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The Grandeur of the Gorges by Donald Mennie - Kelly & Walsh Shanghai 1926 - first limited edition no. 501 / 1000 - black and gold silk and calf bound CONDITION REPORT Damage and losses to the spine, cloth binding is loose and worn. Prints are all present, a few pages with small tears but all prints OK and otherwise contents condition OK
ARISTOTLE THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE THE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER IN FOUR PARTS, PART FIRST HIS COMPLETE MASTER-PIECE, PART THE SECOND HIS EXPERIENCED MIDLIFE, PART THE THIRD HIS BOOK OF PROBLEMS, PART THE FOURTH HIS LAST LEGACY, SALMON (W) (USING PSEUDONYM ARISTOTLE), PUBLISHED BY COCKER, HARRIS AND FINN (1800's) MISSING PAGE 317/318 AND PART 319/320. ILLUSTRATED EDITION, 322 PAGES. ALSO ANOTHER EDITION 1842, PUBLISHED BY THE CAMDEN PUBLISHING CO. HEATH (J) A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF BAUDELOCQUE, VOL. III, PUBLISHED BY J. PARKINSON AND J. MURRAY, LONDON 1790, LEISHMAN (W) A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, INCLUDING THE DISEASES OF PREGNANCY AND THE PUERPERAL STATE, 2nd EDN, PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE, GLASGOW 1876 AND ANOTHER BOOK [6]
[COACHING] Harper, Charles. The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin, first edition, two volumes, Chapman & Hall, London, 1902, modern half navy leather, top edges gilt, plate and text illustrations, octavo; Harper, Charles. The Cambridge Ely and King's Lynn Road, the Great Fenland Highway, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London 1902, original pictorial blue cloth, plate and text illustrations, octavo; and Reynardson, C.T.S. Birch. 'Down the Road' or Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman, new edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1887, original pictorial dark green cloth gilt, twelve colour plate illustrations (as called for), forty-page publisher's catalogue, octavo, (4).
[SHOOTING]. WILDFOWLING Dawson, Major Kenneth. Marsh & Mudflat, first edition, Country Life, London, 1931, two-tone cloth, plate illustrations by Winifred Austen, quarto; Sharp, Henry. The Gun Afield & Afloat, first edition, Chapman & Hall, London, 1904, pictorial green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, plate illustrations, quarto; and a further ten assorted works, (12).
[HUNTING] Surtees, R.S. The Analysis of the Hunting Field, being a... Souvenir of the Season 1845-6, limited edition of 500, Kegan Paul et al., London, 1903, original green cloth gilt, paper-protected colour plate and further black and white text illustrations by H. Alken, quarto; Radcliffe, F.P. Delme. The Noble Science. A Few General Ideas on Fox-Hunting, new (revised and enlarged) edition by William Blew, Nimmo, London, 1893, original pictorial tan cloth gilt, top edges gilt, hand-coloured and other plate and text illustrations, quarto (lacking one plate); and Simpson, Charles. Trencher & Kennel. Some Famous Yorkshire Packs, first edition, The Bodley Head, London, 1927, original red cloth, colour plate and black and white text illustrations, quarto, (3).
[CANINE] Bradley, Cuthbert. The Foxhound of the Twentieth Century, Routledge, London, 1914, half leather, top edges gilt, colour plate and black and white illustrations, quarto; and Buchanan-Jardine, Sir John. Hounds of the World, first edition, Methuen, London, 1937, green buckram, colour plate and black and white illustrations, quarto, (2).
[MISCELLANEOUS] Corballis, James Henry. Forty-Five Years of Sport, edited by Arthur Fisher, Bentley, London, 1891, dark green cloth gilt, plate illustrations, quarto; Van Ingen & Van Ingen, Artists in Taxidermy, first edition, MPM Publishing, Ascot, 2006, maroon boards, illustrations, quarto; and thirteen assorted other works, (eighteen volumes).
[HUNTING]. BIG GAME Hutchinson, Horace, editor. Big Game Shooting, two volumes, Country Life, London, 1905, original maroon cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, text illustrations, quarto; Manners, Harry. Kambaku!, first British edition, Muller, London, 1981, boards, dustjacket, illustrations from photographs, octavo; Stockley, Lieut.-Colonel C.H. Big Game Shooting in the Indian Empire, Constable, London, 1928, scarlet cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, octavo (spine slightly faded and soiled); and a further three assorted works, (7).
