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Click here to subscribeAn interesting world map depicting the status of discoveries in the world and the British colonies extending nearly to the Pacific. Publication: Gentleman’s Magazine and Historical Chronicle by Sylvanus Urban, Gent. London. Dark impressions on hand laid paper with original margins. Issued: 1755Dimensions: 11.25"L x 7.25"HCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Original NASA B/W photograph silver print of Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell Walking on Lunar Surface, taken by Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. From the Personal Collection of Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell.Rare photograph of Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell from his Estate. Mitchell moves across the lunar surface as he looks over a traverse map during exploration of Fra Mauro landing site. Lunar dust can be seen clinging to the boots and legs of the space suit. Image Credit: NASA/Shepard Issued: February 1971Dimensions: 10"W x 8"HManufacturer: National Aeronautics And Space AdministrationCountry of Origin: United StatesProvenance: Estate of Edgar Mitchell Condition: Good.
Robert Scott - The History of England during the Reign of George III, four volumes published 1824, half calf and marbled boards, Lieut Francis Hall - Travels in Canada and the United States second edition with folding map 1819, two volumes in prize binding stamped 'Royal Medical College MDCCCLV' and other books
Africa.- Moffat (Robert) Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, eighth thousand, colour frontispiece, vignette title, plates and illustrations, folding map, occasional marginal pencil markings, contemporary half-calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, rubbed and worn, [1842] § Bettmann (S.) South Africa Revisited: a short record of impressions from sea, city and veld, signed by author, contemporary cloth-backed boards, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, n.d; and others similar, 8vo (10)
Scotland.- Loch (James) An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of the Marquess of Stafford, in...Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland, first edition, lacking half-title, with folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, 39 plates and plans, some folding, a few hand-coloured, light offsetting, later polished tan calf, spine gilt, a little spotted, [Goldsmiths 22807; Kress C.571; Perkins 1028], 1820 § [Kames (Henry Home, Lord)] Progress of Flax-Husbandry in Scotland, first edition, contemporary manuscript note regarding author on title, modern cloth, ex-Rothemsted Agricultural library copy but unstamped, [Kress 6351, erroneously calling for a plan], Edinburgh, Sands, Murray, and Cochran, 1766 § Considerations on the System of the Laws in Scotland relative to Salt, first edition, modern cloth, [Goldsmiths' 16055; Kress B.2681], Edinburgh, for J.Simpson, 1794; and 2 others relating to Scotland, 8vo (5)⁂ The author of the first was the state commissioner for the Marquess of Stafford and on his behalf carried out the notorious highland clearances in Sutherland, when crofters were evicted from the land for the development of sheep-farming, causing appalling hardship, bitter resentment, and emigration for many.The second is rare with ESTC recording only 5 UK copies in 4 locations (BL, National Library of Scotland 2 copies, Oxford, and this copy previously at Rothamsted), plus 2 copies in the Baker Library at Harvard. The third is also rare with 2 copies in the UK (National Library of Scotland and Senate House) and copies at Columbia and Harvard in America.
Ireland.- Archer (Lt. Joseph) Statistical Survey of the County Dublin, with Observations on the Means of Improvement..., first edition, folding hand-coloured engraved map, light spotting and offsetting, bookplate of William Edward Kelly, contemporary tan calf, gilt, spine gilt with roan labels, a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, [Goldsmiths' 18158; Kress B.4319; Perkins 63], Dublin, 1801 § Young (Arthur) A Tour in Ireland, first edition, engraved frontispiece and plate, list of subscribers, with additional p.159, a little foxed at beginning and end, engraved bookplate of Spains Hall, Finchingfield on front pastedown, contemporary marbled boards, rubbed, rebacked and recornered in russet morocco, spine gilt, [Goldsmiths' 11970; Kress B.340], T.Cadell and J.Dodsley, 1780 § Lee (James) Minutes of the Trustees of the Linen and Hempen Manufactures of Ireland, respecting the Mode of Preparing and Dressing Hemp and Flax, first edition, with folding sheet 'Reasons for Mr.Lee's Bill...' with drop-head & docket titles and dated 1816 bound in at end (slightly frayed at top-edge, repaired), modern cloth, [Black 2881; Goldsmiths-Kress 212300.13], [Dublin], printed by William Folds & Sons, 1815, 8vo & 4to (3)⁂ The last is very rare with Library Hub recording only reproductions of the Kress copy; Black adds a copy in the National Library of Ireland. The additional sheet appears to be unrecorded..
