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Click here to subscribeHenry Rider Haggard: 'Cetywayo and his white Neighbours, or, Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal.', London, Trubner & Co, 1882, 1st edition, one of only 750 copies, author's first book, a denunciation of Colonial Britain's policies in South Africa, original green cloth gilt (slightly bumped and worn)
A collection of twenty two mainly modern first editions, all signed by author, including Sebastian Faulks: 'A Week in December', 2009, limited edition (266/1000), signed and numbered to limitation page, original boards, slipcase; Nick Hornby: 'A Long Way Down', 2005, 1st edition, limited edition (613/1000) signed to title page and numbered, original cloth, slip case; Roddy Doyle: 'A Star Called Henry', 2009, 1st edition, signed to title page, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus others Brian Moore, Rose Tremain, Howard Jacobson, Joseph Knox, Ian Rankin, Martin Amis, Brian Martin etc etc (22)
Sir George Staunton: 'An historical account of the embassy to the Emperor of China, undertaken by order of the King of Great Britain : including the manners and customs of the inhabitants; and preceded by an account of the causes of the embassy and voyage to China', London, G. Nicol, 1797, 3 volumes, octavo edition, 28 engraved plates and maps as called for, Volume 1 with engraved frontis + added engraved title page + 5 plates + folding map of China + large multi folding chart from England to Gulf of Peking; Volume 2 with 5 engraved plates + large engraved multi folding sketch map of a journey from Tartary by land to Pekin and to Hang-Tchoo-Foo; Volume 3 with 11 engraved plates + engraved folding map of the journey of the Embassy from Zhe-Hol to Canton + large engraved multi folding sketch map of a journey from Hang-Tchoo-Foo to Quang-Choo-Foo + folding table, volume 3 some leaves and plates towards latter part affected by damp staining, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, oxblood morocco gilt title labels to spines. The official published account of the first British embassy to China, headed by the Earl Macartney; together with R.A. Bickers: 'Ritual & Diplomacy. The Macartney Mission to China 1792-1794', 1993, 1st edition, original wraps (4)
Joan Nieuhof: 'Het Gezantschap Der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, Aan Den Grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den Tegenwoordigen Keizer Van China...door de Sineesche Landtschappen, Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung en Peking...', Amsterdam, Jacob van Meurs, 1665, 1st edition, 2 parts in 1, added engraved title page (with some professional restoration), engraved portrait plate of author, large folding engraved map of China, 33 (of 35), double page engraved plates and views (lacking only the plate of Paolinxi, according to Tiele not found in most copies, from part 1, and Pagoda of Binnen plate from part 2), 110 half page engravings, 2 engraved coats of arms plates of Spiegel and Witsen, title printed in red and black, foxing mainly to earlier leaves, engraved head-piece and initial, woodcut ornamental head and tail-pieces, [8],208,258,[10]pp, folio, rebound 20th Century vellum, new EP's, top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Paul Walter Homberger. The plates show views including Batavia, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, Beijing etc, plans, costumes, flora and fauna etc. First edition of this famous description of the first trade mission undertaken by the V.O.C. (Dutch East-Indian Trading Company) to the emperor of China, the first extensively illustrated book describing China.
