NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ORIENTAL COINS Hingston Quiggin, A, A Survey of Primitive Money, (1949) Reprinted, 1963, 344pp, folding map, 32 plates, cloth, jacket, good; Wieschhoff, H, A, Primitive Money, University of Pennsylvania, 1945, 43pp, b/w plates, card covers, very good; Schulman, H, Primitive Money (Odd and Curious Monies), New York, 1967/68, 93pp, illustrated, card covers, very good; Gibbs, H, Odd and curious Money of the World, published by Hans Schulman, New York, 1946, 52pp, line drawings and illustrations, paper covers, good; Johannson, S O, Nigerian Currencies, Manillas, Cowries and Others, Second Edition, 1967, 57pp, folding plates, tables and illustrations, card covers, very good. (5)
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NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ORIENTAL COINS Kann, E, The Currencies of China, Shanghai, 1927, 562pp, colour plate as frontispiece (loose), folding map, further plates in the text, original cloth, gilt, a good copy, important and scarce; Schjöth, F, Chinese Currency, (1929) Second reprinting, London, 1976, 92pp, 132 plates of drawings, cloth, good. (2)
A John Speede Christopher Saxton 17c map of the county of Radnorshire with plan of the town of Radnor, coat of arms and scale, hand coloured, framed and glazed, with print to reverse for Radnorshire and alphabetical table for all the towns rivers, being chapter eight of book two pages 111 and 112, 15.5"" x 20.5"".
DRAYTON, Michael (1563-1631), Warwickshire, with later hand colouring, engraved map, 26 x 33.5cm.; 10.25 x 13.25in. * Born at Hartshill in Warwickshire, Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare, was primarily a poet and in 1612 published his major work : Poly-Olbion or Chorographical Description of all the Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests and other parts of the Renowned Isle of Great Britain. This work consisted of a collection of songs together with 18 maps (a second edition was published with an additional 12 maps) engraved by William Hole. While these maps are of various regions they could not be said to be accurate being more inclined to fantasy rather than geography. The main features of the maps are the rivers and tributaries which are populated with nymphs and deities. Shepherds stand atop hills and towns and cities are symbolised by elaborately dressed figures with castles or spires on their heads. So, while they may not be terribly useful as maps they are certainly very attractive and entertaining.
COLLINS, Capt. Greenvile, The Menai Straits, sea chart of the channel between Anglesey and the mainland, with an inset close up of the treachorous northern end, soundings, reefs and rhumb lines, north to bottom of map, decorated dedicatory cartouche at top centre, hand coloured copper plate engraved sea chart, 45.5 x 58cm.; 18 x 23in. * Captain Greenvile Collins was an outstanding naval officer who became `Hydrographer to the King` before the Coasting Pilot was published. The Coasting Pilot was the result of the first systematic survey of British coastal waters. It took eight years to complete. The charts are notable for both their accuracy and their charm.
A mid 18th Century Map of the West Riding of Yorkshire divided into Wapontakes with notes on places of interest, including a view of Leeds., etc, by Emanuel Bowen (1714-1767) a highly regarded Royal Map Maker; dedicated to The Noble & Most Honorable Thomas Wentworth, framed. 28" (71cms) x 21" (53.5cms).
“Taschen Brockhaus zum Zeitgeschehen” published by Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1942, containing over 800 photographic illustrations and line drawings in the text, of military leaders, flags, insignia, weapons etc, and with separate coloured map of the world and of Europe, Africa and the Near East (covers worn); “Kolonials Taschenbuch 1942”, containing a wealth of information and a diary (spine datached but present); “Morgen marschieren wir, Liederbuch der deutscher Soldaten”, with stamp of “Soldatenheim Chalons-Sur-Marne”, and “Die Deutschen Geschutze 1939-1945”, published by Lehmanns Verlag, Munchen, 1960, profusely illustrated with soft red leatherette covers. Average GC (4)
Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger (French, 1722-1759), "Nouvelle Mappemonde dédiée au progrès de nos connoissances", 1760, Paris, copper-engraved map in original outline color, double-hemisphere map with elaborate ornament by Chouffard, sheet 21 1/4 in. x 29 1/4 in. Note: A portion of the proceeds of this lot to benefit Spring Hill College Library, Rare Book Room.
