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After Robert Morden. North Wales, later coloured map, 39cm x 44cm, and a map of England and Wales, S. Lewis, After R Creighton, later coloured, 48cm x 39cm. (AF)

Booth, Charles Labour and Life of the People Volume I: East London. Second Edition. With a Coloured Map. [Together with:] Volume II: London Continued. With Maps and Appendix under a Separate Cover. London: Williams and Norgate, 1889-91. 3 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, containing the following maps (all lithographic and in colours): Volume I: 1) Descriptive Map of East End Poverty, compiled from School Board Visitors' Reports in 1887 (dissected and laid on linen, 37 x 50.5cm, loose); 2) [4 single-page maps of East London and Hackney]. Volume II: 1) A Map of London showing the Proportion of the Inhabitants of each Registration Sub-District in 1881, Born in Other Parts of the United Kingdom (laid on linen, folding, 34 x 42.5cm); Volume II maps and appendix volume: 1) Map shewing Degrees of Poverty in London, in Areas with about 30,000 Inhabitants in each. Compiled from Information collected in 1889-1890 (laid on linen, folding, toning along folds, 66 x 89cm); 2) Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889 (on 4 sheets, each laid on linen, folding, approx. 50 x 60cm, light toning along a few folds); bindings shaken and worn, sold as a collection of maps (3)

Ortelius, Abraham Islandia [Iceland] [Antwerp, c.1590 or later]. Hand-coloured engraved map (platemark 33.5 x 48.5cm, sheet size 43.5 x 55.5cm), incorporating sea-monsters, polar bears and Hekla volcano, title, dedication and scale each within separate strapwork cartouche, Latin text on verso, slightly toned overall, sometime tipped to old card mount at one corner only (now detached), faint central crease as usual, another faint crease across lower left-hand corner, damp-staining to lower margins, small stain within image near left-hand edge of platemarkNote: Ortelius's path-breaking and richly imaginative map of Iceland first appeared in the 1587 French edition of the Typis orbis terrarum. It was drawn by Danish priest and historian Anders Sorenson Vedel or Velleius (1542-1616) using the work of Icelandic bishop Gudbrandur Thorlaksson (1547-1621), and dedicated by Ortelius to Frederick II of Denmark.

Scottish maps A collection Blaeu. Duo Vicecomitatus Aberdonia & Banfia, 59 x 46cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Moravia... 59 x 45cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Annandiae, 53 x 44cm, hand-coloured in outline; [Idem] Lidalia vel Lidisdalia Regio... 58 x 46cm, hand-coloured in outline, browned and foxed; [Idem] Caricta Borealis... 62 x 51cm, laid-down, foxed; Johnston, Andrew. A New Map of the South Part of Scotland [and] A New Map of the North Part of Scotland, [London, 1722], each 49 x 42cm, some very neat repairs to reverse; and another copy of the South part, hand-coloured in outline, browned; Zatta, Antonio. Il Regno di Scozia, Venice, 1776, 42x 32.5cm, hand-coloured in outline; Scotland, or North Britain, [n.p., n.d.], 22 x 27cm, hand-coloured in outline; and a later Bartholomew map on 4 sheets

Speed, John - Keere, Pieter van den A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World London: Printed by M.F. for William Humble, 1646. Oblong 8vo, 20 full-page engraved maps, bound with [England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland described and abridged with ye historic relation of things. London, c. 1646]. Oblong 8vo, engraved table of maps and 63 engraved regional and county maps by Pieter van den Keere (2 folding, both laid down neatly on linen, one with very slight loss at corner), lacking the engraved title-page, modern period style calf retaining the original calf sides, bookplate of John E. Pritchard of Bristol, map of the Kingdome of Scotland and lower leaf of text on verso trimmed at footNote: Chubb p. 28. In his note to an earlier edition of 1627 Chubb states 'A copy of this edition in the possession of Mr. J.E. Pritchard of Bristol'.

Thomson, John The Atlas of Scotland Edinburgh: for John Thomson & Co., 1832. Large folio (54 x 41cm), contemporary half calf, [4] viii 18, engraved 'Index Map' hand-coloured in outline, 2 engraved plates ('A Comparative View of the Heights of the Principal Mountains of Scotland' and 'A Comparative View of the Lengths of the Principal Rivers of Scotland') both hand-coloured and folding, 29 engraved maps, all folding and hand-coloured in outline, a few with inset town plans, many on multiple sheets, printed caption slips to versos, covers detached, Index Map, title-page and dedication leaf loose, variable faint offsetting, Edinburghshire map sheets 3-4 rumpled and with a few nicks along edges, Argyllshire split along join between two sheets, Fife and Kinross partly split along one fold, map of Skye browned [Chubb Scotland XXXII]Note: 'A splendid atlas' (Chubb).

Camden, William Britannia, enlarged... by Richard Gough London: John Stockdale, 1806. Second edition, volumes 1-3 only (of 4), folio (43 x 25.5cm), contemporary diced russia, rebacked to style, 49 engraved maps (most folding), numerous engraved plates, bookplates of ornithologist and bibliographer W. H. Mullens (1866-1946) and of Thomas William Evans, surface-wear to bindings; Drake, Francis. Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the County of York. London: by William Bowyer for the author, 1736. First edition, folio (37.5 x 23.5cm), modern quarter morocco, 60 engraved plates, plate 15 with closed tear to foot of central fold, plates 58-9 damp-stained [ESTC T65433]; Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774. First edition, 2 volumes, folio (37 x 24cm), modern blue half morocco, engravings in text (including the Cerne Abbas giant, vol. 2 p. 293), folding tables, bound without the plates and map, damp-staining [ESTC T99476]; Wood, Anthony à. Athenae Oxonienses. London: for R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter, and J. Tonson, 1721. Second edition ('corrected and enlarged'), 2 volumes, folio (39.5 x 24cm), modern quarter morocco, browning [ESTC T59423]; and 5 others: Letters from Roundhead Officers written from Scotland and Chiefly Addressed to Captain Adam Baynes, Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1856 (first edition, 4to, original cloth, presentation inscription); William Hamper (editor), The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, 1827 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth, spine torn at head); Charles James Fox, A History of the Early Part of the Reign of the James the Second, 1808 (first edition, 4to, contemporary quarter cloth); White Kennet, Parochial Antiquities attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and Other Adjacent Parts in the Counties of Oxford and Bucks, 1818 (new edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half cloth, front inner hinges gone); Sir John Temple, The Irish Rebellion, 1812 (4to, contemporary cloth, front joint cracked, spine defective); the lot sold as seen (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Sarpi, Paolo The Historie of the Councel of Trent London: by Robert Barker, and John Bill, 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams, [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton. London: by William Bowyer, and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker, An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Selden, John Titles of Honor London: by William Stansby for Richard Whitaker, 1631. Second edition, folio (27.8 x 18cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and relined retaining old label, title-page in red and black, frequent Anglo-Saxon, Arabic and Hebrew types, woodcut illustrations throughout, 6 full-page engravings depicting the ceremonial dress of ranks in the English peerage (from baron to the prince of Wales), corners worn, front inner hinge gone, browning, damp-staining to gutter of prelims and occasionally to fore margins later on, title-page with closed tear in gutter, 5Y3 torn (most of text intact), final blank discarded [ESTC S117044; STC 22178]; Willis, Browne. A Survey of the Cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle [etc.]. London: for R. Gosling, 1727. First edition, 4to (24.5 x 19cm), contemporary panelled calf, half-title, 20 engraved plates (all but one folding), engraved armorial bookplate of the Barons Kenyon, 'Peel Library' inscribed above, old reinforcement to inner hinges [ESTC T93608]; Weever, John. Antient Funeral Monuments of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent. London: by W. Tooke, for the editor, 1767. Second edition (first published in 1631), 4to (26.5 x 20cm), contemporary marbled half calf, gilt spine with red morocco label, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates, folding table, woodcuts in text, bookplate of Henry Carington Bowles (1763-1830), publisher and map- seller [ESTC ST28052]; and 5 others (these not collated): John Evelyn, Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees ... With Notes by A. Hunter, 1786 (2 volumes, 4to, modern half leather, engraved plates); Roger North, Examen ... into the Credit and Veracity of a Pretended Complete History, 1740 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, frontispiece, worn, joints cracked); [John Hughes, editor], A Complete History of England, 1719 (second edition, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary panelled calf, engraved portraits, joints cracked); John Tillotson, The Works, 1728 (mixed editions, 3 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved portrait, spines worn); John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, 1813 (2 volumes, 4to, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).

