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ROBERTS, David.
Egypt & Nubia, from Drawings Made on the Spot … 1846–49
£165,000
First edition in the preferred deluxe coloured format of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted...
3 volumes, large folio (595 × 430 mm). Contemporary blue hard-grain half morocco on matching pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to spines, spines gilt in... Read more
KOLB, Peter.
Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum Das ist: 1719
£8,750
First edition of this important early account of South Africa at the beginning of the eighteenth century, which was rapidly translated into Dutch, English and French, becoming the...
Folio (326 × 207 mm). Contemporary vellum, titles to spine gilt, edges stained green. Portrait frontispiece, folding map and 23 engraved plates. Ownership... Read more
MAYER, Luigi.
Vues En Égypte, 1802
£8,500
The aquatint plates, engraved by and under the direction of Thomas Milton after original drawings by Luigi Mayer, include views of the Egyptian pyramids at Gizah, the Clossal Sphinx,...
3 volumes in one. Folio, with 96 hand coloured aquatints (48 in vol.I; 24 in vol.II; 24 in vol. III), pp. 109; 40; 47. 19th-century binding of half blue calf, gilt... Read more
BRUCE, James, & Alexander Murray.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790 [and] 1808
£7,500
First editions. Bruce's "long and energetic narrative … remains one of the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century" (ODNB). James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794) was only...
6 volumes, quarto (285 × 230 mm). 19th-century tree calf, brown and green labels, spines gilt in compartments, attractive gilt panelling to the boards, Northern... Read more
BRUCE, James.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1790
£7,500
First edition. "His long and energetic narrative … remains one of the great travel accounts of the eighteenth century" (ODNB). James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730-1794) was only the...
5 volumes. Contemporary diced calf, gilt twist panel to the boards, flat spines, titles gilt direct to spines, gilt banding forming compartments enclosing gilt roundel... Read more
ROBERTS, David.
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. 1855
£7,500
New edition, in smaller format, of the two great three-volume works collectively known as Roberts's Holy Land. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to...
6 volumes in 3, quarto (294 × 209 mm). Contemporary full calf, bevelled boards, red morocco title-pieces, bottle-green morocco numbering pieces, raised bands,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War. 1899
£6,000
First edition, first printing, second state - with the minor typo at p.459 in volume II corrected - of Churchill's second book. preceded by The Story of the Malakand Field Force...
2 volumes, octavo (221 × 144 mm). Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, title gilt to spines, raised bands with dotted roll, single fillet... Read more
CAILLIÉ, René.
Journal d'un Voyage a Temboctou et a Jenné, dans l'Afrique Centrale, 1830
£5,750
First edition. Caillié (1799-1838) was a very unlikely explorer indeed. The son of a baker, left alone in the world at the age of 11 when his mother died and his father was...
3 text volumes in octavo (204 × 124 mm), quarto atlas volume (298 × 230 mm). Later nineteenth-century black hard-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, title... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War; an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. 1899
£5,500
First edition, first impression, second state - minor typographic error corrected on p459 of volume II - of Churchill's second book, preceded only by The Story of the Malakand Field...
2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and upper boards, facsimile gilt signature and block of one of Kitchener's... Read more
BARROW, John.
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: 1806
£5,250
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on … Vietnam"(Hill). A description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. "The voyage visited Madeira,...
Quarto (263 × 209 mm) Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco on drab boards, title gilt direct to the spine, double-ruled compartments with attractive roundel... Read more
BEARD, Peter; Isak Dinesen; Kamante.
Longing for Darkness. Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. 1975
£4,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Peter Beard to author Lois Wyse with an elaborate ink drawing across both front endpapers, "To Lois with the rest of the picture coming...
Tall quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, image of Blixen to upper board and of, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. An... Read more
CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin.
Discours sur les Causes du Débordement du Nil. 1665
£4,000
First Edition, for the first time published separately, previously included in his Pensées of 1634 and 1662, uncommon, just six copies on OCLC, only three of them in the US....
Quarto (252 × 183 mm). Contemporary full calf, raised bands to the spine, compartments gilt with floral lozenges within double ruled panels, presentation gilt... Read more
NIEBUHR, Carsten.
Beschreibung von Arabien. 1772
£3,750
First edition. Niebuhr trained as a surveyor in order to support himself into his majority, then receiving a small inheritance. He next studied mathematics at Göttingen before...
