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Click here to subscribeBomber Command Airfields of Yorkshire by Peter Jacobs Softback Book 2017 First Edition published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd early signs of age. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Aaargh! Ghosts Mystery Superstition By Bruce Barrymore Halfpenny Softback Book 1988 First Edition published by L'Aquila Publishing (Maple Leaf Group) early signs of age. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Six Weeks The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War by J Lewis-Stempel Softback Book 2011 Firs Paperback edition published by Orion Books Ltd early signs of age. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Air Enthusiast volume Six number 1 Jan 1974 Hardback Book First Edition published by Fine Scroll Ltd early signs of age. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
We Gave Our Today Burma 1941 1945 by W Fowler Hardback Book 2009 First Edition published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson some ageing. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Encyclopaedia of Elite Forces in The Second World War by M E Haskew Hardback Book 2007 First Edition published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd some ageing. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
The Flying Elephants History of no 27 Squadron 1915-1969 by Chaz Bowyer hardback Book 1972 First Edition published by Macdonald and Co (Publishers) Ltd some ageing. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Swordfish- The Story of 415 Squadron by Lt Col G Van Boeschoten hardback book First Edition 1982 Signed by a Member of 415 Squadron (unidentified Signature) (See images) published by G Van Boeschoten some ageing around the edges. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
WW2 RAF Print Collection of 2 Signed Aviation Prints. First Print WW2 Multi Signed Stephen Teasdale 16x12 Print Titled Evasive Action. 9 Signatures. Limited Edition 45/100. This superb drawing depicts a lone RAF Lancaster bomber during another dangerous night-time mission deep over Germany desperately trying to evade the searchlights and deadly flak. Each print has been signed by the artist along with the following RAF Bomber Command Aircrew veterans; Wing Commander Richard Pinkham DFC, flew with No: 77 and 150 Squadrons, Warrant Officer Sandy Sanders, flew with No: 9 Squadron on Tirpitz raid, Warrant Officer Ken Johnson, flew with No: 9 and 61 Squadrons, Warrant Officer Jim McGilliuray, flew with No: 115 Squadron, Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC, flew with No: 9, 158 and 466 Squadrons, Squadron Leader Pat Carden DFC, AE, flew with No: 582 Squadron, Warrant Officer Geoff Gilbert DFM, flew with No: 61 Squadron, Warrant Officer Jack Linaker, flew with No: 9 Squadron, Flight Engineer Trevor Peacock, flew with No: 51 and 467 Squadrons, Europe and also with No: 1 I. A. F., Indian Air Force, and 205 Squadrons, Far East. Second Print is WW2 Print approx. 12 x20 Here Comes Another One Skipper Signed by the Artist Keith Aspinall and G Rushton WW2 Lancaster Navigator. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Antoni Tàpies (1923 Barcelona - 2012 ebenda) (F)Blatt Nr. 10, aus 'Suite' (1980), Farbaquatintaradierung auf Bütten, 63,5 cm x 89,5 cm Blattmaß, signiert, e.a. bezeichnet, aus einer Auflage von 90 Exemplaren, montiert, Literatur: Wvz. Galfetti/Homs 776Antoni Tàpies (1923 Barcelona - 2012 ibid) (F)Sheet No. 10 from 'Suite', aquatint etching in colours on wove, 1980, 63.5 cm x 89.5 cm sheet size, signed, inscribed e.a., from an edition of 90, mounted Literature: Cat. rais. Galfetti/Homs 776 Antoni Tàpies was born on 13th December 1923 in Barcelona and was one of the most important artists, as well as the most important representatives of the Informel movement, in Spain. The painter, graphic artist and sculptor showed an interest in art from an early age, but only devoted himself fully to painting after dropping out of his law studies in 1946. The self-taught artist first followed the works of Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. Later he increasingly oriented himself towards the surrealist works of Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst. In 1948 he co-founded the group ''Dau al Set''. After his Paris fellowship in 1950, Tàpies began to explore the structures of different materials and to limit his painterly means of expression to the essential. In 1959 he began to produce prints, especially lithographs. Tàpies enjoyed international success and was exhibited at documenta II, III, IV and VI in Kassel (1959-1977), among many other shows, as well as several times at the Venice Biennale. The artist's preoccupation with his native Catalonia has always been an important thematic source in Tàpies' work. In Suite Catalana, published in 1972 with Gustavo Gili from Barcelona, he uses the shapes and colours of the Catalan flag to create a powerful visual representation of emotion and protest.