War of the Spanish Succession; Battle of Blenheim Pamphlet volume 5 works in 1 volume, 4to (19.6 x 15cm), 19th-century half calf (rubbed), front pastedown with bookplate of the Dukes of Marlborough, clipped signature 'Duke of Marlborough' and pencilled gift inscription dated 1895, contents comprise: 1. The History of the Campaigne in Germany and the Netherlands, for the Year 1705. Under the Command of his Excellency, John Duke of Marlborough ... With a Particular Account of the forcing the French Lines, and of the Officers kill'd and taken Prisoners on that Account. London: B. Bragg, 1705. First edition, [4] 55 [1] pp., browning, 'The' in title and one headline shaved [ESTC N8029: five copies in libraries world-wide]; 2. The Hero of the Age: or, Duke of Marlborough. In Three Parts. I. Pindarick. II. Heroick. Being a Description of the Late Battel at Bleinheim [sic]. III. An Ode. London: Benjamin Bragg, 1705. First edition, [4] 24 pp., closely trimmed at head and foot shaving a few page-numbers, catchwords and part of the last line of the main text on pp. [3] and 5, old staining and dust-soiling to final leaf [not in ESTC]; 3. Glukopikra [graece]: or, Miscellanies Melancholly and Diverting. Occasioned chiefly by the Death of a Late Incomparable and Truly Noble Lady. By Way of Pastoral. London: A. Baldwin 1704. First edition, [2] 30 pp., a few marks [ESTC N17829: six copies in libraries world-wide]; 4. Mareschal Tallard's Aid-de-Camp: his Account of the Battle of Bleinheim written by him from Strasburg, to Monsieur de Chamillard, a Minister of State in France; and intercepted, and sent over to a Foreign Minister, residing in England. London: John Nutt, 1704. First edition, [2] 10 11 [1] pp., title-page faded and marked, occasional soiling, without map [ESTC T75760]; 5. An Exact Account of the Siege of Namur: with a Perfect Diary of the Campagne in Flanders, from the King's Departure from Kensington, May the 12th. to his Return to London, Octob. 11th. 1695. By a Gentleman attending his Majesty during the whole Campagne. London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1695. First edition, [4] 56 pp., browning, a few marks [ESTC R31463: 11 copies world-wide]Note: The History of the Campaigne in Germany and the Netherlands is sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe. The dedication of the second work, The Hero of the Age, is signed 'Jasper Robins'; a copy is listed in the printed catalogue of what became Dr Williams's Library (Catalogue of the Library in Red Cross Street, Cripplegate, 1841, volume 2, p. 291), but the work is not in ESTC and no other copies are traced. The third work, Glukopikra, is a verse dialogue of unidentified authorship and contains a reference to the Duke of Marlborough at p. 27: 'M[enalcas]: By Sea and Land he knows how to command, / He Bembo is by Sea, Churchill by Land: / Th[yrsis]. Th'illustrious Marlborough! in whom alone / We have them all consummated in one'.

Fleming, Ian Casino Royale London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First edition, 8vo, library rebind with green cloth spine over black cloth boards, bookplate of the St. John and Red Cross Hospital Library, several pages with some soiling, a few repairs to inner margins; Burton, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. 3 volumes, 8vo, 14 plates, majority of folding map lacking, two plans (folding plan torn), red quarter morocco library bindings, stamps and bookplates of Crewe Public Libraries, internal soiling, a few tears, spines rubbed and cracked (4)

Baker, Sir Samuel W.  Ismailia A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, portrait frontispieces, 2 maps (one folding), 51 wood-engraved plates, 55 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscriptions, later ownership inscription to volume 1, wear to extremities, front inner hinges cracking, spotting to endpapers and frontispieces, folding map spotted and with old repairs verso, damp-staining to last few plates in volume 2; Idem. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding), 22 wood-engraved plates (23 listed; the Coor and Bayard illustrations are one plate), ink-stamp (Baron de Worms, Milton Park, Egham) to title-page, bookplate (motto 'vinctus non victus'), wear to extremities, spotting to prelims, inner hinges slightly cracked; Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition, 8vo (21.4 x 13cm), modern sheep, all plates and maps as called for; Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. London: John Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, later half roan, all plates and maps as called for; Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and the Present Colony of New South Wales. London: T. & W. Boone, 1839. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.6 x 13.5cm), modern green half morocco, xxi [3] 355, ix [3] 415 pp., engraved vignette title-pages (unsigned), 50 plates (of 51: lacking plate 27, 'Chaeropus ecaudatus'), nearly all lithographic, several hand-coloured or folding, 4 pp. advertisements, original front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription 'Emmeline Sophia Mackenzie ... from her brother Donald Hume Macleod 10th September 1840' bound in after title-page (Macleod was a British army officer and early settler in western Australia), ink-stamps 'F. A. Dundas, essayez' to p. 1 of each volume, volume 1 lacking text-leaf O1, plates spotted, a few damp-stained, marginal consolidation to plates 13 and 15; and 11 others: Sir Samuel W. Baker, The Albert N'yanza, London, 1866 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, recased, lacking route map); [Egypt], A History of the Operations of the French and British Armies in Egypt, from the Landing of Bonaparte to the Restoration of the Ottoman Power ... By Several Gentlemen, Members of the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle: K. Anderson, 1809-10 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates, folding plan, woodcut tailpieces by Bewick, map of Egypt absent, browning and damp-staining, repair to one plate); Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa, New York, 1890 (first US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, lacking 'Map of the Great Forest Region' in volume 1 end-pocket); idem, How I Found Livingstone, 1872 (first edition, 8vo, 20th-century cloth with section from original cloth binding laid onto front board, incomplete, lacking 2 maps); A. M. , Pioneer Missionary of the Church Missionary Society to Uganda, London, 1890 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding map); C. G. Schillings, In Wildest Africa, New York, 1907 (large 8vo, original cloth); Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, London, 1932 (first edition, original cloth, half-title and frontispiece working loose); Adolphus Slade, Turkey, Greece and Malta, London, 1837 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, lacking frontispieces); Dufferin, A Yacht Voyage, Toronto, 1873, original cloth, inscribed by the author; and 2 unrelated (Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, 1832, contemporary tree calf, rebacked; P. Hawker, Instructions to Young Sportsmen, 1824, third edition, hand-coloured aquatint plates) (22)

Clutterbuck, Robert The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27. First edition, large-paper copy, 3 volumes, large folio (49.2 x 31.5cm), later tan half morocco by J. Leighton of Brewer Street, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, 52 engraved maps and plates (1 hand-coloured), 2 hand-coloured lithographic plates, most plates marked proof, occasional light spotting; Samuel, Nathaniel. The History of Hertfordshire. London: [no publisher], 1728. First edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, [8] 368 pp. engraved folding map, binding worn, front joint cracked [ESTC T36381, calling for [8] 369 [1] pp. with the final leaf unsigned, this not present in e.g. the Yale copy, and the text apparently ending on p. 368]; Chalmers, George. Caledonia: or, an Account, Historical and Topographic, of North Britain, from the most Ancient to the Present Times. London: for T. Cadell, 1810-10-24. Second, first and first editions, all on large paper, 3 volumes, 4to (33.5 x 24.5cm), later tree calf gilt with twin morocco labels, engraved folding map, 5 plans, folding table, bookplates (motto 'Fortes fortuna juvat'), volume 1 head of front joint cracked; Bruce, J. Collingwood. Incised Markings on Stone, found in the County of Northumberland, Argyleshire, and Other Places. London: for private circulation, 1869. First edition, large folio (62 x 58cm), contemporary half morocco, 32 tinted lithographic plates, spotting, wear to head of spine with commensurate paper-erosion to head of gutter throughout, touching images of double-page plates, otherwise affecting guards and margins; Gordon, Sir Robert. A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1813. Folio, uncut in original boards, 3 engraved plates (portrait frontispiece, damp-stained; arms; and folding manuscript facsimile), wear to covers: Bartlett, W. H. (illustrator). The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Virtue and Co., c.1840. 2 volumes 1 in, 4to (26 x 20.2cm), contemporary green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, engraved map, 110 engraved plates including 2 additional vignette title-pages (10)Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.

