Africa.- Big Game.- Drummond (William Henry) The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa, first edition, half-title, chromolithograph frontispiece and vignette title, 12 plates, illustrations, colour map at end, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, bookplate, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.62], 1875 § Roosevelt (Theodore) African Game Trails, reprint, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, maps, advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1910 § Chapman (Abel) On Safari: Big-Game Hunting in British East India, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, scattered spotting, advertisements at end, half-morocco by Bumpus, small neat repair to spine foot, [Hosken p.45], 1908; and another similar, 8vo (4).
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India.- D'Orléans (Prince Henry) From Tonkin to India by the Sources of the Irawadi January '95 - January '96, first edition, frontispiece, title printed in red and black, illustrations, folding map at end, previous owner's ink inscription, scattered spotting, new endpapers retaining Calcutta booksellers label, rebacked retaining original backstrip, neat repairs to corners, 1898 § Macintyre (Major-General Donald) Hindu-Koh: Wandering and Wild Sports on and Beyond the Himalayas, frontispiece, captioned tissue-guards, plates and illustrations, W.H.Smith blind-stamp to front free endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1891 § Holdich (Colonel Sir Thomas) The Gate of India being an historical narrative, half-title, 5 maps, of which 2 folding, one with splits to folds and tape repairs, previous owner's ink signature, faint spotting at beginning and end, original cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to spine extremities, 1910; and another similar, 4to & 8vo (4).
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Polar.- Mawson (Sir Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard: being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 17 colour plates, plates and illustrations, 3 folding maps in pocket at end, previous owner's ink signature to early blank, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1915 § Fricker (Dr. Karl) The Antarctic Regions, second edition, frontispiece, folding colour map, plates and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, 1904; 8vo (3).
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first edition, 2 portrait lithograph frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 10 maps, of which 4 folding, 2 in pocket at end with foldines neatly strengthened at verso, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, slight bumping to corners, [Hosken p.189], 8vo, 1878.
Africa.- Pike (Nicolas) Sub-Tropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx, half-title, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1873 § Godman (Frederick du Cane) Natural History of the Azores or, Western Islands, map frontispiece, occasional tears, neat tape repairs, occasional pencil marginal notes, ex-library with partially erased ink-stamps, modern half-crushed morocco, 1870 § Keller (Professor Dr. C.) Madagascar, Mauritius and the other East-African Islands, first edition, illustrations, many full-page, folding colour map at end, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, sunned spine, bumping to spine extremities, 1901 § Sibree (James) A Naturalist in Madagascar, presentation blind-stamp to title, frontispiece, plates, folding map, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1915; and others on Mauritius and Madagascar, 8vo (7).
South America.- Savage-Landor (A. Henry) Across Unknown South America, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates, folding map, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Whymper (Edward) Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, large folding map in pocket at end, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, cracked hinges, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1892 § Conway (Sir Martin) Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego, frontispiece, plates, near contemporary half-morocco, rebacked retaining original backstrip, lightly sunned, a little rubbed, 1902; and others similar, 8vo (6)
America.- Slavery.- Murray (Henry A.) Lands of the Slave and the Free: or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada, 2 vol., first edition, 11 plates, one folding map, advertisements at end, ex-Ruthin Castle Library with ink-stamps to early blanks, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1855.
Africa.- Slavery.- Devereaux (W. Cape) A Cruise in the "Gorgon," or, Eighteen Months on H.M.S. "Gorgon," engaged in the suppression of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa, first edition, presentation inscription by author to Francis Renshaw dated 1869, folding map frontispiece, one or two corrections inserted by hand, modern half-calf, [Czech p.48], 8vo, 1869.
Middle East.- Rich (Claudius James) Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811, first edition, half-title, wood engraved frontispiece, 23 plates, of which 19 folding, illustrations, one folding map, partially unopened, original cloth, sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, backstrip beginning to split at joints but holding firm, 8vo, 1839.