NO RESERVE Africa.- Isenberg (Karl Wilhelm) Journals of the Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society ... in the Kingdom of Shoa ... and other parts of Abyssinia, first edition, bound without half-title, 2 facsimile folding maps loosely inserted, previous owner's ink inscription to title, ex-Lovedale Library with label to front pastedown, marginal water-staining to early blanks and title, bookplate, contemporary calf, remnants of label to upper cover, slight rubbing to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1843 § Johnston (Charles) Travels in Southern Abyssinia, through the Country of Adal to the Kingdom of Shoa, 2 vol., first edition, tinted lithographed frontispieces, folding map, without 8pp. publishers' catalogue at end vol. 2, light spotting, bookplates, vol. 2 ex-library with ink-stamp of the 'Library of the San Francisco College for Women' to title verso, vol. 1 in contemporary calf, raised spine bands, gilt, vol. 2 in original cloth, expert repairs to spine extremities, a little rubbed and stained, bumping to corners and extremities, 1844; 8vo (3).⁂ The first is an account of the travels of two German Protestant missionaries in Ethiopia, including descriptions of customs, towns, and the slave-trade.
Gentleman's Magazine (The), 18 vol. only, a collection of odd vols., plates and maps, 1763 copy with folding map of North America, scattered spotting, most in modern cloth, several in contemporary calf, boards detached, rubbed and worn, 8vo, 1763-1838; sold as a periodical, not subject to return
Sri Lanka.- Survey Dept. of Ceylon.- Ceylon, detailed map on a scale of 8 miles to an inch, colour printed map, 950 x 625 mm (37 1/2 x 24 1/2 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt, folding into original blue cloth boards, gilt title to upper cover, worn, 4to, [circa 1920-1950].
India.- Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta.- The British and Native States Cis-Sutluj Division, Comprising the Districts of Ferozpoor, Loodheeanuh, Umballa, Thanesur & Simla... 1847 to 1851, large detailed regional map of the present-day Punjab and Haryana states of northern India, with roads and military settlements located, engraving with original hand-colouring, 1140 x 1610 mm (44 3/4 x 63 3/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, some ink stains and surface dirt, minor browning, extensive ink inscription to endpaper with several names of British Captains dated '1865', and ink stamp denoting 'Government Property', folding with marbled endpapers into original brown cloth, gilt armorial device of the 'Surveyor Generals Department, India' and further gilt tooled 'Cis-Sutluj Division' to upper cover, worn, 4to, 1858.
Middle East.- Dubai Printing Press (publisher) Road Map of U.A.E., showing from Dammam to Al Khaburah, including Bahrain, Qatar, and showing part of the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, further maps, city plans and charts printed verso, colour printed map, sheet 480 x 670 mm (18 7/8 x 26 1/4 in), old folds, circa 1973; together with another folding map of Dubai from the 1970s, 430 x 630 mm (17 x 24 3/4 in), unframed, [circa 1970s] (2)
NO RESERVE Africa.- James (F.L.) The Wild Tribes of the Soudan, first edition, half-title, frontispiece, plates, 3 maps, 2 folding, publisher's advertisements at end, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, mottling to fore-edges, bumping to corners and extremities, [Czech pp.82-83], 1883 § Slatin Pasha (Rudolf C.) Fire and Sword in the Sudan, portrait frontispiece, plates, 2 folding maps at end, faint off-setting to title, scattered spotting, bookplates, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, 1896 § Seligman (C. G. & Brenda Z.) Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan, first edition, frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding map at end, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, scattered faint spotting, tiny marginal worming to last few leaves, original cloth, small worming to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1932, 8vo (3).
