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Africa

Americas

Central Asia

China

Europe

Greece, Ottoman & The Crimea

India & South East Asia

Middle East

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1. ANSON, George A voyage round the world, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV ... Compiled from papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction by Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of His Majesty’s Ship the Centurion, in that expedition. London, T. Osborne, 1748.

A lAndmArk of eighteenth century english circumnAvigAtion.

The expedition was made in order to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from South America after the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain in 1739. Anson succeeded in this by taking a number of prize ships off the Philippines, but at a heavy cost, losing six ships wrecked off the coast of South America or in rounding Cape Horn.

Anson’s voyage laid the groundwork for the British voyages of exploration in the Pacific of the later half of the eighteenth century and Richard Walter produced a masterpiece of descriptive travel that became the most popular book of maritime adventure of the time.

First edition. 4to.[20], 417, [3] pp., 42 copper-plates (mostly folding), contemporary calf gilt, joints and extremities repaired, light wear to boards, modern morocco lettering piece, a very good copy.Hill, 1817; Cox I, 49; Sabin 1625; BdM I, 38.ref 88991 £4000

2. BEECHEY, Frederick William Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s strait : to co-operate with the polar expeditions : performed in His Majesty’s ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. London, Colburn and Bentley, 1831.

“one of the most vAluAble of modern voyAges” - hill.

HMS Blossom was sent to the Pacific Ocean and to the Bering Strait by the Admiralty as a relief ship with the purpose of awaiting the expeditions of Captains Parry and Franklin on their search for a Northwest Passage. Beechey arrived at Point Barrow, Alaska, within fifty leagues of Franklin before the latter was compelled to return due to bad weather. Beechey went on to visit Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and California. He provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco. In the course of the voyage, Beechey met the last survivor of the mutiny on the “Bounty”, John Adams, who gave Beechey a lengthy account.

The present edition contains the full narrative text but omits some of the scientific reports contained in the quarto edition.

First octavo edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., 3 engraved folding maps (1 double-page, 2 folding), 23 engraved plates, contemporary diced calf gilt, green morocco lettering pieces, raised bands, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent copy. Ferguson 1419; Forbes 773; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347; Cf. Hill 93.ref: 87540 £2850


3. COOK, Captain James. A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. Performed in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. ... London, for W. Strahan and T.Cadell, 1777.

A fine exAmple in contemporAry russiA of A voyAge in which men crossed the AntArctic circle for the first time.

Most areas of British scientific voyaging begin with Cook, the Antarctic being no exception. He was specifically instructed on his second voyage to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in order to ascertain whether a great Terra Australis really existed below the Antarctic Circle. True to his instructions, he circumnavigated Antarctica at high latitudes and captained the first ship on record to cross the Antarctic Circle. He did not gain sight of a Southern Continent, but became convinced that there must be lands beyond the ice fields.

During the voyage Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries including Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and South Georgia.

On board the Resolution were Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg,who were the official botanists; Anders Sparrmann who joined the expedition at Cape Town; William Hodges, the official artist; and Omai, a Polynesian native, who travelled back to London where he was much admired by High Society. The voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands, proved the value of the chronometer in determining longitude, and improved techniques for preventing scurvy.

Extra-illustratEd with dancE portrait of cook

F: First edition. 2 volumes 4to., 2 engraved portrait frontispieces (this copy extra-illustrated with the famous Sherwin portrait of Cook after Nathaniel Dance), and 63 plates, charts and portraits, some folding, some double-page, double-page letterpress table, 1 large folding chart trimmed along edge, just within border, some browning to vol. 2, some offsetting to both volumes; contemporary diced russia, a fine set.Taurus, 1; Hill 358; Beddie 1216; Rosove 77A1; Sabin 16245. ref: 76746 £8500


4. COOK, Captain James; Captain James King. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To determine the position and extent of the West side of north America; its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes. Vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. Vol. III. by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. ... Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London, W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicoll and T.Cadell, 1784.

“the officiAl publicAtion of cAptAin cook’s third voyAge, And ArguAbly the single most importAnt book on the hAwAiiAn islAnds, this documents All Aspects of hAwAiiAn culture At the point of discovery by europeAns. it is A mAgnificent summAtion of All the public And privAte journAls, logs, drAwings, And other observAtions mAde during the course of the voyAge And is As An importAnt A record of the explorAtion of the north pAcific As cook’s first two voyAges hAd been for the south pAcific. it is in fAct one of the most importAnt english books published in the lAst quArter of the eighteenth century.” (forbes)

Cook’s third and final voyage was an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage with a remarkable crew including William Bligh, George Vancouver, and James Burney. After calling at Tasmania and New Zealand Cook sailed north, discovering Christmas Island and the Sandwich Islands, later to be named the Hawaiian Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait before being stopped by pack ice at latitude 70° 44’. It was whilst wintering over at Hawaii that he was killed in a fracas with natives over a boat.

First edition. 4 volumes comprising atlas folio with 63 engraved plates and charts (2 large folding) and 3 volumes 4to text with, 24 engraved plates and charts, some folding, folding letterpress table, some browning and offsetting, text volumes contemporary diced russia, atlas rebacked using old russia over contemporary marbled boards, a handsome set.Beddie 1543; Forbes 62; Hill 361; Holmes 47; Lada-Mocarski 37; Sabin 16250.ref: 87445 £15000


5. [COSTUME]. Costumes of various countries. Comprising: G.H. Mason, The Costume of China; G.H. Mason [?], The Punishments of China; Octavian Dalvimart. The Costumes of Turkey; T.C Wagerman, The Military Costume of Turkey; [W. Alexander], The Costume of the Russian Empire; Bertrand De Moleville, The Costume of the Hereditary States of Austria; W.H. Pyne,The Costume of Great Britain. London, various dates [1800 - 1818].

beAutiful set of first editions, with plAtes hAnd-coloured - An exceptionAl collection, finely bound.

William Miller, who published six of the volumes offered here, states in his preface to the Costume of Great Britain: “By presenting to the eye a series of judiciously selected and well executed pictorial representations, forming striking portraits of single subjects, accurately finished in the colours of the original, and aided by short descriptive essays, they give more pleasing and definite ideas of the external character, style of dress, and peculiarity of occupation, than can be acquired by any other method, except personal observation.” He goes on to say that the subjects depicted include members of all classes of society, from public dignitaries to common labourers.

Overall these volumes offer not only a superb collection of finely executed aquatints but also an insight into the nations represented for the armchair traveller.

Provenance: Henry, Duke of Gloucester, bookplate ; W.A. Green.

7 volumes, folio (35.3 x 25.4 cm), 357 hand coloured engraved plates, contemporary red morocco gilt, large gilt centre-piece to covers, a fine set.R. Colas, 2009, 2012, 782, 2059, 702, 2112, 2447. ref: 88855 £15000


6. DALRYMPLE, Alexander. Oriental Repertory. [WITH] A plan for the publication of a Repertory of Oriental Information ... 1790. London, printed by George Bigg, 1791 [but 1793]-1808.

A fine set of this importAnt periodicAl, including the four-pAge prospectus of which estc records only two copies (nAtionAl librAry of scotlAnd And AlexAnder turnbull librAry).

Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, despite his loss of the command of the Endeavour voyage; and the numerous slights and rebuffs that followed, remains one of the most significant figures in the history of voyages and discovery. A maverick scholar who wanted to be a man of action, his fate was to be a pollinator for the activities of others.

The work dates from Dalrymple’s time of involvement with the East India Company. It seems from surviving records that he may have arranged for about five hundred copies to be printed, some for contributors, some for subscribers, and a large quantity for the East India Company itself; however various booksellers have mentioned a figure of only one hundred and eighty copies in the past. In any event, not all copies were distributed, as sheets remained in the warehouse in 1808.

This set is in exceptionally good condition. The first volume, with title-page dated 1793, comprised four numbers issued at irregular intervals between 1791 and 1793, Four further numbers, were issued for the second volume between 1794 and 1797. In all, the work comprises the eight numbers issued to 1797, along with the title and the index to the second volume published in 1808.

Dalrymple proposed the Oriental Repertory as an occasional publication in parts, cumulating in volumes for the subscriber’s library, each with a variety of short communications illustrated by topographical plates. He saw a place, among the scientific and antiquarian journals

and ‘gentlemen’s magazines’ of Britain and India, for such a vehicle on oriental matters. Asiatick Miscellany (1785-1788) and Asiatick Researches (1788 onwards) were fresh on the scene, and Dalrymple himself was an active Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in London in the 1780s and 1790s.

As first proposed, the plan for the Oriental Repertory envisaged groups of separate tracts on ‘the Geography, Commerce, History, and Manners of the Eastern Parts’. Dalrymple claimed to have drawn up ‘a scheme for such an occasional Publication’ some years before and, in 1791, extended it to ‘everything, not Nautical, that can promote the Publick knowledge of the East’.

The first volume did not develop a coherence other than around Dalrymple himself as editor and commentator, and Oriental Repertory could not be said to have reached the critical momentum necessary for a serial publication to escape the gravitational pull of a single dominant progenitor. The slowing down of the production of numbers of the second volume, and its hiatus after 1797, should probably be attributed to Dalrymple’s increasing preoccupation after 1795 with the demands of his new responsibility as Hydrographer to the Admiralty.

Prospectus: 4pp., Repertory: Eight parts in 2 volumes 4to (35 x 27 cm) [ii], 4, [ii], [viii], iv, iv, iv, 578,[ xvi]; [viii], iv, iv, 4, 4, 600, [xiv]pp., second volume UNCUT, 33 maps, views, plans, some folding, light foxing to plates, nineteenth century tan half calf, spines with raised bands decorated in gilt and blind, dated 1808 at foot, a fine example.Graesse, 321.ref: 88740 £25000


7. DARWIN, Charles. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy R. N. London, Murray, 1860.

first edition to include the postscript And the finAl text As dArwin left it. “The paper height and wider margins give the whole book a much better appearance” (Freeman). The binding is identical with On the Origin of Species.

“Darwin’s first published book is undoubtedly the most often read and stands second only to On the Origin of Species as the most often printed. It is an important travel book in its own right and its relation to the background of his evolutionary ideas has often been stressed.” (Freeman).

Tenth thousand. 8vo., xv, 519pp., original blindstamped green cloth gilt,a little wear to extremities, inner hinges just cracked but firm, a very good copy.Freeman, 20.ref: 87455 £900

8. DARWIN, Charles; Capt. Robert Fitzroy; Capt. Philip Parker King. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty’s ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the globe. London, Henry Colburn, 1839.

An excellent exAmple of the first edition of dArwin’s first published book, Also his most widely reAd, And the Account of probAbly the most importAnt of All nineteenth century voyAges, for it wAs on this voyAge thAt dArwin prepAred for his lifework, ultimAtely leAding to “the origin of species”.

Volume I contains King’s account of the first expedition which surveyed the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He commanded this expedition in the “Adventure”, accompanied by the “Beagle”, first under Stokes and after his death by Fitzroy. The remaining volumes describe the second voyage of the “Beagle” which visited Brazil, Argentina, Chile, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries along the way. Fitzroy’s account is contained in volume II with a separate appendix comprising a meteorological journal etc. Volume III is Darwin’s account. “The five years of the voyage were the most important event in Darwin’s intellectual life and in the history of biological science” (DSB).

Three volumes in 4 (vols I-III and Appendix to vol II), 8vo., 9 folding engraved maps by J. Gardner and J. and C. Walker; 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy and others, modern half calf over old marbled boards, marbled edges, occasional light foxing.Freeman 10; Hill 1, pp104-105; Norman 584; Sabin 37826.ref: 87682 £22500


9. FORSTER, Georg A voyage round the world, in His Britannic Majesty’s sloop, Resolution. London, B. White, J. Robson, P. Elmsly, and G. Robinson, 1777.

first edition of the first published Account of cook’s second voyAge.

‘An important and necessary addition to Cook’s voyages’ (Hill). The author and his father, Johann Reinhold Forster, sailed as naturalists on the Resolution. During this second voyage Cook made the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle, discovered the South Sandwich Islands and dispelled the idea of a great southern continent. Although originally it was intended that the elder Forster would write the official account of the voyage, a dispute with the Admiralty arose over payment and this unofficial account written by father and son was issued in March 1777 under the son’s name, some six weeks before Cook’s official account of the voyage. ‘For all the controversy A Voyage round the World is an interesting and important account that complements the official one with facts and astute observations on the human side of the voyage’ (Rosove).

4to., large folding engraved map as frontispiece to vol. I, with errata slip to vol. I bound at rear. (Title-pages spotted, that for vol. I with old paper repair to lower edge, sporadic, mainly light spotting throughout.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, red speckled edges (rebacked, spines gilt with morocco lettering pieces, extremities very lightly rubbed).Hill 625; Beddie 1248; Kroepelien 450; Sabin 25134.ref: 88618 £5500

10. FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. History of the voyages and discoveries made in the north. London, Robinson, 1786.

A vAluAble Account of the numerous expeditions for the discovery of the northwest And northeAst pAssAges. It reviews and investigates the earliest voyages and those of the Middle Ages down to Cabot, and later English voyages down to Cook in 1776. There are also separate sections dealing with Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish and Russian expeditions.

First English edition, 4to., [8], xvi, 489, [19]pp., complete with half-title, 3 folding engraved maps, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf gilt, covers with gilt border, spine in 6 compartments, gilt lettered direct to second, neat repair to upper joint, an excellent copy.Sabin 25138; Staton & Tremaine 528; Howes F269ref: 87397 £4000

history of arctic discovEry.


12. (FUCHS, Sir Vivian); George Lowe, photographer. Photographs from the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. 1957.

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was the first overland crossing of Antarctica, succeeding in the 1950’s what Sir Ernest Shackleton had attempted to do in his ill-fated expedition in 1914-1917. British Explorer Vivian Fuchs and New Zealander Edmund Hilary led the expedition.

Previous to this expedition, George Lowe had been an important member of the 1953 British expedition led by John Hunt that conquered Everest.

For the Trans-Antarctic expedition, Lowe joined the 12-man party of the expedition leader, the British explorer Vivian Fuchs, which set out from Shackleton Base on one side of the continent, while Hillary led the support party from the Scott Base on the other side dropping supplies and establishing depots.

Fuchs relied on Lowe’s expertise to spot crevasses that were, Lowe later noted, “wider, deeper and harder to detect” than any he had previously encountered, and which posed a mortal threat to the tractors, dog-teams and snowmobiles they used to get around.

In the event Hillary reached the Pole first, on January 3 1958. The teams met when Fuchs arrived on January 19, but while Hillary flew out, Fuchs continued on overland and arrived at Scott Base on March 2 after a journey of 2,158 miles.

With other members of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Lowe received in 1958 the Polar Medal (with Antarctic clasp). He was also commemorated in Mount Lowe, a 3,000ft peak in the Shackleton Range.

Provenance: From the estate of Roy Homard (member of the expedition team).

11 photographs taken on the 1958 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, by George Lowe, photographer on the expedition. All laid on thick card, captions to verso.“Theron” departing from Shackleton Base leaving behing the members of the Advance Party; 28,9 x 30,5 cm.Flat-topped mountain of great geological interest, 5000 ft. high.t30,1 x 23 cm.Skeleton of the Hut at Shackleton just after the great March blizzard, 30,6 x 22,2 cm.“Theron” at sea ice edge in the sheltered bay two miles from the I.G.Y. hut site, 28,8 x 29,1 cm.Aerial photograph showing “Theron” unloading at the ice edge, Shackleton, 29 x 23,6 cm.Ice formation on the Crate after it had been abandoned, 30,5 x 22,9 cm.Unloading “Theron”at ice front near site of Shackleton Base. The first “Weasel” being winched out on 31st January 1956, 29 x 28,8 cm.Roy Homard in his patched trousers settles down to read his mail, 30,6 x 29,6 cm.Stores dump at Shackleton with the incomplete Main Hut beyond, 30,6 x 22,7 cm.Aerial photograph showing “Theron” at the ice age, 28,9 x 28,9 cm.Small tabular icebergs in the Weddell Sea. “Theron” sailed full speed ahead off coast of Antarctica, 29,1 x 23,6 cm. ref: 88769 £3000

11. FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. Observations made during a Voyage round the World, on physical geography, natural history and ethic philosophy. London, G. Robinson, 1778.

A scArce Account of cook’s second voyAge.

Forster sailed as naturalist on board HMS Resolution and his Observations were originally intended to accompany the official account of Cook’s second voyage. The account of the voyage itself is therefore short, and the majority of the text relates to the scientific work of the voyage, including the comparative ethnographic observations and findings that Forster made in the South Seas. As part of his ethnographic studies he made detailed notes of the ‘human species’ giving information on the food, cannibalism, populations, status of women, customs, languages, mythology as well as recording the health and diseases of the islands. The final section ‘presents a detailed evaluation of steps taken for the preservation of health on the voyage, notably the suggestions of James Lind on the treatment of scurvy’ (Hill). The rare ‘Chart Representing the Isles of the South Seas’ found here but not present in all copies is based on a sketch drawn for Capt. Cook by Tupaia, a Tahitian priest and navigator.

First edition. 4to (2.82 x 21.8cm), folding engraved map, large folding letterpress comparative table of South Sea languages, with subscribers’ list bound at rear; Title lightly spotted, as usual, very occasional light marginal spotting, folding map spotted with offset to facing pages, paper fault to upper edge of S, Zz2 and Zz3. Contemporary tree calf, single gilt rule border to boards, red morocco label to spine, lettered in gilt (sympathetically rebacked).Hill 628; Beddie 1262; Kroepelien 456; Hocken, p.18; Sabin 25140; Rosove 140.ref: 88619 £5000


14. SARYTSCHEW, Gawrila [Gavriil Andreevich SARYCHEV]. Account of a voyage of discovery to the north-east of Siberia, the frozen ocean, and the north-east sea. London, J.G. Barnard for Richard Phillips, 1806-7.

rAre. sArychev’s journAl of the russiAn expedition, commAnded by the englishmAn cAptAin joseph billings, to explore the Arctic And north pAcific oceAns.

“This official expedition was sent out by Catherine ll from 1785 to 93, during which Alaska and the Aleutians were first carefully charted. Martin Sauer was the historian and secretary for this expedition [and published a popular, more common work]. Sarychev [1763-1831] was an assistant, and this work is an abridged translation of the Russian original of 1802.” (Hill).

First English edition. 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. 70; 80pp. including titles, with 3 folding engraved plates and 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, modern blue morocco-backed cloth boards.Hill 1527; Howes S-115; Sabin 77126. ref: 87460 £4000

15. SHERRIFF, publisher. Sherriff’s illustrated route charts and travellers’ hand-book. Routes from London, Liverpool, and Plymouth, to the Mediterranean, Egypt and Suez Canal, ... and including a traveller’s diary, descriptive notes, and general information for the guidance of travellers to and from the East. London, Sherriff, n.d. circa 1882.

Intended to supply the traveller with correct charts of their journey, with views of the harbours and plans of the towns. Includes Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Aden, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Cairo, Malta, and Gibraltar.

Landscape 8vo., 21 lithograph plates (15 double-page), mostly printed in colour,some showing 2 maps, charts, or plans, original green cloth gilt, creases to covers, general light wear, joints split but sound, a very good copy of a scarce item.ref: 88902 £750

13. HAMILTON, Alexander. A new account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon ... Edinburgh, John Mosman, 1727.

one of the most importAnt first-hAnd histories of english merchAnt shipping in the indiAn oceAn And eAst indies.

The book treats the whole of the Orient, including Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, India, Goa, Ceylon, Bengal, Pegu, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, and Japan.

Hamilton, a Scottish sea captain in the service of the East India Company, traded as far as Japan, visiting, it is said, every port between the Cape and Canton. This work, the only source for information on Hamiton, provides an account of his experiences.

Provenance: Library of the earls of Macclesfield, with blind stamped crest to titles, armorial book plate.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo (19.6 x 11.6cm.), xx, x, 396; viii, 3-309, [1], 10pp., 8 folding engraved maps, 11 engraved plates (5 folding), contemporary panelled calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, closed tear to the “Intra Ganges” map, spotting, Goldsmiths 6522; Cordier, Indosinica 890; Hill, 765; Mendelssohn (1979) II, 492.ref: 73186 £3750


18. VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount. Voyages and travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt in the years 1802, 1803, 1805, and 1806. London, William Miller, 1809.

george Annesley, viscount vAlentiA, wAs probAbly the first europeAn trAveller in ethiopiA in the nineteenth century.

Valentia left England in June 1802 on the Minerva, for a Grand Tour of the East with Henry Salt. They were both antiquarians and avid collectors. Salt had earlier finished his training with the topographical draughtsman and diarist, Joseph Farington, and Valentia appointed him to be his official artist and secretary for the tour. The first volume deals with India and Sri Lanka - with sections on Benares, Calcutta, Lucknow, Ceylon, etc. - the second two volumes cover Abyssinia and the Red Sea, including much relating to Mocha.

Provenance: John Rutherfurd Esq of Edgerston, book label.

First edition, 3 volumes, 4to (28.5 x 22cm.), half-titles, 3 engraved vignettes, 69 engraved plates and maps, 11 double-page or folding, plate list at beginning of volume 1, advertisement leaf at end of volume 3, contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco labels on spines, neat repairs to joints, gatherings D-G in vol.2 bound back to front, a fine set in a handsome contemporary binding.ref: 88381 £5000

16. [SMOLLETT, Tobias George]. A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages, digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. London, Printed for R. and J. Dodsley; Jo. Rivington; Ja. Rivington and J. Fletcher [and others], 1756.

smollett’s own Account of the disAstrous Attempt by the british to overtAke the spAnish stronghold At cArtegenA written while A surgeon’s second mAte AboArd the chicester in 1741 is here published for the first time.

Undertaken at the expense of Robert Dodsley, Smollett’s anthology includes accounts of the expeditons of Columbus, Cortez, Drake, Raleigh, Magellan, and others. Many of the maps are of the Americas.

First edition. 7 volumes, 8vo., 25 maps and plans (many folding), 24 plates (some folding), 1 plate creased, 1 plate torn along fold, F4 volume vi torn across, some light browning and offsetting to plates, contemporary sprinkled calf, spines in 6 compartments, morocco lettering piece to second, gilt numbered direct in third, neat repairs to joints and extremities, a very good set.Hill 1590; Sabin 20518.ref: 84406 £2750

17. STONEY, Capt. H. Butler. A residence in Tasmania: with a descriptive tour through the island, from Macquarie harbour to Circular Head. London, Smith, Elder, 1856.

A beAutifully bound copy of An historicAlly importAnt Account of the islAnd, with useful descriptions of the eArly settlements, conditions, penAl stAtions, the little-known west coAst, And A list of tAsmAniAn birds.

A British army officer born in Ireland, Stoney (1816-1894) arrived in Tasmania in 1853 with the 99th Regiment. Stoney travelled widely in the island including an ascent of Mount Wellington. Stoney first published a textual account of his time on the island in 1854 in Hobart Town but on his return to Ireland, his publisher, Smith, Elder brought out the present much improved edition, illustrated with fine lithographs.

Provenance: Earl of Eldon (inscription).

8vo., viii, 391pp., lithograph frontispiece, title-page vigette, double-page map, 7 lithograph plates, 6 vignettes, bound as an Eton College leaving present in contemporary tan calf gilt, spine in six compartments, morocco label to second, others richly gilt, a fine copy.ref: 87285 £650

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19. BRUCE, James. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. [WITH] Alexander MURRAY. Account of the Life and Writings of James Bruce of Kinnaird. London, G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790. [and] Archibald Constable, Edinburgh, 1808.

the first explorAtion to reAch the source of the blue nile, here with the life of bruce, And A set with illustrious .