A collection of 70+ books and booklets on The Gambia and West Africa, ex libris Sir Phillip Rodney Bridges (1922-2007) Chief Justice of the Gambia from 1968-1983, many with his ownership signatures and inscriptions/ book plates/ ink stamps to top page edges, plus nine volumes of typed selected judgements from the Supreme Court of the Gambia 1968-1982, each with Bridges' signature and manuscript title on top wrap and his manuscript indexes at front, three folders typed notes similar, books include Francis Bisset Archer: 'The Gambia Colony and Protectorate: An Official Handbook', London, St Bride's Press, [1905], 1st edition, port frontis and two folding maps and numerous illustrations throughout as called for, 364pp, original cloth gilt, all edges gilt; 1967 new impression of the same work, two folding maps, folding table and illustrations as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper, Bridge's ownership ink stamp to dust wrapper, ownership signature and inscription to FFEP and book plate to front paste down; 'The Gambia Currency Board', bound volume containing First Issue of Currency Notes, 5th October, 1964, six bank notes mounted on printed card leaves, oblong, crushed green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, in original printed envelope marked for Bridges; Gamble: 'Notes on Mandinka', Bathurst, 1949, original printed wraps; H.R. Palmer: 'The Carthaginian Voyage to West Africa in 500 B.C.', Bathurst, 1931, xiii, 51pp, original cloth backed boards; plus numerous others folktales, Mandingo Kingdoms of the Senegambia, Wolof language, Krio-English dictionary, Ornithology, West African Law, Atlas of Gold Coast, Acora, 1945, plus W. African folding map, 1966, Gambian History, religion etc, plus a packet containing a quantity of Gambian stamp covers, Sir Phillip Bridges served in the Royal Artillery circa 1940-46, was attached to the RWAFF and served with them in Burma, and fought in the Arakan campaign involving a five month journey crossing ten rivers. After military service he was posted to the Gambia as a lands officer, becoming Attorney General in 1964, he helped draft the Gambian constitution prior to independence in 1965, remaining in his post until 1968 being the only European in the Gambian cabinet after independence. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Gambia in 1968 and earned a reputation for fairness, tolerance and kindness. He retired to England in 1983 and died in December 2007 in Suffolk
William Henry Bartlett, 2 titles: 'The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt.', London, Arthur Hall, 1850, 2nd edition, engraved frontis, added engraved vignette title page + 33 engraved full page plates (of which 2 maps and a double page panorama of Alexandria) + 17 woodcuts as called for, contemporary full decorative morocco gilt (slightly scuffed/worn), all edges gilt; 'The Pilgrim Fathers; or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First'.', London, Arthur Hall, 1853, 1st edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title page + 26 full page plates & 31 woodcuts as called for, contemporary full decorative morocco gilt (slightly scuffed/worn), all edges gilt (2)
A large collection of vintage mid century cigarette cards / picture cards albums includes Wills’s cigarette - Radio Celebrities, Radio Celebrities 2nd edition, The Reign Of King George V, Safety First. Wild Flowers, British Butterflies, Tropical Birds, Asian Wild Life, British Wild Life, Wildlife in Danger, African Wild Life, Butterflies of the world. Along with a large lose cigarette cards to include: Do You Know, Wild Flowers, Trees In Britain, Butterflies Of the World, Transport Ages, Miscellaneous, African Wild Life, Asian Wild Life, British Wild Birds, Tropical Birds, etc
BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS)Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. An Exploration, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, first issue with mounted photographic portrait frontispiece above facsimile signature, 4 wood-engraved plates, folding map in volume 2, frontispiece and map with repaired tears, without half-titles, modern half calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels [Penzer p.70], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1863Footnotes:Burton's account of a journey from Lagos to Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba Yoruba tribe, as part of a mission he joined while serving as British Consul to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS)The Land of Midian (Revisited), 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, folding map, 16 plates including 6 colour lithographs, occasional foxing, one plate loose, publisher's decorative cloth, gilt lettered spines (faded and stained, tears to joints [Penzer pp.96-97], Kegan Paul, 1879; BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS) and CHARLES F.T. DRAKE. Unexplored Syria, 2 vol., half-titles, frontispieces, large folding map (with short tear), 25 plates (11 folding, one repaired), modern half morocco, red leather spine labels lettered in gilt [Penzer pp.85-88.], Tinsley Brothers, 1872; BURTON (RICHARD FRANCIS) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration, edited by N.M. Penzer, some foxing, publisher's cloth, A.M. Philpot, 1924, 8vo (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DENHAM (DIXON) AND HUGH CLAPPERTONNarrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 36 plates (1 hand-coloured), one large folding map, illustrations in the text, occasional light spotting, short repair to blank margin of one leaf, contemporary diced calf, neatly rebacked in calf gilt, 4to (270 x 208mm.), John Murray, 1826Footnotes:An account of an expedition undertaken to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, following along the Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu (present-day Nigeria).Provenance: Edward Parker, of Brosholme, Yorkshire.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PRISSE D'AVENNES (ACHILLE CONSTANT T. EMILE)Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in The Valley of the Nile, second edition, woodcut vignette on title, 31 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates by Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron, Le Roux and others after Prisse d'Avennes, frontispiece loose and frayed at margins, short tear to 2 plates, heavy spotting to 2 plates, a few small marginal tears and chips, opening leaves and one plate misbound, text block loose in modern half morocco re-using original cloth sides, with original spine laid down [cf. Atabey 1001, Blackmer 1357, first edition], folio (445 x 320mm.), James Madden, 1851This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CASTLEREAGH (ROBERT STEWART, VISCOUNT)A Journey to Damascus through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petraea, Palestine and Syria, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol., 10 engraved plates (some foxing), 10pp. advertisements at end of volume 2, publisher's blind and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, spines faded, joint ends fraying [Blackmer 1610 (under Stewart); Weber I 395; not in Atabey], 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1847Footnotes:Provenance: Kimbolton Castle, shelf label on front pastedown.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHAMPLAIN (SAMUEL DE)Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, second issue with cancelled leaves D2-3 replacing the offensive passage regarding Richelieu, with inserted folding map of Canada by Champlain dated 1664, hand-coloured in outline, 6 large engravings in the text (2 full-page), woodcut map and one woodcut text diagram, numerous woodcut head-pieces and initials, light browning and foxing, some rust-marks to C3 at end, contemporary brown stained limp vellum, vellum spine label with manuscript title in ink (chipped), covers crinkled, remains of shelf label at foot of spine, preserved in cloth solander box with gilt lettered leather spine labels [Sabin 11839], 4to (226 x 162mm.), Paris, Claude Collet, 1632Footnotes:'LA PERE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE': the most complete edition of the Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), navigator, cartographer, explorer and founder of Quebec.A key figure in the history of Canada, Champlain crossed the Atlantic more than twenty times, founding Quebec and New France on 3 July 1608. From there, he explored the surrounding territory, allied himself with the Hurons and the Algonquins, and took part in the first Mass on the island of Montreal. He also created the first accurate coastal map during his explorations, and founded various colonial settlements.The work describes all of the preceding French expeditions to the New World as well as his own, with a history of Canada from 1619 to 1632. It also 'gives us the first accurate accounts we have of the Indians of the interior of the present State of New York. The most remarkable event in Indian history was caused by Champlain's first visit to the shores of the lake bearing his name. In a conflict between the two named races of savages, he gave the victory to his friends the Abnaquis, by the use of his musket. The Iroquois never forgave the injury, and thousands of Frenchmen were slaughtered to avenge it' (Thomas W. Field, An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography, 1991, no. 268).The present copy has a large hand-coloured map of Canada, drawn by Champlain in 1616 and printed by Pierre Duval in 1664, inserted in place of the 1632 map which is missing in most copies. The eight illustrations include a map, natives in war dress, a village attack, a hunting scene, native women, a religious ceremony and a funeral rite. The text is complete with the 8-page map table, the Traitté de la marine et du devoir d'un bon marinier, and the final De la Doctrine chrestienne du R.P. Ledesme, not found in some