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An eclectic group of printed items to include a 17th century French miniature coloured map of the Azores (100 x 125mm) plus 'Vie Champetre Paisable - Figures for Grouping' plus 'The Ladies Valentine Writer for the Present Year' plus an assortment (quantity)

Prinsep, Henry T 'A Narrative of the Political and Military Transactions of British India Under the Administration of the Marquess of Hastings 1813-1818', John Murray London 1820, with portrait frontispiece, folding map and 9 plates, 4to. (270 x 220mm) b/p for Richard Gregory (Coole, Ireland and London), full gilt tooled calf, repaired back with losses, marbled edges and end papers, some staining

A coloured map of Oxfordshire from Camdens Brittania, with Royal coat of arms (290 x 300mm) and a folded unframed map: Thomas Kitchin 'A New and Improved Map of Oxfordshire' with dedication to Charles Spenser Duke of Marlborough, later coloured (710 x 530mm) (2)

Hobson, William Colling. Cartographer, Walker. (J & C ) Engraver. 'Map of the County Palatine of Durham 1840', coloured and folding in thirty two sections, in an outer gilt tooled leather box plus 'Walkers Norfolk', a folding map 1843 plus two further folding maps 'Ordnance Survey around Lynn' and 'England, Wales and Part of Scotland. All in used condition (4)

Bowen, Emanuel. 'An Accurate Map of the County of Surrey', Carrington Bowles London 1777 with cartouche, later coloured, framed (420 x 500mm)

Chalmers, Alexander 'A History of the University of Oxford including the Lives of the Founders' with a series of illustrative engravings (as per listing plus one). Cooke and Parker Oxford, Longman et al, London 1810. 8vo. plus Wade WM 'Walks in Oxford', Pearson, High Street, Oxford 1817, 8vo. 12/13 plates, map deficient, both rebound in half calf, marbled boards, foxing throughout (2)

Mixed antiquarian prints, together with a metal plaque titled Wheal Jane, Cornwall, and a Robert Morden map of 'Barkshire' Location: A2F

An Elisabeth Lecourt bespoke map dress, a French artist who handmakes a collection of apparel using meticulously folded geographical maps, mounted and frame, 85cm x 60cm Location:

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Kilner, Royal Field Artillery, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, Belfast, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps (Major. C. H. Kilner, 62/Bty., R.F.A.) engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. C. H. Kilner.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted (the DSO in gold and the clasps on the miniature QSA in the correct order) and both housed in a fitted case, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Charles Harold Kilner was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 15 August 1864 and was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 5 July 1884 and was posted to the 1/1 North Irish Battery, serving with them in India from September 1885. He was promoted Captain in August 1893 and having returned to the U.K. took part in the Jubilee celebrations whilst serving with 86th Battery, R.F.A. Kilner served with both the 62nd and 129th Batteries in South Africa during the Boer War, and as Second-in-Command at Paardeberg witnessed the guns of the 62nd being used to fire into Cronje’s laager. He saw further action at Poplar Grove (12 March 1900), Vet River (5-6 May 1900), Zand River, and Belfast (26-27 August 1900). Whilst in South Africa he was promoted Major on 15 March 1900. Having transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Kilner was recalled for service at the start of the Great War and was employed initially at the Cable Census Office from 9 August 1914, until volunteering for front-line service in October 1915. Granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he was given command of 186th Battery, and served with them on the Western Front from March 1916. He served with this Battery during both the Somme campaign and later at Passchendaele (where he was recommended for promotion to Brigadier), and for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 14 December 1917). He returned to England in November 1917, and having been awarded the D.S.O. was subsequently employed as Assistant Manager, Inspection Department, Ministry of Munitions. Kilner died in Southsea, Hampshire, on 2 August 1936. His son Hew Ross Kilner, also had a distinguished career in the Royal Field Artillery, and was awarded the Military Cross in the same Gazette that his father was awarded his D.S.O. Sold with the recipient’s personal leather bound journal giving details of his life in the Army; the recipient’s Commission Document, dated 1884; Certificate for Special Promotion, dated 1887; Veterinary Course Certificate, dated 1891; a Great War Trench Map (Violaines ands Rue de Marais sector), with positions of 186 Battery during the Somme campaign marked; the recipient’s Passport, dated 1921; various contemporary portrait and group photographs and photographic images; other documents and ephemera; and copied research.

Darwin, Charles Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo, [5] viii-xiv 629 pp., original vertical-ribbed purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps ('The Southern Portion of South America' and 'Keeling Islands'), wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher's 16 pp. catalogue dated August 1839 bound in at rear, additional slip tipped to final page of catalogue advertising further titles by Darwin. Cloth unevenly sunned, nicks to spine ends, very small tear to middle compartment and small ink-mark to foot, a few bumps to extremities, front inner hinge cracked, spotting to early leaves, first map slightly offset, second map spotted and with closed handling tear extending into frame only. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery [Freeman 11 binding variant b]Note: Note: First edition, first separate issue and the second overall, of Darwin's first published book. It originally appeared as the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle early the same year; the present issue uses the same sheets but has a cancel title-page and the volume-title (pp. [v-vi]) is discarded. Copies are also found in blue cloth; occasionally the two maps are loose in an end-pocket rather than inserted into the text.Provenance: 'Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, the gift of his father, Nov 15th 1839' (inscription to front free endpaper); Christie's, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 14th November 2007, lot 90.

Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806 Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904-5. 8 volumes, 8vo, recent maroon gilt, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, text volumes (1-7) with 44 plates and maps in total including frontispieces, atlas volume (8) with 54 maps, all folding, several on multiple sheets (nos. 38 and 39 on one sheet), title-pages with ink- and blindstamps of Harvard College Library dated 27th December 1916 and pencilled inscriptions 'Gift of William Farnsworth' ('Withdrawn Dec. 1994 to Gifts and Exchange Division' according to laid-in catalogue note), volume 5 with closed tear to frontispiece, maps in atlas volume on thin paper, several consequently with splits along folds (e.g. 13, 15, 32.1, 35, 39), frequent tape reinforcement along folds (e.g. 2, 14, 30, 52-3), map 4 with closed tear. Together with 3 others (not collated: Olin D. Wheeler, The Trail of Lewis and Clark 1804-1904, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, 2 volumes, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, plates; Sir Walter Scott, The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827, 3 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards, rebacked retaining old labels; and one similar)

Chapman, Abel Collection of works On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to 'The skipper, from the author' on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59];Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60];First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text;Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper ('Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927'), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for;Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed.Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon, mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth)Note: Note: '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).

Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped [and:] Catriona London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1886-93. 2 works, 8vo, 20th-century crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere (blue and green respectively), gilt edges, half-title to each work, Kidnapped with folding map frontispiece and 17 pp. advertisements to rear, Catriona with list of author's works to front and 18 pp. advertisements to rear, both with original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear, Kidnapped with a few light spots to lower margins and repaired closed tear to final leaf of advertisementsNote: Note: First editions; Kidnapped is a first issue, with 'business' for 'pleasure' at p. 40 line 10, 'nine o'clock' for 'twelve o'clock' at p. 64 line 1, 'Long Islands' for 'Long Island' at p. 101 lines 9-10, and pressmarks 5G.4.86 & 5B.4.86 in the advertisements.

Abyssinia [Ethiopia] Parkyns, Mansfield Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 18 plates, folding map, 13 text illustrations, mottled calf, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, signatures to endpaper of Reginald Huth, 20th April 1910Note: Note: A fine copy.Parkyns spent over three years in Abyssinia, which he described in his travel book Life in Abysssinia : being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country. The first edition of the book was published in two volumes by the English publisher John Murray in 1853. It was dedicated to Lord Palmerston, and made many references to and comments on the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who had travelled to Abyssinia between the years 1768 and 1773. For the second edition, published in 1868, the author wrote a completely new introduction dealing with recent Abyssinian history and methods of government at the time of the Abyssinian expedition commanded by Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. In short, Parkyns described the political changes which had occurred after he left the country. He was hoping to offer the Victorian reader "a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and Abyssinians". The book consists of 41 chapters which are divided into two volumes. Each of them covers different subjects, including travel, manners and customs. The first volume describes the journey from the coast to the capital and Parkyns's visit to the northern provinces, encounters with others, learning local languages and gaining new experiences. The second volume describes Abyssinian manners and customs, natural history and Parkyns's route from Adoua to Abou Kharraz on the Blue Nile. In total there are 33 illustrations after Parkyns's own watercolours. A map at the end of the books shows a part of Abyssinia and Nubia to illustrate Parkyns's journeys. In the introduction to his book Parkyns stated that it was neither a scientific work nor an entertaining one, but a faithful account of what he witnessed and experienced during his time in Abyssinia. Parkyns was particularly interested in learning about Abyssinian customs and its natural history. He took careful observations on native birds that he had never seen before. He believed that by identifying with the natives he could attain the best results, so on leaving Massawa he decided to eschew European comforts and throughout his time in Abyssinia he wore only Abyssinian clothes, walked barefoot, had an Abyssinian hairstyle, and ate whatever was offered to him. He gave detailed descriptions of, amongst other things, Abyssinian manners and customs, habits, personal appearance, births and marriages, deaths and funerals, religion and superstitions.Provenance: Reginald Huth (1853-1926), Collector of Coins and Medals, son of Charles Frederick Huth, art collector.

Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M. 4 volumes The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans. London: G. Harrap, 1936. First edition, 4to, blue morocco gilt by Henry R. Nevill, 3 autograph letters loosely inserted from the binder in part discussing the binding, geometric pattern on both covers, g.e.;Ibn Battuta. The Travels, edited by Sir Hamilton Gibb. The Hakluyt Society, 1958-62, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dustwrappers;Varthema, Ludovico di. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, In Persia, India and Ethiopia. The Hakluyt Society, 1963. 8vo, translated by J.W. Jones, edited by G.P. Badger, folding map, original blue cloth gilt

Lyell, Charles Principles of Geology Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation. London: John Murray, 1832-32-33. 3 volumes, 8vo (21.3 x 13cm), xvi 586, xii 330, [iii]-xxxi [1] 398 109 [1], later calf, volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, plate and folding map, volume 2 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and hand-coloured folding map, volume 3 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4 engraved plates of shells, and hand-coloured map of south-east England, bound without half-titles, volume 1 plates spotted and offset, volume 2 sig. M with light staining in gutter, spotting to map and adjacent leaves, volume 3 shell plates spotted, map offset, short closed marginal tear in text-leaf K5, bookplates of Thomas Swanwick M.D. (c.1790-1859) to each volume (reimposed), his ownership inscription to versos of volume 1-2 title-pages, bookplate of Henry and Carol Faul to volume 3 [Cf. PMM 344; Ward & Carozzi 1408]Note: Note: Second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three; volume one was first published in 1830. Lyell's revolutionary work is considered the foundational statement of what came to be known as the 'uniformitarian' school of geology, which in attributing geological phenomena to immutable laws challenged the prevailing 'catrastrophist' view which assumed the literal truth of the biblical narrative and found explanations in supernatural interventions, such as the great flood. The second volume concerned the organic realm and paved the way for Darwin in rejecting Lamarck's theory of the incessant mutability of species, 'arguing instead that they were real stable entities, and that they appeared and became extinct in a piecemeal manner in time and space' (ODNB).

Arabia Collection of works Palgrave, William Gifford. Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, half-titles, 5 folding lithographic maps and plans, advertisement leaf to rear of each volume, bindings rubbed and marked, evidence of removal of labels from front boards, volume 1 front inner hinge tender, map of Arabia facing p. 1 with 8cm closed handling tear to inside fold and shallow chipping along fore edges [Macro 1731 for the first edition]Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all photographic plates as called for, maps in text, spine faded, fraying to foot of spine, spotting to text-leaves [Macro 2182]; Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: John Murray, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 3 folding maps, dust jacket (spine panel darkened and chipped);Philby, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plan, 2 folding plates, 32 halftone photographic plates, pp. 19/20 creased, a few spots to text [Macro 1781]Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, 5 halftone photographic plates numbered 1-9, 19 colour plates, dust jacket price-clipped, nicked and slightly dust-soiled;and 12 others (these not collated), including: Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, 1932 (first edition, second impression, original cloth); idem, The Arabs, 1937 (first edition, original cloth); G. Wyman Bury, Arabia Infelix, 1915 (first edition, original cloth); Harold Ingrams, Arabia and the Isles, 1942 (first edition, original cloth); D. van der Meulen, Aden to the Hadhramaut, 1947 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Wilfred Thesiger, Desert Borderlands of Oman [extracted from The Geographical Journal], 1950 (later card wrappers); Richard Meinertzhagen, Pirates and Predators, 1959 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, New York, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth); and 4 similarNote: Note: Palgrave's work is of special importance for the history of the modern Gulf states as well as what is now Saudi Arabia. In the second volume chapter 14 covers Bahrain and Qatar, while chapter 16, headed 'The Coasts of Oman', covers Sharjah and elsewhere.

Polar exploration Collection of works Evans, Edward. South with Scott. London: W. Collins son & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, fifth impression, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by Evans 'To Mr & Mrs H. D. C. Jones with nicest thoughts from the author, 1923' on the front free endpaper, 3 maps (of 4: lacking 'Track Chart'), cloth cockled and mottled, spotting to outer leaves [Rosove 117.A5];Borchgrevink, C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, endpapers renewed [Rosove 45.A1.b: 'Presumably a secondary binding, and considerably scarcer'];Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, 2 further maps and numerous illustrations in the text, binding rubbed and marked, labels and markings of Mudie's Select Library to front cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked;Worsley, Frank. Under Sail in the Frozen North. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original light blue cloth (probably a secondary binding: usually in dark blue), 32 photographic plates (many with blue tint), folding map;Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, mottling to lower fore corners of boards [Rosove 178.A1];and approx. 40 others (these not collated), including: Richard E. Byrd, Discovery, New York, 1935 (first edition, original cloth); Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907 (first UK edition, original cloth, spine defective); Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 (first edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 in contemporary half morocco, volume 2 in original cloth); Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1930 (original cloth); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1952 ('one volume edition', 1952, original cloth, ex-library); Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1921 (first edition, original cloth); F. Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights: the Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31, 1934 (original cloth); Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1923 (first edition, original cloth); Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight across the Polar Sea, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927] (first edition, original cloth), and similar

[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn Mossman and J. H. Harvey Pirie] The Voyage of the "Scotia" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Arctic Seas. By Three of the Staff. First edition, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, 58 photographic plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), decoration and lettering on spine rubbed away as usual, tips bumped, text-block toned, a few leaves spotted, pp. 41-44 clumsily opened, short closed tear to large folding map at rear [Rosove 50.A1.b]Note: Note: Inscribed by the expedition leader to the then prime minister on the half-title, the inscription reading 'The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, P.C., M.P., with compliments from Wm. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, 1910'. Rosove cites a copy inscribed by Bruce to Churchill at Edinburgh in the same year, in the same variant binding with purple endpapers.

Wit, Frederick de Africa Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula denuvo correcté revisa, double page engraved map, 487 x 573mm, Amsterdam [after 1685], slightly brownedNote: Note: First published in Amsterdam in 1670. There were at least 6 states, the 4th state printed in 1685 did not have the privilege, present under the caption in this copy, so this would be the 5th or 6th state published after 1685.

Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, 2 coloured folding maps at end, original red-brown cloth, with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g.;On Central-Asian Tracks. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, folding map, original red-brown cloth with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, dustwrapper strengthened on verso, price-clipped and with a couple of tears repairedNote: Note: Very good copies. Inspired by Sven Hedin, Stein took part in several expeditions in Central Asia, gathering numerous artifacts and antiquities. The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels. Loosely inserted is a New Year card from Rt. Hon. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45.

Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab in Ladakh and Kashmir; in Peshawar, Kabul, Kunduz, and Bokhara. Prepared for the Press, from Original Journals and Correspondence, by Horace Hayman Wilson. London: John Murray, 1841. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.5cm), near-contemporary black half sheep, lithographic frontispieces, folding map, 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to title-pages, volume 1 lacking leaf a8 (preface pp. xv/xvi), marginal repair to foot of p. liii, folding map with splits and repairs;Little, Archibald. Across Yunnan: a Journey of Surprises including an Account of the Remarkable French Railway Line now completed to Yunnan-fu. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1910. First edition in book form, 8vo, original red cloth, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, folding map, ex-Manchester Public Free Libraries with call number gilt to spine, plate to front pastedown, ink-stamp to verso of title-page, and blind stamps to plates and text;Seebohm, Henry. The Birds of the Japanese Empire. London: R. H. Porter, 1890. Large 8vo, original brown cloth, map frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in text, Bolton Libraries ink-stamps and withdrawal stamps to initial blank, title-page and final page of text