Constantinople Rare Panorama Panorama, Leicester Square. The Lower Circle of Observation exhibits a View of Constantinople and the Surrounding Country. Westminster: [R. Barker], printed by J. Adlard, 1801. Broadside, 370 x 313mmNote: The text continues 'The Preservation of this Sheet is recommended, as it, with the Map and Reference-book- will at all Times keep in Recollection, this View of Constantinople. The Book with the Map, to be had at the Panorama, Price 6d. ' For the copy in the E. Maurice Bloch Archive of the Getty Museum: https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=GRI&docid=GETTY_ALMA21122385400001551&context=L

Davidson, Allan A. South Australia. Journal of Explorations in Central Australia... The Central Australian Exploration Syndicate...1898 to 1900. Adelaide: By Authority, C.E. Bristow, 1905. Folio, South Australia no.27, large folding map and large folding plan (each with some closed tears), brown cloth, text-block loose, bookplate of the Comité Bruxellois pour la Restauration de la B.U.L. and a subsequent inscription in black ink; Hamada, Kosaku P'i - Tzu - Wo. [Archaeologia Orientalis Volume I] Prehistoric Sites by the River Pi-liu-ho, South Manchuria. Tokyo / Kyoto: The Toa-Kokogaku-Kwai, or the Far-Eastern Archaeological Society, 1929. Folio, frontispiece, 2 folding tables, 68 plates, with a gift inscription to the front free-endpaper dated 1949, original red half cloth gilt, text-block split with spine partially detached; Soules, François (translator) Affaires De L'Inde Depuis le commencement de la Guerre avec la France en 1756... jusqu'à la conclusion de la Paix en 1783. London and Paris: Buisson, 1788. First edition. 8vo, two volumes, fold-out map in volume II, contemporary calf, gilt spine, bookplates of Monsieur Laplagne Barri, some dust-soiling and damp-staining, endpapers detaching from boards, binding wormed in places, edges bumped (4)

Denon, Vivant Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte [London: Samuel Bagster, 1807]. Folio (48.5 x 28.5cm), 19th-century half morocco, engraved frontispiece, 107 plates (many folding), including large area map, plans, views, and depictions of hieroglyphs and antiquities, plates 25 and 84 not present (these listed as bound as frontispieces to the text volumes), tide-mark to head of gutter (encroaching on a few platemarks), occasional spotting and browning, plates 74 and 77 each with short closed handling tear, a few other marks [cf. Blackmer 471]

Bowen, Emanuel Collection of engraved maps, c.1750-65 including: A New and Accurate Map of China; A New and Accurate Map of the Empire of Japan; Turky in Asia, Arabia, etc.; A New and Accurate Map of Persia; A New and Accurate Map of Anatolia or Asia Minor, with Syria and Other Provinces of the Turkish Empire; A New and Accurate Chart of the World; all approx. 36.5 x 43cm, each with central fold, trimmed close to or past neatline in places, World map browned, light browning to others. Together with 3 engraved plates ('A Genealogical Table of the Tribes of the Genuine Arabs'; 'A Genealogical Table of ye Tribes of the Naturalized Arabs'; 'The Tribe of Koreish'), and 48 further engraved maps, 18th century, European, historical or biblical, by Bowen, Blundell, Basire and others (57 in 1 folder)

Costume, Art and Travel 7 volumes comprising: Hope, Thomas. Costume of the Ancients. London: W. Miller, 1812. New edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 300 engraved plates, contemporary diced calf, spines gilt, rubbed, one cover detached; Halliday, Andrew. A General History of the House of Guelph, or Royal Family of Great Britain. London, 1821. 4to, inscribed 'from the author. W. Seymour Esq.', with pencil annotations and corrections as if for a revised edition, probably by the author, bookplate of Lady Seymour, contemporary maroon calf; Wright, Rev. G.N. The Shores of the Mediterranean. London: Fisher & Son, [1839], 4to, additional engraved title, double-page map, and 63 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary calf, neat repair to head of spine; Hogarth, William. The Works, with descriptions by John Trusler. London: Jones, 1833. 4to, engraved portrait and 96 plates, contemporary black half calf, spine gilt; Fox, Charles James. A History of the early part of the reign of James the Second. London; W. Miller, 1808. 4to, engraved frontispiece offset onto title, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label upper cover detached; Naples. Monuments principaux du Musée National de Naples. Naples: Ferrante, [n.d.] 4to, 110 engraved plates, original pictorial wrappers, the wrappers somewhat soiled (7)

Miscellaneous books a large quantity including: Jones, Owen, chromolithographer. The Book of Common Prayer. London: J. Murray, 1855. 8vo, (185 x 255mm), title and 6 chromolithographed plates, text within coloured and/or decorative borders throughout, red initial letters, contemporary vellum gilt, spine gilt, mounted brass crucifix to upper cover, mounted brass Christogram to lower board, g.e., neatly rebacked retaining original spine; A. & C. Black, publishers. The Old Venetian Palaces, 1907; The Canary Islands.1911; Amid the High Hills, 1923; Bruges & West Flanders, 1906; The Italian Lakes, 1912; The Stones of Italy, 1907, dustwrapper; Southern Spain, 1908; Germany, 1902; Northern Spain. 1906; all plates, original pictorial cloth; Lear, Edward. Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica. London, 1870. 8vo, map and 40 plates, original brown cloth, rubbed; Bartlett, W.H. Pictures from Sicily. London, 1853, 8vo, engraved title, frontispiece, folding map and 30 plates, original green cloth gilt, slightly spotted, spine faded; Black and Armstrong, publishers. The Continental Tourist and Pictorial Companion. London, [c.1836] 8vo, engraved title and 61 engraved plates, original cloth gilt, slightly rubbed; Conybeare, W.D. and William Phillips. Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales. London, 1822, 8vo, part 1 (all published), folding hand-coloured map, 2 folding plates (1 coloured and laid down on linen), modern quarter calf, spine gilt; Payne, A.H., publisher. The Cities of Europe. Dresden and Leipzig, [c.1840]. 8vo, engraved title & plates, folding maps, original cloth, lacks front free endpaper, binding slightly soiled; Holbein, John. The Dances of Death, etched by D. Deuchar, 1803, small 4to, etched frontispiece and 46 plates, contemporary half morocco, rebacked retaining original spine; Barnum, P.T. The Life of P.T. Barnum. London, Willoughby & Co., [n.d.], 8vo, plates, original cloth, rubbed; Voltaire, F.M.A. de. The General History and State of Europe. 1754. 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Janin, M. Jules. The American in Paris. London, 1843, 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Wade, John. The Black Book, or Corruption Unmasked. London, 1820. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn; Queen Victoria. Album of photographs, 42 photographs of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, George V, Queen Mary, and other children of Queen Victoria, red morocco album, g.e., lower hinge slightly split; Beaton, Cecil. The Face of the World. [1954], 4to, dustwrapper lacking most of spine; Persona Grata. 1954. 8vo, dustwrapper slightly frayed and with slight loss at head of spine; Indian Album. 1945-46. 8vo, dustwrapper frayed with slight loss; Chinese Album. 1945-46, 8vo, dustwrapper frayed with loss; Air of Glory. 1941. 4to, dustwrapper torn with loss; Barker, Cicely Mary. The Book of the Flower Fairies. [n.d.], 8vo, 72 coloured plates, original pictorial green cloth; and a quantity of miscellaneous books (quantity)

Germany and Holland 5 volumes comprising: Hills, Robert. Sketches in Flanders and Holland, with some account of a Tour through parts of those Countries, shortly after the Battle of Waterloo. London: J. Haines and J. Turner, 1816. First edition, 4to, 36 sepia aquatint plates, including 1 folding panorama (Waterloo) and 5 hand-coloured costume plates, maroon half morocco, unobtrusive library blindstamps of the Royal United Service Institution, and their bookplate with disposal stamp, very occasional light spotting; Batty, Capt. Robert. German Scenery from drawings made in 1820. London: Rodwell & Martin, 1823. First edition, 4to, engraved title-page with vignette, frontispiece and 60 engraved plates, contemporary green morocco, spine gilt, uncut, a tall copy; James, J.T. Journal of a Tour in Germany, Sweden, Russia and Poland during the years 1813 and 1814. London: John Murray, 1816. First edition, 4to, 18 sepia aquatint or etched plates, original boards, uncut, neatly rebacked reusing original paper label, bookplate of the Bibliotheca Trolleholmiae; Carr, Sir John. A Tour through Holland, along the Right and Left banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the summer and autumn of 1806. London: Richard Phillips, 1807. First edition, 4to, engraved map and 20 sepia aquatints, contemporary calf, preliminary leaves lightly browned, slightly rubbed; Kampen, N.G. van. The History and Topography of Holland and Belgium. London: G. Virtue, [1837], 8vo, engraved title, folding map and 61 plates after W.H. Bartlett, tissue guards, contemporary half calf, some spotting, upper joint slightly split at head of spine (5)

Evans, Lewis A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island: of Aquanishuonigy the Country of the Confederate Indians ... Wherein is also shewn the Antient and Present Seats of the Indian Nations; carefully copied from the Original published at Philadelphia. London: for Carington Bowles, 1771. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, title within decorative cartouche, inset map of the Ohio River, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 50 x 65cm, trimmed slightly unevenly along neatline, old creasing along central fold, closed tears extending into frame from left-hand edge and within image to lower right of cartouche (affecting area of Lake Ontario), not examined out of frameNote: Lewis Evans's landmark map was first published in 1755, in Philadelphia.