Persia.- Lewis (Thomas) The History of the Parthian Empire, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Arsaces ..., first edition, title in red and black, 16pp. advertisements at end, faint water-staining at gutter, early ink ownership signature to blank, bookplates, new endpapers, modern calf partially retaining contemporary panelled calf boards, 8vo, for Samuel Illidge, 1728.
Mountaineering.- Mount Everest.- Howard-Bury (Lieut.-Col. C. K.) Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 3 folding maps, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1922 § The Fight for Everest: 1924, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, double-page panorama, folding map at end, scattered faint marginal spotting, original cloth, slight staining to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1925 § Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, Norman G. Dyhrenfurth's copy with his bookplate and signature, half-title, frontispiece, plates, maps, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, November 1934; and others on Everest, 8vo & 4to (40)
Polar.- Scott (Captain Robert) The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, photogravure frontispieces, plates, some colour, 5 maps, of which 2 folding, title in red and black, scattered spotting, bookplate, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1905; Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates,8 folding maps, spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Bowers (Henry) The South Pole Journals, number 11 of 200 copies, original morocco-backed cloth, Cambridge, South Polar Research Institute, 2012; and others Antarctic, including vol. 2 only of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's 'The Worst Journey in the World', 8vo (c.55)
NO RESERVE Central Asia.- Ker (David) On the Road to Khiva, first edition, 7 mounted albumen prints, lacking folding colour map, bound without half-title and advertisements, p.15 with small loss to head affecting head-line, p.255 becoming detached and with small loss to fore-edge just touching odd letter, spotting and staining, cracked hinges, later endpapers, contemporary half-calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1874.
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NO RESERVE Voyages.- [Fernyhough (Thomas)] Military Memoirs of Four Brothers (natives of Staffordshire) engaged in the service of their country, as well as in the New World and Africa ..., first edition, lithograph frontispiece and 7 plates, list of subscribers, scattered spotting, one or two faint marginal abrasion marks, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, bumping to corners, 8vo, 1829.⁂ Scarce in retail. The list of subscribers includes Robert Peel who at this time was serving as Home Secretary in the Duke of Wellington's government.
China.- Chien Lung (Emperor of China) Éloge de la ville de Moukden et de ses environs, translated by Father Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, first French edition, title with small woodcut floral ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, approbation f. at end, final f. blank, some spotting and light staining, lightly browned, printed bookplate of printers and booksellers Frères Perisse to front pastedown, contemporary mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with citron leather label, joints starting, but holding firm, spine with ends little worn and with small wormhole at foot, scuffmarks to lower cover, little rubbed, [Cordier, Sinica, 1790; Lust 179], 8vo, Paris, N.M. Tilliard, 1770.⁂ In praise of the town of Mukden, in Manchuria, which was the capital of China during the rule of the Manchu dynasty. Includes a short poem on tea.
Africa.- Campbell (John) Travels in South Africa ... being a narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of that Country, 2 vol. bound as 1, first edition, 12 hand-coloured aquatints, 1 folding engraved map, short split to foldline, scattered spotting and off-setting, ex-Woolwich Public Library with perforated stamp to title and final ff. and occasional ink-stamps, short marginal tear to final 3 ff., modern cloth, [Abbey Travel 328; Hosken p40], 8vo, 1822.
Persia.- Hakemi (Ali) Shahdad: Archaeological Excavations of a Bronze Age Center in Iran, plates and illustrations, 5 folding charts, bookplate, original boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, dust-jacket, three short tears, slight creasing to edges, Rome, 1997 § Afra (General Hassan) Under Five Shahs, first edition, half-title, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1964 § Frye (Richard N.) The History of Ancient Iran, half-title, bookplate, original cloth, dust-jacket, card slipcase, fractional bumping to corners, Munich, 1984; and others on Persia, v.s. (c.70)
Polar.- Shackleton (Ernest H.) South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, first edition, second impression, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, small expert tissue strengthening at gutter, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional faint marginal spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, slight chipping to spine foot, 8vo, December, 1919.
