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Click here to subscribeHermes. A silk scarf by Hermes Paris, Scala, 90x92cm boxed together with two silk maps of the Adriatic sea and Jugoslavia 61.50cm a German printed cotton map scarf of Germany, a printed silk Queen Victoria Commonwealth scarf 70x65cm a tie-dye scarf and 1920s printed cotton cocktail place mat. (7)
One volume "Historical Description of Cheltenham and its vicinity", published by S.Y. Griffiths & Co., Cheltenham 1826, EDWIN LEE "Cheltenham and its resources, mineral waters, climate, etc., considered chiefly in a sanative point of view", published Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane, London 1851, one volume "Bettison`s History of Cheltenham or visitors guide embellished with a map and plates", one volume "The History of Cheltenham and account of its environs", published by H. Ruff, Cheltenham 1803, and one volume "The New Bath Guide or Useful Pocket Companion", a new edition, printed by R. Cruttwell, Bath 1800 (5) (ILLUSTRATED)
FREDERIC HARRISON "Annals of an Old Manor-House, Sutton Place, Guildford", published London 1893, together with JACOB LARWOOD & JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN "The History of Signboards from the earliest times to the present day", 5th Edition, published John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, marbled and leather cloth boards, one volume "The Flower Garden, its cultivation, arrangement and general management", published by William Orr & Co., London 1839, two 18th Century canvas maps "A New Map of England & Wales", published January 1794 by R. Wilkinson, and "The London Guide or Pocket Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark with the new buildings to the year 1770 by J. Ellis", both in original sleeves, ANDREW W. TUER "Old London Street Cries and the Cries of Today with Heaps of Quaint Cuts", published London 1885, one bound volume "Key to the Picture of Her Majesty`s Jubilee Celebration in Westminster Abbey, after W.E. Lockhart", 1887, one volume "The Young Reviewers or the Poems Dissected", 1821, one bound volume "Genealogical Handbook of English History showing the Dynasties of all the English Sovereigns", published J.P.A. Long, printed on canvas, one volume "The Royal Primer, or High Road to Learning", with coloured plates of animals and birds, one volume "History of Renard the Fox", published London 1840, one volume "The Post Boy, Clear the road, clear the road, make room for me that every little child may learn its A, B, C", printed and sold by Darton, Harvey & Darton, London 1810, one volume "The Finchley Manuals of Industry, No IV, Plain Needlework in all its branches", London 1860, JOHN BUNYAN "The Pilgrims Progress", miniature paper bound book with figural coloured plates, and one volume "The Prince of Wales Primer" (15)
AFTER BRIONE DE LA TOUR & LOUIS CHARLES DESNOS "Suite de l`histoire de Rome, depuis l`An 3724. jusqu`a l`An 3728", a hand-coloured engraved a map depicting Italy, Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea and Sicily, flanked by text within hand-coloured border of trophies, scientific emblems and laurel leaves circa 1783, image size 40 cm x 56 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
A folio of assorted watercolours, engravings, maps, etc, to include AFTER JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth", hand-coloured strip map, a further JOHN OGILBY "London to Aberystwyth" hand-coloured strip map, HENRY K. BROWNE 04 "On the Wandle, Mitcham", river scene with trees along the bank and buildings in the background, watercolour heightened with white, titled and signed, J. TWIGG "Street scene with mother and child and further figures in the street and church rising in the background", watercolour, signed and dated bottom right and a further selection of other pictures and prints
19TH CENTURY ENGLISH SCHOOL "Hieroglyphic portrait of Napoleon with script", head and shoulders, his hat as an eagle, his face decorated with naked figures and his tunic as a map of Germany with spider and web decoration, with hand-written script below, pen ink and watercolour, unsigned, bears printed articles and a "Regency Gallery, Cheltenham" label verso, 25 cm x 23 cm (ILLUSTRATED)
Bates (Henry Walter). The Naturalist on the River Amazons, A record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel, 2 vols., 1st ed., John Murray, 1863, forty-two wood eng. plts. and illusts. (complete as list), incl. nine full-page, lacks folding map to rear of first vol., marbled endpapers, a.e.g., contemp. green half-morocco gilt, a little rubbed and scuffed to joints and extrems., 8vo. (2)