British Isles.- Geological Ordnance Survey.- Collection of 27 geological maps, from various editions, including two large sheets of the British Isles, sheet 1 of England and Wales, sheet 2 of Scotland, a large double-page 'Tectonic Map of Great Britain and Northern Ireland', and other regional geological maps, colour-printed maps, all mounted on linen, various sizes between 330 x 440 mm (13 x 17 1/4 in) and 840 x 1070 mm (33 x 42 1/8 in), old folds and handling creases, colours generally bright and vivid, all unframed, the majority circa 1950s (27)
Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.- Danckerts (Cornelis) Insulae Americanae Nempe: Cuba, Hispaniola, Iamaica, Pto Rico, Lucania, Antillae vulgo Caribae, Barlo-et Sotto-Vento etc., map covering the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Florida, Central America and the northernmost coast of South America, engraving with hand-colouring, 500 x 580 mm (19 3/4 x 22 3/4 in), heavy browning, surface dirt and spotting, unframed, Amsterdam, [c. 1695].
Trials.- Concanen (George) A Report of the Trial at Bar, Rowe v. Brenton...as to the Rights to Minerals in the Assessional Lands of the Duchy of Cornwall, first edition, presentation copy from the author to Mr.Wells inscribed at head of title, a few ink annotations, folding hand-coloured lithographed map, 1830 bound with Short Statement (A) of the Case of the Late Sir William Clayton, Bart. and his lessees holding an estate at Kennington, under the Constitution of the Duchy of Cornwall, 8pp., drop-head title, [Library Hub British Library copy only], [1834], together 2 works in 1 vol., some foxing and browning, bookplate of John Davies Enys, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label, 1830 § Trial (The) of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Wakefield, and Frances Wakefield...for a Conspiracy, and for the Abduction of Miss Ellen Turner, first edition, half-title, with Appendix at end, some soiling and chipping to edges, modern cloth, [Ferguson 1159], 1827; and 9 others, trials, 8vo (11)⁂ The first was a landmark trial in the long and contentious history of the legal (and constitutional) status of the Duchy of Cornwall, mineral rights of private landowners, the power of the Stannary courts, and, by extension, the whole matter of Cornwall's peculiar semi-separate status within the United Kingdom. The Rowe-Brenton case itself was brought to "try the right to copper ore raised from the East Crinnis mines" at Tewington in Cornwall. The second is an account of one of the most celebrated English criminal trials of the 19th century which resulted in the young Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), later an acclaimed colonial statesman, being sent to prison for three years. In 1816 he had made a runaway match with an heiress and ward in chancery, Eliza Susan Pattle, the orphan daughter of a Canton merchant. He afterwards returned to Turin as secretary to the under-secretary of the legation, and after his wife's death on 5 July 1820 he became connected with the Paris legation. In 1826, urged on by the persuasions of his friends in Paris, he made a foolhardy attempt to improve his prospects by a second marriage. On 7 March by a false message he beguiled from school Ellen Turner, the daughter of William Turner of Shrigley, a wealthy Cheshire manufacturer, inducing her, by representing that her father's fortune depended on her compliance, to go through a ceremony of marriage at Gretna Green. He took the lady with him to Calais, but forbore to consummate the marriage; at Calais he was overtaken by his bride's enraged relatives, who induced her to leave him. Wakefield returned to England to share the fate of his accomplice, his brother William, who had already been arrested. They were both sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The question of the legality of the marriage was involved in so much doubt that it was cancelled by special Act of Parliament.
