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Lot 4179
Miscellaneous - Lovecraft (H.P.), The Haunter of the Dark And Other Tales of Horror, first edition thus, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1966, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Andersen (Hans) & James (M.R., translator), Forty Stories, first edition thus, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1930, terracotta cloth only, 8vo, (1); Children's Books, Folkard (Charles, illustrator), The Arabian Nights, London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1929, colour plates, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); various others; Locomotive & Train Working, four various volumes, (4); etc., [16]
Lot 4180
Miscellaneous - Lyell (Sir Charles, Bart., F.R.S.) & Duncan (P. Martin, F.R.S., editor), The Student's Elements of Geology, fourth edition, London: John Murray, 1885, illustrated, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Thornton (W. Pugin) & Welby (Ellen, illustrator), Heads And What They Tell Us: Phrenological Recollections, first edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892, contemporary blue cloth gilt covers, 8vo, (1); Lord (The Rev. John Holt), Squire Brooke/A Memorial of Edward Brooke, of Fieldhouse, Near Huddersfield/With Extracts from his Diary and Correspondence, first edition, London: 1872, green cloth, contemporary bookseller's ticket: R.H. Burdekin of Islington, 8vo, (1); Plymouth Brethren, Letters of J.N.D., volume III only, second edition, London: 1915, cloth, 8vo, (1); Masonic Bible; Tract Magazine, 1874-1875; BCP; Wesley's hymns; other devotionals; natural history; chess; Anglo-Saxon chronicles, etc., [13]
Lot 4182
Miscellaneous - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1906, colour plates and adverts, red roan gilt over cloth, large 8vo, (1); Froude (James Anthony), Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London 1834-1881, two-volume set, second edition, London: Longmans, 1885, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (2); The Works of Alfred Tennyson, thirteen volumes, London: Kegan, 1883, contemporary limp leather bindings, all edges gilt, small 8vo, (13); Bennett (W), The History of Burnley, 1400-1850, Parts I-III (of IV), Burnley: 1946-1948, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (3); Local Interest, Kerry's Smalley, Derby: 1905, red cloth, 8vo, (1); The Diary of Samuel Pepys [...], London: 1891, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Blair (Robert), The Grave: A Poem, with Photogravures after William Blake London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [n.d.], pictorial blue cloth, 8vo, (1); other literature; first editions, including Rudyard Kipling, J.M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw; natural history; etc
Lot 4183
Miscellaneous - Travel, Addison (Joseph), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c., In the Years 1701, 1702, 1703., London: J. and R. Tonson, 1767, illustrated with in-text illustrations of ancient coins, contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, later 19th century crest bookplate: A.E. Morgan, small 8vo, (1); The Continental Tourist [...], Illustrated with [...] Engravings on Steel, of the Most Interesting European Scenery, first edition, London: Black and Armstrong, [n.d., 1850], contemporary cloth (spine chipped), 8vo, (1); Italy, from the Alps to Mount Etna [...], With One Hundred and Sixty-four Illustrations, London: William Glaisher, 1903, pictorial cloth as issued, 4to, (1); Natural History, Darwin (Charles), On the Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs [...], with Portrait, Maps, Plates, and Numerous Illustrations, Londno: Ward, Lock & Co., [n.d., c. 1900], blue cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); Cowper (William), Poems, two-volume set, Chiswick: Printed by C. and C. Whittingham, 1824, contemporary blind and gilt-tooled tan calf, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary pink bookseller's ticket: H. Sotheran, Bookseller, York, 12mo, (2), [6]
Lot 4184
