![Topography - The Picture of England. Or, A Topographical Account [...] To which is added, A Description of the Principal Post](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0502a1f8-5efd-4ab7-8a81-ac4d00ef7203/92b7b899-631c-48bc-95e4-ac5d00d57d5f/468x382.jpg)
Topography - The Picture of England. Or, A Topographical Account [...] To which is added, A Description of the Principal Post Roads in England [...], first and only edition, two-volume set, London: Printed and Sold by R. Butters, 1809, pp: national map as frontispiece, vii, [1], 184, 29 full-page county maps; [iv], 94, [ii], 76, 16, 10 full-page county maps, 20th century blue morocco gilt over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (2); A Description of England and Wales [...], volume II only, London: Printed for Newbery and Carnan, 1769, b/w engraved named-view plates, 20th century dark blue morocco over marbled boards by Graham Bloodworth, Leicester, his ticket, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1), [3]
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![Travel - Arctic and Polar Exploration, Bindings, Nansen (Fridtjof): "Farthest North" [...], two-volume set, London: George Ne](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0502a1f8-5efd-4ab7-8a81-ac4d00ef7203/1f952514-e3f5-4ef0-b4c9-ac5d00d57e04/468x382.jpg)
Travel - Arctic and Polar Exploration, Bindings, Nansen (Fridtjof): "Farthest North" [...], two-volume set, London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1898, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt, 8vo, (2), &, The First Crossing of Greenland, London: 1895, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); M'Clintock (Captain, R.N., LL.D.), The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas, A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions, With Maps and Illustrations, first edition, London: John Murray, 1859, relayed contemporary blue cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); American Imprint, Kane (Elisha Kent, M.D., U.S.N.), Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, two-volume set, Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1857, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2); others, [9]
![Travel - Arctic Exploration - Koldewey (Captain [Carl Christian]), Mercier (The Rev. L., translator) and Bates (H.W., editor)](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0502a1f8-5efd-4ab7-8a81-ac4d00ef7203/244dde10-4db6-48a4-bfb0-ac5d00d57ebd/468x382.jpg)
Travel - Arctic Exploration - Koldewey (Captain [Carl Christian]), Mercier (The Rev. L., translator) and Bates (H.W., editor), The German Arctic Exploration of 1869-1870, and Narrative of the Wreck of the "Hansa" in the Ice, with Numerous Woodcuts, Two Coloured Maps, Two Portraits on Steel, and Four Chromo Lithographic Illustrations, first English edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874, pp: viii, 590, illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and 3 full-page plates, 2 coloured maps at the rear (1 of which is fold-out, repaired), numerous b/w plates and in-text illustrations, contemporary pictorial green cloth, refreshed endpaper stiffening textblock, 8vo, [1]
Travel - Arctic Exploration, Armstrong (Alex., M.D., R.N.), A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passge [...], first edition, London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1857, lacking frontispiece and map, pp: xxii, [2], 616 (quire K erroneously paginated), [24] (publisher's list, [2] (blanks), rebacked contemporary blue cloth (chipped), later endpapers stiffening text block, a good ex-library copy, 8vo, [1]
Travel - Arctic Exploration, Ross (Sir John, C.B., K.S.A., K.C.S., &c. &c., Captain in the Royal Navy), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of A North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833., Including the Reports of Commander, Now Captain, James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. And The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole, first edition, London: A.W. Webster, 1835, pp: [viii], xxxiii, [1] (binder's directions), 740, illustrated as called for with the fold-out map of 'Discoveries made in The Arctic Regions' and 30 plates (of which 3 are coloured, 1 one is fold-out map/chart), 20th century panelled calf, gilt-lettered spine piece, beige endpapers, the verso enclosing a sleeve for the larger map, 4to, [1]
