leaf of Henry Arthur Johnstone, dated 1899. Contemporary (to this bookplate) red morocco, gilt title, date, and decorations to spine and upper cover, including Johnstone’s crest, t.e.g., spine slightly darkened, foot of upper joint cracked. £100
First English edition, 4to, viii, 514 pp. Map frontispiece of Mexico City, minor marginal worming to the lower corners of the first 14 leaves. Uncut and recently rebound in half morocco, marbled sides, gilt spine with a black label, a very good copy. £750 The Author sailed to Cuba in 1514 and was part of the group who first explored the Yucatan peninsula. He subsequently took part in the numerous battles that eventually defeated the Aztec empire, being made Governor of what is now Antigua in Guatemala as a reward. Not published in his lifetime, a manuscript was discovered in Madrid in the following century. An important firsthand account.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 358 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette and one plate, contemporary signature and faint ink stamp of St. Mary’s College, Cheltenham, to title page, Library label to paste down, 20th century quarter morocco over contemporary marbled boards, light browning and wear to edges. £300 Upcott I p270.
8vo, with roughly 1,500 pp, original cloth, dull. £50
8vo, (viii, xii), 498, xi, (i) pp. Facsimile frontispiece and illustrations in the text, label removed from paste down. Cloth, d.w., lower wrapper and flaps a little browned, otherwise very good. £75 First published 1903.
8vo, 432 pp. Engraved illustrations throughout, sections printed on coloured paper. Original decorative card covers, spine slightly sunned and worn, a well preserved copy. £75
Two volumes, large 8vo, 674; 696 pp. Portrait frontispiece, 8 plates and 2 folding maps. Gilt titled buckram, d.w.’s with some light soiling, very good. £350 “[I] have grown to consider it... a bible of its kind... The book has no date and can never grow old. It is the first and indispensable work upon the Arabs of the desert...” (from Lawrence’s Introduction). New and Definitive edition, first published in this format to match Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom in 1936. First published 1888, and with Lawrence’s introduction 1921.
Fifth printing, the first single volume edition. 8vo. xviii, 607, (1) pp. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, old ownership inscription to first free endpaper, small ticket of Blackwell’s to foot of front pastedown. Frontispiece and one folding map towards rear. Spine of dust jacket darkened and slightly stained, also head and foot worn with slight loss, the cloth binding and contents in very good condition. £50 “With the Author’s sanction the abridgement of his narrative here presented was made by Mr. Edward Garnett.”
Second edition, 8vo, 317, (2 advertisement, 1) pp. Frontispiece and 16 photographic plates, tiny wormhole to upper margin of first five leaves, contemporary signature on fly leaf. Original cloth, spine faded, some marking and rubbing. £75 Account of a trip to Australia to lecture on Spiritualism, a subject which fascinated Doyle in the last years of his life. Goldscheider 958.
Second edition, 8vo, 32 pp, with 3 plates of sketches of the ascent, unopened in the original green printed wrappers, a few marks, otherwise a fine copy. £300 See Meckley 66 for the first edition of 1858.
4to, xx, 293, (1) pp, black and white illustrations and maps, cloth, d.w. lightly browned with some small marks. £50 Concerning the hundreds of Kingsbury, Pitney, Somerton and Tintinhill. e - Back to top
Second edition, large 8vo, (x), 828 pp. 11 facsimiles and folding maps, later signature to fly leaf verso. Original blue cloth, gilt title and crest, a little wear to extremities otherwise very good. £100
Second edition, second issue, 8vo, xxiv, 389, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 8 plates plus 18 engravings in the text and a coloured folding map, slightly later inscription to front blank, small sticker to fly leaf. Original gilt titled dark blue cloth, illustration in white to the upper cover, some wear to extremities. £125 Neate 237. Also published as “Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys”, the second edition of this title first appeared the year before
First edition, large 8vo, viii, 504 pp. Coloured portrait frontispiece of Gordon and a coloured second title plus 6 further monochrome portrait plates, numerous wood engravings in the text, brief later inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated cloth, a.e.g., some light rubbing, very good. £50
First edition, 4to, xvi, 337, (1) pp, photographic illustrations, red cloth, d.w. slightly browned and marked. £50 Detailing the Longstowe and Wetherley hundreds plus articles on sport.
First edition, two volumes, 16mo, 426, (6); 323, (7) pp. Engraved title in volume I, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplates of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spines a little worn with loss to top of volume I. £275 Willems 364.
First edition, 12mo, viii, 258 pp, with 10 plates and 3 folding maps, one small marginal tear, not affecting text and repaired. Unopened in the original patterned green cloth, gilt titled spine, sunned, a very good copy. £200
First edition, 8vo, 259, (1) pp. 64 plates, including 12 collotype plates tipped in and 16 sketches by G. Bigot, pictorial endpapers, inscription to paste down. Original dark green cloth, slight bumping to spine ends otherwise an excellent copy. £80 f - Back to top
First edition, 4to, 192 pp. Numerous colour photographic illustrations, signed on the title page by Venables. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £75
First edition, large 8vo, (xii), 216 pp. 27 plates plus a large folding map of Greece. Original green cloth, with bevelled edges, spine and corners rubbed else a very good copy. £150
Third edition, 8vo, iii-xii, (ii), 188 pp. 15 plates, of which 12 are coloured aquatints, outer margin cut close with loss of all or part of caption to some plates, some light browning and offsetting to text leaves. Finely bound in later maroon half morocco, upper joint a little rubbed, maroon cloth sides, spine in compartments with raised bands, t.e.g. £250 See Abbey, Travel, no. 86 for the first edition of 1818 and no. 91 for the fourth edition of 1823. Tooley 212 also has the first edition.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 320 pp. 26 photographic illustrations and a map, two inscriptions, one crossed out, to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., price clipped, one small tear otherwise a very good bright copy. £125
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 221, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 17 black and white photographic plates, owner’s inscription to paste down. Original gilt titled red cloth, d.w. creased and sunned with some loss to the spine ends and corners. £150
First edition, 12mo, (ii), iv, xviii, (i), 240, 193-228 pp, with the usual mispagination and lacking the half title. Contemporary armorial bookplate to paste down, recent booklabel to fly leaf. Contemporary calf, double gilt rules, upper joint tender. £400 Fielding died in Lisbon in October 1754 after a 2 month stay. Rothschild 857. This is the issue with edited text, which appeared first but was printed second - a section concerning the Lisbon earthquake having been initially suppressed.
Third edition, 4to, (xii), 204, (3 Index, 1) pp, with 104 pages of photographic illustrations, Christmas compliments slip from a colonial Fijian family loosely inserted, a very good copy, original moiré cloth, spine a little dull, ends rubbed, colour plate on upper cover. £125
Second edition, 12mo, (viii), 55, (3, 10 advertisement) pp. 9 photographic plates and 6 folding maps, plus a sheet of Chinese characters loosely inserted, light marking to fly leaf. Original cloth backed printed boards, one small patch of wear to the outer edge of the upper cover otherwise an excellent copy. Very scarce. £500
Folio, (51) leaves, with 25 fine etchings of Paris scenes, some light marginal foxing to the text leaves, moiré endpapers, original gilt red cloth, backed in red morocco, some wear to extremities and to the top edge. £185
Two volumes, large 8vo, black and white photographic illustrations plus others in the text, sketch maps, “Southern...” volume with a coloured folding map, original card wrappers, further black and white photograph to upper cover, a few marks otherwise very good. £75
Folio, 8, (2) pp, with 26 plates including the title, two toned cloth, gilt label to upper cover, d.w. with some soiling and a few minor tears. £100 A modern facsimile edition of a now very scarce work originally published c.1830.
Three articles with attributions in pencil on a front blank and the spine reading “Articles 1842-4-5 - Forbes - Batten”. “The Glacier Theory” by Forbes is taken from the Edinburgh Review of April 1842 while the two reviews by Batten are from the North British Review, August 1844 and 1845 respectively.
First English edition, 8vo, iv, 95, (1) pp. Fine folding aquatint frontispiece of the Pyramids and 8 engraved illustrations, including views of Carnak and Thebes, plus a cross section of the great pyramid on the final text leaf. Recently rebound in half calf, marbled sides, black morocco label to upper cover. £275
Sole edition. viii, 235, (1), 16 advertisement pp. Publisher’s purple cloth, gilt lettered to spine, blindstamped to boards, small old handwritten label to foot of spine. Spine faded to brown, generally in very good condition. £120 The author is named as the “Late Missionary at Masulipatam” and the work was primarily composed as a guide to missionary life in the region. However, the work also provides a useful description of Hinduism. Of the eight chapters, three describe the religion, its philosophies and its “worship and social habits”. A later chapter touches on female education, including a letter from a Hindu schoolmistress.
4to. (2), xiv pp. Recent quarter black morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ruled to compartments, gilt lettered direct to two panels. 25 tinted lithographs printed on thick paper. Small stain to title page, the contents otherwise notably clean and in very good condition for a book of this type from this period. £125
First edition, 12mo, 332 pp. Frontispiece with a few spots plus numerous engravings, some full page. Original gilt decorated blind stamped cloth, a.e.g., spine sunned with a small hole, otherwise a very good copy. £80 With sections on the Isle of Wight, Southampton, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Brighton, Dover, Margate and Richmond. Scarce.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 270 pp. 9 full page maps. Original cloth, some very slight rubbing otherwise near fine. £95 Concerning the lesser Alps and Corsica, with a chapter on Japan. “[Freshfield] was one of the greatest mountain explorers...” Neate 293.
First edition, 8vo, 320 pp, with numerous small maps showing routes, the text describing each junction and crossing, cloth, d.w. with light sunning to spine, a near fine copy. £50 African roads from Tangiers to Cape Town. g - Back to top
Sole edition. Two volumes (text and plates). (2), xxii, 72 pp; the plates accompanied by 8 pp., predominantly comprising a table of the plates. The text in original beige soft card wrappers, the plates housed in original stiff card portfolio of which the flaps and cloth spine sometime sympathetically restored, black and white illustration pasted to upper board, cloth ties. Much of the text unopened. 3 plans loosely inserted at rear of the text volume, 83 illustrations of which the first 16 are in colour, the remainder in black and white, some photographic. Very good condition. £400 The Saadi Dynasty held sway in parts or the whole of Morocco at various points in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The tomb which this work documents was constructed during the rule of Ahmed Al Mansur in the middle of this period. The tomb disappeared from view for several centuries before being rediscovered in 1917 and subsequently overseen by the Service de Beaux-Artes et d’Architecture du Protectorat. An uncommon and very decorative work.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 265, (3) pp. Publisher’s compliment’s slip loosely inserted. Cloth, d.w. with some minor edge wear, very good. £60
First edition. 8vo. x, 472 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket. 13 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and 13 figures, tables etc., some of which set into text. Cloth slightly worn at one of the lower edges, small nick and minor creasing to head of spine of jacket, else a very good copy. £50
12mo, viii, (13)-228 pp. Folding map with some minor wear. Recently rebound in half calf, marbled sides, maroon spine label. £475
Second edition, two volumes, 16mo, (xvi), 408; 382, (2) pp. Engraved title in volume I, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplates of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine with some wear and loss to the top. £400 Although the engraved title is dated 1634 (the date of the first edition) the second volume is dated 1640. Willems 408.
12mo, viii, 143, (1) pp. Folding frontispiece. Uncut in contemporary red half morocco, boards a little worn, some other rubbing. £75
First edition, 8vo, 378, (6 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 34 illustrations, bookplate of David Lane Billings, private library stamp to the fly leaf verso. Original cloth, gilt spine, some light marks and rubbing. £50
Fifth edition, 8vo, xvi, 154, (1 advertisement, 1) pp, with 17 fine tinted oval aquatints, with the last 2 (text) leaves bound in upside down and then 80 blank leaves bound in at the end, occasional light marginal browning to text leaves, else a very good copy bound in contemporary green half calf, marbled sides and edges, slight rubbing and sunning to spine, maroon morocco labels. £225 One of the most popular proponents of the “picturesque” movement, Gilpin’s tours were illustrated with romantic ideals of views and buildings, leaving a more general sense of the landscape than other, less impressionistic, artists would. The plates are not captioned. Abbey, Scenery, 546, calling for only 16 plates.
