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TROUGHTON, Thomas.
Barbarian Cruelty; 1751
£1,650
Third edition of the main text, first published in the same year, first edition of the supplement which contains the accounts of four of Troughton's fellow captives. "A scarce...
Octavo (171 × 102 mm) Recent sprinkled half calf on marbled boards to style, red morocco label, raised bands with gilt rules, small floral tools to the... Read more
TULLOCH, Alexander Bruce, Major-General.
Recollections of Forty Years' Service. 1903
£100
First edition. "Active service from the Crimean War [after which he was involved in the inquiry into the Commissariat Department] to the expedition to Egypt, 1882" (Bruce) An...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, dark blue surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed, spine relined, light toning, a very good copy. Read more
TULLOCH, Alexander Murray.
Statistical Reports on the Sickness, Mortality, & Invaliding among Her Majesty's Troops 1841
£1,000
First Edition. Uncommon, five copies only on COPAC, three of which appear to be in BL, OCLC lists just one copy in the NY Academy of Medicine. Tulloch's work here represents the...
Fo. (327 × 205 mm). Numerous tables, five of them folding. Ex-Royal College of Surgeons' Library, ink-stamp and cancellation to title page only, light browning... Read more
TURNER, Samuel.
An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet; 1800
£3,250
First edition of "the first eye-witness report on Tibet and Bhutan to be published in English," and which remained the only account of those countries available to English readers...
Quarto (290 × 232 mm) Contemporary diced Russia, title gilt to the spine, single fillet gilt panel to the boards framing a foliate roll in blind, single line... Read more
(TUTANKHAMUN.)
Treasure of Tutankhamun. 1972
£275
First edition, first impression of the companion book to the blockbuster Tutankuhman exhibition that began at the British Museum in 1972 and was shown around the world until 1979.
Quarto. Original red morocco, titles to spine, double line ruling to boards, and all edges gilt, white silk endpapers. In a red cloth slipcase. 16 colour plates and... Read more
ULMANN, Doris.
The Appalachian Photographs. 1971
£100
First Edition First Impression. Ulmann's monumental record of life in the Appalachians first published during the Depression has ever since remained one of those essential...
Quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to upper board and spine in blue, patterned endpapers. With the photographic dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout. A... Read more
ULMANN, Doris, & Julia Peterkin.
Roll, Jordan, Roll. 1933
£1,250
First Edition, First Printing, Trade Issue. There was a special paper issue of an intended 350 copies on better paper, with 90 images and an extra signed proof gravure. Plainly far...
Octavo. Original, first issue, coarse blue cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained black, others untrimmed. With the photographic dust jacket. With 70 full page... Read more
(URQUHART, Beauchamp Colclough, Capt.)
In Memoriam Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart of Meldrum, 1898
£375
First edition. Scarce early memorial volume: COPAC locates the BL, NLS, Durham and Aberdeen copies only; no copies listed on RLIN or OCLC. Urquhart had served in Egypt 1882, and on...
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title in gilt to the upper board, top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece and 5 other plates. Free endpapers browned, as usual,... Read more
VALENTIA, George Annesley, Viscount.
Voyages and Travels 1809
£3,500
First edition, one of 50 large paper copies. "This work contains much information of a novel and important kind... It was read through the press by Mr. Salt, who was Secretary and...
3 volumes, quarto (300 × 238 mm) original boards with near contemporary sheep reback, red morocco labels to the spines. Half-titles, 3 engraved vignette... Read more
VAN GRUISEN, Jun., N. L.
A Holiday in Iceland. 1879
£375
First Edition. Uncommon, six copies only on COPAC. Attractively and innovatively produced private publication recording a pleasure trip to Iceland undetaken on board the Danish mail...
Octavo. Mounted original albumen print frontispiece and four other similar plates. Later attractive Yacht Library bookplate of M. Botterill's "Molly", to the front... Read more
VANCOUVER, Captain George.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; 1798
£47,500
First edition. "Vancouver, who had served on Captain Cook's second and third voyages, was made commander of a grand-scale expedition… This voyage became one of the most...
3 quarto text volumes (285 × 234 mm) and folio atlas (575 × 455 mm). Text volumes in contemporary sprinkled calf, double black morocco lettering-pieces to... Read more
VANCOUVER, Captain George.
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World; In which the Coast of North-West America has been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed, 1801
£9,500
First octavo edition. "This voyage became one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge" (Hill). George Vancouver (1758-1798) had accompanied Cook...
