Churchill (Col. Charles Henry) Mount Lebanon A Ten Years' Residence from 1842 to 1852, 3 vol., mixed edition, vol.1 & 2 third edition, vol.3 second edition, half-title in vol.1 only, lithographed portrait frontispieces on india paper and mounted, 3 lithographed plates, folding map, errata slip in vol.1, vol.1 & 2 with final leaf blank but for imprint, some foxing, offsetting to titles, 1853; The Druzes and the Maronites under the Turkish Rule from 1840 to 1860, first edition, foxing at beginning and end, 1862, together 4 vol., contemporary half calf, spines gilt (not quite uniform) with roan labels, gilt stamp of New South Wales Library of Parliament to upper covers (but no internal stamps), a little rubbed, [Atabey 247; Blackmer 353], 8vo⁂ With the rare fourth volume . "An important work" (Blackmer).
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![[Cloete (Henry)] Five Lectures on the Emigration of the Dutch Farmers from the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, first edition](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1896b4f6-a2af-458e-8424-ae4e00bb1313/8878a3be-d3ca-467f-9d3d-ae4e014273e7/468x382.jpg)
[Cloete (Henry)] Five Lectures on the Emigration of the Dutch Farmers from the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, first edition, contemporary ink inscription of Archibald Scott of Cape Town to head of title, Cape Town, Saul Solomon & Co., 1856 bound after [Murray (Richard William)], "Limner". Pen and Ink Sketches in Parliament, 2 parts, text in English and Dutch/Afrikaans, first part without F3 & 4 (pp.45-58) but no loss to text, Cape Town, 1855, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf § Kermode (William) Natal...a Field for Emigration, first edition, half-title, folding map, errata leaf, folding panorama, prospectus loosely inserted (frayed at edges), some foxing, contemporary calf, 1882 § Brooks (Henry) Natal; a History an Description of the Colony, edited by Dr.R.J.Mann, first edition, ?lacking half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece and plate, 2 maps (one folding), 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates of flowers and 8 mounted actual photographs (some rather faded), ex-library copy with embossed stamp to title and plates (mostly margins), modern half calf, 1876; and 3 others on South Africa, 8vo (6)⁂ The third item includes a chapter on geology and mining with a photograph of the diamond fields on the Vaal river.
Colenso (Frances Ellen) & Lt.-Col. Edward Durnford. The Ruin of Zululand: an Account of British Doings in Zululand since the Invasion of 1879, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, mounted photographic portrait frontispieces, modern half tan calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, 1884-85 § Moodie (Duncan Campbell Francis) The History of the Battles and Adventures of the British, the Boers, and the Zulus, in South Africa...also a short sketch of South Australia, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author inscribed on half-title, folding colour map, numerous plates and portraits, original green cloth, very slightly rubbed at edges, Adelaide, 1879; and a revised 2 vol. edition of the second published in Cape Town in 1888, 8vo (5)
Travel.- Brown (Edward) An Account of Several Travels through a great part of Germany...wherein the Mines, Baths, and other Curiosities of those Parts are Treated of, first edition, 6 engraved plates, 3 double-page and/or folding, with the final blank (short tear to lower edge), plate of miners with short tear to upper corner affecting pagination but not image (no loss), faint traces of water-staining, Sidney Mendelssohn's copy with his bookplate, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, [Kress S1447; Wing B5109], for Benj. Tooke, 1677.⁂ Edward Browne (1644-1708) was the son of Sir Thomas Browne, author of Religio Medici, and was also a physician but travelled extensively throughout Europe. The plates include the whirlpool in the Danube, the Bear garden in Dresden, and the quicksilver miners of Idria. Sidney Mendelssohn, book-collector and author of books on South Africa, particularly South African Bibliography published in 1910.
Colomb (Capt. Philip Howard) Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean, first edition, half-title, 8 wood-engraved plates, folding lithographed map hand-coloured in outline (small repair to corner), modern half calf, spine gilt with red morocco, 1876 § New (Charles) Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa. With an account of the first successful ascent of...Kilimanjaro, and remarks on East African Slavery, first edition, advertisement leaf at beginning, half-title, engraved portrait, folding map with route in red, 10 tinted lithographed plates, lightly offset, some spotting, map with small repairs to edges, modern half red morocco, spine gilt, original pictorial cloth from upper cover bound in at end, 1873, 8vo (2)
![[Crouch (Nathaniel)], "R.B[urton]." A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea, and the East-Indies ...with a Description o](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1896b4f6-a2af-458e-8424-ae4e00bb1313/2fb33c87-3bc1-4d0b-9820-ae4e01457fb7/468x382.jpg)
[Crouch (Nathaniel)], "R.B[urton]." A View of the English Acquisitions in Guinea, and the East-Indies ...with a Description of the Isle of St.Helena...By R.B., first edition, engraved frontispiece and 3 plates (?of 4), lacking 6pp. advertisements at end, erratic pagination but complete, browned, C2 with printing defect to a few lines but no loss of legibility, a few head-lines and signatures shaved, later panelled calf, red morocco label, a little rubbed and marked, new endpapers, [Sabin 99557; Wing C7356], 12mo, for Nath. Crouch, 1686.⁂ Rare work describing the colonial territories controlled by the East African Company and East India Company, with (mostly) charming plates of "A Guinean Monarch", "Monstrous Serpents in Africa", "Strang Creatures in India" and "Executions in India". ESTC records only 2 printed copies in the UK (BL & Sion College Library at Lambeth Palace). Both call for 5 plates in total but the 2 copies sold at auction (1982, & 1965 bound with 3 others), plus another in a Maggs catalogue of 1939, all contained 4 plates.
Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon) Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa, 2 vol., mixed edition, vol.1 first edition, vol.2 third edition, half-title in vol.2, wood-engraved frontispieces, additional pictorial titles and 13 plates, map, a few small marks and stains, tear to lower margin of K3 in vol.1 repaired, book-label of Collingwood Hope, later half tan calf, spines gilt with red & green morocco labels, t.e.g., 1850-51 § Farini (G.A.) Through the Kalahari Desert, first edition, half-title, 2 portraits (small stain to margins), 15 plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, ink inscription to half-title, 1886 § Churchill (Lord Randolph S.) Men, Mines and Animals in South Africa, first edition, portrait, 28 plates, folding colour map at end, illustrations, 1892, the last two with light foxing at beginning and end, near uniform modern half calf, spines tooled in gilt and blind with red roan labels, original pictorial cloth upper covers bound in at end, 8vo (3)
Lithgow (William) Lithgow's Nineteen Years Travels through the most Eminent Places in the Habitable World, woodcut frontispiece and 5 plates only (of 6), all folding, frontispiece with restoration to lower corner within image, lacking Z4&5, occasional light browning, bookplates to pastedowns, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners worn, [Blackmer 1021 for 1640 2nd ed; Wing L2541], 8vo, Printed for John Wright and Thomas Passinger, 1682.⁂ Scarce, originally published under the title The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures in 1632. Lithgow, a Scot, travelled extensively throughout the Levant, Greece, Constantinople and the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, Italy and Spain "He travelled mostly on foot and had a greater knowledge of the interior of the countries he visited than most travellers of this period. He provides interesting details of the society, men, and manners he observed and is probably the earliest authority for coffee-drinking in Europe, Turkish baths, the pigeon-post between Aleppo and Bagdad etc. etc." - Blackmer.
Music.- Babell (William) Suits of the most Celebrated Lessons Collected and Fitted to the Harpsicord or Spinnet..., first edition, engraved title, engraved 'Table of the Lessons', 76 engraved plates of music (numbered 2-77), manuscript ink annotation to front endpaper verso, title with light uniform browning and offsetting, plate 65 with small marginal tear to lower edge (just touching but not affecting music), some light browning and spotting, endpapers renewed, modern half calf, upper joint splitting at head and foot, rubbed, folio, Walsh and Hare, [1717].⁂ Rare. RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) lists no copy at the BL, nor is it listed on ESTC. Meanwhile, RBH lists only 4 copies at auction in the last 40 years. This collection, which includes some of Babell's own material, also contains some of the earliest known published arrangements and harpsicord transcriptions of arias by G. F. Handel, for example from his operas Rinaldo (1711) and Teseo (1713). Although Babell (1960-1723) was trained predominantly by his bassoonist father, it is thought to be possible that Handel also contributed to his musical training.
Music.- Handel (George Frideric) Solos for a German Flute a Hoboy or a Violin... Being all Choice pieces Compos'd by Mr Handel, 7 parts in 1, 7 engraved titles, with 'A Table of Songs contain'd in the 7 collections' after first title, 167 plates of engraved music, 5 titles with slip altering imprint pasted down, nineteenth century ink stamp to multiple pages (including to first and sixth title; mainly to blank versos or to blank staves), title 5 with small marginal defect (not affecting text), part 6 plate 22 with small marginal defect touching music and small hole to plates 22-24 touching music (no loss), light marginal browning, with a few pages uniformly browned, endpapers renewed, modern half calf, for I. Walsh, [c.1733]; and a late eighteenth century edition of Handel's The Triumph of Time and Truth, folio (2)
Music.- Handel (George Frederick) Messiah an Oratorio in Score, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title, letterpress list of subscribers, engraved index plate, 223 engraved plates of music (including appendix), ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, first 4 leaves and endpaper loose, text-block broken in several places, with sections loose and some individual pages coming loose, contemporary calf-backed boards, covers detached, lacking spine, worn, H[arman] Wright, [c.1789]; and another later adaptation of the same for the pianoforte, folio (2)
Erotica.- The Beggar's Benison.- Ovid. Ovid's art of love, in three books, engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, 5pp. advertisements at end, with the phallic red wax seal of the Beggar's Benison to front pastedown, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, spine in compartments and with remains of red morocco label, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 12mo, Printed for J. Tonson, 1719.⁂ Established in 1739 The Most Ancient and Most Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland, Anstruther was a Scottish gentleman's club devoted to carnal matters. The well-healed members had a stock of pornography and naked 'posture girls' at their disposal. Activities included comparing phalluses and collective masturbation into a 'Test Platter', now held by St. Andrew's University. Artefacts relating to the club are rarely seen at auction.
