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Fire and Ice
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Fire and Ice

From the Tropics to the Ice-World
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Contents
Introduction
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Antarctica
007
Africa
033
The Americas
057
Europe
069
China, India & South-East Asia
089
Ottoman World, Middle-East & Central Asia
113
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to our latest travel catalogue.
I am particularly pleased with the section on the Antarctic which
contains many inscribed copies including an inscribed copy of Worsleys
Boat Journey with original letters (item 15). We also have an album
containing original photographs taken by James Murray on the Nimrod
expedition (item 10). There is also a wonderful album of photographs
taken by Herbert Ponting on the Terra Nova expedition (item 12).
The Africa section features a copy of David Livingstones Missionary Travels,
inscribed to one of his medicine lecturers whilst at college (item 27), and
a copy of Stanleys In Darkest Africa, a common enough title, but here in
spectacularly bright original cloth (item 34).
Elsewhere, there is the earliest account by a Russian of the United States
(item 43); rare Alpine mountaineering including Saussures Relation
abrge dun voyage la cime du Mont-Blanc en aot 1787 (item 54); the
scarce quarto edition of Choiseys Journal du Voyage de Siam (item 62);
The original typed engineers report for the reconnaissance of routes
for the proposed Waichow to Hoi Fung Yuen highway (item 72);
A fine pair of original watercolours by Thomas Hood depicting East
India Company ships (item 73); A rare inscribed copy of Palgraves
Journey in Arabia (item 96); and the printed on vellum and finely bound
votes of thanks to a member of Kitcheners Nile Expedition (item 25).
These might be my personal favourites but there are plenty of other
books to enjoy here. Also, these recent acquisitions represent just a
small part of our travel stock, so please contact me if you are looking
for any other travel books.
In case you are wondering why there are no Pacific books here, fear
not! Our next travel catalogue will be devoted to the Pacific and
will include all three of the Captain Bligh court-martial reports, one
inscribed by Bligh! If this floats your boat, contact me to make sure you
receive a copy.
Julian MacKenzie
julian@shapero.com
Antarctica
FIRST TO THE SOUTH POLE - SIGNED COPY

1.
AMUNDSEN, ROALD. The South Pole. An account of the

Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910-1912.
John Murray, London, 1912.
A SIGNED COPY A CORNERSTONE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION; THE
ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST EXPEDITION TO REACH THE SOUTH POLE.
A handsomely produced book containing ten full-page
photographic images not found in the Norwegian original, and
all full-page images being reproduced to a higher standard.
Amundsens legendary dash to the Pole, which he reached
before Scotts ill-fated expedition by over a month. His
success over Scott was due to his highly disciplined dogsled
teams, more accomplished skiers, a shorter distance to the
Pole, better clothing and equipment, well planned supply
depots enroute, fortunate weather, and a modicum of luck
(Books on Ice).
First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxv, [i], 392; x, 449pp., SIGNED AND DATED
(OCT 3RD 1925) BY AMUNDSEN TO HALF-TITLE, 3 folding maps, folding plan, 138
photographic illustrations on 103 plates, original maroon cloth gilt, vignettes
to upper covers, top edges gilt, others uncut, corners bumped, joints and spines
rubbed, remains of old bookplates to pastedowns, a good set.
Taurus 71; Rosove 9.A1; Books on Ice 7.1.
6,500
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2.
BELLINGSHAUSEN, FABIAN G. VON. The Voyage of Captain

Bellingshausen to the Antarctic Seas 1819-1821.Translated
from the Russian. Edited by Frank Debenham ...
Hakluyt Society, London, 1945.
VERY RARE WITH DUSTWRAPPERS.
Bellingshausen and his 118 companions belong in the front
rank of early Antarctic explorers: they circumnavigated the
Antarctic circle (the first since Cook to have done so),
confirmed the existence of the South Shetland islands,
discovered several new islands at high southern latitudes, and
may well have been the first to sight the Antarctic continent
itself. This is the first translation of Bellinghausens original
Russian narrative (1831), complete with notes from one of
Britains most experienced Antarctic geographers.
First English Edition. Hakluyt Society second series, XCI &XCII. 2 volumes, 8vo.,
20 maps, frontispiece to each volume, 36 plates, original blue cloth gilt, original
cream dustwrappers lettered in black, a fine set.
Taurus 3; Rosove 33.A1.
2,500
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PRESENTATION COPY
3.
BORCHGREVINK, CARSTEN. First on the Antarctic Continent,

being an account of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898-1900 ...
Newnes, London, 1901.
RARE PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE: TO THO
CHRISTIE / WITH THE AUTHORS/ COMPLIMENTS.
The book is one of the most important in the Antarctic
bibliography (Rosove).
Clements Markham opposed Borchgrevinks venture,
declaring the Norwegian explorer incompetent, his ship
rotten, and that no self-respecting member of the scientific
community should have anything to do with him (Howgego).
Newnes not only published the book, he financed the
expedition in the Southern Cross. Before it was over,
Borchgrevink laid claim to a number of firsts: the first time
dogs were used on the Antarctic continent, a furthest south
record, the first sledge journey on the Ross Ice Shelf. Perhaps
today he would be best remembered as having discovered
the northward movement of the Ross Ice Shelf and the
emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier. - Taurus.
First edition. 8vo, xvi, 334pp., 32pp. adverts, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY, half-title, 3
folding coloured maps, 17 photographic plates, 182 photo illustrations in the text,
original pictorial dark blue cloth, black endpapers, top edge gilt, slight cockling to
cloth, a very good example.
Taurus 24; Rosove 45.A1; Conrad p91; Spence 152.
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COPY INSCRIBED BY BRUCE FOR HELPING THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
4.
[BROWN, R[OBERT] N[EAL] RUDMORE; R. C. MOSSMAN; J.H.

HARVEY PIRIE]. The voyage of the Scotia being a record of a
voyage of exploration in Antarctic seas.
Blackwood, London, 1906.
INSCRIBED: A. F WHYTE ESQ., M. P., / WITH COMPLIMENTS FROM /
WM. S. BRUCE / EDINBURGH, / 1910. AND WITH A PENCILLED NOTE
FROM THE RECIPIENT: BRUCE GAVE ME THIS BOOK IN RECOGNITION
OF A LITTLE ACTION FOUGHT LATE AT NIGHT IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS IN 1910 TO GET A GRANT FROM THE TREASURY IN
SUPPORT OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
AN OUTSTANDING ACCOUNT - Rosove.
An account of the Scottish Antarctic Expedition 1902-1905,
under the command of William Bruce, written for the general
public by Rudmore Brown and two other members of the
scientific staff. The text substantiates the important events,
supplies a day-to-day look at life on the expedition, and
describes many of the most interesting scientific findings.
Included are stimulating accounts of Funchal, Gough Island,
and Cape Town. Rudmore Brown stated that Bruce was so
involved in the scientific reports that he had no time (or
inclination ) to write an account of the expedition for general
readership.
Rosove notes that the white lettering on the spine has
stood the test of time poorly and is variably lost. He also
states the variant b with purple endpapers is less common
than variant a with blue endpapers. He further notes that it
was a copy with purple endpapers that Bruce inscribed to
Winston Churchill (also in Edinburgh in 1910.
First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 375pp., INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE, 39 plate leaves
containing 105 photographs and 1 map, 2 folding maps, original grey pictorial
cloth cloth lettered in white, purple endpapers, a little light foxing as usual, spine
rubbed, light wear, a very good example.
Taurus 51; Rosove 50.A1b.
2,250
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5.
BROWN, R[OBERT] N[EAL] RUDMORE. A naturalist at the Poles

the life, work & voyages of Dr.W. S. Bruce the polar explorer ...
with five chapters by W. G. Burn Murdoch.
Seeley, Service, London, 1923.
The biography of Bruce written by his friend and Scotia
expedition mate. Contains a valuable account of the
expeditions preliminaries and biographical details of the
officers not found in The voyage of the Scotia. The work was
based upon Bruces own papers and interviews with his
family and mates on the expedition.
First edition. 8vo., 316 pp., 12 pages ads at end, frontispiece, 3 maps, 29
photographic plates, illustrations in text, original black cloth lettered in light blue,
pictorial vignette to upper cover, a fine copy.
Rosove 51.A1; Spence 195.
650
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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

6.
BULL, HENRIK. The Cruise of the Antarctic to the

South Polar Regions.
Edward Arnold, London, 1896.
INSCRIBED: G. R. Richmond Esq / from H. Bull / with
compl. / 7/3/1900.
Scarce - Rosove. This is an attractive piece of book
production, describing a sealing and whaling voyage into
the Ross Sea led by a Norwegian who had immigrated to
Australia. Somewhat surprisingly, it produced a little scientific
information as well: Carsten Borchgrevink, deck-hand and
amateur scientist, brought back the first vegetation from
below the Antarctic Circle. Later he claimed his landing at
Cape Adare in 1895 was the first by man on the Antarctic
continent (Taurus).
Provenance: 1. G. R. Richmond (presentation); G. & J. Weir
Ltd., Glasgow (small stamps to endpapers and half-title).
First edition. 8vo., INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HALF TITLE, [xii], 243, [1], pp., 4 pages
undated ads plus 32 pages ads (dated November 1897) at end, frontispiece by
W. L. Wyllie, 11 full-page black-and-white plates by W. G. Burn Murdoch, original
pictorial blue cloth, upper cover with image of ship against backdrop of ice-cliffs
in silver and black, spine and cover lettered in silver, light wear to extremities, a
few leaves carelessly opened, the cloth bright and fine.
Rosove 55.A1c; Taurus 14; Conrad p81; Spence 210.
1,500
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INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY

7.
DAVIS, JOHN KING. With the Aurora in the Antarctic 1911-1914.

Melrose, London, n.d. circa 1919.
INSCRIBED on front free endpaper: Lieut Commander R. T.
Gould R.N. /with compliments and best / wishes from John K.
Davis. / Melbourne April 1931.
As captain of the Aurora during Mawsons 1911-14
expedition, Davis was able to produce one of the few firsthand accounts available in print. The book itself is a typical
poorly produced war time volume rather like South.
The 19111914 expedition encountered many challenges:
dangerous weather, unchartered coastline, and problems with
the ship including failing pumps in the engine room. In the
Sydney Morning Herald of the 30th May 1929, Close writes
of Daviss crucial role in the expedition:
...so much of its safety and success hinged upon his masterly
seamanship, firm decision of mind, and courageous daring in
handling the expedition ship Aurora.
Davis, as Master of the Aurora, made several crucial voyages,
establishing and relieving the wintering bases at Macquarie
Island and on the Antarctic mainland, at Commonwealth Bay
and the Shackleton Ice Shelf.
Davis had to make the difficult decision, whether to wait for
blizzards and harsh seas to abate to collect Mawsons party,
or to relieve the second base party led by Frank Wild. He
chose the latter (http://www.antarctica.gov.au).
First edition. INSCRIBED BY DAVIS, 8vo., xxi, 183pp., 8 maps (1 folding), plan, 83
illustrations on 42 plates, maps and illustrations in text, original blue cloth gilt, gilt
rather rubbed as usual, a very good copy.
Taurus 101; Rosove 87.A1a.
2,500
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FILCHNER, WILHELM. Zum sechsten Erdteil. Die zweite

Deutsche Sudpolar-Expedition.
Ullstein, Berlin, 1922.
Filchner launched a scientific expedition to the Antarctic in
1911, travelling south from South Georgia into the Weddell
Sea. The Deutschland was trapped in the ice in early 1912, the
same fate as happened to the previous German expedition,
and Shackletons Endurance three years later.
First edition. 4to., xix,410 pp., maps, charts and plans (several folding, one
printed in colours), numerous photographic plates and illustrations, advertisement
leaf at end, errata slip,original cloth-backed printed boards, light fade to spine, a
very good example.
Conrad, p.184; Rosove 124.A1; Spence 457; Taurus 99.
200
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9.
MURRAY, GEORGE, EDITOR. The Antarctic Manual for the use of

the expedition of 1901.
Royal Geographical Society, London, 1901.
Scarce. Providing easy access to information, otherwise
inaccessible, which was required by officers in their scientific
investigations (preface). It includes papers and extracts
gathered together under various headings, including:
Geography; Antarctic bibliography; Antarctic climate; The
Aurora; Geology; Instructions for collecting rocks and
minerals; Zoology; Botany; Arctic sledge-travelling. The
Geography section includes the first printing of the Journal
of John Biscoe, the probable discoverer of the Antarctic
continent. The volume was distributed to expedition
members and fellows of the Royal Geographical Society in
July 1901, just before the expeditions departure (Rosove).
Scotts (1833-1916) most important legacy to meteorology
was as secretary of the international meteorological
committee from its inception in 1873 until 1900.
Meteorology is one of the most international of the sciences,
and Scott played a significant part in establishing the tradition
of co-operation between countries that became the
norm. He retained an interest in mineralogy and served as
president of the Mineralogical Society 188891. He joined
the Meteorological Society in 1871 and was its foreign
secretary from 1873 until his death, apart from 188081
when secretary and 18845 when president. (ODNB).
Provenance:1. Robert H. Scott, (Director of the
Meteorological Office), pencil signature to title. 2. James
Cossar (small stampto front free endpaper); 3. Michael
Gilkes, signature to half-title (1945).
First edition. 8vo., xvi, 586pp., 3 folding maps in the rear cover pocket, original
blue cloth gilt, spine slightly darkened, joints lightly rubbed, chip to front free
endpaper, an excellent example.
Rosove 235; Spence 829; Taurus Collection 39.
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IMPORTANT UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NIMROD EXPEDITION

10. MURRAY, JAMES. Nimrod Expedition, 1907-1909. An album
of photographs.
[1907-1909].
MURRAYS PERSONAL ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF SHACKLETONS
NIMROD EXPEDITION.
A fascinating album of photographs taken by various
expedition members, and compiled by the biologist and
explorer James Murray, who in 1907, at the age of 41, served
under Shackleton on the Nimrod Expedition where he was
in charge of the base camp. In 1913, Murray co-wrote a
book about the expedition, titled Antarctic Days, with fellow
expeditionary member George Edward Marston (1882-1940).
None of the photographs in this album were reproduced
in Antarctic Days, nor have we managed to find them in
Shackletons own account, The Heart of the Antarctic.
The Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) under the command
of Ernest Shackleton, was a remarkable triumph for
Shackleton, encompassing the first ascent of Mount Erebus,
the first (failed) experiment with an automated vehicle in
the Antarctic, and most importantly, the mapping of a viable
route to the pole. It was also notable for the number of
expedition members who took photographs to record
their time in the Antarctic. In the preface to The Heart of the
Antarctic, Shackleton lists twelve members, including Murray,
who contributed photographs to the book.
The fact that all the photographs are captioned provides an
essential narrative for the album.
Landscape 4to (18 x 24 cm.), 95 SILVER PRINTS (average 7 x 9.5 cm., or the
reverse), mounted on thick card, recto and verso, THE PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTIONED ON
THE MOUNTS IN INK BY MURRAY, contemporary black half roan gilt, gilt edges, lightly
rubbed and worn.
30,000
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NUNN, JOHN. Narrative of the wreck of the Favorite on the

Island of Desolation: detailing the adventures, sufferings, and
privations of John Nunn; an historical account of the island, and
its whale and seal fisheries.
Painter, London, 1850.
Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a
sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down
the West African coast arrived at Kerguelen. There the crew
carried out repairs on the Royal Sovereign and also restored
two shallops, the Favorite and the Frances, which had been left
there from a previous voyage. Nunn and four others took
to the Favorite but ran aground on Kerguelen and remained
stranded there for two years and three months. They were
eventually rescued by the Sprightly, an Enderby Company
ship. (Howgego).
First edition. 8vo., xx, 236pp., 16pp. adverts, folding map of Kerguelen (small
repair at fold), one plate, 53 illustrations in the text, original dark blue cloth, spine
gilt, yellow endpapers, an excellent example.
Howgego II, K6; Huntress 371C; Sabin 56339; Spence, Antarctic Bibliography 868.
1,250
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LAST PORTRAITS OF THE ANTARCTIC HEROES

12.
PONTING, HERBERT. Photographs of the Terra Nova expedition.

n.d. circa 1935?
A SUPERB COLLECTION OF 24 OF THE MOST ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF
ANTARCTIC, TAKEN ON THE DISASTROUS TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION,
1910-1913, BY THE OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER, HERBERT PONTING.
THE
The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the highwater mark of the Golden Age of Antarctic exploration;
led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the expedition was
intended to be the first to reach the South Pole, and to mark
the event with the planting of the Union Jack. However the
more professionally equipped Norwegian expedition led by
Roald Amundsen got there first. Nevertheless this expedition
will always be the one best remembered on account of
the tremendous courage and bravery shown by Scott and
his companions, Wilson, Bowers, Oates, and Evans on their
return from the Pole in appalling conditions - perhaps best
exemplified by Lawrence Titus Oates who walked from
the tent into a blizzard whilst suffering from frostbite and
gangrene, knowing that he was not going to survive the
journey but hoping that his self-sacrifice might help the
others survive.
These photographs were originally published by the Fine
Art Society in 1914 in larger formats. It is difficult to date
images such as ours, printed at a later date from the original
photographs, however our last such set we were able to date
from external evidence to circa 1935.
Landscape album 35.5 x 32 cm., containing 24 fine silver gelatine photographs
by Herbert Ponting, (typical size 25.5 x 20 cm), signed and captioned in the
image, window mounted, blue niger morocco, red morocco label to upper cover. A
very handsome presentation.
12,500
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13. SHACKLETON, ERNEST HENRY; L.C. BERNACCHI; APSLEY

CHERRY-GARRARD, EDITORS. The South Polar Times.
Smith Elder, London, 1907-1914.
A CORNERSTONE OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. An exact
reproduction of the South Polar Times magazine originally
issued during the Antarctic expeditions of Robert F. Scott.
Once the sun goes down in the polar regions, youre in
it for the long haul: five months of darkness, nothing to do
and mercury the wrong side of 40. Besides winding the
gramophone, giving lectures and, that British staple, dressing
up as girls, the explorers of the heroic age published their
own newspapers.
It was a tradition established on Arctic expeditions and
enthusiastically taken up by Scott on his first trip south in
1902, when he appointed his team-mate Ernest Shackleton
editor of the South Polar Times ... After a well-lubricated
banquet featuring noisettes dagneau Darwinian and charlotte
russe glace la Beardmore, Cherry presented the South
Polar Times to Scott with everyone gathered around the
table and a Christmas tree made from ski poles. The captain
read most of it out loud, interrupted by uproarious laughter
and indignant barracking (Sara Wheeler, writing in The
Telegraph, 2012).
It has always seemed churlish to list this title under
Shackleton, who only edited the first of the three volumes,
for the publication arose during Scotts two expeditions. On
the first of these, Shackleton was invalided home before its
completion, while he was most decidedly not a member of
the second Scott effort. Still, this should not detract from the
publication, a lithographed facsimile of typescripts produced
by members of Scotts party during three bleak Antarctic
winters spent in his company (Taurus).
Volume l (Apr. - Aug. 1902) was edited by Sir E. H.
Shackleton; Volume 2 (Apr. - Aug. 1903) by L.C. Bernacchi.
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These volumes were published in 1907 with a preface by