7 volumes, 6 octavo text volumes (220 × 138 mm) and quarto atlas of plates and maps (284 × 235 mm). Early twentieth-century red half morocco on matching... Read more
VAUGHAN, Sir John, General.
A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Pushtu Language, 1901
£250
Second edition, first published in two parts in Calcutta, 1854 for the grammar, and 1855 for the vocabulary, but OCLC records just two complete copies of that issue worldwide, SOAS...
Octavo. Original mustard sand-grain cloth, lettered in black on the spine, yellow surface-paper endpapers. A little rubbed and soiled, hinges repaired, light toning,... Read more
VENNING, Mary Anne.
A Geographical Present; 1817
£575
Uncommon first edition of this highly attractive juvenile geography. "Like her early-nineteenth-century contemporary Priscilla Wakefield, Venning seems to have been a woman who...
Duodecimo (147 × 88 mm). Modern red morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, floral devices within single fillet panels to the compartments, gilt panels with... Read more
VERESHCHAGIN, Vasilii Vasilevich.
Turkestan', ztiudy s' natury. 1874
£9,500
First edition. Extremely uncommon pictorial record of the khanates of central Asia by the recognised master of the Russian Realist school, who recorded the people, the architecture,...
Folio (470 × 325 mm). Modern half calf on marbled boards to style, black morocco title label to spine. Plates mounted on guards. Title page in Russian, German... Read more
VERNE, Jules.
The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century. 1881
£675
First English language edition, first impression, and a very beautifully bound copy.
Octavo (214 × 135 mm). Contemporary deep purple calf, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, red morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. Engraved maps and... Read more
VERNEY, Margaret M.
Sir Henry Stewart Verney, K.C.I.E. 1923
£45
First edition. This copy inscribed, "To Miss Edith Langridge with love from Hermione Cunningham, March 20, 1925." Cunningham went to India in 1866 and became Government Advocate and...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other portraits. a little rubbed, the spine lettering a touch faded, but overall... Read more
(VIETNAM) MANNING, Robert, & Michael Janeway (eds.)
Who we are. 1969
£50
First Edition. Important collection of essays from the influential literary magazine. Contributions from George McGovern, Denis Brogan, Denis Warner, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Stone et al.
Octavo. Original red boards in dust jacket. Very good in slightly rubbed, unclipped jacket. Read more
VILLIERS, Alan.
Sons of Sindbad. 1940
£225
First edition, first impression. An extremely desirable copy of what is probably Villiers's finest book. A record of "A journey of 10,000 odd miles along the Arabian and African...
Large octavo. Original blue boards, title gilt to the spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 35 other plates, maps in red and black to the free endpapers. Neat... Read more
VINCENTI, J. P.
Monographia. El Sepulcro de Moore. 1857
£1,500
First edition, uncommon, just two copies - BL and Biblioteca Nacional de España - on OCLC and an 1890 reprint at BNE. Attractive souvenir with dual language text, a portrait,...
Landscape octavo. Original green cloth, blind panelling to both boards, gilt device of Moore's tomb to the upper board, marbled endpapers. 5 single-tint lithographs,... 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
WADDELL, L. Au[gu]stine.
Lhasa and its Mysteries. 1905
£500
First Edition. "The author, Army Medical Service, describes the march of the British force to Lhasa of 1903-04, and the religion of Tibet." (Yakushi) Waddell had served extensively...
Octavo. Contemporary diced half calf on marbled boards, gilt, neat black buckram replacement label. Colour frontispiece and 2 other colour plates, 111 half-tone... Read more
WADDELL, L. Austine.
The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism. 1958
£75
Second edition revised, originally published in 1895.
Octavo. Original light blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in green. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. Small ownership... Read more
WALE, H.J.
Sword and Surplice; 1880
£350
First edition. "Service from 1845 in the Hussars in India and the Crimean War" (Bruce). A really very uncommon memoir, OCLC listing just 8 copies worldwide - BL, London Library,...
Octavo. Contemporary half calf, purple sand-grain cloth boards, black morocco label, edges and endpapers marbled. Frontispiece. A very nice copy. Read more
WALKER, H. S.
Operations in Southern Rhodesia, 1896. 1898
£1,500
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, no other copy traced, the BL holds only a set of the maps. This copy has a small paper label completed by hand showing that it was...
Octavo. Original dark blue cloth-backed printed boards. 116pp. 7 maps and battle-plans, 4 of them folding. Externally slightly rubbed and soiled, endpapers a touch... Read more
