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Click here to subscribeMurray (George) edit. The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901, Royal Geographical Society, 1901, first edition, Captain C.W. Royds' name to pastedown (First Lieut. on Scott's expedition), presentation inscription to his daughter Blanche Royds from Sir Clement Markham (author of the preface) dated Aug 6th 1901, three folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth, modern slipcase
Twentieth Century Travel Durrell (Lawrence), Prospero's Cell ..., Faber and Faber, 1945, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 10s.6d.); idem, Reflections on a Marine Venus ..., Faber and Faber, 1953, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 25s., torn with loss); idem, Bitter Lemons, Faber and Faber, 1957, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s.); idem, The Greek Islands, Faber and Faber, 1978, first edition, inscription signed by the author, dust wrapper (price-clipped); Naipaul (V.S.), A House for Mr. Biswas, Andre Deutsch, 1961, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 21s.); with nine others by Naipaul, all UK firsts in dust wrappers; Waugh (Evelyn), A Tourist in Africa, Chapman & Hall, 1960, first edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 16s); Thubron (Colin), Shadow of the Silk Road, Chatto & Windus, 2006, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (not clipped); with eight others by Thubron, all first editions in dust wrappers; Danziger (Nick), Danziger's Travels, Grafton, 1987, first edition, signed by the author, price-clipped dust wrapper; with approximately 95 others, first editions in dust wrappers (c120)
Philby (H. St. J.B.) The Heart of Arabia, A Record of Travel & Exploration, Constable, 1922, first edition, two volumes, signed presentation inscription from the author to 'Amir Liwa F.G. Peake Pasha' (Lieut. Col. Peake campaigned with Lawrence and was founder and first commander of the Arab League), plates as called for, plan, two folding maps, original cloth, modern slipcase [provenance - Franklin Brooke-Hitching #1020]
Meinertzhagen (R., Col.) Kenya Diary, 1902-1906, Oliver and Boyd, 1957, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 30/-); idem, Pirates and Predators, The Piratical and Predatory Habits of Birds, Oliver & Boyd, 1959, first edition, quarto, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 70/-); with seven others (9)
Salt (Henry) A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, executed under the Orders of the British Government in the Years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, An Account of the Portuguese Settlements on the East Coast of Africa ..., Rivington, 1814, first edition, quarto, eight maps and charts on seven sheets (five folding, one coloured), twenty seven plates, two vignettes, recent period style full calf gilt
Pottinger (Henry, Lieut.) Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; Accompanied by a Geographical and Historical Account of those Countries, with a Map, Longman, Hurst ..., 1818, quarto, first edition, hand-coloured frontis, large folding map - hand-coloured in outline (two minor tears at folds), contemporary calf (re-backed, new endpapers)
Stein (Aurel) On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China, Macmillan, 1933, first edition, partly unopened, colour frontis, folding colour map, 147 monochrome and colour plates including several folding panoramas as called for, top edge gilt, dust wrapper (priced 31/6)
Layard (Henry) Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia, including a Residence among the Bakhtiyari and other Wild Tribes before the Discovery of Nineveh, John Murray, 1887, first edition, two volumes, colour frontis, three other plates as called for, three folding maps, original cloth (ownership inscription, endpapers split at hinges); idem, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon .., John Murray, 1853, first edition, fold-out frontis, plates as called for, three folding plans, two folding maps (one torn without loss), original embossed cloth (3)
Belcher (Edward, Capt.) Narrative of a Voyage Round the World, performed in Her Majesty's Ship Sulphur, During the Years 1836-1842, Including Details of the Naval Operations in China, from Dec. 1840 to Nov. 1841, Henry Colburn, two volumes, first edition, presentation inscription from the author to a family member, three folding maps in front pocket, nineteen plates as called for, original cloth, modern slipcase