Darwin (Charles), Admiral Robert Fitzroy & Captain Philip Parker King. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe, 3 vol. in 4 including Appendix to vol. 2, first edition, vol. 3 second issue with new title-page (pages i-iv cancels & pp.v & vi discarded), half-titles, 9 folding engraved maps by J.Gardner and J. & C.Walker, all but 2 linen-backed, 8 loose in pockets at end, 47 etched plates after P.King, A.Earle, C.Martens, R.Fitzroy and others, without 24pp. advertisements at end of vol.3, short tear to lower margin of T2 of vol.1, 2P8 of vol.3 (pp.591/2) misbound after 2O8 (pp.575/6), some foxing, mostly to plates and facing leaves, later half dark blue calf, by Morrell, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., spines very slightly faded, slight rubbing to edges, [Freeman 11; Hill 1, pp104-105; Norman 584; Sabin 37826], 8vo, 1839.⁂ Darwin's first published work and his most-widely read, the account of the voyage that would lead to his publishing On the Origin of Species.The first volume contains King's account of the expedition in the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830, which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. The second volume (and its appendix volume) describes the narrative of the Beagle's second voyage under Capt. Fitzroy made between 1831 and 1836 to South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other islands and countries. "The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin's intellectual life and in the history of biological science. Darwin sailed with no formal scientific training. He returned a hard-headed man of science, knowing the importance of evidence, almost convinced that species had not always been as they were since the creation but had undergone change... The experiences of his five years... and what they led to, built up into a process of epoch-making importance in the history of thought". (DSB)
![Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-titles, 8 plates, some foldi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1896b4f6-a2af-458e-8424-ae4e00bb1313/8f45ba23-f68b-4829-84b9-ae4e01424fee/468x382.jpg)
Doughty (Charles M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-titles, 8 plates, some folding, numerous illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end of vol.1, without 32pp. publishers' catalogue, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of title of vol.1 and one or two other leaves, half-titles spotted, occasional light soiling, a few leaves creased at corners, tear to upper margin of p.213/4 in vol.2, modern half burgundy morocco, spines gilt, uncut, spines very slightly faded, 8vo, Cambridge, 1888.⁂ Classic work on the exploration of Arabia which contains so much information on the topography of the area that it was used as a text-book by the British army during the Arab Revolt. There are also detailed descriptions of the Bedouin tribes and their customs.
Cole (John), Scarborough bookseller.- A volume of 12 pamphlets and catalogues by the eccentric Scarborough bookseller, including, Bookselling Spiritualised. Books and Articles of Stationery Rendered Monitors of Religion, [one of 60 copies], 1826 bound with A Biographical Account of Master Herbert, The Infant Roscius!, one of 8 copies on drawing paper, in an edition of 24 (there were 16 copies on coloured paper), the justification signed by Cole, advertisement f. at end printed in red and black for Coles' lectures, with an inscription from Cole presenting a couple of tickets for the afore-mentioned lectures, Published, for the Infant Roscius, by J. Cole, 1830 and Broadside.- Nature and Art. The Rev. J.L. Garrett, teacher of natural philosophy, has the honour to inform the nobility, gentry, clergy, &c. that he has now open [sic] for their inspection, 310 x 190mm., folded, [c.1826] and 9 others, Cole, together 12 works in 1 vol., plates, some oxidised, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with black leather label, spine ends and corners worn, 8vo, 1823-1829.
![Dickens (Charles) [Works], 26 vol. only, all but Oliver Twist; Hard Times; A Child's History of England; and Edwin Drood firs](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1896b4f6-a2af-458e-8424-ae4e00bb1313/c14a0237-a195-417b-8739-ae4e0142a689/468x382.jpg)
Dickens (Charles) [Works], 26 vol. only, all but Oliver Twist; Hard Times; A Child's History of England; and Edwin Drood first editions, most with frontispieces, engraved titles and plates, illustrations, one or two short tears, expertly repaired, occasional faint off-setting, Pickwick with original blue wrapper bound-in, bound without advertisements, 1837-61 § Savonarola (Don Jeremy) Facts & Figures from Italy ... addressed during the last two winters to Charles Dickens, first edition, 1847; scattered faint spotting, uniform nineteenth-century calf, gilt, red and green morocco spine labels, light rubbing to corners and spine extremities, 8vo (27).⁂ Including the first edition, fifth impression of 'Great Expectations' in 3 vol., with no full stop after 'robbery', p.42, line 5 in vol. 1. and p.149, line 21 with a faulty 's' in 'earnings.' Smith notes that "the first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title-pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale."Lacking: Master Humphreys Clock; Barnaby Rudge; Old Curiosity Shop; Sketches of a Young Gentleman; Sketches of Young Couples; American Notes vol. 1 only; A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; and The Cricket on the Heath.
Dickens (Charles) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, first edition in book form later issue with letterpress title dated 1838 (final roman "i" erased and altered to appear as 1837), half-title, frontispiece, pictorial title and 41 etched plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and Halbot K. Browne, spotting and browning (mainly marginal) to plates, some light off-setting, original slate fine-diaper cloth, joints and spine ends with tears and chips, corners a little rubbed, [Eckel p.17-18; Hatton and Cleaver pp.1-88; Smith pp.19-27 (this issue see n.1)], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1838.
Dickens (Charles) Oliver Twist, 3 vol., second edition, second issue with titles dated 1839, half-titles, etched frontispieces and 21 plates by George Cruikshank, 4pp. advertisements at end of vol.1, light foxing to plates and occasionally to text, a few small stains, upper hinge of vol.3 split with endpaper not pasted down and frontispiece loose, original blind-stamped purple-brown cloth, pale yellow endpapers, rubbed, some staining particularly to upper cover of vol.2, spines faded, corners bumped, [Smith I, p.36], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1839.
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book form, with publisher's imprint to frontispiece and first four plates, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 plates by Halbot K. Browne, list of plates with 2 small marginal tears and paper repairs, some offsetting, spotting, endpapers renewed, original first state green fine-diaper cloth, some very light sunning to spine, recased, spine ends strengthened and repaired, in effect still an attractive copy overall, [Eckel pp.64-66; Smith I,5], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839.
