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BOTTIGELLA, Giovanni Matteo; & Roberto Sanseverino.
Viaggio in Terra Santa. 1459
£475,000
EXCEPTIONALLY IMPORTANT ITALIAN/LOMBARD LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPT of a little-known pilgrimage to the Holy Land made from Venice to Jaffa by sea in 1458-9, containing "the most...
Quarto (220 × 155 mm), 133 unnumbered leaves written in a professional scribal hand in ink, about 29 lines per page on lined vellum, with contemporary annotations... Read more
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
GOULD, John.
The Mammals of Australia. 1863
£150,000
First edition, together with the Monograph on Kangaroos. Gould's interest in Australia was piqued by specimens sent back by his wife's brothers who had settled there. He soon...
3 volumes folio (555 × 365 mm). Contemporary green half morocco on matching pebble-grained boards by Blunson & Co., spines divided into in seven compartments with... Read more
SHARPE, Bartholomew, & William Hack.
To the Serene Mai.ties of Charles; the second. King of great Britaigne, France and Ireland. This following Journall of our transactions in the South Seas is humbly presented by your Ma:ties ever loyal 1682]
£75,000
An important manuscript journal of the buccaneer Bartholomew Sharpe's expeditions on the coast of South America from 5 April 1680 to 28 January 1681/2. Very possibly in Sharpe's own...
Small folio (305 ×193 mm). Near contemporary mottled calf, central double fillet gilt panels, red morocco label to the spine, lettered "Sharpe south sea 1680",... Read more
SALT, Henry.
Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. 1809
£50,000
First edition, with plates watermarked 1824. Having failed in his original ambition to be a portrait painter, Salt set out on an eastern tour in June 1802 as secretary and...
Large folio (751 × 534 mm). Original marbled boards, with red morocco patch title label to the upper, rebacked and recornered in red morocco to style, title gilt... Read more
JEFFERSON, Thomas.
Notes on the State of Virginia … Illustrated with A Map, including the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. 1787
£50,000
First London edition, following the first Paris edition - of 1785, "a few copies … printed to present to some of his friends and to some estimable characters beyond that line"...
Octavo. Original boards. Large folding map, hand-coloured in outline, mounted as frontispiece, large woodcut of Madison's Cave to p32, folding letterpress table of... Read more
VANCOUVER, Captain George.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; 1798
£47,500
First edition. "Vancouver, who had served on Captain Cook's second and third voyages, was made commander of a grand-scale expedition… This voyage became one of the most...
3 quarto text volumes (285 × 234 mm) and folio atlas (575 × 455 mm). Text volumes in contemporary sprinkled calf, double black morocco lettering-pieces to... Read more
[PHILLIP, Arthur]
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; 1789
£45,000
First edition of this foundation work on Australia as a European colony, the official account of the voyage of the First Fleet to Botany Bay and the settlement of Australia, based on...
Quarto (280 × 215 mm). Contemporary tree calf, professionally rebacked to style and recornered, red morocco label, flat spine, compartments with foliate arabesque... Read more
OGILBY, John.
America; being the latest and most Accurate Description of the New World… 1671
£45,000
First edition. In common with all of Ogilby's travel works (it is the second in a series which also included Africa, Asia, and Britannia), the book is a well-produced compilation of...
Folio in sixes (410 × 270 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked to style with spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, corners repaired.... Read more
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
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COOK, Captain James.
[Three voyages:] An Account of the Voyages … for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere…; 1773-85
£35,000
Second, fourth, and second editions respectively. A complete set of the official accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages around the world. "Cook did more to clarify the geographical...
9 volumes, 8 quarto text volumes (397 × 230 mm), and folio atlas (565 × 400 mm) of plates and maps to accompany the third voyage. Text volumes in early... Read more
HURGRONJE, Christiaan Snouck.
Mekka. 1888-9
£30,000
First edition, complete with its atlas of plates, of this historically important, and highly influential study of Islam's most holy city. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), a...
3 volumes: 2 text volumes large octavo (244 × 161 mm); folio atlas volume (363 × 285 mm). Text volumes in contemporary tan hard-grain half morocco, green and... Read more
SHACKLETON, E. H.
The Heart of the Antarctic. 1909
£27,500
First signed limited edition. Heart of the Antarctic number 193 of 330, The Antarctic Book one of 300 unnumbered copies, this in the second (corrected) state with contents without...
