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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
(MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich) JEFFREYS, Thomas.
Voyages from Asia to America, for Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. 1761
£8,000
First edition in English of Müller's Nachrichten von Seereisen und zur See gemachten Entdeckungen, published in vol. III, pt I, of Sammlung Russischer Geschichte, 1758, "the...
Quarto (272 × 203 mm). Modern dark blue half morocco by Weeks & Co., marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, raised bands, compartments with double-fillet... Read more
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, Nicolas & Guillaume.
Description de tout l'univers, en plusieurs cartes, 1700
£7,500
First edition under this title, comprising atlases of the four continents already published as individual volumes by Halma, with the addition of new maps of England, Scotland,...
Quarto (220 × 165 mm), in six parts (including Luyt's Tables Geographiques and Bion's L'Usage des Globes as supplements). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt... Read more
SANSON, Nicolas, père & fils.
Die gantze Erd-Kugel, 1679
£7,500
First German edition of Sanson's handsome atlas portatif, translated from the French continental volumes published in 1648, 1652, 1655, and 1657. The collation resembles closely the...
4 parts bound in one, quarto (240 × 186 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece/title page with female figures with the... Read more
SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.
South 1919
£7,500
First edition, new [i.e. second] impression, one month after the first, printed on superior paper stock and so less prone to the heavy browning which tends to mar the first...
Octavo. Original midnight-blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in silver and with large block of the Endurance in silver to the upper board, publisher's device... Read more
BROWNE, Patrick.
The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. 1756
£7,500
First edition, one of only 250 copies according to Sabin. Patrick Browne (c.1720-1790) was an Irish physician and botanist who went to the West Indies in 1737 and again about 1746,...
Folio (357 × 239 mm). Contemporary calf (perhaps Spanish), morocco label gilt lettered in English, spine gilt in compartments, marbled pastedowns, mottled edges.... 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
BANCROFT, Hubert Howe.
The Works. 1886
£7,500
First edition, the complete set of what is still considered by historians to be the most important single source of early Western American history. "Colossal co-operative...
39 vols., octavo. Recent tan morocco, spines gilt in compartments, light and dark brown morocco labels, marbled endpapers, floral roll to boards and all edges 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
(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
NARBROUGH, Sir John (1640-1688) et al.
An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: 1711
£6,750
Second edition, preferred over the first edition "because it has the chart of the western and southern oceans." (Hill) In 1699, Narbrough sailed onboard the Batchelour as part of a...
Octavo (190 ×114 mm) contemporary panelled calf , neatly rebacked, vermilion morocco label to the spine, raised bands. 3 folding maps and 19 engraved plates, 7... Read more
SAVILE, Albany Robert, & Ferdinand Henry Wheeler Milner.
The Anglo-Afghan War of 1878. 1878-81
£6,750
First and only editions, classified "Confidential." Rare, the only other set of these papers that we have been able to trace is that in the India Office Records...
Foolscap quarto (304 × 195 mm) Contemporary half calf on black moiré boards, black morocco label, ruled compartments, edges sprinkled red. 12 linen-backed,... Read more
MEARES, John.
Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. 1790
£6,750
First edition, with the extra plate of the Philippines which Streeter notes as missing in most copies. John Meares (?1756–1809) "was sent out in 1786 from Calcutta, by a group...
Quarto (283 × 230 mm). Lately rebound to style in quarter calf, red morocco label, marbled boards, yellow edges. Frontispiece portrait, 10 maps and 17 plates... 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
BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret.
Photographs of U.S.S.R. 1934
£6,500
First edition, first printing. One of 1,000 numbered copies. This copy is number 23 and one of a small number signed by the photographer. An astounding collection of images and one...
Folio. Unbound sheets in the quarter brown cloth portfolio, buff boards, decoration and titles to upper board in red, red ties. 24 photogravures. Some typical creasing... Read more
(WEBBER, John) WAGNER, Sigmund.
Siebenzehntes Neujahrstuck, herausgegeben von der Künstler-Gesellschaft in Zurich auf das Jahr 1821. 1821
£6,250
First Edition. John Webber was born in London in about 1750, the son of the Swiss sculpter Abraham Wäber. He studied in Berne and Paris, and entered the R.A. Schools in 1775. In...
Small quarto. 13pp. Original printed light card wraps. Housed in half sheep on yellow paper board clamshell box, tan morocco label, spine gilt in compartments.... Read more
FRUNEAU, René.
Collection of six scarce works on navigation, hydrography, meteorology, and astronomy published at Nantes. 1829-33
£6,000
First editions of a group of rather eccentric theoretical papers on a range of matters maritime by an "ancien marin Nantaise", based in his experiences as a ship's captain in the...
Octavo (198 × 124 mm). Contemporary quarter calf, imitation tree calf boards, black morocco label, edges stained yellow. Folding lithographed map and 3 folding... Read more
PURCHAS, Samuel.
Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes 1905–7
£6,000
Limited Edition, one of 100 copies only on handmade paper for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, an exact reprint of the best 1625 edition with modernised orthography, references to...
20 volumes, octavo. Publisher's quarter vellum, spines lettered and decorated gilt, gilt medallions to front covers, blue cloth sides, top edges gilt, others uncut.... Read more
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HAKLYUT, Richard & Samuel Purchas.
The Principle Navigations [together with] Purchas His Pilgrimes. 1903–07
£6,000
A handsomely bound set of voyages and travels. Hakluyt took such patriotic pride in his countrymen's exploits in the fields of travel and adventure that he devoted his life to...
32 volumes, octavo (218 × 140 mm). Mid 20th-century brown half morocco, spine compartments in black and gilt, brown cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges... 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
HAKLUYT, Richard.
Hakluyt's Collection 1809–12
£5,750
Third edition, limited issue, one of 75 large-paper copies on imperial paper. "An accurate reprint of the best folio [edition of 1599–1600] with the addition of those voyages...
5 volumes, large quarto (370 × 235 mm). Publisher's green half morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt in compartments between raised bands, sides with double... 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
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
RAMSAY, David.
The History of the American Revolution. 1789
£5,500
First edition. A superb copy of this, "almost the first and very probably the most accomplished of the many histories of the American Revolution and making of the Federal...
2 volumes, octavo (210 × 124 mm). Contemporary, probably Philadelphia, marbled sheep, red morocco lettering pieces, and black morocco roundel numbering pieces,... Read more
