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Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 1

Plaw (John).Sketches for Country Houses, Villas and Rural Dwellings, Calculated for Persons of Modest Income, and for Comfortable Retirement …J. Taylor, 1800, first edition, quarto, 18, [2] pages, forty-two sepia aquatint plates, light foxing, contemporary half roan with marbled boards (rebacked). [Archer 261.1].Some light foxing, stain to lower inside corner (see images), repaired hinges, light staining to corners of endpapers (from leather turn-ins). Boards rubbed, wear to edges, re-backed.

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Lot 67

Toole (John Kennedy).A Confederacy of Dunces.Allen Lane, 1981, first British edition, dust jacket (priced £7.95).Contents Fine, no inscriptions found. Closed top edge slightly dust marked. Cloth spine tanned (ends uniformly at each end so possibly binding glue?), tanning to very top edge of boards, jacket spine a little sun-faded but otherwse Fine.

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Lot 122

[Acuna (Christobal de) et al.].Voyages and Discoveries in South-America. The first up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, perform'd at the Command of the King of Spain. By Christopher D'Acugna. The Second up the River of Plata, and thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi. By Mons. Acarete. The Third from Cayenne into Guiana, in search of the Lake of Parima, reputed the richest Place in the world. By M. Grillet and Bechamel. Done into English from the Originals, being the only Accounts of those Parts hitherto extant. The whole illustrated with notes and maps.S. Buckley, 1698, first English edition, viii, 176, 169-190; [2], 79, [1]; [iv], 68 pages, separate title page and pagination to each part, register continuous, two folding maps (creased), small blind-stamp to lower corner of each title page, light water stain to head of pages throughout, three printed numbers to front free endpaper. Early panelled calf binding with ‘H.B.’ gilt initials (binding worn, upper board detached)

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Lot 8

Abbeville PressCaracciolo (Maria Teresa) & Ayala (Roselyne de) edits., The History of Rome in Painting. Abbeville Press, 2011, first US edition, folio, original cloth, slipcase;Kroke (Antonella Fenech) edit., The History of Florence in Painting.Abbeville Press, 2013, first US edition, folio, original cloth, slipcase;Duby (Georges) & Lobrichon (Guy) edits., The History of Venice in Painting.Abbeville Press, 2007, first US edition, 2nd printing, folio, original cloth, slipcase;with eight others by the publisher, the majority on Italian Frescoes and Mosaics. (11)

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Lot 171

First American Edition 1999 Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban hardback cover signed by Author J.K Rowling Donated to Dogs Trusts shop in Bingham – all proceeds going to Dogs Trust.

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Lot 358

Fantasia by David Weston. 1st edition 1985. Hardcover in a hard slipcase, both flock covered with gold titling, decoration and page edges. 124 pp. Number 200 of a limited edition of 850 copies. 'From the exhibition of paintings by David Weston in celebration of the lives of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce'. Foreword by HRH Prince Michael of Kent and including Rolls-Royce - The First Thirty Years by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Nick Baldwin. Full colour reproductions of David Weston's paintings of Rolls-Royces, each with embossed tissue protection, plus a section of monochrome sketches. This is a very sumptuous production. Condition: the book is as new. Dimensions circa 35cm H x 47cm W x 5cm D

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Lot 81

Young (Sir William) The West-India Common-Place Book: compiled from Parliamentary and Official Documents; shewing the Interest of Great Britain in its Sugar Colonies, first edition, one folding map only (of two), 2 folding tables at end, occasional marginal pencil note, scattered spotting, twentieth century half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, for Richard Phillips, 1807.

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Lot 204

Middle East.- Cameron (Verney Lovett) Our Future Highway to India, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces and 2 plates, one folding colour map, title vignettes, illustrations, advertisements at end, lacking front free endpapers, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, small ink stain to spine vol. 1, 8vo, 1880. *** Scarce. Recounting a journey that the author took from Syria to India between 1878 and 1879, and considering the viability of an imperial railway line linking India to the Mediterranean coast. 

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Lot 60

Trinidad.- Dauxion Lavaysse (Jean François) A Statistical, Commercial, and Political Description of Venezuela, Trinidad, Margarita, and Tobago, first edition, folding engraved map, scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1820.