Greece 8 volumes including: Guys, Pierre. Voyage Littéraire de la Grèce. Paris: Duchesne, 1783. 4 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, bookplates of Cranstoun of Corehouse, one spine detached and loosely inserted; Gell, Sir William. The Itinerary of Greece. London, 1827. 8vo, folding map; bound with | Idem. Itinerary of the Morea. London, 1827. 8vo, folding map, contemporary calf, both maps laid down on linen, slightly spotted, rebacked, upper board detached; Paterson, John B. On the National Character of the Athenians. Edinburgh, 1828. 8vo, original boards, uncut, rubbed; Wilson, C.H. Descriptive Catalogue of Casts from Antique Statues in the Trustees' Academy. Edinburgh, 1837. 8vo, inscribed 'The Hon. Lord Corehouse', original cloth; Bosset, C.P. de Parga and the Ionian Islands. London, 1821. 8vo, 2 maps (1 folding), contemporary calf, rebacked (8)

Iraq Archive relating to surveying work conducted by A. L. Holt for the Cairo-Baghdad air route, 1. [Report on two Cairo-Baghdad air route reconnaissance missions], 1921. Typescript with manuscript annotations, 34 pp. (rectos and versos), describing 'The expedition to Ma' Dak Han' (oasis near Ramadi) and the 'First Ford expedition' ('The ostensible purpose was a political mission to Nuri ibn Shalan of the Rowallah tribe', p. 11), incidents include an encounter with Arab chieftain 'Faad ul Duchaim' ('He seemed to think that he ... should receive the same consideration and subsidy as his cousin Fahad Beg ibn Hadhal whose son had taken an active part against the Turks during the war', p. 30), 2 leaves of related manuscript notes attached; 2. '2nd Ford Reconnaissance on the Baghdad-Cairo Air Route, June 6th-16th', c.1921. Manuscript, 79 ff., begins 'Purposes of the Expedition. 1. To establish by ground and air No 4 landing ground at 200 miles from Ramadi, 2. To meet the Cairo reconnaissance party at L.G. 4 and pilot them to Baghdad', describes numerous encounters with locals, e.g. 'Met a crowd of Arabs on the move. These proved to be the people of Jiza ibn Bahr. Consulted Jiza ibn Bahr himself about a guide and he produced one Zumaitan ibn Matar who proved himself excellently acquainted with the country' (f. 23), 'Met a raiding party of Arabs about 100 strong under Mutlaq ibn Thamir going to raid the Beni Sabbar people' (f. 32), 'Arrived Al Mat. Found camped there one Sheikh Mishrif al Awagi (Suwailmat) with about fifty tents but no camels. The camels had been sent away to better grazing while he remained there to retain the right to the water' (f. 35), and the airlifting of wounded sheikh Murthi al Rifadi ('an excellent piece of propaganda', f. 61); 3. 'Short Diary of Instructions & Action Taken in Connection with the Aerial Route to be Constructed between Amman and Ramadi. From 13.3.21 to [30.6.21]', 7 September 1921. Typescript, 16 ff., marked 'confidential' on title; 4. 'Report on Desert Journey to Establish L[anding] G[round] 4', from the Assistant Divisional Adviser, Ramadi, to Major Holt, 22 June 1921. Carbon typescript, 4 ff., typescript covering note attached; 5. 'Names of Places'. Carbon typescript, 3 ff., containing names and description of topographical landmarks apparently in Iraq, e.g. 'Telel Ash Shaur - Two conspicuous hills. Name said to be derived from a big meeting of all the important desert Shaikhs held some time ago', manuscript corrections in pencil; 6. Holt, A. L. Baghdad-Amman Air Route. Report on Proposed Trans-Desert Highway for Mechanical Transport. Baghdad: printed by the superintendent, Railway Press, 1922. 3 copies, folio, each in original wrappers, 9 pp., 'Confidential. Report No. 1' printed on front covers. Together with similar items relating to Holt's work on other projects: 7. 'Iraq Railways. Proposed Baghdad Haifa Railway. Notes on Estimates Drawn up from Reconnaisance [sic] Surveys with Map of Proposed Route. District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad' [cover-title], 24th April 1930. Carbon typescript, 8 [1] ff., folding cyanotype map printed on linen (33 x 120cm, manuscript captions in red, white and blue inks, discolouration around one fold), loose in captioned folder addressed to 'District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad'; 8. 'Hit - Baiji - Kirkuk. Railway Reconnaisance [sic]', June 1931. Carbon typescript, 21 [2] ff., 2 folding cyanotype maps, secured with grommets, wrappers and one map detached, together with various typescript mileage tables in folder with similar title to preceding item addressed to 'A. L. Holt, District Engineer, Construction and Surveys, Baghdad'; 9. 'Bahra Agreement' [concerning the Iraq-Nejd border, parties comprising Sultan 'Abd al-'Aziz of Nejd and Sir Gilbert Clayton], c.1925. 3 ff., typescript, with 6 ff. related memoranda attached; 10. Folding lithographic map of proposed oil pipelines from Naft Khaneh, Iraq, to Tripoli and Haifa (34.5 x 63.5cm, coloured, untitled); 11. 'Port d'Alexandrette. Projet', folding lithographic map of Iskenderun, modern Turkey (65 x 75cm, coloured); 12. Typescript letter to the superintending engineer, Turkish Petroleum Co. Ltd, 1928, attaching manuscript petition in Arabic from overseer 'Hamadan' and response in English from surveyor Balbhadra Singh; all typescripts and manuscripts on rectos only of foolscap sheets unless otherwise stated, most secured with old paperclips or pins with consequent rust-marks (except items 2, 3 and 7: in loose sheets) (1 folder)Note: An engrossing collection of original documents shedding light on British efforts to establish control over the post-Ottoman Middle East in the aftermath of the Great War and the 1920 Iraqi Revolt. Plans for an air route between Cairo and Baghdad were originally drawn up in 1919 by Winston Churchill as secretary of state for air, in collaboration with Hugh Trenchard, marshal of the Royal Air Force. At the Cairo conference in March 1921, Churchill, now secretary of state for the colonies, reiterated the need for an imperial air network. ‘Preparations for the selection and marking of landing grounds across the Syrian Desert between Amman and Ramadi (on the Euphrates) had been made in March 1921, and in May, after aerial reconnaissance had ascertained the nature of the country, a Ford car convoy, supplied by air, was sent out to begin work. The progress made by June had firmly established the Cairo to Baghdad route for military purposes, and the regular air mail service, begun in August, was opened to the public by October … The chief strategic function of the air route was to move reinforcements between various theatres and hence to avoid expensive duplication. From the outset Trenchard imagined a single imperial air force, distributed like the navy in a number of fleets according to an overall plan, and linked by reliable air communications’ (Omissi, Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919-1939, pp. 135-6). Major A. L. Holt (1896-1971) was a decorated former Royal Engineers officer who during the 1920s was employed by Iraq Railways and the Turkish Petroleum Company, and pioneered mechanised exploration in the region. In 1922 he was joined on an expedition to Wadi Sirhan by Harry St John Bridger Philby. His published works include ‘Some Journeys in the Syrian Desert’ (JRCAS, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1923), and ‘The Future of the North Arabian Desert’ (RGJ, Vol. 62, No. 4, October 1923). Nuri ibn Sha'lan, powerful chieftain of the Ruwallah tribe (see item 1), was the last major Arab leader to join the Arab Revolt. He was courted assiduously by T. E. Lawrence and the British military establishment, but his people's dependence on the markets of Damascus made him reluctant to declare firmly for either the Ottomans or the British, and after an encounter as late as June 1917 Lawrence concluded that practical support from the Ruwallah remained unlikely. In March 1918 Faisal instructed Nuri to open hostilities against the Ottomans and sent him payment of £25,000. Nuri's relations with the Ottomans disintegrated soon after. He declared war by August, and the next month led his forces in the Anglo-Arab advance on Damascus. (See Tauber, The Arab Movements in World War I, pp. 148-9.) Provenance: Apparently sometime in the personal collection of A. L. Holt (the lot including a large-format envelope addressed 'Major A. L. Holt, M.B.E, M.C., Iraq Railways, Baghdad, Iraq' and other indications of his ownership).