Lady Meux was a brewery heiress and reputed to be one of the wealthiest women in England. She formed a valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities which she bequeathed to the British Museum. Humphrey Winterton formed one of the finest libraries on Africa in modern times. It was largely dispersed at auction in 2003.

Bruce arrived in Alexandria in 1768 having determined to discover the source of the Nile, which he believed to be in Abyssinia. He reached Kossier via Cairo and Thebes where he embarked in the dress of a Turkish sailor for Jidda. He eventually reached Gondar in Abyssinia in 1770 where his linguistic skills, resourcefulness and courage made a fine impression, especially upon the Negus and Ras Michael. He stayed there for two years before finally reaching the source of the Blue Nile, and in 1771 he also found its confluence with the White Nile having surmounted numerous difficulties. This work is particularly important for its portrayal of Abyssinia, little known to his contemporaries, for its literary merits and for the final volume on natural history, in spite of the incredulity with which it was originally received. His description of the Sudan remains a valuable authority on the country in the last days of the Funj Empire of Senna.

Provenance: Lady Meux (signature to the verso of many plates); Humphrey Winterton (book label).

First edition. Together 6 volumes 4to (30 x 23 cm). I. Engraved title vignettes, three large folding maps, 55 engraved plates including 53 natural history studies, and four leaves of Ethiopian Script (counted as a plate in the list of plates). II. 20 engraved plates (frontispiece spotted), 2 folding engraved maps, contemporary diced russia, rebacked, red and green labels, corners worn, light marginal damp-staining end of volume 3, a very good set.Gay 44; Nissen ZBI 617; Hilmy I, 91; Blackmer 221; Playfair, Tripoli, 120.ref: 88786 £6750

20. BURCHELL, William J. Travels in the interior of Southern Africa. London, Longman, 1822-24.

“the most vAluAble And AccurAte work on south AfricA published up to the first quArter of the nineteenth century, And embrAcing A description of A lArge pArt of the cApe colony And bechuAnAlAnd At this period.”(Mendelssohn).

Regarding hippopotamus meat: “If our English lovers of good eating could but once taste such a steak, they would not rest till they had caused fine lively hippopotami to be an article of regular importation”.

A skilled zoologist and botanist, Burchell set out from Cape Town in June 1811 on his travels in Africa, and covered four thousand five hundred miles in the interior, returning to the Cape in April 1815 with natural history specimens and five hundred drawings. Most of his observations describe the landscapes, natives, and Boers of the region, but there are also numerous accounts of hunting lion, rhinoceros, and buffalo.

Provenance: Sir Alfred Lane Beit (armorial bookplate), British M.P. and art collector.

First edition. 2 volumes, 4to., viii, [iv] (verso blank), errata slip, 582, 4 (hints on emigration); iv (errata to verso), 648pp., half-titles to both volumes, folding map, 20 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 5 folding, wood-engravings in text, some offsetting from text to plates in vol. i as usual, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, an excellent set.Abbey Travel 327; Czech pp44-45; Mendelssohn I p.224; Tooley 116. ref: 87368 £7500


21. BURTON, Richard Francis. The lake regions of central Africa. A picture of exploration. London, Longman, 1860.

one of the most importAnt burton titles, considered by mAny to be his best piece of writing.

Burton travelled with Speke on their second journey together in order to found the “Jebel Kumri”, or the “Mountains of the Moon.” They made a brief examination of Lake Tanganyika, but with failing health they were forced to return to Kazeh to recuperate. Following this, Burton sent Speke off by himself to investigate a large lake. Speke became convinced that this was the source of the Nile; a conclusion disputed by Burton which led to their falling out and, probably, Speke’s mysterious death. This work contains Burton’s first attack on Speke in print.

First edition, two volumes, 8vo., xviii, 412; viii, 468 pp., twelve tinted woodcut plates, twenty-two woodcut illustrations in the text, folding tinted map, near contemporary red polished calf prize binding by Bickers (inscription dated 1872), gilt stamp to upper covers and small blind-stamp to title, plate opposite p279 volume ii with slightly chipped edges,spines in six compartments, morocco label to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, a very handsome copy.Penzer pp67-68.ref 88220 £2500

22. BURTON, Richard Francis. Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast. London, Tinsley, 1872.

Scarce. Burton’s long-lost, vast manuscript on Zanzibar, reappeared many years after its writing, affording Burton the opportunity of reliving his old Nile failure, and also the chance to write a serious appraisal of Speke’s character and death. Beneath Zanzibar’s exotic exterior, Burton found a state of near anarchy, disease, squalor, and a shamelessly open slave trade.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xii, [i], 503; vi, [i], 519pp.,folding map (tears repaired), 4 plans, 11 plates, couple of small ink splashes to margin of frontispiece, modern dark blue half morocco gilt, a very good set.Penzer pp.88-89; Casada 72.ref: 87694 £2000

23. DENHAM, Major Dixon; Capt. Hugh Clapperton Narrative of travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 ... extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of northern latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah empire. With an Appendix. London, Murray, 1826.

the successors to mungo pArk in the explorAtion of the river niger.

Denham and Clapperton were part of the expedition led by the Scottish doctor Walter Oudney to open relations with the Fulani kingdom , whose legendary trading centre was Kano, in order to discover the source of the Niger, which was widely believed to flow into Lake Chad. Having crossed the Sahara and found no rivers entering Lake Chad, the party divided with Denham exploring the Shari River and Oudney and Clapperton (who shared a mutual loathing with Denham) proceeding to Kano. Oudney died en route but Clapperton was received by the ruler of Kano, Mohammed Bello who,having first supplied an accurate map of the course of the Niger, later backtracked and supplied another misleading map when he realised the dangers of opening up his kingdom to foreigners. Clapperton rejoined Denham at Lake Chad and back across the Sahara.

First edition. 4to., xlviii, 335, [iv], 269, [ii]pp., engraved frontispiece, 36 engraved plates, one in colour, two engraved vignettes, all by Finden after the author’s drawings, large engraved folding map at end, contemporary half calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, a fine copy.Gay 337; cf. Playfair, Tripoli, 154 (3rd ed.).ref: 87461 £1650


24. DU CHAILLU, Paul. Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa. With accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals. London John Murray, 1861.

Du Chaillu (Franco-American, 1835-1903,) was the first European to explore the area and he discovered the fact that the rivers Nazareth, Mexias, and Fernand Vaz are all connected. The book contains the first reports of the gorilla, but much of this was based on second-hand local accounts and is of doubtful veracity. He comments on the unusual number of species of fauna peculiar to this region.

His book caused something of a sensation when published, being greeted with widespread derision for being nothing but a fanciful story. Explorers such as Barth and Petermann doubted the accuracy of his account, but Du Chaillu had his supporters, including the Royal Geographical Society and Richard Owen. Eventually his observations were proved correct and Petermann was forced to revise his map of Africa.

Du Chaillu’s revelation of the existence of the gorilla caused a sensation in England , being regarded by some as Darwin’s missing link. Later Du Chaillu became a friend of Richard Burton who confirmed his observations of the Fang people.

First edition. 8vo., xviii, 479pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, 27 wood-engraved plates, 45 text illustrations, folding map, original cloth gilt, an excellent copy.Gay 2756; Brunet 20867; Casey Wood 326; Czech pp52-53.ref: 87631 £750

25. HARRIS, Captain W. C. Narrative of an expedition into southern Africa, during the years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a sketch of the recent emigration of the border colonists, and a zoological appendix ... Bombay, American Mission Press, 1838.

the rAre bombAy printed first edition of “A cornerstone title in the essentiAl AfricAn sporting librAry” (czech).

Harris was a keen sportsman and hunter and the narrative recounts his adventures including bagging elephant, rhinoceros, and buffalo. The work is valuable for presenting a detailed picture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pressure of civilization.

First edition. 8vo., xviii, 405pp., lithograph frontispiece, 3 lithograph plates, folding map, contemporary green half roan, marbled boards, rubbed, ownership inscription to half title dated March 22nd 1837 (sic), with a pencilled note beneath stating it to be a presentation copy from the author on board the Carnatic (an East Indiaman launched in 1833, contemporary blue half morocco gilt, marbled sides.Abbey Travel 333; Mendelssohn I, 686-688. Cf Czech pp118-119 (later edition).ref: 88024 £3500

first rEports of thE gorilla BomBay Edition

26. JACKSON, James Grey, editor. An account of Timbuctoo and Housa, territories in the interior of Africa, by El Hage Abd Salam Shabeeeny; with notes, critical and explanatory ... London, Longman, 1820.

A fine copy of A scArce work.

“The person who communicated the following intelligence respecting Timbuctoo and Housa, is a Muselman, and a native of Tetuan, whose father and mother are personally known to Mr. Lucas, the British Consul ... His account of himself is, that at the age of fourteen years he accompanied his father to Timbuctoo, from which town, after a residence of three years, he proceeded to Housa; and after residing at the latter two years, he returned to Timbuctoo, where he continued seven years, and then came back to Tetuan ... He proceeded from Tetuan as a pilgrim and merchant, with the caravan to Egypt for Mecca and Medina ...” (Introduction).

Provenance: Willoughby Bond (armorial bookplate).

First edition. 8vo., xxx, 547pp., page of ads at end, 2 folding maps, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, light wear.Gay 2766; Playfair, Morocco 527.ref: 87396 £950


28. LANDER, Richard and John Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger; with a narrative of a voyage down that river to its termination. London, Murray, 1832.

one of the greAt AfricAn nArrAtives completing the nAvigAtion of the river niger.

Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant on his second expedition to explore the Niger in 1825. The expedition disembarked on the Nigerian coast determined to strike inland to Sokoto, then descend the Niger to the Atlantic. Most of the party died of malaria en route and it was only Clapperton and Lander who made it to Sokoto. The local ruler, Mohammed Bello, who had tried to trick Clapperton with a false map on his first expedition with Denham, agreed to allow them to return to the sea by way of the Niger. With success all but guaranteed, Clapperton fell victim to malaria and dysentery and Lander was left to make his way back alone through territory controlled by hostile tribes.

Lander returned to Nigeria in 1830 on a government-backed expedition accompanied by his brother John and successfully descended the last section of the Niger from Bussa to the Atlantic.

First edition. 3 volumes, small 8vo., engraved portrait frontispiece, 6 engraved plates, 2 maps (1 folding), light browning to plates, contemporary half calf by Fraser of Regent Street, morocco labels, spines gilt, marbled boards, neat repairs to joints, an attractive set.ref: 87462 £875

27. JAMES, Silas. A narrative of a voyage to Arabia, India, &c. Containing, amidst a variety of information, a description of Saldanha Bay; with remarks on the genious and disposition of the natives of Arabia Felix; The manners and customs of the people of Hindoston; of the island of Madagascar, and other parts beyond the Cape of Good Hope. Interspersed with some particulars, relative to the author’s remarkable interview with his father, on the coast of Malabar. Performed in the years 1781, 82, 83, and 84... London, printed for the author, and sold by W. Baynes, 1797.

Scarce. ESTC on-line lists only 8 copies. Another, undated issue with slightly different wording to title and a subscriber list appeared in the same year which is equally scarce, again ESTC listing just 8 copies. No priority given.

“James, much against his will, appears to have been compelled to serve on board one of the vessels in Commodore Johnstone’s expedition to the Cape in 1781, and took part in the engagements at Port Praya and Saldanha Bay. Theal remarks ... “that he gives some particulars not to be found in the official reports of either the English or French Commanders. He describes also the capture of the Held Woltemaade, and the seizure of the Dutch Indiamen in Saldanha Bay. his account must be compared with official documents, however, as it is not strictly accurate.” James gives a short account of parts of the Cape Colony, and describes some of the districts near Saldanha Bay as “a modern Eden””(Mendelssohn).

First edition. 8vo., 232pp., portrait frontispiece, complete with half title, contemporary half calf, spine chipped at head, corners worn, slightly rubbed, marbled sides.Mendelssohn I, 765.ref: 88486 £2850


30. MOHR, Edward. To the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi ... translated by N. D’Anvers. London, Sampson Low, 1876

“A German sportsman, Mohr travelled to the Victoria Falls partly for the sake of hunting, partly in the hope of making geographical discoveries. After landing at Cape Town, he and his companions ventured into the interior, crossing the Tugela River and enjoying a wide variety of sport ... an excellent work of exploration and sport.” - Czech. A scarce book.

First English edition. 8vo., xv, 462pp., frontispiece, 4 chromolithograph plates, 11 wood-engraved plates, folding map, original green cloth gilt, new end-papers, spine faded.Czech p116; Mendelssohn II, 32-33.ref: 87690 £850

31. PANANTI, Filippo. Narrative of a residence in Algiers; comprising a geographical and historical account of the regency; biographical sketches of the Dey and his ministers; anecdotes of the late war; observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian powers; and the necessity and importance of their complete subjugation... With notes and illustrations by Edward Blaquiere ... London Colburn, 1818.

scArce. notAble for the fine coloured AquAtint view of the bAy of Algiers.

29. LUGARD, Frederick D. The rise of our East African empire early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda. Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1893.

Lugard (1858-1945), after a distinguished military career in Burma and an unhappy love affair, departed for Africa, eventually gaining employment with the East Africa Company who sent him to fight the Arab slave trade along the East African coast. His exploits led to his engagement by the Imperial East Africa Company under William MacKinnon, who sent him to Uganda, at that time in a state of chaos. Lugard restored a certain amount of order, but was accused of atrocities by French missionaries who had supported one of the warring factions in the territory. Eventually he was completely vindicated and wrote the present work partly to justify his conduct, but more importantly to make out the case for Britain making Uganda a Protectorate.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., photogravure portrait frontispiece volume i, 11 maps of which 7 folding, 2 further maps in pockets, photographic illustrations throughout, original red cloth gilt, corners bumped, cloth lightly soiled, a very good set.Czech p100.ref: 87691 £650

Pananti was captured by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery. After being ransomed, he provided this detailed account of the country and its people.

First edition in English. 4to., xxx, 467pp., uncut, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, modern half calf gilt, morocco lettering piece, marbled sides, an excellent copy.Abbey Travel 302; Playfair Algeria 322; Playfair & Brown 520.ref: 88505 £1250


34. RICHARDSON, James. Travels in Morocco ... Edited by his widow. London, Skeet, 1860.

Scarce. Although the final work of Richardson’s to be published, the present work is in fact the record of his first journey of 1843 in which he attempted to persuade the Sultan to Morocco to abandon the practice of slavery. Includes a chapter on the Jews of Morocco.

Provenance: J. McCalmont (inscription form his cousin, Robert Staples, upon leaving Eton College).

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., [xxvi], 301; vi, 319pp., 2 frontispieces, 2 engraved title vignettes, bound as an Eton College leaving present in contemporary tree calf gilt, black and tan morocco labels, neat repairs to upper joints, a fine set.ref: 87398 £1950

35. ROCHON, Abbe A voyage to Madagascar, and the East Indies. To which is added, a memoir on the Chinese trade. London, printed for Edward Jeffery; R. Faulder [and others], 1793.

The author seeks to give a full account of Madagascar, and a clear demonstration of the benefits which might be reaped by establishing colonies there with a view to trade with India and the Far East. Rochon was a member of several learned Academies in Europe.

Provenance: Robert Dymond, Bolton Hall (armorial bookplate).

8vo., lxiv, [1], 18-406, [2]pp., large folding map, errata leaf at end, lacks half-title, contemporary mottled calf gilt, joints and extremities repaired, light wear to boards, a very good copy.Cox 1, 1793ref: 87459 £875

33. PINTO, Major Serpa. How I crossed Africa: from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, through unknown countries; discovery of the great Zambesi affluents, &c. London, Sampson Low, 1881.

Pinto was sent by the Portuguese government on an expedition to explore South Central Africa. “The narrative includes detailed accounts of the native chiefs and their subjects along the route, and is full of all kinds of adventures, the journey having been carried out in the face of exceptional difficulties and privations. The author’s experiences with the king of the Ambuellas’ daughters appear to have been somewhat embarrassing to the explorer.” - Mendelssohn.

First edition. Two volumes, 8vo., xxx, 377; vii, 388pp., 32 pages ads at end vol. i, 9 maps (including large folding map in pocket), 3 facsimiles, and 131 wood-engravings, some full-page, original olive green pictorial cloth gilt, an excellent copy.Czech p131; Mendelssohn II, 168. ref: 88576 £950

32. [PARK, Mungo]; Henry Edridge, after. Mungo Park (1774-1806).

A finely executed wAtercolour miniAture on ivory after the portrait of Park by Edridge, engraved by T. Dickinson for Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa.

Mungo Park (1771-1806), an unemployed twenty-two year old Scottish doctor, found fame through his pioneering exploration on behalf of the African Association of the vast and mysterious River Niger. His second expedition claimed his life and that of all but three of his large contingent of soldiers and sailors but his legacy was that he effectively opened up the interior of Africa for further exploration.

Watercolour on ivory, ( 3 ¾ x 3 in., 9.5 x 7.6 cm.), bust length portrait of Park in a blue coat with cream waistcoat and white stock, old gilt frame damaged around edges.ref: 89023 £2500


36. [ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY] A bound volume of pamphlets. 1712 [?] - 1730.

A collection of scArce pAmphlets deAling with the trAde of the royAl AfricAn compAny. one of these is unrecorded in estc.

Two of the pamphlets, The State of the British Trade to the Coast of Africa Considered and Remarks on a Supplement to the African Company’s Case, are critical of the Royal African Company’s monopoly and raise the issue whether maintaining forts along the coast of Africa would be better done by the Crown rather than a private company. Also the ruin caused by the Company’s association with the South Sea Company and the Bubble of 1720. The unrecorded Reasons from Exchange-Alley ... is supportive of the Company and its forts, arguing that without them foreign powers would soon move into the area and take control of trade.

The Royal African Company was a mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa. Its original purpose was to exploit the gold fields up the Gambia River, however, it was soon engaged in the slave trade as well as with other commodities.

It was granted a monopoly over English trade with West Africa, by its charter issued in 1660. With the help of the army and navy it established forts on the West African coast that served as staging and trading stations, and it was responsible for seizing any English ships that attempted to operate in violation of their monopoly.

The company continued purchasing and transporting slaves until 1731, when it abandoned slaving in favour of ivory and gold dust.

The first named work contains A Bill for establishing the trade to Africa in a regulated company; An Act for the better improvements of the trade to Africa, by establishing

a regulated company; Reasons for vesting the settlements on the coast of Africa in the crown and the dangers of an exclusive company demonstrated; Some queries relating to the present dispute about the trade to Africa; A letter to a member of parliament, concerning the African trade; The case of the separate traders to Africa; Remarks on the African Company’s memorial; A view of the state of the trade to Africa; A view of the state of the trade to Africa; An abstract of several cases relating to the trade to Africa; and Precedents relating to the establishing of foreign trade, and repealing monopolies.

A bound volume of pamphlets. Comprising:

1. A collection of papers relating to the trade to Africa 8vo., [2] 62 p., imprint details scratched out in ink [1712?], manuscript note at foot of text at end, uncut. (ESTC lists BL and University of Minnesota only)

2. The State of the British Trade to the Coast of Africa Considered, [London, 1730?], 3, [1] p., drop-head title, docket title, folio. (ESTC lists BL, Folger, and University of Minnesota only).

3. Remarks on a Supplement to the African Company’s Case, [London, 1730], 3 [1] p., drop-head title, docket title, folio. (ESTC lists BL, Folger, Lilly Library, New York Historical Society, Harvard Graduate Business School, and University of Minnesota only).

4. Reasons from Exchange-Alley, in Favour of the African Company, 2 p., drop-head title and docket title, lettered A at foot of first page. Small folio. (No copies located on ESTC).

5. Eleven issues of The Whitehall Evening-Post, July-October 1728, all but one with duty stamp snipped to lower corner touching text, all with information on the South Sea Company, plus one issue of The Daily Journal, 6th February 1729, 2 pp., printing a letter from a merchant at Bristol.

Contemporary half cal,f marbled boards, rebacked.ref: 88982 £4500


37. SALT, Henry. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the order of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the Aboriginal African tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with vocabularies of their respective languages. London, Rivington, 1814.

A fine copy of An importAnt eArly work on ethiopiA.

Salt, who had been trained as a painter, first visited Egypt when he toured India and North Africa with the Viscount Valentia, George Annesley. He returned to Africa in 1809-1810, as a quasi-official envoy under Canning’s sponsorship marching from the Red Sea coast with an escort of 160 bearers to explore trade and diplomatic links with the Ethiopian Emperor Wolde Selassie. Britain fearing a French alliance with Egypt, wished to secure a port on the Red Sea. Salt carried out a little archaeology, discovering at Aksum three large limestone tablets engraved with ancient Ethiopian inscriptions. Little came of the mission for the government but Salt earned over £1000 for the first edition of the book.

In 1815 Salt was appointed Consul-General in Egypt, and he reached Alexandria in March 1816. He financed the excavations of Belzoni, Caviglia and d’Athanasi.

First edition. 4to., xii, [iv], 506, lxx (appendix) pp., half-title, 28 engraved plates on 27 leaves, 7 engraved maps and charts on 6 sheets (4 folding, 1 hand-coloured, all backed with fine linen), 2 vignettes, nineteenth century blind-stamped russia, rebacked preserving original spine, a fine copy.Blackmer 1479; Gay 2683.ref: 86889 £2500

38. STANLEY, Henry Morton. Coomassie and Magdala: The story of two British campaigns in Africa. London, Sampson Low, 1874.

Stanley’s lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa under Sir Garnet Wolesley in 1874. It also details the British Campaign in Abyssinia. Lord Wolesley was struck by Stanley’s courage and considered him “amongst the bravest of my brave comrades”.

First edition, 8vo., xiv, 510pp., 48 pages of ads dated October 1873 at end, 17 full-page wood-engraved plates including 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 folding maps, 12 illustrations in text, original pictorial green cloth gilt, an excellent copy.Gay 2874 bis.ref: 88577 £1250

39. WADDINGTON, George; Rev. Barnard Hanbury. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia. London, John Murray, 1822.

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed Ali, who gave them permission to travel into Upper Egypt. Dressed as Turks and accompanied by an Irishman, James Curtin, two Maltese, and a setter dog named Anubis, they ascended the Nile as far as Meroe. Whilst there they encountered the American traveller George English, and at Wadi Haifa met the French mineralogist Frederic Cailliaud, both of whom were described in offensive terms by Waddington who had little time for Westerners who appeared to have “turned native.”

Provenance: Glasgow University Library (armorial bookplate and withdrawn stamp).

First edition. 4to., vi, 333pp., 16 lithographed plates, one folding, 2 engraved folding maps, light spotting to plates, contemporary (original ?) green ribbed cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine extremities, an excellent copy.Abbey Travel 289; Hilmy II, 134; Gay 2693.ref: 88232 £1650

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40. BARROW, Sir John. A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions; undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific: from the earliest periods of Scandinavian navigation, to the departure of the recent expeditions, under the orders of Captains Ross and Buchan ... Murray, London, 1818.

“the cornerstone of his [bArrow] cAmpAign for renewed Arctic explorAtion.

With his power to appoint officers for such ventures, he was able to send thirteen expeditions to the north over the next thirty years under such legendary commanders as John Ross, William Edward Parry, John Franklin, George Back, John Richardson, James Clark Ross, Thomas Simpson, and Frederick Beechey ... This volume began the long partnership of the firm of John Murray and the Admiralty, which gave Murray a near monopoly on Arctic publications of the Royal Navy and most of the Arctic Blue Books” (Books on Ice).