Polar.- Mikkelsen (Ejnar) Lost in the Arctic: being the story of the 'Alabama' expedition, 1909-1912, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Peary (R. E.) Nearest the Pole, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at end, cracked hinges, original buckram, backstrip split at upper joint but holding firm, chipping to corners and extremities, 1907 § The Arctic World: its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, spotting, new endpapers, original pictorial cloth, rebacked with red morocco, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners, n.d. § Abruzzi (H.R.H. the Duke of) Farther North than Nansen being the Voyage of the Polar Star, frontispiece, one folding plate, illustrations,. ex-Royal Institution with occasional ink- or blind-stamps, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1901 and others on the Arctic, including a second edition of Nansen's 'Farthest North', v.s. (39)
Polar.- Davis (John King) With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic 1911-1914, first edition, portrait frontispiece, loss to upper corner not affecting image, half-title, title in red and black, plates, one folding map at end, scattered faint spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, [1919].
Africa.- Park (Mungo) The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, first edition, presentation copy from the Editor, half-title, large folding double-page map, half-title and title with small loss at upper inside corner, both with tissue repairs, marginal tear to F1, occasional faint water-staining, 2pp. advertisements at end, modern calf, 4to, 1815.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, folding wood engraved frontispiece, one engraved portrait, plates and illustrations, 1 folding table, 2 folding maps of which one in pocket at end, publisher's advertisements dated 'November 1, 1857' at end, scattered spotting and staining, abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, cracked hinges, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.97; Hosken p.126], 8vo, 1857.
Mountaineering.- Himalayas.- Freshfield (Douglas W.) Round Kangchenjunga, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, bookplate, original cloth, backstrip beginning to split at upper joint but holding firm, bumping to corners and extremities, 1903 § Tilman (H. W.) The Ascent of Nanda Devi, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 2 maps (1 folding), modern crushed morocco-backed boards, Cambridge, 1937; and others, mountaineering in the Himalayas. v.s. (c.30)
NO RESERVE Egypt.- Marin (François Louis Claude) Histoire de Saladin, Sulthan d'Egypte et de Syrie, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 3 folding maps, vol. 1 lacking errata (2Q5) and vol. 2 lacking privilege ff. (2V8), tiny worming to gutter vol. 1, contemporary calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Atabey 768], 12mo, Paris, 1758.
Persia.- Southgate (Rev. Horatio) Narrative of a Tour through Armenia, Kurdistan, Persia and Mesopotamia, 2 vol., first American edition, half-titles, frontispiece to vol. 1 only, large folding map, bookplate, ex-Mount St. Joseph library with usual labels and occasional blind-stamps, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, slight bumping to extremities, 8vo, New York, 1840.
Polar.- Amedo of Savoy (Luigi) On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 14 photogravure plates, tissue-guards, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, 2 folding in pockets at end vol. 2, illustrations, vol. 1 with publisher's compliments blindstamp to half-title, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1903 § Scott (Captain Robert F.) Scott's Last Expedition, 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, previous owner's ink inscription dated 1914, scattered very faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1913; 8vo (4).