Luynes, Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert, duc de Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte, à Petra, et sur la Paris; Arthus Bertrand, [1868-74]. First edition, 3 volumes (text volumes 1-2 of 3, and atlas volume), 4to (36 x 27cm), later black quarter morocco, text-volume pagination [4] iii [1] 388, [4] 222 [6] pp., half-titles, text-volumes with original wrappers bound in (laid on card), volume 1 with 4 folding chromolithographic geological maps or profiles (numbered 1-4, including duplicates of 3-4), volume 2 with 2 folding maps, atlas volume with 59 photogravure plates by Charles Nègre (of 64: lacking nos. 2, 55, 61, 63, 64), a suite of 18 numbered plates titled ‘Voyage de M. Mauss’ (including 4 maps and plans, one folding, the rest tinted lithographs by Eugène Ciceri from photographs by Vignes or Sauvaire), folding colour map, folding engraved plate ('Le segor'), variable spotting [Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography I pp. 982-5 (Nègre); Parr & Badger I p. 33; Röhricht 2824] (3)Note: A pioneering work of photographic book illustration.

Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of the Year Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Company, 1811. First edition, 4to (28.8 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, half-title, 3 engraved maps (one folding and hand-coloured), 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 6 engraved plates, 15 engravings in text, 4 folding tables, tissue-guards, spotting to engraved plates and to maps, closed handling tear to folding map [Abbey Travel 160; Tooley 313]; Beechey, Frederick William. A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole, performed in His Majesty's Ship Dorothea and Trent. London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First edition, 8vo (22.2 x 13.6cm), 20th-century half calf, ix [3] 351 [1] pp., 4 engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 folding lithographic panoramas, folding lithographic chart, unopened towards rear, gift inscription dated 1857 to dedication leaf verso, marginal damp-staining to engraved plates, one panorama with short closed tear at fold [Arctic Bibliography 1230; Sabin 4329]; Scoresby, William. Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. First edition, 8vo (21 x 12.7cm), 20th-century half calf, 2 engraved folding maps, 6 engraved plates (2 folding), half-title discarded, spotting and browning, folding map with repaired closed tear [Sabin 78171]; Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; or the Journal of a Residence in that Island, during the Years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1818. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf, gilt-stamps of the Northern Lighthouse Board to spines, half-titles discarded, title-pages transposed and spines misnumbered, engraved folding map (backed on linen), 15 engraved or etched plates (including 'Icelandic Female in her Bridal Dress', not listed), directions to the binder leaf, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages; Boswell, James. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1785. First edition, 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, half-title, errata leaf, I5 in first state, Q7 and U6 in second state, contemporary ownership inscription ('C Glencairn, Moffat') to title-page, closed marginal tear in R2, a few stains [ESTC T53594; Rothschild 456]; Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides; MDCCLXXII. Chester: John Monk, 1774. First edition, 4to (24.3 x 18.5cm), engraved title-page, 44 engraved plates, ink-stamps of Baillie's Institution, Glasgow, deaccession stamp to title-page), spotting; and 2 others (these not collated: Sir John Richardson, The Polar Regions, Edinburgh, 1861, first edition, 8vo, contemporary prize-binding of green calf gilt, half-title, engraved folding map; James Wilson, A Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland and the Isles, Edinburgh, 1842, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, plates and map) (10)

McLeod, John Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the oast of Corea, to the Island of London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, gilt stamp of Londonderry Public Library to front board, etched portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light browning to margins and plates [Abbey Travel 559]; Medhurst, Walter H. China: its State and Prospects, with Especial Referenve to the Spread of the Gosepl. London: John Snow, 1838. First edition, third thousand, 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, Baxtertype frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates, folding map, contemporary and near-contemporary gift inscriptions to title-page and front pastedown, bookplate (Duncan Darrock of Gourock), spine strengthened, variable spotting, repair to folding map verso, [Abbey Travel 539]; Smyth, William Henry, & F. Lowe. Narrative of a Journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition, 8vo contemporary half calf, 10 lithographic or wood-engraved plates, 3 maps of which 2 folding, spotting to lithographic plates and adjacent text-leaves, non-folding map shaved along fore edge; Tennent, Sir J. Emerson. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon ... including a Monograph of the Elephant and a Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training it. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, wood-engraved plates and text-illustrations; Barneby, W. Henry. The New Far West and the Old Far East, being Notes of a Tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, etc. London: Edward Stanford, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original maroon pictorial morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, 8 plates from photographs, 3 folding maps, inscribed 'Margaret C. Barneby, on her birthday, Nov 20th 1890, from her affec. father, the author' on the half-title, a few scuffs to binding; Buck, Edward J. Simla Past and Present. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1904. First edition, 4to, original cloth (recased), folding map, numerous plates (mainly photographic), laid-in albumen print photograph of Simla and carbon typescript headed 'Trial of Diwan Mul Raj (Governor of Multan), by Sita Ram Kohli, M.A. Punjab Government Publications' (5 ff.), marks to binding, text-block toned, occasional spotting (6)

Monro, Donald Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hybrides... to which is added: I. An Account of Hirta and Rona; by Sir George McKenzie ... never before published. II. A Description of Saint Kilda, by Mr Alexander Buchan ... III. A Voyage to Saint Kilda in 1697, by M. Martin. Edinburgh: William Auld, 1774. First edition, 8vo (16.5 x 10cm), c.1900 red half morocco, soiling, a few marginal tears, L6 repaired [ESTC T90619: no copies outside the UK], together with 17 others, Scottish interest (these not fully collated), including: John Rushworth, Historical Collections ... Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James Anno 1618, London, 1659 (first edition, folio, contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits, engraved folding map in good condition, binding rubbed, front joint repaired); David Stewart, Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1825 (third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary polished calf, a bright copy); Gilbert Hutcheson, Treatise on the Offices of Justice of Peace [etc.], Edinburgh, 1809 (second edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, spines rubbed); William John Napier, A Treatise on Practical Store-Farming, as Applicable to the Mountainous Region of Etterick Forest, Edinburgh, 1822 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary blue calf gilt, Napier bookplate); John Loudon McAdam, Remarks on the Present System of Road Making, London, 1820 (third edition, 8vo, uncut in original boards); Johnstone, An Account ... of Draining Land, Edinburgh, 1797 (first edition, 4to, contemporary calf, covers detached); David Brewster, Plates Illustrative of Ferguson's Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1811 (first edition, 4to, contemporary boards); and similar (22)

Mountaineering 26 volumes comprising: King, Rev. S.W. The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps. 1858, folding map at end, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Edwards, Amelia B. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites. [1889], original pictorial cloth; Whymper, Edward. Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. 1892, original cloth, folding map in pocket at end; Blackburn, Henry. The Pyrenees. 1867, original cloth, spine faded; Conway, Sir William M. The Alps from End to End. Westminster, 1895, brown morocco; Knight, E.F. Where three Empires meet. 1895, original cloth; Smith, W.P.H. and H.C. Hart. Climbing in the British Isles. 1895, 2 volumes, original cloth, spine faded; Spender, Harold. Through the High Pyrenees. 1898, original buckram; Tyndall, John. Hours of Exercise in the Alps. 1899, contemporary half calf, spine gilt; Fitz Gerald, E.A. The Highest Andes. A Record of the first ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato. 1899, original cloth, slightly rubbed, Mudie's Library label to cover; Enock, C.R. The Andes and the Amazon. 1908, original pictorial cloth; Conway, Sir Martin. The Bolivian Andes. A Record of Climbing and Exploration. Harper & Bros, 1901, original cloth; Roget, F.F. Ski-Runs in the High Alps. 1913, original pictorial cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1923, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Dutton, E.A.T. Kenya Mountain. 1929, original cloth, faded; Kirkpatrick, W.T. Alpine Days and Nights. 1932, original cloth; Pilley, Dorothy. Climbing Days. 1935, original cloth, spine spotted; Chapman, F. Spencer. Watkins' Last Expedition. 1934. First edition, original cloth; Freshfield, Douglas W. Below the Snow Line. 1923, original cloth; Freshfield, Douglas W. Italian Alps. 1937, pictorial dustwrapper; Wills, Sir Alfred. Wanderings among the High Alps. 1937, pictorial dustwrapper; Russell, Scott. Mountain Prospect. 1946, dustwrapper; King, Clarence. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. 1947, original cloth; Shipton, Eric. That Untravelled World. 1977, dustwrapper; Shipton, Eric. Mountains of Tartary. Hodder, n.d., dustwrapper slightly frayed; sold as a collection not subject to return (26)