![Travel - Brooke (James, Esq), Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan [...], Together wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0502a1f8-5efd-4ab7-8a81-ac4d00ef7203/696bbd9a-c7d3-4c13-8a92-ac5d00d5808d/468x382.jpg)
Travel - Brooke (James, Esq), Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes, Down to the Occupation of Labuan [...], Together with a Narrative of the Operations of H.M.S. Iris by Captain Rodney Mundy, R.N., With Numerous Plates, Maps, Charts, and Woodcuts, first edition, two-volume set, London: John Murray, 1848, pp: [2] (blank), [2], xvii, [1] (blank), 385, [1] (colophon), 3 fold-out maps/charts (one of which is hand-coloured), [2] (publisher's advert), illustrated with 9 mixed media full-page plates, including tinted lithographs; xi, [1] (blank), 395, [1] (colophon), 2 fold-out maps/charts, 16 (publisher's advert and index), illustrated with 9 mixed media full-page plates, including tinted lithographs, contemporary publisher's red cloth pictorial gilt with a junk and the Sultan of Borneo's seal with Islamic script, 20th century reback of red morocco gilt, top-edges gilt, 8vo, [2]
Travel - Polar Exploration - Lewin (Henry W.), Did Peary Reach the Pole? by "An Englishman in the Street", first and only edition, London: Simpkin, Marshall [...], 1911, lacking map, blue cloth, gilt lettered, refreshed endpapers stiffening text block, 8vo, (1); Wilkins (Sir [George] Hubert), Under the North Pole, first edition, [New York]: Brewer, Warren & Putman, 1931, ex-library copy in institutional buckram, 8vo, (1); Ellsberg (Commander Edward), Hell on Ice: The Saga of the "Jeannette", William Heinemann Ltd., 1938, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); others, later 20th century, all h/b, [19]
Instructions for Forreine Travell. First edition, London: Printed by T.B. for Humphrey Mosley, 1642, 12mo, additional engraved title by W. Hollar bound before B1, (trimmed at foot), engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II as a boy signed G.G., later red straight-grained panelled morocco gilt, a.g.e.
Iragguagli di Parnasso: or, Advertisements from Parnassus... with the Politick Touchstone, written originally in Italian... put into English by Henry Earl of Monmouth, 3rd edition, corrected, 1674, small folio, portrait frontispiece (damaged left margin), worn calf; BACON (Francis) Of The Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning: or the Partitions of Sciences, Nine Books, Interpreted by Gilbert Wats. London: for Thomas Williams 1674, folio, portrait frontispiece, title with old ink inscriptions, strengthened fore-margin, first leaves a little worn, somewhat age toned, recased and rebacked preserving original spine strip
A Mechanical Account of Poisons in several Essays, first edition 1702, 8vo, 1 folding plate, a little age toned, repaired plain calf; TAYLOR (Brook) Linear Perspective: or, a New Method of Representing justly all manner of Objects as they appear to the Eye in all Situations, 1715, 8vo, 18 plates, [bound with] - New Principles of Linear Perspective, 1719, 13 folding plates, a little age toned and lightly foxed, contemporary calf; SAVAGE. The Art of Prudence, or a Companion for a Man of Sense.1702, 8vo, in 20th century morocco (3)
Traité des Arbres et Arbustes qui se Cultivent en France en Pleine Terre. Vol II only. 1755, 4to, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved plates, 111 woodcut plates, numerous engraved illustrations, generally a clean copy, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt with red morocco label (one lacking), a little rubbed; RAPIN (Rene) Hortorum libri iv..., first edition, Paris 1665, 4to, title with engraved device, engraved frontispiece, head and tail-pieces and initials, light marginal staining, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, engraved bookplate and shelf-label of The Hirsel Library on front pastedown, worn contemporary sprinkled calf with upper board detached (2)
A Collection of above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, first edition, London: for Richard Wilkin 1714, 8vo, 218pp and index, rather age toned, panel calf (worn); SPILSBURY (F) A Treatise of the Method of Curing the Gout, Scurvy, Leprosy...., 3rd edition no date, 8vo, half title, 258pp., typical age and finger staining, final leaf rather dust soiled and creased, worn binding; WESLEY (John) Primitive Physic, 24th edition, 1792, 12mo, bound with - Advice with respect to Health, 5th edition 1793, tree calf (3)
