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Click here to subscribeNO RESERVE Africa.- Ellis (Rev. William) Three Visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856, first edition, half-title, folding wood-engraved frontispiece, 14 plates, 1 engraved map, 1 additional large colour map loosely inserted, one or two short tears to folds, illustrations, 32pp. publisher's advertisements at end, ?new endpapers, original decorative cloth, recased, neat repairs to spine extremities, slight bumping to corners, 8vo, 1858.
London.- Wyld (James) Plan of the Districts Drained by Water Courses Discharging into the River Thames, between the City of London and the Parish of Fulham..., large engraved wall map, extending from Hampstead Heath in the north to Lincoln's Inn Fields in the east, Chelsea in the south, and Shepherd's Bush Green in the west, showing "Open Watercourses", "Main Sewers", "Boundaries of the the District drained by these Sewers", and "Boundaries of Parishes", 1270 x 980 mm (50 x 38 1/2 in), mounted on linen, varnished, wooden rollers to upper and lower edges, handling creases and surface dirt, some losses, nicks and tears, rolled, 1834.⁂ Scarce. We can trace just one later issue ("With Corrections to 1840 and 1844") at the London Metropolitan Archives.
NO RESERVE Melville (Herman) Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas, first edition, map frontispiece, contemporary ink ownership name to front free endpapers, these reinforced at hinge, original red cloth, rebacked, a little rubbed and corners bumped, [BAL 13655], 1847; Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of The Marquesas Islands, first edition, map, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated March 1846, original first issue cloth, binding variant A, expertly rebacked, light bumping to corners, light surface soiling, [BAL 13652], 1846; and 4 others, Melville, 8vo (6)
Botany.- Plant-hunting.- Veitch (James Herbert) A Traveller's Notes or Notes of a Tour through India, Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand during the years 1891-1893, first edition, folding map, 9 photogravure plates with tissue guards, illustrations, foxing to plates and guards, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spine browned and a little worn at ends, 4to, privately printed, 1896.⁂ Tour by the famous nurseryman in search of plants.
Roman Britain.- Antoninus (Augustus) Iter Britanniarum, commentary by Thomas Gale, folding engraved map with repaired tear, 2 plates, illustrations, 5pp. advertisements at end, upper inner corner of title repaired, occasional foxing and browning, later blind-stamped calf, rebacked, 4to, M. Atkins, 1709.
NO RESERVE World.- Bell (Gertrude) The Desert and the Sown, first edition, frontispiece, plates, and large folding map, occasional light spotting, modern half calf, 1907; Amurath to Amurath, first edition, plates, light finger-soiling and foxing, modern half calf, 1911 § Edwards (Bryan) The History Civil and Commercial of the British Colonies in the West Indies, 3 vol., third edition, frontispiece to vol.1, bookplates to pastedown, light foxing, contemporary half calf, lightly rubbed, for John Stockdale, 1801; and 9 others, travel, v.s. (14)
Britain.- Senex (John) Jefferys's Itinerary; or Travellers Companion, through England, Wales, and Part of Scotland, letterpress title, preface and index, engraved general map and 104 strip maps, title and a few maps with small repairs, general map trimmed, some light foxing and browning, modern cloth, oblong 4to, Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1775.
Middle East.- Burckhardt (John Lewis) Travels in Arabia, 2 vol., second edition, engraved folding map and 4 folding plans, scattered spotting, lacking half-titles and final advertisement f., bookplate, near contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Blackmer 239], 8vo, 1829.⁂ Burckhardt travelled to Mecca and Medina in 1814 disguised as an Arab Sheikh and through his extensive knowledge of Arabic and Muslim practices managed to avoid exposure.
Darton (William, Jr. & Thomas Darton, publishers) Walker's New Geographical Game, Exhibiting a tour through Europe, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 455 x 500 mm (17 7/8 x 19 3/4 in), dissected and mounted on linen, with light surface dirt and browning, folding into the marbled paper slipcase, with engraved title label, corners rubbed, slightly worn, published for the author by W. & T. Darton, 1810.
Africa.- Verner (Capt. Willoughby) Sketches in the Soudan, first edition, additional lithographed pictorial title, list of subscribers, 39 chromolithographed plates on 37 sheets by J.G.Keulemans after Verner, each with facing explanatory leaf of text, chromolithographed map, advertisement leaf at end, some light foxing, original pictorial boards, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked in cloth, oblong folio, 1885.⁂ The artist served in the Rifle Brigade, D.A.A.G. Intelligence Department, Nile Expeditionary Force of 1884-85 which was an attempt to relieve General Gordon besieged in Khartoum by the rebellious Mahdi. The expedition travelled up the Nile in small adapted whalers, aided by Canadian voyageurs to negotiate the rapids, and were attacked by the rebels at Abu Klea and Abu Kru but managed to continue. They finally reached Khartoum in January 1885, two days after Gordon and the garrison had been massacred. As well as scenes of the Nile, the desert, and the battlefields & military engagements, there are more everyday sketches of bivouacs and camps, finding water in the desert, and portraits of those involved.