Oceania.- Monckton (Captain C. A. W.) Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1921; Last Days in New Guinea, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, one loose, folding map, tear at gutter, old repair to verso, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signatures, original cloth, sunned spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 1922; and others, including 10 vol. from the Hakluyt Society, 8vo (15)
Asia.- Fellows (Sir Charles) Coins of Ancient Lycia, first edition, half-title, folding colour map frontispiece, 21 plates, 1 map, ex-library with usual labels, contemporary cloth, remnants of library paper label to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, some neat repairs to spine, 1855; Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, folding map frontispiece, 5 folding plates, 1 folding map, illustrations, advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature, cracked hinges, original cloth, gilt, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping 6to corners and extremities, 1852; 4to & 8vo (2).
Roberts (Lewes) The Merchants Map of Commerce..., fourth edition, title in red and black, a little browned, engraved bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked, red morocco label, upper corners repaired, [Goldsmiths' 3671; Kress 2261; Sabin 71909; Wing R1601], folio, for Thomas Horne, 1700.⁂ "This appears to have been the earliest systematic work on trade and commerce published in the English language... The description of 'America and the Provinces thereof' contains much fuller accounts of New England, New Netherland, and other places than that in the first edition." (Sabin).
Middle East.- Anonymous (20th century) Middle East-India Routes, outline map of the Arabian Peninsula with details on flight routes and main airfields, colour printed map, sheet 275 x 390 mm (10 3/4 x 15 1/4 in), central vertical fold, minor spotting, unframed, 1944; together with a "plotting map" centered on northern Egypt, printed in red ink, published by the Geographical Section, War Office, and with another map published by the Geographical Section showing Basra, the latter dated 1927, all unframed, [early 20th century] (3)
Military.- Willyams (Rev. Cooper) An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, first edition, list of subscribers, 2 aquatint vignettes in text, with engraved plan of Fort Bourbon but lacking engraved map, without the 6 aquatint plates issued separately but bound in with the large paper folio copies, bookplates of 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment, one for the Officers Mess dated 1905 in ink manuscript, contemporary ink ownership inscription to dedication leaf, some light soiling and marginal staining, later calf, arms of the Regiment in gilt to upper cover, paper label to spine, rubbed and soiled, spine chipped, [Sabin 104563; cf.Abbey, Travel 677, large paper], T. Bensley, 1796; and others, Military, v.s. (c.34)
Lightfoot (Rev. John) The Works ..., vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, title in red and black, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, tiny marginal worming, scattered faint spotting, one or two marginal pencil notes, later calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, [Wing L2051], folio, by W.R. for Robert Scot ..., 1684.
Netherby Estate, Cumberland - Sale Particulars. Fine folio sale particulars to include "45 capital dairy & stock farms", smallholdings, fishings, etc. Map in pocket. Orig. brds. 1912; also 4 other fine folio sale particulars relating to the Netherby Estate with the relevant maps & plans, etc. 1908, 1916 & 1919. (5).
Netherby Estate, Cumberland - Sale Particulars. Fine folio sale particulars to include "45 capital dairy & stock farms", smallholdings, fishings, etc. Map in pocket. Orig. brds. 1912; also 4 other fine folio sale particulars relating to the Netherby Estate with the relevant maps & plans, etc. 1908, 1916 & 1919. (5).
HOLMAN JAMES. Travels in Madras, Ceylon, Mauritius, Cormoro Islands, Zanzibar, Calcutta, etc. Eng. frontis & 5 plates, as called for. Half red calf, marbled brds. Armorial bookplate. 1840; also An Account of a Voyage to India, China &c in Her Majesty's Ship Caroline ... by an Officer of Caroline, fldg. eng. map, rebound qtr. calf, marbled brds., 1806. (2).
