NO RESERVE Crime prevention.- Philanthropic Society. First report of the Philanthropic Society. Instituted in London, September, 1788, for the prevention of crimes, first edition, title stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, disbound, Sold by T. Becket, Pall Mall; T. Hookham, New Bond Street; and J. Johnson, St Paul's Church-Yard, [1789]; and another, relating to financial irregularities within the organisation, 8vo & small 4to (2)⁂ The Philanthropic Society was founded in 1788 with the intention of caring for juvenile offenders, and the offspring of convicted criminals who were either in prison, or who had been transported. It opened homes in which children in need and young offenders were trained in cottage industries. Robert Young was a founder and treasurer of the Society. He was a serial social entrepreneur and had spent time in the Fleet debtors prison. It would appear that much of the money collected by him for the organisation never actually reached its coffers; likely being diverted into other schemes in which he was involved (see second item in lot).
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![Markham (Francis) The Booke of Honour, first edition, lacking initial blank, [STC 17331], Printed by Augustine Matthews, and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/f45d970e-2f02-42ae-952d-afa501031d94/468x382.jpg)
Markham (Francis) The Booke of Honour, first edition, lacking initial blank, [STC 17331], Printed by Augustine Matthews, and John Norton, 1625, bound with Five Decades of Epistles of Warre, with initial blank, final leaf with contemporary ink inscription, [STC 17332], Printed by Augustine Matthews, 1622, woodcut initials, head- & tail-pieces, some worming, mostly marginal, but heavier towards end and affecting some text, occasional light spotting or soiling, later panelled calf, rebacked, preserving old gilt spine, worn at extremities with loss to spine ends, joints splitting at head and foot, folio.⁂ From the library of the Marquess of Bute at Luton Hoo house, with "Luton" in blue pen to front pastedown.
Wild (Robert) Iter Boreale. Attempting something upon the successful and matchless march of the Lord General George Monck, from Scotland to London, the last winter..., ?first edition, [Wing 2132 or 2132A], Printed...for George Thomason, 1660 § Trapp (Joseph) The Duties of Private, Domestick, and Publick Devotion...in a sermon preached at Dauntsey...Wilts, only edition, modern boards, [ESTC locates only 2 copies, both in Oxford college libraries], Printed for Jonah Bowyer, 1721; and another, 17th century, 4to and 8vo (3)
Mackenzie (Sir George) Jus Regium: Or, the Just and Solid Foundations of Monarchy, first London edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II by P.H. van Hove, 2 advertisement leaves at end, some light staining, contemporary calf, [Wing M163], Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1684 § [Dunton (John)] Athenian Sport: or two thousand paradoxes merrily argued..., first edition, half-title, Robert S. Pirie bookplate, contemporary calf, Printed for B. Bragg, 1707 § Heylyn (John) Select Discourses, upon some Interesting and Important Subjects, first edition, contemporary sheep, [?Edinburgh], Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1770; and 4 others, 17th and 18th century, v.s. (7)
Maimbourg (Louis) The History of the Crusade; or, the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land, first English edition, translated by John Nalson, bookplate of Hans Sloane to front pastedown, contemporary calf, joints cracked but stitching firm, minor wear to upper cover top edge, [Wing M290], folio, for Thomas Dring, 1685.
Wither (George) Divine Poems (by way of paraphrase) on the Ten Commandments, first edition, 12 engraved illustrations in text, trimmed close at upper edge but not affecting text, later panelled calf possibly for the Britwell Court library, spine chipped, joints cracked, rubbed, [Wing W3154], 8vo, Printed by T[homas] S[nowden] and are to be sold by R. Janeway, 1688.⁂ Scarce at auction. Published posthumously and prepared for the press by Wither's daughter Elizabeth Barry, who has signed the dedicatory epistle with her initials.Provenance: Britwell Court (similar bindings found on other books from this library and although none of the usual Britwell shelfmarks are present, a pencil note on front free endpaper '10.93 b c' may indicate an acquisition date; William Cowan (bookplate); Robert S. Pirie (bookplate).