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Lot 237

Russia.- Pallas (Peter Simon) Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794, [translated by F.W.Blagdon], vol.1 only (of 2), first edition in English, folding engraved map (listed as plate), 24 engraved plates, 20 finely hand-coloured, 8 folding, 14 engraved vignettes, most hand-coloured, with 3 additional engraved plates bound in (from another edition or work), plates clean and bright and neatly captioned in pencil, wide margins, ink initials ?G.W. to head of title, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rather rubbed and scuffed, spine ends & corners worn, [Abbey, Travel 222; Tooley 357], 1802; and another smaller copy of vol.1 from Kimbolton Castle, 4to; sold not subject to return (2)

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Lot 85

Africa.- Atlas of Kenya, first edition, 45 maps, many colour, previous owner's ink signature to title, 2 negatives of maps loosely inserted, original order slip loosely inserted, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, folio, Nairobi, The Survey of Kenya, 1959.

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Lot 288

World.- Blunt (Wilfrid Scawen) The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare, number 49 of 50 copies, translated by Lady Anne Blunt, half-title, original buckram, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1892; The Wind and the Whirlwind, first edition, half-title, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 1883; Gordon at Khartoum, first edition, portrait frontispiece, marginal pencil markings, faint spotting to endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1911; and 4 others by the same, including an odd volume, 8vo (7) *** Provenance: Each volume with the bookplate of Peter Hopkirk to the front pastedown.  

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Lot 229

Polar.- Mountaineering.- Scott (Captain Robert) Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates, some folding, 8 folding maps, one with short tear at gutter, cracked hinges, scattered spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Whymper (Edward) The Ascent of the Matterhorn, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at end, original decorative cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1880; and another, 8vo (4). 

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Lot 263

West Indies.- Jamaica.- Dallas (Robert Charles) The History of the Maroons ... including the Expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish Chasseurs; and the State of the Island of Jamaica, 2 vol., first edition, 2 engraved frontispieces, 2 engraved folding maps, occasional pencil underlining or marginal marks, f6 vol. 1 with tiny marginal hole, scattered spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, [Sabin 18322], 8vo, 1803.

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Lot 236

Russia.- Pallas (Peter Simon) Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, 2 vol., second edition, half-title to vol. 2 only (as called for), 52 aquatint or engraved plates and plans, of which 45 hand-coloured and 26 folding, 3 engraved folding maps, engraved vignettes, of which most hand-coloured, vol. 1 title trimmed at head with neat restoration, occasional faint off-setting, occasional very faint marginal spotting and finger-soiling, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, [cf. Abbey, Travel 222, first edition of 1802-3], 1812.

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Lot 34

Slavery.- Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a slave in St. Domingo, first edition, portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, original cloth, sunned spine, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, Boston, 1854.

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Lot 87

Africa.- Du Chaillu (Paul B.) A Journey to Ashango-Land, first edition, ALs from author loosely inserted, frontispiece, plates, folding map, 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate, original decorative cloth, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.63], 8vo, 1867.

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Lot 173

India.- Mussoorie.- A Mussoorie Miscellany (with alleged illustrations) by 'The Rambler' (of 'The Mussoorie Times'), first edition, photographic and woodcut illustrations, numerous advertisements for shops, restaurants, hotels, schools and services, errata slip, lightly browned, original printed wrappers, very short tear and little chipping at foot of spine, some spotting and marking, lightly browned, 8vo, Mussoorie, Mafasilite Press, 1936.  *** Rare, with WorldCat and Library Hub recording only three copies between them (Cambridge, Penn, and Society of Genealogists). With much on the Dehradun district, including matters historical (including British involvement) topographical, and biographical; and chapters on local murders and other newsworthy events, royal visits, and schools. 

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Lot 32

Singleton [(John)] A Description of the West-Indies. A Poem, in four books, first edition, half-title, faint spotting at end, modern half crushed morocco, a little rubbed, [Sabin 81424], for T. Becket, 1776 § Montgomery (James) The West Indies, and other poems, third edition, occasional faint water-staining, mostly marginal, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1810 § Bard (Samuel A.) Waikna; or, Adventures on the Mosquito Shore, scattered spotting, modern morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, 1856 § Twiss (Horace) The Carib Chief: a tragedy, in five acts, scattered spotting, modern marbled paper wrappers, 1819; 4to & 8vo (4). 

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Lot 50

Tobago.- Poyntz (Captain John) The Present Prospect of the Famous and Fertile Island of Tobago: with a Description of the Situation Growth, Fertility and Manufacture of the said Island, first edition, short tear to final leaf with expert repair and restoration to the gutter, scattered spotting and staining, cracked hinges, later calf, gilt inner dentelles, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 64857], small 4to, by George Larkin for the Author, and are to be Sold by Thomas Malthus, 1683.