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947) Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt Jahreswende 1893-1894. Hanover: [privately printed], 1939. First edition, number 18 of an unspecified limitation, inscribed by the author to Frau Martha Loewe on the limitation page, 4to, original quarter cloth, mimeographed typescript, [1] 43 [3] leaves, 11 gelatin silver print photographs on 8 stiff card mounts with typescript captions (6 of them 20 x 15.5cm, the others smaller), plain paper dust jacket;Colebrooke, H. T. Miscellaneous Essays. London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, later quarter cloth, 7 folding lithographic plates (facsimiles of ancient Indian documents and inscriptions), folding letterpress table, bookplate of Pandit Sundar Lal, advocate, high court, Allahabad, worming, plates browned, plate 1 torn along stub;Hasegawa, Denziro. Travel to India with Leica, Tokyo: Meguro Shoten, 1939 (first edition, 4to, original yellow hessian lettered in brown, 213 pp., text in Japanese and English, 192 halftone photographs (on pp. 1-124), folding map, spine rubbed); and 4 others: E. F. Burton, Reminiscences of Sport in India, London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1885 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary quarter cloth, spine rolled, lending library label to front board, 8 lithographic plates, pp. 207/8 and 289/90 loose, a few blemishes and marks); J. D. Rees, H.R.H. The Duke of Clarence and Avondale in Southern India, with a Narrative of Elephant-Catching in Mysore by G. P. Sanderson, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1891 (4to, recent red cloth, top edge gilt, xvi 213 pp., 5 autotype photographic portrait plates including frontispiece, 24 photogravure plates, folding map, text-leaves partly unopened, browning, worming (stronger towards front of volume, reducing towards middle), plate facing p. 74 chipped along fore edge, text-leaf I1 with closed marginal tears); Wibraham Egerton, An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms ... exhibited at the India Museum, London: William H. Allen & Co., 1880 (first edition, 4to, later cloth, folding map, 15 lithographic plates of which 2 in colours and several folding, original front wrapper bound in, lacking final leaf of index, spotting, tape repairs to half-title and index); and Sir John Malcolm, The Life of Robert, Lord Clive, London: John Murray, 1836 (first edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, modern cloth, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map, ex-library, not collated)Note: Note: Konrad Wrede was a German army officer, collector and arts patron. No copies of Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt traced in libraries. WorldCat cites three copies only of Hasegawa's work in libraries world-wide, with none in the United Kingdom.

Post Office London. 1853. Drawn and engraved expressly for the Post Office Directory engraved folding map, 41.5 x 69.5cm. [Bound in as issued:] Post Office London Directory, 1853. Comprising, amongst Other Information, Official Directory; Street Directory; Commercial Directory; Trades' Directory; Law Directory; Court Directory; Parliamentary Directory; Postal Directory; City Directory; Conveyance Directory; Banking Directory ... The Fifty-Fourth Annual Publication. London: Frederic Kelly, 1853. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 2106 [2] pp., some wear to extremities of binding

Polar exploration Collection of works Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First trade edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver and gilt, top edges gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 3 folding maps and sheet containing 2 folding panoramas loose in end-pocket as issued, errata slip to volume 2, spines sunned, tips bumped, volume 1 spine rolled, volume 2 with small repair to title-page, 'Route ... of the Southern Journey Party' map with short split to foot of central fold and a few small holes to intersections [Rosove 305.B1];Idem. South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates as called for, lacking unlisted folding map, mottling to covers, short section of wear to front joint, front inner hinge cracked between initial blank and half-title with webbing visible [Rosove 308.A2];Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, photogravure frontispieces, 182 plates (of which 13 in colour, the rest nearly all photographic, of which 5 double-page), 5 maps (of which 2 folding in end-pockets), extremities rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, corners bumped (a few showing through), half-titles spotted, folding maps with Mudie's Select Library labels verso and variably split along folds [Rosove 262.A1: '3,000 copies said to have been printed'];Nansen, Fridtjof. The First Crossing of Greenland. Translated from the Norwegian. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver, 12 plates including frontispieces, 5 maps, spines sunned and rolled, light fraying to head and foot, tips bumped, map facing volume 1 p. 1 tape-repaired verso;Idem. In Northern Mists. Arctic Exploration in Early Times. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, later library cloth, tipped-in colour plates, markings of Keighley public libraries;Nordenskiöld, A. E. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe ... Translated by Alexander Leslie. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, 5 engraved portraits, 10 folding lithographic maps, bindings rubbed and marked, volume 1 spine rolled, inner hinges cracked, a few short closed handling tears to maps, a few other marks;Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the. On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea. Translated by William Le Queux. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1903. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, top edges gilt, 16 plates, 2 folding panoramas, 5 maps, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers;Charcot, Jean. The Voyage of the 'Why Not?' in the Antarctic. The Journal of the Second French South Polar Expedition, 1908-1910. English Version by Philip Walsh. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, cloth cockled;Payer, Julius. New Lands with the Arctic Circle. Narrative of the Discoveries of the Austrian Ship "Tegetthoff" in the Years 1872-1874. Translated from the German, with the Author's Approbation. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1877. First US edition, 8vo, original cloth, tinted lithographic frontispieces, folding map, cloth mottled, wear to extremities, inner hinges cracked;Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910. Second edition, 4to, original cloth, all plates as called for, damp-staining to covers;and one other (Scott, Scott's Last Expedition, 1913, first edition, first impression, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, incomplete, lacking at least plate facing p. 393 in volume 1)

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxiv 300 [4], viii 301-585 [1], original linen-backed blue paper boards, printed paper spine-labels, edges untrimmed, half-titles, 58 plates including colour frontispieces (with tissue-guards) and 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps (4 folding), duplicate spine-label to each volume (tipped to front free endpaper in volume 1, loose in volume 2), retaining binder's blank at rear of volume 2, pencilled ownership inscriptions to half-title of volume 1 and front free endpaper of volume 2, a few marks to covers, spotting to edges, occasionally encroaching on margins, light browning to free endpapers, shallow chip to fore margin of plate facing volume 1 p. 32, map 'From New Zealand to the South Pole' facing volume 1 p. lxiv loose, light spotting to last few leaves of volume 2 [Rosove 71.A1]Note: Note: 'Cherry-Garrard's book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. He was uniquely suited to do so. He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey ... The book Cherry-Garrard left behind is a monument immortalizing the expedition in the annals of Antarctic exploration and geographic exploration in general' (Rosove).

Florida Plan de l'île d'Amelia à la côte de la Floride orientale Tiré de la carte de la Georgie et de la Caroline Méeridionale de De Brahm et assujeti pour le Port d'Amelia au plan de Jacob Blamey. [Paris:] Dépôt Général des Cartes, Plans et Journaux de la Marine 1779.[On sheet with:] Plan de la barre et de l'entrée de la Riviere de Nassau rédigé d'après la carte du Cap. W. Fuller.[And:] Plan de la barre et du port d'Amelia à la côte de la Floride orientale, levé, en Janvier 1775, par Jacob Blamey.[And:] Vue de l'entrée de la Riviere de St. Mary. Tiréee de la carte de W. Fuller.Engraved map on laid paper, platemark 61 x 47cm, sheet size 68 x 51cm, a few closed marginal tears tape-repaired versoNote: Note: Published as part of Neptune Americo-Septentrionale (1778-80), a maritime atlas produced for the use of the French navy in the American War of Independence.

Bryans, William Antiquities of Cheshire, in Photograph With Short Descriptive Notes: to which are added Views of Several Ancient Buildings in Shropshire and North Wales. Chesters: Hugh Roberts, 1858. First edition, 4to (37 x 27cm), original half morocco, rebacked, purple cloth sides, [9] 55 pp., 25 mounted albumen print photographs, some stripping and wear to backstrip and corners, variable spotting to mounts and text-leaves, silvering along edges of 'Birth-place of Bishop Wilson' (plate no. 8), very short closed tear to mount of 'Waberton Church' (no. 9), 'Tarvin Church' (no. 17) with a few spots within photograph, hint of silvering to 'South Doorway, Edstaston Church' (no. 25), withdrawn from Chester Reference Library with their plate to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to initial blank, ink-stamp to title-page, and further small ink-stamps to pp. 3 and 55 [Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 83]. Together with: Charles Leigh, The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak, in Derbyshire. with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, Oxford: for the Author, 1700, first edition, folio, 20th-century half morocco, 24 engraved plates, folding map hand-coloured in outline, lacking portrait frontispiece, ex-Chester Reference Library with associated markings, damp-staining towards rear, text not collated

