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STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In Darkest Africa 1890
£750
First edition. Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, contains some of his most celebrated...
2 volumes, octavo, (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary tree calf by Bickers, red and black morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt arabesque panels to the... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In Darkest Africa 1890
£900
First edition, the regular trade issue. Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, contains...
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 132 mm). Contemporary tree calf , red and green morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt floral rolled panel to the boards with... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through the Dark Continent. 1878
£750
First US Edition in the publisher's de luxe binding. Account of Stanley's controversial Trans-African Expedition of 1874-7. Stanley finally dispelled Livingstone's notion that the...
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher's brown half morocco on marbled boards, titles gilt to spines which are gilt in compartments, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers.... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through the Dark Continent. 1878
£750
First edition. Account of Stanley's controversial Trans-African Expedition of 1874-7. Stanley finally dispelled Livingstone's notion that the "Lualaba was the source of the Nile and...
2 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary tree calf, red and black morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt panels to the boards, edges and endpapers... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Baghdad Sketches. 1937
£125
First UK edition, expanded from the Baghdad Times edition of 1932 and with the addition of a selection of the author's superb photographs. Series of sketches intended "to give a...
Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, title gilt to the spine, "signature" gilt to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 50 other plates from Stark's... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Perseus in the Wind. 1948
£200
First edition, first impression. With a one page autograph letter signed by the author tipped-in to the front pastedown. It is dated November 1948 and thanks the recipients for a...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
STARK, Freya.
Riding to the Tigris. 1959
£200
First edition, first impression. Inserted is a double-sided autograph letter signed by the author and dated November 1977 from Treviso which mentions the approaching publication of...
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Top stain faded. An excellent copy in the lightly... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Rome on the Euphrates. The Story of a Frontier. 1966
£200
First edition, first impression. Inserted are a postcard and a photographic Christmas card written by the author to Barnet Pavitt, as well as a note from the latter presenting them...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Small cataloguing note tipped-in on... 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
STEINBECK, John.
A Russian Journal 1948
£9,750
First edition, first printing. An astonishing presentation copy to Nathaniel Benchley inscribed by Steinbeck on three full pages, "Well now, Capa and I went to Russia, a big country...
Large octavo. Original yellow/grey/tan cloth backed blue boards, titles to upper board and spine in blue, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent... Read more
STERN, Henry A.
The Captive Missionary: [1868]
£650
First edition. One of the key accounts of the events which ld to the Abyssinian Expedition. Stern - "an arrogant bigot" (ODNB) - was treated particularly harshly. "The detention of...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, entwined in shackles, blind panels to the boards, large gilt device of an Abyssinian warrior to the upper board.... Read more
[STERNE, Laurence]
A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy. 1780
£65
A lovely copy of Sterne's comedic travelogue which was first published in 1768.
Small octavo (167 × 98 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, centre tool to spine in compartments with gilt rules, roll to boards, cream endpapers.... Read more
STEVENS, Lieutenant-Colonel G.R.
History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles). 1952
£250
First Edition. "… sustains the standards set by the two preceding volumes. The story of all five WWII Bns is told in detail (1st Bn with Paiforce and in North Africa, Italy and...
Quarto. Original rifle green cloth, banded with red, title gilt to spine, Regimental crest gilt to upper board, in plain dust jacket in original card mailing-case.... Read more
(STEVENSON, Robert Louis) OSBOURNE, Lloyd.
A Letter to Mr. Stevenson's Friends. 1894
£225
First edition. Account of Stevenson's death and funeral written by his stepson, who had collaborated with RLS on The Wrong Box, The Ebb-tide and The Wrecker. Uncommon, COPAC lists...
Duodecimo (180 × 110 mm) Wire-stiched in the original printed wraps. Housed in quarter red morocco on red linen slip-case, title gilt to the spine, in matching... Read more
STEWART, George.