Weddell (James) A Voyage towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822-24, Containing an Examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the Seventy-Fourth degree of latitude; and a Visit to Tierra del Fuego ..., Longman, Hurst ..., 1825, first edition, coloured frontis, folding chart, six plates (two folding), eight charts (six folding), errata slip, 1826 manuscript circulation list to front pastedown (including Maj. Crawford, Lord Dufferin, Col. Ward, etc.), Feb 1826 book catalogue bound in to front, original? boards (re-backed with leather label), preserved in full calf book style solander box, with raised bands and spine label
Hall (Basil, Capt.) & Clifford (H.J.) Account of A Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island ..., and A Vocabulary of the Loo-Choo Language, John Murray, 1818, first edition, quarto, ten plates (eight hand-coloured), five charts (two folding), original boards (re-backed, retaining back strip and printed spine label)
Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper ..., John Murray, 1821, first edition, quarto, presentation inscription from the author to his father, six charts (four folding) and fourteen plates as called for, errata slip, [bound with] idem, A Supplement to The Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage in the Years 1819-20. Containing An Account of the Subjects of Natural History, 1824, John Murray, presentation inscription from the author to his mother, six engraved plates, early marbled boards with recent half calf
Hurley (Frank, Capt) Argonauts of the South .. being a Narrative of Voyagings and Polar Seas and Adventures in the Antarctic with Sir Douglas Mawson and Sir Ernest Shackleton, Putnam's, 1925, first edition, two folding maps, monochrome plates as called for, top edge gilt, unclipped dust wrapper (some restoration), slipcase [provenance - Franklin Brooke-Hitching #658]
Heslop (B.H.) The River Tees, from Source to Sea, Stockton: B.H. Heslop, 1893, first proof edition, landscape folio, illustrated title, thirty-six plates, subscribers list, original leather gilt (re-backed and cornered); Walbran (John Richard), The Antiquities of Gainford, in the County of Durham .... and of Barnard Castle: with Accounts of the Township of Headlam and Chapelry of Denton, Ripon: Harrison, 1846, quarto large paper, frontis, two plates, three pedigrees, printed without vignette to B1, plate of Raby loosely inserted, half calf (rubbed); with eight others (10)
Campbell (Donald) A Journey Over Land to India, Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by any European, Cullen, 1795, first edition, quarto (possibly large paper), contains three parts and an appendix, each separately paginated, all edges gilt, full morocco by Kalthoeber (re-backed retaining original backstrip)
Goodsir (Robert Anstruther) An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin, van Voorst, 1850, first edition, tinted litho frontis, folding map, ex-library with stamps to title and final page, original cloth (variant to previous lot), slipcase; with a 1996 limited edition reprint of the work (2)
Fricker (Karl, Dr.) The Antarctic Regions, Swan Sonnenschein, 1900, first edition, Ernest Shackleton's own copy, signed 'E.H. Shackleton, 11.3.01' on front free endpaper, folding colour chart (torn without loss, some foxing), plates as called for, foxing to prelims and endpapers, original cloth gilt (rubbed)
Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works ..., Charles Dilly, 1791, first edition, second state with corrected 'give', two volumes, quarto, portrait frontis, two engraved plates, volume II pages 229, 408, 497, 504, 555, 585-6 misnumbered, calf (re-backed)
Cheesman (R.E., Maj.) In Unknown Arabia, Macmillan, 1926, first edition, plates as called for, folding map, institution bookplate, top edge gilt, original cloth (endpapers split at hinges, blank 'plate' on rear pastedown); Seabrook (W.B.), Adventures in Arabia .., Harrap, 1928, first edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 12/6); Seabrook (William B.), Jungle Ways, Harcourt Brace, [1931], numbered first edition limited to 315 copies, signed by the author with eight extra illustrations, cloth; with sixteen others (19)
