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YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
Everest: The Challenge. 1936
£275
First edition, first impression. An intriguing character, Younghusband (1863–1942) was an explorer and imperialist whose later years were spent promoting various mystical...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, map endpapers, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates, 3 maps. Faint spotting to front... Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.
India and Tibet. 1910
£375
Second impression in the same month as the first. An intriguing character, protégé of Lord Curzon, soldier, explorer, and Forward Policy exponent of the Great Game, whose...
Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt. top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece of the Dalai Lama and 25 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps at the rear. Light browning... Read more
YOUNGHUSBAND, G. J.
Indian Frontier Warfare. 1898
£150
First edition. Far from common analysis of Indian frontier warfare "as it is exemplified by campaigns and expeditions which have taken place in the last twenty years." Younghusband...
Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, black surface-paper endpapers. 7 maps, one of them coloured, 5 of them folding, 2 of these in an... Read more
YEATS-BROWN, F[rancis] C.C., Major.
The Star and Crescent. Being the Story of The 17th Cavalry from 1858 to 1922. c.1927
£750
First edition. The book was Yeats-Brown's own personal project, "and the number of copies printed probably did not exceed 100 (each impressed with a serial number)." (Perkins) This...
Large octavo (245 × 152 mm). Original white pigskin backed blue cloth boards, title and regimental crest gilt to the upper board, pale green "moiré" printed... Read more
[WYNDHAM, Henry Penruddocke.]
Gentleman's Tour Through Monmouthshire and Wales in the Months of June and July, 1774. 1775
£250
First edition.
Octavo (182 × 110 mm). Contemporary brown calf, tan morocco label to spine. Engraved frontispiece. Rubbed at extremities, spine faded, faint dampstain to corners... Read more
WYLLY, H.C., Colonel.
From the Black Mountain to Waziristan. 1912
£250
First edition. "This book is the outcome of my own experience of the want of something of the kind in the early autumn of 1897, when the Second Battalion of my old Corps, the...
Octavo. Original sand cloth, lettered in black to the spine and in red to the upper board, mulberry edge-stain. Recased, spine relined, new endpapers. 8 folding maps... Read more
WRIGHT, M. J.
Three years in Cachar with a short account of the Manipur Massacre. [1895]
£75
First edition. Account of the life of a female missionary in Assam, including a brief narrative of the events of 1890-91 when a punitive expedition was sent to Manipur in response to...
Octavo, original aqua cloth, title gilt to spine and in gilt and black to the upper board. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, title-page vignette and numerous... Read more
WORTLEY, Lady Emmeline Stuart.
Travels in the United States, etc. 1851
£750
First Edition. A prolific poet, friend of Mary Shelley, Richard Monckton Milnes, and Tennyson, and prodigious traveller. Following the death of her husband and youngest son in 1844...
3 volumes, octavo. Some browning, particularly to the title pages, small ink stamps of the NSW Parliamentary Library to the title pages, but in all other respects a... Read more
WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. 1845
£450
Second Edition. Nephew of the poet, Wordsworth was educated at Harrow and Trinity, Cambridge where he excelled in classics: in 1830 "he won the first chancellor's medal for classical...
Quarto. (270 × 180mm). Handsome contemporary full green morocco binding, gilt panel of double fillets to the boards enclosing elaborate foliate corner-pieces... Read more
WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. 1840
£250
Second edition.
Octavo (240 × 160 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, green floral patterned cloth sides, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.... Read more
WOOLLEY, Chester Leonard. (Edited)
From Kastamuni to Kedos. 1921
£150
First edition. An uncommon book. With the outbreak of the First World War, Woolley (an archaeologist, who once worked with T. E. Lawrence as his assistant) served as an intelligence...
Large octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, 14 plates, 2 in colour, 12 illustrations to text, 2 maps. Plate indicated to... Read more
WOOLEY, C. Leonard & LAWRENCE, T.E.
The Wilderness of Zin. 1936
£200
First American Edition.
Quarto. Folding plan and 40 plates, plans and diagrams to the text. Endpapers slightly browned, particularly at the gutter through paste-action, but overall very... Read more
WOODYATT (Maj.-Gen. Nigel G.) & (Brig. C. N.) BARCLAY (eds.)
The Regimental History of The 3rd Queen Alexandria's Own Gurkha Rifles from April 1815 to December 1927. 1929 & 1953
£475
First Editions. Woodyatt "A useful source, strongest in its coverage of C19th campaigns... The Appendices are very good, and include details of each officer's career." (Perkins) and...