Ellis (William) Polynesian Researches, during a Residence of Nearly Six Years in the South Sea Islands, 2 vol., first edition, 8 engraved plates and 2 maps, one folding, wood-engraved illustrations, plates foxed, contemporary calf elaborately stamped in gilt and blind with additional central gilt arms of Trinity College Dublin, rubbed at edges, rebacked with gilt spines and red morocco labels, new endpapers, [Hill 549], 1829 § Bickmore (Albert S.) Travels in the East Indian Archipelago, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps, wood-engraved frontispiece, plates and illustrations, some spotting, Preface leaf lacking portion from lower margin, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with green roan label, a little rubbed, 1868, 8vo (3)⁂ Hill calls the first "one of the earliest instances of ethnological research by a missionary, and...one of the most important and enlightened missionary accounts of the South Seas".
Dickens (Charles) The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress...A New Edition, Revised and Corrected, bound from the original parts, half-title, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, some light foxing or browning, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, by Robson & Kerslake, covers with triple gilt fillet border and ornamental corner-pieces, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, with original pictorial blue wrapper to part I bound in at beginning, rubbed, split to upper joint, 8vo, for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846.⁂ Oliver Twist was unusual in that it was first issued, in 1838, in cloth during its serialisation in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. Dickens later bought back the copyright from Bentley and substantially revised the text with more dramatic scenes, as a result of his public readings. A set in the 10 original parts is extremely rare.
Dickens (Charles) A Tale of Two Cities, first edition in book form, third issue with title dated 1860, half-title, engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Browne, tissue guards, bookplates of I.T.Davy and Walter Harold Wilkin, original green cloth with blind-stamped border (Smith's secondary binding), spine faded, corners bumped, slightly cocked, one or two small spots to lower cover, small scores to fore-edges where once tied with cord, still a very good copy, [Eckel pp.86-90; Smith I, 13], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1860.
![Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) [The Sherlock Holmes novels], 4 vol., comprising A Study in Scarlet, second English (first illustrat](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1896b4f6-a2af-458e-8424-ae4e00bb1313/e5781fda-4ce6-449e-bcf3-ae4e01420cfd/468x382.jpg)
Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) [The Sherlock Holmes novels], 4 vol., comprising A Study in Scarlet, second English (first illustrated) edition, frontispiece, 11 plates and numerous illustrations by George Hutchinson, 24pp. advertisements at rear, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, neatly recased, spine a little faded, ring- and splash-marks to upper cover, 1891; The Sign of Four, first edition, first issue with misprints "13" on contents p. and "w shed" on p.56, without advertisements, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, bookplate to pastedown, original first issue cloth with "Spencer Blackett's Standard Library", slight shelf-lean, spine darkened, with two small chips to head and neat repair to lower joint, spine ends and corners a little bumped, a bright and excellent copy generally, Spencer Blackett, 1890; The Hound of the Baskervilles, first edition, first issue with "you" for "your" on p.13 line 3, 15 plates only (of 16) by Sydney Paget, small patch of water-staining front pastedown with some resultant bleeding of red dye to endpaper, original red pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black, light fading to spine, short split to lower joint, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, some light rubbing but an excellent example overall, 1902; The Valley of Fear, first edition frontispiece by Frank Wiles, 6pp. advertisements, scattered foxing, light browning to endpapers, original cloth, light sunning to spine, spine ends and corners a little bumped and frayed, light soiling, a very good copy, 1915, all housed together in custom slip-case, [Green and Gibson A1c, A7a, A26a & A39a], 8vo.⁂ The complete Sherlock Holmes novels, rare to find all together an in good condition.
Elton (J.Frederic) Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa, first edition, portrait, 3 folding maps (one colour), 13 wood-engraved plates (one folding), illustrations, occasional spotting or light staining, bookplate of John Ralph Willia, contemporary burgundy morocco, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., 1879 § Pinto (Maj. Serpa) How I Crossed Africa, 2 vol., first English edition, maps, plates and illustrations including large folding map and folding facsimiles, a few small stains, contemporary calf, gilt, 1881, both school prize bindings with presentation label or inscription, slightly rubbed; and 2 others, Africa, 8vo (5)
Cosway-style Binding.- Churchill (Winston S.) Marlborough: His Life and Times, 4 vol., first edition, frontispiece, plates, handsome Cosway-style binding of contemporary red morocco by Bayntun (Riviére) for Asprey, with detailed miniature portrait of Churchill inside vol. 1 upper cover, gilt, g.e., housed in cloth slip-cases, lightly rubbed, 8vo, 1933-38.
Allen (Capt. William) The Dead Sea, a New Route to India, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-title, 8 lithographed plates, most tinted views, 2 folding engraved maps, one hand-coloured in outline, wood-engraved vignettes, occasional foxing, mostly to tissue guards, one map soiled and frayed at edge (reinforced), modern half crimson morocco, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., 8vo, 1855.
Fellows (Charles) A Journal written during an Excursion in Asia Minor...1838, first edition, etched frontispiece, double-page engraved map with route supplied in red, 20 plates (mostly lithographed), one double-page, wood-engraved illustrations, light foxing to map and some plates, original pictorial green cloth, gilt, slightly rubbed and spotted, spine faded, a good copy with wide margins, [Atabey 424; Blackmer 578], large 8vo (c.245 x 175mm.), 1839.⁂ Account of Fellows's first expedition to Lycia on the southern coast of Turkey, an area little known to Europeans at the time.