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Lot 125

Central Asia.- Stein (M. Auriel) Ruins of Desert Cathay, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 6 folding panoramas, 3 folding maps, plates (some colour), bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1912; and a later impression of Lawrence's 'Revolt in the Desert', 8vo (3). 

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Lot 203

Middle East.- Blunt (Lady Anne) Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates, one folding colour map, advertisements at end vol. 2, light marginal soiling at end vol. 1, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1879. *** Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron, was the founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. She travelled throughout Arabia and the Middle East buying horses from Bedouin tribesmen to take back to England for breeding.

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Lot 86

Africa.- Cheesman (Major Robert Ernest) Lake Tana & The Blue Nile: An Abyssinian Quest, first edition, inscribed to Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester by the author, half-title, folding panorama frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at end, original cloth, lightly sunned spine, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 1936 § Meakin (Budgett) The Land of the Moors, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, illustrations, folding map at end, some full-page, scattered spotting, advertisements at beginning, previous owner's ink signature, original pictorial cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 1901 § Erskine (Mrs. Steuart) The Vanished Cities of Arabia, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, some colour, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, small loss to spine head, creasing and chipping to edges, a little rubbed, n.d.; and others, similar, 8vo (6). *** The first mentioned is inscribed, "To His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester. With the greatest respect and with happy recollection of ?Wachacha past. October 31st 1930. From the author, R. E. Cheesman March 2nd 1936."  

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Davy (John) The West Indies, before and since Slave Emancipation, first edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured map frontispiece, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown, original cloth, backstrip beginning to split at joints but holding firm, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 18915], 1854 § Coke (Thomas) A History of the West Indies, containing the Natural, Civil, and Ecclesiastical History of each Island, 3 vol., first edition, 5 engraved plates, of which 4 folding, one hand-coloured engraved map, short tears with neat repairs verso, vol. 1 2N3 with short marginal tear and old repair, vol. 2 with occasional marginal pencil notes and typescript note tipped-in, scattered spotting and staining, previous owner's ink signature, contemporary boards, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, Liverpool, 1808-11 § Gurney (Joseph John) Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing A Winter in the West Indies, spotting, previous owner's ink signature to early blank, ex-Sunday School library with usual labels and ink-stamps, original cloth, remnants of paper label to spine, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1840; [Sabin 18915; 14244; 29309], 8vo (5).

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Lot 80

Young (Sir William) The West-India Common-Place Book, first edition, author's copy inscribed "the Author's Copy. WY" on title, with copious ink annotations and interleaved with 9ff. of manuscript notes and tables, 2 folding letterpress tables at end, bound without maps, K1 with small loss at gutter, Q4 with tear into text and no loss, scattered spotting and staining, tender edges, lacking endpapers, near contemporary drab boards, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, [Sabin 106128], 4to, 1807. *** A rare item, including notes by the author who in 1807 became the Governor of Tobago, retaining the post until his death in 1815.

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Lot 75

Walker (James) Letters on the West Indies, first edition, half-title, 4pp. advertisements at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, contemporary drab boards, rebacked retaining original printed spine label, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 101052], 8vo, 1818.

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Lot 61

Trinidad.- de Verteuil (L. A. A.) Trinidad: Its Geography, Natural Resources, Administration, Present Condition, and Prospects, first edition, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown, original cloth, rebacked, damp staining to fore-edge, bumping to corners, [Sabin 19813], 1858; and a slightly defective second edition of the same,  8vo (2). 

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Lot 320

Somerset.- Speed (John) Somerset-Shire Described and into Hundreds divided with the plot of the famous and most wholsom waters and citie of the Bathe, First edition, county map with inset plan of Bath, engraving with hand-colouring, on laid paper with armorial watermark, platemark 383 x 510 mm (15 1/8 x 20 1/4 in) , sheet 412 x 535 mm (16 1/8 x 21 in), central vertical fold with splitting repaired verso, small loss restored to foot, minor surface dirt, some light toning to sheet, unframed, Sudbury and Humble, [1611].

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Lot 249

Turkey.- Cox (Samuel S.) Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey, first edition, portrait frontispiece, 2 chromolithographs, one map, illustrations, many full-page, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1887; The Isles of the Princes; or. the Pleasures of Prinkipo, frontispiece, plates, one folding map, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York & London, 1888 § Ferriman (Z. Duckett) Turkey and the Turks, half-title, plates, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1911; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (5). 

