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Lot 120
SEDLEY (Charles) The Miscellaneous Works, ... collected into one volume. London: J. Nutt 1702, 8vo, first edition, a litle age toned, panel calf; ibid - The Poetical Works, 1707, 8vo, rebacked calf; A Collection of Poems: viz. The Temple of Death... with Several Original Poems, never before printed.. London: for Daniel Brown & Benjamin Tooke, 1701, first edition 8vo, worn panel calf; JACOB (Hildebrand) London: for W. Lewis 1735, 8vo, errata leaf at end, calf (4)
Lot 121
Sermons and theology. TILLOTSON (John; Arch-Bishop of Canterbury) The Life of ---, London 1717, folio, reverse calf, 53pp., armorial bookplate of Wynne, 4 line contemporary ink anecdotal note at end; A bound collection of sermons, first quarter 18th century, 8vo, uncut, in rough boards; LAMBE (Charles) Sermons, 1717, black panel morocco gilt (rubbed); GEDDES (M) Several Tracts Against Popery. London 1715, 8vo, later detached boards; OWEN (C) The Validity of the Dissenting Ministry, 1716, 8vo, front board detached; other works by Bishop Edmund of Lincoln, Thomas Secker, James Hervey, etc, contemporary bindings in varying condition
Lot 123
TOSI, (Pier Francesco) Observations on the Florid Song; or, Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers [Translated into English by Mr Galliard]. London: J. Wilcox 1742, 12mo, first English edition, with 6 folding plates of music, 184pp., old 3cm closed tear at the top corner of piii/iv., red morocco binding, pastedown bears the old bookplate of George Wm Gent (presumably of Moyns Park, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex).
![[FITZGERALD (Thomas, d.1752)] Poems on Several Occasions. London: J. Watts 1733, first edition, 8vo, 112pp. errata slip paste](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a227e4d1-7fe6-47cc-8ad5-a9b900a5bba9/4d66141d-f162-4468-894a-a9bd0120aaf7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
[FITZGERALD (Thomas, d.1752)] Poems on Several Occasions. London: J. Watts 1733, first edition, 8vo, 112pp. errata slip pasted on to last leaf of Contents, sprinkled calf, head of spine chipped and cracked; another copy, 1736, 8vo, second edition, contemporary red morocco gilt, Sir Stafford Nothcote armorial bookplate to first pastedown; a further edition, Oxford 1781; a blank page note-book, 8vo, in fine late 17th century morocco gilt binding with two small clasps, rebacked (4)
Lot 202
Captain H Adcock (19th-20th Century Colonial Engineer) and other photographers, A collection of approximately 200 platinum, gelatin silver and albumen photographs depicting scenes of the construction of the Gold Coast Government Railway in Ghana, various group portraits including Adcock seated with the King of Akropong and his family, King of Akropong surrounded by bodyguard with a Ju-Ju man behind, colonial officers/engineers/buildings, native families in fine and traditional costume, Sekondi Dock Terminal, Ju-Ju man and a Kroo Ju-Ju woman, Captain Adcock's bungalow, local people etc., many numbered and inscribed with title to verso, contained in 3 albums of varying size, largest 26 x 33 cm. Construction of the Gold East Coast Government Railway was started in 1898 for the purpose of transporting gold from the newly discovered Ashanti goldfields to Sekondi Dock Terminal. The first section from Sekondi to Tarkwa was completed in 1901. When Adcock returned to England he resided at the Grange, Surlingham, Norfolk.
Lot 215
Genealogy of the ancient family of Williams alias Cromwell, a hand-coloured Family Tree A Victorian scroll on two sheets of card, circa 1850, copying a 17th Century roll of the Cromwell (Williams) family. Showing the ancestry of the family from the early Middle Ages to circa 1660 and the descent of Oliver Cromwell through twenty generations. The large coat on part 3 of the second sheet (bottom right) showing the arms of Neale impaling Cromwell quarterly of 12. John Neale married Anne, Olvier Cromwell's first cousin (see 1852 Burke's Landed Gentry) 70 x 50cm (27 x 20in) Provenance: Heirloom and Howard, Manor Farm, West Yatton, Wiltshire Northbourne Manor, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Some dirt under the glass but fine.