Louis Claude de Vezou (French, 18th c.), "Mappe-Monde Géo Sphérique ou Nouvelle Carte Idéale du Globe Terrestre...Sphère Armillaire", 1760, Paris, double hemisphere copper-engraved map in outline color, with diagrams of the movements of the planets by Tyco Brahe, Descartes, Copernicus and Ptolemy, sheet 21 1/4 in. x 31 1/8 in. Note: A portion of the proceeds of this lot to benefit Spring Hill College Library, Rare Book Room.
Robert Jean Janvier (French, fl. 1746-1776), "Mappemonde ou Déscription de Globe Terrestre assujettie aux Obsérvations Astronomiques", 1760 Paris, double hemisphere copper-engraved map in outline color, with allegorical cartouche by Choffard, sheet 21 1/4 in. x 29 2/8 in. Note: A portion of the proceeds of this lot to benefit Spring Hill College Library, Rare Book Room.
John L. Boqueta de Woiseri (active America, 1797-1815), "A View of New Orleans taken from the Plantation of Marigny", 1803, colored aquatint with engraving, showing saw mills, the Place des Armes, St. Louis Cathedral, three newly hoisted American flags, with an eagle holding a banner with the motto "Under My Wings Every Thing Prospers" above, sheet 13 in. x 22 3/4 in., framed. Note: Mounted on heavy stock. Note: In 1803, John L. Boqueta de Woiseri, a portrait artist by trade, who developed his talents as an engineer and designer, produced a bird`s eye view of the city of New Orleans. The etching presented here is a companion to a map produced by Boqueta de Woiseri most likely under the guidance of Pierre Clement Laussat, the prefect of Louisiana, who resided at the Marigny plantation. Boqueta de Woiseri`s etching is unique as it was the only view at the time to depict the city`s most important buildings: the Cabildo, the Presbytere, and St. Louis Cathedral. In addition, the etching celebrates the purchase of New Orleans and the Louisiana territory by the United States. This monumental event is symbolically portrayed by the eagle clutching a sixteen star-spangled banner. John L. Boqueta de Woiseri`s rendering of the newly minted American city is also included in the collection of Monticello and has been exhibited at the Historic New Orleans Collection. Reference: The Historic New Orleans Collection, Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps, 2003. The Historic New Orleans Collection Printmaking in New Orleans, 2006.
[Rare Norman`s New Orleans Map], "Norman`s Plan of New Orleans & Environs", 1854, published by B.M. Norman, lithographed by G. Hayward, New York, folding pocket map, on blue-gray paper, with original hand-coloring in outline, having 86 numbered references in the lower margin showing hotels, banks, churches, schools, theaters, hospitals, markets, cotton presses, and other public buildings, publisher`s blindstamped and gilt cover preserved, sheet 15 1/4 in. x 19 7/8 in., attractively matted and framed. Note: This seminal 19th century plan of New Orleans was first issued by Norman in 1845. In the present 1854 issue, Norman has made significant updates to the plan and has removed the credit to the original draughtman Henry Moellhausen. Moellhausen was an important early surveyor and architect, particularly active in the 1840s, and was an early advocate of an underground drainage system. This plan shows the city divided into four districts and nine wards, the former shown in pink lines and the latter in green. Norman`s most famous map, "Chart of the Lower Mississippi River", designed by Marie-Adrien Persac, was published four years after this map.