Bates (Henry Walter). The Naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1863, forty-two wood eng. plts. and illusts. (complete as list), folding map and 32 pp. pubs. cat., dated January 1863 at end of vol. 1, blindstamp to front endpaper of each, orig. gilt-dec. ribbed brown cloth gilt, upper cover damp stained and spine ends split to vol. 2, some wear, 8vo. Sabin 3932a. Described as “one of the finest scientific travel books of the 19th century” (Dictionary of Scientific Biography), this work was recommended for publication by Charles Darwin, and is an important contribution to the study of the Origin of Species. The expedition undertaken jointly by Henry Bates and Alfred Russell Wallace, commenced in 1848, and only ended with the return of Bates in July 1859. (2)
Burton (Richard F.). The Lake Regions of Central Africa. A Picture of Exploration, 1st ed., 2 vols., 1860, half-titles present, 11 (of 12) chromoxylograph plts., folding map at rear of vol. 2 (repaired with tape), wood-engs. to text, pubs. ads. to rear of vol. 2, rear hinge of vol. 2 strengthened, early 20th c. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo. (2)
Campbell (John). Lives of the British Admirals: containing a new and accurate Naval History, from the earliest periods. With a continuation down to the year 1779, including the naval transactions of the late and present war, and an account of the recent discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. Written under the inspection of Doctor Berkenhout, 4 vols., printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1779, engraved frontis. to each vol., five (of 6) folding engraved maps by John Lodge, including Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and West Indies (lacking map of South America to 3rd vol.), some minor marks and light spotting, contemp. uniform full calf, gilt dec. spines with morocco labels, rubbed and some wear, 8vo, together with Robertson (William), The History of America, vol. 1 & 3 (of 3) only, 1st Dublin ed., 1777, engraved port. frontis. after Reynolds, waterstain to top margins of volume 3, contemp. half calf, worn, all 8vo. (6)
Chardin (Sir John). The Travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies. The First Volume [all published], Containing the Author’s Voyage from Paris to Isphahan, 2 parts in one, 1st ed. in English, 1686, engraved portrait, engraved additional title, folding map, seven engraved plates only (i.e. 10 of a total of 16), some mispagination, occasional annotation and light soiling, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio . (1)
Churchill (Winston Spencer). London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1st ed., Longmans, Green & Co, 1900, folding col. map frontis., three maps (inc. 2 folding), four maps and plans to text, folding maps torn and repaired, 32pp. ads. at rear, orig. pict. cloth, spine strengthened, slight dust-soiling & fading, 8vo, contained in slipcase (Woods A4), together with The River War, an Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan..., new revised ed., 1902, b & w port. frontis., plans and folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with Atlantic Meeting. An account of Mr. Churchill’s voyage in H.M.S. Prince of Wales, in August, 1941, and the Conference with President Roosevelt, 1st ed., 1943, b & w plts., orig. cloth, 8vo, plus The Second World War, 6 vols., 1st ed., 1948-54, orig. cloth in d.j.s., 8vo. (9)
Daly (Mrs. Dominic D.). Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of Souh Australia, 1887, folding hand-col. litho map, orig. decorative cloth gilt, spine slightly stained at head, 8vo, together with Yate (Rev. William), An Account of New Zealand; and of the Formation and Progress of the Church Missionary Society’s Mission in the Northern Island, 1835, eng. port. frontis. (spotted), folding eng. map, hand-col. litho plt. and eight wood eng. plts., contemp. half calf, extrems. slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Lang (john Dunmore), Queensland, Australia; a Highly Eligible Field for Emigration, and the Future Cotton-Field of Great Britain: with a Disquistion on the Origin, Manners, and Customs of the Aborigines, 1861, folding hand-col. litho map frontis., pubs. ads. at rear, lower free endpaper torn with slight loss, orig. green cloth gilt, 8vo, plus The Tradesmen’s Tokens of the Australian Colonies..., by C.W. Stainsfield, 1888 andHistory of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand by Rev. John Dickson, Dunedin, 1899. (5)