Smallpox.- Wagstaffe (William) A Letter to Dr. Friend; shewing the Danger and Uncertainty of Inoculating the Small Pox, first edition, modern boards, Printed for Samuel Butler, 1722 § Walker (Anthony) Planctus Unigeniti: et Spes Resuscitandi, first edition, folding engraved frontispiece with accompanying letterpress verses, lower edge defective but not affecting text or plate, plate repeated as full-page illustration on p.30, title and verso of final leaf within black mourning border, some foxing and browning, modern boards, [Wing W307], Printed by Thomas Mabb, for Samuel Ferris, 1664, 4to (2)⁂ The first is an attack on the new fashion for inoculation, a practice advocated by amongst others Lady Mary Wortley Montagu who came across it in Turkey. The second is a sermon on the death of Charles, Lord Rich, son and heir of the Earl of Warwick, who died aged only 20 from smallpox.
Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding lithographed map, wood-engraved frontispiece in vol.2, occasional light foxing marks, lower hinge cracking to vol.2, original dark purple cloth, [Penzer pp.71-2], a very good copy, 8vo, 1863.⁂ In 1861 Burton took up the post of British consul on the Spanish island of Fernando Po (Bioko, off Cameroon in West Africa). The work includes descriptions of the gold-mining prospects in both Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Burton was in dispute with Speke over the source of the Nile and was infuriated by the Royal Geographical Society for choosing Speke to lead a second expedition to establish his claim, causing him to issue this work anonymously, although his name does appear on the spines.
Beattie (James) Original Poems and Translations, first edition, contents ff. detached, worming, spotting, occasional staining, disbound, 1760 § [(Head) Richard)] The English Rogue: described, in the Life of Meriton Latroon, 4 vol., frontispieces, plates, unopened, scattered spotting, original boards, vols 2 & 4 lacking part of backstrip, a little rubbed, c.1900 § Sterne (Laurence) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, limited edition signed by artist, colour frontispiece and plates by Rowland Wheelwright, original buckram, gilt, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1926; and others similar, v.s. (c.50)
NO RESERVE Egypt.- Maspero (Gaston) Egyptian Archaeology, one of 50 large paper copies, translated by Amelia B. Edwards, illustrations, original gilt-stamped vellum, soiled, uncut, 1887 § Whymper (Charles) Egyptian Birds, first edition, colour plates, occasional foxing, endpapers browned, original decorative cloth, A. & C. Black, 1909 § White (Arthur Silva) From Sphinx to Oracle, first edition, plates, illustrations, folding map, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and spine a little faded, 1899; and c.130 others on Egypt, v.s. (c.133)
![NO RESERVE Women & Education.- [More (Hannah)] Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies, new edi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/fa945bf8-b9dd-429e-abd5-afa50103403d/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Women & Education.- [More (Hannah)] Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies, new edition, half-title, 8pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary dark green mottled calf, gilt, spine lacking label and with small piece of leather excised, corners little worn, rubbed, Printed by Whittingham and Rowland; for Sharpe and Hailes, 1810 § Ferguson (James) and David Brewster. The Art of drawing in perspective made easy to those who have no previous knowledge of the mathematics, new edition, the first revised by Brewster, half-title, 4 folding engraved plates, offsetting, occasional spotting, original boards, original printed label to spine, archival tape repairs to spine ends, joints little chipped, but holding firm, rubbed, Edinburgh, Printed for Stirling and Slade; and G. and W. B. Whittaker, London, 1823; and 10 others, similar, v.s. (12)
![[Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan)] The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien, first edition in book form, frontispiece and 21 plates b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/677137cd-d3c6-4a0a-8908-afa50103496b/468x382.jpg)
[Le Fanu (Joseph Sheridan)] The Fortunes of Colonel Torlogh O'Brien, first edition in book form, frontispiece and 21 plates by Hablot K. Browne, browning to plate margins, bookplates to endpapers, later half calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, Dublin, 1847; and 2 others, 19th century, 8vo (3)