Asia.- Fergusson (W. N.) Adventure Sport and Travel on the Tibetan Steppes, first edition, half-title, photogravure frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, one folding map at end, original pictorial cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1911 § Adams (Andrew Leith) Wanderings of a Naturalist in India: the Western Himalayas and Cashmere, wood engraved frontispiece, occasional pencil notes, frontispiece and first few leaves becoming loose, modern half-morocco, Edinburgh, 1867 § Robson (Isabel Suart) Two Lady Missionaries in Tibet, frontispiece, illustrations, publisher's advertisements at end, label to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, n.d.; 8vo (3)
World.- Belzoni (Giovanni Battista) Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, second edition, 1 vol. only (of 2), lacking atlas vol., lithograph portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plate, 1 folding engraved map, scattered spotting, ex-Tate Library with occasional ink-stamps, old bookplate retained and attached to front pastedown, modern half crushed-morocco, 1821 § Baker (Sir Samuel W.) The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates (some misbound), 2 maps (1 folding), newspaper clipping on Lady Baker pasted to blank, new endpapers, original decorative cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, rubbed, 1867 § Ponting (Herbert G.) In Lotus-Land Japan, limited edition, plates, original pictorial cloth, slipcase, a little rubbed, Tokyo, 1985; and others, v.s (28)
Middle East.- Chardin (Sir John) Sir John Chardin's Travels in Persia, 2 vol. only (all published), first edition in English, translated by Edmund Lloyd, titles in red and black, 7 engraved folding plates, vol. 1 title with small hole in text, abrasion marks to title versos where bookplates removed, titles with previous owner's ink signatures scored out, vol. 1 front free endpaper detached and loosely inserted, abrasion marks to front pastedowns where labels removed, vol. 1 with publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary boards, crudely rebacked with cloth, rubbed and worn, 8vo, for the Author; and sold by J. Smith, 1720.
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, first edition, mounted albumen frontispiece, plates, illustrations, 6 maps, of which one in text and 4 folding, one with short tear at gutter and one with short split to foldlines, 8 pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.188; Czech p.152], 8vo, 1872.
Voyages.- Shipwrecks.- Bourchier (Capt. W.) Narrative of a Passage from Bombay to England, describing the author's Shipwreck in the Nautilus, first edition, lacking map frontispiece, occasional spotting, bookplate, contemporary boards, rebacked, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 12mo, 1834.⁂ Scarce in retail.
NO RESERVE Russia.- Siberia.- Cottrell (Charles Herbert) Recollections of Siberia, in the Years 1840 and 1841, first edition, folding map frontispiece, chipping to edges, short tear at gutter, errata slip bound-in, publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate, faint spotting to title, upper hinge cracked, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1842.
NO RESERVE South America.- Ecuador.- Roosevelt (André) Haven, one of 400 copies, this one of 300 with text in English, title printed in red and black, 44 tipped-in photographs by the author, pages damp-stained, some spotting and toning, full suede binding with cloth tie, lettered in green, Quito, Ecuador, Imprenta Gutenberg, folio, 1940.⁂Photographs by entrepreneur and filmmaker Cornelius Louis André Roosevelt, distantly related to Theodore Roosevelt, depicting the Ecuadorian landscape, sites, and people. The first state of this edition, this copy contains the prints on pages 19 and 21, the negatives of which were destroyed during printing, and were replaced in later states by prints on what became pages 97 and 99.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Freeman (R. Austin) Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman, first edition, presentation copy from author dated Jan. 1903, half-title, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour map at end, spotting, contemporary cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, Westminster, 1898.
Pacific.- Forrest (Capt. Thomas) A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan: including an account of Magindano, Sooloo, and other islands, first octavo and Dublin edition, engraved folding frontispiece map and 3 plates, of which 1 folding, map bound in upside down and with short tear without loss within image, occasional spotting or staining, some finger-marking, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine in compartments and with original red leather label (gilt rubbed away), corners repaired, some staining, rubbed, 8vo, Dublin, Printed for Messrs. Price, W. and H. Whitestone, Sleater, Potts, [and others], 1779.⁂ Including Magindano and Papua vocabularies at end.
Middle East.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Unexplored Syria, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, 25 plates, of which 11 folding, illustrations, 2 folding maps, maps and one plate with tears and old tape repairs verso, ex-Wolverhampton Public Library with usual labels and blind-stamps throughout, twentieth-century cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Penzer pp.85-88], 8vo, 1872.
Polar.- Jackson (Frederick G.) A Thousand Days in the Arctic, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 5 folding maps, one folding panorama, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1899 § Peary (Robert E.) The North Pole, first edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1910 § Elliott (Henry W.) An Arctic Province. Alaska and the Seal Islands, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered faint spotting, near contemporary crushed morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed, upper joint beginning to split but holding firm, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1886; 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Polar.- Barrow (John) A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions, first edition, folding engraved linen-backed map, 3 illustrations, scattered spotting, ex-Grant's Library with occasional ink-stamps, later endpapers, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners, [Hill 67], 8vo, 1818.
Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, later issue, folding wood engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved portrait, 22 wood engraved plates, illustrations, 1 folding table, 2 folding map, of which one in pocket at end, publisher's advertisements dated 'November 1, 1857' at end, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature to early blank, original cloth, small split and fraying to spine head, slight bumping to corners and spine foot, [Hosken p.125; Czech p.97], 1857; and two others on Livingstone, 8vo & 4to (3).
NO RESERVE Persia.- Forster (Rev. Charles) The Monuments of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, first edition, full-page illustrations, scattered faint spotting, bookplates, ex-library with label and occasional ink-stamps, cracked upper hinge, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1859.
India.- Crooke (W.) The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 4 vol., first edition, frontispiece in vol. 1 only, 30 plates, worming, mostly marginal but occasionally affecting text, several leaves laid down or with neat repairs, new endpapers, modern half-calf, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, Calcutta, 1896.
London.- Cary (John) Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London to Hampton Court, Ware, Bagshot..., first edition, two general engraved key maps, 1 folding (minor creasing and offsetting), with 80 engraved road strip maps on 40 plates, all with hand-colouring, some light offsetting occasional foxing, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spines splitting, small losses, corners and edges a little chipped, rubbed, tall 8vo, 1790; together with 'Lockie's Topography of London, giving a Concise Local Description of... Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock...', 8vo, 1810 (2)
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Persia.- [Sandys (George)] A Relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610 ... containing a description of the Turkish Empire ..., third edition, engraved title, engraved panorama, double-page map, tear to bottom edge with old repair verso, illustrations, of which two nudes appear to have been scored out by a previous owner, previous owner's ink signature to title head, one or two manuscript notes, G4 lacking bottom corner affecting text, I6 & R3 with tears and neat old repairs, later half-calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [STC 21729], small folio, for Ro. Allot, 1632.⁂ "The work was first published in 615 and reprinted many times during the 17th century. At that time it was the most elaborately illustrated English book on the Levant." (Blackmer)
Persia.- Ross (Sir Denison) The Persians, first edition, frontispiece, folding map at end, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, small tears and loss to edges, Oxford, 1931 § Floor (Willem) A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods 1500-1925, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to spine extremities, New York, 1999 § Bonakdarian (Mansour) Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911, bookplate, original cloth, dust-jacket, New York, 2006; and others similar, v.s. (c.85)
Africa.- Burchell (William J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, of which 5 folding, 3 with splits at folds and 2 with neat repairs, illustrations, large folding linen-backed map, short split to foldline, errata slip, vol. 2 contents ff. with tears at gutter not affecting text, neat repairs, bound without the 4pp. "Hints on Emigration" as often, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary half-calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, [Hosken p.32; Abbey Travel 327], 4to, 1822-24.
Middle East.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities, 2 vol., first edition, half-title, folding linen-backed map at end, ex-City of Westminster Libraries with withdrawn stamp to bookplate, occasional ink-stamps throughout, later half-crushed morocco, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Penzer pp.95-96], 1878; and others by the same, including another copy of 'The Gold-Mines ...' in the original cloth but lacking the map, and 2 vol. only (of 3) of the Tauchnitz edition of "a Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina," 8vo & 12mo (4).
Persia.- O'Donovan (Edmond) The Merv Oasis, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispiece to vol. 1 only, 10 plates of which 8 folding, 5 maps of which 3 folding, one in pocket at end and split into 2 pieces along foldline, broken hinges, ex-W.H.Smith library with usual labels, bookplate, original brown cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1882; and another copy of the same which lacks the large folding map, 8vo (4).
