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DODWELL, Edward.
Views in Greece, from drawings ... 1821
£37,500
First edition of one of the most spectacular aquatint travel books of its era, with good quality plates and excellent colouring; those engraved and coloured by Havell in particular...
Folio. Six parts, as issued, in original buff wrappers, green roan spines, titles printed to front wrapper, pasted errata slip on rear wrapper of part 5. Housed in a... Read more
CORYATE, Thomas.
Coryates Crudities Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy ... 1611
£20,000
First edition. Coryate's eccentric account of his peregrinations on foot through Europe in 1608. A "there and back again" to Venice, Coryate ended his journey by literally hanging up...
4to (8 1/2 x 6 in.; 216 x 152 mm). [472] leaves (collation precisely as in Pforzheimer) including engraved title-page, 4 engraved plates (2 folding), engraved text... Read more
LEAR, Edward.
Views in the Seven Ionian Islands. 1863
£8,750
First edition. In 1854 Lear's close friend Franklin Lushington had been appointed judge at the supreme court of justice on Corfu, "and so Lear decided to join him and make a winter...
Folio. Original green pebble-grained cloth, rebacked, title gilt to the upper board and the spine, blind panelling to both boards. Lithographic title page with... Read more
STRUYS, Jan Janzoon [with Olfert Dapper].
The Perillous and most Unhappy Voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan and other Places … 1683
£8,500
First English edition, having first been published in Amsterdam in 1676, before becoming a Europe-wide best-seller. Purporting to be an account of the travels of a Dutch sail-maker...
Quarto (222 ×168 mm) Contemporary sprinkled calf, double fillet panel in blind to the boards, and a similar foliate roll to the joints. Engraved pictorial... Read more
DODWELL, Edward.
Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1819
£6,500
First edition of "this remarkable work" (Blackmer), describing both classical and modern Greece. It was the outcome of Dodwell's two tours through the region, the first in the...
2 volumes quarto (259 × 205 mm) Contemporary Russia by Gilmour of Salisbury - ticket to the front pastedown of volume I - narrow bands with a dashed roll, gilt... Read more
VIVIAN, George.
Scenery of Portugal & Spain. 1839
£5,500
First edition, but with second issue of the plate "Oporto. Praca de Sm Bento" (text corrected). A sequel to Vivian's volume on Spain, this series of lithographs is largely devoted...
Folio (555 × 374 mm) Contemporary green roan-backed flower-sprigged embossed boards, title gilt to the spine, cream endpapers. Lithographic title, 2-leaf plate... Read more
GERNING, Johann Isaac von.
A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne: 1820
£3,750
First edition, with plates watermarked 1816–1820. In this copy the Mentz plate is dated October 1819 and the Biebrich plate is dated Septr. 1819. With the list of subscribers.
Quarto (360 × 300 mm). Finely bound in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, raised bands, spine gilt, buckram boards. 24 hand-coloured aquatint... Read more
LEAR, Edward.
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c. 1851
£3,500
First Edition, with the author's signed presentation inscription to the novelist Charles Lever and his wife: "Mr & Mrs Charles Lever from Edward Lear. In remembrance of pleasant days...
Large octavo. Original blind-stamped blue morocco-grain cloth, spine decorated and lettered gilt, cream endpapers with printed adverts, Remnant & Edmonds binders'... Read more
DESNOS, Louis Charles.
Atlas Chorographique, Historique, et Portatif des Elections du Royaume. Généralité de Paris. 1763
£3,500
First edition. Uncommon, OCLC lists just three copies which appear to be bound with an accompanying text by the abbé Regley which was clearly never present here: a further...
Small quarto (196 × 136 mm). Mottled calf trade binding, raised bands to the spine, double fillet gilt panels to the compartments enclosing gilt pomegranate... Read more
BYRON, Robert.
The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men. 1928
£3,250
First edition, first impression of one of Byron's earliest titles. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page dated the year before he died. Byron...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Obituary clippings to both sides of the free endpaper... Read more
SWINBURNE, Henry.
Travels in the Two Sicilies … in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. 1783-5
£3,000
First edition. Scion of an old Catholic family, Swinburne was educated "at the monastic seminary at Lacelle, France, the University of Paris, Bordeaux, and finally the Royal Academy...
2 volumes, quarto (294 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down, title direct to the spines, ruled... Read more
AUDEN, W. H., & Louis MacNeice.
Letters From Iceland. 1937
£2,750
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half-title by Auden and Isherwood, "To Miss May Cameron with best wishes and thanks for our first American interview Wystan Auden...
Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, title labels to upper board and spine printed in blue, top edge stained blue, map endpapers. Housed in a quarter blue morocco drop down... Read more
BYRON, Robert.
The Station. 1928
£2,500
First Edition, First Impression of one of Byron's earliest titles. Very scarce in the dust jacket.
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Some minor spotting to the fore-edge and the odd page... Read more
PORTER, Robert Ker.
Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. 1813
£2,000
Second edition, first published 1809. An artistic prodigy, admitted to the Academy at the age of fifteen, Porter made his reputation as a painter of spectacular battle scenes and...
2 volumes quarto (287 × 229 mm). Contemporary half diced russia, drab boards, title gilt direct to spine, gilt rules forming compartments which are blind-tooled.... Read more
LECOMTE, Ferdinand.
Relation Historique et Critique de la Guerre Franco-Allemande en 1870-1871. 1872-4
£1,800
First editions of this important analysis of the Franco-Prussian War by a noted Swiss military theorist and radical politician. This set from the library of Ulysses S. Grant with...
Four volumes octavo (222 × 148 mm). Contemporary red quarter hard-grain morocco on matching pebble-grained cloth boards, title gilt to the spines, raised bands,... Read more
WYSE, Sir Thomas.
An Excursion in the Peloponnesus in the Year 1858. 1865
£1,750
First edition. Wyse was appointed minister-plenipotentiary to Greece in 1849, at the time of his arrival in Athens Greek politics "were complicated and divisive. Each of the three...
2 volumes octavo (252 × 156 mm). Original purple blind-stamped pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, pale cream endpapers. Etched frontispiece to each,... Read more
NANSEN, Fridtjof.
Armenia and the Near East. 1928
£1,750
First edition in English, originally published in Norwegian in the previous year. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Philip Noël Baker with hearty thanks for...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine. Frontispiece and 16 other plates, folding map, head-piece, plans to the text. Spine a little tanned, light toning,... Read more
ANDERSON, Æneas.
A Journal of the Forces which sailed from the Downs, in April 1800. on a Secret Expedition under the Command of Lieut.-Gen. Pigot, 1802
£1,750
First and only edition. Uncommon, personal account of the operations against the French in the Mediterranean concluding with the Egyptian Expedition and the surrender at Alexandria....
Quarto (262 × 210 mm) Half mottled sheep on old marbled boards to style, red morocco label, ruled compartments with gilt centre-tools. Bound with the half-title,... Read more
BLOUNT, Henry.
A Voyage into the Levant. 1636
£1,750
Second edition, in the same year as the first. Blount graduated from Trinity College in 1618, and in 1620 was admitted to Gray's Inn. According to Aubrey he "was pretty wild when...
Small quarto (178 × 134 mm) Lightly streaked sheep to style, red morocco label to the spine, blind panelling with arabesque corner-pieces to the boards. Engraved... Read more
ANSTED, David Thomas, Prof.
The Ionian Islands in the Year 1863. 1863
£1,500
First edition. This copy with Edward Lear's ownership inscription to the title page, dated in the year of publication, the same year as his own book on the islands was published....
Large octavo. Original purple pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, panels in blind to the boards, ads. to the endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and... Read more
VINCENTI, J. P.
Monographia. El Sepulcro de Moore. 1857
£1,500
First edition, uncommon, just two copies - BL and Biblioteca Nacional de España - on OCLC and an 1890 reprint at BNE. Attractive souvenir with dual language text, a portrait,...
Landscape octavo. Original green cloth, blind panelling to both boards, gilt device of Moore's tomb to the upper board, marbled endpapers. 5 single-tint lithographs,... Read more
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 1796
£1,250
First edition. Her lover Gilbert Imlay had suffered the theft of a valuable cargo by the Norwegian captain of his ship, and in 1794 suggested to Wollstonecraft that she travel there...
Octavo. Recent half calf to style, black morocco label, marbled sides, old blue sprinkled edges. With the final advert leaf listing Wollstonecraft's books from Johnson... Read more
JURIEN DE LA GRAVIÈRE, Jean Pierre Edmond, Vice-Amiral.
La Guerre de Chypre et la Bataille de Lépante. 1888
£1,250
First edition. Uncommon. The first volume contains an account of the fall of Cyprus to the forces of the Ottoman empire, the second a highly-detailed and excellently mapped study of...
2 volumes octavo (178 × 110 mm) Contemporary green quarter morocco on marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, edges sprinkled green, marbled endpapers,... Read more
(CRAIG, Edward Gordon) LEAR, Edward.
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria &c. 1852
£1,250
First edition, first impression. Edward Gordon Craig's copy, in his personal binding style, with his bookplate, and numerous pencil notes in his hand. Craig (1872–1966) was the...
Octavo (252 × 157 mm). Early 20th-century quarter vellum, titles to spine gilt, marbled sides. 2 maps and 20 plates. Map of Calabria pasted to front blank.... Read more
[ASTLEY, Philip]
A Description and Historical Account, of the Places Now the Theatre of War in the Low Countries, 1794
£1,250
Uncommon and attractive fortification study, this fourth edition issued in the same year as the self-published first edition. "That part of Flanders … having frequently been...
Octavo (205 × 129 mm). Contemporary red goatskin, title gilt to spine, rolled bands, sun-in-splendour tools in the compartments, gilt panels to the boards, all... Read more