First edition. 8vo., vi, 279, 48pp., large folding engraved map, 3 woodcut illustrations at end, contemporary half calf gilt, black morocco label, all edges gilt, an excellent copy.Hill, 67; Lada-Mocarski 76; Books on Ice 2.4.ref: 87392 £1350

41. BEAUMONT, J. A. B. Travels in Buenos Ayres, and the adjacent provinces of the Rio de la Plata. With observations intended for the use of persons who contemplate emigrating to that country; or, embarking capital in its affairs. James Ridgway, London, 1828.

First edition. 8vo., xii, 270pp., folding map,contemporary calf neatly rebacked, wear to corners, a very good copy.Sabin 4194.ref: 88990 £850

42. BIARD, F[rançois Auguste]. Deux années au Brésil. Ch. Lahure for Hachette, Paris, 1862.

fresh exAmple of the first edition of this lively trAvel Account, extrA-illustrAted with hAnd-coloured lithogrAphs of brAzil, mostly showing rio de jAneiro, As well As lAndscApes And scenes of the countryside.

At almost 60, the French painter Biard (1799-1882) embarked in 1858 for Brazil, stopping on his way in Lisbon, Madeira and Tenerife. In Rio, the consul Taunay introduced him to the emperor Dom Pedro II, who commissioned his portrait and the one of the Empress. He then began to visit Brazil - Nova Almeida, Bahia, Pernambuco, Fortaleza, Para (Belem) and Manaus - and meet its inhabitants. Used to live away from the city, he settled in Manaus in a hut near a waterfall where he lived simply, painting in silence and solitude for several weeks. Wanting to meet “Indians in their natural state”, he undertook a canoe expedition on the Madeira River and settled in Monducurus and then on the territory of the Maöes Indians. Extremely weakened and with almost no money left, he came back to Europe on a small American steamboat.The lovely hand-coloured lithographs which were added

Extra-illustratEd: rio dE janEiro in colours

by the first owner are the following: Largo de Paço | Môle de Paço (publ. by Wild, Paris); Entrada de Barra de Rio-de-Janeiro | Entree de la Barre de Rio-Janeiro; (Lith. Decan, Paris); Ile Das Cobras | Ile des Serpents; St Jaaô de Carahy | St Jean de Carahy; Fortalaza de Praya Vermelha | Forteresse de la Baie de Vermelha (Lith. Decan, Paris); Morro Queimado | Colonie Suisse, Nouvelle Frybourg; Plantaçao de Café | Plantation de Café (publ. by Wild, Paris).

Provenance: Aristocratic estate, South of France.

Quarto (26 x 17 cm). Half-title, frontispiece, title, 680 pp., with 77 full-page wood-engravings with verso blank and 111 wood-engravings in text, all by Riou after Briard’s sketches, and 11 lithographs with contemporary hand-colour, cut and laid-down, with captions in Portuguese and French, some indicating Wild in Paris and Lith. Decan in Paris.Publisher’s printed wrappers bound in contemporary dark green sheep spine over dark green grained cloth, flat spine tooled in gilt and blind, gilt lettering to a compartment, marbled endpapers; wrappers a bit soiled.Dictionnaire illustré des explorateurs et grands voyageurs français du XIXe siècle, III, p.27; Borba de Moraes p. 106; Sabin II n° 5134; Vicaire III, 468.ref: 88727 £2950


43. BLANE, William Newnham. An excursion through the United States and Canada during the years 1822-23 by an English gentleman. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1824.

The author visited Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana Niagara, and Montreal, and comments on slavery, backwoodsmen, etc.

First edition. 8vo., [iv], 511pp., 2 folding maps (1 large, coloured, tears to fold), errata slip, later blue cloth gilt, red morocco label, an excellent copy.Howes B521; Sabin 5872; TPL 176.ref: 87270 £650

44. [BRAZIL]. Photographis Artisticas: Vistas de Sao Paulo. c. 1930List of plates:1) Monumento da Indepencia2) no title3) no title4) Sao Paulo Panorama5) no title6) no title7) Sao Paulo Praca da Se8) Sao Paulo Egregia Sao Bento9) no title10) no title11) Sao Paulo Trianon12) sao Paulo Praca da Republica

45. BROOKS, E. W. The journal of a forty-niner. Curwen Press, London, 1967.

A very handsome volume. The first-hand narrative of a journey from Elyria Lorain Co. Ohio to the Sacramento Valley in 1849 from March 16th to September 22nd.

Edition limited to 50 copies, 67pp., entry headings in red, contemporary blue half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, a fine copy.ref: 88266 £350

46. CATLIN, George. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indian. The Author, London 1841.

A young lawyer turned portrait artist, Catlin travelled west from his home in Pennsylvania in 1830 to fulfill his dream of recording on canvas the North American Indians and their way of life.

In St. Louis, Catlin met the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, William Clark, with whom he travelled for peace negotiations with a number of tribes - Sioux, Missouri, Omaha, Iowas, Sac, and Fox. At Fort Leavenworth he met and painted Shawnee, Delaware, Kickapoo, who were being forcibly emigrated from their homes to new lands beyond the Missouri. These journeys set the template for his travels and by the end of the decade he had carried out his project with over four hundred paintings.

The present work contains line-cut reductions of his original paintings, and the text describes his adventurous years among the Indians, recording his observations of ceremonies, dances, hunting methods, forms of warfare, and daily life living among the major tribes of the high plains and Rocky Mountains.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., viii, 264; viii, 266pp., errata slip, 3 maps (1 folding), 311 monochrome illustrations (toned), second issue of text with “Zedekiah” on page 104 vol. i, modern half calf gilt, a very good set.Howes C-241. Wagner-Camp 84:1. Streeter Sale 1805.ref: 88328 £2500

Album (19 x 24.5 cm). 20 silver gelatin prints with one additional loose (17 x 21.5 cm), most with titles in negative. Publisher’s dark green wrappers.ref: 87280 £850

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47. EDWARDS, Bryan. The history, civil and commercial, of the British colonies in the West Indies Stockdale, London, 1794.

A beAutifully bound set of A clAssic work on the west indies.

Bryan Edwards (1743-1800), born in Wiltshire, his family losses caused him to go to Jamaica towards the end of 1759, where he was received by his mother’s brother, Zachary Bayly, a wealthy planter. In due course Edwards inherited his uncle’s estates and became a wealthy merchant and an active member of the House of Assembly. In 1791 he published a work on St. Domingo (Haiti) but it is the present work for which he is best known. It was first published in 1793 but the present edition is preferred on account of the maps which are present here for the first time.

Provenance: Sir Richard Bempde Johnstone (armorial bookplate).

Second edition. 2 volumes, 4to., liv,, 494; 520 [1]pp., 2 frontispieces, 5 engraved plates, 9 engraved maps (3 folding), contemporary sprinkled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, blue morocco lettering piece to second, green morocco numbering piece to third, others richly gilt, raised bands, a fine set.ref: 88454 £2500

48. 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 fine copy of the first uk edition. fremont’s 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 Fremont’s 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 Sutter’s Fort. Fremont’s account and his maps provided the basis for pioneers to head out west on what became known as the Oregon Trail.

8vo., 324pp., large folding map by Robert Greenhow, 4 lithographed plates, a little light spotting at beginning and end, original blue blind-stamped cloth gilt.Howes F3803; Sabin 25841; Wagner-Camp 115:6 (calling for map and 2 plates only).ref: 74138 £1500

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49. GABRIAC, Alexis Count de. Promenade a travers l’Amerique du Sud. Michel Levy Freres, Paris, 1868.

A fine copy presented to the russiAn tsAr of the first edition of count gAbriAc’s trAvel nArrAtive, describing his voyAge Around south AmericA, through New Granada, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. In Brazil, the author sailed down the Amazon to Belem in Para, and visited the principal cities in the north of the country.

Alexis Count de Gabriac (1830-1891) was a French diplomat active in Mexico between 1854 and 1860.

Provenance: Alexander II (presentation inscription from the author in ink to half-title).

8vo., Half-title, title, [2], 304 pp., with 2 maps and 21 plates; light occasional spotting, light offsetting of several text pages. Contemporary green pebbled-cloth, covers gilt-ruled, Russian coat of arms in gilt on upper cover, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations in compartments. ref: 87847 £4500

prEsEntation copy to thE russian tsar

50. HEAD, Francis Bond. Reports relating to the failure of the Rio Plata Mining Association John Murray, London, 1827.

An account of a famous “bubble” of the period. After the Napoleonic Wars there was a surplus of unbacked credit which fuelled speculation in Latin American sovereign debt and mining stocks. When the Bank of England raised interest rates in 1825, there was a stock market crash and a collapse of South American mining stocks.

First edition. 8vo., vii, 228pp., large folding map on fine paper, morocco backed marbled boards, a fine copy.ref: 88993 £750


51. KINGSBOROUGH, Edward King. Antiquities of Mexico: comprising facsimiles of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics ... together with the monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix ... the drawings on stone by A. Aglio Robert Havell, Colnaghi Son & Co., London, 1831-1848.

first edition of the hAnd-coloured issue of the greAtest illustrAted work on mexicAn Antiquities.

“kingsborough’s nine-volume set, the Antiquities of mexico, is, quite simply, stupendous. eAch mAssive volume is roughly two feet squAre, weighs About 65 pounds, And consists of hundreds of pAges of text And mAgnificent illustrAtions in colour And blAck-And-white, pAinstAkingly copied from originAls by A tAlented Artist nAmed Augustine Aglio. the set took 18 yeArs to produce And the cost of £40,000 wAs A truly enormous sum in terms of the currency of the time, when A fAmily could live quite well on £500 A yeAr.” (bAS LibrAry).

The story of Kingsborough’s fateful attraction to Mexican manuscripts is well known: during his studies at Oxford he became fascinated by one of the Bodleian’s manuscripts -- the very one described by Samuel Purchas in 1626 (in Purchas his Pilgrimes, vol. III) -- and decided to devote himself to the study of Central American manuscripts and artifacts. With the support of Sir Thomas Phillipps, many of whose manuscripts are described in the Antiquities, he employed the Italian painter Agustine Aglio to scour Europe’s greatest libraries and private collections for Mexican manuscripts, which Aglio sketched and later lithographed for publication. Besides Aglio’s reproductions of manuscripts in the Bodleian, the Vatican Library, the Borgian Museum, the Imperial Library of Vienna, the Library of the Institute at Bologna, and the royal libraries of Berlin, Dresden, and Budapest, the work includes Dupaix’s Monuments of New Spain, taken from Castaneda’s original drawings, and descriptions of sculptures and artifacts from several private collections. The text, with sections in Spanish, English, French and Italian, includes Sahagun’s Historia General de la Nueva Espana and the chronicles of Tezozomoc and Ixtlilxochitl.

mExican antiquitiEs in colour

The immense project cost Kingsborough 32,000 and his life: in 1837 he died of typhus contracted in prison in Dublin, a few days after being arrested for a debt to a paper manufacturer. His father the Earl of Kingston died a few month later ; Kingsborough would have stood to inherit an annual estate of 40,000.

First edition, 9 volumes, folio, with 741 plates (in volumes I-IV), mostly by Augustine Aglio, comprising: 587 lithographs by Aglio finely hand-coloured, 144 uncoloured (one folding, of which 127 are chalk lithographs on mounted India tissue paper), and 10 engraved or aquatint plates; 2 folding tables in text volumes V and VI, contemporary green half morocco gilt, a little spotting to some text pages, a fine set.Brunet III, 663; Lipperheide Md11; Palau 128006; Sabin 37800ref: 88517 £120000


52. MOLLHAUSEN, Baldwin. Diary of a journey from the Mississippi to the coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition. Longman, Brown, Green, Roberts, London, 1858.

A beAutiful copy, finely bound.

Mollhausen was the artist and topographer accompanying the party led by Lieutenant Amiel Weekes Whipple in the Pacific Railroad Survey Exploration of the thirty-fifth parallel in 1853. This account is generally considered to be more interesting than the officially published accounts.

First English edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxi, 352; xi, 397pp., translated by Mrs Percy Sinnett with an introduction by Alexander von Humboldt, folding map, 11 chromolithographed plates, some captions cropped, 12 woodcuts, bound as an Eton College leaving present in contemporary tan calf gilt, spines in six compartments, red and green labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, small repair to foot of spine, a fine set.Sabin, 49915; Streeter 3134; Wagner-Camp 305:2.ref: 86612 £4500

53. OSBORN, Sherard. Stray leaves from an Arctic journal; or, eighteen months in the polar regions, in search of Sir John Franklin’s expedition, in the years 1850-51. Longman, London, 1852.

“In 1849, when public attention was turned to the fate of Sir John Franklin, Osborn entered into the question with enthusiasm and energy, and in 1850 was appointed to command the steam tender Pioneer, in the Arctic expedition under Captain Austin in the Resolute. Considered as a surveying expedition, it was eminently successful, and proved that Franklin’s ships had not been lost in Baffin’s Bay. Much of the success of the voyage was due to the steam tenders, which, during the summers of 1850 and 1851, held out new prospects for Arctic navigation. The way in which the Pioneer or Intrepid cut through rotten ice, or steamed through the loose pack in a calm, led directly to the employment of powerful screw-steamers in the whaling fleet. On his return to England in 1851, Osborn urged the renewal of the search for Franklin” (ODNB).

First edition. 8vo., vii, 320pp., 4 tinted lithographs, large folding map coloured in outline, contemporary red polished calf gilt, spine in six compartments, green morocco label to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, marbled edges, a fine copy.Sabin 57760. Abbey Travel 640.ref: 88453 £1350

54. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A selection of papers on Arctic geography and ethnology. Reprinted, and presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the president, council and fellows of the Royal Geographic Society. Murray, London, 1875.

In 1873 the Admiralty began planning an expedition to find a route to the North Pole through Smith Sound, the passage between Greenland and Canada. This collection of papers was published in 1875, with the aim of being ‘useful to the officers of the [British Arctic] expedition’ leaving later that year. The book is divided into two sections: geographical observations by the likes of Admiral Collinson, who led the 1850 expedition in search of John Franklin, and ethnographic observations, including accounts of the Inuit and their language.

First edition. 8vo., xii, 292pp., 2 folding maps (1 in colour), original blue cloth gilt, a fine copy.ref: 87466 £250


55. RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. Malerische Reisein Brasilien. Engelmann, Paris, 1835.

first edition of these fine plAtes which “Are of the utmost importAnce for the study of brAziliAn life At the beginning of the nineteenth century” (borba de moraes).

Johann Rugendas (1802- 1858), came from a family of painters. He was recruited by Baron Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff to join a scientific expedition to the interior of Brazil, financed by Tsar Alexander I. Preliminary excursions were made from Rio de Janeiro into Minas Gerais in 1824, during the course of which Rugendas quarrelled with Langsdorff and left the expedition. He remained in Rio de Janeiro where he established contact with the French artistic mission that had arrived in Brazil in 1816.

Rugendas left Brazil in 1825, summoned home by Maximilian I of Bavaria to illustrate the travels of Spix and Martius. He brought with him 500 lithographs, a hundred of which were used to illustrate the present work which has text by V. A. Huber. The lithographs are now regarded as possibly the finest ever executed in Brazil, albeit that depiction of native American life is somewhat romanticized.

Four parts in 2 volumes large folio (52 x 36.5 cm). Lithographed half-title and title, 50, 38, 56 and 32 pp.; 100 lithographed plates after Rugendas; occasional spotting in the text volume, stronger on some leaves. Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments; rebacked retaining spines, covers rubbed, corners and edges of atlas volume renewed, plates clean and fresh (final 7 plates with very neat restoration to blank inner margin not affecting text, final 3 plates expertly laid-down and re-margined along blank edges not affecting captions or images).Borba de Moraes (1983), p.754; Colas 2594; Lipperheide 1631; Sabin 73934; cf. Palau 281202.ref: 86692 £25000

56. WALTON, William. An historical and descriptive account of the Peruvian sheep, called Carneros de la Tierra; and of the experiments made by the Spaniards to improve the respective breeds Glindon for John Harding, London, 1811.

the first work devoted to the four members of the cAmelidAe fAmily to be found in south AmericA: llAmA, AlpAcA, guAnAco And vicunA.

First edition. 8vo., 183pp., 36 pages ads at end, 5 hand-coloured engraved plates, light offsetting to plates, original marbled boards rebacked, corners bumped, a very good copy.Sabin 101223.ref: 84532 £1350

57. WILCOCKE, Samuel Hull. History of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, containing the most accurate details relative to the topography , history, commerce, population, government, &c. &c. of that valuable colony. H. D. Symonds, London, 1807.

Provenance: Sir Joseph Radcliffe (armorial bookplate).

First edition. 8vo., [iv], 576pp., 3 engraved plates (2 hand-coloured), 2 folding maps (1 browned), engraved plan, contemporary polished half calf gilt, morocco label, an excellent copy.Sabin 103963.ref: 88989 £1250

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58. aBBott, capt . james Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva; with some account of the Court of Khiva and the Kingdom of Khaurism. Allen, London, 1843.

Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the Khan of Khiva at a time when British troops were threatening and the Khan had requested British assistance. This is an account of his journey to and stay in Khiva, his capture by robbers on the return journey to Harat, and his ultimate escape. (Ghani).

Provenance: Alexander McGrigor (armorial book label).

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xix, 401; x, 299, ciii pp., lithographed portrait frontispiece and large folding map,original blind-stamped black cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent example.Ghani p2.ref: 88630 £1650

59. andrEws, r. chapman On the trail of ancient man A narrative of the field work of the Central Asiatic Expeditions. Putnam, New York, 1926

The narrative of the Central Asiatic expedition sponsored by the American Museum of Natural history.

8vo, xxiv, 375pp, numerous plates including frontispiece, 2 maps, one folding, original green cloth gilt, an excellent copy.Yakushi A222.ref: 87858 £250

60. atkinson, thomas Wil l iam . Oriental and western Siberia: A narrative of seven years’ explorations and adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Central Asia. Hurst and Blackett, London, 1858.

Account of a tour made in 1849-56. Atkinson, English traveller and painter, was inspired by Alexander von Humboldt to travel through Russia and Central Asia in 1845. A year later he journeyed to Siberia and on through the Kirghiz steppe. In 1849 he reached the heart of Mongolia via Kobdo and Uliassutai. His narrative describes his stay with the Khalka Mongols and the crossing of the Mongolian plains.

First edition. 8vo., viii, [4], 611, [2] pp.; one folding map, 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates with tissue guards, 35 illustrations in text; original green blind-stamped cloth gilt, occasional light spotting, light wear to binding, an excellent copy.Czech, Asian, p15.Yakushi A293.ref: 88793 £750

61. atkinson, thomas [w i t lam ] . Travels in the regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China. With adventures among the mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi, and Gelyaks: the hunting and pastoral Tribes. Hurst and Blackett, London, 1860.

A continuation of Atkinson’s narrative of his travels in Siberia. Mainly focused on natural history and ethnography, but includes hunting bear and boar.

First edition. 8vo, xiii, 570 pp., 6 pages ads at end, 83 illustrations including coloured lithograph frontispiece (spotted) folding map by Arrowsmith, original pink blind-stamped cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover; spine faded and worn at head, lightly soiled, a very good copy.Czech, Asian, 15; Yakushi A294.ref: 88794 £625


62. BaddElEy, john f. The rugged flanks of the Caucasus. Oxford University Press, London, 1940.

the very hAndsome first edition printed on thick pAper.

Posthumously published, the book describes the author’s journey through the region on horseback, 1898-1902. The work deals with the geography, topography, ethnology, history, archaeology, botany, zoology, and folklore of the Caucasus.

2 volumes 4to (27.5 x 18 cm). xv, 272; ix, 318 pp., 38 plates printed by Emery Walker after drawings by the author, and nine maps (8 folding). Original brown buckram gilt, a fine copy.ref: 87524 £2750

63. BEll, james s tan is laus Journal of a residence in Circassia during the years 1837, 1838 and 1839. Moxon, London, 1840.

A detailed description of a residence in Circassia. Bell was a ship-owner who developed direct trade between Circassia and Great Britain. His stance was pro-Turkish, anti-Russian.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxiii, 453; viii, 488pp., 2 hand-coloured lithograph frontispieces, 10 lithograph plates (8 tinted, 1 hand-coloured), folding map, modern green half morocco gilt by Bayntun, 1871 gift inscription to titles, an excellent set.Atabey 84 ref: 88449 £950

64. BEll, john . Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia, to various parts of Asia. Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh, 1788.

Engaged in the service of the Russian Emperor, Bell left St. Petersburg in July 1715, and proceeded to Moscow, from thence to Astrakhan. The embassy then sailed down the Caspian Sea to Derbend, and to Ispahan, where they arrived in March, 1717. They left that city in September, and returned to St. Petersburgh in December 1718. Whilst here, Bell gained a position on an embassy to China. His descriptions of the manners, customs and superstitions of the inhabitants, and of the Dalai-Lama and the Great Wall are notable. The embassy arrived back in Moscow in 1722. The Czar was determined to undertake an expedition into Persia to aid the ruler against the Afghans, who had seized Kandahar.

2 volumes, 8vo (20.8 x 12.5 cm). xvi, 442; vi, 554 pp., 2 large folding engraved maps (“Petersburg to Ispahan and from Petersburg to Constantinople” and “Moscow to Pekin”. Contemporary full tree calf, spine gilt, red and green leather labels; light wear to extremities. ref: 88222 £1850

65. Byron, rober t . First Russia then Tibet. Macmillan, London, 1933.

Two separate narratives: the first a sort of cultural tour of Soviet Russia in the 1920’s; the second covering the trade route from Sikkim to Gyantse. This is a very good example of the first edition in the original green cloth.

An old Etonian and part of the social milieu captured by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited, Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, venturing into Tibet.

First edition. 8vo., xvi, 328 pp., illustrated with drawings and photographs, mostly by the author including coloured frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, dust-wrapper, a fine copy.Yakushi B315.ref: 87266 £750


66. [cEntral asia] Journal of the Central Asian Society Central Asian Society, London 1928-1986.

The Central Asian Society was originally formed as a result of a meeting between Dr Cotterell Tupp, Captain Francis Younghusband, Colonel Algernon Durand, and General Sir Thomas Gordon.

The Central Asian issues dealt with originally derived from the political and diplomatic confrontation between Britain and Russia that continued throughout most of the nineteenth century. The confrontation was played-out in the Central Asian territories that lay between British India and Russia. Many of the founding members and key figures of the Central Asian Society were active participants in the latter stages of this “game” of empires.

67. [cEntral asia] - dmitriEv-kavkaZskiy, l[ev ] E[vgrafov ich ] . Po sredney Azii. Zapiski khudozhnika [In Central Asia. Notes of an Artist]. A. F. Devrien, St. Peterburg, 1894.

fresh exAmple of the first edition of this richly illustrAted work by Dmitriev-Kavkazskiy (1849-1916), a talented draughtsman and engraver. After having published in 1880 an album of Caucasian impressions, he travelled in 1887 in nowadays Uzbekistan with charcoal and feather to gather views, portraits, types, behaviours and wide-ranging observations. They form in the present work a rich visual record of this region, as well as a beautiful piece of book-design, where all pages are adorned with a drawing, a sketch, an ornament.

Large 4to (34.3 x 26 cm). Half-title, title, 115 pp., table of content, with a map, 7 plates and almost 200 illustrations in text; a marginal spot to half-title, title and first leaf, otherwise fresh. Recent green half-calf over green cloth, gilt rules to covers, flat spine lettered and decorated in gilt.ref: 88524 £1750

68. [cErcEau, jean Antoine du ] . Histoire de Thamas Kouli-Kan, nouveau Roi de Perse ou Histoire de la dernière Révolution de Perse arrivée en 1732. Briasson, Paris, 1742.