India Group of rare Indian imprints 1) Report on the Territories Conquered from the Paishwa. Submitted to the Supreme Government of British India, by the Hon'ble Mountstuart Elphinstone, Commissioner. Bombay: Bombay Government Press, 1838. Second edition, 8vo, later red cloth, [2] 82 li pp., colour pencil marks to title-page, ink-stamp of the government library, Agra, to p. 1, moderate browning, scattered dark spots;2) England and India: being Impressions of Persons and Things, English and Indian and Brief Notes of Visits to France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ceylon. By Lala Baijnath of the N.-W. P. Judicial Service. Bombay: Jehangir B. Karani & Co., Ltd., 1893. First edition, one of 1,000 copies, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [2] 4 234 pp., errata leaf and advertisement leaf at rear, worming, stitching split between pp. 152 and 153, closed marginal tears in pp. 69/70 and 163/4;3) A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur, in the District of Bijnor, North-West Provinces. Calcutta: Erasmus Jones, "Cambrian" Press, 1879. First edition, 12mo, original cloth-covered card wrappers with skiver label to front cover, [4] 20 pp., mounted albumen portrait photograph as frontispiece;4) A Revised and Enlarged Account of the Bobbili Zemindari, compiled by ... Sir Venkata Swetachalapati Ranga Row Bahadur ... Maha-Rajah of Bobbili. Madras: Addison & Co., 1900. 8vo, original cloth, [4] 185 pp., folding table, inscribed to 'Sir Henry Bliss K.C.I.E. with the compliments of the Maharajah of Bobbili 18/6/1902 London' on the initial blank, spine and edges of covers sunned, loss to spine-ends;Together with 2 others (The Jeypore Guide by Thomas Holbein Hendley, Surgeon, Bengal Medical Service, Jeypore [Jaipur]: "Raj" Press, 1876, first edition 12mo, lacking frontispiece and map, with 17 other lithographic plates, 3 copies on Library Hub, worming; and The Panjab as a Sovereign State (1799-1839), Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London, by Gulshan Lall Chopra. Lahore: Uttar Chand Kapur & Sons, 1928, lacking maps)Note: Note: Two copies of the Report on Territories Conquered from the Paishwa traced in UK libraries (BL and Oxford); the work was first published at Calcutta in 1821. A Memoir of the Late Raja Partab Singh of Tajpur is otherwise untraced. Library Hub cites three copies of the Bobbili Zemindari (BL, Oxford, SOAS).

[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone London: Printed by C. Whittingham, sold by John Hatchard, 1803. First edition, 2 volumes, [with the scarce vol. 2 which was partly suppressed], 8vo, [xv], 362, [xxii]; [iv], 283, [xi]; folding map, folding chart and 6 engraved plates (2 folding), contemporary tree calf, embossed coat-of-arms with motto "Honi Soit qui Mal y Pense" on covers, neatly rebacked, spine gilts, red and green morocco lettering pieces, corners neatly repairedNote: Note: Winterbottom was appointed physician to Sierra Leone in 1792 where he resided for seven years. In his youth he was a strong supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and afterwards advocated emancipation. The present work is the main source of his reputation as a clinical observer. It contains his classic description of sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, amongst local Africans. The work is one of the earliest English books to describe sleeping sickness (pages 29-31). Dr Winterbottom noticed that slave dealers would not buy slaves whose neck glands showed signs of enlargement. Volume two deals entirely with the diseases prevalent in Sierra Leone especially dysentery and malaria. It also contains detailed information on venereal disease, childbirth, abortion, male and female circumcision etc. which led to the second volume being suppressed in some circles.

Shackleton, Ernest H. South London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo, original black cloth lettered and decorated in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including colour frontispiece, panorama of South Georgia between pp. 208-9, folding map to rear), errata slip and Mudie's Select Library notice tipped to p. 1, rubbed, tips bumped and showing through, front pastedown and free endpaper renewed, text-block browned as usual, faint spotting to plates, corresponding darker spotting to adjacent text-leaves, folding map with closed tear to stub and a few nicks along edges not affecting image [Rosove 308.A1]

[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance dans les années 1788, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Paris: Leroy, 1790. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece and 11 plates [including the rare suppressed Hottentott plate (plate no. 7 at p.346, vol. 2), 2 folding;Second Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris: H.J. Jansen, l'an 3 de La République. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, 22 engraved plates (5 folding) and large folding map, errata leaf in each volume;together 5 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, gilt edgesNote: Note: A very fine set of first editions of both Le Vaillant's travels in South Africa. Le Vaillant’s work (comprising both voyages) “was attacked when published, and some of the incidents were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented. It is, however, interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers” (Cox I, p.389).The first work is dedicated to "Monsieur Boers, Fiscal Indépendent" who befriended Le Vaillant after he had lost all his possessions in the ship Middleburg which was blown up by British forces as an act of war. Mr Boers, with Captain Robert Jacob Gordon, Commander of the troops at the Cape, assisted Le Vaillant to prepare for his journeys into the interior. His first journey took him to Hottentot Holland, Swellendam, Mossel Bay, the Knysna country, Algoa Bay, Fish River, the Karroo and back to Saldanha Bay. The second voyage, dedicated to "Citoyen Varon", took him across Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland and the Kalahari.

India - North-Western Province Set of Agra imprints, 19th century 1) Report on Indigenous Education and Vernacular Schools, in Agra, Aligarh, Bareli, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Mainpuri, Mathura, Shahjahanpur, for 1850-51. By Henry Steward Reid, Visitor General of Schools, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1852-3-4. First editions, 3 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary yellow cloth, [4] 220, [2] 122, [2] 176 pp, blind stamp of the Schlagintweit library to title-page;2) Report on Ajmeer and Mairwara, illustrating the Settlement of the Land Revenue and the Revenue Administration of those Districts, up to ... 1853. By Lieut.-Colonel C. G. Dixon, Commissioner, Ajmeer and Mairwara. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1853. First edition, 4to, later cloth, [2] 199 pp., uniform moderate browning, colour pencil markings to title-page, closed tear in Q4, worming to endpapers now affecting text-block;3) Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, according to the System pursued in the North Western Provinces of the Presidency of Bengal. Compiled and published under the Orders of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, N. W. P. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1847. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half leather (worn), [2] iii 244 pp., 3 hand-coloured lithographic plans, 4 lithographic genealogical tables, 4 letterpress tables, all folding, shelfmark label of Pandut Sundar Lal, High Court, Allahabad to front pastedown, governmental ink-stamp to title-page and final page, a few old repairs to plates, one genealogical table with 10cm closed tear, moderate browning, a few small worm-tracks towards rear, rear inner hinge partly cracked;4) Selections from the Records of Government, North Western Provinces [volume 1]. Agra: Secundra Orphan Press, 1855. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, vii 1-76 107-222 [1] pp., hand-coloured double-page lithographic plate ('Half elevation, half section and plan of Burdashtkhaneh in the Cawnpoor District'), 3 further lithographic plates (collation not established), cloth mottled, title-page browned and tipped in, variable damp-staining to pp. 107-130;5) The New Code of Civil Procedure. Act No. 10 of 1877. Agra: Elahi Press, c.1877. 8vo, recent red cloth, text in Urdu, lithographed throughout, in 8 parts (separately paginated), browned throughout, contents leaf and title-page chipped, final leaf tape-repaired in gutter, part 2 possibly lacking section-title (but collation not established as no other copy traced)Note: Note: Among the invaluable information provided by Henry Steward Reid's educational reports are lists of the textbooks printed each year by the government of the North-West Province, including details of their authors, content and print runs. Library Hub cites three locations only: LSE (1852-3), Oxford (1852), and SOAS (year not stated). Library cataloguing notes a map for Dixon's work, but none is present in the copy held by the University of Oxford and we have not been able to inspect another copy; it is possible that the map is from C. G. Dixon's Sketch of Mairwara (1850), with which the British Library (India Office Records) copy is bound, and that the description for this particular copy has been generally applied. One institutional copy traced for the Translation of a Proceeding regarding the Settlement of a Village, at the British Library, catalogued as having nine plates (it is unclear whether these include the folding tables).