An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, in 2 vols., London 1793, 4to, first edition, half titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, some pencillings and notes, slight sporadic age and use stains, vol. II with intermittent pale mottled damp stains to fore margins, calf, one board detached, bindings worn
The Descent of Man, in 2 vols. 1871, 8vo, first edition, 2nd or later issue, 16-page publisher's catalogue to rear of each volume dated January 1871 with apparent foxing, half titles present (lightly spotted), list of other titles overleaf of title pages, ink ownership names to both vols., otherwise contents generally good in publisher's green cloth
The Expression of the Emotions, 1st edition 1872, 4pp. catalogue dated November 1872 at end, 7 heliotype plates with Roman numerals, garter style ink stamp to title, pencil name to head of title and corresponding ex libris bookplate (George Blood), original green cloth with slight tears, fading and bubbling to surface, spine edges rubbed; The Formation of Vegetable Mould, 2nd thousand 1881, ink name to first blank leaf, good green cloth; A Naturalist's Voyage, London: Murray 1889, 8vo, original cloth gilt; Insectivorous Plants, 3rd thousand 1875, half title, half calf; Coral Reefs, 1890, Minerva Library edition; 4 other works by Huxley, Wallace and Bates (9)
DRUMMOND (J C) First Steps to Botany, 3rd edition 1831; Complete Grazier, 3rd edition 1775 (title repaired at head); ROSE (H) The Elements of Botany, 1775, plates; LINDLEY (J) A Synopsis of the British Flora, 1829; HENSLOW & SKEPPER. Flora of Suffolk, no date, c.1860; SUMMERHAYES (V) Wild Orchids of Britain, 1951; 2 others (8)
MAXWELL (W H) Life of Wellington, first edition in 3 vols. 1839-41, 8vo, large paper copy with mounted india paper plates, added engraved titles, some spotting and offsetting but generally a good copy, full calf with faded spines; Another edition, 1900, 8vo, in 2 vols., half calf; GURWOOD (Lieut. Colonel) Selections from the Dispatches and General Orders of the Duke of Wellington, 1851, 8vo, prize calf (rubbed) (6)
A Christmas Carol, 6th edition 1844; The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition 1846; The Battle of Life, first edition, 1846; The Chimes, first edition 1845 (worn cloth); The Haunted Man, first edition 1848; original cloth; Oliver Twist, 1846, first single vol. edition, half morocco; Master Humphreys Clock, 3 vols, original cloth; Bleak House; Martin Chuzzlewit, first editions in book form; PROCTOR (Richard A.) Watched by the Dead, 1887; various Household Words Extra Christmas numbers in wrappers; also - CRUIKSHANK (George) A Discovery Concerning Ghosts; With a Rap at the "Spirit-Rappers". London: Frederick Arnold, 1863, original blue printed wrappers; LEVER (Charles) Davenport Dunn, 1859, half calf; and a few others
Tom Raw, the Griffin: a Burlesque Poem in twelve Cantos, ...the Adventures of a Cadet in the East India Company's Service, first edition, R. Ackermann, 1828, 8vo, with 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates, some slight age staining and finger marks, without half title or adverts at end, half calf
ELLIS (John) An Essay Towards a Natural History of the Corallines, and other Marine Productions...Commonly Found on the Coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 40 plates, some folding, foxing and browning, worming to foot of last 2 plates with slight loss of text, detached boards; URRY (John) The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1721, folio, portrait (creased and frayed), illustrations, damaged detached binding; THOROTON (Robert). The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, 1st edition, 1677, folio, double page map and plates, illustrations in the text, worn calf binding with replacement spine label; SPEED (John) The History of Great Britaine, third edition, 1650, folio, portrait frontispiece dust stained, double column text, illustrations, damaged detached binding; STORER (H) History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of Gt Britain, in 4 vols., 1814-19, 8vo, illustrations, cloth; The Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, in 5 vols, 1817-18, 8vo, illustrations, some foxing, cloth; JARVIS (C) Don Quixote de la Mancha, in 4 vols, 1819, 8vo, coloured plates, damaged bindings; BEWICK (T) A General History of Quadrupeds, 3rd edition 1792, 8vo, later half calf, worn; and other mainly later general literature in varying condition