First edition. 12mo, [iv], 455, [vi]pp., engraved frontispiece, folding map, contemporary mottled calf gilt, Luynes arms to covers, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece, raised bands, a fine copy.ref: 88965 £750

On 1 January, 1975, the Society changed its name to The Royal Society for Asian Affairs, reflecting a shift of emphasis from narrowly Central Asian matters to an embrace of Asia as a whole, from Korea to the Middle East. The shift of emphasis had already been marked (in 1970) by the renaming of the Society’s Journal as Asian Affairs. Formerly, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, the Society’s Journal has been published continuously since 1914.

Long runs such as the present are difficult to find.

8vo., Volume XV, part I volume 74, part I, original printed wrappers, some wear to early issues.ref: 88434 £3250

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69. dmitriEv-mamonov, a. i . ; jo h n ma r s h a l l . Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. Artistic Printing Society, St. Petersburg, 1900.

scArce. A celebrAted guide to one of the most fAmous rAilwAys in the world.

Apart from the details of timetables and fares, the book includes a mass of geographical, economic, anthropological and historical data. The illustrations include stations, native tribesmen, Chinese mandarins, paddle steamers and hunting falcons. There is data on crops and livestock, statistics on the number of exiles, and information about hotels, buffets, and drinking water. The guide was meant to be a yearly publication describing the cultural, economic and industrial impact of the Trans-Siberian railway, however this project did not materialise.

First edition in English. 8vo., 520pp., 20 pages ads at end, 2 phototypes, 360 photogravures, 4 maps, 3 town plans, original blue cloth gilt; top of front cover bumped. ref: 88519 £1350

70. graham, stephen Through Russian Central Asia. Cassell and Company, London, 1916.

An account of the author’s travels between the Caspian to the Aral Sea taking in Merv, Bokhara, Samarkand, etc., written in the summer before the outbreak of WWI. The author was correspondent for The Times.

First edition. 8vo., xii, 280pp., frontispiece, 36 plates, folding map, original dark blue pictorial cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.Ghani pp.155-6.ref: 87912 £120

71. hEdin, sven Across the Gobi Desert. George Routledge, London, 1931.

The author describes an account of the journey across the Gobi desert, from Paotou to Urumchi in the years of 1927-28, which was the first step of the Sino-Swedish expedition. Hedin himself organised the expedition.

First edition. 8vo, xxi, 402pp., 114 photographic illustrations throughout, 3 maps including 2 folding coloured maps, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, an excellent copy.Yakushi H189c.ref: 87857 £450

72. hEdin, sven . Trans-Himalaya discoveries and adventures in Tibet. Macmillan, London, 1910-1913

The author’s popular account of his exploration in Tibet and Central Asia of 1906-1908. These volumes also contain the author’s own illustrations.

Volume iii first edition, voumes i and ii second editions. 3 volumes, 8vo., 14 maps (four folding), 543 illustrations, original reddish-brown cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper covers, joints vol. i repaired, a little worn.Yakushi H103c. ref: 75384 £650


73. kEmp, E[mily ] g[eorg iana ] . Wanderings in Chinese Turkestan. Privately Printed by Wightman, Old Westminster Press, London, n.d. [1914].

Scarce. An interesting account of a journey from Leh to the Taklamakan Desert in 1912. Born in 1860, Emily Kemp trained as a landscape artist. She wrote five travel books between 1909 and 1921. Kemp became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland.

First edition. 31 pp., text in double columns, 8 illustrations after sketches by the author, original green cloth gilt, covers lightly soiled.Yakushi K115.ref: 87913 £500

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74. kingdon-ward, f[rank ] . The land of the blue poppy travels of a naturalist in eastern Tibet. University Press, Cambridge, 1913.

One of the few profesional botanists to travel in Tibet prior to World War II, the author is perhaps best remembered as the man who brought back the blue poppy of Tibet from the mountains east of Lhassa for cultivation in English gardens. His first and scarcest book.

First edition. 8vo., xii, 283pp., page of ads to verso of last leaf, 5 maps (4 folding), 40 plates, original blue cloth gilt (secondary binding), an excellent copy.Yakushi K70a.ref: 87394 £650

75. lEssing, ferdinand d iedr ich . Mongolia: Forty Photographic Slides. [early 1930s].

importAnt group of rAre ethnogrAphic photogrAphs, showing interior And exterior of mongoliAn temples, portrAits of monks And common people occupied with their routine tAsks.

Lessing (1882-1961) was an outstanding specialist of Northern China, and Mongolia. Linked to the Berlin Ethnographical Museum, he participated in 1930-33 in the Sino-Swedish Expedition to the North-Western Provinces of China under the leadership of Sven Hedin. He then continued his independent or museum-sponsored researches through various trips as far as Tonkin.

It is likely that the present group of slides, almost certainly from the Expedition, were used as a teaching aide, possibly by Lessing himself - Lessing moved to the USA in 1935 to teach at Berkeley and became the first person to offer systematic instruction in Mongolian and Tibetan languages in the country. He published a Mongolian-English dictionary (1960) that even nowadays is considered the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind.

Collection of 40 glass lantern slides (8.4 x 10 cm), including 3 colour, some with sticker labeled F. Lessing and captions; one slide with a crack at corner. ref: 87664 £1750


77. longworth, j. a. A Year among the Circassians H. Colburn, London, 1840.

Longworth was a special correspondent with The Times reporting on (and sympathising with) the Circassian struggle against Russia. He was accompanied by James Bell.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiii, 312; vii, 351pp., 7 lithographed plates (light staining), contemporary green half roan, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.Hopkirk Great Game pp158-162.ref: 88633 £950

78. markham, c lements r . Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa. Edited, with notes, an introduction, and lives of Mr. Bogle and Mr. Manning. Trubner, London, 1876.

the first publicAtion of the Account of the first british mission to tibet.

Bogle, an officer of the East India Company, was despatched on a trade mission by Warren Hastings in 1774. Bogle’s expedition was obviously of great importance and Bogle would undoubtedly have published his account himself, were it not for his untimely death in 1883. Manning was the first, and for almost a hundred years, the only, Englishman who had visited Lhasa and saw the Dalai Lama. This he did in 1811. Later Manning joined Amherst’s Embassy to Peking. Manning was considered something of an eccentric and never published a narrative of his journeys. This present account was put together from family journals. In addition to the two main narratives, Markham includes a lengthy account of the Himalayas and a history of Tibetan exploration. A cornerstone of Tibetan travel and rare.

First edition. 8vo., frontispiece portrait, 7 plates including folding facsimile, 4 folding maps, errata leaf, original maroon pebble-grained cloth, covers decorated in blind, small snag to spine, light wear to extremities, an excellent copy, clean and fresh.Yakushi M88.ref: 88718 £2250

76. loEwE, dr. l . A dictionary of the Circassian language. In two parts English-Circassian-Turkish, and Circassian-English-Turkish. Containing all the most necessary words for the traveller, the soldier, and the sailor ; with the exact pronounciation of each word in the English character. Bell, London, 1854.

A finely bound copy of A scArce dictionAry.

First edition. 8vo., 9, [iii], 4, clxxvii pp., folding table, contemporary blue polished calf gilt , covers with gilt borders, panelled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco lettering piece to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, a fine copy.ref: 88634 £1250


81. phiBBs, isabel le mar y. A visit to the Russians in Central Asia. Kegan Paul, London, 1899.

An account of the journey of a small group of English travellers to Samarkand in 1897 on the Trans-Caspian Railway. Includes stays at Tiflis, Baku (”hideous”), Merv, and Bokhara.

First edition. 8vo., viii, 238 pp., large folding map, frontispiece, 31 photographic plates, original maroon cloth gilt, spine faded, a very good copy.ref: 89014 £350

82. stEin, mark aurel . Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China. Macmillan and Co, London, 1912.

Popular account of Stein’s second exploration to Central Asia between 1906 and 1909. From Khotan he surveyed eastwards to Loulan, and in 1907 he reached Tunhwang, where he visited and surveyed the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxxviii, 546; xxi, 517pp., 2 pages ads end of each volume, 3 maps, 13 panoramas, and 343 photographic illustrations, scattered light foxing, modern red morocco gilt, an excellent copy.Yakushi S716.ref: 87204 £1500

80. mElik-shahnaZariants, tauit dazdourian . Etat actuel de la Perse ... Imprimé en Persan, et traduit en Armenien et en François par J. Chahan de Cirbied ... Nepveau, Paris, 1817.

First edition. 12mo., 360 pp., engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title, engraved plate, text in French, Armenian, and Persian, uncut, modern mottled calf antique, an excellent copy.ref: 88796 £750

79. margat dE tilly, jean -Bapt iste . Histoire de Tamerlan. Empereur des Mogols et conquérant de l’Asie. Hippolite-Louis Guerin, Paris, 1739.

First edition of the most important work of the Jesuit Father Margat.

2 volumes, 12mo., [iv], xxxviii, 298; [iv], 392, [iv] pp., Luynes arms in gilt to covers,spines in six compartments, red morocco labels to second and third, others with gilt lion rampant with crown, raised bands, a fine set.ref: 88962 £750

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83. alExandEr, w i l l i am . The Costume of China. William Miller, London, 1805.

China in the eighteenth century was largely a closed world to Europeans, known only through the artefacts that had filtered west and guessed at only from the rare accounts of the travellers who had penetrated into the mainland. William Alexander, an artist from Maidstone, Kent, was the draughtsman officially attached to the 1792 embassy of Lord McCartney to the Emperor of China and the record he has left provides an essential document for the understanding of pre-modern China.

First edition. 4to (32.7 x 26.5cm). 48 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Alexander. Without half-title or dedication as often, occasional spotting, some offsetting onto text leaves, one plate with short marginal tear, modern red half morocco gilt, an attractive copy.Abbey Travel 534; Colas 74; Cordier 1858-1859; Martin Hardie p151; Prideaux p250 & p317; Tooley 18.ref: 88620 £3500

84. allom, thomas . China: in a series of views displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire. Fisher, Son, & Co., London, [ca.1843].

Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most complete portrait of China and Chinese culture up to the middle of the nineteenth century. The engravings show architecture and scenic views, mainly of the South-East (Hong Kong, Canto, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai) but also include several images of Peking and Yehol. As well as his own observations, Allom includes some images based on the work of earlier artists such as Lieutenant Frederick White, R.M., Captain Stoddart, R.N. and R. Vaughan.

The text was by George Wright, a Protestant missionary who had spent a considerable time in China. The work was a great success and went through several editions.

Four volumes bound in 2, 4to., engraved title-page to each volume, 124 finely engraved steel-plates after Allom, some light foxing throughout to plates, contemporary red morocco gilt extra, all edges gilt, a very attractive set.Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.ref: 86084 £3000

85. catlEEn, E l len . Peking Studies. Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, 1934.

Sole edition of this charming work with a great mixture of excellent photographs and amusing sketches. Catleen (1902-1973) was born in Berlin and came to China in 1930 where she worked as a correspondent for various Berlin newspapers. She was married to the Dutch ambassador to China, Willem Thorbecke.

First edition. folio. 87 pp., colour map, photographic illustrations throughout, original pictorial cloth, a very good copy.ref: 87851 £875

86. [china]. Album chinois. n.p., Paris 1849.

A scarce and attractive drawing-room book illustrating the architecture, scenery, costume, and types of China, based on the rare earlier publication by Malpière.

First edition. Folio. 20 hand-coloured lithographs by Formentin after Aubry-Lecomte, E. Deveria, C. Choran, J. Vidal, H. Grevedon, and Chenot, 2 pages of engraved music (1 to verso of lithograph), a few plates slightly browned, 2 plates spotted, some spotting to text, generally a good clean copyin original gilt and blindstamped cloth, rebacked with morocco, some edge and corner wear, a very good copy. ref: 88612 £2500


87. du haldE, jean Bapt iste . Description géographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l’empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise des cartes générales et particulières de ces pays... Lemercier, Paris, 1735.

“the first definitive europeAn work on the chinese empire” (Hill), here present in “the most desirAble And significAnt edition” (Lada-Mocarski).

Du Halde, a Parisian Jesuit, collected and edited the letters, published and unpublished, of twenty seven Jesuit missionaries including particularly Martino Martini’s Sinicae Historicae (1658) and Lecomte’s Nouveaux Memoires (1696). Although compiled by a Jesuit, Du Halde was under severe pressure to say as little as possible about the progress of Christianity in Asia, lest it would show the disagreements within the Order about such contentious issues as the Rites controversy. Hence the emphasis falls heavily on secular material.

Historically the work is regarded as monumental from a textual point of view because of the vast amount and variety of interesting details on Chinese political institutions, education, language, medicine, science, customs, and artefacts, and it is one of the earliest European sources on Chinese ceramics. Visually, it also publishes for the first time 43 maps by Jean-Baptiste Bourgignon d’Anville, the leading cartographer of the time, including a fine Tibet map and, of American interest, the first map to depict any part of Alaska. Notwithstanding various inaccuracies, du hAlde’s work remAins todAy “the bible of europeAn sinophiliA” (Lowendahl)

First edition. Four volumes, folio (44 x 29 cm.), with 65 plates, including 8 double plates (costumes, village views, hunting, fishing, etc.), 10 city plans, one plate showing Beijing’s observatory, Confucius portrait, a numismatic plate, music plate and 43 maps, most folding. Contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in seven compartments, red morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, a fine set.Cordier, Sinica 46-48; Lowendahl 394; Lada-Mocarski 2; Lust 12.ref: 88688 £35000


88. hEath, leopold g. , l ieutenant . Views - Hong Kong Island and vicinity Hydrographic Office, London, 4 May 1847 [but later, circa 1880?].

one of the eArliest And finest pAnorAmic views of hong kong, showing the whole of the islAnd from AnchorAge.

In 1843 Leopold Heath (later Admiral Sir Leopold ) was appointed Gunnery Lieuenant of HMS Iris commanded by Captain George Rodney Mundy. On one of his visits to Hong Kong in 1846 he drew a view of the harbour as seen from his ship. This series was seen by the Hydrographic Office to be of a good standard and was published in 1847 as a set of three black and white prints selling for three shillings. These supplemented the chart made from the first British survey of Hong Kong harbour by Commander (later Captain Sir Edward) Belcher RN, who had landed on the island in 1841, just in advance of the naval squadron arriving to take formal possession of the Colony.

The first view shows Lymoon Pass and part of Kowloon with a Chinese junk in full sail; The central view bears the inscription Hong Kong as seen from the anchorage, drawn by Lieutenant L. G. Heath of H.M.S. Iris , 1846; The third view shows the outlying islands including Stonecutter’s Island and Lantau, with a number of frigates moving around in the anchorage.

3-sheet steel-engraved panorama, each sheet approximately 13 x 71cm. ref: 88772 £7500


89. hElman, is idore -s tan is laus -henr i .Faits Memorables des Empereurs de la Chine, tires des Annales Chinoises. Chez l’Auteur, Paris, [circa 1788].

The plates are reductions of large plates engraved from drawings by Jesuit Attiret, on orders of the Emperor of China and the intervention of the East India Company for the Chinese market.

Because of the rarity of these plates in Europe, Helman produced the present edition, reduced in size from the original engravings. Helman enjoyed a good reputation as an engraver of genre scenes. One of the first pupils at the free school of drawing in Lille, he studied under Louis Jean Guéret and Louis-Joseph Watteau.

4to, engraved title, engraved dedication, 24 engraved plates each accompanied by a leaf engraved text, nineteenth century blue half morocco gilt by Simier, marbled sides, all edges gilt, a fine copy.Cohen de Ricci 479; Lust 1987; Cordier 587-88; Lowendahl 655.ref: 87776 £3750

90. hEywood, g. s . p. Rambles in Hong Kong. Kelly & Walsh, Hong Kong, 1951.

Second edition. 8vo., 80pp., illustrations, map endpapers, original blue cloth gilt, an excellent copy.ref: 87862 £175

91. lE goBiEn, char les . Histoire de l’Edit de l’Empereur de Chine en faveur de la religion chretienne ... Jean Anisson, Paris, 1698.

complete with the unpAginAted fold between pAges 216 And 217 missing from most copies.

A professor of philosophy, Le Gobien (1653-1708) was the procurator in Paris for the China mission. He sought to stimulate interest among fellow intellectuals in the work of christianising China.

He allied himself with Le Comte in advancing the Jesuit position on the rites controversy. The present work includes a collection of materials on the China mission including an extract from the preface to Leibniz’ Novissima Sinica (1697). By this extract and other non-Catholic and non-French sources, Le Gobien tried to show how general was the approval for the Jesuits and their part in winning K’ang-hsi’s declaration of toleration for Christianity. The book includes a history of that edict together with a clarification of the honours rendered by the Chinese to Confucius and their ancestors. There is also an account of the relationship between the Chinese and the Muscovites.

First edition. 12mo.,xxxii, 1-216[iv], 217-322, x pp., contemporary calf gilt with Luynes arms to covers, spine gilt in compartments, repair to head of spine and upper joint. Cordier 836; Lowendahl 227 (lacking unpaginated fold); Lust 822ref: 88968 £2000

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92. martini , mar t ino . Histoire de la Guerre des Tartares contre la Chine. Jean Henault, Paris, 1656.

the first detAiled Account of the mAnchu conquest of chinA, of greAt importAnce As mArtini wAs An eyewitness to And lived through the violent overthrow of the ming dynAsty in the yeArs 1643-44.

Martini had been sent to Rome by the Jesuits in China to defend their cultural accommodation practices against the criticism of Dominican an Franciscan missionaries. He staved off sea sickness on the long voyage by writing. The present work was his first publication on arriving in Europe in 1653. It was very successful, the Latin text being reprinted seven times, and was translated into nine other European languages.

Second edition, revised, 12mo., xii, 187pp., folding map, contemporary mottled calf gilt, Luynes arms to covers, spine richly gilt, wear at spine extremities, light toning to paper, a very good copy.Cordier, Sinica, I, 624. Cf. Lowendahl 107 (first edition). ref: 88964 £1250

93. 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 30’s. His soft-toned images of the capital show Mennie’s 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, bottom edges worn.ref: 87864 £1250

94. m’lEod, john Voyage of His Majesty’s ship Alceste, to China, Corea, and the island of Lewchew, with an account of her shipwreck. Murray, London, 1818.

Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).

“This voyage was undertaken for the purpose of conveying the embassy, under Lord Amherst to China. In 1816 the Alceste reached Rio de Janeiro. After a short visit to the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia was touched and China was reached shortly after. While the matters of the embassy were proceeding, the ships sailed on an expedition for the survey and exploration of the west coast of Korea and the Ryukyu Islands. In the course of this work a long visit was made to Okinawa. On the return voyage, after Manila had been visited, the Alceste struck a submerged reef off Sumatra and became a total loss. The crew and passengers were saved and a vivid account is given of their experiences, of how they were attacked by Malay pirates and of their final rescue. They also visited St. Helena and an interesting account is given of an interview with Napoleon.” (Hill).

Second edition. 8vo., 323pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, five handcoloured aquatint plates,a little spotting, etc., contemporary half calf marbled boards, rebacked, a very good copy.Abbey Travel, 559; Bastin & Brommer 133; Cordier, Sinica, 3; Hill 1167;Lowendahl 792 (first edition, 1817); Lust 376.ref: 88455 £385

95. s irr, henry char les China and the Chinese: their religion, character, customs, and manufactures: the evils arising from the Opium Trade: with a glance at our religious, moral, political, and commercial intercourse with the country. Wm. S. Orr & Co., London, 1849.

Volume 1 has a good deal of observation, mainly on south-east China and Shanghai, volume 2 contains encyclopaedic studies.

The author, a barrister, was a British vice-consul in Hong-Kong in 1843 and campaigned aggressively against the “nefarious traffic” in opium, He also describes “Chu-san” as “the Great Britain of China”, “productive and salubrious” whereas Hong Kong is “an unhealthy, pestilential, and unprofitable barren rock”.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xvi, 447; viii, 443pp., 2 coloured lithographed frontispieces, modern tan half morocco gilt, an excellent copy.Cordier Sinica 86; Lust, 76; Morrison, I, 679; Taylor 171.ref: 88773 £1950


96. staunton, s i r george leonard . An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...] with notices of Tristan d’Acuna, Amsterdam, Java, Sumatra, Cochin-China. Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of McCartney. W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, London, 1797.

A finely llustrAted Account of the first british embAssy to chinA, which wAs to leAd to the foundAtion of hong kong As A british trAding post. it wAs the fAilure of this mission to estAblish direct trAde links with chinA thAt convinced the british government of the need to set up its own trAding post.

Staunton, a medical doctor and friend of Dr. Johnson, accompanied McCartney as secretary. To write his account, Staunton had access to McCartney’s journal and was assisted by John Barrow. Staunton’s account is noteworthy for his detailed description of the journey, his examination of Chinese customs (including the binding of women’s feet) and the detailed appendix on Chinese trade with Europe and more specifically Britain.

Alexander’s plates are of special interest due to their depiction of subjects that very few Europeans had recorded or seen and the indications they gave to the considerable technical, artistic and organizational advancement of the Chinese civilization.

The work was hugely successful, fifteen editions were issued in seven countries in thirty years.

First edition. 2 text volumes, 4to, and atlas folio (56.8 x 41cm). Text with 2 engraved portrait frontispieces of Emperor Tchien Lung and the Earl of Macartney and 26 illustrations of which one full-page; atlas with 44 plates, including one folding, and 7 double-page folding maps. (Occasional browning and spotting, heavier on title-page of vol. II), text volumes contemporary blindstamped calf gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spines, morocco lattering pieces; atlas volume contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neat repairs to joints, an excellent set. Cordier, Sinica, 2381-83; Hill 1628; Lust 545 & 547.ref: 88622 £18500


98. tEgEngrEn, f. r.The iron ores and iron industry of China. Including a summary of the iron situation of the Circum-Pacific Region.Geological Survey, Peking, 1921-1924.

A scArce work. the first english lAnguAge survey of iron ore in chinA.

First edition. 3 volumes, comprising 2 octavo text volumes and folio atlas, (2), 5, (1), 180, 24 figures, 16 plates, 128 pages in Chinese; (2), xii, pp.181-457, (1), figures 25-46 + 2, plates 17-35 + 5, 214 pages in Chinese; Atlas with 39 plates, text volumes in linen boards with green lettering pieces, small stamps to endpapers and titles, atlas in original wrappers, slighlty chipped at edges.ref: 87852 £1500

99. thorBEckE, E l len . Hong Kong Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, n.d. circa 1940.

Very attractive art-deco designed book.

First edition. 4to., 69pp., 15 colour sketches by Schiff, and 25 photographs, 2 maps, original pictorial dust-wrapper over paper covered pictorial boards, dust-wrapper spine defective, edges chipped, light rubbing to board spine extremities, a very good copy.ref: 88190 £485

100. thorBEckE, E l len . Shanghai. North China Daily News, Shanghai, n.d. [1939].

The scarcest of the Thorbecke-Schiff titles and a mesmerising depiction of Shanghai “ overcrowded, colourful, dirty and brilliant at the same time, opportunistic, speculating, risking, intriguing, winning and losing, bursting with ideas ... to depict this city of contrasts and unlimited possibilities at this very moment of high tension has been too tempting a task to be resisted”.

First edition. 4to.,82pp., colour sketches by Schiff, photographs by the author, original pictorial dust-wrapper over paper covered pictorial boards, dustwrapper spine slightly defective, edges chipped, light rubbing to board extremities, a very good copy.ref: 88191 £750

97. [SHANGHAI ] darwEnt, c . E . Shanghai: a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlements and native city. Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai, 1904

First edition. 8vo., xx,221,[24]pp., 64 Plates and large folding coloured map of Shanghai, original blue cloth gilt, light wear, a very good copy.ref: 87853 £950

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101. BriErly, oswald wa l ters . The English and French fleets in the Baltic, 1854 ... made during the year on board H.M.S. St. Jean d’Acre (Capt. The Honourable H. Keppel) and other of H. M. Ships. Day & Son, London 1855

fine And scArce series of lithogrAphs of the english And french fleets who were engAged hostilities AgAinst russiA in the bAltic during the crimeAn wAr.