copies.Provenance: François de La Poterie, former librarian to Cardinal Jules Mazarin, ownership signature ('La Poterye') at foot of title-page; Seminary of Sainte Magloire, inscription recording Poterie's gift at head of title-page ('ex libris Oratorii Sammagloriani. Ex dono Domini de la Poterye'). Sainte Maglore, founded in 1618, was the only seminary in Paris during the seventeenth century, and was a fertile training ground for future bishops. In the eighteenth century it became an active hotbed of Jansenism and, during the Revolution, the state seminary of Paris; unidentified old red stamp on title and last page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FRANKLIN EXPEDITIONMAY (WALTER A.) A Series of Fourteen Sketches Made During the Voyage Up Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., and the Missing Crews of H.M. Discovery-Ships Erebus and Terror, FIRST EDITION, letterpress title, list of subscribers and 4pp. of text, 14 tinted lithographed views on 12 sheets, plate 14 ('Franklin Relics') with 2 small stains and slight loss to one corner, contents loose in publisher's cloth-backed printed wrappers (soiled, edges frayed, lacks spine) [Abbey Travel 646; Sabin 47083], folio (380 x 285mm.), Day and Son, 1 May 1855Footnotes:William May was a Lieutenant aboard the Assistance, under the command of Edward Belcher, during the expedition to search for John Franklin. The Assistance wintered at Northumberland Sound, and May was one of the party who made several sledge forays in the Spring.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BORCHGREVINK (CARSTEN)First on the Antarctic Continent: being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900, FIRST EDITION, portrait frontispiece, 16 plates and numerous illustrations after photographs, 3 folding maps, 32-page publisher's catalogue, publisher's decorative cloth gilt, spine ends lightly bumped [Rosove 45.A1a; Spence 152; Taurus 24], 8vo, G. Newnes, 1901Footnotes:Borchgrevink's party spent almost a year within the Antarctic Circle, using dogs for the first time on the Antarctic continent, achieving a furthest south record, and carrying out the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf (Taurus Collection).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BORCHGREVINK (CARSTEN)Report on the Collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic Regions during the Voyage of the 'Southern Cross', FIRST EDITION, 53 plates (of which 9 chromolithographed), very slight scraping to p.101 affecting a few letters, publisher's green cloth, contents shaken, lower inner hinge splitting, 15mm split to upper joint [Rosove 46.A1; Spence 968], 8vo, by Order of the Trustees, 1902Footnotes:Contents include Edward A. Wilson on Antarctic seals, and extensive extracts from the diary of the zoologist Nicolai Hanson, tragically killed in 1899, 'a great loss to the expedition, as it was to science generally, for, either from want of knowledge or want of care on the part of the survivors, his collections suffered considerably' (E.R. Lankester, preface)Provenance: Presented by the Trustees of the British Museum, bookplate; later library inkstamp to front free endpaper and pencilled shelfmark on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 48 plates (6 colour, 10 folding panoramas), 5 maps (4 folding), untrimmed in publisher's cloth-backed blue-grey boards, slightly toned, paper spine labels (browned and slightly chipped at one corner), [Spence 277; Taurus 84], 8vo, Constable & Co., 1922Footnotes:First edition of Cherry-Garrard's classic account of the Winter Journey as part of the Terra Nova expedition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
RIGBY (CHRISTOPHER PALMER)Report on the Zanzibar Dominions, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS WIFE 'Matilda Rigby from the Author' on the upper cover, publisher's cloth-backed green printed wrappers, age soiled, old grease stain on lower cover, 8vo, Bombay [Mumbai], Printed at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1861Footnotes:Scarce copy of Report on the Zanzibar Dominions, 'a comprehensive and informative survey of the sultanate' (P.J.L. Frankl, ODNB), from its historical links to Oman and the Sultans, trade, populations both native and Arab, the Sultan's person and style of rule, to the islands' geography. It was written by Rigby at the end of his three-year posting as the East India Company's agent, and British Consul in Zanzibar, from 1858 to 1861. Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885), gifted to his wife Matilda, whom he married on his retirement from the army in 1867.