![[CROMWELL (T K)] Excursions in the County of Suffolk, 2 vols., 1818, large 8vo, folding map and plan, mounted india paper pla](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a227e4d1-7fe6-47cc-8ad5-a9b900a5bba9/6b7c7f94-d722-4efa-b301-a9bd0121688a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 247
[CROMWELL (T K)] Excursions in the County of Suffolk, 2 vols., 1818, large 8vo, folding map and plan, mounted india paper plates, uncut, boards (worn); KIRBY (John) The Suffolk Traveller, 2nd edition 1764, 8vo, 4 folding strip road maps, morocco gilt, lacking spine label; another copy, with upper board detached, worn; [HOME (Henry, Lord Kames)] The Gentleman Farmer. Being an Attempt to Improve Agriculture by Subjecting it to the Test of Rational Principles, first edition, Edinburgh: W. Creech 1776, 3 engraved plates, uncut, modern half binding; BIGLAND (J) Yorkshire, or Original Delineations, 1815, 8vo, 4 maps and plates, some foxing, worn binding; one other - Suffolk Agriculture (7)
Lot 25
Scott (Robert Falcon) Scott's Last Expedition ..Being the Journals of Captain R.F. Scott ...Reports of the Journeys and Scientific Work .., arranged by Leonard Huxley, Smith Elder, 1913, two volumes, the first volume signed by Edward Evans in the year of publication, folding maps, colour and monochrome plates all present as called for, top edge gilt, original cloth, modern slipcase
Lot 272
Stark (Freya) Traveller's Prelude, An Autobiography; Beyond Euphrates, Autobiography 1928-1933; The Coast of Incense, Autobiography 1933-1939; Dust in the Lion's Paw, Autobiography 1939-1946, John Murray, 1950, 1951, 1953 and 1961, four volumes, first editions, dust wrappers (not price-clipped), modern slipcase
![[White (Gilbert)] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, White & Son, 1789, first](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b7768c5d-2849-4ed4-9331-a9b900933df5/80f812f1-582a-4384-bff4-a9b900a90c60/468x382.jpg)
Lot 305
[White (Gilbert)] The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, White & Son, 1789, first edition, quarto, nine plates including fold out frontis and two titles, page 292 misnumbered, no pages numbered 441 and 442 as called for, signature of White's grandfather bound in, repaired tear to R4 with subsequent staining through adjacent leaves, morocco gilt by Bayntun (Riviere) of Bath [provenance - Henry Stevenson; Richard Bowlder Sharpe; Dr. Nowell Peach]
Lot 278
Newby (Eric) A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Secker & Warburg, 1958, first edition, previous owner's name to title and pastedown, price-clipped dust wrapper; idem, Slowly Down the Ganges, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966, first edition, inscribed and signed by the author, dust wrapper (priced 50s.); idem, A Small Place in Italy, HarperCollins, 1994, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (priced £14.99); idem, A Merry Dance Around the World, HarperCollins, 1995, first edition, signed by the author, dust wrapper (priced £18.00); idem, Grain Race, Pictures of Life before the Mast in a Windjammer, George Allen & Unwin, 1968, first edition, small quarto, cloth; with seventeen others by Newby, all first editions in dust wrappers (22)
Lot 166
Evans (Edward, Capt.) South With Scott, Collins, 1921, first edition, portrait frontis, three folding plates, re-bound retaining original backstrip, basic slipcase; idem., South With Scott, Collins' Clear Type, n.d., presentation inscription signed by the author in 1936, frontis, three maps on one sheet, original cloth; with nine other volumes (11)
Lot 332