Fellows (Charles) Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus, first edition, presentation copy from the author to Baron Behr inscribed on upper cover, 2 lithographed and 2 wood-engraved plates, one folding, original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, rebacked in cloth, corner of upper cover reinforced, [Not in Atabey or Blackmer], 1848; An Account of Discoveries in Lycia...during a Second Excursion in Asia Minor, first edition, 2 engraved maps with routes in red & blue, 36 etched or lithographed plates, 3 folding or double-page, one hand-coloured, folding plate of inscriptions, illustrations, errata leaf at end, some foxing and offsetting, original pictorial black cloth, gilt, recased, a little rubbed at joints and edges, [Atabey 425; Blackmer 579], 1841 § Birch (Samuel) Observations on the Xanthian Marbles recently deposited in the British Museum, offprint from 'Archaeologia' vol.XXX pp.176-204, modern buckram, black morocco label to upper cover, 1843, 4to & large 8vo (3)⁂ The first item is scarce. Fellows had discovered the ruins of Xanthus, the ancient capital of Lycia, on his first expedition to Asia Minor in 1838. His account of his discoveries (see previous lot) generated great excitement in England and on behalf of the British Museum, a firman was requested from the sultan to export some of the Lycian treasures to England. As a result seventy-eight packing cases of sculptures were exported to the British Museum in 1842.Baron Behr was an important collector of coins who donated part of his collection to the British Museum.
Thatcher (Margaret) The Downing Street Years, 1993; The Path to Power, 1995; Statecraft, 2002, first editions, signed by the author the first on tipped in leaf at front, the next two directly on titles, plates, original boards dust-jackets, fine copies, 8vo (3)⁂ The two volumes of Thatcher's autobiography together with her final book, in which she looks to the challenges of the new century.
Forbes (James) Oriental Memoirs, 4 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait and 93 engraved or lithographed plates (some stipple-engraved, some aquatint), 28 finely hand-coloured, mostly after W.Hooker, with errata leaf and 2 Directions to Binder leaves at end of vol.4, 2N2 in vol.1 with short tear to lower margin, plate of Cobra shaved at head and plate of Hindoo Family with short tear to lower margin (repaired), foxing to portrait and plain line-engraved plates but text and hand-coloured plates generally very clean (plate 79 of Keura Tree in vol.3 lightly browned), some spotting towards end of vol.3 & 4, Sir David Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons Bart.'s copy with his engraved bookplate, contemporary diced russia, gilt, spines gilt, g.e., some joints cracked, [Anker 148; Fine Bird Books p.96; Nissen ZBI 1409; cf.Abbey Travel 436, later remainder issue], 4to, for the author by T.Bensley, 1813. ⁂ A handsome copy of this excellent account of the culture, flora and fauna of India by a writer for the East India Company. Forbes spent seventeen years in India and filled numerous volumes with writings and sketches. The fine hand-coloured plates are mostly of natural history, particularly birds and fruits.Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons Bart. (1851-1925), scientific author, barrister and pioneer of road transport. His home at Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells is now the Salomons Museum and a centre for technology. Salomons was fascinated by electricity and Broomhill was one of the first homes to be fitted with electric light, as well as an early electric cooker, butter churn and alarms, all made by him and his staff in his workshops. He was also an horologist and assembled the largest private collection of watches and clocks by Abraham-Louis Breguet.
Chapbooks.- Astronomy.- Holden (Moses) A small celestial atlas, or maps of the visible heavens, in the latitudes of Britain, designed as a useful companion for the young student, as well as for the practical astronomer, second edition, frontispiece, 20 plates, original printed wrappers, spine chipped and worn, 8vo, Richmond, M. Bell, 1825.⁂ An early popular guide to astronomy, one of the first of its kind to be cheaply mass-produced in this fashion. All editions are now rare, LibraryHub lists only 1 copy of the second edition (York Minster Library).
Chapbooks.- Lumsden & Son, publishers. Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs, and Toby Tickle's Collection of Riddles, compiled by Peter Puzzlecap Esq., 26 woodcut vignettes, Glasgow, Lumsden and Son, [water-marked 1812]; Fun upon Fun; or the Humours of a Fair, oval woodcut vignette to title and a few other leaves, 8 engraved plates printed in red, J.Lumsden & Son, [water-marked 1819]; Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction, 8 engraved plates printed in red, J.Lumsden & Son, [water-marked 1819], all stitched in original wrappers the first pink, titled in manuscript on upper cover, a little rubbed and marked, Glasgow § Cinderilla; or the Glass Slipper, original printed yellow wrappers with woodcut of slipper, York, J.Kendrew, [c.1820] § World Upside Down (The )..., original printed yellow wrappers, York, J.Kendrew, [c.1820] § Pretty and Entertaining History (The) of Tom Thumb, woodcuts, original printed wrappers with woodcut vignettes, Otley, W.Walker, [c.1830], together loose in small red morocco, gilt, slip-case with pull-off top labelled "Photographs" on spine, slightly rubbed, 16mo (6)
Chapbooks.- Pleasant and Deligthful History (The) of Jack and the Giants, 2 vol., woodcut illustrations, printed on single sheets as issued, first part with some splitting, Nottingham, for the Running Stationers, [c.1800]; The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers, woodcut frontispiece and plates, spotting, original wrappers, spine defective, 1813; and 12 others, similar, 12mo (15)
Pleasing and Instructive Tales, from Nature, adapted to the Capacities of Children, engraved frontispiece, contemporary ink inscription "Ellen Clarkson's Book" to front pastedown and note to rear, lightly browned, occasional soiling, shaken, original grey boards, lacking most of orange paper backstrip, rubbed, [Osborne I.289], J.Wallis, 1804 § [?Trimmer (Sarah)] The Silver Thimble, engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed), wood-engraved title-vignette, without 6pp. advertisements at end, contemporary half red roan, spines gilt, a little rubbed, E.Newbery, 1799 § [Dorset (Catherine Ann)] The Peacock "At Home:" a Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball [&] The Lion's Masquerade, a Sequel to the Peacock at Home, together 2 vol., each with engraved frontispiece and 5 plates after William Mulready, the first foxed and offset, the second with holes to frontispiece at top edge of image, light soiling and staining, stitched in original printed buff wrappers, a little rubbed and soiled, [Moon 215 & 214], J. Harris [&] J.Harris and B.Tabart, 1807-08; 1808, first editions, 12mo & 16mo (4)⁂ Despite being listed in Osborne the first is recorded on Library Hub and WorldCat in a single copy only (University of Oxford), with the frontispiece hand-coloured and lacking wrappers.