Scott. Volume 3 (Apr. - Oct. 1911) issued during Scotts last
expedition, was edited by A. Cherry-Garrard.
First edition. 3 volumes, 4to. Volumes 1 & 2 limited to 250 copies and volume
3 to 350 copies for sale. Printed on one side of leaf only, illustrated with 3
frontispieces, 2 folding maps, numerous illustrations, many full-page, many
coloured, , original blue cloth gilt with pictorial insets to upper covers, a very
attractive set.
Taurus 42 & 79; Rosove 287.A1 & 291.A2; Conrad p.121; Spence 1094.
15,000
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THE TRUE STARTING POINT FOR AN ANTARCTIC COLLECTION

14.
WEDDELL, JAMES. A Voyage towards the South Pole, performed

in the years 1822-24. Containing an examination of the
Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude: and a visit
to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants.
To which is added, much useful information on the coasting
navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands.With charts of
harbours, &c...
Longman, London, 1827.
Weddell (1787-1834), a Royal Navy officer, following the
Napoleonic Wars found himself in need of an income. To this
end he went on three sealing expeditions between 1822
and 1824. The first of these was to the South Shetlands; the
second to the South Orkneys; and the third, in 1823, to a
new Farthest South, exceeding Cooks 1774 record by
almost three degrees.
With the immense benefit of benign weather, Weddell
managed to sail further south than any man before him,
and was rewarded by his discovery of the entire Weddell
Sea. Even when sail ships were replaced by steam ships, and
wooden hulls by metallic ice-cutters, his explorations were
difficult to duplicate. It will be argued by many enthusiasts
that the first edition is the true starting point for an Antarctic
collection (Taurus).
First edition. 8vo., pp. iv, 276, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece (offsetting from
title), 4 engraved plates, 9 maps and charts, 7 folding (hemisphere maps with
captions cropped at top as often), 2 folding lithographic panoramas and errata
slip, occasional light foxing and offsetting, contemporary diced calf, red and black
morocco labels, neat repairs to joints, an excellent example.
Taurus 5; Rosove 345.A1; Conrad p31; Spence 1248.
3,750
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15. WORSLEY, COMMANDER FRANK ARTHUR. Shackletons Boat
Journey.
Philip Allan, London n.d.
RARE INSCRIBED COPY WITH TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS BY WORSLEY.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: Captain J. B. Armstrong /
from The Old Barnacle / F. A. Worsley / March 1937.
The two letters are both to Captain Armstrong. The first
letter dated 1st February 1937 is a straightforward thank
you letter for an invitation. The second letter, dated 8th
March 937 is far more interesting as it concerns Worsleys
failed attempt to find a copy of Worsleys Endurance book,
published in 1931. A scarce book now, it seems to have
always been thus, probably published in a very small edition.
The present book is taken largely from Worsleys earlier
publication and is the first-hand account of the miraculous
voyage of the little James Caird across the South Atlantic in
the middle of winter.
Worsley served on Ernest Shackletons Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition of 19141916, as captain of the
Endurance. After the Endurance was trapped in ice and
wrecked, he and the rest of the expedition sailed three
lifeboats to Elephant Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. From
here, he, along with Shackleton and four others, sailed the
22.5-foot (6.9 m) lifeboat James Caird some 800 miles (1,300
km) across the stormy South Atlantic Ocean, eventually
arriving at their intended destination, South Georgia. His
navigation skills were crucial to the safe arrival of the James
Caird. Shackleton, Worsley and seaman Tom Crean then
hiked and climbed through snow and ice across mountainous
South Georgia in a 36-hour march to fetch help from
Stromness whaling station. He and Shackleton returned
to Elephant Island aboard the Yelcho, a Chilean naval ship,
to rescue the remaining members of the expedition, all of
whom survived.
First edition. 8vo., INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR WITH 2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, 192 pp., original
blue cloth gilt, light wear.
Rosove 361.B1; cf. Taurus 108 (the later Hodder edition).
5,000
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WRIGHT, C. S., AND R. E. PRIESTLEY. British (Terra Nova)

Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Glaciology.
Harrison and Sons, London 1922.
REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION.
Charles Wright was part of Robert Falcon Scotts last expedition,
the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic in 1910-1913. This
expedition of exploration and scientific discovery resulted in
several publications on a variety of subjects.
The present work is remarkable on account of the large number
of photographs from the major photographers on the expedition. It
is the most illustrated work of all the Terra Nova publications,
and includes numerous photographs by Herbert Ponting.
These photographs, as well as documenting this spectacular
expedition, stand as landmarks of modern photography. Many
of these photographs only appear in this work.
Intended for a specialized readership, this book would have
been produced in a small run. A rare survival especially in
such good condition.
First edition, 4to (31.2 x 24 cm), xx, 581 pp, 47 plate leaves with 291
photographs by Ponting, Wright, Priestley, and others,, 1 folding map, numerous
maps and illustrations in text, the complete set of 15 folding maps in rear
pocket. Original red cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent example.
Rosove 293-8 A1, Taurus 89.
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Africa
17. ADAMS, ROBERT. The narrative of Robert Adams, a sailor, who

was wrecked on the Western coast of Africa in the year 1810,
was detained three years in slavery by the Arabs of the Great
Desert, and resided several months in the city of Timbuctoo.
Robert Adams was an American seaman, the son of a New
York sail maker and an Afro-American mother. His real name
was Benjamin Rose. Having set sail from New York he was
taken prisoner after the wreck of his ship, the Charles. He
was fortunate to survive his experiences as a slave, but after
three years the British consul at Mogador, Joseph Dupuis,
managed (via an agent) to buy back Rose from his then
owners and sent him on to the American consul-general
at Tangier. Supposed to have travelled back to America
from Cadiz, Rose somehow contrived to miss the boat and
took ship instead with a British vessel bound for Liverpool.
Discharged in Wales as being too sick to work, he managed
to beg his way to London and though he was by this time
using the name of Adams - perhaps because America would
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have regarded him as a deserter after all the efforts made

to secure his release. He roamed the streets of London like
other homeless destitute sailors until he was recognised by
someone he had met in Cadiz and taken to the offices of the
company of Merchants Trading to Africa. It was there that he
related his Narrative to a Mr. Cock, after which the company
paid for his passage back to America and his family. Since
Adams was unable either to read or write, his narrative was
taken down from interrogation.
This book was the first to describe Timbuktu as a dull squalid
place, boasting none of the glories of old, and this led many
to disbelieve his story - though some of those who poured
scorn on the book may have had a vested interest in the
notion that the legendary West African city was still a thriving
metropolis. See Howgego, Encyclopaedia of Exploration.
4to.. [1],xi-xxi,[1],xxxiii-xxxiv,[6],6-231,[1]p., large folding map as frontispiece, later
half calf gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, morocco lettering piece, a fine example
2,250
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18. BAKER, SAMUEL WHITE. Ismailia A narrative of the expedition to

Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. Organized
by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt.
Macmillan and Co., London, 1874.
In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa,
was appointed by the Khedive Ismail to a four-year term
as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin, with the
rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman army. It
was the most senior post a European ever received under
an Egyptian administration. According to the khedives
firman, Bakers duties included annexing the equatorial Nile
basin, establishing Egyptian authority over the region south
of Gondokoro, suppressing the slave trade, introducing
cotton cultivation, organizing a network of trading stations
throughout the annexed territories, and opening the
great lakes near the equator to navigation. The expedition
produced mixed results. Although he had suppressed the
slave trade in some areas and had extended the khedives
authority to Gondokoro and Fatick, he had failed to pacify
the lawless region between these two places. Moreover, he
was unable to annex the wealthy kingdoms of Bunyoro and
Buganda. Despite Bakers dubious performance, the khedive
bestowed on him the imperial order of the Osmanieh,
second class.
Baker received a heros welcome on his return to England.
Apart from various glowing newspaper accounts of his
travels, the Prince of Wales met him to learn first-hand of his
experiences in Africa. On 8 December 1873 he received an
enthusiastic reception at the Royal Geographical Society, and
the following year he published the present account which
further enhanced his popularity.
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., viii, 447; viii, 588 pp., 2 portrait frontispieces,
numerous wood-engraved plates, 2 maps (1 large folding),original green cloth gilt,
light wear to extremities, an excellent example.
Blackmer 66; Hilmy I, 49 (later edition); Czech p11.
785
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BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED
19.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER. The River War.

Longmans, London, 1899.
CHURCHILLS CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF HIS EXPERIENCES DURING THE WAR
IN THE SUDAN, SUPERBLY PRESENTED IN RED BOXES MADE FOR THE
CROWN JEWELLER, ASPREY.
In vivid style the book describes the background to the war,
the relationship of the Upper Nile to Egypt, the murder of
General Charles George Gordon in the siege at Khartoum,
the political reaction in England, and Kitcheners elaborate
preparations for the war. While in the Sudan, Churchill
participated in the Battle of Omdurman. Churchill comments
at length on the mechanisation of war with use of the
telegraph, railroad, and a new generation of weaponry.
The River War was Churchills second published book after
The Story of the Malakand Field Force and is one of the
scarcer Churchill titles.
Two volumes 8vo. xxii, [i], 462; x, [iii], 499pp., 2 frontispieces, 45 illustrations,
34 maps and plans (some folding). Original dark grey cloth gilt, gilt vignettes to
upper covers and spines, light foxing, well preserved in fine red half morocco foldover boxes for Asprey, spines with gilt panels, a very handsome set.
Woods A2 (a).
5,000
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20.
CORRY, JOSEPH. Observations upon the windward coast of

Africa, the religion, character, customs, &c. of the natives; with
a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge
attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the
globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the
country: made in the years 1805 and 1806.With an appendix,
containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and
effectual means of abolishing the Slave Trade.
Nicol, London, 1807.
SCARCE. AN EARLY EYEWITNESS DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORIES OF
AFRICA PROMOTING GREATER EUROPEAN
ACTIVITY IN THE AREA. (Bianchi). ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE HANDCOLOURED PLATES.
THE WESTERN COAST OF
Observations is an unusually finely illustrated account of

travels to West Africa in the early years of the 19th century.
Joseph Corry, in addition to advancing Britains commercial
prospects, was interested in ending the practice of slavery. To
this end, the text includes the authors letter to Lord Howick
on abolishing the slave trade.
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The author hoped that if in the most remote degree, I excite

the interference of my countrymen in behalf of the African,
extend our commerce, and enlarge the circle of civilized and
Christian society, I shall think that I have neither travelled,
nor written in vain. In February 1807 William Wilberforces
Abolition Bill was passed by the House of Commons, making
participation in the slave trade illegal for British subjects.
(University of Wales Lampeter, on-line exhibitions.)
First edition. 4to., xiv, [ii], 164pp., half-title, engraved map, 8 hand-coloured
aquatint plates (7 double-page or folding), light toning to text, occasional light
foxing, later half calf, marbled boards, red morocco label, upper joint repaired, a
very good copy.
Abbey Travel 278; Bianchi 99; Bobins 90.
7,500
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21. GROGAN, EWART S; ARTHUR H. SHARP. From the Cape to Cairo
The first traverse of Africa from south to north.
Hurst and Blackett, London, 1900.
INSCRIBED IN INK ON THE HALF-TITLE: A BOYNTON / DEC. 1900 /
FROM A. H. S.
A remarkable journey achieved whilst Grogan was still a
Cambridge undergraduate. Rhodes saw it as an indication
that it would indeed be possible to link north and south
together by railway and telegraph. The book has a vivid
narrative and made Europeans aware of many hitherto little
known countries. Sharp contributed one chapter, Uganda to
the Coast. The illustrations are stunning, as is the elaborate
pictorial binding. An excellent work of sporting adventures
and exploration - Czech.
First edition. 4to., INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM SHARP, xvi, 377pp., frontispiece,
114 illustrations by A.D. McCormick, 2 large folding maps, original ochre pictorial
cloth gilt, top edge gilt, inner hinges repaired, covers lightly worn and soiled, a very
good copy.
Czech p69; Mendelssohn I, 648.
750
[ref: 91206]
22.
HARRIS, ROBERT. South Africa.

By the Author, Port Elizabeth, 1888.
A FINE SERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATING CAPE COLONY, NATAL,
ORANGE FREE STATE, THE TRANSVAAL REPUBLIC, DIAMOND MINING,
ZULU LIFE, ETC.
This was the first professionally photographed documentation
of South Africa. The production of this work has been
undertaken with the aim of conveying a general idea of
the scenery, gold and diamond mining districts, and mines,
seaports, and the native industries and life of South Africa
(Preface). The views illustrate scenes in Cape Town, Port
Elizabeth, Queenstown, Bloemfontein, Kimberley, Johannesburg,
Barberton and elsewhere. Harris had a studio at Donkin
Street, Port Elizabeth, 1880-1890 (Bensusan 1963, p.236).
He exhibited photographs at the Port Elizabeth Exhibition
1885 and the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.
From 1891 to 1894 Harris was in partnership with Thomas
McKnaught (Bensusan 1963, p.236).
First edition. Folio (36.2 x 26.9 cm). Letterpress title printed in red and black,
4-page Preface. 104 woodbury-types on 29 mounts (some spotting to mounts).
Original black diced russia, brass clasps and catches, edges gilt, gilt-stamped on
turn in by London agents Stafford & Guy, rebacked, an attractive example.
See A.D. Bensusan, 19th century photographers in South Africa, in: Africana notes
and news, 1963, Volume 15, number 6, pp.219-252.
2,850
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23.
HOSKINS, GEORGE ALEXANDER. Travels in Ethiopia, above the

second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country,
and its various Inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed
Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the
ancient kingdom of Meroe.
AN IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE REGION, IN ITS ORIGINAL CLOTH
BINDING, WITH AN ATTRACTIVE PROVENANCE.
Hoskins (1802-1863) travelled to Ethiopia in 1833 in
the company of the Italian artist, L. Bandoni. He became
acquainted with Robert Hay, Francis Arundale, Frederick
Catherwood, and Joseph Bonomi, and left a description
of Hays house at Qurna. Along with Bonomi, Hoskins
accompanied Hay on his journey to Kharga Oasis. The result
of Hoskinss stay in Egypt was the present work. Hoskins
made a valuable contribution to the developing discipline
[of Egyptology] through publishing his travels, which many
other travellers never got around to doing. In addition to the
straightforward narrative of the journey, in Travels in Ethiopia
Hoskins collected all of the relevant available material and
wrote a history of Ethiopia, i.e. Nubia and northern Sudan.
Hoskins followed the Greek and Roman authors and dated
many of the monuments - such as the pyramid cemeteries
- as earlier than those in Egypt. He was criticised in a
contemporary review (unfortunately anonymous) for this,
as it was already being argued that the pyramids at Meroe
were far later than those at Giza: the reviewer classed these
southern monuments as decadent in style. Hoskins also
includes relevant monuments cited in the first volumes of
Ippolito Rosellinis Monumenti Storici. So, although Hoskins
was the first history of the Nubian-Kushite kingdom and
Meroe in English, it belonged to an older tradition that still
gave primacy to the Classical traditions whilst trying to
integrate some of the recent developments (Robert Morkot
- http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4hoskins_morkot.html).
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The illustrations by Hullmandel, dated 6th April 1835, include

what are reputed to be the earliest English chromolithgraphs
published.
Alexander Henry Rhind (1833-1863), an Egyptologist who
died tragically young from a lung disease, acquired the Rhind
Papyrus in 1858. A mathematical treatise, when decoded
years afterward, it shows the Egyptians had computed the
value of pi as 3.1605, a margin of error of less than one
percent. He left his library to the Society of Antiquaries of
Scotland.
Provenance: Board of Trustees of the Rhind Legacy; Society of
Antiquaries of Scotland (ink stamps).
First edition. 4to, xx, 367pp., folding map (lightly foxed), 54 lithograph plates, (11
double-page), including 2 hand-coloured, 4 chromolithographs, illustrations in the
text, original green cloth, paper label, light wear, an excellent example.
Blackmer 832; Hilmy I, 310.
1,950
[ref: 94197]
INSCRIBED COPY OF THE DELUXE ISSUE WITH COLOUR PLATES

24. JAMES, F[RANK] L[INSLY]. The Unknown Horn of Africa: an
exploration from Berbera to the Leopard River.
George Philip, London, 1888.
THE RARE DELUXE ISSUE WITH THE NATURAL HISTORY PLATES,
INCLUDING ORNITHOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY KEULEMANS, HANDCOLOURED. VERY FEW COPIES WERE ISSUED THUS. THIS COPY ALSO
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.
In 1884, James made his way, in company with his brother
and four others, into the interior of the Somali country. In
spite of previous attempts on the part of Burton, Speke, and
others, this region had hitherto been unexplored beyond
sixty or seventy miles from the coast. James now succeeded
in getting as far south as the Webbe Shebeyli River, where he
found a wide fertile country which markedly contrasted with

the deserts he had traversed. The remarkable feat of taking
a caravan of nearly a hundred people and a hundred camels
a thirteen days journey across a waterless waste led Lord
Aberdare, in his annual address to the Royal Geographical
Society in 1885, to describe the expedition as one of the
most interesting and difficult in all recent African travel.
First edition, deluxe issue issue, 8vo., INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR,
xiv, 344pp., folding map in the rear pocket, 23 plates (including 10 natural
history hand-coloured, the bird plates by Keulemans), original dark olive green
pictorial cloth gilt, an excellent copy.
Czech p83; Nissen ZBI 2088.
2,250
[ref: 94106]
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REMARKABLE RELIC OF BRITAINS IMPERIAL PAST

25.
KITCHENER, HORATIO NERBERT, EARL. Resolution of the House

of Lords and the House of Commons thanking Kitchener of
Khartoum for the successful Nile Campaign.
1899.
PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM AND BOUND IN THE FINEST MOROCCO, A
KHARTOUM.
MAGNIFICENT TRIBUTE TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CAPTURE OF
The officially printed resolutions by both Houses of

