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Oliphant (Laurence) Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 folding maps (one large with outlines in red) and 20 chromolithographed or tinted lithographed plates, wood-engraved illustrations, without publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, large folding map foxed and torn (repaired), foxing to plates and facing leaves, contemporary ink calligraphic inscription to front free endpapers, contemporary half green calf, spines gilt with red & black labels, slight wear at head, rubbed, 8vo, Edinburgh & London, 1859.⁂ Oliphant served as Lord Elgin's private secretary on his mission to China and Japan from 1857-59, which saw the end of the Second Opium War with the signing of the Treaties of Tianjin in 1858.

O'Neill (Thomas) Sketches of African Scenery, from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza, first edition, 19 chromolithographed plates on 9 sheets, one double-page incorporating panorama, most after O'Neill, map and wood-engraved illustration in text, fine contemporary crimson morocco with elaborate borders in gilt, by W.Mansell, title in gilt to upper cover, inner gilt dentelles, ivory watered silk endpapers, g.e., slightly rubbed, 4to, 1878.⁂ A fine copy of one of the rarest of colour plate books solely on East Africa, probably bound for presentation. O'Neill was an Irish architect, part of the Church Missionary Society expedition to establish a permanent mission on the Ugandan shore of Victoria Nyanza. The venture was not a success: the expedition doctor died early on, the dhow to cross the lake sank, and O'Neill and a colleague were murdered.We can trace only 3 copies at auction, including this one in 2015 and another in the Winterton sale in 2003.

Pitts (Joseph) A Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mahometans..., fourth edition, woodcut head- & tail-pieces and initials, 2 folding engraved plates, large plate of Mecca a little soiled and torn across (repaired), 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary calf, a little worn, spine repaired, new endpapers, 12mo, for T.Longman...and R.Hett, 1738.⁂ Pitts was captured by Algerian pirates and sold into slavery in 1679. During his fifteen years of captivity he converted to Islam and accompanied his master to Cairo, Suez and Jeddah, including a pilgrimage to Mecca. This work, first published in Exeter in 1704, is the first account by an Englishman of the hajj.A later inserted manuscript note states that Sir Richard Burton carried a copy of this fourth edition with him to Mecca and that, according to Burton, the large plate of the Masjid al-Haram or Great Mosque of Mecca, is reversed.

Baines (Thomas) Explorations in South-West Africa..., first edition, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, errata leaf, 3 folding maps with routes in red, 8 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, all maps laid down, one with small stain, small stain to edge of frontispiece, original green cloth stamped in blind, slightly rubbed, recased, new endpapers, 8vo, 1864.

Poncet (Charles Jacques) A Voyage to Æthiopia, made in the Years 1698, 1699 and 1700, first edition in English, woodcut initial, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink inscription "No.7 Didric. Henricus a Buren" to foot of title with a few numbers to margins, extensive notes to rear endpapers and Macclesfield North Library shelf numbers to front pastedown, contemporary panelled sheep, traces of gilt to spine, rubbed, spine worn at ends, splits to joints, 12mo, for W. Lewis, 1709.⁂ Poncet, a French pharmacist living in Cairo, was the only European to visit Ethiopia during this period, having been summoned from Cairo by Emperor Iyasu I to cure both himself and his son of leprosy, which he did.

Porter (Rev. J.L.) Five Years in Damascus, 2 vol., first edition, 10 plates and plans, folding engraved map with partial hand-colouring, illustrations, map torn, frontispiece of vol.1 lightly water-stained, bookplate of W. Le Liszt, contemporary half green calf, red roan labels, rubbed, 8vo, 1855.

Ramsay (W.M.) The Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, errata slips, 5 maps & plans, 3 folding, one in pocket at end, 3 plates, vol.2 with advertisement slip at beginning and leaf at end, original cloth, a little soiled, ex-library copies with stamp/numbers to pastedowns and spines but a good set, Oxford, 1895 § Perrot (Georges) & Charles Chipiez. History of the Art in Sardinia, Judaea, Syria, and Asia Minor, 2 vol., first edition in English, half-titles, 2 folding plans, 6 plates, one folding, numerous illustrations, occasional foxing, original pictorial blue cloth, spines a little faded, London & New York, 1890; and 3 others on Turkey, large 8vo & small 4to (6)

Ray (John) A Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, with initial imprimatur leaf and 3pp. publishers' catalogue at end, very browned in parts, Q6-R1 stained causing hole to lower margin of Q7, staining and fraying also to last few leaves, engraved bookplate of Lord Lilford, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, new red morocco label, rubbed, corners worn, [Wing R385], 8vo, for S.Smith and B.Walford, 1693.⁂ The first part is Ray's revision of Nicholas Straphorst's translation of Leonard Rauwolff's 1575 Travels in the Levant, done at the request of Hans Sloane. The second part comprises selected extracts from the works of Belon, Vernon, Spon, Smith, Huntingdon, Greaves, Alpinus, Thevenot and others, whilst the final part is Ray's own catalogue of Levantine plants. The catalogue at end has heading in Latin and is unddated [Keynes 93].

