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MCKAY, Claude.
A Long Way From Home. 1937
£450
First edition, first printing, in the second issue green cloth binding. An autobiographical work by one of the most important intellectuals associated with the Harlem Renaissance....
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in yellow. With the dust jacket. Contents a little toned, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with chips from... Read more
(DUTCH EAST INDIES)
A Manual of Netherlands India. (Dutch East Indies). I.D. 1209. 1918
£125
First edition. As is always the case with these surveys issued by the Naval Intelligence Division "for official use only," this work contains an excellent, concise account of the...
Octavo. Original Navy blue cloth, title gilt to spine, blind panels to the boards. 5 maps, 4 full-page to the text, folding general map at the rear. Spine slightly... Read more
STEEL, John Philip.
A Memoir of Colonel James Steel C.B., written and printed by his Son … 1909
£350
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, just four copies on OCLC: BL, London Library, and universities of Minnesota and Arizona. Substantial account of service in the Java...
Octavo. Original blue diced cloth, leather title label to the spine. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other plates, 3 plans, one full-page facsimile, facsimile signature to... Read more
RAWLINSON, George.
A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. 1898
£100
First edition. Life of the noted Assyriologist, philologist and diplomat. Rawlinson also had a distinguished military career in Persia in the 1830's and during the First Afghan War...
Octavo. Original plum diapered cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to the boards. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates, full-page map. Cloth... Read more
MONTAGU, Victor Alexander, Rear-Admiral, The Honourable.
A Middy's Recollections 1853-1860. 1900
£75
Originally published 1898. Montagu served in the Crimea and the Second China War before service with the Naval Brigade of HMS Pearl in India.
Octavo, original red cloth, title in black to upper board and spine. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and one other similar portrait, 6 half-tone plates. A little... Read more
PINKERTON, John.
A Modern Atlas, from the latest and best authorities, 1815
£8,750
The Edinburgh writer John Pinkerton (1758–1826) was a contentious figure. His friendships with eminent men such as Thomas Percy, Horace Walpole, Edward Gibbon, and Sir Walter...
Atlas folio (614 × 434 mm). Contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered to style. With 60 hand-coloured double-page maps on 61 sheets, engraved by L. Hebert.... Read more
CARTER, George.
A Narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, 1791
£1,500
First edition. Unusual eighteenth-century account of the Cape, decidedly uncommon complete. "The author met John Hynes, one of the survivors of the Grosvenor, on a voyage to India,...
Octavo (209 × 123 mm). Contemporary streaked calf, rebacked, dark tan label, rolled gilt bands, attractive roundels to the compartments, milled rolled panel to... Read more
MUNRO, Innes.
A Narrative of the Military Operations, on the Coromandel Coast, 1789
£1,250
First edition. Munro "was appointed on 29 Dec. 1777 to a lieutenancy in the 73rd, afterwards 71st, highlanders, then raised by Lord Macleod. As lieutenant and captain in the first...
Quarto (265 × 207 mm). Contemporary lightly sprinkled calf, red morocco label to spine, edges stained yellow. Engraved vignette to half-title, 9 folding maps and... Read more
BLIGH, Lieutenant William.
A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; 1790
£12,500
First edition of Bligh's personal account of "one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history", published two years before his full official version of the...
Quarto (288 × 230 mm) Later speckled calf, black morocco labels, panel of French fillet gilt to the boards, spine gilt in compartments with repeated wavy line... Read more
COOPER KEY, Astley.
A Narrative of the Recovery of H.M.S. Gorgon, 1847
£250
First edition. Gorgon was part of the Royal Naval squadron commanded by Commander John Purvis anchored in the River Plate during the Uruguayan Civil War, to protect "British...
Octavo (214 × 132 mm) Contemporary navy blue straight-grained morocco, title gilt to the spine, flat bands, compartments ornately gilt, blind panels to the... Read more
PATERSON, Daniel.
A New and Accurate Description of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales. 1792
£195
First published 1771, and by the time this edition was issued Paterson had withdrawn from the publication. "Paterson made no significant innovations in the field, relying on the...
Octavo. (192 × 126mm). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine which is gilt in compartments. Double-page map as frontispiece.... Read more
KELLY, Christopher.
A new and complete system of Universal Geography; 1815–17
£1,800
First Edition. The firm of Thomas Kelly, famous for Kelly's Directory, was founded in 1799 and carried on the Paternoster Row tradition of publishing this and similar compendia of...
2 volumes, quarto (261 × 213 mm). Handsomely bound in contemporary tree calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, wide raised bands gilt on stained black grounds,... Read more
MAGALHÃES,Gabriel de.