Scotland including North, Charles McIntyre Leabhar Comunn nain Fior Ghaël. The Book of the Club of True Highlanders. A record of the dress, arms, customs, arts and sciences of the Highlanders. London, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, bound in gilt embossed tartan with tartan swatches to endpapers;Martin, M. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland. London: A. Bell, 1716. Second edition, 8vo, folding map (some tape repairs to reverse), folding plate, contemporary panelled calf, bookplate;Sherlock, William. A Preservative against Popery... London: William Rogers, 1688. Fifth edition, small 4to, with the ownership inscription 'T. Carlyle 1833' [presumably Thomas Carlyle], 17th century panelled black morocco gilt, bookplate, small hole to F2 slightly affecting text, some marginal dampstaining, joints split

Speed, John Cambridgshire described with the devision of the hundreds, the Townes situation, with the Armes of the Colleges of that famous Universiti[e]. And also the Armes of all such Princes and noble men as have heertofore borne the honorable tytles and dignities of the Earldome of Cambridg[e]. London: Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1610 [i.e 1676]. Hand-coloured engraved map (40.5 x 53.5cm), English text verso, inset town plan, vignettes of scholars, royal arms upper right, frieze of coats of arms along three sides enclosed within scrolling guilloche border, somewhat browned and spotted, old repair to lower margin and to foot of central fold verso, glazed both sides and framed [Chubb 27]

Islam, Eastern Christianity and Judaism Group of works Grant, Asahel. The Nestorians; or, the Lost Tribes: containing Evidence of their Identity; an Account of their Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies; together with Sketches of Travel in Ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia. London: John Murray, 1841. First UK edition, 8vo, original quarter cloth, folding lithographic map as frontispiece, spine rolled, minor loss to paper at one corner of front board, light spotting to map and endpapers;Moore, George. The Lost Tribes and the Saxons of the East and of the West, with New Views of Buddhism, and Translations of Rock-Records in India. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, viii [2] 423 pp., half-title, 14 lithographic plates (one folding), occasional Hebrew text, 24 pp. advertisements, white marking to foot of spine, cloth splitting on joints, section of front free endpaper excised, variable spotting to plates;and 6 others (not collated): 2 books in Armenian, probably printed in Istanbul, 1877 and 1892; Washington Irving, The Life of Mahomet and his Successors, London: John Murray, 1850, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines sunned and rolled, worn at ends; Torah Elohim Sefer Shemot [title in Hebrew, i.e. Book of Exodus], Vilnius, 1899, 8vo, spine perished; and similar

Fife and St Andrews Two maps Duncan, J. [surveyor] Skeleton Plan of the St. Andrews District of Fife-Shire, with delineation of the turnpike and statute labour roads. Edinburgh: Forrester & Nichol, 1833, 53.5 x 64cm, rare: no copies traced, the University of Dundee archives list a photograph of a copy belonging to Dr John Berry of Tayport, mounted on linen, varnished, a few cracks and small sections missing; Fraser, James, after Greenwood & Fowler. Map of the Counties of Fife and Kinross. Edinburgh: W. and A.K. Johnston, after 1841, 124.5 x 94cm, mounted on linen, varnished, a few cracks and small sections missing

Gordon, Alexander Itinerarium Septentrionale or, a Journey thro' most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England London: printed for the author, 1726. First edition, large-paper copy, folio (45.5 x 28.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [19] 12-188 [6] pp., engraved folding map, 66 engraved plates (several double-page), a little wear to binding, small paper flaw to margin of plate 4 [ESTC T133129: 12 copies worldwide]Note: Note: 'Itinerarium septentrionale (1726) is Gordon's lasting memorial in which he not only enshrined the antiquities of Roman Scotland and traced the route of Agricola's campaign but also ensured his own immortality in the fiction of Walter Scott. Gordon's folio is the book which Mr Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary in Scott's novel of that name, unwraps in the Queensferry diligence and which proves his vade-mecum in his studies of the subjects Gordon had made his own' (Iain Gordon Brown in ODNB).

Peary, Robert E. The North Pole With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First edition, deluxe issue, out-of-series copy from the edition of 500, signed by Robert E. Peary and R. A. Bartlett, 4to, later tan half calf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 112 tipped-in photographic plates, limitation leaf spotted and marked, tide-mark to index leaves;Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. First edition, 4to, contemporary half roan (spine and front board detached), 31 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured or printed in colours, one folding), errata leaf, engraved plates spotted, tear to folding map, sigs. 3Z and 4A transposed [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381];Franklin, John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22. London: John Murray, 1824. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, modern quarter cloth, 4 folding maps, Board of Trade ink-stamps to title-pages;Cook, James. An Abridgment of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. London: G. Kearsley, 1788. Sixth edition, 12mo, modern cloth, iii 1-430 pp. (apparently 448 pp. called for but text ends on p. 429, the remaining leaves presumably advertisements), 8 engraved plates (some trimmed along fore edge);Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo, modern cloth, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), damp-staining (diminishing towards centre of volume), half-title discarded, marginal extensions to title-page, pp. v/6 and final leaf, maps and folding plates laid on linen, first map with extensive closed tear and pertaining section consequently lifting from linen, short closed tear to second map;and 10 others (these not collated), including: Elisha Kent Kane, Arctic Explorations ... in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1856 (first edition, 2 volumes, original cloth); M. A. Healy, Report on the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1885, 1887 (first edition, 4to, original cloth); Francis McClintock, The Voyage of the 'Fox' in Arctic Seas, 1859 (first edition, contemporary half calf, lacking folding map); and similar

Ross, John Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. London: A. W. Webster, 1835. 2 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 24.5cm), 20th-century blue half calf, nautical motifs gilt to spines, [6] xxxiv 740, xii 120 cxliv cii [2] pp., 50 plates and charts (steel-engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, many hand-coloured), folding map, several plates with tissue-guards, errata leaf to the main volume discarded, steel-engraved plates variably spotted and offset, occasional spotting to lithographic plates (mainly around edges), repaired closed tear to folding map, Appendix volume largely unopened [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381]Note: Note: An attractive, wide-margined copy, complete with the Appendix volume, which was issued as an optional extra. The plates depict ethnographic and natural history subjects and views. 'The results of the voyage, remarkable for the length of time spent in the ice, were the survey of the Boothia peninsula, of a great part of King William Land, and of the Gulf of Boothia; the presumptive determination that the sought-for passage did not lie in that direction; and the discovery of the magnetic pole by James Clark Ross. In 1834 Ross was knighted; the geographical societies of London and Paris awarded him their gold medals, and on 24th December 1834 he was nominated a CB' (ODNB).

Theological works a collection of 8 volumes Calvin, Jean. Institutionis Christianae Religionis a Ioanne Calvino conscriptae. London: Thomas Vautroller, 1584. 8vo, [32], 373, [35], woodcut on title, 18th century quarter calf, title dust-soiled, trimmed a little close at head and occasional running title shaved, occasional light dampstaining, final leaf holed with loss of 1 word, binding worn; [An abridgement, by Edmund Bunny, of Institutio Christianae religionis], [ESTC S118602];[Bible, Latin.] Novum Testamentum... interprete Theodore Beza. Cambridge: Ioannis Field, 1666. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary calf, spine gilt, g.e., title trimmed at foot with very slight loss, early inscription 'Ex Libris Ioa. Simpson' on front endpaper and colophon leaf, corner of L11-12 singed with minimal loss, a few running titles just shaved, [*** This edition not recorded on ESTC or Wing, which records a 1676 edition (Wing B2788)];[Bible, Latin.] Biblia Sacra sive Testamentum Vetu. Ab. Im. Tremellio et Fr. Iunio ex Hebraeo Latinè redditum, et Testamentum Novum, à Theod. Beza è Graeco in Latin versum. Amsterdam: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1648. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, yapp edges;Ames, William. Medulla Theologica. Amsterdam: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1641. 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, extensive early annotations and underlinings, with early inscription of 'G. Saldemus' on annotated blank leaf before title; also with inscription of Peter Rae 1743 (possibly Peter Rae 1671-1748);Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia nunc emendiatora cum omnium Notis. Amsterdam: apud R. & G. Wetstenios. [between 1700 and 1727], 16mo, engraved title, contemporary calf, rubbed, lacks clasp;Erasmus, Desiderius. Colloquia familiaria. [? Rotterdam, R. Leers, c.1690], 16mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum, bookplate and signature of Thomas Walpole, 1744;He Kaine Diatheke. Novum Testamentum, edited by Johan Leusden, Amsterdam: ex officina Wetsteniana, 1701. 16mo, engraved frontispiece hand-coloured, shaved, with short tear, 1 folding map, contemporary calf, clasp, title somewhat dust-soiled, occasional spotting, rubbed;Witsius, Hermann. De Oeconomia foederum dei cum hominibus libri quatuor. Editio quarta. Herborn: J. N. Andreae, 1712. 4to, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, spine gilt, early inscription of David Stevenson on title and front endpaper, and inscriptions of Dr Lorimer, J.G. Lorimer D.D., Robert Lorimer and W.L. Lorimer on endpaper

Stevenson, Robert Louis Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. First UK edition, 8vo (17.2 x 10.2cm), 20th-century red quarter morocco, marbled sides, top edge dyed red, [6] 141 pp., without half-title or advertisements, spotting towards front and rear, pp. 35/6 dog-eared. Together with a copy of Kidnapped (first edition, 1886, original cloth, spine sunned, rolled and frayed, label removed from front board, folding map, 'business' at p. 40 l. 11, advertisements dated '5G 7-86')