Victor Vasarely. (1906 Pécs - 1997 Paris). Sauzon aus: Octal. 1972. Farblithographie auf chamoisfarbenem Vélin. 31,2 x 25 cm (48 x 41,5 cm). Signiert. - Eine kaum merkliche Knickspur im Rand. Insgesamt in wirklich gutem Zustand. Prachtvoller Druck mit frischen Farben, dem vollen Rand und an einer Seite mit dem Schöpfrand. Exemplar vor der ersten Auflage. - Aus dem Portfolio "Octal". - Hg. v. Bruckmann Verlag, München 1972. Colour lithograph on buff vélin. Signed. - A barely noticeable crease in margin. Overall in really good condition. Excellent impression with fresh colours, the full margin and on one side with the scooped margin. - Copy before the first edition. - From the portfolio "octal" published by Bruckmann, Munich 1972.
Africa.- Alexander (Capt. J. E.) An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa, 2 vol. bound as 1, first edition, 7 plates, illustrations, 1 folding map, publisher's advertisements at end, spotting to plates, occasional faint off-setting, modern half-morocco, gilt, small stain to upper cover, 8vo, 1838.
Africa.- Archaeology.- Krencker (Daniel) Deutsche Aksum-Expedition: Ältere Denkmäler Nordabessiniens, vol. 2 only, illustrations, folding map at end, previous owner's small ink name-stamp to title, faint marginal staining to first few leaves, bookplate, modern cloth, Berlin, 1913 § Wenig (Steffen) Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann, 3 vol., illustrations, bookplate, original pictorial boards, Aichwald, 2006-2017 § Munro-Hay (Stuart) Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity, first edition, illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, Edinburgh, 1991; v.s. (5)
Africa.- Ogilby (John) Africa: being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid ..., first edition, half-title reading "English Atlas, Tome the First', engraved allegorical frontispiece, title in red and black, large folding double-page map of Africa, 42 engraved double-page maps, plans and plates, 10 engraved plates, of which 4 double-image plates trimmed and bound-in separately, illustrations, engraved initials and head-pieces, C4 & D3 with tiny rust-holes affecting margin and odd letter, G1 with tear to upper corner affecting printed sidenotes, neat old repair, N1 with marginal tear and neat old repair, signature 'R' complete but misbound, W6 verso with small ink-stain, early ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, retaining original red morocco spine label, expert restoration to corners, [Wing O163; Hosken p.152; Shapero, Africana, 277], folio, by Tho. Johnson, for the Author, 1670.⁂ An excellent copy with crisp, bright maps and plates. This copy includes the 'Emperor of Morocco' plate which is frequently missing. The first edition of this important work on Africa. It was the most comprehensive work on Africa in English published in the seventeenth century, and is largely based on the work of Offert Dapper. Provenance: Inscribed "Sir Edward Henry Lee his book, given him by E. Lindsay" to front pastedown, in a juvenile hand. Sir Edward Henry Lee (1663-1716) succeeded his Father as the 5th Baronet in 1667. In 1674, at the age of 10 he was made 1st Earl of Lichfield (second creation) on his engagement to Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of King Charles II. This inscription is presumably dated sometime between 1670 and 1674.
Africa.- Park (Mungo) Travels in the Interior of Africa, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding, 1 hand-coloured in outline, short tears to folds with neat tape repairs to verso, 2pp. sheet music, list of subscribers, 2 marginal pencil notes, occasional marginal water-staining, scattered spotting, bookplate, [Hosken p.154], 1799; The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805, first edition, folding engraved map frontispiece, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, K3 with tear to top edge running into text, repaired at margin, X4 with small marginal loss, 1815, uniformly bound in modern half-calf, retaining old black morocco spine labels, 4to, (2).