Twelfth edition, small 4to, 68, (4) pp. Endpapers browned, lighter browning throughout, with a small map and many hieroglyphs in the text, upper hinge cracked. Gilt titled original cloth, a little wear to spine ends and corners. £75
12mo, xii, 740, (4, 12 advertisement) pp. 9 folding maps including a world map as a frontispiece, a folding table and 26 plates, publisher’s advertisements to paste downs. Contemporary maroon sheep, spine creased and slightly worn. £100
First edition, 4to, 452 pp, 337 black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers, gilt stamped presentation bookplate on paste down, finely bound by the Library Bindery in light green full morocco, gilt rules, t.e.g., green cloth slipcase, a lovely copy. £250
First edition, 8vo, 192 pp. 13 black and white photographic illustrations plus a map, diagram to endpapers, Publisher’s compliment’s slip loosely inserted. Cloth, slightly bowed, d.w., not price clipped, with some light soiling, a very good copy. £80
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, (iii)-lx, (iv), 407, (1); x, (ii), 538, (2) pp, lacking the half title in volume I. 11 plates and 5 maps - one folding with an old repair to a couple of fold creases, plus a folding table of chemical analysis, some light foxing to early leaves in both volumes. Recent cloth. £135
First edition, small 8vo, viii, 110 pp. Original gilt titled blue cloth, minor rubbing to spine ends and corners, spine slightly darkened otherwise a very good bright copy. £80
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 271, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 40 photographic illustrations, map endpapers, inscription to half title, later bookplate to paste down. Original green cloth, spine sunned, slight wear to upper joint. £60 The Author travelled in two Jowett motor card from Lagos to Massawa via Khartoum.
8vo, 436 pp. Some light foxing and staining to the early leaves, mostly marginal, marbled endpapers and sides, fine etched bookplate of G. Catalani. Contemporary dark green morocco, extremities slightly worn. £50
Two volumes, 4to, (iv), 630 and 631-1209, (1) pp, with 36 plates (16 coloured) and 10 maps plus many engravings and maps in the text, a few spots, contemporary quarter morocco, marbled sides, spines worn and a little faded. £280 The black and white plates show views of (mainly) European towns, while the fine chromolithographs show the people in their national dress.
First edition thus, 8vo, (xvi), 397, (5 blank) pp, a mostly unopened copy in the original cloth, inner hinges strained, covers marked, ends of spine and tips of corners rubbed. £75 Comprehensive volume with Author and Subject indexes to the books and recording more than 800 maps with an Author and Geographical index. h - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, xxviii, 1837, (1) pp. Large coloured folding map at end plus 3 black and white maps in the text, hinge slightly cracked by title, later bookplate. Original blue cloth, a very good copy. £50
8vo, (xiv), 354 pp. Black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Burford Grammar School. Bound by Relfe Brothers in contemporary calf, double gilt rules, gilt device to upper cover, covers slightly bowed otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, 23, (1) pp, with 7 black and white topographical plates and 5 coloured plates of flowers - light offsetting from the latter, bookplate, original gilt titled white cloth, rather marked and soiled, neatly rebacked. £50
First edition. 4to. Half title not present, iii-xv, (1), 222, cxxx, (72) pp. Recent dark green half morocco over cloth boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to panels, gilt decoration to others. Nine aquatint plates including frontispiece, of which eight are hand coloured, plus five charts and one engraved plate. Some offsetting to the plates as is usual, some very occasional light spotting, otherwise a very good copy. £1100 Abbey, Travel, 558.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Later gilt titled green cloth, rubbed with some marks. £50
Oblong folio, 124 pp. With just over 200 illustrations, all but a handful photographic and about half portraits, cancelled War Office Library stamps to title page, bookplate. Original gilt titled cloth, slight wear to spine otherwise very good. £150
First edition thus, limited to 200 copies, this copy unnumbered, 8vo, 32 pp, a fine copy uncut in the original cloth. £125 A story originally published in the Cincinnati Commercial in 1876, where Hearn was a reporter for several years. Perkins p241.
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 541, (3) pp. Coloured frontispiece. Original brown cloth, t.e.g., spine ends rubbed, a very good copy. £95 First published 1904.
First edition. 8vo. (xii), 268 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gold and with a design of lotus flowers and leaves in light and dark blue, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, very small inked dated stamp to first free endpaper. The cloth slightly mottled towards the lower edge, patch of discolouration to front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy. £125
First American edition, 8vo, xvi, 248 pp, numerous photo-illustrations, map endpapers, two toned cloth, edges a little faded, d.w. creased and lightly soiled with loss to edges. £60 Account of travel through central Asia in 1934 and in particular Sinkiang province, where an uprising under General Ma Chung-yin, or Big Horse, was in progress.
Two volumes, 8vo, xvi, 448; iv, 472 pp, folding map and 4 plates, small stamp on titles, contemporary dark green half morocco, panelled spines with ornament and title in gilt, matching cloth sides, marbled end papers and edges. £80 Volume I covers the Persians, Phoenicians and Babylonians, volume II the Scythians and the Indians.
First edition thus. 4to. xvii, [iii], 198 pp. Recent dark red buckram, gilt lettered to spine, all edges gilt. Two chromolithographs and eight steel engraved plates, numerous other vignettes throughout. Half title soiled, light dampstaining to lower edges at several points, one of the steel engraved plates evidently supplied from a slightly smaller copy with small tears to margins. £65
Small oblong 4to. Contemporary brown cloth, the initials H.G.L. in gilt Gothic letters to the upper board, both boards blindstamped, ownership inscription of a H.G. Lasemann to first free endpaper with his address and dated 1861. 16 hand coloured lithographs of uncaptioned German scenes, mostly landscapes and small towns. Upper board unevenly faded, small black residue to lower board, else very good. £325
First edition, 4to, xii, 582 pp. 20 black and white photographic illustrations and 2 partly coloured folding maps, a few light spots. Cloth, d.w., rather chipped and worn, some marks, slight loss to top of spine. £55
First edition, 4to, 140 pp, 17 coloured plates tipped in and 64 full page black and white illustrations, 4 further smaller coloured illustrations tipped in, signature on paste down, decorated purple cloth, unclipped d.w. with some minor rubbing else a very good copy. £75
Limited edition, one of 500 copies, 2 volumes. Numerous plates and illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, slight spotting to top edge. £60 A fine edition of this famous work first published in the late twenties.
First American edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Portrait frontispiece of George Washington, engraved titles and a map plus 37 plates, including a facsimile plate showing the signatories to the Declaration of Independence, some foxing. Contemporary sheep, extremities a little worn, brown and black morocco spine labels, small hole to lower joint of volume I. £375
Large 12mo, 432 pp, 13 plates (including 2 with medallion portraits of 16 previous Post Masters General), a few ink and other smudges, new endpapers, original diaper patterned cloth, circular logo of the Post Office in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower, spine dull, the ends and tips of the corners a little rubbed. £80 See Sabin 32447 for the first edition (Philadelphia 1855) with another edition dated 1856 published at Boston. Interesting and often humorous approach to the many methods used to defraud or rob the U.S. Mails and the measures taken to counteract them, mostly related from real life experiences.
16mo, 526 pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine worn with slight loss to top. £225 Including a section on Batavia by Hugo Grotius and work by Francesco Guicciardini and Paulus Merula.
First edition, small 4to, 52 pp, with 12 chromolithographs, including an extending panorama of Jerusalem, a few light marks, original gilt and black decorated cloth, faded and damp stained, extremities worn, a.e.g. £90
First edition, 8vo, 269, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 22 illustrations plus a map, some light foxing, Prize label of Chipping Camden Grammar School to paste down. Original gilt titled green cloth, some light marks, spine creased with rubbing to ends. £60
4to - plate volume only, (iv), 8 pp. 24 plates, marbled endpapers. Contemporary dark green half morocco, some light wear, gilt titled spine, a.e.g. £250
First edition, 16mo, 330, (2) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine a little worn. £300 Willems 409.
First edition, 4to, (68) pp. 30 fine lithographed plates with tissues, a few spots to the first few leaves, slight cracking of hinges. Original gilt titled blue cloth, some light marks, spine ends bumped, a.e.g. £100
First edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Photogravure frontispiece in volume I and 23 plates plus a coloured map and numerous illustrations and plans in the text, foxing to frontispiece in volume I. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, a little rubbing to extremities, small hole to top of upper joint of volume II otherwise a very good set. £80 i - Back to top
INDIA: The Atlas of India; Revised by J. Walker, Geographer to the Honourable East India Company. Selected from the maps published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge... London: Edward Stanford [1856]. Thin folio, (iv) pp, followed by 26 double page maps hand coloured in outline. Contents leaf with wear and some loss to edges, otherwise in good condition with only some light marking to margins of a few of the maps. Original gilt titled moiré cloth, morocco corners, a little worn, neatly rebacked. £2000 Containing 13 maps of India as well as 2 world maps and maps of the surrounding territories, from Egypt and Arabia to Japan and Malaysia. Very scarce.
8vo, (xviii), 493, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. Photographic portrait frontispiece, 8 plates by Frederick Remington with captioned tissues and a folding map, plus further illustrations in the text by Thomson Willing, frontispiece rather spotted, with a contemporary faded photograph of a homestead loosely inserted. Original gilt titled cloth, setting sun and a cactus to the upper cover, a buffalo’s head to the spine, some light rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £150 The road from Santa Fé to Topeka. Dedicated to and with an Introduction by William F. Cody (better known as “Buffalo Bill”).
Second edition, 8vo, (xvi), 311, (1) pp. 16 black and white photographic plates, largely unopened although with one leaf carelessly opened with a small marginal tear, presentation inscription to front blank dated 1966, noting that a number of copies had been found at the printer’s premises, ownership inscription to rear free endpaper. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, slight rubbing to top of spine otherwise a very good copy. £110
Sixth edition, 12mo, (iv), 197, (1) pp. Large folding map at the end. Mostly unopened in contemporary red half morocco, slightly worn. £165
8vo, xxvi, 82 pp, coloured extending frontispiece and 1 other coloured plate, 6 monochrome double page plates, 32 vignettes in text, Japanese text printed inside lower cover, in the original wrappers sewn in Japanese style, with a fine coloured upper cover showing various artifacts, some fraying round edges. £100 A small inscription on the title is dated 1902, another on the frontispiece is dated 1903. j - Back to top
4to, (viii) pp, 119, (1) pp, with 7 leaves of advertising at the end including 3 fine chromolithographs, 32 engraved plates - 6 damp stained, plus vignettes in the text, upper hinge broken with first few leaves detached, original cloth, faded, spine and extremities rather worn, marked. £200
First edition, 8vo, 48, (4) pp, 6 plates and other illustrations in the text, small signature to front blank, original gilt titled black buckram, some minor scuffs else a near fine copy. £50
Third edition, large 8vo, 8, (2 advertisement) pp. 18 coloured double page maps, further advertisements to endpapers. Original dark green quarter morocco, spine and corners worn, joints a little cracked. £75
Second edition, no. 479 of 600 copies, 4to, (xxii), vi, (ii), 542, (6), v, 30, (46) pp. Facsimile engraved title pages and 34 plates, including 2 portraits, a photographic plate of Jones’ house, one of music and 3 coloured plates of armorial bearings, plus 3 maps, one plate with two copies bound in, 4 pages of pedigrees in addition to those in the text. Original green cloth, spine and edges faded, some light rubbing, recently recased. £200 Originally published 1805-9. k - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, 72 pp of text with 16 coloured and 24 full page monochrome illustrations, cloth, d.w. with light soiling and loss to one corner and to the top of the spine. £95 Delightfully illustrated account of what was happening in Korea during a visit by the author and artist in 1919.
Large 8vo, (xx), 209-1212, 56 advertisement pp, with 2 folding maps, first 4 leaves loose, upper hinge cracked, minor creasing to outer edges of maps, original red cloth, dull, corners worn, just over half of the spine lacking. £65
Third impression, 8vo, xvi, 302, (2 advertisement) pp. 93 colour plates with captioned tissues. Original decorated cloth, d.w. torn and repaired, loss to top of spine with subsequent fading of the cloth to that part. £50 Inman 36.