British topography Collection of works Pennant, Thomas. Some Account of London. The Fifth Edition, with Considerable Editions. London: J. Faulder [and others], 1813. Large 8vo, late-20th-century half calf, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved additional title-page, folding bird's-eye view of London, 13 engraved plates, map browned, plates variably spotted, some spotting elsewhere;Idem. A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXIX. Third Edition. Warrington: W. Eyres, 1774. 4to, contemporary mottled calf, front board detached, engraved plates (many folding);Idem. A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. [... Part II]. Chester: John Monk, 1774, [Part II:] London: Benj. White, 1776. 2 volumes, 4to, non-uniform bindings, volume 1 in 20th-century half calf, volume 2 in contemporary calf rebacked and refurbished (all edges gilt), numerous engraved plates (many folding);Keltie, John S. A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans, and Highland Regiments. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1875. 2 volumes, large 8vo, 20th-century green quarter morocco, numerous plates including chromolithographic tartan patterns and steel-engraved portraits and views;Gilpin, William. Observations relating chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the Year 1772, on several Parts of England; particularly the Mountains, and Lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland. London: R. Blamire, 1792. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf, aquatint plates, contemporary signatures ('Gilpin'; not established if autograph) to title-pages), spotting;Macpherson, James. Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem. London: T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1762. Second edition, 4to, 19th-century half calf, worn, front joint split, spotting;and one further work, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen

Harkness, Henry A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills or Blue Mountains of Coimbatoor, in the Southern Peninsula of India. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1832. First edition, 8vo (24.7 x 15cm), contemporary half calf, rebacked, vi [2] 175 pp., 4 lithographic plates including frontispiece, wear to corners, plates spotted, occasional spotting and a few marks to text [not in Abbey];Marshall, William E. A Phrenologist amongst the Todas, or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India. History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth lettered in gilt and ruled in black (apparently one of several variant bindings), rebacked with original spine laid down, xx 271 pp., 18 autotype plates of which 14 from photographs, autotype map, illustrations in text, tips bumped and worn, first signature near detached;King, W. Ross. The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri Hills. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 2 tinted lithographic frontispieces ('Toda Woman' and 'Toda Man'), one further plate, gutta percha perished and text-block detached from binding, ink-stamps and pencil markings of the Clinton Hall Association, New York to pastedowns and title-page, scraps of paper adhering to front pastedown and free endpaper causing small hole in latter

Homann, Johann Baptiste - Ottoman Empire Turkey and Arabia Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia, et Africa Regiones. Nuremburg, c. 1720, 48.5 x 56cm, hand-coloured engraved map, framed and glazedNote: Note: Fine map of the Ottoman empire with good contemporary hand-colouring.

India - Punjab, Oudh (Awadh) & other regions Group of official reports, 19th century 1) Report on the Administration of the Punjab and its Dependencies for 1891-2 [1892-3; 1893-4]. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1893-4. 3 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed printed boards, each with folding hand-coloured diagram showing agricultural produce, reports for 1892-3 and 1893-4 each with large folding lithographic colour map in front packet ('Skeleton Map of the Punjab and Surrounding Countries in 1874 ... With Corrections and Additions to Railways and Canals up to September 1892'), absent in report for 1891-2, ink-stamps of the Hygienische Institute der Koeniglichen Universitaet (withdrawn), 1891-2 and 1892-3 spines variably defective;2) Report on the Working of Municipalities in the Punjab during the Year 1891-2 [and:] 1893-4. Lahore: Punjab Government Press, 1892 & 1895. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth-backed printed wrappers, similar library markings;3) Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh ... by John C. Nesfield. Allahabad: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 132 pp., 4 lithographic plates from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal inserted (3 folding), browning, title-leaf and pp. i-iv (contents) loose, title-leaf chipped at foot, marked in red pencil, with marginal worming and with government copyright notice pasted in upper margin, pp. i/ii with extensive closed tear, light worming to last few leaves, final leaf with closed tear, shelfmark label of Pandid Sundar Lal, Advocate, High Court, North-West Province to front pastedown;4) Oude: Papers relating to. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London: Harrison and Sons, 1856. Folio, later cloth, 311 pp., original front wrapper bound in, browning, title-page loose and chipped, pencilled marginalia;5) Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India as established by the Resolution dated the 16th January 1902 by the Hon'ble Rai Nihal Chand Bahadur, Landlord of Muzaffarnagar. Mussoorie: "Mussoorie Times" Press, 1903. Folio, contemporary half cloth, 53 pp., shelfmark labels of Pandit Sundar Lal (see above) mounted to title-page and front pastedown, front inner hinge split;6) [Record of the enquiry of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Committee for the United Provinces]. Lucknow: [various printers], 1928-9. 13 parts in 2 volumes, folio, contemporary cloth, the parts comprising unnumbered summary at front (titled 'Report ...' with printed statement 'For private circulation of members only' to retained front wrapper) and 12 numbered parts (concerning Garwhal, Faizabad, Benares, etc.), text in English and Hindi, each part with original front and rear wrappers bound in, 2 related bills bound in at rear, inner hinges splitting, part 6 title-page torn;7) [Volume of House of Commons reports on India], 1850s-70s. 22 works in 1 volume, folio, later cloth, contents concerning currency, vaccination, irrigation, legal reform, Indian Civil Service entry, a petition to recall Lord Canning post-Mutiny, the resignation of Peregrine Maitland as commander-in-chief, Madras, etc. (full list of contents available on request), front inner hinge gone.Full collations not established, the lot sold as seenNote: Note: No other copy of Notes on the Land Revenue Policy of the Government of India traced.

Hamilton, Alexander A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints and of Children in Early Infancy. Edinburgh: for Peter Hill, 1792. First edition, 8vo, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, vellum tips, small section of loss to head of spine, boards rubbed, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front board and title-page, monogram book-label and tape residue to front free endpaper, title-page slightly finger-marked and with small tear to gutter [ESTC T117281]; Chambers, Robert. Ancient Sea-Margins, as Memorials of Changes in the Relative Level of Sea and Land. Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1848. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, device of the Northern Lighthouse Board gilt to covers, tinted lithographic frontispiece of a view from the links at St Andrews (mounted), folding map of Lochaber (backed on linen), half-title discarded;and others (these not collated): James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, A New Edition, London: A Strahan, 1790 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt); George Buchanan, Poemata quae exstant, Amsterdam, 1687 (16mo, contemporary calf, engraved title-page, joints cracked); Samuel Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1860 (contemporary half calf); Numb. 15, Minutes of the Proceedings in Parliament Monday 4. November 1706, Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1706 (single bifolium); and two part-sets of ScottNote: Note: A Treatise of the Management of Female Complaints is nominally a revised edition of the author's A Treatise of Midwifery, first published in 1781, but in practice so extensively updated as to constitute a new work: 'In correcting it for a third edition ... he perceived that many improvements might be made, which would render it more extensively useful than formerly; but he found that these could not be introduced without altering completely the form and style of the book' (preface, p. vi).

Gage, Thomas A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal of Three thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America, by Tho. Gage, the only Protestant that was ever known to have travel'd those Parts. Setting forth his voyage from Spain to S. John de Ulhua, and thence of Xalapa, Tlaxcalla, the City of Angels, and Mexico: With a Description of that great City... Likewise His Journey thence through Guaxaca, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, &c. with his abode XII years about Guatemala, His wonderful Conversion and Calling to his Native Country: With his Return through Nicaragua and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Porto bello, Cartagena and Havana... with a Grammar, or some few Rudiments of the Indian Tongue, called Poconchi or Pocoman. London: By M. Clark for J. Nicolson and T. Newborough, 1699. Fourth edition, 8vo, [A4, B1 - II7], very erratic pagination but complete, folding map ('A New Mapp of the Empire of Mexico'), contemporary calf, corners neatly repaired, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of Baron NorthwickNote: Note: A classic account of 17th century Mexico and the West Indies.Gage lived for many years as a Dominican friar in Antigua, Guatemala. He later became the chaplain to English forces stationed in Jamaica. First published in 1648 under the title The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land, this fourth edition is enlarged and includes a fine early map of Mexico and the West Indies engraved by Francis Lamb. The publication of this work "caused a remarkable sensation. His account of the wealth and defenceless condition of the Spanish possessions in South America excited the cupidity of the English, and it is said that Gage himself laid before Cromwell the first regular plan for mastering the Spanish territories in the New World... He was appointed chaplain to General Venables's expedition, which sailed under Venables and Penn for Hispaniola... The fleet failed at Hispaniola, but took Jamaica, where Gage died in 1656" (DNB). The text describes Catholic missions in Mexico, and contains many ethnographic observations, including a grammar of the Pokonchi language.Provenance: John Rushout, 1st Baron Northwick (1738-1800), M.P. for Evesham

Mexico - Clavigero, Francesco Saverio The History of Mexico Collected from Spanish and Mexican Historians, from Manuscripts and Ancient Paintings of the Indians ... translated from the original Italian. London: J. Johnson, 1807. Second edition, 2 volumes, 4to, [xxxiv], 440, [441-444 'Posterity of King Motezuma'], 441-476]; [iv], 463; folding map, 25 engraved plates, genealogy at p.240 vol. 1, contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, red and green morocco lettering pieces, spine giltNote: Note: Second English edition of this comprehensive account of Mexico, its peoples and its natural history, emphasising the importance and value of pre-Hispanic cultures. Clavijero (or Clavigero) was a Mexican Jesuit who came to Italy after the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territory. He had access to many Aztec manuscripts before leaving Mexico which he made considerable use of for his text. As with Las Casas, he also viewed the Spanish conquest as full of atrocities carried out by the Conquistadores. He also distinguished between the different native peoples of the New World, unlike many of his contemporaries. The success of this work was shown by its translation into other languages (English in 1787, Spanish in 1826) and its regular republication.This copy has additional pages in volume 1, p.441-444, entitled Posterity of King Motezuma, not known to Sabin or Palau.

