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Le Vaillant (Francois). Second Voyage dans l'Int‚rieur de l'Afrique..., 2 volumes, Paris: Jansen, [1796], half-titles, twenty-one engraved plates (including five folding), all with contemporary hand-colouring, most with original guard sheet, occasional minor mark, partially removed library ink stamps to half-titles and titles, contemporary marbled calf, gilt, spines later varnished, rubbed and scuffed to joints and corners, shelf mark to foot of spines (removed), 4to No precedence has been established between the present work (being the publisher's deluxe 4to) and the 8vo edition issued in three volumes. A folding map was issued separately at a later date. (2)
Leake (William Martin). Travels in the Morea, 3 vols., 1st ed., 1830, together with Peloponnesiaca: A Supplement to Travels in the Morea, 1st ed., 1846, together 4 vols., two large folding maps and twenty-eight engraved maps, plans and plates, some folding, uniform contemporary brown half calf, gilt decorated spines with contrasting labels, raised bands with Greek vase motif in compartments, slight shelf wear to extremities, 8vo Blackmer 974 (without the Supplement). Atabey 691 & 693. A highly important set including the scarce Supplement, giving a fascinating account of journeys carried out from February to May 1805 and February to May 1806. Leake was a member of the Society of Dilettanti, a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Geographical Society, and was Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. The binding of this set matches the Eton prize binding illustrated on page 357 in Atabey. (4)
Mandelslo (Johann Albrecht von). Voyages Celebres & remarquables, faits de Perse aux Indes Orientales ... contenant une Description nouvelle & tres-curieuse de l'Indostan, de l'Empire du Grand-Mogol, des Iles & Presqu'iles de l'Orient, des Royaumes de Siam, du Japon, de la Chine, du Congo, &c., nouvelle edition revue & corrig‚e exactement, augment‚e considerablement ... & surpassant en bont‚ & en beaut‚ les pr‚cedentes editions, trans. A. de Wicquefort, 2 volumes, Amsterdam: Michel Charles le CŠne, 1727, half-titles, printed titles in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, folding panoramic engraved view of Yedo (Tokyo), fourteen further engraved folding plates, thirteen engraved plates (on seven pages), twenty engraved maps (including fourteen folding), plus some engraved plates and maps to text, carefully removed library stamps to half-titles and printed titles, catalogue numbers in ink to verso of titles and front free endpapers, overall toning throughout, contemporary marbled calf, spine varnished, joints and extremities rubbed and worn, library labels and shelf mark to spines, folio Brunet IV, 178; Cordier, Japonica pp.367-8. (2)
A reproduction oak dresser, the three shelf plate rack with planked back and shaped frieze under a moulded cornice with spice drawers on a moulded edge top above three frieze drawers with chamfered fronts, pierced brass back plates and swing handles and three cupboard doors with chamfered shaped panels on a stepped base, 190 x 137 cms
An early 20th Century Flemish style oak dresser, the open back Delft rack with stepped cornice over a floral and leaf carved frieze, an arrangement of shelves below, the central shelf flanked by carved fronted cupboards on an open base having two carved fronted drawers with ring pull handles above a carved arch frieze on turned and block supports, 84 x 151 cms
A Victorian stripped pine kitchen dresser, the base enclosed by an arrangement of seven drawers flanking a central slightly recessed cupboard enclosed by a rectangular panelled door, the shallow raised back with shaped outline and simple shelf incorporating four small drawers, 150 cm wide approx
A large late Victorian walnut hallstand of full height, the raised back with architectural pediment, turned spindle gallery over a bevelled edge shield shaped mirror flanked by cast iron scrolling coat hooks with rams head finials over a simple pronounced shelf and decorative vein marble top, central frieze drawer flanked by umbrella/stickstands
A 19th century sewing box of rectangular form with cross banded borders lined by further ebony and light timber string inlay, the dual hinged lid revealing a multi-compartment interior with removable shelf revealing a hollow base, the sides flanked by a pair of lion mask and loop handles, 38 cm long x 25 cm wide x 16 cm high approx
GUILLAUME DE L'ISLE: ATLAS NOUVEAU CONTENANT TOUTES LES PARTES DU MONDE…, Amsterdam, Jean Covens and Corneille Mortier, circa 1742, added engrd ttl, additional ttl for Nicolas Sanson's "Introduction A La Geographie", map list undated, 106 dbl pge hand col'd engrd maps, 2 dbl pge un-coloured engrd plans, lge fo, 20th Century qtr cf, lib shelf no at foot of spine, no other lib markings
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