Parliament thanking Major General Lord Kitchener of
Khartoum and other leading participants in the Nile
Campaign of 1896-7-8. The present example is that
presented to Colonel Long and includes a hand-written
letter form Kitchener to Colonel Long dated 17th July 1899,
notifying Long of the vote of thanks and also personally
thanking Long for his indefatigable work. ALSO with a
handwritten letter from Henry Graham, Clerk to the House
of Lords, dated 10th August 1899, sending the authenticated
transcript on vellum of the Resolutions of the House of
Lords on the 8th June last, placed in an appropriate cover.
ALSO with a printed document from the War Office
concerning Colonel Longs pension (150 per annum).
In 1898, at Omdurman an army commanded by the British
General Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah
al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi,
Muhammad Ahmad. This was the culmination of the Egyptian
Campaign undertaken by Kitchener to reclaim the Sudan and
to gain revenge for the death of General Gordon in 1884.
Colonel Long was later responsible for the most Victoria
Crosses (seven) won during a single action in the Boer War
at Colenso in 1899.
2 volumes, Folio (44 x 35 cm), each consisting of 2 leaves, PRINTED ENTIRELY
ON VELLUM within fancy gilt borders, each with respective coat-of-arms to head,
original red (and green) straight-grained morocco gilt, both volumes signed by the
respective Clerks to the House, WITH A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER FROM LORD KITCHENER TO
COLONEL LONG.
5,000
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26. KOLB, PETER. The present state of the Cape of Good-Hope: or,
a particular account of the several nations of the Hottentots ...
Together with a short account of the Dutch settlement at the
Cape.Written originally in High German, by Peter Kolben ...
Done into English ... by Mr. Medley ...
Printed for W. Innys, London, 1731.
A MOST ATTRACTIVE EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EARLY
CAPE.
ACCOUNTS OF THE
It contains the earliest list of South African animals ... a full

account of the government of the country, with detailed
descriptions of the various settlements, and a mass of
information respecting ... the native races (Mendelssohn).
Peter Kolbe (16751726) (also referred to as Kolb) was sent
to the Cape of Good Hope with letters of introduction from
Nicolaas Witsen, mayor of Amsterdam, with a mandate to
compile a comprehensive description of South Africa and for
astronomical and surveying research. Kolbe was appointed
in 1705 as the first official astronomer in South Africa and
worked at the Cape between 1705 and 1713, providing
a detailed account of day-to-day life at the Cape, also

describing the geography, climate, flora and fauna, followed by
an accurate study of the Hottentots, covering their language,
religion, lifestyle and customs. Kolbes account was first
published in German in Nuremberg in 1719.
Although his ethnological views are very much of their time,
the work is important for showing us the interaction of
ethnic groups at the Cape in the early eighteenth century
and provides a starting point for ethnological investigations
into African history and culture (See Bloomsbury Dictionary of
Eighteenth century German Philosophers).
Provenance: James Hunter of Hafton (armorial bookplate).
First edition in English. 2 volumes, 8vo., 2 engraved frontispieces, folding engraved
map, 28 plates, 2 folding. Contemporary tree calf gilt, spines in six compartments,
red and green labels to second and fourth, others with nautical gilt motif, gilt
dividers, light wear, numbering labels renewed, an excellent set.
Mendelssohn I, 844-845.
3,500
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27. LIVINGSTONE, DAVID. Missionary travels and researches in
South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years residence in the
interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope
to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down
the River Zambesi, to the eastern ocean.
Murray, London, 1857.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO DR JAMES RISDON BENNETT
WITH THE KINDEST SALUTATIONS OF HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND DAVID
LIVINGSTONE 26 OCTR 1857 LONDON.
INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPIES ARE SCARCE.
PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL AFRICAN EXPLORATION BOOKS,
DR. LIVINGSTONES TRAVELS THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA,
WITH THE DISCOVERY OF LAKE NGAMI, WHILE ACCOMPANIED BY HIS
WIFE AND WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL. OSWELL AND THE AUTHOR
CONTINUED THEIR JOURNEY, DISCOVERING THE ZAMBESI RIVER, AND,
EVENTUALLY, THE VICTORIA FALLS. - CZECH.
THIS RECOUNTS
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James Risdon Bennett (1809-1891), taught Livingstone

medicine at Charing Cross Hospital, was a Fellow of the
Royal Society and became President of the Royal College of
Physicians of England in 1876. This is a very early presentation
copy, before the publication date of 10 November 1857.
Clendennen (David Livingstone, a catalogue of documents)
records no earlier presentation inscription, but notes a
number of others on the same day, 26th October, including
one to Sir Richard Owen. The following day the directors of
the London Missionary Society learnt that Livingstone had
left the Society.
In the period between 1849 and 1856, his explorations
took him to Lake Ngami across the Kalahari Desert, to the
Zambezi River, and from there west to the Atlantic Ocean
at Loanda (todays Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola). He turned
down a chance to return to England, but entrusted his
reports, maps, and letters for transport. The ship went down
with all hands except one, and all of Livingstones papers
were lost, forcing him to re-create everything. He followed

his track back to Linyanti (in Botswana) and then decided
to assess the possibilities of the Zambezi as a highway into
the heart of Africa by following it to the Indian Ocean. He
reached Victoria Falls in 1855, confirming what he had heard
from natives for many years. Scenes so lovely must have
been gazed upon by angels in their flight, he wrote. It was
the only site in Africa that he named with English words.
Livingstone reached Quilimane on the coast of Mozambique
on 20 May 1856, but he got there by cutting across a loop
of the Zambezi to Tete, inadvertently missing the Kebrabasa
Rapids, a drop of about six hundred feet. Hence, he was
unaware that the river was not navigable when he arrived in
London at the end of the year to promote its potential to
the British government.
In the meantime, the LMS had informed him that his
expeditions were not the kind of gospel work it expected
of him, and he resigned the next year. In England, he was
feted as a national hero. The present book, written in six
months, became an immediate best-seller, with seven editions
published in rapid succession. (Delaney).
First edition. 8vo., INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. ix, 687pp., 25 plates (comprising
one engraved, 3 lithographed by Day and Son after T. Picken, and 21 woodengraved), illustrations in the text, contemporary half calf over green cloth by
Lewis, rebacked and re-cornered by Aquarius, modern leather edged slipcase, a
fine example.
Czech p97; Mendelssohn I, 908-910; PMM 341.
13,500
[ref: 94079]
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28. LYON, CAPT. G[EORGE] F[RANCIS]. A narrative of travels in

Northern Africa, in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by
geographical notices of Soudan, and of the course of the Niger.With
a chart of the routes, and a variety of coloured plates, illustrative of
the costumes of the several natives of Northern Africa.
In 1818, Lyon (1795-1833) was sent along with Joseph
Ritchie by Sir John Barrow to find the course of the Niger
River and the location of Timbuktu. The expedition was
underfunded and lacked support. A year later, due to much
officialdom they had only got as far as Murzuk where they
both fell ill. Ritchie never recovered and died there, but Lyon
survived and travelled a little further around the region.
Exactly a year to the day he left, he arrived back in Tripoli.
Lyon travelled in Arabic dress, and being fluent in Arabic, was
able to gain insights missed by more conventional travellers.
On his return, he travelled on Parrys expedition to the
Arctic as Commander on board the Hecla
The hand-coloured plates, after drawings by Lyon, are
particularly attractive.
First edition. 4to., xii, 383pp., large folding map hand-coloured in outline (neat
repair to fold), 17 hand-coloured lithographed plates by M. Gauci after drawings
by the author, nineteenth century brown half morocco gilt, top edge gilt, lightly
rubbed, an excellent example.
Abbey Travel 304; Tooley 311; Hilmy I, 397; Colas 1920; Balckmer 1044; Playfair,
Tripoli, 147.
2,500
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29. MEYER, HANS. Across East African glaciers. An account of the

first ascent of Kilimanjaro.
George Philip, London, 1891.
THE ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMANJARO.
This most handsome volume details the undisputed first
ascent of Kibo, the higher of the two peaks of Kilimanjaro. This
was Meyers third attempt on the mountain, two previous
attempts in 1887 and 1888 having been unsuccessful. The
present attempt was made in 1889 with a well equipped
support team and in the company of the mountaineer Ludwig
Purtscheller and the painter Ernst Platz. The epic ascent took
three days, during which time many hardships were overcome.
Several scientific observations were carried out and the massif
was mapped for the first time.
First English edition, 8vo., xx, 404 pp., colour frontispiece, 20 plates including 8
actual photographs, numerous text vignettes, 3 colour folding maps, occasional
light spotting, original green pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, light wear, a very
good example.
Neate M92.
3,500
[ref: 94070]
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30. MONTEIRO, JOACHIM JOHN. Angola and the River Congo.

Macmillan, London, 1875.
Joachim John Monteiro (also known as Jos Maria Correa
Monteiro) was a Portuguese colonial official and naturalist.
However, he was born in London and trained as a mining
engineer at the Royal School of Mines in that city. His wife,
Rose Monteiro, shared his interests in natural history. In 1858
he went to Angola, where he appears to have spent most of
his time during the next 18 years. There he collected natural
history specimens and distinguished himself through his
remarkable observations on animal life, published in his book
Angola and the River Congo (London, 1875,). Monteiros
Hornbill, Tockus monteiri, was named after him in 1865.
The plates and illustrations incorporate extensive landscape
scenery as well as totemic tribal items and artifact. The book
sections on the slave trade, fetish houses, etc.
In 1876 he and his wife settled in Lourenco Marques (now
Maputo, Mozambique), where he served as labour agent
and emigration agent to the government of the Cape
Colony from July that year until his untimely death two
years later. He continued his animal observations and, with
Rose, collected plants in the neighbourhood of the town,
sending herbarium specimens to the Royal Botanical Gardens
at Kew, near London. He was a Fellow of the Geological
Society of London, and on 31 October 1877 was elected a
corresponding member of the newly founded South African
Philosophical Society. The society deplored his death and
lauded his work at its annual general meeting on 26 July
1878. (Biographical Database of Southern African Science).
First edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo., viii, [i], 305; iv, [i], 340pp., frontispiece folding
map, 16 plates, original red cloth gilt, upper cover decorated in gilt and black,
all edges gilt, light fading to spine, an excellent example.
850
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31. PARK, MUNGO. Travels in the interior districts of Africa:

performed under the direction and patronage of the African
Association in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797.With an
appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. [WITH]
The journal of a mission to the interior of Africa in the year 1805.
I. W. Bulmer for the Author, II. Murray, London, 1799 & 1815.
TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL BOOKS DEALING
WITH THE EXPLORATION OF THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA.
Mungo Park, a young Scottish doctor, made his first journey
in 1795, in search of the Niger. He spent two years travelling
deep into the interior of Africa and his book provides a fine
and vivid narrative of his adventures and his coming to grips
with civilisations and customs unimagined by this reserved
and rather diffident man. The journey was sponsored by
the African Association in the hope of solving the riddle of
the Niger, no doubt enthused by Bruces success on the
other side of the continent. After the failure of four previous
expeditions it sent out Park with instructions to pass on to

the River Niger either by way of Bambouk or by such other
route as should be found most convenient and to ascertain
the course and, if possible, the rise and termination of that
river. Setting out from the Gambia, Park marched east to
Bambuk, crossing the Faleme and the Senegal, and on the
20th of July 1796, he saw with infinite pleasure the great
object of my mission - the long sought-for, majestic Niger,
glittering to the morning sun, as broad as the Thames at
Westminster, and flowing slowly to the eastward.
First editions of both works. 2 volumes in 1, 4to. First work: xxviii, 372, xcii pp.,
engraved portrait frontispiece, three folding maps and charts, two botanical engraved
plates and three copper-engraved plates after drawings by the author, 2 engraved
plates of music; Second work: xx, 373pp., engraved folding map. Light toning to
apppendix of Travels, contemporary half calf gilt, a very handsome example.
PMM 253; Cox I, 394; Hilmy II p93.
3,500
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32. REENAN, JACOB VAN. Journal of a journey from the Cape

of Good Hope undertaken in 1790 and 1791, by Jacob van
Reenen, and others of his countrymen, in search of the wreck of
the Honourable the East India Companys ship the Grosvenor ...
With additional notes and a map, by Capt. Edw. Riou.
G.Nicol, London, 1792.
UNCOMMON. The Grosvenor was an East India Company vessel,
sailing from Trincomalee for England, wrecked on the coast of
South Africa at Tezami Bay in 1782. Some 123 of the crew of
138 survived and made land. These survivors suffered a good
deal from harassment by natives, and soon decided to set out
for the Dutch settlements to the south. The number was too
large to find food or be fed by the natives, there were many
rivers to cross, and some native tribes were very hostile. The
group soon scattered and most died of starvation, thirst, and
exposure. By the time they were rescued in 1783, only some
seventeen or eighteen had survived.
The Dutch of the nearest settlements and the Cape sent
two expeditions to search for survivors, one in 1783 and
the Van Reenan expedition of 18790-91. There was a great
deal of popular interest in the loss of the Grosvenor, chiefly
because there were three European women and three girl
children among those who got ashore, and there was much
speculation about their fate - mainly centred around the
possibility that they had been taken as wives by native chiefs.
The other thing that loomed large with the public was the
rumour that the wrecked ship contained part of the fortune
of Sir Robert Clive.
Van Reenan, a Dutch explorer, had travelled extensively
in South Africa from 1778, together with the Englishman,
William Paterson.
First edition. 4to., xiv, 15-51 pp., large folding map (short tear repaired), light
soiling to title, modern mottled half calf gilt, marbled sides, an excellent example.
4,000
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33. SPEKE, JOHN HANNING. Journal of the discovery of the source of

the Nile.
Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1863.
The account of Spekes third and final expedition to Africa.
This took place in 1860 with his friend and fellow Indian
army officer James Grant (1827-1892) on an expedition
organized by the Royal Geographic Society and supported
by the British government. Their purpose was to explore the
Victoria Nyanza area and confirm Spekes earlier view that
the lake was the source of the White Nile.
On 25 September 1860, their caravan left Zanzibar: a force
of 217 people, including armed men and porters bearing
loads of beads, cloths, and brass wire intended as gifts for
safe passage. They arrived at Kaz (todays Tabora, Tanzania)
on 24 January 1861, but further headway was hindered by
the defection of carriers, local warfare, the rapacity of chiefs
who controlled travel through the territory, and a serious
illness suffered by Speke. Moving north between lakes
Tanganyika and Victoria, and often traveling separately, Speke
and Grant encountered further delays in the kingdoms of
Mtsa (Mutesa), the ruler of Uganda, and Kamrasi (Kamurasi),
the king of Unyoro. On 28 July 1862, Speke reached the
point where the White Nile left Lake Victoria, naming it
Ripon Fallsand establishing in his mind the veracity of his
claim that the river began there. At Karuma Falls, where
the river makes a big turn west, native warfare forced him
to cut across country. Ultimately, the expedition reached
Gondokoro on 15 February 1863, where Sir Samuel White
Baker, coincidentally on his own self-funded mission up the
Nile, was able to offer needed assistance.
Back in England, Speke was showered with honours and
feted by the Royal Geographical Society. But doubts of his
claim remained, voiced particularly by Burton, primarily
because Speke had not followed the Nile from Karuma Falls
to Gondokoro. (Using Spekes maps, Baker would discover
what Speke had thereby missed: Lake Albert.). A debate with
his former friend-turned-nemesis Burton was arranged
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for 16 September 1864 to settle the matter; however, on

that morning word arrived that Speke had died in a gun
accident. Some thought it was a suicide, for he was known
as an accomplished sportsman and hunter. Speke and
Grants successes are undisputed, however: they were the
first Europeans to cross equatorial eastern Africa, and their
explorations added more than 500 miles to the known
geography of the area. Today Lake Victoria and its feeder
streams are considered the sources of the White Nile.
First edition. 8vo., xxxi, [1], 658 pp., engraved frontispiece portrait of Speke,
engraved portrait of Grant, 24 engraved plates, 2 maps (1 folding in pocket at
endm, short repairs to folds), illustrations in text, modern half calf over original
brown pictorial cloth sides, original spine laid-down inside, light foxing to title-page
else a very good clean example.Hilmy II, p255.
950
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IF WHAT YOU LIKE IS ORIGINAL CLOTH THEN THIS IS THE COPY FOR YOU
34.
STANLEY, HENRY MORTON. In darkest Africa or the quest,

rescue, and retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria.
Sampson Low, London, 1890.
THIS COPY WITH IN PARTICULARLY BRIGHT FRESH ORIGINAL CLOTH. A
MASTERPIECE OF VICTORIAN CLOTH BINDING HERE SHOWING AT ITS
VERY BEST.
Stanleys remarkable account of his expedition from the East
Coast through the heart of Africa to the land of The Nile.
This expedition was originally intended as a rescue mission
for Emin Pasha after Khartoum fell into hands of the Mahdists
and General Gordon was killed. Athough failing in its primary
objective, the expedition accomplished great things, Stanley
discovered the great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori,
the Mountains of the Moon, besides a new lake which he
named the Albert Edward Nyanza, and a large south-western
extension of Lake Victoria, and he had come upon the pigmy
tribes who had inhabited the great African forest since
prehistoric times. On his way down to the coast Stanley
had concluded treaties with various native chiefs which he
transferred to Sir William Mackinnons company and so laid
the foundation of the British East African Protectorate.
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xv, 529; xv, 472pp., 2 pages ads at end, 2
frontispieces, 3 folding maps, 37 plates, numerous text illustrations, original
reddish-brown pictorial cloth gilt, map endpapers, a fine copy.
1,250
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35.
SCHEYBEYLER, CATHERINE. Africana. A distant journey

into unknown lands.The Paolo Bianchi collection of works on the
exploration of Africa up to the year 1900.
Shapero Rare Books, London, 2014.
This profusely illustrated catalogue with detailed
collations and critical notes, offers a fascinating insight
into the rich and diverse history of the African
continent as seen through Western eyes. The
emphasis of the collection is on illustrated books
and is a valuable addition to works on the subject.
Paolo Bianchi began as a collector of stamps and
postal history which then led to the research
of the history of Italian colonisation of Africa.
This then inspired him to become a passionate
bibliophile and start a collection of antiquarian
books. He soon expanded his collection to cover
the whole of Africa and the history of African
exploration. This book includes nearly 400 items
and highlights include such works as Angas Kafirs
Illustrated, 1849; Baines Victoria Falls, 1865; and
Samuel Daniells African Scenery and Animals at the
Cape of Good Hope, 1804-05.
Large 4to. (33 x 26 cm). 511pp, profusely illustrated in colour, brown cloth gilt;
pictorial dust-jacket. New.
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36. BACK, GEORGE. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the

mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the shores of the Arctic
Ocean in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835.
SCARCE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. ONE OF THE FINEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.[Howgego].
Back, a British naval officer and accomplished artist, first

served in the polar regions under John Franklin during
the unsuccessful expedition of Captain David Buchanan
in 1818. He served again under Franklin on further Arctic
explorations in 1819-1822 and 1825-1827. This, his fourth
expedition, which he commanded, was tasked with searching
for Captain John Ross, but the news of Rosss safe return
allowed the party to travel into the Great Slave Lake and
discover the Great Fish River, or Back River, and to map as
much as possible of the coast. He travelled 7,500 miles, 1,200
of them over unknown territory.
Provenance: Robert Hayhurst (bookplate). Hayhursts books
were notable for their generally fine condition.
First edition, 8vo., x, [ii], 663, [i]pp., 12 pages ads at end dated May 1836,
folding map, 16 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, original cloth gilt, a fine
example. Wagner-Camp 58b; Field 64; Hill 42; Lande 935; Arctic Bib. 851; Sabin
2613; TPL 1873.
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37. DE VEER, GERRIT. The three voyages of William Barents to the

Arctic regions, 1594, 1595, and 1596. First edition edited by
Charles T. Beke ...1853. Second Edition, with an introduction, by
Lieutenant Koolemans Beynen ...
Printed for the Hakluyt Society, London, 1876.
Hakluyt Society First Series, no. 54.
Willem Barentsz, anglicized as William Barents or Barentz)
(c. 1550 20 June 1597) was a Dutch navigator,
cartographer, and Arctic explorer. He went on three
expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast
passage. During his third expedition, the crew was stranded
on Novaya Zemlya for almost a year. Barentsz died on the
return voyage in 1597. In the 19th century, the Barents Sea
was named after him.
8vo., clxxiv, 289 pp., 12 illustrations, 2 maps as called for, original blue cloth gilt, a
little rubbed and soiled, a very good copy.
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WITH KIT CARSON ON THE OREGON TRAIL