India.- Wyld (James) Hind, Hindoostan, or India By L.S. de la Rochette ..., detailed map of the Indian continent including Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands, with jungle vignette featuring an elephant surrounding the title cartouche in the lower right corner, engraved map with hand-colouring, platemark 710 x 540 mm (28 x 21 1/4 in), good margins, under glass, central horizontal fold as issued, some faint toning to sheet and minor areas of discolouration, minor spotting and surface dirt, framed, 1832; together with a framed lithograph by Arthur Wallis after James Lambert of Brighthelmston, Isle of Wight, a framed and trimmed impression of 'The Tsunami of Pool Valley, Brighton, during the Thunderstorm of Wednesday, July 17th 1850', by R. Canton after J. Leathem and J. Watkins, and a framed silk embroidery of ducks, all framed, [19th century] (4)
Korea.- Official Guide to Eastern Asia: Trans-Continental Connections Between Europe and Asia (An), vol.1 Manchuria & Chosen, first edition, illustrations, large folding colour maps including fold-out map inserted into rear pocket, edge-spotting, original cloth, t.e.g., light creasing or rubbing to spine ends, original slipcase, 8vo, Tokyo, prepared by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways, 1913.⁂ Beginning in 1871, Japan began to exert more influence in Korea, forcing it out of China's traditional sphere of influence. As a result of the sino-japanese war (1894-95), the Qing Dynasty had to give up such a position according to article 1 of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which was concluded between China and Japan in 1895. This work attests to a statement of Japanese pride in their recently conquered mainland territories.
London.- Lucas (George Oakley) Plan of the Borough of St. Mary-le-Bone, comprising the Parishes of Paddington, St. Mary-le-Bone & St. Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, large engraved wall map with hand-colouring, 1140 x 1170 mm (43 7/8 x 46 in), mounted on linen, varnished, with wooden rollers to upper and lower edges, discolouration and browning to varnish, handling creases, some splitting, surface dirt, rolled, published by Ch[arle]s Haselden, 21, Wigmore St. Cavendish Square, 1850.⁂ Scarce, we can trace no other institutional examples.
NO RESERVE World.- Cook (Captain James) Troisieme Voyage Abrégé du Capitaine Cook, dans L'Océan Pacifique, 3 vol., folding frontispiece to vol. one, title to each volume with "L.B." ink ownership inscription to each, slightly spotted, endpapers creased and stained, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed at extremities, small gouge to spine head, Paris, 1785 § Crawfurd (James) History of the Indian Archipelago, 3 vol., each with frontispiece, engraved plates, one in colour, vol. 3 with folding map supplied in later facsimile, bookplate, inkstamp to verso of each title, light offsetting, some browning and ink inscriptions to endpapers, half marbled calf, worn at extremities, Edinburgh, 1820 § Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 1-32 only (lacking vol. 6, 7 and 8), mixed edition, folding maps, photographic plates and illustrations, some coloured, endpapers browned, original cloth, lightly rubbed at extremities, 1910-22; with c.30 others relating to travel, science, art and music, v.s., (70)
Africa.- Leyden (Dr. John) Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, edited and enlarged by Hugh Murray, 2 vol., first edition, engraved large folding frontispiece map and 5 other maps, 2 folding, large folding map reinforced with paper verso, others trimmed, some light foxing, modern half calf, black morocco spine labels, new endpapers, Edinburgh, 8vo, 1817.
India.- [Maurice (Thomas)] Indian Antiquities: or, Dissertations, relative to ... Hindostan, 7 vol., folding engraved frontispieces, 23 engraved plates, 21 folding, hand-coloured folding map, short marginal tear, list of subscribers, scattered spotting and staining, 2F8 vol. 4 with hole through text without loss, I3 vol. 3 with small marginal loss, contemporary calf, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1793-1800.