Miscellaneous - Travel, Jephson (John Mounteney, F.S.A.), Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany, first and only edition, London: Lovell Reeve, 1859, fold-out map, lacking stereograph frontispiece, not accompanied by the set of stereographs which were separately sold, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Beaton (Cecil), Chinese Album, first edition, London: Batsford, Winter, 1945-46, b/w illustrations, pictorial dustjacket over yellow cloth, 8vo, &, Near East, second printing, first edition, London: Summer, 1943, pictorial dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (2); The Beauties of the Bosphorus, one separate volume composed of pages 79-164, illustrated with 40 full-page steel engravings and 1 map, contemporary quarter-morocco gilt (rubbed, chipped), 4to, (1); Hacker (Louis M.), The Shaping of the American Tradition, two-volume set, first trade edition, Columbia University Press: 1947, cloth, 8vo, (2); Boughton (George H., A.R.A.), Sketching Rambles in Holland, London: 1885, illustrated, pictorial red cloth, 4to, (1); Howitt (William), Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, two-volume set, second edition, London: 1847, contemporary printed boards, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (2); Seymour's Humorous Sketches, London: [1878], pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); The Bystander, January to June 1916, in two contemporary cloth binders, folio, (2); Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first public edition, London: 1935, cloth, 4to, (1); another copy, third impression, London: August, 1935, cloth, 4to, (1); Stoddard's Portfolio of Photographs, Chicago: The Werner Company, [n.d.], b/w plates, cloth, oblong 4to, (1); Wallace's Photographic Gems of Art, Springfield: 1896, cloth, oblong 4to, (1); Romany/Gypsy; British East Africa; Ethiopia; Dickens; etc., [32]
![Miscellaneous - Travel, Riesbeck (Baron de), Voyage en Allemagne [...], three-volume set, first French edition, Paris: Chez B](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f6ed392-12bf-406c-95f7-ad27009c49c3/5b3511bb-a64a-4ffc-a38a-ad2f0084806c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4185
Miscellaneous - Travel, Riesbeck (Baron de), Voyage en Allemagne [...], three-volume set, first French edition, Paris: Chez Buisson, 1788, illustrated by two portrait frontispieces only, three fold-out maps (2 of which are printed on blue paper), mid-19th century English blue half-calf over marbled boards (worn, some covers loose), marbled edges, Junior United Service Club bookplates to each pastedown, 8vo, (3); Ireland, Morgan ([Sydney], Lady), O'Donnel: A National Tale, volumes I & III only, first edition, London: 1814, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (2); [Shakespeare (William)], Bell's Edition, five odd volumes, London: 1785-1786, some engravings, contemporary mottled calf gilt (disbound), marbled endpapers, 12mo, (5); Guerber (H.A.), Myths of the Norsemen [...], London: 1909, contemporary three-quarter green roan gilt, 8vo, (1); Mémoires du Général Bon de Marbot, three-volume set, third edition, Paris: 1891, contemporary book labels and ownership stamps: James Walker, Christ Church, 8vo, (3); Vanity Fair, 1878, (2); Oman's Roman Statesmen, 1911, (1); The Quarterly Review, six various volumes, 1818-1896, various half-leather bindings and sizes, 8vo, (6), [24]
Lot 4186
Miscellaneous - Walton (Izaak) & Cotton (Charles), The Complete Angler, London: Henry Washbourne, 1842, full-page engraved plates and in-text illustrations, rebacked boards, armorial ownership stamp to front free endpaper, 8vo, (1); Dibdin (The Reverend Thomas Thomas), A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in Scotland, volume II only: Scotland, but complete in itself, first edition, London: 1838, engravings, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, refreshed labels, 8vo, (1); Fairstar (Mrs, editor), Memoirs of a London Doll, with Engravings, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, b/w and hand-tinted full-page plates, contemporary red cloth, 12mo, (1); Knickerbocker (Diedrich), [pseud. Irving (Washington)], A History of New-York, Glasgow: 1821, green quarter-calf over boards, 8vo, (1); Zola (Émile), Doctor Pascal, first English edition, London: 1893, pictorial cloth as issued, 8vo, (1); Heath's Book of Beauty, 1843, full-page plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Marryat (Captain, R.N.), Olla Podrida, London: George Routledge, [n.d.], green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, 12mo, (1); Cooper (Fenimore), The Bravo, A Venetian Story, Paris: 1836, half-calf over marbled boards by J. Carss & Co., Glasgow, their ticket, armorial bookplate: William Blair Esq:r of Blair, 8vo, (1); two copies of Lever's Our Mess, mixed leather bindings, (2); Le Français, volumes I & II, in-text illustrations; etc., [approx. 20]