India - Bengal Presidency Collection of Calcutta imprints Directions for Revenue Officers in the North-Western Provinces of the Bengal Presidency ... New Edition. Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1858. 4to, later cloth, [4] 566 [2] pp., 4 lithographic folding maps (2 hand-coloured), 6 folding letterpress tables (counted in pagination and register), uniform moderate browning (stronger to title-page), very small worm-track to upper fore corner of initial leaves;The Journals of Major James Rennell, First Surveyor-General of India. Written for the Information of the Governors of Bengal during his Surveys of the Ganges and Brahamputra Rivers 1764 to 1767. Edited by T. H. D. La Touche. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and published by the Asiatic Society, 1910. 4to, later cloth, portrait frontispiece, folding plate of manuscript facsimile (torn along fold), folding map of Bengal and Bihar to rear, uniform moderate browning;and 4 others (these not collated): The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1832, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co., Bengal Hurkaru Press, c. 1832 (8vo, contemporary red half sheep, folding map with short closed tear, lacking pp. 173/4; The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842, Vol. I, Calcutta: William Rushton an[d] Co., c.1842 (8vo, contemporary half roan by the Government Press, Allahabad, 3 folding maps and folding diagram, first folding map (frontispiece) torn, binding worn, browning; The Bengal Almanac for 1848 ... compiled and arranged by Samuel Smith and Co., Calcutta, 1848 (8vo, contemporary boards, red sheep backstrip, binding worn and worn, rear inner hinge gone); Selections from the Revenue Records of the North-West Provinces 1818-1820, Calcutta: Military Orphan Press, 1866 (8vo, original cloth, binding defective)Note: Note: Library Hub traces two copies for the Directions for Revenue Officers (NLS and Cambridge).

Caesar, Julius The Commentaries Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse concerning the Roman Art of War. By William Duncan. Illustrated with Cuts. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and R. Dodsley, 1753. Folio (43 x 26cm), civ 335 [20] pp., modern panelled calf to style, richly gilt spine, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red, 79 engraved plates including frontispiece (plates '3' and '4' in fact one plate), most double-page and 3 (nos. 41, 75 and 78) also folding, 6 folding maps, frontispiece offset onto title-page, title-page additionally somewhat marked, signatures 2A-2B with short closed tear to head, plate 41 (buffalo) with repairs and short closed tears along bottom edge, plate 59 (folding map of Italy) with small repair, plate 75 (elephant) with small tear to intersection of folds and short closed tear to foot [ESTC T136453]Note: Note: First Duncan edition. William Duncan (1717-1760) was professor of philosopher at Marischal College, Aberdeen. The plates, many by Cornelis Huyberts, include depictions of Picts, Britons, and 'Germans', battles including the famous 'Battle with the Elephants' scene, military formations and encampments, aerial city views, and a suite of nine plates after Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar. Remaining in print well into the 19th century, Duncan's translation was influential the 18th-century revival of interest in Britain's Celtic past and helped inspire his pupil James Macpherson in his creation of Ossian, the mythical Scottish bard. Publishing the work a few years after 1745 Jacobite rebellion, Duncan was evidently concerned to present Caesar as a model of leadership, advising his dedicatee the future George III: 'It is likewise well known, that in dangerous domestic seditions ... nothing tends more to confirm the well-affected in their duty, and to check the machinations of the factious, than when a king every was qualified to command, appears in person at the head of his troops'.

Kinneir, John Macdonald Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South. Inscribed to Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm, Knight. London: A. Arrowsmith, 1813. Engraved folding map on 16 sheets, sectionalised and laid on linen, opening to 96 x 128cm, a few very small nicks and losses along edges, dust-soiling and pencil markings to left-hand side, right-hand side with two closed transverse tears (with attempted repair verso) and a few old stains to two sections, small surface-abrasion near foot touching text 'Rasool Khyma', another similar blemish belowNote: Note: Published to accompany Kinneir's Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire, the map is focused on modern-day Iran, and also covers parts of the Caucasus, Central Asia, modern Pakistan and the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf, where named locations include Sharjah ('Shurga'), Umm al-Quwain ('Murgaveen') and Ra's al-Khaymah ('Rasool Khyma'), all in the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. A lithographic version was printed later, in 1856.

India Quantity of works, including Indian imprints Firminger, Rev. W.K., editor. Bengal Past and Present. Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society; Volumes:I. No. 1, July-December 1907, 4to, blue half morocco;II. No. 1 and 2, January-December 1908, 2 volumes, blue half morocco;III. No. 1 and 2 (Serial No. 7-8), January-June 1909, 2 copies;IV. (Serial No. 9), July-December 1909, 2 copies;VIII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 15-16), January-June 1914;IX. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No 17-18), July-December 1914;X. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 19-20), January-June 1915;XI. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 21-22), July-December 1915;XII. Part 1 and 2 (Serial No. 23-24), April-June 1916;XIII. Part 2 (Serial No. 26), October-December 1916;XIV. Part 2 (Serial No. 28), April-June 1917;Grierson, George A. Bihar Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885. 8vo, map, lithographed plates, contemporary half calf, binding (only) lightly wormed;Mukerji, Nitya Gopal. Hand-book of Indian Agriculture. Calcutta, 1901. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy inscribed by the author, illustrations, contemporary half calf;M'Cann, Hugh W. Report on the Dyes and Tans of Bengal. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1883. 8vo, original brown cloth;Anderson, J.D. A Collection of Kachari Folk-Tales and Ryhmes. Shillong: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, 1895. 8vo, original cloth-backed blue boards, slightly rubbed;Hume, Allan. List of the Birds of India, Reference Edition, corrected to 1st March 1879. Calcutta: Calcutta Central Press Co., 1879. 8vo, title from upper board, original cloth-backed boards;Bengal Camp Guide. Coronation Durbar at Delhi. Notes and Information for the use of the Guests of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Small 4to, photographic plates, 7 folding plans in pocket at end, original blue cloth gilt;Hunter, William Wilson. North-Eastern Frontier. Political Dissertation prefixed to a Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia. Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company Limited, 1869, 8vo, original wrappers slightly stained and small hole without loss, spine worn; RARE;Sastri, Pandit Sivanath. Remtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer, a History of the Renaissance in Bengal. London: Sonnenschein; Calcutta: S.K. Lahiri, 1907, presentation copy to the Honble. W.C. Macpherson Esq. from S.K. Lahiri, plates, original cloth;Bradley-Birt, F.B. Chota Nagpore, a little known province of the Empire. 1903. 8vo, presentation copy from the author, plates, folding map, original red cloth gilt, slightly marked;Pennell, T.L. Amongst the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier. 1909. 8vo, plates, spine faded;Russell, William Howard. My Diary in India, in the year 1858-9. 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, a little dampstaining or spotting, rubbed, hinges weak;Crawford, Arthur. Our Troubles in Poona and the Deccan. 1897, 8vo, original cloth;Foster, William. The English Factories in India 1618-1621 [1622-23], Oxford, 1906-08, 2 volumes, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g.;Neve, Major Arthur. The Tourist's Guide to Kashmir, Ladakh, Khardo, &c, Lahore: Civil and Military Gazette, 1918. 8vo, 11th edition, folding maps, original cloth-backed boards;Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923. 8vo, plates, original cloth;Beveridge, Henry. A Comprehensive History of India. 1842, 3 volumes, large 8vo, plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed;Fraser, Sir Andrew H.L. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots. London, 1911, 8vo, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine slightly faded;Carstairs, R. The Little World of an Indian District Officer. 1912, 8vo, original cloth;Hoernle, A.F.R. A History of India. Cuttack: Orissa Mission Press, 1909. 8vo, original cloth;O'Malley, L.S.S. Bengal District Gazetteers. Saran. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1908. 8vo, original blue cloth;Thornton, Thomas Henry. General Sir Richard Meade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern India. London, 1898, original cloth;Case, Mrs. Day by Day at Lucknow. A Journal of the Siege. London, 1858. 8vo, original cloth;Fay, Mrs Eliza. The Original Letters from India. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co, 1908. 8vo, original cloth;Younghusband, Sir Francis. Kashmir. A. & C. Black, 1917, original pictorial cloth;Penny, F.E. Southern India, painted by Lady Lawley. A & C. Black, 1914, original pictorial cloth;Shakespear, John. Dictionary of Hindustani & English. London, 1849, 4to, contemporary half calf, lacks title page, margins of dedication leaf repaired;Roberts of Kandahar, Lord. Forty-one Years in India. 1902, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;[Rousseau, Samuel]. A Dictionary of Words used in the East Indies... the leading word of each article being printed in a New Nustaleek type, to which is added, Mohammedan Law & Bengal Revenue Terms. London: for James Asperne, 1805. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired, extensively annotated;Smith, R. Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence. 1883, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, worn;Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 2 folding maps (1 in pocket at end, on linen), folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, engraved portrait plate, 2 tinted lithographs, 20 wood-engraved plates, 1 folding plan, original brown cloth, neatly recased, hinges strengthened, bookplate of George Armistead;and a quantity of later, India-related volumes; sold as a collection not subject to return