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition 1857, 8vo, folding frontispiece, geological plate, 2 folding maps, plates and illustrations as called for, portrait damp staining, slight foxing, original cloth; with a Routledge sixpenny edition of Livingstone's Discoveries, 1857, 12mo, 64pp, folding map, pictorial boards (2)
Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, in 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. On Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere ... also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774. London: for F. Newbery, 1775, 8vo, 5 engraved plates, 2 engraved folding maps, title slightly foxed, FIRST EDITION of the rare first published account of Cook’s second voyage, and the first book to contain information on the Antarctic regions based on first-hand knowledge. Marra was an Irish gunner’s mate whom Cook picked up in Batavia. His story was published about a year and a half before Cook’s official account became available. Much of the material covered in this account was excluded by Cook. The plates include the first views of the Antarctic. Rosove, 214.A1.a; Spence, 758. New Discoveries concerning the World and its Inhabitants. In two parts. Part I. Containing a circumstantial account of all the islands in the South-Sea, that have been lately discovered or explored... Part II. Containing a summary account of Captain Cook's attempts to discover a southern continent... London: J. Johnson, 1778 ,8vo, 2 engraved folding maps and 2 engraved folding plates. Both volumes in later matching full polished calf gilt
Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia, during the years 1823 and 1824, 2 volumes, first edition, 1825, 8vo, folding engraved map, two hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, all with old ex. library stamps, with half title to vol. I, untrimmed, modern cloth; KOSTER (Henry) Travels in Brazil, 2nd edition, London 1817, 8vo, 9 plates and a plan as required, some foxing and staining, mainly to margins, untrimmed, ex. library stamps, modern cloth
A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities, and Geological Phoenomena, of the Isle of Wight. First edition, London: for Payne and Foss 1816, 4to, 3 folding engraved maps (one hand-coloured) and 47 engraved plates (one hand-coloured aquatint), several folding or double-page, title and half title slightly foxed, original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked preserving spine strip; BRANNON (George) Scenery.. Views ... in the Isle of Wight, 1833, oblong folio, 28 (of 30) plates, lacks final 2 plates, boards (2)
Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, in 2 vols. first edition, London: Macmillan and Co. 1874, 8vo, plates and maps as called for, 55 pp. advertisements at end, vol. II with partial spine tear, but generally a clean bright copy in original green pictorial cloth gilt; SCHUYLER (Eugene) Turkistan, Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja, in 2 vols., 6th edition, London 1877, 8vo, 3 folding maps and plates as called for, illustrations, recased in stained and faded cloth (4)
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. London: John Murray, 1822, first edition, 4to, half title, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 6 maps and plans (2 folding), illustrations in the text, some foxing and staining, occasional browning or offsetting to a leaf, recased in 20th century half morocco; Travels in Nubia, 2nd edition, 1822, 4to, engraved portrait and 3 maps, library stamp to head of title, foxing throughout, rebacked worn half calf; LIGHT (Henry) Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon and Cypress in the year 1814. London 1818, 4to, 20 plates including map and folding frontispiece, some variable damp staining and rippling to plates in places, title with marginal soiling, rebacked worn calf (3)
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, First Edition in 3 vols., London 1855, 8vo, with vol. 3 half title as called for, errata leaf, 24 pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vols. I and III, 14 lithographic plates including coloured frontispieces, folding map, 3 plans, occasional light foxing and marginal toning, a very few library stamps to lower margins, original blue cloth with gilt lettered spines, residual glue marks of labels removed from foot of spines, a little bumped and worn, vol. II with vertical crease along spine (3)