[FISHING] Venables, Bernard. Fishing (British Sports: Past & Present), first edition, Batsford, London, 1953, blue cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, octavo; Crow, S.H. Hampshire Avon Salmon, first edition, Angling Times, 1966, green boards, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; and a further twenty-five assorted works, (27).
[MISCELLANEOUS]. ORNITHOLOGY & OTHER Kirkman, F.B., editor. The British Bird Book, four volumes, Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1911-13, fawn cloth with onlaid title labels, colour plate illustrations, large quarto (two volumes lacking labels); Kirkman, F.B., & Hutchinson, Horace. British Sporting Birds, first edition, Jack, London & Edinburgh, 1936, pictorial blue cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, colour plate illustrations, quarto; Hutchinson, Horace, editor. Shooting, first edition, two volumes, Country Life, London, 1903, crimson cloth, plate and text illustrations, octavo; and Hutchinson, Horace, editor. Fishing, first edition, two volumes, Country Life, London, 1904, crimson cloth, plate and text illustrations, octavo, (9 volumes).
[CANINE] Chalmers, Patrick. Gun-Dogs, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1931, stone grey cloth, twelve colour plate illustrations (as called for) and further text illustrations by R. Ward Binks, quarto; and Barker, K.F. Just Dogs, reprint, Country Life, London, 1934, quarter fawn cloth, dustjacket, full-page black and white illustrations, quarto, (2).
[HUNTING] Vedder, David. The Story of Reynard the Fox, second edition, Bogue / Menzies, London / Edinburgh, no date [1852], original pictorial boards (rebacked, with new endpapers), fifteen plate illustrations, including dedication page, and one vignette illustration by Gustav Canton, quarto; Ferguson, Gordon. The Green Collars. The Tarporley Hunt Club and Cheshire Hunting History, first edition, Quiller Press, London, 1993, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Masefield, John. Reynard the Fox, or The Ghost Heath Run, Heinemann, London, 1921, green cloth, dustjacket, four colour plate illustrations and further black and white plate and text illustrations by G.D. Armour, quarto; and five other works, (8).
[FISHING] Mottram, J.C. Trout Fisheries, their Care and Preservation, first edition, Jenkins, London, 1928, original green cloth, dustjacket, octavo; Hodgson, W. Earl. Trout Fishing, third edition, Black, London, 1925, original pictorial grey-green cloth, colour plate illustrations, octavo; Sheringham, H.T. Elements of Angling, third edition, The Field Press, London, no date, original dark green cloth, octavo; and a further twenty assorted works, (23).
[ORNITHOLOGY] Scott, Peter. Wild Geese and Eskimos, first edition, Country Life, London, 1951, grey cloth, dustjacket, plate and text illustrations, octavo; Prendergast, Col. E.D.V. & Boys, J.V. The Birds of Dorset, first edition, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1983, black boards, dustjacket, plate illustrations, octavo; Chapman, Abel. Bird-Life of the Borders. Records of Wild Sport and Natural History on Moorland and Sea, first edition, Gurney & Jackson, London, 1889, original dark blue cloth, text illustrations, octavo; and a further seventeen assorted works (26 volumes).
[EQUINE] Edwards, Lionel. Beasts of the Chase, first edition, Putnam, London, 1950, brick red cloth, dustjacket, eight colour plate and further black and white illustrations, quarto; Edwards, Lionel. Sketches in Stable and Kennel, reprint, Nattali & Maurice, London, 1944, tan cloth, twelve colour plate and further black and white illustrations, quarto; The Cecil Aldin Book, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1932, pinky cream cloth with onlaid title labels, eight colour plate and further black and white illustrations, quarto (upper hinge weak); and Aldin, Cecil. Ratcatcher to Scarlet, third edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1933, black cloth, colour plate and black and white text illustrations, quarto (lower joint torn), (4).
[HUNTING]. BIG GAME Stockley, Lieut.-Colonel C.H. Stalking in the Himalayas and Northern India, first edition, Jenkins, London, 1936, original green cloth, plate illustrations from photographs, octavo; Hagedorn, Hermann. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands, first British edition, Melrose, London, no date [1921], original blue cloth, top edges gilt, plate illustrations from photographs, folding map, quarto; and a further eleven assorted works, (13).