Hinderwell (Thomas) The History and Antiquities of Scarborough and the Vicinity, York: Bayley, 1798, first edition, quarto, frontis, town plan, two maps (one folding, torn without loss), extra illustrated with engravings throughout, the plates called for by Boyne (p.197) are all present but one of the folding plans called for may be either single page or an incorrect replacement, half calf; Charlton (Lionel), The History of Whitby and of Whitby Abbey .., York: Ward .., 1779, quarto, folding frontis plan, three plates as called for, modern quarter calf; Hutton (W.), A Tour to Scarborough in 1803; Including a Particular Survey of the City of York, Nichols, Son & Bentley, 1817, second edition, half calf (edges worn, spine head a little pulled); idem, A Trip to Coatham, A Watering Place in the North Extremity of Yorkshire, Nichols, 1810, portrait frontis, folding colour map, three plates as called for, modern half morocco; Belcher (Henry), Illustrations of the Scenery on the Line of the Whitby and Pickering Railway .., Longman, Rees ..., 1836, engraved title, eleven (of twelve) engraved plates, modern half calf; with four others (9)
Lot 286
Orwell (George) Critical Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1946, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 8s.6d.); idem, The English People, Collins, 1947, first edition, dust wrapper [two copies]; idem, Shooting an Elephant, and Other Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1950, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 10/-); idem, England Your England, and Other Essays, Secker and Warburg, 1953, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 12s.6d.); idem, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volumes I-IV, Secker and Warburg, 1968, first edition, four volumes, dust wrappers (priced 50s each); with three others (12)
Lot 9
Sparrman (Andrew) A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World, but chiefly into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776, Robinson, 1785, first English edition, two quarto volumes, frontis, nine plates, folding map, errata leaf, half morocco
Lot 138
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, , two volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, three folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase.
Lot 36
Parry (William Edward) Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23 in his Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla ..., 1824, [with] Appendix to Captain Parry's Journal .., John Murray, 1825, two volumes, first edition, quarto, frontis, thirty plates and plans, four large folding charts (creased), four folding coastal profiles, Appendix volume with another two plates, Journal bound in half morocco gilt, the Appendix in original boards with remnant cloth spine
Lot 175
Borchgrevink (C.E.) First on the Antarctic Continent being An Account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900, George Newnes, 1901, first edition, portrait frontis, three folding colour maps, text illustrations including full page images, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase
Lot 297
Brewster (John) Sermons for Prisons. To Which are Added Prayers for the Use of Prisoners in Solitary Confinement, Stockton; printed by R. Christopher, 1790, sheep (re-backed with calf); Richardson (William), Remarks on Diabetes, Especially with Reference to Treatment, Lewis, 1871, first edition, original cloth (spine torn with loss) (2)
Lot 234
Hedin (Sven) Jehol, City of Emperors, Kegan Paul ..., 1932, first English edition, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); idem, Riddles of the Gobi Desert, Routledge, 1933, first English edition, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrappper (priced 18s.); idem, The Wandering Lake, Routledge, 1940, first English edition, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrapper (with 10/8 label over 18s.); with five others, all English first editions by Hedin (8)
Lot 312
Gibbs (James) Rules for Drawing the Several Parts of Architecture in a More Exact and Easy Manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all Fractions, in dividing the principal Members and their Parts, are avoided, Innys, Richardson et al, 1753, third edition, folio, first leaf is a blank, 63 (of 64) engraved plates, half calf (worn); Gotch (J. Alfred), Architecture of the Renaissance in England ..., Batsford, 1894, two volumes, folio, ex-library, 145 plates with stamps verso, top edges gilt, original half morocco; Shaw (Richard Norman), Architectural Sketches from the Continent, Day, n.d. [1858], folio, litho title, 100 litho plates, modern cloth (4)