Richardson (James) Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the years of 1845 and 1846, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait and 2 plates, folding engraved map, illustrations, without 2pp. advertisements at end of vol.2, foxing to plates, old ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary tan calf, gilt, spines gilt with red & green labels, 1848 § Morell (John Reynell) Algeria..., first edition, ?lacking half-title, with wood-engraved frontispiece and 10 plates, folding map, without 2pp. advertisements at end, some foxing, ex-library copy with labels, contemporary red morocco, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., 1854, both a little rubbed, 8vo (3)⁂ James Richardson was an ardent campaigner against slavery and set out to explore the area south of the Sahara to Timbuktu and Niger to discover more about the slave trade and how it would be possible to suppress it.

Rogers (Woodes) A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope ..., first edition, 5 folding engraved maps including Herman Moll's double hemisphere map of the world, woodcut initials and ornaments, with the final blank, ink inscription "A.Sinclair the gift of Earl Talbot June 30th 1787" to head of first page of text, title laid down, small marginal tear to Cc2, a little water-stained towards end, modern panelled calf, spine gilt with red and green morocco labels, [Hill 1479; Sabin 72753], 8vo, for A. Bell...and B. Lintot, 1712.⁂ Famous account of privateering in the South Seas. Rogers set out from Bristol with William Dampier as his pilot and travelled along the coasts of Chile and Peru seeking out Spanish prizes. He landed on the Juan Fernandez islands in order to shelter from a storm, and there rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

Ruschenberger (William S.W.) Narrative of a Voyage Round the World...including a Narrative of an Embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, 2 vol., first English edition, tinted lithographed frontispieces of Macao and Canton and 2 plates, some foxing, particularly to frontispieces and titles, text a little browned, modern half green calf, spines ruled in gilt with morocco labels, spines faded, 8vo, 1838.⁂ Including detailed information on Zanzibar and particularly Muscat, by a surgeon in the U.S. navy.

Saunders (Daniel) A Journal of the Travels and Sufferings..., first edition, very browned, some soiling and staining, leaves brittle and frayed at edges, E6 defective at lower outer corner with loss of one letter from catchword, old ink inscription to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, worn, spine repaired, [Sabin 77172], 12mo, Salem, Thomas C.Cushing, 1794.⁂ Rare account of an American mariner's shipwreck off the coast of Oman where, after a 1000km walk across the desert and assisted by nomads, he reached Muscat. The 15pp. Appendix contains one of the earliest American descriptions of Arabia.

Baines (Thomas) Explorations in South-West Africa..., first edition, lacking half-title but with chromolithographed frontispiece, errata leaf, 3 folding maps with routes in red, 8 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, 24pp. publishers' catalogue at end (final leaf torn with slight loss), Holbrook book-label, near contemporary half red morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., 1864 § Mohr (Edward) To the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, translated by N.d'Anvers, first English edition, half-title, wood-engraved portrait and 11 plates, 4 chromolithographed plates, folding colour map, some soiling and staining, plate of Victoria Falls torn and repaired, contemporary half calf, 1876, both a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

Schön (Rev. James Frederick) and Samuel Crowther. Journals of...the Expedition up the Niger, in 1841, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society, first edition, folding engraved map, without advertisement leaf at end, ink inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate of Thomas Mills Goodlake, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red roan label, rubbed, 8vo, 1842.⁂ First account of the expedition up the Niger in 1841-42 to promote trade, develop agriculture, spread the Christian word and prevent the slave trade. It was originally proposed by the anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Fowell Buxton and led by Capt. H.D.Trotter, but despite securing some anti-slavery treaties the expedition was not a success with a large proportion of the Europeans dying. Schön was a missionary and linguist from the Church Missionary Society who was accompanied by the Yoruba-born Crowther. An appendix at the end of the book details Crowther's early life from being captured as a slave to his rescue by the British, his education by the C.M.S. and his conversion to Christianity. He was later ordained, established the Niger Mission and became the first African bishop.

Semple (Robert) Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope..., second edition, with faint note in pencil to foot of title and transcription in ink to facing leaf, rather foxed and stained, bookplate of Charles Aken Fairbridge, contemporary half black calf, by R.Scott of Cape Town with his ticket, spine ruled in gilt with green morocco label, 1805 § Chase (John Centlivres) The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, plate and illustrations, folding lithographed map with 4 vignettes (torn affecting 2 vignettes and repaired), modern half green calf, spine gilt with morocco label, 1843; South Africa, v.s. (2)

Spratt (Lt. Thomas Abel Bremage) and Prof. Edward Forbes. Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 12 lithographed plates (mostly views, 2 double-page or folding), 15 plans (2 double-page) and folding engraved map with partial hand-colouring, wood-engraved illustrations, vol.1 with final blank, vol.2 with 2 advertisement leaves at end, light foxing to frontispiece of vol.2 and offset on title, modern half calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, [Blackmer 1589], 8vo, 1847.⁂ The first archaeological and geological survey and description of the area.