NO RESERVE London.- Waltham Bros.' Pocket Map of London, showing Railways, Public Buildings, Theatres, etc., engraved map with the railways printed in red, and index of cab fares on the verso, sheet 280 x 380 mm (11 x 15 in), old folds, some handling creases, unframed, 1879; together with 2 other illustrated folding maps of London, including John Bartholomew's 'Children's Map of London', and 'The Daily Telegraph Picture Map of London. With street plan of Central London', colour printed maps, folding, 20th century (3)
Manchester, Chorlton-upon-Medlock.- A Plan of Building Lands in Chorlton Row in the County of Lancaster: The Property of Messrs, Cooper, Marslands & Duckworth, engraved map hand-coloured in outline and with manuscript insertions, on vellum, slightly creased, margins slightly soiled, 522 x 710mm., n.d., [c. 1820].
Iceland.- Hondius (Jodocus) Tabula Islandiae Auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro, engraved map with early hand-colouring, platemark 385 x 495 mm (15 x 19 1/2 in), sheet 490 x 575 mm (19 1/4 x 22 1/2 in), central vertical fold reinforced verso, two carefully repaired splits to lower left of map, affecting the cartouche and lower margin, surface dirt and minor damp-stains, unframed, [1630]
Local Derbyshire Interest - Glover, Stephen, The History and Gazetteer of the County of Derby: Drawn up from Actual Observation, and From the Best Authorities; Containing a Variety of Geological, Mineralogical, Commercial and Statistical Information, Illustrated by a Map of the County, and Numerous Copper-Plate and Wood Engravings by the First Artists, edited by Thomas Noble, two-volume set, Printed for the Publisher by Henry Mozley and Son, Derby 1831 - 1833, contemporary publisher's cloth, 4to
Travel - Robertson, William, An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. With an Appendix. The Fourth Edition, London and Edinburgh 1804, marbled leather binding, fold-out map, tooled and gilt spine, 8vo, armorial bookplate of Walker Ferrand
Railwayana: Three pre-grouping railway maps: Railway Clearing house official colour printed railway maps 22 x 151/2in (56 x 39cm) folded between moquette covers 63/8 x 11½ (16.2 x 29.5cm), Manchester and District (1911) and Derby & Nottingham District (1901), also W H Smith, card bound in green folded 213/4 x 333/4in (55.2 x 85.7cm) colour printed railway map of the British Isles, c. 1900 (3)
WORSLEY, Richard. The History of the Isle of Wight. London: A Hamilton, 1781. First edition, 4to (291 x 229mm.) Large folding engraved map of Isle of Wight by John Haywood with partial outline hand-colouring, 31 engraved plates, including 12 double-paged, 1 double-paged printed genealogy, several engraved tail-pieces. (One plate with minor marginal insect-damage, some pencil annotation, minor offsetting at B1.) Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (split to the lettering piece, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: John Walker-Heneage (bookplate to the front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
WAUGH, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good. London: Duckworth, 1946. First edition, 8vo (216 x 132mm.) Portrait frontispiece in colour, folding map. (Toning, spotting verso the frontispiece.) Original yellow cloth (slightly browned spine ends), dust-jacket (some chipping, short marginal tears, nicks to upper panel). - And a further three volumes by Evelyn Waugh ('The Holy Places', 1952, 4to, 'A Little Learning', 1964, 8vo, and 'Helena', 1950, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
AFRICA. - F.L. JAMES. The Unknown Horn of Africa, An Exploration From Berbera to the Leopard River. London: George Phillip & Son, 1888. First edition, first issue, 8vo (226 x 154mm.) Half-title, 19 plates, including 9 hand-coloured lithographs of natural history subjects, mainly birds by Keulemans. (Lacking four plates and the folding map to rear, toning, occasional minor soiling.) Original brown cloth with pictorial gilt (covers weakened, rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MANTELL, Gideon Algernon. The Fossils of the South Downs; or Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex. London: Lupton Relfe, 1822. First edition, 4to (308 x 232mm.) Half-title, 4pp. 'Subscribers', 42 aquatint plates engraved by Mrs. Mantell, including 1 hand-coloured map, 1 folding plate and 1 double-paged, 1p. publisher's advertisement to rear. (Browning, occasional minor spotting especially to plate margins, 9 of the plates are facsimiles including 1 folding and 1 double-paged, front blank replaced and rear blank lacking.) 20th century brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine (endpapers replaced, bumped and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Alex E. Murray (ink inscribed to half-title and title page); West Sussex County Council (labels to front pastedown and stamps to title-page).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
DAVENPORT ADAMS, W.H. The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Isle of Wight. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1858. Small folio (273 x 208mm.) 26 engraved plates, 2 lithographed plates with colour, 1 large folding lithographed map to rear. (Toning, occasional spotting and minor soiling.) Original red cloth with decorative gilt, g.e. (fading, rubbing and some wear to all extremities, repair at top of spine, endpapers replaced). Provenance: Edmund Kell (gift inscribed from in ink on the initial blank); John Smale (gift inscribed to in ink on the initial blank). - And a further seven volumes relating to the Isle of Wight (including William Cooke's 'A New Picture of the Isle of Wight', 1808, 8vo, and Thomas Barber's 'Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight', [circa 1834], 8vo) (8).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