Lot 249
Kennedy (Alexander B.W.) Petra, Its History and Monuments, Country Life, 1925, first edition, quarto, plates and maps as called for, Anthony Huxley's copy, lacking front free endpaper, dust wrapper; Botta (M.), M. Botta's Letters on the Discoveries at Nineveh, translated .. by C.T., Longman, Brown ..., 1850, first English edition, forty-nine plates (many folding), original cloth (library de-accession stamps to front pastedown); Volney (M.), The Ruins, or A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, Johnson, 1796, third edition, frontis, two folding plates (restored and lined), modern half leather; with ten others (13)
Lot 247
Bishop (Mrs) (Isabella L. Bird) Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs, John Murray, 1891, first edition, presentation inscription from the author, two volumes, frontis to each, plates as called for, two folding maps, original cloth gilt (foxing to endpapers)
Lot 293
Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Harrap, 1935, first edition thus, twelve colour and seventeen monochrome plates, original cloth gilt; Sterne (Lawrence), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-30, numbered limited edition of 500, three volumes, fifteen engravings by J.E. Laboureur, top edge gilt, original cloth (4)
Lot 294
Sassoon (Siegfried) Single page Autograph Letter Signed, 23.8.62, in which Sassoon responds to a request for accommodation for an Irishman at Hungerford Hospital Flats (Anglican), advising that 'a Catholic would be a fish out of water, so to speak, especially on Fridays', explanatory note stapled to letter; idem, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Faber & Gwyer, 1928, first edition, original cloth; idem, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Faber & Faber, 1930, first edition, dust wrapper (priced 7s.6d.); with three others (6)
Lot 303
Bewick (Thomas) History of British Birds, Volume I containing the History and Description of Land Birds, Newcastle; Beilby & Bewick, 1797 [bound with] A Supplement to ... Part I .. Land Birds, Newcastle; Bewick and Charnley, 1821; Volume II containing the History and Description of Water Birds, Bewick, 1804, [bound with] A Supplement ... Part II .. Water Birds, Bewick and Charnley, 1821, first editions, first issues, two volumes, thin royal octavo, top edges gilt, full green morocco by Wright (Roscoe 14c, Variant A with correct Jug, Sea Eagle, Magpie and advert; Roscoe 17c, Variant A with correct first state vignettes)
Lot 229
Stein (M. Aurel) Ruins of Desert Cathay, Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, Macmillan, 1912, first edition, two volumes, 'presentation copy' blindstamp, three folding maps, eight coloured plates, six folding panoramas, 334 monochrome illustrations (333 on plates) as called for, original cloth gilt (lower corner of volume I nibbled, small puncture holes through two maps, final leaves and rear board of volume II)
Lot 24
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, presentation inscription thanking Prof. W.A. Haswell for his help with the expedition, signed by the author in the year of publication, two volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for, three folding maps in end pocket, original cloth gilt, modern slipcase.
Lot 331
Graves (John) The History of Cleveland, in the North Riding of the County of York ..., Carlisle: Jollie, 1808, quarto, engraved title, folding hand-coloured map, nine engraved plates including frontis, folding pedigree, some foxing, particularly the frontis and engraved title, contemporary tree calf (worn, re-backed) [Boyne p.189]; Atkinson (J.C.), History of Cleveland, Ancient and Modern, Volumes I and II (parts I & 2), Leeds: Rigg, 1988-93, numbered limited editions of 300 and 500, quarto, first two volumes in quarter leather, the third in cloth (4)
Lot 27
Mawson (Douglas) The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Heinemann, 1915, first edition, 2 volumes, portrait frontis, colour and monochrome plates as called for (at least four plates with presentation stamps from H. J. Shepstone), three folding maps in rear pocket, original cloth gilt.