Erskine (Charles) Twenty Years Before The Mast, .... While Circumnavigating the Globe under the command of the late Admiral Charles Wilkes, 1838-1842, Boston; private publication, 1890, first edition, double page frontis, text illustrations, original cloth gilt; Hall (Basil, Capt.), Fragments of Voyages and Travels, Including Anecdotes of a Naval Life: Chiefly for the Use of Young Persons, Robert Cadell, 1831, first edition, three volumes, each with engraved title, modern quarter calf with eight others (12)
Dickens (Charles) The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844], first edition with Smith's issue points present but with second state vignette title, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt (a little wear to head and tail of spine); idem, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas Time, Bradbury & Evans, 1848, first edition, majority of Smith's issue points, all edges gilt, original red cloth gilt; idem, Pictures From Italy, Bradbury & Evans, 1846, first edition, all of Smith's issue points present, original blue cloth (wear to head of spine) (3)
Murdoch (W.G. Burn) From Edinburgh to the Antarctic, An Artist's Notes and Sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93, Longmans, Green, 1894, first edition, two maps (one folding), J. Gordon Hayes' copy, light pencil annotation/underlining, bookplate of Patrick Walcot, original cloth (1 cm split to upper joint), basic slipcase
Hutchinson (William) The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, Hodgson and Robinsons, 1785-94, first edition, three volumes, quarto, three engraved titles with vignettes, fifty-three plates called for by Upcott together with at least two more, diced calf (worn, re-backed retaining original back-strips); Mackenzie (E.) & Ross (M.), An Historical, Topographical and Descriptive View of the County Palatine of Durham ..., Newcastle: Mackenzie and Dent, 1834, two volumes, quarto, folding frontis map and nineteen engraved plates as called for, half calf; Fordyce (William), The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham ..., Newcastle: T. Fordyce, n.d. [1855], first edition, two volumes, quarto, thirty five plates (possibly from various sources), may lack a map (later editions had one), modern half morocco; idem, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham ..., four volumes, quarto, thirty-one plates, engraved map, lacking title pages and preliminaries, original red cloth gilt (re-backed retaining original back-strips) (11)
Niebuhr (M.) Travels through Arabia, and other Countries in the East ... translated into English by Robert Heron, Edinburgh; Morison, Mudie & Vernor, 1792, first English edition, two volumes, ten plates, three folding maps (some restoration), only the title leaf present before the contents pages of volume I (which is numbered [xv] (b2) to xx), however the text pagination starts at 9 (A1), so may therefore be complete, no half titles present, modern quarter morocco
Bernacchi (Louis) To The South Polar Regions, Expedition of 1898-1900, Hurst and Blackett, 1901, first edition, frontis and illustrations as called for, plates within pagination, three charts (two folding and in colour, one with repaired small closed tear), original cloth gilt, modern slipcase
Hedin (Sven) Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, Macmillan, 1909, first British edition, two volumes, 388 colour and monochrome illustrations as called for, ten maps (including three folding chromolithographs), top edge gilt, original cloth gilt (new endpapers; idem, Overland to India, Macmillan, 1910, first British edition, two volumes, 'presentation copy' blindstamps, colour frontis to each volume, 293 colour and monochrome plates and four folding panoramas as called for, two chromolitho folding maps, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt; with two others (6)
Atkinson (J.C.) History of Cleveland, Ancient and Modern, Volumes I and II, Barrow-in-Furness: Richardson ..., 1874, first edition, two volumes bound as one, quarto, volume I with illuminated title and dedication, three portraits and twenty-seven colour plates, volume II ends mid sentence on page 96, has three portraits and nine colour plates - should end mid sentence at page 120 (vide Burns), half roan (spine labelled Vol I, minor wear to head and tail of spine.