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Crisis (The) of the Sugar Colonies; or, an enquiry into the Objects and Probable Effects of the French Expedition to the West Indies, first edition, previous owner's ink signature to title, advertisement leaf at end, scattered spotting and browning, modern marbled paper wrappers, [Sabin 17530], 8vo, 1802.

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Lot 11

Day (Charles William) Five Years' Residence in the West Indies, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, advertisements at end, bookplate, vol. 1 with broken upper hinge, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 18964], 8vo, 1852.

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Lot 115

Australia.- Saville-Kent (W.) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its Products and Potentialities, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, of which 16 chromolithograph, illustrations, tissue-guards, spotting at beginning and end, original decorative cloth, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners, [Ferguson 11105], large 4to,  [1893].

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[Coleridge (Henry Nelson)] Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825, first edition, one or two faint spots, contemporary boards, small loss to backstrip but holding firm, a little rubbed, chipping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 14318], 1826 § Trollope (Anthony) The West Indies and the Spanish Main, second edition, hand-coloured map frontispiece, light soiling to endpapers, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1860 § Lewis (Matthew Gregory) Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a residence in the Island of Jamaica, first edition, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, near contemporary half-calf, lacking backstrip, boards detached, rubbed, [Sabin 40821], 1834; and 2 others similar, 8vo (5).

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Lot 197

Mediterranean.- Hand-Book for Travellers (A) in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Constantinople, first edition, 4 folding maps, advertisements to pastedowns, old tape to title at gutter, John Murray, front endpapers renewed, hinges repaired, original cloth, previous owner's ink initials to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, upper joint repaired, 1840 § Murat (Nicholas) Guide de la Conversation en français et en turc suivi d'un Petit Guide de Constantinople, ink-stamp to title, previous owner's ink note to title, manuscript label to front pastedown, evenly browned throughout, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Constantinople, 1908; and another guide to Constantinople, 8vo (3).  *** The second mentioned is a simple introduction to Osmanli Turkish, using transliteration to represent the sounds of Turkish. It contains useful questions and phrases for tourists to use when sightseeing and shopping in the Bazaar in Constantinople. 

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Lot 225

Oceania.- Brown (George) Melanesians and Polynesians, first edition, frontispiece, plates, previous owner's pencil signature to front free endpaper, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1910 § Way Elkington (E.) & Norman H. Hardy. The Savage South Seas, frontispiece, plates, captioned tissue-guards, one folding map, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1907; 8vo (2). 

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Lot 134

China.- Tai (Tse Tsan) The Creation. The Real Situation of Eden. and The Origin of the Chinese, first edition, presentation copy signed and inscribed by author, colour map, corrections neatly inserted by hand in red ink, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, Hongkong, 1914.

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Lot 126

China.- C. (D. R.) Lui Sing, second edition, Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghai, 1908; The Flight of an Arrow and other stories, Yokohama, Hongkong, Shanghai, 1908,  ?presentation copies from author, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, § Martin (W. A. P.) Chinese Legends and Lyrics, plates, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Shanghai, 1912; and others, China, v.s. (8). *** The first two are inscribed, "To Helen, with affection D." 

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America.- Gazzettiere Americano (Il) contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo, 3 vol., first Italian edition, half-title to vol. 1 only, engraved frontispiece to vol. 1 only, 76 engraved plates, maps and plans only (of 77), many folding, one map with short tear into image, occasional faint marginal water-staining, occasional faint spotting, vol. 1 with tiny rust-hole not affecting text, previous owner's paper label to front pastedown, contemporary calf-backed patterned paper boards, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 26814], 4to, Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1763. *** Volume 1 lacks the plate of Baja di Campeggio, however includes a duplicate of the Carta della Penisola di Darien, Panama.  A lovely copy of this, the preferred Italian edition. It was published the year after the English edition and benefits from being printed on thicker paper and in a larger forma than the English work.

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Lot 77

[Wentworth (Trelawney)] The West India Sketch Book, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, 9 plates, 1 maps, illustrations, bookplate, several signatures becoming detached, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, original blue cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1834.

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Lot 90

Africa.- Horsbrugh (Major Boyd) The Game-Birds & Water-Fowl of South Africa, first edition, half-title, 67 colour plates, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1912 § Cheesman (Major R. E.) Lake Tana and the Blue Nile, first edition, half-title, folding panorama frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, ex-Anglo-Ethiopian Society with neat ink-stamp to front free endpaper, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, number in manuscript to spine, partially erased, slight creasing and chipping to edges, a little rubbed, 1936 § Hickson (Sydney J.) A Naturalist in North Celebes, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, bookplate, cracked hinges, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities,  1889; and others similar, 4to & 8vo (7).