JOHNSTON H H The River Congo - from its Mouth to Bolobo 220 x 150 Work by noted empire-builder, explorer and administrator, who says this work is not intended as a narrative of great pioneering exploration, this having been done by others before him such as Stanley, nor of scientific research, the author not being qualified to do so, but rather a guide-book for would-be travellers to the region. Much on the tribes of the Western Congo basin. 470 pp with numerous text illustrations and engraved plates and two maps - all present. Good condition in contemporary half calf with marbled-paper covered boards. Very slight foxing in prelims, otherwise nice, clean copy. The map has been expertly repaired along some folds, and there are a fe insignificant marginal tears on 5 pages. Good London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 1884 Click here to view further details and to bid
Brevet-Major A.G. Pratt The 1st Battalion Essex Regiment in South Africa 1899-1902 175 mm x 220 mm Number 31 of a limited amount of 125 copies printed in this format. Unread and new hardcover with dust jacket. 38 pages. Preface and appendix which include Roll of Officers. Pull-out map at rear. Splendid York Boer War Books 1998 Click here to view further details and to bid
H.W.Wilson With the Flag to Pretoria-2 Volumes: After Pretoria-The Guerilla War - Supplement to With the Flag to Pretoria.2 Volumes- 4 Volume SET- Red Cloth Variation 25 X 33cm- Weight 8.6kgs With the Flag to Pretoria Volumes I & II with matched Volumes III & IV-After Pretoria-The Guerilla War-Supplement to With the Flag to Pretoria-Red variation with black lettering/gilt to front board and spine. With the Flag to Pretoria-A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. Illustrated mainly from photographs and authentic sketches taken in South Africa. Volume I- Frontispiece-Her Majesty the Queen Visiting her wounded soldiers.viii plus folding map-Chapter I The Explosion. October 11th 1899. And events previous thereto- Chapter XVI-The Grand Army Relieves Kimberley, Feb. 10-16th 1900. Pages viii + 1-364. With numerous photographs. sketches, illustrations and maps. Slight offset to endpapers. Volume II-Frontispiece-The Crowning of a Great Career.Roll of Honour/Troops Engaged in the War. Chapter VVII- The Siege of Ladysmith- Chapter XXXI.viii pages 365-716 with folding map to rear, also with supporting photographs etc.Clean endpapers. After Pretoria: The Guerilla War-The Supplement to `With the Flag to Pretoria` in two volumes VOLUME I(forming Volume III of the Complete Work)Frontispiece-His Most Excellent Majesty Edward VII-Chapter I-The Bethlehem Campaign-June-July 20th ,1900.- XXVI Vlakfontein.May 14-May 27th 1901 Concluded in Volume II..Pages viii plus 528 pages text with numerous illustrations, sketches and photographs etc. Rear hinge tender.Feint offset to endpapers. Volume II( Forming Volume IV of the Comlete Work) Frontispiece-The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain,M.P. Chapter XXVI Vlakfontein-Completed May 25th- July, 1901-Chapter XLVII. The Peace Negotiations and conclusion of Peace-March 12th-June 1902. vi plus pages 529-1008 again with supporting photographs, sketches and illustrations. Tender back hinge.Slight offset to endpapers. Overall very clean set of four volumes. Very Good London Harmsworth Brothers-The Amalgamated Press 1900-1902 Click here to view further details and to bid
Holub (Emil) SEVEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (225 x 145 mm) Travels, Researches and Hunting Adventures between the Diamond Fields and the Zambesi (1872-79), translated by Ellen E. Frewer. 2 volumes, 426 + 479 pages, 8vo (228 x 152 mm), frontispiece in each volumes (volume 1 a portrait of the author), large folding map, numerous engraved plates and illustrations in the text, original pictorial brown cloth gilt – volume 2 has been recased with new endpapers added and the corners repaired, a library label has been removed from the front cover of each volume leaving slight residue, contents good. Holub describes his first three expeditions to the remoter regions of southern Africa in the 1870`s. Emil Holub`s compelling ambition was to follow in the footsteps of Dr Livingstone and, specifically, to reach Luanda by way of the Zambesi valley and across Angola. That he failed in his principle objective does not diminish his stature as a traveller-explorer nor, indeed, the fascination which modern readers will derive from his meticulous accounts of the journeys, the third of which took him to the upper reaches of the Zambesi River. Holub was eminently qualified to undertake travel in the Africa of his day. He was a doctor of medicine, a zoologist, a botanist, a hunter and taxidermist, an artist and cartographer, an avid collector of specimens and, above all, a keen observer. Where Livingstone broke new ground Holub followed to consolidate, to record, to add detail to the broad canvas painted by his eminent predecessor.` Editor`s note to the reprint edition, Johannesburg, 1975. Good London Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1881 Click here to view further details and to bid