Greece Five works Chandler, Richard. Travels in Greece, or an Account of a Tour made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1776. First edition, 4to, 4, [xiv], [2 - errata], 304; 7 engraved maps and plans, 2 folding, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, folding map torn without loss, head of spine slightly rubbed;Fellows, Charles. An Account of Discoveries in Lycia, being a Journal kept during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor. London: J. Murray, 1841. First edition, 8vo, lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps and 36 lithograph or etched plates (including 2 folding, 1 double-page, 1 hand-coloured & the unlisted plate at p.367), lacking boards;Thiersch, Friedrich Wilhelm von. De l'état actuel de la Grèce et des moyens d'arriver à sa restauration. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, spine gilt, some light spotting [Blackmer 1652];Hellenic Journal. Plates from the Hellenic Journal 1921-1936. 4to, specially bound volume of all the plates from the Hellenic Journal of 1921-1936 depicting Greek marble statues, heads, reliefs, vases, bronze statuettes, pottery cups, alabaster bowls, bronze sculptures &c., numerous plates, some coloured, fine blue morocco gilt, spine gilt; Mahaffy, J.P. Greek pictures. 1890. 4to, plates, illustrations, original cloth, lightly rubbedNote: Note: Thiersch. An important work by one of the most important Bavarian philhellenes who in 1831 went to Greece as an unofficial agent of the Bavarian court to promote the nomination of Otho as King of the Hellenes.

Middle East Collection of works Eleftériadès, Eleuthère. Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique, 1944. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to 'A son Excellence Monsieur Béchara El-Khoury, Président de la République Libanaise, hommage respectueux de l'auteur, Beyrouth, le 17 juin 1944, Eletfériadès' on the initial blank, 4to (23.5 x 16cm), contemporary half morocco, 7 halftone photographic plates (printed on both sides and numbered 1-14), folding table, 2 maps on one folding plate at rear, 9 graphs in text, original paper covers and spine bound in, plates spotted;Marchebeus, Jean-Baptiste. Voyage de Paris à Constantinople par bateau à vapeur. Paris: Artus Bertrand, Amiot, l'auteur, 1839. First edition, tall 8vo (25 x 15.5cm), contemporary quarter morocco, half-title, 24 engraved plates, engraved folding map, bookplate of Archives et temps modernes, their ink-stamp to title-page, spotting [Blackmer 1075];Ruete, Emily (née Salimah bint Sa'id), Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. Mémoires d'une princesse Arabe. Traduit de l'allemand par L. Lindsay. Paris: Dujarric, 1905. First edition in French, 8vo (18.2 x 11cm), contemporary blue quarter morocco, [6] 330 pp., original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, contents browned, half-title and title-page loose and slightly chipped;Laurier, Jean-Philippe. Observations sur les Pyramides. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1960. First edition, inscribed on the half-title 'A Monsieur Guy Abela, en souvenir de son passage à ma maison de Sakkarah, le 5-3-67 et en cordial hommage, J. P. Laurier', 4to (28 x 19.8cm), contemporary quarter morocco, 13 plates, original wrappers bound in, spine rubbed, staining to half-title;Guyard, Stanislas. Un grand maître des assassins au temps de Saladin. Extrait du Journal asiatique. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1877. 8vo (22 x 13.4cm), contemporary blue half morocco by the bindery of the Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, text in French and Arabic, spotting;'Arfa al-Dawlah Mirza Riza Khan Danesh (1846-1937). Perles d'Orient. Paris: Dujarric et Cie, 1905. Second edition, tall 8vo (24 x 15cm), original cloth, rebacked in morocco, endpapers renewed, 129 [3] pp., half-title, 4 halftone photographic plates, text-leaves browned;Musil, Alois. The Manners and Customs of the Rwala Bedouins. New York: American Geographical Society, 1928. First edition, large 8vo (24.5 x 16.5cm), contemporary orange full morocco gilt, photographic portrait frontispiece, photographic illustrations in the text, joints and extremities rubbed, spotting to rear board and edges, pp. 450-600 with occasional abrasions and repairs (pp. 532-3 marginally abraded, marginal repairs to pp. 557/8 and 559/60, 580/1 abraded with partial loss of text, similar abrasions and staining to pp. 588-600, pp. 589/90 repaired, etc.)Note: Note: Bechara El Khoury (1890-1964) was the first president of the newly independent Republic of Lebanon, serving from 1943 until his resignation in 1952; Library Hub traces two copies of Les chemins de fer en Syrie et au Liban in UK libraries (British Library and Oxford). Marchebeus's work is an account of 'the first organised steamer cruise in the Mediterranean ... [which] visited Sicily, Malta, the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor and the Archipelago' (Blackmer). Emily Ruete's work was first published in German in 1888; it has been described as the first published autobiography by an Arab or African woman. 'Arfah al-Dawlah, known as 'Danesh', was a Persian diplomatist of the late Qajar period. Perles d'Orient is a collection of poems and memoirs. Library Hub traces one copy only in UK libraries (Cambridge), and two of the first edition, printed at Constantinople the previous year.Provenance: Guy Abela (1929-2015), Lebanese poet and bibliophile, with his gilt stamp to foot of spines and ownership inscriptions to various preliminary leaves.

Mackenzie, Alexander History of the Relations of the Government with the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of Bengal Calcutta: Home Department Press, 1884. First edition, 8vo, folding map, original cloth, hinges broken, spine torn/rubbed, upper board soiledNote: Note: 'From 1866 to 1873 I had immediate charge of the Political correspondence of the Bengal Government. In 1869... I wrote... a "Memorandum on the North-East Frontier of Bengal". Since Pemberton's Report in 1835, no general survey had been taken of the political relations of the Government with the hill tribes of Assam, Cachar and Chittagong, and my 'Memorandum' proved to be extremely useful. I [planned] a work which while treating exhaustively of all the frontier tribes in that quarter, in respect of their relations to the Government, their manners, customs and ethnological affinities, would at the same time serve as a permanent hand-book for the Government and its local officers..." (Preface)Chapters are devoted to Bhutan, the extra-Bhutan Bhutias, The Akas-Hazari-Khawas and Kapachors; The Duplha Tribes, The Abors and Miris, The Mishmis, The Khampti Clans of Sadiya, The Singphos of Sadiya, The Moamariahs of Muttuck, The Naga Tribes- The Patkoi Nagas, The Seebsaugor Nagas, The Angami Nagas, North Cachar, Manipur, The Mikirs and Rengma Nagas, The Khasi and Jaintia Hills, The Garos, Hill Tipperah, The Lushai or Kookie Tribes, and Chittagong Frontier Tribes.

Philip Wulfsohn. A pair of diamond set cufflinks, in the form of a map of Africa, with satin finish, and with a brilliant-cut black diamond set to the tip, with fixed bar and swivel fittings, marked PW, maker's mark, panels approximately 2.4cm long, with maker's caseProvenance: The Barry Lock collectionCondition Report: Stamped 750.Gross weight 15.20g.Scratches to the satin panels.

WW2. Navigator Randy Anderton's Original RAF Issued Map For Night time Navigation During Early Years of the War 1939/40. Showing Signs of Age. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

WW2. Original RAF Map From Biggin Hill, Printed in 1939. There Are Arrows and Markings by 234 Spitfire Squadron showing routes to intercept Luftwaffe Aircraft on their approach to Portland. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.

WW2. Sections of Luftwaffe Map that Was Recovered in 1973. Recovered From a Me 109 5095 JG51 Which Crashed in Dymchurch on 28th October 1940 at 5. 10pm. Other Items Recovered. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.