North-West Passage Collection of travel narratives comprising: Franklin, Sir John. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray, 1823 [i.e. 1828]. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, 31 plates (including 9 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 hand-coloured engravings, the rest uncoloured engravings) and 4 engraved folding maps, plates offset, uncoloured engraved plates and adjacent text-leaves browned, maps mounted on linen stubs and somewhat spotted and offset, one map ('An Outline' with short closed tear to inner fold), manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Nissen ZBI 1419; Sabin 25624]; Idem. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1825, 1826, and 1827. London: John Murray, 1828. 4to (27.5 x 21.2cm), 20th-century blue half morocco gilt uniform with the preceding work, 31 engraved plates, 6 engraved folding maps, light browning to plates, maps mounted on linen stubs, browning to 'Discoveries made by British Officers' map, variable light offsetting to others, repaired tears to text-leaves P4 and (in Appendix) d3, manuscript date to title-page in blue ink [Abbey Travel 635; Sabin 26228]; Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1821. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, [8] xxix [3] 310 [5] iv-clxxix pp., 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved charts (several folding), errata slip, Appendix sig. c1 folding, plates and charts variably spotted and offset, nos. 16-18 bound out of order, repaired closed tears in Y3 and 'Chart of ... Baffin's Bay' [Nissen ZBI 3096; Sabin 58860]; Idem. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. London: John Murray, 1824. 4to (27 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf uniform with the preceding work, [8] xxx [2] 571 [1] pp., 31 engraved or aquatint plates and charts including frontispiece, 4 engraved folding charts, 4 engraved folding plates of coastal profiles, variable spotting to plates and adjacent text-leaves [Sabin 58864] 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 (30.1 x 22.8cm), contemporary tan calf decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, 30 plates and maps (engraved, lithographic or mezzotint, several hand-coloured, 'Discoveries in the Arctic Regions' map folding; lacking 'Tulluachiu and Family' plate), errata leaf (not mentioned in Abbey), inscribed 'To ... Johan Gustav Roof with the authors best regards, June 1835, John Ross' on the title-page, front joint repaired, rear joint cracked, marginal repair to title-page, offsetting and marginal tissue-consolidation to 'Discoveries' map, spotting to a few plates [Abbey Travel 636; Nissen ZBI 3481; Sabin 73381] (5)Note: Second and first editions respectively of Franklin's two works. The second edition of the Narrative of a Journey is described as such in the Introduction (p. xiv), and is extended to 784 from 768 pp.; the title-page remains dated 1823, but it was 'presumably produced to accompany the second volume' on its appearance in 1828 (Abbey).

Olearius, Adam [The Voyages and Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein] [To the great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia ... Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo ... from Persia, into the East-Indies] .[London: for Thomas Dring, and John Starkey, 1662]. First edition in English, folio (27.6 x 17.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, recornered and relined, browning, frontispiece and title-page absent, 3 engraved portraits ('Michael Federowitz Great Duke of Moscovie', with small marginal tear, old pencil marks; 'Shach Sefi King of Persia'; 'The Lively Portraict of the Great Mogol'), 7 engraved folding maps, of which 2 ('The Course of the Great River Wolga' and 'A New Map of Persia') both substantially torn away, 'A New Map of Liefland' closely trimmed, 'A New Map of Muscovy' with worming to top margin not affecting image, verso with various naive early sketches (two human faces, a partridge and a cat) and old repair to closed tear, 'A Map of ye Province of Kilan' slightly friable along top and bottom edges, closely trimmed along top, 'A Map of the East Indies' with old repair to verso of central fold, closely trimmed and slightly nicked and rumpled along fore edge, early naive sketches verso, 'An Exact of Mapp of China' rumpled, small holes to intersections of folds, small hole in frame along inner edge, text-leaves with a few spill-burns and closed tears [ESTC R21580; Wing O269]

Park, Mungo Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799. First edition, 4to (28.2 x 22cm), 20th-century half calf, edges untrimmed, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 plates, 3 folding maps, postscript leaf and 2 leaves of engraved music bound after title-page, toning, maps offset [ESTC N13836]; Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig. Travels in Arabia, comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as Sacred. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 12cm), modern half sheep, pp. xxii 452, [2] 431, 5 engraved folding maps and plans (including Mecca and Medina), no half-titles (if issued), spotting and damp-staining to maps and plans, large route map repaired, ink-stamps of Stirling District Library to title and final page of each volume [Blackmer 239; Macro 627]; Laborde, Léon de. Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the Excavated City of Petra, the Edom of the Prophecies. London: John Murray, 1836. First edition in English, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for (engraved or lithographic), 8 + 4 pp. advertisements to rear, contemporary gift inscription to initial blank, binding sunned [Macro 1386]; Stothert, William. A Narrative of the Principal Events of the Campaigns of 1809, 1810, & 1811, in Spain and Portugal, interspersed with Remarks on Local Scenery and Manners. London: P. Martin, 1812. First edition, 8vo (21.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary blue half roan, engraved folding map frontispiece, errata leaf, quire H nicked and torn at foot (text intact); and 2 others: John Drinkwater, A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar, 1790 (4th edition, 4to, contemporary blue half roan, 10 engraved folding maps and plates, spotted, map facing p. 205 with repaired closed tear, text not collated); and a photograph album, c.1880, albumen prints, including views of Halifax (Novia Scotia), Kingston (Jamaica), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), St Vincent, railway construction on the Rio Blanco in Honduras, Newcastle Barracks (Jamaica), and an inspection of the West India Regiment (Jamaica), these all 20 x 13cm, red half morocco binding (7)Note: Second edition of Burckhardt's work, presumed to follow the quarto edition published the same year.

Richardson, Sir John Arctic Searching Expedition A Journal of a Boat-Voyage through Rupert's Land and the Arctic Sea, in Search of the Discovery Ships under Command of Sir John Franklin. With an Appendix on the Physical Geography of North America. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original brown cloth, titles gilt to spines, blind rules to spines and covers, viii 413, viii 426 pp., 10 lithographic colour plates including frontispieces, hand-coloured folding map, 32 pp. advertisements, very light fraying to spine-ends, damp-stain to frontispiece of volume 2, light marginal spotting to a few other plates, cloth tape reinforcement to inner hinges (possibly original) [Arctic Bibliography 14489; Sabin 71025; Stafleu & Cowan 9170] (2)Note: '[Richardson's] search for Franklin in 1847–9 was a model of careful planning and good execution, with no loss of life, no injuries, no shortages of food, and no lack of shelter. He shared the reasonable belief that some of Franklin's party survived the sinking of the Erebus and Terror and discovered the north-west passage before they died; and he argued for his old friend in The Times when McClure later claimed to have completed the discovery of the passage' (ODNB). The plates in the present work are mainly depictions of the Kutchin (Gwichʼin) people native to Alaska and Canada.