38. FREMONT, J[OHN] C[HARLES]. Narrative of the exploring
expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the year 1842, and to
Oregon and north California, in the years 1843-44.
Wiley and Putnam, London, 1846.
A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST UK EDITION. FREMONTS
EXHAUSTIVE APPRAISAL OF THE MOST PRACTICAL ROUTES WEST, HIS
SITING OF FORTS AND STAGING POSTS, WAS CRITICAL IN ESTABLISHING

THE FUTURE PATTERN OF MIGRATION TO
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.
The work contains revised accounts of Fremonts first

two expeditions, based upon the texts presented to the
Congress, but omitting the scientific portions. Fremont was
sent by Poinsett in1842 to explore the Wind River Mountains
and South Pass in Wyoming, employing the services of Kit
Carson as guide. Returning the following year, passing the
Great Salt Lake, he followed the Snake and Columbia Rivers
to Fort Vancouver. Then travelling southeast to Walker Lake,
he turned west into the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake
Tahoe and reached Sutters Fort. Fremonts account and his
maps provided the basis for pioneers to head out west on
what became known as the Oregon Trail.
Provenance: Robert Hyde Greg (armorial book plate).
First U.K. edition. 8vo., 324pp., large folding map by Robert Greenhow, 4 lithographed
plates, occasional light foxing, nineteenth century half calf gilt by Winstanley of
Manchester, marbled sides and edges, an attractive example.
Howes F3803; Sabin 25841; Wagner-Camp 115:6 (calling for map and 2 plates only).
1,500
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39. HUNTER, JOHN. Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians

of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen; with
anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs.To which
is added, some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable
production of the territory westward of the Mississippi.
John Dunn Hunter (ca. 17961827), was a leader of the
Fredonian Rebellion, the first attempt by Anglo settlers
in Texas to secede from Mexico. Before that adventure,
however, he had an interesting upbringing by Native
Americans recounted in the present work.
Hunter claimed to be ignorant of his birthplace and that
he was taken prisoner with two other children by Native
Americans who either belonged to or were associated with
the Kickapoo nation. Hunter lived with the Kickapoo until
1816 but he travelled widely during that time and received
a good education at one point meeting Robert Owen in
England. Not knowing his real name, Dunn Hunter took
on the name of an English benefactor, one John Dunn. The
hunter was later added due to his abilities in that field.
Provenance: 1. Robert Hyde Greg (armorial book plate);
2 Hugh Selbourne (small stamp to verso of title).
First edition. 8vo, x, 447 pp., nineteenth century half calf gilt by Winstanley of
Manchester, marbled sides and edges, an attractive example.
Sabin 33921.
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40. MONTANUS, ARNOLDUS. De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld:

of Beschryving van America en t Zuid-Land.
Jacob Meurs, Amsterdam, 1671.
FIRST EDITION OF A CLASSIC BOOK ON AMERICA AND IS MUCH SOUGHT
AFTER BY COLLECTORS OF AMERICANA AS IT CONTAINS, ON P. 124, ONE
NEW YORK NOVUM AMSTERODAMUM (BORBA DE

MORAES). THE TEXT ENGRAVING ON P. 213 SHOWS THE CROWNING OF
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE BY THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE AMERICANS.
OF THE FIRST VIEWS OF
This monumental work by the Dutch writer Arnoldus

Montanus (1625?-83) reflects the fascination of seventeenth
century Europe with the New World. Montanus was a
Protestant minister and headmaster of the Latin School
in the town of Schoonhoven. He wrote books on church
history, theology, the history of the Low Countries, and the
peoples and cultures of the Americas. Montanus never visited
the New World and his work contains numerous errors and
fantastic conceptions about the people and animals of the
Americas. Nonetheless, it became a standard work in Europe
and was widely read for many years. The publisher of the
work was the Amsterdam bookseller and engraver Jacob van
Meurs, who was active from 1651 to 1680 and specialized
in works of history, geography, and travelogues. The book is
lavishly illustrated with 125 copper engravings, including 32
folded views, 70 plates, 16 maps, and 7 unusually handsome
portraits of famous explorers, each surrounded by baroque
framed borders.
In contrast to later editions this copy includes early strong
impressions of the plates, which illustrate the customs,
festivals, occupations, religious rites and battles of the native
Indians. This issue includes the portrait of Maurice of Nassau
(not mentioned in the index) and one of the first views
of New Amsterdam, without any doubt, the handsomest,
and... the most agreeable view of Dutch New York (Ashers
Bibliographical Essay, p.23).
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Folio (30.5 x 19.4 cm). Engraved allegorical title (small repair along foremargin), letterpress title printed in black and red with vignette. Folding engraved
general map of America, 47 double-page engraved plates (7 folding, including
15 maps, the remaining 32 mostly comprising town views), 7 portraits and 69
text engravings (a little browned and spotted). Modern binding of early vellum
manuscript waste, a very good example.
Borba de Moraes, p. 586; Church 613; Phelps Stokes I, 142-143 and VI, 262;
Sabin 50086.
12,500
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FIRST TO THE NORTH POLE DELUXE EDITION

41. PEARY, ROBERT. The North Pole.With an introduction by
Theodore Roosevelt.
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1910.
THE DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY PEARY. THE NARRATIVE
OF PEARYS FINAL POLAR EXPEDITON THAT CULMINATED IN HIM
BECOMING THE FIRST MAN TO REACH THE NORTH POLE.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Edwin Peary was an
American explorer who faced great criticism in his day
for claiming to be the first person to have reached the
geographic North Pole. It is now suspected that he may have
been 30 to 60 miles short of the Pole, but is still credited
with the achievement.
Peary was obsessed with the idea of being first to North
Pole. To prepare for his goal, between 1886 and 1897, Robert
E. Peary led five expeditions to Greenland and Arctic Canada.
After departing from New York City on July 16, 1905,
aboard the Roosevelt, Peary sledged to within 175 miles of
the Pole in 1906. Melted ice blocking the sea path thwarted
the missions completion. Pearys 1905-1906 expedition
had been backed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and his
team was subsequently armed with the Roosevelt, which was
considered a state-of-the-art vessel at the time and had the
ability to cut through ice.
On a new expedition in 1909, once again via the Roosevelt, but
this time employing 24 men, 19 sledges and 133 dogs, Peary
finally succeeded in reaching itor at least he claimed to have.
Leading a party that consisted of himself, his African-American
assistant Matthew Henson, and the Inuits Ootah, Egingwah,
Seegloo and Ooqueah, Peary had to fight against moving ice
floes that may have caused him to miscalculate his position.
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Commander Peary has made all dwellers in the civilized

world his debtors ... He has performed one of the great feats
of our time; he has won high honour for himself and for his
country; and we welcome his story of the triumph which he
won in the immense solitudes of the wintry north. (From
Theodore Roosevelts introduction).
First edition.4to., Edition de luxe, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES SIGNED BY PEARY AND BOB
BARTLETT, xii, 326pp., 4 photogravures, 112 tipped-in photographic illustrations,
large coloured map, modern full blue morocco gilt, gilt pictorial roundel to upper
cover, slipcase, a fine example.
Arctic Bib., 13230.
3,000
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42. SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA, ANTONIO DE. The history of the

conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. Done into English from
the original Spanish ... by Thomas Townsend.
Woodward, London, 1724.
This was undoubtedly the most popular history of America
that had been written to this time. The authors principal
sources of inspiration for this history were the letters of
Hernan Cortes, the works of Francisco Lopez de Gomara,
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and some miscellaneous documents.
In addition to a full account of the relations between Cortes
and Montezuma, there is an abundance of data concerning
the intimate lives of the Indians. Solis became Secretary to
the King of Spain (Charles II) and succeeded Antonio de
Leon Pinelo as chief chronicler of the Indies. The book is
attractively illustrated.
First English edition. Folio, [18], 163, 252 ,152 pp., frontispiece portrait, six folding
plates, two folding maps, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked but firm,
corners and extremities worn, boards scuffed, a very good copy.
European Americana 724/165; Palau 318693; Sabin 86487.
1,850
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RARE RUSSIAN WORK ON THE UNITED STATES

43. SVININ, Paul [, ] (artISt).

[An Essay at a Picturesque Voyage in North America].
Dreksler, Skt. Peterburg, 1815.
FIRST EDITION OF WHAT WOULD SEEM TO BE THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT
OF THE UNITED STATES AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF A RUSSIAN
(Yarmolinsky, p.17) The engraved plates, after Svinins own
drawings, include a view of the Niagara Falls and an AfricanAmerican Methodist service.
Shortly after entering the foreign service at the age of 18,
Pavel Petrovich Svinin (also spelled Svinin, 1787-1839) was
given the opportunity to travel around the world. In 1811,
his travels brought him to the United States as the Secretary
to the Russian Consul-General Andrey Dashkov, based in
Philadelphia.
Svinin travelled along the East Coast from Maine to Virginia,
and possibly further, before returning back to Russia in June
1813. Along the way, he sketched the American landscape,
painted watercolours, and wrote articles. He was fond of the
similarities between the United States and his home country
including tolerance for different religions. Interestingly, Svinin
left behind one of the earliest written descriptions of black
church music in the United States. American steamboats and
the public education system were also favourite subjects for
this important Russian artist-ethographer (Korostin), who
went on to travel extensively in Great Britain and Russia.
Svinins work became popular and probably because of a
low print run, a second, almost identical Russian edition was
published in 1818, after a German edition in 1816. However
the first complete translation in English appeared only in
2008, together with introductory essays (see A Russian Paints
America. The Travels of Pavel P. Svinin, 1811-1813, Edited by M.
Swoboda and W. Benton Whisenhunt)
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RARE ON THE MARKET: In the past forty years we could trace

only one complete copy sold at auction outside Russia (in
1992). The great collector Smirnov-Sokolskiy owned only the
second edition.
Provenance: [Gymnasium] IV 1862 (Stamp to p.1).
Duodecimo (16.4 x 10.2 cm). Title, [6], 219 pp., with 6 engraved plates;
occasional light spotting and underlining in pencil, small light waterstain to upper
margin of the last quire. Modern red calf gilt.
Fekula 2977 (missing a plate); , ,
, 1953, pp. 59ff.; Obolyaninov 2417; Sabin 93992; Streeter 836;
Yarmolinsky, Picturesque United States of America 1811, 1812, 1813, being a
Memoir on Paul Svinin, 1930; cf. Sm.-Sok. 1112 (2nd edition only).
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44. TANNER, JOHN. A narrative of the captivity and adventures of

John Tanner ... during thirty years residence among the Indians in
the interior of North America.
Baldwin & Craddock, London, 1830.
John Tanner (c. 1780 c. 1846) was captured by Ojibwa
Indians as a child after his family had homesteaded on the
Ohio River in present-day Kentucky. He grew up with the
Ojibwa nation, becoming fully acculturated and learning the
Saulteaux language. He married an Indian woman, served as a
guide for European fur traders, and worked as an interpreter.
His story of life with the American Indians was published in
the present work. It was a popular success and remains an
important historical record.
Provenance: 1. Robert Hyde Greg (armorial book plate); 2.
Hugh Selbourne (small stamp to verso of title).
First edition. 8vo., 426 pp., engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed), nineteenth
century half calf gilt by Winstanley of Manchester, marbled sides and edges, a
fine example.
1,250
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45.
ALBANIS DE BEAUMONT, JEAN FRANOIS. Select views of the

antiquities and harbours in the south of France,
1794.
RARE COLOURED EXAMPLE.
Jean Franois Albanis Beaumont, (17551812), engraver and
landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the
Piedmontese artist Claudio Francesco Beaumont (1694
1766). He was born at Chambry, entered the engineering
school at Mezires, and in 1775 joined the Sardinian army
as an engineer. At this time Sardinian territory extended
into what is now Provence, and Beaumont was working
as a hydraulic engineer at Nice, where he met the duke of
Gloucester. In 1780 the duke engaged him as a teacher of
mathematics and fortifications to his children; Beaumont then
accompanied the duke on his travels in the Alps. Beaumont
himself made several crossings of the region, and on one
occasion travelled westwards along the Mediterranean coast
into French territory. A few years later he travelled through
the Maritime Alps from Cuneo in Italy to Nice by the newly
constructed road across the pass of Lanslebourg. In the 1790s
he went through the Lepontine Alps, from Lyons to Turin.
Beaumonts accounts of these journeys show a lively interest
in the classical history of the area. He comments on benefits
he has received from the works of other scientists active in the
region, such as de Saussure, de Luc, and Pictet; he also remarks
on the structural geology and mineralogy of the alpine regions
and reports altitudes measured with his barometer. Published
in large format, these accounts are embellished with maps
drawn by himself (which he signed A. Beaumont, engineer)
and by drawings in simple and sepia-washed versions, the latter
coloured by Bernard Lory the elder.
In the early 1790s the duke of Gloucester took Beaumont to
London, where he remained during the French Revolution.
There he went into partnership with Thomas Gowland and
employed Cornelius Apostool as engraver, publishing views of
Switzerland, Mediterranean France, and Piedmont. He
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afterwards took to landscape painting, and in 1806 exhibited

A Storm at Sea in which the waves were considered very
realistic. Under the empire he retired to La Vernaz, in the
Haute Savoie, where he reared sheep. In 1808 he was
rewarded by the emperor for having acclimatized black
merino sheep in that region. He died in 1812 (ODNB).
First edition. Folio (40 x 27 cm) additional engraved title with hand-coloured
aquatint vignette, pp. [3] -54, [2] index at rear, 12 hand-coloured aquatint
plates, 2 engraved plans and one plate, gutter margin of one text leaf renewed,
modern half red morocco over marbled boards, modern solander box, a very
good example.
Cf. Abbey Travel 51 (uncoloured copy).
3,500
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A SURVEY OF RUSSIA AT THE END OF CATHERINES REIGN

46.
[CATHERINE II, THE GREAT] - CHANTREAU, [PIERRENICOLAS]. Voyage philosophique, politique et litteraire, fait en
Russie pendant les annees 1788 et 1789.
Briand, Paris, 1794.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Far more than a simple travel
account, Chantreaus important work is a full survey of Russia
at the end of the reign of Catherine the Great, including
physical descriptions, economic considerations, statistical
figures and sociological observations - these are smartly
compiled from various sources available at the time, since
Chantreau actually never travelled to Russia (he lived more
than 20 years in Spain).
The engraved map, in excellent condition, shows Western
Russia and the plates include two scenes linked with the
Tsars wedding and an interpretation of the celebrated
monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg.
Two volumes 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm). xvi, incl. half-title and title, 387; x incl. halftitle and title, 381 pp., with a folding engraved map and 3 plates engraved by
Boutrois; closed tear repaired to pp. 323-324. Contemporary marbled paper
imitating tree calf, flat calf spines gilt, each with two orange morocco labels
lettered in gilt, pink silk bookmarks; a bit rubbed
Boucher de la Richarderie II, 18; Hoefer IX, 680-81.
650
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47. COMBE, WILLIAM. A History of Madeira, with a series of twentyseven coloured engravings, illustrative of the costumes, manners,
and occupations of the inhabitants of that island.
Ackermann, London, 1821.
An attractive work looking at all sections of society in
Madeira and showing their occupations and costumes.
Includes information on the wine trade.
William Combe (25 March 1742 19 June 1823) provided
many texts for Ackermanns colour plate books.
First edition. Small folio (28 x 20 cm. approx.), hand-coloured aquatint vignette
to title, 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rowlandson, modern red morocco
gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, a handsome copy.
Abbey Travel 189; Colas 1455; Lipperheide 1581; Tooley (1954) 150.
2,250
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48. [CHOPIN, JEAN-MARIE]. Coup-doeil sur Ptersbourg.

Ponthieu, Paris, 1821.
FRESH EXAMPLE, UNCUT, OF THESE UNCOMMON NOTES ON RUSSIAN
CULTURE, PEOPLE, POLITICS, HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
Chopin (1796-1871) was a French-Russian writer and traveller.
Born in St Petersburg, he became secretary and librarian
to Prince Kurakin, former Russian ambassador to France.
Inspired by his experiences in the Russian Tsarist Empire, he
wrote several books on the matter. He is also known for his
translations of several works by Pushkin and Dickens.
This work is a compilation of Chopins notes from his time in
Saint Petersburg. Initially intending to write a history book, as
he explains in the preface, Chopin then decided to publish a
work with a more personal view. Chopin describes the city,
social and political climate during Alexander Is reign, Russian
army, religion, music, food, superstitions, aristocratic families
and the Russian language. Each description is subjective,
infused with Chopins personal impressions and opinions,
which makes it a fascinating and easy read.
About Russian literature, Chopin writes: La litterature russe a des
richesses que lEurope ignore before giving a literary criticism of
some Russian writers, and adding some literary pieces such as
poems and plays in the style of various Russian authors.
A rare work: we have never had a copy and WorldCat
locates only six copies in public holdings in the West.
Octavo (22 x 13.5 cm). [4], 239 pp.; waterstain to last 5 leaves. Uncut in
contemporary pink wrappers with beige paper spine, hand written title to spine.
Qurard II, 374.
750
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PRESENTATION COPY OF RARE EARLY WORK ON THE JUNGFRAU

49. DESOR, [PIERRE JEAN], E[DOUARD]. LAscension de la Jungfrau,
effectue le 28 aout 1841 par MM Agassiz, Forbes, du Chatelier
et Desor, prcde du recit de leur traversee de la Mer de
Glace, du Grimsel a Viesch en Valais.
La Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve. Geneve Novembre 1841.
Rare early account of the ascent of the Jungfrau. Desor
was a German-Swiss geologist and naturalist who studied
glacial formations. Both James D Forbes, Professor of Natural
Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh and author of
several well known mountaineering titles and Louis Agassiz,
the famous Swiss biologist and geologist also took part in this
climb. This ascent was the first since 1828.
Inscription by the author on upper cover: M. Adolphe de
Rougemont - hommage de lauteur. Adolphe de Rougemont
(1805-1844) was a Swiss from an aristocratic family of the
vicinity of Zrich. His titles included Baron de Bonstettenm
Chamberlain to the King of Prussia, and attach to the
embassy of Vienna. He died at only 38 ears old in Naples.
He and E. Desor were both members of the Socit des
Sciences Naturelles de Neuchtel.
First edition. 8vo ( 21 x 14 cm) 56pp, one lithographed plate, some slight
browning of pages, bound in contemporary green paper wrappers, authors
presentation inscription in ink on front green wrapper; a very good copy.
Perrret 21.
1,850
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50. HULLEY, T. Six Views of Cheltenham.