First (and only) edition, small 8vo, viii, 19, (1), 260, 60 advertisement pp, with 7 coloured maps - 6 folding, and 2 plans, plus a blank printed slip for corrections folded into the pocket at the end, signature on title page, original gilt titled red cloth, spine sunned. £100 Lister 403.
Folio, engraved title, contents leaf and 79 double page plates, not including Hatfield (no. 24*). Two plates (4 and 29) with skilful repairs and one (49) with a couple of spots plus some repair to the margins of the title page and 5 plates, later armorial bookplate. Overall a good clean copy in 20th century half calf over 19th century marbled boards, some light wear to edges. £12750 An excellent collection of birds-eye views. As well as Royal buildings such as Windsor Castle and the Tower of London the great country houses of the nobility include Badminton, Chatsworth, Grimsthorpe and Longleat, with striking depictions of the geometrical perfection of their grounds. First published 1707 with numerous other editions appearing in various formats until the middle of the century. ESTC lists 6 copies of this issue - of two examined, one included the Hatfield plate and one didn’t.
First edition, large 8vo, xii, 134, (4 Index) pp, coloured tipped in frontispiece, 64 plates, 161 illustrations in the text, signature on fly leaf, original cloth, illustration in gilt on cover. £60
First edition. Folio. vi, 24, 188 pp: pp. 7-8 blank presumably a printer’s error, errata slip tipped in at p. 1. Recent black half morocco over matching clothboards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt rules, gilt lettered direct to one panel, a few pencil notes in the margin of the preliminaries, small owner’s stamp and a signature to the top of the title page. Large double page folding map of west Africa with partial hand colouring noting th elocations of tribes and their languages. Some light soiling to the map and a small hole to an old fold crease, small marginal tear to one leaf, in very good condition overall. £1150 Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle was directed by the Church Missionary Society to "cultivate, not only one particular language, but also to give information respecting the whole question of African Philology." Given the ethnic and tribal diversity of its population Koelle alighted upon Sierra Leone for his centre of study, interviewing freed slaves from many backgrounds in order to gain an understanding of their languages and build up a permanent record of the grammars and vocabularies. In his introductory remarks Koelle divides the languages into twelve broad groups (plus Arabic) each broken down into further subdivisions, providing a brief description of his respective interviewees for each language or dialect. The main part of the work then provides a comparative vocabulary for some three hundred or so words, printed over four columns across each double page spread with the English equivalent at the head of each line. The detailed corresponding map is drawn and compiled by Koelle's compatriot Augustus Peterman. Scarce. l - Back to top
Second edition, 16mo, (xvi), 352, (9 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title, one leaf with loss to text, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine a little worn with loss to top. £200 Laet was a director of the Dutch East India company and editor of several Elzevirs, including this one on the low countries. Willems 326.
First edition, 16mo, (vi), 285, (16 Index, 1) pp. Lacking the engraved title page but with one full page botanical illustration, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine slightly worn with loss to the top. £100 Willems 354.
Second edition, 16mo, (xii), 443, (1) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine rather worn with slight loss to top. £250 Laet was a director of the Dutch East India company and editor of several Elzevirs, including this one on France. Willems 311.
Second edition, 16mo, 520, (5 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine a little worn with slight loss to top. £450 Laet was a director of the Dutch East India company and editor of several Elzevirs, including this one on Spain and the Canary Islands. Willems 313.
Second edition, 16mo, (vi), 362, (13 Index, 1) pp. Lacking the engraved title page but with 8 full page engravings of costume, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine and edges with some wear and slight loss to top. £150 Willems 386.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 396, (4 advertisement); xii, 511, (1 advertisement) pp. 166 photographic illustrations plus a large coloured folding map at the end of volume I, two pages carelessly opened in the preliminaries of volume II, without loss, some occasional foxing to the text leaves. Original gilt titled buckram, extremities slightly rubbed. £150 Starting from Djibouti, Landor journeyed west via Timbuctu and Lake Chad towards Dakar over the course of a year.
Limited edition, no. 189 of 750 copies, 4to, 672 pp. 48 plates (4 in colour), 4 folding maps and 6 other illustrations plus 3 facsimiles, marbled endpapers. Quarter pigskin, buckram sides, crossed swords with an inscription in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., covers with some marks, spine a little dull and rubbed, very slight cracking to ends of upper joint. £800 O’Brien A041. The three facsimiles - a double page reproduction of part of the manuscript, a page from the privately printed text and an abridged page for “Revolt in the Desert” from a Subscriber’s copy - and the coloured plates do not feature in the trade edition.
Second impression, 4to, 672 pp. 48 plates, 4 folding maps and 6 other illustrations. Original brown buckram, crossed swords with inscription in gilt on upper cover, slight sunning to the spine ends, d.w. with loss to the top of the spine and some creasing. A very good copy. £100
4to. 285 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, sometime neatly rebacked preserving original spine and recased, renewed endpapers, cloth elaborately gilt decorated. 72 tinted lithographs after various artists, including Joseph Nash, David Roberts and J.M.W. Turner. Intermittent spotting as is usual with plate books of this period, contents recased slightly unevenly causing some pages and tissue guards to be frayed at edges, cloth abraded to lower board, extremities rubbed. £325
Limited edition, one of 850 copies from a total edition of 1,000 copies, large 8vo, 310 pp, frontispiece and 12 illustrations, with Harry Oppenheimer’s compliments slip loosely inserted, cloth, d.w., some minor rubbing else a near fine copy. £60 Brenthurst Series no. 2.
First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 272 pp. A map and 40 plates plus 40 vignettes in the text, some minor cracking to the hinges. Original gilt titled brown cloth, slight rubbing to the spine ends and corners, a very good copy. £475
Fifth impression, 8vo, 160 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf, bookplate of the recipient, Peter Goodall, to paste down. Cloth, d.w., edges and spine browned. £125
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 272 pp. Folding frontispiece and 15 photographic plates, frontispiece with a marginal tear, half title creased, marbled endpapers, Presentation label to paste down. Contemporary maroon morocco, gilt rules, spine with raised bands, a.e.g., spine slightly sunned, some rubbing to joints otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, xii, 378 pp. Frontispiece and 62 illustrations, including some photographs, inscription to fly leaf verso. Original cloth, somewhat soiled, spine browned. £75
4to, (2) leaves, plus 6 large folding maps, coloured in outline and each measuring 27 x 26 inches, one with a large engraving of Melrose Abbey, some subtle repairs to where the corners fold in on each map, outer edge of title page slightly chipped, bookplate, occasional light browning. Original blind stamped cloth, gilt titled spine, ends bumped, a well preserved copy. £150
4to. viii, 632 pp. Contemporary half black morocco over cloth boards, spine with gilt decorated raised bands, gilt lettered red label, gilt rules to sides, marbled endpapers and edges. Colour map od South and Central Africa plus 21 tinted lithographs (including pictorial title page). Some wear to boards at corners, abrasion to label, some light spotting towards front of volume, otherwise a very good clean example. £275 Letterpress title bears the Nottingham imprint, the pictorial title page gives the publisher as Adam & Co of London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
First edition, later issue, 8vo, (x), 687, (1) pp, bound without the advertisement leaves. Portrait plate, folding engraved frontispiece and 23 wood engraved plates, plus 2 folding maps in a pocket at the end and 19 engravings in the text, a couple of leaves with light soiling to edges, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked. £250 Covering the first of Livingstone’s 3 major expeditions, in which he followed the Zambesi river, discovering the Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. “Livingstone’s services to African geography... are almost unequalled... he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before.” (Printing and the Mind of Man 341). Abbey, Travel, 347.
Small 8vo, 189, (13 advertisement) pp, coloured folding map plus engravings in the text, original gilt titled cloth, spine a little sunned. £85
8vo, xxxvi pp, 400 leaves, with Errata slip tipped in, original limp cloth, spine slightly faded and a little worn. £50
Small 4to, xx, 192, 104 pp, steel engraved title and 26 plates, tissue guards to each, some very occasional light foxing, upper margin of engraved title cut close with slight loss of text, chromolithographed Prize label dated 1866 on paste down, upper hinge cracked, a very good copy bound in the original decorated pebbled cloth, bevelled edges, spine and upper cover with gilt and black decoration, still bright, a.e.g. £175 Originally published in the 1840s in monthly parts and then bound in 2 volumes, with 76 engravings, this copy is an unrecorded later issue, with all of the letterpress but only a third of the plates. See Adams 195 for the first edition.
First limited edition, one of 200 copies, 8vo, 45, (1) pp, portrait frontispiece, owner’s inscription on fly leaf, patterned endpapers, a near fine copy in the original green cloth, ends of spine rubbed, title and vignette of a wagon in gilt on upper cover. £80 Loskiel, 1740-1819 and a Minister in the Moravian Church, is best known for his “History of the United Brethren among the Indians of North America”, first published in German in 1789. This, a poetical rendering of one of his journeys and a scarce piece of Americana, was discovered by chance among the possessions of the publisher’s great-grandfather.
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 192 pp. 18 photographic plates, some foxing to preliminaries, signed by the Author on the title page, unconnected contemporary presentation inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled light green cloth, a very good copy. £60 Accounts of skiing holidays in several European countries.
Two volumes, first editions, 4to, (iii)-vi, 598, (46 Indices); (x), 316 pp. Engraved titles, a map and 30 plates, including a detailed folding plan of Hampton Court Palace, most etched by the Author, some minor marginal browning. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with gilt banded spines, black morocco labels, a very good set. £400 “A work of permanent value” (DNB), “The Environs of London” was published in 4 volumes in the 1790s with the 1800 supplemental volume a later addition. A second Middlesex volume (volume III in the set) was also published, not present here. Upcott II pp916/7, 922/3.
Part I only (of 2 relating to Devon), 4to, (xii), ccclv, (1) pp, with the extra leaves lxxxii a/b and cclxxii a/b as called for, 21 plates, 1 hand coloured, plus an extending map, some foxing throughout, bookplate, in the original blind stamped cloth, lower corners damp stained, rebacked with all but top half inch of original backstrip of accompanying volume - the spine reading “Devonshire / Volume 7”. £115
LYSONS, Rev. Daniel & Samuel. Magna Britannia... Berkshire. Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain. Vol. I - Part II. London 1813. First edition, 4to, (ii), (159)-502 pp. 30 plates, including maps of the county and of Reading, plans of Windsor Castle and two coloured plates of stained glass windows, plus Extra Illustrated with a further 10 engravings, booklabel to front blank, one marginal tear and some light damp staining to corners. Contemporary full calf, slight cracking to top of joints, some light wear, black spine labels. £185 Six volumes were published in all, covering nine counties. Volume I was in 3 parts - Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. m - Back to top
Second edition, 2 volumes, (iii)-xxiv, 559, (1); (iii-xvi), 606 pp, bound without the half titles. 16 maps and plans, mostly folding, including one not listed, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplates of Thomas Ridgway with a later owner’s inscription to them also. Contemporary blind stamped calf, a little worn, rebacked in sheep with brown and green morocco labels. £450 An historian and statistician, MacGregor was strongly in favour of free trade and the repeal of the corn laws led him to abandon his post as Secretary to the Board of Trade and enter Parliament as member for Glasgow. This was one of three books which appeared following a lengthy trip to North America.
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 250, (2 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 9 plates, with a couple of ink notes in the margin, “From the Author” written in pencil to the paste down, upper hinge cracked and repaired. Original brown cloth, extremities with some wear, a few marks. Very scarce. £125
Eight volumes, large 8vo, with 2 engraved titles and 36 steel engraved plates, most still with their tissues, but with several volumes showing signs of plates being removed, bound in the original gilt decorated cloth, spine ends a little worn, some marks, a.e.g. £175 Including portraits of J.Q. Adams, Madison, Washington Irving, and Franklin plus a fine folding engraving showing all the signatures on the Declaration of Independence. Map not present.