Gregory (J.W.). The Dead Heart of Australia. A Journey Around Lake Eyre in the Summer of 1901-1902, With Some Account of the Lake Eyre Basin and the Flowing Wells of Central Australia, 1906, two folding maps at rear (one with a few tape repairs), num. b&w plts. from photos, piece of orig. cloth cover pasted to front endpaper, modern qtr. morocco gilt, 8vo, together with Norris (Edwin), The Ethnographical Library, vol. 1 only (of 2 ), 1853, five litho. plts., two folding maps, one folding table, orig. blindstamped cloth, rebacked, upper corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, plus Barton (G. B.), History of New South Wales from the Records, vol. 1 only (of 2), 1889, six folding maps (one with large handling tear), five b&w plts., contemp. half sheep gilt, wear to extrems, rubbed and marked, 8vo, plus approx. sixty-five other Australia related, incl. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, by George Grey, vol. 2 only, 1841 (lacking map), etc. (68)
Japan. The Railways of Japan, [Tokyo], c.1910, nine b & w collotype plts., three graphs, and one large folding map, ex. lib. copy with ink stamp on plt. versos, and lib. presentation label on verso of front free endpaper, a.e.g., orig. patterned woven silk cloth, spine sl. frayed to extrems. and with ms. shelfmark label at foot, oblong folio. (1)
[Jesuits]. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses, ecrites des Missions Etrangeres, 26 vols., nouvelle edition, Toulouse, Noel-Etienne Sens & Auguste Gaude, 1810-1811, together with Nouvelles Lettres Edifiantes des Missions de la Chine et des Indes Orientales, 6 (of 8) vols., Paris, 1818-1821, sixty-eight engraved maps and plates (comprising fifty-two folding and sixteen single page), contemp. uniform half calf gilt, rubbed and marked, with occ. wear (first and last volume of the main series, and the final volume of the Nouvelles Lettres with some wear), 8vo. Sabin 40699 for the main series. See Corier Sinica 927-930. “The most valuable eighteenth century source on Jesuit activities in frontier regions throughout the world” (Hill). Includes the important map of California by Eusebio Francois Kino. The main series consists of five volumes on the Levant, four volumes on the Americas, 6 volumes on india, and eleven volumes on China. The supplementary Nouvelles Lettres contain reports from China and Cochinchina. . (32)
Martin (Robert Montgomery). Tallis’s Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, pub. John Tallis, 1851, engraved frontis. of the Great Exhibition, additional engraved title, single-page list of maps, eighty-one single-page engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, each with several engraved vignettes and decorative border, two plates of waterfalls and mountains, mostly with good margins (one world map at front of vol. with imprint partly shaved), a.e.g., contemp. diced dark blue full morocco gilt, a littue rubbed and marked, upper joint partly cracked, folio. A good copy. (1)
Nansen (Fridtjof, 1861-1930). “Farthest North”. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months’ Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen, with an Appendix by Otto Sverdrup..., 2 vols., 1898, folding map, b & w illustrations, contemporary pervious owner inscription, a.e.g., original pictorial cloth blocked in gold and silver, bright condition, edges a trifle rubbed, 8vo . (2)
Nieuhoff (Jan). L’Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L’Empereur de la Chine, Ou Grand Cam de Tartarie, Faite par les Srs. Pierre de Goyer, & Jacob de Keyser, 2 parts in one, 1st ed. in French, Leiden, 1665, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, 25 engraved plates only (of 34, also lacking additional engraved title and folding map), numerous engraved illustrations, a few closed tears, waterstains, later calf-backed boards, folio . (1)
Sandys (George). Sandys Travels, Containing an History of the Original and Present State of the Turkish Empire: Their Laws, Government, Policy, Military Force, Courts of Justice, and Commerce..., 7th ed., printed for John Williams Junior, 1673, addn. eng. title, folding eng. map, folding eng. plt. (torn and near-detached at blank gutter), numerous letterpress engs., woodcut head and tail-pieces and initial letters, E1 verso and E8 recto unprinted (i.e. blank due to printing error), occn. early ms. marginalia, early calligraphic ms. names on prelim. blank, Rhiwlas Library bookplate on front pastedown, hinges strenghtened, sprinkled edges, contemp. Cambridge pane calf, sl. rubbed, rebacked with orig. label relaid, corners showing (one renewed), sm. folio in 6s. Wing S680. (1)
Twiss (Richard). Travels Through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773, 1st ed., printed for the author, 1775, half-title, folding engraved map frontis. by J. Barber, six engraved plates by M. A. Rooker, S. H. Grimm and others, including folding view of a bullfight by Charles White after Reinagle, engraved tail piece, a few light spots, contents generally in clean condition, a few leaves a little soiled to extreme top margin, marbled endpapers, contemp. full tree calf gilt, rubbed to joints, rubbed and discreetly repaired to extreme head and foot of spine, 4to. (1)