R. Ackerman, London, 1813.
Fine fresh plates showing the Montpellier Pump Room, the
Assembly Room, Hygeia House, the Crescent, Well Walk, Old
Wells and Pump Room.
First edition. Landscape folio (37 x 29 cm), 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates
by H. Menke and J. Buck after Hulley, modern half calf, marbled boards,
morocco label to upper cover, original front wrapper with title, imprint and date
surrounded by an acanthus border bound in, an excellent example.
Abbey Scenery 93.
2,500
[ref: 93833]
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WITH FINE ARISTOCRATIC PROVENANCE

51. HERBERSTEIN, SIGISMUND VON. Rerum Moscoviticarum
auctores varii, unum in corpus nunc primum congesti.
Andreaes Wechelius, Claudius Marnius & loan Aubrius,
Frankfurt, 1600.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS COMPILATION CONTAINING THE FIRST DETAILED
RUSSIA, a country largely unknown
to Europeans at that time.
EYEWITNESS ETHNOGRAPHY OF
THE CHATSWORTH COPY: FROM THE LIBRARY OF HENRY CAVENDISH,

AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMIST AND A
DISCOVERER OF HYDROGEN.
Herberstein (1486-1566), an Austrian diplomat who was

twice sent to Russia as the Habsburg ambassador to Moscow
in 1517 and 1526, was the first foreign visitor to speak the
language, read Cyrillic and record his experiences. The book
was so warmly welcomed among the courts in Europe that
from its original publication in 1549, it became a veritable
Baedeker of travel narratives... [Herberstein] can be said to
be almost singlehandedly responsible for the European image
of Russia over several centuries (Dr Rima Greenhill, Stanford
University).
Herbersteins work was considered of such value that for
many decades to come, travellers to Russia were strongly
advised never to travel without it, as was the case with the
English poet George Turberville. In one of his letters from
Russia during the mission of 1568-69, headed by Thomas
Randolph, Turberville advised his friends never to venture
to this barbarous land and, to stress his point, referred them
to Herbersteins Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii: To
Sigismundus book repair, who all the truth can tell. To the
present day no serious study of Muscovy can be undertaken
without reading Herberstein.
The 1600 edition is largely based on the 1556 Basel edition,
which displayed significant changes in quality of content and
of illustrations from the previous ones. It incorporates an
important and useful illustration: three fine maps, along with
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elaborate woodcuts showing the Grand Duke (Tsar Vasily III),

Muscovites, bisons, aurochs etc. The map of Moscow is the first
printed plan of the city, probably drawn by Herberstein himself,
who was not a cartographer but here reveals a commendable
talent as a draughtsman.This woodcut became very famous, in
particular through the use by Braun & Hogenberg.
This edition includes a number of other works describing
the Grand Duchy of Moscow, including Paulo Giovios De
Legatione Basilii magni Principis Moschoviae ad Clementem VII;
Tilmann Bredenbachs Historia belli Livonici; Paul Oderborns
scarce Ionannis Basilidis magni Moscoviae ducis vita; and
Reinhold Heidensteins De Bello Moschovitico commentarium.
Importantly, this copy comes from the library of Henry

Cavendish FRS (17311810), a second cousin of the Fifth
Duke of Devonshire. A prominent British scientist, he is
known as the man who discovered hydrogen in 1766 and
weighed the world in 1798. His scientific experiments that
he kept virtually secret until his death, explained a whole
range of phenomena in the fields of electricity, chemistry and
magnetism years before anyone else.
Henrys father, Lord Charles Cavendish, a Whig politician and
experimental scientist in his own right, amassed a significant
library during his lifetime. After his death in 1783 Henry
moved these books to 11 Bedford Square, in Bloomsbury,
and prodigiously added to the collection. The library had
large sections dedicated to Astronomy, Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy, as well as Travels and Maps. Upon his
death, the collection was eventually passed to the Sixth
Duke of Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish
(17901858). The books were moved to the Oak Room at
Chatsworth before being placed in the newly created library
of the Sixth Duke, probably in the 1820s or early 1830s.
Provenance: Henry Cavendish (1731-1810, stamp H.
Cavendish to verso of title); Dukes of Devonshire
(bookplate Chatsworth House and armorial ex-libris).
Folio (34.5 x 21.5 cm). Title, [26], 445, [56]pp. including 7 full-page woodcut
illustrations and a folding genealogical table, with [3] leaves of plates (doublepage woodcut map of Moscow and 2 double-page woodcut maps of
Russia); title page a bit stained, with a small marginal repair. Recent half-calf
retaining an old red-morocco label lettered in gilt.
VD 16, M 1038 (under Marne); Ulyaninskiy 3977.
8,500
[ref: 93216]
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BORIS BEREZOVSKYS COPY

52. LE CLERC, NICOLAS-GABRIEL. Histoire physique, morale, civile et
politique de la Russie ancienne [-moderne].
Clousier for Blaizot, Froulle and Maradan, Versailles and Paris,
1783-[94].
FIRST EDITION OF THIS ENCYCLOPAEDIC WORK ON RUSSIA, WITH THE
CELEBRATED ATLAS WITH FINE VIEWS HERE IN THE PREFERRED FOLIO FORMAT.
Leclerc, actually Nicolas-Gabriel Clerc (1726-98), was doctor

to the Duc dOrleans. In 1759 he went to Russia where he
first became doctor to Kirill Grigorievich Razumovsky, the
celebrated last hetman of Cossacks. Leclerc spent almost
twenty years in Russia, mostly Moscow, before returning to
France in 1777 where Louis XVI recognised his merit. He
wrote many medical works, but is now mostly known for his
Histoire de Russie. Published after Leclerc put his numerous
papers and notes in order, it documents all aspects of Russian
life under Catherine the Great, publishing for the first time
detailed data on the Russian army, economics, commerce etc.
The atlas volume contains fine plates after various talented
artists, but particularly Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse (17341808) who drew his views mostly after Makhaevs celebrated
engravings of St. Petersburg and the palaces around the city.
The views of Russian provincial cities were inspired by very
rare Russian engravings instigated by the Russian Academy
of Sciences and produced in the late 1760s partly under
Makhaevs supervision.
These views and plans include 1. St. Petersbourg (plan
surveyed 1753, engraved by P.F. Tardieu); 2. Vue de la Bourse
et du Magasin des Marchandises (after Lespinasse); 3-6. Vue
des bords de la Neva (after Lespinasse). 7. Vue de LAmiraut
et de ses environs (after Lespinasse). 8. Vue du Nouveau
Palais (after Lespinasse). 9. Peterhoff (after Lespinasse).10.
Vue dOranienbaum 11. Maison de Plaisance (Tsarskoe Selo
after Lespinasse); 12. Plan de Kronstadt; 13. Vue de la Ville de
Novrogorod 14. Vue de la Ville de Tver, 15, Plan of Moskou 16.
Vue de Cazan; 17. Vue de Ville de Tobolsk; 18.Vue de la Ville de
Catherinebourg; 19. Vue de Kiakta. The other plates include
costumes, antiquities, regional maps and printed tables.
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Provenance: Boris Berezovskiy (1946-2013, Russian

businessman and politician).
Seven volumes including 6 volumes 4to (26.5 x 20 cm) and an atlas volume folio
(55 x 36 cm), comprising Russie Ancienne (vols 1-3), Russie Moderne (vols 1-3).
Histoire de la Russie Ancienne: Vol 1: Half-title, title, [2], viii, XX, 510, [2] pp.,
with 2 maps (one is double page), 29 plates (without the Prelat russe en habit
ordinaire plate called for at p.262 but with an uncalled for plate at p.389,
portrait of Sviatoslaf II); Vol 2: Half-title, title, xxiv, 560, [4] pp., with a large
folding map (of the Empire), 29 plates (4 of them are double- page); Vol 3: Halftitle, title, vi, [2], 748 pp., with 7 plates.
Histoire de la Russie Moderne: Vol 1: Half-title, title, vii, 536 pp., with a
double-page map, a portrait plate, 9 tables, including 1 folding (The #9
Recapitulation... table called for as well as the list of plates and the errata
erroneously bound at end of vol.2 of Russie Ancienne, the large forling map
bound at the beginning of that volume); Vol 2: Half-title, title, 620 pp., with 6
plates; Vol 3: viii pp., including half title, title, 424 pp.; occasional spotting and
browning, quire O in Ancienne-II bound twice (duplicate), Ancienne-II without Avis
au relieur leaf nor Errata leaf.
Atlas: 38 plates and 16 tables -- in all 114 plates and maps engraved under
Nes direction mostly after Chevalier (portraits) and Lespinasse (views),
and 26 tables.
Contemporary mottled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments,
two leather labels with gilt lettering to second and third compartments, marbled
endpapers, marbled edges, pink silk bookmarks; just lightly rubbed, atlas volume
finely bound in recent period style calf backed boards, spine gilt decorated.
Brunet III, 916; Cohen-Ricci 614; Hoefer X, 829-30.
11,500
[ref: 91527]
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WITH THE LARGE PLAN - HAND-COLOURED

53. LAVEAU, GEORGES LECOINTE DE. Description de Moscou.
Semen, Moscou, 1835.
MOSCOW DURING RUSSIAS GOLDEN AGE: an early description of
the second capital, here in the preferred second edition of
the work, expanded to include the large engraved plan of
the city, coloured by hand at the time of publication.
Laveau, a French entomologist, had a good knowledge of
Moscow, where he was based as secretary of the Imperial
Naturalists Society, and the work, printed in that city,
contains much interesting topographical, social and statistical
information among other details. In his seventh chapter (of
twelve), Laveau expands on the arts and the art collectors
of the city, making specific reference to some notable
personalities of the time, still renowned today, such as Prince
Michel Galitzin. The work was originally published in 1824 as
Guide du voyageur Moscou.
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The number of plates and tables in different copies of this

second edition greatly varies. The copies that we were
able to check comprise not more than 6 plates including a
frontispiece. OUR COPY IS EXTRA ILLUSTRATED WITH A FOLDING
PLAN AND INCLUDES IN TOTAL 7 PLATES AND A FRONTISPIECE.
Provenance: from the London library of Boris Yeltsins closest
advisor, the exiled Russian businessman and politician Boris
Berezovsky (1946-2013).
Two volumes, octavo (21.7 x 13.5 cm). Half-title, frontispiece, title, VI pp., 337
pp., [2] pp., with 4 folding tables, 1 folding plan and 3 plates by Arkadev; 374
pp., including half-title, title, with 1 folding table and 4 plates, 1 large folding map
in contemporary hand colour at rear; without 4 pp. index in vol 2, light spotting
throughout. Later calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments, with two
black morocco labels with gilt lettering.
Cf. Klepikov XV and XVI, not mentioning this edition.
1,650
[ref: 91500]
MONT BLANC RARITY

54. SAUSSURE, HORACE-BNEDICT. Relation abrge dun voyage
la cime du Mont-Blanc en aot 1787.
Mangie & Compagnie, Genve 1787.
Horace-Benedict de Saussure was appointed Professor of
Natural Philosophy at the Geneva aged only twenty-two, a
remarkable achievement. A passionate mountaineer, he was
one of the first men to reach the summit of Mont Blanc.
Saussures early interest in botanical studies led him to
undertake journeys among the Alps, and from 1773 onwards
he directed his attention to the geology and physics of that
region. In 1787 He was only the third man to reach the
summit of Mont Blanc.
This is the first published account of his ascent of Mont Blanc.
It was eventually translated into German, Italian and English and
also appeared in the subsequent publication Voyage dans les
Alpes and then later reproduced in facsimile in 1928.This slim
volumet is extremely scarce and rarely appears on the market.
First edition. 8vo (22 x 13 cm). 31pp, modern half calf gilt, marbled boards, a
fine copy. Meckly 168.
3,500
[ref: 93473]
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55.
SMITH, JOHN. Select views in Italy.

T. Chapman for John Smith, William Byrne and John Emes,
London, 1792-1796.
A FINE COPY WITH WIDE MARGINS BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY
CRIMSON MOROCCO. John Warwick Smith lived and worked
in Italy from 1776-1781 under the patronage of the Earl of
Warwick. He was a leading member of the Watercolour
Society and was elected its president in 1814. His Italian
pictures, which he continued to produce for many years after
his return to England, are considered Smiths best (ODNB).
Provenance: Jasper More (bookplate), Linley Hall.
2 volumes in one, landscape folio (26 x 35.2 cm). Text in French and English.
Engraved dedication to Queen Charlotte, general map of Italy and 72 engraved
plates by J. Emes, W. Byrne and others after Smith, contemporary straightgrained crimson morocco gilt, gilt edges. Mainly marginal spotting to plates, some
browning of text, table of plates misbound at end, a very handsome example.
ESTC T147454; Lowndes III, 2425.
4,500
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56. SMITH, THOMAS. Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia.

[J. Roberts and W. Jaggard for] Nathanyell Butter, London, 1605.
FINE COPY OF THIS RARE, EARLY ACCOUNT OF RUSSIA.
Sir Thomas Smythe [Smith], (c.15581625), the son of a
merchant and financier, in 1600 became a member of the
Company of Merchant Adventurers, a governor of the
Muscovy and Levant companies, and first governor of the
East India Company (31 December 1600). Smythes career
was abruptly halted in February 1601, when he was seriously
compromised, though not actually implicated, in the abortive
coup of the earl of Essex. With the accession of James I in
1603 Smythe rapidly rose again to favour. He was appointed
a trade commissioner to negotiate with the empire (1603),
and was knighted. In June 1604, probably by reason of the
leading role he played in the Muscovy Companys trade to
northern Europe, he was appointed special ambassador to
the tsar of Russia, and he landed at Archangel on 22 July.
Over the winter he obtained a grant of new privileges for
the company, and he sailed for England on 28 May 1605. His
experiences in Russia were published in the present book.
The work contains an allusion to Shakespeares play, Hamlet,
prompted by the poisoning of Czar Ivan.
The other main area of Smythes involvement was Bermuda,

then known as the Somers Islands. They were granted to
the Virginia Company in 1612, but three years later, when
Smythe was governor of the company and Bermuda was
first colonized under the name Virginiola, they became the
preserve of a distinct body, the Somers Islands Company, of
which Smythe served as governor (161521). His name was
given to the island on which the settlers first landed, to the
first fort built to guard the harbour entrance, and, later on, to
one of the parishes (ODNB).
Provenance: Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet (18291900: bookplate), Linley Hall.
First edition, 4to (19.7 x 14 cm). Woodcut device on title, with final blank. 19thcentury mottled calf gilt, sides with double fillet panels and small acorn tool at
inner corners, gilt spine with morocco label, gilt edges. Bottom margins of quires
A-C restored, title cut slightly short at bottom margin, lightly soiled and with first
two and a half words of imprint in pen-and-ink facsimile, spine lightly rubbed,
light scuff mark on front cover.
ESTC locates only 12 copies. Cox I, 189-190: very rare; STC 22869.
27,500
[ref: 93650]
Smythe went on to have an illustrious career as merchant,

becoming governor of the East India Company, and, later
governor of the North-West Passage Company (1612),
when he promoted voyages for the discovery of a northwest passage, especially those of Hudson (1610) and Baffin
(1615), who gave his name to Smith Sound, between
Greenland and Ellesmere Island.
Smythe had interested himself in Virginia as early as 1589, and
in 1609 he obtained a second charter for the Virginia Company,
of which he was treasurer until 1619. He showed resource,
resilience, and flexibility in helping to secure the survival of the
colony at Jamestown, and undertook genuine reforms such as
the establishment of a Virginian assembly (1619).
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57.
SVININ, Paul [, ] (artISt).

Sketches of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
William Fry for Thomas Dobson, Philadelphia, 1813.
FINE EXAMPLE OF THIS FRAGILE EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT PRODUCED
RUSSIAN ARTIST IN THE USA. Svinin (1788-1839) became
famous for his views of St. Petersburg. A painter, diplomat
and journalist, he spent two years as part of the first Russian
diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after returning
to Russia, he also published Travelling across North America,
one of the rare Russian works about that region.
BY A
Printed on slightly thicker paper, Svinins lovely aquatint plates

show celebrated views of both cities, as well as scenes and
people, such as a Don Cossack and the ice mountains on
the Neva. Though the title calls for coloured plates, the nine
aquatints in this copy are uncoloured, as it is sometimes
the case. The works includes also a folding engraved sheet
of music A Russian National Song for guitar with piano
accompaniment.
The work is the first version of the more common Sketches
of Russia, published in London in 1814.
AN UNCOMMON WORK: we could trace only one example,
coloured, offered at auction in the last 40 years. Although a
few copies are held by American libraries (but notably not
by Stanford and Harvard), we could find only one in Europe
(Dresden; none in the UK).
Provenance: B.G. Johnson (ink inscription to title); A nineteenth
century lending library? (inscription to upper fly-leaf by The
Owner, warning about the fragility of the book).
8vo. (21 x 13.6 cm). Title, list of plates, portrait plate stipple engraved by D.
Edwin after Svinin, 51 pp., with 8 aquatint plates by Kneass after Svinin, folding
leaf of engraved music; light browning, occasional spotting, some small closed tear
due to paper fragility, tear to music leaf neatly repaired. Contemporary half calf
over marbled boards, flat spine gilt ruled; a bit rubbed.
Not in Abbey Travel (mentioned under 225 though).
3,250
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58. [SVININ, PAVEL PETROVICH]. Sketches of Russia illustrated with

fifteen engravings.
For R. Ackermann, London, 1814.
A fine copy with wide margins of the first edition of this
lovely work, with charming aquatints coloured by hand. Next
to a portrait frontispiece of Tsar Alexander I, they show
some picturesque views of Russia, including St. Petersburg,
Moscow and Siberia among others.
Svinin (1788-1839) was famous for his views of St. Petersburg. A
painter, diplomat and journalist, he spent two years as part of the
first Russian diplomatic mission to the United States. Soon after
returning to Russia, Svinin published Travelling Across North
America, one of the rare Russian works about that region.
59. THOMPSON, GEORGE. A description of the royal palace,

and monastery of St. Laurence, called the Escurial; and of the
Chapel Royal of the Pantheon.Translated From the Spanish of
Frey Francisco de los Santos, Chaplain to his Majesty Philip the
Fourth. Illustrated with copper-plates. By George Thompson, of
York, Esq.
Printed by Dryden Leach, for S. Hooper, at Caesars Head, in
the Strand, London, 1760.
Handsome English work on the Escorial, based on a Spanish
text originally published in 1657.
Provenance: Andrew Ward, Hooton Pagnell (book label).
Another version of Sketches of Russia with 8 uncoloured

plates came out in Philadelphia in 1813, and another edition
was later published in 1831.
First edition. 4to., xxxvii,[1],299,[1];xi,[1],60pp., 12 engraved plates after Leroux,

Wale, and Gwyn (10 folding), engraved Rockingham arms to verso of errata,
engraved Saville arms above dedication to Pantheon section, contemporary
half calf, marbled boards, morocco lettering piece, neat repairs to joints and
extremities, light offsetting to plates, a handsome example.
Millard, British, 18.
Provenance: Elizabeth Smith (inscription to title dated 1831)
2,250
[ref: 93377]
Octavo (23 x 15 cm). Frontispiece, title, [4], X, 112 pp., with 14 handcoloured
aquatint plates and 1 engraved sheet of music, uncut. Contemporary red roan
over marbled boards; slightly rubbed, corners bumped.
Abbey Travel 225.
1,950
[ref: 93935]
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MAN VERSUS MOUNTAIN

60. WHYMPER, EDWARD. Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years
1860-69.
THIS LANDMARK OF MOUNTAINEERING LITERATURE IS CONSIDERED
BY MANY TO BE THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAIN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE
PERIOD, BY THE MOST FAMOUS MOUNTAINEER.
Whympers immortal first ascent of the Matterhorn (that

awful mountain) in 1865, on his eighth attempt, is described
here and remains the classic mountain story of triumph
and tragedy. The story of the first ascent, and the seven
preceding, beginning in 1861, forever fixed the Matterhorn as
the mountain which most deeply stirred the imagination of
mountaineers. - UCLA Farquahar Collection.
Provenance: William Ogilvie, prize label dated July 1871.
First edition. 8vo., xviii, [ii], 432pp., 21 full page illustrations, 90 further black and
white illustrations, 5 fold-out maps at rear, including one coloured, original green
cloth gilt, bookplate to pastedown, newspaper cutting tipped-in to front free
endpaper else a fine bright example.
Farquahar 18; Neate W65; Perret 4557.
1,650
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61. WILKIE, DAVID, SIR. Sketches Spanish and Oriental ...