First edition, large 8vo, (viii), 305, (1) pp. Extending frontispiece and 44 plates plus vignettes in text, front blank and recto of frontispiece foxed. Original blind stamped red cloth, gilt title and border on upper cover, a very good copy. £160 Starting in Malta, the author travels through Egypt to the Holy Land, where he devotes several chapters concerning Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the surrounds. Xuereb 504.
Three volumes, large 8vo. 143 maps and illustrations. Gilt titled cloth, d.w.’s, a fine set. £80 Hakluyt Society, third series, volumes 8, 11 and 13.
MALCOLM, John, Sir. Sketches of Persia. New Edition. London: John Murray, 1861. 8vo. xvi, 287, (1) pp. Publisher’s bright purple cloth, gilt titled to spine, blindstamped rules to boards, all but pp. ix-xvi (introduction) and first ten pages of the work unopened. Spine faded and some discolouration to boards, otherwise the covers very good and the contents pretty much untouched. £75 First published in 1827 in two volumes, a format replicated in 1828. Murray published single volume editions in 1845 and as here.
Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xvi, 281, (1) pp, iv, 280 pp. A few spots. Recently rebound in half calf, marbled boards, gilt banded spines with morocco labels, a near fine copy. £300 Malcolm visited Persia twice, in 1800-1 and 10 years later, both times in order to smooth trade negotiations and deal with other political matters, and here gives first hand accounts of the pomp and ceremony of the Shah’s court. “The order of the Lion and Sun of Persia [was] created for his especial decoration... one of the most distinguished servants of Great Britain in the East” (DNB).
First American edition, 2 works in 2 volumes, with the two volumes of the first series bound in one, 8vo. Lacking the fly leaf in the first volume, some occasional light foxing, armorial bookplates, inscription to fly leaf in the second volume. Original cloth, marked and faded, paper spine labels a little rubbed. £100
First edition, 8vo, 283, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 30 plates showing 50 illustrations, former owner’s signature to title page, some occasional light foxing. Original cloth, a little rubbed with a few small marks. £50
Large 8vo, 13, (19) pp. 9 fine coloured aquatints (of 13) in excellent condition. Original boards, lacking spine, title and the plates detached, paper label upside down to lower cover. £250 Abbey, Travel, 374. Tooley 16 has a later impression.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 210 pp. 100 plates with captioned tissues, some foxing to text leaves. Original gilt titled decorated cloth, t.e.g., spine a little browned, some light soiling. £125 Inman 18.
First edition, xii, 185, (1) pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues plus black and white illustrations in the text, owner’s ink stamp to half title and fly leaf. Original gilt tiled decorative red cloth, t.e.g., spine sunned. £75 Inman 64.
First English edition. Large 8vo. xx, 404 pp. Recent tan half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, blindstamped and gilt rules, red and green gilt lettered labels, gilt decoration to other panels, pale red edges. Chromolithograph frontispiece, twelve black and white lithographed plates, eight mounted photographs and three maps. Some trivial spotting towards front and rear of the volume, dark tinge to the edge of some of the plate leaves (not affecting the images), a very good copy overall. £3200 The work describes Hans Meyer’s second and successful attempt to reach the highest of Kilimanjaro’s three peaks, Kibo, in 1889. He had fallen short on a previous attempt two years earlier. Meyer, along with the Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller, were the first Europeans known to have attained the summit.
First edition, large 8vo, xvi, 340 pp. 6 photogravure and 6 coloured plates with tissue guards plus a second title and 74 further black and white plates, 2 maps, light foxing to the first couple of leaves. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, gilt vignette to the upper cover, spine and top edge a little faded, t.e.g. £100 A well illustrated account of hunting trips in search of stags, caribou, bears etc.
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 159, (1), 8 advertisement pp. Portrait frontispiece and 7 plates. Cloth, some slight wear, d.w., a little soiled with loss to the top edge. £50
MOFFAT, Robert. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa; London: John Snow 1842. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 624, (12 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece of the Kuruman Mission, “Printed in Oil Colours by [George] Baxter”, plus a folding map and 20 wood engraved illustrations, some foxing to the plates. Inscribed on a front blank from the Author, dated 1876. Later half morocco by Mansell, t.e.g., gilt banded spine, a couple of minor marks to the boards otherwise very good. £900 Moffat embarked for Africa in 1816 at the age of 21, initially bound for Namaqualand, and over the next two decades established several missions and translated the New Testament (and eventually the whole Bible) into Sechwana, despite the hostile attentions of the Matabele and other African tribes. Following this volume’s publication he returned to Africa, staying there until 1870. “...the father and pioneer of South African mission work...” (DNB). “...a valuable account of mission work among the Bechuanas...” (Mendelssohn). Mendelssohn II p29.
First edition, no. 69 of 250 copies signed by the Author, 8vo, xxx, 382 pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, folding plan, later inscription to front blank, free endpapers browned. Original black quarter morocco, subtly rebacked retaining the original backstrip, t.e.g. £200
First edition, 8vo, 74 pp. 3 coloured and 44 black and white plates, slight cracking of hinge by title, monogrammatic bookplate. Original gilt titled green cloth, some slight marks and fading. £125
Limited edition, no. 8 of 750 copies, 8vo, xvi, 276 pp, 4 plates, inscription on fly leaf verso, light browning to free endpapers only, quarter vellum, green buckram sides, marking to spine, t.e.g., a very good copy. £60 A fictitious adventure first published 1751. A lively tale wherein John Daniel is shipwrecked, and having married and raised a family, one of his sons invents a flying-machine to escape in. After other adventures including encountering a sea monster he returns to England. This edition was the first volume in the Library of Impostors Series edited by N.M. Penzer.
Sole edition. 8vo. vii, (i), 660, (2) pp. Contemporary brown ribbed cloth with old manuscript title label to spine, speckled edges, cancelled library stamp to foot of title page, no other markings. Spine slightly faded and spotted, light damp stain to first few leaves, some light spotting throughout, a decent copy nonetheless. £750 Evidently very scarce, with only four copies traced on Copac. A small number of English-Bengali dictionaries were published in the very late 18th and early 19th Centuries, mostly published in Calcutta, and given the paucity of auction records for them each had a small print run. n - Back to top
8vo, (iv), 67, (3) leaves, printed on one side only and unopened, simple illustration of Mount Fuji on endpapers, original limp cloth covers, sewn as issued, slight marking to lower edge of upper cover, stiff paper d.w. present but lacking spine. £80
Limited edition, no. 45 of 250 copies signed by the Author, 4to, xvi, 294 pp. 75 coloured plates with captioned tissues. Original gilt titled cream cloth, t.e.g., slight wear to extremities, spine browned, some marks, light damp staining to the outer edge of the lower cover. £195 Inman 246. o - Back to top
First edition, (x), 390, (8 advertisement) pp. 77 coloured plates with captioned tissues and a folding map, small later label to paste down. Original yellow and orange decorated black cloth, some minor rubbing otherwise a very good copy. £80 Inman 5.
8vo, (viii), 88 pp. 11 coloured plates plus a map, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of the Old Hall School, Wellington, to paste down. Contemporary full calf, gilt spine and edges, black label, an excellent copy. £50 Inman 706. The title calls for “six outline pictures for colouring contained in a pocket at the end of the book”, which in this rebound copy are obviously not present.
First English edition, 8vo, (xvi), 711, (1) pp, partly unopened, bound, with new endpapers, in the original green cloth, spine dull, ends bumped. £125 A learned work including partial translations of many ancient texts. First published in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science 5 years earlier. p - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, (xii), 252, (4 advertisement) pp, 75 coloured plates, captioned tissues, plus an extending map at the end, original decorated blue cloth, spine sunned, top of spine a little worn. £60
First edition. 4to. (4), 164 pp. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt tooled raised bands, gilt lettered direct to one panel, marbled endpapers. Engraved title page with vignette and 80 full page illustrations including a portrait of the author and a map. Light wear to extremities, marbled paper to lower board slightly cockled and with small loss, occasional light foxing, else a very good copy. £475 An early edition of the work dated 1838 on the letterpress title page, 1839 on the engraved title and 1840 in the imprint of the portrait of Pardoe.
Second edition, small 8vo, (iv), 272, 32 advertisement pp, with a folding map in a pocket at the end, contemporary signature to title, original gilt titled red cloth, spine and edges darkened, spine ends slightly worn. £100 Lister 320.
Thirteenth edition, (ii), xxviii, (64, 420), 841-916 pp, with most of the book having the columns rather than the pages numbered. Folding frontispiece map with an old repair to one margin. 20th century quarter calf, black spine label slightly curled. £100 First published 1771.
PAYN, James. The Lakes in Sunshine: Being Photographs and other Pictures of the Lake District... With Descriptive Letterpress by... Windermere: J. Garnett 1867. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 26 mounted photos with tissue guards and numerous wood engravings in the text, some foxing on early leaves and tissues of second volume otherwise a very good copy in the original decorated cloth with bevelled edges, title, sailing boat and decorative border in gilt on upper covers, spines faded, ends and extremities slightly rubbed, t.e.g. £475 Anderson p296. Gernsheim 391.
First edition, volume II only (of 2), small folio, (i), 246-481, (1) leaves, containing typescript on rectos only, pedigrees - a couple folding - printed in red and green, several portraits and a genealogy in Arabic loosely inserted from another source. Crudely bound as issued in linen backed paper wrappers, some light soiling, spine with some wear and loss. £250 Founder of the Arab Legion in 1920, Peake’s efforts in forming the first permanent army in the middle east left a lasting impression on the region. This history of the area in which he worked and lived for decades is a decidedly scarce title; the simple style of binding implying that few copies were distributed.
First edition, 8vo, (ii), 317, (1) pp, 8 plates, light damp mark in a few inner margins, original pictorial cloth, upper edges a trifle nicked. £75 A reliable and accurate assesment of the work carried out by the Missions to Japan, the author himself being a member of the Lutheran Mission at Saga.
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 433, (1) pp. 32 black and white plates, 2 folding maps at the end, small closed tear to the inner margin of one map. Original cloth, spine slightly sunned with a few marks. £350
First edition. Large 8vo. (xx), 485 pp. Publisher’s green cloth, gilt lettered and decorated to spine. Frontispiece and 61 black and white illustrations, many two to a page, plus a folding map at the end. Extremities very lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, half title browned in part, two tears without loss to wide inner margin of map and thus not affecting image, a very good copy overall. £150
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 288 pp, frontispiece and illustrations in the text, contemporary inscription on fly leaf, bookplate, quarter cloth, spine ends bumped. £50
Oblong folio, (30 x 40 cm). Black half morocco over dark cloth boards with the name “S. Trevail”, the title and date in gilt to the upper board, spine with double raised bands, gilt rules, moiré silk endpapers, the armorial bookplate of Silvanus Trevail to the front paste down, all edges gilt. 19 sepia photographs, each measuring c. 18 x 24 cm, mounted on thick card. A number of the photos not captioned, the contents of the album are as follows: 1-3. Uncaptioned, featuring interiors and an exterior of rock cut temple(s); 4. “Ahmedabad. The Rani Rabmuti, or the Queen’s Mosque”; 5. “Ahmedabad. The Rani Sipari’s Mosque, Showing the Beautifully Carved Window and Pillar”; 6. “Ahmedabad. Perforated Lattice Window in Sidi Said’s Mosque”; 7. “The Kutub [Qutab] Minar. The Highest Minaret in the World” [Delhi]; 8. Uncaptioned, but would appear to show the grounds of a fort, featuring rows of canons in the foreground; 9. Uncaptioned, would appear to be a riverside palatial residence; 10. “Agra. Motee Musjid, or Pearl Mosque”; 11. “Interior of the Motee Musjid”; 12. “Agra. The Taj Mahal from One Corner of the Quadrangle”; 13. Agra. Entrance Gate to the Taj Mahal”; 14. Agra. The Delhi Gate and Fort”; 15-16. Uncaptioned, British colonial architecture, possibly Mumbai; 17. “University, Library & Clock Tower, Bombay”; 18. Uncaptioned, British colonial architecture, Mumbai; 19. Uncaptioned, Victoria Station, Mumbai. Slight rubbing to extremities, the covers otherwise very good. A few of the card leaves with brown stains at the edges, most noticeably the final blank leaf, some very light spotting to approximately half the photos, otherwise a very nice album. £750 Silvanus Trevail (1851-1903), was a famous Cornish architect of the late 19th Century, designing and constructing many schools, public buildings and private residences. As well showing a keen entrepreneurial spirit, he rose to the position of mayor of Truro in the years 1894-5.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 134 pp. Frontispiece, somewhat foxed, Errata slip tipped in at the end, Victorian Library label to paste down. Original gilt titled cloth, some minor marks and rubbing, outer edge of upper cover slightly bowed. £100
First edition, 8vo, 663, (1) pp. Coloured folding map with a small tear to the central fold crease, full page black and white illustrations, contemporary prize inscription to front blank, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary red calf, double gilt rules, gilt spine with a dark green label, light rubbing to raised bands, a handsome copy. £125
First edition, large 8vo, (xii) 789, (3 blank) pp, with 4 coloured maps (3 folding) and 5 further ones on endpapers, library stamps on recto and verso of title and on fly leaf, small adhesive mark on front end papers, original cloth titled in gilt and with the figure of a Samurai and a modern Japanese Admiral on upper cover. £110 An all embracing work not just dealing with Japan but with some 60pp of discussion of the Korean question and the afforestation, administration, judicial reform, mineral resources etc of that country.
