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SHADBOLT, Sydney H.
The Afghan Campaign of 1878-1880, 1882
£2,250
First edition, an extremely handsome publication and indispensable work of reference, containing a general history of the campaign and a series of detailed biographical accounts of...
2 volumes quarto. Neatly recased in the original green cloth, title gilt to spines and under boards, all edges gilt, brown surface-paper endpapers Mounted Woodburytype... Read more
DE COSSON, Emilius Albert.
The Cradle of the Blue Nile. A Visit to the Court of King John of Ethiopia. 1877
£2,250
First edition. "In 1873 Major de Cosson, after wintering in Egypt, started for Suakin with his brother, the intention of the travellers being to seek for sport in the country...
2 volumes bound as one, octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt panelling to upper board, all edges gilt. Tinted engraved frontispiece to each, and 6... Read more
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The King of Oude, his Brother, and Attendants. [1840]
£2,250
First and only edition. Extremely uncommon: BL copy only on COPAC and OCLC; not in Abbey. The plates, which are signed in the stone "HJ", were the work of "a lady, then an invalid"...
Small octavo (179 × 142 mm) Original red cloth, elaborate panel in blind, title in gilt to upper board, neatly rebacked in burgundy morocco with title... Read more
[IRONSIDE, Gilbert]
The Rudiments of War: 1777
£2,250
First Edition. Uncommon, ESTC traces only three copies in America. The attribution is drawn from the Asiatic Annual Register, vol. IV, 1802, pp. 43-44. Ironside, a colonel in the...
Octavo (208 × 128 mm). Modern half calf on marbled boards, to style, red morocco label to the spine. Half-title present. P.297 is a folding table, errata leaf on... Read more
CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace.
The Tomb of Tut·Ankh·Amen 1923–27–33
£2,250
First editions, first impressions in original cloth of a set only rarely found complete thus. A key text of Egyptology, Carter's account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen,...
3 volumes octavo. Original sand cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board, gilt scarab on black on-lay to the upper boards, green patterned endpapers. Profusely... Read more
CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace.
The Tomb of Tut·Ankh·Amen 1923–27–33
£2,250
First editions, first impressions in original cloth of a set only rarely found complete thus. A key text of Egyptology, Carter's account of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen,...
3 volumes octavo. Original sand cloth, titles gilt to spine and upper board, gilt scarab on black on-lay to the upper boards, green patterned endpapers. Profusely... Read more
(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M.
Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1936
£2,250
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of...
2 volumes, large octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in tan morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, rules to turn-ins,... Read more
PALLME, Ignatius.
Travels in Kordofan: 1844
£2,250
First edition in English, first published in German the previous year. Important and uncommon study of the region. Austrian businessman Ignatius Pallme explored Kordofan province,...
Octavo. Original green cloth with embossed panelling to spine and both boards, title gilt to spine, cream surface-paper endpapers. Contemporary armorial bookplate of... Read more
LICHTENSTEIN, Henry [Martin Hinrich Karl]
Travels in Southern Africa, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806. 1812-5
£2,250
First Edition in English, first published in German 1811-2. "In the early part of the year 1802, General Janssens was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony, which had been taken over...
Quarto (267 × 213 mm) Modern green full calf, red and tan labels to the spines, spines gilt in compartments, foliate and floral tools, gilt panelling to the... Read more
ANSON, George.
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. ... 1749
£2,200
Large paper copy, first published the previous year. Anson was in command of a squadron sent to plunder Spanish trading territories on the Pacific coast of South America during the...
Quarto (292 × 225 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, double gilt rules, raised bands, red sprinkled edges. 42 engraved plates, plans, charts and... Read more
O’REILLY, Bernard.
Greenland, 1818
£2,100
First edition, with uncoloured aquatint plates including several of Arctic birds and animals. O'Reilly was ship's doctor on the Thomas, but was heavily criticized for plagiarizing...
Quarto (263 × 208 mm). Skilfully rebound to style in full mottled calf, green label, spine gilt in compartments between raised bands. Frontispiece map, 2 folding... Read more
PURCHAS, Samuel.
Purchas his pilgrimage, 1617
£2,100
Third edition of Purchas's first published compilation of travel literature, first published in 1613. By this time Purchas had already become acquainted with Richard Hakluyt, his...