Graves, London, 1846.
The companion volume to Wilkies Oriental Sketches: The
Spanish, Italian, and French sketches inthis volume date from
1825-8. Many of them show a greater degree of finish than
the later Oriental Sketches ... (Abbey).
Wilkies travels in Europe during this period completely
changed his art; originally influenced by Dutch artists, he now
fell under the influence of the Italian and Spanish masters,
particularly Velazquez.
First edition. Folio (55.5 x 38 cm), tinted lithographed title (short tear repaired)
and 25 lithograph plates by Joseph Nash after Wilkie, engraved dedication leaf, 2
pp introduction with description of plates printed in blue, engraved list of plates,
publishers red morocco-backed moire boards lettered in gilt, joints repaired,
corners worn, boards faded, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.
Abbey Travel 39; Gay 27; Hilmy II, p 329; Lipperheide 1230.
5,000
[ref: 93563]
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China, India &

South-East Asia
ACCOUNT OF THAILAND BY A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY CROSS-DRESSER

62.
CHOISY, FraNOIS-tImOlON de, (labbe de). Journal du Voyage

de Siam fait en M.DC.LXXXV. et M.DC.LXXXVI.
Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, Paris, 1687.
RARE FIRST EDITION ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNAL OF THE CHAUMONT
EMBASSY (1685-1686) SENT BY LOUIS XIV TO SIAM.
Choisy was a missionary sent to try to convert King Narai.
This mission failed, but Choisys book, compiled from the
experiences of Abbe de Choisy, Father Guy Tachard and
the Chevalier de Chaumont, was of great interest and was
republished as recently as 1930. Narai was king of Siam from
1656-88, and his credited with producing the first golden
age of Thai literature. Encouraged by his foreign minister
Constantine Phaulkon the famed Greek adventurer who
became a prominent figure in Narais court, Narai hoped to
develop trade relations with the French in order to break the
domination of the Dutch East India Company. Embassies were
exchanged between Siam and France throughout his reign.
Choisy was a colourful character: De Choisy was born in
Paris. His father was attached to the household of the duke
of Orlans, and his mother, who was on intimate terms with
Anne of Austria, was regularly called upon to amuse Louis
XIV. By a whim of his mother, the boy was dressed like a
girl until he was eighteen, and, after appearing for a short
time in mans costume, he resumed womans dress on the
advicedoubtless satiricalof Madame de La Fayette. He
delighted in the most extravagant toilettes until he was
publicly rebuked by the duc de Montausier, when he retired
for some time to the provinces, using his disguise to assist his
numerous intrigues.
Provenance: Armand-Jean de Vignerot du Plessis (arms to sides).
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First edition. 4to., [iv], 416 pp., Title with woodcut vignette. (Some occasional browning
and spotting.) Contemporary calf, sides with the gilt arms of Armand-Jean de Vignerot
du Plessis, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered red morocco lettering-piece in one,
others gilt, neat repairs to extremities, a very handsome example.
Chadenat 2582 (Relation tres curieuse, devenue rare); Cioranescu XVII, 19372;
Cordier, Indosinica, 941.
5,000
[ref: 94122]
63. CONFuCIuS (attrIbuted tO), COmPIler. Le Chou-King, un

des livres sacrs des Chinois... Traduit & enrichi de Notes, par
Feu le P. Gaubil... Revu & corrig sur le texte chinois... par M. de
Guignes...
chez N. M. Tilliard, Paris: 1770.
FIRST EDITION OF THE SHU-JING IN FRENCH, AND THE FIRST EUROPEAN
LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF CHOU-KING, ONE OF THE FIVE CLASSICAL
AND SACRED TEXTS OF CHINESE CULTURE.
It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures
of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese
political philosophy for over 2,000 years.
According to a later tradition, the Book of Documents
was compiled by Confucius (551479 BC) as a selection
from a much larger group of documents, with some of
the remainder being included in the Yizhoushu. However,
the early history of both texts is obscure. Beginning with
Confucius, writers increasingly drew on the Documents to
illustrate general principles, though it seems that several
different versions were in use. The work is translated by
Antoine Gaubil (1689-1759), and edited by the famous
orientalist Joseph de Guignes (1721-1800).
Provenance: Le Breton (signature on title).
4to. (25.3 x 19 cm). 4 engraved plates. Contemporary quarter calf over mottled
boards, smooth spine gilt, green morocco lettering piece. An excellent example.
Brunet II, 222.
1,850
[ref: 93799]
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64.
DANIELL, WILLIAM. The Oriental annual, or scenes in India.

[1834, 1835, 1837, 1838 & 1839].
Charles Tilt, London, 1834-1839.
Fine steel engraved plates of India after William Daniell and
Thomas Bacon (1839).
5 volumes, 8vo. (1834): 25 engravings; (1835): 22 engravings; (1837): 22
engravings; (1838): 23 engravings; (1839): 18 engravings after Thomas Bacon,
occasional light browning, original olive green blindstamped morocco gilt, covers
with pictorial gilt vignette, pictorial gilt spines, all edges gilt, lightly rubbed, a
couple of gatherings slightly proud, generally in very good condition.
1,000
94
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RARE DELHI MAP

65.
[DELHI]. Delhi guide map.

Survey of India, Calcutta, 1926.
VERY RARE PLAN OF THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY; THE MAP WAS
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1912, WITH LATER PRINTINGS IN 1919 AND 1920
(TWO); COPAC RECORDS ONLY SINGLE VERSIONS OF THE EARLIER
PRINTINGS - IN THE BRITISH LIBRARYS INDIA OFFICE COLLECTIONS, BUT
NO EXAMPLE OF THIS 1926 EDITION.
1926 was an important year in the history of Delhi. In 1911,
King George V and his consort Queen Mary were crowned
rulers of India at a darbar on 12th December, 1911; at the
time, he announced that the imperial capital was to be
removed from Calcutta (modern Kolkata) to Delhi. On
the 15th, the King and Queen laid the first two foundation
stones for this city.
As part of the transfer, a district of Delhi was designated

as the government quarter, and this area, designed by Sir
Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, was extensively
rebuilt, creating the many buildings need for government.
Construction was finally completed in 1931, after long delays
occasioned by the First World War, and its aftermath. This
quarter was originally known simply as the new capital or
Imperial City but on 31st December, 1926, the Imperial
City was formally renamed New Delhi. This government
quarter is on the missing two sheets.
Fifth revised edition. Scale 4 Inches to a Mile or 1:5840 Revised edition published
under the direction of Lieut.-Colonel C.P. Gunther, O.B.E., R.E. Officiating Surveyor
General of India 1926. Map area, 78.7 x 132.5 cm. Sheets 1 and 2 only (of 4).
800
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66. DU HALDE, JEAN BAPTISTE. Description Gographique,

Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de lEmpire de
la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoisie.
P.G. Le Mercier, Paris, 1735.
THE FIRST EDITION OF DU HALDES ENCYCLOPAEDIC ACCOUNT OF
CHINA (Lust) -- and one of the earliest European sources
on Chinese ceramics. Du Halde, who became a Jesuit priest
in 1708, was entrusted by his superiors to edit the published
and manuscript accounts of Jesuit travellers in China.The
present work records the narratives of twenty-seven of these
missionaries (listed in volume I, pp. li-li). Also notable is the
Relation succinte du voyage du capitaine Beering dans la Sibrie
(volume IV, pp.452-458), which is the first published account
of Vitus Berings 1728 voyage through the eponymous straits,
whose importance he failed to recognize after sighting no land.
The accompanying double-page map titled Carte des pays
traversees par le Capne. Beering depuis la ville de Tobolsk jusqu
Kamtschatka (bound between pp.452 and 453) is based on
Berings manuscript map, which was given to the King of Poland
and in turn passed to Du Halde to be reproduced here. Berings
map is THE FIRST PRINTED MAP OF PART OF PRESENT ALASKA (S.I.
Schwarz and R.E. Ehrenberg,The Mapping of America).
Provenance: early signatures deleted on titles (with minor
ink damage); unidentified arms on covers; Bibliothque
Congregation de Notre Dame, Maison des Oiseaux
(bookplates); Alberti Vialis Bibliotheca Kircheriana (bookplates).
4 volumes, Folio (42.6 x 27.8 cm). Title-pages printed in red and black. Engraved title
vignettes by M. Baquoy after A. Humbolt, 4 engraved head-pieces after Humbolt, 65
engraved plates, the majority of these maps, many folding or double-page (a few
with contemporary outline-colouring), by Delahaye, Desbrulins, and Fonbonne after
Humblot, Lucas, Le Parmentier and others, engraved and woodcut initials, woodcut
head-pieces. (Lacks half-titles, some occasional pale spotting or minor browning, minor
marginal hole in Aaaaaa1.) Contemporary French mottled calf, sides with central giltstamped arms, spines in seven compartments with six raised bands, each with red
and brown gilt-lettered lettering pieces in two compartments, gilt-decorated panels in
the rest, small repairs to extremities, a very handsome set.
Brunet II:870; Cordier Sinica I, 45-48; Cox I:355; De Backer & Sommervogel
IV:35; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust Western Books on China 12; Wickersham 6099.
35,000
96
[ref: 93802]
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67.
ELLIS, SIR HENRY. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy

to China.
FIRST EDITION OF A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE AMHERST
CHINA IN 1816.
EMBASSY TO
Sir Henry Ellis (1788-1855) was a career diplomat

who joined the East India Company in 1805 and went
on Malcolms Embassy to Persia in 1810 .In 1816 Ellis
accompanied Earl Amherst on his mission to China.
The mission, to negotiate a new trade agreement, was
unsuccessful. Ellis was not impressed by the Chinese, whom
he considered xenophobic, ultra-traditional, and uninteresting
(Ellis). On the return voyage, Ellis and his companions were
wrecked in the Strait of Gaspar and only reached Batavia
after a perilous journey of several hundred miles in an
open boat. Later they called at St Helena, where Ellis met
Napoleon. Napoleon later hotly disputed Elliss account of
the meeting.
4to (26.8 x 20 cm). Etched portrait, 3 engraved maps, one folding (repaired and
lined), and 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, with the final errata leaf, Occasional
minor foxing or spotting. Modern half calf over contemporary marbled boards, a
very good copy.
Abbey Travel 536; Bastin & Brommer 132; Cordier Sinica III, 2393; Hill I, 94
(American edition); Prideaux pp.250-1, 335; Tooley 208; Young p.315.
2,750
98
[ref: 93804]
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FORTUNE, ROBERT. A Journey to the Tea Countries of China,

Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills:With a short notice
of the East India Companys tea plantations in the Himalaya
Mountains.
Fortune, traveller and botanist, became superintendent of
the indoor-plant department in the Royal Horticultural
Societys garden at Chiswick. In 1842 he was sent as collector
to the society to China. He visited Java on his way out in
1843 and Manilla in 1845, returning to England in 1846 after
many adventures from shipwreck, pirates, hostile natives, and
fever. He entered the city of Loo-chow, at that time closed
to Europeans, disguised as a Chinaman. Among the many
beautiful and interesting plants which he then sent home were
the double yellow rose and the fan-palm (Chamrops Fortunei)
that bear his name, the Japanese anemone, many varieties of
the tree-peonies, long cultivated in North China, the kumquat
(Citrus japonica), Weigela rosea, and Dicentra spectabilis, besides
various azaleas and chrysanthemums. He was appointed
curator of the Chelsea Botanical Garden, but had to resign
in 1848 on his return to China to collect plants and seeds of
the tea-shrub on behalf of the East India Company. In 1851
he successfully introduced two thousand plants and seventeen
thousand sprouting seeds of the tea into the north-west
provinces of India, as described in this work.
First edition. 8vo,xvi, 398 pp., additional pictorial title printed in red, map, 3 fullpage plates (2 tinted lithographs), illustrations in the text, contemporary half calf
gilt, green morocco lettering piece, a fine copy.
Cordier Sinica 2116; Taylor 40.
1,250
[ref: 93673]
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69.
FORTUNE, ROBERT. A residence among the Chinese: inland,

on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and
adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856.
Including notices of many natural productions and works of art.
The culture of silk, &c; with suggestions on the present war.
Fortune went to China first in the capacity of Botanical
Collector to the Horticultural Society of London. He was
engaged by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East
India Company in procuring supplies of tea-plants, seeds,
implements, and green-tea makers, for the government
plantations in the Himalayas and later to procure some firstrate black-tea makers for the experimental tea-farms in India.
First edition. 8vo., xvi, 440pp., frontispiece, 21 illustrations, original brown pebblegrained blind-stamped cloth gilt, light wear, an excellent copy.
Cordier, Sinica, 2116.
875
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70. GONZALZ DE MENDOZA, JUAN. Histoire du grand royaume

de la Chine, situ aux Indes orientales: contenant la situation,
antiquit, fertilit, religion ... dudit royaume: plus, trois voyages faits
vers iceluy en lan 1577, 1579, & 1581 ... ensemble un itineraire
du nouveau monde, & le descouvrement du nouveau Mexique en
lan 1583.Translated by Luc de La Porte.
Jean Arnaud, [Geneva],1606.
Fourth edition in French of Historia de las cosas mas notables
y costumbres del gran reyno de la China (first published in
Spanish in Rome, 1585), the first serious survey of China. The
sixth book contains the Itineraire du Nouvveau Monde by
Ignacio de Loyola (d. 1606). According to Ortelius, the final
part concerning China, provided him with more information
than any other single treatise.
Provenance: some early inscriptions on flyleaves.
8vo (15.9 x 9.6 cm). (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary mottled calf,
spine gilt neat repairs to extremities, an excellent example.
Brunet, II, 1662; Cordier Sinica I, 13; JCB (1919) II, p. 39; Palau 105510; Sabin 27780.
2,850
100
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71.
GONZLEZ DE MENDOZA, JUAN. Nova et succincta, vera

tamen historia de amplissimo, potentissimoque, nostro quidem
orbi hactenus incognito, sed perpaucis abhinc annis explorato
Regno China.
[S. Feyerabend?], Frankfurt: [1589].
FIRST LATIN EDITION of this important general description
of China, containing the accounts of the Augustinian and
Franciscan friars to China via the Philippines. The first edition
in German appeared previously the same year. The work also
includes an itinerary of the New World and the discovery
of Mexico, translated by Luc de la Porte from the writings
of Father Margin Ignacio, detailing his travels to Mexico, the
Canaries, Santa Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
According to Nicholas Antonio, the ... Itinerary of the New
World ... was written by F. Martin Ignacio, and was never
published separately... The itinerary gives curious details
concerning the Canaries, St. Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto
Rico, and especially Mexico. Ortelius, in his Atlas, declared
that he had received more information concerning America,
from this itinerary than from any other single book (Sabin
27775). The book is dedicated to Count Anton Fugger.
Provenance: Jesuit College of Brussels (early inscription at
head of title); early ex dono inscription on title: Dono R.D.
Clemens decanis and purchase note on rear endpaper; Sir
Thomas Phillipps copy (shelfmark visible beneath later front
pastedown); Philip Robinson (sale Sothebys London, 22
November 1988, lot 47).
8vo (15.4 x 9.5 cm). Title printed in red and black; with two final blank leaves
present at end. Contemporary vellum with overlapping fore-edges, edges stained
red (rebacked).
Adams G-870; Alden & Landis 589/30; Cordier Sinica I, 14-15; Lust 27; Palau
105516; Sabin 27781.
5,000
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72. HOLMES, W. J. H. Report on Tung Kong Ping Yung and Hoi Wai
Highways and reconnaissance of routes for proposed HighwayWaichow to Hoi Fung Yuen, Kwong Tung Province, China.
April, 1922.
The document was probably produced in small numbers,

possibly only 2 or 3 copies - the present example and
perhaps a copy for the Canton office and the head office of
the engineering company in New York.
THE ORIGINAL TYPED ENGINEERS REPORT FOR THE RECONNAISSANCE OF

ROUTES FOR THE PROPOSED WAICHOW TO HOI FUNG YUEN HIGHWAY.
THIS REPORT PROVIDES A FINE VISUAL RECORD OF THE PROVINCE AND

IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY.
The report was for the Commissioner of Highways,

Province of Kwong Tung. The report also contains Homes
observations on the roads already under construction in the
province. The engineer, Holmes, was employed by the James
A. Rabbitt Engineering Company, Canton office.
4to., 50 pp., printed on versos only, plan, 69 original mounted photographs,

including 8 composite panoramic views. Pocket at front containing additional
photographs and documents, original green cloth gilt, excellent condition.
Employed by the Commissioner of Highways for the

Province of Kwong Tung [Canton, now Guangdong], Colonel
Holmes undertook a five week survey through an area of
China largely bereft of roads, with the brief of finding routes
to link the isolated inland communities with the coast, so
that they could benefit from the sea trade to Hong Kong.
As well as recording the distances, topography and geology
of the routes, he also comments on the agriculture, industry
and size of local populations. Due to the seasonal flooding,
the routes needed to be carefully chosen and a great many
bridges anticipated. He gives costings for the routes, but
also comments and takes photographs. Close outside the
village of Sun Um Hui is a hot mineral spring in which the
local people have been bathing probably for many centuries
and is reputed to have qualities beneficial to health. I suggest
that this water be analysed and if its reputation is sustained
then the ground be acquired by the government and on
completion of the highway, baths and a bathing pool be
neatly constructed of cement concrete, and a hotel erected.
This properly arranged and managed could be made a
source of revenue as a pleasing health and holiday resort.
Among the large number of photographs there are 8
composite panoramic views; surely the earliest panoramas of
the region.
102
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73.
HOOD, JOHN. A fine pair of marine drawings depicting East