Lot 4187
Modern First Editions - Beerbohm (Max) & Sheringham (George, illustrator), The Happy Hypocrite, printed on Japanese vellum: numbered limited edition 13/50, first edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914 [i.e. not issued until 1918], pictorial title-page, colour frontispiece, further full-page plates, pictorial boards as issued, small 4to, (1); Yeats (W.B.), On the Boiler, first edition, Dublin: The Cuala Press, [n.d., 1939], original pictorial wrappers as issued, 4to, (1); Maurice Baring; Bernard Shaw; John Galsworthy; etc., [6]
Lot 4193
Presentation Copy from the Author - Maugham (W. Somerset), A Writer's Notebook, signed presentation inscription from the author dated 25 January 1956, half-title verso further signed by the author, and numbered 4 from a limited edition of 1000 copies, first edition, London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1949, title printed in red and black, contemporary vellum over cloth only (slipcase absent), top-edge gilt, the others uncut, pastedown Sellotape-applied with an autograph manuscript letter from the author on his headed notepaper: Villa Mauresque, Cap Ferrat, and dated 16 March, 8vo, (1); further 20th century literature, some modern first editions: Gibbons (Stella), Cold Comfort Farm, ?second impression, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., [?September] 1942, h/b, pictorial d/j, 8vo, (1); Eliot (T.S.), three titles: The Rock [...], first edition, second impression, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1934, papered boards only, 8vo, [&], Sweeney Agonistes [...], first edition, London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1932, h/b, d/j, 8vo, [&], Little Gidding, first edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1942, stitched pink wrappers as issued, 8vo, (3); Bronowski (J.), A Man Without A Mask: William Blake 1757-1827, first edition, [London]: Secker & Warburg, 1943, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Siegfried Sassoon; Stephen Spender; A.E. Housman; Walter de la Mare, including a later autographed copy, (3); C. Day Lewis; George Bernard Shaw; etc., [17]
![Science - Hooke ([Robert], Fellow of the Royal Society), Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Ma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f6ed392-12bf-406c-95f7-ad27009c49c3/5ac38c78-e559-4db7-8062-ad2e00f098d9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4195
Science - Hooke ([Robert], Fellow of the Royal Society), Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses/With Observations and Inquiries thereupon, first edition, second issue, the first edition sheets re-issued with a new title and its conjugate (containing the Royal Society's order for the book to be printed), London: Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1667, a respectable but defective and disbound copy, textually complete but for the lacking imprimatur leaf and the incomplete tables, title-page printed in black and with the engraved Royal Society coat of arms, woodcut initials and headpieces, pp: [xl], 246, illustrated with 22 engraved plates only (of 38, the iconic Plate XXXIV of a flea also lacking), most double-page or folding, generally a well-margined copy with some chips (mostly prelims), title-page toned and scuffed, the margins with occasional thumbed soiling, top fore corner with gradually fading small stain until [N 4], some brown spots here and there, the plates conforming - and with one or two old repairs in places, late 19th century brown morocco over marbled papered boards only, conforming marbled endpapers, perished fragmentary spine, [Wing H2621; Keynes 7b] folio, [1]"[T]he most ingenious book that I ever red in my life", according to the diarist Samuel Pepys. Hooke's most famous work, the first full record of microscopic observations made with Hooke's compound microscope, some of the plates likely engraved by Sir Christopher Wren.The first issue of the first edition was published in 1665 by John Martyn and James Allestry for the Royal Society. The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed Allestry's premises and this second issue was published either with the names Martyn and Allestry or with Martyn's name alone. Although the text sheets are those of the 1665 first edition, the plates in this copy were evidently reprinted.