[HUNTING] Edwards, Lionel. The Fox, first edition, Collins, London, 1949, green cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, eight colour plate illustrations (as called for) and further black and white illustrations by author, small quarto; Aldin, Cecil. Ratcatcher to Scarlet, third edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1933, black cloth, colour plate and black and white illustrations, quarto; and four other assorted works, (6).
[HUNTING] Strawson, John. On Drag-Hunting, first edition, Allen, London, 1999, green boards, dustjacket, colour and black and white illustrations, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by author, square quarto; Roberts, Edric. Hunters' Moon and other Hunting Verses, Constable, London, no date, red cloth, eight tipped-in colour plate illustrations by Gilbery Holliday, quarto; and four other works, (6).
[FISHING] Skues, G.E.M. The Way of a Trout with a Fly, first edition, Black, London, 1921, original brown-grey cloth, three plate illustrations (as called for), octavo; Skues, G.E.M. Minor Tactics of the Chalk Stream, third edition, Black, London, 1924, original brown-grey cloth, dustjacket, frontispiece, octavo; and three other works, (5).
[FISHING] West, Leonard. The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation, first edition, privately printed, original green cloth, colour plate illustrations, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM AUTHOR pasted to rear pastedown, octavo; Hamilton, Edward. Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling, Orange Judd Company, New York, 1885, original bevelled dark grey cloth gilt, plate illustrations, octavo; Colquhoun, John. Salmon-Casts and Stray Shots being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book, first edition, Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1858, original blind-stamped dark blue cloth, sixteen-page publisher's list, octavo; and Bowlker, Charles. Art of Angling, new (revised) edition, Jones / Longman et al., Ludlow / London, 1854, original pebble grained dark green cloth gilt, colour frontispiece, text illustrations, twelve-page publisher's list, octavo, (4).
[RUGBY] Jenkins, Vivian. Lions Down Under. The British Isles Rugby Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1959, first edition, Cassell, London, 1960, green boards, SIGNED BY AUTHOR & NUMEROUS WALES & 'ALL BLACKS' PLAYERS to pastedowns, including Kevin Briscoe, Malcolm Dick, Ralph Caulton, Chris Laidlaw, John Graham, Ian Smith, Bill Davis, Ron Horsley, Dennis Young, Len Cunningham, Alan Thomas, Carwyn Jones, and Rhys Williams, octavo.
[EQUINE] Welcome, John, & Collens, Rupert. Snaffles on Racing and Point-to-Pointing, first edition, The Lambourn Press, London, 1988, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, oblong quarto; Jelf, Wilfrid. Sport in Silhouette, first edition, Country Life, London, 1933, quarter red cloth and grey boards with onlaid title label, illustrations by Gilbert Holiday, quarto; and a further eight assorted works, (10).
[HUNTING] Edwards, Lionel. A Leicestershire Sketch Book, first edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1935, bevelled blue buckram, dustjacket, eight colour plate illustrations (as called for) and further black and white illustrations, quarto; and Edwards, Lionel. Sketches in Stable and Kennel, reprint, Putnam & Company, London, 1936, tan cloth, dustjacket, twelve colour plate illustrations (as called for) and further black and white illustrations, quarto, (2).
[HUNTING]. BIG GAME Caldwell, Harry. Blue Tiger, first edition, Duckworth, London, 1925, original blue cloth, black and white plate illustrations from photographs, octavo; and Best, James. The Marked Man-Eater. A Jungle Romance Founded on Fact, first edition, Witherby, London, 1934, original black cloth, octavo, (2).
[POLO] Spencer, Herbert. A Century of Polo, first edition, World Polo Associates, 1994, boards, illustrations, quarto; Lloyd, John. The Pimm's Book of Polo, first edition, Stanley Paul, London, 1989, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, SIGNED BY MAJOR RONALD FERGUSON, quarto; Watson, J.N.P. The World of Polo Past & Present, The Sportsman's Press, London, 1986, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and three other works of related interest, (6).
[COACHING] Carnegie, Andrew. An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, Scribner, New York, 1885, original decorative green cloth, top edges gilt, frontispiece, half title INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo; Harper, Charles. Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore, first edition, two volumes, Chapman & Hall, London, 1903, pale red cloth gilt, top edges gilt, plate and text illustrations, octavo; and Belloc, Hilaire. The Highway and its Vehicles, limited edition 992/1250, The Studio, London, 1926, original bevelled green cloth gilt, top edges gilt, plate illustrations, large quarto, (4).