In 1854, at the outbreak of the Crimean War,Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817–1894), marine painter and naval engineer, joined Captain Henry Keppel as artist–observer on the man-of-war HMS St John d’Acre in the allied Baltic fleet; Brierley had previously accompanied Keppel on board HMS Maeander in the Pacific. The aim of this particular campaign was was to bring Sweden into the war on the side of the allies, and also to pressure Russia to sue for peace over Sebastopol. Retained by the Illustrated London News to sketch the actions (reproduced from 25 March 1854), Brierly was one of the earliest naval war artists commissioned by a newspaper.

In 1855 he accompanied Keppel, in HMS Rodney, to the Black Sea and Sea of Azov; during this voyage he was often under enemy fire, and was subsequently awarded the Baltic and Crimean medals. His work illustrates the transition from the steam frigates of 1837 to the great steam fleet of 1854.

Large folio, lithographed calligraphic dedication, 1 leaf of descriptive text (no title-page issued with this work, title only to discarded wrappers),18 hand-coloured lithograph plates on 15 leaves by Dutton, Carrick, Needham, and Picken after Brierly, captions in English and French, modern red half calf gilt, morocco label to upper cover, an excellent copy.Abbey Life 329.ref: 88437 £19500


102. BEnoist, fel ix . Album de L’Ile de Jersey avec coup d’oeil, sur Guernsey et les cotes de la Manche de Cherbourg au Cap Fréhel. Dessins d’aprés nature par F. Benoist. Texte par C.Petit S. Ropartz avec traduction anglaise. Henri Charpentier, Paris and Nantes 1870.

fine views of the chAnnel islAnds.

Philippe Benoist born in Geneva in 1813 was a well known lithographer and artist. He studied under Daguerre and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1836 -1879.

103. carr, john A Northern Summer; or Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804. Richard Phillips, London, 1805.

over hAlf the book devoted to st. petersburg: “the vAst spAce of its streets And AreAs will ever give it superiority over every other europeAn cApitAl; but its principAl beAuty Arises from its being the result of one mighty design”.

A journey from east to west along the northern shore of the Baltic sea, visiting Copenhagen, Roskilde, Helsingör, Helsingborg, Jönköping, Linköping, Norrköping, Stockholm, Uppsala, Åbo, Borgå, Viborg, St. Petersburg, Narva, Dorpat, Reval, Riga, Mittau, Polangen , Memel, Königsberg, Elbing, Marienburg, Dantzig, Berlin, and Lübeck.

First edition. 4to, half title, 11 aquatints hand-coloured with a sepia wash, one folding, contemporary half calf gilt, joints and extremities repaired, light wear to boards, a very good copy.Abbey Travel 73; Cat. Russica, No. C144; Prideaux, pages 218, 330.ref: 89112 £950

Folio, (49 x 35.5cm), 34, [iv] 34, [i]pp., 25 lithographed plates all captioned, original cloth-backed printed boards with pictorial vignette, corners bumped, title-page printed in red and black, occasional light foxing, a fine fresh copy.Benezit 2. p.171ref: 87775 £3000

104. gautiEr, theophi le , and others . Russia. The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1905.

A superb exAmple of this richly illustrAted work: exceptionAlly fresh And in An impressive binding, protected by its very rAre dust-jAcket.

Published during the Russo-Japanese war: written by the translator, the last chapter briefly analyses the geopolitical situation in the Far East in 1904-05 - before the end of the war and the first Russian revolution - and the future of Russia there. The first volumes mainly covers St. Petersburg and Moscow while the second volume deals with Siberia as well as interesting social considerations of Nicholas II’s Russia, such as ‘The Press and Censorship’, ‘Literature’, ‘Russian Art’ and ‘The Tea Kingdom’.

Two volumes 8vo (20.7 x 14.5 cm). viii including title, 483; viii including title, 461 pp,; with 50 black & white plates including 2 frontispieces, all with original printed tissue guard; frontispiece of first volume partially detached, ownership pencil inscription dated 1905 to upper fly-leaf.Publisher’s red cloth dust jacket over richly gilt hardcover with Tsarist regalia and double-headed eagle to upper covers, flat spines lettered in gilt with gilt eagle; spines of dust-jacket slightly faded.ref: 89015 £750


105. fEllows, char les . A narrative of an ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc. Privately Printed [by Thomas Davidson, Whitefriars], [London], 1827

the rAre hAnd-coloured issue. inscribed on the hAlf-title to thomAs gibson. A delightful human touch to this copy is that Fellows started his inscription too close to the margin and has had to extend the page just sufficiently to allow him to complete the last two letters of the word “author.”

The exact number of copies produce is uncertain as is the number of coloured copies. The older bibliographies placed the edition size at 50, of which 18 were coloured. Research by Stuart Leggatt in Fellows’ correspondence in the Alpine Club Library would indicate that about 150 copies were in fact printed, of which some thirty were hand-coloured. The present copy is listed in this correspondence, but is additional to Meckley’s census.

The title-page exists in 2 states: with a vignette, as in the present copy, with the title reading “narrative of an ascent ...” and without the vignette, the title reading “narrative of the ascent ...”

An early example of “pure” mountaineering literature in that the ascent was made for its own sake and not for any scientific reason. The climb was notable for Fellows and his companion, Charles Hawes taking a new and later much used route to the summit known as the Corridor.

Later, Fellows travelled extensively in the Levant, making important archaeological discoveries in Asia Minor. particularly Lycia, and sent numerous crates of antiquities from there to the British Museum, also publishing accounts of his time spent there.

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First edition. 4to (29.5 x 24cm. approx), vii, [1], 35, [1]pp., “directions to binder” slip at end, inscribed by the author, hand-coloured lithographed vignette to title-page, facsimile certificate, 10 hand-coloured lithographed plates, one engraved plate of comparative heights, contemporary half calf rebacked and re-cornered, a fine copy.Bobins 477; Stuart Leggatt, Fellows’ Mont Blanc; Meckly 071; Neate F18; Perret 1605 (“Sans doute la plus estimée des relations des premières ascensions du Mont Blanc”); not in Abbey.ref: 87525 £12500


106. gigault dE la sallE, achi l le E t ienne .Voyage Pittoresque en Sicile. Jules Didot, Paris, 1822-26.

rAre views of sicily. one of the most lAvish of All AquAtint books illustrAted by the foremost swiss AquAtint Artist of the dAy And the two fieldings After originAl studies by some of the leAding europeAn Artists.

One of a very small number of aquatint books depicting Italian scenery, which show Palermo (12 plates), Monreale (2), Segesta (4), Agrigento (16), Syracuse (16), Catania (5), Taormina (4), Messina (5), and several other towns, as well as temples, ruins, and views of Mt Etna.

D’Ostervald originally intended to issue Voyage pittoresque en Sicile in between 27 and 32 parts, but as he states in the ‘Avis de l’Editeur’, he resisted this desire and limited the work to 24 parts, in order not to over-extend it, nor weary his subscribers. The remarkable plates are, as Abbey records, in large part the work of English engravers, whose reputation was very high at the time in France and who were responsible for 43 of the 92 plates. As d’Ostervald notes in the ‘Avis’, ‘j’ai attire successivement a Paris une douzaine de graveurs d’aqua-tint les plus habiles de l’Angleterre et de la Suisse’.

The author (born in Paris in 1771, dying c. 1840) was imprisoned for a time in 1792 as a royalist suspect. He married in 1794 and was attached to the Foreign Ministry, dealing with affairs relating to England.

Only 500 copies were produced, some coloured, some on india paper, but the survival rate of copies has been poor and the work is rarely offered for sale.

First edition. 2 volumes. Folio (66 x 50 cm). (1) half-titles, title pages, (2), 40 pp. Edited by J.F. d’Ostervald. 1 map engraved by Orgiazzi, 92 aquatint plates by Franz Hegi, Theodore Henry Fielding, Newton Fielding and others after Forbin, Huber, Vauzelle, Lesamt, Bonington, Copley, Renoux and others, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco gilt, marbled boards; later endpapers, corners slightly bumped, edges untrimmed, moderate rubbing to joints, some spotting throughout; overall a very attractive copy.Abbey Travel 262 (coloured copy); Brunet V, 1379.ref: 88995 £16500


107. hassEll, j [ohn ] . Picturesque rides and walks, with excursions by water, thirty miles round the British metropolis; illustrated in a series of engravings, coloured after nature: with an historical and topographical description of the country within the compass of that circle. Hassell, London, 1817

profusely illustrAted hAnd-coloured work on greAter london And the home counties.

“In 1817 was published Picturesque Rides and Walks round the British Metropolis ... These are copiously illustrated by a hundred and twenty views, which, though small, are charmingly composed and tinted, and make an interesting record of the topography of London and its suburbs in the early part of last century, when Paddington and Kensington were still rural villages.

The sixty plates of the first volume are all drawn and engraved by Hassell; in the second volume the majority are by D. Havell after Hassell” (Martin Hardie).

First edition. 2 vols. small 8vo, 120 hand-coloured aquatint plates, modern dark blue morocco gilt for Asprey, all edges gilt, a fine clean set.Abbey Scenery 218; Martin Hardie, p. 140. Tooley 251. ref: 87263 £1250

108. havEll, rober t . The Tour or select views on the southern coast. Smith, Elder, London, 1827.

rAre And delightful views of seAside resorts in georgiAn times.

Views include Margate, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Falmouth, Penzance, Land’s End, Liverpool, and Dublin.

First edition. Landscape 8vo (11.5 x 19 cm)., engraved and aquatint title, and 58 aquatint views on 25 sheets(1 folding)original roan-backed pictorial boards, an excellent copy.Abbey Scenery 21.ref: 89009 £1750

109. lE capElain, john . The Queen’s Visit to Jersey, September 3rd 1846. Philip Falle, Jersey, 1847.

A superb series of lArge formAt lithogrAphs of jersey.

John le Capelain (1812-1848) was commissioned to produce a series of watercolour views of Jersey to commemorate Queen Victoria’s visit to the island in 1846. These were presented by the States of Jersey to the Queen and are now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

First edition. Large folio (65 x 48cm. approx.), additional pictorial lithograph title, 25 lithographs, subsribers’ list at end, final 2 plates with neat marginal repairs not affecting image, original red morocco-backed cloth boards, gilt vignette to upper copy, binding worn but sound, a very good copy. Abbey Scenery 553.ref: 62371 £5000


110. monson, w. i . Extracts from a journal. Rodwell and Martin, London, 1820.

A tour of Sicily, Malta, and Calabria in 1819.

First edition. 8vo., xvi, 254pp., 2 engraved plates, uncut and largely unopened in original drab boards, paper label, occasional light marginal water stain, rubbed, an excellent copy.ref: 87403 £450

112. mottlEy, john . History of the life of Peter I. Emperor of Russia. J. Read, London, 1739.

beAutiful wide-mArgined copy.

John Mottley (1692–1750), writer, was born in London, the son of Dionisia (1659–1731), daughter of John Guise of Ablode Court, Gloucestershire, and sister of William Guise, the orientalist of All Souls. The family were firm supporters of the Commonwealth and later of William III. Dionisia Guise had married a Jacobite soldier, Colonel Thomas Mottley, who went into exile with James II, entered the service of Louis XIV, and was killed in 1706 at the battle of Turin. John Mottley was said to have been conceived during a visit to England by his father as a clandestine agent of James’s. For ‘reasons’, perhaps a sense of social stigma or fear of the bailiff, nearly all his writings were published anonymously or pseudonymously .In 1734, as Robert Seymour, Mottley (perhaps assisted again by Cooke) re-edited Stow’s Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster. In 1739, as Elijah Jenkins, he re-edited the contents of several recent jestbooks into the best-selling classic of the genre, Joe Miller’s Jests, or, The Wit’s Vade Mecum. At last came the dignified History of the Life of Peter I, Emperor of Russia (1739) and History of the Life and Reign of the Empress Catharine (1744), openly ‘by John Mottley, Esq.’. In his latter years Mottley was almost bedridden from gout. (ODNB).

Provenance: W. G. Grove (signature to titles).

3 volumes (22,8 x 14,7 cm). 8vo, frontispiece, x, [22], 350 pp, with 2 folding maps and 2 folding plates, index; frontispiece, title, [6], 354 pp, index; title, [6], 409 pp. with 1 folding map and 7 plates, 5 of them folding, index; Contemporary calf gilt , spines with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, light wear, an excellent set.ref: 85849 £2500

111. mudford, w i l l i am . An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands, in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington. Henry Colburn, London, 1817.

A notAble work on the nApoleonic wArs, already well illustrated but here enhanced by the addition of extra engraved plates, many hand-coloured. From the library of the renowned American book collector, Calvin Bullock, part of whose fine library consisted of beautiful extra-illustrated editions.

Provenance: Calvin Bullock (bookplate).

4to, 2 folding engraved maps, one coloured and with vignette, etched frontispiece of the General Officers, etched pictorial title and folding plate of the Battle of Waterloo by George Cruikshank and 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates by James Rouse, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 42 plates including 25 hand-coloured, including a large folding panoramic view and nineteen equestrian subjects, 6 plates with tears professionally repaired, contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco gilt extra, covers with geometric centre-panel in gilt and blind with broad gilt and blind borders, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt, repairs to extremities and joints, a very attractive copy.Abbey Life 372; Tooley 336. ref: 88707 £3000


113. ovErBEkE, Bonaventura van. Les restes de l’ancienne Rome, recherchez avec soin, mesurez, dessinez sur les lieux. Pierre Gosse junior and Daniel Pinet, The Hague, Boucher & Gravier, Rome, 1763-1770.

Overbeke had made several visits to Rome, where he had drawn and measured a number of the more important classical ruins. At his death he was still transforming these sketches into the engravings for a book and composing the Latin text; the work was completed by his nephew Michel.

Provenance: Eus. Horton, armorial bookplate.

Large folio (51.8 x 38.7cm.), 3 volumes in one, half-title, engraved frontispiece, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece to dedication, engraved portrait of the author by Vermeulen after Le Blon, double-page engraved map, engraved illustrations, woodcut initials, 146 engraved plates (46+50+50), one double-page.

[WITH] BARBAULT, Jean. Vues des plus beaux restes des antiquités romaines telles quelles subsistent encore à Rome et en divers endroits de l’Italie... I (-II) cahier. Rome: Boucher & Gravier, 1770, 2 parts in one, titles printed in red and black, 30 engraved plates (15+15), without parts 3-5.

Together 5 parts in one volume, contemporary catspaw calf, gilt fillet border, spine gilt in compartments,Graesse V, 66.ref: 88384 £5750

114. riEsBEck, johann kaspar. Travels through Germany, in a series of letters; written in German by the Baron Riesbeck, and translated by the Rev. Mr. Maty ... Printed for T. Cadell, London, 1787.

Provenance: Earl of Eldon (signature and armorial bookplate).

First English edition. 3 volumes, 8vo., nineteenth century vellum, black and tan morocco labels, a very good set.ref: 87274 £450

115. roBErtson, dav id . A tour through the Isle of Man: to which is subjoined a review of the Manks history. For the Author, London, 1794


Second edition. 8vo., [6],233,[1]pp.,engraved map. 8 sepia aquatints, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine in seven compartments, red morocco lettering piece to second, others with fancy gilt blocking, neat repairs to joints and extremities, a very handsome copy.ref: 87273 £750


116. saussurE, horacE Benedict . Voyages dans les Alpes, precedes d’un essai sur l’histoire naturelle des environs de Geneve. Samuel Fauche, Neuchatel 1779-1796

probAbly the best known of All works on mont blAnc.

Saussure’s 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. This work did much to clear up the topography of the snowy portions of the Alps, and to attract the attention of tourists to spots like Chamonix and Zermatt. In 1787 Saussure made the third ascent of Mont Blanc.

Often considered as the founder of Alpinism, the present work contains the descriptions of seven of his Alpine journeys, with his scientific observations gathered en route. The Alps formed the centre of Saussure’s geological investigations, he saw them as the grand key to the true theory of the earth, and they gave him the opportunity for studying geology in a manner never previously attempted.

First edition. 4 volumes, 4to., 2 folding engraved maps, 22 engraved plates, mostly folding, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, red morocco labels, a very good set.ref: 87792 £6000


117. slEZEr, john . Theatrum Scotiae. Containing the prospects of their majesties castles and palaces: together with those of the most considerable towns and colleges… within the said kingdom. John Leake for Abell Swalle, London, 1693.

the beAutiful sloAne-botfield copy of the first book with town prospects published in the british isles.

john Slezer, a German military engineer, came to Scotland in 1669, becoming a Captain of Artillery by 1688. For this work he employed several artists: the Dutch painter and engraver Johannes van den Aveele was responsible for several plates and others included Jan Wyck, who added the figures, and the London engraver Robert White. The plates remained the standard views of Scottish towns for over a century.

Provenance: 1. Sir Hans Sloane, signature at head of title; 2. British Museum, stamps on title verso and last leaf, “1831 Duplicate for Sale” on title verso; 3. Beriah Botfield, Longleat.

First edition. Folio (40.5 x 26.5cm.), title printed in red and black with engraved arms, 57 double-page engraved views, mounted on guards; some browning, last two plates laid down, final plate worn in gutter, early nineteenth-century morocco gilt, gilt edges.ref: 88387 £11500


118. van dEr mEulEn, adam françois . [Recueil de vues de Versailles, Fontainebleau, Paris, Besançon, Douai, Arras, Saint-Omer, Valenciennes...]. 1685-1686.

A mAgnificent series of engrAvings in A hAndsome contemporAry binding beAring the Arms of louis xiv.

The engravings are after Adam Frans van der Meulen (1634-1690, the official artist for the campaigns of Louis XIV and the celebration of the Gloire. Ours is a similar collection to that of the 5th Earl of Rosebery (sold Sotheby’s 1995) but in a different order and with the addition of 2 plates (marked in our list with an asterisk) not present in the Roseberry copy.

The plates are as follows:

1.Marche du Roy.. passant sur le pont neuf et allant au palais, by Van Huchtenberg.2. Versailles du costé de l’orangerie, by Baudouin.3. Fontainebleau du costé du jardin, by Baudouin.

5. Entrée du Roy dans Dunkerque, by De Hooghe.6. Béthune en Artois, by Baudouin.7. Besançon, by Baudouin.8. Salins, by Baudouin.9. St. Laurent de L• Roche du costé du Bourg, by Baudouin.10. St. Laurent de la Roche & Bourg, by Baudouin.11. Chasteau de St. Anne comme il se voit en y entrant, by Baudouin.12. Chasteaau de St. Anne... par derrière la montagne, by Baudouin.13. Chasteau dejoux, by Bau

15. Versailles comme il estait cy devant, by Baudouin.16. Entrée de la reine dans Arras, by Bonnart.17. Arrivée du Roy au camp devant Maastrick, by Bonnart.18. Vue de l’armée du Roy, campée devant Douay, by Bonnart and Baudouin.19. Oudenarde.

20. Ville de l’Isle, du costé du Prieuré de Fives, by Van Huchtenberg & Baudouin.21. Courtray, by Baudouin & Scotin.22. Tournai, by Cochin.23. Calais, by Bonnart & Baudouin.24. Ardres du costé de Calais, by Baudouin.25. Dole prise dans la première conqueste, by Van Huchtenberg & Baudouin.26. Gray, en Franche Comté, by Baudouin.27. Arrivée du Roy devant Douay, by Baudouin.28.Ville et citadelle de Cambray, by Ertinger.29. Le Roi s’étant rendu maître de L• ville de Cambray, by Bonnart.30. Saint-Omer, by Bonnart.31. Valenciennes prise d’assaut, by Bonnart.32. Veue de Leuve, by Ertinger.33. Le Rhin passé à la nage, by Simonneau.34. L’armée du Prince d’Orange, by Bonnart.35. Vincennes du costé du parc, by Baudouin.36. Luxembourg by Bonnart.37. Dînant, by Bonnart.

Folio (63.5 x 46 cm). Van der Meulen’s portrait by N. de Largilliere engraved by Van Schuppen, and 37 plates by Van der Meulen, engraved by Baudouin, Bonnard, Scotin, Cochin, etc., mostly double- or triple-page, all folding, fine, fresh impressions, contemporary red morocco gilt, arms of Louis XIV to upper cover, rebacked preserving spine, a very good copy.Cf. Olivier 2494 (10).ref: 88854 £28000

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119. BEaufort, s i r franc is . Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia-Minor and of the remains of antiquity. With plans, views, &c. collected during a survey of that coast, under the orders of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in the years 1811 & 1812. R. Hunter, London, 1817.

An importAnt ArchAeoolgicAl survey.

In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August he began the survey of the south coast of Turkey, the first attempt of a description of this area. Beaufort identified sixty sites on the coast with ancient cities - 53 correctly.

First edition. 8vo, xi, 299pp., engraved frontispiece, folding map, 5 engraved plates, engravings in text, light foxing and offsetting, contemporary half calf rebacked and recornered, a very good copy.Atabey 81; Blackmer 103; Weber 45.ref: 85634 £1850

120. cassas, [louis francois ] . Vue de Constantinople, Prise de la Mer de Marmara. [Paris, circa 1800-1810].

A fine view of constAntinople by one of the leAding topogrAphicAl Artists of the dAy.

Louis-François Cassas studied under artists from opposite ends of the eighteenth century artistic spectrum, including Joseph-Marie Vien, a Neoclassical painter, and Rococo painters such as Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. In 1778 Cassas

went to Italy, visiting and sketching Rome,Venice, Naples, and Sicily. In 1784 Cassas accompanied the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier (1752-1817) to Constantinople, where the latter had been appointed ambassador.

Fine hand-coloured engraving by Schwartz after Cassas, mounted on card. Dimensions: 86.4 by 62.4cm. Framed and glazed, 100.5 x 76cm.ref: 88714 £7500


121. [crimEan war] - War with Russia [Title on cover]: A special portfolio of illustrations produced by the Illustrated London News. [London, ca. 1856]

A possibly unique collection of more thAn 150 engrAvings, on superior pAper, giving A wide-rAnging visuAl record of the crimeAn wAr: A very unusuAl portfolio, not trAced in copAc.

These engravings were originally published in the Illustrated London News, and the present set appear to be specially printed impressions, perhaps produced for the publisher’s archive or as a gift. The Crimean War was the most notable event that had happened up to that point in the magazine’s life and no effort was spared to provide the best possible pictorial record of the War and its environs for the British public. Thus there are views of Constantinople after daguerrotypes by James Robertson, as well as marine views by Edwin Weedon, and many sites and important people are represented: from French camps in France to Don Cossacks in Constantinople, from warships off British ports to battles on the Baltic front, from Russian peasants to Walachian leaders, etc.

122. [crimEan war] - nolan, Edward h.The History of the War against Russia illustrated. Virtue, London [1857].

A comprehensive history of the Crimean War, richly illustrated with engraved maps, plans, portraits, views and scenes, covering the history of the Russian and the Ottoman empires as well as the Baltic and the Caucasian fronts of the war.

2 volumes bound in 4, 4to., [vi], 390; [ii], 391-812; [vi], 374; [ii], 375-772pp., 2 additional engraved titles with pictorial vignettes, 2 double-page coloured maps, 70 engraved plates, text in double columns, light scatttered foxing to plates, contemporary crimson straight-grained half morocco gilt, marbled sides, an excellent set.ref: 87671 £875

The Illustrated London News was the finest of the pictorial newspapers of its day. Started in 1842, its ability to render startlingly realistic portrayals of contemporary events made it essential reading for those with an interest in current affairs. It pioneered new techniques such as joining wood-engravings almost seamlessly together to form larger views.