![Science & the Enlightenment - Rumford ([Sir] Benjamin, Count of, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.), Philosophical Papers: Being a Colle](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f6ed392-12bf-406c-95f7-ad27009c49c3/2639e117-443c-4cbe-badb-ad2e00f09a44/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4197
Science & the Enlightenment - Rumford ([Sir] Benjamin, Count of, LL.D., F.R.S., &c. &c.), Philosophical Papers: Being a Collection of Memoirs, Dissertations, and Experimental Investigations, Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy and Mechanics/Together with Letters to Several Persons on Subjects Connected with Science and Useful Improvement, volume I (of all published), first edition, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802, lacking portrait frontispiece, pp: xxiv, 390, [2] (advert/binders' direction), 13 diagrammatic plates (12 of which fold, XI full-page and with a trimmed fore margin), one in-text illustration, further in-text mathematics and tables, early 20th century red morocco over cloth, 8vo, [1] Provenance: 1) Malton Subscription Library; 2) and then Nottingham Reference Library, institutional binding and stamps in places.
Lot 4199
Straus (Lenore Thomas), Stone Dust: The Autobiography of a Stone Carving, limited edition signed by the author and numbered 163/600, first edition thus, Accokeek, Maryland: Published by Sun-Stone, The Private Press of Lenore Thomas, 1969, ATF Baskerville Roman type printed on Kilmory Text paper by a Chandler ad Price press, illustrated with coloured line cuts and tipped in b/w plates, pictorial dustjacket over blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, 4to, [1]
![Travel and Exploration - Egypt, Lane (Edward William), An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians [...], f](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8f6ed392-12bf-406c-95f7-ad27009c49c3/b8c4ebba-06ca-454a-9d54-ad2e00f0a106/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4205
Travel and Exploration - Egypt, Lane (Edward William), An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians [...], first edition thus, two-volume set, London: Charles Knight and Co., 1836-1837, b/w plates and in-text illustrations, some music, contemporary cloth, 8vo, 19th century church and seminary stamps, 8vo, (2); Prescott (William H.), History of the Conquest of Mexico, three-volume set, second edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1844, titles printed in red and black, portrait frontispieces, maps and plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (3); The Continental Tourist; Belgium & Nassau, London: Parry & Co., [n.d., c. 1845], illustrated with 32 steel engravings and a fold-out map, contemporary green cloth (chipped spine), 8vo, (1); Wood (Charles W.), In the Valley of the Rhone, London: 1899, green cloth gilt, 8vo, (1), [7]
Lot 4206
Travel and Exploration - Shackleton (Sir Ernest, C.V.O.), The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, first popular edition, second impression, London: William Heinemann, 1910, illustrated, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Club Alpin Français, Manuel d'Alpinisme [...] Partie Scientifique [&] Technique, Chambéry: Libraire Dardel, 1934, b/w plates, contemporary green cloth over printed paper boards, 8vo, (2); Greene (Raymond), Moments of Being [...], first edition, London: 1974, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Jack Olsen; further Shackleton and Antarctica; mountaineering, the Himalayas and Everest; etc., [15]
Lot 4207
Travel and Languages- Wallace (Alfred Russel), A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes [...], first edition, London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889, b/w plates, contemporary Mineria Library series cloth, 8vo, (1); Forbes (Duncan), A Smaller Hindustani and English Dictioary: Printed Entirely in the Roman Character [...], London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, [n.d., 187?], contemporary cloth, blind-lettered upper-cover, red-speckled edges, square 8vo, (1); Arnold (Sir Edwin), India Revisited, first edition, thus, London: Trübner & Co., illustrated, green cloth, 8vo, (1); Provincial Ayrshire Imprint, Jeanie Gilchrist, Pioneer Missionary to the Women of Central Africa, first and only edition, Kilmarnock: John Richie, [n.d., 1927], green cloth, 8vo, (1); Dyer's Rome, second edition, London: 1883, cloth, 8vo, (1); Jónsson's Primer of Modern Icelandic, first edition, Oxford: 1927, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); Biblioteca Elemental Para La Instruccion de la Juventud Española, Paris: Didot, 1846, contemporary Spanish calf, 12mo, (1); etc., [10]
Lot 1372
Selection of Old Paperback Books includes Penguin titles - The Gun by C S Forester, 1959, and by Gerald Durrell -The Overloaded Ark 1962, My Family and other animals 1960, The Bafut Eagles 1961 and a first edition - The Overloaded Ark, 1961. Also TheNaked jape by Jimmy Carr & Lucy Greeves 2007.