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GRANT (JOHN AUGUSTUS)A Walk Across Africa, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'C.P. Rigby from the Author 1864' on the title-page, large folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline (loose as issued in pocket inside lower cover), 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end, publisher's brick orange pictorial cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, some age soiling, hinges slightly weakened [Czech p.66], 8vo, William Blackwood, 1864Footnotes:FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Grant devoted chapters two and three to his expedition's stay in Zanzibar, noting 'Colonel Rigby, an officer to the Bombay army, H.M.'s Consul, entertained us with true Indian hospitality during the thirty-nine days of our stay; and his exertions greatly contributed to our getting away so quickly. He, having passed in six languages, acted as interpreter at the durbar, where the Sultan was most affable, shaking hands with all'. Rigby's daughter noted that with both Speke and Grant Rigby's 'relations were most intimate, and a close friendship formed which ended only with death' (Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935, p.229).Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885), inscription noting presentation from the author, and armorial bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DEVEREUX (WILLIAM COPE)A Cruise in the Gorgon, or, Eighteen Months on H.M.S. Gorgon, engaged in the Suppression of the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa, including a Trip up the Zambesi with Dr Livingstone, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed 'C.P. Rigby from the author' on the title-page, half-title, hand-coloured folding engraved map 'showing the Seat of the Slave Trade at Zanzibar', a few names added in manuscript (identifying persons only noted by their initials in the printed text, one being Rigby), one gathering working loose, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed [Czech, p.48], 8vo, Bell and Daldy, 1869Footnotes:A fine association copy gifted by Devereux to C.P. Rigby, British Consul at Zanzibar from 1858-61, at the time that the H.M.S. Gorgon undertook its mission to suppress the slave trade on the East coast of Africa. The ship stopped twice at Zanzibar (chapters 7 and 23), the author noting that here 'especially Englishmen are appreciated... thanks to Colonel Rigby, H.M.'s Consul, who, during a residence of three years, not only did much improve the morale of the place, but emancipated no less than 8000 slaves with his own hand' (Devereux, p.115).Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885), inscription noting gifted from the author.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SPEKE (JOHN HANNING)Correspondence and papers retained by Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul on Zanzibar relating to the Speke/Burton feud, comprising: i) Group of five autograph letters and a note signed ('J.H. Speke') to Christopher Palmer Rigby, the first announcing that he has '...in conjunction with Mr Petherick undertaken to go to Nyanza again and to connect it with the Nile - I going up the west side of the Lake from Unyamyembe whilst he goes down southwards from Gondokoro... This would be a glorious tour!...' and praising Rigby for his success in quashing the Burghash rebellion ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), the rest taken up with his feud with fellow-explorer Richard Burton, writing gleefully that '...Burton has got the dumps and is cutting himself at every turn...', speaking of his reluctance to accompany Burton ('...I had seen enough of his blackguardism at that time to for ever despise him...'), calling him a 'cunning ingrate, and double blackguard' and complaining of his conduct ('...I gave him [Burton] every collection, observations and my original diary... and printed my diaries to swell his own book with, and this too without ever asking my consent... It is true Burton touched up some of my diaries on return from the Nyanza as they stood in the original... but by practice in writing I improved my style...'), his resentment at Burton receiving a Gold Medal ('...I alone had brought back all the geographical results of that expedition, and Burton had not shown himself capable of doing anything but making ethnological remarks...'), explaining in detail the confusion with regards to the payment of the porters, returning specimens and '...the last of the tots... send them off as contented as their discontented dispositions will permit...', announcing the publication of his account of the first two expeditions in one volume ('...The Hindu map published by Wilford has turned out a forgery, so in the Second Edition it will be left out...'), asking Rigby to speak with the Sultan about 'the unjustifiable interference of the Arabs' in the African interior ('...only perpetrated as a pretext to loot...'), including a list of specimens returned ('...Gun case of Bird & Snake skins... female head of Eland... skins of head are separate from the skulls...'), and much else; with two envelopes, one bearing the remark that the porters have run away, 24 pages, creased with spotting and some small tears along folds, 8vo and 4to, Illminster, Kinanga Ranga, Kazeh, Grand Hotel, Paris, 