First edition, 16mo, (xiv), 460, (9 Index, 1) pp, lacking the engraved title page. Marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine rather worn with loss to top. £100 Willems 525.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, (2), 208 pp. Hand coloured aquatint frontispiece and 5 monochrome aquatint plates, marbled endpapers, booklabel to paste down. Later half calf, cloth sides, gilt tooled spine with morocco label, spine ends rubbed else a fine copy. £125 With the Subscribers’ List showing only 284 copies sold.
Fourth edition, folio, (xl), 140, 149-344, 347-1047, (1, 24 Index) pp, with some mispagination. 22 maps and one plate (of a Turkish woman) in the text, but lacking the folding map of China, 7 leaves of text and 6 leaves of the Index at the end, final Index leaf present torn with about half lost, some light staining to early leaves, 19th century armorial bookplate, 19th and 20th century ownership inscriptions to fly leaf. Contemporary calf with a simple border of three blind stamped rolls, some wear, neatly rebacked with a maroon label. £3000 A defective copy of an important work, distinct from Purchas’ “Pilgrimes” which often has this title bound up as a fifth volume. The “Pilgrimes” is a famous collection of voyages published from many of Hakluyt’s manuscripts which Purchas inherited; whereas the “Pilgrimage” concerns the religions and history of the world and was largely his own composition. Divided into sections per continent, he covers Biblical history and customs, the origins of Islam, trade and voyages to the East Indies and Japan, Egyptian religion, the various African tribes and countries and America north and south - “New France, Virginia, Florida, New Spaine, with other Regions of America Mexicana... Cumana, Guiana, Brasil, Chica, Chili, Peru...”. STC 20508.5. Sabin 66682 “...the best edition of the ‘Pilgrimage’” and the only one with maps. q - Back to top
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Two works, printed in facsimile, in one volume, 8vo, (xvi), 112, (2), (xii), 97, (1) pp, bound in vellum with yapp edges and ties, a little marked and browned, with an accompanying 20 page pamphlet featuring an Introduction by A.L. Rowse, both volumes held in a cloth case. £50 First printed in 1596 and 1601 respectively.
First edition, 8vo, xx, 170 pp, photographic illustrations and 2 folding panoramas, original coloured wrappers bound in, folding map in pocket at the end, marbled endpapers, finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in red full morocco, gilt ruled border, t.e.g. £60
Small 4to. viii, 4, 264 pp. Contemporary black half morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered to one compartment and decorated to others, gilt rules, blind stamped decoration to sides and corners. Map and five black and white engraved plates, numerous illustrations set into text. Some intermittent foxing and two slim sections with a small recurring dampstain to the upper margin, nonetheless an attractive example. £120
Ninth edition, 12mo, viii, 140, (2 advertisement) pp. Folding map, hand coloured in outline. Uncut in contemporary red half morocco, one corner worn, some other rubbing. £150
First edition, 4to. Title page, frontispiece and 31 plates, light marginal damp staining to the first two and final six plates. Contemporary dark green quarter morocco, loss to spine ends, boards rather worn. £300
8vo, xx, (xiv), 360 pp. Engraved second title and 49 plates plus a folding map, hand coloured in outline, marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary half morocco, spine rubbed. £150 First published in 1836.
Small folio, 76 pp, engraved title and 72 views on 36 steel engraved plates, some spotting, mostly marginal, a few plates marginally damp-stained, original patterned cloth, corners worn, rebacked, a.e.g. £100 The engraved title is dated 1833, as are most of the plates, but some are dated 1832.
8vo, 191, (1) pp. Bound in at the front is a sheet of vellum with a line in Italian (“Dalla patria dei Cesari felicitazioni ed auguzi”) written in a fair calligraphic hand, the initial letter containing a small coloured picture of the Colosseum, decorative gilt endpapers, monogrammatic bookplate of Elinor M. Churchill. Contemporary gilt decorated full vellum, gilt lion of St. Mark atop a column to upper cover, some minor marks otherwise an attractive copy. £80
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 390 pp, with a coloured folding map and 8 plates, the map with some marginal creasing, some light spots, bookplate, original green cloth. £125 Sabin 74370. s - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, 142, (2) pp. 32 photographic plates, some light foxing, later bookplate of the academic and author Dr. R.M. Burrell. Original marbled cloth, d.w. with one of the plates reproduced to the upper wrapper, slight loss to the spine ends and corners, some general wear to the edges with some marks and browning. Scarce in the wrapper. £550 Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A17a.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 247, (1) pp. 10 collotype plates, a map and 11 woodcuts in the text. Original blue cloth, a little worn and marked, small hole to upper cover, spine ends bumped, gilt lion on upper cover. £125 In two parts, the first historical from ancient times, the second contemporary and combining a guide to the antiquities with a political survey.
First edition, 8vo, xiv, 289, (1) pp, 2 partly coloured folding maps, 3 photographic plates and woodcuts in the text, later cloth, some light marks otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, xiv, (3)-268 pp. Slight cracking of joints. Original gilt titled cloth, spine darkened, top of joints cracking. £115
First edition, 8vo, viii, 520 pp. 3 coloured lithographic views and a folding map. Original brown cloth, spine a little worn with some tears, internally a fine copy. £225
Two volumes, large 8vo. 31 maps and illustrations. Gilt titled cloth, d.w.’s, one small mark otherwise fine. £60 Hakluyt Society, third series, volumes 16 and 17.
16mo, 282, (2) pp, engraved title, bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, rubbed, joints a little cracked. £150 The text is chiefly taken from the Histories of Hector Boethius and William Camden, with a couple of other anonymous pieces included as well. Willems 287.
SCOTLAND: GRAFFMAN, C.S. Skottska Vuer, tecknade efter Naturen under en resa i Skottland ar 1830 af... Lithographierade af C.T. Billmark. Stockholm [1832-3]. 4to, (26) pp. Lithographed title and 24 fine lithographed plates - the first plate partly detached else all in excellent clean condition. Contemporary half calf, corners bumped, marbled sides, morocco spine label. £450 The plates include views of Abbotsford (Walter Scott’s home), Stirling, Inverary and Bothwell Castles and Glencoe (captioned “Glencroe”). The Subscriber’s List at the end lists 449 copies sold, including 11 to the Swedish royal family.
First edition, two volumes, 8vo, xxvi, 636; (xviii), 534 pp. 8 photogravures (including portraits of Scott and Wilson) and 18 coloured plates (mostly taken from drawings by Wilson) plus two panoramas and 172 other plates, also three pages of facsimile from notebooks and eight folding maps, one map with a small tear to the inner margin, not affecting the map, further illustrations in the text, internally a very good set. Original gilt titled blue cloth with some rubbing, a few marks, small abrasion to the top of the lower cover of volume I. £375 A fine tribute to Scott’s doomed expedition, this work collects the writings, photographs and data found with the bodies eight months after their heroic but failed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.
First English edition, 8vo, 304 pp. Numerous photographic illustrations and maps, some marginal tears, hinges cracking but sound, strip neatly cut from the top of the fly leaf. Original gilt titled blue cloth, with a gilt moose head to the upper cover, t.e.g., some light marks. £100
First edition, small 8vo, (xvi), 398, (2 advertisement) pp. Lacking the frontispiece map, partly unopened. Original cloth, spine browned. £80
Second edition, 16mo, 372, (8 Index) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplates of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine slightly worn with minor loss to top. £200 Willems 356. First published 1628.
Including a short article on Shackleton’s expedition of 1914-16 by Reginald James, the physicist to the expedition, and an “Old Citizen” of the school. An early account of the famous voyage; the party having returned to London in November 1916.
First edition, 8vo, (xxiv), 283, (1), 8 advertisement pp, 24 black and white photographic plates and a coloured folding map, signature on paste down and small ink stamp on fly leaf, original blue cloth, a near fine copy. £65
Second edition, 8vo, viii, 284 pp, new fly leaf and rear endpapers, brief contemporary manuscript Index on paste down, modern bookplate to fly leaf, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, marbled sides and corners a little worn. £95 A Unitarian Minister and “an enthusiast for civil and religious liberty” (DNB), Shepherd’s two visits offer a wealth of first-hand impressions of Napoleon’s Paris, including his viewing of its literary and artistic treasures and thoughts on the political situation.
First edition, 12mo, (ii, 2 advertisement, iii-viii), 287, (1, 2 advertisement) pp. 18 hand coloured plates of costume, some light foxing, title and frontispiece with wear to edges, endpapers also a little marked and worn. Original decorative blind stamped maroon morocco, signed “Dobson, London”, corners slightly worn, recently rebacked in black calf. £400 The World in Miniature series. “The rarest volume of the series”, Tooley pp420-1, giving the date as 1823. Abbey, Travel, I p17, giving the date as 1827. The text is watermarked 1824, the plates 1825.
First edition, 8vo, 359, (1) pp. 23 photographic plates and a map. Gilt titled cloth, d.w. with some light browning and minor edge wear, a very good copy. £60
16mo, 508, (17 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine with some wear and loss to the top. £300 Willems 278. A history of Switzeland first published 1576.
16mo, 377, (7) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine a little worn with cracking to the tops of the joints. £500 The first work exclusively on the Alps. Willems 390. First published 1574.
First edition, 4to, (iv), 281, (1) pp. 2 portrait plates plus a frontispiece and numerous engravings in the text, contemporary inscription to front blank. Original gilt titled cloth, lower part of upper cover with some damp staining, spine ends worn. £100
First edition, small 4to, (xii), 338 pp, with a coloured frontispiece and 219 black and white illustrations and maps in the text, buckram, d.w. with slight scuffing, otherwise a fine copy. £100 Maps and explorations from Marco Polo to Nansen.
Two volumes, 8vo, with folding plates, unopened in the original maroon cloth backed boards, slight sunning of spines else very good. £80 A collection of works, published originally in the 17th century, by and relating to one of the founding colonists of Virginia.
First edition, small 4to, viii, 135, (1) pp, frontispiece, 52 plates and 9 further illustrations, some light spotting at the beginning and end, cloth backed boards, a very good copy. £65 Arguments for a European influence on the pre-Columbian civilisations in America, hinging on a monument which includes a carving of an Indian elephant found in Honduras.
Folio. xvi, 117 pp. Original dark blue cloth gilt lettered to spine and upper board, spine with raised bands, all edges gilt, engraved armorial bookplate of Terence Theobald Bourke featuring the printed date of 1889. 87 illustrations comprising: 22 tinted lithographs (including frontispiece), 25 smaller black and white illustrations set into the text, three maps, 11 plans (of which one is part coloured), 16 mounted photographs and 10 plates of inscriptions. Small hole towards lower edge of half title. Corners of three leaves (pp 87-92) torn and now repaired, the last leaf with slight loss to edge, the text entirely unaffected. The volume recently recased, thus gilded edges ever so slightly uneven. Some discolouration to spine and corners. Contents uncommonly clean for a plate book of this period. £975 Cyrene was an ancient settlement founded by the Greeks in 630 B.C., it went on to become one of the principal trading posts on the Libyan coast. In more recent times the city had fallen into ruin and, as Porcher notes in his preface, had been scantily recorded prior to this expedition. Terence Theobald Bourke, youngest child of Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, 4th Viceroy of India.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 420 pp. 48 photographic plates and 2 maps in the text plus a folding map at the end, signature to fly leaf. Original black cloth, a very good copy. £50 Neate 729.