Wathen (George Henry). The Golden Colony: or Victoria in 1854 with remarks on the geology of the Australian goldfields, 1st ed., 1855, four b & w plts. and one folding map, b & w illusts. to text, some dampstaining to margins, two leaves trimmed to fore-edge margin and one leaf repaired to upper blank corne, modern half calf with contrasting morocco title labels, 8vo (Ferguson 18214), together with Cameron (Rev. James), Centenary History of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, pub. Sydney, 1905, b & w plts. from photos, t.e.g., orig. cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, with Jobson (Frederick), Australia; with Notes by the way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land, 3rd ed., 1862, orig. green cloth gilt, 8vo. (3)
Wilkinson (Sir J. Gardner). Dalmatia and Montenegro: With A Journey to Mostar in Herzegovina, and Remarks on the Slavonic Nations; the History of Dalmatia and Ragusa; the Uscocs, etc. etc., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1848, seven tinted litho. plts. (including two folding), wood-engs. to text, two folding tables and a folding map at rear of vol. 2 (all correct as list), some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., later polished green calf by White of Piccadilly, gilt-dec. spines with raised bands and contrasting labels, 8vo. A handsome set. (2)
Willis (Nathaniel Parker & Bartlett, William Henry). American Scenery, 5 divisions, J.S. Virtue, c.1855, 120 eng. plts. (inc. two title-pages and one single-page map), occ. minor spotting mostly to margins, orig. gilt dec. cloth, (div. III cased-in upside down), few marks, 4to, contained together in slipcase. (5)
Wright (G.N.). The Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean. Drawn from Nature by Sir Grenville Temple, W.L. Leitch, Major Irton & Lieut. Allen, n.d., c. 1840, addn. eng. title, double-page map, sixty-three steel eng. views, some occ. spotting, piece missing to upper outer corner of title, bookplate to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed to extrems., 4to. (1)
Cary (John). Cary’s Traveller’s Companion, or a Delineation of the Turnpike Roads of England and Wales; shewing the immediate Route to every Market and Borough Town throughout the Kingdom, laid down from the best Authorities on a New Set of County maps......, pub. John Cary, 1817, calligraphic title page, contents list and advertisement, forty-three engraved maps with orig. outline colouring, (complete as list) including one folding (Yorkshire), map of Warwickshire with near contemp. ink marginalia, new end papers, contemp. half calf, rebacked, 8vo. Chubb. CCCLV. (1)
Cary (John). Cary’s Survey of the High Roads from London .. wherein Every Gentleman’s Seat, situate on, or seen from the Road, (However Distant) are Laid Down, with the Name of the Possessor; to Which is Added the Number of Inns on Each Separate Route; also, the Different Turnpike Gates, shewing the connection which one trust has with another, printed for J. Cary, July 1st 1790, engraved title, single-page hand-coloured engraved map showing Turnpike Gates, folding b&w general map, engraved explanation leaf, and seventy-nine b&w strip road maps on 39 pp., printed back-to-back, one with contemp. hand-colouring, some marks and minor soiling, early ownership inscription of William Hare, of the Roe Buck Tavern, Richmond Hill to front blank, and verso of folding map, marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Stephen Pitt of Hatherell Long to front pastedown, contemp. calf, rubbed and somewhat worn, with joints cracked (covers near-detached), small 4to. (1)
Collinson (Rev. John). The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset, Collected from Authentick Records..., 3 vols., Bath, 1791, half-titles to vols. 1 & 2 only, folding eng. map frontis. to vol. 1 (tape repairs to verso), forty eng. plts. a few with a small repaired tears, 20th c. cloth backed boards, 4to. Upcott 1146-47. (3)
Enfield (William). An Essay Towards the History of Leverpool, drawn up from Papers left by the Late Mr. George Perry, and from other Materials since Collected .. with views of the principal public structures, a chart of the harbour and a map of the environs, 2nd ed., with additions, printed for Joseph Johnson, 1774, list of subscribers, nine single-page engraved views, large folding eng. chart of Liverpool harbour, folding eng. map of Liverpool, and folding endgraved map of projections, one or two short closed tears without loss, untrimmed, later brown half morocco, rubbed and heavily scuffed, folio, with a folding lithographic map of Liverpool by Richard Thornton, printed by Joseph Briggs, circa 1831, with outline hand-colouring loosely inserted at front of vol. (1)