Africa.- Pinto (Major Serpa) How I Crossed Africa, 2 vol., first edition, 24 plates, illustrations, 10 maps, of which 2 folding and 1 in pocket at end, folding facsimiles, advertisements at end vol. 1, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.131; Hosken p.160], 8vo, 1881.
Africa.- Playfair (Lieut.-Colonel R. L.) Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis, first edition, frontispiece, 28 plates, illustrations, 1 folding colour maps, publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, occasional very faint water-staining, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1877.
Africa.- River Nile.- Lyons (Captain H. G.) The Physiography of the River Nile and its Basin, first edition, half-title, plates and maps, many folding, bookplates, near contemporary half-morocco, Cairo, 1906 § Hayes (Arthur J.) The Source of the Blue Nile, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at the end, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1905 § Cheesman (Major R. E.) Lake Tana & the Blue Nile, first edition, folding frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at end, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, mottling to fore-edges, dust-jacket, tears, loss to spine extremities, rubbed, 1936; 8vo (3)⁂ The first with the bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919), an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist who was one of the founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union.
Africa.- Schweinfurth (Dr. Georg) The Heart of Africa, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 2 maps, of which 1 folding, errata bound into vol. 1, vol. 2 partially unopened, advertisements at end vol. 2, scattered faint spotting, bookplates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.144], 8vo, 1873.⁂ "A true classic of African exploration, this title relates the travels of Schweinfurth down the White Nile into the virtually unknown country of southern Sudan and beyond." (Czech).
Africa.- Selous (Frederick Courteney) Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 21 plates, 1 with short marginal tear, illustrations, folding colour map, advertisements at end, cracked hinges, bookplate, small abrasion marks to front pastedown where label removed, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech pp.145-146; Hosken p.180], 8vo, 1893.⁂ "In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880s and 1890s, Selous describes numerous adventures with lion and leopards, particularly near the Zambezi, Zweswi, and Manyami rivers ..." (Czech)
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 25 plates, illustrations, 2 maps, of which 1 linen-backed folding map in pocket at end, scattered spotting, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, recased, neat spine repairs, slight bumping to corners, [Czech p.151; Hosken p.188], 8vo, 1863.
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, 32 wood-engraved plates, 10 maps, of which 4 folding and 2 in pockets at end, small splits to folds, illustrations, advertisements at end, bookplate, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, recased, expert restoration to spine extremities, [Hosken p.189], 8vo, 1878.
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 5 folding maps, 2 in pockets at end, bookplates, neat repairs to hinges, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Hosken p.189], 8vo, 1885.
Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, plates, illustrations, some full-page, 4 maps, of which 3 folding, 2 with short marginal tears, folding table at end vol. 2, bookplates to front free endpaper verso, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, else an excellent copy, 1890; Coomassie and Magdala: the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, second edition, portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, 1 with short marginal tear and tissue repair, advertisements at end, occasional marginal finger-soiling, scattered faint spotting, recased in modern cloth retaining original backstrip, 1874, [Hosken p.189], 8vo (3).
Africa.- Stanley (Dorothy, editor) The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B., first edition, presentation copy with Lady Stanley's card pasted in, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, tissue-guards, bookplate, faint marginal spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, gilt, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 8vo, 1909.⁂ Lady Stanley's card is inscribed to "Dr. Graham Little, F. R. C. P.' and dated December, 1909. Sir Ernest Graham-Little (1867-1950) was a dermatologist and the final MP for the London University seat.
Africa.- Stern (Rev. Henry A.) Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia, first edition, frontispiece, 7 plates, tissue-guards, illustrations, 1 folding map, occasional spotting, faint off-setting, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, gilt, ex-library with gilt stamp to spine foot, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1862.
Africa.- Sudan.- Casati (Maj. Gaetano) Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps in pockets at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown vol. 1, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Hosken p.43], 8vo, 1891.
Africa.- Azaïs (R. P.) & R. Chambard. Cinq Années de Recherches Archéologiques en Éthiopie, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, plates and illustrations, folding map, plates loose as issued, bookplate, text vol. in original printed paper wrappers, slight creasing to top edge and spine extremities, plate vol. original cloth-backed portfolio, old tape repair inside upper cover, lightly rubbed, 4to, Paris, 1931.