Spratt (Capt. Thomas Abel Bremage) Travels and Researches in Crete, 2 vol., first edition, 14 tinted lithographed plates after Spratt, mostly views, one folding, and 2 plates of inscriptions and one of coins, 2 folding hand-coloured engraved maps, numerous lithographed or wood-engraved illustrations on india paper and mounted in the text, some full-page, with advertisement leaf at beginning of vol.1, very occasional light foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut, slight wear to head of spines, [Blackmer 1590], 8vo, 1865.⁂ An excellent copy of this important survey of Crete, including an appendix comparing Cretan dialect to modern Greek by Viscount Strangford.

Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent..., 2 vol., first edition, lithographed portrait frontispieces, 10 maps (most colour) including 2 large folding, 32 wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations, occasional spotting, mostly to maps at end and endpapers, folding maps with short repaired tears at edge, near contemporary half brown morocco, by J.Larkins, spines gilt in compartments, t.e.g., very slightly rubbed at edges particularly head of spine of vol.2, 1878; The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 2 vol., "Cheaper Edition", portrait frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 5 folding colour maps, 2 large in pockets at end, handsome later red morocco with decorative gilt border, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., 1886; Coomassie and Magdala: the Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, first edition, half-title, 2 folding maps, plates and illustrations, advertisement leaf and 48pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original pictorial cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, 1874, 8vo (5)

Baker (Sir Samuel White) The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile..., 2 vol., first edition, engraved double portrait frontispiece, tinted lithograph frontispiece, 2 colour maps with routes in red, one folding (soiled at fore-edge),13 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, bookplate of Witley Court, contemporary deep pink calf, gilt, spines gilt with new black roan labels, spines faded, gouges to lower cover of vol.1, 1866; The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, engraved double portrait frontispiece, 2 colour maps with routes in red, one folding, 23 wood-engraved plates, foxing, P4 lacking small portion from upper margin (repaired), one plate reinforced at edges, contemporary half calf, spine faded, 1867; Ismailïa: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 colour maps with routes in red, one folding, 51 wood-engraved plates, without advertisements at end vol.1, a few marks, later red morocco elaborately gilt, g.e., 1874, first editions, the first two a little rubbed, 8vo (5)⁂ Explorations in Eastern and Central Africa.

Tachard (Guy) Voyage de Siam, des peres Jesuites, envoyez par le Roy aux Indes & a la Chine..., first edition, engraved title-vignette, head-pieces and initial, 15 engraved plates, 6 folding, and 5 folding maps & plans, title and text lightly browned, handsome modern mottled russia, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, pastepaper endpapers, 4to, Paris, A.Seneuze & D.Horthemels, 1686.⁂ An excellent copy with fine engraved plates of natives and reptiles of South Africa, and elephants, ginseng root, costumes and Royal Barges of Siam. Tachard accompanied the French envoy Chaumont on his mission to Siam in 1685.

Terry (Edward) A Voyage to East-India...Empire of the Great Mogol, first edition, engraved portrait, folding map and 3 folding plates, lightly browned, B3 defective at lower outer corner (paper flaw) with loss to a couple of letters of final line, map with two ink spots and short tear to inner edge repaired, modern bookplate of D.G.Mackenzie, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked and repaired by Zaehnsdorf (note to rear pastedown), new endpapers, [Wing T782], 8vo, by T.W. for J.Martin and J.Allestrye, 1655.⁂ Terry spent three years in India as chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe, ambassador to the Mughal emperor Jahangir.

Thackeray (William Makepeace).- [Kennedy (Robert Blair)] Squibs and other Papers, in Prose and Rhyme...By the Honorary Secretary of the Madras Opium Club, first (?only) edition, signed presentation copy from the author to W.M.Thackeray inscribed on slip pasted to front free endpaper and Thackeray's embossed stamp to head of title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece with caption in pencil beneath, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, preserved in later cloth folder and blue morocco slip-case with pull-off top, spine gilt, 8vo, Madras, Pharoah and Co., 1862-63.⁂ Rare. Library Hub records only 4 printed copies (BL, University of Liverpool, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford).The inscription reads, "To the Author of 'Vanity Fair' this humble volume is respectfully proffered by the Author. R.Kennedy - Engrs. Dr. Public Works Madras".

Thunberg (Charles Peter) Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, performed between the years 1770 and 1779, 4 vol., mixed edition, first English edition of vol.1, 2 & 4, third edition vol.3, half-title in vol.3 only, folding engraved frontispiece, 10 engraved plates, one folding but defective, advertisement leaf at end of vol.4, 2 small holes to B5 of vol.1 with loss of a few letters but not sense, D1 in vol.4 defective but with duplicate leaf bound in, marginal tear to M8, occasional spotting or browning, contemporary half mottled calf, green roan labels (some renewed), a little rubbed (mostly to edges), 8vo, [1795]-96-95.⁂ Account of the travels of the Swedish naturalist, with descriptions of South Africa but primarily concerning Japan and including a 30pp. vocabulary of Japanese.

Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de) A Voyage into the Levant..., 2 vol., first English edition, folding engraved map by Senex (not present in the French edition) and 152 engraved plates & maps, 6 folding, folding map and one or two folding plates laid down on linen, a little browned, vol.1 with title creased and map of Thermia stained in lower margin, vol.2 lightly water-stained towards end, later half tan morocco, by Zaehnsdorf, spines ruled in gilt with raised bands and green morocco labels, t.e.g., a little rubbed at edges and corners, light staining to vol.2, [Nissen ZBI 4156; cf.Atabey 959-961 & Blackmer 1318, other editions], 4to, D.Browne, A.Bell [etc.], 1718.⁂ Tournefort's botanical expedition to the Levant, covering Crete, Constantinople, Turkey, the Black Sea, Armenia, Persia, Georgia and Smyrna, published a year after the original French edition.

Tozer (Rev. Henry Fanshawe) Researches in the Highlands of Turkey, 2 vol., first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and 5 plates, plate of inscriptions, folding map, illustrations, without advertisement leaf at end of each volume, trimmed, contemporary blue calf prize binding, gilt, spines gilt, a little rubbed, spines slightly faded, [Blackmer 1669; Not in Atabey], 8vo, 1869.⁂ "A very interesting work describing what is now Northern and Western Greece, the southern parts of Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria, and including Mount Ida and the Troad". (Blackmer)

Walpole (Robert) Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, second edition, engraved aquatint title vignette, 4 engraved maps and 10 plates, some aquatint, 6 folding, slip with list of plates, preliminaries misbound, title spotted, 1818; Travels in various Countries of the East; being a continuation of Memoirs..., first edition, 2 engraved maps, 10 plates and vignette in text, some foxing at beginning and end, 1820, some light foxing or offsetting, modern half calf, spines gilt with russet morocco labels, uncut, 4to (2)

Wells (Prof. William) The Heroine of the White Nile: or, What a Woman Did and Dared...Miss Alexandrine Tinne, ?first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and plate, ornaments, 4pp. advertisements at end, contemporary pencil signature of J.Ernest Tinne to head of title, occasional spotting, modern half red morocco, spine gilt, New York, Carlton & Lanahan, [1871] § Solymos (B., B.E.Falkonberg) Desert Life, first edition, lithographed map, later half brown morocco, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 1880 § Bowles (Charles & Susan) A Nile Voyage, Red Cross Library Series, printed on crepe paper, Japanese-style colour illustrations, rather browned, original pictorial wrappers stitched with cord, browned and worn, torn and frayed, [c.1900], 8vo & small 4to (3)⁂ The first item concerns Alexandrine Tinné, an intrepid Dutch explorer and early photographer. While exploring the White Nile region various members of her party died, including her mother. She was later murdered in Libya in 1869/70 during her attempt to become the first woman to cross the Sahara. John Ernest Tinne, whose copy this was, was her half-brother from Liverpool who had visited her in Cairo in 1865 to try and persuade her to return home with him. She refused and he left with the bodies of her mother and a maid, and her ethnographical collection (now in the Liverpool World Museum). Rare, only one copy listed by Library Hub (British Library).

Baldwin (William Charles) African Hunting from the Natal to the Zambesi..., first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, folding map, 5 tinted lithographed plates, 10 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, foxing, with 2 additional 16pp. memorial booklets on the author by his brother bound in at end (stitched to stubs), and other cuttings mounted on blank leaves, later half green morocco, gilt, by Birdsall of Northampton, t.e.g., spine lightly rubbed and stained, 8vo, 1863.

Williamson (Capt. Thomas) Oriental Field Sports...Wild Sports of the East, 2 vol., first 4to edition, 40 hand-coloured etched plates by J.Clark after Williamson and Samuel Howitt, some with aquatint, without the 2 additional engraved pictorial titles, occcasional light foxing but plates generally clean and bright, bookplate of Christopher Barber Collinson of Beltoft, handsome near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, with elaborate border in gilt & blind and central gilt arms of the Earl of Coventry, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., a little rubbed, vol.1 with a few scuffs or gouges to covers, [cf.Abbey Travel 427, note], 4to, Edward Orme, 1807.⁂ A reissue, reduced in size from the large folio edition published in parts from 1805-07.

Winterbottom (Thomas) An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, 2 vol., first edition, folding engraved frontispiece, 5 plates (2 folding), and 2 folding engraved maps (one torn and repaired), frontispiece foxed, some light soiling or offsetting, staining to corners at beginnings and ends, old library stamp to title of vol.2 and verso of plates with shelf no. and contemporary circulating label to endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, uncut, rebacked in calf and corners repaired, cracks to upper joints, 8vo, 1803.⁂ Rare controversial account of the author's experiences as a surgeon to the Sierra Leone Company in West Africa. The first volume describes the geography and customs of the country, the second concerns the diseases which were rife, particularly dysentery and malaria. It also contains detailed information on venereal disease, childbirth, abortion, male and female circumcision etc. which led to the second volume being suppressed in some circles.