Lewis (William). Lewis’s New Traveller’s Guide or a Pocket Edition of the English Counties, Containing all the Direct & Cross Roads in England & Wales with the Distance of each Principal Place from London, 1st ed., pub. W.Lewis, [1819], frontis. of engraved map of England and Wales with contemp. hand colouring, dec. title page with presentation and ownership inscription on verso, forty-two engraved map with contemp. hand colouring (complete as list) including one folding (Yorkshire), contemp. half morocco gilt with orig. pubs. label to upper board, 12mo. Chubb. CCCLXIV. (1)
Lilford (Lord). Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood, 2 vols., pub. R.H.Porter, 1895, addn. half titles, uncoloured gravure frontis of Lilford hall to vol. 1, twenty-five b & w gravures after Archibald Thorburn, thirteen wood engravings and numerous engraved vignettes to text throughout, folding litho. map of Northamptonshire at rear of volume 2, contemp. half morocco gilt by R.M.Porter, spines slightly sunned, 4to. (2)
* Africa. Blaeu (Johannes), Africae nova descriptio, n.d., c.1630, hand coloured engraved ‘carte-a-figures’ map, ten costume vignettes to vertical margins, nine oval vignettes of African cities along upper horizontal margin, the sea decorated with galleons, sea monsters and flying fish, 415 x 560 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. (1)
America. De Fer (Nicolas), L’Amerique Meridionale et Septentrionale Dressée selon les dernieres Relations et suivant les nouvelles Decouvertes....., Paris, 1705, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, engraved by H.van Loon, elborate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, insular California, very slight staining, 465 x 600 mm. R.V.Tooley, The Mapping of America, page. 126, no. 60 (state 2). (1)
Berkshire. Rocque (John), To His sacred Majesty George the Third, this Survey of Berkshire is most humbly Inscrib’d by his Majesty’s Dutiful, Obliged, Loyal Subject & Humble Servant, n.d., c.1761, sixteen (only) engraved single and double map and title sheets, several with sparse outline colouring, various sizes and condition. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return. (16)
* British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676. hand coloured engraved map, vertical margins decorated with fourteen engraved historical vignettes, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, old folds, occ. repaired closed tears, left hand vertical margin trimmed with slight loss and re-margined, 390 x 510 mm, English text on verso, framed, mounted and double glazed. (1)
British Isles. Ortelius (Abraham), Angliae, Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannicar Insularum Descriptio, [1574], hand coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche, short split at base of central fold, 345 x 500 mm. French text on verso, together with Edwards (George), Itinera Varia Auctoris, n.d., c.1746, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, four vignettes of the beak of an Egyptian Ibis, a male and female Stag beetle and a lesser humming bird with its egg, 260 x 210 mm. The first described item. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.16. The second described item. R.W.Shirley, Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1650 - 1750, Edwards. 1. (2)
Europe. Neumon (Maurice), La Guerre est l’industrie Nationale de la Prusse, pub. P.J.Gallais, Paris, 1917, colour printed lithographic ‘propaganda map’, backed with archival tissue, 580 x 770 mm, together with Oorlogskaart van Europa, pub. J.Smulders & Co., The Hague, n.d., c.1916, colour printed lithographic map of Europe, old folds, with some splitting along folds, 760 x 1010 mm. The first described item is an unusual map using the popular conceit of the ‘Prussian Octopus’ using its tentacles to envelope its European neighbours. (2)
* France. Senex (John), A New Map of France, shewing the Roads & Post Stages thro:out that Kingdom, as also the errors of Sanson’s Map compared with ye Survey made by the Order of ye Late French King, 1719, engraved map with original outline colouring, decorative uncoloured cartouche, inset map of Catalonia, slight overall browning, 520 x 585 mm, framed and glazed, together with Mercator (Gerard), Tab III Europae, Galliam, Belgicam ac Germaniae partem repraesentans, n.d., c.1730, hand coloured engraved map of France on a Ptolemaic projection, slight overall browning, 345 x 315 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. (2)
Glamorganshire. Saxton (Christopher and Lea Philip), Glamorganshire Discribed by CS, Corrected and Amended by P.Lea, n.d., c.1689, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Cardiff and Llandaff, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 335 x 485 mm, mounted. A clean bright example of an uncommon map. (1)
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