WAUGH, Evelyn. Black Mischief. London: Chapman and Hall, October 1932. First edition, 8vo (186 x 117mm.) Frontispiece map. (Minor marginal spotting to a few leaves.) Original snakeskin patterned cloth (lightly bumped spine ends), dust-jacket (browned to spine, slight marginal creasing, small crease to inner flap).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
SMOLLETT, Tobias. A Complete History of England, from the Descent of Julius Caesar, to the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748. London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 1758-1760. 11 vols., second edition, 8vo (207 x 123mm.) Numerous engraved plates, including the folding map frontispiece of England and Wales. (Some repairs verso the folding plates, browning, occasional spotting and creasing, marginal insect damage to volume eleven.) Contemporary calf, red and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (some joints splitting, rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Elizabeth Haynes (name-plate to the front pastedowns). - And a further five volumes by Tobias Smollett ('Continuation of the Complete History of England', 5 vols., 1760-1765, 8vo) (16).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDINGS. - Thomas R.E. COLBY. Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1837. Volume 1 (of 1). 4to (265 x 203mm.) Folding engraved map of the city, 10 engraved plates including two with hand-colouring, 5 engraved plans of the city. (Lacking the geological map and half-title, intermittent spotting, sometimes heavy.) 20th century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards (endpapers replaced). - And a quantity of approximately fifty further volumes, mainly of literary and historical interest. Provenance: the property of Michael Godfrey (a quantity).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GEOLOGY. - P.I. MARTIN. A Geological Memoir on a Part of Western Sussex; with Some Observations Upon Chalk-Basins, the Weald-Denudation, and Outliers-by-Protusion. London: John Booth, 1828. First edition, 4to (282 x 215mm.) Folding hand-coloured engraved frontispiece map, folding table, 3 hand-coloured plates to rear. (Some tears along creases of frontispiece with repairs to verso, offsetting and spotting to preliminaries, occasional browning and toning, lacking front blank, three small ink annotations.) 20th century orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine (gilt reference number erased, endpapers replaced). Provenance: West Sussex County Council (label to front pastedown and stamp verso title). - And a further four volumes mainly relating to Sussex (including Frederick Dixon's 'The Geology of Sussex; or the Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex', 1878, 4to) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Bailey (J.) and Culley (G.) A General View of the Agriculture of Northumberland, 8vo, quarter calf, illus. with fold-out map, 1813; Marshall's Review of The Reports to the Board of Agriculture, Northern Department of England, 8vo, half-calf and marbled boards, illus. with fold-out map, York 1808; Bailey (J.) and Culley (G.) A General View of the Agriculture of Northumberland, 8vo, boards, illus. with fold-out map and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, Newcastle 1800; and Grey (John) A View of the Past and Present State of Agriculture in Northumberland, An Extract from the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, in modern half calf binding, 1841 and 1847.
Calvert (Robert) Geology and Natural History of the County of Durham, 8vo, cloth, illus. with chromolithograph map and chart of Strata, Bishop Auckland 1884; Henwood (George) Four Lectures on Geology and Mining, 8vo, gilt-cloth, illus. with fold-out sheet depicting general views, 1855; Meade (Richard) The Coal and Iron Industries of the United Kingdom, 8vo, quarter calf, illus. with fold-out map, 1882; and Beringer (C., J.J. and H.R.) A Tech-Book of Assaying for the use of those connected with Mines, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1921.
Arrowsmith (John) The London Atlas of Universal Geography Exhibiting the Physical and Political Divisions of the various countries of the World, lge. folio, illus. with 120 double-page coloured maps, including: Texas, Mexico, The Falkland Islands, The Ancient World, The District of the Metropolis of London, title page dated 1858, individual maps variously dated between 1842 and 1858 (Texas map is dated 1858), all in full-calf binding with gilt inscription 'The London Atlas 1961'.
A mixed collection of framed and glazed prints to include Death of Colonel Macara, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards 1849, a 1794 map of Westmoreland, cigarette cards, framed and loose examples, a signed 10/100 print Corps of Royal Military Police Operation Corporate 1982 by Major Michael S Kitchen, and others Location: LWM
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