Lot 242
Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Nubia, John Murray, 1819, first edition, quarto, portrait frontis, three engraved maps (two folding, one linen-backed and worm-tracked), all edges gilt, half morocco; Belzoni (G.), Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries ... in Egypt and Nubia .., John Murray, 1820, first edition, text volume only, quarto, portrait frontis, Book Society 181* regulations to front pastedown, original boards with modern morocco spine (2)
Lot 267
Bell (Gertrude Lowthian) The Desert and the Sown, Heinemann, 1907, first edition, colour frontis, text illustrations, folding map, original cloth idem, Amurath to Amurath, Heinemann, 1911, first edition, frontis, plates as called for (one torn with unsightly tape repair), folding map, original cloth (re-backed, new endpapers) (2)
![King (Dr. [Richard]) The Franklin Expedition from First to Last, John Churchill, 1855, presentation inscription signed by the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b7768c5d-2849-4ed4-9331-a9b900933df5/1163cc29-78d4-4c6b-8b30-a9b900a83cac/468x382.jpg)
Lot 172
Cook (Frederick A.) Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899, A Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Belgica' …, New York; Doubleday & McClure, 1900, numbered 'Author's edition' of 1000*, signed by the author with additional portrait frontis, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth (faded, recased with new endpapers), modern slipcase [*Rosove believes that the number was much smaller]
Lot 174
Drygalski (Erich von) The Southern Ice-Continent, The German South Polar Expedition aboard the Gauss, 1901-1903, Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press, 1989, first edition in English, folio, original pictorial cloth; Filchner (Wilhelm), To the Sixth Continent, The Second German South Polar Expedition, Bluntisham Books/Erskine Press, 1994, first edition in English, folio, original cloth; with nine others (11)
Lot 207
Anson (George) A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, printed for the author by Knapton, 1748, first edition, quarto, large margins, subscribers list, forty-two plates, maps and charts (forty-one folding or double page) as called for (one torn without loss), calf (re-backed)
Lot 223
Younghusband (Francis) Peking to Lhasa, The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the late Brigadier-General George Pereira ..., Constable, 1925, first edition, thirty-three plates, two folding maps, original cloth; Dainella (Giotto), Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet, Kegan Paul ..., 1933, thirty-two plates, map, original cloth; Bishop (Isabella Bird), Among the Tibetans, New York; Revell, n.d. [1894], first US edition, frontis, text illustrations (including full page, original cloth gilt; with eleven others (14)
Lot 185
Brown (R.N. Rudmose) A Naturalist at the Poles, The Life, Work and Voyages of Dr. W.S. Bruce, the Polar Explorer, Seeley, Service, 1923, first edition, two folding colour maps, plates as called for, dust wrapper with price excised from backstrip; Levick (G. Murray, Dr.), Antarctic Penguins, A Study of their Social Habits, Heinemann, 1914, plates as called for, original pictorial cloth; with one other (3)
Lot 134
Stefansson (Vilhjalmur) The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Cape, 1926, folding map, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 18s.); Andree (S.A.), Strindberg (Nils) & Fraenkel (Knut), The Andree Diaries, being ... written during their Balloon Expedition to the North Pole in 1897 ...., John Lane, 1931, first English edition, frontis, three folding maps, plates as called for, dust wrapper (priced 21s.); with seven others (9)
Lot 301
Radcliffe (M.) A Modern System of Domestic Cookery; or the Housekeeper's Guide: Arranged on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families ...,Manchester; Gleave, 1823, frontis, engraved title (dated 1822), eleven plates, 19th century owners' names on fly leaf, modern half morocco; Thornton (Robert John), A New Family Herbal: or Popular Account of the Natures and Properties of the Various Plants used in Medicine, Diet and the Arts, Richard Phillips, 1810, first edition, wood engravings by Thomas Bewick after Henderson, repaired closed tear to final leaf, modern quarter morocco (2)
Lot 180
Cook (Frederick A.) Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-1899, A Narrative of the Voyage of the 'Belgica' …, Heinemann, 1900, colour and monochrome plates as called for, original pictorial cloth (re-backed retaining original backstrip, library stamp to final page); Amundsen (Roald), My Life as an Explorer, Heinemann, 1927, frontis, dust wrapper (priced 10s.6d., worn and faded); idem, The South Pole, An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-1912, John Murray, 1912, first English edition, two volumes, plates and maps as called for (one folding map torn without loss), top edge gilt, modern red cloth (4)
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