America.- James (Edwin) Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, 3 vol., first English edition, half-titles to vol.2 and 3, large folding engraved map with tape repairs to verso, folding engraved plate with geological profiles, 8 aquatint plates, 2 hand-coloured and another partially so, all with slight stain to lower corner, extra-illustrated by the insertion of 3 hand-coloured lithograph plates of Native Americans after Catlin from Prichard's Natural History of Man (1842) mounted on verso of each title, a few leaves carelessly opened, vol.1 U8 and X1 torn from partially adhering, with slight loss of text, uncut in modern half morocco over marbled boards, [Abbey, Travel 650; Howes J41; Sabin 35683], 8vo, 1823.⁂ Major work of Western Americana, originally named the Yellowstone Expedition, detailing the exploration of the trans-Mississippi West under Major Stephen Long, following the expeditions of Lewis & Clarke and Zebulon Pike. Edwin James was the botanist, geologist, and surgeon for the expedition and this work is based on his own records, the brief geological notes of Major Long, and the early journals of Thomas Say, the expedition's zoologist. This London edition follows the Philadelphia publication in 3 volumes of 1822-23, has some additional text, the plates re-engraved and two maps combined into one.Provenance: Bibliotheca Triniciavelli (embossed stamp in various places).

Australia.- Nightingale (Florence) Note on the Aboriginal Races of Australia, 8pp., first separate edition, sewn as issued, lightly soiled, a couple of small tears to edges, title detached, [Ferguson 13393], 8vo, Emily Faithfull, 1865.⁂ "A Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September, 1864", and previously printed in the 'Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science' 1864, pp. 552-558. Rare paper on the result of a study conducted by Nightingale into the mortality rates in "native schools" in Britain's colonies. She concludes that European customs have been detrimental to the health of aboriginal races and that they will die out unless action is taken.Library Hub records only one printed copy (BL) and we can trace only one copy at auction, in 2001.

Beke (Charles T.) An Essay on the Sources of the River Nile in the Mountains of the Moon, offprint from Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal No.XC vol.xlv, folding lithographed plate with 2 maps, small nick to fore-edge of a few leaves, bookplate of Gustavi von Hofsten, handsome contemporary dark green morocco, elaborately panelled in gilt with title to upper cover, spine gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, 1848; The Sources of the Nile: being a General Survey of the Basin of that River ..., first edition, half-title, 6 maps (one folding, one in text), folding cross-section, some spotting, folding map torn and repaired, modern half calf, spine gilt with red roan label, 1860, 8vo (2)⁂ Beke wrote several papers on the source of the Nile, the first being An Essay on the Nile and its Tributaries of 1847, and he was the first to determine with any accuracy the course of the River Abay or Blue Nile. The first mentioned work is rare, with only 4 copies listed by Library Hub.

India & China.- Daniell (Thomas and William) A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China, first edition, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates with wash on stiff card, all plates and text leaves mounted on stubs, occasional chipping to corners or edges, some light foxing and toning, loswer corner to plates and some text leaves with oval embossed stamp of the Library of the Peabody Institute, text leaves watermarked 1808, modern red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Bernard Quaritch, t.e.g., [Abbey, Travel 516; Tooley 173; Colas 797], 4to 1810.⁂ Handsome copy of this important pictorial account of Thomas and his nephew William's voyage via Madeira, the Cape of Good Hope, Java and then along the coast of China to India.⁂

India.- Griffin (Sir Lepel) Famous Monuments of Central India, first edition, 89 autotype plates, some captioned plate guards with small tear, hole or some marginal repairs, ex-library copy with various ink stamps to title verso, library morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, corners a little worn, oblong folio, [1886].⁂ "The present volume has been issued with the sole desire of placing, by the autotype process, on permanent record in public and private libraries, accurate representations of the more important architectural monuments of Central India, before time, neglect, or barbarous and greedy hands shall have destroyed the buildings which have so special an artistic value in relation to the ancient arts of building and sculpture in the east, and which possess a further interest as illustrating the history of the most highly cultured among the elder members of the Aryan family" (Preface). All the plates are after photographs by Lala Deen Dayal, including views of Sanchi Tope (27), Gwalior (20), Khajuraho (21).

India.- Ward (William) A View of the History, Literature, and Religion, of the Hindoos, 2 vol., second edition, half-title to vol.1 only, minor marginal worming at beginning of vol.1, some foxing, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 4to, Serampore, Printed at the Mission Press, 1815.⁂ Important work from one of the founders of the Serampore Mission, first published in 1811.Provenance: Free Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Office (bookplate); Frank and Jeannette Van Aalst (bookplate)

Middle East.- Thesiger (Wilfred) The Marsh Arabs, author's own copy signed by him on title and with his bookplate on front free endpaper, plates, typed note laid down on front free endpaper, original boards, dust-jacket, very small chip to tail of spine, 8vo, 1977.⁂ Typed note: "This book was given to me by Sir Wilfred Thesiger when I visited him at his residential care home, Orford House, Woodcote Park, Surrey. In return I gave him a first edition of Marsh Arabs, as at that point he no longer had first editions of his own books."

Blunt (Lady Anne) Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, edited by W.S.Blunt, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 12 wood-engraved plates, folding colour map, folding pedigree of Arabian thoroughbreds, without 32pp. advertisements at end of vol.2, some markings to text with many Arabic names neatly underlined in red ink, some foxing, mostly at beginnings and ends, contemporary half calf, red and green roan labels, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1879.⁂ Lady Anne Blunt, daughter of Ada Lovelace and granddaughter of Lord Byron, was the founder of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. She travelled throughout Arabia and the Middle East buying horses from Bedouin tribesmen to take back to England for breeding.