First edition, 8vo, (x), 118, (2), 117, (4 List of Lord-Wardens of the Cinque Ports, 11 Index) pp. Portrait frontispiece, contemporary manuscript list of names to the final blank including many well-known figures such as Edmund Halley, John Evelyn and William Dugdale. Contemporary calf, rebacked with later endpapers, some wear. £300 Published posthumously from notes Somner had made in preparation for a history of Kent but abandoned as a result of the civil war. Wing 4669. Bennett p189.
Fifth (second separate) edition, small 8vo, (iv), 22, 296, (2), 64 advertisement pp, 6 coloured maps and 2 plahns, including a folding map of the county in the pocket at the end, original gilt titled red cloth, spine very slightly sunned else a near fine copy. £75 Lister 329. The first 3 editions included Sussex as well.
Third edition, 8vo, xvi, 292 pp. Frontispiece, folding plan and 9 illustrations in the text, marbled endpapers and edges, armorial bookplate of Thomas James Ireland plus a smaller label of Upham Beet, New Bond Street, London. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with a dark green label, some minor marks and rubbing otherwise very good. £70
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 483, (1 blank, 4 advertisement) pp. Stamp of the Mercantile Library of New York to title and 2 or 3 other leaves. Original red cloth, a near fine copy. £50
Second edition, 16mo, (xvi), 447, (7) pp. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine with some wear and slight loss to ends. £200 Willems 320.
8vo, (xiv), 339, (1), 24 advertisement pp, frontispiece (by Edward Whymper), title vignette and 2 plates, signature on half title, original gilt titled cloth, small gilt illustration to upper cover, spine ends a little worn, some marks. £80 Collecting papers from the Alpine Journal and other sources, this book, first published 1871, “inaugurated a new style... vivid, direct, and unpretendingly picturesque, at the same time... serious and reflective...” (DNB, of which Stephen was the initial Editor). He was also of course Virginia Woolf’s father. Neate 766.
Second edition, 16mo, (ii), 543/4, 541/2, (iv), 539/40, 537/8, (ii), 536, 543-575, (13) pp, complete but with four leaves from sig. Ll bound in at the front. Engraved title, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine worn with loss to ends. £200 Willems 563.
Single sheet, 28 x 21 cm, printed on one side only. A little marked and creased, with cuttings from contemporary magazines pasted to the verso. £100 A two column description of the tomb of John Oliver, which he prepared three decades before his death in 1793. Famous for allegedly using the sails of his mill to alert ships to the movements of Customs officers, he was also said to have been buried face down, as the Day of Judgement would turn the world upside down.
Second edition, 8vo, 94 pp. Folding plan, folding map of the environs and 7 lithographic plates plus a hand coloured lithograph of Powell’s Circulating Library and a geological map of the south coast. Minor chipping to the outer margin of the plan and damp staining to the lower margin of the folding map. Uncut in recent black quarter calf, marbled sides. £175 Scarce. Several of the plates are either dated 1817 or 1819.
Large 8vo, 43, xx, 909, (1) pp. Large coloured folding map, small tears to inner margin, lower hinge cracked but sound. Original red cloth, spine slightly faded. £150
Second edition, 12mo, (ii), iv, 210 pp. Two plates, one slightly trimmed, one leaf with a small closed tear, a few spots. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, corners with some wear, recently rebacked, black spine label. £185
One hundred and fifty volumes, including the five index volumes, the first 111 volumes 8vo, the remainder large 8vo. Numerous plates, diagrams, maps and genealogies, 15 volumes with bookplates or booklabels, a few signatures and brief inscriptions, one volume with Library stamps, a further handful with a single stamp to the paste down, lower hinge of volume IV split. Original cloth, some general light wear, particularly to spine ends of the early volumes, volumes XIII and XV with heavier wear to the spines, volumes 141-145 paperback. £750 A scarce complete run of what is undoubtedly the finest resource for those interested in the history of the county.
4to, (196) pp, with 66 plates, mostly portraits, each with a tissue guard, some foxing to text leaves, marbled endpapers, original gilt titled two toned cloth, slight bumping of spine ends, a.e.g., a very good copy. £165 Containing 73 brief biographies, which correspond exactly with the names on the Subscriber’s List!
Private Subscriber’s Edition, inscribed thus in the Author’s hand - no. 280 of an unknown quantity, large 8vo, xvi, 558 pp. 20 plates plus 5 illustrations in the text. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spine a little sunned else a very good copy. £150
24 plates measuring 7” x 9.5”, tipped in to paper mounts, 19 with tissue guards. A few marks to the mounts, the plates being in fine condition, with a 4 pp leaflet enclosed describing each illustration and indicating that this is “a set of proofs before letters”. Held in a card portfolio case with tie, illustrated etched title on upper cover. £500 A rare complete set of these fine Sussex views, including views of Bodiam and Pevensey Castles, Rye, Chichester Cathedral and Michelam Priory.
Oblong 12mo, 24 leaves, printed on one side only, plus 21 full page wood engravings. Browned and foxed throughout, fly leaf chipped with loss. Inscribed from Wm. E. Baxter, son of the printer and brother of the more famous George, on the inside of the upper wrapper with a slightly later inscription also, pencilled note concerning the provenance taped to the fly leaf, faint signature of the later recipient to upper cover. Original wrappers, chipped with slight loss, remains of an old repair to upper wrapper, recently rebacked in maroon morocco. £225
“Popular edition” (same year as first), 8vo, (xvi), 444 pp. 20 coloured plates and a folding map, bookplate. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, spine sunned. £50
First edition, 8vo, viii, 204 pp. Frontispiece and 5 illustrations in the text, some minor foxing, Errata slip tipped in, bookplate of Joseph Henry Woollan. Original gilt titled brown cloth, some light marks and rubbing, a very good copy. £125
SUSSEX: BISHOP, John George. “A Peep into the Past”: Brighton in the Olden Time, with Glances at the Present. Brighton: J.G. Bishop, “Herald” Office, 1892. Second edition, 8vo, (viii), 22, 434, (12 advertisement) pp. 54 illustrations - including a double page map of the town in 1799, inscribed from “...his friend the Author” on the half title. Original dark blue cloth, light rubbing, spine slightly dull. £90 Including a complete reprint of the Brighthelmston Guide of 1800.
First edition, large 8vo, xii, 210, (1) pp. 201 photographic illustrations. Cloth, slight fading to edges, d.w., not price clipped, slight wear to edges otherwise very good. £60
First edition, 8vo, xii, 172 pp. Frontispiece, 13 plates and a folding pedigree, free endpapers browned. Original gilt titled light blue cloth, dull, spine browned, some small patches of wear to the lower cover. £60
Facsimile edition, 8vo, (ii), viii, 264 pp. Extending frontispiece map and 10 plates. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £50 First published 1850.
First edition, 12mo, iv, 201, (1) pp. Folding maps of the county and of Chichester plus an engraved title and 45 engraved plates, some foxing to the plates, two signatures, one 20th century, to the engraved title. Contemporary calf, gilt borders and blind stamped decoration to covers, subtly rebacked retaining the original gilt spine and black label. £200 Although the title calls for 50 engravings most copies we have seen have a total of 48, as here. Also printed as an octavo.
Folio, (iv), viii, (vii)-xvi, 406, (2) pp. 17 plates and 6 maps and plans, including 2 plates not listed at the end, one plate and one plan with hand colouring, some foxing, marbled endpapers. Contemporary calf, top edge stained red, blind stamped rules, spine with red and green morocco labels, some minor rubbing, very good. £800 A scarce volume - a fire at the printing office having destroyed almost all of the 1815 first edition only 200 copies of this new edition were published.
Limited edition, no. 140 of 250 hardback copies, signed by the Editor, 8vo, (vi), x, 254 pp. Frontispiece and 4 pages of black and white photographic illustrations, signature to fly leaf. Cloth, d.w. with one small mark, a near fine copy. £75
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 555, (5 Index) pp. Old signature to front blank. Recent half calf, marbled sides, an excellent copy. £300 A scarce work with the Subscriber’s List showing only 217 names.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 304, 31 advertisement, (1) pp. 8 photographic plates, some light foxing, later bookseller’s label to fly leaf. Original green cloth, gilt spine, some light marking and rubbing. £65 A very scarce account of life in Burpham near Arundel, where the Author was the Vicar.
First edition, 8vo, (iv), 268 pp. Frontispiece and 6 plates including a map plus 6 folding pedigrees, upper wrapper loosely inserted at the end. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf. Original green cloth, dull, lower cover marked. £100
First edition, 8vo, xx, 255, (1) pp. Title page with some foxing, bookplates - Uvedale Lambert and Duncan Guthrie - to front endpapers, the latter designed by Reynolds Stone. Original gilt titled green cloth, a little rubbing to spine ends otherwise very good. £65
First edition, 8vo, 311, (1) pp. Portrait frontispiece and 2 photographic plates, some light foxing. Original gilt titled red cloth, light mark to upper cover, spine a little sunned. £75
First edition, 8vo, viii, 383, (3) pp. Signature to fly leaf, partly unopened, upper hinge cracked with a small tear to the inner margin of the fly leaf and half title. Original gilt titled purple cloth, rather rubbed and dull. £50
First edition, small 8vo, 118, (2 advertisement) pp. Extending frontispiece and a map, tear to the inner margin of the former, some occasional light foxing. Original boards, spine worn with some loss, printed label also with slight loss. £250
Second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, xiii, (i), 192; viii, 210 pp. Hand coloured general map and a folding plan, plus a hand coloured plate of a Roman mosaic and a folding view, the latter with some foxing, repair to the lower hinge of volume I. Uncut in the original boards, some wear, simple paper labels to upper covers and spines. £250
First edition, small 4to, xx, 390 pp. 16 coloured illustrations plus many in black and white. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £75
Two volumes, second edition of the first series, first edition of the second series, 8vo. 4 plates in the second volume, some occasional foxing. Original gilt titled cloth, some wear to edges otherwise a good tight set. £95
First edition, large 8vo, xx, 138, (2) pp. Frontispiece and 70 other photographic illustrations. Original gilt titled green buckram, d.w. browned and soiled and with an old laminated cover. £100
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 288 pp. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf, an ex-Library copy with a stamp to title and labels to paste down. Original red cloth, spine sunned with some loss to ends, accession number to foot. £50
First edition, 2 volumes, 4to. Extending frontispiece in volume I and 39 plates, one further woodcut plate of views in Brighton and 2 maps - including a large folding map of the town with a very small closed tear to the inner margin, plus 12 pedigrees and further woodcuts, some occasional foxing. Modern speckled half calf, marbled sides, black spine labels, an excellent set. £550
SUSSEX: HORSFIELD, Thomas Walker. The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex. Lewes: Baxter 1835. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to. 2 folding maps and 56 copperplate engravings plus 80 wood engravings in the text, extra illustrated with 6 further plates bound in and others loosely inserted, old closed tear to one map and a minor one to the other, only the former affecting the image, a few light spots, marbled endpapers and sides. Contemporary maroon half morocco, t.e.g., gilt banded spines, a little wear to spines otherwise very good. £550 One of the standard works on the county, covering each hundred and parish and listing the various ancient manor houses, churches and ruins as well as biographies of important figures.
First edition, small 8vo, (iv), 70 pp. Frontispiece, early leaves foxed, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt titled blind stamped cloth, a few marks, spine browned with a couple of chips and wear to ends. £60
8vo, (iv), iv, 12, 88 pp, engraved frontispiece, lacking a further plate at page 24, spotted, hinges a little weak between some gatherings, in the original boards, worn, paper spine a little torn, upper joint lacking a small piece, printed label on upper cover. £75 An extremely scarce work with the 12 page Subscriber’s List showing only 178 copies sold.