Dulac (Edmund).- Poe (Edgar Allan) The Bells and other Poems, one of 750 copies signed by the artist, 28 tipped-in colour plates by Edmund Dulac, vignette illustrations, captioned tissue guards, flier for Leicester Galleries exhibition of Dulac's watercolours for this work loosely inserted, browning to endpapers, original elaborately gilt-stamped pictorial vellum, t.e.g., others uncut, lacking ties, covers a little bowed, some light soiling but very bright generally, 4to, [1912].
Cruikshank (George).- Jerrold (Blanchard) The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, extra-illustrated with over 120 engravings by Cruikshank, c.30 hand-coloured, many mounted or tipped into blank leaves with dates or captions in pencil, some bound in, some light spotting, bookplate of C.H.Hammersley and book-label of James Stevens Cox, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, by J.Larkins, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, 1882.⁂ Including hand-coloured chapbook frontispiece 'Picture of London' of 1812 (Cohn 554), portrait of Robert Cruikshank of 1820, unused etching for a box ticket for Her Majesty's Theatre of 1846, and 2 other unused etchings of 1857.
Rowlandson (Thomas) Miseries of Human Life, hand-coloured etched pictorial title and 49 plates by Thomas Rowlandson, with the rare 'Pall Mall' plate and Rowlandson's imprint on final plate, otherwise with all plates as listed in the Abbey copy, some light marginal foxing and/or soiling, two plates (plates 4 & 49) torn at lower margin (the latter just extending into bottom of image (repaired), modern dark blue straight-grained morocco, gilt, spine gilt, with original paper label mounted on rear endpaper, [Abbey, Life 317], 4to, R.Ackermann, [1808, some plates water-marked 1814].⁂ The 'Pall Mall' plate is rare and often replaced with 'The Chiropodist'.
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Whittington Press.- Matrix: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, vol.1-36 [a complete set], all number II of deluxe specially-bound edition (with limitations ranging from XXX to CX copies), most containing additional material, all with specimens, plates and illustrations, many coloured, tipped in or folding, original morocco- or vellum-backed marbled boards, uncut, vol.7 onwards with additional material loose as issued in original portfolios including prints and broadsides, some signed, together in slip-cases, Andoversford or Risbury, Whittington Press, 1981-2020; and the reprint of vol.2 and Index to vol.1-21 (both numbered II), large 8vo (38)⁂ A superb set of this outstanding periodical of modern presswork and the only consecutively-numbered complete set in existence. The set numbered I was reserved for the printer/publisher John Randle of the Whittington Press but was dispersed some years ago. This set belonged to the proprietor of the Senecio Press, Adrian Lack, who printed many of the illustrations for the work.
Fryer (John) A New Account of East-India and Persia, first edition, half-title with engraved portrait on verso, title printed in red and black, 7 engraved plates and maps, 3 folding, and one full-page engraved map in text with printed slip pasted below, engraved or woodcut illustrations, plan of Fort St.George loose, some light browning, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco label, corners repaired, [Wing F2257], folio, R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri. Chiswell, 1698.⁂ In 1672 Fryer embarked on a 10-year tour to India, Goa, the Arab Gulf and Persia, before returning to England. The work includes a detailed account of Surat and Muscat and mentions pirates in the Gulf, and the natural history of the region.
Golberry (Silvester Meinrad Xavier) Travels in Africa...in the Western Countries of this Continent, translated by William Mudford, 2 vol., first English edition, 3 folding engraved maps, 7 engraved plates, general map shaved at upper edge, some spotting and offsetting in vol.2, ex-library copy with ink stamp to lower margin of p.33 in each vol., modern morocco-backed marbled boards, facsimile paper label to upper covers, 1803 § Reade (W.Winwood) Savage Africa..., first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, folding map with route in red at end (lightly foxed), contemporary half calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, 1863,12mo & 8vo (3)⁂ Golberry spent three years travelling through the western countries of Africa. Most of his work, first published in French in 1802, concerns Senegal, the French operations at St. Louis and Ile de Gorée (Dakar), but it also includes descriptions of Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and the gold mines of Bambou.In the second item Reade includes an extensive discussion on the gorilla.