The present portfolio is particularly desirable as it is printed on thick paper and gathers together all the relevant material in a convenient and accessible format.

Publisher’s morocco-backed portfolio (46 x 31cm) containing 157 wood-engraved plates, after Robertson, Weedon, Evans, and other ILN artists, labelled on morocco panel to upper cover “War with Russia”; very light occasional spotting, a plate with closed tear, portfolio rubbed, spine chipped.ref: 87538 £4750


123. [cyprus]; dav id george hogar th .A Collection of 11 pamphlets on Cyprus. Assembled by D.G. Hogarth.

David George Hogarth (1862–1927), was one of the most notable archaeologists and travellers in the Levant and the Middle-East in the latter part of the nineteen and early twentieth century. An early supporter of Charles Doughty and in turn praised by T.E. Lawrence, he began his archaeological career in Cyprus.

“Hogarth gained his first experience of excavation in Cyprus at Old Paphos (Palaeopaphos) in 1888. Ernest Gardner, now director of the British School at Athens, was in charge of the work under the auspices of the Cyprus Exploration Fund, set up with the support of the Hellenic Society. Though Gardner had gained practical experience of excavating with Flinders Petrie in Egypt, Hogarth and his fellow diggers ‘were so raw as not to know if there were any science of the spade at all’ (Hogarth, 11). The results appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies (1888) with shorter notices in the Classical Review (1888). Hogarth’s travels through the island that summer were recorded in Devia Cypria (1889).” (ODNB).

Provenance: D.G. Hogarth ownership inscription to front pastedown.

Comprising 1, Cobham’ s attempt at a Bibliography of Cyprus, second edition, Nicosia, 1889. 24 pages. Presentation copy from Cobham. With Hogarth’s ownership inscription.2, On a Hittite Seal purchased at Smyrna by the Rev. Greville I by Professor Sayce. 5 pages.3, les Etudes Heteennes by J. Menant. 16 pages. With Hogarth’s ownership inscription.4, The Sounds and Inflections of the Cyprian Dialect by Charles E. Bennett. 64 pages. (with Hogarth’s annotations).5, Zu den epichoren Kyprischen inschriften by W. Deecke. 6 pages.6, Day and Year of St Polycarp’s Martyrdom by C.H. Turner. 52 pages.7, The Translation of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Times by R. Cust, reprinted from The Churchman, April 1889.16 pages.8, Elementary Tactical Unit by Rev. Edmond Warre, Eton College Press, 1888. 14 pages.9, The Language of Mitanni, by A.H. Sayer. 22 pages.

fro m t h E l i B r a ry o f t h E a r c h a E o l o g i s t d.g. ho g a rt h

10, Robert Brown’s Remarks on the Tablet of the Thirty Stars. Reprinted from “the Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology”, January 1890. 44 pages.11, Robert Brown’s Etruscan Inscriptions of Lemnos, Reprinted from the “Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology” April 1888. 28 pages. (with Hogarth’s annotations).Contemporary half calf, red morocco label, lightly rubbed, an excellent copy.ref: 88799 £950

124. dappEr, olfert. Description exacte des Isles de l’Archipel, et de... Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, avec un grand nombre d’autres. Gallet, Amsterdam, 1703.

one of the most AttrActive books on the greek islAnds with mAny finely engrAved views including crete, chios, And cyprus.

Olfert Dapper (1635/6?-1689) was a Dutch physician and scholar who devoted himself to geographical and historical studies which were notable for their fine plates and illustrations, as here, though he never visited the places he described. His other works included Syria and Palestine, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia and the Morea.

First edition in French. Folio (35 x 22.5cm), half title, engraved title dated 1702, title-page in red and black, 7 engraved folding maps, 28 double-page or folding plates showing 46 subjects, 43 engravings in text, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, corners and edges restored, an excellent copy.Blackmer 453; cf. Nordenskiold Collection 3, 426 (1688 Dutch text edition); Zacharakis (1982) 828 etc; Stylianou 131; Brunet II, 520. ref: 88787 £8500


125. fortis , a lber to . Travels into Dalmatia... J. Robson, London, 1778.

Originally published in Italian, this English edition combines two separately published accounts: Fortis’ travels in Dalmatia from 1771 to 1774 and his journey with Antonio Veranzio from Budapest to Constantinople on behalf of Ferdinand I to conclude a peace treaty with Suleiman the Magnificent. This text was edited by Fortis from Veranzio’s private papers.

Fortis’ Dalmatian travels reflect his intersts as a naturalist and in addition to the recipients of his letters mentioned on the title-page, he also wrote to James Ferbier of the Mineralogical College of Sweden; Antonio Vallisnieri, professor of Botany, and John Strange, British Ambassador to Venice. The engravings include costume and natural history specimens.

First English edition. 4to., [2], x, 584pp., 19 engraved plates on 17 sheets (all folding), 1 engraving in the text, modern half calf, red morocco label, an excellent copy.Blackmer 618.ref: 87854 £2500

126. gEary, grattan . Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus. Sampson Low, London, 1878.

Scarce account of a three-month journey principally through Asiatic Turkey and undertaken for the purpose of making an objective assessment “as to the drift of things in the Ottoman Empire”. The author was editor of The Times of India. The early chapters are devoted to Persia and the Persian Gulf; the Great Game; and comments on the situation of the Kurds and the Jews.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xvi, 339; xi, 356pp., 32 pages of ads at end dated October 1878, 2 frontispieces, folding coloured map, 13 wood-engraved plates, original brown cloth gilt decorated in black, neatly recased, a very good set.Ghani p149.ref: 88952 £1500

127. gEll, s i r w i l l i am The topography of Troy and its vicinity; illustrated and explained by drawings and descriptions. Longmans, London, 1804.

Sir William Gell (1777–1836), classical archaeologist and traveller, made extensive travels in the eastern Mediterranean during the early years of the nineteenth century. In 1801 he visited the Troad, where he made numerous sketches and He published the present work in which he fixed the site of Troy at Burnabashi. Byron alluded to this in his English Bards (1809):

“Of Dardan tours let dilettanti tell,I leave topography to classic Gell.”

The book is illustrated with fine colour plates made with the aid of the camera lucida which contributed to their exactness.

“Gell represented the culmination of the literary topographical tradition. Written when Greece and even Italy were comparatively little known to English travellers and classical students, his works were for some time regarded as standard treatises, and much of the information they contain is still of value” (ODNB).

First edition. Folio. Title page with coloured vignette, dedication to the Duchess of Devonshire, 28 hand coloured engravings, of which 7 are etchings and 21 aquatint plates, three of the latter folding, 2 maps, 11 coloured engravings in the text,Atabey 483; Abbey Travel 399; Blackmer 660.ref: 86512 £7500


128. giffard, Edward . A short visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, and the Morea. John Murray, London, 1837.

Giffard’s journey took place from January to March 1836. The lithographs are after drawings by F. W. Newton, one of the author’s travelling companions, and include the Temple of Apollo at Bassae, the newly re-erected temple of Nike Apteros on the Acropolis, as well as views of Corfu, Corinth and Mistra.

First edition. 8vo, vi, [ii], 399pp., lithographed frontispiece, engraved vignette to title, map, 5 lithograph plates, foxing to frontispiece, small area of staining to blank inner margin through second half of book, contemporary blue polished half calf gilt, red morocco label, marbled boards, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.Blackmer 683; Legrand and Pernot 1291 (for 1838 Paris edition only).ref: 88489 £1350

129. hEdEnBorg, johan . Turkiska Nationens Seder, Bruk och Kladedragter. L.J. Hjerta, Stockholm, 1839

A beAutiful collection of costume plAtes showing A wide rAnge of inhAbitAnts of constAntinople pursuing their lives And trAdes, As well As court costume.

When Count Loevenhjelm was appointed Swedish ambassador to the Porte, Hedenborg accompanied him as his medical attendant. Hedenborg was also an orientalist, interested in natural history and antiquities. He lived for some years in Constantinople, also in Alexandria and later in Rhodes and travelled the area extensively. His natural history collection was donated to the Swedish National Museum and his ethnographical collection to the University of Upsala.

First and only edition. 4to., [iv], 21-216pp (bound without pages 2-20), engraved map, 47 full-page lithographed costume plates, all but one hand-coloured, some slight browning and offsetting onto plates, pages 95 and 208 with tear across text, original pictorial upper wrapper bound into contemporary green roan backed cloth, spine gilt, neat repairs to joints, a very good copy.Blackmer 800.ref: 87393 £1250

130. [hErBErt, henry john george ] , Ear l of carnar von . Reminiscences of Athens and the Morea extracts from a journal of travels in Greece in 1839. John Murray, London, 1869.

This work edited by the author’s son takes in Nauplia, Megara, Sparta, Cape Matapan and the Monastery of Vurkano.

First edition. 8vo., xxxii, 230pp., 2 pages ads at end, folding map frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, a fine copy.ref: 88708 £750

131. hill, s . s . The Dominions of the Pope and the Sultan; or, impressions of travel, and observations of character, in the Roman states and Turkey. Madden and Malcolm, London, n.d.

Originally published as “The Tiara and the Turban” in 1845. Hill was a professional travel writer who produced accounts of Mexico, Peru, the Islands of the South Pacific, the Baltic, Egypt, Syria, etc.

8vo., 2 volumes in 1, engraved frontispiece, 4 engraved plates, original blindstamped blue cloth gilt, all edges gilt, rebacked preserving spine, new endpapers.ref: 88632 £600


132. hoBhousE, j [ohn ] c[am ] , 1st Baron Broughton . A journey through Albania, and other provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the years 1809 and 1810. Cawthorn, London, 1833.

fine colour plAtes of Athens And constAntinople.

“Hobhouse was an intimate friend of Byron with whom he made the journey described in this book ... Hobhouse’s account of this journey, Byron’s first visit to Greece, is of great interest not only for the light it sheds on an important period of the poet’s life but also for Hobhouse’s detailed account of ethnographical and topographical material and his description of Ali Pasha’s court. The plates come from several sources, 2 are taken from Mahmoud Raif ’s work on the Nizam-jedid which Hobhouse bought in Constantinople.

The costume plates are reminiscent of Mouradja d’Ohsson, but the views of Athens are particular to this work. They are possibly after originals which were in Byron’s possession ... One would conclude that the artists [were] Linckh or Cockerell or both ... however what appear to be the originals of these plates, now in a private collection, have been attributed to Richard Temple by the Fine Art Society.” - Blackmer.

Third edition. 2 volumes, 4to., 2 folding maps, 2 facsimiles, 2 leaves of engraved music, 17 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates and 1 uncoloured plate, modern blue half morocco gilt, a little light toning, a very good copy.Atabey 584; Blackmer 821; cf Abbey Travel 202 (later edition); ref: 87789 £3500

133. holland, henry. Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813. Longman, London, 1815.

A beAutiful copy from the renowned stoke rochford librAry.

Holland (1788-1873), a physician and a relative of Josiah Wedgwood, began his travels in 1812 shortly after taking his medical degree. He spent two months in Albania and was in frequent contact with Ali Pasha to whom he acted as physician. The plates in this work illustrate Ionnina, Metzovo, Meteora, and Souli. The work was a great success and provided him with an entrée to London society which would be of great benefit in a medical career which he determined would allow him to devote two months of every year to travel.

Provenance: Christopher Turnor, Stoke Rochford Library (armorial bookplate).

First edition. 4to., x, [i], 551, [i] (errata) pp., frontispiece engraved map, 12 engraved plates, light foxing to text and edges, contemporary calf gilt, spine in six compartments, red moroco label to second, others richly gilt, raised bands, a very handsome copy.Blackmer 825.ref: 87790 £1850


134. lE roy, jul ien dav id . Les Ruines de les Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece. Ouvrages divisé en deux Parties, où l’on considere, dans la premiere, ces monuments du côté de l’histoire; et dans la seconde, du côté de l’architecture. Guerin, Delatour and Nyon, Paris 1758.

A mAgnificent work which remAined A mAjor source of informAtion About greek Architecture for mAny yeArs.

After visiting Greece in 1754 Le Roy managed to publish his collection of drawings before James Stuart and Nicholas Revett’s first volume of the ‘Antiquities of Athens’ (1762). Although criticised by Stuart, the plates in this book are beautiful and Le Roy’s treatise “provides the theoretical framework and many of the actual models for French neo-classical architecture”. (Millard).

First edition. 2 parts in one volume, large folio (55 x 42 cm. approx.), xiv, 56; vi, 28 pp., 60 engraved plates small water stain to blank outer corner of first few leaves, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in eight compartments, red morocco lettering piece to second others richly gilt, raised bands, neat repairs to joints and extremities, an excellent copy.Blackmer 1009; Cohen-de Ricci 627; Millard French Books 101; Berlin Cat. 1888.ref: 88788 £10500


135. lusignan, sauveur. A series of letters. Addressed to Sir William Fordyce, ... containing a voyage and journey from England to Smyrna, from thence to Constantinople, ... Translated from the original into English by the author. To which is prefixed, A short answer to Volney’s contradictions on Ali-Bey’s History and revolt Printed for the Author; and sold by Payne and Son; White; Sewell; Walter ; Robson and Clarke; and Bateman and Son, London, 1788.

Rare. ESTC lists only 10 copies online (3 in the UK, BL, National Library of Scotland, and National Trust; and 4 in the U.S.A - CSmH; MoU; and WaU).

Very little is known of Lusignan, who claims to have known Ali Bey personally. He seems to have been a Greek or more probably a Cypriot who took refuge in London. He advertised himself as a teacher of ancient and modern Greek. The present work contains comments on his earlier work A history of the revolt of Ali Bey.(1783). Not in Blackmer.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xlviii, 271; 260pp., contemporary mottled calf gilt, neat repairs to joints and extremities, red and green morocco labels, an excellent example.ref: 88221 £2000

136. macfarlanE, char les . Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteen months in the Turkish capital and provinces: with an account of the present state of the naval and military power, and of the resources of the Ottoman empire. Saunders and Otley, London, 1829.

The plates include one of uniforms of the New Army, Sultan Mahmoud going to the mosque, and the double page plate shows a view of Constantinople from Scutari. This plate was not present in later issues nor was it mentioned in the list of plates. In 1827-8 Macfarlane travelled to Constantinople and Asia Minor. He returned to Turkey in 1847. This work contains long descriptions of Asia Minor, Smyrna and Constantinople itself, and discussions of recent political history. There is also an interesting chapter on Modern Greek literature as well as mentions of Greek education.

Provenance: Gilt armorial of King Edward VI Bromsgrove grammar school and label of Jonnes Gulielmus Mence, 1834, to inner pastedown.

First edition. 4to., xix, 406pp., leaf of ads at end, 5 lithographed plates, three hand-coloured, one printed in sepia and one double page and on India proof paper, neatly bound in modern half calf gilt, red morocco label, marbled sides, occasional light spotting, an excellent copy.Atabey 741; Blackmer 1047; Weber 175; Droulia 1699; Abbey 393. ref: 87861 £3000


137. mcphErson, duncan . Antiquities of Kertch, and researches in the Cimmerian Bosphorus; with remarks on the ethnological and physical history of the Crimea. Smith, Elder, London, 1857.

Situated on the Kertch Peninsula of eastern Crimea and founded 2600 years ago, Kertch considered one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine. Archaeological digs in Kertch were launched under Russian auspices in the middle of the 19th century. The antiquities, from the site of the ancient settlement of Pantikapaeum, are amongst the most important to be found and rank alongside the discoveries at Nineveh and Pompeii. They date from about 500 B.C. when the area was occupied by a Greek colony ruled by dynasties of kings. Many are now displayed in the Hermitage Museum, the Louvre, the British Museum, the Berlin Museum, the Moscow State Museum of fine arts and many others.

“An example of the degree of technical virtuosity reached by this time in lithogrpahy, giving plates brilliant in effect ... It is very difficult to tell whether, or to what extent, the plates are touched by hand ...” (Abbey).

Duncan Macpherson (1812–1867), military surgeon, was born on 25 September 1812, and trained in medicine at Edinburgh, where he graduated MD in 1835. He was appointed surgeon to the army in Madras in 1836. Between 1840 and 1842 he served with the 37th grenadier regiment in China, and he was severely wounded at Chuenpe (Chuanbi). - (ODNB).

First edition. Folio. xvi, 130, [iv (subscriber’s list and ads)]pp., double-page tinted lithograph frontispiece, additional pictorial lithograph title, 12 plates including 9 coloured lithographs, 2 maps, original blind-stamped black ribbed cloth gilt, large gilt device to upper cover, all edges gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, a fine copy.Abbey Travel 243.ref: 88457 £2750

138. monEy, Edward . Twelve months with the Bashi-Bazouks. Chapman and Hall, London, 1857.

The author set out for Sebastopol in 1856 accompanied by two of his brothers. Having served with the East India Company’s army and anxious to serve his country again, he joined up with the BashiBazouks at Galipoli. Full of adventure.

First edition. 8vo., iv, 220pp., 4 pages ads dated December 1st 1856 at end, lithograph frontispiece and 2 lithographed plates, all printed in colour and finished by hand, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, recased new endpapers, scattered light foxing, a very good copy.ref: 87528 £750

139. nEwton, char les thomas . Travels and discoveries in the Levant. Day, London, 1865.

the first mAjor ArchAeologicAl expedition to be recorded by photogrAphy.

Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levant from 1852-1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took place between 1856-1859 and were mostly concerned with the excavations of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The present work contains the popular account these digs together with Newton’s life in Mitylene, the local inhabitants, etc. Newton also carried out excavations at Kalymnos.

The plates include views in Rhodes, Cos, Kalymnos, and Mitylene, as well as illustrations of the sculptures from the mausoleum including photographs by F. Bedford.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, [2], 360; xiv, [2], 275 pp., 41 plates and maps and photographs, some folding, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, some spotting to plates as often, a very good set.Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim Incunabula 284. ref: 88897 £1500


140. mElling, antoine ignace . Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore. [Treuttel et Würtz, Paris, Strasbourg and London, 1809-19].

A finely bound exAmple of the first edition of the grAndest book of engrAved views of constAntinople.

Antoine Ignace Melling, who was born at Karlsruhe in 1763 and died in Paris in 1831, studied painting and architecture. At the age of nineteen years he went to the Levant via the Archipelago, staying at Constantinople for several years. There he was introduced to the Sultan’s sister by the Danish ambassador. She wished to renovate her palace at Ortakeui, and in 1795 Melling was appointed as architect. Melling was given the freedom of Selim III’s palaces, including the Harem, and he produced several drawings of these properties. After completing a number of building projects for Selim, Melling returned to Paris in about 1803, where, in 1804 he issued a prospectus for the Voyage pittoresque. Publication eventually began in 1809, issuing over a number of years thirteen livraisons, being completed by 1819. The outstanding success of the exhibitions of the paintings on which the Voyage pittoresque was based earned Melling the title of painter to the Empress Josephine.

The plate volume (text not present), large folio (65 x 50 cm). Engraved title, 3 double-page maps and 48 double-page etched plates after Melling by Schroeder, Bertaux, Le Rouge, Pillement, Desaux, Dessaulx, Desmaisons, Duparc, Dequevauviller, Née, and others, some before numbers; first map slightly soiled at margins, with 15cm. tear through engraved area and smaller tear at bottom margin, plate 37 with 15.5cm. tear through bottom margin, some shorter tears to folds, some plates a little spotted. Slightly later full green straight-grained morocco by Fairbairn and Armstrong, panelled in gilt and blind, spine with raised bands richly gilt, large turn-ins decorated in gilt and blind, all edges gilt; a little rubbed at extremities.Atabey 798-799; Blackmer 1105; Brunet III, 1591; Lipperheide LB 41.ref: 89029 £67500


141. pouquEvillE, françois char les hugues laurent . Travels in Greece and Turkey, comprehending a particular account of the Morea, Albania, &c. A comparison between the ancient and present state of Greece, and an historical and geographical description. Henry Colburn and Co., London 1820.

“the first And probAbly the best of All pouqueville’s works on greece.” - Blackmer.

the rAre english lAnguAge edition of voyAge en moree. This translation by Ann Plumptre first appeared in 1813. It contains different illustrations from those used in the other editions in French, German, etc.

Pouqueville, a doctor, travelled with the French Expedition to Egypt attached to the scientific commission. He was later captured by pirates and ended up in prison, first in Tripolis for ten months, and later in Constantinople for two years. During the years of his capture he taught himself modern Greek, and on his being set free and returning to France in 1801, he wrote the present work giving an account of his time in the Levant. The work contains a great deal of information on popular customs, superstitions, songs, etc.

Provenance: John White (old inscription to title).

Second edition, 4to, [xii, 482], folding map, 7 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, modern half calf gilt, red morocco label, marbled sides, an excellent copy.Cf. Blackmer 1344 (French ed.).ref: 87791 £2750

142. schliEmann, henry [heinr ich ] Troy and its remains; a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain. Edited by Philip Smith. Murray, London, 1875

the most importAnt schliemAnn title contAining the Announcement of his spectAculAr discoveries At troy in 1873.

Translated from the German. With the anticipation of larger sales for the English edition, the decision was made to use numerous woodcuts. This contributed to the publicity surrounding Schliemann’s excavations and discoveries, and also to his fame. This was Schliemann’s first taste of the new style of Victorian book production and the success of this book set the style and standard for all his future publications.

Provenance: New South Wales Parliament Library (gilt stamp to cover).

First English edition. 8vo., lv, 392pp., folding map and 4 folding plans (linen-backed), 52 plates, illustrations in text, scattered light foxing throughout, contemporary red half morocco gilt, a very good copy.Runnels 1875b.ref: 88452 £485

143. sEnior, nassau . A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857 and the Beginning of 1858. Longman, Brown, Green, London, 1859.

Senior was an economist who held the first chair of political economy at Oxford (1825). In 1833 he became a member of the Poor Law Commission and was the author of the report which formed the basis of the Poor Law of 1834. This very interesting work dates from his travels in Greece and Turkey in 1857 and 1858. It discusses the political problems of the areas he visited and influenced other accounts of Turkey.

First edition. 8vo., xiv, 372pp., 4 pages ads at end, ads to paste-downs, 2 maps, two lithographed plates printed in colours, original blind-stamped green cloth gilt, a fine copy.Blackmer 1525; Weber 564. ref: 89208 £950


144. simpson, william. The Seat of the War in the East. Day & Son for Colnaghi, London, 1855-6.

the preferred deluxe edition with fine originAl hAnd-coloured plAtes.

During the Crimean War William Simpson (1823-1899), became a pioneer war artist: dispatched by the printsellers Colnaghi & Son (on Day’s recommendation), he recorded the naval battles in the Baltic Sea and then went on to Balaklava in November 1854 to make accurate sketches on the spot. The drawings which he made during that terrible winter were submitted to Lord Raglan, sent home to England, and shown to Queen Victoria by the minister of war, the duke of Newcastle. After the fall of Sevastopol he was attached to the duke’s party of exploration in Circassia. Eighty of his Crimean drawings were lithographed in The Seat of War in the East (2 vols., 1855–6), which was dedicated with permission to Queen Victoria. When the original watercolours were exhibited at Colnaghi’s gallery, Lord Elcho and other MPs called for them to be bought by the nation as a historic record of the war. On the advice of Sir Charles Eastlake, this proposal was rejected and the watercolours were sold off separately. Simpson returned to England with a brown beard long enough to button into his waistcoat, and he had an audience with the queen: he showed her his sketches and was much impressed by her grasp of every detail of the war. She commissioned The Queen Reviewing the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on their Return from the Crimea, 1856, and over the next thirty years was a steady patron for the painter. (ODNB).