Bell (Gertrude Lowthian) The Arab in Mesopotamia [and] Asiatic Turkey, Basrah; The Superintendent, n.d. [c1917], map frontis, two title pages but continuous pagination, original cloth (replacement endpapers); Bell (Gertrude), The Letters of Gertrude Bell, edited by Lady Bell, Ernest Benn, 1927, first edition, two volumes, plates as called for, folding map, modern half morocco; idem, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz, Heinemann, 1928, dust wrapper (priced 5s.); idem, Persian Pictures, Ernest Benn, 1928, first edition thus, original cloth; with six others (11)
Betjeman (John) Church Poems, John Murray, 1980, first edition, first issue with the incomplete 'Bristol and Clifton' and 'Sunday Afternoon in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall' which resulted in its withdrawal, illustrated by John Piper, dust wrapper (priced £5.95); idem, A Few Late Chrysanthemums, John Murray, 1955, second printing, inscribed by the author on endpaper, dust wrapper (priced 9s.6d.); idem, Continual Dew, A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse, John Murray, 1937, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7/6); with fourteen others by the poet, first editions (17)
Thomas (Dylan) In the Mustardseed Sun (Poem On His Birthday), The Tern Press, 1983, numbered limited edition of 85, 12 colour prints by Nicholas Parry, signed by the artist and Mary Parry, original printed paper boards; Herbert (A.P.), Dolphin Square, Richard Costain, n.d. [c1935], first edition, illustrated by H.M, Bateman, original wraps; Machen (Arthur), The Terror, A Fantasy, Duckworth, 1917, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 1/-, and restored with paper lining) LeCorbeau (Adrien), The Forest Giant, The Romance of A Tree, Harper, 1924, first edition thus, translated by L.H. Ross (T.E. Lawrence), frontis, dust wrapper (priced $2.00) with one other (5)
Woolley (C. Leonard) & Lawrence (T.E) Palestine Exploration Fund Annual 1914-1915, The Wilderness of Zin (Archaeological Report), [1915], first edition (second issue), quarto, thirty-seven plates, two maps, original quarter cloth over printed boards, glassine dust wrapper; Hall (L.J., Lieut.Col) & Hughes (R.H.W., Brig.Gen), The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, Constable, 1921, first edition, folding map frontis, plates as called for, four folding tables/charts, folding plan, original cloth; The Palestine News, A Brief Record of The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under ...Allenby, Cairo, 1919, first edition, quarto, portrait frontis, fifty-six plates (maps), original cloth (3)
Lewis (Norman) Sand and Sea in Arabia, Routledge, 1938, first edition, quarto, price-clipped dust wrapper; idem, A Dragon Apparent, Travels in Indo-China, Cape, 1951, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 15s.); idem, An Empire of the East, Travels in Indonesia, Cape, signed by the author, dust wrapper [two copies] with ten others by the author, all UK first editions in dust wrappers (14)
Stark (Freya) The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels, John Murray, 1934, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 12.6d., worn with some loss); idem, The Valleys of the Assassins, and Other Persian Travels, New York; Dutton, 1934, first U.S. edition, dust wrapper (priced $4.00, worn at edges); idem, The Southern Gates of Arabia, A Journey in the Hadhramaut, John Murray, 1936, first edition, dust wrapper (worn price-clipped wrapper with closed tears and creasing); idem, Baghdad Sketches, John Murray, 1937, the first edition published in England, Times review pasted to front endpaper, loosely inserted postcard with signed message from the author, dust wrapper (priced 12s.6d., loss to head of wrapper spine); idem, Seen In The Hadhramaut, John Murray, 1938, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 21s., loss to head of wrapper spine); idem, A Winter in Arabia, John Murray, 1940, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 16s.); with twenty-two others (28)
Joyce (James) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Egoist, n.d. [1917], first English edition, American sheets, Slocum and Cahoon no. 12 - 'the first English edition was made up of American sheets because English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it', original dark green cloth (re-backed, replacement endpapers)
Snow (W. Parker) A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra Del Fuego, The Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate: A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas, Longman, Brown ..., 1857, first edition, two volumes, six coloured plates, three folding charts, original cloth, modern slipcase [provenance - Franklin Brooke-Hitching #1182]
Fermor (Patrick Leigh) The Traveller's Tree, A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands, John Murray, 1950, first edition, price-clipped dust wrapper; idem, Mani, Travels in the Southern Peleponnese, John Murray, 1958, first edition, price-clipped dust wrapper; idem, Roumeli, Travels in Northern Greece, John Murray, 1966, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 30s); idem, Between the Woods and the Water ..., John Murray, 1986, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (unclipped); with nine others (13)
Hedin (Sven) Through Asia, Methuen, 1898, first British edition, two volumes, frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, text illustrations, two folding chromolitho maps, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt; idem, Central Asia and Tibet, Towards the Holy City of Lassa, Hurst and Blackett, 1903, first British edition, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, colour and monochrome plates as called for, text illustrations, four chromolitho maps and one litho map (on four folding sheets), top edge gilt, original cloth gilt; with three others (7)
Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in his Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper ..., John Murray, 1821, first edition, quarto, six charts (four folding) and fourteen plates as called for, errata slip, [bound with] [Sabine (Edward)], The North Georgia Gazette and Winter Chronicle, Nos I - XXI, John Murray, 1819-20, xii,132 pages, early marbled boards with recent half morocco
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