Lot 635
World War II multi signed hardback book titled Beware of the Dog at War special signed edition includes 10 veterans' signature and the author on the inside first and title page such as W/O H Bailey, F/Lt J Bain, W/O G Brunton, F/Lt E Clarke, W/CMR J Flint, W/O D Irving, W/O R Mather, F/O H Olerenshaw, SGT F Smith and F/LT H Trimmell. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 750
C. H. Gibbs-Smith. The Air League, Aircraft Recognition Manual. A WW2 hardback book, showing signs of age. First Edition Book. Signed by the author 241 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 756
Ralph Barker. Ship Busters. A WW2 hardback book in great condition. New First Edition. Signed by the author. 272 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 760
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny. To Shatter the Sky. A WW2 hardback book in good condition. Dedicated. First Edition. Signed and dated by author. 233 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 761
Peter B. Gunn. Naught Escapes Us. WW2 hardback First edition book in good condition. Dedicated. Signed by the author and Andy Flint a former pilot of 206 squadron. 240pgs. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 766
John Golley. The Day of The Typhoon. A WW2 hardback first edition book in good condition. Signed and dated by the author. 216 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 768
Anthony Haig-Thomas. Fall Out Roman Catholics And Jews. A WW" hardback First edition book in great condition. Signed by the author. 173 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 769
John Harris. Rudolph Hess, The British Illusion of Peace. A Ww2 hardback first edition book in great condition. Signed and dated by the author. 273 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 771
Pauline Gower. Women with Wings. A WW2 hardback first edition book. Signs of age. A personal letter included signed; a poem book signed inc. 223 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 772
Sqn. Ldr. A. G. Goulding, DFM. Uncommon Valour. A WW2 first edition hardback book in good condition. Dedicated. Signed by author and dated. 183 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 773
Sqn. Ldr. A. G. Goulding, DFM. Uncommon Valour. A WW2 first edition hardback book in good condition. Dedicated. Signed by author and dated. 183 pages. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 100
NO RESERVE Portugal & Madeira.- Wortley (Lady Emmeline Stuart) A Visit to Portugal and Madeira, first edition, engraved frontispiece, errata f. at end, frontispiece and title foxed, a few small stains, dark green half morocco, gilt, by Birdsall of Northampton, 1 upper corner slightly worn, rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1854.
Lot 102
Russia.- Renouard de Bussierre (Léon) Voyage en Russie: Lettres ecrites en 1829, first edition, half-title, 2 folding engraved plans (St. Petersburg and Moscow), tape strengthening inner gutter of title and verso of half-title, short split to fold of plan of Moscow, some foxing, modern half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1831; and Latham on the native races of Russia, 1854, 8vo (2)
Lot 103
Scandanavia.- Trade.- Boisgelin (Louis de) Travels through Denmark and Sweden. To which is Prefixed, a Journal of a Voyage Down the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburgh. Including a compendious historical account of the Hanseatic League, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, sepia aquatint frontispieces and 11 plates by Parry after Merigot, errata f. at end of vol.2, lacking half-titles, offsetting, some foxing and staining, contemporary vellum, spine with later green leather label, some staining and soiling, [Abbey, Travel, 247], 4to, Printed for Wilkie & Robinson; and George Robinson, 1810.
Lot 106
South America.- Maw (Henry Lister) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic...and descending the River Marañon, or Amazon, first edition, folding engraved map of the Amazon, offsetting, stained, antique style dark green half calf, gilt, spine in compartments, [Howgego p.396; Sabin 46988; Hill 1115], 8vo, John Murray, 1829. ⁂ 'Rich in facts relating to the condition, history and character of the Indians of Peru and Brazil, particularly of the unexplored districts in the valley of the Marañon or upper Amazon' (Hill).
Lot 107
NO RESERVE South Asia.- Landon (Percival) Nepal, 2 vol., first edition, colour frontispieces, 13 plates, illustrations, 5 maps (4 folding), 3 large folding tables, cracked hinges, ex-library with bookplates and blind-stamps, original cloth, rubbed and worn, chipping and loss to spine extremities, shelf-mark in gilt to spine foot, 8vo, 1928.