19 January 1860 to 20 April [postmarked 1864]ii) Autograph letter signed ('M. Grant') to Rigby's widow ('My dear Mrs Rigby'), asking if she has copies of Rigby's letters 'reporting the conduct of the late Sir Richard Burton' so that she can 'contradict what Lady Burton has written about Speke in the Daily Graphic... her husband could not have told her that he had attempted the life of Captn Speke by asking one of their followers to put poison into his medicine. This is well too well-known to the family of Captn Speke...', 6 pages, on mourning paper, 8vo (177 x 114mm.), Househill, Nairn, 15 January 1891iii) Draft document signed ('C.P. Rigby') to 'H. L. Anderson Esquire/ Chief Secretary to Government/ Bombay', 'Reporting the libels and calumnies contained in a Book entitled 'The Lake Regions of Central Africa' recently published by Brevet Captain Burton... & his treatment of his followers during the late Expedition in Central Africa', with various additions and amendments, 25 pages, docketed 'no. 73 of 1860', joined at head by green silk thread, folio (335 x 210mm.), British Consulate, Zanzibar, 16 November 1860; with two duplicate letters from H.L. Anderson confirming that it will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, assuring him that '...you have fully vindicated yourself... your reputation has... been in no degree affected by Captain Burton's untrustworthy statements...', one with the subscription 'Transmitted to Colonel Rigby/ Lewis Pelly/ Zanzibar/ 30th October 1861', 4 pages, folio (225 x 210mm.), Bombay Castle, 18 March 1861; and another uncompleted draft letter from Rigby regarding the perceived damage to the reputation of Mr Apothecary Frost, the Medical Officer, through claims made by Burton in his book.Footnotes:'I HAD SEEN ENOUGH OF HIS BLACKGUARDISM AT THAT TIME TO FOR EVER DESPISE HIM'The unresolved feud between explorers Speke and Burton is well documented. After their expedition to the lake regions of Central Africa, Burton published their joint achievements as his own and was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Geographical Society which Speke felt should belong to him. Speke also accused Burton of refusing to pay the porters and reneging on promises to reward other members of the expedition ('...now I have repaid him for that as well as all of the half expenses of the Expedition; and had the Govt. not paid the men at Zanzibar, I should have paid my share to them likewise... you know only too well how things have been done...').These letters not only illustrate the bitterness of the feud but also reveal the considerable extent to which Rigby was involved in fanning the flames of the acrimony between the two explorers. Rigby had known Burton in India and his friendship with Speke was strengthened by their mutual dislike. Rigby's journal, included in this sale (see Lot 82), mentions long, almost daily walks with Speke and he helped him with supplies and the organisation of the expedition. In return, Speke talks with admiration of Rigby and his work ('...you are the father of Zanzibar and the Sultan your eldest son...'), giving him permission to publish a letter which, he writes, 'may have the effect for reforming Burton: at any rate it will check his scribbling mania, and save his soul the burthen of many lies'. Rigby's influence in encouraging the feud is clear and it has been said that it was his report to the Secretary of State for India, a copy of which is included here, that 'made the breach between the two explorers... unbridgeable' (Tim Jeal, Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph & Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, 2011). What is also revealing that, thirty years after Speke's death, the feud was still not laid to rest, with the widows of the protagonists continuing to air their accusations in public and with the wife of James Grant here accusing Burton of contriving to poison Speke whilst on their expedition. Speke's letters are published, in part, in a memoir written by Rigby's daughter (Mrs Charles E.B. Russell, General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, 1935). However, whether to spare the sensibilities of her readers or of Speke's family, she omits the stronger accusations revealed here.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FREZIER (AMÉDÉE FRANÇOIS)A Voyage to the South-Sea, and Along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714... with a Postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley, first edition in English, title printed in red and black, 37 engraved maps, charts and plates (many folding), by J. Senex, J.B. Scotin, N. Guérard and others after Frézier, some spotting, contemporary panelled calf, gilt morocco spine label, spine cracked and crudely repaired at joints, rubbed [Borba de Moraes I, p.329; Hill 654; Nissen ZBI 1433; Sabin 25926], 4to, Jonah Bowyer, 1717Footnotes:'This first English translation contains the same engravings as the French original [1716], but is preferred to the latter because it contains a postscript by Edmund Halley... which corrects certain geographical errors made by Frézier' (Hill).Provenance: R. Roredin, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, with additional manuscript index added on final blank.