[ANTIQUES & COLLECTING]. TOYS Cleemput, Marcel R. Van. The Great Book of Corgi 1956-1983, first edition, New Cavendish Books, 1989, crimson boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, square quarto; Cleemput, Marcel R. Van. The Great Book of Corgi 1956-1983, revised edition, New Cavendish Books, 2001, pictorial boards, illustrations throughout, square quarto; Emchowicz, Antoni, & Nunneley, Paul. Future Toys. Robots, Astronauts, Spaceships, Ray Guns, first edition, New Cavendish Books, 1999, silver boards, dustjacket (torn, with loss), illustrations throughout, square quarto; and Harrison, Ian. Action Man. The Official Dossier, Collins, London, 2003, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto, (4).
[MISCELLANEOUS] Smith, Lawrence, et al. Japanese Art. Masterpieces in the British Museum, London, 1990, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Wilckens, Leonie von. Mansions in Miniature. Four Centuries of Dolls' Houses, first edition, Viking Press, New York, 1980, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Tyler. Tom. British Jigsaw Puzzles of the Twentieth Century, first edition, Dennis, Shepton Beauchamp, 1997, pictorial boards, illustrations throughout, quarto; and a further eight works, including booklets, (11).
[MISCELLANEOUS] The Royal Record of Tree Planting, the Provision of Open Spaces, Recreation Grounds & Other Schemes, undertaken in the British Empire and elsewhere, especially in the United States of America, in honour of the Coronation of His Majesty King George VI, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1939, red cloth gilt, portrait frontispiece, large quarto (spine faded; upper joint torn).
[ART] Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today, first edition, Phaidon Press, London, 2007, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; The Fashion Book, first edition, Phaidon Press, London, 1998, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; and a further nine assorted works, (11).
[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY Tatlow, Peter. A History of Highland Locomotives, revised edition, Oxford Publishing Co., Oxford, 1979, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Peters, Ivo. The Somerset and Dorset. An English Cross Country Railway, first edition, Oxford Publishing Co., Oxford, 1974, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Peters, Ivo. Somewhere Along the Line. Fifty Years Love of Trains, first edition, 1976, boards, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; and a further twenty-eight assorted works, (31).
[MISCELLANEOUS] Moncrieff, Elspeth, & Joseph, Stephen and Iona. Farm Animal Portraits, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 1996, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Rice, D.G. English Porcelain Animals of the 19th Century, first edition, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, 1989, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, quarto; Spilhaus, Athelstan and Kathleen. Mechanical Toys. How Old Toys Work, first edition, Crown Publishers, New York, 1989, cloth, dustjacket, illustrations throughout, small quarto; and a further twenty assorted works, including booklets, (23).
[MISCELLANEOUS]. DOGS & OTHER Chalmers, Patrick. Dogs of Every Day, second edition, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1933, green cloth, plate and text illustrations by Cecil Aldin, octavo; Dawson, Lucy. Dogs As I See Them, first edition, Collins, London, 1936, brown cloth, plate and text illustrations, quarto; Walker, Joe. That Dog of Mine, first edition, Ward Lock & Co., London, 1930, blue cloth gilt, top edges gilt, illustrations by G.L. Stampa, octavo; and a further five assorted works, (8).
[ART] Demus, Otto. Romanesque Mural Painting, first English edition, Thames & Hudson, London, 1970, cloth, dustjacket, mounted colour plate illustrations, quarto; Gardner, Arthur. English Medieval Sculpture, Cambridge University Press, 1951, cloth, dustjacket, text illustrations from photographs, quarto; and twenty-seven assorted other works, (29).