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Slavery.- Pinckard (George) Notes on the West Indies ... including ... remarks relating to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies, and the Indians of South America, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles to all but vol. 3, occasional faint water-staining, vol. 3 with slight nibbling to top edge of first few leaves, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1806.

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Lot 286

World.- [Bartlett (William Henry)] Pictures from Sicily, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, plates and illustrations, map, tissue-guards, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, bookplates, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1853 § Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, early reprint, frontispiece, plates, 3 maps only (of 4), of which 2 folding, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, chipping and small loss to edges, a little rubbed, previous owner's neat pencil note to upper cover, December 1934 § Gourlie (Norah) A Winter with Finnish Lapps, first edition, frontispiece, folding map at beginning, plates, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1939; and others, v.s. (7).

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Lot 42

Southey (Capt. Thomas) Chronological History of the West Indies, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata at beginning vol. 2, twentieth century half-calf, sunned spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1827.

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Lot 94

Africa.- Powell-Cotton (Maj. P.H.G.) In Unknown Africa, first edition, half-title, 2 colour plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations, odd faint spot, new endpapers, original decorative cloth, recased, 1904 § Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 maps, of which one folding, faint spotting at beginning, bookplate, near contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1863; What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1864, [Hosken p.51; p.188]; and others, Africa, 8vo (7).

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Carmichael (Mrs.) Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Coloured, and Negro Population of the West Indies, 2 vol., first edition, occasional pencil annotations, some trimmed at magins, one or two faint stains, modern half morocco, lightly sunned spines, [Sabin 10937], 1833 § Gurney (Joseph John) A Winter in the West Indies, frontispiece and one plate, scattered spotting, tiny tear to top edge of first few ff., later half crushed morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 29312], 1840 § Baird (Robert) Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849, faint water-staining, advertisements at end, later half morocco, lightly sunned spine, a little rubbed, Philadelphia, 1850 § Trollope (Anthony) The West Indies and the Spanish Main, hand-coloured map frontispiece, previous owner's ink inscription to title, occasional faint spotting, later half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to extremities, 1859; 8vo (5).

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Lot 15

Elizabeth (Charlotte) The System: A Tale of the West Indies, first edition, 2pp. advertisement at end, occasional faint spotting and staining, modern half-calf, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to extremities, 8vo, 1827.

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Lot 278

West Indies.- Slavery.- Montgomery (James), James Grahame and E. Benger. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, first edition, additional engraved title and 12 plates, scattered faint spotting, contemporary russia, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip, slight bumping to corners, 4to, 1809.

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Lot 228

Polar.- Cherry-Garrard (Apsley) The Worst Journey in the World, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, of which 4 folding, scattered faint spotting, new endpapers, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, vol. with small stain to upper cover, spines lightly sunned, [Roscoe 71.A2], 8vo, 1922. *** This in the variant blue cloth binding, which Roscoe says is "significantly scarcer" than the usual linen-backed boards. 

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Lot 135

China.- Tcheng-Ki-Tong Chin-Chin or the Chinaman at Home, first edition, translated by R. H. Sherard, partially unopened, advertisements at end, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1895 § Story (Douglas) To-morrow in the East, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1907 § Bland (J. O. P.) Houseboat Days in China, frontispiece, illustrations, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, sunned spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 1919; and 2 others, atlas of China and Taiwan, 8vo & folio (5).

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Halliday (Sir Andrew) The West Indies: the Natural and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies, first edition, folding map frontispiece, 2 folding maps, one folding table, advertisements at end, previous owner's pencil signature, scattered faint spotting, contemporary cloth, sunned spine, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1837 § Higgins (Henry H.) Notes by a Field-Naturalist in the Western Tropics, frontispiece, plates, folding map, occasional marginal finger-soiling, ex-library with neat ink-stamp to title, modern morocco backed boards, a little rubbed, Liverpool, 1877 § Waring (Gerald A.) The Geology of the Island of Trinidad, B.W.I., full-page illustrations, 3 folding maps, one with short split to foldline and old repair verso, occasional underlining, original upper cover bound-in, ink manuscript notes to original cover, short tear with old tape repair, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Baltimore, 1926; and another copy of the first mentioned, 8vo (4). 