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SAID-RUETE (RUDOLOPH)Said bin Sultan (1791-1856), Ruler of Oman and Zanzibar. His Place in the History of Arabia and East Africa, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 6 plates, one folding map 'of Oman and East Africa', publisher's green cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, Alexander-Ouseley, [1929]Footnotes:Provenance: Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GOLF, selection, inc. 1999 NEC Championship, players accreditation pack, programme, course brochure, official scorecard, daily passes; signed hardback edition of The European Tour Yearbook 2013 (by 20* players); programme, 74th United States Open at Winged Foot Golf Club (knocks to spine and edge); two hardback notebooks neatly laid down with 226 magazine cuttings of golfers (c.1960); programmes, 1970 Open Championship, at St Andrews, with Order of Play cards for first three days; ball-shaped issues for Alcan Golfer of the Year 1967, 1968 & 1970, the latter two signed by Stan Lincoln (Press Association), signed trade cards (16), Brown, Langer, Clark, Olazabal, Woosnam etc., unsigned (11), G to EX, 70*
FIVE SHELVES OF BOOKS, TO INCLUDE HANSARD PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES, EARLY 19TH-EARLY 20TH C, 35 VOLS, LATER CLOTH AND OTHER SETS AND RUNS INCLUDING HYETT & BAZELEY BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 4 VOLS, AUBREY HISTORY OF SURREY, 5 VOLS, SHAKESPEARE SURVEY, 26 VOLS, FACSIMILE EDITION OF THE FIRST FOLIO (ET AL), HISTORY OF FASHION AND TEXTILES AND GENERAL SHELF STOCK, EX PUBLIC LIBRARY
TOLKIEN (J R R ): 'Smith of Wootton Major..' London, George Allen & Unwin, 1967: First Edition: 12mo, publishers printed boards, rubbed: 'The Silmarillion', 1977, 8vo, dustjacket, light sunning to spine: 'The Fellowship of the Rings..', 14th impression, 1965, dustjacket: with 8 other volumes, Tolkien. (11)
ARNOLD (Sir Edwin): 'The Light of Asia or the Great Renunciation...being the life and teaching of Gautama, Prince of India..', London, Keegan Paul et al, 1908: 8vo: publishers vellum with photo gravure panels, gilt lettered: 'With Sa'di in the Garden, or the Book of Love..', London, Trubner, 1888: 2nd edition: 8vo: publishers red decorative cloth gilt, rubbed: LANG (Andrew): 'A Blue Poetry Book', London, 1891: First Edition: 8vo, publishers blue cloth gilt, aeg, edges lightly rubbed else a very good bright copy: together with a quantity of other misc. literature over 2 shelves, including titles by Joseph Conrad, Tolkien, a few calf bindings, etc. (Quantity, 2 shelves)
ENRIGHT (D J): 'The Year of the Monkey': privately printed, Kobe Japan, 1946: No. 78/400 copies, signed and numbered, publisher's plain boards with printed label, minor wear and browning: FUCHTWANGER (Lion): 'Jew Suss...a historical romance' London, Martin Secker, 1926: No. 133/275, signed by author: 8vo, publisher's blue buckram, spine and top edge sunned: with 4 others, including a first edition of R L Stevenson's 'The Ebb-Tide', Heinemann, 1894. (6)
EDWARD VII, HRH THE DUKE OF WINDSOR: 'A King's Story...the Memoirs of HRH The Duke of Windsor K.G...' London, Cassell, 1951. First Edition: 8vo, publisher's red cloth with dustjacket, chipped to edges: with tipped in dedication on headed notepaper...'to Frederick Davies with best wishes from Edward, November 1951', gift inscription in blue ink opposite 'To Teresa with love from Dad Dec 1951', light foxing to edges else a good copy. (1)
ROBERTS (Captain George): 'The Four Year's Voyages of Capt. George Roberts; being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney...': First Edition, 1726, 4 engraved plates and folding map, light browning and foxing throughout, contemp calf gilt, worn and scuffed with front boards detached. (1)
CHARNOCK (John): 'Biographia Navalis; or, impartial memoirs of the lives and characters of the officers of the navy of Great British from the year 1660 to the present time...' London, printed for R Faulder, 1794-98: First Edition, 6 vols, engraved frontispieces, folding battleplan and table, contemp calf boards later rebacked, a good set. (6)
A Collection of Nine Nevil Shute Novels Published by William Heinemann to Include First Published 1953 Signed Edition of In the Wet, 1952 Edition of A Town Like Alice, 1951 Edition of No Highway, 1952 Edition of What Happened to the Corbetts, 1952 Edition of Ruined City, 1952 Edition of Landfall, 1952 Edition of Marazan, 1957 Edition of On the Beach and 1952 Edition of The Far Country, All Complete with Dust Jackets (All with Condition Flaws)