ANTHONY, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY - CHARACTERISTICKS OF MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES, SIXTH EDITION, THREE VOLS, ENGRAVED TITLE AND PORTRAIT TO VOL 1, LATER CLOTH, 1737, O'MEARA (BARRY E) - NAPOLEON IN EXILE OR A VOICE FROM ST HELENA, TWO VOLS, SIXTH EDITION, PLATES, LATER QUARTER NAVY MOROCCO, 1827, EX PUBLIC LIBRARY, WAF AND BACON (JOHN) - LIBER REGIS VEL THESAURUS RERUM ECCLESISTICARUM BY JOHN BACON ESQUIRE RECEIVER OF THE FIRST FRUITS WITH AN APPENDIX... AND A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL INDEX, HALF TITLE, (TITLE WANTING) PARLY UNCUT, RECENT BLUE CLOTH, LONDON : JOHN NICHOLS FOR THE AUTHOR, 1786, WAF, EX PUBLIC LIBRARY
Bruce (James, of Kinnaird). Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 6 volumes, 1st Dublin edition, printed by William Sleater, for P. Wogan, L. White..., 1790-91, half-titles to first and last volumes only, 3 folding engraved maps, 3 folding battle plans and 55 engraved plates, including some folding, list of subscribers to first volume, contemporary ownership signature of Anna Maria Church to head of each title and front pastedown, and later bookplate of Ernest Tatum & Margaret Mary Richmond to 5 of the 6 volumes, contemporary uniform full calf, heavily rubbed and a little wear with some joints partly cracked, first volume split to spine, third volume, page 681/682 top right corner missing with loss of text, 8vo (6)
Jekyll (Gertrude). Lilies for English Gardens. A Guide for Amateurs. Compiled from information published lately in "The Garden," with the addition of some original chapters, 1st edition, 1901, numerous black & white plates from photographs, half-title inscribed by the author "J. T. Bennett-Poe with kind regards from G. Jekyll, Nov 1901", some spotting mostly to first & last few leaves, original cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Colour in the Flower Garden, 1st edition, 1908, black & white plates from photographs, and few diagrams (some folding), top edge gilt, near contemporary dark green half morocco gilt by Henderson & Bisset, 8vo, plus five other Gertrude Jekyll related There is a Triandrus Daffodil named "J.T. Bennett-Poe", which was introduced in 1904. Rev. George H. Engleheart, Rector of Dinton, Wiltshire named a cross between 'Emperor' and Narcissus triandrus albus for his friend and fellow clergyman J.T. Bennett-Poe. (7)
Morris (Rev. F.O.). A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds..., Revised and Corrected by W.B.Tegetmeier, 4th edition, 3 volumes, published John Nimmo, 1896, additional half titles, 248 colour lithograhic plates, contemporary manuscript ownership signature to first front blank, slight spotting to endpapers, untrimmed, publisher's bright gilt decorated cloth, a little bumped, 4to, together with, Mudie (Robert),The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, published Henry G. Bohn, 1841,decorative title pages, nineteen engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, near contemporary cloth, with gilt morocco labels to spines, a little worn and faded, 8vo (5)
Worlidge (John). Systema Agriculturae; the Mystery of Husbandry Discovered. Treating of the several new and most Advantagious Ways of Tilling, Planting, Sowing, Manuring, Ordering, Improving of all sorts of Gardens, Orchards, Meadows, Pastures, Corn-lands, Woods & Coppices. As Also of Fruits, Corn, Grain, Pulse, New-Hays, Cattle, Fowl, Beasts, Bees, Silk-Worms, Fish... To which is Added Kalendarium Rusticum: Or, the Husbandmans Monthly Direction... and Dictionarium Rusticum..., 3rd edition, published Thomas Dring, 1681, additional decorative title with closed tear, stained and frayed, duplicate title page, lacking plates, some staining and spotting throughout, near contemporary notes and marginalia, mostly to preliminaries and titles, occasional closed tears to page margins, last page of alphabetical index at rear worn and frayed, book plate of John Lumsden, hinges and joints weak, near contemporary quarter sheep, worn and frayed, 4to, together with, Miller (Philip),The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden, as also the Physick Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory and Vineyard..., 2nd edition, 1783, decorative frontispiece, title and dedication, one engraved plate (only), rear endpaper detached, contemporary calf, upper board detached, rubbed and frayed, folio, with, Rennie (James, editor),The Magazine of Botany & Gardening, British & Foreign. Comprehending Figures carefully coloured from Nature of Flowers, Fruits & Cryptogamia with Desciptions thereof..., 2 volumes, published G.Henderson, 1833 - 36, decorative title to volume 1, fifty-three plates with contemporary hand colouring, volume 2 lacking title and with first leaf torn with loss, near contemporary marginalia throughout, one plate in volume 2 with fore-edge margin torn and dust soiled, ink ownership signature and address to front endpaper, contemporary cloth, worn and bumped, 8vo, together with another twenty volumes on botany, gardening and husbandry, various sizes and condition (25)