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Japan.- Ponsoby Fane (R. A. B.) Kyoto: Its History and Vicissitudes since its Foundation in 792 to 1868, first edition, half-title, plates, 4 folding maps and plans, newspaper clipping pasted to front free endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Hong Kong, Rumford Printing Press, 1931 § Akiyama (Aisaburo) A Complete Guide to Kyoto, second edition, plates, some colour, scattered faint spotting to first few ff., previous owner's ink-stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, Kyoto, Japan Welcome Society, [1936]; and 3 other guidebooks, 8vo & 12mo (5). 

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Middle East.- Badger (Rev. George Percy) The Nestorians and their Rituals: with the Narrative of a Mission to Mesopotamia and Coordistan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 17 plates (15 lithographed, 2 wood-engraved), 2 folding maps printed on waxed linen, illustrations in text, errata leaf at end of preliminaries in each volume, some foxing, original cloth, unopened, spines very worn, [Wilson p.12; not in Ghani; not in Diba], 8vo, 1852. *** George Badger, East India Company chaplain and Arabist, was sent by William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, as delegate to the Eastern Churches, and more especially the Nestorians of Kurdistan in 1842 and again in 1850. Apart from his travels in Kurdistan the work contains accounts of visits to Antioch and the Black Sea. The Nestorians exercised a fascination for Anglicans in the 19th century from their having been virtually isolated from the rest of Christendom since the 5th century. Provenance: Pro-Cathedral Library Clifton (bookplate); Canon William Brownlow (bookplate); Peter Hopkirk (bookplate). 

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China.- Landor (A. Henry Savage) In the Forbidden Land, 2 vol., first edition, half-title, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, one folding map, short split to foldlines with neat tape repair, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1898 § David-Neel (Alexandra) My Journey to Lhasa, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, ex-W.H.Smith library with gilt stamp to upper cover, a little rubbed, 1927; 8vo (3). 

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West Indies.- Virgin Islands.- Jarvis (J. Antonio) Brief History of the Virgin Islands, first edition, frontispiece, plates, water-staining to lower corners, previous owner's ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, original cloth, light mottling, slight bumping to corners and extremities, St. Thomas, 1938; The Virgin Islands and their people, frontispiece, plates, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight chipping and creasing to edges, Philadelphia, 1944; Virgin Islands Picture Book, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, original boards, chipping to fore-edges, a little rubbed, Philadelphia, 1948; 8vo (3). 

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Wales.- Speed (John) Penbrokshyre described..., first edition, engraved map with hand-colouring, platemark 382 x 510 mm (15 x 20 in), sheet 415 x 540 mm (16 1/4 x 21 1/4 in), minor surface dirt, faint signs of toning to the edges of margins, otherwise minor browning, unframed, Sudbury and Humble, [1611]

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Lot 285

West Indies.- Washington Eves (C.) The West Indies, first edition, inscribed by author, half-title, folding map frontispiece and 7 folding maps, plates, odd marginal spot, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1889.

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Europe.- Coxe (William) Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, 3 vol., first edition, 11 engraved plates, 15 engraved maps, all but one folding, engraved illustrations, list of subscriber's, advertisement at end vol. 3, faint off-setting, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1784-90; History of the House of Austria, 2 vol. in 3, hand-coloured folding map frontispiece, scattered spotting, B1 vol. 1 with small abrasion hole to margin, bookplates, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1807; 4to (6).

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Middle East.- Malcolm (Col. Sir John) The History of Persia, 2 vol., first edition, 22 engraved plates (1 folding), one folding engraved map, bound without half-titles, occasional spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf. boards detached, rubbed, [not in Atabey or Blackmer], 4to, 1815.

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Holy Land.- Arundale (Francis) Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai, first edition, portrait frontispiece and 19 tinted lithographs, 2 maps, tissue-guards, spotting, bookplate, original cloth, defective backstrip but holding firm, bumping to corners, rubbed, 1837 § Bartlett (W. H.) Jerusalem Revisited, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 20 plate, of which one folding, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary morocco, gilt, g.e., gilt dentelles, gauffered edges, a little rubbed, 1855 § Kelly (Walter Keating) Syria and the Holy Land, half-title, illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription, bookplate, original cloth, backstrip beginning to split at joints but holding firm, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1844; and 2 others, similar, 4to & 8vo (5) *** Provenance: The first two each with Nathan Schurh's bookplate to front pastedowns. 

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Middle East.- Sherring (Herbert) Nadir the Persian: and other poems, first edition, half-title, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, slight creasing and chipping to extremities, 8vo, 1913.

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