The Gold Mines of Midian, 1878, 8vo, first edition, half title, folding map, publisher's catalogue at end, some foxing (mainly to very first leaves and edges), original cloth worn in places, stain to one rear corner; The Land of Midian (Revisited), in 2 vols., 1879, 8vo, chromolithographic and other plates (some cropping), lacking half titles, a little dusty, half calf by Bayntun of Bath; The Jew The Gypsy and El Islam, 1898, 8vo, photogravure portrait, half calf gilt; Etruscan Bologna, 1876, 8vo, faded cloth; Wanderings in Three Continents, 1901, photogravure portrait, cloth with spine slightly faded; The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard Burton, 1896, cloth, faded stained spine (6)
Proceedings of the Expedition to explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly Eastward; in MDCCCXXI and MDCCCXXII. First edition, London: John Murray 1828, 4to, with 22 maps, charts and plates including 2 hand-coloured, as called for, errata slip, a few small faint stains including to lower margin of folding plate, otherwise generally clean in half calf gilt with slight surface wear
Travels in the South of Spain in letters written A.D. 1809 and 1810. London: J. Johnson & Co., 1811, first edition, 4to, folding coloured plan frontispiece, 11 coloured aquatint plates, one uncoloured etching, as required, half title, general foxing and spotting throughout, half morocco with good reback; CARR (Sir John) Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain. London 1811, 4to, 6 plates as called for, offsetting, calf gilt with damaged spine
Armenia: Travels and Studies, 2 vols., first edition, London: Longmans & Co 1901, 8vo, frontispieces, maps, plans and plates, including folding and double-page, large folding map in pocket at end of vol. I, author's inscription to Charles Waldstein before half title of vol. I, with his bookplates, occasional faint spotting, original cloth with some spotting and darkening
ELWOOD (Anna 'Mrs Colonel') Narrative of a Journey Overland from England to... India, in 2 vols., London 1830, 8vo, 6 aquatint plates, rubbed half calf (lacking spine labels); CAPPER (James) Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt, 3rd edition 1785, 8vo, 3 folding maps and plate, slight worm damage to top margin of prelims and first text leaves, generally toned, slightly cropped in rubbed later half calf; SKINNER (Major) Adventures during a Journey Overland to India, 2nd edition in 2 vols., 1837, 12mo, portrait and a frontispiece plate (both spotted and offset on to titles), generally toned throughout, full calf lacking vol. labels; ENAULT (Louis) L'Inde Pittoresque, Paris 1861, large 8vo, steel engraved plates, prize binding (6)
A Summer Ramble in Syria, with a Tartar Trip from Aleppo to Stamboul. London: Richard Bentley, 1835, 8vo, first edition, 2 volumes, lithographed frontispieces, lacking half titles, very light foxing, contemporary stained calf gilt; Travels in Palestine, in 2vols., 2nd edition, 1822, 8vo, 9 maps, plans and plates as called for with a little light spotting or staining, later half calf (4)
St JOHN (Bayle) Village Life in Egypt, in 2 vols. London 1852, small 8vo; STANHOPE (Lady Hester) Memoirs, in 3 vols. first edition 1845, 8vo, coloured frontispiece, 2 plates; all in uniform half bindings; COOPER (Charles H) Annals of Cambridge, in 4 vols., 1842-52, 8vo, half green calf; RITCHIE (L) Wanderings..., 'Turner's Annual Tour' for 1833-35, 3 vols. 8vo, plates, morocco (12)
as derived from the Practice of the Central School of the National Society... in the Sanctuary, Westminster. 2nd edition London: Roake and Varty 1838, 8vo, with 12 pages of mounted actual specimens including 2 samplers and garments marked 'Girls' school Saham 1846', 26pp, price list at end, front inner hinge splitting, original cloth with some fading, a few specimens loose, in contemporary age- stained cotton envelope case.Footnote: Provenance: First pastedown with mounted testimonial letter of Charlotte Please's abilities on needlework and knitting dated 1845 signed by the matron and chairman, further family gift inscription dated 1872
WATERFIELD (Margaret) Corners of Grey Old Gardens, first edition, Foulis 1914, 8vo, tipped in plates, coloured covers by Jessie M King; another copy, 1917; A Book of Sundials, first edition 1914; The Grey City, 1910; STEVENSON (R L) Memories, reprint 1923; Songs of the Ettrick Shepherd; three others smaller - Gowan's series; one other (10)
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