Coigney (Rodolphe L.). Izaak Walton. A New Bibliography 1653-1987, James Cummins, New York, 1989, colour frontispiece, illustrations, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original full vellum gilt, slight bowing to covers, original red dropover box lettered in gilt, 8vo Edition de Luxe, one of 5 Special Ad Hominem (this the printer's copy), signed by the author, with a leaf (p. 155) taken from an imperfect first edition of the Compleat Angler of 1653, inserted at front. Together with a folio of correspondence between author, publisher and printer regarding the publishing details of the book. (1)
Coigney (Rodolphe L.). Izaak Walton. A New Bibliography 1653-1987, James Cummins, New York, 1989, colour frontispiece, illustrations, top edge gilt, original crimson morocco gilt, slipcase, 8vo Edition de Luxe, one of 26 copies (this the special printer's copy) signed by the author, with a leaf taken from an imperfect first edition of the Compleat Angler (p. 137) mounted at front. (1)
Chamich (Father Michael). History of Armenia from B.C. 2247 to the Year of Christ 1780, or 1229 of the Armenian Era, Translated fom the Original Armenian, by Johannes Avdall, to which is appended a Continuation of the History by the Translator from the Year 1780 to the Present Date, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, Calcutta: printed at Bishop's College Press by H. Townsend, 1827, list of subscribers, folding engraved map and two folding engraved plates, all with closed tears and repairs to versos with slight loss, paper browned, small wormholes throughout (as often), early 20th century black half morocco, a little rubbed and scuffed, 8vo The first history of Armenia in English to draw extensively from Armenian sources. (2)
Denham (Major Dixon, Clapperton, Hugh and Oudney, Dr.). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1826, large folding engraved map at rear of first volume (with some light offsetting), 12 engraved plates, including 2 partly-coloured, 2 folding maps to second volume, some marks and scattered light spotting, small library ink number stamp to verso of title pages, later red half morocco, rubbed and with classification label to foot of spine of each volume, 8vo, together with Cailli‚ (R‚n‚), Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1830, lithograph portrait frontispiece to first volume, folding engraved map, and some full-page wood engraved illustrations, library stamps to preliminary leaves erased, later light brown half morocco, heavily rubbed and marked, and somewhat worn, with spine to first volume detached, 8vo, plus other various 19th century travel, various, including Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Aethiopia, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, 1844, H. W. Bates, Illustrated Travels: a record of discovery, geography, and adventure, 6 volumes, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, circa 1870s, C. G. Schillings, With Flashlight and Rifle, 2 volumes, 1906, John Martineau, Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, 2 volumes, 1895, W.A. Wills and L.T. Colingridge, The Downfall of Lobengula: The Cause, History, and Affect of the Matabeli War, [1894], etc., all ex-library copies with usual marks, 8vo, 4to Sold as seen, not subject to return. (24)
Hanway (Jonas). An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea: With the Author's Journal of Travels from England through Russia into Persia; and back through Russia, Germany and Holland. To which are added, the Revolutions of Persia during the Present Century, with the Particular History of the Great Usurper Nadir Kouli, 2 volumes, 3rd edition, revised and corrected, 1762, 19 plates including views and portraits and 2 frontispieces, 9 folding maps (complete), one map to second volume detached,13 engraved head-pieces, single leaf publisher's list at rear of second volume, contents generally in clean condition, contemporary full calf, rubbed and some wear with joints cracked, upper cover to first volume detached, 4to Kress 5268. Goldsmith's 8801. Higgs 481. (1)
Bray (William). Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn..., The Whole Now First Published, from the Original MSS., 2 vols., 1818, engraved portrait frontispiece to each, ten engraved plates (one folding & one double-page), folding pedigrees, some spotting, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, 4to, together with Pepys (Samuel), Memoirs of Samuel Pepys..., and a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke, 5 vols., 2nd edition, 1828, engraved portrait frontispieces and few plates (some folding), some spotting mostly to margins, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, early 20th century half calf by Hatchards, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels, 8vo, with Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with Additional Notes, by William Smith, 8 vols., 1854-1855, engraved portraits and folding maps, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spines, 8vo, and Fitzgerald (Percy), Chronicles of Bow Street Police-Office..., 2 vols., 1888, numerous uncoloured plates, top edge gilt, early 20th century half morocco gilt by Bayntun of Bath, joints rubbed, 8vo, with Gorton (John), A General Biographical Dictionary, 4 vols., new edition, 1851, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting morocco labels, 8vo, plus Clarendon (Edward, Earl of), The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England..., 7 vols., Oxford, 1849, original cloth, spines faded, some with slight wear to spine ends, 8vo (28)
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