Mountaineering.- Minney (R.J.) Midst Himalayan Mists, first edition, map frontispiece and 23 photographic plates, light foxing, ink ownership stamp and inscription to title, oiginal cloth, gilt, pictorial onlay to upper cover, spine ends and corners a little bumped rubbed, [Yakushi M409], 8vo, Calcutta, 1920.⁂ Rare, we can trace only 2 copies at auction in the last 50 years. Minney (1895-1979) had a varied carrier as journalist, film producer and playwright and was a passionate traveller. The present volume recount a trek through the Himalayas on horseback.

World.- Ortelius (Abraham) Typus Orbis Terrarum, iconic world map derived from Gerard Mercator and Gastaldi's maps of 1569 and 1561 respectively, engraving with hand-colouring, bearing engraver's name 'Franciscus Hogenbergus' lower centre, an excellent impression of Shirley's first edition (of 3), the second state of two with the crack to the plate in the lower left corner visible, on laid paper with watermark of crossed arrows, platemark 340 x 500 mm (13 1/2 x 19 3/4 in), sheet 380 x 535 mm (15 x 21 in), Latin text verso, central vertical fold with small marginal split to lower section, two small printers' creases in the centre right and upper right margins, unframed, [Antwerp, circa 1574-84]Literature:Shirley 122 [Plate 1 (of 3); state 2 (of 2)]⁂ A particularly fine impression of one of the most important and widely disseminated maps of the second half of the 16th Century. "Who can consider human affairs to be great, when he comprehends the eternity and vastness of the entire world" [Cicero]

Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as grow wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 title with engraved vignette, 432 hand-coloured plates, dedication with small hole expertly repaired, list of subscribers, indexes with neat pencil insertions, scattered faint spotting, vol. 1 with occasional faint marginal water-staining, faint off-setting, new endpapers, strengthened hinges, contemporary speckled calf, recased with expert repairs to joints, a little restoration to corners, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Henrey 595], folio, printed for and sold by the author, 1777.

Bosman (Willem) A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts, first edition in English, folding engraved map by Herman Moll, 7 engraved plates, 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink signature to head of Preface, another later to front free endpaper, browning to a few leaves, small stain to (Bb)1 and facing leaf, contemporary panelled calf, tan label, rubbed, head of spine and corners worn, also some patches to tooling on boards, [Goldsmiths' 4153], 8vo, for James Knapton...and Dan.Midwinter, 1705.⁂ First published in Dutch in 1704, and written by the Chief Factor for the Dutch at the fortress of Sao Jorge da Mina. West Africa was an area of increasing commercial interest to Europeans; the plates depict views of the numerous fortresses on the coast of various European nations, and also of animals and birds of the area. This is one of two variants published in 1705, with the same pagination but slightly different imprints.

Botany.- Johnstone (William Grosart) & Alexander Croall. The Nature-Printed British Sea-Weeds, 4 vol., first edition, half-titles, additional vignette titles, 221 colour plates, 1 engraved plate, one with short tear neatly repaired, tissue-guards, vol. 2 with advertisement at beginning, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Nissen BBI 1002], 8vo, 1859-60.

Darwin (Charles) Observations on the Structure and Propagation of the genus Sagitta, first appearance in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, vol. XIII, pp.1-6 plus lithograph plate bound with other plates at end, some hand-coloured, original printed wrappers bound in, modern cloth with gilt-lettered morocco label to upper cover, 8vo, 1844.⁂ Rare at auction. First edition of Darwin's paper on marine arrow worms which he collected during his voyage on the Beagle and which he calls "one of the most anomalous animals in the world". The plate is based on Darwin's own drawings made during the voyage. He arrived back in England from his voyage in October 1836 and immediately began writing up the results of the expedition. Most of the scientific results were published in the Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle -including parts on birds, mammals, fish and reptiles - but Darwin ran out of funds before he could bring out the volume on invertebrates.

Boyle (Robert) The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (according to the Corpuscular Philosophy), second edition, variant without imprimatur to verso of title, presentation copy from the author to Robert Gould with ink inscription by Gould to front free endpaper (partly excised) and his initials to head of title, typographical ornaments, with engraved portrait of Boyle mounted on card loosely inserted, eighteenth-century panelled mottled calf, gilt, g.e., rubbed, covers slightly splayed, upper joint split, spine ends worn, later label, [Fulton 78-79; Wing B4015], 8vo, Oxford, by H.Hall, 1667.⁂ In this work Boyle argued that the defining properties of objects came not from within, but rather from the effects they produced upon the world around them. It includes a description of a viper in a vacuum which was the first recorded description of decompression sickness.

Computing.- Babbage (Charles) On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, first edition, large paper presentation copy, with ink inscription 'For the Rev. Ch. Currie from the author' to front free endpaper, engraved title with vignette portrait of Roger Bacon, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at end, embossed stamp of Unitarian College to dedication leaf, light foxing to endpapers, title and dedication, marginal damp-staining to title and rear endpapers, hinges cracked, but holding, original purple cloth, rebacked with original back-strip laid down, rubbed and faded, a few small areas of loss to spine, [Einaudi 224; Goldsmith 27346; Norman 92], 8vo, 1832.⁂ First edition of Babbage's most popular work, described as 'at once a hymn to the machine, an analysis of the development of machine-based production in the factory, and a discussion of social relations in industry' (Hyman, Charles Babbage, p. 103). With the publication, Babbage established himself as an expert in political economy, the work influencing both John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. A total of 3,000 copies of the first edition were issued in June 1832, selling out within two months.