First edition. Two volumes folio. 2 Lithographed titles, lithographed dedication leaf, 81 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all plates with tissue guards. Publisher’s red morocco-backed cloth boards gilt, lettered in gilt to upper covers, a fine set.Abbey, Travel 237; Lipperheide 2121.ref: 88549 £15000


145. soyEr, alexis. Soyer’s culinary campaign. Being historical reminiscences of the late war. With the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc. Routledge, London, 1857.

Cookery as practised in the Crimean War.

First edition. 8vo., viii, 597pp., 2 pages ads at end, engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title, 7 full-page plates by H. G. Hine, illustrations in text, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, light wear, a very good copy.Bitting p444; Cagle 1008; Simon BG 1408.ref: 87213 £350

146. spratt, thomas a.B Travels in Lycia, Milyas, and the Cibyratis in Company with the late Rev. E.T. Daniell. John Van Voorst, London, 1847.

the first comprehensive ArchAeologicAl And geologicAl survey And description of the AreA.

Spratt travelled in H.M.S. Beacon to Lycia to remove antiquities discovered by Sir Charles Fellowes. The party remained in Asia Minor while the ship was refitted, and they travelled into the interior where they discovered the site of Telmessus.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xxiv, 302; viii, 332pp., 4 pages ads dated December 1845 at end of first volume, 2 lithographed frontispieces and 7 plates after Spratt and Forbes, 3 engraved plates showing inscriptions and coins, 15 plans, some folding, and 1 folding geological map, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary calf gilt, spines worn, labels defective, all edges gilt, a very good set.Atabey 1173; Blackmer 1589.ref: 88929 £1850

147. warnEry, [char les -Emmanuel] d E . Remarques sur le militaire des Turcs et des Russes. Korn, Breslau, 1771.

beAutifully fresh copy of this uncommon Account of the ongoing russo-turkish wAr in europe.

Published one year after the first, this second edition is enlarged.

It covers in great detail the Turkish and Russian military capacities, together with their respective allies. This particular Russo-Turkish war broke out in 1768 due to tensions within Poland, where the throne was occupied by King Stanislaus Agustus Poniatowski, a former favorite of Empress Catherine II; and the power behind it effectively held by the Russian ambassador Nikolay Repnin and the Russian army. The war resulted in 1774, with a decisive Russian victory that brought Southern Ukraine, Northern Caucasus and Crimea within the orbit of the Russian Empire.

De Warnery (1719/20–1786) was in the service of the Tsar, hence the pro-Russian bias of his writing.

8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). 264 pp. including title and preface, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and 3 folding engraved plates. Uncut in contemporary brown speckled wrappers.Cf. Atabey (First edition, lacking errata).ref: 86747 £3250

148. williams, hugh w i l l i am . Select views in Greece with classical illustrations. Longman, London, 1829.

Williams, a Scottish landscape painter, returned from an extended tour in Greece and Italy in 1818. The work contains a fine series of engravings of the main historical sites and beautiful landscapes of Greece.

First edition. 2 volumes, royal 8vo., 64 engraved plates after Williams, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, contemporary crimson half morocco gilt, all edges gilt, an excellent copy.Atabey 1337; Blackmer 1811. ref: 88448 £1100

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149. Barrow, s i r john . A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793. T. Cadell and W. Davies, London, 1806.

the first english illustrAted work on cochin-chinA, now southern vietnAm, with beAutiful colour plAtes.

Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney as official interpreter to the embassy to the Emperor of China. The voyage proceeded by way of Madeira, the Canary Islands and Rio de Janeiro, including a description of that city and Brazil in general - “the view of Rio’s Aqueduct (Arcos de Carioca) is very beautiful” (BdM) - before rounding the Cape and reaching Cochin-China after stopping at Batavia. The detailed information on Cochin-China is taken from a manuscript account by a French naval officer, Captain Barissy, who had collected much accurate information.

A supplementary article on the African portion of Barrow’s work gives an account of an overland expedition into Bechuanaland from Cape Town and is accompanied by a fine map of the country and four aquatints by Samuel Daniell.

First edition. 4to (28.5 x 22.2cm). 19 hand-coloured aquatint plates after S. Daniell and W. Alexander, including one folding coastal profile of Rio de Janeiro, and two engraved folding maps, one hand-coloured, the other with route marked by hand in red. (Some light dust soiling throughout, occasionally heavier to top edge, folding engraved map of Southern Africa spotted, as usual). Original publisher’s boards, with remains of printed paper label, contained within a modern morocco-backed clam-shell box, spine gilt.Abbey Travel, 514; BdM;, I p88; Hill, 66; Mendelssohn I, p.89; Tooley 86.ref: 88621 £4500

150. BrookE, james , s i r. The private letters of Sir James Brooke, K.C.B., Rajah of Sarawak, narrating the events of his life, from 1838 to the present time, edited by John C. Templer. Richard Bentley, London, 1853.

A fine set of an important work shedding light on the activities of this important English trader and colonizer.

First edition. 3 volumes, 8vo., original fine-grained blind-stamped brown cloth gilt, a few stains to end-papers, cloth fine and bright.ref: 87676 £1350

151. Brown, Edward . Cochin-China and my experiences of it. A seaman’s narrative of his adventures during a captivity among Chinese pirates, on the coast of Cochin-China, and afterwards during a journey on foot across that country, in the years 1857-8. Westerton, London, 1861.

First edition. 8vo., xi, 292pp., bound without half-title, contemporary ribbed cloth gilt, a very good copy.ref: 88456 £750


152. daniEll, samuel . A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon. Printed by T. Bensley, London 1808.

one of the finest series of plAtes of ceylon, And An exAmple of williAm dAniells’ AquAtinting At its best.

Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), did not live long enough to realise his full potential. However, he left behind an impressive body of work, amongst which, his views of Ceylon rate very highly.

Daniell arrived in Ceylon in 1805 aboard H.M.S. Greyhound. A protege of the Governor, Sir Thomas Maitland, he was appointed Secretary to the Board of Revenue and Commerce in 1806. An eccentric character, he proposed sending “Elephants’ petit toes” pickled in strong vinegar and cayenne pepper to Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State, as a delicacy.

Concerning his art, Sutton writes that he was the most inspired and original of the three Daniell brothers and that his illustrations “are of such clarity and outstanding merit that they are sufficient to give a good idea of what Samuel might have achieved had he enjoyed a longer life.” He writes of the Ceylon volume “it would be difficult to make a choice of the masterpiece among these plates, but for sheer beauty that of the Spotted Antelope should be singled out for special praise: indeed, it must surely rank among the most lovely aquatints ever published. The superb drawing of the delicate animal, its beautiful colouring, its shy gentleness silhouetted against the brilliant light greens and the deep patches of darker foliage, combine with the composition of the picture to form an exquisite engraving of unforgettable charm. Other lovely plates are those of the Wild Boar, with its magnificent background, and the quiet, almost unearthly beauty of the Distant View of Trincomale.”

The complete set of twelve plates (bound without title or text) of which 11 are hand-coloured aquatints and one a soft-ground hand-coloured etching, by William Daniell after Samuel Daniell, printed on Whatman paper watermarked 1801, modern red half morocco gilt, a very attractive example of a superb series of illustrations.Abbey Travel 410; De Silva pp 2-23; Martin Hardie pp133-4; Prideaux p245 & p333; Sutton pp107-8 and No. 2 p153; Tooley 170.ref: 88624 £22500


153. daniEll, thomas ; w i l l i am danie l l . Oriental Scenery. Free-School Press for Thomas and William Daniell, London, 1812-16 [text watermarked 1809-10].

first quArto edition of the dAniells’ most celebrAted work.

‘[Thomas] Daniell, assisted by his nephew [William], produced his best-known work Oriental Scenery (issued in six series) of Indian views making a total of 144 hand-coloured aquatint views of India. These represent Mughal and Dravidian monuments, cityscapes and sublime views of mountains and waterfalls and formed the most extensive work of its kind, finding subscribers throughout Britain as well as in Calcutta and Madras’ (ODNB). This work contains plates carefully reduced and copied from the large folio edition, published between 1795 and 1808, under the Daniells’ direction.

Provenance: Herbert Octavius Moore (bookplate).

6 parts in 2 volumes, landscape 4to (25.5 x 35.5 cm). Typographic titles to first and fourth parts serving as general titles to volumes. 158 engraved plates comprising 144 views, 6 title-pages and 8 plans. (Title and introductory leaf of text to vol. I creased and lightly soiled, tiny marginal worming to text-leaf to pl. II and pl. III, very short marginal tear to text-leaf to pl. VI, scattered spotting throughout). Contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards (rebacked, extremities rubbed).Abbey Travel 432; Archer p.235; Sutton 13.ref: 87497 £13500

154. daniEll, w i l l i am and thomas . A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China. Longmans, London, 1810.

rArely found in this condition, A fine copy of the first edition of this illustrAted voyAge, which shows well the dAniells’ love of river scenes “not just bAre stAtements of fAct but pleAsAnt, well-bAlAnced compositions” (sutton).

The pictures of Calcutta are particularlty noteworthy; “Calcutta from the Garden Reach” is one of the most famous of the Daniell pictures. It is one of the rare instances in which reference was made at a later date to a drawing by another artist, as certain of the buildings shown were not in existence during the Daniells’ time in India. The penultimate plate shows the “Old Fort Gaut” containing the notorious “Black Hole of Calcutta”. Other plates show Malaya, Java, Straits of Malacca, approximately 22 plates of China, and the remaining five of India, Bay of Bengal and two on the River Hoogly.

Folio, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates on thick paper with ruled and grey wash borders, contemporary French green straight-grained morocco gilt, all edges gilt, neat repairs to joints, a fine copy.Abbey Travel 516; Archer p12; Colas 797; Lipperheide 1523; Sutton 19-20; Bastin & Brommer 70.ref: 87597 £13000


155. daniEll, w i l l i am . Views in Bootan: From the drawings of Samuel Davis, Esq. n.p., London, 1813.

first edition of ‘probAbly the rArest of williAm [dAniell]’s sets of engrAvings’ (Abbey).

By the late 18th century the British were beginning to supplant the Tibetans as the major external threat to Bhutan, and Anglo-Bhutanese relations became mired in boundary disputes that eventually resulted in Bhutan losing territory in the 19th century. These were the first images of Bhutan to reach the British public.

Samuel Davis was the first Western artist to paint in the Himalayas and the only Western artist of distinction to work in Bhutan. Unusually, Daniell has here signed engravings that he produced from the work of another artist - this was apparently because Davis was a good friend.

Provenance: Sir John Francis Davis (armorial bookplate).

Landscape folio (42.5 x 56cm). Letterpress title (verso blank), 1 leaf with 14 lines of introduction on recto (verso blank), 6 leaves with explanatory text on rectos (versos blank), tinted engraved additional title with aquatint and integral dedication to Warren Hastings, 6 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates by Daniell after Samuel Davis on Whatman paper; front free endpaper creased, occasional trivial spotting. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; covers a little soiled and worn.Abbey Travel II, 434; Sutton, 50.ref: 86232 £38000


156. EdEn, hon. Emily. Portraits of the princes & people of India. Dickinson, London, 1844.

A superb contemporAry record of greAt historicAl interest of notAble sikhs, including rAnjit singh.

The images are lively and feature elephants, cheetahs, horses, etc.

Emily Eden (1797-1869) was the sister of Lord Auckland and acted as his hostess during his term as Governor General of India. She had taken drawing lessons in England from the best drawing masters and became a talented artist. Whilst in India, Eden’s artistic endeavours were her first priority and she would even go out on an elephant “in search of a sketch” She frequently searched for ruins but figures were her primary interest. As sister of the Governor such she was particularly well situated to paint portraits of important people. She was especially sympathetic to the Sikh nobility; Sher Singh at the Sikh court of Ranjit was “a gorgeous figure all over diamonds and emeralds”.

Eden sketched the common Indians with equal zeal. An unusually fine study shows a charming group of Tibetan Tatars accompanied by one of their typical long-haired goats against the snowy Himalayas.

First edition. Large folio (52 x 37.5 cm), pictorial lithographed title, 27 plates on 24 sheets, all within gilt borders, lithographed by L. Dickinson after drawings by Miss Eden, two plates with tears expertly repaired, contemporary half calf, rebacked to style, red morocco lettering panel to upper cover, spine gilt with red morocco label, plates clean and fresh, a very good example.Not in Abbey. ref: 88586 £13500


157. forrEst, l ieut -col . char les ramus . A picturesque tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India. L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, London, 1824 [text watermarked 1824; plates, 1824-1825].

A cornerstone work on the indiAn sub-continent: A fresh exAmple of this exquisitely illustrAted book.

Forrest was an officer in the British Army. He served in Bengal from 1802 and died at Bath in 1827. During journeys mostly overland while posted up-country with his regiment, he would make excursions by boat, palanquin, or on horseback to nearby places. Unlike Hodges, the Daniells and Salt, Forrest recorded minor buildings as well as grand monuments.

Although made over a course of many years, Forrest’s narrative and arrangement follow a direct course along the Ganges, Jumna, and Gumti. The views are delicately hand-coloured and provide one of the finest records of India.

First edition. 4to (33.5 x 27.2cm). Title and final text leaf with hand-coloured aquatint vignettes, engraved folding map, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint views by G. Hunt and T. Sutherland after Forrest; some light offsetting to text and plates, verso of last leaf and free endpapers unevenly browned. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, gilt spine, gilt edges; rebacked and re-cornered, retaining the spine, light staining.Abbey Travel 441; Tooley 227.ref: 87498 £13500


158. garniEr, franc is . Voyage d’esploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868 par une commission fançaise présidée par Doudart de Lagée. Hachette, Paris, 1873.

the fine And rAre officiAl Account of the most importAnt explorAtion in indochinA in the nineteenth century, only 800 sets produced.

Once described as “the happiest and most complete [expedition] of the nineteenth century”, no doubt on account of the 700 litres of wine and 300 litres of brandy it took with it.

The expedition left Saigon in 1866 proceeding along the Mekong in the hope of finding a navigable route into south-western China. They travelled through Phnom Penh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos before reaching China. Although the Mekong was found to be ultimately unnavigable, the expedition mapped some 4000 miles of previously unsurveyed territory, and became the first Europeans to enter Yunnan by a southern route. The maps are by Garnier himself; the fine views are after sketches by Louis Delaporte, a naval officer and accomplished artist, and it is his work which makes the mission one of the most pictorially complete for the exploration of Indochina. Amongst the most important images are those of Angkor in Cambodia and Viet Chan, the ancient Laotian capital.

Garnier (1839-1873), after heroic behaviour whilst serving on board the Duperré as part of a Franco-British expedition to China to demand concessions from the Chinese government, came to the attention of Admiral Charner, the commander of French naval forces in the Far East. He became a member of Charner’s staff and joined him in actions against the Vietnamese army in the Mekong delta. It was at this time that Garnier, who had long deplored the fact that Britain, not France, was the major European colonial power, began to see the Mekong as the key to the prosperity of France’s new colony in Vietnam.

After returning to Paris, Garnier was appointed Inspecteur des affaires indigènes in Cochin-China. He returned to Vietnam and pressed the French government to carry out the present major survey of the Mekong.

First edition. 3 volumes, comprising 2 volumes 4to. of text with portrait frontispiece, 11 maps, 1 plate, and 1 plan, wood-engravings in text; and 1 volume folio atlas containing 12 maps, 9 plans and 1 aerial view (some tinted), and 48 plates (including 44 bis) on 40 sheets (6 double-page), 11 of the plates in full colour, original morocco-backed blind-stamped cloth gilt, neat repairs to joints, a fine set.ref: 88582 £30000


159. grant, rober t . A sketch of the history of the East-India Company, from its first formation to the passing of the Regulating Act of 1773; with a summary view of the changes which have taken place since that period in the internal administration of British India. Printed for Black, Parry, and Co. Booksellers to the Hon. East-India Company, London, 1813.

A defence of the East India Company’s trading monopoly and a history of the company’s development up to 1773 by Company insider -the author’s father was Charles Grant, the highly regarded Chairman of the East India Company.


8vo., liii, 397pp., leaf of ads at end, original drab boards, paper label, spine rubbed, neat repairs to extremities, a fine copy.ref: 87275 £1250

161. havElock, James. Memoirs of the three campaigns of Major-General sir Archibald Campbell’s army in Ava. n.p., Serampore, 1828.

A rAre book, inscribed, And in A contemporAry binding.

The author was a lieutenant in the 13th Light Infantry and Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General to the Forces of the Rangoon Expedition.

“ [The] First Anglo-Burmese War (1823–6 )... was a war of ambushes and stockades fought in thick jungle, and casualties from tropical diseases far exceeded those from battle. Havelock distinguished himself, and was also noted for his conduct of religious services, on one occasion at least in a Buddhist temple. In the soldiers’ argot he was known as a ‘Bible-puncher’, and those who followed him were nicknamed ‘Havelock’s saints’. On the occasion of a night attack these men were called for by the general to take the place of men unfit for duty owing to drink, the ‘saints’ always being sober and dependable in an emergency. Eventually Havelock fell victim to the climate and spent a year in India convalescing with his brother William at Poona. After his return to Burma he again distinguished himself in numerous actions, and as the war dragged to a close Havelock was made a member of the British delegation appointed to negotiate a peace treaty with the Burmese.” (ODNB).

First edition. 8vo.,INSCRIBED presentation copy, x, 369, xiii, iv pp., folding plan of Rangoon at end, contemporary Serampore (?) half calf, rather rubbed and worn but sound, a very good copy.ref: 87399 £2500

160. humBlEy, capta in w.w.w. Journal of a Cavalry Officer; including the memorable Sikh campaign of 1845-1846. Longman, London, 1854.

A beAutifully bound fAmily presentAtion copy.

Classic narrative of the First Sikh War, also includes information on Calcutta. Rare.

First edition. Royal 8vo., xii, 616pp., 3 folding maps, inscribed by the author to his son,WilliamHumbley, 4 page prospectus loosely tipped-in, publisher’s presentation binding of full green morocco gilt, gilt borders to covers, spine richly gilt, a fine copy.ref: 87395 £2750


163. maccauly, thomas The Indian trader’s complete guide being a correct account of coins, weights, measures, &c. &c. at the different settlements of India, and adjacent native sovereignties of Asia, from the latest and best authorities : the whole alphabetically arranged under their respective heads ... n.p., Printed at Calcutta, 1818.

A very scarce book. COPAC records 1 copy only of this edition and just 4 of the first (1816). Unfortunately lacking a gathering which seems never to have been present in this copy.

Second edition. 8vo., [xiv], 1-64, 73-114pp., contemporary half calf, lacks label, lightly rubbed.ref: 88575 £350

164. [macintosh, w i l l i am ] . Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa; describing characters, customs, manners, laws, and productions of nature and art: containing various remarks on the political and commercial interests of Great Britain; and delineating in particular, a new system for the government and improvement of the British settlements in the East Indies: begun in the year 1777, and finished in 1781. J. Murray, London, 1782.

A beAutifully bound copy of the first edition.

An anonymous publication by William MacIntosh which includes critical remarks on Warren Hastings. These provoked a riposte from Joseph Price.

Provenance: Dampierre (armorial book label).

2 volumes. 8vo., xxiii, 482; xii, 503pp., scattered light foxing at beginning and end of volumes, contemporary blonde calf gilt, spines in six compartments, red and green morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, a fine example.Pickett p227.ref: 88963 £1800

162. [INDIAN VOCABULARY] BUTLER, Weeden. The Indian vocabulary. To which is prefixed the forms of impeachments. Printed for John Stockdale. London, 1788.

A rAre work . the present copy of pArticulAr interest for its contemporAry mAnuscript Additions.

The first attempt at a comprehensive collection of Indian terms with definitions in English, this rare vocabulary was published to provide explanations of Indian words for those interested in following the trial of the governor-general of British India, Warren Hastings (1732-1818). Compiled by the eclectic author Weeden Butler (1742-1823) it has an important place in the history of Anglo-Indian linguistics. At a time when the English language was being enriched with words introduced through East India Company employees, this vocabulary provided a much-needed reference: “the necessity of such a work … for all gentlemen actually concerned in the affairs of India, or barely desirous to study the history and transactions of that country, has long been universally allowed. The list of words generally printed with publications which relate to the East-Indies, have always been so short and incomplete … it is from this consideration, of the insufficiency of all vocabularies of Bengal words hitherto published, that the editor … has been induced … to collect into one series, all such terms (in whatsoever publications they lay scattered) as could, by their explanation, in any respect tend to the elucidating and better understanding of East-India affairs”. Between “abdallah” and “zurooreat” we read of bungalows, lootywallens and rajapoots – presumably a number of these words were printed here for the first time. For an examination of the importance of this vocabulary in the context of Anglo-Indian linguistics, see: Schwarz. Laissez-faire linguistics: grammar and the codes of Empire, in: Critical Enquiry. Vol.23. No.3. Spring 1997. pp.509-535.

Provenance: R. Gardner, 1795 (inscription to front free endpaper).

First edition. 8vo, xvi, 136, without the 14 pages of adsat end, An interleAved copy with contemporAry Additions, contemporary catspawcalf, red morocco lettering piece, joints repaired, an excellent copy.ref: 88957 £35001


165. platt, capt . john . [1] Hog Hunting. The Find. [2] Hog Hunting. The Burst. [3] Hog Hunting. The Charge. [4] Hog Hunting. The Tired Pig. [Fores, London c. 1840].

complete set of these rAre indiAn hog hunting scenes.

Captain Platt served in the 23rd Native Infantry Regiment in Bengal where these scenes took place. He was made a Captain in 1833, and Major in 1847, so these date to this time. He eventually died at the hands of mutineers from his own regiment in 1857, having made the rank of Colonel.

Dimensions: 58.5 by 78.5cm. (23 by 31 inches).

Four aquatints, with etching, uncoloured.Siltzer, p.335; Schwerdt III, p.122.ref: 67130 £7500


166. richard, abbé . Histoire Naturelle, Civile et Politique du Tonquin. Moutard, Paris, 1778.

Richard was the Abbé de St. Phalle and spent twelve years as a missionary in Tonquin. The book is based upon his papers which were discovered after his death in Paris in 1766. The work is divided into two parts. In the first the is a description of the topography, peoples, customs, etc., of the people, including an account of their specific legal system as well as an account of the Chinese legal system from which Tonquin’s is derived, science, commerce, and natural history. The second part contains a history of the missions.

The catchword at the end of the errata in volume 1 seems to indicate that this should have preceded the text. Although the introduction which follows the errata starts on iii, the gatherings appear to be complete.

First edition. 2 volumes, 12mo, viii, iii-xxxviii, 366; xii, 366, [ii]pp., contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, morocco labels to second and third, others with gilt centre-piece, ruled in gilt, lightly rubbed, a fine set.Cordier, IndoSinica, 1621.ref: 88961 £1500

167. roussElEt, louis . India and its Native Princes. Travels in Central India and in the residencies of Bombay and Bengal Chapman and Hall, London, 1876.

This copy of Rousselet’s India was presented by Queen Victoria to Louise Margaret, bearing an inscription underneath the recipient’s name “(From the Queen) – Osborne – July 25th 1885”. Louise Margaret was Victoria’s daughter-in-law, and Duchess of Connaught, having married Prince Arthur, Victoria’s 7th child and 3rd son. Osborne was the private home of Queen Victoria where she lived with Prince Albert and all her children, it was considered her favourite home . Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on 1 January 1877.

Provenance: Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, inscription and bookplate.