Lot 108
Taiwan.- Pickering (William Alexander) Pioneering in Formosa: Recollections of Adventures among Mandarins, Wreckers, & Head-Hunting Savages, first edition, presentation inscription by author, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 23 plates, 1 map, advertisements at end, occasional spotting, cracked hinge, original decorative cloth, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1898.⁂ Pickering worked as a tidewaiter for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs office in Fuzhou and Formosa (now Taiwan) in the 1860s and learnt the local dialect. In 1877 he was appointed as the first Protector to administer the Chinese Protectorate in colonial Singapore. Speaking both Mandarin and Hokkien, the first European in Singapore to do so, he managed to keep the secret societies under control, maintaining authority and subduing unrest by playing his bagpipes in the street.
Lot 109
NO RESERVE Tibet.- Harrer (Heinrich) Seven Years in Tibet, first edition, plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, light creasing to joints and spine ends, still a near-fine copy, original wraparound band, 1953; and a scarce framed picture of Harrer with the Dalai Lama in Tibet, 1985, signed by both, v.s. (2)⁂ Photograph with rare signatures of Harrer and the Dalai Lama, who remained lifelong friends after meeting in 1948. After his famous ascent of Eiger in the Alps, the Austrian mountaineer and geographer later became a salaried official of the Tibetan government during his travels, translating foreign news and acting as the Court photographer. He met the 14th Dalai Lama and soon became his personal tutor, and a strong friendship developed between them.
Lot 11
Africa.- Budge (E.A. Wallis) The Egyptian Sudan: its history and monuments, 2 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates (9 folding), tissue-guards, illustrations, ex-Signet Library with bookplates, occasional very faint spotting, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to spine extremities, 1907; A History of Ethiopia, Nubia & Abyssinia, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces, plates (1 double-page), illustrations, original cloth, one or two spots to upper covers, slight bumping to corners, dust-jacket, a little rubbed, slight chipping to corners and extremities, 1928, 8vo (4).
Lot 113
Turkey.- Walsh (Rev. Robert) and Thomas Allom. Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, Illustrated, 2 vol. in 1, first and second series, first edition, 2 engraved maps (one double-page), 2 additional engraved titles and 94 plates, some foxing, light marking to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, light chipping to spine ends, covers rubbed, upper cover detached, tall 8vo, [1840].⁂ Includes views of Constantinople from the Golden Horn, the great cemetery of Scutari, the Mosque of Sultan Soliman, the Great Bazaar, the Mosque of Santa Sophia, the Ruins of Ephesus, the Acropolis at Sardis, Philadelphia, the Gardens of the Seraglio among others.
Lot 114
Voyages.- Beesley (Lawrence) The Loss of the "Titanic", second edition (Nautilus Library), original blue cloth, spine slightly dulled, dust-jacket, light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, remains of red sticker to spine, small patch of abrasion to upper panel, but a very good example overall, 8vo, 1929.⁂ The first edition under this imprint, rare in the dust-jacket.
