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ATKINSON, George Francklin.
"Curry & Rice" on Forty Plates; c.1860
£500
The third edition, believed to be two years after the first. Classic images of the Raj by an officer of the Bengal Engineers. "This famous and often reprinted work provides an...
Quarto (282 × 199 mm) Contemporary half burgundy pebble-grained morocco on dun pebbled-grained cloth, title direct to the spine which is gilt in compartments with... Read more
NANSEN, Fridtjof.
"Farthest North" 1897
£350
First edition in English, published in Norwegian in the same year. "Narrative of the First Fram Expedition, 1893-1896, led by Nansen, with the object of investigating the polar basin...
2 volumes octavo, original green combed cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, gilt pictorial vignettes to the upper boards. Etched portrait frontispiece to... Read more
(FRANKLIN, Benjamin) FAUCHET, [Claude] M. l’Abbé
Éloge Civique de Benjamin Franklin, 1790
£350
First Edition. Important elogy delivered by the Revolutionary divine, formerly tutor to the children of the Marquis de Choiseul, preacher to the King, and Abbot of Montfort-Lacarre....
Octavo. (215 × 130mm). Untrimmed in later wraps. Title page and first and last leaves somewhat browned, but overall very good. The wraps a little worn and... Read more
LAMBERT, James Drummond
'Horse Sickness' in South Africa. It's [sic] Nature, Causes, Prevention, Symptoms, and Treatment. 1900
£95
Third edition, originally published by order of the Governor of Natal in 1881. No other copy traced. This copy with the author's presentation inscription to the upper wrap and...
Octavo. Original pale blue light card wraps. Loose in the wraps, ink stamp of the RUSI library to the upper wrap, but overall very good. Read more
DIGBY, William.
1857. A Friend in Need. 1887. Friendship forgotten. 1890
£250
First edition. "Deals with the aid Nepal rendered to India during the Mutiny … and the failure of Britain to help the Nepalese Royal Family when they were overthrown and exiled"...
Octavo. Original blue diapered cloth, title gilt to spine, large block of the Nepalese royal standards to the upper board. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other portraits,... Read more
IGGULDEN, H. A.
2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in the Sikkim Expedition of 1888. 1900
£425
Number 4 of the Derbyshire Campaign series. Iggulden served in the Campaign, also at Tirah and in Tibet. Uncommon.
Octavo. Original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine and in black, together with the regimental badge, to the upper board. Frontispiece and a folding map. A little... Read more
MILLAIS, John Guille.
A Breath from the Veldt. 1895
£875
First edition.
Folio (385 × 305 mm). Later red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, red sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout.... Read more
LYON, George Francis.
A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay, 1825
£500
First edition. "[A]ttempt on the Northwest Passage, this one through Hudson Bay. Captain Lyon gives interesting accounts of the Eskimos of the Southampton Islands… also...
Octavo ( 216 × 132 mm) Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title gilt direct to spine, flat bands tolled with rules and drawer-handles, single rules at the... Read more
BARLOW, Roger.
A Brief Summe of Geographie. 1932
£50
First edition. First publication of Barlow's translation, with additional material on navigation, of Enciso's Suma de Geographia, an English attempt to pre-empt the project for a new...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, both boards with gilt block of a galley within elaborate blind panels. Photogravure frontispiece and 2 similar... Read more
WILSON, A. H., Captain.
A British Borderland. Service and Sport in Equatoria. 1913
£500
First edition. "An officer in the King's African Rifles, Wilson mixed military activities with sport. En route to an assignment on the Nile, he bagged his first elephant. Along the...
Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine and to upper board with gilt decorative block, top edge gilt. In the dust jacket. 16 plates, folding map. Light... Read more
BIRD, W.D., Major-General.
A Chapter of Misfortunes. 1923
£200
First edition. "The official history of the campaign in Mesopotamia is long and costly. Those who are interested in the early and perhaps most dramatic part, that is, up to the siege...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title in gilt to the spine and in black to the upper board, decorative panelling in black. 2 folding maps. Spine slightly sunned, cloth... Read more
SHEA, John Gilmary.
A Child's History of the United States. [1872]
£475
First Edition in book form, the work also being issued in parts.
3 volumes, large octavo. Contemporary purple hard-grain half morocco, spines gilt in compartments between raised bands, marbled sides, endpapers and edges.... Read more
EVANS, John.
A Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol, 1824
£120
First Edition. The full-page woodcut on p. 277 shows the old Bristol bridge.