4to (33.7 x 24.4cm.). half-title, numerous plates and illustrations. Contemporary red morocco gilt,extra, gilt edges; a fine copy.ref: 88385 £3500

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168. [tinnEvElly] . [A collection of pamphlets and extracts on the Tinnevelly district of South India comprising]:

1-Some Account of the Panjalamcourchy Polegar (...). Compiled from the Records of Government by Rev. J.F. Kearns. 1873. (with annotations).[with]Papers and Correspondance relative to the Late Expedition against the Refractory Polegars in the Tinnevelly Country. 1799. Edited by Rev. J. F. Kearns. 141 pages. (COPAC records Oxford only). 2 - The Panjalumcourchy Epic of Namasivayam, by Rev. J. F. Kearns. 14 pages. (COPAC records Oxford only). 3 - Kalyan’a Shat’anku or the Marriage Ceremonies of the Hindus of South India, by the Rev. J. F. Kearns. 86 pages. (inscription on Title page). (COPAC records SOAS, BL, and Oxford only). 4 - Remarks on the Revenue Settlement of the Madras Presidency, by A. T. Arundel, M.C.S. 26 pages. (inscription on Title page). (No copies found on COPAC).

5 - A Catechism on the Duties of Village Officers and on the Revenue System of the District of Tinnevelly. 1873. 50 pages. (No copies found on COPAC).

6- Atma Boda Prakasika. 1867. 44 pages. (COPAC records BL, Oxford, and Trinity Dublin only).

7- The Tribes of South India; A Sketch of their History, Religion, Customs, by Rev. J. F. Kearns. 88 pages. Watts, London, n.d. author’s presentation inscription on Title page. (COPAC records 2 editions, Madras and London, BL copies of each only).

8 - Lectures on the Tinnevelly Missions, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, LL.D. 1857. 134 pages. (COPAC records 5 copies).

bound after the following extracts:A-Chronicles of Southern India by James Boyle, 50 pages. (with annotations).

B-Elementary Education in Madras, 12 pages.C-Education in Madras, 32 pages. (inscription on Title page).D-Taken from the Asiatick...”, Calcutta, 1785. 26 pages. (manuscript copy).

A collection of scArce pAmphlets including 2 not found on copAc.

After acquiring Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadhu from the Nawab of Arcot in 1801, the British anglicised its name to “Tinnevelly.” The present collection of pamphlets provides an important record of the British in the area in addition to historical materials concerning the Polygar War.

8vo.ref: 88882 £2250


169. [walEs, james Twelve views of the island of Bombay and its vicinity taken in the years 1791 and 1792. Bombay 1800]

A rAre set of proof plAtes of one of the most importAnt eArly view books on bombAy, executed before the dAniell brothers Arrived in bombAy.

James Wales (1747-1795) applied to the East India Company for permission to work in Bombay as a portrait and landscape painter. in 1790, was granted permission on 5 January 1791, and arrived in Bombay on 15 July 1791. He earned a living painting court portraits but in 1793 met the brothers Thomas and William Daniell, who encouraged him in his landscape work.

After Wales’ death in 1795 he might have been forgotten but for the actions of his friend and patron Charles Warre Malet, and it was Malet who In 1800 arranged, with the assistance of the artist Thomas Daniell (1749-1840), for the publication of a selection of Wales’s views of Bombay in the present work. Wales not only drew the scenes but also engraved the actual plates in Bombay.

The prints contain two double panoramas: a view from Malabar Hill across Back Bay, and the harbour as seen from the quayside near the Custom House with the pier and a glimpse of the old Bombay Castle. Two more portray the northern part of the island, as viewed from Sion Fort; one of these includes Mahim creek through which small craft could enter the harbour. Three other panoramic views were made from the top of Mazagon which overlooked the harbour - Mazagon is an outlying suburb of Bombay, and a fashionable place to live in the late eighteenth century. The crowded Fort area encouraged the British - and more affluent Indians such as the Wadias - to build bungalows and plantation houses here in a location where they could enjoy the fresh, cooler air and a higher vista over the landscape.

pro o f c o p y

Landscape folio (67.5 x 43.5 cm), 12 etchings by and after James Wales, proofs before letters, plates 3 & 8 with contemporary (?) hand-colour, plates numbered and captioned in ink and/ or pencil, soft fold crease along centre line, plate 6 with 8cm tear into blank lower portion of plate, plate 3 with some staining to sky and small hole (1 x .5 cm) to same area a few short nicks to edges, generally in very good condition, original roan-backed blue wrappers, wear to fore-edge, titled in ink to upper wrapper with a presentation inscription dated 15 January 1834 to [name erased] from Gen[eral] (?) Blackford. ref: 40996 £13500


170. wood, w i l l i am . A series of twenty-eight panoramic views of Calcutta. William Wood, London, 1833.

A rAre eArly series of lithogrAphed views of cAlcuttA.

Wood arrived in Calcutta in 1828 to assist his brother, George, who was the superintendent of the Asiatic Lithographic Press, established at Park Street in the 1820’s. His series of prints presents an almost continuous panorama of buildings as viewed from the Maidan. Starting with Chandpal Ghat, they extend along Esplanade Row and then turn into Chowringhee. Several mansions appear still under construction using bamboo scaffolding; in the foreground, people tend their animals, wash their clothes or themselves in the public ttanks and relax in groups, somking their hookahs.

First edition. 7 parts in one volume, folio (54.6 x 36.7 cm). General typographic title. 28 lithographic plates on regular paper. (Scattered spotting). Modern green leather, preserving the original wrappers with upper lithographic covers and lists of subscribers to versos bound in (tiny adhesion spot to upper wrapper of part one, upper wrapper to part 6 unevenly browned).Abbey Travel 495 (describing a defective copy).ref: 87501 £9500

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171. [Baghdad]. Some notes on the country above Baghdad Government Central Press, Simla, 1917.

Covers portions of the Baghdad and Mosul Wilayats, and of the Sanjur of Zaur.

Provenance: Peter Hopkirk (book label).

Provisional edition. 8vo., iv, 29pp., original beige cloth, old stamp to cover and 1 blank text margin, a very good copy.ref: 87930 £575

172. BErEns, a. h. Album of watercolours of North Africa. 1934.

Fine watercolours of North African countryside scenes and people, vigourously drawn with an ink pen and touches of colour by Berens, an English artist of the first half of the 20th. century. Of particular notice are the sketches of horses and horsemen, one depicting a scene of falcon hunting.

Landscape album (18 x 13 cm approx.), containing two pen and blue wash calligraphic title in arabic “This book is from [...?], 1866-1891”, 31 watercolours with ink mostly captioned in arabic, the last one signed and dated, and a pencil sketch of a cat, tissue guards,contemporary orange leather, clasp; very worn.ref: 79275 £1250

173. champollion, jean francois d i t lE jeune Précis du Système Hiéroglyphique des Anciens Égyptiens. Ou recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée, sur leurs diverses combinaisons, et sur les rapports de ce système avec les autres méthodes graphiques Égyptiennes. Avec un volume de planches. Chez Treuttel et Würtz, Paris, 1824.

the précis is the second, And, According to chAmpollion himself, the most importAnt step in the work of trAnslAting the hieroglyphs.

In it he says that the phonetic use of the hieroglyphs was the basis of the alphabet and not the so-called symbolic meaning of each hieroglyph. Previous to Champollion’s discovery, the phonetic use of hieroglyphs was considered ancillary - to be used for royal names etc. The Précis contains Champollion’s general application of his system of decipherment and its proof. It is based on three lectures delivered at the French Institute in 1823 wherein Champollion examined the three elements: figurative, ideographic, and alphabetic, of the hieroglyph system.

First edition. 2 volumes bound in 1, 8vo., [4], xvi, 410; [2], 45 pp., 48 plates including 4 folding, previous owner’s name to half title, some light foxing and browning throughout, recent quarter blue morocco gilt, marbled boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, an excellent copy.Hilmy, I, p129.ref: 86475 £3500


174. dElla vallE, p ietro . Reise Beschreibung... in Turckey, Egypten, Palestina, Persien, Ost-Indien, und andere weit entlegene Landschafften. Johann Herman Widerhold, Geneva, 1674.

first edition in germAn. “his perceptive And detAiled letters, enriched by the romAnce And poignAncy of his devotion to his wife, together creAte one of the finest works of trAvel literAture” (Howgego).

Pietro Della Valle’s (1586-1652) text comprises a series of fifty-four letters written to the physician Schipano of Naples during his extensive travels. He left Venice in 1614 on a pilgrimage to Palestine. From Sinai he proceeded to Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad, thence into Persia where he married the Circasssian Setti Manni, who accompanied him on his further travels. In Persia, he spent some time at the court of Shah Abbas, but his wife died at Persepolis in 1622. He had her body embalmed and took it with him, accompanied by her Georgian maidservant. His travels took him further east to the coast of India as far as Calicut, and from Goa to Muscat, thence to Aleppo by way of Basrah, finally reaching Rome in 1626. He subsequently married the maidservant, by whom he had fourteen sons.

4 volumes in one, folio (34 x 21 cm.), half-title, printed title in red and black, engraved pictorial additional title and 30 plates, directions to the binder leaf at end, contemporary vellum, spine with title in gilt, a fine copy.Rohricht 948; Tobler p98. Cf Blackmer 1712 for French edition.ref: 88784 £4500

175. doughty, char les m[ontague ] . Travels in Arabia Deserta. C.U.P., Cambridge, 1888.

A clAssic of trAvel literAture.

“Travelling on a scholar’s budget, [Doughty] had learnt Arabic in Damascus and in 1876 joined the Haj caravan as far as Mada’in Salih where he spent three months studying Nabataean tombs and inscriptions. For reasons unexplained he then attached himself to a family of Bedou graziers, and subsequently other nomadic groups, in whose company he travelled and on whose hospitality he depended. Although seldom welcome and often robbed and abandoned, he also experienced great kindness, especially from the women, and came to appreciate the harsh realities of life for the over-romanticised Bedouin. He was twice expelled by the Rashidis of Ha’il, once by the Turks of Khaybar, and seemed condemned to wander the intervening wastes indefinitely until in 1878 he managed to reach Unayzah. There, besides the usual stone-throwing mob, he found friends who secreted him in a garden outside the city and arranged for his departure with a caravan heading for Mecca. On entering the Hejaz he was again robbed, made prisoner and all but murdered. Penniless and wretched he reached the safety of Jeddah after a two-year odyssey.” - John Keay.

First edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., numerous plates, some folding, coloured folding map (linen-backed, small tears repaired), in pocket at end, modern black morocco-backed cloth boards, original gilt decorated upper covers bound-in, a very good set.ref: 52007 £2500


176. f indEn, w. Landscape illustrations of the Bible. Consisting of views of the most remarkable places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments, from original sketches taken on the spot, with descriptions by The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne ... Murray, London, 1836.

de luxe editon of A finely illustrAted work on the holy lAnd.

Finden pairs a description of every significant Biblical location with a fine, full-page engraving. The result is a collection that provides the reader with a unique visual and intellectual experience of the Old Testament.

First edition. 2 volumes, folio, LARGE PAPER copy, 2 additional engraved title-pages with pictorial vignette, 95 full-page steel engraved plates on india paper, contemporary red half morocco gilt, light wear to joints and extremities, short splits, lightly soiled, an attractive set.ref: 89065 £1250

177. galland, [julien claude]. Recueil des rits et cérémonies de pèlerinage de la Meque, auquel ont a joint divers écrits relatifs à la region, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs. Desaint & Saillant, Paris and Amsterdam, 1754

A very good, fresh exAmple of the first edition of this “very interesting work [which] contains five separate essays. The first three are translations from Arabic and Turkish authorities; the last two are eye-witness accounts - one a long description of Chios and the other a description of the marriage of Sultana Esma with Yakub Pasha, governor of Silistria” (Navari).

“Galland’s account of the rituals surrounding the pilgrimage to Mekkah includes enlightening description of many of the important shrines and sites within the city. Extensive footnotes describe the history and physical appearance of such features as the Kaaba, the Black Stone, and Mount Ararat, as well as explaining relevant Arabic terms and the importance of certain religious figures in the Islamic tradition” (Atabey cat.).

“Galland, ‘dragoman’ or interpreter in the Levant, nephew of the celebrated orientalist Antoine Galland, translated many works into French, the present work being a collected edition of five Arabic and Turkish pieces” (Blackmer).

Also contains a discussion of Ottoman science (the “Traduction d’une dissertation sur les sciences des Turcs, et sur l’ordre qu’ils gardent dans le cours de leurs études” by Zaini Efendi, pp. 85-98).

Provenance: James Whatman (armorial bookplate to upper pastedown).

8vo., viii, 215 pp. Nineteenth century half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco label lettered in gilt; rebacked to style retaining label, corners a bit rubbed.Atabey 470. Blackmer 643. Navari 643.ref: 57384 £2850


178. forBin, le compte l .n.p.a. d E .Voyage dans le Levant. Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1819.

the first edition complete with the scArce text volume.

includes the fAmous imAge of bernArdino drovetti, french consul in egypt And notAble collector of Antiquities, portrAyed holding A plumb line to A colossAl stAtue to his left, in ArAb costume, is the mArseilles-born sculptor jeAn-jAcques rifAud, who combed egypt for relics on behAlf of the consul.

Forbin’s was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoleon’s Description de l’Égypte. Most of the plates illustrate views in Egypt and Syria. In 1816 Forbin replaced Denon as Director of Museums, and in 1817 he undertook a year-long voyage to the Levant, having been authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre. He travelled to Milos where his son-in-law had negotiated the purchase of the recently discovered Venus de Milo, and from there to Athens, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine. From Jaffa he travelled overland to Egypt and visited Alexandria.

Only 325 sets were printed.

2 volumes, Atlas volume, folio (71 x 53cm), 80 plates, of which 70 lithographed, 8 aquatinted and 2 engraved, by Englemann and Debucourt after Forbin, Castellan, Deseynes, Fragonard, Isabey, Vernet and others, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a folding engraved map; 8vo. text with frontispiece and folding plan; scattered spotting to atlas, contemporary blue morocco-backed marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt to upper cover of atlas, plates a little spotted, an excellent set.Atabey 447; Blackmer 614; Colas 1089; Hilmy I, 163; Weber 70. ref: 88730 £17500


179. hurgronjE, snouck . The revolt in Arabia. Putnam, New York, 1917.

An excellent copy of A scArce title.

As a professor of oriental languages, Snouck Hurgronje was an advisor to the Dutch colonial government, and pioneer in the scientific study of Islam. His doctorate at Leiden in 1880 was awarded for Het Mekkaansche Feest (The Festivities of Mecca). He visited Arabia in 1884-85.

First edition in English. 8vo., vii, 50pp., ads at end, original green cloth gilt.ref: 87960 £750

180. ingrams, w. h. Aden Protectorate A report on the social, economic, and political condition of the Hadhramaut. H. M. S. O., London, 1936.

Colonial Office report 123.

Provenance: Royal Central Asian Society Library (printed label).

First edition. 8vo., 500 copies printed, iv, 177pp., folding map, folding table, original wrappers, original printed wrappers, a very good copy.ref: 87863 £450

181. [lawrEncE, t.E . ] , gr av E s , ro B E rt . Lawrence and the Arabs. Cape, London, 1927.

First edition, 454pp, frontispiece, 23 plates and 4 maps, modern full sand morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, a fine copy.ref: 87304 £450

182. layard, austen henry. Discoveries in Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert; being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the trustees of the British Museum. Murray, London, 1853.

A superb exAmple of victoriAn cloth bookbinding.

The account of Layard’s important second British Museum expedition in 1849, describing in detail the discoveries that were made, especially focusing on the momentous Assyrian artefacts. Apart from his great archaeological accomplishment in identifying Kouyunjik as the site of the ancient city Nineveh, Layard provides an extensive analysis of the ancient Assyrian world and its history, as revealed by the discoveries, and also writes about the daily life and customs of the country.

First edition, 8vo., xxiv, 686pp., folding frontispiece, 3 folding plans (1 with tear at fold), 2 large folding plans at the end, 10 full-page plates, 4 by S.C. Malan, wood-cut illustrations in the text, original tan cloth gilt, all-over cover design of the Great Winged Bull, occasional light foxing, an excellent copy.ref: 87728 £675

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183. layard, austen henry. The monuments of Nineveh. [WITH] A second series of the monuments of Nineveh, including bas-reliefs from the palace of Sennacherib and bronzes from the ruins of Nimroud. John Murray, London, 1849 and 1853.

the beAufoy-AtAbey copies of lAyArd’s publicAtions detAiling his first And second excAvAtions in mesopotAmiA. the most luxurious publicAtions on mesopotAmiA published in greAt britAin.

Layard’s interest in Nineveh began when he met the French consul Emil Botta in Mosul. Botta had been excavating the mounds opposite the city, which marked the site of the ruins of Nineveh, and Layard visited the site.

Layard met the British ambassador to Turkey, Stratford Canning, who employed him as an unofficial traveller. Canning was interested in archaeology, and Layard’s description of the mounds at Nineveh prompted him to finance his own expedition, superintended by Layard. The expeditions took place in 1846 and 1847, and were eventually part sponsored by the trustees of the British Museum. Hence, many of the sculptures were transported to England for the British Museum. (ODNB).

Provenance: First work: Henry H.B. Beaufoy, F.R.S., bookplate; Sefik E. Atabey, book label. Second work: as the first but with an additional presentation inscription “To Charles Peter Julius Layard in memory of his Aunt Frances Elizabeth Dunlop, b.1837-d.1933”.

First editions, 2 volumes, large folio. First work: (58.5 x 44.5cm.), additional chromo-lithographed title and 101 lithographed plates (numbered 1-100, 7a and 95a), mostly on india paper and mounted, 6 coloured and 6 printed in sepia, all mounted on guards, Second work: 43 x 56cm.), 71 lithographed plates, comprising 7 chromolithographed, 61 tinted and 3 plain. Full contemporary red morocco by Mackenzie (Monuments of Nineveh), elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards, turn-ins with gilt decorative patterning and contemporary brown morocco by J. Wright, green morocco title labels to spine.Atabely 686 & 688.ref: 88397 £12000


185. philBy, harr y s t . john B Harun al Rashid Peter Davies, London, 1933.

First edition. 8vo., 159pp., 8 pages ads at end, original cloth, dust wrapper, a fine copy.ref: 87859 £300

184. philBy, harr y s t . 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, modern half morocco gilt, an excellent copy.Ghani p302.ref: 87228 £800

186. pocockE, r i chard . A description of the East, and some other countries. W. Bowyer and J. P. Knapton, London, 1743-45.

one of the most importAnt books on the eAstern mediterrAneAn.

Pococke travelled extensively in Europe from 1733-6 and continued on to the Levant, reaching Alexandria in 1737. He remained three years in the Eastern Mediterranean, visiting Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor and Greece. His work describes these journeys but not necessarily in chronological order. The plates of antiquities are after drawings by Pococke himself, the botanical plates are after Ehret.

Pococke achieved a great reputation with this publication; the work was very popular during his lifetime and was praised by Gibbon.

First editon. 2 volumes (the second containing 2 parts), folio (40 x 24cm.), engraved vignettes on titles, engraved dedication in volume II and 178 numbered plates, complete (volume 1 contains 75 plates, numbers 1-32 and 34-76 (plate 33 was never issued), plate 76 is not called for in the list of plates but is referred to in the text; volume II contains 103 engraved plates, a few folding, some spotting and browning, folding map in volume 2 creased and with stain, contemporary calf gilt, spines in seven compartments, morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, neat restoration to joints, an excellent set.Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323; Cobham-Jeffery p.51; Hilmy II, p.124; Weber II, 513.ref: 86043 £7750


187. salZmann, auguste .Jerusalem etude et reprodution photographique des monuments de la ville sainte depuis l’epoque Judaique jusqu’a nos jours. Gide et J. Baudry, Paris, 1856.

forty of the rArest And eArliest photogrAphs of jerusAlem And A lArge pAper edition of the first photogrAphicAlly illustrAted book on jerusAlem.

Salzmann took the views while on an official French mission in the Near East in 1853 with the specific purpose of providing photographically a scientific and visual verification for Louis de Saulcy’s controversial dating of temples and monuments in Jerusalem. In order to provide this evidence, Salzmann would often have to set up his camera at odd, oblique angles, and attempt to photograph subjects in shadowy corners and out of reach architectural details, which were really quite unsuitable subjects for camera work of this time. Salzmann had published at his own expense, a smaller format edition of his photographs under a slightly different title in 1854. In 1856 two larger format editions came out. Firstly the “grande édition” with 174 salt prints (typical size 23 x 32 cm) published in three volumes. This was a very expensive undertaking and to help offset the cost, the publisher produced the present so-called petite édition with 40 prints. Commercially these publications were not a great success - the high cost of the grande édition inhibited sales, and the petite édition failed to capitalize on the novelty of photographs of the Orient as it had been preceded by Du Camp’s work on Egypt some four years earlier. Given that Du Camp’s work was considered a commercial success although only some 200 copies were produced, it is likely that the print run of Salzmann’s books was quite small and complete copies are now rare.

Although it was possible to purchase individual images separately, the market for the books was largely confined to those wealthy academics - principally archaeologists and historians, and collectors who could afford such luxurious publications.

A fascinating example of travel photography before the new glass-negative processes that revolutionised the art and enabled a more sophisticated sense of illustration, as exemplified by the work of Francis Frith.

Folio (43.5 x 43cm approx.), plate volume only, 40 original calotype photographs printed by Blanquart-Evrard in Lille, mounted one to a page, each with printed title on mount, typical image sizes approx 15 x 21.5cm., modern quarter red morocco, marbled boards, vellum tips, an excellent copy.Berg, The Imperialist Lens, passim ( Early Popular Visual Culture, Routledge, volume 6, no. 1, April 2008); The Truthful Lens 143; Tobler p181. ref: 87736 £27500


188. thEvEnot, jean de . The Travels of Monsieur de Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies. Printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, booksellers in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, London, 1687.

“thevenot’s trAvels mArk the beginning of the grAnd epoch of trAvel And explorAtion in the levAnt” (Blackmer).

Thevenot began his travels in the Levant in 1655, returning to Paris in 1659 to prepare the first part of his description of his journeys for publication, which describe Constantinople, the Archipelago, Asia Minor, and Egypt. He left Paris in 1663 and travelled through Syria and Persia to India, dying near Tabriz in 1667.

During his time in central India, he “systematically sought information on other parts of the Mughal Empire from native informants and other itinerant Europeans ... because Thevenot was a tireless observer and researcher he provides occasional new materials in his systematic surveys of the imperial provinces ... tucked into these methodical paragraphs are occasional sidelights and acute observations which are novel” (Lach, III, p.807).

First English edition. 3 parts in 1, folio (20.5 x 33 cm) [38], 291, [3], 108, 105-200, [2], 93, [1], 91-114, [4]pp., with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved plates, each part with separate title-page, modern calf antique, red morocco lettering piece, gilt spine, occasional light marginal damp-stains, excellent copy.Cf. Blackmer 1650 (French ed.); Gay 133 (note); Rohricht 1104; Tobler p.106.ref: 88627 £3500

189. visconti, g i ammart ino arconat i . Diario di un viaggio in Arabia Petrea (1865). Vincenzo Bona, Torino, 1872.

A scArce work on the southern portion of the ArAbiAn peninsulA.

First edition. 2 volumes, 4to., INSCRIBED by the author, 439; 46pp., 2 folding maps, 40 mounted photographs after paintings by Emile Pierre Metzmacher (average 11.5 x 16cm., or the reverse), individually mounted with printed captions on the mount, 8 engraved plates, original maroon cloth gilt, spines and corners worn, covers a little stained, neat repairs to extremities. Gay 3650 bis; not in Weber or Hilmy.ref: 87008 £5000

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