Computing.- Leibnitz (Gottfried Wilhelm) Brevis descriptio Machinae Arithmeticae, in Miscellanea Berolinensia ad Incrementum Scientiarum, pp.318-320, Berlin, Haude & Spener, 1749; bound with Miscellanea Berolinensia...continuatio I, folding engraved frontispiece, many other folding engraved plates including that of Leibniz's machine, Berlin, J.C. Papenius, 1723, modern marbled wrappers, 4to⁂ The first was originally published in 1710 so this would appear to be a second edition. It includes several other works by Leibniz but it is the description of his famous calculating machine, the first stepped-drum calculator, and the first machine that could perform multiplication and division, which is of major importance in the history of computing. Also includes a remarkable treatise on the game Go, illustrated by a folding plate showing two Japanese men playing this game.

Bowdich (Thomas Edward) Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee..., first edition, lacking half-title, with 2 engraved maps (one folding), plan, folding engraved facsimile in English and Arabic, 7 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding), and 5pp. engraved music on 3 sheets, title with contemporary ink signature "J.M.Coad, Gloucester" to head and slightly creased (reinforced at inner edge), light offsetting from plates, bookseller's ticket of J.Needham of Gloucester, contemporary half black calf, spine gilt, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 279; Tooley 95], 4to, 1819.⁂ Account of a mission to the sophisticated kingdom of Ashantee in West Africa.

Harvey (William) Opera Omnia: a Collegio Medicorum, engraved portrait frontispiece and plate, faint water-staining to head A1-B3, previous owner's ink inscriptions to title, new endpapers, 19th century half-calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, [Wellcome p.220], 4to, 1766.⁂ The most celebrated and accurate edition of the collected works in Latin, and the second overall. The first being published in Leyden in 1737.Provenance: Ink ownership inscription of Dr. Thomas Dale, 1787 and Dr. William Langmore, 1812. Dr. Thomas Dale was originally from Charleston, South Carolina, where his father was a physician and justice of the peace. Thomas moved to England and entered St. Paul's School in 1757. He was apprenticed to a London apothecary in 1763, for 8 years and gained his freedom from the Society of Apothecaries in 1771. He then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, gaining his degree in 1775, subsequently practicing in the City of London.

Hawking (Stephen) A Brief History of Time. From the Big Bang to Black Holes, first edition, with author's thumbprint and ink inscription "For John Simpson, this unique signature has been printed by Stephen Hawking" on title, illustrations, original boards, dust-jacket, some light creasing to head and foot, but near-fine generally, 8vo, Bantam Press, 1988.

Medicine.- Glisson (Francis) & others. A Treatise of the Rickets: being a Diseas common to Children, translated by Philip Armin, first edition in English, title with typographic border, 3pp. advertisements at end of preliminaries, woodcut illustrations, typographic ornaments, contemporary ink signatures to front free endpaper, lightly browned, tear to Aa2 but no loss, contemporary sheep (?over new boards), rubbed, a few wormholes to lower cover, rebacked in morocco, corners repaired, new endpapers, [Wellcome III, 126; Wing G870], small 8vo, by Peter Cole, 1651.⁂ The first substantial account of infantile rickets, originally published as De rachitide in 1650, and one of the earliest collaborative works of medical research. Glisson also identified infantile scurvy as being a separate condition. Rare in commerce.

Mining & Metallurgy.- Agricola (Georgius) De re metallica libri XII, second edition in Latin, title with large printer's woodcut device, repeated on colophon leaf at end, with blank alpha 6, woodcut pictorial initials, 2 woodcut plates (one folding) and numerous woodcut illustrations in text by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch after Blasius Weffring, many full-page, title with seventeenth-century ink inscription and slightly soiled, very occasional soiling or browning, front free endpaper defective (repaired), engraved Johnstone bookplate, a very good, clean copy with sharp impressions of the woodcuts, contemporary sheep, red morocco label, rubbed and stained with a few worn patches repaired, spine ends and corners repaired, small gouge to fore-edge of a few leaves, [Adams A350; Wellcome I.68; cf.PMM 79, first edition], folio, Basle, Hier.Frobenius & Nic.Episcopius, 1561. ⁂ Containing magnificent woodcuts showing mining, prospecting, glass-manufacture, mechanical engineering etc.. Originally published in 1556, the work influenced natural historians and geologists down to Werner in the eighteenth century."The first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy and one of the first technological books of modern times." PMM

Optics.- Rubens (Peter Paul).- Aguilon (François d') Opticorum libri sex Philosophis iuxta ac Mathematicis utiles, first edition, half-title, fine engraved title and 6 head-pieces by Theodor Galle after Peter Paul Rubens, numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text, woodcut decorative initials and tail-pieces, final f. with large woodcut printer's device recto otherwise blank, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned throughout, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked in a modern light brown morocco in compartments, gilt and with a black morocco label, corners repaired, covers rubbed and scuffed, [Norman 25; NLM/Krivatsy 92; Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, 1990, pp. 101-104], folio, Antwerp, widow and sons of J. Moretus in the house of Plantin, 1613.⁂ As well as providing a compendium of classical and modern works on optics, he describes his original theory of binocular vision (later disproved) and for the first time his invention of the horopter. This is one of only seven books known to have been illustrated by Rubens, a friend of the publisher Balthasar Moretus. D'Aguilon's colour theory and his prescriptions for the mixing of colours are known to have been used in Rubens's paintings.