Africa.- Tanzania.- Craster (Capt. J.E.E.) Pemba, the Spice Island of Zanzibar, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, occasional marginal pencil annotations, previous owner's blind-stamp to front free endpaper, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, discreet ink-stamp to title, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.52], 8vo, 1913.
Africa.- Wellby (Capt. M. S.) 'Twixt Sirdar & Menelik: An Account of a Years Expedition from Zeila to Cairo ..., first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1901 § Bateman (Charles Somerville Latrobe) The First Ascent of the Kasaï, first edition, colour frontispiece, 6 etchings, 4 colour plates, 2 maps, 1 folding, bookplate, modern morocco-backed boards, 1889 § Kingsley (Mary H.) Travels in West Africa, second thousand, frontispiece, 2 lithographs, full-page illustrations, short marginal tear to one or two leaves, scattered spotting, advertisements at end, bookplate, original cloth, split to upper joint but holding firm, bumping to corners and extremities, 1897 § Thomson (Joseph) Through Masai Land, frontispiece, illustrations, folding map, scattered spotting, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1887 § Jonveaux (Émilw) Deux Ans dans L'Afrique Orientale, frontispiece, illustrations, 2 folding maps, scattered spotting, bookplate, original decorative cloth, g.e., bumping to corners and extremities, Tours, 1880 § Dornan (S. S.) Pygmies & Bushmen of the Kalahari, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, fractional bumping to spine extremities, 1925 § Hodson (Arnold W.) Trekking the Great Thirst, second edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, 4 folding maps, bookplate, original cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, 1913 § Randall-Maciver (David) & Anthony Wilkin. Libyan Notes, first edition, chromolithograph frontispiece, plates, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1901; 8vo & 4to (8)
Africa.- Weule (Dr. Karl) Native Life in East Africa, first English edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, publisher's advertisements at end, new endpapers, bookplate, ex-library with ink-stamps to title verso, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip, sunned spine, bumping to spine extremities, 1909 § Eliot (Sir Charles) The East Africa Protectorate, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, one torn in half at fold and loosely inserted, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signatures, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1905 § Routledge (W. Scoresby & Katherine) With a Prehistoric People: The Akikuyu of British East Africa, first edition, I. & F.W. Hosken's copy with their bookplate, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, bookplates, original pictorial cloth, lightly sunned spine and top edge, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Hosken p.172], 1910 § Hobley (C. W.) Ethnology of A-Kamba and other East African Tribes first edition, plates, folding map at end, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, Cambridge, 1910; and vol. 1 only (of 2) of McLeod's 'Travels in Eastern Africa', 8vo (5)⁂ Provenance: The third mentioned with the bookplate of the bibliographers I. & F. W. Hosken.
Africa.- Zambia .- Smith (Rev. Edwin W.) & Captain Andrew Murray Dale. The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispieces, illustrations, folding map, bookplate, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpapers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1920 § Butt (Rev. G. E.) My Travels in North West Rhodesia, frontispiece, plates, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription dated 1912, scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, n.d. § Gouldesbury (Cullen) & Hubert Sheane. The Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink inscription dated 1911, occasional marginal pencil notes by Melland, bookplate, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to extremities, 1911, 8vo (4).⁂ Provenance: The third has the ownership inscription of Frank Melland, Kansanshi, 1911. Melland, previously Assistant Magistrate, Mpika, N.-E.R., is thanked for his help both in the author's preface, and elsewhere.