Collection of Eight Vintage Books to Include 1959 First Edition of The Strange Death of Lord Castlereagh by H Montgomery Hyde (with signature to front page), 1951 Edition Autographed Copy of The Tunnel by Eric Williams, First Edition Autographed Copy The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams, 1948 Edition of East Side, West Side and 1946 Edition of The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport, 1948 Edition of The King's General and The Loving Spirt by Daphne Du Maurier and a 1945 Edition of Canadian Magic by Mary F Moore
Three Books by Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein to Include A 1961 First Edition of The Path to Leadership Published by Collins, London, 1948 Edition of Normandy to the Baltic (Complete with Map) and El Alamein to The River Sangro Together with Two Volumes of Sandhurst by Brigadier Sir John Smyth with a Foreword by Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Ten Books relating to Fishing: First Printing Edition of Light-Line Fly Fishing for Salmon, The Fishing Handbook to End All Fishing Handbooks by Cliff Parker, Nymphs and the Trout by Frank Sawyer, The Persuit of Stillwater Trout, Sea-Trout Fishing by Hugh Falkus, A Line on Salmon by John Ashley-Cooper, Salmon by Arthur Oglesby, A Summer on the Trent by John Waller Hills, A Salmon Fisher's Odyssey by John Ashley-Cooper and The Trout and the Fly by Brian Clarke and John Goddard
McEwan Ian 'Sweet Tooth' Jonathan Cape 2012 - A special limited First Edition of 'Sweet Tooth' of which 75 copies have been bound in Harmatan Yellow 30 fine leather; numbered 1-75 and twenty five copies full bound in the same leather, numbered I to xxv . This book is numbered xiii and signed by the author and in original designed slipcase The bindings have been designed by Andrew Stilwell and Patrick Roe and produced by the Fine Book Bindery, Finedon, Northants
Quentin Blake ( ills) Fitts Dudley - 'The Birds by Aristophanes' , an English version with a new series of illustrations by Quentin Blake, Lion and Unicorn Press 1971, first published by Faber and Faber in 1958, this edition designed by Ed Skyner of the Royal College of Art.... this is copy 51 ( of 400?) limp illustrated covers, glassine cover
Pemberton (Henry), A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philiosophy, first edition, 12 folding engraved diagrams, engraved head and tailpieces by J. Pine, list of subscribers, bookplate of John Grenfell and ink presentation inscription to 'Sidney Grenfell from His Mother', (presumed to be the son of John), pencil annotations and calculations on several pages, contemporary calf, front board detached but present, printed by S. Palmer, London, 1728 (1)
HENRY MILLER (American 1891-1980) AND BEZALEL SCHATZ (Palestinian 1912-1978) A GROUP OF THREE BLUE PAPER PRINTS, FROM "Into the Night Life," FIRST EDITION, UNBOUND, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 1947, comprising three color serigraph on blue paper, the pages with serigraph text reproducing Henry Miller's manuscript, the original text an excerpt from Black Spring used in Into the Night Life, artwork and serigraph by Bezalel Schatz, unbound, the present published independently by the artists in an original edition of 800. 15 1/4" x 24 1/2" Provenance: Collection of Kasey Rhodes, Houston, Texas. Condition: A chew mark and hole to one at top, fading at edges to all, expected surface wear and tone, and overall in good to very good condition, wear commensurate with historically noted poor storage conditions of the original printings. Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS." NO REFUNDS will be issued based on condition.
BEZALEL SCHATZ (Palestinian 1912-1978) AND HENRY MILLER (American 1891-1980) A GROUP OF TWO BLACK AND WHITE PAPER PRINTS, FROM "Into the Night Life," FIRST EDITION, UNBOUND, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 1947, two color serigraph respectively on black paper and white paper, the pages with serigraph text reproducing Henry Miller's manuscript, the original text an excerpt from Black Spring used in Into the Night Life, artwork and serigraph by Bezalel Schatz, unbound, the present published independently by the artists in an original edition of 800. 15 1/4" x 24 1/2" Provenance: Collection of Kasey Rhodes, Houston, Texas. Condition: A few expected chew marks and holes, toning mostly on white paper pieces, white paper piece with stain in margin, expected surface wear and tone, some rubbing and transfer soil on surface, and overall in good to very good condition, wear commensurate with historically noted poor storage conditions of the original printings. Simpson Galleries strongly encourages in-person inspection of items by the bidder. Statements by Simpson Galleries regarding the condition of objects are for guidance only and should not be relied upon as statements of fact and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or assumption of liability by Simpson Galleries. All lots offered are sold "AS IS." NO REFUNDS will be issued based on condition.
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