The White Armies of Russia. 1933
£300
First edition. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper; "To Sir Richard O'Connor, the Adjutant General of the British Army with high regard, George Stewart." A...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, in price-clipped dust jacket. 32 plates, 4 folding maps, and 12 sketch maps to the text, 1 full page map, the rest to... Read more
STINE, J.H.
History of the Army of Potomac. [1906]
£175
Second Edition. This copy inscribed on the verso of the portrait, "With the Compliments of the Author to a personal friend, Mr. Robert Furlong, Sacramento, Ca. Very sincerely yours,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind decoration to the boards. Half-tone portrait frontispiece and 68 other half-tone portraits. Light... Read more
STONE, Herbert L. & Alfred F. Loomis.
Millions for Defense. 1934
£235
First edition, limited to 950 copies, this an out of series copy. Uncommon in the jacket. "A well-illustrated history of the 14 defences of the Cup, 1870-1930 … The authors,...
Quarto. Original blue buckram, title in gilt and pennants in colour to the upper board. With the glassine jacket. Coloured frontispiece and numerous collotype... Read more
[STORER, James Sargant]
The Antiquarian Itinerary, comprising specimens of Architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; 1815-18
£475
First edition. Storer "devoted himself to the production of works on topography and architecture, the plates in which, drawn and engraved by himself on a small scale, were...
7 volumes, small octavo (157 × 100 mm). Contemporary straight-grained morocco, titles and elaborate decoration to spines, raised bands, roll to boards, dark brown... Read more
STRAND, Paul.
Tir A'hurain. Outer Hebrides. 1962
£650
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Endpapers and margins of contents... Read more
STRANGE, T. Bland, General.
Gunner Jingo's Jubilee. An Autobiography. 1896
£250
Third edition, first published 1893. Dismissed by Sorsky as "supposedly an autobiography." Strange was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1851 and was posted to Gibraltar and...
Octavo. Original grey cloth, title in blue to the spine, and to the upper board with a Union flag in colours. Frontispiece and 13 other plates, 4 maps, one folding, 3... Read more
STUMM, Hugo.
Chiwa. 1874
£750
First edition in French, originally published in Berlin the previous year. Stumm, a lieutenant in the Westphalian Hussars, was attached to the Headquarters of Kaufman's Russian...
Octavo (241 × 152 mm) contemporary black cloth with black leather label. 2 folding coloured maps, 3 coloured plans. Slightly rubbed and soiled, foxing and... Read more
(SUDAN)
Report on the Egyptian Provinces of the Sudan, Red Sea, and Equator. 1884
£1,500
First thus, this edition revised from that of the previous year, and expanded by some 70 pages. Uncommon: print run of 1,000 copies and just two copies of this revision listed on...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to upper board. Large folding map at the rear. Very slightly rubbed and soiled, the map a little awkwardly folded, but overall... Read more
(SUEZ CANAL) LYNCH, Thomas Kerr.
A Visit to the Suez Canal. 1866
£975
First edition. Uncommon, only 6 copies on COPAC, OCLC adding just 4, only two of these, including the Library of Congress, in America. Lynch travelled with his brother Henry Blosse...
Octavo, original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, panelling in blind to both boards. Tinted lithographic half-title and 9 other... Read more
(SUEZ CANAL) VETCH, James.
Inquiry into the Means of Establishing a Ship Navigation between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. 1843
£650
First edition. Uncommon, this copy inscribed "from the Author" to the Institute of Civil Engineers on the title page. Vetch was a Royal Engineers officer who served in the Peninsular...
Octavo, original green diagonal combed cloth, title gilt to the upper board. In an oatmeal cloth drop-back box, leather label to the spine. Folding map at the rear,... Read more
SWINBURNE, Henry.
Travels in the Two Sicilies … in the years 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. 1783-5
£3,000
First edition. Scion of an old Catholic family, Swinburne was educated "at the monastic seminary at Lacelle, France, the University of Paris, Bordeaux, and finally the Royal Academy...
2 volumes, quarto (294 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, rebacked with the original spines laid down, title direct to the spines, ruled... Read more