Africa.- Zimbabwe.- Hall (R. N.) Great Zimbabwe Mashonaland, Rhodesia, plates and plans, 7 folding, occasional very faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1905; The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia (Monomotapæ Imperium), plates, maps, 1 large folding in pocket at end, publisher's advertisements at end, spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1902; Pre-Historic Rhodesia, plates, 5 maps, 4 folding, list of subscribers, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1909, first editions, half-titles, frontispieces, bookplate, § Peters (Dr. Carl) The Eldorado of the Ancients, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps, blind-stamp of 'Munger Africana Library' to title, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to extremities, 1902 § Randall-Maciver (David) Mediæval Rhodesia, first edition, frontispiece, half-title, plates, bookplate, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1906 § Caton-Thompson (G.) The Zimbabwe Culture, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations, one or two folding, light staining to fore-edge not affecting text, 4 related newspaper and magazine articles pasted in, bookplate, original cloth, light mottling, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Oxford, 1931, 8vo & 4to (6)
Africa.- Zimbabwe & Zambesi.- Bent (J. Theodore) The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland, first edition, folding map frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4 maps, 2 folding, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.16], 1892 § Blennerhassett (Rose) & Lucy Sleeman. Adventures in Mashonaland, first edition, map frontispiece, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.20], 1894 § Bertrand (Alfred) Au Pays des Ba-Rotsi Haut-Zambèze, first edition, portrait frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations, 2 folding maps, previous owner's ink inscription, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, small split to spine head, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, 1898 § Rankin (Daniel J.) The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland, first edition, publisher's compliments blind-stamp to title, frontispiece, plates, folding map, publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate, ex-Royal Empire Society with label and small stamp to title, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.165], 1893 § Harding (Col. Colin) In Remotest Barotseland, first edition, portrait frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations, folding map at end, one or two neat marginal notes, scattered faint spotting, bookplate, near contemporary calf-backed boards, 1905; 8vo & 4to (5)
India.- Stein (Sir Marc Aurel) On Alexander's Track to the Indus, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 2 folding, 2 folding maps at end, occasional faint marginal spotting, bookplate, modern half-crushed morocco, gilt, 1929; On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks, first edition, colour frontispiece, plates, 8 folding, 14 colour, folding map at end, bookplate, modern half-crushed morocco, gilt, 1933, 8vo (2).
Middle East.- Lawrence (T. E.) & C. Leonard Woolley. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1914. The Wilderness of Zin (Archæological Report.), first edition, plates and illustrations, maps and plans, faint spotting to endpapers, faint abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, bookplate, original second issue cloth-backed boards, fractional bumping to corners and spine extremities, 4to, [1915].
Middle East.- Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 4 folding maps, bookplate, modern half-morocco, gilt, 1935 § Thomas (Bertram) Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia, first edition, second impression, with a Foreword by T. E. Lawrence, frontispiece, plates, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, price-clipped dust-jacket, slight chipping to spine head, neat tape repair to verso, 1932, 8vo (2).
Middle East.- Philby (Harry St. John Bridger) The Empty Quarter, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 3 folding maps, 2 at end, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1933; Sheba's Daughters, first edition, frontispiece, folding map at end, split to folds, tape repairs to verso, scattered spotting, bookplate, original cloth, light mottling, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1929 § Dutton (E. A. T.) Lillibullero or The Golden Road, bookplate, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Zanzibar, 1947; 8vo (3).
Middle East.- Stark (Freya) The Southern Gates of Arabia, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, plates, folding map at end, bookplate, modern half-morocco, 1936 § Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates, several folding, illustrations, large folding colour map at end, bookplate, advertisement for Hogarth's 'The Life of Charles M. Doughty' loosely inserted, modern half-morocco, 1928; 8vo (2).
Turkey.- Ramsay (Sir W. M.) & Gertrude L. Bell. The Thousand and One Churches, first edition, half-title, plates and plans, some folding, illustrations, ex-library with label, ink-stamps to title and title-verso and occasional blind-stamps, bookplate, later buckram, small faint abrasion mark to spine foot where label removed, 1909 § Bell (Gertrude L.) Amurath to Amurath, second edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour map at end, marginal tear not affecting image with neat tape repair, previous owner's ink signatures to front free endpaper, bookplate, original decorative cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1924, 8vo (2)⁂ The first is relatively scarce with only one copy currently available on vialibri.