COBBETT WILLIAM. Cobbett's Tour in Scotland & in the Four Northern Counties of England. Rebound cloth. 1833; also Richard Warner, A Tour Through the Northern Counties of England & the Borders of Scotland, aquatint frontis & map of vignettes, rebacked calf, Michael Berry`s bookplate of "Dominie Sampson in ecstasy" (Guy Mannering), 1802 & 2 others. (4).
Netherby Estate, Cumberland - Sale Particulars. Fine folio sale particulars to include "45 capital dairy & stock farms", smallholdings, fishings, etc. Map in pocket. Orig. brds. 1912; also 2 other sale particulars relative to the Netherby Estate & The British Red Cross Society, results of the "Sale of Gift Trees", 1919. (4).
LEYLAND R. W. A Holiday in South Africa. Fldg. map & photo frontis & plates. Orig. pict. green cloth gilt, wear & mkg. 1882; also 2 copies of William Shaw, The Story of My Mission Among th Native Tribes of South Eastern Africa, each with fldg. map & 2 plates, orig. cloth covered brds., one green, the other brown, 1872. (3).
(BARRY JOSEPH). The Annals of Harper's Ferry with Sketches of Its Founder & Many Prominent Characters Connected with its History ... by Josephus, Junior. 1 eng. port. plate. Orig. dark cloth. 2nd ed., Martinsburg, 1872; also N. Parker Willis (Ed)., Trenton Falls, eng. plates & illus., New York, 1868 & Isaac Taylor, Scenes in America, fldg. eng. map, rebound brds., 1822. (3).
MUIRHEAD GEORGE. The Birds of Berwickshire. 2 vols. Fldg. map. Text vignettes. Half green morocco, marbled brds., rubbed. Edinburgh, 1889; also George Johnston, The Botany of the Eastern Borders, 1853 & J. V. Thompson, Catalogue of Plants Growing the Vicinity of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, hand col. title vignette but ex lib., 1807. (4).
FREMONT J. C. Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains ... & to Oregon & North California. Eng. frontis & 3 plates (lib. stamps to plates). Facsimile of the orig. map slipped in, rebound blue half morocco, marbled brds., internal soiling & mkg. 1846; also Crocker & Co., Tourists Illustrated Guide to the Celebrated Summer & Winter Resorts of California, 1887 & William S. Webb, California & Alaska & Over the Canadian Pacific Railway, illus., orig. cloth, 1891. (3).
HEAD SIR GEORGE. Forest Scenes & Incidents in the Wilds of North America. Half title. Fldg. eng. map, hand col. in outline. Rebound half dark leather. 2nd ed., 1838; also Tytler, Historical View of the Progress of Discovery on the More Northern Coasts of America, fldg. eng. map & title vignette, rebacked half calf (lacking spine labels), Edinburgh, 1833. (2).
LIVINGSTONE DAVID & CHARLES. Narrative of An Expedition to the Zambesi & Its Tributaries. Fldg. map (tape reps.), fldg. frontis & eng. plates. Half calf, some wear & splitting, internal foxing & spotting. Bookplate of John Maddock Hughes. 1865; also H. M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa, 2 vols., fldg. map, illus., orig. pict. cloth gilt, 2nd ed., 1890 & Lardner, Soldiering & Sport in Uganda, 1912. (4).
BAKER SIR SAMUEL W. Ismailia, A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. 2 vols. Fldg. eng. map (edge tear) & eng. frontis & plates. Orig. pict. green cloth gilt, rebacked. 1874; also Sir Samuel Baker, A Memoir by T. Douglas Murray & A. Silva White, orig. cloth, 1895. (3).
LEYLAND R. W. A Holiday in South Africa. Fldg. map & photo frontis & plates. Orig. pict. green cloth gilt. Pres. copy from the author. 1882; also Rev. James O'Haire, Recollections of Twelve Years' Residence in the Western District of the Cape of Good Hope, Subscriber's list, orig. green cloth, poetic book label of Eugene Scallan of Dublin, Dublin, 1877 & Bent, The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland, half red calf, 1896. (3).
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