3 volumes, quarto. Original vellum, volumes I & II, and the supplement in vellum-backed grey paper boards, titles gilt to spines, upper boards of volumes I & II... Read more
DELISLE, Guillaume; Philippe Buache; & Jean Claude Dezauche.
Atlas geographique et universel 1789
£25,000
First edition thus and uncommon (just four listings on OCLC, three of these for the BNF, and no complete copy at auction for 30 years). Jean-Claude Dezauche was one of the...
2 volumes, folio (453 × 375 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked, red morocco labels. Engraved allegorical title page and contents leaves to each and 151 double-page... 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
STAUNTON, George.
An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China … 1797
£18,500
First edition of the official account of the first official British Embassy to China, headed by George, Earl Macartney. Macartney was dispatched to Peking in 1792, travelling via...
3 volumes, 2 text volumes in quarto (322 × 245 mm) and large folio atlas (578 × 423 mm). Text volumes in contemporary streaked calf, black morocco lettering-... Read more
STAUNTON, George.
An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China … 1797
£18,500
First edition of the official account of the first official British Embassy to China, headed by George, Earl Macartney. Macartney was dispatched to Peking in 1792, travelling via...
3 volumes, 2 text volumes in quarto (305 × 233 mm) and large folio atlas (602 × 440 mm). Uncut in original marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in lightly... Read more
[HEDIN, Sven]
Southern Tibet: 1916-22
£18,000
First and only edition. "Hedin's travels [drew] him increasingly into what Lord Curzon regarded as the British sphere of interest, and a well-orchestrated effort was set in motion to...
9 text volumes in quarto, folio volume of panoramas, and 2 folio portfolios of maps, together with quarto prospectus, 13 volumes in all. Original printed card wraps,... Read more
SELLER, John.
Atlas Minimus or A Book of Geography. [c.1678]
£18,000
Second edition, second issue. An exceptional copy of this extremely uncommon, and highly appealing little volume, which, while not the first world atlas published in England, is...
Duodecimo (113 × 75 mm) Original sprinkled calf trade binding, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments with floral tools, foliate edge-roll, marbled edges.... Read more
LEWIS, Meriwether & William Clark.
Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. 1814
£17,500
First English edition of the authorized account of the travels of Lewis and Clark, the "definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent"...
Quarto (270 × 210 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco labels, undulating rolled gilt panel to the boards, marbled endpapers. Large... Read more
RICHIE, Robert Yarnall.
Photographic album prepared for special presentation by the photographer 1945
£17,500
Presentation album of exhibition-quality photographs compiled by the photographer and bound for him in lavish morocco and gilt. An exceptional album of images made by the...
Folio. 30 original photographic prints each 340 × 270 mm in size, guard mounted and bound for presentation in original full green morocco, gilt map of Saudi... Read more
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ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[Epitome] Theatri Orbis Terrarum Enchiridion, 1585
£16,500
First Latin and first quarto edition of Epitome. The engraver Philip Galle was a close friend of both Ortelius and Christopher Plantin and co-publisher of Braun and Hogenberg's...
Quarto (202 × 145 mm). Eighteenth-century half calf sewn on four cords, handwritten paper label to spine, marbled sides. Housed in a cloth flat back solander box.... Read more
RAUNKIAER, Barclay.
Through Wahabiland on Camel-back: an Account of a Journey of Exploration in Eastern and Central Arabia. 1916
£16,000
First edition in English - translated by E.T. Leeds, archæologist, Assistant to the Keeper of the Ashmolean, and friend of T.E. Lawrence - "made for the Admiralty War Staff and...
Octavo. Original pale tan cloth, lettered in black to the upper board, panels in blind to both boards, grey endpapers. Boards very slightly finger-soiled, endpapers a... Read more
KAEMPFER, Engelbert.
The History of Japan, 1727
£15,000
First edition. Born in Westphalia, Kaempfer graduated in 1676 with a doctorate in languages, history and medicine from Cracow, spending the following four years at Königsberg...
2 volumes, folio (340 × 217 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt fillet panels to the boards, Volume I rebacked with the original spine laid down, later... Read more
MEDINA, Pedro de.
L'Arte del navegar, in laqual si contengonolere gole, dechiarationi, secreti, & avisi, 1554
£15,000
First edition in Italian, first issue with title dated 1554. First published in Valladolid in 1545, Medina's Arte del navegar was the first practical treatise on navigation and the...
Small quarto (215 x 149 mm). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, lacking ties, remnants of paper label at bottom of spine. Housed in a black quarter... Read more