Scotland Collection of antiquarian and topographical books, mainly Scotland-related, 17th-19th including: Napier, John, of Merchiston. A Plaine Discoverie of the Whole Revelation of St John. Edinburgh: Andro Wilson, 1645. Fifth edition ('corrected and amended'), 4to (18.1 x 13.8cm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, browning and damp-staining, errata leaf discarded [ESTC R209880]; Grose, Francis The Antiquities of Scotland. London: Hooper & Wigstead, 1797. Folio, contemporary half calf, rebacked with original spine laid down (front joint partly cracked), engraved title-page with vignette, 185 engraved plates (of 191), without text and map, marginal spotting; Hogg, James. The Jacobite relics of Scotland: being the Songs, Airs and Legends, of the Adherents to the House of Stuart. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1819-21. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13cm), contemporary green calf gilt; [Erskine, John]. The Principles of the Law of Scotland. Edinburgh: John Balfour, 1764. 8vo (19.7 x 12.5cm), contemporary calf, [ESTC T84162: 10 copies world-wide]; Colvil, Samuel. The Whigs Supplication, or, the Scotch-Hudibras. A Mock-Poem. Glasgow: Robert Urie, 1751. First edition under this title, 8vo (15 x 9.5cm), contemporary sheep, spotting, front inner hinge tender [ESTC T140222]; Dreghorn, John Maclaurin, Lord. Arguments and Decisions, in Remarkable Cases, before the High Court of Justiciary, and other Supreme Courts, in Scotland. Edinburgh: for J. Bell, 1774. First edition, 4to (25.7 x 20cm), front joint cracked [ESTC T94367]; Mackenzie, Sir George. The Laws and Customs of Scotland, in Matters Criminal. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1699. Folio, 20th-century half calf, title-page crudely repaired [ESTC R19368]; Hamilton, James George Hamilton, Duke of. Memorial ... against the Person pretending to be Archibald Stewart, alias Douglas. [Edinburgh?]: [no publisher], 1767. 9 parts in 1 volume, 4to, 19th-century half morocco, front cover detached [ESTC T118950]; Britton, John. Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire. With heraldic and genealogical notices of the Beckford family. London: printed for the author, 1823. First edition, apparently one of 30 large-paper copies with 'proofs and etchings' (there were also 270 standard large-paper copies and 500 small-paper copies), 4to, original boards (printed label to front, with contemporary annotation 'Proofs and etchings'), half-title, 14 engraved plates numbered 1-10 (all marked 'proof', plates 3-6 each present in two states; plates 9-10 hand-coloured aquatints); tissue-guards, bookplate ('Anna Maria Powell, Sarum ... 1824', a Richard Powell M. D. recorded in the list of subscribers for a large-paper copy), front board detached, marginal spotting; Rabelais, François. The Works … done out of French, by Sir Thomas Urchard [sic], Knight, Mr. Motteux, and others. London: James Woodward, 1708. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, portrait frontispiece to the first volume [ESTC T52476]; and 4 others: John Slezer, Theatrum Scotiae, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1874, first edition, one of 250 copies, large folio, 69 facsimile plates (including one double-page prospect of Edinburgh), the additional plate to the list of 68 being the plans of Thirlestane Castle, coloured coat of arms on the title-page, numerous other coloured coats of arms separately printed and mounted as headpieces, lacking spine and front board, rear board detached; Francisque-Michel, A Critical Inquiry into the Scottish Language, 1882, one of 500 copies, spine worn; John Anderson, Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the House of Hamilton, 1825, front inner hinge gone; Archaeological scotica, Volume IV, Part First, 1831), the lot sold as seen (17)Provenance: The Late Lord David Douglas-Hamilton (1952-2020).

Shackleton, Ernest H. South The Story of Shackleton's last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1920. First edition, fourth impression, 8vo, original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, colour frontispiece, all halftone plates as called for, folding map, ownership inscription 'Ernest Welsby 1925' and 'Alan Williams, Cardiff, Mar 1988' to front pastedown, fraying to spine-ends, wear to corners, a few marks to sides, front inner hinge cracked and very tender, rear inner hinge superficially cracked, text-block toned, half-title browned, extensive closed tear in folding map (repaired verso), a few spots and marksNote: Association copy, inscribed by Shackleton's second-in-command Frank Wild on the half-title, 'To Vince, from those who appreciate his worth & villanies [sic], Frank Wild', and additionally signed below Wild's inscription by the expedition's surgeon James McIlroy ('J. A. McIlroy, (Mick)'). The recipient is likely to have been John Vincent (1884-1931), bosun on the voyage, though later demoted to able seaman on account of his aggressive behaviour. He was selected by Shackleton as one of five men to accompany him on the James Caird on the journey to South Georgia while Wild was left in command at Elephant Island; on the return to England he was one of only a handful of expedition members not to be recommended by Shackleton for the Polar Medal.

Shackleton, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, titles and pictorial vignettes in silver, all plates and maps as called for (including folding panorama and 3 folding maps in end-pocket), errata slip, bindings marked, browning to endpapers, very occasional light spotting, volume 2 frontispiece dog-eared; Scott, Robert F. The Voyage of the 'Discovery'. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, lacking plate facing volume 1 p. 137 (Mount Minto: Admiralty Range), spines toned, spotting; Idem. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, all plates as called for (volume 2 with duplicate of the sketch map to face p. 284 bound in before p. 252), variable spotting, erosion to upper fore corners of volume 1 pp. 460 to end; Mill, Hugh Robert. The Life of Ernest Shackleton. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1933. 8vo, original cloth, 11 plates, inscribed 'Presented to Shackleton House, Hounslow College by Cecily Shackleton, 1938' on the front free endpaper, with a quotation from Robert Browning in the same hand (Cecily Shackleton, 1906-1957, was the daughter of Ernest), covers sunned; Nansen, Fridtjof. "Farthest North". London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial blue-green cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, closed tear in general map, Idem. In Northern Mists. London: William Heinemann, 1911. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, tipped-in colour frontispieces, extremities rubbed, spines toned Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole. London: John Murray, 1912. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, incomplete (lacking at least the frontispiece in volume 1), covers marked, spotting, volume 2 front inner hinge cracked (13)

Kitchin, Thomas A General Atlas describing the whole Universe, being a Complete Collection of the Most Approved Maps Extant, corrected with the greatest care and augmented from the last edition of d'Anville and Robert... engraved on sixty-two plates, comprising thirty-seven maps. London: Robert Laurie and James Whittle, 1795. Folio, (538 x 367mm), 37 engraved map sheets, some double-page, some folding, most hand-coloured in outline, a few with areas hand-coloured, modern red half morocco, raised bands, lettered in gilt on spine, a few repairs, generally to versos, mostly comprising strengthening along folds, occasional very minor loss, small stains to title, some very light soiling

Stein, Sir Aurel On Alexander's Track to the Indus Personal Narrative of Explorations of the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929. First edition, 4to, original cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, 2 folding maps; Idem. On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks. Brief Narrative of Three Expeditions in Innermost Asia and North-Western China. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. First edition, 4to, later quarter leather, gilt roundel from original cloth binding mounted to front board, half-title, all plates and folding panoramas as called for, folding map (with closed tear); Howard-Bury, C. K., C. G. Bruce, and E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. First editions, 3 works, 8vo, original vari-coloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, pale markings to cloth, Mount Everest tips bumped and worn, Assault cloth sunned; and 8 others (these not fully collated): Joseph Dalton Hooker, Himalayan Journals, 1855 ('new edition, carefully revised and condensed', 2 volumes, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, wood-engraved frontispieces, colour plate, volume 2 inner hinges strengthened); Edward Whymper, Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 1871 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); idem, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1892 (second edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco); Edmund Candler, The Unveiling of Lhasa, 1905 (fourth impression, 8vo original cloth, inscribed 'Claude Auchinleck, from M. E. A., October 1906', spine strengthened); Sven Hedin, Central Asia and Tibet, 1903 (first edition, Australasian issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, recent red crushed half morocco); Isabella L. Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 (first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, recased and relined, rubbed); Robert Byron, First Russian then Tibet, 1933 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Francis Younghusband, India and Tibet, 1910 (2nd impression, 8vo, original cloth) (16)

Switzerland, Germany and the Danube 5 volumes comprising: Beattie, William. Switzerland. Illustrated in a Series of Views. London: G. Virtue, 1836. 2 volumes, 4to, 2 engraved title-pages, folding map and, 106 engraved plates, contemporary half vellum, worn; Cockburn, Major. Swiss Scenery from Drawings by... London: Rodwell & Martin, 1820. 8vo, engraved title and 60 engraved plates, original boards, title somewhat spotted, occasional spotting, rebacked; Beattie, William. The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography. London: Virtue, [c.1840], 4to, additional engraved title, portrait and 80 engraved plates, tissue guards, modern half calf retaining original marbled sides, some light spotting; Batty, Capt. Scenery of the Rhine, Belgium and Holland. London: R. Jennings, 1826. Large 8vo, engraved title and 61 engraved plates, tissue guards, contemporary red half morocco gilt, small dampstain to corner of title and plates at beginning, lightly rubbed (5)

Sykes, Mark Through Five Turkish Provinces London: Bickers and Son, 1900. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth lettered in gilt, photographic onlays to boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, photogravure frontispiece, 20 halftone plates, folding map, bookplate (Adrian Sykes), spine sunned and rolled, markings to fore edge of front board, tips bumped, endpapers brownedNote: The author's first book, describing a journey from Damascus to Batumi (modern-day Georgia) via Aleppo, Baghdad, Mosul, Lake Van and Tbilisi. Rare at auction and in libraries.