Baldwin (W.C.) AFRICAN HUNTING AND ADVENTURE FROM NATAL TO THE ZAMBESI. 8vo (220 x 140 mm) Including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, Etc., from 1852 to 1860including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, Etc., from 1852 to 1860. Second edition (published in the same year as the first edition): 451 pages, folding map, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 6 tinted lithographic plates by Wolf, 40 wood engraved plates and text illustrations, contemporary full calf (bound by Jenkins & Cecil, Bloomsbury St.), red leather title label, spine decorated in gilt in panels, marbled edges and endpapers, occasional light foxing, a good copy. Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 3, pages42/3. ‘Baldwin arrived in Durban in 1851 having been attracted to South African by Cumming’s `Five Years of a Hunter’s Life` published in 1850. He made several hunting expeditions to Zululand, Marico, Matabeleland and Lake Ngami. In April 1860 he again left for Potchefstroom intent on reaching the Victoria Falls, which he succeeded in doing more by luck than good management on August 3rd. He was the second white man to see the falls, the first to have reached them from the east coast (Natal), and the first to describe them with exactness and give their true dimensions, the accuracy of which he vouched for to David Livingstone himself, when the great explorer arrived about 8th or 9th August.’ Good London Richard Bentley 1863 Click here to view further details and to bid
Pringle (Thomas) NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (190 x 125 mm) A New Edition. 356 pages, map of the ceded territory of the frontier with the District of Albany and part of Somerset as frontispiece, half black calf with cloth sides (with the binder’s ticket of Carter Bros, Binders, North Road, Brighton at the base of the front paste-down endpaper), spine decorated gilt in panels with a red leather title label. The frontispiece map is foxed with offsetting on the title page, otherwise the contents are clean and bright. ‘..and though he tells us that he weighed carefully the advantages of the several British Colonies before he fixed upon the Cape as the most suitable place to recoup the family fortunes, the introduction of and the publicity given in 1819 to the Government`s scheme to establish settlers in the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony must have considerably influenced him. That he did come to the Cape, albeit for only six years, we can be grateful, for though not perhaps a great man he was of more than ordinary ability and of the greatest integrity - no mean protagonist in the fight for truth and the relief of oppression. That he had his failings - principally a lack of tact and caution - will become apparent.` A.Lewin Robinson from his introduction to the facsimile reprint published by C. Struik & Co, Cape Town, 1966. Good London Edward Moxon 1835 Click here to view further details and to bid
Barrow, John An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798 - Lot of 2 An Account of Travels Into the Interior of Southern Africa in the Years 1797 and 1798; including cursory observations on the geology of the southern part of that continent; the natural history of such objects as occurred in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; and sketches on the physical and moral characters of the various tribes of inhabitants surrounding the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope. To which is annexed a description of the present state, population and produce of that extensive colony; with a map constructed entirely from actual observations made in the course of the travels. By John Barrow, late Secretary to the Earl of Macartney and Auditor-General of Public Accounts at the Cape of Good Hope. Full leather rebound with gilt titling to spine, new endpapers, pp. [4] + 386 + 1p. publisher`s ads + fold-out map. Small bumps to rear board, prelims, text pages and map age-toned and foxed, small hole to ffep and to top edge of title page not affecting the text. Good New York GF Hopkins 1802 Click here to view further details and to bid
Gibbon, Edward The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Eight Volumes (1827) 150x240mm The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in Eight Volumes (1825/1827). Full leather rebound with gold lettering on spine, new endpapers, illustrated with a map and portrait of Gibbon. 418 + 480 + 496 + 521 + 523 + 534 + 478 + 450 pages. Foxing on first and last pages of each volume. Good London J.F. Dove 1825/1827 Click here to view further details and to bid
Ginn (P.J.), McIlleron (W.G.) & Milstein (P. le S THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN BIRDS. 4to (330 x 250 mm) Second Impression: 760 pages, more than 1000 colour photographs, map of Southern Africa, distribution maps, blue cloth gilt, overall a very good copy in the dust jacket contained in the publisher’s original posting box. Very good Cape Town Struik Winchester 1990 Click here to view further details and to bid
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