2 volumes large octavo. Original rifle green cloth with titles gilt to spines and Regimental crest to the upper boards. Portrait frontispiece and 4 other plates, 7... Read more
WOODS, John.
The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London & Westminster.
£450
A nicely bound copy.
2 volumes bound in 1, quarto (260 × 205 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges.... Read more
WOODARD, David.
The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, 1804
£950
First edition. "In January of 1793, Woodard sailed in the American ship Enterprise form Batavia, bound for Manila. Sent off in a boat with five others to purchase provisions from...
Octavo (211 × 128 mm). Contemporary purple half calf on dark green seaweed sprigged cloth, tan morocco label, narrow bands with double gilt rules, compartments... Read more
WOOD, Sir Evelyn.
The Revolt in Hindustan, 1857-59. 1908
£65
First edition. "This work originally appeared as articles in the "Times" in October 1907. Mainly descriptive of military movements … Wood is quite free from bias in this book...
Octavo. Original brick red cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 7 other plates, 5 folding maps. Cloth a little mottled, front hinge repaired,... Read more
WOOD, Edward F. R.
Sailing Days at Mattapoisett 1870-1960. 1961
£300
First and only edition, one of 350 copies printed for the author, this designated a "soiled copy" at the limitation leaf: the author's own copy, marked up with his corrections. Wood...
Octavo. Original cream buckram, title in blue to upper board and spine. Frontispiece and 23 pages of illustrations. Covers yellowed, and marked, crossed through in... Read more
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. 1796
£1,250
First edition. Her lover Gilbert Imlay had suffered the theft of a valuable cargo by the Norwegian captain of his ship, and in 1794 suggested to Wollstonecraft that she travel there...
Octavo. Recent half calf to style, black morocco label, marbled sides, old blue sprinkled edges. With the final advert leaf listing Wollstonecraft's books from Johnson... Read more
WINSOR, Justin (ed.)
Narrative and Critical History of America. 1889
£1,750
One of 550 copies thus, a handsome work published in large paper format.
8 volumes bound in 16, large quarto (323 × 228 mm). Original brown half morocco, spines gilt, raised bands, brown cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt,... Read more
WILSON, Woodrow.
A History of The American People. 1902
£1,250
First edition.
5 volumes, octavo. Bound in recent full red morocco, two black title labels to each spine gilt, infilled box design gilt, raised bands, decorative border to boards... Read more
WILSON, W.A.M., Captain.
Historical Records of the 23rd Regiment (Second Battalion, Rifle Regiment), Bombay Infantry, 1894
£425
First and only edition, uncommon - OCLC shows only the BL copy, as also COPAC - and important. On his 5-point scale Perkins rates the book as 5 in terms of rarity, and 4 in terms of...
Octavo. Original green cloth, title and regimental crest gilt to the upper board within blind panel, blind panel to the lower board, yellow surface paper endpapers.... Read more
WILSON, Arnold Talbot, Lt.-Col. Sir.
Loyalties – Mesopotamia, 1914–1917. A Personal and Historical Record; 1930-31
£750
First editions of the two volumes of this important memoir by one of the key figures in the wartime and immediate post-war administration of Mesopotamia-Iraq. Inscribed on the front...
2 volumes, large octavo. Original black cloth, title gilt to spines. 60 plates in all, and 6 folding maps, 4 of them in an end-pocket to volume I. Heads and tails of... Read more
WILSON, A. H., Captain.
A British Borderland. Service and Sport in Equatoria. 1913
£500
First edition. "An officer in the King's African Rifles, Wilson mixed military activities with sport. En route to an assignment on the Nile, he bagged his first elephant. Along the...
Octavo, original red cloth, title gilt to spine and to upper board with gilt decorative block, top edge gilt. In the dust jacket. 16 plates, folding map. Light... Read more
WILMOT, Alexander.
History of the Zulu War. 1880
£575
First Edition. Wilmot was born in Scotland and studied law at Edinburgh and Glasgow. He emigrated to the Cape in 1853 at the age of seventeen and entered the Civil Service, retiring...
Octavo. Original blue embossed cloth, title and portrait of Cetewayo gilt to the spine. Mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of the Prince Imperial, folding... Read more
WILLIAMS, Joseph J.
Hebrewisms of West Africa from Nile to Niger with the Jews. 1930
£150
First edition, first impression. very scare in dust jacket.
Large octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Map frontispiece and four others, 2 illustrative plates. Onwership inscription to front... Read more