India Company ships.
The Tryton, Gilbert Slater commander latitude 20. 30 South
Mer: Dist from Java Head 32 West 26th Jan.y 1751/2
Signed John Hood at Limehouse 1769 [TOGETHER WITH]
The Durrington, Richard Crabb commander latitude 32 South
longitude from London 42 East the 30th May 1748. The
Stretham, Captn William Pinnell in company. Signed John
Hood. Delin. Fecit. 1765
104
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These two large pen and wash sea-pieces of East Indiamen

were drawn by the Limehouse shipwright and marine artist
John Hood. An exhibitor at the Society of Artists and the
Free Society in the 1760s, Hood is known in particular for
large drawings of this type achieved in Indian ink. The
drawing of the Triton shows the ship in high seas off Java
head in January 1752. Despite two broken masts, the East
Indiaman, launched in 1751 and on this voyage captained
by Gilbert Slater (d.1785), survived the storm, seeing
service trading between England, China and India into the
early 1760s. Capt. Richard Crabb made his fortune with

the Durrington, the other ship depicted here, on a voyage
to Mocha in 1749.This voyage may be that recorded in
a contemporary printed pamphlet A narrative of the very
extraordinary adventures and sufferings of Mr William Wills, late
surgeon on board the Durrington Indiaman, Captain Richard
Crabb, in her late voyage to the East Indies ...
(London, 1750-1)
Several similar examples of Hoods maritime drawings are

held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
2 pen and ink drawings, (image approx. 69 x 41.5cm ; sheet approx. 71 x 46 cm)
contemporary ink title at foot, laid down on backing sheet for preservation, very
good, framed and glazed. Both signed by the artist.
7,500
[ref: 94104]
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74. JOUVE, JOSEPH. Histoire de la conquete de la Chine par

les Tartares mancheoux: a laquelle on a joint un Accord
chronologique des annales de la monarchie chinoise, avec les
epoques de lancienne histoire sacre & profane, depuis le
Dluge jusqu Jesus-Christ... Par M.Vojeu de Brunem B & P.D.M.
Freres Duplain, Lyons: 1754.
FIRST EDITION of this history of the conquest of China by the
Manchus written under an anagram of the letters in his name
Vojeu de Brunem.
Cordier deduced that the pseudonym was a mixture of
an anagram and four other letters. The anagram stood for
Father Joseph dEmbrun, i.e. Joseph-Baptiste Jouve who was
born in Embrun. The four other letters could have meant
bibliothcaire et professeur de morale (Lust).
Extracted from Joseph-Anne-Marie de Moyriac de Maillas
(1669-1748) manuscript translation of Thoung-kian-kang-mou,
itself an extract from the great Chinese annals which the
Chinese emperor had prepared in the Manchurian language.
Mailla had sent the manuscript to France in 1737. It was later
published as the 13-volume Histoire gnrale de la Chine
(Paris, 1777-1785).
The Accord de la chronologie des annales de la Chine ...
(volume 2, pp. 207-318) is an abridgment of an unpublished
manuscript, entitled Concordia chronologica annalium Sinensis
imperii (Cordier 562), by Jean-Baptiste Rgis (1664-1738).
Rgis was a fellow Jesuit of de Mailla and his colleague in a
cartographical survey of China.
2 volumes, 12mo (14.6 x 8.6 cm). Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt
in compartments, morocco labels, a very attractive example.
Cioranescu XVIII, 34744; Cordier Sinica I, 629-630; De Backer & Sommervogel IV,
859-860; Lust 436; Morrison II, 32; Pei-tang 370; Qurard IV, p. 256; Streit VII: 3433.
1,500
106
[ref: 93803]
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75.
KAEMPFER, ENGELBERT. Histoire Naturelle, Civile, et Ecclsiastique

de lEmpire du Japon: Compose en Allemand ... & traduite en
Franois sur la Version Anglaise de Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer.
P.Gosse & J.Neaulme, The Hague: 1729.
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. A TALL COPY.
Engelbert Kaempfers history of Japan was a best-seller from
the moment it was published. Born in Westphalia in 1651,
Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before
settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the
Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years
residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691
and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer,
an astonishing amount of valuable and accurate information.
He also learned all he could from the few Japanese who
came to Deshima for instruction in the European sciences.
To these observations, Kaempfer added details he had
gathered from a wide reading of travelers accounts and
the reports of previous trading delegations. The result was
the first scholarly study of Tokugawa Japan in the West, a

work that greatly influenced the European view of Japan
throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
serving as a reference for a variety of works ranging from
encyclopedias to the libretto of The Mikado.
Kaempfers work remains one of the most valuable sources
for historians of the Tokugawa period. The narrative describes
what no Japanese was permitted to record (the details of the
shoguns castle, for example) and what no Japanese thought
worthy of recording (the minutiae of everyday life).
2 volumes in one, folio (38.8 x 25.2 cm). Titles printed in red and black with
engraved vignettes. Engraved frontispiece, one head-piece, 45 engraved plates,
plans and maps (mostly double-page or folding). (Engraved title margin browned,
occasional very minor spotting or browning.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt (minor
wear to joints and extremities), an excellent example.
Brunet III.638; Cordier, Japonica, 416; Cox I, p. 332-333; DSB VII, 204-5; Jones
Checklist, 433. Nordenskild 514; Qurard IV, p. 282; Wroth 90 (map).
5,000
[ref: 93801]
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76. LE COMTE, LOUIS. Nouveaux memoires sur ltat prsent de

la Chine. Par le P. Louis le Comte de la Compagnie de Jesus,
mathmetician du Roy.
Jean Anisson, Paris, 1696.
FIRST EDITION of Le Comtes account from when he served as
a missionary in China from 1687 to 1692.
The work contains letters of members of French court circles
dealing with his travels in China, and observations on Chinese
civilization. The second volume consists largely of discussions
on Chinese popular religion and missionary activities. Although
intended to bolster the Jesuit position in the Rites Controversy,
it quickly became a focus of dispute, and Refutations were
written by the Jesuits opponents and the book was eventually
censored. Despite the opposition it was translated into several
other languages and frequently reprinted.
Provenance: Monastere de la visitation Ste. Marie de Meaux
(contemporary inscription on front pastedowns); Jean
Baptiste Pl (later ownership inscription on rear flyleaf of first
volume: Ce prsent livres apartien a moy Jean Baptiste Pl je
prie ceux ou celle qui le trouverron deme le rapport il aurron
recompanse dunne bouttel de vinle second de la republique
francoise 1793).
2 volumes, 12mo (15.7 x 9.7 cm). 20 engraved plates (2 folding), and one
folding table. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt neat repairs to joints and
extremities, an attractive set.
Cioranescu XVII, 41454; Cordier Sinica I, 39; De Backer & Sommervogel II, 1356;
Qurard V, p. 58, Streit V: 2714. This edition not in Lust.
1,500
108
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MAYER, WILLIAM FREDERICK; N[ICHOLAS] B[ELFIELD] DENNYS.

The treaty ports of China and Japan. A complete guide to
the open ports of those countries, together with Peking,Yedo,
Hongkong and Macao. Forming a guide book & vade mecum
for travellers, merchants, and residents in general. By Wm. Fred.
Mayers, N. B. Dennys, and Chas. King. Compiled and edited by
N. B. Dennys.
Trubner and Co., London, 1867.
As trade between the East and the West grew in the midnineteenth century, increasing numbers of Westerners travelled
to China and Japan, and in 1867 this guide to the key port cities
such as Hong Kong and Nagasaki was published in both Hong
Kong and London. Its editor, Nicholas Belfield Dennys (?1813
99) claimed it was the first such comprehensive handbook
printed for public distribution. Intended for visitors and new

residents, the guide was originally typeset in China, allowing place
names and other words to be printed in Chinese characters.
The specially commissioned maps were also engraved in China.
The book includes physical descriptions and brief histories of
over twenty cities, details of schools and libraries, population
statistics and much practical information, as well as a list of other
publications on China and Japan. It is a valuable historical source
on East Asia during a period of rapid change.
First edition. 8vo., viii, [i], 668, [i], xlviii, [i], 26, [i]pp., 28 (of 29) coloured maps
(mostly folding) lacks general map of China, contemporary calf, morocco lettering
piece, a very good copy.
Cordier Sinica 2211; Japonica 588.
3,750
[ref: 93805]
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78.
MENNIE, DONALD. The Pageant of Peking.

Watson, Shanghai, 1922.
The aesthetic photographer, Donald Mennie (1809-1941)
was active in Shanghai and Peking from 1920 until the late
30s. His soft-toned images of the capital show Mennies
admiration for the Chinese and their culture. The work
includes photos of famous views such as the Summer
Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of
shopkeepers, merchants, travellers, and monks going about
their business.
Third edition. Folio, [viii], 40, [ii]pp., 66 photographed plates, original blue silk
boards gilt, bevelled edges, spine faded, a very good example.
1,250
110
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79. [ORME, ROBERT]. Historical fragments of the Mogul empire. Of

the Morattoes, and of the English concerns, in Indostan, from
the year M, DC, LIX.
Printed for C. Nourse in the Strand, London, 1782.
Orme entered the East India Companys service in 1743 and
served as a member of the council at Madras 1754-58. After
his return to England he was appointed Historiographer to
the Company in 1769.
First edition. 8vo., [2],234,[44],[3]pp., 3 folding maps, modern half calf gilt, red
morocco label , an excellent copy.
Pickett 1282.
650
[ref: 93634]
BOTH VOYAGES
80. TACHARD, GUI. Voyage de Siam, des Peres Jesuites, envoyez
par le Roy aux Indes & la Chine. [WITH] Second Voyage ...
I. Arnould Seneuze & Daniel Horthemels, II. Daniel
Horthemels, Paris,1686 & 1689.
FIRST EDITIONS. Louis XIV was persuaded by an adventurer
named Constantin Faulcon, born in Cephalonia, who was
in high favour at the court of Siam that the King of this
country was disposed to turn to Christianity and persuade
his subjects to do likewise. Tachard the most erudite of the
missionaries was given the task of describing their voyages to
Siam. The fine engraved plates show elephants, ginseng root,
costumes, and royal barges.
A large part of the work relates to the kindly reception given
to the Jesuit fathers by the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope;
Java, Sumatra and Bantam were also visited and described.
2 volumes, 4to., First work: Engraved title-vignette, head- and tail-pieces; 20
engraved plates (10 double-page) engraved by C. Vermeulen after P. Sevin;
Second work: 6 folding engraved plates (one with short closed tear), some lower
fore-corners lightly dampstained. Contemporary French mottled calf, spines gilt in
compartments, an excellent set.
de Backer VII:1802; Brunet V, 632; Chadenat 187; Cioranescu XVII:63975; Cox I, 328.
5,750
[ref: 93808]
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EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLE
81.
THORN, WILLIAM. Memoir of the conquest of Java.To which is

subjoined the result of observations made in a tour through that
country.
Robert Wilks, London, 1815.
FIRST EDITION OF THORNS IMPORTANT MEMOIR OF THE 1811
CONQUEST OF JAVA, PROVIDING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MILITARY
EXPEDITION AND MORE GENERAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE ISLANDS

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
The book is notable for its fine aquatint views of Batavia.

The plates are by Joseph Jeakes who worked as a painter
and engraver in London, probably after drawings by Johannes
Rach and his school. The most important of these is the
Water Castle (Taman Sari), built by Sultan Hamenkubuwana
I of Jogjakarta from 1758, the first print to depict this justly
famed architectural wonder of central Java (Bastin).
William Thorn (1781-1843) began his military career in 1799
in the 29th Light Dragoons. He served in the Maratha Wars
under Lord Lake and in the expeditions against Mauritius in
1810 and Java in 1811. Deputy Quartermaster-General of
the British army in the island, and took part in the actions
against Palembang and Jogjakarta in 1812.
Provenance: Kings Inns Library, Dublin (stamp on title verso
and verso of map).
4to (31.5 x 25 cm). One large engraved map, 17 plates, one engraved, the rest
aquatints by J. Jeakes, 4 folding, 18 engraved maps or plans, one with handcoloured outlines and 12 folding. Extra illustrated with 7 double-page engraved
plates showing cross-sections of ships, with 1815 imprint of T. Cadell and W.
Davies. Some spotting affecting a minority of plates, half-title spotted. Modern
half calf over contemporary marbled boards, old marbled pastedowns preserved
(free endpapers modern but matching), an attractive example.
Abbey, Travel 553.
8,500
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82.
WHIGHAM, H. J. Manchuria and Korea

Isbister, London, 1904.
First edition of a fine eye-witness accounts to the turbulent
events in Manchuria at the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition. 8vo., x, 245pp, 2pp. publishers ads.; complete with map and 13
photographic illustrations. A couple of leaves roughly opened, original ochre
buckram, a very good copy.
295
[ref: 94055]
83.
, [PIASETSKIY, PAVEL
YAKOVLEVICH]. [Life and
Medical Treatment in China].
Katkov, Univer. tip., Moskva, 1882.
Pavel Piasetskiy (1843 - 1919) was only a respected doctor
but also talented artist and writer. These versatile abilities
ensured his participation in a number of official Russian
expeditions to Asia and Middle East. In 1874 he joined a
trade expedition to China (1874-75) headed by colonel
Yulian Sosnovskiy. After its completion, Piasetskiy described
his ethnographical, geographical and scientific finding in the
work titled A Journey around China (
).
He published in a separate work his observations related to
the public health and medical treatment. This is the second
edition, after the first published in 1876 under another title
.
A fine example of this rare work: we could trace only one
copy in public institutions outside Russia, in the Rasmuson
library in Fairbanks.
Octavo. Title, 89 pp.; lower margin of title and some leaves slightly cut not
affecting text. Late green cloth spine over marbled boards.
375
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Ottoman World,
Middle-East &
Central Asia
84.
ALEXANDER, CAPTAIN JAMES EDWARD. Travels to the seat of

war in the East, through Russia and the Crimea, in 1829.With
sketches of the Imperial Fleet and Army, personal adventures,
and characteristic anecdotes.
Henry Colburn, London, 1830.
Alexander (1803-1885), served with the East India Company.
Upon leaving their service he served aide-de-camp to
Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, and was present
with the Persian army during the war of 1826 with Russia,
and received the Persian order of the Lion and Sun. On 26
October 1827 he was gazetted to the 16th lancers. He went
to the Balkans during the Russo-Turkish War of 1829, and
received the Turkish order of the Crescent.
Provenance: Hugh Selbourne (small circular stamp to foot of
title verso).
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxii, 308; xii, 327, [i] pp., folding engraved map, 14
plates (3 hand-coloured aquatints) including a sheet of music, wood engraved
illustrations in text, contemporary black half calf gilt, morocco labels, marbled
sides and edges, a fine set.
Abbey Travel 229; Prideaux 325.
1,250
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85.
arNOld, SIr (rObert) artHur. Through Persia By caravan.

Tinsley brothers, London, 1877.
Arnold (1833-1902), radical and writer, made a journey
through the East with his wife. They rode the whole length
of Persia, a distance of more than 1000 miles, and his Through
Persia by Caravan (1877), dedicated to Earl and Countess
Granville, gave a lively account of his adventures (ODNB).
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xv, 333.; xi, 325pp.,original purple cloth gilt recased
preserving most of spines, a very good set.
500
[ref: 94054]
86. BELLEW, HENRY WALTER. The races of Afghanistan, being a brief

account of the principal nations inhabiting that country.
Thacker, Spink, Calcutta, 1880.
SCARCE CALCUTTA PRINTING. The author accompanied Forsyth
to Yarkand as chief medical officer and was also part of
Pollocks earlier mission to Sistan.
Provenance: Lord Raglan (Cefntilla bookplate).
First edition. 8vo., 124pp., 40 pages of ads dated May 1880 at end, original
brown cloth gilt, pictorial gilt vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, light wear, a
fine copy.
Yakushi B271.
1,250
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87. COMIDAS DE CARBOGNANO, COSIMO. Descrizione

Topografica Dello Stato Presente Di Costantinopli, arricchita di
figure umiliata alla sacra real maesta di Ferdinando IV.
[Giuseppe Remondini], Bassano, 1794.
THIS WORK INCLUDES VIEWS OF MONUMENTS IN ISTANBUL AND ITS
SURROUNDING AREA; THE DRAWINGS CONSTITUTE AN INVALUABLE
SOURCE ON MOSQUES, AQUEDUCTS, WALLS AND OTHER LANDMARKS OF

THE CITY.
Carbognano was a Catholic Armenian, dragoman to the

Count of the Two Sicilies at Contantinople. This book was
probably inspired by Mouradja dOhssons work. Carbognano
also wrote a Turkish grammar which appeared in the same
year. Blackmer
First edition. 4to.,viii, 81, [iii] pp., 26 engraved plates and maps, some folding,
nineteenth century calf-backed boards, rebacked, new endpapers, a very
good example.
Blackmer 386; Ko I, 164.
4,500
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88. DAPPER, OLFERT. Asia, of Naukeurige beschryving van het

rijk des Grooten Mogols, en een groote gedeelte van Indin ...
beneffens een volkome beschryving van geheel Persie, Georgie,
Mengrelie en andere gebuur-gewesten... [Part 2]: Beschrijving
des koningrycks van Persie ... Beneffens de onderhorige
gebuur-gewesten van Georgie, Imereti, Kacheti, Karduel, Guriel,
Mengrelie, Avogasie, Cirkassie, Albanie, Kurdistan en Gurgistan
Jakob van Meurs, Amsterdam, 1672.
First edition. Olfert Dapper (1636-1689) was a Flemish
doctor and erudite, in particular an excellent scholar
of Classic Greek and Latin literature. He was born in
Amsterdam and studied at Utrect. Dapper never travelled
but instead dedicated himself to geographical studies. The
numerous sources he cites throughout his texts testify to the
wealth of knowledge he possessed. Thorough and systematic,
he directed a team of fellow writers in an exemplary manner.
With remarkable frequency, Dapper published voluminous
historical and geographical works on China, Asia, Africa,
America and Amsterdam, as well as on the islands of the
Eastern Mediterranean. His books are embellished with maps
and engravings of rare beauty (Laskaridis Foundation).
The first volume covers Central Asia and northern India and
the second volume describes Persia and Georgia.
Provenance: Dr. R. Rickaert (bookplate).
3 parts in one volume, Folio (38.3 x 23.8 cm). Engraved frontispiece, title printed
in red and black, 32 engraved plates and maps (12 double-page), numerous
engravings in text. (Some plates and text browned or stained, one plate with old
reinforcement on verso.) Contemporary Dutch gilt-panelled mottled calf, covers
with centrally gilt-stamped arabesque, spine gilt-panelled with dark morocco
lettering-piece, front joint and spine ends repaired, a handsome example.
Bell 1686 fDa; Brunet 28341; Graesse 335; Wilson p. 53.
5,500
[ref: 93796]
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89.
[CRIMEAN WAR] - ANDREWS, LIEUT-COL. MOTTRAM. A

Series of Views in Turkey and the Crimea, from the Embarcation
at Gallipoli to the Fall of Sebastopol. From the original sketches
taken on the spot by Lieut. Col. Andrews. Executed with the
latest improvements in tinted lithography by John Sutcliffe.
McLean, London, 1856.
RARE AND IMPORTANT VISUAL RECORD OF THE CRIMEAN WAR
ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS OF THE WAR AFFECTED AREAS IN TURKEY AND

THE MAIN BATTLEGROUNDS IN
CRIMEA.
The plates, executed with the latest improvements

in tinted lithography show surroundings of Varna and
Gallipoli, a panorama of the lake of Devna and the views
of battlegrounds in Crimea, including Inkerman, Balaklava,
Sevastopol and its environs, and a large folding panorama of
the Sevastopol harbour.
Mottram Andrews served during the Crimean War (1853-56)
as a Captain of the 28th Foot (North Gloucester) Regiment
of the British Army, which participated in the Battles of Alma
(20th September) and Inkerman (November 5, 1854) of the
Crimean War, as well as in the Siege of Sevastopol (October
1854 - September 1855). After retirement Andrews was
promoted to an honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel on
September 9th, 1855. His on-the-spot drawings of Sevastopol
and other places were the basis for the lithographs with
accompanying descriptions for the folio volume soon
produced for military and aristocratic subscribers.
List of plates:
1. View in the Trenches (vignette on title page);
2 The Encampment at Bulahair;
3. Town and Bay of Varna;
4. South Wharfs and Road to the Encampment of the 3rd
Division, overlooking General Eyres Tents;
5. Lake of Devna from the Embarkation of the 3rd Division;
6. Balaklava Harbour from the Naval Sanatorium;
7. Monastry of St George, Capa Aya;
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8. Valley of the Tychernaya and Ruins of Inkermann;

9. View of Sebastopol from the Heights in Front of the
Third Division;
10. Piquet House and Magazines;
11. Encampment of the 18th and 30th Regiments (with the
3rd Division Hospitals in the Distance);
12. Sebastopol from the Ovens;
13. Aqueduct over the Tchernaya;
14. View of the Cemetery from No.11 Battery;
15. Entrance into Sebastopol by the Woronzoff Road;
16. View of the Town of Sebastopol, from the Road to the
Karabelnaia;
17. Church in the Karabelnaia;
18. Barracks in the Karabelnaia.
Folio (56 x 37 cm). Lithographed title, dedication [2]pp., list of subscribers [2]pp.,
17 tinted lithographed plates by Sutcliffe after the author, incl. 2 folding, complete
with 9 ll. of descriptive text; some dusting, spotting and browning, mostly marginal,
some plates mounted on new guards and with restored marginal losses.
Contemporary red half calf, gild ruled, spine in six compartments, richly gilt,
Abbey Travel 238; not in Blackmer.
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90.
KENNEDY, SIR ALEXANDER B.W. Petra its history and monuments.