Ruskin (John) The Seven Lamps of Architecture, first edition, half-title, 14 etched plates, occasional foxing, later red crushed morocco, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine very slightly faded, 1849; The Stones of Venice, 3 vol., first edition, half-title to vol.1, 53 plates, advertisement leaf or leaves at end of each vol., some foxing, later red crushed morocco, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., spines very slightly faded, 1851-53; and 8 others, Ruskin, 4to (12)
Prescott (William H.) History of the Conquest of Peru, with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas, 3 vol., fourth edition, vol. 1 with contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, scattered spotting to first and last few leaves, a few covers lightly sunned, 1850 § Selection of Curious Articles (A), from the Gentleman's Magazine, 4 vol., second edition, half-titles, bookplate of Thomas Graham Dundas, some light spotting and toning, a few joints starting but covers holding firm, 1811, contemporary calf, spines richly gilt with morocco labels, some light rubbing; and c.55 others, leather-bound, v.s. (c.55)
Shaw (Richard Norman) Architectural Sketches from the Continent, first edition, lithographed title and 100 plates, contemporary half roan, upper cover and spine faded, joints split at head, [1858] § Campbell (Alexander) A Journey from Edinburgh through parts of North Britain, 2 vol., new edition, 44 aquatint plates, offsetting, both vol. with front free endpaper detached, contemporary marbled calf, lower joints split at foot, [Abbey, Scenery 485], 1811 § Ovid. Elegies, translated by Christopher Marlowe..., one of 625 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by John Nash, ink gift inscription to Bishop Loveday to front free endpaper, endpapers toned, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, a few patches of soiling, 1925, some light foxing, rubbed, all but last worn at extremities; and others, most 19th century literature, v.s. (c.65)
Dickens (Charles) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., frontispieces and 38 wood-engraved plates, ink ownership inscriptions to pastedowns, stab holes to margins, without half-titles and advertisements, original cloth, recased, a few small tears at spine ends, [Eckel pp. 94-5; Smith I, 15], 1865; The Personal History of David Copperfield, first edition in book form, pictorial title, frontispiece and 38 wood-engraved plates, contemporary calf, gilt, cracking to joints, 1850; Bleak House, pictorial title and 38 wood-engraved plates, lacking frontispiece, original cloth, recased with some repairs, [Eckel pp.79-81; Smith I,10], 1853, first editions in book forms, all with some foxing to plates; and 2 others by the same, 8vo (6)
Smart (Hawley) False Cards, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 16pp. advertisements at end of vol. 3, scattered edge-spotting, original cloth, spines slightly darkened, light bumping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing to extremities, a bright and excellent set, [Sadleir 3072], 8vo, Hurst and Blackett, 1877.
NO RESERVE Trollope (Anthony) Dr. Wortle's School. A Novel, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, remainder issue, half-titles, some spotting, original green 'remainder' cloth, spine gilt, rubbed at extremities, some light staining (mostly to spine) and marking, a good copy, [Sadleir, Trollope 59], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1881.
NO RESERVE France.- Thornton (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the year 1802, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved titles, 52 engraved and aquatint plates, 10 folding, 2pp. musical score, one or two faint marginal pencil notes, vol. 2 with faint marginal staining towards end, faint scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1806.
Burton (Sir Richard Francis) A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night 10 vol., one of 1000 sets, c.1903-4; Supplemental Nights, 6 vol., later edition, c.1940, together 16 vol., "Benares Edition", plates, endpapers browned, original silver and gold cloth, first 10 vol. light bumped and frayed at spine ends, others excellent copies, printed by the Burton Club, supplement vols. printed in the United States. ⁂ ?The Supplemental volumes presumably from a later 16-volume Burton Club edition with Arabic numbers on the spines, which Ross dates to 1940.
Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first editions, original cloth, dust-jackets, light fading to spines, spine ends a little creased and frayed but very good copies overall, 1948-54; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 vol., first edition, maps, ownership inscription to vol.1, some light spotting to first few pages and fore-edges, original cloth, spine ends creased, dust-jackets, spines faded, light rubbing to joints and extremities, spine heads creased and frayed, 1956-58 § Johnson (Boris) The Churchill Factor, first edition, signed by the author to half-title, original boards, dust-jacket, mint, 2014; and a duplicate vol. of the second, 8vo (12)
NO RESERVE India.- Caldwell (Robert C.) The Chutney Lyrics. A collection of comic pieces in verse, on Indian subjects, 'second edition (reprint)', lithographed frontispiece, small ink stain to upper margin of frontispiece and first few ff., some spotting, original light blue cloth, spine ends and corners little frayed, rubbed and marked, 8vo, Madras, Higginbotham and Co., 1889.⁂ Rare in commerce.
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge), "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, 2 vol. tenth and eleventh thousand, ink ownership inscription to front free endpapers or half-title, hinge broken in places, original cloth, lightly soiled spine ends frayed and splitting at joints, 1968-1872 § Tozer (Katharine) Wanderings of Mumfie, first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket, chipping to spine ends and corners, spine browned, split along lower joint, 1935 § Lewis (C.S.) The Horse and His Boy, first edition, ink ownership name to half-title, endpapers lightly spotted, original cloth, ring stain to upper cover, spine browned, lightly soiled, 1954; and 27 others, children's literature, v.s. (31)
Khayyám (Omar) The Rubaiyat, one of 750 copies, illustrated by Willy Pogany, with an original etching signed by the artist, 12 colour plates tipped-in, black and white vignettes, contemporary decorative morocco, small stain to upper cover, spine a little sunned, 1930 § Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of the Faithful Dove, first edition, one of 100 copies, usual browning to free endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, very minor dust-soiling to edges and folds, but overall an excellent copy, [Linder 432; V&A pp.1236-1238 & 1715; Taylor, Whalley, Hobbs, Battrick p.168], Warne, 1955 § Cinderella. one of 850 copies with colour frontispiece and signed by the illustrator, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, small ink ownership inscription, some light off-setting, original cloth-backed boards, corners bumped, dust-jacket, slightly chipped and stained, 1919 § Froude (James A.) The Cat's Pilgrimage, first edition, 6 plain plates by Jemima Blackburn, bookplate, contemporary half calf, Edinburgh, 1870; and 5 others children and illustrated, v.s. (9)
Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, first edition, second printing, colour illustrations, double-page endpaper occurring twice (December 1903, first printing of October 1903 had single endpaper occurring four times), ink inscription to verso of endpaper, couple of minor abrasions, original pictorial boards, head of spine missing and foot nicked, Frederick Warne & Co., 1903; and 3 other first editions by Potter in 'well-loved' condition, 16mo (4)
Koudelka (Josef).- Photography.- Beranová (Libuse) Diskutujeme o morálce dneska, first edition, 13 photographic plates by Koudelka, of which 3 double-page, light spotting to peripheral ff., original white blind-stamped cloth, scattered faint spotting, dust-jacket, some creasing and a few short tears to edges, light spotting or surface soiling, 4to, Prague, Nakladatelstvi Politické Literatury, 1965.⁂ First and only edition of this first work, a scarce photobook by the renowned Czech-French photographer Josef Koudelka (b.1938).
Nielsen (Kay).- Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) In Powder and Crinoline, first trade edition, 24 tipped-in colour plates and illustrations by Kay Nielsen, captioned tissue-guards, that of frontispiece a little creased, advertisement for exhibition of work by Nielsen loosely inserted, some light scattered foxing, upper hinge cracked, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, some marking to spine, rubbed at extremities, 4to, [1913].⁂ Nielsen's first commission from an English publisher.