Small folio (287 × 188 mm) in sixes. Later, probably 18th-century reversed calf, covers with gilt and blind rules, skilfully rebacked with original spine laid... Read more
MACGREGOR, C. M.; John Moubray Trotter, et al.
Central Asia. 1995
£2,000
Facsimile reprint of MacGregor's encyclopaedic intelligence resource on the region, originally published "confidentially" in Calcutta between 1871–75. The seven parts cover the...
7 parts in 10 sections, large octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spines. Very good. Read more
POWELL-COTTON, Percy Horace Gordon.
In Unknown Africa. 1904
£2,000
First edition. "Major Powell-Cotton has rendered signal services to the zoological collections of Great Britain... He had heard that the writer of this review had brought home from...
Octavo. Two coloured plates and numerous illustrations, many full-page and largely from the author's excellent photographs, to the text, two folding maps. Free... Read more
RICH, Claudius James.
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; 1836
£2,000
First edition. An important study, which "long remained valuable, as the first nineteenth-century geographical and archaeological account of the region and also as an interesting...
2 volumes octavo (222 × 134 mm) Later russia, red and green labels to the spine, small gilt floral devices to the compartments, double gilt fillet panels to the... Read more
HUNT, John .
The Ascent of Everest. 1953
£2,000
First edition, first impression. This copy signed on the front free endpaper by Hunt and Hillary, together with 7 other members of the team; George Lowe, who had attempted Cho Oyu...
Octavo. Original mid-blue cloth matching blue top-stain, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 7 other coloured plates, 48 black and... Read more
MILES, William.
The Shajrat ul Atrak, or Genealogical Tree of the Turks and Tatars; 1838
£2,000
First edition. Uncommon, OCLC shows just eight copies in North America. The "chief value … is its details of Ghengis Khan and his successors" (ODNB). Miles served with the 1st...
Octavo (215 × 113 mm). Contemporary black morocco, flat spine, title gilt direct to spine which is gilt in compartments, gilt panels to the boards, corner-pieces... 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
ALEXANDER, James Edward.
Travels from India to England; 1827
£2,000
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank "with the Author's respectful compliments", the recipient's name effectively erased. Educated at Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
Quarto (263 × 203 mm). Recent calf to style, green morocco label, flat bands with gilt foliate roll, lozenge devices gilt to the compartments, double gilt fillet... Read more
BRUCE, James.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile 1805
£2,000
Second edition. "Few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller" (DNB). Bruce arrived in...
7 volumes, octavo, and plate volume, quarto. Text volumes uniformly bound in early 20th-century brown half calf by Bayntuns of Bath, spines lettered gilt and with gilt... Read more
SHORE, Stephen.
Uncommon Places. Photographs. 1982
£2,000
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For Ruth from Stephen 12/10/82". Ruth Ansel was the co-art director of Harper's Bazaar and the art director...
Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board in mauve. With the dust jacket. 49 plates from photographs. An excellent copy in the dust jacket... Read more
NORBURY, Henry F[rederick], Fleet-Surgeon.
The Naval Brigade in South Africa during the Years 1877-78-79. 1880
£1,950
First edition. Uncommon, COPAC has just the BL, NLS and Cambridge copies, OCLC shows twelve copies only. Norbury was Principal Medical Officer of General Sir Charles Pearson's Column...
Octavo. Original Navy blue cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt block of a blue-jacket on shore duty to the upper board within panelling in black, blind panels to the... Read more
KENT, Rockwell.
Voyaging Southward from The Strait of Magellan. 1926
£1,925
Third printing. First published in 1924. Inscribed in pencil on the dedication page to his travelling companion "To my friend Mat Horwitt this "voyage" (so far the only one we've...
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy... Read more
HAGGARD, H. Rider.
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; 1882
£1,875
First edition, one of just 750 copies. On his return to Britain following the outbreak of the First Anglo-Boer War, Haggard had been unable to find a publisher willing to take on his...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, gilt roundel to the upper board, triple black rule at head and tail of upper board and across spine, continuing... Read more
PHILBY, H. St John.
Sheba's Daughters. 1939
£1,875
First Edition. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To G.L. Bates with the author's thanks and good wishes. H.St.J.B. Philby, 1/5/39."...
Large octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with Athena's owl. Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear. Boards severely... Read more