Scientific controversy.- Maupertuis (Pierre Louis Moreau de) Koenig (Samuel) Euler (Leonhard) and F.M.A. de Voltaire. Maupertuisiana, first edition, 17 parts in 1, general title with engraved vignette, small ink stamp on title, final leaf laid down, occasional foxing, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, 8vo, Hamburg etc., 1753.⁂ First collected edition of 16 pamphlets (printed in Leyden, London, and Berlin) relating to the controversy between Maupertuis and Samuel König about the validity of the principle of least action and particularly to whom it should be credited (Leibniz being the other candidate). Maupertuis found much support in Euler, and the Berlin Academy adjudicated in his favour, but Voltaire's savage invective greatly distressed him.

Adams (John) Sketches taken during Ten Voyages to Africa, between the Years 1786 and 1800...between Cape Palmas and the River Congo, first edition, 2 lithographed maps, one folding and torn at inner edge, stain to fore-margin of a few leaves, original boards, uncut, rubbed and marked, rebacked, new label, printed by James Smith of Liverpool, 1822.⁂ Scarce account of slave-trading in West Africa.

Bruce (James) Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved title-vignettes and coat-of-arms at head of dedication, 3 folding engraved maps, 58 engraved plates (most of natural history but including 3 folding engraved battle plans, each with explanatory leaf of text), 4 letterpress leaves of Ethiopian dialects in vol.1, with final blank in vol.2 but lacking list of plates at end of vol.5, some light spotting, 3Z in vol.2 lacking lower outer corner not affecting text, 2H2 in vol.4 with short tear to outer margin, a few plates shaved at foot affecting imprint, bookplate removed, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines ruled in gilt with red and green morocco labels, rubbed, spines a little faded and very slightly worn at head, splits to one or two upper joints, [Blackmer 221; Nissen ZBI 671], 4to, Edinburgh, J.Ruthven, for G.G.J. & J.Robinson, 1790.⁂ A good set of Bruce's account of his search for the source of the Nile. Much of the work concerns Egypt and Abyssinia, the latter being where he found the source of the Blue Nile, although this was disputed upon his return to Britain.

X-Rays.- Roentgen (Conrad Wilhelm) Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen, 3 parts in Annalen der Physik und Chemie, vol.64, no.1, pp.1-37, modern cloth with gilt-lettered morocco label to upper cover, Leipzig, 1898.⁂ The first collected edition of Roentgen's highly important 3 papers on the discovery of X-rays, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.

Burton (Robert) The Anatomy of Melancholy... by Democritus Junior, first folio edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and head-pieces, 3L4 lower margin restored, touching catchword, sig. 4D (final 4ff.) with repairs and restoration to foot with some repaired tears running into text, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners repaired, [Wellcome I, 1161; STC 4160], folio, John Lichfield and James Shory, for Henry Cripps, 1624.⁂ The second overall edition of "one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there... it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time." - PMM.

Defoe (Daniel) The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner... Written by Himself, third edition, issue with phoenix tail-piece and "Soci-" catchword on p.3, engraved frontispiece, lacking final 2 advertisement ff., 1719; The Farther Adventures ... Being the Second and Last Part, first edition, first variant with verso of A4 blank and p.295 correctly numbered, engraved folding map, 11pp. advertisements at end, 1719; Serious Reflections during the Life and Surprising Adventures ... with his vision of the Angelick World, first edition, engraved folding plan of the island, 2pp. advertisements at end, 1720, woodcut title vignettes, initials, head- and tail-pieces, the odd light marking or small patch of staining but a very good, clean set generally, bookplate of Hugh Perkins to pastedowns, polished calf, gilt, by F. Bedford for B. M. Pickering, spines gilt in compartments, vol. 3 with light fading to head, for W. Taylor, 8vo (3)⁂ A complete and handsome set of Defoe's classic tale of shipwreck and survival, often hailed as the first novel in the English language.

Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver, 4 parts in 2 vol., third edition, first issue, 5 engraved maps and 5 plates, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, a few ff. in vol. 1 closely shaved at head, occasional light browning, bookplate of James Plunkett, Earl of Fingall to front pastedowns, contemporary calf, gilt, sympathetically rebacked, spines gilt, covers rubbed, [Teerink-Scouten 294], 12mo, 1727 [but 1728].⁂ A charming early edition, printed before the "second edition" but published after it, early in 1728, though dated 1727. Teerink states that later copies carried the portrait in third state but early copies are found without it (as here).