Country Life, London, 1925.
The first chapter is by St. John Philby, who along with Sir
Aurel Stein and the author was responsible for many of the
illustrations.This book is the most complete monograph on the
ruins of Petra.The author received the co-operation of Husain,
King of Nejd and Hejaz who gave him the title of Pasha.
91.
LANSDELL, HENRY. Russian Central Asia including Kuldja,

Bokhara, Khiva and Merv.
Sampson, London, 1885.
The author travelled from England to Semipalatinsk through
western Siberia in 1882, distributing bible tracts to hospitals
and prisons. The work gives an account of his adventures in
the Tien Shan mountains, whose northern face he skirted.
First edition. 4to (31.5 x 25.5 cm). xiv, 88pp., 211 photographic illustrations in
sepia including 4 aerial plates, 4 maps, original green cloth gilt, an excellent copy.
A very attractive example of the first edition, with its great

publishers binding in bright condition.
375
Provenance: Penhallow (armorial bookplate and signature)
[ref: 93835]
Two volumes, 8vo., xxxii, 684; xvi, 732pp., photographic frontispiece of the author,
2 folding maps (1 with tear to fold and fraying to outer margin), wood-engraved
illustrations and plates, 3 pages ads end of vol. i, original blue pictorial cloth gilt,
a fine set.
Yakushi L74a.
1,500
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92.
LAWRENCE, T. E. Crusader Castles, edited by A.W. Lawrence.

The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1936.
The classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the
military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence
(of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in 1910. At
the end of the nineteenth century, it was generally assumed
that these castles were the prototype for the massive
buildings erected in Northern France and England in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Lawrence opposed this
view. Unlike earlier writers on the subject, he was already
familiar with castles in England, Wales, France and Syria as
a result of a series of expeditions made on bicycle or foot,
culminating in 1909 in a three-and-a-half month walking tour
of the Levant. Although his thesis was to guarantee him a
first-class degree in Modern History, its impact on scholarship
was slower to take effect. The typescript remained virtually
unknown until 1936, a year after the authors death, when it
appeared in the present limited edition.
First edition, number 24 of 1,000 copies, 2 volumes, 4to., titles printed in red,
collotype frontispiece in volume 2, collotype and line facsimiles, illustrations,
maps and plans after Lawrence in the text, many full-page, some colour-printed.
2 folding maps after H. Pirie-Gordon contained in a loosely-inserted envelope,
original red crushed half morocco over cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spines gilt,
top edge gilt, others uncut, extremities lightly rubbed, spines slightly faded, cloth
lightly marked.
OBrien A188 & A189.
2,000
[ref: 93934]
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93.
LYNCH, HENRY FINNIS BLOSSE. Armenia, travels and studies.

Longmans, London, 1901.
Lynch, (18621913), traveller and politician, claimed
Armenian descent via his maternal grandmother.
He devoted considerable time and energy to a subject
contemporaries referred to as the Armenian question.
The plight of the Armenian nation was close to his heart,
primarily, it seems, as a result of his personal ancestry. This
familial connection appears to have inspired the two journeys
he made to his maternal grandmothers homeland in 18934
and 1898. During the first he ascended Mount Ararat
before visiting Erivan, Etchmiadzin, Ani, Kars, Van, Aghtamar,
Bitlis, Mush, Erzurum, and Trebizond. In addition to keeping
a detailed diary he documented his voyage with extensive
photographs. After his first trip he conveyed in leading
British periodicals (notably the Contemporary Review) his
apprehensions about both Russian and Ottoman policy in
their respective Armenian territories. His return visit in 1898
revealed a typically late Victorian stress on scientific accuracy
(Walker, 98). He concentrated on mapping the region and
gathering details about its geography, from the chemical
composition of Lake Van to the precise measurements of the
great crater of Nimrud Dagh.
Lynch eventually published his political, cultural, and scientific
findings in two compendious volumes entitled Armenia:
Travels and Studies (1901). Aimed at rectifying the dearth
of knowledge about the country in Britain, the monograph
in many ways aspired to do for its author what Persia and
the Persian Question (1892) had earlier done for George
Curzons career. Although reviewers were less charitable
than they had been to the future proconsul, they generally
commended Lynchs extraordinary photographs and
his insights about Armenias inhabitants, a people whose
progressive tendencies the author was convinced made
them eager to assimilate Western thought (Contemporary
Review, July 1894, 246). He did not mention his Armenian
heritage anywhere in the text, presumably fearing that such
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an admission might be seen to impair his objectivity. Despite

their defects, Lynchs works remain for many Armenians the
best evocation in words and pictures of a lost homeland
only years before the hammer blow of deportation and
massacre in 1915 (Young, 500). In the words of one historian,
Henry F. B. Lynch, par son tmoignage fondamental, savre tre
pour lArmnie, le plus grand voyageur des temps modernes
(Kvorkian, 9). (ODNB).
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xvi, 470; xii, 512 pp., large folding map in pocket
at end, 197 illustrations after photographs and sketches by the author, 15 other
maps and plans, original blue and cream buckram gilt, light soiling to covers, a
very good set.
C. J. Walker, Visions of Ararat: writings on Armenia (1996); R. H. Kvorkian, Henry
Lynch, un voyageur des temps modernes, Photographies originales, fragments
dun discours dArmnie, ed. H. F. B. Lynch (1990); C. Young, The quest for Henry
Finnis Blosse Lynch, Between Paris and Fresno: Armenian studies in honor of
Dickran Kouymjian, ed. B. Der Mugrdechian (2008), 499509.
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94. MIGNAN, ROBERT. A winter journey through Russia, the

Caucasian Alps, and Georgia: thence across Mount Zagros ... into
Koordistan.
Richard Bentley, London, 1839.
In the late 1820s, Captain Robert Mignan served in the 1st
Bombay European Regiment and commanded the escort
attached to the resident of the British East India Company. In
1829 he departed, with his wife, two children and servants,
from London to return to his military duties in Western India.
He decided to reach his destination through the Russian
Empire and first sailed to St. Petersburg, where he landed in
late October. He was soon informed that prince Khosrow,
the son of Crown Prince Abbas Mirza of Persia, was about to
return to Tehran and solicited his permission to accompany
him on his return journey. During one of the receptions
organized at Prince Golitsyns estate, Mignan came across
the famed German traveler Alexander Humboldt who had
just returned from his expedition to the Ural Mountains.
At Humboldts suggestion, Mignon decided to explore the
western coastline of the Caspian Sea and during the winter
of 1829 he traveled to the Caucasus, followed the more
fearfully rugged road than any over which we had ever
passed through the mountains and reached Tiflis in January
1830. He spent several days in Tiflis before travelling through
eastern Georgia on his way to northwestern Iran. In 1839 he
published his travelogue A winter journey through Russia,
the Caucasian Alps, and Georgia. (http://foreigners-georgia.
blogspot.co.uk).
Volume 2 concerns Iraq, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf.
Provenance: Sion College Library, old stamp on verso of titles.
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., half-title in volume 1 (not called for in vol.2), 3
plates, a few illustrations in text, contemporary half calf, neat repairs to joints, a
very good set.
3,000
[ref: 93864]
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WITH ARISTOCRATIC PROVENANCE

95.
OLEARIUS, ADAM. Voyages Trs curieux & trs-renommez faits

en Moscovie,Tartarie et Perse... Dans lesquels on trouve une
Description curieuse & la Situation exacte des Pays & Etats, par
o il a pass, tels que sont la Livonie, la Moscovie, la Tartarie, la
Medie, & la Perse; Et o il est parl du Naturel, des Manieres
de vivre, des Moeurs, & des Coutumes de leurs Habitans; du
Gouvernement Politique & Ecclesiastique, des Raretez qui se
trouvent dans ce Pays; & des Ceremonies qui sy observent.
Michel Charles Le Cne, Amsterdam, 1727.
A RICHLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF OLEARIUS CELEBRATED TRAVEL
70 years before by Abraham Wicquefort
and edited by Van der Aa; from the collection of one of the
most important families of the Belgian nobility.
ACCOUNT, translated
Olearius (Adam Oehlschlaeger, 1603-71) travelled to Ispahan

in the train of the Duke of Holstein on his mission to the tsar
and the king of Persia this was the first German expedition
to Persia.
The head of the [Diplomatic] Mission was one Otto
Brugman who according to Olearius was a boor and an idiot.
[...] Brugman seems to have insulted every official along the
way, molested Armenian women and heaped abuse on his
subordinates. [...] Brugman came to a sad ending. He was
executed on 5 May 1640 for adultery. Olearius, who had a
most unpleasant stay in Persia, comments on many aspects
of Persian life and what he witnessed [...] The ambassador
and the author had an audience with Shah Safi whom he
described as humourless. The author was probably unaware
that Shah Safi was drunk most of the time (Ghani).
Oleariuss account greatly influenced European opinion of
Russia and Persia in the 17th and 18th centuries. The work is
of importance cartographically especially for its large map of
the river Volga. The illustrations include a large folding plate of
Riga, and fine views of Tver, Danzig, Moscow, Kazan, Samara,
Bagdad and Ispahan among many others.
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Provenance: House of de Merode Westerloo (armorial

bookplate to upper pastedown with motto Plus dhonneur
que dhonneurs).
Two volumes in one folio (32.5 x 21 cm). Half-title, title, [32] pp., 560 columns
on [280] pp., with engraved portrait of the author, 12 folding engraved maps,
19 folding and 2 full-page engraved plates, and 40 engravings in text; half-title,
title, 565-1108 columns on [272], [21] pp. table and privilege, with 8 folding
engraved plates and 19 engravings in text -- in all 29 engraved plates, 12
engr. maps, an engr. portrait and 59 engravings in text; uniform browning to
some quires and a couple of plates, a folding plate a bit frayed at external edge.
Contemporary brown calf, spine with raised bands with decorative ornaments in
compartments, two morocco labels with gilt lettering, red speckled edges; slightly
rubbed, joints repaired.
Atabey 884 (missing a leaf and with an engraved title from Van der Aas 1719
edition); Boucher de la Richarderie I, 187 (wrong date); Brunet IV, 178; Ghani
286; Ulyaninskiy 3949.
4,950
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96. PALGRAVE, WILLIAM GIFFORD. Narrative of a years journey
through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63).
RARE PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED TO HIS AUNT: TO H. GUNN
/ FROM HER AFFECTIONATE NEPHEW / W. GIFFORD PALGRAVE / JUNE
14TH 1865 WITH A FURTHER INSCRIPTION IN ARABIC BENEATH.
William Palgrave (1826-1828) was drawn to the Arab world
by early impressions from reading the Arab romance Antar.
For some years he was a successful missionary, and became
so accustomed to Arab society that he could pass as a native
of the Middle East without difficulty.
In the employ of the French, his first mission was to sound
Halim Pasha about becoming viceroy of Egypt under French
suzerainty; although that project failed, Palgrave used the
opportunity to prepare plans for a French invasion of Syria
from Egypt. His next mission was to report on the Arabian
kingdoms of Hail and Riyadh. For many years Arabia had
remained closed to Europeans. Hail had been penetrated
by Europeans only once; Riyadh, never. Disguised as a Syrian
Christian physician named Selim Abu Mahmoud al-Eis, Palgrave
now undertook an adventurous journey across central Arabia,
which he accomplished in 1862 and 1863, thereby becoming
the first westerner to cross Arabia by an approximately
diagonal route (from the north-west to the south-east).
Travelling among the Wahabbis, he was in considerable danger,
should he be detected as a European. Once, at Hail, he was
recognized as having been seen at Damascus, and at Riyadh
he was suspected and accused of being an English spy, but his
skill at disguise, coupled with his presence of mind and good
fortune, secured his safety. Palgrave returned to Europe in late
1863 and wrote the present book, a classic of Arabian travel
literature. (From ODNB).
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo, INSCRIBED ON VERSO OF FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, xii, [ii],
466pp., [ii pp. adverts]; vi, 398pp., [ii pp. adverts], folding map, 5 plates, original
pictorial green cloth gilt, a fine set.
5,000
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97. PHILBY, HARRY ST. JOHN B. The Empty Quarter being a

description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub
al Khali.
Constable, London, 1933.
[Philby] made a series of remarkable journeys, of which the
greatest was his crossing of the empty quarter in 1932. On
these journeys he travelled by camel and later by car. By day
he collected place names, temperatures, compass bearings,
barometric pressures, rocks, fossils, flora and fauna, and
ancient inscriptions. At night he wrote them up in his diaries,
squatting in the sand by lamplight and hiding his work from
his suspicious Arab escort (ODNB).
First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 433pp., illustrated with 32 photographic plates, 3 folding
maps, original brown cloth light fade to spine, an excellent example.
375
[ref: 94075]
98.
SCHLIEMANN, HENRY [HEINRICH]. Tiryns.The Prehistoric

Palace of the Kings of Tiryns.The Results of the Latest
Excavations.
In fact published in 1885 simultaneously with the U. S. edition
but as it was late 1885 the publisher brought forward the date.
The book is Schliemanns best piece of archaeological writing
in the modern mode. Its clear descriptions, cautious evaluation
of evidence, attention to detail, and ample illustration of
artifacts and features make this book of lasting scientific value
and the starting place for the ongoing study of the site of
Tiryns and research into the Mycenaean world (Runnels).
First U. K. edition. 4to, lxiv, 385pp., woodcut frontispiece, 1 folding map of Argolis,
24 chromolithographed plates, 4 plans, 188 woodcut illustrations, original blue
pictorial cloth gilt, upper cover richly gilt with gilt pictorial vignette, light wear to
spine, an excellent example.
Runnels 1886a; cf. Blackmer 1501 (U. S. edition).
650
[ref: 93967]
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99.
PORTER, ROBERT KER. Travels in Georgia, Persia, Armenia,

Ancient Babylonia.
Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, and others, London, 1821-22.
on to Tehran with Abbas Mirza before going to Esfahan,

Persepolis, and Shiraz. In Tehran he had an audience with Fath
Ali Shah, with whom he was very impressed.
FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST SUBSTANTIAL ILLUSTRATED

BOOKS ON PERSIA.
An intelligent and readable book (Ghani).
Porter (1777-1842) had been a court painter in St.

Petersburg, and archaeological investigation and drawing
were the principal reasons for the authors travels. One of
Porters aims was to correct errors in the drawings of earlier
travellers such as Chardin and Le Bruyn. His work contains
therefore many archaeological plates, as well as some views
and (coloured) costumes.
From Russia, Porter travelled to Tabriz where he met Abbas
Mirza with whom he spent a considerable time. He went
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Two volumes 4to (27.4 x 21.2 cm.), half-title in vol. 2 (not called for in vol. 1),
illustrated with 2 portrait frontispieces by W.T. Fry after Porter and 90 plates and
maps (some folding) including 2 folding maps unnumbered (but one considered
as pl. 83), two unnumbered plates (87 numbered) and 5 hand-coloured,
executed in different media, i.e. aquatint, line-engravings, stipple-engravings; some
foxing as usual, especially on plates, occasional light offsetting. Contemporary
catspaw calf, spines with raised bands; restored and rebacked retaining original
red and green gilt-lettered labels, endpapers renewed.
Abbey, Travel 359; Atabey 976; Ghani p.304; Weber I, 104; Wilson p.177; not in
Blackmer.
5,950
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100. STEIN, MARC AUREL. On ancient Central-Asian tracks. Brief

narrative of three expeditions in innermost Asia and Northwestern China.
A comprehensive summary of the results of the authors first
three Central Asian expeditions and of his researches carried
out during the years 1900-16. In order to avoid repetitions
he sometimes includes in one chapter descriptions of a
place, such as Niya or Lou-lan from two separate visits
which results in some jumping around out of chronological
order. He focuses on the most important archaeological
excavations with less attention to some of the extended
geographical and topographical explorations.
First edition. 8vo., xxiv, 342pp., 2 pages ads at end, 147 illustrations including
some in colour, folding map, top edge gilt others uncut, original tan cloth gilt, gilt
medallion to upper cover, light wear, corners bumped, a very good copy.
Yakushi S723a.
750
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STEIN, MARK AUREL. On Alexanders Track to the Indus.

Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West
Frontier of India carried out under the orders of H.M. Indian
Government.
Macmillan and Co, London,1929.
The routes and battlefields of Alexanders campaign in the
east had been a long-standing interest of Steins and whilst
surveying for the Indian Government on the North-West
frontier he was able to indulge his fascination.
First edition. 8vo., xvi, 182pp., numerous photographic illustrations, several folding,
2 folding maps, original brown cloth gilt, gilt medallion to upper cover, split to
inner hinge but firm, light wear, a very good copy.
Yakushi S336.
600
[ref: 94338]
102.
STEWART [AFTERWARDS VANE], CHARLE WILLIAM, MARQUIS OF

LONDONDERRY. A steam voyage to Constantinople, by the Rhine
and Danube, in 1840-41 ...
Colburn, London, 1842.
Born Charles William Stewart, the author took the surname
Vane on his marriage to Francis Anne Vane-Tempest in
1823. Based on a journey undertaken between 1836 and
1841, the present work contains many political and military
observations, with comments on the state of Greece under
the Bavarians.
First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xii, 354; ix, 354pp., 30 pages ads dated May 1841
at end, 2 engraved frontispieces, lithographed view, original mauve cloth gilt, a
little spotted, new endpapers, recased, slightly faded.
Atabey 1177; Blackmer 1611.
850
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