Travel 20 volumes comprising: Fellowes, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817. London, 1818. First edition, 8vo, 15 plates (11 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 etchings & 1 vignette - as called for), original boards, uncut, cloth chemise, slipcase; Du Chaillu, Paul B. Land of the Midnight Sun. New York, 1882. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, folding map in pocket; Symes, Michael. Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Edinburgh, 1827. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, frontispieces, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides; Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. 1897, 2 volumes, original pictorial cloth; Grogan, E.S. and A.H. Sharp. From the Cape to Cairo. 1900, seemingly inscribed by the author with a picture of an elephant and the dates 1874-1901 (or 1874-1961), original pictorial cloth; Fullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot... after Sperm Whales. 1900, 6th impression (2nd edition), original pictorial cloth; Lynam, C.C. The Log of the Blue Dragoon 1892-1904. 1907, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Baxter, George. The Pictorial Album or Cabinet of Paintings. Containing eleven designs executed in oil colours. 4to, pictorial title and 10 plates, original pictorial morocco gilt rather rubbed, folding box; Evans, Capt. Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. Nov. 1921, original cloth; Rutter, Owen. Through Formosa. 1923, original cloth; Enriquez, Major C.M. Ceylon past and present. [c.1920], original cloth; Gann, Thomas. Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes... Maya Lands. 1926, original cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1928, original cloth; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. 1937, original cloth, lightly soiled; Gordon, Seton. Amid Snowy Wasters.. Spitsbergen. 1922, original cloth, rubbed; [St. Andrews] Saint Andrews as it was and as it is. Cupar, 1838. 12mo, additional engraved title, plates, original cloth; Thomas, Bertram. Arabia Felix, across the empty quarter. 1932, original cloth; Scott, Hugh. In the high Yemen. 1942, original cloth; sold as a collection not subject to return (20)

Vertot, René-Aubert The History of the Knights of Malta London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1728. First edition in English, 2 volumes, folio (34.1 x 22cm), modern leatherette, [8] 487 [1] 180, [2] 80 79-220 143 [1] 196 [24] 3 [1] pp., 71 engraved portrait plates, 5 maps and plans (all but one folding), title-pages dust-soiled, occasional marginal finger-soiling, a few other marks, plates 11 and 47 and unnumbered plate facing volume 2 p. 108 browned, plate 48 stained, map of Malta and Gozo in volume 2 with partial split along one fold, volume 1 leaves 3D1 and 5K1 with repaired closed tears extending into text, short repaired tears to lower margins of a few other leaves (e.g. 3E1, 3L1, 4H1-2, 5S2, 5Z1), marginal loss and attempted repaired to 5Z2, volume 2 2O2 with loss to lower margin, 2M2, 3H1 and *T1 each with closed tear extending into text, 3K2 extensively repaired [ESTC T53873; cf. Cobham-Jeffery p. 62] (2)Note: First published in French in 1726.

Geology, botany, palaeontology Collection of works from the library of Richard G. West including: Forbes, James D. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain, with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1843. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary half calf, 13 lithographic plates (several tinted), 2 maps (one folding), spotting to frontispiece, title-page and folding map; Idem. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1859. First edition, 8vo, contemporary diced tan calf, tinted lithographic frontispiece numbered VI*, 9 lithographic plates numbered I-IX (collation not established); Lewis, Henry Carvill. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half pigskin, 10 maps (several folding); Woodward, Samuel. An Outline of the Geology of Norfolk. Norwich: John Stacy, 1833. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked, hand-coloured folding lithographic map as frontispiece, similar folding plate of geological cross-sections, 6 lithographic plates, bookplate of botanist and geologist Clement Reid (1853-1916); Wood, Searles V. A Monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, Descriptions of Shells from the Middle and Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. I. Univalves [Vol. II. Bivalves; Supplement ... Univalves and Bivalves; Second Supplement; Third Supplement]. London: for the Palaeontographical Society, 1848. First edition, 4 volumes in 3 (Second and Third Supplements issued as volume 4), 4to, contemporary half calf, inscribed 'Dr. Milne Edwards, from S. V. Wood, with Compts', numerous engraved plates; Hales, Stephen. Statistical Essays: containing Vegetable Staticks; or, an Account of some Statical Experiments on the Sap in Vegetables. London: W. Innys [and others], 1731. Second edition (first published in 1727), 8vo, contemporary calf, 19 engraved plates, bookplate of botanist Arthur George Tansley (1871-1955), rubbed, front joint cracked, occasional light browning, initial blank (with contemporary gift inscription) loose); Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. London: John Murray, 1864. Second edition, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, frontispiece, wood-engraved plates (counted in pagination and register), folding map; and 16 others, including Lyell, The Antiquity of Man, 1863 (third edition), Curtis, Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 1812 (fifth edition), Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants, 1829, and similar (25)Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, many works with his bookplate.

[Ottoman Empire] - Speed, John The Turkish Empire London: G. Humble, [1626] Hand-coloured engraved map, English text on verso, 395 x 515mm

A 9ct rose gold oval Australia map and kookaburra brooch, 1.4g; a 9ct gold signet ring, size F, a 9ct gold link, 3.3g (3)

Kip, William, a two-page map, Nottingham, engraved and hand coloured, 28cm x 32cm

Sale Item: FRAMED WINDERMERE LAKE MAP (AF) Vat Status: No Vat Buyers Premium: This lot is subject to a Buyers Premium of 15% + Vat @ 20% Additional Info : Lots purchased online with the-saleroom.com will attract an additional charge for this service in the sum of 4.95% of the hammer price plus VAT @ 20%

LEY ROBERT: (1890-1945) German Nazi politician, head of the German Labour Front 1933-45. Vintage signed 8.5 x 6 photograph of Ley seated in a half-length pose, in his uniform, at a table alongside two other men, as they inspect a map (?) before them. Signed by Ley in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to the image. VG

BEN-GURION DAVID: (1886-1973) Zionist leader, the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel 1948-54, 1955-63. T.L.S., in Hebrew, one page, 4to, n.p., 12th June 1952, to an unidentified recipient, in Hebrew. Ben-Gurion writes, in part, 'Pursuant to my authority derived from Section A of the security service (exception) regulations - 1952, I hereby appoint you to commission the exceptions no.4 committee in furtherance of the said regulations. Mr. Shaul Kirschenblat will serve as a chairman of the committee. Your committee's zone will be the area marked around no.4 in orange on the state of Israel map ratioed by 4:250,000, signed by me on 6.12.1952 and held at the Ministry of Defence. A copy of the said map, approved by the Defence Ministry Human Resources Manager, is hereby provided to you'. Some light overall creasing, about VG Ben-Gurion served as Minister of Defence 1948-54 and 1955-63.

A MAP: '...PLAN OF THE HARBOUR TOWN AND FORTS OF PORTO BELLO...' and two other maps

A 20TH CENTURY PAINTING OF A 19TH CENTURY DUTCH RIVER LANDSCAPE panel 62cm x 92cm, in gilt moulded frame, a modern map of the world in light oak frame and a modern painting of wild flowers

A box of antique and later pictures, hand coloured engraving Northumberland races 1826, further pictures of Bamburgh, hand coloured map after Ogilvy, The continuation of the road from London to Barwick etc

A hand coloured engraved map after Robert Morden -The Bishoprick of Durham together with a further map of Northumberland after Saxton and two gilt framed crystoleums (latter two as found)

A box of assorted pictures and prints : 18th century hand coloured map of Northumberland, etc

A quantity of Victorian children's bone letters of the alphabet and other bygones and miscellanea, to include treen pastry jiggers and butter stamp, Oxo Ltd 1953 Coronation commemorative tin, Victorian glass inkwell with brass cap, hand bell, blue glass cream jug, map, etc Mostly in good condition

Atlas Company of Scotland - The Travelling map of Scotland Scale 12.5miles:1 inch, engraving, full contemporary colour with title and vignettes of Staffa and Port Patrick, backed on linen, slightly soiled, original maroon cloth covered card slip case with green title label, W & A K Johnston (et al) [c1843]

Blacks New large map of Scotland Scale 4inches:1mile, engraving on twelve sheets, in full contemporary colour, backed on linen, original green cloth covered slip case with publisher's pictorial label and signature of a former owner and date 1880, spine gilt, worn, joints separating, Edinburgh: A & C Black [1862]

Curtis (J) - A Topographical History of the County of Leicester..., double page map with linen hinge, in contemporary colour, original boards, wanting spine, 8vo, Ashby-de-la-Zouch: W Hextall, 1831

Lewis (Samuel) publisher - A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland comprising the several Counties, Island, Cities, Burgh and Market Towns, Parishes and Principal Villages...embellished with a large map of Scotland...supplementary volume: Map of Scotland Scale 10miles:1 inch, engravings on six folded sheets, slightly separating in the cross folds, title and contents leaf, contemporary cloth, 4to, London: S Lewis & Co 1846