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo. Extending map of the county, some light, mostly marginal, foxing, particularly to the first and last few leaves of volume I. Contemporary half calf, marbled sides, neatly recased with new labels, some marks and light wear. £200
SUSSEX: LOWER, M.A. A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the first Twenty Volumes of the “Sussex Archaeological Collections”. Lewes: Geo. P. Bacon 1870. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, (vi), xxx, 270; (iv), 278, xiii Index, (1) pp. Extending map of the county, plus Extra Illustrated with 2 further folding maps, including one of the Southern Railway, 2 leaves of newspaper cuttings and 55 illustrations, a few spots. Recent green buckram. £225
First edition, 8vo, xii, 227, (1) pp, with 2 coloured facsimile plates, recent bookplate and bookseller’s label on paste down, a very good copy in the original green cloth, some minor marks, skilfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £75
SUSSEX: LOWER, Mark Anthony. A Hand-Book for Lewes, Historical and Descriptive. With notes of the recent discoveries at the Priory. London: John Russell Smith, [1845]. First edition, small 8vo, viii, 128 pp, plus 12 blank leaves at the end with contemporary newspaper cuttings tipped in concerning various excavations. Frontispiece and vignettes in the text, some occasional light spotting, inscribed from the Author on the title page to William Courthope, with the bookplate of the same to the paste down. Recent half calf, marbled sides. £250 The inscription reads “Mr. Courthope Esq., Rouge Croix, With the Author’s kind regards and thanks”. Courthope was editor of Debrett’s Peerage until appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant at the College of Arms.
Second edition, 8vo, (iv), 268, (4 Appendix) pp. Folding map, later bookplate of Mildred Anne Buxton, Countess Buxton. 19th century half calf, marbled sides with some wear, rebacked retaining the original backstrip, new spine label. £175 Lower’s first work, originally published 1831, and a very rare title. The Subscriber’s list in the first edition shows only 244 names and Copac records only one copy of this edition.
First edition, 8vo, viii, 46 pp, inscribed from Mantell on the paste down “Mr. Hudson, with the Author’s Compts”, internally a fine copy, bound in the original boards, marked, printed label on upper cover, recently rebacked with a new paper spine. £250 Dean 82.
Large folio, (i), 28 bifoliates. 16 maps and 2 cartouches, including 6 maps displayed over more than one bifoliate. Original faux leather, printed label, still held in the original cardboard box, fine. £200
First edition, 8vo, (vi), 265, (1) pp. 6 plates, contemporary inscription to fly leaf. Original gilt decorated blue cloth with bevelled edges, extremities a little worn. £100
First edition, 4to, 280 pp. 8 plans and 293 illustrations - many in colour. Cloth, d.w. with one small tear and some minor rubbing to edges. £75
Folio, 37 loose leaves, being title and contents leaves and 35 plates of Sussex locations including Lewes, Chichester, Arundel etc, lacking a further 15 plates, held in the original gilt titled cloth folder, with some wear to the spine. £145 More normally seen as a bound volume.
First edition, 8vo, xii, 435, (1) pp, with an extending map with views of Arundel Castle and Battle Abbey, an engraved vignette title and 6 plates, some light spots else very good in the original moiré cloth, slight loss to spine ends. £100
Limited edition, one of 250 copies, this copy not numbered, small 4to, (xii), 285, (1) pp. 27 plates, two in colour, plus a large folding genealogy, the latter with an outer fold browned and with a couple of closed tears along fold creases, one older repair also. Inscribed from the Author on the fly leaf with a photo of her tipped onto the subsequent blank with a further inscription underneath, the Earl of Chichester’s arms tipped on to the fly leaf verso. Original gilt titled blue cloth, t.e.g., gilt arms to upper cover, extremities with some rubbing. £125 An old Sussex family who later became the Earls of Chichester. Very scarce.
First edition, 8vo, xliii, (i), 165, (3) pp. Hand coloured double page map, slightly creased, plus a contemporary photograph of the Author tipped onto a front blank, light damp staining to the inner margin throughout, hinge cracked by title, later bookplate. Original gilt titled green cloth, covers creased, minor rubbing. Scarce. £50
First edition, 2 volumes - text volume 8vo, plate volume folio. Plate volume containing 148 lithographs - 4 per plate, text volume with a hand coloured lithographic frontispiece and the bookplate of Rupert Sackville Gwynne, Conservative M.P., preliminaries with some light damp staining. Text volume bound in later 19th century half calf, folio volume rebound to style. £975 Uncommon in this format, the plates are usually dissected and inserted into the octavo volume. The plate volume was acquired separately and has been bound up recently.
Three volumes. 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, dust jackets, not price clipped. Four, fourteen and ten plates respectively. Trivial wear to head of first volume, otherwise fine. £60
First edition, 8vo, (viii), 115, (1) pp. 4 plates, light foxing to endpapers only, contemporary inscription to fly leaf, contemporary booklabel on paste down. Original printed boards, spine rubbed, else a very well preserved copy. £175
First edition, 2 volumes, large 8vo, (xiv), 350; (ii), 351-772 pp. 8 plates, 2 pedigrees and 14 vignettes in the text. 20th century dark grey full morocco, t.e.g., a very good set. £225
First edition, small 8vo, 175, (1) pp. 4 plates, including 2 lithographed views. Original dark green cloth, gilt vignette of Battle Abbey to upper cover, spine a little sunned, an excellent copy. £85
First edition, 8vo, xii, 369, (3) pp. Original blind stamped cloth, joints cracked with some loss, covered in an old sellophane covering stuck to the paste downs. £50
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 185, (7), 8 advertisement pp. 39 black and white photographic illustrations, some light foxing. Original gilt titled blue cloth, a very good bright copy. £50
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 180, (2), 8 advertisement pp. Some occasional light spots. Original cloth, spine and top edge faded with some spotting. £60
First edition, 8vo, (xx), 334 pp, with a folding map of the parish in 1816 and 18 plates, further illustrations in the text, some spotting, lacking the fly leaf with the hinges repaired, original decorative cloth, dull and rather worn, owner’s blind stamp to upper cover, top of upper hinge cracked. £75 The Subscribers’ List shows only 305 copies sold.
SUTHERLAND, Captain [David]. A Tour Up the Straits, from Gibraltar to Constantinople. With the leading events in the present war between the Austrians, Russians, and the Turks, to the commencement of the year 1789. London: Printed for the Author 1790. First edition, 8vo, xlvii, (i), 372 pp, signature on title, first and last blank leaves browned otherwise a very good clean copy recently rebound in blue half calf, marbled sides, gilt spine title. £500 Sutherland visits Italy and Greece on the way to Turkey, including trips to Florence, Vesuvius and Sardinia. The history of Athens and details of the Islamic faith are also given. Weber 618.
SUTHERLAND, Dr. Peter C. Journal of a Voyage in Baffin’s Bay and Barrow Straits, in the years 1850-1851, performed by H.M. ships “Lady Franklin” and “Sophia”, under the command of Mr. William Penny, in search of the missing crews of H.M. ships Erebus and Terror: with a Narrative of sledge excursions on the ice of Wellington Channel; and Observations on the Natural History and physical features of the Countries and frozen seas visited. By... Surgeon to the Expedition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1852. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lii, 506, (2 advertisement); viii, 363, (1), ccxxxiii, (i) pp. 6 lithographic plates, 4 in colour and 2 plain plates of fossils, plus 2 folding maps and 10 engravings in the text. Outer edge of one map browned and chipped, small bookseller’s label of W.E. Pickering, Bath to paste downs. Original blue cloth, blind stamped decoration to covers, gilt spines, slight wear to spine ends, volume I recently recased, overall a very good copy of an unusual and scarce title. £2225 One of many expeditions to set off in search of John Franklin’s lost party, Penny’s ships reached as far as the Barrow Straits but failed to locate him. N.M.M. I 905. Sabin 93963.
Second edition, 16mo, (vi), 306 pp. Engraved title, one leaf torn across with a small tear to the previous leaf also, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplate of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spine a little worn with loss to top. £200 Willems 394. t - Back to top
Second edition, 12mo, viii, 118, (2 advertisement) pp, with a folding map frontispiece and 84 numbered engravings on 28 plates rather foxed, contemporary half calf, extremities rather worn. £85 Osbourne II p813, which lists a copy with hand coloured plates.
Twenty-eighth thousand, 8vo, 348, (4 advertisement) pp, 16 plates, original gilt titled green cloth, slightly dusty, a.e.g. £80 Focusing chiefly on the Author’s Missionary activities, which took him to all manner of communities and households. Sabin 94547.
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 326 pp. Frontispiece and 68 photographic illustrations, 8 maps plus a folding map in a pocket at the end, contemporary signature to paste down. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, somewhat rubbed and soiled. £85 The Author spent 5 years exploring the Empty Quarter, from 1945-50, and was the first to twice cross the desert. “The crowning touches have placed on this exploratory activity in Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger who is probably the greatest of all the explorers...” (St. John Philby).
First edition. 8vo. (xxix), (3), 396, (2) pp. Publisher’s brown buckram, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped, top edge trimmed and stained, the others uncut, a large proportion of the leaves unopened. 81 black and white illustrations, mostly photographic, of which a number feature more than one subject to a page, plus 3 maps including the large folding one to the rear of the volume. Some light spotting to fore edges, a few small nicks to edges of the dust jacket, sometime reinforced on the verso at a few points, else an excellent copy. £250 The first crossing by a European of the Empty Quarter. “I will not say how much I like this book, lest Jonathan C. dig out the odd sentence for his blurb... [Thomas] is a master of every desert art. Here once more is the compleat Arabian traveller enshrined. Not twice but twenty times his tiniest touches set me remembering that wide land which I liked so much...” (from T.E. Lawrence’s Introduction). O’Brien A155.
First edition, 16mo, 176 pp. Engraved illustrations, several full page, contemporary signature to paste down. Original gilt titled blind stamped red cloth, spine darkened and slightly rubbed, upper cover with some wrinkling. Scarce. £95 Including an Introduction concerning the search for the north-west passage, this little volume is a lively precis of the latest expeditions and how they fared.
First edition, oblong folio, (ii), 45 leaves, printed on rectos only. Numerous sketched illustrations with facsimile handwritten captions, lacking the fly leaf. Original cloth backed boards, soiled, corners a little worn, further illustration and decoration to upper cover, which gives the title as “Pen & Pencil Notes on the Riviera & in North Italy”, price crossed through and reduced from half a guinea to five shillings in red. Very scarce. £250
12mo, xii, 510, (6) pp, pp411/2 torn with loss to the sidenotes, marbled endpapers, modern bookplate, bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, slight loss to spine ends and cracking to the ends of the joints. £275
TRANS-CONTINENTAL. Trans-Continental. “Let Every Step be an Advance”. Vol. 1, No. 6. Summit Sierra Nevadas, Cal., Tuesday, May 31, 1870. Single issue, 8vo, 4 pp. Disbound, slight edgewear. £175 One of 12 issues published during the groundbreaking first trans-American train journey, over 42 days from Boston to San Francisco and back again. Comprising 8 custom built Pullman cars, the train also carried a small printing press which produced these lively bulletins, noting onboard occurrences, landmarks passed and telegraphs received. Very scarce.
Second edition, 8vo, (vi), 168 pp. Engraved folding map with some loss and repair to the outer margin, contemporary signature to title page, very slight loss throughout to the top corner. Recent quarter calf, marbled sides. Scarce. £225 First published 1793 without a map. ESTC lists only 5 copies.
First edition, 8vo, 82, (2) pp, with a facsimile letter, inscribed from the Author on a front blank, contemporary red half calf, marbled sides and edges, extremities slightly worn. £80 Reprinted from articles written for the Manchester Examiner and Times, the Author travelled from New York to Boston via Niagara Falls and Harvard.