Pogany (Elaine) The Golden Cockerel, illustrated by Willy Pogany, signed presentation inscription from the author and illustrator to front endpaper (browning), illustrations in colour and black and white, original decorative cloth, dust-jacket, light wear at extremities, spine lightly toned, 1938 § Arnold (Sir Edwin) The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the illustrator, illustrated by Willy Pogany, original cloth with mounted illustration to upper cover, original card box, slightly rubbed, Philadelphia, 1934 § Kennedy (Richard) A Boy at the Hogarth Press, one of 520 copies, signed by the author, illustrated by the author, original cloth, dust-jacket, spine sunned, small tear to lower cover with tape repair, 1972; and 4 others illustrated and art, 4to and 8vo (7)
Trianon Press.- Blake (William) Songs of Innocence, one of 800 copies, from an edition limited to 1,600, orange morocco, 1954; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, one of 240 copies, from an edition limited to 526, 1960; There Is No Natural Religion, 2 vol., one of 540 copies, from an edition limited to 616, 1971; All Religions Are One, one of 600 copies, from an edition limited to 662, 1970; collotype plates, some hand-coloured through stencil, all but the first original morocco-backed marbled boards, spines slightly sunned, marbled slip-cases (some very slightly rubbed at extremities); Gates of Paradise, 3 vol., one of 700 copies, from an edition limited to 726, original cloth, 1968; all Trianon Press, v.s., (8)
Trianon Press.- Blake (William) Milton: A Poem, one of 380 copies, from an edition limited to 426, 1967; Visions of the Daughters of Albion, one of 200 copies, from an edition limited to 446, 1959; The Book of Urizen, one of 240 copies, from an edition limited to 526, 1958; The Book of Los, one of 480 copies, from an edition limited to 538, 1976; The Book of Ahania, one of 750 copies, from an edition limited to 808 copies, with two tipped in paper prospectuses of the edition, 1973; collotype plates, some hand-coloured through stencil, half morocco-backed cloth or marbled boards in various colours, spines slightly sunned, marbled slip-cases (some very slightly rubbed at extremities), v.s., Trianon Press; and Vala or The Four Zoas by William Blake, A Facsimile of the Manuscript, A Transcript of the Poem and A Study of its Growth and Significance by G.E. Bentley Jr, first edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1963, 145 plain plates, publisher's buckram gilt, dust-jacket, very worn and split along joint, folio (6).
![Middle East & Europe.- Debbas (Fouad) [Early Photographs of the Near East: Mount Lebanon, Early Photographs], 60 sepia pl](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/2fadce05-8516-4c15-b7d8-afa50103aa14/468x382.jpg)
Middle East & Europe.- Debbas (Fouad) [Early Photographs of the Near East: Mount Lebanon, Early Photographs], 60 sepia plates, 3 maps, text in Arabic, all loose as issued, housed in original cloth box, fractional bumping to corners, 1997 § Wheelhouse (Claudius Galen) Narrative of a Yacht Voyage in the Mediterranean 1849-1850, 2 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, housed in original cloth slipcase, shrink-wrapped, Bradford, 2006; folio & 4to (2).⁂ Fouad C. Debbas (1930-2001), built the world's largest private collection of postcards and old photographs of Lebanon and the Middle East. He believed in the importance of collecting, preserving and sharing old images to safeguard the collective memory and history of the entire region.