Gregory (John Walter) The Great Rift Valley: being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, first edition, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, 20 plates, illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, advertisement leaf at end, a few pencil markings, modern half green morocco, uncut, 1896 § Pringle (M.A.) Towards the Mountains of the Moon: a Journey in East Africa, first edition, half title, folding sheet with 3 maps, one with route in red, linen-backed, some foxing, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, gilt library stamp to upper cover and spine, rubbed, Edinburgh & London, 1884, 8vo (2)
Hamilton (Capt. Alexander) A New Account of the East-Indies...from the Year 1688, to 1723, 2 vol., second edition, dedication with engraved coat-of-arms, 8 folding engraved maps and 11 plates, one folding, vol.1 with the 2 final blanks, vol.2 with title and 3 preliminary leaves pp.iii-vii & [viii] and text beginning on p.3 A2 but seemingly complete, a few pencil marginalia, browned, 2 maps with tears to folds, A7 in vol.2 with portion cut from margin, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked with red and green morocco labels, some corners repaired, 8vo, A.Bettesworth and C.Hitch, 1739.⁂ Rare and comprehensive account over many years of travel from South Africa to Japan, first published in Edinburgh in 1727, and including descriptions of Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, India, and South East Asia. ESTC records only 3 copies of this second edition (BL & Cambridge in the UK; Library of Congress in America).
Harris (William Cornwallis) Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the Years 1836, and 1837, first edition, half-title, lithographed frontispiece and 3 plates, tissue guards, folding lithographed map with routes supplied by hand in red, blue & green, 8pp. list of subscribers at end, lightly browned, marginal staining at beginning & end and to edges of plates, Gadsden bookplate, with original Bombay bookseller's receipt for 10 Rupees made out to Dr.Deacon Gutch tipped in at beginning, contemporary half black roan over marbled boards, uncut, rubbed, spine repaired, new corners, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, spine gilt, [Abbey, Travel 333], 8vo, Bombay, American Mission Press, 1838.⁂ First issue, published in Bombay, of the author's big-game hunting expedition which includes additional information on the Boers and the Great Trek. It was published in London the following year as The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, with new plates.
Hobhouse (John Cam, 1st Baron Broughton) A Journey through Albania...to Constantinople, second edition, stipple-engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 plates of music, plan and 17 fine hand-coloured aquatints (7 double-page), one or two plates shaved at imprint, foxing to maps but plates clean and bright, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with black roan labels, a little rubbed, short split to upper joint of vol.2, [Abbey, Travel 202; cf. Atabey 584 & Blackmer 821, first edition], 4to, 1813.⁂ Lovely copy of Hobhouse's important account of his journey with his friend Lord Byron. "This work is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on that journey, but for the mass of information Hobhouse provides, in particular on the court and character of Ali Pasha." (Atabey)
Irby (Hon. Charles Leonard) and James Mangles. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor during the years 1817 & 1818, first edition, presentation copy from one of the authors to "Caroline Katharine Montagu" inscribed on front free endpaper, folding engraved map with route supplied in red, 3 engraved plans (2 folding), 6 lithographed plates, one hand-coloured, the rest on india paper and mounted, handsome contemporary russia with decorative border in gilt and blind, g.e., very slightly rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, [Atabey 606; Blackmer 860], 8vo, Printed for Private Distribution, 1823.⁂ As Irby and Mangles travelled through the Levant, they assisted Belzoni in his excavation of Abu Simbel and became some of the earliest Europeans to visit Petra.
Kinglake (Alexander William) Eothen, or Traces of Travel...from the East, first edition, half-title, 2 hand-coloured lithographed plates, frontispiece folding and heightened with gum arabic (slight abrasions, mostly to folds), very occasional foxing, near contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco label, 1844 § Ellis (Tristram J.) On a Raft, and Through the Desert, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, half-titles, 30 etched plates and 8 illustrations by the author, tissue guards, double-page map, advertisement leaf at end of each vol., modern half crimson morocco, spine gilt, uncut, Leadenhalle Presse, 1881, 8vo & 4to (2)
Kolben (Peter) The Present State of the Cape of Good-Hope..., translated by Mr.Medley, 2 vol., first English edition, engraved frontispieces (one a portrait), folding map, and 28 plates, 2 folding, vol.1 with advertisement leaf following title and another at end, light browning to vol.2, one or two ink spots, later half sprinkled calf, spines gilt with red and brown roan labels, very slightly rubbed at edges, [Goldsmiths' 7553], 8vo, W. Innys, 1731.
La Loubère (Simon de) A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, title in red and black, 2 engraved maps and 9 plates, occasional browning, slight worming to upper margin of final few leaves, later calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, new red roan labels, rubbed, corners repaired, [Wing L201], folio, by F[rancis] L[each] for Tho. Horne...Francis Saunders...and Tho. Bennet, 1693.⁂ A good copy of La Loubère's important account of his voyage to Siam (now Thailand), notable for its publication of the 'Siamese method' of constructing magic squares, and for one of the earliest accounts of a parachute.
Lander (Richard) Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa, 2 vol., first edition, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations, occasional browning, N7 of vol.1 lacking portion from lower margin, small marginal stain to K5 of vol.2, bookplate of Sir Velters Cornewall Bt., small ink stamp "Robert T.Collins" to bookplate and a couple of leaves of text, 1830 § Lander (Richard & John) Journal of An Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger, 2 vol., second edition, 2 engraved portraits, map and 5 plates, some foxing and marginal staining to plates, 1838 § Park (Mungo) Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa...with...a Subsequent Mission...in 1805, abridged edition, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary ink inscription, Bristol, 1824, all contemporary half green calf, the second with gilt spines, all a little rubbed, the first with some labels renewed or repaired, 8vo et infra (5)⁂ The first is an account of Clapperton's second expedition to West Africa by his servant, Richard Lander, who was the only survivor of the expedition. Lander returned to the region with his brother and, after several travails including being held for ransom, they succeeded in reaching the mouth of the Niger. Mungo Park had died at Boussa on his second expedition exploring the Niger in 1805.