World.- Art & Antiquities.- Haddon (Alfred C.) Evolution in Art: as Illustrated by the Life-Histories of Designs, first edition, plates and illustrations, occasional faint marginal staining, spotting to first and last few leaves, bookplate, original cloth, light mottling, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1895 § Sayce (R. U.) Primitive Arts and Crafts, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, occasional marginal pencil notes, bookplate, previous owner's pencil signature, original cloth, slight bumping to extremities, Cambridge, 1933 § Reade (Julian, editor) The Indian Ocean in Antiquity, first edition, plates and illustrations, bookplate, original cloth, dust-jacket, fractional creasing to top edge, 1996; 8vo & 4to (3).⁂ Provenance: The second with the pencil signature of Bryan Hugh St.John O'Neil (1905-54), Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments for England and Wales, to the front free endpaper.
World.- Bleek (W. H. I.) & L. C. Lloyd. Specimens of Bushman Folklore, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, ex-library with label and occasional ink-stamps, lacking front free endpaper, bookplate, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1911 § Galton (Francis) Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1861, first edition, 10 maps, scattered spotting, bookplate, blind-stamp to front free endpaper, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Cambridge, 1862 § Haddon (Alfred C.) Head-Hunters Black, White, and Brown, first edition, compliments slip loosely inserted, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 6 maps, publisher's advertisements at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, bumping to corners and extremities, 1901; 8vo (3).
Africa.- Barrow (John) An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., first edition, double-page folding map with hand-coloured routes, folding aquatint, 8 folding maps and charts, one or two with faint staining to upper corners, faint off-setting, spotting to first few leaves vol. 1, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Hosken p.11], 4to, 1801-04.
World.- Rennell (James) The Geographical System of Herodotus, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 11 engraved maps, 10 folding, occasional faint off-setting, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt arms of the Earls of Camden to boards, gilt, lightly sunned spine, 1800 § Smith (William) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, 2 vol., half-title, illustrations, spotting to first few leaves, bookplates, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, 1856; 4to & 8vo (3)⁂ Provenance: The first was sold by Bloomsbury in 2010 as part of, "The Library of the 5th Marquis Camden Will Trust".
NO RESERVE World.- The Annual Register... of the year 1758, third edition, ink ownership inscription to title, a few ff. working loose, contemporary calf, red morocco label to spine, spine ends and corners worn, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1762; and 6 others of the same, mixed vol., late 1700s, 8vo (7); sold not subject to return.⁂ This vol. 1758 contains a gruelling first-hand account of imprisonment in the Black Hole of Calcutta, Bengal (pp.278-285), as well as content on North America, including capture by Natives Americans. The other volumes and their content are as follows: 1760 (1773); 1763 (1796, Canada and the Siege of Quebec); 1768 (1768); 1771 (1772, China, North and South America); 1784-5 (1800, India, the United States, Russia and Captain Cook); 1799 (1813, India and treaty with Russia)
Africa.- Barth (Henry) Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, 4 vol. only (of 5), first edition, lacking vol. 5, half-title to vol. 4 only, tinted lithograph frontispieces, 47 tinted lithograph plates by Bernatz after Barth, 13 folding engraved maps, illustrations, vol. 1 & 4 with publisher's advertisements at end, scattered spotting, bookplates to front free endpapers, printed pastedowns, vol. 3 with strengthened hinges, original cloth, vol. 2 & 4 rebacked retaining original backstrips, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Abbey, Travel 274], 8vo, 1857-58.⁂ Barth's five-year expedition with the British explorer James Richardson covered large parts of North and sub-Saharan Africa. He also produced an account of his travels in German, but this work is not a direct translation.
World.- Postlethwayt (Malachi) The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 2 vol., first edition in English, titles in red and black with engraved vignettes, engraved allegorical frontispiece (offset onto title), 24 engraved folding maps, including North America, some browning and offsetting, occasional minor surface dirt, contemporary calf, spines split with upper covers detached from both but present, worn, printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1751-1755
NO RESERVE Voyages.- Cruise of Her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882 (The), 2 vol., first edition, half-title, plates, maps and illustrations, vol. 1 bookplate to front endpaper, vol. 1 occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, vol. 1 old repairs to upper joint and spine head, spine ends, joints and corners rubbed, 8vo, 1886.⁂ Compiled from the private journals, letters and note-books of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, with additions by John N. Dalton. Covering: China; Shanghai; Hong Kong; Singapore; West Indies; Bermuda; South America; South Africa; Australia; Japan and the Middle East.