Lot 116
NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bahamas.- Stark (James H.) Stark's History and Guide to the Bahama Islands, plain plates, 2 folding maps, ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, original pictorial boards, 1891 § Defries (Amelia) The Fortunate Islands, first edition, plain plates, some light foxing, including to title, library cloth, 1929 § Benjamin (S. G. W.) The Atlantic Islands, frontispiece and illustrations, original pictorial cloth, 1878; and 3 others similar, v.s. (6)
Lot 119
NO RESERVE West Indies.- Bermuda.- Britton (Nathaniel, Lord) Flora of Bermuda, first edition, coloured frontispiece, illustrations, ink gift inscription, original cloth, spine heavily sunned, extremities lightly scuffed, 1918 § Gipson (Henry Clay) Bermuda, 24 plates, map, original printed covers, scroll bound, preserved in original pictorial box, flaps and corners worn, 1937 § Dorr (Julia) An Idyl of the Summer Islands, folding colour map, ink ownership inscription to front endpaper, water staining to upper margin throughout, original pictorial cloth, small stain to upper cover, a little rubbed, 1886; and 3 others, all relating to Bermuda, v.s. (6)
Lot 124
NO RESERVE West Indies.- Cuba.- Terry (T.Philip) Terry's Guide to Cuba, 9 maps and plans, some folding, endpapers browned, 1926 § Dana (Richard Henry) To Cuba and Back, first edition, some soiling and spotting to initial pages, spine slightly sunned, 1859 § Norton (Albert) The Complete Handbook of Havana and Cuba, plain plates, lacking folding map, 1900, all original cloth, the last pictorial and gilt lettered; and 3 others, relating to Cuba, v.s. (6)
Lot 125
NO RESERVE West Indies.- De Forest Day (Susan) The Cruise of the Scythian, first edition, ownership inscriptions to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth, slightly soiled and toned, spine toned, 1899 § Ober (Frederick) A Guide the West Indies and Bermudas, 5 folding maps, original cloth, slightly soiled, 1908 § Morris (Ira Nelson) With the Trade Winds, original pictorial cloth, 1897, all with black and white plates; and 3 others similar, 8vo (6)⁂ De Forest Day's scarce autobiographical account provides beautiful descriptions of the Virgin Islands, Nevis, Barbados and others, while Trinidad, Porto Rico and Montserrat are among others featured across the lot.
![West Indies.- Slavery.- [Bays (Peter)] A General History of Negro Slavery, first edition, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut vigne](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/75c40f90-d2bd-4e50-bd70-ad3600d9f5dd/687ede56-b2e0-4b65-bd94-ad3600f97f22/468x382.jpg)
Lot 126
West Indies.- Slavery.- [Bays (Peter)] A General History of Negro Slavery, first edition, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut vignette to sectional title second part, some spotting and light finger soiling, original printed boards, rebacked, rubbed, 8vo, 1826.⁂ Very scarce. An abolitionist text for use in schools. Predominantly concerned with the West Indies, but with a chapter on slavery in the United States. The author covers conditions and treatment aboard slave ships; gives detailed descriptions of sugar plantations; looks at relevant West Indian legislation and summaries opinions of prominent abolitionists such as Clarkson, Wilberforce, Porteous and Thornton.
Lot 132
NO RESERVE World.- A & C Black.- Martin (T. Mower) & Wilfred Campbell, Canada, first edition, 1907 § De Haenen (F.), G. Dobson ..., Russia, first edition, 1913 § Jungman (Nico) & Beatrix Jungman. Norway, 1905 § Spence (Percy F. S.) & Frank Fox. Australia, 1910, plates and illustrations, previous owner's ink signatures, original decorative cloth, gilt; and others in the same series, 8vo (8)
Lot 136
World.- Howitt (William) The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 2 vol., second edition, title trimmed at top corner, short tear to title (vol. 2 only), 3 folding maps, ex-library with bookplates and ink-stamps, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, labels to upper covers, rubbed, small loss to spine head (vol. 1), bumping to corners and extremities, 1865 § Beckford (Peter) Familiar Letters from Italy, to a Friend in England, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, ex-library with blind-stamps, abrasion marks to front free endpapers where labels removed, spotting, later morocco-backed boards, blind-stamps to upper covers, slight bumping to corners, Salisbury, 1805; and 11 others travel, including 4 19th century Hakluyt Society titles, 8vo (15)
Lot 138
NO RESERVE World.- Witherby (Harry) Bird Hunting on the White Nile, first edition, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, 1902 § Bishop (J. F.) Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, new edition, 1900 § Tucker (Alfred) Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa, 2 vol., 1908, first and last first editions, maps and illustrations, some pages lightly marked or spotted, original pictorial or decorative cloth, gilt, all with light rubbing to extremities and corners, last slightly worse with bumping and fraying to spine ends; and 12 others, travel, including a group of late 19th and early 20th century family holiday photograph albums, v.s. (16)
Lot 14
Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Zanzibar; City, Island and Coast, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, wood engraved frontispieces and 9 plates, large folding map, short tear with neat repair, 4 route maps, frontispieces, titles and final leaves all laid down, one or two neat marginal pencil notes, occasional faint blind-stamps, occasional faint spotting, near contemporary half-morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, [Penzer pp.88-89], 8vo, 1872.