A New History of China, 1688
£9,500
First edition in English, first published in Paris in the same year, here translated by John Ogilby. An excellent association copy with the armourial bookplate of George, Lord...
Octavo (184 × 108 mm) Contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down, tan morocco label, spine gilt in compartments, double-ruled panel... Read more
(COOK, James) ANDERSON, George William.
A New, Authentic, and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, [1784–6]
£6,750
First edition of this "omnibus" compilation of Cook together with Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Printed in double column in "large new Types, constructed on...
2 volumes, folio (395 × 260 mm). Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum corners, somewhat worn and with some stripping of the marble from the boards,... Read more
(COOK, James) ANDERSON, George William.
A New, Authentic, and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, 1790
£3,750
First large octavo edition of this omnibus compilation of Cook, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Originally published in folio (1784-6) in 80 sixpenny parts with...
6 volumes, octavo (212 × 122 mm) contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked, tan and green morocco labels. 129 engraved plates and maps, 65 of them folding.... Read more
(LEACHMAN) BRAY, Norman Napier Evelyn, Major.
A Paladin of Arabia. The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G.E. Leachman, 1936
£495
First edition. Seen by some truly to have been what Lawrence aspired to be, Leachman lived an extraordinary life as a soldier, explorer and Arabist surviving the South African War...
Octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, publisher's logo gilt to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 15 other... Read more
[LAWRENCE, James Henry]
A Picture of Verdun, or the English detained in France; 1810
£400
First edition. In 1803 Lawrence, happening to be in France with his father, was arrested, along with the other English residents and tourists, and detained for several years at...
2 volumes, 12mo. Contemporary tree calf, black morocco labels, smooth spines gilt in compartments. Engraved bookplates of Susan Mary Anne Wharton. Front joint of vol.... 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
DANIELL, Thomas & William.
A Picturesque Voyage to India; by the way of China. 1810
£10,000
First edition. Originally issued in ten parts, "the aquatints of India by Thomas and William Daniell have been continuously popular ever since their publication between 1795 and 1810...
Folio (348 × 250 mm). Nineteenth-century half calf on marbled boards, flat spine elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers, neatly rebacked... Read more
PHILBY, H. St. J. B.
A Pilgrim in Arabia. 1943
£625
Limited edition of 350 copies, this number 341. A classic account of the Hajj in 1931, and of visits to Medina, Riyadh and Persia, by the veteran British arabist. "Few would quarrel...
Quarto, original quarter tan morocco on cream linen boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Portrait frontispiece. Two small wormholes to... Read more
OGILVY, James S.
A Pilgrimage in Surrey. 1914
£150
First edition, first impression. A charmingly illustrated travelogue exploring the history, landscape, and architecture of Surrey.
2 volumes, quarto. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spines and upper boards gilt. 2 colour frontispieces and 90 colour plates with printed... Read more
BRYANT, W. C., & S. H. Gay.
A Popular History of The United States, 1878–81
£300
4 volumes, large octavo. Contemporary half brown morocco, lettering and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, cloth boards, marbled boards, all edges gilt. Illustrated throughout...
4 volumes, large octavo. Contemporary half brown morocco, lettering and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, cloth boards, marbled boards, all edges gilt.... Read more
(NELSON) ERSKINE, Isabella, Countess of Glencairn.
A Representation of the Severity, Injustice, and Impolicy directed to a Case sanctioned by the High Authority of the Late Lord Nelson, 1812
£1,500
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon, COPAC has BL, NLS and Manchester only, OCLC lists just the University of Missouri, no copies recorded at auction in the last thirty years....
Octavo. (213 × 128mm). Modern quarter vellum on forest green linen boards, title gilt to spine, plain and dog-tooth rolled rules to the edges of the vellum on... Read more
FORTUNE, Robert.
A Residence among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea. 1857
£750
First edition. The son of a Scottish hedger, Fortune began his botanical apprenticeship in the gardens of the local gentry. He then "entered the Edinburgh Botanical Garden, and...
Octavo. Original drab pimple-grained cloth, titled in gilt on the spine, panels in blind to the boards, chestnut surface-paper endpapers. Frontispiece and 4 other... Read more
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APPLEYARD, Frederick Ernest.
A Resumé of Thirty-four Years' Army Service [together with;] Incidents and Occurrences during my Thirty-four Years' Service. [c.1905]
£825
First and only editions. Rare, privately-printed memoirs of service, COPAC has just BL and Cambridge for the first item, Oxford, Cambridge and BL for the second. Account of...
2 volumes, octavo, original purple cloth, title gilt to upper boards of both and spine of the second-named. Portrait frontispiece to each. Cloth slightly rubbed and... Read more