Africa.- Fitzgerald (William Walter Augustine) Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, first edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 8 maps, 5 folding, 3 with tears and tape repairs, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p,71], 1898 § Lyne (Robert Nunez) Zanzibar in Contemporary Times, first edition, frontispiece, 2 colour maps, plates, previous owner's ink signature, remnants of label to front pastedown, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, sunned spine, 1905 § Crawford (E. May) By the Equator's Snowy Peak, first edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913; and others similar, 8vo (9)
![NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- [Rothery (Charles William)] "A Yachting Dabbler". Notes on a Yacht Voyage to Hardanger Fjord, tinted](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/2ef945c2-ea89-4c5d-8837-afa50103ace2/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- [Rothery (Charles William)] "A Yachting Dabbler". Notes on a Yacht Voyage to Hardanger Fjord, tinted lithograph frontispiece, 25 plates, of which 13 tinted lithographs and 1 double-page, folding colour map, short marginal tear to p.99, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, housed in modern slipcase, [1850] § Ross (W. A.) A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, 2 vol., first edition, lithographed frontispiece, vol. 2 with half-title, spotting and marginal water-staining to frontispiece, trimmed compliments slip of historian and founder of the National Maritime Museum Sir Geoffrey Callender loosely inserted, original cloth, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, sunned spine, backstrip beginning to split at joints but holding firm, a little rubbed, 1848; 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Tweedie (Ethel B.) A Winter Jaunt to Norway, signed and inscribed "Mittag-Leffler with the authors kind regards & remembrance of a delightful evening. Ethel B. Tweedie", frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4pp. advertising pamphlet loosely inserted, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1894 § Oppenheim (E. C.) New Climbs in Norway, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, captioned tissue-guard, illustrations, scattered spotting, small blind-stamp to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1898; and others similar, 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Wilson (William Rae) Travels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Germany, Netherlands, &c, first edition, aquatint frontispiece and 6 plates, 2N1 with small marginal loss, 2N2 with short tear running into text, neat repair, scattered faint spotting, near contemporary half-morocco, alight rubbing to corners and joints, [Abbey Travel 22], 8vo, 1826.
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Wolff (Jens) Sketches on a Tour to Copenhagen, through Norway and Sweden, first edition, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, 2 hand-coloured, illustrations, faint off-setting, occasional marginal water-staining and spotting, one or two marginal ink notes, near contemporary half-roan, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1814.
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Edgeworth (Maria).- Everest (Rev. Robert) A Journey through Norway, Lapland, and Part of Sweden, first edition, inscribed on a blank prelim, "Miss Maria Edgeworth with the profound esteem and ?sincere regard of the Author's brother", engraved frontispiece, 2 hand-coloured folding geological plates, 1 chart, 4 maps, of which 2 folding and 2 hand-coloured, water-staining to frontispiece, occasional marginal soiling and spotting, modern half-calf, 8vo, 1829.
Voyages.- Barrow (John) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793, first edition, 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander and Daniell (1 folding, 2 of fruit printed in colours and finished by hand), 2 folding engraved maps and charts with partial hand-colouring, a few plates with light offsetting, plates of fruit trimmed at foot with partial loss to imprint, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed with loss to spine labels, upper cover and free endpaper detached, lower cover detached along with final 2 leaves of index, [Abbey, Travel 514; Tooley 86], 4to, 1806.⁂ The first illustrated English work on what was then Cochin China, now known as Vietnam. The voyage visited Madeira, the Canary Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Tristan da Cunha, reaching Cochin China via Batavia on Java. The volume is also of Cook interest as it describes finding Captain Cook's Resolution transformed into a smuggling whaler under the French flag. The supplementary article covers an overland expedition from Cape Town to the interior of South Africa and the "Booshuana Nation".
Africa.- Holland (Major Trevenen J.) & Captain Henry Hozier. Record of the Expedition to Abyssinia compiled by order of the Secretary of State for War, 3 vol., including portfolio, first edition, 2 additional lithographed titles, 32 lithographs, maps and plans, some hand-coloured, 1 folding table, 5 large linen-backed folding maps and loose Index sheet in portfolio as issued, scattered spotting, occasional pencil underlining, near contemporary half-morocco, gilt, rubbed and worn, cracked hinges, bumping to corners and extremities, [Shapero, Africana 183], 1870.⁂ The portfolio accompanying this copy contains all 5 maps called for. It is rare to find this with all 5 maps, the copy Shapero reference only contains 3.