Fourth edition, “improved and considerably enlarged by the Author”, 12mo, (xii), 228 pp. Folding hemispherical map showing Cook’s voyages and 20 further maps, plus 5 further plates, including one (“A Geographical Clock”) with a rotating volvelle calculating time differences around the world. 20th century full calf, blind stamped border, spine in compartments with raised bands and a black label. £400 First published 1780. Osborne I p192.
8vo, xxvi, 613, (3), 32 advertisement pp. Frontispiece and illustrations in the text, signature to half title. Original gilt titled red cloth with decoration in black, spine sunned, small tear to top, some light marking. £60 “...a satire of the Americans abroad, coupled with satire on the European manner of contact with tourists...” (Johnson p12).
First English edition, 8vo, (viii), 486, (2), 32 advertisement [dated Sept. 1897] pp. Original gilt titled maroon cloth, spine sunned, extremities rubbed, t.e.g. £125 Travels through the Pacific to Australia and New Zealand and on to India. First published in America as “Following the Equator”.
8vo, xxviii, 445, (1,) pp, frontispiece and 2 plates - 1 in colour, plus 59 text illustrations, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize label of Archbishop Holgate’s Grammar School, Barnsley, on paste down, contemporary red calf, gilt arms to covers, some light marking, gilt spine, darkened and lacking the label, foot of upper joint cracked. £50 Dedicated to Michael Faraday, this classic work is divided into an account of his travels, including ascents of Monta Rosa and Mont Blanc, and then a discourse on the nature and origins of glaciers. Neate 836. u - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 337, (1) pp. Frontispiece and 4 photographic plates. Cloth with slight fading, d.w., spine faded. £100 v - Back to top
First edition, two volumes, 16mo, (xlviii), 267, (1); (viii), 320 pp. Engraved title in volume I plus a folding table, marbled paste downs, armorial bookplates of Lord Sinclair. Contemporary calf, a.e.g., covers with double gilt rules, cornerpieces and a central rose, gilt phoenix to the foot of the spine with the motto Rinasce Piu Gloriosa (“It rises again more glorious”), spines a little worn with slight loss to tops £2000 An important early work on Japan, including a translation of Schouten’s account of Siam. Varenius is best known for his “Geographia Generalis”, published by Elzevir the following year. Willems 1095.
Oblong 8vo, title page followed by 50 chromolithographed plates, small tear to the inner margin of the first plate, light damp stain to the final plate only. 2 advertisement pp at end. Title and endpapers browned. Original cloth with a gilt titled illustration to the upper cover, slight wear to spine ends. £100
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 342, (2) pp, extending frontispiece, numerous photo-illustrations, many full page, endpapers foxed, in the original cloth, joints and extremities rubbed. £95 A remarkable, highly bigoted, commentary with outrageous racial characteristics ascribed to various races that would have ensured prosecution if written today. w - Back to top
First edition, 8vo, xvi, 355, (1), 40 advertisement pp, frontispiece and illustrations in the text, original cloth, recased with new endpapers, rubbed and a little worn. £80
8vo. xvi, 360 and vii, [1], 342, [6], 8 pp. Publisher’s brown cloth, gilt lettered to spine, crescent and cross in gilt to upper board and blindstamped to lower, plain endpapers. Two tinted lithograph frontispieces and 13 illustrations to text. Spine and upper edges of boards sunned, stain to lower board of volume two, heads and feet slightly worn, otherwise good. £125
Small folio, (iv), 28 pp, followed by 58 pages of facsimile documents, portrait frontispiece and 3 plates plus a plate showing old dollar bills, some browning, contemporary dark green morocco, marked, gilt title to covers, corners and spine a little worn with some loss. £250 Including a brief “Life”, the Constitution and a full facsimile of the expense accounts Washington presented at the close of the Revolutionary war - authenticated with a statement signed in person by the Chief Clerk of the Register’s Office of the Treasury Department.
First edition, 8vo, (xiv), 308 pp. 28 photographic plates, marbled endpaper, later bookplate. Contemporary dark blue half morocco, t.e.g., slight sunning of spine otherwise a handsome copy. £80
Third edition. 8vo. xii, 306, (2) pp. 20th century half dark green calf over marbled boards, spine flat with gilt tooled bands, title in gilt to one panel, edges trimmed and marbled, neat pencilled annotations throughout. Frontispiece illustration of Grasmere and a folding map handcoloured in outline. Spine slightly faded, otherwise in very good condition. £175
Oblong 4to, viii pp, followed by 52 fine coloured lithographs, each with a descriptive leaf preceding it, later bookplate, original gilt and black decorated russet cloth, bevelled edges, spine ends bumped, foot of upper joint cracked else a very good copy. £300
12mo, 170, (5 Index, 1) pp. Engraved frontispiece, contemporary signature to fly leaf. Original printed boards, slightly worn, subtly rebacked. £150
First edition, large 8vo, (xx), 331, (1) pp. 39 photographic plates, including 7 photogravures, plus a facsimile document and a plate showing seals, folding map at the end with a closed tear along a fold crease and another to the inner margin not affecting the map, later signature to half title, bookplate. Original gilt titled green cloth, marked and a little rubbed, t.e.g. £450 Appointed Political Officer to Sikhim in 1889, White was one of the Commissioners sent to Tibet with Younghusband in 1903 and was subsequently given a post in Bhutan. Brown & Lloyd Collection S214.
First edition, 8vo, x, 356 pp. Folding map. Original cloth, rebacked in cloth with a red leather label. Scarce. £100
First edition, small 8vo, (ii), 158 pp. Illustrated with 3 photographs and a woodcut, all by the Author. Original blind stamped cloth, spine and inner part of covers sunned, slight wear to spine ends. £450 Only four copies located in British libraries. Not in Gernsheim.
8vo. xii, 110 pp; title page of second work never bound in, otherwise iii-ix, [i], 242 pp. Contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt rules to compartments, gilt lettered black label, plain endpapers, armorial bookplate of William Edward Armstrong, New Hall to paste down, his ownership inscription reading “W E A MacDonnall” to head of title page of principal work. Folding map towards front of volume. Extremities rubbed, small tear confined to inner margin of map and small tear with loss to upper margin of contents leaf of second work, otherwise very good. £675 From the preface to the first work: “The working man and small capitalist may here see at a glance whether the colony will suit his peculiar circumstances; and, if so, what wages he may expect, and what prospects lie before him.” The work includes sections on occupations and trades, including farming and mining. Published the year after Wilkinson’s other, more commonly available, work “South Australia. Its Advantages And Its Resources Being A Description Of That Colony ...”. The additional leaves of advertisements etc. mentioned by Ferguson never bound in. Omoo, an autobiographical and somewhat sensationalised novel, recounting a sailor’s adventures on the South Seas. First published in 1847, the edition bound in here would appear to have been published by George Routledge & Co., printed by J. Billing of Woking. Ferguson, 5248.
12mo, 210, (2) pp. Folding map, town plan and 10 plates, some occasional foxing, old signature to fly leaf. Uncut in the original printed wrappers, a little marked and rubbed, neatly rebacked. £125
4to, 121, (1) pp, 78 engravings in the text, 25 full page, very good in the original decorated cloth, rubbed with slight tear to upper joint, title in gilt on upper cover with several black ruled borders, a.e.g. £75
First edition, 8vo, xx, 384 pp. 4 lithographic plates, some slight browning. Contemporary half calf, cloth sides, a very good copy. £250 “[Wills’] ascent of the Wetterhorn ushered in the ‘Golden Age’ of mountaineering”. Neate 913.
WILSON, Edmund. Europe without Baedeker. Sketches among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, & England. New York: Doubleday & Company 1947. First edition, small 8vo, (xii), 427, (1) pp. Inscribed from the Author on a front blank “To W. Hawks, with thanks for Appendix A...”. Original cloth, spine slightly sunned, a few marks. £200 Appendix A (pp 421-3) concerns a letter the recipient had sent to the Author after an extract had appeared in the New Yorker, concerning the relationship between British and American troops during the war in Britain. Interestingly the recipient has corrected his surname in pencil in the text to read “Hanks”. A unique association copy.
Limited edition, no. 101 of 325 copies, small 4to, (38) pp. 21 wood-engravings. Cloth backed marbled boards, a fine copy. £75
Square 8vo, (28) pp. 12 tipped in photographs, in crisp condition, some foxing to the pages, later inscription on title page, view of Gloucester Cathedral tipped onto fly leaf with marking showing through to the other side of the leaf. Original gilt titled green cloth, some minor rubbing else a very good copy. £200 An internationally successful photographer, Wilson’s studios in Aberdeen were by the following decade producing millions of prints per year and brought him patronage by Queen Victoria. Not in Gernsheim.
First edition, 8vo, (xviii), 341, (1 advertisement) pp. Frontispiece and 16 plates - each of the latter showing a view of a college and a portrait of its Founder, marbled endpapers, rear free endpaper lacking. Contemporary calf, gilt ruled and decorative borders, gilt spine with a dark green label, slight cracking to foot of upper joint, corners slightly worn, a.e.g. £100
First edition, 4to, 279, (1) pp. Numerous photographs in both colour and black and white, inscribed from Alcock and Barry on the fly leaf. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. £50
A Compendious Gazetteer; or Pocket Companion to the Royal Palaces, with a Description of the Towns, Villages, Villas, and remarkable places within sixteen miles of Windsor... Short Sketches of the Lives of the most Eminent Painters whose Works are Exhibited in the Royal Palaces... Intended as a Supplement to the Pocket Companions to those Places. Windsor: C. Knight 1800, 1801, [n.d.]. Three works bound in one volume, the first two “new” and fourth editions respectively, 12mo, iv, 135, (4 Index, 1), (iv), 123, (1, iv), 44 pp. Folding view to the first work, folding map to the second, the latter with a closed tear, both slightly creased and browned, bookplate of George Tuck to front blank. Contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with a maroon label, some wear, upper joint cracking. £275
First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 415, (1) pp. Fly leaf, torn and repaired, with a couple of old inscriptions. Uncut in the original boards, marked and slightly worn, recently rebacked with a new label. Scarce. £250 The Author lived for a time in Switzerland before returning home to Scotland. He eventually emigrated to America, where we wrote a number of further titles including a controversial account of John Adams’ presidency.
Five volumes, 4to. Engraved title and 74 plates with tissues, some light foxing, mostly to the tissues, printed title and preliminary leaves for the work bound at the end of volume V. Original blind stamped blue cloth, gilt vignettes to upper covers, spines dull with some wear to ends. £200
Second edition, small 4to, (xxiv), 356 pp. Frontispiece, engraved second title and 24 plates plus 2 maps, numerous engravings in the text, some light foxing to the plates, marbled endpapers and edges, Prize inscription to front blank. Contemporary calf, gilt borders and arms of Bromsgrove Grammar School, gilt spine, some wear and marking. £250 x - Back to top
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First edition, 8vo, (ii), xxxvi, 486, (2) pp. Black and white photographic illustrations plus diagrams in the text, lower hinge cracking but sound. Original gilt titled buckram, spine slightly sunned and rubbed. £50
Two volumes, 8vo, engraved illustrations, some minor foxing, booklabels on paste downs, original blind stamped cloth, spine ends and corners slightly worn, t.e.g. £50
Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to, viii, 629, (3 Index); (iv), 336, (4 Index) pp. 3 folding maps, one neatly hand coloured, maps with some minor tears, carefully repaired, some marginal browning and light damp staining, particularly to outer edges of leaves in volume II. Plainly bound in recent quarter imitation calf, a few marks, morocco spine labels showing some wear. £400 Prolific writer on agriculture and its practices. “His Tours, especially those in Ireland and France, which are both excellent, are his most valuable publications. The latter is admitted by the ablest French writers to contain the best account of the state of France previously to the Revolution; and the numerous defects in the agricultural economy of the kingdom were never so clearly pointed out...” (McCulloch). Goldsmiths 15937. Kress B2872.
First edition, 8vo, xviii, 298 pp, spotting to first and last few leaves, cloth, spine rubbed. £50 Famous for his books on India and the far east, this work explores one man’s religious quest (a real person, according to the Introduction but here named “Svbhava”), ranging from Christianity to Hinduism and Islam. “His faculty of understanding the Eastern mind contributed much to his success as an explorer...” (DNB). z - Back to top
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