Quarto (249 × 186 mm). Modern pale tan half morocco on marbled boards, darker tan label to spine, floral devices gilt in compartments, red edge-stain. Title page... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S. 1863
£3,500
First edition. "Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the...
2 volumes octavo, original purple-brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, triple blind panel to the boards. Folding map as frontispiece to volume I, plate... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S. 1863
£3,500
First edition. "Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the...
2 volumes octavo, original purple-brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, triple blind panel to the boards. Folding map as frontispiece to Volume I, plate... Read more
VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount.
Voyages and Travels 1809
£3,500
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies. "This work contains much information of a novel and important kind... It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and...
3 volumes, quarto (300 × 238 mm) original boards with near contemporary sheep reback, red morocco labels to the spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved vignette... Read more
MAYER, Luigi.
Views in Egypt, from the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, 1801
£3,500
First edition, plates watermarked 1794 and 1801; originally issued in 12 parts. Of German-Italian origins, Luigi Mayer studied with Piranesi in Rome, and was later in the service of...
Folio (463 × 320 mm) Contemporary streaked calf, gilt panelling to the boards, neatly rebacked, marbled edges and endpapers. 48 hand-coloured aquatints.... Read more
WAUGH, Evelyn.
Waugh in Abyssinia. 1936
£3,250
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Jack from Evelyn, with warmest regards". The supplied dust jacket is in the published state with...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket supplied for another copy. Spine a little rolled and faded, slight bump to lower... Read more
DOYLE, Arthur Conan.
The War in South Africa. Its Cause and Conduct. 1902]
£3,250
First edition, first issue, a printer's setting copy of the work that won Doyle his knighthood, with autograph corrections towards the second issue on two pages. Doyle had...
Octavo. Original wraps, lacks the upper wrap. Housed in dark brown quarter morocco on marbled paper box, red morocco labels to the spine. Lacks title page, half-title... Read more
JAMES, F. L.
The Unknown Horn of Africa: 1888
£3,000
First edition. "While primarily a work of exploration and adventure in Somaliland, the author does partake in a few hunts for kudu, lion, and assorted antelope near the River Webbe....
Octavo. Original dark olive cloth on bevelled boards, title gilt to spine, brown surface-paper endpapers. Hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece heightened with gum... Read more
BURTON, Richard F.
The Works… The Memorial Edition. 1893–94
£2,750
A complete set of all that was published of Lady Burton's memorial edition of her late husband's works, comprising A Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, A Mission to Gelele, King of...
7 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent sand full morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt lozenge device to compartments, single fillet gilt panel to boards,... Read more
BROWN, Frederick John, Colonel.
Service with the 56th Regiment and 2nd Battn. The Essex Regiment "Pompadours." A Manuscript Autobiographical Record, 1875-1919. c.1920]
£2,750
A well-written, lively and highly detailed account of a military life in the late nineteenth century through to the First World War. Evidently written up for family reference,...
Folio, c.440pp. manuscript in half reversed calf ledger book, sewn into sail-cloth wrapper. Thirteen mounted original albumen prints, Suez, India, Aden and Malta.... Read more
CAPPER, James.
Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt, 1783
£2,750
First edition. Capper was educated at Harrow and joined the army of the East India Company "in His Majesty's Train of Artillery in the East Indies, first as a soldier cadet and later...
Quarto (262 × 205 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, green morocco label to spine, gilt ruling to boards, edges sprinkled green. 2 engraved folding maps. Modern... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. 1900
£2,500
First edition, second printing. This copy signed on the blank following the front free endpaper. A title infrequently encountered signed. "The volume essentially consists of 27...
Octavo, original tan cloth, illustration and titles to spine in red and gilt, illustration and titles to upper cover in red and black. Folding coloured map as... Read more
SPARRMAN, Anders.
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1786
£2,500
Second Edition, Corrected. A botanist and disciple of Linnaeus, Sparrman's desire to travel was stimulated by an early trip as a surgeon on a Royal Swedish East India Company ship to...
2 volumes, quarto. (222 × 272mm). Bound in contemporary lightly sprinkled tan full calf, sympathetically rebacked, smooth spine, double gilt ruled compartments,... Read more