Lot 147
Winchester.- Portal (Melville) The Great Hall Winchester Castle, first edition, plates and illustrations, original half vellum over pictorial cloth, gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, very slightly soiled, Winchester & London, 1899 § Minto (Earl of, editor) Correspondence of George Baillie of Jerviswood. M.DCC.II-M.DCC.VIII, signed presentation copy from the editor to Lady Charlotte Portal inscribed at head of title, bookplate of Melville Portal of Laverstoke, handsome tan morocco with elaborate border tooled in gilt, by J.Wright, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., very slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, for members of the Bannatyne Club, 1842, 4to (2)
Lot 15
Africa.- Cagnolo (Fr. C.) The Akikuyu: Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, folding map at end, plates, of which 2 colour, small abrasion marks to one or two plates, illustrations, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink inscription to half-title, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, slight bumping to corners, [Hosken p.37], Kenya, 1933 § Burrows (Capt. Guy) The Land of the Pigmies, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, many full-page, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's signatures to front free endpaper, bookplate, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.33], 1898; and others similar, 8vo (8)⁂ The second with the bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken, authors of "A Catalogue of Books on Africa mainly south of the equator".
Lot 158
Atlases.- World.- Salmon (Thomas) A New Geographical and Historical Grammar: wherein the geographical part is truly modern..., first edition, title in red and black, 21 folding maps and one plate by S. Wale, first torn without loss and a lightly frayed, contemporary ownership inscription to title, some very light occasional spotting or damp-staining, contemporary calf, lightly stained, extremities and spine rubbed, small worm hole to upper cover, 8vo, William Johnston, 1749.
Lot 18
Africa.- Ellis (Rev. William) Three Visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856, first edition, half-title, folding engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, map, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, contemporary half-calf. rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1858.
Lot 19
Africa.- Elton (J. Frederic) Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa, first edition, frontispiece, plates (1 folding), illustrations, 3 folding maps, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, neat repair to spine head, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech p.55], 8vo, 1879.
Lot 22
Africa.- Johnston (Sir Harry H.) The River Congo, from its Mouth to Bólóbó, second edition, etched frontispiece and 2 etchings, illustrations, 2 folding maps, advertisements at end, previous owner's ink-stamp to title, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original pictorial cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, 1884.
Lot 23
Africa.- Johnston (Sir Harry H.) The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol., first American edition, half-titles, colour frontispiece and 47 colour plates, 9 folding maps, illustrations, many full-page, original cloth, gilt, [Hosken p.110], New York & London, 1902 § Cunningham (J. F.) Uganda and its People, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, map, illustrations, many full-page, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1905; and 3 others, Uganda, 8vo (6)
![Africa.- Junker (Dr. Wilhelm) Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 [1878-1883; 1882-1886], 3 vol., first English edi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/75c40f90-d2bd-4e50-bd70-ad3600d9f5dd/2ad7fa6d-6561-4552-98e4-ad3600f8769e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 24
Africa.- Junker (Dr. Wilhelm) Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 [1878-1883; 1882-1886], 3 vol., first English edition, half-titles (vols 2-3 only), vignette titles, frontispieces, 4 folding maps, illustrations, many full-page, occasional spotting, previous owner's ink name-stamp to half-title (vol. 2), original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Hosken p.111], 8vo, 1890-92.
Lot 26
Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, folding lithograph frontispiece, 2 tinted lithographs, engraved portrait, 21 woodcut plates, 1 folding plan, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end), illustrations, scattered faint spotting, cracked upper hinge, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Czech p.97], 8vo, 1857.
Lot 27
Africa.- Livingstone (David) Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries, first American edition, double-page woodcut frontispiece, large folding map at end, illustrations (12 full-page), occasional faint spotting, advertisements at end, original cloth, slight bumping to spine extremities, [Hosken p.126], New York, 1866 § Hyde (Alexander), Francis C. Bliss, and Rev. Josiah Tyler. The Life and Life-Work of Dr. David Livingstone, frontispieces, plates, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, Hartford, 1876; and another, also on Livingston, 8vo (3)
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