Russia.- Hawes (C .H.) In the Uttermost East, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1903 § Gerrare (Wirt) Greater Russia: The Continental Empire of the Old World, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, occasional marginal tears with neat old repairs, ex-American Geographical Society with occasional ink-stamps, lacking front free endpaper, cracked hinges, original cloth, bumping to corners and spine extremities, New York, 1909 § Marvin (Charles) The Russians at the Gates of Herat, map frontispiece, full-page illustrations, spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, n.d.; and others similar, 8vo & 12mo (8)
Asia.- Hedin (Sven) Central Asia and Tibet, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, titles in red and black, plates and illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, ex-Royal Institution with occasional ink-stamps, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1903 § Waddell (L. Austine) Lhasa and its Mysteries, half-title, frontispiece, plates, maps (1 folding), scattered faint spotting, previous owner's blind-stamp to title, original pictorial cloth, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1905 § Cobbold (Ralph P.) Innermost Asia, plates and illustrations, 4 maps, scattered spotting, modern morocco-backed boards, 1900; and others similar, 8vo (10)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Von Wissmann (Hermann) My Second Journey through Equatorial Africa: from the Congo to the Zambesi, first English edition, half-title, frontispiece, 31 plates, illustrations, one folding map, occasional short marginal tears, S2 with tear into text, O2 & O3 with toning at gutter, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.210], 8vo, 1891.
Europe.- Paton (A. A.) Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic, 2 vol., lithograph frontispieces, vignette titles, 8 lithographs, one folding map, one double-page plan, scattered spotting, previous owner's printed label to front pastedowns, original cloth, a little mottled, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey, Travel 44], 1849 § Wilde (W. R.) Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the Shores of the Mediterranean, 2 vol., first edition, 2 tinted lithograph frontispieces, 2 maps, 2 lithographs of skulls, illustrations, advertisements at beginning vol. 1, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, a little faded, small abrasion mark to vol. 2 upper cover, bumping to corners and extremities, Dublin & London, 1840; and another similar, 8vo (6)
NO RESERVE Africa.- Slavery.- Cooper (Joseph) The Lost Continent; or, Slavery and the Slave-Trade in Africa 1875, first edition, folding colour map, short split to foldline with neat tape repair verso, tiny chipping to fore-edge of first few ff., 1pp. advertisement at end, old booksellers ink-stamp to front pastedown and title, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.50], 8vo, 1875.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Younghusband (Ethel).- Kollman (Paul) The Victoria Nyanza, first edition, Ethel Younghusband's copy with her signature to front free endpaper, half-title, folding map, illustrations, small scrap pencil notes possibly in Younghusband's hand loosely inserted, scattered spotting, original cloth, lightly sunned, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.117], 8vo, 1899.⁂ Ethel Younghusband was the author of "Glimpses of East Africa & Zanzibar".
World.- Pasha (Rudolf C. Slatin) Fire and Sword in the Sudan, first edition, half-title, frontispiece (trimmed), plates, 2 folding colour maps, publisher's advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature and blind-stamp to half-title, scattered spotting, original pictorial cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1896 § Lawrence (T. E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, frontispiece, plates, folding maps, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to endpapers, original buckram, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1935; and others, travel, 8vo & small 8vo (5)
NO RESERVE Turkey.- Cox (Samuel S.) Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 2 chromolithographs, illustrations, many full-page, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, New York, 1887.⁂ Provenance: Bookplate and ink signature of R. M. Burrell.
NO RESERVE Russia.- Lesseps (Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy, baron de) Travels in Kamtschatka, During the Years 1787 and 1788, 2 vol., first edition in English, folding engraved map, vol. 2 S2 with short tear to upper margin just touching pagination, map with a few minor tears and repairs but no loss, occasional minor foxing but overall a very good clean copy, modern antique-style half calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, [Sabin 40209], 8vo, Printed for J. Johnson, 1790.
Africa.- A. J. (Mounteney-Jephson) Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator, first American edition, portrait frontispiece, 22 plates, illustrations, folding facsimile and folding map in pocket near end, both with one or two splits to foldlines, previous owner's ink name-stamp to dedication ff., modern calf, gilt, g.e., 8vo, 1890.
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