Langley (Edward Archer) Narrative of a Residence at the Court of Meer Ali Moorad; with Wild Sports in the Valley of the Indus, 2 vol., first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and title vignettes, very occasional spotting, bookplate of Maj. Benedict Birkbeck, handsome contemporary navy calf, gilt, spines gilt with red and tan roan labels, very slightly rubbed, 1860 § Williamson (Capt. Thomas) Illustrations of Indian Field Sports, 10 chromolithographed plates, a little offset, original pictorial cloth, uncut, slightly rubbed, 1892, 8vo & oblong 4to (3)
Layard (Austen H.) Nineveh and its Remains, 2 vol., sixth thousand, half-title in vol.1 only, lithographed frontispieces, 20 wood-engraved plates, 5 folding maps and plans, illustrations, 1854; Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, first edition, half-title, folding frontispiece, 10 plates (mostly tinted lithographs) and 5 folding maps and plans, wood-engraved illustrations, 1853, some foxing, mostly at beginnings and ends, uniform half calf, spines gilt, rubbed § Barker (W.B.) Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors, first edition, folding map, 4 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary blue calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine a little faded, 1853, 8vo (4)
Layard (Austen H.) Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, with folding frontispiece, 10 plates (mostly tinted lithographs) and 5 folding maps and plans, wood-engraved illustrations, 1853; Nineveh and its Remains, 2 vol., sixth edition, half-titles, lithographed frontispieces, 20 wood-engraved plates, 5 folding maps and plans, 1854, tinted lithographs in the first lightly water-stained, otherwise excellent clean copies, uniform pictorial tan calf, gilt, spines gilt with roan labels, a little rubbed, spines slightly faded, 8vo (4)
Lennep (Rev. Henry J. van) Travels in Little-Known Parts of Asia Minor, 2 vol., first edition, wood-engraved frontispieces and illustrations, some full-page, 4 maps, 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end of vol.1, ex-library copy with ink inscription to head of titles and a few small ink stamps (removed from titles), original pictorial cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, 1870 § Davis (Rev. E.J.) Anatolica; or, the Journal of a Visit to..the Ancient Ruined Cities of Caria, Phrygia, Lycia and Pisidia, first edition, half-title, 2 folding maps, 16 heliotype and 16 lithographed plates, illustrations, one map frayed and crudely repaired with sticky tape at edge, bookplate of M.P.Holmes, contemporary half roan, spine gilt, rubbed, [Blackmer 456], 1874; and 4 others on Greece and Turkey, 8vo et infra (7)
Leonard (Peter) Records of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa...for the Suppression of the Slave Trade..., first edition, 4pp. table at end, occasional light soiling, contemporary half calf, rubbed, marbled paper on boards and endpapers renewed, Edinburgh, 1833 § M'Leod (John) A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People, first edition, 4 etched plates, browning and offsetting, cropped, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 1820, small 8vo (2)⁂ Both the authors served as ship surgeons, M'Leod in 1803 on a slave ship, and Leonard during the early 1830s on HMS Dryad preventing the slave trade. Leonard's work contains a list of vessels engaged in the slave trade captured by the Dryad and her tenders.
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Livingstone (David) [The Works], 5 vol. including Blaikie's 'Life', comprising: Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, folding tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, engraved portrait, folding table, 2 folding engraved maps at end with routes supplied in red, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, 1857; Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries, folding wood-engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, illustrations, folding engraved map with route in red, 1858; The Last Journals...in Central Africa, 2 vol., wood-engraved portrait, 20 plates, mostly wood-engraved, one double-page, folding map with routes in red (second larger map loose in pocket at end of Blaikie's 'Life', short tear to fold), illustrations, 1874 § Blaikie (W.G.) The Personal Life of David Livingstone, engraved portrait, folding hand-coloured map, with map from 'Last Journals' loose in pocket at end, 1880, together 4 works in 5, first editions, with loosely-inserted advertisement for Lett's Extract Book inscribed in ink at head "Presented to Dr. Livingstone with the Publisher's best wishes", uniformly bound in late nineteenth century half tan calf, by Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, spines gilt with tan and black roan labels, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 8vo⁂ A handsome set of the great explorer's major works.
Arundell (Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago) Discoveries in Asia Minor; including a description of the ruins of several ancient cities, and especially Antioch of Pisidia, 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 lacking half-title (not called for in vol.2) and final advertisement leaf, with folding engraved map and 10 lithographed plates (8 views & 2 of plans), some light foxing and offsetting, one or two marginal stains, old ink ownership stamp of John Brymer to titles, contemporary half calf, red & green roan labels, a little rubbed, particularly corners, [Atabey 37; Blackmer 49], 8vo, 1834.⁂ Account of an extensive journey through Anatolia in 1833. Arundell was the first European to visit many of the places described.
Markham (Clements R.) Travels in Peru and India while superintending the collection of Chinchona plants and seeds in South America, and their introduction into India, first edition, half-title, wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 plates, illustrations, 2 folding maps, folding genealogical table of the Incas, without 30pp. publishers' catalogue at end, a little spotted at beginning and end, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red roan label, 1862 § Cieza de Leon (Pedro de) The Seventeen Years Travels...through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru..., translated by Capt. John Stevens, with folding engraved plate of Cuzco but lacking folding map, engraved illustrations in text, heavily foxed in parts, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, 1709, both a little rubbed, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The first concerns cinchona which was the source of quinine used as a cure for malaria, and was greatly needed by the British in India.
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