Emerson Curtis (Robert) Building the Bridge, first edition, one of 400 bound copies, from an edition limited to 1,000, "Michael Lewis" ownership inscription to front pastedown, edition note with signature inscription of Robert Emerson Curtis, 13 plain lithographed plates, with one tipped in colour plate, original boards, quarter cloth, 4to, Sydney, 1933.
![Engineering.- Roads.- [Æ.] An Essay for the construction of roads on mechanical and physical principles, first edition, half-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2b0e366d-3c7e-4c46-ae34-afa500c1c044/adf88d6a-ce6d-4d03-991e-afa50103c88d/468x382.jpg)
Engineering.- Roads.- [Æ.] An Essay for the construction of roads on mechanical and physical principles, first edition, half-title, engraved folding plate, library ink stamps to some margins and verso of plate, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern buckram, spine titled in black, 8vo, Printed for T. Davies, in Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1774.⁂ Rare in commerce.
Africa.- Lobo (Jerome) A Voyage to Abyssinia, first English edition, translated by Samuel Johnson, title in red and black, engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, scattered spotting, H2 with marginal paper defect and short tear running into text, bookplate, contemporary calf, cracked upper joint but holding firm, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Mendelssohn I. p.919], 8vo, for A. Bettesworth, 1735.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782).
Africa.- Peters (Dr Carl) New Light on Dark Africa, first English edition, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, [Czech p.128; Hosken p,157], 8vo, 1891.
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) A nievve herball, or historie of plantes: wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, first edition in English, translated by Henry Lyte, title within ornate woodcut historiated border and with woodcut arms of Henry Lyte verso, woodcut portrait of the author to verso of 1*6, numerous woodcut illustrations, occasional early ink marginalia, 8pp. 19th century manuscript index loosely inserted at end, lacking 1*3&4, E2-5, S1-3&5, X1, Y3, 2A5, 3F4, 3G3&4, 3H3, whole of sig. 3L, 3Q1&6, 3S5&6, 3T2, and sigs. 3U-Y at end, 1*6 misbound later within preliminaries, first few ff. detached, title with a few small holes at head (mostly marginal), frayed at outer margin (just within printed area) and soiled, E1 frayed, affecting the odd letter, sig. O & P1 mostly marginal worm trace to upper inner gutters, Y1 upper corner torn away, affecting a couple of letters of headline verso, 3N1 torn at inner margin, a few ff. with part of a margin torn away, stained, some spotting, lightly browned throughout, contemporary limp blind-ruled calf, later metal claps, short split at head of spine, lower corner of upper cover worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Henrey 110; Hunt 132; Nissen 516; STC 6984], folio, London [i.e. Antwerp], by me Gerard Dewes [i.e. Henry Loë], 1578. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Dodoens served as court physician to Emperor Rudolf II of Austria before becoming Professor of Medicine at Leiden University in 1582.
JAMES BURNHAM: THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION OR WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD NOW, London, Putnam, 1942 first edition, original cloth plus H G WELLS: PHEONIX A SUMMARY OF THE INESCAPABLE CONDITIONS OF WORLD REORGANISATION, London, Secker & Warburg, 1942 first edition, original cloth d/w, plus WENDELL L WILKIE: ONE WORLD, London, Cassell, 1943 first edition, inscription on ffep, original cloth d/w (price clipped) plus GEOFFREY BOWLES: WRITINGS OF A REBEL A SELECTION FROM PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS, London, The Sterling Press, 1944 first edition, inscription on ffep, original cloth (4)
T'AI-SHANG KAN-YIEN E'IEN TREATISE OF THE EXALTED ONE ON RESPONSE AND RETRIBUTION, translated Teitaro Suzuki and Paul Carus, edited Paul Carus, Chicago, The Open Court Publishing, London, Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1906 first edition in English and Chinese, ill Keichyn Yamada (frontis), 14 plates and two full page illustrations by Chinese artists as called for, 15pp adverts at end, original decorative cloth, spine dulled
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