Africa.- Belzoni (Giovanni Battista) Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries ... in Egypt and Nubia, 1 vol. only (of 2, without Atlas), second edition, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 1 engraved plate, 1 large engraved map, scattered spotting, most to first and last few leaves, bookplates, new endpapers, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, rubbed, 4to, 1821.
Voyages.- Byron (John) The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition Round the World) Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, from the Year 1740, till their Arrival in England, 1746... also with a Description of the Loss of the Wager Man of War, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece (a little foxed and offset), bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden to front pastedown, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Sabin 9730], 8vo, S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1768.⁂ "Admiral Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling accounts in the language, and supplied his illustrious descendant with many particulars for the shipwreck in Don Juan" - Sabin.
Voyages.- Irving (Washington) A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, 4 vol., first English edition, half-titles, 2 engraved folding maps, armorial bookplate of Sir William Eden to front pastedowns, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments with red morocco labels, spines a little rubbed but an attractive set overall, 8vo, John Murray, 1828.
Voyages.- Sparks (Jared) Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, first English edition, lacking half-title, armorial bookplate of Robert Eden to front pastedown, contemporary aubergine calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, a little rubbed, 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1828.⁂ Ledyard accompanied Cook on his third voyage and would later travel to Siberia before dying in Cairo in 1789.
Africa.- Burton (Richard F.) First Footsteps in East Africa; or, an Exploration of Harar, first edition, second issue without Appendix 4, half-title, 4 lithographs printed in colour, 2 maps, without advertisements to endpapers, endpapers spotted, 19th century half calf, repairs to spine ends, rubbed, [Penzer p.60], 8vo, 1856.
NO RESERVE Africa.- Sudan.- Sartorius (Ernestine) Three Months in the Soudan, first edition, title loose, half-title and list of illustrations coming loose, 8 photogravure plates only (of 11; lacking frontispiece and 2 others) text block broken in several places, stitching and contents loose, uniform browning throughout, some foxing, worm holes throughout, affecting text and plates but with no major loss, contemporary half cloth, spine coming loose, heavily worn, 1885; and 3 others including a framed coloured engraving, 8vo (4)⁂ Primarily focused upon life in the port city of Suakin, where her husband was Commandant, Sartorius' account covers events in the build-up to the disastrous Battle of El-Teb, where British led Egyptian forces were massacred by the Mahdist Islamic forces pushing north towards Egypt from south Sudan (a war which was to continue for another 5 years).
America.- Robertson (William) The History of America, 2 vol., first edition, 4 folding engraved maps by Thomas Kitchin, folding plate, scattered spotting, some offsetting, armorial bookplate of Sir John Eden to front pastedowns, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spines gilt in compartments, spines rubbed, some chipping and loss to spine labels, cracking to joints, extremities a little rubbed, [Sabin 71973], 4to, W. Strahan, 1777.
Asia.- Jenanyan (H. S.) Harutune or Lights and Shadows in the Orient, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, patterned endpapers, original pictorial cloth, fractional bumping to corners and extremities, Toronto, 1898 § Dasxuranci (Movses) The History of Caucasian Albanians, translated by C. J. F. Dowsett, original cloth, dust-jacket, minor creasing to edges, Oxford, 1961 § Hopkins (J. Castell) The Sword of Islam or Suffering Armenia, frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, evenly browned, original pictorial cloth, gilt, fractional bumping to spine extremities, Brantford & Toronto, 1896; 8vo (3).
Africa.- Browne (W. G.) Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, first edition, without frontispiece, 2 folding linen-backed maps, 1 plan, marginal tears to 2A1-2A3 with expert repairs, occasional marginal pencil notes, bookplate, contemporary calf by Robert Seton of Edinburgh, with his label to front pastedown, 'Northern Light Board' stamped in gilt to spine head, fractional rubbing, [Shapero, Africana 67; Blackmer 219], 4to, 1799.⁂ 'This important work contains the earliest information in English about Darfur (Sudan) ... He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first Englishman to explore the temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of Siwa.' (Blackmer)
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