Octavo. Uncut and partly unopened in original paper boards, rebacked to style and relined, original printed spine label laid down. Folding engraved city map as... Read more
RAY, John.
A Collection of Curious Travels & Voyages. 1693
£750
First edition. "Ray was requested by Hans Sloane to revise Staphorst's translation of Rauwolff. Ray made the selections from the works of other travellers and produced the catalogue...
Octavo (189 × 118 mm) Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, spine with red and green morocco labels, flat bands, gilt, small gilt devices to the endpapers.... Read more
TAVERNIER, John Baptiste.
A Collection of Several Relations & Treatises, Singular and Curious, of John Baptista Taverier, Baron of Aubonne. 1680
£4,500
First edition in English, following the French edition of 1679. Issued as a supplement to Tavernier's Six Voyages, this volume contains a lengthy description of Tonkin, the...
Folio (298 × 190 mm). Near contemporary blind-ruled calf, tan morocco label. Folding engraved map, and 7 folding engraved plates. Dry and a little rubbed,... Read more
CHURCHILL, Awnsham & John.
A Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1732
£11,500
Second, enlarged edition. "Compiled by Awnsham and John Churchill, this is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original...
6 volumes, folio (351 × 216 mm). Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, brown morocco labels, spines attractively gilt in compartments, Northern Light Board... Read more
DALRYMPLE, Alexander.
A Collection of Voyages chiefly in the Southern Atlantick Ocean. Published from Original M.S.S. 1775
£8,500
First edition. Important collection of earlier accounts of Pacific voyages. Dalrymple had done much research to promote the "counterpoise" theory of a great southern continent, and...
Quarto (260 × 202 mm) later tan half morocco on nineteenth-century marbled boards, green morocco label. 3 folding engraved coastal profiles or charts. Bound... Read more
MACLEAN, [John], Colonel.
A Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs, 1858
£300
First edition. "This volume, the results of the author's efforts to form a compilation of facts concerning the native races, is regarded as one of the best in the subject … The...
Octavo (202 × 129 mm). Recent half morocco, marbled boards, red morocco spine labels, original plain green paper wraps bound in . 3 folding tables, tables to the... Read more
DUNCAN, Robert F. (ed.)
A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast. 1937
£750
First published edition, limited to 1500. Follows a mimeographed typescript produced for subscribers only in a run perhaps as small as 50 copies. "This outstanding cruising guide...
Quarto. Original double spiral-bound, blue cloth boards, title in red panel to the upper board. Remains of the dust jacket, pictorial upper panel largely complete.... Read more
DUNCAN, Robert F. (ed.)
A Cruising Guide to the New England Coast. 1937
£500
First published edition, limited to 1500. Follows a mimeographed typescript produced for subscribers only in a run perhaps as small as 50 copies. "This outstanding cruising guide...
Quarto. Original double spiral-bound, blue cloth boards, title in silver panel to the upper board. Frontispiece and 25 other plates and charts. Minor shelf-wear, light... Read more
ROGERS, Woodes.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World: 1718
£3,250
First published in 1712, Woodes's journal was an immediate success and is widely considered to be "a buccaneering classic" (Hill). Born in Bristol around 1679, Rogers made an...
Octavo (196 × 118 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label to the spine, bands, double rules to the compartments, double ruled panels to the boards,... Read more
(CUNARD, Nancy.)
A Day in Versailles. [1950]
£275
First English language edition, first impression. Copy belonging to the translator, author Nancy Cunard, with her inscription to the title page "(Translation from the French Edition...
Duodecimo. Original grey wrappers printed in green and brown. Lightly rubbed, bump to tail of spine resulting in a chip and creasing, nick to edge of lower wrapper... 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
FAIRHOLME, Elisabeth & Pamela Powell.
A Dinghy on the London River. 1937
£125
First edition. "A mock-serious account of the adventures and misadventures of Liz and Poo after they had bought a sailing boat for the Thames … their friend George found her,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, maps to the endpapers. Endpapers a little browned, light... Read more
LEWIN, Thomas H.
A fly on the wheel, or how I helped to govern India. 1885
£125
Thomas Herbert Lewin (1839-1916) was a model of the pioneer soldier-administrator working among the tribes of the Lushai and Chittagong Hill Tracts on India's north-eastern...
Octavo, recased in the original red cloth, title gilt to spine, and to the upper board with a large gilt block of "the fly on the wheel." Frontispiece and 3 other... Read more
